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It's Blake who's already garnered two titles on the ATP this season and is fresh off a final appearance at the first Masters Series event of the year, the Pacific Life Open, where, unfortunately, he lost to the great Roger Federer in straight sets at Indian Wells.
But by reaching the final in the California desert, Blake became the first African-American man since Arthur Ashe to crack the men's top 10, which now features a trio of Americans for the first time since 2000.
The amicable Blake has been playing superb tennis since the middle of last year and has been rewarded with a career-high No. 9 spot in the world rankings, just ahead of the former No. 1 Agassi and only five spots behind the former top-ranked Roddick, who, like Agassi, has yet to reach a final in 2006.
The 26-year-old Blake is off to a 19-5 start this year and has appeared in finals in three of his seven tournaments, including victories in Sydney and Las Vegas. He may have lost to Federer at Indian Wells, but opened plenty of eyes with a huge semifinal victory over Spanish sensation Rafael Nadal at the prestigious Pac Life event. As a matter of fact, he straight-setted the reigning Roland Garros champion Nadal, who was riding a hot nine-match winning streak, including a stunning title match victory over Federer in Dubai earlier this month.
FYI, Blake also beat Nadal (in the 3rd round) at last year's U.S. Open and is 2-0 versus the excitable lefty.
Blake is an eight-year pro who turned his career around last year with the help of a couple titles and a trip into the quarterfinals at the U.S. Open, where he blew a two-sets-to-love lead over Agassi before ultimately dropping a five-set epic at Flushing Meadows. It marked his best-ever showing at a Grand Slam tourney.
This year, the resurgent Blake has beaten a former world No. 1, in Lleyton Hewitt, and, of course, the aspiring No. 1 Nadal, who, by all accounts, appears to be the top threat to the amazing Federer's throne. The Yonkers, New York native stopped the two-time major titlist Hewitt in the Vegas finale three weeks ago, marking his first victory against the fiery Aussie in seven tries.
Sure, you can sit here and say that Blake has yet to do anything at the majors (has never reached a Grand Slam semi) and he's a dismal 1-12 combined against Roddick and Agassi, including 0-8 versus A-Rod, and who could argue with you. But the athletic racquet man is certainly playing the best tennis of any of the Americans right now.
Blake's a solid 41-11 since last August, including four titles and the quality run into the U.S. Open quarters. And his stellar 2005 campaign came on the heels of his nightmarish 2004.
Two years ago, Blake lost his beloved father, Thomas, to cancer; suffered a fractured vertebrae in his neck after running into a net post during a practice session in Rome; and fell ill with Zoster, a condition that affected his hearing, his vision and paralyzed him on one side of his face.
He was ranked as low as 210th in the world in April of last year.
Prior to joining the ATP, Blake played two years of tennis at Harvard, where he finished as the No. 1 collegiate player in the country in his sophomore year. He possesses great speed, is a quality returner of serve and is blessed with a monster forehand. The knock on him in the past had everything to do with the mental aspect of the game. Dare I say he had a tendency to choke.
But Blake does have as much talent as just about anyone in the game, he just needs to carry confidence onto the court and maintain that mental strength throughout his big matches, which is exactly what he's been doing in recent months.
With Roddick struggling in the early part of this season and the aging Agassi barely playing any tennis at all, it would appear as though Blake might have the inside track as the highest-ranked American this year.
Blake is rich and famous, has his game in top gear and is dating the beautiful Jennifer Scholle. Simply put, life is pretty good for JB right now.


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Moravian College Homecoming Weekend—October 15-16, 2010
Nearly 1,000 alumni, family members, and friends came home to Moravian for Homecoming Weekend, October 15-16. Friday morning, Moravian golfers played in the annual Rocco Calvo tournament held at the Bethlehem Golf Club, while other alumni joined students on campus for the Habitat for Humanity build. On Saturday, religion, philosophy, history, math, and computer science alumni reconnected at department reunions in the Priscilla Payne Hurd Academic Complex. Sports enthusiasts then cheered on the Hounds at field hockey and football games (Moravian beat F & M 24 - 17!). Crisp fall weather with bright sunshine provided the perfect backdrop for tailgating on the football practice field behind Rocco Calvo Field.
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The shortlist has been announced for the much-coveted Prix Pictet photography prize for 2012 under the theme Power.
Announced during Les Rencontres d'Arles, the celebrated festival of photography held each year in Arles in the South of France, the award will be complemented this year by a major exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, showcasing all twelve photographers.
The shortlisted artists have been drawn from ten countries, such as Belgium, South Africa, Vietnam and Spain, and include U.S.-born Robert Adams, Mohamed Bourouissa from Algeria and Rena Effendi from Azerbaijan.
This is the fourth cycle of photography prize since 2008, an initiative that endeavors to address issues of sustainability and "confront the most pressing social and environmental challenges of today."
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RichCimini Rich Cimini DE Quinton Coples (UNC) will visit #Jets on Wednesday, per ESPN's @ JosinaAnderson . 40 minutes ago
This is pretty interesting.
Rex worked out Coples personally and now we're setting up a visit a week before the draft. There has been some chatter about Coples falling out of the Top 10.
If the guy is committed, he could be Julius Peppers 2.0
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Miami is taking Tannehill. They might even trade up to get him.
Miami hasn't called their hand at all so dont be so sure. They have also been looking at Barkley for next year so calling QB there is really premature IMO. I could so see them sucking for Barkley. They signed Garrard and still have Moore on the roster. Miami will look at everyone and likely look to trade down. They need all the picks they can get because this team is well away from winning. You can't keep loosing your best players every year and expect to improve without replacing them. They have 0 OL and less at WR. They are so desperate for LBs they are signing our throw aways. They will get as much out of this draft as they can and trading up for a QB is not doing that. This is already a team that has issues bringing fans in Tannehille isn't going to change that. I actually think Miami has no intent on taking a 1st round QB. Tannehille is more of a Harrington prospect then a Luck so I really don't see anyone going nuts over him in the 1st. He is simply a guy you can pass on.
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Texans receiving unemployment funds from the Texas Workforce Commission have received more than $100 million since Feb. 22, when the stimulus boosted unemployment payments by $25 per week. Eligible Texans began receiving the extra cash around mid-March, and it's effective for all initial claims filed through Dec. 26. "The $100 million for increased unemployment benefits […] [Read More]
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Consumers recycling mobile phones for a new touchscreen device just saw their choice get a little tougher.
It was revealed this week after months of speculation that Research In Motion (RIM) would follow up its first foray into the market with the BlackBerry Storm2.
The device will at first be exclusive to the Vodafone network and it was advised buyers in the UK can expect the device to be made available in time for Christmas.
RIM also explained that it had equipped the Storm2 smartphone with a host of features that build on its predecessor including a new facility entitled SurePress - which is designed to offer a more tactile touchscreen.
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Associate Dean and Dean of Students at Harvard Law School Ellen M. Cosgrove, who also serves as one of the deputy Title IX coordinators at the Law School, will leave for Yale Law School at the end of this academic year.
Admissions Lawsuit Plaintiff Pens Letters Blasting Record Purges
Edward Blum—the president of nonprofit membership group Students for Fair Admissions, Inc.—sent a letter Thursday to every Ivy League university president except for Harvard's to object to deletions of student admission records.
Men's Hockey Carries Streak into Rivalry on Ice
Looking to improve on a seven-game winning streak, the No. 3/3 Harvard men's hockey team will trade the confines of its Allston home for Madison Square Garden on Saturday night, when the Crimson faces No. 19/- Yale in the second edition of the Rivalry On Ice game.
David Malan and CS50
Professor David J. Malan lectures on the role of the binary number system in computer science at the first CS50 lecture of the school year in Sanders Theater.
Harvard Banishes CS50 TF to New Haven
Much as we love to display the (many) ways Yale cannot (and will never) match up to Harvard, you can't begrudge the incredible opportunity at Hirschhorn's disposal.
Scene and Heard: The Game
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Harvard's approval was the final step necessary for a joint Harvard-Yale CS50 venture, which was first reported in The Crimson in October and approved by Yale faculty in early November.
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The interuniversity trade routes between Yale and Harvard opened earlier this month by the proclamation of CS50's export to Yale College, which is in Connecticut. This is no small step. CS50 is the best bioweapon we have engineered. With its t-shirts and free stuff, we are hopeful that it will divide the Yale campus into two groups: those who wear the "I took CS50" T-shirts, and those who do not. But this export should not be the last one by any means. FM considers other authentic items that Harvard has to offer to this time-honored rival for its betterment:
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Help your little one chase away bad dreams with this Native American craft project. Younger children will need parental assistance to tie knots while older children can do this craft on their own.
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Cut out the center of the dreamcatcher using scissors. Punch one hole at the top (to hang the dreamcatcher), three to five holes at the bottom (for the feathers), and holes all along the inside for the webbing.
Thread the yarn or string through the top hole. If you are using yarn, it tends to fray at the edges, so you may want to use tape to make yourself a "needle" to help pass through the beads.
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Maybe, for you, 2012 was a tough year. Did you slip, stray or get knocked down? If so, I have good news for you. Our God restores.
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I've written another little tool to make my life a little bit easier, and thought I'd share it with you guys.
So I noticed in newer versions of Ubuntu that when you double click a .sh file, you are no longer presented with a dialog asking "Run, Run in Terminal, View", even if the file is marked as executable. They always open in a text editor without asking. I play a few video games via emulator, and some of them use different emulators, different options, etc. However, even with writing scripts to automate launching the games with the appropriate software and settings, I "still" had to open up a terminal and manually execute the script. I wanted it to be like I'd installed the games and just have an icon on my desktop that I could double click and go. So I sat down, opened up Geany and started hashing out some python code. I'm not an expert programmer, but in an hour or two I managed to knock out something that is functional and allows me to generate valid .desktop files that point to the icon and executable files of my choice. You can use it for purposes other than gaming obviously, but that was my primary motivator. Another problem I had was that I play a few Nintendo 64 games via emulator, but I haven't been able to find a decent user interface for Mupen64Plus since the default one started getting removed from newer Linux distros. CuteMupen was the best I could find with one major issue. The Glide video plugin works best for me, but using Glide, if you have a game open and hit escape, the game dies and you can go to the main interface to launch another one, but the window stays open. Not a huge issue, unless you want to play fullscreen, because then escape doesn't get you out of fullscreen, it just kills the game and leaves you at a black screen with nothing but a mouse pointer. However, using the same plugins, if you launch the game with Mupen64Plus manually from the terminal without using CuteMupen, it all works fine. So anyway, because I'm lazy, I wrote a program that helps me make desktop icons to launch my games automatically with my own scripts.
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Ray (ladder106) can tell you more about emulators, probably when his shift is over.
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cant remeber which emulator I used, here's some info to work out what to use
This guy in Oz has fitted emulators & springs to at least 5 AT's , drop him a line for some info about what to fit & tell em Big Greg with the AT sent you
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Also dont use progressive springs, use straight rate springs, you really need to measure your sag to see what you need.
on my bike's standard forks the guy listed above cut the soft part of the standard spring off & fitted a longer spacer to suit, this brought the spring rate up from about 0.5kg to about 0.64kg but you have to know what you are doing as if you cut to much off you'll get coil bind
1990 RD04 Africa twin 750
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Intiminators might be where I'm heading too, along with something nice for the rear end
Not decided on WP or Ohlins yet - either WP Emulsion, or WP Fusion/Ohlins HO645 with remote reservoirs and standard preload adjuster.....
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The Never-never land of suspension....LONG (be warned)
Suspension improvements are a very interesting mix of science, opinions, wives-tales and black magic. Some people are as passionate about this as politics and religion so......keep in mind this is JUST my opinion.
Warning: This is long and kinda "bloggy" If you want just the basic facts, scroll down till you see this:
Now for the history............
First you'll have to decide how you want the bike to ride. Some people are interested in comfort, others want their long-travel DualSport to handle like a Ducati race bike and are willing to pay the price for this when going off-road (ouch). Some people can ride with long-travel DS suspension and to some it seems like the bike is misbehaving. You have to decide what works for you and what doesn't.
My "OMG moment" happened when I was able to ride Jonah Streets 07 Dakar racer. For those of you that don't remember, this was a modded KTM 525 with suspension done by SuperPlush in San Francisco. The premise here was COMFORT and the ability to finish a 2 week long race that beats the crap out of everything and everyone. Anyways.....the suspension on this bike was a revalation for me. It surprised me because it was so soft but still controlled. It would bottom (gently) landing from about 4 feet of air but it absorbed everything short of that in a very controlled way. My AfricaAlp felt like a stiffly sprung POS after riding this bike.
So, what I've been trying to achieve is a ride that is as close to this as I can get. It will let me go at a reasonable pace off-road and will keep me in control and not beat me up. I AM STILL WORKING ON THIS.
I had the AfriceAlp set up with XR650 fork legs and a 27 mm spacer under the stock AT rear shock. It looked like this:
This isn't a great photo but I'm using it to give you an idea of the relationship between the crank center-line and the axle center-lines and amount of air (ground clearance) under the bashplate.
To be fair to all those using this set-up I had not yet had the forks revalved and was still using the stock XR spring with a larger preload spacer to get the correct front sag/ride height. I rode the bike for about 7000 miles like this. The bike didn't do anything scary. It cornered well on the pavement and went into the rough stuff fairly slowly but with caution. Off-road, I could never get rid of a slightly top heavy feeling and there was a genereal "oh-shit" feeling whenever anything got "interesting". I noticed I was shying away from any kind of steepish/loose climb because the bike was so tall that once it got just a bit away from vertical is was very difficult to dab and correct. (I'm 6'1" and 185, thinish but in good enough shape to hang with the young guys on fires). Riding on gravel or dirt roads I was always kinda tippy-toeing around corners because the bike felt very uncomfortable turning on the throttle and sliding the back end around. There was a feeling of trying to high-side if you entered a corner like a half-miler downshifting and using the rear brake to get the bike a bit sideways. I was just about to spend over $1000 on suspension valving and a new rear shock.
Then, a Suzuki DR750 came up for sale and the suspension money got diverted into another bike. Yeah, it was worth it:
I started riding this beast around and it was so easy. Less suspension travel than the AfricaAlp on paper but, wow, it was much better balanced off-road. I could pivot it around the front wheel on the throttle and it never felt like it wanted to toss me over the high-side. I started riding it more and more and the AfricaAlp less and less (no, not just because the Suzuki was new....well, maybe a little). I spent a lots of evenings in the garage with a beer in hand just looking at the Africa Alp and wondering what should be done. I admitted that the bike LOOKED great (in the "I just rode the Dakar" genre) but didn't WORK like I wanted. A change was needed but I wasn't sure where to go. Is more travel the answer or should I go back to the standard geometry and try to get the best control I could?
In the middle of May, I got a PM here on ADVrider from Don Richardson and a company called Ricor Racing Shocks. http://store.ricorshocks.com/ Don said he was developing a new concept in suspension improvement for older forks that used damper rods. He had read that I had a Transalp and wanted assistance in developing his product for Transalps and Africa Twins. The product is called an "Intiminator" (yeah, I know....but it was developed first for Harley riders so using that name isn't really that surprising and after using the name for a while the "patches and badges" image kinda fades). He offered to let me use the product free of charge if I would give it a fair test and post the test results in the Transalp forum.
I guess this was what I needed to get me motivated to change the AfricaAlp back to a more standard suspension set-up. I accepted Don's offer. He asked that I ship my stock TA forks to him for testing. I did that and while the shipping and building was taking place, I started taking steps to bring the suspension back to stock. So, jack up the bike, replace triple clamps, reconfigure ignition switch, replace front wheel bearings (to accept the smaller TA front axle), remove spacer from rear shock and readjust rear pre-load and sag.
I installed the Intiminators with the stock springs (.5kg/mm), set the preload on the springs and went riding.
I found the bike very much improved. The top-heavy feeling was gone. I could turn the bike with the throttle again and kick the back end out on corner entry on gravel and graded dirt. The front wheel felt so planted it gives much more confidence to sliding the rear around.
With the improvement in front wheel traction. You can use a LOT of front brake on corner entry without the front wheel feeling like it's going to slide. Corner speeds through bumpy corners are much faster with improved control (both on asphalt and off-road). The front wheel ignores those "corrogated" bumps the cars put into gravel roads. I'd actually recommend the Intiminators as a "safety" feature for a stock bike. It will let you brake a lot later into a bumpy corner with no loss of control. If you're leaned way over and the corner gets bumpy the bike doesn't go wide or change lines it just keeps on turning. It's very very nice.
Brake dive was very much reduced so the bike is easier to set up for those squared-off-pivot-around-the-front-wheel corners that are so much fun with a heavy bike on a dirt road.
I thought the valving could be a bit softer and Ricor responded quickly with another set of valves with different shims along with a "tuning" kit that included a tool to disassemble the valve and a package of many different sized valve shims.
The bike now looks like this:
I'm now experimenting with even softer (.43kg/mm) springs and I think I've finally come as close to Jonah's bike as I'm ever going to get with the stock TA forks.
OK....end of blog....and NO, I don't have a mirror in my locker at work.
So, if you just want information on the Intiminators start reading here:
What I'd recommend as a progression through the suspension world is this:
1. Start with stock springs and Ricor's Intiminators for the AT. This is both the easiest mod to make and the least expensive. It involves draining and replacing your fork oil with 5 wt fork oil (real fork oil, please, no ATF or motor oil), removing the stock springs and adjusting the oil level, sliding the Intiminators down on top of the damper rods, putting the springs back in, screwing the fork cap back on and riding. No drilling of damper rods or spring changes. I'd be happy to walk anyone through this step-by-step.
2. If for some reason you don't like this, you can then start with changing springs around and/or playing with the Intiminator shims.
3. If this still doesn't work, you can try the Racetech approach with the Emulators. This will require a racetech spring and drilling your damper rods to allow the emulator to work correctly (which is why I'm not suggesting this first). It's more expensive and makes going back to stock much more difficult.
4. If your still not happy, spend big and go with different high-travel forks. Doing this is NOT for the faint-hearted and involves a lot of time and money if done right. You can follow ATGreg's great lead on this and be right on track. It will involve front wheel mod/replacement, fender mounting problems, making certain that the front wheel doesn't contact the frame or crash-bars on full compression, spring rates, and professional suspension tuning. Then you get to make the same mods to the rear to balance the bike like a longer rear shock. You'll also be coping with extra wear on the swingarm protectors and other long-travel considerations.
In my opinion, The Intiminators are the best mod there is for the stock forks right now. They will allow your damper-rod forks to perform as well as they are capable. They are not a complete substitute for a modern well-tuned (emphasis on well-tuned) cartridge fork, but they are much less expensive and the change is achievable for anyone with basic hand-tools.
The Intiminators work with an "Inertia Valve". There are two seperate damping circuits in the valve. A "hard" setting that is controlled by the shim stack that damps movement coming from the frame...like when you brake hard. The other circuit operates with the moveable Inertia Valve. This valve reacts to fork movement so it's sensitive to bumps. As the fork encounters a bump and moves up, the valve body resists this upward movement (inertia) and opens large bleed holes that gives a much softer damping to the fork movement. In effect what you have is a fork that is stiff when needed and soft when needed. It's a great concept and works very well. Brake dive is controlled with damping and NOT with a stiffer spring. I've actually found that using a softer spring is an improvement from stock. I can get away with this with the Intiminators because of their basic design.
I've had these valves apart many times and have even made a few modifications to one set. I'm no expert but have a bit of experience.
A word about Ricor. Don Richardson is responsible for inventing the "Full Floater" suspension that was purchased by Suzuki years ago. He has spent a lot of time on suspension development for cars, buggies and Dakar vehicles so he knows his stuff. Hi likes and rides motorcycles.....a DR650 so don't hold that against him. This isn't just some wacky new idea from "Ronco". I have links to his stuff at the US patent office for anyone who needs more information.
While Ricor has provided me with a lot of product free-of-charge, I'm not an employee nor do I stand to make any profit or commission on any Intiminators sold to TA or AT riders. I think that the product will speak for itself.
There is (or was) an ADV discount for 50% off on the Intiminators. Call Ricor to ask about how this works before your purchase.
Also, Ricor has developed a new rear shock based on the inertia valve technology. It was first built for the KLR 650 and has been very well received from that community of riders. Don asked that I send him my TA shock for testing and also wants the AT shock in the future. I'm bringing this up since the rear end of my bike is now sorely lacking compared to the front. I'm waiting patiently until I see what Ricor has to offer for the rear. It should be a few months away.
Apologies for lack of brevity.
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Thanks a bunch Ladder !!!!
I've read through your post 3 times now, and I'm still absorbing it ......
I agree, with first, Jim and atgreg, about starting "simple" and you've confirmed that as well .....
I think I'm going to go the route of the imtimdators and fork oil first, and then go from there.
I'll also be doing up the bike for my LBS - which is 155 @ 5'10 - and thinking about the type of riding I want to do with it. As in - the 620a was fabu off-road. Period - but it's also lighter than the AT - my 1st thought is to get the bike were it doesn't feel so soft in the front on easy gravel. Really .... it wobbles a great deal on gravel, as compared to my 620a
I didn't notice / feel this in CO last year - but Jim took us on a dirt route - out here in my neck of the woods, it's primarily gravel.
Anyhow ...... I'll be checking into the intimidators ....... once I start this little project (here, soon, because I also need to replace the carb boots) I'll keep everyone updated.
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The first thing to check to fix the wobbling is the rear sag. Both the Transalps and the ATs do not do well with too much sag in the rear. If your spring has sacked out a bit and you added the large cases and then filled the cases with gear, I'm betting the bike would handle much better with more preload on the rear spring.
Get the rear sag at about 1 3/4 in with you on the bike and the cases and gear you normally use. I'll bet this helps a great deal.
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I've had a similar response from Yen Powell over here who has Intiminators fitted, and he's holding out for the matching rear shock which is apparently coming at some point
I'm not a huge mechanics person, so this could be interesting - as could the rest of the bike strip-down and re-build I'll have to get rid of the rust spots on the upper fork legs at this point too, I'd imagine
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The GP110 rear looks nice but I'm not liking the tread pattern on the front, dunno have to say from a small photo:
They have a lack of 17 inch rear tires, mostly 18s. I like the look of the GP210, would be great for something like a round the world ride because of the serious rubber on them but no 17 inch rear listed!
I really like the look of the GP-1:
Pity I didn't see these before, might have got the pair. Oh well, next set I may try them out.
Hey when did Sumitomo buy out Dunlop? I just mounted a Dunlop Roadsmart on my VFR today and it says made in Japan by Sumitomo!
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They're just "inch" sizes. We all used to use these before everything went metric.
Use the 3.00X21 for the front. They make a 5.10X17....at least for the US. Use this one in the rear. They are not "low profile" tires....no /80 or /90 so the tire is as high as it is wide.
The front's been good so far. Maybe a bit noisier on the pavement than the Saharas but not by much. Nice round profile for peg dragging on warm asphalt and a decent open pattern that seems to do well on graded dirt/gravel without the bother of airing down. Sand and mud I have no experience with as yet but general experience says they will be BAD. Only a true knobby gets the job done with the looser stuff.
On that note, I've got about 1500 miles on the new Michelin T63 on the AfricaAlp. It's been just as good as the TKC80 on the street and even better in the dirt. The TKC starts with about 9 mm of tread depth and the Micheline with just over 12 so it's a more aggressive knobbie. Tread is molded to copy the Michelin Desert tire but side walls are different and a bit more flexible.
Over here the T63 was about 1/2 the cost of a new TKC80.
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Vampire Diaries Synopsis For Season 4, Episode 6, "We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes"
Get ready, horror fans, because Vampire Diaries Season 4, Episode 6, "We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes" takes its title from the Alfred Hitchcock classic Psycho. What does it mean? Perhaps there are clues in the synopsis!
Did Elena (Nina Dobrev) ingest more Tyler (Michael Trevino) venom? Because she's having hallucinations, and whatever trip she's on takes her to a dangerous place.
Maybe it was Klaus (Joseph Morgan) who slipped her the stuff, because he tells Stefan (Paul Wesley) some upsetting info about the new vampire. Then the OV acts on it. Later, the ex-besties team up again to help Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) with a new chapter in the book of the little Gilbert's life. (It better not be Denver: Round 2.)
It sounds like Bonnie (Kat Graham) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) are still at college, because they meet up with Professor Shane (David Alpay) again; who has a story of ancient witchcraft to share with the elder Salvatore and the witch. Matt (Zach Roerig) then reveals something surprising to Damon regarding Mr. Shane. Maybe the prof is coming to Mystic Falls High to whip the school into shape?
Finally, Elena confesses something hurtful to Stefan. (More Damon hallucinations, perhaps?)
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Season 4: "We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes"
ELENA'S NEW NIGHTMARE — Terrifying hallucinations leave Elena (Nina Dobrev) shaken and confused, causing her to make a dangerous mistake. After giving Stefan (Paul Wesley) some very disturbing news about Elena, Klaus (Joseph Morgan) takes matters into his own hands. Professor Shane (guest star David Alpay) reveals a story of ancient witchcraft to Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Bonnie (Kat Graham). With help from Klaus and Stefan, Jeremy (Steven R. McQueen) begins a new chapter in his life. Finally, Elena makes a painful personal confession to Stefan, and Matt (Zach Roerig) gives Damon startling new information about Professor Shane. Wendy Stanzler directed the episode written by Evan Bleiweiss & Julie Plec (#406).
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Now that the U.S. has slapped Russia with sanctions over Ukraine, the Kremlin is returning fire by cutting off American access to the space station, sending many of us into flashbacks of the Cold War days. Who didn't see this coming?
Russia is to deny the US future use of the International Space Station beyond 2020 and will also bar its rocket engines from launching US military satellites as it hits back at American sanctions imposed over Ukraine crisis.
Russia's deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin announced a series of punitive measures on Tuesday against the US in response to sanctions imposed after Russia annexed Crimea.
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UPDATE: More on what Rogozin said:
"American astronauts depend on Russian rockets to get to the ISS, but after the U.S. imposed sanctions – which deny export licenses for high-tech items that could aid Russia's military -- Rogozin offered up a different idea.
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Automatic Stability Control,
with 2 modes for "rain" and "road" which apparently 'enhance range of use while boosting safety on slippery surfaces', but you can avail yourself of 3 additional modes (by paying for the fuckers) through the optional "Ride Modes Pro Feature". If that is not enough, you can also shell out for the Dynamic ESA feature, which is
electronic suspension adjustment
for fuck's sake. And that's not all...the "E-gas Ride-by-Wire" system utilises a twist grip sensor to send signals direct to the engine management system so it can adjust the opening angle of the throttle valve(s). That's a lot of gizmo-shit you won't be able to repair after you've dropped the thing a hundred times on your round the world adventure-equivalent experience type scenario. What happens if you comes across a landscape-event that you haven't bought the right mode plug-in for? What happens if you're on the "Road" and it starts to "Rain" and you find that your boosted safety on slippery surfaces is compromised?
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Will it let me 'share' the current configuration of my bike via social media?
Get with the program, Righty. Share? That's so 2013. This just in from Berlin:
The app will include hardware, namely a 50 penny nail embedded in your skull, which will act as a dual transmiter/receiver, communicating with the app on your new BMW motorcycle. (Transmitter/receiver installer available for 90 Euros/120 dollars).
If the app senses that the rider is not riding the ideal line, at the ideal speed and lean angle, adjustments will be made to optimize rider pleasure and ride efficiency. It's all self-correcting in real time, but so far tests have shown the self-correcting function is not necessary, as there have been no corrections to make thanks to the flawless design.
Eventually, the app will be upgraded, so by 2021, all rider input will be unnecessary, freeing the motorcycle operator from the complex task of piloting a motorcycle, thus allowing them to enjoy the ride to its fullest.
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I just noticed this happening yesterday while using my Artisan Stand Mixer to help me knead some dough and I was hoping that someone on SE might be able to help me fix the issue.
This doesn't occur when the batter / dough is very loose or if it's on a very low speed, but starting at the medium setting or with any bread-style dough, my mixer head now starts to wobble every so slightly, and it's not encouraging. I thought that there might be a loose screw somewhere, but for the life of me, I can't find one on it that would affect that part (where the head meets the actual stand part).
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By Todd Ackerman | September 19, 2013
Photo By ROBYN BECK/StaffA nurse loads a syringe with a vaccine against hepatitis at a free immunization clinic for students before the start of the school year, in Lynwood, California August, 27, 2013. Nurses are immunizing children in preparation for the first day of public school on September 3. The clinic offers the mandatory vaccinations for school children against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, hepatitis B, MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) and chickenpox as well as some optional ones. AFP PHOTO / Robyn BeckROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images
Photo By ROBYN BECK/StaffIt's crucial for school-age children to get regular vaccinations, including one for pertussis. A pertussis outbreak is underway in Texas.
Photo By Rich Pedroncelli/STFFILE - This Monday, Sept. 19, 2011 file photo shows an empty bottle of Tetanus, Diphthera and Pertussis, (whooping cough) vaccine at Inderkum High School in Sacramento, Calif. Health officials say the U.S. is on track to have the worst year for whooping cough in more than five decades. Nearly 18,000 cases have been reported so far - more than twice the number seen at this point last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday, July 19, 2012. At this pace, the number of whooping cough cases will surpass every year since 1959. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
The pertussis outbreak, on pace to be the worst in Texas in 50 years, is picking up in Houston in recent months.
The Houston department of health is reporting that through August there have been 141 cases of the disease better known as whooping cough, more than three times the expected number for this time of year.
"We're in the midst of our worst outbreak in decades," said Kathy Barton, spokeswoman for the Houston health department. "It is alarming to see so many cases, so many involving infants who don't yet have the full immunity they get after their third immunization at 6 months."
Children younger than 1 year old constitute 64 of the Houston cases, or 45 percent, according to department statistics, and those between ages 1 and 19, another 58. There were 61 cases reported in Houston in July and August, compared to 80 for the year's first six months. By far, the greatest number are occurring in Houston's southwest region.
Whooping cough, named after the "whoop" sound children make when they try to breathe during a severe coughing spell, is a highly contagious bacterial disease that can cause serious illness and can even result in death. Spread by coughing or sneezing, it's particularly hard on youngsters' developing lungs. It is the nation's only common vaccine-preventable disease on the rise.
Whooping cough starts with such symptoms as a runny or stuffed-up nose, sneezing, mild cough and a pause in breathing. After one to two weeks, more severe coughing starts, often very hard and over and over. Babies and young children may turn blue from lack of oxygen while coughing and vomit after coughing fits.
Coughing fits can last for 10 weeks and sometimes recur with the next respiratory illness. The coughing can make it hard to breathe, eat, drink or sleep.
Babies may not cough or make the whooping sound.
Dr. Carol Baker, a Texas Children's Hospital's infectious disease specialist, said the current vaccine is purer and doesn't last as long as the previous one and called for those adolescents who received it a decade ago to get vaccinated again, much as most adults should. Adolescents and adults, less than 10 percent of whom have received the shot since they were children, are the biggest spreaders of the disease, often because they're unaware they have the infection.
Houston isn't the worst pertussis-outbreak location in Texas. Tarrant County has reported a whopping 442 cases.
All told, Texas now has had 2,160 cases. If the numbers continue at the current pace - there is no pertussis season - the state should have its most cases since 1959. The state this month issued a public health warning over the outbreak.


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|Fresh asparagus spears
|50 , trimmed to 3 inches , reserve the stalks for soup
|Sweet butter
|1 Cup (16 tbs), softened
|Grated lemon zest
|1 Tablespoon (Of 1 Lemon)
|Fresh lemon juice
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|Thin prosciutto slices
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In a large saucepan of boiling salted water, blanch the asparagus briefly and drain.
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Commercial Bread Ovens
Hi Folks,
I'm semi-new to the forum. Looking for info on commercial scale brick bread ovens. Any thoughts on designs would be great. Windage's oven in Kentucky looks pretty amazing. I'd like to see more photos of that project.
We stopped in at FornoBravo in Marina, CA and talked with Amir, who is a real nice guy and even baked a loaf of bread for us! Their ovens are a little small and I gather that those style ovens don't really have the insulation necessary for commercial scale bread baking.
We then stopped in at the Wildflour bakery in Freestone, CA and were VERY impressed with their Ovencrafter design oven and their whole operation. Even though they were cranking full tilt, Jed instantly invited us back to the oven to have a look and talk with David who was working the oven. They bake amazing sticky buns that are as big as pizzas!
We then contacted Ovencrafters and Lila has already been very, very helpful.
Has anyone here built one of their ovens? That 6' x 8' oven at Wildflour was a beauty.
All the research is to establish a women's co-op bakery for the less than privileged women in our small town in Mexico AND to get some good bread locally. Rather than moaning about how poor our local friends were and how there wasn't any good bread in town, a few of us decided it might be time to do something about both issues.
I'm hoping that this forum can provide a lot of the answers we'll obviously need in building and establishing a commercial bakery operation based on a big brick oven.
Thanks for any and all input!
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It looks to me that most modern ovens are deck ovens. Some of these have turn table decks, some have steam. For breads, I'd think steam would be important and if I were going to use wood as the heating source, I'd want to include some sort of ash slot designed so as not to promote heat loss.
Here are a few quick questions.
How primative is this location?
What heating sources are available? Propane, natural gas, electricity, wood?
How many people are in the village? In the surrounding area?
Here is a link to another forum group that you may also find helpfull.
These folks are all about bread, but not specifically wood fired ovens.
Keep us looped in please!
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You might want to check out Alan Scott's book, the Bread Builders. I think ovencrafters is/was his company (he passed away last year I think). The Pompeii ovens we mention here are perfectly capable of baking bread, but the Alan Scott design has a lot more mass in it which is better for a commercial baking operation. You can also contact one of our members, CannuckJim at :: Mary G's Artisan Breads :: Traditional wood-fired brick-oven breads made to uncompromising gourmet standards, he has an Alan Scott oven and offers bread baking classes as well. Also these Alan Scott ovens are also referred to as Barrel vault ovens.
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Isn't Wildflour bakery a great place. Giusto's flour, a huge bread oven, and great bread.
I can add a couple of comments on commercial bread ovens.
I think Wildflour is a great example of the type of business where the Bread Builders oven is appropriate. It's a commercial bakery, where the oven is fired every (most?) days and they are baking large volumes of bread every (almost every?) day in mlutiple batches from a single, large firing. They clean out the ovens, let the temperature regulate and then they are off and baking large quantities of bread.
Commercial bread ovens require a lot of thermal mass, unlike a residential or commercial pizza oven, in order to hold bread baking temperatures (400F'ish) for hours from a single large firing. The Bread Builders oven dome is about 9" thick, which is what you want for that type of baking.
You also need serious insulation (about the same as a pizza oven). It's the mass that is thicker.
You might want to contact the Wildflour folks and ask a few more questions about their oven construction. I know there were some issues a few years ago, and the oven was substantially re-built. It would be very helpful for you to understand what happened, so you can avoid any potential problems in the future.
If I was going to be starting a commercial wood fired bakery, I would take a very serious look at the Bread Builders design.
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Hi Rob!
I have a hybrid oven in that I have a modular Italian oven on an Alan Scott base. I did that to get extra mass. My time on this forum leads me to think there is one key modification to the Scott base design that would be particularly valuable. The Scott ovens put the hearth slab on top of the hearth insulation (to give more heated mass). The Scott instructions are pretty good but I think the hearth slab should have an insulation break so the heat can't leak out the sides of the hearth slab.
And I support James and Drake, for a commercial bakery it is hard to go wrong with a Scott oven though I think hanging around here will (properly) lead you to more insulation than Scott used. A pizza oven is fine for one or two batches and can with extra mass do three, but...a Scott is made to bake all day, every day.
Good luck!
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Thanks everyone for the quick input. I knew this would happen. You folks are an amazing resource.
I'll answer your posts in order.
Chris, Alamos is a town of 9000, 500 miles south of Tucson in the Sierra Madre foothills.
It is one of Mexico's "Magic Cities" and an incredible colonial jewel. It's advantage/disadvantage is that it is kind of in the middle on nowhere and until very recently at the end of a dead end road. Now it is possible to drive through on the way to the Copper Canyon, which is much larger than the US Grand Canyon and has a railroad that took 100 years to build.
So there aren't a lot of tourists, but there is a significant x-pat resident population that has been very involved with the town for a very long time.
Amigos de Educacion has been helping educate the local kids through college for decades and it is that organization that is now contemplating switching from fund raising to enterprise building to accomplish that goal.
We've tossed around all sorts of enterprises, but a bakery that could supply Alamos and nearby Navajoa with artisan breads is certainly the most viable.
We already have our choice of sites, donated by Amigos members. One downtown and the other (my preference) slightly out of town on the site of an ancient tequila factory with large solid building in place and lots of acreage for commercial activity.
The Amigos organization is made up of very accomplished and resource laden folks who are very serious about the mission. A business model will need to be formulated and passed by the board, etc. The bakery is my big idea, so I'm going to need all the fact finding help I can get. hint, hint. :)
I've lurked this board for quite a while, waiting for the right time. When we saw the Wildflour bakery, the project made sense to pursue, and Jed at Wildflour has already volunteered to be a valuable resource.
Back to your post Chris:
We have propane, electricity, and a wide variety of woods available from mesquite to fruitwoods to species you may not be familiar with. The prefect wood would be easy to come up with.
The Fresh Loaf forum is amazing. There are great cooks in Amigos and I'm going to ask a couple of them to represent us there.
As our project goes forward we will certainly extend offers for on site help, which will mean putting our visiting experts up in the lap of luxury in either wonderful haciendas or the fine hotels owned by Amigos members. I'm guessing we can lure the experts we might need for this benevolent project to spend some time in our sunny little jewel of a town. I'm counting in it!
Drake, I'm waiting by my mailbox for the plans for a 4 x 6 Ovencrafter oven.
We settled in that size rather than the larger oven at Wildflour, thinking that it would put out a lot of bread, could also be used for pizzas for an evening option, and if we are fortunate enough to need more production, we could always build another one. Lila talked with me about the efficiency benefits of keeping the oven cranking and that seemed like a good size to start with.
I checked out Mary G's and not only is it a good resource, but I'm thinking the CannuckJim might be a likely suspect to lure out of the frozen tundra of Ontario for a little on site assistance. Thanks for that link.
James, you bet, Wildflour is a very cool operation. Jed mentioned the oven failure to me, referring to brick quality as the culprit. He nearly pleaded with me to make sure we contacted him about materials etc as we moved forward, not that it'll take any pleading.
One of the great aspects of the Amigos is that they are spread out around the US and the world, coming together every year in Alamos. Two members live in the Bodega Bay area in the summer months, one of which is an architect who is very keen on the project and visits Wildflour on a regular basis, so Jed and the folks at Wildflour will likely be more help then they ever expected.
Meanwhile, the brick quality thing brings up an important issue; materials quality, and specifically sourcing it in Mexico. We can certainly haul what we need across the border through Nogales, but it's not like Mexico is unfamiliar with masonry, and there are already thoughts that this may just be the first of a chain of co-op bakeries in Mexico, so finding the materials we need in country would help.
So any input on materials quality and sources will be very helpful.
Jay, I hear ya about insulation and will certainly take modifications like the one you suggested into account as we start the build. I've never read a recipe, set of plans, or an instruction manual that I didn't tweak just a bit, so I don't doubt there will be some customizing and it's great to have experienced builders here to bounce things off of.
Thanks for all this input already. I kind of figured this would happen. This forum is an incredible resource.
My next step is to come up with all the build out costs and projections to show to the board, plus a reasonable timeframe to completion. With curing times etc, the Mary G project seemed to take about 8 months start to finish. Personally, I can't think of anything better to do than spend the next year building and organizing this enterprise for the wonderful women of Alamos so they will be guaranteed a way to pay for their children's education with their own efforts. Mexico doesn't fund education past the 7th grade, which is partly why it is so tough to move from the lower rung into the middle class. This project will provide them with that opportunity in perpetuity.
Thanks for all your help.
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Good luck Rob!
You don't have to worry about tweaking oven plans. There are always decisions/compromises to be made and every oven is different.
I have not been to Alamosa but have been over much of Mexico. Have an aunt and uncle in Green Valley AZ who go to Alamosa periodically.
Keep us informed. And again, Good Luck!
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Hi Jay, Great to hear that you have a connection to Alamos (no "a" a the end).
I have no doubt that your aunt and uncle know some of the Amigos. It's a pretty tight community. You'll have to come down for a visit. :)
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Oops on the spelling. I have heard it is a nice place. Will work on that!
Again, good luck!
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I'm very intrigued, it sounds like a tremendous project and in the end a huge asset for the community and surrounding area. The setting sounds spectacular! I'm hoping that at some point my family and I can visit your town.
It sounds like firewood won't be an issue, your resource bakeries can tell you what you can expect to need.
Although it's early, anybody up for a road trip?
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