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Layne Christensen is completing work on a wind tunnel in Ogden. The entrepreneur says the U.S. Ski Team has already expressed interest in using the tunnel to test the aerodynamics of its apparel. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Ogden entrepreneur builds wind tunnel to test aerodynamics of apparel, race cars, bikes, more

Mitch Shaw Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, May 5, 2013 - 8:04am

OGDEN — A Top of Utah entrepreneur hopes wind is in Ogden’s forecast.

Layne Christensen, founder of Darko Technologies, is putting the finishing touches on a massive wind tunnel housed in a 10,000-square-foot building at Business Depot Ogden.

Vaguely resembling something that NASA might build, the tunnel is 100 feet long and about 20 feet tall at its highest point. The testing section of the tunnel is large enough to fit a car inside — one of only a handful of such facilities open to the public in the United States.

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Riders from the Stanford men’s road team speed into the finish line during the time trials on Antelope Island at the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships on Friday. (BENJAMIN ZACK/Standard-Examiner)

Contenders find Antelope Island a picturesque setting for cycling race

Jeff DeMoss Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, May 4, 2013 - 5:14pm

ANTELOPE ISLAND — Among the racers talking about their experience on the first day of the USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships, one superlative kept popping up.

Beautiful.

Friday’s time trial races at Antelope Island featured sunny skies, ideal temperatures in the low 60s, and plenty of praise for the 21-mile course along the east side of the island.

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Members of the Tactical Operations Group practice “door kicks” at the Swanson Tactical Training Center in Marriott-Slaterville on Wednesday. The 40 officers in training fired “simunition” or “sim rounds” of plastic paint-filled bullets. Some officers came out of the drills with blue paint spattered on their camouflage body armor — hit by the search warrant subject opening fire during the simulation.

New Weber police unit practices door kicking in mockups

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 10:04am

MARRIOTT-SLATERVILLE — Shots rang out pretty much all day Wednesday at the Swanson Tactical Training Center here.

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Beaver No. 6, the last animal to be taken to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah after the diesel fuel spill at Willard Bay State Park, is fed a nutrient-rich powder mixed with baby food through a syringe. The most critically injured beavers also receive pain medication.

Willard beavers on the rebound in rehab

Becky Cairns Standard-Examiner Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 8:09am

Coaxing a very sleepy beaver out of its snug “nest” and into its morning bath is a skill in and of itself.

DaLyn Erickson-Marthaler is down on her knees, crawling inside a wire pet crate.

“I know, it’s terrible to wake up like this,” she says softly to the beaver as she scoops him up in her arms, one hand under his big, flat tail, and whisks him off for a weigh-in and then the tub.

It’s the start of another day in the rehabilitation journey of six beavers injured in a recent diesel fuel spill at Willard Bay. For more than 40 days now, the animals have received care for burns, skin abscesses and gastrointestinal problems in their new “lodge” at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah.

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Beaver No. 1 takes a bath at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah in Ogden recently. This beaver, one of six injured in a mid-March diesel spill at Willard Bay, gets a bath three times a day. (KERA WILLIAMS/Special to the Standard-Examiner)

Center chewing over groundbreaking beaver data, DNA tests

Becky Cairns Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, April 27, 2013 - 11:15pm

A mystery is gnawing at the branches of the rescued Willard Bay beavers’ family tree.

Beaver No. 6 is likely related to No. 5 — but is he also related to No. 2? Are No. 3 and No. 1 siblings? Is Momma the mother of two of the juveniles, or all five of them — or none of them?

DNA testing may be able to sort out the relationships of the six animals injured in a recent diesel fuel spill at the bay and now recovering at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah.

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