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KKTY NEWS Mar 11 Archive
(Wed 3/30/11) - We're number two... and that's something to be proud of. A new report says Teton County has the healthiest residents in Wyoming while Fremont County is the least healthy county in the state. The report was done by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. According to the report, residents of Fremont County are three times more likely to die a premature death than those in Teton County. The report says the 10 healthiest counties in Wyoming are Teton, Converse, Park, Washakie, Crook, Lincoln, Goshen, Sublette, Niobrara and Albany. The counties in the poorest health after Fremont are Weston, Uinta, Hot Springs, Carbon, Sweetwater, Natrona, Laramie, Sheridan and Campbell. The report based its rankings on various health factors, including death rates, adult smoking and high school graduation.
(Tue 3/29/11) - Another daycare for Douglas... at last night's council meeting, the Douglas City Council approved a conditional use permit for an in-home daycare at 206 Arrow Street. The applicant, Misty Zahrowski, said she'll be primarily catering to hospital employees... audio here
The daycare will be licensed for up to ten children, and the conditional use permit will allow operation from 5am til 8pm. The City Council voted unanimously to approve the permit.
(Mon 3/28/11) - Grant Elementary in Glenrock has a new principal. Justin "Coley" Shadrick of Green River has been hired by Converse County School District #2 to lead the elementary school in western Converse County. Shadrick has most recently served as a data and assessment coordinator in the Sweetwater County School District #2. He's also served as a teacher and principal in Green River and in Greybull. Shadrick got his bachelor's degree from the University of Wyoming and his Master's from Lesley College in Massachusetts.
(Thu 3/24/11) - Local deer herds get a checkup... University of Wyoming researchers are leading a study in Converse County that could help biologists better understand how chronic wasting disease influences mule deer populations. The Wyoming Game and Fish Department is providing field assistance. The study is taking place south of Douglas in an area with an extremely high occurrence of the disease. In 2010, 48 percent of hunter-harvested mule deer in the herd tested positive for the disease. Meantime, the herd has decreased by more than 50 percent over the last 10 years while the prevalence of chronic wasting disease continued to increase.
(Wed 3/23/11) - High Water on the River... The North Platte River is likely to remain quite full throughout spring because there is a large amount of snow in the mountains and little storage space available in the reservoirs in Wyoming. Nebraska officials urge landowners along the river to keep a close eye on water levels over the next few months. Some flooding is already being reported near the towns of North Platte and Lewellen. The Natural Resources Conservation Service estimates the snowpack that feeds into the upper North Platte River basin is at 134 percent of average. Snowpack in the lower North Platte River area is at 114 percent of average. The Wyoming reservoirs were 81 percent full at the end of February, so officials have been releasing water this month to make room for snowmelt runoff.
(Thu 3/17/11) - The U.S. Forest Service plans to conduct prescribed burns before the end of the month on 4,000 acres of the Thunder Basin National Grassland. Crews plan burns on three sites 15 miles northeast of Bill in March. The burns will take place on National Forest Service Lands within the grassland. Plans are to burn three separate units; 450 acres at Horse Creek, 2,300 acres at Rothleutner and 1,270 acres at the East Pasture. Officials say firefighters will develop fire lines around the burn areas before lighting the fires. Fire engines will be on standby during the burns. The Forest Service says the burning will help the vegetation that supports prairie dogs and ultimately help with the planned reintroduction of black-footed ferrets in the area. The Douglas Ranger District advises that smoke may be visible from Highway 59 and 450 and from Bill and Wright.
(Mon 3/14/11) - If the noise of the train whistle as it passes through Douglas is not a comforting sound, you just might get some relief. The Wyoming Legislature this year allocated $5 million for matching grants to help communities that would like to dampen the noise from passing trains. The money would go toward helping pay for installation of gates and wayside horns. The wayside horns direct the warnings to drivers approaching a rail crossing. The grant match ranges from 5 to 50 percent of the total cost. The size of the grant will be based on a county's assessed valuation, with the poorest counties only required to pony up 5 percent of the cost. The money will become available July 1. A study that looked at communities with rail traffic estimated the total cost for 84 main\par public crossings around the state at nearly $17 million.
(Tue 3/8/11/) - The Wyoming Game and Fish Department will not request a flushing of the North Platte River this spring. That's because high spring flows are expected on the river thanks to an above average snowpack. To make room for all that expected water, the Bureau of Land Management began releasing water from the Gray Reef Reservoir on Saturday. By mid-March, Game and Fish says the expected flow of water will be near the peak flow during flushes. The agency often requests flushing flows in the fall and spring to clean fine sediment from fish spawning habitats and to increase production of invertebrates fish depend on for food. Many anglers look forward to fishing around a flushing flow because it can potentially stimulate feeding by trout.
(Mon 3/7/11) - 6,120 people... that's officially the new population of Douglas. The US Census Bureau released local 2010 Census data for Wyoming last week. Douglas showed 15.7 percent growth from the 2000 count, adding 832 residents. Glenrock also grew about 15 percent, adding 345 residents to total 2,576. Rolling Hills lost 4 residents and now show an official population of 440. And Lost Springs had a population boom. The smallest legally incorporated town in Wyoming is 300 percent larger than it was. The population in 2000 was 1 person... now, the books show 4 residents living in the Lost Springs town limits.
And in Sports...
(Tue 3/29/11) - Baseball deadline... This Friday, April 1st , is the final deadline to sign up for Douglas baseball and softball programs. This deadline applies to all players 9 years of age and older... all Girls Softball, Hap Dumont Baseball, Junior Babe Ruth Baseball and Legion Baseball. Sign up now at the Douglas Rec Center, Monday through Friday from 8am to 10pm. Call the Rec at 358-4231 for more information.
(Sun 3/27/11) - Boys win, girls tie... same results on Friday and Saturday for both of Douglas High School's soccer teams... the Bearcats hammered Cheyenne South 14-0 at Cheyenne on Friday, and edged Rawlins 2-1 at Douglas on Saturday. The LadyCats tied South 2-2 at Douglas on Friday, and tied Rawlins 1-1 on Saturday. The LadyCats went to overtime in both games this weekend. Douglas soccer has a trip to Gering on the schedule for Tuesday, then it's Torrington on Friday and Newcastle on Saturday.
(Wed 3/23/11) - Top Scholar Athletes... For the first time in 17 years, The Wyoming Chapter of the National Football Foundation has awarded its top Scholar-Athlete honors to two young men, who coincidentally both hail from Wright High School in Campbell County. Named as the state's top Scholar-Athletes were linebacker Holden Fauber and quarterback Ryan Haefele, two young men who sit at the top of their senior class with grade point averages of 4.0 and a long list of athletic, academic and community accomplishments. The pair are coached by Larry Yeradi. The Wyoming Chapter awarded $22,200 in scholarships at the Saturday night event at the Hilton Garden Inn and University of Wyoming Conference Center in Laramie. As the state's top scholar-athletes, Fauber and Haefele are now eligible to be in the running for top honors in the West Region of the NFF. The two were chosen from a field of 12 finalists from eight different high schools after 69 state athletes were nominated for the honors. Douglas's Hayden Barker, Trent Boner and Mitch Espeland were among the 12 finalists for the award.
(Tue 3/15/11) - 3A basketball All-State and All-Conference lists have been released. Douglas High School senior Hayden Barker and sophomores Molly Kreycik and Kassidy Scott, and Shelby Stewart of Glenrock have all been named All-State and All-Conference, and Glenrock's Tyler Kelly has been named to the All-Conference list. Nominations are made by coaches to the Wyoming Coaches Association following state basketball play.
(Mon 3/14/11) - The Douglas LadyCats come from behind to claim third place at this weekend's 3A Girls State Basketball Tournament. Douglas trailed Mountain View, the top seed from the West, 12-6, but answered with a 12-0 run, taking a 25-16 lead into the halftime locker room. The LadyCats never looked back, winning the game 48-35. Douglas sophomore Molly Kreycik led all scoring with 18 points... Kassidy Scott added 11. Emily Smith led Mountain View with 12 points. The LadyCats end the season with a 27-4 record.
The Wheatland Lady Bulldogs dug their way out of a hole and fought back to take a 47-41 win over the Buffalo Lady Bison in the 3A Girls championship game. The Lady Bulldogs trailed 21-12 with two minutes left in the first half, but Wheatland went on a 17-0 scoring run to retake the lead and held on for the win. McKenzie Hellbaum led Wheatland with 10 points... Dallas Shaw had 22 for the Lady Bison.
Torrington beat Cody 62-40 in the girls fifth place game.\f2\fs24
John Hepp's Buffalo Bison led the 3A boys championship game from start to finish, defeating the Wheatland Bulldogs 44-31. The Bison avenged an upset loss to Wheatland in the second round of the Regional Tournament last weekend. Kasey Esponda and Aaron Tyser had ten points each to lead Buffalo... Ryan Madsen led Wheatland with 14.
The Torrington Trailblazers beat Lander 54-31 in the boys third place game... Worland beat Rawlins 61-53 in the fifth place game.
(Fri 3/11/11) - A pair of upsets on Day Two...and Wheatland and Buffalo will play for both 3A titles... in semi-final round action at the 3A Girls State Basketball Tournament in Casper, the Buffalo Lady Bison kept it close and took a 44-38 win in overtime over the Mountain View Lady Buffs. The game was tied at 38 at the end of regulation play... and Buffalo made good use of the extra four minutes, hitting for six points and holding Mountain View scoreless. In the second semi game, the Wheatland Lady Bulldogs held a short lead for much of the game and edged the Douglas LadyCats 45-41. A couple of key free throws in the final moments put the game out of reach for Douglas. The two teams that came in as tournament favorites, Douglas and Mountain View, will have to settle for a third place game Saturday morning at 10:30 at Swede Erickson Thunderbird Gym at Casper College. The 3A State Title game will be a rematch of last weekend's 3A East Regional Championship game between Buffalo and Wheatland. The girls' championship game is Saturday at 3:30 at the Casper Events Center.
Boys semi-final games on Friday, Buffalo got some revenge as they hammered Torrington 53-36, and the Wheatland Bulldogs won big, beating the Lander Valley Tigers 51-31. Torrington will play Lander for thiurd place Saturday afternoon at 1:30. Wheatland will play Buffalo for the championship Saturday at 5 at the Events Center. Wheatland hasn't played in a title game since 1982, and hasn't won a state championship since 1930. The Bulldogs did pull off an upset win over the Bison last weekend at Regionals.... it should be a good fight for the boys trophy.
(Thu 3/10/11) - LadyCats win the first round... Douglas fought back to win a low-scoring affair on the first day of the Wyoming 3A Girls State Basketball Tournament, beating Cody 38-31. At the Casper Events Center tonight, the Fillies kept it close through the first half. Douglas took a 25-23 lead to the halftime lockerroom, then came back after the break and scored 11 unanswered points in the second half. Cody battled back, but the LadyCats were able to hold off the Fillies rally and take the 7-point win. Bridget Schumacher led Cody scoring with 14 points and Danielle Skinner shot 11. For Douglas, Kassidy Scott shot 14 points and Lindsay White added 9. Douglas shot 12 pof 16 at the free throw line... Cody was 3 of 8. Douglas also out-rebounded Cody 37-30.
A couple of blowouts in the girls early games... Mountain View blasted Torrington 62-36, and Buffalo hammered Powell 52-26. In the late game, Wheatland beat Worland 56-41. Loser-out games Friday, Torrington plays Powell at 9 and Cody meets Worland at 10:30. Girls semi-final games Friday afternoon, Mountain View meets Buffalo at 4:30 and the Douglas LadyCats play Wheatland at 6. You'll hear the Douglas game live on KKTY's 99.3FM and on the internet at kktyonline.com.
Boys first round games on Thursday, Torrington beat Worland 70-41, Buffalo beat Cody 69-38, Wheatland beat Lyman 60-40 and Lander beats Rawlins 60-56. Friday's loser-out games will be Worland and Cody at noon. Lyman and Rawlins at 1:30. Boys' semis Friday night, Torrington plays Buffalo at 7:30 and Wheatland meets Lander at 9.
(Wed 3/9/11) - Bearcats Basketball Coach Resigns... Ron Erickson, Head Boys Basketball Coach at Douglas High School has resigned. After 31 years of coaching, 26 years in Wyoming and the past 12 in Douglas, Coach Erickson has decided to step down. Coach Ericksons Bearcats won the State Championship in 2002. Erickson has a Wyoming record of 418-205 while at Arvada-Clearmont, Upton, and Douglas. His record in Douglas was 218-98. The 2006-2007 Douglas Bearcats hold the school record for most wins in a season with 24. In Wyoming his teams have accumulated 12 Conference Championships, 9 2nd place finishes at Regionals, 9 Regional Championships, and 1 State Championship. They have finished in the top three at the State Tournament 9 times. In 31 years of coaching, Erickson has been named Conference Coach of the Year 12 times.
(Wed 3/9/11) - Douglas Cheerleaders bring home top place honors. At the WHSAA State Spirit Competition at the Casper Events Center last night, Douglas won two of four competition categories. The DHS Cheer Squad scored 62.667 points to win the 3A All-Girl Cheer competition. Rawlins and Wheatland tied for 2nd, less than 3 points behind Douglas. Douglas also won the Co-Ed cheer competition, one point ahead of Cheyenne Central. Wheatland and Mountain View tied for the win in 3A Cheer Non-Stunt, and Douglas cheerleaders placed third. The DHS Dance Team tied for 6th.
(Mon 3/7/11) - The Douglas LadyCats will meet Cody in the first round of the State Basketball Tournament this Thursday afternoon. The LadyCats went 2-1 over the weekend at the 3A East Regional Tournament at Wheatland. Douglas opened with a 42-28 win over Newcastle on Thursday. Buffalo upset Douglas 36-33 on Friday, handing the LadyCats their first loss since the opening weekend of the season and ending a 23-game win streak. Douglas bounced back with a 51-36 win over Rawlins Saturday morning, then finished off Torrington 58-51 Saturday afternoon. Wheatland edged Buffalo 36-34 for the 3A East girls title on Saturday night.
The Cody Fillies were 2-1 at the 3A West Tournament this weekend. Cody beat Jackson 35-27 on Thursday, and Worland 39-27 on Friday. Second-seeded Cody fell 43-33 to top-seeded Mountain View in the West Conference championship game on Saturday night.
The Douglas girls finished the regular season with a 22-2 record, 16-0 in conference play. Cody went 19-5, 12-2. The two teams met in mid-December at the Douglas Classic tournament... Douglas beat Cody 52-43.
First round brackets for the 3A Girls State Basketball Tournament... Mountain View plays Torrington Thursday morning at 9... Buffalo meets Powell at 10:30... Cody and Douglas play Thursday afternoon at 4:30, and Wheatland meets Worland at 6... all four games at the Casper Events Center.
The LadyCats are the only Converse County team to qualify for this week's state tournament. At the 3A East Regionals this weekend, the Bearcats fell to Rawlins 56-42 on Thursday, beat Glenrock 76-20 on Friday, then fell 78-48 to Buffalo on Saturday. The Glenrock Herders lost 71-28 to Torrington on Thursday and were eliminated Friday in the loss to Douglas. The Lady Herders fell 48-42 to Torrington on Thursday, then lost 53-45 to Rawlins on Friday.


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Mandaue City Mayor Jonas Cortes is scheduled to go back home to his family residence in barangay Umapad where the city?s landfill is situated to spearhead the institutionalization of a waste segregation system for residents and a more ambitious program of reviving a dead river.
The mayor shouldn?t find it too difficult to set up a working system where residents can divide garbage according to bio-degradable and non-biodegradable wastes. Scavengers can be organized and disciplined not to muck up the segregated garbage just to earn a living.
It?s in reviving the Butuanon River that exits to the Mactan Channel through the Umapad that will require serious work and a lot of political will. Since his term ends next year, it?s highly doubtful that Cortes will achieve much progress toward realizing immediate goals.
Still, the mayor should be lauded for staying in his family residence to set about the eventual closure of the landfill, albeit one that admittedly was in reaction to the weeklong fires in the landfill in barangay Inayawan in Cebu City.
Cortes is negotiating with the local governments of Consolacion and Liloan if Mandaue can dump its garbage in their landfill.
It?s up to the residents and local officials of all LGUs concerned to make sure that they strictly observe and implement a responsible waste management program to make sure that their garbage problems won?t worsen for either one of them.
The same has yet to be said of the Cebu City government, which remains pre-occupied with the status of the South Road Properties deal at home and in Congress to attend to other pressing concerns such as the worsening garbage disposal problem.
Then again, the Mandaue City government isn?t saddled with a confrontation with the Capitol in the first place.
One could only hope that Mandaue City officials aren?t distracted enough by their local politicking in order to fully undertake a working waste management program.
Aside from the Inayawan fires, the significance of a solid waste management program is being pushed by environmental groups that vowed to file a class suit against LGUs that failed to implement the Solid Waste Management Act.
In the case of the Cebu City government, the common and sorry excuse for the poor garbage disposal problem has often been the lack of local funds to finance an alternative landfill site. But as barangay Pahina-San Nicolas has shown, one need not have sizable funds to implement a practical and effective waste management program.
Cortes hopes to achieve that same goal by staying at his family home and mobilizing the stakeholders into involving themselves in the city government?s waste management program. For the sake of Mandaue City residents, one hopes they succeed in doing so.

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Saturday saw the streets of London awash with naked, semi naked, costumed and painted people on bicycles for World Naked Bike Ride Day.
What's it all about? "A peaceful, imaginative and fun protest against oil dependency and car culture. A celebration of the bicycle and also a celebration of the power and individuality of the human body. A symbol of the vulnerability of the cyclist in traffic."
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The Largest Motorcycle Run In The Pacific Northwest!
Anacortes, Washington
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This is a free event! No time schedule, No required route, No official starting point.
Pick your own route and Support Biker Friendly along the way!
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The Official Oyster Run T-Shirt's are available for order, contact HATS OFF
"History of the Oyster Run"
It all started with a few guys getting together at the end of the summer to go for a ride and eat some oysters.
The year was 1981
Limp Lee had just returned from months of working in Alaska, He talked with a few guys and they all met at what was then the California Tavern in Marysville.
They then decided to ride along HWY 9, stop at some places along the way and end up in Edison to have oyster cocktails.
The next year a few more people joined in, the next year a few more, and by the fourth year there were almost 200 bikes. We couldn't believe it!
Well, as the years went by there were just too many people to have an organized run up hwy 9, so Limp Lee talked to the beautiful city of Anacortes about having the run there. I think at first the town was not sold on the idea, as they were not sure what to expect and most of the town closed up as the bikes rolled in. But soon more and more businesses stayed open and now the whole town has joined in..... and the rest is history.
As for how Limp Lee got his name, well that's another story!
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XR650L: Shorai Battery Relocation
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Spud Rider
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Joined: Jun 2008
Location: Idaho
Oddometer: 3,855
Originally Posted by
...So yeah, how's the relocation worked out after all those miles? I'm betting no news is good news!
I wish you were slamming over rocks all day long like I do with mine (except lately with the shift shaft broken off) so I could see if it would stand up to the beating before being the guinea "pig".
The Rocky Mountains of Idaho
contain a few rocks, so I do slam over some myself.
I'm pleased to report my Shorai battery relocation is working very well.
I am also happy the 10+ pounds of the "battery suitcase" is not slamming my subframe every time I pound through the Idaho rock piles.
Originally Posted by
...BTW, my oil breather hose is coming in the upwind (airbox) side of the air filter so the mist is sucked through the filter keeping it oiled.
Good for you! As with many others, I was routing my breather hose into the bottom port on the carburetor side of the air filter.
Your routing of the breather hose makes much more sense. As long as you don't mind the extra oil consumption, I can't see a downside to your configuration.
Personally, I prefer the oil separator. However, I really don't care if others choose to remove it.
Originally Posted by
...Perhaps it's a reasonable assumption that oil won't harm the CDI unit, but is it a bet worth taking?
I don't think it's a good long-term bet!
Peace be with you!
If someone routes the air hose as you do, on the air box side of the air filter, the CDI unit will indeed get oil on it.
I think the CDI unit is probably sealed well enough, but I personally wouldn't want to coat it with oil from the crankcase.
Therefore, if one wishes to mount the CDI unit in the air box, I would recommend he not route the crankcase breather hose as you have done.
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Motorcycle Noob Researching Dual Sport/Adventure Bikes...
Hello Everyone,
My name is Jake. To be honest, I am a college student studying Product Design and a complete beginner to Motorcycles (only rode once on my Uncles KTM 450 MX, but I do ride quads). I am currently designing a mid to heavy weight Dual Sport/Adventure motorcycle (not a mx conversion dual sport, but more like a KTM 690 or BMW G 650GS) for a Project and I would really appreciate it if you could take the time to help me out with a few questions I have!
Please start off by introducing yourself and the bike you ride, skill level or rider experience, how often you ride, what type of riding you do, and hobbies... etc.
Do you ride your Dual Sport/Adventure motorcycle more On or Off the road?
What features about the bike do you most admire or lead you to purchasing the motorcycle?
What do you generally look for in a motorcycle when it comes time to purchasing one?
What type of emotions or experiences are evoked when riding your Dual Sport/Adventure motorcycle?
Again, I would really appreciate your help!
Thank you!
In other words, you want us to do your homework for you, for free, so you
don't have to do the work of researching the subject yourself.
And THEN you are going to claim to have designed a motorcycle.
:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl :rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl:rofl
Just go to the Rally Raid website and spend a few hours reading up on the
gear they sell for the KTM 690. That will give you a very good idea of
what is involved in a light weight adventure motorcycle.
And by the way, the BMW 650 is a joke. It has poor quality suspension
which has been known to fail while under way, and it is underpowered and heavy.
I don't know a single expert rider who takes the BMW seriously. The BMW is
a street bike for people who want to pretend they are adventure riders. Stick with
KTM and at least anyone in your class who actually knows bikes won't detect that you are
clueless when or if you present your "design" in front of the class.
With all do respect, I do not have access to interview dual sport riders locally. The team I am working with suggested that I use forums to get rider feedback. The questions I am asking are to assist me in developing a clearer sense of what is needed by the consumer. Part of the Product Design process is to create a platform to design from by using research from a target market and other viable sources. This is only a small fraction of the work need to design a product.
I apologize if there was any misunderstanding for my motives for this research. I'm just trying to design the best motorcycle for you, the consumer.
Do you ride your Dual Sport/Adventure motorcycle more On or Off the road?
What features about the bike do you most admire or lead you to purchasing the motorcycle?
Lower weight, good suspension travel and ground clearance
What do you generally look for in a motorcycle when it comes time to purchasing one?
Not weight.
"Is this thing tall enough that lesser riders are scared of it and I can get a better deal?"
What type of emotions or experiences are evoked when riding your Dual Sport/Adventure motorcycle?
OH MY GOD I AM GLAD THIS IS NOT A HEAVY-ASS "Mid to heavy weight" DUAL SPORT!!!
Fill out your profile.:*sip*
48 years old, riding since 9
.Roadraced 11 years with WERA, 4 Championships, 25+ race wins.
Hare-scrambles and seceral times in the Perry Mountain 24 Hour Challenge,,,3rd. place in that event last year in the 40+ Ironman class.
I've owned several bikes...Yamaha FJ1200, FZR1000, GTS1000...Kawasaki LTD1000, KLX650, KX500, ZX-6R...Honda XR400....Suzuki SV650...Laverda Ghost Strike...
I presently ride an '06 Kawasaki KLR650. Bought it new in mid-summer '06, 61,000 miles now.
Now...for your questions concerning what I like in a bike now.
What I like now, and what I've looked for in the past have changed over the years. It was once that I wanted the latest/greatest out there, but it's so much more now about THE RIDE, NOT the bike.
.I want something I can take anywhere, I take the bike, not the other way around.
I do ride more on-road, commuting, and trips, but I have ridden my KLR to the 24 HOUR race, raced the race..then rode it home the next day...a good story, but really, not very smart.
My number one want is versitility, it's difficult for one bike to do it all....my KLR needed a few mods to make it what I wanted, but now, after 6 years, it's almost perfect.
I've been looking for a Big Adventure style bike, something the wife and I can be just a bit more comfortable on. We now ride the KLR on 350+ mile days, but it'd be nice to be a bit more comfortable.
Anyway...The Yamaha Super Tenere BMW R1200GS, and Moto Guzzi Stelvio NXT are all good bike, along with the KTM Adventure, Triumphs bike bike also,,,,but in comparing them to my trusty KLR, I can buy 4 KLRs for the price of one BMW. I want DURABILITY,and VALUE,
DURABILITY and VALUE......JOY of the ride, without worry of $$$$$.
EASE of maitenance.....I can change the oil on my bike in about 5-6 minutes...HELL, I do it before I even take my helmet off.:freaky
How about you KTM Adventure riders????:huh
Just take a Kawasaki KLR650, a pre '08 model...give it 30% more power, better suspension, and shave off 70lbs.....there's your perfect dual-sport bike.:D
This is a good start
Awesome!!! -- Thank you so much for the great response! Very much appreciated!
Great Input Everyone! Thanks!
I never even considered the Kawasaki KLR 650 before... I'll definitely look into it!
I recommend that you find motorcycles that currently exist that meet your design specifications, and interview the owners of those motorcycles to identify the needs that they meet, and the specifications that better fulfill them. E.g., if you feel you want to build a better KLR, ask KLR owners. If you want to build a better BMW R1200GS, ask GS owners. They are extremely different motorcycles despite being both "dual sports."
Your current approach is as general as asking people who wear pants whether they use them more standing up or sitting down.
31, been riding all of my life, on the street about 7 years or so.
Currently ride an F650GS Dakar (single)
Use my bike for mainly exploring. Dont do much in the hardcore terrain, dont have much interest in getting a dirt bike. For me the Dakar has plenty of power for my puposes, is comfortable enough for me to commute 180 miles daily, will carry plenty for me to load it up and go on a trip. Yes, the suspension could use some improvement but in general its been good for me.
Main things I look for in a bike are:
Offroad ability
Ease of maintenance
Parts availability
Load capacity
Im sure I left something out but thats a fair summation of what I want in a bike. As with Al, its about the ride for me. About the places it takes me and the things I get to see. Not about how fast I can go or how rough the terrain I can ride over.
Another site you may wish to check out is HorizonsUnlimited.com. Youll find riders of just about every bike under the sun on that site, and many more long distance travellers than here.
face it
you are following a path with an undesirable end; failure
no motorcycle designed by a non-enthusiast has ever succeeded in the marketplace
get a klr, xr, dr and ride it all day every day
check back next month
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We are in the market for a nice chicken/turkey roasting pan. What do you use?
Stainless steel, anodized aluminum, cast iron, etc? I think I want something nice and heavy, where you can remove the bird, saute onions and garlic in the pan, and make a nice sauce or gravy.
Where do you shop for mainstream (non WFO) bakeware?
Something that could cross over and work in the WFO would be plus, but not necessary.
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Hi James..........I use a heavy 18/10 stainless oval roaster for turkey and other large joints. It is a very versatile tool. Both the base and lid have handles and can be used as seperate roasters. Ideal for roasting the bird or joint covered to start and using the lid for roast potatoes etc. while the bird is browning/resting. It also steams and poaches. Available in various sizes.......this one will take a large family size turkey. A 5* investment. It has never been in the WFO by choice, as yet.
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The other roaster is a heavy duty one with a non stick coating and a meat rack. Easy to clean..........it does spend time in the WFO.........:p
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Williams Sonoma has a large variety to choose from. I think ours is All-clad.
We have a large rectangular pan with stout handles. It has high sides, is non-stick and comes with a rack to put your bird on.
Not used for the WFO though, lots of terra cotta for that.
...of course, make sure it will fit in your oven!
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I get int trouble for blackening my wife's good baking dish so she makes me use those disposable alum. ones. I usually chuck in half a handful of hickory chips just before putting the roast in and sealing up the door. Great taste particularly the gravy.
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Thanks all,
I am leaning toward stainless. That way I can use it in the WFO, and make some nice sauces from the browned bits the roast leaves behind. Plus, the non-stick will never wear out.
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Dr. Richard Philips, Senior Minister of Second Presbyterian Church was our guest as we discussed the recent 40th PCA General Assembly. In this candid discussion we discussed a number of issues that were debated and discussed at this year's assembly including "intinction", paedocommunion, and the creation issue.
The Reverend Richard D. Phillips was elected senior minister-elect by the congregation of Second Presbyterian Church, on April 15, 2007. He came to Greenville from First Presbyterian Church of Coral Springs/Margate, FL, where he served as senior minister since 2002. Previously, he served as minister of preaching at historic Tenth Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, PA. He and his wife, Sharon, have five children: Hannah, Matthew, Jonathan, Ellie, and Lydia. He holds degrees from the University of Michigan (BA), the University of Pennsylvania (MBA), and Westminster Theological Seminary (M. Div. with first honors).
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elcome to my site. Basically this is a testing ground for my Macintosh projects and other computing endeavors.
Who is this Mac-Adam guy? Well that would be me, Adam. I'm a 46 year old Harley-Davidson enthusiast from the Chicago suburbs who's masquerading as a computer-geek, ok, perhaps not masquerading. I think Mac's outweigh the Harley right now
This site, or more so, this domain name, were created because I got sick of entering my IP address into various programs when trying to access my home computer from remote locations. I feel obligated put something up here....and like a midget at a urinal, I'm always on my toes.
If you're curious as to what this site is running on, well, it's being served from my personal Mac Pro 8-core tower, located in the computer lair of my home in the Chicago suburbs. It's connected to the internet via my cable internet connection and is running the greatest operating system in the world, Macintosh OS X.
Wanna know more about me? Ok, during the day, I work as a support consultant and server administrator at a university. I'm an Apple Certified Technical Coordinator and have been working professionally with Macintoshes for the last 23 years. Mostly in user support and server administration in a print publishing and web development environment. One could say, Mac's are my life!
However Mac's are only one hobby of many.
As I mentioned above I'm an avid Harley rider, a gadget nut, an audiophile and basically interested in, and drawn to, anything that plugs into the wall and lights up and does something. I'm also a music lover and have played guitar since I was 13 years old.
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News of Riverton, Lander and Fremont County, Wyoming, from the Ranger's award winning journalists.
The way it was: Plane crash -- 1964
Mar 3, 2013 - Staff
One of the most memorable news events of its time occurred 49 years ago this week on the windy, snow-covered prairie near Jeffrey City.
A single-engine airplane flown by Dan Gimlin and carrying passenger Brad Dale, both of Riverton, was reported missing on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 1964. They took off from the Riverton airport on a coyote hunting trip and were expected that day.
When they didn't return, a search party described as the largest of its type ever assembled in Fremont County looked by ground and air for the missing plane for days. At the peak of the search, 36 airplanes and 156 searchers combed the desolate landscape around Beaver Rim, Jeffrey City, Muddy Gap and Moneta.
Hampering the search was one of the worst periods of winter weather all winter. Four inches of snow fell over that weekend, accompanied by howling winds and temperatures near zero afterward.
Finally, a full week after the plane was lost, it was spotted late in the afternoon of March 4, about 7.5 miles southwest of the Split Rock Ranch in the Sweetwater area.
Sheriff PeeWee McDougall led a search party through snow drifted waist deep in some places to the crash site, which had been spotted from the air by Norine Kinnamen of the Civil Air Patrol.
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Active Duty Scholarship Program
The Foundation of the 1st Cavalry Division Association was established for the purpose of providing financial assistance in the form of scholarship grants toward the pursuit of an advanced education.
These grants are reserved for children of those soldiers of the 1st Cavalry Division who died, or were totally and permanently disabled as a result of wounds received or disease contracted while serving with the 1st Cavalry Division in any armed conflict. Additionally, children of members of the Association who die while serving with the 1st Cavalry Division in peacetime and active duty soldiers currently assigned or attached to the 1st Cavalry Division and their spouses and children are eligible to receive scholarship grants.
The Foundation also administers a separate program for descendants of soldiers who served in designated qualifying units that were involved in the battles of the Ia Drang valley during the period 3 through 19 November 1965.
The Foundation of the 1st Cavalry Division Association is a tax-exempt charitable organization described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and all donations are tax-deductible. The Foundation's tax identification number is 23-7016417.
The scholarship program was initiated by the Association in 1967 during the
Vietnam War in response to requests from the Sergeants Major of the Division to
provide scholarships to the children of Troopers that were killed in action.
The Sergeants Major
committed their support to perpetuation of the program.
The scholarship program was initiated by the Association in 1967 during the Vietnam War in response to requests from the Sergeants Major of the Division to provide scholarships to the children of Troopers that were killed in action. The Sergeants Major committed their support to perpetuation of the program.
A trust agreement was signed on 16 August 1968 establishing the Foundation.
Since that time, no child of a Trooper that has been killed or disabled has been turned away for lack of funds.
Between the generous donations of Association members and scholarship
drives within the Division, the Cavalry has taken care of its own.
In the 1970s, in response to a perceived downtrend in applications from
the aging children of the Division's Troopers that were killed in action from the Vietnam war, eligibility was
expanded to children of Association members killed or disabled while on active
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Since its inception, the Foundation has provided over $1,605,000 in scholarship grants to students in the following categories:
Scholarships that began at $400 per year currently provide a maximum of $1,200 per year with a maximum of $4,800 for four years of schooling per student.
Funding for the program, less the Ia Drang element, derives primarily from the Foundation's primary investment portfolio, the annual Division fund drive and random donations from the membership and those interested in providing support for education. The Association annually provides $12,000 to satisfy projected shortfalls up to a predetermined maximum.
All eligible candidates for grants who are children of deceased members of the Division are funded. Active Duty soldiers and their spouses and children compete for grants and selection is made annually by a board comprised of Command Sergeants Major of the Division acting in their private capacity as members of the Association. All requests for grants in this category were satisfied through school year 1996/1997, however the large number of active duty applications for school year 1997/1998 necessitated that grants be awarded in order of priority.
Funding for the Ia Drang program comes from donations specifically earmarked for this category of grant. Ia Drang funds are separately invested in a fenced program to build up an investment corpus which will sustain additional grants from its proceeds. The Ia Drang program is rapidly running out of money. The number of scholarships provided is exceeding the donations we receive for this program and we are forced to sell off investments to pay the grants.
Please mail your tax-deductible donations to the Foundation of the 1st Cavalry Division Association, 302 N. Main St., Copperas Cove, TX 76522-1703. Donations in the amount of $25 or more will be acknowledged in the SABER. Donations of $250 or more will receive a tax certificate as required by the IRS. Donations intended for the Ia Drang Fund should be made out to the Ia Drang Scholarship Fund.
For more information or an application to register for benefits send a Self Addressed Stamped Envelope (SASE) to the Foundation of the 1st Cavalry Division Association, 302 N. Main St., Copperas Cove, TX 76522-1703 or e-mail us at email@example.com. You may also print the on-line Registration Form, fill it out completely, and mail it with all of the required supporting documentation to the Foundation of the 1st Cavalry Division Association.
The application forms for Association members who are active duty Troopers currently serving with the First Team and their families is now open. You can get the information about this program at Active Duty Overview. Printed forms are available at the National Headquarters in Copperas Cove and at the Crossed Sabers Chapter Souvenir Shop in the 1st Cavalry Division Museum at Fort Hood, Texas beginning on 6 March 2014.
The Dallas Chapter of the Finance Forum conducted its Annual Charity Golf Tournament on Monday, 21 April 2014 to raise funds for the Foundation of the 1st Cavalry Division Association. This years tournament was held at the Prestonwood Country Club in Dallas and raised $18,000 to provide scholarships for the Troopers of the 1st Cavalry Division and their families. Their initial estimate on the day of the tournament was $14,500. We greatly appreciate the support of the Finance Forum which has donated a total of $165,184 to the Foundation from its nine Annual Charity Golf Tournaments which began in 2006. http://www.thefinanceforum.com/golf.html
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Online Reporting of Elections
Edited by Einar Thorsen
Routledge – 2013 – 138 pages
Series: Journalism Studies
Routledge – 2013 – 138 pages
Series: Journalism Studies
This book contributes to debates concerning online reporting of elections and the challenges facing journalism in the context of democratic change. The speed of technological adaptation by journalists and their audiences means online news is gradually becoming a normalised part of media landscapes across the world. Journalists monitor social media for insight into the political process and as an instant indication of "public sentiment", rather than waiting for press releases and opinion polls. Citizens are actively participating in online political reporting too, through publishing eyewitness accounts, political commentary, crowd-sourcing and fact-checking information (of political manifestos and media reports alike). It is therefore growing increasingly important to understand how political journalism is evolving through new communicative forms and practices, in order to critique its epistemological role and function in democratic societies, and examine how these interventions influence daily online political reporting across different national contexts.
This volume covers comparative, research-based studies across a range of national contexts and electoral systems, including Australia, ten African countries, the European Union, Greece, the Netherlands, India, Iran, Sweden, the UK and the USA.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Journalism Practice.
Foreword Bob Franklin 1. Introduction: Online reporting of elections Einar Thorsen 2. "The People's Debate": The CNN/YouTube debates and the demotic voice in political journalism Matt Carlson and Eran Ben-Porath 3. Remediating #Iranelection: Journalistic strategies for positioning citizen-made snapshots and text bites from the 2009 Iranian post-election conflict Rune Saugmann Andersen 4. Online Journalism and Election Reporting in India Saayan Chattopadhyay 5. A Journey Through 10 Countries: Online election coverage in Africa Ben Akoh and Kwami Ahiabenu, II 6. "Second-Order" Elections and Online Journalism: A comparison of the 2009 European Parliament elections' coverage in Greece, Sweden and the United Kingdom Asimina Michailidou 7. (Not) The Twitter Election: The dynamics of the #ausvotes conversation in relation to the Australian media ecology Jean Burgess and Axel Bruns 8. Social Media as Beat: Tweets as a news source during the 2010 British and Dutch elections Marcel Broersma and Todd Graham
Einar Thorsen is Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communication at the Media School, Bournemouth University, UK. His research focuses on online and citizen journalism, particularly during crisis and conflicts, and in response to political and environmental change. He has published research on BBC News Online, Wikinews and WikiLeaks.
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In a battle of product pitches, between biodegrable cat boxes, sensory toys, toothy compost bins, and other gizmos, two products emerge victorious.
An Austrian design graduate has created a tabletop breeding farm for flies — that you can harvest for food.
Bikini models and gardeners can agree that Linda Loudermilk's new Luxury Eco compostable swimsuits are both fashionable and practical. The plant starch bikinis break down underground in 180 days.
The EDV-01 quickly converts to a two-story structure that can shelter two people comfortably for a month.
U.S.-based Cereplast signs multimillion-dollar deal to supply a leading food-packaging manufacturer in Europe with its patented bioresin.
As UC Berkeley students, the co-founders of "Back to the Roots" discovered they could grow mushrooms using recycled coffee grounds. Now their mushroom kit sells at grocery stores across the country.
What will Web browsing look like in the future? SmartPlanet's Sumi Das explains how augmented reality will help museum paintings turn into talking art teachers and ordinary billboards play movie trailers.
Could mobile gift cards one day replace physical gift cards? SmartPlanet's Sumi Das finds out how mobile gift cards work and what the caveats are.
We all love the idea of sustainability, but we don't want to have to make any extra effort. Companies hear our dilemma and create solutions, like this in-counter composting system.
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Yup, it is this time of year :P . So if you're not faint of heart and can stand mumblings of tabletop figures company guy read on. In the last couple of weeks I've been trying to wrap up our workshop's 2014 – what has changed, what went good and what went bad. Not an...Read more..
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Far be it from Gov. Martin O'Malley to take a "pox on both their houses" approach.
In an interview Monday night, Maryland's Democratic governor pinned the blame for the federal government's tumble over the so-called "fiscal cliff" squarely on Republicans. Though Congress could reverse many of the automatic tax increases and spending cuts that took effect after midnight as early as today, O'Malley wasted no time after the Republican-led House announced it would not vote on a deal last night in criticizing national GOP lawmakers.


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Can Anonymous be destroyed with enough arrests and punitive sentences?
The government seems terrified of Anonymous and online activists. There have been harsh crackdowns on anyone exercising the limits of free speech through the Internet, from the charges used to threaten Aaron Swartz before his death to the jail time Weev and John Kiriakou are serving. Actual Anons like Jeremy Hammond face corrupt courts and even more devastating sentences.
What both the government and mainstream media have trouble grasping is that Anonymous cannot be approached as a single entity. Instead, Anthropologist Gabriella Coleman insists that Anonymous is rhizomatic. Though it all stems from the same roots, it is not subject to any specific leadership but shifts direction based on collective will.
Perhaps the government does understand on some level, and that's why they've acted so violently to oppose this concept. Yet Anonymous as a collective taps into roots in historic anonymity that suggest it won't be easily squashed. Two panels at South by Southwest Interactive 2013 laid out this history from the printing press into modern times.
A Brief History of Anonymity
First Amendment lawyer Nabiha Syed and historian Katie Engelhart led a panel on anonymity through history. Much of the earliest literature was published anonymously or pseudonymously. Women of course used masculine pseudonyms or published anonymously, but men also chose to publish anonymously or as women for many reasons. This fluid idea of identity and authorship was the source of benign entertainment, as the literati of the 18th century gathered in coffee shops to debate authorship.
Being anonymous was sometimes celebrated; some like Milton chose dip in and out of public identity from publication to publication as he pleased. But attitudes toward anonymity change with the times. During wartime, sedition laws and other restrictions tried to enforce clear authorship of every work, yet the penalties for treasonous speech increased the desire to go unnamed.
Engelhart and Syed compared this shift to the evolution of anonymity on the modern Internet. In the early days of Usenet and IRC chatrooms, anonymity and pseudonymity were respected — a persons real identity could remain unknown, but they could gain a great deal of social clout for their invented identity over time. Forces both technological and social have combined to endanger this namelessness — from the ease of identity services like Facebook passport and the pervasive transactional tracking of the Web on the one hand to the increasing paranoia of perpetual war on the other.
True anonymity is becoming more difficult and less accessible. Products like TOR and Ghostery (both present at the #SXSW Trade Show) help users regain some control, but we may enter a virtual arms race between tools for privacy and the push for pervasive trackable identity.
Anonymous Unleashes the Power of Crowds
Another panel at the conference drew from this history but focused on the modern collective known as Anonymous. Finn Brunton, Assistant Professor of Information at University of Michigan School of Information, anthropologist and noted Anonymous-scholar Gabriella Coleman, and author and journalist Quinn Norton traced Anonymous from its origins in environments like /b/ and 4chan, lawless and tactless forums that eschew any kind of permanent identity through its politicization in opposing the Church of Scientology to its current incarnation as distributed online activists.
The behavior of crowds has been feared by governments and the powerful since at least Ancient Rome. We can easily see the destructive nature of anonymous crowds just by looking at the latest round of sports riots. But the creative potential of crowds can be just as potent. What began as a series of pranks grew increasingly serious as the pranksters got caught up in their work and realized its importance. While the work was simply for the 'lulz' in the beginning, the playful nature of Anonymous continues to bind subgroups together. The very confusion and fear its nature arouses is part of its power.
Anonymous is diverse, drawing people of all genders, orientations, locations, class and racial backgrounds together. By creating environments which are deliberately unpolitically correct, the collective actually smooths over many cultural differences because everyone is equally offended. As the founder of Japan's 2Channel said, "People can only truly discuss something when they don't know each other." This is also a strength of Anonymous in action, bringing people together with diverse skillsets who might never have spoken in conventional settings.
The power of Anonymous is that we are all Anonymous. Quinn Norton warned that, much like trying to remain aloof in the midst of a riotous real world crowd, you can't report on Anonymous without becoming part of Anonymous — recent conspiracy charges against former Reuters employee Matthew Keys give another cautionary example. And the social pressures to identify appear again among the Anons — Gabriella Coleman spoke eloquently of the pain some feel at not being able to share more personal details with their AnonFamily, and of course this urge has been the undoing of many.
Anonymous reached new heights of activity as much of it was absorbed into Occupy Wall Street, struggled in the wake of arrests and broken encampments, only to rise again and again. From the mask-wearing members of the Polish Parliament to the heroes of Steubenville, Anonymous is a potent force that's pushed deep into human culture.
Much more than a group, not a unified movement, Anonymous is a banner, an idea, and a way of acting. Anonymous can only die if the people abandon it. While the popularity of the mask may someday wane, this new twist on that historic force, collective anonymous action, will prove harder to eradicate.
More: Tweets from #Anonymity Then & Now and Creativity & #Mayhem: Anonymous Communities At Work
Anonymous media portrait by Garry Knight, released under a Creative Commons license. Anonymous Trio by Joachim S. Müller released under a Creative Commons Share Alike license. Panel photos by Kit O'Connell, released under a Creative Commons license.


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Ninethirty is the Sunday morning worship service of the NINETHIRTY University Ministry. It takes place every Sunday at 9:30 am in the sanctuary at First Baptist Church Lubbock.
Life Groups are our adult led small groups that meet every Sunday morning at 11:00 am. Each Life Group covers different topics that vary from Christian relationships to the Old Testament.
Paradigm is a weekly gathering of college students from all walks of life that are united to worship Jesus. Paradigm is every Thursday night at 8pm.
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Worcester, Mass. - Worcester, Mass. - Holy Cross men's cross country runner freshman Kyle Rougeot (Pataskala, Ohio) was named Patriot League Male Runner of the Week Wednesday morning for the week ending October 8. Rougeot's time of 26:48 in the New England Championship on Saturday was his personal best in his young career. Rougeot has been steadily improving his time all season. At the Blue Devil Invitational on September 2, Rougeot's time of 28:01 gave him a starting point and goals to achieve throughout the season. From each race on, Rougeot's five mile time dropped an average of 18.25 seconds, putting him in good position to be one of the first Crusaders across the line in each meet. In the recent races, Rougeot's time dropped from 27:21 in the National Catholic Championship to 26:59 at the Murray Keatinge Invitational, ultimately leading to the new career best of 26:48 this past weekend. Next up for Rougeot and the Crusaders is on Saturday October 21 at the Central Connecticut State Mini-Meet in New Britain, Conn. Start time is scheduled for 1 PM.