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Oct 28, 2013, 07:53 PM
NEStoke or emass or whoever. I feel your pain. Get a 6'8'' Stoker V Machine. Looks like a shortboard, paddles like a longboard. Look it up. I got to demo a 7' and it was dreamy.
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Oct 28, 2013, 08:00 PM
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Ok Im going to give you the secret: #1 when you see a wave coming that you want the first thing to do is paddle for it. #2 The key is popping at the right time # 3 when your riding down the face the wave will end and you have to go out the back.Hope this helps bro!
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Oct 28, 2013, 08:03 PM
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This is kinda old school, but if it is steep enough, you can just sit there nose of board facing down the line in the direction you are planning on riding. As the peak starts to jack up, as you are sitting upright on your board - push down and backwards with your body weight on the tail and push the tail down into the water towards the wave (as deep as you can) as it starts to suck up. The natural buoyancy and water displacement will cause the board to lunge forward in the opposite direction, giving you a brief mini burst of speed. You can jump to you feet, or paddle a couple extra strokes and then jump up. As in most things, timing is essential.
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^^^^Dude that's some high level shyte right there...some sick vids out there of Wingnut doing no paddle take offs.
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Oct 28, 2013, 08:27 PM
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Stay pretty far forward on the board, arch your back alot to keep from "pearling" as your trying to catch the wave. You should probably be paddling harder than you do on the bigger board, but you may not need to start paddling as early.
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Oct 28, 2013, 08:54 PM
Hellooo fellow Bostonian! Good on you for making the jump to a shortboard! Definitely important to have the right board for the right conditions. It sounds like you're on the right track with what you're saying. One thing that I know I struggled with when I was transitioning to a shortboard (that I didn't see you mention) was not going to my knees before popping to my feet. The balance thing can be tough so it's easy to drag your knees as you're popping up. As I'm sure most people on here (and in real life) will tell you, that's a big no-no. Make sure you're going straight from your belly to your feet. No knees!
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Oct 28, 2013, 10:53 PM
KookieMonster: At first I had no idea what the hell you were talking about (EMass??), but then I searched through the archive and got it: same equipment, similar skill level, equally verbose posts, same overly analytical style. Definitely not the same person, but it was actually useful to read some of his comments, so for that, thanks. As far as Winthrop goes, worry not, I have never been tempted to surf there. That "break" is all yours.
\nSissurfdog, pkovo, and pinkstink: Thanks for the tips! I bet they will be really helpful the next time I go out. So far, I've heard the following: stay forward (have been doing my best), don't do a two-step popup using your knees (I avoid that as much as I can), try out the no-paddle drop-in (I've done that on the hybrid and it worked well at times, but haven't tried it on the SB yet). Anything else?
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You definitely don't have time for a slow popup on a shortboard since you're taking off in a more critical part of the wave than with a longer board. That sounds like your biggest problem. Just work on using your hands only and hopping up right to your feet every time. You should never be using your knees during the pop up.
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You are no spring chicken so between swells do burpees, pull ups and push ups to give you pop on the pop ups. Paddle like crazy from the get go, and say to yourself ( I still have to do this after surfing the longboard for days on end, then it gets big and I take the shorty out): "Fast to your feet, fast to your feet, fast to your feet". You have to do it three times really fast in your head to get to proper speed. Once you pop up on a late steep drop, make or break, the adrenaline will kick in and its all butter from there.
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Your inability to get up has nothing to do with C-force.....Nothing. Your just to damn slow getting to your feet. Commitment has to be quick. The bigger board got you into the wave sooner and gave you more time to get up before the more critical part of the wave. A shorter board will not give you that luxury so you have to be faster to your feet.
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Oct 29, 2013, 01:24 PM
Thanks, guys. Workouts between sessions and quick popups without knees sounds about right. Sisurfdogg, I also really like your advice about repeating the "quick to your feet" mantra three times - this kind of stuff has worked well for me in the past. And wave1rider65, you're probably right about the c-force - I had a feeling that this wasn't exactly what was actually going on, but it sure felt like it at the time. After missing the critical drop-in point, I was going so fast that I just could get myself up, but that may have had as much to do with balance as with anything else. Gotta get up faster.
\nSpicoli: I guess we both like writing mini-novels, though mine seem to be filled with bullet points and yours with some intense surf lingo, brah. Truth is, I just got so stoked after that last session that posting my experience was the second best thing to going right back out there (which wasn't an option because of work and flat conditions). But yeah, I also find that analyzing my technique in most sports helps, as long as I don't overthink things (I try to focus on one part of the process at a time). Maybe we'll run into each other out in NH, RI, or ME sometime. In the meantime, happy shredding.
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Oct 29, 2013, 02:53 PM
When I started out I found the angled takeoff to be so key. Once I started doing that getting down the line became so much faster and easier. I'd say there are only a few days a year when you can actually bottom turn (depends on the break, of course).
Also, welcome to SI. It's a good place to learn sh!t and have some laughs. You'll quickly learn that Jerzy is surf Mecca with routine 23' swellls. Just watch out for tow-ins when it's knee-high and cranking.
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Oct 29, 2013, 05:57 PM
Thanks, Mad Atom; I will definitely put some more effort into angled takeoffs. Now I just need some waves to come in for a pre-work session tomorrow morning somewhere in New England. Not likely from the looks of it. Maybe I should hightail it to Dirty Jerz for some of that crazy tow-in action. If only Maya Gabeira had trained at Sandy Hook, she would have come out of Nazaré unscathed.
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Oct 29, 2013, 06:16 PM
Yeah, nothing much tomorrow or Thursday, but Friday is still looking quite large and lingering through the weekend. My pessimism has clearly paid off.
\nWhy isn't anyone hyping this swell? C'mon fellers. Are we trying a bit of reverse psychology with Mom Nature?
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Oct 29, 2013, 06:24 PM
The forecast does look really good - should be at least as fun as last Sunday in RI. Too bad I'm under a surfing ban this weekend while in Nantucket for my wife's bday. (Ok, so it's my bday too and the ban is self-imposed as thanks for her endless patience with my addiction, but still.) Hope you have a great time out there!
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Oct 29, 2013, 06:42 PM
Dude, bring that board out to Nantucket and sneak out for a few! Saturday should be a blast on the island
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Oct 30, 2013, 01:42 AM
...."In steep waves, the popup has to be executed immediately upon catching the wave, otherwise the centrifugal force makes getting off the board very hard at high speed. I tried getting up a few times but literally couldn't peel myself off the board and as a result rode in on my stomach or knees (sometimes finally getting up when the wave slowed down)."....
Ditto for me (except for the knees part) during my recent transition efforts to a 7 ft quad swallowtail after a year on an 8-4 high volume board. I was working on it for over a month (late Aug to mid October), getting out at least 4x/week with less success than you. I'm 23 years older, but it was nonetheless frustrating. Went out in generally lousy surf conditions, but I didn't think the transition would've been that difficult. See my "Surfing Slump" thread. Sounds like you're making progress though. Keep at it!
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Oct 30, 2013, 03:30 AM
\n(I also learned a lot about EmassSpicoli from that conversation, which put KookieMonster's initial comment in some perspective. A lot of tough love on this forum, but it does make for occasional good laughs.)
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Oct 31, 2013, 02:48 AM
\nWas glassy and 2-3ft, with slight offshore breeze this morning. Not much of a report, but it was an improvement over what we've been seeing. Got a good number of rides; and like a kid, I snuck/sneaked into the office little late. Surprised I saw no one else was out yesterday or today - maybe because forecasts continued to report 0-1 or 1-2. But this morning was a treat. Will take what I can get.
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Oct 30, 2013, 03:14 AM
Thanks for the encouragement, DosXX. It sounds like we've had similar experiences. I'll definitely take a look at your thread for additional tips. And in the meantime, I'll keep trying. I'm just glad that my first time on the shortboard was actually encouraging, despite many people's warnings. (By the way, I didn't really mean that I got to my knees during popups or when I rode the wave in - it was more of a knee plank pose. Kind of like in this video, which seems pretty helpful despite the bad advice about grabbing the rails: http://youtu.be/2Nl7_ONEjTQ.)
\nNewenglandflatness: You've convinced me. I'm taking the board to Nantucket. The forecast for Saturday is looking to good to pass up. Anyone else planning to be on the island this weekend?
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Sounds as if you are catching the wave a bit too late. With your bigger board you were able to catch the wave a lot sooner. You will have to really put forth a good burst of paddle and get into the wave earlier to avoid going over the falls. Ideally you want to paddle at an angle in the direction of the wave breaking and when you pop up you are already started going down the line.
\nYou're doing great though man! Props! Its tough to teach an old dog new tricks! Stick with it though and try not to mix it up. Stay riding the shortboard until you get decent at it. Switching back and forth will really confuse you.
\nI realize why you purchased the 5'10", however ideally you may have been better off with a 6'2" - 6'3". No worries though eventually you will get the hang of it. You'll only get better everytime you go!
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Canadians for Tax Fairness is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization advocating for fair and progressive tax policies aimed at building a strong and sustainable economy, reducing inequalities and funding quality public services. More...
We believe in a country where taxation is regarded as a way to invest in Canada and Canadians. We believe in a progressive tax system where all individuals and corporations pay their fair share.
We believe that Canada in the 21st century should be a society in which economic disparities are decreasing, basic needs are met by investing in high-quality public services, economic policies are designed to protect our environment, and the will of the people drives our political process.
The mission of Canadians for Tax Fairness is to build a national campaign to promote fair taxation. We support the development and implementation of a tax system, based on ability to pay, to fund the comprehensive, high-quality network of public services and programs required to meet our social, economic and environmental needs in the 21st century. Canadians for Tax Fairness will work together with other groups and individuals who share our goals.
Our Principles
We will campaign for a fair tax system that:
- puts the needs of Canadians first
- means progressive taxation, where those who have more contribute more
- puts an end to tax loopholes for the wealthiest
- means ending the race to the bottom on corporate tax rates because corporations also have a responsibility to society
- opposes the use of offshore tax havens and banking hideaways
- includes the use of goods and services taxes to encourage sustainable social and environmental practices by taxing the "bads" more than the "goods"
- includes the introduction of new sources of public revenue, such as a financial transaction tax
Our Objectives
Canadians for Tax Fairness will:
- develop and promote progressive tax policies that are rooted in Canadian values, and that strengthen our capacity to provide public services and protect our environment.
- create a grassroots counter-force to anti-tax crusaders by organizing national campaign activities and mobilizing volunteers.
- actively lobby all levels of government for the related legislation, regulations and policies.
- create an online clearinghouse for popular education tools and support materials.
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Diana Gibson (Chair)
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David Langille (Treasurer)
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Inter Pares.
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Lawyer, Mediator.
National Union of Public and General Employees.
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General Secretary, Canadian Council of Churches.
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Journalist and author.
Former Secretary of State (Finance) and former TD Bank Chief Economist.
CM, QC, lawyer, editor Canadian Rights Reporter.
Former Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada.
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Andrew Jackson
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Economic consultant, Chair and President, Atkinson Foundation.
Author, researcher, statistician.
Author Economics for Everyone, economist, Unifor.
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Global Alliance for Tax Justice - is the campaigning body that has grown from roots in the research-strong Tax Justice Network. Founded in Lima, Peru in March 2013, GATJ's initial coalition of 81 organisations is growing daily in every region of the world. We campaign and advocate for a world with fair and equitable tax systems that fund vital public services for all.
Tax Justice Network - international network of organizations and individuals working on tax justice issues.
Tax Justice Network USA - Tax Justice Network USA promotes tax justice and tax cooperation, including policies to address tax avoidance, tax evasion and the lack of financial transparency in our government, corporations and financial institutions.
- Citizens for Tax Justice - US organization focused on fair tax issues
- All Together Now - National Union of Public and General Employess (NUPGE) - campaign for public services and fair taxation
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives - progressive think tank with excellent reports and research documents
- Doctors for Fair Taxation - a group of medical doctors who believe that we must increase government revenues in a fair fashion to protect needed public services and reduce government deficits and debt.
- Lawyers for Fair Taxation - Lawyers for Fair Taxation is a group of licensed Canadian lawyers who believe that we must increase government revenues in a fair fashion to protect needed public services and reduce government deficits and debt.
- Faith Leaders for Fair Taxation - Faith Leaders for Fair Taxation is a group of religious leaders from Canada's major faith communities who united by the call to justice and compassion which lies the root of our beliefs. We believe that as a society, we must increase government revenues in a fair fashion to protect public services and reduce government deficits and debt. We strongly oppose austerity measures that hit hardest those members of our society who already endure harsh lives. It is profoundly unjust and immoral to balance government budgets on the backs of our most vulnerable neighbours.
- Canada Uncut - a horizontally organized (i.e, decentralized)campaign, part of the international network of Uncut groups in numerous countries
- Progressive Economics Forum - great source of info from progressive economists and tax experts
Canadian Centre for Policy Alterntives BC Office
- Better Way Alberta - Tax and royalty reform for strong public services
Join Together Alberta - a coalition of groups that are jointly advocating for proper funding for vital public services in Alberta
- Public Interest Alberta - Advocating for a Better Alberta for All.
Nova Scotians for Tax Fairness - a voluntary organization that seeks to broaden the public discussion about the essential role played by the tax system in financing public services and supporting greater equality. It advocates for fair tax policies and enhanced public services.
New Brunswick Common Front for Social Justice - The Common Front for Social Justice is fighting to build a more human society based on the respect and dignity of all. We want a New Brunswick without poverty. We want a society which give each and everyone a decent living, in particular by having a minimum wage and social income on which citizens can to live on and not just exist.
L'Association pour la Taxation des Transactions financières pour l'Aide aux Citoyens (ATTAC) - is the Quebec Chapter of a Global Movement working for a Financial Transaction Tax and to close tax havens and loopholes.
Échec aux paradis fiscaux - Campaign de sensibilisasion des plusieurs organisations du Québec s'intéressant aux finances publiques ont été confrontées aux paradis fiscaux.
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Canadians for Tax Fairness is proud to count on the following organizations for providing technical resources and financial support:
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Over the past few days, I finally got a windows box up and running so I could run the official WSPR executable from WSJT. In the short time I've been listening, I've gotten quite a few spots from stations who haven't been able to hear me. I made a quick map of all the sites I've heard:
I've deleted a couple of bogus spots that also got "decoded", both of which were stations which were in the middle of the ocean, and which no one else heard before.
Apologies to all those who have been using my grabber, I will soon return it to operation by tapping audio and feeding it to both setups in the near future.
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Darren Peck of KTXL-Sacramento shows a view of the Colorado wildfires from Space. The smoke plumes from the Weber fire and the High Park fire are visible; the Waldo Canyon fire was still small when the image was taken.
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Facebook and Google+ has both a great feature: Image preview. When you write in URL of your web, images are taken and you can select between them - it's done with proxy script.
My question is - Is there a way to reproduce same behavior BUT prevent users to insert links to big files which are expected to be HTML files? Proxy script could look like this
$contents = file_get_contents($_GET['url']); //problem is on this line - When $_GET['url'] is url to 5GB file, it will try to download it - How could I prevent it?
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I developed a custom session state store for .Net 2.0 using PostgresSql (driver is Npgsql). The custom store run well but we face with a serious problem: PERFOMANCE.
If not using custom state, in rush hour, CPU utilization is only 10% but with the custom store, CPU utilization is about 100%. We change to use free version of Devart for Postgres, the problem is the same.
There are about 2000 request per second to our webservice from about 1000 sessions (one person can open several browser tab using our webpage). Each session store only a bool, a string and an integer in Session at session created time only.
I am using stored procedure in Postgres to interact with DB.
If I change the config file to remove custom session, the problem is solved :((
Any one using custom session store face with performance problem?
Is there any performance problem in Npgsql (I am using the latest)?
Please help!
We change to use DB as Oracle 10g using free dotconnect from devart, the problem is the same.
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"Can you tell me about it, Mrs. Nolan? The moment you found out your daughter was missing?" Eden Reddick leaned forward, establishing eye contactand hopefully, a feeling of trustwith the woman on the opposite couch.
Totally focused on the story she was about to hear, Eden blocked out the other aspects of the investigation going on around them. Her deputy chief, Dean Partlow, was taking the father outside to hear his version of events, as she was preparing to guide the mother through hers. The officers she'd assigned to gather evidence from the bedrooms upstairs had already disappeared, leaving the two of them alone in the spotless living room.
Margo Nolan nodded in response to Eden's prodding. Her tearreddened eyes shifted slightly off center, as if she were seeing it all again.
"I went to wake the kids up for school. It's really preschool for the twins, but with the older ones and all, we just call everything school. I usually wake the girls first because they're the easiest to get going. I lay out their clothes, and then, while they dress, I wake Gavin and Casey. This morning I went into their room and Raine wasn't there. Storm was asleep, but her sister" The sentence broke, and Eden patiently waited through the pause. "I thought maybe she was in the bathroom, you know, but she wasn't. And she wasn't in the hall or in the boys' room. By that time, I was yellin' at the top of my lungs. Just pure screamin' for her to answer me." Her eyes found Eden's again. "I was already startin' to get scared, but tellin' myself that was stupid. What in the world could happen to her inside her own house?" In her own bed
Eden's mother had used that phrase over and over. "She was in her own bed. Where would you think a child could be safer than in her own bed?"
"But she wasn't anywhere," Margo went on. "By then, everybody was looking. Ray and the boys. Me. Looking inside and out. We kept askin' Storm, but she just kept sayin' she didn't know. All she knew was that Raine had been there when she went to sleep."
"How long before you called 911?"
Margo shook her head. "I don't know. Maybe an hour. Maybe more. You just keep thinkin' she's gonna be somewhere. You sure don't want to think about someone takin' your baby. Not here. Not in Waverly."
The nearest town to this tiny Mississippi community was the coastal resort of Pascagoula. And few people there would think about the possibilities of someone kidnapping a child from her own bedroom.
Margo shook her head again, dabbing at her eyes with a tissue from the box that sat on the coffee table between them. "Then the officers found the door to the patio had been forced. That's when I knew" She stopped, bowing her head as she held the tissue bunched against her nose and mouth.
"We've already got people out looking for her," Eden said, as comfort. "And we're working on the Amber Alert. That's when people begin thinking about what they've seen and reporting things that seemed strange. Out of place."
Margo looked up at that, nodding vigorously. "That's what Ray keeps sayin'. It just takes the right lead. We just need that one person to come forward."
The father's language, almost official, struck a warning note in Eden's mind, but she kept any sign of that unease from the mother, choosing to reassure her instead. "I'm sure we'll hear something soon. I can arrange for you to make a public plea for people to do that, if you'd like."
The parents' statement had become the standard operating procedure in these situations. And the local stations would be more than willing to give it airtime.
While Eden knew that if the Nolans chose to speak publicly, generating sympathy for theirs and their daughter's plight, it might increase the odds of a witness coming forward, she also dreaded the onslaught of national attention that might generate. It would be a mixed blessing, in her opinion, getting Raine Nolan's description out to a far larger audience than the local affiliates could, but at the same time bringing more of the outside media into this mostly rural area.
"They find missin' children all the time." Margo seemed stuck on reiterating the assurances she'd been given. "Raine will get home safe, too. I just know it."
Eden nodded, torn between pity and guilt that she couldn't be nearly that sanguine about the outcome. She stood, indicating the front door with a sideways tilt of her head. "I'll go on outside and tell the TV people you want to speak to the public on your daughter's behalf. You think your husband will want to say something?"
"I don't know that Ray will get up in front of the camera. I've always been the outgoin' one in the family. Me and the girls." Her eyes flicked to the pictures of her twin daughters in the photos lining the hallway. "The boys are into sports. Ray says that breeds the kind of physical confidence they need. All I know is they don't have the kind that lets you get up in front of a crowd. The kind that lets you speak up for yourself. That's what my girls have. Raine's probably tellin' whoever's taken her to get her on back home or she's gonna be late for school." Margo's laugh was watery. "I can just hear her now."
Eden's personal acquaintance with the reality of what the Nolans faced left her unable to respond to that sad attempt at humor with another platitude. "Right now, we just need to get the information out to the public," she said instead. "Television and the Alert are the best ways to do that."
"I'd really appreciate you settin' all that up," Margo said. "I swear, everybody's been so good. Ray said the neighbors have already organized search parties. With all this help, I know we'll find her soon. We're just bound to."
Eden nodded again, and this time made good her escape through the front door. Given the possibility that Raine Nolan had been kidnapped as early as midnight, they were already eight hours into this.
She knew, even if Margo Nolan didn't yet seem to understand, that whoever had snatched that little girl out of her own bed could be several hundred miles away by now. In any direction. Even, she acknowledged with a chill of resignation, out into the Gulf.
Taking her deputy chief with her, Eden had retreated to the squad car to avoid the mob of local media already assembling along the street in front of the Nolans' house. Although their presence was inevitable, and ultimately useful, at this stage of the investigation she felt only resentment that keeping them out of the yard and away from potential evidence required three of her officers, who could have been better employed in the search.
"The local affiliates will want to broadcast it, too, of course," Dean Partlow said, "but the cablenews guys can give us a wider audience."
"God knows we need one," Eden agreed.
Dean had been a friend of her father's. To give him credit, no matter what he thought about having a woman, and a much younger woman at that, as his chief, he had never indicated by word or deed that he didn't believe Eden was capable of doing the job she had virtually inherited.
The town they served was small, the kind where everyone knew everybody else's business. Eden was sure the older man knew more about hers than she would be comfortable with, but that was something else Dean hadn't let on about. Just as he'd never indicated that he felt he was more deserving of the job her dad had groomed her for most of her life.
She was grateful Partlow had stayed on when her father retired. She'd learned almost as much from Dean in the past three years as she had from her dad or the criminaljustice courses she'd taken.
Part of that acquired knowledge was how unprepared she'd been to accept the responsibility that had been handed to her. Something that had only made her more determined to eventually become worthy of it.
"I don't know about that," Dean said. "I can't think of a single case where a parent's tearful plea has made a hill of beans worth of difference in the outcome."
"You got an opinion about who did this? Other than you don't think the mother was involved?"
"I don't get paid to have opinions. Not at this stage. 'Course, so far, we ain't got much fact to go on, either."
Almost all they knew right now was that Raine Nolan was missing. Like Dean, Eden found it hard to believe Margo was involved. Her grief and innocent hopefulness had felt too genuine.
"What'd you think about the father?" she asked.
"If Ray Nolan's faking, he should be making movies instead of selling insurance. I've seen men with that kind of burden of guilt on 'em, and that isn't what's in his eyes this morning."
"What is?" Eden needed him to put it into words, maybe just to reinforce what her own instincts were telling her.
"Disbelief. Fear. Fury. Somebody stole his baby. Somebody who didn't have any right to be inside his house, much less take a child out of it."
"You know that the parents' involvement is the first thing the FBI is going to suggest, especially in a case like this. Somebody comes in and snatches a little girl out of the same room where her sister's sleeping."
"Just because that's the most common scenario doesn't make it the explanation for this."
"So who do you think took her? And why? They're going to ask, and right now." Eden shook her head.
"Nobody's asked for ransom. Not yet, anyways. And despite that big ole house, Ray hasn't got much money. None he could get to real quick. The other possibilities are a whole lot less appealing."
"You think she's dead," Eden said flatly.
"I think there's a real good chance. My worse fear is the kid'll be alive and we'll walk right by her. Or we don't search the house she's in. Do something stupid when, if we'd been quicker or smarter, we could have found her."
That was something Eden didn't want to think about. The fact that a little girl's life rested in her hands. That if she forgot something, missed the obvious or was just unlucky, Raine Nolan might die.
"We'll need to have them add a plea that anyone who's noticed anything unusual, anything at all, should call the hotline," she said.
People in the South were sometimes hesitant to report what their neighbors were doing, even if they thought it was strange. They could only hope sympathy for the mother's desperation would overcome the public's tendency to mind their own business.
"Have 'em keep that number up while Margo talks," Dean suggested.
Eden nodded, adding to her notes. "Maybe you're wrong,
Dean. Maybe somebody looked at the Nolans from the outside and thought they have money."
"I hope so. For all our sakes."
Eden glanced up, meeting his eyes. "You don't think anybody's going to call."
Dean hesitated before he shook his head. "That same instinct that's telling me Ray and Margo don't have anything to do with this is telling me that whoever forced open their patio door and took that baby didn't do it for money."
"Can you think of anything we haven't done?"
Eden's question was as much to herself as to Dean. As hard as it was to believe, they were now approaching the infamous fortyeighthour mark on Raine Nolan's kidnapping. And despite doing everything she could think of, they were no closer to finding her than they had been when the call had come in yesterday morning.
"Pray?" Dean looked up as he took a bite out of one of the sandwiches someone had brought into Eden's office hours ago.
The takeout iced teas that had accompanied them had formed puddles of condensation on the glass cover of her desk. The possibility of food poisoning crossed her mind, but it wasn't enough to keep her from biting into her own sandwich.
"I expect folks who are more adept at praying than either of us have that covered. What'd the lab tell you?"
"That they're six months behind, but that since it concerns a child, they'll do the best they can."
Chronically underfunded, the state forensics lab was their only option. The county didn't handle enough crime to justify having one of their own.
Not that the guys who had gathered the evidence had been all that optimistic that there was anything in the girls' room that would point a finger in the perpetrator's direction. The best they could hope for was something that might be useful at the trial.
If there ever was a trial
"The Bureau's questioning the Nolans again." Dean shrugged as he added the information.
"You think they got their minds made up?"
"Looks that way. I'm not sure it matters, though. Long as you don't."
It would be easier, God knows, to think that whatever had happened to Raine was over and done. An outofcontrol moment by an exhausted parent that ended in tragedy.
That image, disturbing as it was, was more palatable than those that had played in Eden's head the past two days. The only way she'd found to defeat them was to keep herself mentally occupied by making sure the department was covering every possible angle.
"They say a camera doesn't lie," she said. "I don't see how anybody who watched Margo yesterday morning could doubt she doesn't have a clue what happened to her daughter."
"So you like Ray for this?"
"I didn't say that. You don't, and I trust your instincts. I just haven't watched him get emotional like I've watched Margo."
That was one thing she'd have to give the national media credit for. They'd given the mother's plea to bring her daughter home endless airtime. The fact that they'd apparently had a couple of slow news days had played into that, of course, but the story itself was compelling enough to demand attention.
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The shimmering surfaces of urban landscapes and the reality of their gritty substrate seem to have left their mark on Montreal-born writer Lauren B. Davis. Her well-received first novel, The Stubborn Season, rooted itself in the thinly masked prejudices, madness, and turmoil of Toronto during the Great Depression. Her second novel, The Radiant City, finds purchase in Paris-a city that, to the bedazzled visitor, radiates the light mythologized in recent history. Yet for the displaced survivors of the worlds horrors who try to make a new life there, it proves more danger zone than haven.
The novel centers around Matthew Bowles, a freelance war correspondent struggling with post-traumatic stress following an incident in Hebron that shattered more than one life. When hes released from an Israeli hospital, scarred and still in shock, he forfeits certainty, his work, a long-term relationship, and his vision of himself as a good man. He needs money, so he accepts a New York publishers advance to write his memoir. In Paris, a good city to be fucked up in, he discovers that his demons paralyze him, and surviving another day is all he can manage. People think that if it is true, what he and others like him have to say about the world, then the world is too horrible, too terrifying to continue living in He weeps for a long time, and when he is done he reaches for the sleeping pills he keeps handy and takes more than he should.
Matthew reconnects with an old colleague-a sometime mercenary and photographer, Jack Saddler, who describes himself as a deranged-[Vietnam] Vet-ex-con-war-junkie with a drinking problem. Saddlers chutzpah once saved their lives in Kosovo. Teaming up again with Jack leads Matthew down a booby-trapped path that entwines his life with the lives of other walking wounded: New York ex-cop Anthony who sports a metal plate in his head; Suzi, a track-marked French prostitute hell-bent on finding relief from the pain of losing her daughter; and Saida, whose diminished family fled death in Lebanon only to drift apart while running a café near Matthews apartment. These people all know about lugging a sack of skulls.
In the shadowy labyrinth of cosmopolitan Paris, each hopes to find shelter and escape from guilt, loss, loneliness, and the mental shellshock that continues to haunt them. However, no one new is ever allowed to forget the differences between those who are at home here and those like themselves who have been uprooted with little or no chance of going back. As a neighbour of Saidas remarks, You Arabs letting your children run the streets. Criminals and drug addicts. It will be the death of France! Saida worries about her father, who has never found his way in this country, never healed-as though anyone could-from the loss of so many family members. According to Matthew, its builders made Paris a visually perfect jewel of a city so that as you go down for the third time at least you have something beautiful to look at.
Beautiful prose is not what this book is built on; there is nothing ornamental, frivolous, or pretty. Dazzling images are limited; encapsulating insights are infrequent. Sentences, viewed individually, generally dont warrant singular admiration or reconsideration. Instead, the language thats utilized is straightforward, cutting to the chase in journalistic fashion.
They head along Saint-Germain, but as they walk they hear a commotion of some sort ahead of them, and Matthews skin tightens. He glances at Jack who, frowning, peers over the heads of the sidewalk crowd. There are voices, some shouting. Car horns. Someone has a bullhorn. Matthew tries to make out the words and cannot.
But this is not to say that the sum of the parts leaves no lasting impression. The writing communicates with precision and immediacy, and has a cumulative impact.
Paris disappears. He tastes dust. The world reduces to the need to seek cover. He hears shots, people screaming, sees small bursts of flame around him. He covers his head and crawls on his elbows and knees, kicking out where he must He screams. Obscenities. Loudly. Someone trips on him and he scrapes his knuckles He wants the noise to stop. Just make it fucking stop!
Meticulous details are also part of the recipe to evoke a sureness of place and time, even though there are moments when the lush offering of directions seems less than crucial to the telling of the story, when the step-by-step street names the characters encounter are distracting and only highlight the authors ten years of residency.
Nevertheless, its difficult to put the book down. The gripping cinematic progression is almost disconcerting-unable to turn away, we become the literary equivalent of highway rubber-neckers slowing to gawp at a tragic mess. Whether conjuring atmosphere or emotion or ugliness, the fragmentation and bareness of the prose slices past the wafer-thin charm of surfaces to reveal a deeper reality: the truth of lives undone by violence.
Themes that take on topical issues often set off warning bells. Even here, the temptation might be to respond: Sure, the potential for violence stalks us at all times. Do we need to be shown yet again that the world is a horrible place because of it? Despite fictions capacity for prodding awareness, it can also become a didactic finger poking foreheads hard. But Davis preserves the personal human aspect. And therein lies another of the books strengths. This story doesnt delve so much into political conflict as it does into conflict on the individual level: it focuses on the blurred greyness between right and wrong, where a person can be caught between us and them. And it forces us, along with the fictional characters, to ask how to be in the world as it is: I wonder whos going to be good for us, Matt? Who are we going to be good for? Anthony walks away then, just like that, and the place where he stood feels empty, a vacant spot in the shape of his body. Its not really the place that makes the difference; its the person.
Matthew Bowles recalls how light can blind as well as reveal. It can save someone who wanders too close to an unseen edge, but it can just as easily betray a person cowering in a hidden place. The Radiant City reveals whats beyond the splendour of a setting or the calm expression on a face. This is smooth, engaging writing that doesnt flinch from the rawness that for so many people is life. Light is neutral and indifferent. We cant afford to be. Perhaps thats the most important revelation of all.
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Davis's keen sense of atmosphere, her eye for detail. The Radiant City is a compelling read,illuminating in its insight, first rate, left us craving more. -- The Montreal Gazette, March 12, 2005
In her beautiful novel,Davis evokes a cohesive and stunningly realistic portrait of Paris life. It is a novel about recapturing a sense of wonder and belonging. -- The Paris Voice, May 2005
In this moody, exciting, clever novel, people hit the streets of the real Paris city neighborhoods. There's a lot to see in The Radiant City. -- The Vancouver Sun, April 9, 2005
Superb. The Radiant City is engrossing and convincing. Packed with smells and sounds and street argot, the minutiae and contradictions of Paris life. -- Quill & Quire , April 2005 ... (starred review)
The Radiant City shines. [A]thoughtful, complex, meditative. . .brilliant novel. -- The Globe and Mail, March 12, 2005 --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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LAUREN B. DAVIS is the author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed novels The Stubborn Season, The Radiant City, Our Daily Bread—which was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named a best book of the year by both The Globe and Mail and The Boston Globe—and The Empty Room, as well as two collections of short stories, Rat Medicine & Other Unlikely Curatives and An Unrehearsed Desire. Born in Montreal, she now lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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Matthew meets Saida, a Lebanese woman who runs a café near Matthew's apartment, along with her son, Joseph, and her father and brother, Elias and Ramzi. Saida has survived horrific events as well and seeks to find that safe place she used to know within her family's loving embrace. But her family is pulling away from her and she is as lost as Matthew in many ways.
This is only a brief and very vague description of Radiant City, within the pages Davis creates a world that we all have visited, although perhaps not as literally as Matthew and Saida. But that darkness, that place of hopelessness and hope, is a place many writers glimpse from time to time. A place that the wise writer embraces. Davis embraced it and then some.
There are parts that speak directly to the reader, forcing you to look inside yourself, to remember thoughts and feelings long forgotten. Many bring tears to your eyes, one brought a little chuckle, as I remember doing and feeling something very similar as a child:
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Such exquisitely drawn characters that draws you in to their bleak & fascinating world. A timely book to read about present day Paris' inhabitants. I highly recommend it.Published 6 months ago by Sophie
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