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From the NS archive: Fear
25 September 1954: "You are American. You are not afraid of what may happen the way we others are afraid."
By Kay Boyle
Vineyards in Caix, northern France. (Photo By Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Growing tensions and fear of future conflict meant the number of American troops stationed across Europe tripled between 1950 and 1953, despite locals making it clear their presence was not welcome. In this short story, we see through the eyes of three young American children living in the south of France during the summer of 1954. We learn the differences between the French villagers who work the vineyards, the German tourists who "carried their heads higher than any other visitors, in order not to hang them low in shame", the Englishmen who have "the Union Jack spread like a declaration of their neutrality across the knapsacks on their backs" and the Americans who are "not afraid of what may happen the way… others are afraid". When a fire breaks out and it is blamed on a drunk American soldier travelling through the region, he becomes "endowed now with political distinction".
The house in which the mother and the children had come to live was big enough to bear the name of chateau, and it stood on sloping ground among the vineyards of southern France, two miles or more out of the fishing town. It was an Englishman's house, a place on which wine was grown, and bottled, and sold to restaurants, or else for export, or to individuals who came in their own cars for it, knowing the value of its name. But now the Englishman was dead, and his wife had gone to Cornwall, to visit her people for the summer, leaving the house to the mother and children until the vintage time would come. So it was theirs, but it was no more than a fragment of possession, the mother knew, this temporary title they had been given. They were allowed access to the chateau's material residue, to the garden hedged by tapering cypress trees, to the somnolent lily ponds, and the crumbling walls on which scaled salamanders moved quicker than light. For a brief time they were permitted to lay claim to the beds they slept in, the chairs on which they sat, the ancient stove, the polished copper vessels, and the earthenware.
But the gist that kept the place from dereliction was not theirs – the beat of the peasants' hearts and the movement of their life in the cellar chambers, and the sound of their voices through the heat as they worked among the vines. Men and women labouring together, they tended the vineyards and the orchards, picked their grapes and pressed them when the right season came, filled the vast, ancient kegs, bottled, corked and labelled the wine, and pruned the vine in late December. In August, they gathered the green almonds and dried them for winter eating, and later plucked the olives from among the silvery leaves, and crushed them under the horse-drawn, granite cylinder to oil that ran, slower than honey, into the great stone jars.
All summer, under an unremitting sun, the peasants would be at their work of washing the wine bottles clean, and filling the bottles from the giant casks that stood in the dark cellars at the back of the house, following the ritual of the seasons as the retired English Army officer had taught them to do. Whenever the mother and children passed the open door, they would look up and say bonjour to her. "It's good for the vine, the drought!" the peasants would say, their voices as loud as if they called across a long distance to the mother, for theirs was the vocabulary of the vine, and, because she was American, hers might be of rearmament and the atom bomb and they were not sure that they could make her hear. "You're American, but you've been to England? You know the English?" they might say on another day to her. "If you talk to the English, they'll tell you they've had enough, the way we French have had enough," they would say in the shadows of the cellar rooms, not naming it, but adding: "You are American. You live so far away that you are not afraid the way we French and the English are afraid."
At that time of the year there were the customary number of English travellers, red-kneed, big-wristed, young Englishmen in khaki shorts and dusty boots, with the Union Jack spread like a declaration of their neutrality across the knapsacks on their backs. In hobnailed boots, they tramped the southern roads between the vineyards and the olive groves, their backs bent under the weight of their stoves and their utensils, under their books and their shabby clothes, because of their poverty and their determination, already aged, dogged men. Or there were the English who rode, two by two, erect on motorcycles, with their tin pots and pans strapped to the canvas rolls behind them; or the English families who travelled in cars of such dilapidated distinction that there was no need for the "GB" above the numbers of the licence plates to indicate from where they came.
They had a look of earnest shabbiness about them, these English, thought the mother, as she walked with her three children along the port of the fishing village, with the Mediterranean lapping at the stones. They had none of the assurance of the German tourists, for now the Germans, with so much to answer for in every European country, carried their heads higher than any other visitors, in order not to hang them low in shame. The English looked as poor as beggars as they passed the Germans sitting in the cafes, and their motorcycles were enough to make you split your sides with laughter as they stood parked along the waterfront beside the shining American cars. "You are American," the fishermen would say to her as she and the children bought the fresh sardines from the baskets lined with seaweed laid on the harbour stones. "You are American," they would say, the rejection so impersonal that there was no venom left in it. And their silence added: You are not afraid of what may happen the way we others are afraid.
"I can tell the difference between the English and the French," said Fife, who was eight that summer. The mother and the children walked up through the parched fields, carrying the fish, and the lengths of bread, and fresh fruit in their rucksacks, and the children would look at the words lettered in black on the garden walls, "US Go Home," or "Les Américains en Amérique," and then they would look away. "The English get the reddest on the beach," he said. He wore blue jeans, and American sneakers, and his voice sounded high and clear above the rasping of the cicadas in the almond and the olive trees.
"I can tell French women because their hair is rusty," said Candy, who was ten. "I can't tell the difference between the men yet. They all turn around and stare at me," she said.
"Frenchmen's hips are higher up, nearer their armpits," said the girl named Claude, "Englishmen have theirs nearer their knees." She was slender, and tanned, with the small, grave face that had been hers at three years old no different now that she was 12, except it was borne higher on her lengthening bones. "There are several other differences," she said, with dignity.
"French women kiss louder than other women do," Candy went on with it, and her wheat-coloured braids swung forward in the sunlight as she made the explosive sound of their embrace on the back of her own brown hand. "Americans kiss very, very silently," said Fife. "In the movies I've seen of Americans kissing, they never make a sound," his voice quiet and proud.
"Oh, it's hot, it's much too hot! " Candy cried out in sudden impatience. "I'm too tired to go any further, and there's a cicada caught in my hair!"
And then one day, as the mistral blew, the forest fire began to burn. It was just past noon, at the hour when all of life and all activity attenuated toward food and sleep, when the siren wailed its prolonged warning from the fishing town below. The peasants stood in their doorways, shading their eyes against the wind and light, and the American children stood up by the lily ponds, where they had set their boats afloat, their hearts chilled by the sustained, unearthly cry.
"It could be a drowning or it could be a fire," the younger peasant said, and the older one stood near him, his grim face shaded by his hand.
"It could be for 12 o'clock. It's only a quarter past now, and sometimes they've blown their whistle a half-hour off," the older peasant said.
It may have been that they were all blinded by the mere presence of the meridional noon, for it was a minute, perhaps longer, before they saw the smoke through the branches of the olive trees, and they moved out on to the wagon-road to watch it billowing in creamy fury across the wooded hill. It took them that long to see that a wheat field had gone first, and then an orchard, and that the fire had charred fig, and olive, and cypress trees across the shallow valley, and was climbing fast to higher land.
"This isn't the time of day for a forest fire," said the older peasant as the vertical note of the siren began its wailing fall. "The pompiers are fathers of families like anybody else. They've got the right to eat their lunch in peace," he said.
"Even if Monsieur Mistral laid down now," said the younger peasant, and he spoke of the wind as if it were a man, "you'd still have the birds and the rabbits carrying the fire on them. A wild pig will carry fire 20 to 30 kilometres a day, the sparks caught in his fur as he runs before it. If there's no more than just one cicada flying with his wings lit, you can't say the forest fire's out."
Again the cry of the siren rose, and in the blinding dazzlement of noonday, the deeper, hotter texture of the flames sprang up in dark-plumed triumph above the land. And now a rust-coloured jeep, its warning signal gasping in puny alarm, could be seen moving up the valley road, with a hook-and-ladder truck following behind.
"That's the fire-chief," said the older peasant, his face turned toward the wind. "He's known Monsieur Mistral 30 years," the younger peasant said.
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From where the mother and the children and the peasants stood, neither jeep nor hook-and-ladder truck seemed larger or better equipped for action than a child's mechanical toys. The two minutely labouring vehicles proceeded up the bleached, walled road, passed the charred area the fire had left behind it, bypassed the fire itself, as if their destination lay beyond, and, at a break in the slumbering wall, turned off the road and into the tilted fields. There they rocked ludicrously upward, not toward the fire, but beyond it, and when they halted, the firemen in their light blue shirts scattered like confetti across the faded pigment of the grass. But they were men, with the ruse of men in their heads and in the white rope of the hose, and so they outwitted the mindless torrent of liquid flame that gushed across the thirsting hill.
Within 20 minutes the strong, flapping flames fell, tattered, from the black masts of the trees, and the smoke thinned out to mist which the mistral bore away. Then there was only the smell of fire left in the nostrils, and the eye saw the dark scar left on the wooded hill, like the shadow of a cloud cast on sunny water, or on a field of grain. But that was not the end of it, for the story of how the fire had begun was still to be recounted, and whether it was truth or rumour, or who had told it first, nobody knew. But it was told in every shop and cafe of the fishing village, and repeated even by the fishermen as they mended their nets along the harbour, and by the peasants as they washed the bottles in the cellars on the north side of the house.
It was this: that an American soldier, on furlough from Paris or Orleans, had driven that morning into the village in his fine, big car and parked it under the sign that said no parking was allowed. The soldier had drunk three pastis on a café terrace in the sun, the story went, or drunk half a bottle of cognac, and refused to pay; and when the cafe proprietor said he must have his money or he would call the police, the soldier had said: "France never did nothing but sit on a corner holding a tin cup out, and we're sick of dropping the dollars in"; or said: "France died a couple of centuries ago"; or said: "There's 18 cafes in this town, and there's one church: That's all any Christian needs to know."
The soldier had walked unsteadily across the cobbles of the port, and raced his car through the narrow streets of the fishing village, and out the pastoral, valley road, mistaking it for the coastal road, because by that time he couldn't read the signposts any more. And, driving crazily between the long, low orchard walls, he must have flung his cigarette away, and the paper-dry field of wheat went first, and then the orchard, and it was even said that two milk-giving goats had phished. A farmer coming home had heard them blearing in the flames.
It was no longer said that there had been a forest fire near the fishing town, and that the pompiers had extinguished it, for now another element had come alive in it. Whether or not there was a soldier who had drunk too many pastis in the sun no longer mattered, and the name of the café where he had sat was of no consequence, nor the colour of the uniform he wore. Whoever he was, he had been endowed now with political distinction, and as he reeled across the stones he became the figurehead for whom the slogans were written out in letters taller than the orchard trees. Fife stood in his black rodeo shirt, and his black rodeo trousers, on the quayside, his hands thrust in his jewel-studded pockets, his eyes fixed on nothing, perhaps seeking to see the soldier, with the cigarette on his lip, making his way like a blind man to his car.
"I don't believe it was an American that did it," Fife said then.
Claude had carried the fishnet that afternoon, and there was a hermit-crab caught in the meshes of it, and she watched with gravity his small, evil, almost human face, his outsized thumbs, his irritation. Her feet were bare, and there were viscous ribbons of seaweed between her toes, and the muscles tightened in her long, brown, slender legs as she crouched down.
"Sometimes soldiers in foreign countries get lonely," she said, watching the crab, "and then they take too much to drink. Does every hermit crab," she asked, her face as quiet as a statue's face, "have his anemone?"
"But even if a soldier was lonely," Fife said, and he looked out over the moored boats riding quietly, "and even in a foreign country, I bet he wouldn't forget the things he learned about fires when he was a scout."
"Oh, Fife," said Claude, "when you grow up, you smoke, and you drink, and your memory fails you!"
Candy was there, but lost to them in other conjecturing, her head turned from them, her hair hanging in a curtain of yellow silk, as she rocked on her naked heels upon the harbour stones. There were two lovers sitting on the moss- and mollusc-grown landing-steps beyond, the water rising and falling in slow, unceasing motion just below their entwined feet. Their clothes were poor, their flesh was smooth and dark, and bronzed still darker on their throats and forearms, and they shared one cigarette between them, the girl taking it in her narrow fingers from her own mouth once she had drawn a deep breath in, and placing it against the boy's pale, handsome mouth. When the cigarette was done, she put her hand on the back of the boy's sun-blackened neck, and drew his face to her face, and kissed him long and sweetly in the early evening light. These were the two that Candy watched, her thin, brown arms around her drawn up knees, her nose a little wrinkled; and when she had watched them from this side for a space of time, she moved in her faded shorts to the other side, and squatted down again, her eyes quizzical, her toes spread on the stones, and she watched the sight of love a little while from there.
"Americans, they've got a country all to themselves as big as Europe," the fisherman was saying to the mother. He stood barefooted, broad-shouldered, in his singlet, with his blue cotton trousers rolled below his knees. In one hand he held the soft lifeless body of an octopus, its long, soiled legs, which could no longer reach and writhe, hanging like the delicate roots of some strange plant he had taken from the sea. "They've got so much territory, the Americans," he said, "that one side of a hill burning, it isn't the same to them as it is to a Frenchman or an Englishman. In America, you've got so much of everything, you can afford to blow some of it up in those atom bomb experiments, so what's a hill burning, or an acre of forest-land wiped out?"
"I don't believe the story about the American. I don't believe he was ever here," Fife said, and he looked out past the semaphore at the harbour entrance to the cliffs that built up from the sea.
"Is a sea anemone a parasite, or is it a flower the crab wears like an ornament?" said Claude, holding the hermit crab on the palm of her open band. And Candy pushed the silken curtain of her hair aside to watch the lovers kiss each other's mouths.
A few days after that, the summer was suddenly done, and the stony hills, the long-eroded cliffs, the sapless vegetation, took on another, more heterogeneous look. There were shadows cast, and the wine cellars, with their ancient barrels taller than a man, loomed strangely in the evening. The chateau tower, its windows thickly webbed by spiders and sibilant with the stirring of many dying insects' wings, was a place to turn from when the night had come. Once the peasants had closed the heavy cellar doors, and left for their houses down the cart-road where the vineyards sloped away, the mother would make the shutters of the windows fast, moving from one hushed room to another while the children slept. Downstairs, there were branched candelabra on the walls the length of the quiet salon, with crystal lozenges, blackened by time, hanging like trembling tears beneath the pear-shaped bulbs. By their uncertain light, the mother saw her own figure, slender and tall in the long, blue dress, cross quickly toward the tall mirror in its massive gilded frame, and there she halted, and looked around her, as if in fear, and then she faced her own eyes in the glass.
"I am not French, and I am not English," she whispered to the mirror, and it seemed to her then that the shadows behind her had come alive with the movement of many people, and that their hands were raised in menace, and their mouths stretched open in malediction for what she was.
"I am American," she said to that unseen presence of people in the silent room, "and the voices have spoken out for me, and spoken loudly and I too, I too, am terribly afraid."
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BREAKING: Miami Heat announce they'll hold training camp at Florida Atlantic for 2nd straight season
Miami Heat head coach Erik Spoelstra at Miami Heat training camp at FAU in Boca Raton, Florida on September 26, 2017. (Allen Eyestone / The Palm Beach Post)
BOCA RATON — Florida Atlantic will once again host the Miami Heat, as the three-time NBA Champions announced they'll hold training camp at FAU for the third time in four years later this month.
The Heat previously practiced at FAU Arena – also known as The Burrow – in 2015 and 2017, making the playoffs each season. All practice sessions are closed to the public. There will be an open scrimmage at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 29, only hours before FAU's football team faces Middle Tennessee in Murfreesboro. Lane Kiffin's Owls are 1-1 and host Bethune-Cookman on Saturday evening.
After going 41-41 in 2016-17 and missing the playoffs for the second time in three years, the Heat went 44-38 last season and won the Southeast Division. Miami was knocked out of the playoffs in the first round, losing to the Philadelphia 76ers in five games.
In a year where veteran point guard Goran Dragić made his first career NBA All-Star Game, the 30th season in franchise history also saw the return of franchise icon and future Hall of Famer Dwayne Wade, who was re-acquired in a February trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers. Wade averaged 19.4 points, 5.5 rebounds, and five assists in 21 games with the Heat, coming off the bench in each game.
The 12-time NBA All-Star, who turns 37 in January, has not committed to playing this season. The Heat re-signed veteran forward Udonis Haslem, who has primarily served as a mentor despite only playing 30 games the past two seasons, earlier this month to a one-year deal.
The Heat will play six preseason games beginning with a road showdown with DeMar DeRozan and the San Antonio Spurs on Sept. 30. Miami opens its regular season on Oct 17. against Aaron Gordon and the Magic in Orlando.
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Discussion in 'Ride Reports - Epic Rides' started by Jonny_Tallboy, Sep 22, 2013.
We've spent the last few years getting to know a couple of old 125cc motorcycles by touring around the British Isles, loving (and hating) all their foibles.
This time around we thought we'd try to set a real challenge and take the bike abroad. Not too daunting a challenge to most motorcyclists.
But on these machines the thought of having to rely on them totally for weeks, whilst having to cover 1000s of miles of ground at very modest speeds with no weather protection suddenly departs from an ordinary ride, and into the realms of something like an adventure!
It's been said many times that it's not the destination that's important, but the journey.
That said, we usually like a goal or destination, somewhere to reach or see to plan our tours around. But after much deliberation and indecision, we settled on the idea of simply stranding ourselves and the bikes as far as reasonably possible, and riding home.
Living in the UK - the southern ports are ideal for hopping into France, but this felt like we'd ride into Europe for a while, before turning around and going back. It didn't really have a goal.
So instead we bought two single ferry tickets to Santander in Northern Spain, the idea then being to call this the 'Start' and ride north over the Pyrenees Mountains into France, then ride the whole length of France, South to North, and ferry back across the English Channel and home.
Simple enough. Then we started to think about what we'd done.
Unlike most folks who'd sit there Pan European or 1200cc BMW on the motorway to the ferry port and start the holiday in a few hours, we were on 125s and could barely crack 45mph. As a result, one of the rules we set on our tours is that we don't use motorways or A roads, but instead pick our route along quiet back roads and country lanes.
This had the unfortunate implication that it would take us 2 days just to get from the north of England to Plymouth in the south! What hope was there for getting back home through two other countries?
First things first, we needed a trial pack and a test ride a couple of weeks before the departure to see how the bikes faired with all the gear we'd be taking. Usually a tank bag and some bungees work fine, but with extra gear needed for this trip we added a set of throw over panniers to the mix.
It had better be warmer and drier than this in Spain!
The bikes seemed to cope nicely with the gear, losing about 5mph off the max 50mph we usually got from them. Though pulling up hills for any length of time really became a struggle. Should be OK, it's not like Pyrenees are that hilly, right?
Day 1 was to be a mammoth slog down south to a B&B, which would set us up with a short second day in England to catch the Ferry. As usual it was freezing cold and raining in England. After 13 hours on the back roads, aching all over and wet, we decided we needed to warm up and got the camping stove out at Dartmoor National Park.
Day 2 was even wetter, though we only had a short journey to make to the ferry. We arrived wet through once again, though with the prospect of drying off on the boat and starting the first real leg of the trip the mood was upbeat.
We were outsized in terms of CC by every bike in the queue! usually about 10 times. Though we did get a lot of folks coming over to yarn about the bikes. Mostly wishing us luck with a puzzled look in their eyes, but also, I like to think, secretly jealous of our fuel economy and predicted fuel budget for the trip.
Day 3. Finally we arrive in Spain. And finally we see some sunshine. Lovely and hot.
After a quick stop in the suburbs of Santander to try to find some oil for the squeaky chain (we forgot to pack any chain lube in our tool kit) we finally start to proceed into the Spanish countryside.
We finished the first day still in Spain in the town of Vitoria. Right on the edge of the Rioja and Navarra wine producing regions, we had to go out and sample the tapas bars.
Day 4, and the day we see how these bikes cope with the Pyrenees.
The day continued over roads like these until we got to the Pyrenees themselves. Hot were we were, snow-capped still on the tops, and a hell of a long way up.
The bikes really struggled to maintain any speed or momentum going up. But we were in no rush, and there wasn't a single car or lorry to be seen so it was just a case of putting the bikes into 1st or 2nd gear, slowly making our way up on half throttle and enjoying the view.
We soon got used to the idea of this 'forced pace' and learnt to keep the throttle only part open and slowly creep up. There was no point revving any harder to change gear as these bikes couldn't pull up in 3rd gear.
Day 5 onward. The next 2 weeks merge together. But by now, we've crossed the Pyrenees, left the Spanish border behind, and are well into France. The north coast of France, and our ferry home, still seem a long way off.
Coming into one French village, just under the Pyrenees, we see this man herding his sheep down the road.
Whether he was bringing them off the mountain because he had seen the weather forecast, I don't know. But the next day was solid, driving rain all day. As we were still very far South we thought it best to continue and get some miles covered, as we were still unsure how long this trip was going to take.
The exposed nature of these bikes meant that the weather took it's toll on both the bikes and the riders, and after a full day we were forced to seek shelter.
Luckily we stumbled on a lovely French couple who could put us up for the night indoors, but also had room to store the bikes out of the weather.
The following day was total contrast.
We woke up with our gear dried and the sun back out.
And on the way back to the shed to pack our bikes up for the day ahead, we saw this.
A timely reminder that, although our bikes were small and didn't offer a lot of protection from the elements, it could have been a lot worse!
Some pretty nice panniers, though!
With the sun back out, we could now do what we came to France to do: Ride bikes and find some local food!
Just about every town or village we stopped at had a local market on every day.
As we were still quite far south, this one had a very Iberian 'feel' to it.
We kept picking up produce like this as we travelled through various towns and villages, stashing it under bungees for when we stumbled upon a campsite. More of this later.
Another thing every French village has is a thriving cafe.
Another day over, we now headed into a more architecturally-rich area of France.
You couldn't move without tripping over castles like these, littering up the place.
By late afternoon, we seemed to get that sinking feeling again that the weather was about to take a turn for the worse - seemed to have fallen into a pattern of one day being hot and sunny, the next day cold and wet.
Optimism can only go so far, I suppose. Not a happy camper.
But then, who likes putting up tents in the pouring rain?
But the food and wine we got earlier really helped lift the spirits!
The following day we woke up to more blazing sunshine.
The town certainly looks a lot nicer like this.
It was now so hot that we were on the hunt for trees to shade us rather that shelter us from rain.
The weather stayed good all day.
We found a fantastic campsite in the middle of nowhere, in a tiny village with just a few houses, 1 tiny bar, but for some reason it's very own massive chateaux.
And, with the weather so good, decided it was washing day!
We were closing in on the north coast of France by now.
Other than a dull ride back home through England, that was our trip finished.
The past 2 weeks had been phenomenal. We had no plans at all for the whole trip. Hadn't booked any accommodation or planned any routes. We'd packed everything we could think we might need and arrived in Spain with just one, rough aim: head north.
Looking back, the way we travelled made this trip so amazing. The bikes we took forced us onto the tiny country roads, which allowed us to move slowly through the country and really experience it.
Getting on a motorway and 'missing' 200 miles of scenery just wasn't an option for us, and I'm really glad.
Ditching Sat Navs for good old maps forced us into cafes and bars 2-3 times each day so that we could get the maps out and plan the next phase of the route. We tended to do this at breakfast, lunch and then in the afternoon with an espresso. Just doing so allowed us, again, to experience the country we were in. We got talking to people, yarned about what we were up to (as best we could in a foreign language anyway).
As a final note. It's always good to think about a trip in hindsight, to think about what you've learned from it. What worked well. What Didn't. How it's changed outlook on things in general.
I think we did it right on this tour. in terms of gear we didn't take too much, or too little.
Time to start thinking where the bikes will take us next time.
Great photos, particularly the black and white one of the sheep in the road and on the pavement.
Interesting article in MCN recently about about a fella, Nick Jones, who rode 5 years, 100,000 miles around the world on a Yammie YBR and an XL125. He said that his five-year trip cost less than the price of a 'big' motorcycle.
Well done. And nicely documented also.
That's a very attractive trip. The food looks wonderful, as well as the routing.
great trip. I was looking at doing similar but the fuel cost down to the ferry is the same as the rest of the trip abroad!
Lovely images and descriptions of your adventures.
I can almost taste and smell the delicacies you discovered!
Nice RR. Now I have to slog to work, can I have some cheese with my whine!
Very cool trip. Where is picture 3? The yorkshire dales?
Aye, where are you two from?
Great write up mate, & you should seriously think about starting up a 125cc travel around Europe type company.......I'll be your 1st customer!!!
That looks like a great trip and thanks for posting a very enjoyable ride report.
It was a great report to read! Thanks!
Great report and an even better trip. I dream of getting to Europe and just riding around for a month but think it will remain just a dream. Our economy has eaten big holes in my funds.
Markets and castles ride, where can I get that round here...love the food on those big wok and the Iberian food display.
Postcard pic would be the castle with the bridge's arch reflecting in the moat like a whole circle.
Don't worry about the rain as long as you have the rain gear and not getting wet, it's like beating the system (nature), riding or not.
Hi, Pic three I forget the exact location, but it's the Pennines somewhere. Could be anywhere from Tan Hill up toward Alston. It's pretty barren up there, but that's the fun of these little bikes: finding all the little roads that no one else rides on.
I've repeated some of favourite routes using tiny roads on my bigger bike, and to be honest it just isn't the same. The bike felt too heavy and cumbersome, and a little skittish on some of rough, bumpy surfaces, camber and frost-damaged pot holes.
There's definitely a route for the 125s, and a route bigger bikes.
As for setting up a 125cc travel company for Europe... You honestly don't need me. Get a cheap 125, a bunch of Michelin Regional maps and buy a ferry ticket. The trick is don't plan! then just avoid primary routes in your ad-hoc, daily route planning and see where it takes you.
We had no plans. Just a list of places we may, or may not, wish to see. And basically just kept pointing the bikes roughly north. Every now and then (IE couple of days) we though "east a bit, today", or "west a bit after lunch?"
Some of the nicest places we found were totally by accident, and some of the worst places were actually places we intended to see from reading guidebooks etc. So it goes to show, be flexible and you can't get it wrong.
Perfect. That's a very satisfying way to travel.
This is inspiring! I'm stressing over my mid-bike (A2 license) test next week and which bike to get while you guys are living it up on 20 year old customs! My Dad keeps telling me I don't need a bigger bike (I suspect more out of parental worrying than practicality) and I'm starting to believe him now. Those two bikes look so much cooler than the BMW's in Long Way Round.


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Ethics at Work and at Play: Once a Cheater, Always a Cheater
By Peter Olsen
"You figure they cheat at the ballpark, they'll cheat on the golf course, they'll cheat in business, and anything else in life." ~Bob Feller (1918-2010) American baseball pitcher
Golf has traditionally been a "gentleman's game" of integrity and fair play in which the rulebook is sacred and players typically monitor themselves. However, a unique characteristic of golf is that it's not only competitive but solitary – thereby increasing the propensity for cheating. A player might move the ball, hit do-over shots, count too few strokes, or pretend a missed swing was a practice swing. Admittedly, strict adherence to the rules varies among golfers as well as according to the circumstances. A group of friends playing a casual round of golf may choose to bend the rules, while in a tournament or formal setting the rules and honor system are of paramount importance. Nevertheless, many people cheat on the golf course and evidence shows that they are also inclined to cheat in other areas including business.
Cheating comes in many forms such as lying, deception, fraud, misrepresentation, manipulation, falsification of data, sabotage, bribery, plagiarism, breaking rules, sharing trade secrets, and insider trading. In the business world, cheating has always existed on both a small and large scale, from quack doctors and snake oil salesmen to organized crime and corporate corruption. But according to David Callahan, author of The Cheating Culture, cheating is no longer reserved for slick hucksters, lowlife criminals, and other shady characters: "Americans are not only cheating more in many areas but are also feeling less guilty about it. When 'everybody does it,' or imagines that everybody does it, a cheating culture has emerged" (Callahan, 2004, p. 13).
Callahan's analysis of the situation appears to be correct because cheating is commonplace in our culture. If someone finds a wallet full of money and turns it in to the police, this simple honest action is a rare occurrence. But it's not unusual to find athletes taking performance-enhancing drugs, students plagiarizing term papers, job seekers padding resumes with non-existent degrees, employees lying on time sheets, and citizens under-reporting income or over-reporting deductions on tax returns. Modern technology makes it possible for even more people to cheat through the ability to illegally download music and movies, hack into computer systems, and copy pages off the internet. Still, the justification that "everybody's doing it" doesn't make cheating morally right.
The practice of cheating is unethical because it's done to gain an unfair advantage, often at the expense of others. Perhaps increased cheating is a result of the "me" generation and people placing their own needs or desires above all else due to a sense of entitlement. The focus on self-interest seems to have displaced the pursuit for the common good. In the same manner, personal ethics are directly related to workplace ethics. The book Business and Society (Buchholtz/Carroll, 2009, p.256) lists seven major characteristics of immoral managers, three of which are: "These managers are self-centered and self-absorbed." "They care only about self or organization's profits/ success." "They exhibit no concern for stakeholders." Whether due to temptation, greed, laziness, deadline pressures, desire to get ahead quickly, wish to succeed at any cost, or some other reason, cheating essentially reflects the selfish nature of the individual.
A friendly game of golf can serve as a window into a person's character. Unlike team sports, in the solo sport of golf "the ethical choices made by that athlete can be more easily measured and attributed directly to the individual's moral code" (McKenzie, 2009, p. 9). In The Cheating Culture, the author relates the experience of a management consultant who went golfing with two CEOs. "He is shocked when… he sees one of the CEOs kick his opponent's ball into the woods to help him gain a winning advantage" (Callahan, 2004, p. 12). The results of a survey commissioned by Starwood Hotels & Resorts also revealed that "82% of 401 high-ranking corporate executives admit to being less than honest on the golf course" (Jones, 2002). Similarly, golfers who exaggerate and say they are better players than they really are can be "dangerous business partners," advises OpenAir Software CTO Geoff Crawshaw: "These executives are likely to predict a contract is worth $2 million when it's really worth $750,000" (Jones, 2002). Thus, the game of golf can provide valuable insight into management behavior.
An enlightening comparison can be seen between the actions of the CEOs mentioned above to that of amateur golfer Robert "Bobby" Jones, a Harvard graduate and lawyer. He was competing in the 1925 U.S. Open when he accidentally moved the ball. This infraction hadn't been noticed by his caddie, opponent, spectators, or any officials – and yet "he insisted, over official objections, on adding a penalty stroke to his score. When praised for his honesty, he retorted, 'You might as well praise me for not breaking into banks. There is only one way to play this game'" (Lambert, 2002, p. 44). Although his truthfulness cost him the tournament title, it forever exemplified Jones as a man of honor and sportsmanship. Jones' integrity is notably distinguishable from the egotism of Tiger Woods. Blaming the sport of golf for his cheating ways off the course, Woods stated: "Golf is a self-centered game" (Woods, 2010). As pointed out earlier, selfishness is the essence of cheating.
Ethics are an integral part of one's personal value system, consistently reflected in everything that one does; so realistically a person cannot adhere to more than one set of values. In an Indiana court case, one golf professional accused another of making defamatory statements calling him a "cheat" and a "cheater." The defendant's counsel wrote: "Some play by most of the rules, some play by all of the rules, and some choose to disregard the rules in total. The manner in which a man approaches the game of golf is often the same manner in which he approaches the game of life" (Melton v. Ousley, 2010, p. 6). Flawed ethics in golf aren't just part of the game but rather an indication of a person's overall ethical attitude. This explains why cheating affects not only sports and business but also education, government, and other organizations.
In his book, Callahan suggests that cheating is a result of trickle-down corruption which eventually becomes socially acceptable. However, personal observation indicates that it more likely rises from the bottom up. For example, there are parallels between the lives of students and the experiences of executives. Academic dishonesty is often prompted by high-stakes testing, increased competition for college admissions, or simply because of pressure to obtain good grades. Business executives face volatile markets, intense competition, and pressure to increase profits. Cheating can begin as early as grade school, continue through high school and college, then proceed into the workplace and business world. The result is that dishonesty gradually becomes a way of life.
The core of this ethical problem is that America is suffering from a nationwide loss of moral integrity. People talk about their dislike of being ripped off in general, and their distrust of big business in particular. Yet even those who consider themselves to be upstanding citizens are guilty of committing the occasional act of fudging. The tendency to overlook one's own cheating behavior is called "self-concept maintenance," which means a person balances the motivations of cheating versus maintaining a positive self-image (Mazar et al., 2008). In other words, people cheat up to the point where they feel bad enough to acknowledge they are cheating. But the truth is, if a person merely cheats once, he is still a cheater. As one researcher observed, "society is not full of a few people who cheat a lot, but instead a lot of people who cheat a little" (McKenzie, 2009, p. 5).
Whether at work or at play – in business or in golf – cheating is morally wrong. A straightforward approach to any situation is always the best ethical method. One's actions should demonstrate honesty, truthfulness, and fairness both inside and outside the workplace. Simply stated, integrity is how one behaves when nobody is watching. People need to hold themselves accountable to a higher standard. By choosing not to cheat, people consciously make a statement that cheating is unacceptable and unnecessary. Development of spiritual values or ethics and character training would help to counter the moral relativism and the lack of distinction between right and wrong. In any event, it's always a good idea to be wary of one's opposition and remember the quote by sports commentator Heywood Hale Broun: "Sports do not build character – they reveal it."
Buchholtz, Ann and Archie Carroll. Business And Society. Cengage Learning, 2009.
Callahan, Daniel. The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead. New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2004.
Jones, Del. "Many CEOs Bend the Rules (of Golf)." USA Today. June 25, 2002.
Lambert, Craig. "Vita: 'Bobby' Jones." Harvard Magazine. March-April 2002.
Mazar, Nina, On Amir, and Dan Ariely (2008), "The Dishonesty of Honest People: A Theory of Self-Concept Maintenance," Journal of Marketing Research, Volume 45, Number 6, December 2008.
McKenzie, Scott. "Driven to Cheat: A Study on the Drivers of Dishonesty-through the Game of Golf." Duke University Honors Thesis, April 2009.
Melton vs. Ousley, No. 91A02-0909-CV-902, Indiana Court of Appeals, 2010.
Woods, Tiger. "How I've Redefined Victory." Newsweek. November 17, 2010.
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Public Talk: Protest Culture in Hong Kong: Preserving Historical Memory (31 Jan 2018)
The Library is pleased to organise the following public talk by the Library Fulbright Research Scholar Daniel C Tsang. All are welcome to join!
Protest Culture in Hong Kong: Preserving Historical Memory
Are libraries & cultural institutions here doing due diligence in collecting, preserving and making accessible the records, artifacts and memories of Hong Kong's multiple and tumultuous, social & political movements? Such materials, online or not, are increasingly at risk of disappearing if nothing proactive is done. CUHK Library Fulbright Research Scholar Daniel C Tsang offers examples of how historical memory can and has been preserved in Hong Kong and abroad.
Light refreshment will be provided.
About the Speaker and Discussant:
Speaker: Mr Daniel C Tsang
Visiting Fulbright Research Scholar, CUHK Library
Distinguished Emeritus Librarian, University of California, Irvine
Mr Daniel C Tsang is a visiting Fulbright Research Scholar at CUHK Library, interested in how protest culture in Hong Kong is being preserved. A Distinguished Emeritus Librarian at University of California, Irvine, he was data librarian and a social sciences bibliographer there for 30 years. He has researched and participated in various social movements and has also interviewed activists and independent filmmakers in Hong Kong and abroad. He was born in Hong Kong.
Discussant: Prof Simon FK Chu
Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Vice Chair, Archives Action Group
Professor Chu is an Archives and Heritage administrator and educator by profession. He was educated in Hong Kong, Canada and the UK where he obtained his degrees in History (BA and MA), Information Science (MLIS) and Law (LLB). Professor Chu is the former Director of the Hong Kong Government Records Services and has held executive positions in a number of local and international organizations responsible for heritages programs. Professor Chu has devoted almost all of his working life on promoting, advocating and educating the preservation and professional management of historical heritages in their various forms.
Date: 31 Jan, 2018 (Wed)
Time: 4:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Digital Scholarship Lab, G/F, University Library
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Enquiries: dslab@lib.cuhk.edu.hk


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Thought Contagion Promo
Muse song
Name Thought Contagion
Album/single Simulation Theory (7), Thought Contagion (1)
Alternative titles Fury II
First live performance 13th November 2017 (bass riff), 24th February 2018 (full)
Latest live performance
Recorded November 2017
Writer/composer Matthew Bellamy
Producer Muse, Rich Costey[1]
Song Nav
Something Human < Thought Contagion > Get Up and Fight
Album Nav
Drones (2015) < Simulation Theory (2018) >
[Listen]
"Thought Contagion" is a single, released on 15th February 2018.
In an interview with Matt Wilkinson on Beats 1 Radio, Bellamy mentioned the idea behind the meaning came from a book by Richard Dawkins which suggested that thoughts are contagious and spread like a virus, or like genes.[2]
The song was inspired while watching American news stations in which some 'belief systems, whether they are true or false, are getting a lot of air time'. The song also deals with anxieties and feelings[2], the part of 'You've been bitten by a true believer' is about someone who believes things that are not true will sometimes have more power than you as Matt said: 'I think that's really what the song is about. It's about how other people's false belief systems can infect your own and sometimes even affect your feelings.'[2]
Matt wrote the song towards the end of 2017, he came up with the bass line and used a theremin to create the lead melody, but is was until November 2017 when they started to record it when he thought that theremin melody would be a cool, anthemic sort of vocal part, Chris and Matt did about ten passes to create this sort of crowd effect on the vocal. The verse of the song, originally was more heavy-sounding than it is now, but they wanted to experiment with programming the verse and go for more of a slightly trap or 808 drum feel for the verses, which took the song in a bit of a different journey.[2]
The leaked version of the song started with sounds of thunder, similar to The Globalist.
During an interview with KROQ DJ Stryker at the 2017 Almost Acoustic Christmas show, Matthew Bellamy was asked about plans for 2018. He revealed that Muse is currently mixing new track[3]. On Twitter, Matt was asked about release date. He expects to make video on January, then release it along with new song on early February[4]. He also described it as Fury II[5].
On February 6, 2018 All Access Music Group posted "10 Questions with... Adan Armandariz", National Director/ Rock Promotions for Q Prime. In his answer to Question 6: he states:
"Along with the aforementioned Three Days Grace action, we have new music from Muse, "Thought Contagion", that hits PD desks everywhere on February 15th." See his interview here.
On February 9, 2018, Muse & Warner Brothers Promotions posted an image for Thought Contagion (see above) that looks like a movie poster. The license plate on the car has the number 02.15. The bottom of the image shows a Rating of R and "A Dig Down Production". The lettering is done in the same style as Dig Down, with similar neon colors.
On February 15, 2018, the song was leaked earlier than intended on a YouTube live-stream [6]
Written in A minor, the song starts with a heavily chromatic bassline, followed by a Halloween-esque riff and loud, thumping percussion. The verse is backed by clap drums and an almost-rapped Bellamy vocal, before the chorus presents a call-and-response hook, with Fall Out Boy-style "whoa-oh's" answered by a quiet falsetto.
Musically, the chord progression is similar to In Your World, but the song is also compared to Fury with its Digitech Whammy guitar solo and anti-religious lyrics. It makes reference to the "Final Solution," which was Nazi Germany's name for the planned extermination of Jews during World War II.
Click here for the music video page.
Thought Contagion, as the second single to be released off of new album, was performed live for the first time in 2018 at the Paris Cigale "by-request" show. It was received surprisingly positively by the crowd, dedicated fans who had traveled for miles to hear the band perform a setlist filled with songs such as Eternally Missed and Space Dementia live. Long-time fans and new fans tend to agree that Thought Contagion is a welcome addition to the live repertoire, a notable contrast to the controversial Dig Down, released the year prior.
Strung out, falling from the big time Welcome to the infinite black skies Brain cleansed, fractured identity Fragments and scattered debris
Thought Contagion Thought Contagion
Fall down, learn when to count it out Prop me up, before I black out Withdraw before you're out of time Clean slate and buried war crimes
You've been bitten by A true believer You've been bitten by Someone who's hungrier than you You've been bitten by A true believer You've been bitten by Someone's false beliefs
They'll never do what you want them to Give it up and watch it break though It's too late for a revolution Brace for the final solution
Strung out, falling from the big time Welcome to the infinite black skies It's too late for a revolution Brace for the final solution
↑ https://twitter.com/MattBellamy/status/939966299509202944
↑ a b c d Jacqui Swift. (2018). VIRTUAL REALITY Muse frontman Matt Bellamy on finding the good side of technology via virtual reality — as he admits band 'partied a**es off' after second album. Retrieved 2018-11-12 from The Sun. Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Rolling Stone -Interview" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Rolling Stone -Interview" defined multiple times with different content Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "Rolling Stone -Interview" defined multiple times with different content
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Australian Football: Western ace to miss grand final
bet365 News Team May 24 2022
Western United veteran Nikolai Topor-Stanley has lost his race for fitness and will sit out the A-League grand final against Melbourne City.
Western are priced at 9/4 to win the grand final but will have to do it without the 37-year-old who has failed to recover from a foot injury in time to take his place in the side.
Cruel blow
The defender picked up the tendon injury in his foot when Western played their final game of the regular season against Adelaide United. He was hoping to prove his fitness but the game has come too soon for him.
Topor-Stanley underwent a fitness test on Tuesday but did not tick all the boxes to come into consideration for the big dance.
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"I tried to give myself every chance to be fit and yesterday was a fitness test that I fell short of, which was probably not where I need to be to be able to function fully," Topor-Stanley told AAP.
"I don't want to take someone else's opportunity away to contribute to a grand final. I knew I was a long shot of contributing again this season but I guess we did everything we could and tried to deal with whatever pain I could handle. But (there was) just nowhere near enough time."
Crucial role to play
Despite not being able to play, Topor-Stanley will still do all he can in the dressing to make sure his team-mates are good to go out and perform.
"That's part of being a leader, knowing how to deal with disappointment and compartmentalise that fact and support the boys and be positive, calm any nerves or offer any advice that I can to people that want it," he added.


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String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D.887 (1826) [52:48]
Alban BERG (1885-1935)
String Quartet, Op. 3 (1909/11) [21:07]
Kuss Quartet (Jana Kuss (first violin); Oliver Wille (second violin); William Coleman (viola); Mikayel Hakhnazaryan (cello))
rec. 28-29 July, 31 July-1 August 2010, Siemens Villa, Berlin, Germany
ONYX 4066 [73:55]
This disc of Schubert and Berg marks the debut release on the Onyx label for the Berlin-based Kuss String Quartet. Founded in 1991 at the Hanns-Eisler Academy in Berlin the current line-up was formed in 2008 when cellist Mikayel Hakhnazaryan replaced Felix Nickel.
I appreciated the contrasting programme of two innovative string quartets separated by eighty-five years. Both Schubert and Berg were based in Vienna a city that was for many years the centre of European music-making.
Schubert's final String Quartet No. 15 in G major, D.887 was composed in just ten days in 1826. Experiencing both financial concerns and relationship difficulties Schubert wrote this score during a challenging time. It quartet was eventually premièred in 1850 over twenty years after Schubert's death with publication following in 1851.
Probably his least immediately appealing chamber score the G major Quartet is far less frequently recorded than its more celebrated close predecessor the Quartet in D minor 'Death and the Maiden'. Its massive scale represented a radical change for Schubert alongside the work's unconventional tonality and unsettling almost aggressive character.
The Kuss are remarkable in the opening movement for their yearning almost pleading tones. This is genuine heart-on-sleeve playing; it feels most affecting. Here one senses an impressive accord between the players. Intense concentration is established in the moving Andante with the writing punctuated for a time with what seem like a series of screams. In the Mendelssohnian Scherzo the Kuss are vivacious and spring-healed. The Trio section with its Ländler melody is highly attractive. A rather obsessive Tarantella-like rhythm propels the music forward in the final movement. Schubert's quicksilver modulations are rather unsettling conveying a curious mocking feel.
Berg's String Quartet was written in 1909/11 as a graduation exercise and was the last of his scores composed with Schoenberg as his teacher. Premièred in 1911 the two movement quartet displays Berg's unique personality experimenting with an atonality that strongly anticipates serial technique. Unfortunately and somewhat unjustly this work is overshadowed by the Lyric Suite. Berg composed the quartet in the midst of difficulties in his relationship with Helene Nahowski. Despite fierce opposition from her family Berg and Helene were married in 1911. It seems that he may have been inspired to compose the quartet as a musical depiction of Helene. Michael Stegemann explains in the notes that Berg's score is based on the second violin's principal theme.
In the first movement Langsam, right from the opening bars, the tone of Jana Kuss's Giovanni Battista Guadagnini (1776) violin sounds exceptional. Out of cloudy tranquillity the players articulate a succession of short-tempered, anguished near-venomous outbursts. Marked Mäßige Viertel the final movement is forthright, spirited and angular. Creative and starkly contrasted like an abstract artwork the Kuss paint an impressive canvas in sound. The steely beauty of Berg's writing becomes a chilling experience with the temperament punctuated by considerable torment.
The sound quality on this Onyx disc is clear and well balanced with an interesting essay in the booklet. I thoroughly enjoyed this captivating and splendidly played release.
The Kuss have recently been in the studio recording a mouth-watering selection of Russian music. Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No.1 will be the feature work together with a fascinating variety of miniatures for string quartet including the collaborative Variations on a Russian Theme by Scriabin, Glazunov, Liadov, Rimsky-Korsakov et al; Stravinsky's Concertino; Schnittke's Canon in Memory of Stravinsky and Tchaikovsky's Album for the Young (arranged by Rostislav Dubinsky).
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The Chosen Season One (DVD) - English...
The Chosen Season One (DVD) - English only
VIDANGEL STUDIOS
The Chosen is a television drama based on the life of Jesus of Nazareth, created, directed and co-written by American filmmaker Dallas Jenkins. It is the first multi-season series about the life of Jesus, and season one was the top crowd-funded TV series or film project of all time. The series' creators stated that they had hoped to distinguish the new series from previous portrayals of Jesus by crafting a multi-season, episode-based story. The series portrays Jesus "through the eyes of those who met him".
The show has used innovative methods to finance its production and stream the series. The show is financed via crowd funding; the show is free to watch and viewers are asked to "pay it forward" by contributing whatever amount they wish to fund future seasons, and contributors may receive perks such as appearing as an extra in the film. As of 2021, viewers had contributed $40 million towards its production, making it by far the most successful crowd funded entertainment project.