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Richard Caring secures two new sites
Serial restaurant investor Richard Caring has secured two further sites in London for openings later this year, likely to be under the working title Ivy Café.
The M&C Report announced recently that Caring has completed on the former site of the Union Café on Marylebone Lane, and has also learned that he has secured the Pavilion Restaurant site on Kensington High Street.
The group currently has two sites operating under the name Ivy Market Grill, and is believed to be eyeing a number of openings both in London and the regions over the coming years.


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"What exactly is going on?" Noah shook his head, still feeling slightly giddy.
"Demon Hunter Cyril tried to hinder us, but Mentor showed up in time to save us, as simple as that!" Kesha laughed bitterly.
The great name of Demon Hunter Cyril struck his ears like a peal of thunder. Rumour had it that this infamous, ferocious being would make even the most cunning devil burst out in tears, regretting that they were ever born into this world.
Simply thinking about falling into the hands of such a person had her breaking out in cold sweat.
"I should've thought of it earlier. Nefas, the city of sins, and the Forgotten Land are in close proximity and there are frequent interactions between their people. It is impossible that the forces in the Forgotten Land are not in contact with the Demon Hunter." Robin's face was full of remorse.
In actual fact, what he meant was that those forces were the other party's lackeys. When they saw that they could not handle their group, they immediately informed their master.
However, there was no conclusive evidence. In addition to that, the Demon Hunter was also a Morning Star Magus, which was why Robin spoke obscurely.
"If Mentor Gilbert hadn't arrived in time, we would've been in grave danger. Oh yes, why did Mentor come here?" Robin asked with a doubtful expression.
"It was me!" Leylin stood out and gave a bitter laugh.
"Before I left, I'd already had a bad premonition. Thus, I gave Parker a letter. If I failed to return within the time limit, he would hand it over to Lucian immediately, who would then pass it on to Mentor… Thank goodness! Brother Lucian is indeed trustworthy. Mentor also didn't get caught up in a high-level experiment……"
His words were only partly true. As a matter of fact, it was the Coin of Destiny which allowed Leylin to predict the interference of a force at the Morning Star realm. However, he could not bear to give up on the Lamia Hair, hence he adopted such a compromising measure.
From the looks of it, it wasn't a bad result.
"Sorry! I acted on my own!" Leylin admitted and apologised immediately.
"No! It's nothing! We still have to thank you for your vigilance!" Robin waved.
"That's right! Who would've known that the Demon Hunter was actually so treacherous? He even tried to snatch away small fries like us!" Kesha spoke with a face full of indignation.
"Silence!" Leylin and Robin shouted simultaneously to stop her.
"Towards Morning Star Magi, even if we are enemies, respect must be given no matter what! This is to respect the truth!" Kesha flushed red from embarrassment and lowered her head.
*Rumble!* At this time, a large wave was transmitted from afar. Leylin looked towards that direction in concern.
"No need to worry! The Demon Hunter may be famed for his strength, but you have to believe in our Mentor. He is also very powerful!" Robin noticed the worries on Leylin's mind and gave him a comforting smile.
"Let's hope things will be as such!" Leylin replied a little forcefully.
Getting Duke Gilbert out was already his last resort. Apart from this mentor, he could no longer think of any other ways to make the Demon Hunter give up.
Should their mentor be defeated, the students themselves would not have a good ending as well.
"Strength! It still comes down to strength!" Leylin could not help but clench his fists together as his yearning for the Morning Star realm grew.
*Whoosh!* A scarlet ray of light streaked across the horizon and Gilbert's silhouette emerged before Leylin and the others.
"Mentor!" Robin and Leylin rushed to bow.
"You rascals, look what trouble you've gotten yourselves into, you even provoked Cyril!" Gilbert swept his eyes over before a smile surfaced on his bald, bare face. It seems, that in the battle between him and the Demon Hunter, he was not on the losing end.
After realising that, Leylin heaved a sigh of relief in his heart. At least the worst case scenario no longer had a chance of occurring.
"Alright! You must be exhausted after the expedition, just take a trip back on my airship!"
Smiling, Gilbert waved his hand and a small airship appeared on the spot.
Although it was smaller in size than the public airships, it was evidently more luxurious and ornate. The spell formations drafted on it were also more intricate and powerful.
"This is…" Leylin's mouth opened wide.
Despite its small size, it was still a proper airship! With enough space to fit an airship of this size, surely Duke Gilbert's space artifacts must have been at the level of magic equipment at least!
But Robin thought Leylin had lost his senses because of the airship. "This is the 'Black Scale,' Mentor's ship. When he advanced to become a Morning Star Magus, the Fayle clan sent it as a gift. It can use any network of channels and will be treated as an honoured guest at maintenance and rest stops!" he explained with a smile.
"What a lavish clan!" Leylin gasped. The family which had control over the central continent's airship channels, had a lot of inside information as expected.
"Will they send a gift for every Morning Star Magus after they are promoted?" Leylin suddenly remembered and asked.
"That's right! Basically, after a Magus is promoted, the Fayle clan will definitely send a private airship as a gift!" Robin nodded.
"What a great scale of spending!" Of course, Leylin knew very well that it was probably not the intention of the Fayles. Instead, the Monarch of the Skies was using the chance to get on the good sides of the Morning Star Magi.
The Black Scale's interior was very luxurious. Comprising a master room, guest room, kitchen, meditation room and a customized living room, the airship was big enough to accommodate dozens of people without seeming crowded. For a private airship, this was enough.
Gilbert sat on a sofa in the middle of the living room while Leylin and the other 3 stood respectfully at one side. A few clear-winged elves carried the teapot and cups and swiftly poured a cup of red tea for everyone.
"Sit!" Gilbert chuckled. "I am also rather interested in your experiences this time round!"
Leylin's heart stirred. He knew that whatever was to come could not be avoided, but he showed no dissatisfaction about it.
By the sole fact that Gilbert saved him, it was only right to share a large portion of the reward.
"Tiny energy waves are detected! Identified as Bloodline artifacts' detection technology! Space artifacts are unable to cut them off!"
By this time, the prompting sounds of the A.I. chip had reached Leylin's mind. In his vision, he distinctly saw a scanning wave sweep past the 4 of them, not even sparing Noah.
The wave was so obscure that even Robin could not feel it scanning his body, it even went on to scan Leylin's spatial pouch and ring. Despite that, Leylin's face remained unchanged.
The few people remained silent for a while before Robin took the lead and spoke up, "Mentor, It's like this…"
"……" After listening to his narration, Gilbert looked at the imprint of the spell on Robin's forehead and took a deep sigh, "I didn't expect that you would ultimately choose this path!"
"This is my choice!" Robin bowed and replied, "If not for this, I'm afraid I wouldn't even get the chance to look at the realm of the Morning Star!" He spoke resolutely.
"As your mentor, I can only guide and advise you in your pursuit of the truth and the power of the bloodline. As for your final choice, I will not interfere any further."
Gilbert shook his head and said, "Since you are insistent on doing this, then so be it!"
"Mentor……" On the other side, Kesha was acting like a little girl, on the verge of crying. She spoke about her encounter extremely miserably.
"Arcus and the other two are all dead…… That's half the strength of my clan…… Mentor……"
Towards the end, Kesha's eyes flushed red and she started crying. Tears flowed out like a waterfall. She spoke nothing about her earnings from the extortion of the Green-skinned Barbarian, which was done in collaboration with Leylin.
"Alright! Alright!" Gilbert said helplessly. "After this, I will give orders for your clan to be taken care of!"
"Thank you Mentor!" Kesha's face brightened up instantaneously, with such speed that it created a pang of admiration in Leylin.
"Leylin, how about you?" Gilbert finally directed his attention to Leylin, with a slight smile of interest in his eyes.
'What the hell. Amongst you, one is his former student, while the other is a woman. I, the newcomer, am at the greatest disadvantage!' In his mind, Leylin rolled his eyes but he kept a calm expression on his face. He patted the space pouch respectfully and a few items appeared on the desk.
"A bloodline crystal!" Kesha covered her mouth and let out a gasp as she saw the blood-red stone.
However, Robin's focus was on the long-root fruit and a few pieces of large, milky white bones.
As for Gilbert, he looked engrossingly at a large egg which sat in the middle of the desk. As he looked at the blood-red runes on it, he appeared to be deep in thought.
"Leylin, you've struck it big this time in the pocket dimensions!" Kesha leaned forward, almost squeezing her whole body into Leylin's embrace. "This sister's clan is already so pitiful, shouldn't you help me out?"
"Haha…" Gilbert, however, made a carefree laugh.
"This is the egg of a Blood Vulture! Blood Vultures in the ancient times were originally well-known for searching for bloodline artifacts. Leylin, I suppose you got lucky and found a nest of Blood Vultures?"
"Yes!" Leylin scratched his head, looking a little embarrassed. "After I found the nest, I hid there for a few days before I finally seized the chance and snuck these things out……"
Upon hearing that, a hint of jealousy appeared on everyone's face, even Robin's. Why didn't such good luck descend on him?
"These items, I'm willing to offer them all to Mentor!" What Leylin said thereafter turned Robin and Kesha's minds blank.
"It's not even possible not to offer…" Leylin gave a sincere look, but he was utterly bitter inside.
After discovering that Leylin possessed these items and did not hand them over, Gilbert would not feel good about it. If that was the case, Leylin's future life in the Ouroboros Clan would be difficult.
"Haha… Good!"
Gilbert laughed out loud…
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In bringing The Honeymooners to the big screen, costars Gabrielle Union and Regina Hall faced considerable challenges.The two actresses had to elude the shadows of classic TV icons Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph, who played Alice and Trixie. They also had to turn two white '50s housewives into modern, independent black women. What's more, the Gabrielle Union of take-no-bull, Deliver Us from Eva fame — who married NFL player Chris Howard in 2001 — definitely had to forget her own marital habits to play Alice.
"[Alice] is so different from me as a wife," Union explains. "I'm not as forgiving. I tend to speak and then I think about what I just said, whereas this role took me back to the advice my mom gave me before I got married. She was like, 'You're in for a rude awakening; you're going to have to sacrifice some battles to win the war.' That's Alice. It was kind of hard to find that balance, because I'm not like that in my own marriage at all."
Hall fought and won her own battle while playing Trixie, Ed Norton's wife and Alice's gal pal and neighbor. "Trixie didn't have that much to do [in the TV series]," explains the Scary Movie star. But for the film, Hall saw Trixie's role as important "to show more of the friendship [between couples].
"Basically a lot of what you see in the movie are Regina's own words," Union points out. "She did every take differently. I don't know if that was more for our entertainment; she was trying to make us laugh... There were so many moments in the movie where they just let her go [and ad lib]. She's good at it. Her talent expanded the role of Trixie beyond what was originally there."
Shooting the Brooklyn-set movie all the way in Ireland — where production costs are cheaper — probably helped form a believable on-screen friendship between the actresses. "We just became so close," says Union. "We were literally living on top of each other." "It's good, because we stayed friends," Hall chimes in. "Sometimes you do a movie and you never speak to the people again."
When recalling the "hardships" of filming far away from the comforts of home, their bond is evident. Groans Hall: "Ireland can't be the new Toronto! At least not for black women; our hair can't stand it."
"But maybe it could be because they let us eat over there," Union adds. "And they encourage carbohydrates."
"For one meal, they'd give like three different sides of potatoes," Hall laughs. "They have corn on pizza!"
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Rock'n'Roll's 10 Most Memorable Band Name Disputes
Published Jan 10, 2012Thanks to the internet, it's pretty easy these days to figure out whether another band has the same name you. It wasn't always that way, however. In the days before domain name registration, groups had to take a leap of faith and hope that no other act shared the same handle. Of course, this often went awry, and legal battles and name changes would ensue.
Even today, we're surprised to find that bands are still being forced to change their names -- come on guys, don't you have Google? Some of these battles are valid, while others are completely spurious. Whatever the case, here is Exclaim!'s list of some of the most memorable band name disputes.
Rock'n'Roll's 10 Most Memorable Band Name Disputes:
10. Dinosaur vs. Dinosaur Jr.
Dinosaur's 1987 sophomore album You're Living All Over Me was their breakthrough. Unfortunately, the added publicity meant that the psych rock supergroup the Dinosaurs -- composed of former members of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, County Joe and the Fish, and more -- took notice and forced the J Mascis-led alt-rockers to change their handle to Dinosaur Jr. Subsequent pressings of their first two albums added "Jr." to the packaging.
9. The Pack vs. The Pack A.D.
Vancouver garage punks Becky Black and Maya Miller were originally known as the Pack, but a Sacramento rap crew of the same name (who included the BasedGod Lil B) kept having the West Coast outfit's MySpace page deleted. Fearing that legal action would follow, Black and Miller changed their name to the Pack A.D. But these ladies don't go for any of that "Anno Domini" shit -- their original website was at www.thepackafterdeath.com.
8. The Warlocks vs. Grateful Dead
Before the Grateful Dead became the world's most beloved (and reviled) jam band, the San Francisco-based outfit were known as the Warlocks. At the same time, the Velvet Underground were going by the same name on the opposite coast. Then, a third band emerged with the same name, and Jerry Garcia opted to rechristen his group the Grateful Dead after reportedly finding the phrase in a dictionary. It's probably for the best -- "Deadhead" is way catchier than "Warlockhead."


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DECISION MATTERS workshop at the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung
October 13, 2019
This year, our workshop at the AvH Stiftung in Berlin was devoted to smart decision making for prospective leaders.
The Fellows of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung joined us on Monday October 14 to discuss how our own mind can play tricks on us. Dr. Denis Kotov delivered a keynote as introduction to the #OrangensquareCriticalQuestion: How can we improve the quality of our decision-making process?
Many of us are aware that while human heuristics help us come up with optimal (in a given context) decision, the understanding of their accuracy and the cases where cognitive pitfalls manifest is limited. Yet the know-hows of the behavioural economics — such bas cognitive profiling, highlighting the conditions under which cognitive errors are likely to occur and the ways to mitigate the risk of illed decisions — make it easier than ever before to handle cognitive errors from their identification to comprehensive brainstorming sessions.
The challenge for behavioural coaches is to understand where cognitive errors are likely to distort the quality itellectual outcome while preserving the team's drive, brainstorming spirit and the ability to come up with new solutions.
The optimal way is to teach group members to recognize cognitive errors (both - their own and those of other group members) and use techniques to keep group discussions on a right (rational) track.
We are grateful to our guests for their passion, productive participation and smart ideas.
Nudgingkonferenz in Berlin
March 16, 2019
Elena Aminova had an inspiring weekend at the Nudgingkonferez in Berlin.
Main take-aways:
1. Designing decision-making frameworks are getting increasingly attractive for social projects (healthy catering, health at the jobplace, healthy sleeping rituals, urban recreational areas for children and adults)
2. Nudging tools can be effectively merged with design thinking, gamification and other creative techniques of brainstorming.
3. Nudging is not the only alternative. Consider Boosting as a promising alternative for democratic societies. Many thank to the conference organizers, especially to Frank Erwin and Nina Martin for a productive workshop.
Orange ´n´ square partners up with MOSECON
January 06, 2019
We are pleased to announce a new partnership between Orange 'n' square and MOSECON.
The Modern Security Consulting Group MOSECON GmbH is a consulting company specializing in counterterrorism, security and international relations and advises government and state leaders, governments, NGOs, research institutes and private companies worldwide. Employees are characterized by versatility and adaptability, and assist in the creation of policies, agendas, strategic and tactical decision-making, as well as in the development of security programs and academic projects.
The aim of this partnership is to offer a new series of workshops and seminars devoted to effective handling in a crisis situation.
Denis Kotov at the Energy Forum in Leipzig
December 08, 2019
On December 6, 2018, Denis Kotov made a workshop at the "Controlling in der Energiewirtschaft" event in Leipzig. This time, the meeting of the working group was dedicated to best practices in project management and the role of the controller as a business partner. What are the requirements for a smooth planning, development and implementation of projects? In his workshop, Denis Kotov demonstrated how cognitive biases can distort the decision-making process and lead to project failure. He showed that even experienced controllers tend to make biased decisions without realizing it. Bias can occur on every project phase. The overestimation bias affects both the project definition phase and the implementation phase. Due to the escalation of commitment, even unprofitable projects get pumped up with new investments. Self-esteem distortion reduces the learning effects of previous projects and prevents true causes of deviations from being detected.
In the second part, Mr. Kotov used a case study to show how distortions in business decisions can be identified. This requires a detailed analysis of (a) the expectations at the time of project planning with regard to the course of the project and the associated risks, and (b) interpretation of factors that had led to deviations. This extended variance analysis provides applicable indicators to cognitive biases that distort our expectations and can lead to deviations. Debiasing methods help to substantially improve business decisions and project management processes.
DECISION MATTERS at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
October 21, 2018
In October, we made a workshop at the final conference of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for Young Leaders in Berlin. Using insights from our decision-making- and nudging workshops, we wanted to inspire international fellows with the value of behavioral economics.
Together with Dr. Denis Kotov of GAZPROM Germania GmbH, we hosted a half-day workshop DECISION MATTERS. In 2017, we had already convinced many awesome professionals with the idea of "slow thinking". The concept of this year's event has been extended to include nudges and nudging.
Elena Aminova and Denis Kotov used the methods of behavioral economics and techniques of creative brainstorming to show the participants their own mind patterns. The second part of the event was dedicated to the concept of nudging and illustrated how to steer the decisions of others without direct restrictions.
During an interactive game our gests had to design a nudge based on the case study. The idea of nudging was surprisingly well accepted by the audience: many fellows could imagine including nudges in their future projects. This made the exchange of experiences for both sides very positive.
If you have any questions, suggestions or comments, drop us a line to email@example.com.
Why are financial controllers good as business partners?
September 19, 2017
Over the past decade, the role of financial controllers has been increasingly shifting to business partnering. In our workshop in Warsaw at the Financial Controlling Summit 2017, we reflected on the concept of business partnering, discussed some practical implications for financial specialists and unfolded the ways and mechanisms that enable controllers to deliver rational judgements to the management.
We started by asking what makes controllers suitable as business partners? The responds have proven that traditional number-related functions are shifting to support managerial decision-making on a wide range of issues, including risk management, strategy and business development, future investments etc. It turns out that every day controllers are forced to make decisions between options that differ in a specific way: do we handle as usual or advise the management about new options? Intuitively most of us understand that business as usual may not always be the optimal choice but tend to exploit well-known paths instead of using financial insights to explore fresh alternatives.
So, what makes financial controllers suitable as business partners?
First, they are independent from many strategic business decisions, even though they support these decisions with analytics, insights, and data.
Second, they know the company from inside - its past, present and its expected performance. Finally, while making judgement they apply professional scepticism and tend to question the proposed alternatives, estimations or assumptions. That is why their expertise can enable qualified decision-making on the top level.
Still, although the numbers are correct sometimes decisions fail. Why does it happen? Some failures that accompany finance-sensitive areas have a psychological origin. It is heuristics and behavioral biases that may threaten the quality of management decisions, budgeting and estimations.
In an interactive exercise session our guests had to make decisions under uncertainty, time pressure and with lacking information. We showed how misleading our perception and stereotypes can be, how strongly they can affect our choice, how far from reality we land if we rely on heuristics.
We resumed by discussing the general countermeasures, specific tools and techniques that financial controllers can implement to mitigate the negative effect of biases.
The Financial Controlling Summit 2017 is an event offering financial experts a good platform for experience exchange. We appreciate Rzeczpospolita for their invitation to support the conference.
Our Workshop in Prague
June 19, 2017
"We've always done it like that!"- is what many of us say, when we are asked about the reasons for our decisions. Sometimes this rule works, but mostly it does not. To show why, we created this workshop. On Tuesday June 20, we captivated an international group of financial experts with the worthiness of thinking slowly. Our workshop was devoted to behavioral effects in finance took place in Prague at the 5th Annual Financial Controlling Toolbox event. We gathered a group of curious management accountants, financial controllers and CFOs from well-renowned companies operating in Central - and Eastern Europe.
The format of our workshop was composed of three parts, each one 30-40 minutes long:
In the first part, we shed some light on a highly vibrating but still subtle topic: how to make rational judgements, when your own brain plays tricks on you. We were speaking about the failures that accompany strategy- and finance-sensitive areas of the decision making. The purpose was to show how behavioral biases may threaten the quality of management decisions, budgeting and estimations.
The second part was the most intensive and exhausting for our participants – we were playing and asking tricky questions. We tried to create the atmosphere where heuristics and biases flourish and become evident. In the three exercise sessions our guests had to make decisions under uncertainty, time pressure and with lacking information.
We started by demonstrating how misleading our perception and stereotypes can be, how strongly they can affect our choice, how far from reality we land if we rely on representativeness and availability heuristics.
After that, we referred to handling with probabilities. How to make choice if you lack important information? What are anchors and framing and how can these psychological phenomena drive us to "bad decisions"? What are the ways to manipulate the decision making under uncertainly?
Finally, we were working in teams. In a three-round game our participants had to crack a case study and identify possible reasons for the deviation in the financial performance of a company. The four teams came up with astonishingly different results! This exercise seemed to surprise our guests as well, because it clearly showed, how the team dynamics can affect the expertise of financial specialists making them deliver different conclusions based on the same input information.
In the third part we were discussing the general counter measures and specific tools that financial controllers can implement to deliver better decisions and judgments.
The Financial controlling Toolbox is a regular event offering financial experts for sharing their knowledge and experience. We appreciate the European Business Conference Group for their invitation to support the conference.
March 22, 2017
On March 23, we introduced our new workshop DECISION MATTERS. Our goal was to raise awareness of our participants for the mental patterns that affect our decisions. We also showed general counter measures that reduce the negative effects of bias.
Our guests came from different industries. It was exciting to discuss mental patterns in a well-informed and competent group. We hope our brainstorming exercises made the workshop participants think slowly about sensitive decisions.
Impact of biases on our perception of the future(s)
While making plans for the future we believe to be able to make secure assessment of what will likely happen. Quite often though, we are confronted with unexpected developments and large deviations from our plans. Why does it happen? When making forecasts and assessing future events, we are often unconsciously steered by embedded behavioral patterns or biases that influence our decisions. Often, biases come into play when a decision has to be made under uncertainty or lack of information. For example, which stocks should one select to maximize returns? Here we show how biases can be identified and how applied futures research can help to minimize their impact.
Breaking Ice in Multiculturalism: Between Utopia and Reality
The workshop that we made at the Neue Generation e.V. event in Kazan was aimed to shed some light on a pending question: is it possible to effectively build a society on the principles of multiculturalism and, if yes, – what are the ways to a multicultural society? Numerous articles in media prove that the practical side of multiculturalism, though underpinned by successful examples, to which the Republic of Tatarstan is proud to contribute, remains ambivalent due to historical reasons, stereotypes, intolerance, ignorance, lack of motivation to accept a different culture, dictate of a dominant culture on a federal level, economic and political disparity, increasing migration coupled with ever declining birth rates and relatively short life span.


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I am new to the winforms telerik controls. The ASP>NEt controls are fantastic!
My issue is, I want to to apply a theme to my entrie application.
I read about using ApplicationThemeName to achieve this.
Is this what I do? Telerik.WinControls.
ThemeResolutionService.ApplicationThemeName = "Telerik"; Where in my code to I place this?
Is there some detailed help on this topic?
I have no issues with applying a theme to controls. But I want to say use theme xyz and apply to all controls throughout the application.
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I extended my birthday celebration into Sunday by riding my last long ride of the year. I rode the elaborately named "Performance Cycles Winter Mini-Sportive" for just over 100 km. It was actually a great riding day for the time of the year, cloudy and grey but dry and cold enough for a cold start, but warming after that. I was apprehensive, as my last sportive was on the 2nd of October; illness made me drop out of two rides.
The start was out of Southrop, near Cirencester in the Cotswolds, from the Cotswold Country Park and Beach. It's a muddy but ok venue, hardly a beach though there were sculls parked up, with a small group of riders—it's limited to 150—and I'd better get used to it, because I've signed up to ride on this route in January and February. I rode this last January, and it's a good ride. The start was nearly 60 miles south of us, but rides across the winter are hard to find. And it's flat: for much of the ride I could have been riding across the Somerset levels. Hills, I'm finding, are harder.
I kept up good speed for the first half of the ride, above 16 mph, but I slowed sharply as we went through hills northeast of Cirencester, and had to push my bike up one hill. Not proud, but I finished on my own legs.
There was a book review in the New Yorker a while back entitled "What do we think about when we run?" (Cycling was a distinct subset.) I think about it a lot, though. Four hours of riding gives you plenty of time to think. Mostly I work on keeping on going, and, at the beginning, keeping up or increasing my speed. But I also thought about walls. As I passed the lovely Cotswold farms with their stone fences, I thought about how stone walls were brought into New England, but how they were adapted to the new world. Here, in England, stone walls are built from cut stone, while in New England, they were places to get rid of the glacial moraine, places to put the rocks left as the glaciers retreated to the north. A different purpose, though similar in separating fields and flocks, but a very different look.
For me, though, one of the pleasures of cycling hard is the difficulty of maintaining thought, the possibility of cleaning out my head. A friend posted a poem on FaceBook by Wendell Barry, "The peace of wild things," that captures this for me: "I come into the peace of wild things/ who do not tax their lives with forethought/ of grief." I love the feeling of forgetting, the sense that I'm approaching the wisdom of my greyhounds who don't worry.
I finished well, and I've done nearly 4,500 miles (more than 7,000 km) this year, counting sportives and my daily transportation. A good day's ride.


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Banneker Douglass Museum
84 Franklin St, Annapolis, MD 21401
The Banneker-Douglass Museum is dedicated to preserving Maryland's African American heritage. It is housed in the old Mount Moriah African Methodist Episcopal Church, which was constructed in 1875 in the Gothic Revival style. The museum is named for Benjamin Banneker and Frederick Douglass. It highlights the contributions of famous African American Maryland residents, including Kunta Kinte, Benjamin Banneker, James Pennington, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Matthew Henson and Thurgood Marshall. Other exhibits include black life in Maryland, and African and African American art. The facility serves as the state's official repository of African American material culture. It also has a library and archives.
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