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They must have leadership and interpersonal skills. They must have work experience in supervising and evaluating staff. They must have experience working in the educational field. They must perform teachers' evaluations in a timely manner, based on their school district's policies and guidelines. They must have certain personal characteristics that are required for working effectively with students, their parents, teachers, school district administrators, and the general public. They must encourage and inspire their students to succeed academically. They must lead and guide the teachers to be fair and transparent in working with students. They may have to attend various meetings related to their teachers' unions. They must have excellent oral and written communication skills. They must be flexible, since they may be required to work longer hours.
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'That very personal conflict is going to ripple off and break apart the X-Men in a huge way,' Aaron said of the characters, whose names are Scott Summers and Logan. But as to how it happens, he's not saying."
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Arizona State University is now on the lookout for a new athletic director.
As first reported by Chip Brown of OrangeBloods.com, Steve Patterson has accepted the same position with the University of Texas.
The A.D. position at Texas is widely considered to be one of the best in college sports.
"It's been agreed to by both sides," the source said.
Patterson's marketing and management skills and no-nonsense approach - he helped oversee changing out nearly 100 people in two years at Arizona State - proved to be the difference.
Patterson was the choice over West Virginia athletic director Oliver Luck, the other finalist for the job.
According to Austin American-Statesman sports columnist Kirk Bohls, Patterson had "unanimous support" from the Texas hiring committee and will make more than $1 million per year.
A guest of Arizona Sports 620's Burns and Gambo last week, Patterson said he would not confirm any report that he was a candidate at Texas or had turned down an offer from the school.
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Patterson, 55, had been the A.D. at Arizona State since March 28, 2012, when he assumed the role in place of Lisa Love. He is credited for the hire of football coach Todd Graham, the baseball team's move to Phoenix Municipal Stadium and the upgrades that are set for Sun Devil Stadium.
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Here's the one thing we know with dead-certain clarity about metro Atlanta's congestion woes: No eruption of new expressway lanes, no addition of infinite concrete road miles, no rollout of train tracks cresting a thousand horizons, no stretching of buses and trolleys bumper-to-bumper from Doraville to McDonough -- in fact, all of those things stretched end to end won't bridge the galactic gap between the "truth" of the road-ists and the "common sense" of the transit-ites.
It's a fun debate to watch. The only downside is that as dogmatism rages, someday not too far away, one more new car on Atlanta's streets will result in a city-wide flash of brake lights as traffic everywhere jerks to a halt -- and never moves again. Terminal gridlock.
Two whip-masters in our community-wide transportation flagellation are AJC editorialist Jay Bookman and former AJC editorialist Benita Dodd, now a spokeswoman for the Georgia Public Policy Foundation.
Bookman sniffs that the foundation is "aligned" with road builders and Gov. Sonny Perdue, neglecting to note that 58 percent of Georgia voters were aligned with Perdue on Nov. 7. About 100 percent of us are aligned with the dastardly road builders, at least to the extent that we ride on their handiwork.
Dodd huffs back: "Oh, Jay is a die-hard liberal. He never lets facts spoil his ideology." She forgets to note that her own ideology -- "market-driven strategies" -- is wishful thinking. Laws, rules and regulations twist the flow of money -- and thereby define the "market." Claiming roads are "market-driven" means only that there are massive public subsidies to America's automobile culture.
In a Nov. 19 column, Bookman was shocked to discover the GPPF and the Reason Foundation, a national think tank (Bookman puts "think tank" in quotes to signal stinking thinkers), actually argue what they believe. Horrors. Setting the stage for Bookman's outrage was a Reason study released this month that basically says, transportation-wise, we're screwed.
Unless we invest in a big fix.
Reason's solution: Ante $25 billion for toll lanes, toll roads, toll tunnels and toll truckways. The $25 billion bill was revealed to be wildly optimistic for such ambitious projects, and the plan has as much chance of materializing as the aforementioned Perdue has of becoming grand marshal in the next gay Pride Festival. I suspect Reason and GPPF know that.
What causes Bookman and the cars-are-evil folks (whom I often sing along with) to twitch with anger is Reason's haughty dismissal of such pro-transit strategies as high-density land-use planning (read: urban anthills) and transportation options (read: choo-choos, choo-choos and more choo-choos).
No one quibbles with Reason's recap of our crisis: Our current plans mean congestion inevitably will get worse. "A rush hour trip that today takes 46 percent longer than at off-hours will take 67 percent longer in 2030," the Reason study states, echoing Georgia officials' own analyses.
Add to that the fact that we're the least-dense major city in the nation. And most of Atlanta's commuters don't drive from suburban homes to the city center to work. Rather, the overwhelming largest component of commuters goes from suburban homes to suburban businesses. Fewer than one in 20 commutes to downtown.
To create a transit-suitable city, says David Doss, former chairman of the State Transportation (read: roads) Board, density in Atlanta would have to increase 600 percent. "But that can't happen," says Doss, a Rome real estate executive. "You couldn't move around with that many people."
But Doss and other highway shills refuse to acknowledge that incremental solutions could edge us toward more density. And Reason and its allies don't reason through the problem that doing more of what's caused the problem isn't likely to solve the problem.
To counter Reason's big solution, Citizens for Progressive Transit -- a well-meaning group studiously ignored by decision-makers -- proposes retrofitting Atlanta with trains, trolleys, buses and bike lanes. The group's fantasy map resembles the transit systems of great cities such as New York and London. But, shucks, we're just Atlanta.
Lee Biola, chairman of the transit cheerleading group, has a price tag for his plan: $16 billion
So, we're caught in a double dilemma. We're not dense enough for transit. But we'd need transit to get dense. The two poles range from $25 billion (plus) for more roads or $16 billion (plus) for transit.
Either way, we need to think big, and a better idea would be a melding of the two visions. We shouldn't fritter our time, energy and money on low-yield transit projects.
The AJC in a Nov. 16 editorial mooned Reason and gushed nonsense about "two small but encouraging developments": A "baby-step closer to launching a commuter rail line" to Lovejoy, and Cobb County officials allowing MARTA buses onto their turf.
The 26-mile Lovejoy commuter rail will cost about $120 million (80 percent from federal grants). Optimistically, it may remove 3,000 cars from the highways. The AJC chides Reason for glossing road costs, yet trains almost always come in over budget; the Lovejoy line's projected budget already has inflated by $11 million. For $120 million, you could add another expressway lane between downtown and Lovejoy -- and that would carry many, many, many multiples of the commuter rail ridership.
I don't know which "big" option is best. What I do know is that we don't have the leadership to do either.
Two cities where I've worked give some clues. In the 1970s, Miami Herald Publisher Alvah Chapman galvanized that community into passing a bond issue that built a transit system.
And, in Tampa, a transportation-deadlocked county commission in the mid-1990s appointed 99 citizens (including me) to ponder big-picture solutions. Eighteen months later, the commission was handed a plan.
We have neither a leader of Chapman's stature nor officials willing to risk decisive citizen direction.
In Atlanta, the only things we create -- other than congestion -- are more transportation agencies. They vie with each other for money and power. While we sit in traffic.
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In his second third as an assistant coach, Aaron Paajanen came to Santa Clara after spending four years at Loyola Marymount as an assistant coach. He assists Bronco head coach Derek Mills with all aspects of the program.
In 2015, Paajanen helped the Santa Clara men's tennis program continue its ascent toward becoming one of the top programs on the West Coast and in the nation. Although the team transitioned through a roster restructuring in 2015, Paajanen helped guide the Broncos to upsets over No. 50 University of North Carolina at Wilmington and No. 67 University of Portland, a come-from-behind victory over Fresno State University, and dominating decisions against Saint Mary's College and California State University, Sacramento.
On an individual level, Paajanen aided in the maturation of the young Santa Clara roster and continued to bolster the veterans' games as well. Both Ilya Osintev and Sam Bertram earned WCC Player of the Week Awards and the seniors also took home hardware at the end of season. Osintsev was named to the All-WCC Second Team in singles and, in doubles, he and Bertram took home All-WCC Second Team honors as well. Fellow upperclassman Ashot Khacharyan also continued to pad his resume during his junior season, reaching the finals at the ITA Regionals in the fall and finishing the season with All-WCC Second Team honors in singles and in doubles with partner Mikheil Khmiadashvili.
During the 2014 campaign, Paajanen's coaching helped Santa Clara to a 17-7 overall record. The squad finished the season with a national ITA ranking of No. 59 including a season-high rank of No. 42. The Broncos knocked off a number of ranked opponents including upsetting No. 39 Oregon 4-2, and beating No. 57 San Diego State 6-1, No. 64 Georgia State 4-0, and No. 69 New Mexico 4-1. Santa Clara reeled off a season-best winning streak of eight matches after starting the season 1-1, which helped it get off to its finest start in decades.
Paajanen's impact on the Broncos' season was reflected in the WCC awards, as Santa Clara took home a number of accolades throughout the year. John Lamble received First-Team All-WCC honors for his stellar singles play, Ilya Osintsev was named All-WCC Second Team, and Ashot Khacharyan earned All-WCC Honorable Mention in singles. In doubles, Lamble and Ilya Osintsev were named First-Team All-WCC. Osintsev also earned WCC Player of the Week three times, the most in the conference, and he and Lamble were named Doubles Team of the Week once. The duo was named No. 1 doubles team for the WCC Tournament Team and Osintsev earned the No. 2 singles spot as well.
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Vincent Smith has a torn ACL per Rivals. RR said that Smith tore it during the tOSU game.
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Thanks for the link! I am on my wife's macbook and couldn't bring up the link!
why god? why do you hate us and our favorite running backs?
i would hope that he can rehab it in time to work out and practice in the spring. the best to him and his recovery.
Brady is also 31 years old, I think, not 19. I don't think Smith will be back for spring practice, but I think he'll be better than 75% by next season.
You're being as pessimistic as geaux-blue was being optimistic. Brady tore both the ACL and MCL had tons of complications (infections and such), and was still back in time for start of fall camp. His rust can be as much missing a full year as QB as it was physically recovering.
ACL repair has come a long way, and I believe generally it calls for a 6 month recovery period. He'll miss spring practice, but I'd say there's a better than 50% shot he's at full speed come the start of fall camp. The odds will be greater depending on when they can get to the surgery.
Why is this directed at me?
I said I don't think he'll be back by spring practice, but that I think he'll be better than 75% by September. Even if he doesn't have surgery until January, 9 months is...drum roll, please...September.
There's a difference between 19 and 31. Ask any 31-year-old.
I don't know... Do dislocated fingers and separated shoulders and torn hamstrings and sprained ankles count as sports injuries? Yeah? Then I guess your point doesn't hold much water.
Nothing I love more than a hot coffee on a snowy winter night, and well-informed bickering on the MGoBlog.
doesn't actually say it was a 'torn' ACL, only that he suffered and ACL injury (though it may be explained behind a paywall).
Might it be a strain or something less??
that a torn acl for a running back is slightly different than a torn acl for a QB
I wonder if the 7-9 month time frame given is for the ordinary person watching from the stands and not for the D1 athlete with superior genes and better conditioning. It may not sound like it should make a difference but it does. Athletes regularly are running and cutting on ACL's that were torn 5-6 months before.
I tore my ACL after my sophmore year in college, there are different ways to repair it that can alter how long the recovery process takes. If you choose a cadaver, which I did, recovery is slightly shorter as there are not as many cuts required. This gives you less flexability in the new ligament though as they normally use an achillies tendon for the cadaver. The other way is to make a new ligament from some of your own muscle tissue, many times the calf. This takes longer because you must wait for the muscle to heal too. The doctor told me when it happend it normally takes a full calendar year to FULLY recover and an additional 1/2-1 year to get your mind back thinking "I can make this cut and be ok." He said "unfotunately, with a cadaver, you will never run as fast or jump as high again." I am sure with a medical staff like Michigan's he could be healthy enough to play sometime next season but I am not sure if his mind will recover as fast.
Bummer. Good info thank you, but not what I wanted to hear.
For elite athletes, they like to autograft (take tissue from the athlete) the ligaments, usually part of one of the hamstrings. There is less chance of future tear, and despite "more cuts", can have a faster HEALING time; unfortunately, that doesn't necessarily translate to faster recovery time. However, to be 100% after an ACL, for an elite athlete, it is regularly cited that it takes over a year to be back in complete form, mentally and physically. This does not discount the fact that he could "feel ready" at fall ball, or even spring ball, but I doubt that the surgeons at U of M will feel comfortable with him cutting and juking full force in five months.
"but I doubt that the surgeons at U of M will feel comfortable with him cutting and juking full force in five months."
Thats a good distinction and one that I didnt make. I have no way of knowing how much effort the two players I knew were putting forth. But I would guess it was not 100.
I am just going off of what I saw at my college while playing football. Granted it was a D3 school but we had two guys tear their ACL's in the same pick up basketball game around Christmas time. They were both running and cutting in Early to Mid June.
From what I know they did not use the calf muscle but part of the hamstring tendon. I am in no way a MD but if those two could play the next season, I dont see why Smith couldnt do the same.
Yeah, depends on the guy as to how fast the recovery takes. I played baseball in college and had teammates that went through Tommy Johns and never pitched again, and had guys go through the same surgery and were back in just over a year, and throwing better than ever. Personally, I had surgery on my shoulder. Torn rotator cuff and stretched ligaments. I never threw 100% again and still can't to this day.
I think we all can agree that Vincent Smith will need all of next year to recover and we'll see him 100% in Sept. 2011.
He will probably be best off redshirting next year regardless. It is a tough break but it doesn't seem like it would be worth rushing back that fast if he won't be really 100%.
the UM sports medicine team butchered my ACL reconstruction a few years ago, prematurely ending my co-ed rec softball career here in chitown; not to mention basketball and waterskiing.
though my bar time has increased significantly, so it's not all bad...
because Brady went to a surgeon the team asked him NOT to go to.
And he ended up with infection after infection in his knee.
Knees are NOT easy things to clean of infection. People who have them replaced have the have them re-replaced if they become infected.
A healthy 19 y.o. CANNOT be compared to a 31 y.o. with serial infections.
The End.
To shine a little bit of hope on the situation, Darren Evans, the talented soph RB at VTech tore his august 21st and was cleared to practice with a non contact jersey 2 weeks ago and they attribute it to his strong commitment to rehab. At the time he tore it, the tech med staff said he was a maybe for spring ball. If Vincent is just as resilient in his rehab then hopefully we can see the same results.
And the difference b/w a 19 year old and a 31 year old is not that big. It would be a valid argument if one guy was 19 and the other was 50.
True, except that a 31-year-old NFL player might as well be another decade older, with all the physical punishment he takes.
(Sorry, my Google-fu is off tonight, couldn't find it, or maybe the Michigan hating god has turned his attention to the search engines.)
He may have a point.
There is over 9 months until the season, I have torn my ACL before, and yes it sucks, but like LandonC mentioned, the sooner the surgery, the better,
If he is back in 6 months, it will only be with receiving painkillers, and pain relief stuff because the knee will still swell.
Best of Luck to Vincent on his recovery process
i was referring more to walk-throughs and being an active part instead of standing around or even forgoing for the sake of physical therapy targeted on the knee. i didn't mean playing in the game as opposed to participating in those workouts his knee would allow him (bench press, team meetings, etc.)
the article didn't give much info - just indicated he suffered an acl injury and that he will miss spring practice.
who knows, he may have only suffered a partial tear and my not have surgery at all. hold off on prognosis until full extent of injury is disclosed.
Great now we won't have DAVID MOLK or VINCENT SMITH for spring practice!
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It looks like is going to be missing spring practice, this could give Mike Cox and Fitz Toussaint the edge for the starting job.
It will be nice getting them some reps and moving them along quicker, but there is still Shaw. He is our most experienced on the roster. Hopefully he can add some strength though.
Vincent Smith suffered an ACL injury
hopefully it wasn't a complete tear.
I get rivals text messages, in the text it says that vincent smith TORE his ACL during the OSU game and will be out for the spring.
We need Dillon Baxter.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not happy about this development or anything. But I had a hard time believing that Smith was going to be the lead back come 2010. Whether it's Cox or Shaw or Toussaint, I figured somebody else would snatch the lead role.
But hopefully Smith can recover quickly and be a factor for us next September.
I would agree if I hadn't seen Vincent play as well as he did. He seemed to be pretty effective when he was out there.
I agree.
Mike Cox looked effective, too.
that's what she said?
Just to be clear, MikeCox always looks effective.
Mike Cox is bigger than Vincent Smith. No joke. Well, maybe sorta.
I didn't see those approx. 10 carries against bad teams as particularly conclusive. Smith had more impressive work against legit teams. I'm not saying he'll start, but if you went only by what we saw I think it's pretty hard to conclude that Cox is even near him in the coaches estimation, or on the field--so far.
This is nothing against Vincent Smith, but his 4.0 yards per carry against OSU didn't light the world on fire. I know he had a nice catch and run against OSU, too, but Mike Cox's run against EMU was perhaps the second-most impressive individual play of the year behind Koger's leaping one-handed catch.
against OSU(read: not EMU) is no small feat and, given how meh our blocking was, pretty damn commendable. His receiving skills far surpass anybody else in the backfield. Mike Cox? Are you people serious? Vincent Smith was the preferred back when Minor or Brown went down, he was the one back they didn't wanna redshirt, and he was primed to be our #1 guy. This sucks, there is no question about it.
Michael Shaw is the guy who looked most imppressive early in the season, but he succumbed to injuries and looked tentative late in the year. Talent-wise, he's ahead of the pack. Let's hope he doesn't let this opportunity pass him by.
I'm not going to argue it vehemently, because like I said, I really have no strong feelings about any one particular back winning the job next year.
But despite the fact that Smith got more playing time, he had 31 carries for 110 yards against non-DSU opponents. Cox's only 2 carries outside the DSU game went for 24 and 7 yards, but he did have the longest run of the year from anyone not named Carlos Brown.
Anyway, I'm not saying Cox will or should be the guy. All I'm saying is that Smith wasn't exactly lighting the world on fire, so anointing him The Back for 2010 is probably a bit premature.
Cox definitely looks big, stong, fast and hard to bring down with good balance.
I also love how he carries the ball high-and-tight like Tiki Barber post-fumblitis.
What we haven't seen from Cox is his ability to pick up blitzers/block and catch the ball. Blocking and reading where the blitz is coming from can be learned. Catching the ball can be worked on, but typically good hands are natural. Let's hope he has good hands.
I was thinking that he was very similar to Minor in style and Shaw in size, but lacked the speed, so he was on the scout team all last year.
In 2010 he will be a RS Soph and should be fully barwisized and ready to roll. I think he is going to have a huge year!


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I have been looking at the Ural patrol off and on for a while. I know it has been discussed briefly here and here on this site. I was hoping to get intelligent information on the bike, maintence, problems and best place to get one from or intelligent information to make me reconsider my decision. Not sure where to put this so I thought I would start in the Road Warrior forum.
All useful comments and help much appreciated.
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What exactly are you needing to know? What are your expectations? How do you plan to use it? Who are your closest dealers?
Answering those questions will help a lot.
The short answer is if you are going to get one, go for new vs used. The newest bikes are vastly better than the ones from even 2 years ago. A used 03 would probably be good.
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1. Maintence issues- problems and availability of parts or crossover parts if orginals are not availale I hope it will not be like my old sportser and need constant tinking to get it to run, scheduled maintance is fine
2. The closest dealer is not where I want to do business and others in my area that have urals have recommended going out of state for better intial satisfaction.
3. My are expectations are that it is a old motorcycle with some updated features but overall it will not perform at the level of a modern bike.
4. I am going to use it to run around backroads with my wife. Go camping, use as limitations allow. I hope it, will be a wonderful addition to my stable.
I would like to go new, but if a deal presented itself used would be okay, recommending 03 for the used route helps.
5. What kind of price, extras, warranty can I expect.
6. I only own bikes and that is my main source of travel. I won't expect the Patrol to do daily duty but it would be nice to use it as a back up. Can it maintain a speed of 70mph without me feeling I am going to blow up the motor?
That is all I have now, but can add more as comments are given and new questions arise. Thanks
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Ah good. there is some meat I can chew on. I have had a short but intense experience with Urals.
www.ural.com gives warranty info. But the long and short is: 2 years unlimited miles, parts AND labor. If you dont want to deal with your local dealer, you can opt for a different bike shop or even do it yourself. But you do have to arrange it ahead of time with them. They do pay shop rate, but the time is flat (i.e. XX hours for YY task) the flat is pretty fair. I can manage it for most tasks, but I cant dawdle. Feel free to contact the folks at Ural.com (the importer) if you hae any concerns about the warranty.
Maintenance - is about like you would expect on an airhead bmw or guzzi. valve adjusts, oil changes, nut and bolt checks. because the parts are still relatively unrefined when compared to other modern bikes, break in requires more frequent valve adjustments and they dohave a great deal of impact on the performance. Basically if you cant start it on the first kick when warm...the valves are out of whack.
Break in - is about like you would expect on a modern bike. work it through the gears and work your way up the power band for the first 500 miles (6-800KM) then ride it like you plan to for the rest of its life. Because of the warranty, I advise being pretty rough with it to shake loose any parts that might be not up to the long haul. Once done and with a close eye on maintenance, they run a long ways. I worked on a couple 2000 patrols that have 50 and 60,000 kms on them.
Other - dont expect pretty. They tend to weep a bit of oil. about like an airhead bmw usually does. But no drips
Performance - the stock EPA jetting on the carbs makes them anemic in 4th gear. really anemic. But the carbs are common kehein 22mm CV. jets, needles and such are readily available. Shim the needle and go to a slightly bigger main and the motor pulls much mo bettah. THe patrol is not going to exceed 65 especially with a passenger in the hack. sustained high speeds seem to be okay in the newer bikes. the older ones dont like it. I did a pair of 400 mile days on an 03 Gear-Up in 100 degree heat this summer. Out of caution (not my bike) I slowed it up about every 50-75 miles. The patrol is my fave Ural. A guy I know took his over a serious 2 day jeep trail, having to tie off in some places and go in reverse in others. Cost him a clutch, but it did it.
Parts - occasionally the importer will be waiting on a shipment for some parts. That can be frustrating. So stock up on consumables. The prices are so low that it doesnt break you to do it. And you can usually find a dealer somewhere who has what you need.
Typical issues - on the 04 bikes they went to a new alternator setup. ND alternator with a cush drive. The older bikes stil use the ruccian alternator. THose do fail periodically. The ND can be fitted to an older bike, but the airbox has to be replaced as well. it can cost. The other main failure is the electronic ignition. If you dont want to rely on a dealer, buy one and stick it on a shelf in the garage. You may never need it. And the final frequent issue is timing gears. Some go forever. Some die in 10k miles. But they give you lots of warning (they get DAMN noisy) replacing them is not as hard as it sounds. 2 hours if you have done it before. 4-6 if you havent.
COsts - I have noted a lot of things that are probably giving you the willies. The good news is that all of those things are relatively cheap even if you have to buy them after the warranty expires. timing gears are under 30 bucks. ignition system (complete with coil, brain, sensor) is under 200. A new alternator is 225. The upgrade to ND is 300 (at last report) Parts with very few exceptions tend to run well under half the cost of other bike brand parts.
The skinny - I am noting the warts here. But not all the bikes experience them. The main thing that I have noted is that owners who aremeticulous about maintenance and dont expect 70mph commutes of 100+ miles on old oil have happy experiences. Those who try to ride and use them like a modern japanese bike, dont. There is a lot of help available from the online community. The importer has a CD set available for 20 bucks that has videos of all the maintenance procedures.
Buying used - I wouldnt buy older than an 03 if I didnt plan on goign through the bike and expecting to spend a fair heap on parts. You dont know how it was treated and maintained and there are differences between the current 750cc motors and the early 03 and previous 750s and 650s. I woudl also not get a 650. If I did buy an 03, I would put in an order for the alternator upgrade, buy a set of tires, a pile of oil filters and a ingition module. (figure ~500 including the alternator) simply because I hate waiting in the event one of those does fail.
Dont hesitate to holler if you have questions.
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If I remember right, you are sort of in the Austin vicinity. I don't know if Jim's Outdoor Power is the place you are avoiding, but if so, you might try Perry's M/C & Sidecars in Ft. Worth, 817-429-9922. Perry Bushong was the BMW dealer and a Ural dealer but sold his shop and now just does vintage and sidecar stuff. He's one of the best. Even though he's no longer a dealer, he might stil be able to set you up on a Ural without having to go out of state.
FWIW, even though Jim's is also a lawnmower dealer, he has been selling Urals since the beginning and I've not heard anything bad about his shop.
Is it true an airhead BMW motor can bolt right in to the Ural frame if someone feels the need to go that route?
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not quite. you have to make an adaptor to get the motor to fit the tranny. or rig the BMW drive line to fit. It would actually be easier to put a guzzi motor in because the clutch is damned near a duplicate. And if you lose the tranny, you lose the reverse gear. Damned handy thing, that.
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Just get a Patrol you'll be glad you did. There are no other bikes around that can go what that rig can do.
I am on my second Ural and have had sidecars since '98. The 2003 Ural is lightyears ahead of my '97 in every way. The new alternator is going to solve the nagging alternator problems with the bikes.
It sounds like you are describing exactly the right things to do with these bikes: back roads, fire and forest service roads and bashing around in the woods. Sidecars are made for that kind of stuff. The Patrol is a good choice with its higher ground clearance and 2wd. It will take you where you want to go.
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Last time I talked to the guy at Jim's they were way out in left field on their price. I brought in the MSRP from Ural and they just were to far off for my taste. I am buying a retro bike and sidecar not a new beemer.
Chopperman, on the breakin you said to break it in like I ride. I tend to be hard on bikes, some would say real hard. Can I still break it in that way? Will the Ural beable to endure my riding style?
65 is max speed? can it be maintain if I have to do a highway jaunt once in a while?
Any accessories you would recommend right off the bat?
I change fluids on the GS every 3000 miles that going to be doable on the Ural? How meticulious are we talking? If I am off a grand is it doom?
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Lots of folks ride them hard. The one I used had been taken from the crate, entered in a 200 mile offroad rally (finished in the top 10) then handed over to me for a 700 mile highway ride through eastern washington in july (*hot*) and the heads hadnt even been retourqued yet.
So being off a few miles wont hurt it. What is critical is valve lash. The quick check as I mentioned before is warm start via kicker. The manual comes with a nice checklist of what to do at each interval.
65 is pretty much flat out. You find you end up taking backroads rather than freeways. I was finding the Ural I rode was more happy at 60. But then it had stock jetting.
Worry less. I note all of these things because I dont want you to have any surprises. I think you'll find that once you get rolling on one, you will learn to love it . Wait till you get it "stuck" offroad and then kick on the 2wd and climb out with ease
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Setting the valves is about a ten minute job. Changing the fluids (engine, gearbox and final drive) is equally easy. Chop is right about using starting as a gauge of the bike's tune. My 2003 starts on the first or second kick. When it doesn't, it's time to check the valves. I don't really use the electric starter in part to check the engine.
Once broken in, these bikes can be and usually are flogged. Does stuff break? It can, but it can be easily repaired. Last summer one of the bikes at a gathering sucked a valve into the combustion chamber (This was an older bike) The importer brought a new piston and head to the gathering. Two guys repaired it in the car port in less than two hours. Would have been faster if they had a ring compressor rather than using fingers
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Thanks for the information and experiences with these machinces. I had on waiting a little longer to buy one, but last night my wife said I should get one in the next month or two now that I paid off my GS. Man I love my wife, anyway, I do my own maintance on my GS and I haven't had any serious problems and have 72,000 miles. I like the idea of not having computers and other technology that once broken can leave you high and dry untill you get to a dealer. I do flog my bikes and I wanted to make sure as much as possible that the Ural could handle it. On Urals website they are saying a new Patrol is around 9700 MSRP. Is that what I can expect to pay or will it be higher? Any suggestions on Factory Accessories? besides the maintance CD rom(excellent suggestion).
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There is a nice accessory page on the Ural.com site. Lotsa bling there. THe Patrol comes with most of what I would take. The one thing I would add is the nose luggage rack allowing stuff to be strapped onto the nose of the hack. Very handy
The price sounds about right. But added to that is shipping, tax, etc. So figure 10k or a hair over.
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Chop, can the sidecar be removed? I love the look of these things, just not sure I'd want to live with the sidecar all the time.
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Only on the telescopic fork models. The Leading link models are very unsafe without the hack. ANd if you have put many miles on the rig with the hack on, you will want to change tires before running solo.
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Thanks for the info. These things are just so damned cool. Makes me wish I had all the money in the world and a garage big enough for all the bikes I want.
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While all this documentation is good news for linux and for you OSS driver coders I'm curious as to when the r300 chip 3D support (and hence the radeon 9700 3D support) will be up to the level of the fglrx driver.
Would anyone who's looked at the dri source and the new documentation be able to hazard a rough, off the record, unofficial guess?
As far as fglrx to radeon on r300 parts, I'm fairly sure radeon will be better for you unless you need OpenGL 2.x or raw performance. Of course if you really need either of those, the easy solution is to buy and newer card and use fglrx, with newer parts it has gotten a lot better. My experience is the open source radeon driver on r300 is that it is more stable and easier to configure/ use.
I've always had artifacting in OpenGL apps with fglrx (I've tried up to 8.42) on my 9700 Pro and on my 9500. Also, depending on release there were watermarking (artifacts in the corner of the screen), instability in Xv apps (i.e. I couldn't use tvtime), crashing the machine on logout, inability to get compiz to work regardless of what I did, and a number of other errors.
Radeon always worked more or less out of the bag, no artifacting, compiz works, etc. The downside is 2D performance had been slower than fglrx until recently. Now, with all the recent EXA work I think 2D is on par. 3D is around 1/2 to 1/3 speed and of course only up to OpenGL 1.3 is supported. The big annoyance here is WINE uses a lot of OpenGL 2.x features to emulate older DirectX 7&8 calls.
Please note, I'm not bashing fglrx in general. On my X850 XT at work it runs perfectly and has since 8.38, its just (I think) AMD/ATI is not actively testing r300 parts with it.
Originally posted by chipsugar View PostWhile all this documentation is good news for linux and for you OSS driver coders I'm curious as to when the r300 chip 3D support (and hence the radeon 9700 3D support) will be up to the level of the fglrx driver. Would anyone who's looked at the dri source and the new documentation be able to hazard a rough, off the record, unofficial guess?
I don't think the performance will be as high as fglrx but it should be pretty good.
I am voting for xf86-video-radeonhd. Great driver and I am looking forward for great performance on 3d.
There should be such driver with support from AMD.
Note that neither radeon nor radeonhd have much to do with 3D -- that is all implemented in the mesa and drm drivers. The X drivers (radeon and radeonhd) just handle modesetting and 2D acceleration. They can either do 2D acceleration themselves or run over drm - but if you want 3D then the 2D acceleration needs to go through drm as well.
You need (radeon or radeonhd) plus mesa plus drm to get a full accelerated driver stack.
For now fglrx can't show video in compiz-fusion without blinking The open source drivers are giving 10-20 FPS in the 3d games in linux for my M56 videocard
But with radeonhd I've received more stable work than ati. I have X crashed 10 times a day with xf86-video-ati. With radeonhd - no crashes at all. It is important for me
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Saturday was the first of the Green Earth Group Bake Sales at West End markets, Brisbane as part of the Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale that took place this year from 21 - 29 April. There are many different groups taking part from all corners of the globe. Food, in particular sweet foods, are a great way to show the mainstream that vegans have many choices to chose from to eat as well as some vegan outreach and education at the same time. Inspired by Jeremy's zine workshop from last weekend, I decided to create an 8-page zine from one piece of A4 paper - instead of my usual handout. Here's the cover:
Here's a blog by Keira from Kommoner who helped out with the GEG bake sale over the weekend.
I had a great interview with Jessi from Vegan Mainstream recently for the upcoming VStream zine:
Click on the pic above or see HERE for the sneak peak.
On Saturday in the back room of Brisbane's Loving Hut restaurant, Jeremy Staples held a Zine workshop for my volunteer-run, not for profit, environmental awareness, Green Earth Group. Here's a selection of some of Jeremy's own zines from his personal library:
Peter from the Online Associates Degree shared their latest infographic with me on the truth behind red meat for those people wanting to study nutrition or similar professions. The title of the infographic Eat Meat & Die is a bit in your face, the graphics aren't subtle, the references are credited. Overall I think the impact is great.
Saturday night it was Miranda's birthday and we celebrated at Brisbane's place-to-be-seen Cloudland with a 3 course vegan meal especially created for the 11 of us. Here's the gals (and Paul):
L-R: Amelia, the Birthday gal Miranda, L-C, Sal (front), Christina, Paul, Corinne & Tarryn.
On Saturday, Renata and I ran the first of the Green Earth Group Food Outreach events for this year in Brisbane. It also neatly coincided with MeatOut. I made a flyer to hand out to people on the day which had vegan recipes and more information:
In April and May this year, Lee Coates, OBE from new website Cruelty Free Money and the founder of Cruelty Free Super (Australia's only dedicated cruelty-free Superfund for People, Animals and our Planet) is coming to Australia from the UK to speak about how to allign your Money and your Values with his Cruelty Free Money Speaking Tour & Animal Sanctuary Fundraiser:
I've had really wonderful feedback from my Art as Activism pieces that I blogged about previously. Since then I have added these designs to shirts that you can buy:
I've just uploaded a new video featuring 3 easy to prepare, vegan, pizza topping ideas. I'm not much of a fan of cheese and much prefer to use soy cream cheese spread on the base rather than cheese completely covering the top of a pizza. Here's my pizzas (click on each photo to take you to the video, or see below)
Mediterranean Pizza:
For the Mediterranean Pizza I used tomatoes, basil, sesame seeds, soy cream cheese and cracked black pepper.
Tomorrow would have been the third all-vegan, environmental-awareness festival for my grassroots, volunteer-run, Not For Profit Green Earth Group if I was continuing to organise the event.
Today is International Women's Day a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, International Women's Day is a national holiday!
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My friend Rocky has been working on perfecting his fried egg recipe for the past year or so. The Vegg Vegan Egg Yolk is now available to purchase from stores such as Food Fight! Grocery, Pangea Vegan Store, Side Car for Pigs Peace and Vegan Essentials:
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There's a great animated film from 1982 The Plague Dogs based on the the 1977 novel of the same name by Richard Adams. This film was directed by Martin Rosen who also directed Watership Down - another animated film based on Richard Adam's novel. A friend of mine drew my attention to this film due to the fact that vivisection and animal cruelty are main messages in the story.
A lyrical, engrossing tale, Richard Adams creates a lyrical and engrossing tale, a remarkable journey into the hearts and minds of two canine heroes, Snitter and Rowf, fugitives from the horrors of an animal research center who escape into the isolation - and terror - of the wilderness. (Good Reads)
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Yesterday my friend Carol and I finally got around to meeting some goats and taking photos of them:
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I have spent my career working with women who have been beaten, raped and exploited. What all failed to understand in the debate, is that women are beaten and raped exactly because they have less value in society. To me it was not about money and wages it was about worth. So as the government marched through the no lobby it felt like we women were worthless. So who can we blame when this week two of us, the worthless, are murdered?
Right now, too many Americans are working long days for less pay than they deserve. That's partly because we've failed to update overtime regulations for years -- and an exemption meant for highly paid, white collar employees now leaves out workers making as little as $23,660 a year -- no matter how many hours they work.
Amid the flurry of pre-election pledges made by each party, the Conservatives' 'Tax-Free Minimum Wage' attracted a curious mix of attention... Rather than a trivial tweak, the implications of this policy are potentially substantial and could lead to additional tax cuts, which could be announced as early as at next week's Budget.
After years of planning and protests, wrangling and reviews, Lancashire County Council's decision to reject the application for shale gas exploration shouldn't have come as a surprise. It highlighted the fact that the UK does not have a long term energy strategy, and for too long we've done nothing about it.
There is a way to stop the harmful impact on young people of unaffordable rents and house prices, but it's a going to a take a big, bold plan from politicians to make it happen.
We're waiting for this government to show that they're serious.
This is not good enough. In a trade deal between two regions with legal systems as advanced as in the EU and US, a separate system of arbitration - whether public or private - is rendered obsolete: ISDS-lite is still ISDS.
Ultimately, that is all it takes - changing the political perception of what is merely cost, and what has real value in people's lives. Paying to gain access to the resources of real wealth-creation is a cost in human terms; the work that people choose to do because it brings undeniable benefit to their lives has value, even if no money changes hands.
Will the Greek people strike a blow for freedom, not just theirs but ours too? For if the answer is indeed 'Oxi', then who knows? Perhaps in generations to come July 5 will join October 28, and two 'anniversaries of the No' will be celebrated.
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All the signs are that next week's budget will feature a massive and unprecedented raid on working peoples' pockets. If the Government doesn't have enough money to make work pay, you might be forgiven for asking, just what are the Tories willing to spend money on these days?
The proposed new runway isn't just bad news for people living nearby - it's extremely damaging to our efforts to meet our climate change targets... What Davies hasn't set out in his 344 page report is that there are genuine alternatives to airport expansion.
The upcoming EU referendum in the UK is considered to be almost exclusively an issue for the political Right. It is automatically assumed that left-wing voters and thinkers will vote to stay in. This is not the case. I'm a left-wing voter and I will be voting to leave the EU.
If neither moving left, moving right or staying where they are offer Labour a path back to government what strategy should they adopt? The only way forward is to embrace proportional representation.
The continuing misuse of benefit is a human rights abuse where recipients are walled off from democracy and opportunity. But ministers, please reflect on where this culture arose; in the corridors of power itself. And the cure is to be found in work that finally gives this blighted sector of society the chance to catch up on lost time spent in the miasma of benefit.
The DUP, whilst the largest, Unionist Party, do not speak for all of Unionism. Nor do they represent the Protestant population of Northern Ireland. There is a growing appetite in this region for full equality, and the struggle must include those Unionist who are already fully paid-up members of the progressive agenda.
Increasing take home pay enables state support to fall back, making it the key to reducing the cost of in-work support to low earning families (whether through tax credits or under Universal Credit). But reducing in-work support without increasing take home pay first will simply result in low earning working families falling even further short of a decent living standard.
The only sensible way forward is to cancel the Greek debt (or at least substantial swathes of it) and for the international community to support Greece's democratically elected government to rebuild its society and its economy. I ask my fellow Labour leadership candidates to echo this call to the Prime Minister, and for him to heed this call. It is in our own interests to do so. Let's use this as an opportunity to remake a Europe of solidarity.
Britain has become less collective, citizens and consumers feel more empowered and many individual rights - through equal marriage for instance - are better recognised. But - and this is the bad news - much of our economy, society and politics remains thoroughly illiberal and conservative.
This rejection is worth celebrating, but we must not stop campaigning until there is a complete ban on the practice in Britain. Only then can we turn a corner in terms of our energy mix, to focus it on renewables. What we know now is that the fight for climate action can be won.


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Democrats insist both that the Iraq war is lost and that setting timelines is the best way to achieve a political settlement. They're wrong on both counts.
3:20 PM, Apr 26, 2007 • By FREDERICK W. KAGAN
IN BAGHDAD, sectarian violence dropped considerably after President Bush announced the Baghdad Security Plan on January 10th, even before new U.S. forces had arrived. The leaders of the major Shiite militias ordered their followers to stop killing Sunnis and most obeyed--a fact that undermines the notion that sectarian violence in Iraq is primordial and beyond rational or political control. Since then, the Maliki government has permitted U.S. forces to conduct a series of attacks on the worst of the Shiite militias in their strongholds in Baghdad and even in the Shiite south. It is difficult to see in these events evidence that sectarian violence is beyond control, that the Maliki government is unwilling to work with Sunnis, or that the Sunnis are beyond reconciliation. Above all, Maliki has permitted operations against the militias because he believes that the larger plan to secure his capital will work. Declaring a premature end to that plan by setting timelines for withdrawal--and implicitly or explicitly declaring that it has failed--will remove the current incentives for Maliki to support attacks on the forces he will need if civil war follows our hasty withdrawal. Timelines are far more likely to undermine progress in Iraq than to advance it.
The current discussion is confused by a misunderstanding of the rise in violence that has occurred recently. The spate of car-bombs and suicide bombs, which the New York Times describes as "sectarian violence" and which many point to as evidence of the current strategy's failure, are very different from the sectarian strife we saw raging at the start of this year. Suicide bombs and car bombs are the copyright of al Qaeda and associated militant Islamist groups--Shiite militias prefer more precisely targeted killings when they kill and do not use such methods. Al Qaeda, a Sunni group, has conducted many of the recent attacks against fellow Sunnis in Anbar and elsewhere who have started to fight the terrorists. These attacks are not sectarian violence, but al Qaeda's attempts to regain its footing in its former strongholds or to establish bases in new areas. The current wave of violence is a surge by the one force fighting in Iraq that has declared its intention to destroy the United States. It is a surge in terrorist killing by the organization that almost every leading congressman believes America should be fighting. It is not evidence that sectarian violence is uncontrollable or that the Maliki government won't make concessions. It is evidence that our implacable foe is not ready to lose yet. Timelines for withdrawal can only encourage this enemy, which has always believed that killing enough people will drive the Americans away.
The immediate drop in violence after Bush's speech resulted from the belief by many Iraqis that this operation would be different, that American forces would stay to finish the job, and that both the Iraqi government and people could rely on us to help them stop the violence. Setting timelines for withdrawal before we can possibly have solidified security in Baghdad tells the Iraqi people that we will abandon them once again and soon. Those who bet on the success of the current plan will try to hedge and adopt good fighting positions for the full-scale civil war to come. Successes in Iraq have occurred because Iraqis believe that we will help lay the foundation for them by establishing security, knowing that they cannot do so on their own. They will prove ephemeral if we declare our unwillingness to do so. And our most dangerous enemy will conclude once again that committing horrific atrocities and killing innocent people is an effective way to defeat the United States.
Frederick W. Kagan is a contributing editor to THE WEEKLY STANDARD and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of Finding the Target: The Transformation of the American Military (Encounter).


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Punch marred 1963 Flagstaff-Prescott basketball game
PRESCOTT, Ariz. -- On a Friday night 50 years ago, the Prescott High School gymnasium was the place to be and those who were there saw a basketball game that nobody expected.
The final seconds remain murky after five decades.
Flagstaff High and its all-state senior James Dugan faced Prescott in a boys' varsity game on Dec. 20, 1963. A night earlier, Dugan scored 54 points against Winslow High.
But in this game against the underdog Badgers in front of an over-capacity crowd, the winner wasn't decided until the final seconds. And that is what still is in debate.
With his team holding a three-point lead, Dugan was called for an offensive foul. It was his fifth foul of the game and his night was over.
Prescott's first-year head coach Jim Smith recalled that one of his players told Dugan something along the lines of "Ha ha! You're out!" or "Ha ha! You fouled!"
At that point Dugan still had the ball in his hands and threw it at the Badgers' Don Thayer.
After the ball bounced off Thayer's chest, Smith said Dugan turned around and punched Prescott's Randy Emmett in the face.
"He just threw a classic jab -- straight from the shoulder -- and laid him out," Smith told the Courier in Prescott. "I remember that like it was yesterday. (Emmett) bounced off the floor."
Emmett lay on the court out cold when Smith ran to him. Emmett's scalp was cut and he was bleeding "almost from the eye sockets," Smith said.
Players and spectators from both sides swarmed the floor. Officials stopped the game and escorted the crowd out of gym under the direction of Prescott school district superintendent Abia Judd.
Then-Prescott High football coach and athletic director Ollie Cline sprinted onto the court, picked up Dugan and carried him straight to a locker room to help avert what could have been a serious incident.
Once the officials had cleared all spectators, the two teams played the last several seconds of the game in an empty gym. Flagstaff won 62-59.
Outside, Prescott fans surrounded Flagstaff's team bus. The angry crowd threw projectiles at the bus and knocked out most of the windows as the Eagles tried to drive off.
Prescott's city police escorted the bus north to Ash Fork to avoid further incident.
Meanwhile, paramedics rushed Emmett to Prescott Community Hospital. He suffered a broken nose, a concussion, and facial and head lacerations that required 16 stitches.
Emmett was unconscious for several minutes after the punch.
Dugan traveled to Prescott three days after the game and visited Emmett in his hospital room to apologize.
The Flagstaff school board later offered formal apologies to the Prescott board of education.
The Arizona Interscholastic Association, the regulatory body for high school athletics in the state, suspended Dugan for the remainder of the basketball season on Jan. 23, 1964.
Prescott was scheduled to play in a rematch at Flagstaff, but forfeited that game rather than face the Eagles a second time.
Dugan claimed Badger players called him names and used racial slurs against him throughout the game, which precipitated the punch on Emmett.
Prescott players on the court that night to this day deny that any racial slurs were used. They say the tough defense that bottled up the high-scoring Dugan that evening caused frustration to spill over.
"We had a pretty good group of kids there, and I talked to all of them as did Joe Russo who was the assistant principal, and Ollie Cline who was the athletic director," Smith said. "They swore up and down that there was nobody on the team calling them any names. We were looking at it as a completely unprovoked incident."
Prescott finished the 1963-64 season with a 6-11 record while Flagstaff took the top seed into the state tournament, where it lost in the first round.
Information from: The Daily Courier, http://www.dcourier.com


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