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Quadratic functions
by Zack Kroll
We want to investigate the graph of .
First we graph this equation where c =1. The graph for the equation:
These graphs are interesting because one of the two branches of the hyperbola can be rotated 180 degrees to lay on top of the other.
If we change the value of c to odd values up to 9 and graph them this is what we get. As the constant of the equation changes, the branches move further away from one another. The bases (loops) of the graphs are also wider as the value of c increases. Because we are only changing the constant and not any of the coefficients or exponents in the equations the asymptotes at y=0 and y=-x exist for each of the graphs.
When we substitute different values in for c (e.g. 3, 5, 7, and 9) we create graphs that look like this.
If we take any particular value of b, say b = 5, and overlay this equation on the graph we add a line parallel to the x-axis. If it intersects the curve in the xb plane the intersection points correspond to the roots of the original equation for that value of b. We have the following graph.
For each value of b we select, we get a horizontal line. It is clear on a single graph that we get two negative real roots of the original equation when b > 2, one negative real root when b = 2, no real roots for -2 < b < 2, One positive real root when b = -2, and two positive real roots when b < -2. As we can see there are no real roots between b = 2 and b = -2 as the graphs do not appear on the coordinate plane between those two values.
By changing the value of c from 1 to -1, we are able to change the orientation of the entire graph. Instead of the graph opening up and down (purple) it now opens left and right (blue).
If we continue this for each of the other equations that we have previously graphed then we get this (e.g. -3, -5, -7, and -9). The graphs with positive c values are in blue while those with negative c values are in green.

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Access the Greenfield Office through the building's main entrance - Office is on the second floor, turn right.
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1. Re: Why can't I find "New Comp from Character Animator Recording.jsx"bruceb9981 Nov 24, 2017 7:36 PM (in response to jeffersonb12659700)
Unable to import Character Animator to After Effects (2018)
Check out this link. I had the same issue. Use Dynamic link, basically just drag and drop CH scene into After Effects. When, If you update your puppet in CH it will update in AE.
2. Re: Why can't I find "New Comp from Character Animator Recording.jsx"jeffersonb12659700 Nov 24, 2017 11:07 PM (in response to bruceb9981)
It worked! Thanks! Also that link is very helpful. Adobe updates have really frustrated me, I feel much better knowing others feel the same. Lol.
3. Re: Why can't I find "New Comp from Character Animator Recording.jsx"alank99101739 Dec 5, 2017 5:53 PM (in response to bruceb9981)
If I understand correctly however, it is not the same thing. I think the Dynamic Link approach rerenders each time you adjust the original file, where as dragging across the PNG files I think will only refresh if you regenerate the PNG files (so you control when it rerenders better, give a more responsive experience). Dynamic Link might be better for your case, but I am struggling with the performance of it which is why I am digging deeper.


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"FYFIELD, a parish in the hundred of Ock, county Berks, 5 miles N.W. of Abingdon, its post town, and 10 N.E. of Faringdon. It is situated S. of the river Isis, or Thames, and includes the hamlets of Netherton and Wick. A hospital was founded here about the early part of the 15th century. Limestone is quarried for burning into lime. The living is a perpetual curacy in the diocese of Oxford, value £125, in the patronage of St. John's College, Oxford. The church is a small edifice dedicated to St. Nicholas. There are several tombs and monuments of the Golafre and other families. The endowments of the parish produce about £30 per annum."
"NETHERTON, a hamlet in the parish of Fyfield, county Berks, 5 miles N.W. of Abingdon."
"WICK, a hamlet in the parish of Fyfield, county Berks, 5 miles W. of Abingdon."
From The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland(1868). Transcribed by Colin Hinson ©2003.
Other descriptions can be found from other periods in various trade directories covering Berkshire from the early 19th century onwards and from A Vision of Britain Through Time.
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- Fyfield was in the hundred of Ock
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So far there haven't been any prosecutions for FGM, so would you argue that the law about FGM should be done away with, too?
" That question was put to me in comments made by a commenter to yesterday`s blogpost. It set me thinking. Should the law or should legislation be enacted by parliament to, using the easily understood colloquialism, make a statement? Take the example of early day motions which are motions submitted for debate in the House of Commons for which no day has been fixed. As there is no specific time allocated to EDMs very few are debated. However many attract a great deal of public interest and media coverage. EDMs are used to put on record the views of individual MPs or to draw attention to specific events or campaigns. Topics covered by EDMs vary widely.By attracting the signatures of other MPs they can be used to demonstrate the level of parliamentary support for a particular cause or point of view. MPs, especially those new to parliament, besides putting their cause in the public domain can put themselves into the public eye and add some lines to their website about how much effort they`re making to justify the votes of their constituents. But the law should not be about making statements.
The rule of law is the legal principle that it is law which should govern a nation as opposed to being governed by decisions of individual government officials. It primarily refers to the influence and authority of law within society particularly as a constraint upon behaviour including behaviour of government officials.
The law serves many purposes and functions in society. Four principal purposes and functions are establishing standards, maintaining order, resolving disputes, and protecting liberties and rights. The
law is a guidepost for minimally acceptable behaviour in society. It serves nobody if it merely advocates the opinion of the current legislature.
The abhorrent practice of female genital mutilation has been against the law in this country for over thirty years but the history of its prosecution or rather non prosecution is
: a single case prosecuted and the defendant was acquitted. It has brought the law into disrepute. It has been treated with disdain. It is illegal to smoke in a car when there are child passengers. Being drunk in a pub is surprisingly illegal. These two activities are and were driven by public opinion. In the former to emphasise the dangers of so called passive smoking where there is some debate as to cause and effect and in the latter to satisfy Victorian morality activists of the evils of working class drunkenness. For different reasons prosecutions are virtually non existent.
The Hunting Act 2004 was enacted by Labour under Tony Blair to appease his left wing. It was therefore a demonstration of power and intent rather than legislation to improve the well being of society. It was for the very mirror in reasoning that persuaded Theresa May to put in its election manifesto earlier this year that if the Tories won a majority she would allow a free vote to overturn that act.
61.8% of all organised hunters charged with Hunting Act offences have escaped conviction.
86 of the 165 Hunting Act charges made were dropped either before or at trial [52%]. 40 of these related to the big Heythrop trial. Complete statistics can be accessed
There are other such laws that might be regarded similarly. So to answer the question at the beginning of this post my response is that if legislation is enacted the will and the means to prosecute it must be available for all the law enforcement bodies associated. Failing to do so is a luxury we cannot afford. It is tantamount to rule of the mob where the mob is the lobby group or groups with most to gain for their own sometimes nefarious purposes.
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Despite the halt to the megaport near Southport, an opposition group to the project is not giving up its fight. No port, Southport will lobby the commissioners during their regular meeting Monday night. But the group probably won't get the half hour it wants to make a presentation.
"They done killed it. What do they want to do? Beat a dead horse?" Commissioners Chairman Bill Sue said during an agenda meeting today. "We ain't got time to listen for a half hour." Sue said they would be limited to 10 minutes.
N.C. State Ports Authority officials have announced they are putting the more than $2 billion project on hold after the state failed to provide funding for a feasibility study and nearby towns as well as U.S. Rep. Mike McIntyre announced opposition to the project.
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Though the title of Reg Whitaker's new book is The End of Privacy: How Total Surveillance is Becoming a Reality (New Press, NY, 1999), the book itself is not really concerned with either privacy or with the "reality" of the society of total surveillance.
It's true that Professor Whitakers's book is filled with genuinely alarming anecdotes about all the sophisticated devices -- all the nannycams, closed-circuit televisions systems, face recognition programs, electromagnetic cameras that see through clothing, satellites, cyberinsects (literal flies on the wall), wiretaps, eavesdropping lasers, smart ID cards, Clipper Chips and the rest -- by which privacy is being uttered destroyed by surveillance technologies. It's also true that Whitaker's book is clear on exactly what kinds of information are no longer private (personal, financial, insurance, social services, utility services, real estate, entertainment/leisure, consumer, employment, education, and legal information).
But ultimately The End of Privacy is primarily concerned with what Whitaker (a political scientist at York University) disingenuously calls "new information technologies" (a very neutral phrase) and with the effects that these technologies are having on political power (especially as "power" was conceived by the French philosopher Michel Foucault). Phrased another way, The End of Privacy is intended to reassure Leftist intellectuals that, despite the "reality" of "total" surveillance, the "new information technologies" are not (literally) "Orwellian." Indeed, Whitaker wants to reassure his readers that, on the one hand, the new information technologies are actually democratic and anti-authoritarian in nature and effects, and that, on the other hand, "Big Brother" really isn't such a bad guy after all (he has his uses).
The new information technologies [Whitaker writes to conclude the chapter entitled "Dark Towers: Data Bases and Alienation," scary music in the background] have promised a great deal, and have even opened up a new parallel universe -- cyberspace. This parallel universe is exciting, but it can also be a threatening terrain, where dark towers of data brood on the horizon, haunted by shadow distortions of our selves that menace or ridicule us in our daily lives. It is an alienated world where the products of our own invention come back to torment us.
To accomplish this gothic work of scholarly propaganda, Professor Whitaker must dispense with the lingering, ominous presence of George Orwell's 1984, which turned 50 years old this year (a fact overlooked by Whitaker). Again and again, almost obsessively, Whitaker comes back to the topic of Big Brother with the intention of reassuring us that we have nothing to worry about from him. But Orwell's monster won't go away, and Whitaker is clear on the reasons why: on the one hand, 1984 is an uncanny "image of the 'ideal' totalitarian state," and, on the other hand, it is a representation of "the architectural skeleton of [actual] modern power." (Whitaker notes that even the "liberal democratic states have aped some of the features of this totalitarian vision.") The New World Order depicted in 1984 -- a "perfect" one-party police state symbolized, ruled and embodied in a single authoritarian figure -- is both the dream of [all] power and a nightmare that has never and will never "see the light of day" in its pure form.
Confusing the function of the novelist with that of the political scientist, Whitaker flatly declares that "the nightmarish presentation of power [that] has haunted the twentieth century" is "certainly mistaken" and "radically misleading": Orwell's 1984 "no longer fits the realities of the world at the end of the twentieth century."
A question that Whitaker totally avoids is how and why 1984 fit the "realities" of the late 1940s. Despite the fact that he is a professor of political science, Whitaker's comments on the "real-life totalitarian states" of Orwell's era are superficial, inaccurate and (ahem!) radically misleading. For Whitaker, Hitler and Stalin were "mere clumsy butchers," "rather than devilishly clever engineers of consent." (These are not the only choices, but they are the only ones that Whitaker can formulate). The Professor ignores the facts that Hitler and Stalin, despite failing to take over the world, were all too adept at both butchery and the engineering of consent. Both leaders -- upon whom Orwell modeled Big Brother -- in fact succeeded all too well in convincing the masses of their respective countries, and even some others, to mass murder their fellow human beings and to accept and even celebrate these crimes against humanity as "racially" or "historically" necessary acts of honor, courage and bravery. Orwell's dream-like 1984 fit the realities of its era -- and the realities of our era, as well -- because it foregrounds the irrationality of not just Hitler and Stalin, but of the masses of people who adored, followed and obeyed them as well.
According to Whitaker, "reality" is, today, a much happier place than it was 50 years ago: "Real-life Hitlers and Stalins have passed into history"; the worst we have today are "regional dictators" such as "the Saddam Husseins and Slobodan Milosevics." There's obviously several things wrong with this idea (outside of the fact that it ignores the question of the irrationality of the masses who follow irrational leaders): for one thing, the George Bushes and Bill Clintons of this world have found it necessary and expedient, right before they bomb the shit out of a third-world nation, to compare "the Saddam Husseins and Slobodan Milosevics" to (of all people!) Adolph Hitler; and, for another thing, Hitler or Stalin's "engineering of consent" back in the 1940s was child's play compared to way Bush and Clinton manufactured consent for the Persian Gulf and anti-Milosevic wars.
The lesser of two evils, Saddam and Slobo rather than Adolph and Joe: what is it that has brought about this happy state of affairs, or, if you will, these happy affairs of state? According to Whitaker, the Hitlers and Stalins (the Big Brothers) have been busted down to the Saddams and Slobos (the "Little" Brothers) by "deep changes, technological, economic, cultural (some, but by no means all of which can be assembled under the umbrella of the so-called Information Revolution)." It's those new information technologies that have kept us in Saddams and Slobos instead of Adolphs and Poppa Joes. More than that: these wonderful "new information technologies" have also brought us such new media democrats as the Zapatistas (?!), who used the Internet to get their message of "resistance" out.
As in Michel Foucault's work in the 1970s, especially Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality, Vol. I, the society of total surveillance envisioned by Whitaker is a "globally networked world" in "power" and "resistance" are locked into a battle for control, which neither force wins decisively or permanently. And, again as in Foucault's 1970s work, Whitaker argues that the nature of "power" (and thus "resistance") has fundamentally changed since Orwell's time.
In the broadest brush strokes [Whitaker writes at the end of his first chapter], what I am describing is the transition from the surveillance state to the surveillance society. This distinction is no mere formality. The surveillance society represents a very different complex of power, impacting in very different ways on authority, culture, society and politics, than did the state-centered surveillance power of the immediate past.
In the Orwellian model of power, the lines of communication were tightly controlled: from the top of his hierarchical society, Big Brother sees everyone at all times and constantly sends down to each and all his commands; from all levels of the hierarchy, Big Brother receives information on everything that goes on, information that is exclusively his possession. Though Orwell doesn't mention computers in his novel, Whitaker is correct to surmise that "the state [ruled by Big Brother] held a massive centralized data base that contained everything that needed to be known about each subject." Whitaker is also correct in noting that "states today have a far greater technological capacity for surveillance and data linkage and retrieval than Orwell imagined at their disposal, and some of the elements of the Big Brother state do exist [today]" (my emphasis).
According to Whitaker, the "new information technologies" -- contrary to the Orwellian model, of which, nevertheless, some elements "do exist" today -- are two-way ("interactive") rather than one-way, and polycentric rather than centralized. As a result, Big Brother sees all, but he is also seen; information flows both down from and up to the top of the hierarchy; there are many data bases, not just one. "[W]ith the new information technologies," Whitaker says, "even the degree of control actually exercised in the past [by the Hitlers and the Stalins] is rapidly slipping out of anyone's hands" (emphasis added). By "anyone's hands" Whitaker means any one person's hands. Thus, we are no longer ruled by [the one] Big Brother, but by a group of "Little Brothers."
Though it is clear that the term Little Brother is best applied to such "regional dictators" -- that is, political leaders -- as "the Saddam Husseins and the Slobodan Milosevics," Whitaker uses it to refer to the leaders of Big Business. Without explaining or even acknowledging that he's jumped from the terrain of political power (the nation-state) to that of economic power (the transnational corporation), Whitaker declares that:
[I]t is the Little Brothers of the private sector [hic] who are collecting data about the lives of individuals -- who know, for instance, what brand of soap an Ohio woman uses in her shower. What is more, the information that goes into these data bases is either given voluntarily (as in the case of the Ohio woman) or acquired silently and invisibly, without the subject's awareness. Big Brother commands information, as in tax reporting or census questions, and tends thereby to rouse resentment and even occasional resistance. Little Brothers, on the other hand, impact very little on people at the data-collection stage. There is no recognizable name to put to the dispersed but linked data bases of the private sector, while the state is personified in a leader, and, in a democracy, is believed to be accountable to the public, at least in theory. Ironically [sic], the one-way transparency sought by the Orwellian state has been realized much more effectively in the private than in the public sector, where transparency, to a degree at least, goes both ways.
Here Whitaker undermines every reason he's given for being reassured that "the new information technologies" are not in fact bringing Big Brother (back) to power. Our political scientist has informed us that, unlike Big Brother, who constantly reminded his subjects that he was watching them, [the] Little Brother[s] get their information "silently and invisibly, without the subject's awareness." Yet, unlike Big Brother, [the] Little Brother[s] do not "rouse resentment and even occasional resistance," precisely because their total surveillance is totally undetected. And even if resentment and "resistance" are aroused, [the] Little Brother[s] are not known by name and, in any event, can not be held accountable to the public for their actions, thus making [the] Little Brother[s] clearly anti-democratic. And if it is true that "the one-way transparency sought by the Orwellian state has been realized much more effectively in the private than in the public sector" -- this is not an "irony" of history but a social catastrophe in it -- then Whitaker should know better than to prattle on for pages about "the positive benefits most people perceive from handing over personal information to corporations and marketers" and the "benefits of inclusion in the consumer economy."
But Professor Whitaker doesn't know better, and so ends up unintentionally revealing the Orwellian content and function of the very things in the "private sector" (international corporate capitalism) that he thinks are "empowering" and "democratic": "the consumer Panopticon," which "rewards participation" even as it controls its prisoners; "new micro- or niche-marketing strategies" that target previously excluded minorities; and hyper-precise consumer profiles. "What if one's purchases are carefully recorded to construct a profile of consumption preferences for the use of various marketers?" Whitaker asks. "Not everyone will object to this if they see their needs and desires being better served as a result." Not everyone?! What is important here is what the majority thinks about being profiled. In a creepy follow-up to this hollow question-and-answer bit, Whitaker writes, monotone, robot-like: "Think of it as a Christmas card wish list that enables Santa to serve you better. The consumer Panopticon rewards participation."
When he isn't making very unfunny, dead-pan "jokes" about infantilism and consumer conformism in "democratic" societies, Whitaker is clear on the fact that, if left unchecked, the commercial Little Brothers will team up to form a single Big Brother, one who will be a deadly threat to individual freedom and liberty on both the economic and political terrains.
There are eerie parallels between criminal activities and the global economy [Whitaker writes]. Mafias are organized in networks that ignore borders and national jurisdictions, just as transnational corporations tend to operate. They not only utilize the new information technologies to do business, they have restructured [and intermeshed?] their own organizational forms to take advantage of the opportunities of the new technologies. . . . Finally, they have shown considerable capacity to exploit the new technologies for their own purposes through inventive forms of "cyber-crime."
Because he stopped thinking about political power when he started babbling about "the private sector," Whitaker believes that what "we" need to protect "us" against the transnational criminal-commercial conspiracy is precisely political power, i.e, the State, the global State. "Even if directly threatened" by [the] Little Brother[s], "states are made even more necessary than ever, precisely because of the threat," Whitaker informs us; "In the face of pervasive transborder threats, which we might call the dark side of globalization, 'legitimate' private interests are relatively helpless without the assistance of states and their extensive policing, security and intelligence apparatuses, expertise, and enforcement powers." We must remember that, despite all evidence to the contrary, "the state not only constrains but protects and enables." And, despite the fact that individual states "will constantly be forming and reforming transnational networks and alliances with other states, with corporations and other private-sectors actors, and with non-governmental groups and movements," Whitaker doesn't want to hear any "paranoid Right-wing" bullshit about the dangers of the global state: according to our professor of political scientist, "there is no dictatorial World Government under Communist, Zionist, international banker or any other auspices looming on the horizon." The "decentered" state is the bright side of globalization, and crime is the dark side. Got that? It's simple enough: crime is bad, and the global State is good.
But the specter of Orwell still hasn't gone away, even for Reg Whitaker, who concludes his book with remarks more suited to someone who loves rather than resists Big Brother. "One area in which states do have a comparative advantage over corporations is in the exercise of coercion," Whitaker writes in his book's weird last chapter. "The technologies of surveillance and repression may be developed and exercised more by states, and by state networks. Here is where Big Brother comes back as an outsourced consultant. [...] Big Brother is needed once again, but -- and this point must be underlined emphatically -- only as a functionally specialized consultant, not to run the show itself." Got that? A good Big Brother, one who knows his proper place and function (to murder "criminals" and "terrorists" only); a Big Brother who doesn't get too greedy and blow it all for everyone else, like last time.
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I land in Tokyo and catch a bus to the city center. Pulling my bike box out from the bus, a station attendant gives me a look as if to say, "And now what?"
I'm going to set this thing up on the sidewalk.
It takes a while before the pieces, now all over the ground, resemble a bike. Everyone looks. Only the kids maintain eye contact. A couple of them wave.
When the bike's ready I break down the box, surveying street corners for a trash can. I find none. If Japan is the future, the future is too clean.
Eventually I find a bin outside 7–11. This marks the beginning of my dependence on Japanese convenience stores.
My first few days disappear in a haze of ramen shops and grilled meats. I linger in a basement bar where salarymen stand around drinking and eating oily food before falling asleep on their train home. When the bar closes I get on the bike and start riding. Tokyo's enormity is most apparent at night; each district has a hub that's larger and more illuminated than the central hub in most US cities.
Eventually I turn onto a quieter road and pass beneath train tracks. Right alongside the tracks are two short alleys, crammed with miniature bars. Finding one bar that's just loud enough, I push back the flags outside and slide open the frosted door. Then the entire bar, 6 people, turns to greet me. They let out a cheer and make room in the corner.
Several rounds of sake later I learn that the woman I'm sitting next to is a professional Keirin rider. She's racing in two days in Utsunomiya. I have no idea where that is but agree to go.
I catch a train to Utsunomiya the next morning and camp outside Nikko. The days are short and I'm inside my tent by 6PM. Usually I spend a couple hours reading or wasting time on my phone before falling asleep. One way I like to waste time on my phone is searching Google for photos of the area where I'm staying, which is how I come across this:
I'm looking at the Irohazaka, a famous climb just a few miles away. In the morning I shake the ice off my tent, pack up, and give it a go. What's particularly cool about the Irohazaka is that it's actually two roads: one up (above), one down (below).
After the climb I turn around and make my way back to Utsunomiya for the race. As I'm buying my ticket an ancient Japanese man points at the pink rain cover on my backpack and starts talking shit. I don't know Japanese but his tone makes it obvious. He points, says something to the ticket taker, and they both laugh before he starts in on me again. I like this place.
Keirin's one of four sports you can legally gamble on in Japan, which means it's just as fun to watch the race as it is to observe the guys — and it's all guys — trying to pick a winner. Many of them sit inside and watch the race from what looks like a lecture hall, shuffling slips of paper on tiny desks as they stare at the screen then back down, checking their luck.
I walk over to the betting machine but can't figure it out. I lean over to see what the guy next to me is doing though he quickly indicates that what I'm doing is not cool. I give up and loiter around the tea machines, waiting for the next race to start.
I leave for Hokkaido later that night. The entire trip will take over a day and involve substantial schlepping because, to take a bike on a Japanese train, it has to be partially disassembled and in a bike bag. 😑🔫
Breaking a bike down and attaching frame bags to a backpack takes practice. Finding a place on the train to stash it while avoiding a conductor temper tantrum is mostly luck. Lashing the bike to a pole in the train's vestibule usually works.
Once in Hokkaido I catch a local train to Niseko, where I make camp in the woods. It snows overnight. I wake up to single digit temperatures. This was a dumb idea.
I pack up, go snowboarding for a few hours, and catch a train south. As much as I like arbitrary challenges, dragging my bike through snowfields feels like overkill. I look up a temperature map of Japan and pair it with my advanced research tactic: Google Images. Shikoku looks interesting. Done.
Shikoku is Japan's smallest major island. It's home to a 1,200 km coastal pilgrimage route but I want elevation and decide to cross it right up the middle. Inspired by Andrew Skurka, I'm hoping to create a sort of Shikoku High Route. Unfortunately, despite being warmer than Hokkaido, Shikoku also has "winter" and many of the roads I hope to take are closed. Instead, I'll spend five days traversing north along river valleys and ridges.
Uwajima To A Park Under A Bridge
69.1 mi, 7,884 ft
I camp on a hill looking west over Uwajima. I wake up at 5:30, condensation dripping off my tent onto the down sleeping bag I bought off Craigslist in Tokyo. Staying dry will be a constant battle on this trip.
I follow a river out of the city to my first convenience store stop of the day. I didn't know this before visiting Japan but their convenience stores are amazing. They have very edible prepared food and really good diner coffee. Apparently many Japanese salarymen don't even cook at home anymore, they just eat from convenience stores. Another thing these guys no longer do at home is browse softcore porn magazines — watch out for that aisle.
I buy a coffee and sit outside, wasting time on my phone when something odd happens. A construction worker walks over to me and hands me what looks like a hotdog. Before I can compute what's happened he's in his truck and driving away. This will happen three more times on the trip. Some of my friends think it's because I haven't shaved in several months and look like a homeless bike person. I prefer to think Japanese people are just kind to travelers. We're probably both right.
I eat the hotdog thing (weird) and start along a road that quickly narrows to one lane. The snow's melting off the ground and forming a dense mist. I go hours without seeing a car.
About 40 miles in I start climbing and keep climbing, for 18 miles. Near the top I get a lesson in bike pushing, inching my way along several hundred meters of black ice. Once on the ridgeline, I follow it into a tiny town with a general store (closed) and public bathroom (open) where I stop to wring the cold sweat from my shirt and hat and gloves and arm warmers and jacket and socks.
Back on the bike I get ready to descend from the ridge, shifting onto the big ring. Then, trying to shift across the cassette, I hear the distinct sound of plastic cracking. A piece inside my right shifter has snapped. I pull over, laughing. The exact reason I shouldn't have used STI shifters on this trip has come to pass. They're full of tiny, proprietary parts. Good luck fixing one on the road.
Thankfully, the rear derailleur's still holding tension so, even though I'm stuck with one gear, I can pick it. I pull the cable through the derailleur until the chain is in the middle of the cassette. Looks like I'm finishing the trip on a two speed.
I find a small park along a river to set up camp just before dark, hoping my stuff will be kind of dry in the morning.
A Park Under A Bridge To Ochi
43.2 mi, 3,563 ft
Nothing is dry. Some things are frozen. The sky is clearing and it looks like today might be sunny. I take longer than usual to pack up, making coffee and trying to shake the moisture off the tent. I climb out of the valley through an evergreen forest. A few miles up the climb there's a "road closed" sign, which I casually pass. Unfortunately there's a work crew ahead. One of the guys informs me that the road isn't pretend closed and that the snow on it is above my head. I don't completely believe him but take the message.
I drop back into the valley and follow another route north. Passing a lake, I cut up a ridge on a deserted road covered in loose pine needles and rockslide debris. After topping out I enter another river valley before reaching Ochi in the early afternoon. It's been an easy day but the daylight hours are short and honestly, I'm totally content to just hang out on this trip.
Ochi To Motoyama
71.9 mi, 6,348 ft
20 easy miles take me to my convenience store stop of the day. With only two speeds on the bike, there's no need to think about how to ride. I'm either spinning or standing.
After Ino I follow a single lane road through the hills. I take a wrong turn at a fork, assuming what looks like an old driveway can't be a numbered road, and cruise down a hill. While climbing back up the ridge I stumble into the most impressive shrine (and staircase) of the trip.
At around 32 miles there's a small town where I stop at a vending machine, trying out a hot canned coffee (not bad). Just before leaving I realize that my front brake's been rubbing on the wheel all morning. The handlebar bag is pressing against the brake cable. Laughing at my bike's sorry state, I sort of fix it and just keep going. Friction is character building, right?
The next ten miles form a steady climb to about 2,600 feet. I cross a small saddle before 20 miles of downhill, first through tight switchbacks then along a deep, clear river. The road slopes just enough to make my gearing useless so I just coast, hoping I don't launch over a guardrail when not paying attention to the road.
I make camp along the river in Motoyama though Tosa has a better convenience store.
Motoyama To The Iya Valley
54.8 mi, 4,721 ft
I wake to ice all over my tent. I do my best to shake it off but only get about half of it before admitting defeat and packing up.
I see a few possible routes out of Motoyama, some more remote than others. Several of them might be closed so I stop by the police station to ask for directions. Once one guy figures out what I'm after, four dudes surround the table and produce paper topo maps to consult on the project. Without any language in common, we spend ten minutes pointing at roads, eventually concluding that two of the three options are closed, I think. As I'm walking out I hear, "be careful" and look back to see the dad-ish cop smiling. What an odd expression to know.
I ride north to Oboke, where I stop for an early lunch. I find what looks like a noodle shop but the owner points me across the street to a small grocery store. I assume that means they're closed. I ask the woman running the grocery store if I can find ramen nearby. She points back across the street and says "Soba. Udon." I'm completely lost as to what's happening. She steps out from behind the register, walks over to a refrigerator and grabs two packages of noodles. Still not really sure what's happening, I pick one and pay for it. She hands them to me with a piece of paper and points me back across the street. I walk over and show the shop owner the paper, then the noodles. She takes both, smiles, and points at a small table inside. I've cracked the code. I sit down with a dumb look of accomplishment on my face.
The meal is excellent but poorly timed. I leave town and am immediately standing on the pedals, climbing 1,000 ft before entering the Iya Valley. My main objective for the day is to visit the Iya Onsen, which I do and it's great. I haven't showered in almost a week so this is a welcome stop.
I hang out in the hot pool for a while then spend probably 30 minutes standing under a heater in the locker room wasting time on my phone as my clothes dry. Thankfully it's a weekday and the locker room is empty so I don't look like a total creep.
Leaving the onsen I backtrack a few miles then go north up the valley. Gradually clouds fill the sky. Just before it's too dark to ride without lights I pass through a truly eery place.
I'm riding down a deserted road when I see what looks like a scarecrow in a field. Then I see another outside a house. Then two sitting outside a store. It's an entire village without people, just life-size dolls. I don't stop to take pictures.
Postscript: Turns out there's at least one person in the village––the woman who makes the dolls. She makes them in the image of locals that have moved away… or died. Here's a video about it.
I ride another ten miles to what's marked as a campsite on my map. Unfortunately it's across a river and the bridge is closed. It's nearly dark so I climb up a hill and pitch my tent in the woods. From my sleeping bag I stare at the tent wall, unable to shake the village off.
Iya Valley to Tokushima
50.6 mi, 3,307 ft
Within one mile of leaving camp I might be screwed. A crane is taking up the entire road. There's been a landslide and crew is working to rebuild the road's edge. I decide to try my luck and slip the bike under one of the support legs, hoping the route north isn't totally destroyed. The work crew notices me but doesn't freak out so I just wave, hop on my bike, and start riding.
As I continue the road turns icier and icier. First it's just in the shaded corners, then it's across the entire surface. Eventually I make it to the top where I pass through a small tunnel. Immediately there's a shift in road surface–now it's ice plus rockslide debris. I'm ecstatic though. There's no one up here.
I'm flying down empty switchbacks until I take a tight corner and nearly flatten some Japanese wildlife. Just hanging out in the middle of the road are a macaque and a serow. I barely avoid them and slide to a stop. Having never seen a serow before, I try to take a photo but it gets away. I determine that it must have been a tuna.
Once I reach the valley floor it's an easy ride into Tokushima. I find a ramen shop and order a bowl, then another. Eventually I have to admit that I'm full and have run out of ways to procrastinate. Time to take the bike apart, the next train leaves in 30 minutes.
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