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|6 days 8 hours ago
|We gotta get out bag-men on
We gotta get out bag-men on point and ready to lock some of these big timers down.
|6 days 8 hours ago
|I've not seen this before and
I've not seen this before and it's frucking hilarious.
|1 week 5 hours ago
|Lots of hard work and
Lots of hard work and praaaaaacctttiiice. Lots of failure ahead as well. Yet if he's truly good, and let's not forget WANTS to do it and is enjoying it, he'll overcome and be better for it. One doesn't have to be a truly amazing opera singer these days either to become a prominent vocalist; yet if true aspirations and the right moxy the sky's the limit. Some true talent helps things as well, obviously! But we don't know that yet as no videos are shown!
|1 week 16 hours ago
|I don't write
I don't write checks...straight cash homie(s).
|1 week 3 days ago
|I, like some others, don't
I, like some others, don't think a reduction to two games is enough for Brady. Goodell needs to reduce this to a slap on the wrist fine or I think and hope Brady goes after this fucking moron with the rage and passion of a thousand screaming Brazillian women.
|1 week 3 days ago
|That thing is creepy looking.
That thing is creepy looking.
|1 week 4 days ago
|The Wells report suggests
The Wells report suggests that Tom Brady...well you know. I don't disagree necessarily but there isn't any proof. Suggestions and hypothesis aren't proof.
|2 weeks 19 hours ago
|You are a fucking moron,
You are a fucking moron, aren't ya?!
|2 weeks 1 day ago
|lulz at Gucci stopping the
lulz at Gucci stopping the fun at 3am to go to bed...
Sippin' on purple stuff rollin' up stanky...and stuff like that
|2 weeks 1 day ago
|Good God, man.
Good God, man.
|2 weeks 1 day ago
|I'm wowing, but maybe for
I'm wowing, but maybe for different reasons. Good Lord man.
|2 weeks 3 days ago
|There really are some, and I
There really are some, and I know this word is overused but it just works here, DOUCHEY-looking people sitting courtside.
|3 weeks 1 day ago
|Lotta you lot around here are
Lotta you lot around here are pretty badass, ya know it?! Talkin' bout "clearances" and shit.
|3 weeks 1 day ago
|Wow. Not that I know what
Wow. Not that I know what half of this shit means...that is pretty odd and a bit too coincidental. Fishy smells.
|3 weeks 1 day ago
|Ah, no. The series in
Ah, no. The series in general (post made before tipoff,I think anyway).
|3 weeks 1 day ago
|Warriors better figure it out
Warriors better figure it out or it's a wrap.
|3 weeks 6 days ago
|Yea c'mon, no one is
Yea c'mon, no one is belittling anyone (other than the one joker up top).
|4 weeks 4 hours ago
|Are you fucking stupid or
Are you fucking stupid or just plain dumb? Don't question Quattro's military history knowledge. Everything stated here is pretty much fact. We as Americans like to pretend we made a HUGE difference in that war but it was nothing compared to how huge the Soviets impact was. They won the war; in a very sad way, but Hitler was doomed once he engaged the way he did with Stalin and Mother Russia and all her terror.
All that stated, a HUUUUUGE appreciation for those that served and those that were in and around D-Day.
|4 weeks 4 hours ago
|I'm with you on this. Go
I'm with you on this. But also go 'Merica and seriously, much appreciation toward those involved with D-Day. I can't imagine having to storm one of those beaches 71 years ago; my stomach sinks and I lose train of thought whenever my brain begins pondering days of war, such as the mindset of a 19 year old jumping off a boat to "certain" death.
|4 weeks 2 days ago
|4 weeks 3 days ago
|Ah,pretty good track record
Ah,pretty good track record then! (/s aside, I didn't see last night's game, so)
|4 weeks 3 days ago
|Big strikeout! Alos, how
Big strikeout! Alos, how long has Curt Schilling been doing softball games?!
|4 weeks 5 days ago
|Down here in IA I'm/we're
Down here in IA I'm/we're hoping the Hawkeyes can sneak in as well!
|4 weeks 5 days ago
|Jacked! Tie game.
Jacked! Tie game.
|4 weeks 6 days ago
|What does homophobia have to
What does homophobia have to do with thinking it's sort of weird to oogle over 19 and 20 year old boys/men.
|4 weeks 6 days ago
|5 weeks 15 hours ago
|Really, Colorado?! It's a
Really, Colorado?! It's a fucking C. That state is magnificent and you choose that as your flag...reediculous. Also, Arkansas, thanks for contributing.
The answer is Iowa...'Merica.
|5 weeks 1 day ago
|I'm not going to try and
I'm not going to try and change your mind, but the "old timers" could hang just fine if not better the new-era players.
"Under the current rules" doesn't make sense. The game was much more physical in past decades so with older generations playing in a free-er and less physical game how would that be a detriment to them?
I agree to an extent the athleticism is at a higher level, overall but taking the best of the best cancels that out. The best players in the 70s, 80s, 90s were plenty and just as athletic as guys these days. There may be more "freaks" now, Lebron, Dwight Howard, but that doesn't make some of them better (I'll take plenty of older guys over Howard, even though he may be a bit more athletic).
I think you're forgetting how good the players of yesteryear really were. I think you're forgetting quite a few actual players as well (I'm not up for making lists now, there were many a great players that compare to today's). E.g I think Russell Westbrook is a helluva player but let's switch notions and put him playing back 25 years ago. I think I'll take a few other guards over that time period than him, due to the era alone. That's not a strong argument but an example of my mindset (as silly as it may come across...I know that dude can ball).
Again, respect the opinion, just completely disagree.
|5 weeks 1 day ago
|The bears...they smell the
The bears...they smell the menstruation tree.
|5 weeks 1 day ago
|The joke being that no person
The joke being that no person in their right mind would ever say "I'm not leaving AMES, IOWA!".


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MBA Fresher's Day 2014
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MBA Teachers Day 2014
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Federal BANK - Interview'14
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City do United a favour
Man City did Man Utd a favour in the Premier League title race as they earned a 2-1 win over Chelsea.
Last Updated: 06/12/09 9:05am
Manchester City did local rivals Manchester United a huge favour in the Premier League title race as a Carlos Tevez free-kick earned a 2-1 turnaround win over Chelsea at Eastlands.
Carlo Ancelotti's Premier League leaders had gone in front in fortuitous circumstances through an Emmanuel Adebayor own goal, but the Togo international then scored at the correct end before Tevez sealed the victory in the second half.
Adebayor's eighth minute mistake broke the deadlock in an engaging encounter as City failed to properly clear a generously awarded corner and their £25million striker deflected into his own net after Shay Given had parried a Nicolas Anleka drive.
But Mark Hughes' home side had a deserved goal eight minutes before half-time as Adebayor stabbed an equaliser from close range, with Chelsea complaining about a reasonable appeal for handball against Micah Richards in the build-up.
Restoring parity shortly before the break gave City additional motivation and Tevez, formerly a United player, struck a 56th minute set-piece that proved enough to earn a first league victory in eight games.
The defeat could have been avoided had Frank Lampard not had a late penalty saved by Given, but the England international's spot-kick failure cut Chelsea's lead over defending champions United, who hammered West Ham earlier on Saturday, to two points.
However, that hardly told the story as bad tempered Chelsea went down in a hail of yellow cards - six in all - and skipper John Terry went off with a leg injury in the latter stages.
The two first-half goals were certainly not in keeping with a pulsating opening in which City more than matched their opponents without ever looking completely secure at the back.
Hughes' troops had already been given one warning when Given turned away Didier Drogba's angled drive.
Yet, when he looks at the replay, Hughes will probably conclude the main factor in Chelsea's opener was complete bad luck.
Drogba and Branislav Ivanovic could both have been more closely marked at the start of the scramble but the Blues survived that lapse when Given made his first save.
The ball bounced back to Anelka but Given got behind his shot too. However, the Republic of Ireland star could not legislate for the ball shooting upwards, striking Adebayor on the back and bobbling in.
As Chelsea should not have been awarded the corner which started the whole melee off in the first place, City could have been forgiven for believing it was not to be their day.
Far from it. They poured forward and if their delivery from set-pieces had been less persistent in picking out Petr Cech, the equaliser might have come long before it did.
Cech's only mistake had been to come for a Shaun Wright-Phillips' cross and get nowhere near as Richards rose. Ricardo Carvalho read the situation perfectly though and made a splendidly acrobatic clearance.
City kept up their offensive and when Wright-Phillips drove another shot into the Chelsea box it ultimately brought their equaliser.
Terry, who was linked so heavily with a move to Eastlands last summer, was still complaining to referee Howard Webb at half-time that Richards handled Wright-Phillips' shot.
It was difficult to see what the England Under 21 full-back could have done to get out of the way though.
The ball deflected into Adebayor's path and did so again when it bounced back off the England skipper. At the second time of asking Adebayor did not fail to make up for his earlier misfortune.
If Drogba's free-kick in the final minute of the half had been one inch inside Given's left-hand post rather than just outside it, City might have had problems responding.
Bad temper
As it was, they were the ones with the impetus when the sides returned and got their noses in front.
In keeping with the others, there was an element of controversy about the goal.
Ricardo Carvalho did have a point when he claimed he had been looking at the ball as he went for an aerial challenge with Tevez, but he also kept a leg in the air long enough to plant it into the Argentinean's back.
Tevez added insult to the resulting yellow card though, curling a crisp free-kick into the bottom corner, with Terry berating Cech for allowing the ball to pass on his side.
The loss of Richards and Wayne Bridge to injury hardly assisted City in their efforts to cling on for a win, but Juliano Belletti's studs-first challenge that led to Bridge being carried off could easily have left Chelsea with 10 men.
That bad-tempered tackle led to a few more. At one point Ashley Cole and Deco were booked for offences in the same passage of play.
Prior to that though, Given had emerged the hero when he turned away an admittedly poor Lampard penalty after Onuoha had upended Drogba.There was still time for Terry to limp off and Drogba to waste a glorious chance to level at the death although City, and Given, deserved their success.
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Zen Mind, Zen Horse: The Science and Spirituality of Working with Horsesby Allan J Hamilton
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Mindful work with horses, says neurosurgeon Allan J. Hamilton, can enlighten the human handler as much as it benefits the horse. Evolving over 30 million years to become the quintessential prey animal, equines have developed acute right-brain survival skills, such as leadership, awareness, empathy, and cooperation. In particular the horse has finely honed abilities to lead, communicate, and connect not with words, but with the vital emotional energy described in the Buddhist tradition as chi. When we learn the language of chi, we become more effective as leaders, more attuned to others, and more joyful as human beings.
Zen Mind, Zen Horse begins by examining how the equine and human brains function, often related to their respective roles as prey and predator. Going on to draw insights and wisdom from spiritual traditions such as Zen Buddhism, Ayurvedic healing, and Yaqui shamanism and from the great horse cultures of the Mongolians, Bedouins, and Native Americans, Dr. Hamilton shows the importance of developing right-brain awareness and quieting the left-brain dominance of our Western brains.
Seamlessly integrating spiritual principles and practical applications, Dr. Hamilton shows how to apply the chi-based approach to every aspect of horse-human communication, including:
• The act of grooming as a spiritual practice
• Techniques of alpha-horse leadership that make others gladly follow
• Gaze, stance, and gesture as training tools
• The irresistible power of infinite patience
Ultimately, the author shows the depth of insight humans gain into themselves, as well as horses, after working with these amazing animals.
Horse training presents unique opportunities to explore powerful spiritual truths. The exercises in Zen Mind, Zen Horse offer everyone who works with horses — novice or expert — a new understanding of how humans train and interact with horses and why these two species, one a master predator and the other the ultimate prey animal, have such a deep, natural connection.
Horses have evolved to understand and respond to the flow of vital energy — chi -- around them, using it in their body language to communicate with members of their herd, to express dominance, and to sense danger from nearby predators. Being quietly present and receptive to your horse's energy opens the potential of your emotional, intuitive right brain. These simple, safe groundwork techniques reveal a pathway to awakening your deep sensitivity, calm leadership, intuition, and mindfulness.
About the Author
Allan Hamilton is a Harvard-trained brain surgeon and a renowned horse trainer who has given clinics throughout the United States and Europe. His work with horses has been featured in Arizona Highways Television Magazine, Western Horseman, Haute Ecole, Horse and Rider, and Equus. Dr. Hamilton holds a Professorship in neurosurgery as well as Clinical Professorships in radiation oncology, psychology, and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Arizona. He is the author of The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural, and the Human Power of Hope, which received the Silver Nautilus Award in 2009 for nonfiction works in spirituality. Dr. Hamilton serves as the medical script consultant for the television series Grey"s Anatomy and also consults for Private Practice. He raises Lipizzan horses and pasture-fed Angus cattle on a small ranch on the outskirts of Tucson, Arizona.
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Days of Thunder
The Two Sides of Me
Chi & Equus
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Searching for Chi
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The Magic Dog
Prey, Predator & the Rules of Learning
Leading the Way
Now & the Ocean Liner
Tiny Bubbles of Chi
Picking Up the Pace
Minding Your Manners
Sending Out & Backing Up
Tending to Horses
Sidepassing & Jumping
Come to Me
From Sack to Saddle
A Leg Up
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2 years ago#51
I loved DMC3 Dante.
In DMC3 he was pretty much what Kamiya envisioned: he faces his challenges with a joke, but deep down has his conflicts. He doesn't care about the world at first, he doesn't even care too much about his family. His jokes were taunts, showings of how much he despised the demons he fought. Hell, after beating Cerberus you get the ultimate showing of this:
"Who knows, I'm not even sure myself"
A simple line, but with a competent VA that knew how to deliver his lines, mocking Cerberus. Yeah, I am 6 feet tall and I just kicked your damn ass, what gave away that I'm not mere human?
Then, the Lady arc taught Dante that his family isn't the only one with issues, and that he CAN care for his family, even if they aren't the best example of love out there. He learns and matures. Bonus points for not screaming LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT. But yeah, at times it doesn't work so well, and Dante comes out as dumb >.>
DmC Dante tries to hard, the focus on how much he hates demons, his rage, blablabla, makes him boring instead of deep.
DMC3 Dante wasn't perfect, but he was damn well better and deeper than most people give him credit.
Can I haz cheezburger?
2 years ago#52
My preference:
1. Devil May Cry 1 Dante.
Nelo Angelo (Devil May Cry)
2. Devil May Cry 4 Dante
Vergil (Devil May Cry 3.)
3. Devil May Cry 3 Dante
Nero. :\ (Devil May Cry 4)
4. Devil May Cry 2 Dante
Lucia (Devil May Cry 2)
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2 years ago#53
DMC 4 Dante is underrated. He was more sarcastic but less OTT than DMC 3 Dante.
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2 years ago#54
darkdragon_9600 posted...
I loved DMC3 Dante.
You do know that's incorrect, right?
Kamiya didn't like what they did to Dante.
Official Toxin of the MvC 3 boards.
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2 years ago#55
DiZ_the_Enigma posted...
darkdragon_9600 posted...I loved DMC3 Dante.
The fans liked what they did to Dante.. I mean DMC3-4 Dante.
This parteyh is gettin curazzeyh!!
2 years ago#56
darkdragon_9600 posted...
I loved DMC3 Dante.
This! then DMC1 Dante right after it.
2 years ago#57
Dante from Dmc1 rules all. He's the perfect combination between the coolness from dmc4 and the rebellious attitude from dmc3.
On the other hand, this abomination piece of **** deserved the #1 spot as the most hated character in dmc series:
Sieg Zeon
2 years ago#58
DiZ_the_Enigma posted...
darkdragon_9600 posted...I loved DMC3 Dante.
If Kamiya liked or not, that's his problem. The thing is: Kamiya wanted Dante to be someone who had inner conflicts, hated demons but covered it with jokes. That is exactly what Dante does in DMC3, learn about family values and taunt enemies in oblivion. DMC3 Dante is arguably closer to what Kamiya envisioned than what he wrote.
Can I haz cheezburger?
2 years ago#59
Sometime before this game is released...I'm gonna upload a video of me singing "Only You" to a DMC3 Dante poster.
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2 years ago#60
darkdragon_9600 posted...
DiZ_the_Enigma posted...darkdragon_9600 posted...I loved DMC3 Dante.
Lolwat, no it isn't. Last I checked, teh guy kamina wrote is closer to, IDK, the guy he ****ing wrote...
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Joined here by clarinetist Pascal Moragu�s, the Praz�k Quartet performs three chamber masterpieces for the clarinet. The first two works, composed by Mozart and dedicated...continue...
Leos Janácek: Amarus; The Cunning Little Vixen Orchestral suite; 'From the House of the Dead' Overture & Orchestral suite / Czech PO, Jilek & Neumann
1 CD / Praga / 2015-06-09Conductors: Jilek, Franticek; Neumann, Valclav
Ensemble: Czeck Philharmonic Orchestra
This recording offers listeners over an hour of music by Leos Janácek. From the cantata Amarus to orchestral music from The Cunning Little Vixen and...continue...
Johannes Brahms: String Sextets Opp. 18 & 36 / Prazak Quartet, Petr Holman, Vladimir Fortin
1 CD / Praga / 2014-01-14Works: Johannes Brahms: Sextet for Strings no 1 in B flat major, Op. 18; Sextet for Strings no 2 in G major, Op. 36
Performers: Fortín, Vladimír; Holman, Petr
Ensemble: Prazak Quartet
Inspired by Mendelssohn's chamber works, Johannes Brahms went on to define the sextet form. His two glorious String Sextets possess a rare sweetness, the full...continue...
Recording information: Prague, Domovina Studio (06/12/2013-06/14/2013)....continue...
Shostakovich: Song of the Forests, Op. 81; Ten Poems, Op. 88; The Sun Shines Over the Motherland, Op. 90 / Vladimir Ivanovsky, tenor; Ivan Petrov, bass
1 CD / Praga / 2012-08-14Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: The Song of the Forests, oratorio, for tenor, bass, childrens chorus, chorus & orchestra, Op. 81; The Sun Shines on Our Motherland, cantata, for child chorus, chorus & orchestra,...
Performers: Ivanovsky, Vladimir; Petrov, Ivan
Conductors: Ulanov, Yevgeny; Ivancev, Konstantin; Sandler, Grigory
Ensemble: Leningrad Radio and TV Chorus; Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra; USSR Symphony Orchestra
The latest in Praga's series of historic remasterings is a tribute to three outstanding Russian artists - conductor Yevgeny Mravinsky, choirmaster Alexander Yurlov and the...continue...
Russian Season / Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Glazunov, etc.
1 CD / Praga / 2012-03-13Works: Alexander Borodin: Quartet for Strings no 2 in D; Petite Suite for Piano; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4, Op. 36; Quartet for Strings no 3, Op. 30; Sergey Prokofiev: Classical Symphony, Op....
Performers: EB, Christoph [Horn]; Hrsel, Martin; Janackova, Marketa; Kanka, Michal; Klepac, Jaromir [Piano]; Kondratenko, Irina; Prague Piano Duo
Conductors: Mravinsky, Yevgeny;
Ensemble: ; Czech Nonet; Kinsky Trio Prague; Prazák Quartet (String Quartet)
This fascinating and musically rewarding collection from Praga samples the many recordings of Russian music from the label's extensive back catalog. It offers the listener...continue...
Borodin: Quartet No. 2; Cello Sonata; Piano Quintet in C minor / Prazak Quartet
1 CD / Praga / 2011-07-12Works: Alexander Borodin: Quartet for Strings no 2 in D major; Sonata for cello & piano in B minor; Piano Quintet in C minor
Performers: Kanka, Michal; Klepac, Jaromir [Piano]
Ensemble: Prazak Quartet
SACD Hybrid/ Stereo & Multi-channel/ DSD
An amateur cellist, the composer of Prince Igor was the only one of the Group of Five to have...continue...
Recording information: Domovina Studio, Prague (03/1999/01/2000)....continue...
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2; Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
1 CD / Praga / 2011-02-08Works: Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Piano no 2 in B flat major, Op. 83; Sergey Prokofiev: Concerto for Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 16
Performers: Zak, Yakov
Conductors: Sanderling, Kurt
Yakov Zak was one of the greatest names in Soviet piano performing and teaching but remained little known abroad. A student of Heinrich Neuhaus, his...continue...
Joseph Haydn: String Quartets Op. 54
1 CD / Praga / 2010-12-14Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Quartet for Strings no 43 in G major, Op. 54/1, H. 3/58; Quartet for Strings no 42 in C major, Op. 54/2, H. 3/57; Quartet for Strings in E major, Op. 54 no 3/H 3 no 59
Haydn's opus 54 quartets fit the archetype of the Classical quartet, but expand the emotional and harmonic language in fascinating ways. The usual wit, humor...continue...
Recording information: Prague, Domovina Studio (05/17/2010-05/19/2010)....continue...
Kalabis: String Quartets Nos. 1-7
2 CD / Praga / 2010-07-13Works: Viktor Kalabis: Quartet for Strings no 1, Op. 6; Quartet for Strings no 2, Op. 19; Quartet for Strings no 3, Op. 48; Quartet for Strings no 4 ("Tribute to J.S. Bach"), Op. 62; Quartet for Strings no ...
Smetana, Sibelius: String Quartets / Kocian Quartet, et al
1 CD / Praga / 2009-10-13Works: Bedrich Smetana: Quartet for Strings no 1 in E minor ("Z mého, zivota," "From My Life"), JB 1; Jean Sibelius: Quartet for Strings in D minor ("Voces Intimae"), Op. 56; Andante Festivo, for strin...
Dvorák: Complete Piano Trios / Guarneri Trio Prague
2 CD / Praga / 2009-07-14Works: Antonin Dvorák: Trio for Piano and Strings no 3 in F minor, Op. 65/B 130; Trio for Piano and Strings no 1 in B flat major, Op. 21/B 51; Trio for Piano and Strings no 2 in G minor, Op. 26/B 56; T...
Ensemble: Guarneri Trio (Prague)
Just fifteen years separate Dvorak's piano trios and all four were written before his fiftieth birthday. The early trios reflect his rediscovery of Czech folk...continue...
Mendelssohn: String Quartet Op. 12; String Quintet Op. 18
1 CD / Praga / 2009-06-09Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Quartet for Strings no 1 in E flat major, Op. 12; Quintet for Strings no 1 in A major, Op. 18
Performers: Kluson, Josef
In these works, glittering echoes of 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' are deftly blended with avant-garde declamations reminiscent of the recently-deceased Beethoven. The works featured here...continue...
Martinu: Piano Quintets H 229 & 298 / Ivan Klansky, Kocian Quartet
1 CD / Praga / 2009-04-14Works: Bohuslav Martinu: Piano Quintet no 2, H. 298; Piano Quintet no 1, H. 229; Piano Quartet, H. 287
Performers: Klansky, Ivan
Chamber music, from duos to ensembles of up to nine instruments, occupies a significant place in the vast output of Bohuslav Martinu. There are few...continue...
Schubert: String Quartet no 15, etc / Prazák String Quartet, et al
1 CD / Praga / 2008-04-08Works: Franz Schubert: Quartet for Strings no 15 in G major, D 887/Op 161; String Trio in B flat major, D. 581; Trio for Strings no 1 in B flat major, D 471
"Schubert's last quartet teems with harmonic and melodic inventiveness and near-symphonic scope. The Prazàk Quartet players are exemplary Schubertians, their performance well-paced and incisive...continue...
Schoenberg: String Quartet no 4, etc / Prazák Quartet
1 CD / Praga / 2007-06-12Works: Arnold Schoenberg: Quartet for Strings no 4, Op. 37; Verklärte Nacht for String Sextet, Op. 4
Performers: Bukac, Vladimir; Prause, Petr
"At first it is hard to hold on to much of anything in the music as it slips and slithers by, but the excellent playing...continue...
Dvorák: Early Works for String Quartet / Zemlinsky Quartet
4 CD / Praga / 2007-04-10Works: Antonin Dvorák: Quartet for Strings no 5 in F minor, B. 37 (Op.9); Quartet for Strings no 1 in A major, B. 8 (Op. 2); Waltzes (2) for strings (arr. from Waltzes for piano, B. 101), B. 105; Quart...
Performers: Kluson, Josef
Since its foundation in 1994, the Zemlinsky Quartet has continued the deep Czech tradition of the string quartet. The ensemble won both the 3rd prize...continue...
Most Famous Czech String Quartets / Prazák Quartet
3 CD / Praga / 2006-01-10Works: Bedrich Smetana: Quartet for Strings no 1 in E minor ("Z mého, zivota," "From My Life"), JB 1; Z domoviny (From the Homeland), pieces (2) for violin & piano, JB 1; Quartet for Strings no 2 in D ...
Performers: Kayahara, Sachiko; Remes, Vaclav
Mozart:String Quintets K 516 & 593 / Beyerlé, Prazak Quartet
1 CD / Praga / 2005-12-13Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas and Cello no 5, K 593; Quintet for 2 Violins, 2 Violas and Cello no 4 in G minor, K 516
Performers: Beyerle, Hatto
Ensemble: Prazák Quartet (String Quartet)
Surprisingly, given their extensive discography, this is the very fist live recording every released by the world-renowned Prazak Quartet. Featuring two of Mozart's sublime string...continue...
Hindemith: String Quartets no 1-6 / Kocian Quartet
2 CD / Praga / 2004-06-01Works: Paul Hindemith: Quartet for Strings no 2 in F minor, Op. 10; Quartet for Strings no 3 in C major, Op. 16; Quartet for Strings no 7 in E flat major; Quartet for Strings no 4, Op. 22; Quartet for Strin...
Paul Hindemith left us a body of string quartets that could be regarded as a leading thread in an abundant output of chamber music extending...continue...
Schönberg: String Quartet, String Trio, etc / Prazak Quartet
1 CD / Praga / 2002-06-01Works: Gustav Mahler: Quartet for Piano and Strings in A minor; Arnold Schoenberg: Quartet for Strings in D major; String Trio, Op. 45; Fantasy for Violin and Piano, Op. 47
Performers: Holek, Vlastimil; Kanka, Michal; Kayahara, Sachiko; Kluson, Josef; Remes, Vaclav
"This recording begins with Gustav Mahler's only extant piece of chamber music, the 12-minute Piano Quartet that he wrote in 1876 while he was student...continue...
Beethoven: Three String Quartets Op 59 / Prazak Quartet
2 CD / Praga / 2000-12-01Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Quartet for Strings no 7 in F major, Op. 59 no 1 "Razumovsky"; Quartet for Strings no 8 in E minor, Op. 59 no 2 "Razumovsky"; Quartet for Strings no 9 in C major, Op. 59 no 3 "R...
Schubert - Death, the teenager and the maiden
1 CD / Praga / 2000-05-01Works: Franz Schubert: String Trio in B flat major, D. 581; Eine kleine Trauermusik, nonet for wind instruments, D. 79; Quartet for Strings no 14 in D minor, D 810 "Death and the Maiden"
Ensemble: Czech Nonet
Dvorák: String Quartet no 12, Terzetto, Bagatelles / Prazák
1 CD / Praga / 1998-06-01Works: Antonin Dvorák: Quartet for Strings no 12 in F major, Op. 96/B 179 "American"; Terzetto for 2 violins & viola in C major, B. 148 (Op. 74); Bagatelles (5) for 2 violins, cello & harmonium, B. 79 ...
Performers: Holek, Vlastimil; Kanka, Michal; Kluson, Josef; Remes, Vaclav
Beethoven: Piano Concerto no 5; Chopin / Michelangeli, etc
1 CD / Praga / 1998-06-01Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano no 5 "Emperor"; Frédéric Chopin: Sonata for Piano no 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 "Funeral March"; Ballade for Piano no 1 in G minor, B 66/Op. 23
Performers: Michelangeli, Arturo Benedetti [Piano/Conductor]
Conductors: Smetacek, Vaclav
Note: This title is rare and is considered a collector's item. It is priced according to its common market value. If the record label that...continue...
Janácek: String Quartets, Violin Sonata / Prazák Quartet
1 CD / Praga / 1997-12-01Works: Leos Janácek: Quartet for Strings no 1 "Kreutzer Sonata"; Sonata for violin & piano, JW 7/7; Quartet for Strings no 2 ("Listy duverné," "Intimate Letters"), JW 7/13
Performers: Kayahara, Sachiko; Remes, Vaclav


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Novak Djokovic took down Stan Wawrinka this weekend in a fairly incredible five-set match, and during the same match he also took down a ballkid. Check out the below video of Novak returning a serve, but the shot goes far right and nailed a ballkid in the head. The poor ballkid was in the crouch position and so focused on his job that he didn't have the proper time to react. [USA Today] Article found on: Cosby Sweaters
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The NCAA: Poster Boy for Corruption and Exploitation
The corruption extends to the college sports media industry. Over the past decade, the number of college football and basketball games broadcast on ESPN channels has skyrocketed from 491 to 1,320. ESPN now happens to be both the number-one broadcaster of college football and basketball and those sports' number-one news provider. Covering sports and shilling for the industry have become carnally intertwined. Nationally credited journalists from ESPN and other media outlets reportedly show up at the Fiesta Bowl a week in advance, where they stay at the finest resorts and receive a different expensive present every day, courtesy of the tournament's corporate sponsors. As DC sports radio host Steve Czaban said, "It sounds like sports-media Hannukah." The Fiesta Bowl was an embezzlers' paradise awash in scandal for years, with no one the wiser until Fiesta Bowl CEO John Junker pleaded guilty to fraud last year. Then there's March Madness on CBS and its neat $1-million-per-commercial rates for the Final Four. Eight hours of coverage, with all those lucrative commercial breaks, are the cure for media recession blues.
And all that's apart from the multibillion-dollar gambling industry. March Madness is now officially a busier time in Vegas than the Super Bowl. No other event unites sports fans with non–sports fans in offices and factory break rooms quite like it. Every year, overheated articles from the business press rail about declining productivity as employees fill out their brackets and lodge their bets. More than $100 billion passes through Sin City at that time—and that's chicken feed compared with the money changing hands under the table and online.
For the "student-athletes," though, there is nothing. As former LSU coach Dale Brown said, "Look at the money we make off predominantly poor black kids. We're the whoremasters." Desmond Howard, who won the 1991 Heisman Trophy while playing for the Michigan Wolverines, called the system "wicked," telling USA Today, You "see everybody getting richer and richer. And you walk around and you can't put gas in your car? You can't even fly home to see your parents?"
This is a civil rights issue, a fact that was made manifestly clear by one of the great chroniclers of the civil rights movement, Taylor Branch. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of a magisterial three-volume series on Martin Luther King Jr., Branch also has roots in the sports world, as the co-author of Bill Russell's memoir, Second Wind. In October 2011, in an article for The Atlantic, "The Shame of College Sports," Branch sparked a discussion that has been amplified by the recent scandals. "For all the outrage," he wrote, "the real scandal is not that students are getting illegally paid or recruited, it's that two of the noble principles on which the NCAA justifies its existence—'amateurism' and the 'student-athlete'—are cynical hoaxes, legalistic confections propagated by the universities so they can exploit the skills and fame of young athletes…. The NCAA makes money, and enables universities and corporations to make money, from the unpaid labor of young athletes."
Branch added that "slavery analogies should be used carefully. College athletes are not slaves. Yet to survey the scene—corporations and universities enriching themselves on the backs of uncompensated young men, whose status as 'student-athletes' deprives them of the right to due process guaranteed by the Constitution—is to catch an unmistakable whiff of the plantation."
The injustice is outrageous. It's time for a change.
The arguments against issuing a stipend or work-study to scholarship athletes wither at the slightest touch. The best that critics can come up with is that the free room and board players get should be enough, or that paying them would ruin their "spirit" and "love of the game."
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Comparisons to the Old South have come not just from those branded as "outsiders," like Branch. Walter Byers, the association's executive director from 1951 to 1987 and the man most responsible for the modern NCAA, has seen the light. After his retirement, he told the great sportswriter Steve Wulf: "The coaches own the athletes' feet, the colleges own the athletes' bodies, and the supervisors retain the large rewards. That reflects a neo-plantation mentality on the campuses." In a year when we are celebrating a film about Abraham Lincoln's struggle to pass the constitutional amendment that abolished slavery, there is still some emancipating to be done on college campuses, where young men are employees but are treated like an uneasy combination of chattel and gods
We need a massive reformation of this warped system. Here are a few suggestions:
§ So-called "student-athletes" should have workers' compensation protections.
§ Scholarships should be guaranteed for four years, so players can't be dismissed from school if they run afoul of their coaches.
§ Ceilings should be put on coaching salaries, with the money saved in revenue-producing sports used to pay stipends to athletes.
§ The NBA and NFL should fund their own minor leagues, so universities don't have that responsibility.
§ The corrupt cartel otherwise known as the NCAA should be abolished.
Any one of the above would make the current system more just, less rife with hypocrisy and more able to handle the challenges of intercollegiate sports.
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GOP hoping to consolidate power, one rule change at a time
Once righteously opposed, as one of its leaders said, to changing the rules to suit the players, the GOP is pushing a power-grabbing policy, procedural and political playbook doing just that.
Before you know it, the public will be shut out, as will the other party - - and that's the plan.
* Republicans didn't like the pesky public hearings that had to be held when a Wisconsin state agency was creating administrative rules that have the force of law - - so in the early days of the Walker administration, GOP legislators at his behest eliminated the public hearings and moved rule-making decisions to - - where else? - - Walker's office.
Daddy knows best.
* Republicans don't like the single public hearing now required by Wisconsin law prior to a DNR decision on a mining permit, so the mining law being rammed through the Legislature as we speak retains the hearing - - but moves it to a spot in the process after the DNR makes a decision. From important, to pro forma.
(All this nicely dovetails with environmental rules the GOP changed last year to more easily permit the filling of wetlands. Call that certainty.)
* Long-standing rules in Wisconsin governing a citizen's obtaining unemployment compensation don't suit Walker, so he is getting them changed. Toughened, supporters say. Whispered subtext: Moochers must be cheating.
* Like those phantom, phantom voters whom the GOP wants to discourage with new Voter ID rules.
* Republicans don't like the historical legal authority resting with the independently-elected Wisconsin Secretary of State - - a constitutional position - - permitting that office-holder to take up to ten days to publish and officially launch a bill approved by the Legislature.
Why? Because the current Secretary of State, the elected Democrat Doug La Follette, had the temerity in 2011 to take the entire ten days to publish Walker's union-busting Act 10.
The hell with that crazy, legal balance of power, that independent inspection of the dotted "i's" and crossed "t's," decided State Senator and Sworn Enemy Of Kwanzaa and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Glenn Grothman, (R-West Bend), who introduced a bill to eliminate the Secretary of State's law-publishing authority and force that office to publish bills within 24 hours of approval. Glenn knows best.
* Republicans hate that the Wisconsin Constitution designates the most senior Associate State Supreme Court Justice to be its Chief Justice because that has meant veteran liberal Justice Shirley Abrahamson has been Chief Justice for a long time.
So the GOP is moving forward with a complex legal and referendum process to change the Constitution and let the justices more frequently elect a chief - - a hi-falutin' concept that is designed to strip Chief Justice Abrahamson of her powerful leadership position on the Court and in the rest of the state judicial system.
As with their active dislike for the Secretary of State's prerogatives, Wisconsin Republicans also do not like checks, balances, and rules governing the independent third branch of the state government.
After all, special interests have invested heavily in the GOP and their expectations need to be met, and served. That's the new rule for the rule changers.
* And so, after large numbers of voting-day Democratic registrants in Wisconsin whom Paul Ryan dismissed as "urban voters" voted heavily in favor of a second term for Pres. Obama, Walker said he wanted to get rid of that apparently effective same day voter registration process - - then backed away from it.
For now.
But do not assume this proves there is a new, moderate Walker (oldsters will remember the new Nixon who ran a secret war and The Plumbers Unit, too) since it looks like the GOP is concoting even bolder ways to steal the state and others for GOP Presidential candidates:
* Walker has said he's open to reapportioning electoral college votes by Congressional district - - where the GOP has gerrymandered for itself a solid majority of seats - - so Walker is open to overturning the long-standing, winner-take-all method of Electoral College voting allocations.
Just to help Republican office holders and the special interests they serve.
"Open?" Reince Priebus, back for another term as RNC Chair after presiding over national losses as well as a convention where he made Another Chair famous, said he thinks the rule changes are intriguing.
So look out - - this is part of a fast-moving, rule-changing national power play.
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Pinarello launch brand new Sibilo time trial bike with integrated brakes, Movistar will race it at the Tour de France
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You hang around for ages waiting for one new time trial bike from Pinarello and you get two, hot on the heels of the Bolide, Pinarello have now launched the brand new Sibilo time trial bike. It will debut between the legs of Alejandro Valverde at the Spanish Time Trial Championship, and then be used by Movistar at the Tour de France.
This isn't a replacement for the Bolide - launched with much hype and hooplah at the Giro, both appear on the UCI's approved list of bicycle frames. Pinarello have confirmed to us today that Team Sky will ride the Bolide and Movistar the Sibilo. It appears that Pinarello have seemingly developed two time trial bikes for the different teams, the Bolide most likely with input from Team Sky.
The Sibilo was only given the seal of UCI approval on the 6th of June. The bike does look a substantial step forward from the Bolide and has more in common with the direction other manufacturers are taking with their time trial bikes. With the very straight lines there's just a hint of Canyon's Speedmax and Cannondale's Slice about it. There's a noticeable lack of Pinarello's distinctive curves, the pursuit of aerodynamics trumping any aesthetics concerns. There's also a much different brake integratation design.
The Sibilo uses airfoil shaped tubes designed to reduce frontal surface area and decrease drag. Up front they've kept the bike narrow, with 1 1/8in top and bottom headset. The brakes are integrated into the frame, the front smoothly concealed within the fork and the rear brake is mounted low down in the frame, on the chainstay behind the bottom bracket. This placement of the brakes is vastly different to that taken in the Bolide.
They've worked with Vision to develop a handlebar and stem that is smoothly integrated into the frame, creating a very clear and smooth line from the front of the stem to the aero seat tube. The seatclamp is hidden inside the seat tube. The downtube is curved around the front wheel as is the seat tube, while the seatstays meet the seat tube just about the rear wheel.
All cables are routed internally and they've mounted the Campagnolo EPS battery to the belly of the downtube. Odd that they haven't sought to make use of Campagnolo's newly released internal battery. The front mech mount is completely removable so a single ring can be fitted.
Campagnolo have also moved to a BB86 Press-Fit bottom bracket standard on this frame, a step away from the Italian threaded bottom bracket shells used on most of the other bikes in their range.
Pinarello claim they've optimised the construction and carbon layup of the tubes to not only improve aerodynamics, but also improve stiffness compared to the Graal. Part of how they've achieved this is by using asymmetric chainstays similar to those found on the Dogma. The frame has been made from Toray 65-ton high modulus 1k weave carbon fibre.
No word on pricing or availability yet.
Interesting the pic shows Movistar branding not Sky too!
posted by Super Domestique [1679 posts]
21st June 2013 - 14:40
Looks alot like the BMC time machine with those seat stays.
posted by 6654henry [58 posts]
21st June 2013 - 14:45
Is this what Castroviejo just won the Spanish National TT title on today if Valverde was riding one? Maybe a day too late for Dowsett but it didn't matter anyway...
posted by pschristian [5 posts]
21st June 2013 - 14:52
Is it possible that Movistar has had this developed and then asked Pinarello to brand it so they stick to their sponsor contract?
posted by Jaltham [67 posts]
21st June 2013 - 14:52
Is this what Castroviejo just won the Spanish National TT title on today if Valverde was riding one? Maybe a day too late for Dowsett but it didn't matter anyway...
Great avatar btw
posted by Super Domestique [1679 posts]
21st June 2013 - 14:54
posted by beej.a [40 posts]
21st June 2013 - 15:46
So, does this mean that Sky will still be on the Bolide?
Currently going slower than I'd like...
posted by stealth [243 posts]
21st June 2013 - 20:29
Just how many different frames do Pinarello have on the market now? There's at least 3 Dogmas, 3 TT bikes, about 8 different ones at Halfords.. Is the Prince still on sale? I make it about 15 so far.
posted by Nick T [900 posts]
21st June 2013 - 22:32
I'm sure that British Cycling helped develop the Bolide with Pinarello especially the air brake system, so it's likely you'll only ever see Team Sky using that particular model. I think this is the same bike for everyone else just without the bits they developed with BC.
posted by maboyctu [12 posts]
23rd June 2013 - 14:37
I'm sure that British Cycling helped develop the Bolide with Pinarello especially the air brake system, so it's likely you'll only ever see Team Sky using that particular model. I think this is the same bike for everyone else just without the bits they developed with BC.
yep, different bars, different brakes, and different forks.
posted by ALIHISGREAT [117 posts]
24th June 2013 - 11:05
possibly, Bolide developed for use with Shimano kit & Sibilo for Campag?
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In the last few months the United States has singled out Mehsud in its campaign, led by the CIA, to target senior Taliban and al Qaeda leaders using unmanned aerial drones. Initially, the drones generally targeted only al Qaeda commanders and some Taliban leaders who were more responsible for attacking U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan than was Mehsud.
But the United States put a $5 million bounty on his head. And of the last 10 drone strikes in Pakistan's tribal areas, nine targeted Mehsud or his network in the South Waziristan tribal agency. Wednesday's attack was at least the 29th this year, according to an ABC News tally.
His death is one of the most significant terrorists to be killed by the United States in years. Obama's head of counterterrorism, John Brennan, said the President has made the pursuit of terrorists a priority.
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Last month, a CIA drone strike nearly killed Mehsud when it hit a funeral he was attending. Instead, it killed 65 other people.
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"I don't think it makes any difference who killed Baitullah Mehsud if he is indeed dead," Ispahani said. "It is a good day for Pakistan if he is dead because he was a murderer and he was a man who incited others to murder, and he did not care whether they were innocent civilians, or government servants, of people from military."
"If he is dead, though, it's unfortunate if it happened because of a drone attack, but as I said, with this particular case, at the end of the day, the end justifies the means," Ispahani said.
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In an interview with al Jazeera in January 2008, Mehsud said he was fighting a "defensive" jihad against the West.
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Quick Take: Smart grid research firm Zpryme believes Mexico may be the next hot smart grid market, due to an increase in participation from the private sector. - By Jesse Berst
Zpryme's research indicates that Mexico's smart grid technology market will grow from $1.23 billion in 2012 to $7.42 billion in 2020. This translates to a projected compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25%. While starting from a small base, this represents an attractive regional opportunity in a large market that is poised for aggressive investment to modernize their power grid.
Like many Latin American countries, Mexico faces problems such as power outages, electrical theft, and poor energy infrastructure. Therefore, smart grid technology provides an unprecedented opportunity for Mexico to improve both functionally and economically. At present, the electricity market in Mexico is federally owned, with the Federal Electricity Commission (Comisión Federal de Electricidad or CFE) essentially controlling the whole sector.
To date, this level of control has stifled innovation, but we believe things will change with broader participation coming from the private sector. Private power generation in Mexico is done on a self-supply basis, where these players can only generate electricity for their own consumption, and can only sell excess electricity back to CFE. As modernization advances, private power producers will have new opportunities, thus bringing more secondary buyers into the market for smart grid technologies.
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Dick's Desert Dash-3 States, 4 Days, 1054 Miles
The original idea for this ride was to take our 950's out to see what they could do, a nice big ride for big bikes. Well, no other 950 riders could make the ride but me, so the ride turned into me trying to keep up with two better riders on XR650's. The plan was to start in Santa Margarita CA, visit Rdgecrest, Goldfield, NV, Ely NV, Panguitch UT, Mesquite NV, and back to Ridgecrest, and end at home in Santa Margarita all on as much dirt as possible. In the end we rode 4 days, for a total of 1054 miles, less then 200 miles were on pavement.
The two XR riders were planning to get picked up in Mesquite rather than ride a lot of pavement or re-ride the same stuff that we rode on the way out. I figured that I could always hit the pavement to get home the fast way, if I needed to. We had been watching the weather for the places we were planning on riding through, so that we could pack appropriately. The forecasts were saying HOT, so we didn't pack all the cold weather/rain gear, we all had riding jackets though. We all had a backpack and one other pack on the bike.
We left Santa Margarita bright and early on May 18th. We headed east on Hwy 58 to Pozo Rd, through the Los Padres NF, and back on to 58, hung a right on Elk Horn Road though the Carissa Planes to Maricopa CA for gas.
This was the beginning of the longest pavement section, through the Valley to Rancheria Road. Rancheria is a great dirt road that goes up along the ridge, when we dropped off the ridge the trail became a bit more technical. I went up and down a few rocky hills that were a bit more challenging that I had taken my 950 on before. Then we took a left and went from "a bit more challenging" to "HOLY @#$%", but my 2 "buddies" were in front and I had to keep going. I made it up 4 or 5 hills that I never thought I'd take my 950 up, and it did fine, it's just a big dirt bike.... The last hill had a "S" type direction with ruts, well I got a little cross rutted, lost some momentum on the bottom half and top half was deep silt with a rock ledge at the top.
"The photos never do justice to the steepness of the hills!"
I hit the ledge and stalled it, restarted a few times but it was just digging in. This is about the time my two "Buddies" showed up and said that it just got worse further up. We got the behemoth turned around, got back on track, dropped on to the highway and to get lunch and gas at Lake Isabella.
After lunch we rode over the ridge on a great forest road and dropped in to Jawbone Canyon. We had our first of 2 flats on this road and we got separated for a little bit because I didn't see the 2 XR's off the trail with the flat. When we got down into the desert the temperature really went up, and we were happy to see that the hotel in Ridgecrest had a pool. Day 1 was 287 miles. Unfortunately there aren't a whole lot of photos, I was busy trying to keep up. All in all I was pretty impressed with the 950.
More to come! Maybe I can get my 2 "Buddies" to sign in and make some comments....
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Day 2 Ridgecrest CA - Goldfield NV
Day 2 started at 0600 and it was 70 in
We were on the dirt in less than 3 miles and headed east to get around
After Trona the plan was to parallel the highway north to lunch and gas at Panamint Springs. When we found the correct trail it was rock strewn and cutting across the desert grain so there were g-outs one after another. It was in this section that I bottomed out really hard and the bike died. I pulled in the clutch hit the button, the engine started. I let out the clutch and the engine died. I tried this a couple times before I came to a stop. Turned out that when I bottomed out I smashed the side stand switch. I tried just unpluging it but that didn't work, and we ended up tearing it apart to figure out which wire to short to allow the engine to run. It work just fine for the rest of the ride and will probably stay that way for ever.
We finally got away from the rocky g-outs and promptly went right into a nice rocky sand-wash. I figured the other guys were loving it but when we finally got to Panamint Springs for lunch and gas they didn't have anything good to say about the morning ride.
It was 11:00 and it must have been 100 degrees already, we had lunch, got gas and headed up the pavement to
After a few miles on Saline we made a right on to
It was so hot that I contemplated riding it to the top but figured if I ruined the tire I'd really be screwed. I pulled over at the next wide spot and had it changed in about 15 min's, just in time for my "budies" to show up ask, "what's the hold up". We went over the top into
We were on
We stopped to look at the Ubehebe Crater, this is where "Buddy" Mike and Buddy Lee decided they needed to reapply Monkey Butt powder to their riding shorts, unfortunately I didn't have my camera out to get photo of the people in the SUV as drove by wondering why 2 guys were standing in the middle of the parking lot with their pants around their ankles. They didn't even stop to look at the crater!
We continued to Death Valley road and were headed north to
So we finally got back on track and out of
We stop and Lee raps on the door, "Anyone in there". Some Guy comes out, I can see in the door that it's dark inside and it must be even hotter in there than out.
Guy: What'd ya need?
Lee: Do have any gas you can sell us?
Guy: Well, ya, but I'm not going down there unless you come in and have a drink with us.
Me: Do I hear banjos?
We need the gas so we all got off and went in, sure enough it dark and hot. We go through the next door, HOLY$#%&, it's a full on saloon.
We parked on the wrong side.
The guy's took donations for beers, said they we're getting ready for the annual Gold Point Chili Cook Off and that there'd be 1000 people in town Memorial Day Weekend. They gave us the town history, a little history on some of the characters in the saloon and sold us some gas. What a find!!!
We ended our day with a 80-90 mph blast up a perfect 30 mile dirt road to
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PozoRider screwed with this post 06-06-2008 at 07:17 AM
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Keep it coming.....good RR so far.
Thumpers....ride through rough stuff, fill up tank, ride some more, dump it, get up and repeat.
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Great report. That would have been a fun ride. Post the rest soon.
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This is great stuff!
115 degrees! Damn, fixing a flat in those temps cold be deadly.
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I purposely stopped in a spot that I thought would have a little breeze, then I promptly went to the wrong side of the bike to fix the flat. It's also pretty easy to get the tire off and back on when it's as soft as it was.
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I live in Grover Beach and that is exactly
the type of ride I want to do my newly aquired Husky 610 with maybe a detour up toward Kennedy Meadows
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That looks extremely fun....
I can't wait to see more!
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Great report and neat areas.
I spent a month in SoCal in '04 on my KLR, camping and riding in many of those areas you frequented and thoroughly enjoyed it...but I did it in February. I love the desert.
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Day 3 Goldfield NV - Ely NV
Well really back to day 2, I forgot to mention that when we got to Goldfield gassed up before we went and ate. Well this was my first experience with the dreaded canister. After we ate the 950 wouldn't start, then I remembered the canister. I pulled the drain plug on the canister and sure enough, gas. After a few more minutes it finally started.
Ok, Day 3: We were on the bike at 6:00 am on the way to Tonopah. We hit the dirt on the west side of town, went past the cemetery onto some 2 track, across a dry lake and into Paymaster Canyon. The dirt road up the canyon and out the other side was wide and fast. As I was descending into the next valley I could see Mike and Lee almost all the way across, that's when I noticed I was going a little to fast for the next left hand corner. I a bit a panic I got on the brakes, started sliding, stalled the engine, and high sided. I hit the ground pretty hard but luckily I didn't get hurt. The bike was ok also, the tank bag didn't do as well, all the plastic buckles broke in one way or the other. After getting the bike up, and the bag all tied back on I had canister experience #2. I had to drain the canister again and many minutes of cranking to get the bike started. On the trail again into Tonopah through what must have been the old dump, due to the amount of old metal and glass strewn all over. It was about a 40 mile ride from Goldfield to Tonopah so it was still early, time for gas and breakfast. We were in town about 2 minutes before Mike got pulled over. Lee pulled into a gas station and I followed, we decided that we better just go by well Mike had the Man occupied that we he couldn't give Lee a ticket also. We waved as we went by and waited at the restaurant for the full report. Mike got pulled over because the office couldn't see his plate, it was mounted on top of the fender. When it was all over he got a ticket for not having a motorcycle endorsement.
With breakfast over we gassed up the bikes and carried about a gallon and half each. We new it would be a long way to the next gas, we figured we would try to by some from any ranches that we passed by and we would ride conservatively until we found gas.
We headed east out of Tonopah then north along 376 and 82, then into Hunts Canyon. While we were paralleling 82 we ran across a heard of wild horses, it was pretty spectacular seeing them.
They ran along side of us and crossed our path before we got out ahead of them. A few miles farther we ran into some old cowboys herding some cattle back into the fence.
Hunt Canyon was awesome, trees, grass, water, cattle. We ran across 4 ranches, there was no one home at 2 of them and the other 2 didn't have enough fuel to spare, but the lady at the second to last ranch told us that there was gas in Locke.
So the plan switch from conserving fuel to dropping into Locke for gas. We continued through a couple more valleys and canyons, dropped into Locke and got gas and drinks, it was hot again.
We decided to take the pavement up to Currant to get back on route, hung a right and headed for Lund. More great canyons and valleys, dirt roads, 2 track and single track. We got to Lund at about 5:00 pm, gassed up and headed straight north to Ely. The closer we got to Ely the interesting the trails got, the the temperature started to drop. If it hadn't have been so late we probably could have found a bunch of interesting trails.
We got to Ely at about 6:30 pm, the ride was about 284 miles. Some time after dinner while drinking in Dago Reds, or mayde it was in Champ's Sports Bar we decided to lay over a day in Ely.
Another great day of riding topped off by a good night of drinking, on Mike's tab.
Rich Reyes
2011 Beta 520 RR
2009 KTM 690 Enduro R
Dick's Desert Dash
American Beta
Just Ride
Joined: Jun 2005
Location: Atascadero, CA
Oddometer: 209
Ride Day 4
Ride Day 4
As I said early we decided to layover an extra night (Tuesday) in Ely, that decision changed the outcome of the ride. The layover was definitely welcome, three days of 100+ weather had taken it's toll and it gave us time to work on the bikes a little and recover from the night before. We were also hearing that it was supposed to cool off and rain was in the forecast.
We were up bright and early Wednesday morning hit the Continental Breakfast at the Jailhouse Casino Hotel and got on our way. The plan was to ride south to Pioche, NV for gas and lunch then east to Ruby's just outside of Bryce Canyon in Utah. It was looking like the forecasts were going to be correct, it was much cooler, probably in the low 50's and there were clouds on the horizon in the direction we were headed.
We headed south out of town on the other side of the mountains that traveled along on our way into Ely. It was cold and we had our riding jackets on. Just 11 miles out of town we came to the Ward Charcoal Ovens.
These ovens were used to make charcoal for the silver smelters, back in the 1800's. We made good time down the valley, the dirt roads and trails were in great shape for the most part, there was one section that was pretty deep 2 track, it looked like a truck had gone through while it was muddy.
The riding was fast for the most part but we did get some bush whacking in when one of the trails disappeared and when a few new fences had been put up across the trails.
We made it to Pioche in time for lunch, and luckily we hadn't been rained on yet, although it didn't look like we were going to be so lucky in the afternoon. It was looking very dark and ominous to the east, right where we were headed. We had lunch at the Historic Silver Cafe, it was very good, maybe the best fried chicken I've ever had. After lunch we headed east out of town, straight towards the dark sky.
A short way out of town, maybe 10 mile, we stop and discuss riding farther south to try to skirt the weather. Sure why not, we have the gps's and at worst we hit the pavement thats down there to the south. Se we take off a little to the SE of the planned route. Lee found a nice canyon to ride up, deep sand and rock. In between wrestling the 950 around in the sand I started thinking that maybe being in a canyon when it's raining somewhere up ahead may not be such a bright idea. It all work out ok, Lee found a nice trail out of the sand wash and through some trees and up another canyon on a nice dirt road. The dirt road turned into a two track then a cow trail, I made to a point that I new I could turn around and watched Mike and Lee try to go farther. We back tracked to the last turn and tried going a little north up the next trail, with the similar results. The trail just disappeared in a bunch of pine trees. We back tracked again, went farther north and ended back on my original route.
We hit Highway 56 just south of Modena UT. When I was planning this part of the trip I really wasn't worried about gas, on the map there were a lot of little "towns" that we would go through. Well, these "towns" turned out to be a house at a crossroads, and the house didn't look like it had been lived in for 20 years. We went through Modena and Beryl UT, it had been raining, we could smell it and see it in the distance. On the other side of Beryl there was a 2 track maybe 100 yards long with water in it. Mike and Lee went through with out problem, I was on the pegs one second and on my head the next. I got the bike back up, drained the canister again. Mike showed back up and asked what the #$%% I was doing. I got going again, the rear wheel immediately started to come around front. I was on the pegs again determined to make it. I went about 30 feet and hit the ground again, pointing the wrong direction. I jumped up, tried to get the bike up before it died again but failed. When Mike finally put the camera away we got the bike up, the mud was so snotty you could barely stand. When I got going again I decided it would be better to go through the bushes then try the mud again.
The rest of the ride was pretty uneventful, fast and cold. The temperature was dropping, but we still hadn't been rained on. We hit Lund, there were 2 houses on the corner, no gas, and kept going east. Went through the Parawon Gap on the way to Parawon.
As we're entering Parawon its raining just north of us the road is wet and its freezing. Our luck ran out, we finally got rained on in town and it's snowing in the mountains just to the east. It was after 5 pm, we had over 50 miles to go over the mountains to Ruby's, we decided to call it a day. During the phone call home that night Mike found out that it was 29 at Ruby's, I think we made the right decision.
Over pizza and beer we decided that we would rent a U-Hual in the morning and head home, due to the weather and the monkey-butt.
The next morning it was decided that since I had the most road worthy bike I'd go 20 miles down the 15 to Cedar City to get the U-Hual. It was snowing in Parawon when I left, it was @#$%ing cold!
Well that's it, we rode over 1000 miles in 4 days, and learned a lot. On the drive home we decided that next time we'll drive out of CA probably to Mesquite and ride a loop from there, the riding was measurably better once we got out of CA.
Rich Reyes
2011 Beta 520 RR
2009 KTM 690 Enduro R
Dick's Desert Dash
American Beta
Making it happen
Joined: Apr 2007
Location: Western Colorado
Oddometer: 311
I enjoyed it....thanks for sharing
Joined: Jul 2007
Location: Texifornia
Oddometer: 64
Nice pics and thanks for the route maps. Really enjoyed...
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