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Trek the trails: Many bike paths in Lawrence offer courses for riders of all experience levels. Try Clinton Skills Loop for a challenging ride, or take it easy on The Lawrence River Trails.
People may think Kansas is flat, but after riding on one of Lawrence's biking trails they might change their minds. Lawrence has four trails varying in difficulty that offer beginning and advanced riders the opportunity to go into nature and challenge themselves.
THE LAWRENCE RIVER TRAILS
This nine-mile loop is located in North Lawrence and is used by bikers and runners who have separate paths. Matt Pashang, Olathe senior, has been mountain biking for eight years and has been biking in Lawrence for the past five years. Pashang says he likes the River Trails because they are nice and fast and anybody can do them. He says they are the best trails for beginning riders.
ArtKing, a member of the Lawrence Mountain Biking Club, says the best way for beginning riders to start is to go have fun with a group of friends.
"It encourages you to keep riding if you have people to ride with," King says.
King started riding five years ago on the River Trail, which he also says is great for beginners because it's not too technical. The entrance to the trails is located right off 8th and Oak Streets.
CLINTON LAKE STATE PARK
CLINTON SKILLS LOOP
Located west of the Lawrence city limits, these trails are located in an Army Corps Engineers park. Though there is an entry fee to access a lot of areas in the park, the entrance to the trails is not located in a part that requires the fee. It breaks off into two trails with the blue trail being easier and the white trail being more difficult. Pashang says a great thing about these trails is the beautiful view of the lake. He says the trail is mainly in the woods but comes out of the trees every so often to give riders a great view of the water.
This trail is a real challenge for experienced riders. Pashang says this trail offers experienced bikers a more challenging ride with technical aspects. There are obstacles for all levels — including teeter-totters, balancing boards, ramps and bridges — but it is advised
that riders do this course at their own discretion and, as always, should wear a helmet. Unlike the state park trails, riders who drive to the skills loop must pay the entry fee to get into the park. Those who wish to avoid the fee can bike in for free.
PERRY LAKE TRAILS
Although bikers who wish to ride this 20-mile network of trails must drive 45 minutes, it seems to be well worth the journey. Nick Hoelscher, a KU graduate, has been biking in Lawrence for four years and says that the Perry Lake trails are his favorite because it's a network of trails. Riders have the ability to make their ride whatever they want it to be — fast and easy, slow and technical, or a combination of the two. King, LMBC member, says the Perry Lake trails are his favorite because he likes to create his own ride. The single-track trails were built in 1996 and the entrance is located on the west side of the lake.
Kansas might be known for being flat, but Lawrence offers some biking trails that challenge even the most experiencedriders.
- Accidents happen. Nick Hoelscher, a KU graduate who has been riding in Lawrence for four years, suggests that riders should bring a first aid kit with them and always wear a helmet. He also suggests that beginning riders should ride with a friend because it's more fun, and in case of an accident someone is there to help out.
"We don't have mountains in Kansas," Hoelscher says. "But you can still go out and have an adventure."
BIKING 101
- Neverridewhenit'smuddy. Hoelscher says it tears up the trails and is bad biking etiquette. Never ride after a rainstorm.
- Bring the right equipment. Hoelscher says the terrain in Lawrence can be rough on bikes and flat tires can happen easily. Matt Pashang, who has been riding for eight years, saysiders should bring tire levers, a new tube or patches and a pump.
- Alwaysweara helmet. It'salreadybeensaid,butit can't be said enough. Spills happen often when riding,especiallywhenpeopledon'thavea lot of experience,but alsowithriderswhohave been riding for years.Wearingahelmetprotectsriders from sufferinga serioushead injury.
- ThereisalargebikingcommunityinLawrence.The Lawrence Mountain Biking Club organizes events that bring the bikers in Lawrence together to have fun and help out the community.To participate and meet other riders visit the club's website to see what events are coming up soon www.lawrencemountainbikeclub.org
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Kristen Tebow, a woman from Manhattan, just wanted to make friends her freshman year at Kansas State University. On a typical weekend night, she made plans with a new friend from marching band. She and her newly found friend visited a typical bar on the outskirts of Manhattan. Tebow's friend got her a drink; a few moments later she felt like the "world went crazy" and passed out in the bar's bathroom.
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The next morning she woke up naked in a hotel room just outside Manhattan, covered in bruises and scratches. Seven naked men slept on the floor around her. The men paid Tebow's friend to drug and bring her to the hotel. Her friend set her up for a night she would never forget. She turned into a victim of sex trafficking that night. All she wanted to do was have a
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Thursday night, Tebow took back that night from those seven
"I just wanted somebody to hold me at that point," Tebow said. "I was crying for my dad."
Incidents like Tebow are not uncommon. And just like Tebow, survivors of sexual assault, rape,
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The Clothesline Project was a visible contribution to Take Back the Night Thursday evening. Victim and supporters created shirts to hang on the clothesline to tell their stories or to send a message about domestic violence.
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HEALTH
Filling the gap in children's scoliosis treatment
For every 1,000 children in the United States, three to five will develop scoliosis severe enough to require surgery. However, there are zero model pediatric spines to guide the course of treatment.
University researchers are working on a more accurate spinal model
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mlowry@kansan.com
Lisa Friis, assistant professor in mechanical engineering, said there are no available spines from deceased children with scoliosis to be modeled off of.
"Unfortunately, a 75-year-old
"The spinal industry is about 15 to 25 years behind other areas of orthopedics," Friis said. "Some spinal surgery procedures still
The lab has successfully created a model of an adult lumbar spine, which has enabled researchers to now begin creating a pediatric model spine.
"The spine is a series of connected joints," Friis said. "If you do something to one level, it will affect all levels up and down. If we can create models and find how treatment influences functions on adjacent levels, we will be able to design implants better."
A federal grant of more than $1 million was awarded to the engineering department to fund spinal replica research. Friis, who has worked as a research scientist in orthopedics since 2001, said the grant was well-founded.
male's spine does not really represent a 12-year-old girl's, but this is what they are using to test spinal implants on." Friis said.
Lewis leads a group of graduate students and undergraduate students who help with the research. The group works closely with a pediatric surgeon from Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City,
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don't have as high of success rates as other surgeries, so these are the types of things we are looking at now."
"Babies are much more flexible, for example, and in some places have cartilage instead of bone," Lewis said. "Those kinds of properties just don't change overnight, so we are trying to find out how surgeries can work with that."
"It's extremely difficult to create a model of a spine when we don't know the target values and also incorporate somehow the physiological changes that occur in kids," Lewis said.
These kinds of surgeries include spinal implants and fusions, which are used to treat scoliosis.
Mo., and medical device companies, which offer their insight. Creating a pediatric spine replica with nothing to work off of and measure from creates many challenges. For example, the engineers know that children are more flexible and their tissues are less dense, and that they will grow. However, they do not know to what extent.
Erin Lewis, a graduate student in bioengineering from Fort Scott, said medical device companies rely on a scaled-down model of an adult spine, which can lead to error and confusion.
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