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I tell 'em "It was more than I wanted to spend, but less than I should have spent." or "Ten bucks" my MTB and Roadie were $10 at Sally
As a die-hard bargain hunter and proud of my bargains, I sometimes even volunteer that information before being asked. And I like to let people for whom the cost of a new bike may be a barrier to entry into cycling that there a lot of good quality used bikes in good condition around for $100 or less if you just look for them. I love with my vintage Puch Mistral frame bike. Got it at the flea market for $20. I've probably put $100 into it in accessories. And $30 for a cassette upgrade after a friend gave me a nice set of aluminum rims with a Deore 7 speed freehub (for free just 'cause he didn't have any use for them). With the modern drive train and aluminum wheels, it a really sweet ride now.
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"Too much!"
If they know bikes, they know what that means.
If they don't know bikes, who cares what they think.
That's exactly what I say. When ask'd, I say about 3. I get this look like $300 is alot for a bike. Little do they know an extra 0 is in place.Originally Posted by caloso
My current bike only ran about 600 so it hasn't been a major issue thus far. Plus since I don't have a car more people are open to the concept that I spent more money on my bike than they might have since it sees more use/abuse than a weekend rider may apply to their bike. However, if you know what type of car they drive you can easily turn it around if they don't like how much you spent. I could buy a new car for 15-20k yet many people spend 40-50k on a car... Easy retaliation if they condescend toward your bike "well I could have gotten a car for 20k less..." and thats a number of VERY nice bikes!
I have three stock answers to this question (and btw, should we be surprised by how often we get asked this?)
1) to close friends & coworkers I know/trust, I tell the truth (rounded to the nearest hundred).
2) to aquaintances or peers with whom I am not too personally aquainted, I say "more than I've ever spent on a musical instrument." (I'm a musician, so this gives them a very wide ballpark pricerange, plus indicates the level of my cycling passion.)
3) to complete strangers I say "too much" and leave it at that.
I'm with option 3) unless I know the person asking has a more expensive bike than I do: "too much"
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Sounds like a friendly guy who may be getting into cycling & trying to get a feel for how much a nice upgrade might run him. I would answer him & if his eyes pop, explain why/how it cost so much & then ask him why he asked & take it from there.Originally Posted by rickyaustin
I ride a used bike, so it was fairly inexpensive. Dending on who asks & what I think is the reason why, I'll either answer what I paid for it originally or what it is now worth after various upgrades. For coworkers who simply want to think it is outrageous to pay a lot of money for a bike, I'll sometimes say "It's pretty expensive at $250 a year, which includes gas, oil changes, brakes, tires and misc repairs to get me to and from work, but I figure I get it back by not having to pay for a gym membership."
"It's not for sale."
This.Originally Posted by rodrigaj
Also, depending on how they react, and how well I know them, I just leave it be, or tell them the actual price if I think I have the time to explain why if they ask. I've never had a total stranger ask, but if they did, the answer is 'too much'.
I just say: "more than your toupee."
Tell them, and if they give you that 'you could have got one for $150', just say, "then I'd have a crappy bike." This conversation reveals more about the asker than you. Remember, cheap bikes are for cheap people. Both of my ride buddies could not get their heads around spending more than the cost of Wal Mart bikes. Both were so entrenched on price that all mention of quality was not heard. This is because the cheap ones have two wheels and actually roll. Theyn think; what more could you want?
One finally upgraded and was totally happy with it. (Trek 7200). I gave the other one a new Trek 7500 that I bought for my wife but she didn't want. Now he's happy too.
Lesson; Some people never learn, unless you give them a better bike. So, keep quiet on this one. It could get expensive. BTW, the hardest ones to convince are the retired ones who are on a fixed income. bk
When an experienced biker asks, tell how much. When someone on a $100 bike (or no bike) asks, tell them "It was a toss up between the bike and either a used car or a flat screen LCD witha new whole house sound system..."
As with mud, life, too, slides by.
mine was free.
I told the wife that my Giant TCR C1 cost $250
Only kidding - She did gasp at the price though even when I told her it was $900 less than retail.
Strangers rarely ask me questions like that anyhow, but I'd probably just say it was worth every penny!
Cost of my bikes? My current summertime ride costs over twice as much as my winter ride, less than half of next summer's new ride, and that will far cheaper than a good used car or SUV.
I had to lie to my parents who bought me dept. store bikes when I was small (not that I'm complaining. We didn't have that much money). I told them my hybrid was $200 and my dad said, "Wow, that's a fancy bike!"
I usually say less than $100 since my roadie is a 1988 Schwinn Premis donated to my cause that I restored using a grinder wheel, rust-o-leum and spare parts! She's a beauty now.
Originally Posted by rickyaustin
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These department store bikes. Hope they are satisfactory. Cheapo components. Heck Wal Mart bikes are less costly than decent quality Shimano handlebar gear shifters. Gotta be a rub somewhere. They hold up for those who ride em hard; well, I am happy for you.
I simply tell them I don't know-either (depending on the person inquiring) I inherent the bike or the bike was a gift. I protect myself against potential thieves by evading the true value of the bike, and I don't embarass someone who might be really interested in buying one just like it.
"I didn't pay a cent for it. I saw some dude riding by on it one night and I wanted it. So I killed him and it's been mine ever since. By the way, that's a pretty cool bike you got there, dude."
That'll shut 'em up quick.
Mine has held up through 6 years of commuting year round in Winnipeg ... snow, ice, etc. etc. half the year, plus several winter centuries. It's still fine ... just needs a little bit of work now, which is OK ... in the 6 years I did all that commuting etc., all I did was replace the tires, cables, and chain once. That's it. They aren't as fragile as some suppose.Originally Posted by cyclezealot
Originally Posted by caloso
Right there with you! ...Love that response!
Although I have to say "about 8" to represent the MSRP.
And it being a tandem recumbent trike, I DO get that question alot!!
Along with "did you make that? is it comfortable/easy to ride/fast? How is it on hills?
Etc, etc, etc!
Why do you want to know?
Their answer will drive what I tell them afterward.
I have a bit of a different issue - I have easily the most expensive bike perhaps for 100 miles - almost certainly the most expensive bike the vast majority of people have seen or ever will see. And, for the average farm worker, it represents 2/3 of their YEARLY salary. Imagine telling someone in the USA you spent 30,000 dollars for a bike...
But, I tell them. I ride a lot and they know it - and I really use it. It isn't just sitting in a corner somewhere. We have two ways of saying something is expensive.
One is "Caro" - which means expensive
The other is Costosa which means costly.
Caro means that it was expensive but probably not worth it, costosa means it was a good investment, but not cheap.
I explain that it is costosa because it is older and has kilometers on it like a car - and is still going strong. I also explain that it has more than paid for itself in fuel savings.
They agree with me - it is expensive, but if you can afford to buy one, well worth it.
Now a new car for me would be caro - and they agree with that too!


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I think they're both about the same price but pop century is newer
Which would be the better resort all star movies or pop century?
I think they're both about the same price but pop century is newer
All Stars. IT truly does depend upon personal preference.
I like the layout of the rooms at All Star better. The square footage isn't the difference as much as it is the layout. At Pop when you open the door you wonder if it's going to clear the bed. It's not that way at All Stars.
Both are over the top Disney theme so that's not a huge factor.
Pop's rooms are somewhat less well insulated so the noise carries into the room more than at All Stars.
We really like the food court at All Stars better, and the pool side bars.
Bus service is the same at both. Parking we find better at All Stars.
So, as with everything at Disney... it's up to YOU!
Pop is a little larger than the Allstars. Also depending on when you are planning to go some things you need to know. In 2012 Pop Century will have three room categories adding a "pool view" to the mix. Art of Animation is being built and depending on the room location it could be noisy.
But they are all great. If you have kids let them help in the decision.
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Several questions submitted recently to this site are from parents concerned that their children have lied to them. For instance, a mother writes in to complain of her 13-year-old's having invited a friend over after school instead of practicing his piano while the mother was at work. It isn't even that he skipped piano practice that the mother minds so much, as that her son lied to her about it.
She says, "My son is transforming into a new creature." And, by implication, she's not so sure she likes the new creature he is becoming. He never used to lie – or so it seems. And he seldom disobeyed when he was younger. So what's going on?
Adolescence is what's going on. During adolescence, kids experience a developmental imperative: to become independent of the parents and to establish their own identities separate from the identities of their parents.
Beginning in the pre-adolescent years, kids will do anything to achieve these goals – including lying to their parents, if need be. I think the reason the mom we mentioned above was more hurt by the lie than by the disobedience was that on some level she realized that her son had chosen his relationship with his friend over his relationship to her. The lying cost him something in terms of his relationship with his mom. But giving up the opportunity to be with a peer would have, in his scheme of things, cost him far more, and in an area where he is far less certain of his standing.
Parents, in other words, get their feelings hurt by their children's not telling them the truth because at bottom the parent realizes it is a sign that her child is pulling away from her, and there is some pain in letting go.
It hurts your feelings when your preteen lies to you, but unlike when she was younger, your teenager is not so powerfully motivated to avoid eliciting your anger or disappointment. In your teenager's eyes, your feeling hurt or angry may be "a good sign" in that it proves to her, at least in the moment, that she is not being controlled by you, that you are not running her life… look, here you are hurt and angry. Doesn't that prove that she decided to do this thing on her own? That she wasn't allowing herself just to be your 'toady'?
If it takes breaking an agreement with parents to do what the kid feels, in the moment, that she MUST do in order to move towards autonomy and identity, the kid chooses to break the agreement. He chooses himself and his peers over the relationship with the parents. This is what the parent's deepest experience of hurt is about, and it comes from not realizing the power of the developmental challenge of adolescence: the child really MUST separate from the parent and MUST find his place among his peers.
Not that he knows how to do it! Not at all. There are many false starts and painful lunges toward proving himself autonomous and building an identity. Yet these attempts at growing up, however awkward and painful for all concerned, are necessary steps in learning to become an adult, in learning who he is. If he is truly to become autonomous, he has to risk hurting and offending you and actually needs, at least once in a while, to do something he's sure you disapprove of.
It's not that your preteen or teenager is becoming a moral cretin, or that you forgot to emphasize truth-telling during her childhood. It isn't that the adolescent doesn't know It's wrong to break her agreements with parents, when she breaks a rule in order to prove her autonomy or to connect with peers, but she may not experience the same remorse as a younger child because the adolescent's sense of imperative need weakens the sense of guilt. It is as if "she had to" do what she did, sometimes precisely because she knew you had a rule against it.
Because of the different function of lying during adolescence, I don't think it works to assign consequences for the lying itself. The problem with giving consequences for lying per se is that it comes too close to demanding that the child hold the relationship with the parent and the parent's values first in her heart, at a time when it is not normal to do so. Besides which, it focuses the child's attention on what she said, rather than on what she did or didn't do. This can really backfire, as when you find out that she had a party at the house when you were not home, which you have a rule against, and she tells you the truth about it. "Yes," she says, "I did have the kids over while you were gone. I'm sorry. (Probably itself a lie.)" – then expects the consequences to be waived because she told you the truth!
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I have been absent for a while dealing with graduation, moving, enrollment(here I come Bachelors ), surgery to remove a recurrent cyst from my perineum and helping care for a loved one with cancer. I missed you all, even if you didn't notice my absence.
I am mostly healed up and getting back on the road. While I was unable to ride I have been dreaming big dreams of a nice steel frame touring bike for me. After several failed attempts to buy something off ebay (grrrrr) I had some luck. Saturday I came across a Trek 620 for sale. I went and looked at it and its in very nice shape so I bought it. I will post pictures tomorrow. It was listed as a 85' but some investigation today after I got it home tells me its an 84' which i am fine with. Happy with the purchase. I have come across something though that I need some help and advice on.
It has 27" wheels and canti brakes, I am 295 lbs and will be dropping weight once back riding. I want to replace the wheels. The question is, if I have to stay with 27" wheels due to break clearance issues preventing a 700 conversion then, what is the strongest 27" rims I can get? Also any recommendations on who I should have build them?
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Italy's Technocratic Government Coming To An End: Goldman's Mark-To-Mario Gambit
In what is the day's most overhyped piece of non-news, we go to Italy to learn what many already knew on Thursday, namely that with the loss of support of Berlusconi's PDL party, Mario Monti's technocratic government, which correctly "feels" it lost its parliamentary support, is coming to an end and after a two hour meeting between the former Goldman advisor and Italian president Napolitano, Monti announced he "intends to resign after checking to see if parliament can pass next year's budget law, President Giorgio Napolitano's office said on Saturday... If the budget law can be passed "quickly", Monti said he would immediately confirm his resignation. Monti's announcement came after a two-hour meeting with Napolitano, who has the power to dissolve parliament." The reason this is non-news is that Monti government's tenure is ending in a few months anyway, and general elections are coming in Q1 regardless. In other words, it may take weeks or months for the budget law to pass, or not, at which point it will be time for new elections anyway.
Continuing with the non-news, is Berlusconi's latest attempt to remain relevant, by announcing, again, that he intends to run for Prime Minister.
Silvio Berlusconi said on Saturday he will stand to lead Italy for a fifth time, challenging the leftist frontrunner a year after being forced to resign amid a sex scandal and a debt crisis.
The 76-year-old media tycoon, facing possible jail time for tax fraud and a trial for having sex with an underage prostitute, had hinted for months he might make a comeback in an election in about three months' time. He accuses technocrat Prime Minister Mario Monti of bringing the third-biggest euro zone economy to "the edge of an abyss" with austerity policies.
"I race to win," Berlusconi told reporters at the practice field for AC Milan, the soccer club he controls, after repeating criticism of Monti's handling of the economy over the past year.
"To win, everyone said there had to be a tested leader. It's not that we did not look for one. We did, and how! But there isn't one... I'm doing it out of a sense of responsibility."
Considering this news was first floated in July, it is surprising the media is making such a big deal out of this development. The development is made particularly irrelevant considering that the popularity of Berlusconi's PDL is so low he has no chance of winning the election.
Italy's center-left Democratic Party has slightly increased its opinion poll lead, according to a survey conducted just before a political crisis threatened to end Prime Minister Mario Monti's term early.
Elections are expected to be held early next year,
The poll by the SWG institute for RAI television showed the Democratic Party (PD) on 30.3 percent, up from 30 percent a week earlier, ahead of the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement of comic Beppe Grillo on 19.7 percent.
Silvio Berlusconi's center-right PDL party, which triggered instability on Thursday by withholding its support for Monti's technocrat government in two parliamentary confidence votes, saw a slight drop to 13.8 percent from 14.3 percent a week earlier.
In other words, any political relevant Berlusconi may have will be not as a PM, but as a balancing force in a new coalition government. He only open question is how much of a political variable Bunga's return to politics will mean to capital markets and to Italian bond prices which have recovered substantially since hitting near record lows in the days before the ECB did everything in its power to force Berlusconi out in November 2011.
His move may unsettle financial markets, whose loss of faith in Berlusconi's guidance of the economy pushed the country to the edge of a Greek-style debt crisis last year and prompted President Giorgio Napolitano to ask the former European commissioner Monti to step in to restore confidence.
With the support of a right-left coalition including the PDL, Monti imposed austerity measures to bring borrowing costs under control, but Berlusconi said on Wednesday that the economic professor's policies had left Italy facing a "recessive spiral without end".
The PDL withdrew parliamentary support for Monti on Thursday, raising the specter of a snap election and driving up the difference between German and Italian benchmark bonds by about 30 basis points.
One thing appears sure: the eye of the Hurricane, in which various European technocratic governments got a blank check from the population to run programs which continue to be incorrectly classified as "austerity", is shifting as these same populations demand a return to the old status quo, in which Europe reveled for decades before the arrival of Goldman Sachs as global hegemon.
Which however does beg the question: is Goldman so confident in its foothold of European the monetary mechanism with the "surprising" arrival of Goldmanite Mark Carney to head the Bank of England, in effect handing all of Europe over to statist monetary interests, that the vampire squid is willing to hand over the illusion that political muppets are relevant, back to the people.
Said otherwise: was 2012 the year in which Goldman remarked Europe on a Mark-To-Mario basis?
It remains yet to be seen if this will be a very short-sighted move, now that attention will shift back once more to Italy.
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Monti needed to learn how to Bunga Bunga.
Well, Hollande in France, Berlusconi in Italy, Morsi on a plane to his virgins. Like i said, carrier decks are useful to grow beans.
The Squid control the man who controls the printing Press.
Why would they care about an insignificant country?
They might have actually told Monti to walk .
Insignificant country? Perhaps if your concept of World goes from Magic Mountains to Disneyland.
However not so insignificant for any financial institution, if only because of the size of its public debt, whether or not such institution where to held any of its debt on their books.
A default of Italy can not be easily absorbed or sterilized
Better take note of a long list of insignificant countries, with large public debt not entirely held domestically a la' Japan....
Putin needs his Italian buddy back in power.
BTW, Monti wasn't elected by the Italian peeps, was he? (Not that an election matters anymore.)
He was appointed by the man that does god's work. That's democratic enough right? God couldn't be wrong.
Rainbows on unicorns, and money on trees....
These are a few of eurocrats favorite things....
Bunga on bunga and buggering on underage girls.....
These are a few of EU politicians favorite things....
Now if only DSK can make a comeback ;)
Wouldn't you like to hang out with DSK and Bunga for a night?
Bunga is Back! He has very little chance of becoming PM again, but he is smart enough to understand that the PIIGS hold all the cards. He would threaten to default in exchange for concessions rather than submitting to the troika.
Not clear to me that Berlusconi won't be back in power, despite the poll figures given above
Italian electorate is volatile ... if Berlusconi runs a campaign on giving Italians their sovereign rights back, leaving the euro, and becoming an economic success like Iceland, he could rocket upwards ... and Berlusconi could do a deal with Beppe Grillo's party
Italy would be as strong in exports in Germany with their own currency, the only thing holding them back is the euro ... Italy has the strongest case for success on leaving the euro, and Berlusconi may be sharp enough to get that message through to Italians
Berlusconi could be the black swan of 2013 ... getting into power, taking Italy out of the euro, breaking up the euro-zone ... euro-zone bond market freezes and bank holiday, big reset ...
Berlusconi has already described the euro as a 'scam' in terms of the euro policy toward the Mediterranean countries ... Should Berlusconi take Italy out of the euro and end this 'austerity' debt-slavery agony of many tens of millions of people ... he yet may go into the books as a personally flawed (bunga bunga) but great bold politician of early 21st century Europe
It seems that somehow, someway, whether it has to do with annulling referendums, installing 'technocratic' governments, or abolishing freedom of information, the mother fucking banksters always get their way. Waiting...
Europe Is Officially Doomed: The Entire Economy Is Imploding, Severe Austerity Measures Are Spreading Rapidly, The Growth Rebound Failed To Materialise, Wages Continue To Plummet, And Poverty And Homelessness Rates Are Surging. Time To Write Off Europe for the Next Decade?
You rather have us behave like the Fed and BoE and just press the CTRL-P button ad infinitum instead huh?
I will take Merkels austerity any day above those "proven" politics.
Haha, true I guess. That would be kinda classic.
And I agree that this austerity right now is basically ripping off the plebs to support the corporate welfare for the banksters. Just pressing CTRL-P is hardly a proper solution though.
At least the European people are hitting the streets and let their voices be heard. It will be pretty hard to surpress 500 million people.
In the USA pretty much nothing is happening at the moment, Occupy Wall Street has been disbanded and arrested by your Fed private police force (pretty sick they have one by the way), London had its "riots" and slapped 17yo kids with 7 month jail sentences for nicking a bottle of soda. While the ones truly stealing on a massive scale got to be named Lords. Maybe it has to do with the fact the City of London has it´s own police force as well (creatively named City of London Police) to tackle "financial crimes".
That huge drop in equity markets, last November/ Ugly January.
The bastard knows the collapse is coming, running of to Bransons Island.
England is more and more irrelevant when it comes to Europe or the EU. We on the continent are just waiting for them to get their referendum and bugger off. In that respect, let alone the fact the UK doesn´t even use the Euro but the pound, the appointment of any BoE president is completely insignificant.
Britain might make a lot of fuss about leaving the EU, but more and more the EU is just leaving England.
Sell off ITalian Equities and Bonds....
SPITALY Back to 13000
and Italian bonds to 10%
Do not discard Berlusconi too quickly. Sure Monti has helped lower the 10 year BTP yield, but using the easy way that is to say: sharp increase of taxes (up to the subtle level which is seen as sustainable by the market vene though it is not), austerity bla bla leading people to pay either with money (taxes) or with the loss of their job.
Growth with his Nº2, Mr Passera in charge, is nowhere to be seen.
If Monti leaves now he will prove a good surfer and before the economic situation sours, may make homself ready to become the President of Italy next year, a much less stressing, however prestigious, job than the executive role of Prime Minister!


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The Cleveland Browns announced Wednesday that they released former Oklahoma State quarterback Brandon Weeden.
"First and foremost, the Browns would like to thank Brandon and his agent for being true professionals," Cleveland general manager Ray Farmer said in a statement. "The circumstances in which he found himself were not easy for him or the team. After discussions with Brandon and his agent, we'd like to give him the ability to pursue other opportunities."
Weeden, selected by the Browns in the first round in 2012, finished his tenure with the Browns with 23 touchdowns and 26 interceptions in 23 games (2012-2013). The former Cowboys standout was the 22nd overall selection in the 2012 draft.
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March 18, 1809 45 Berkeley Square
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"You'll have to marry her. I don't care if you think of her as a sister: from now on, she's the Golden Fleece to you."
James Ryburn, Earl of Islay, and heir to the Duchy of Ashbrook, opened his mouth to say something, but a mixture of fury and disbelief choked the words.
His father turned and walked toward the far wall of the library, acting as if he'd said nothing particularly out of the ordinary. "We need her fortune to repair the Staffordshire estate and pay a few debts, or we're going to lose it all, this town house included."
"What have you done?" James spat the words. A terrible feeling of dread was spreading through his limbs.
Ashbrook pivoted. "Don't you dare speak to me in that tone!"
James took a deep breath before answering. One of his resolutions was to master his temper before turning twenty - and that birthday was a mere three weeks away. "Excuse me, Father," he managed. "Exactly how did the estate come to be in such precarious straits? If you don't mind my asking."
"I do mind your asking." The duke stared back at his only son, his long, aquiline nose quivering with anger. James came by his temper naturally: he had inherited it directly from his irascible, reckless father.
"In that case, I will bid you good day," James said, keeping his tone even.
"Not unless you're going downstairs to make eyes at that girl. I turned down an offer for her hand this week from Briscott, who's such a simpleton that I didn't feel I need tell her mother. But you know damn well her father left the decision over who marries the girl to her mother."
"I have no knowledge of the contents of Mr. Saxby's will," James stated. "And I fail to see why that particular provision should cause you such annoyance."
"Because we need her damned fortune," Ashbrook raged, walking to the fireplace and giving the unlit logs a kick. "You must convince Theodora that you're in love with her, or her mother will never agree to the match. Just last week, Mrs. Saxby inquired about a few of my investments in a manner that I did not appreciate.
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"I cannot."
For the first time the duke looked a trifle sympathetic.
"Theodora is no beauty. But all women are the same in the—"
"Do not say that," James snapped. "I am already appalled; I do not wish to be disgusted as well."
His father's eyes narrowed and a rusty color rose in his cheeks, a certain sign of danger. Sure enough, Ashbrook's voice emerged as a bellow. "I don't care if the chit is as ugly as sin, you'll take her. And you'll make her fall in love with you. Otherwise, you will have no country house to inherit. None!"
"What have you done?" James repeated through clenched teeth.
"Lost it," his father shouted back, his eyes bulging a little. "Lost it, and that's all you need to know!"
"I will not do it." James stood up.
A china ornament flew past his shoulder and crashed against the wall. James barely flinched. By now he was inured to these violent fits of temper; he had grown up ducking everything from books to marble statues.
"You will, or I'll bloody well disinherit you and name Pinkler-Ryburn my heir!"
James's hand dropped and he turned, on the verge of losing his temper. While he'd never had the impulse to throw objects at the wall - or at his family - his ability to fire cutting remarks was equally destructive. He took another deep breath. "While I would hesitate to instruct you on the legal system, Father, I can assure you that it is impossible to disinherit a legitimate son." "I'll tell the House of Lords that you're no child of mine," the duke bellowed. Veins bulged on his forehead and his cheeks had ripened from red to purple.
"I'll tell 'em that your mother was a light-heeled wench and that I've discovered you're nothing but a bastard." At the insult to his mother, James's fragile control snapped altogether. "You may be a craven, dim-witted gamester, but you will not tar my mother with sorry excuses designed to cover up your own idiocy!" "How dare you!" screamed the duke. His whole face had assumed the color of a cockscomb.
"I say only what every person in this kingdom knows," James said, the words exploding from his mouth. "You're an idiot. I have a good idea what happened to the estate; I just wanted to see whether you had the balls to admit it. And you don't. No surprise there. You mortgaged every piece of non-entailed land attached to the estate, at least those you didn't sell outright - and pissed all the money away on the Exchange. You invested in one ridiculous scheme after another. The canal you built that wasn't even a league from another canal? What in God's name were you thinking?"
"I didn't know that until it was too late! My associates deceived me. A duke doesn't go out and inspect the place where a canal is supposed to be built. He has to trust others, and I've always had the devil's own luck." "I would have at least visited the proposed canal before I sank thousands of pounds into a waterway with no hope of traffic."
"You impudent jack-boy! How dare you!" The duke's hand tightened around a silver candlestick standing on the mantelpiece.
"Throw that, and I'll leave you in this room to wallow in your own fear. You want me to marry a girl who thinks I'm her brother in order to get her fortune ... so that you – you - can lose it? Do you know what they call you behind your back, Father? Surely you've heard it. The Dam' Fool Duke!"
They were both breathing heavily, but his father was puffing like a bull, the purple stain on his cheeks vivid against his white neck cloth.
The duke's fingers flexed once again around the piece of silver.
"Throw that candlestick and I'll throw you across the room," James said, adding, "Your Grace."
The duke's hand fell to his side and he turned his shoulder away, staring at the far wall. "And what if I lost it?" he muttered, belligerence underscoring his confession. "The fact is that I did lose it. I lost it all. The canal was one thing, but I thought the vineyards were a sure thing. How could I possibly guess that England is a breeding ground for black rot?"
"You imbecile!" James spat and turned on his heel to go.
"The Staffordshire estate's been in our family for six generations. You must save it. Your mother would have been devastated to see the estate sold. And what of her grave ... have you thought of that? The graveyard adjoins the chapel, you know."
James's heart was beating savagely in his throat. It took him a moment to come up with a response that didn't include curling his hands around his father's neck. "That is low, even from you," he said finally. The duke paid no heed to his rejoinder. "Are you going to allow your mother's corpse to be sold?" "I will consider wooing some other heiress," James said finally. "But I will not marry Daisy." Theodora Saxby - known to James alone as Daisy - was his dearest friend, his childhood companion. "She d deserves better than me, better than anyone from this benighted family."
There was silence behind him. A terrible, warped silence that ... James turned. "You didn't. Even you ... couldn't."
"I thought I would be able to replace it in a matter of weeks," his father said, the color leaving his cheeks suddenly so that he looked positively used up.
James's legs felt so weak that he had to lean against the door. "How much of her fortune is gone?"
"Enough." Ashbrook dropped his eyes, at last showing some sign of shame. "If she marries anyone else, I'll ... I'll face trial. I don't know if they can put dukes in the dock. The House of Lords, I suppose. But it won't be pretty."
"Oh, they can put dukes on trial, all right," James said heavily. "You embezzled the dowry of a girl entrusted to your care since the time she was a mere infant. Her mother was married to your dearest friend. Saxby asked you on his deathbed to care for his daughter." "And I did," her father replied, but without his usual bluster. "Brought her up as my own."
"You brought her up as my sister," James said flatly. He forced himself to cross the room and sit down.
"And all the time you were stealing from her."
"Not all the time," his father protested. "Just in the last year. Or so. The majority of her fortune is in funds, and I couldn't touch that. I just ... I just borrowed from ... well, I just borrowed some. I'm deuced unlucky, and that's a fact. I was absolutely sure it wouldn't come to this."
"Unlucky?" James repeated, his voice liquid with disgust.
"Now the girl is getting a proposal or two, I don't have the time to make it up. You've got to take her. It's not just that the estate and this town house will have to go; after the scandal, the name won't be worth anything either. Even if I pay off what I borrowed from her by selling the estate, the whole wouldn't cover my debts."
James didn't reply. The only words going through his head were flatly blasphemous.
"It was easier when your mother was alive," the duke said, after a minute or two. "She helped, you know. She had a level head on her shoulders."
James couldn't bring himself to answer that, either. His mother had died nine years earlier, so in under a decade his father had managed to impoverish an estate stretching from Scotland to Staffordshire to London.
And he had embezzled Daisy's fortune.
"You'll make her love you," his father said encouragingly, dropping into a chair opposite James. "She already adores you; she always has. We've been lucky so far in that poor Theodora is as ugly as a stick. The only men who've asked for her hand have been such obvious fortune hunters that her mother wouldn't even consider them. But that'll change as the season wears on. She's a taking little piece, once you get to know her."
James ground his teeth. "She will never love me in that way. She thinks of me as her brother, as her friend. And she has no resemblance whatsoever to a stick." "Don't be a fool. You've got my profile." A glimmer of vanity underscored his words. "Your mother always said that I was the most handsome man of my generation."
James bit back a remark that would do nothing to help the situation. He was experiencing an overwhelming wave of nausea. "We could tell Daisy what happened. What you did. She'll understand."
His father snorted. "Do you think her mother will understand? My old friend Saxby didn't know what he was getting into when he married that woman. She's a termagant, a positive tartar."
In the seventeen years since Mrs. Saxby and her infant daughter had joined the duke's household, she and Ashbrook had managed to maintain sufficiently cordial relations - primarily because His Grace had never thrown anything in the widow's direction. But James knew instantly that his father was right. If Daisy's mother got even a hint that her daughter's guardian had misappropriated her inheritance, a fleet of solicitors would be battering on the town house door before evening fell. Bile drove James's stomach into his throat at the thought.
His father, on the other hand, was cheering up. He had the sort of mind that flitted from one subject to another; his rages were ferocious but short-lived. "A few posies, maybe a poem, and Theodora will fall into your hand as sweetly as a ripe plum. After all, it's not as if the girl gets much flattery. Tell her she's beautiful, and she'll be at your feet."
"I cannot do that," James stated, not even bothering to imagine himself saying such a thing. It wasn't a matter of not wishing to spout such inanities to Daisy herself; he loathed situations where he found himself fumbling with language and stumbling around the ballroom. The season was three weeks old, but he hadn't attended a single ball.
His father misinterpreted his refusal. "Of course, you'll have to lie about it, but that's the kind of lie a gentleman can't avoid. She may not be the prettiest girl on the market - and certainly not as delectable as that opera dancer I saw you with the other night - but it wouldn't get you anywhere to point out the truth." He actually gave a little chuckle at the thought.
James heard him only dimly; he was concentrating on not throwing up as he tried to think through the dilemma before him.
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Russian pianist Olga Kern to make her Oklahoma City Philharmonic debut.
In "Playing on the Edge," a television documentary about the drama that played out during the 2001 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Russian pianist Olga Kern showed conductor James Conlon a score of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto that had belonged to her great grandmother.
The century-old score no longer had any binding, just a bunch of loose pages that had begun to crumble due to age and exposure to the elements. It turned out to be just one of many links Kern has with the eminent Russian composers of the past.
Her great-great grandmother, who was a noted mezzo-soprano, had planned to perform some Rachmaninoff songs in a recital when her accompanist fell ill. The composer, who happened to be visiting the same Russian town, heard about the singer's predicament and offered to fill in at the last minute.
"My grandfather kept the program from this concert," said Kern, who will make her Oklahoma City Philharmonic debut this week playing the Rachmaninoff "Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor." "I'm writing a book right now about all the memories I've had with my life and career."
Kern's musical lineage also extends to Tchaikovsky, the celebrated Russian composer who happened to be a friend of her great-great-great grandmother. Kern's family still has a photo of their relative with Tchaikovsky.
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"When I hear Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony or one of his piano concerti, I feel like I know this music as well as if I had composed it myself," Kern said recently. "As Russians, we were born with this music, it was always around us. It's natural that you feel like every note belongs to you."
While most pianists include the Rachmaninoff Second and Third Concertos in their active repertoire, Kern regularly performs the four numbered concertos along with the "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini."
Those five works span nearly all of the composer's output, from his Op. 1 (the First Piano Concerto) to his Op. 43 (the Paganini Rhapsody). Rachmaninoff only composed two additional works after he completed the Rhapsody.
"Playing all of those works has allowed me to observe every period of his musical life," Kern explained. "The First Concerto has the same form and structure as the Grieg Concerto but the musical language is Rachmaninoff's. You can hear all the pianistically difficult and challenging language in (concertos) Two and Three, while in the Fourth, that language goes deeper and the music is more polyphonic.
"You really see his genius in the Rhapsody — how he transforms the Paganini theme. It's like he was trying to show a person's life from beginning to end. But the work ends with a question mark and you never get the question answered. It's so philosophical."
After the disastrous premiere of his first symphony in 1897, Rachmaninoff fell into clinical depression that resulted in writer's block. After three months of therapy administered by physician Nikolai Dahl, Rachmaninoff completed his Second Piano Concerto in 1901. The composer dedicated his concerto to Dahl for helping to restore his self-confidence.
Thanks to its tremendous melodic appeal, Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto has figured prominently in many Hollywood films, from "Brief Encounter" to "The Seven Year Itch." One of its themes was even transformed into the popular song "Full Moon and Empty Arms."
"When you hear Rachmaninoff's music, you understand how important his country was to him, especially after he came to the United States," Kern said. "He put the feelings he had for his country in his music. It was the only way he could show people how beautiful his music was.
"And even though his concerti are some of the most difficult works in the repertoire, it's always a pleasure to perform Rachmaninoff. I find something new in his music every time I play one of his works. Every concerto is an exciting journey."
Titled "Russian Enchantment," the penultimate concert in the orchestra's 2012-13 classics season will also feature Stravinsky's 1947 suite to "Petrouchka." Joel Levine will conduct.
When I hear Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony or one of his piano concerti, I feel like I know this music as well as if I had composed it myself. As Russians, we were born with this music, it was always around us. It's natural that you feel like every note belongs to you."
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