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low maintenance performance for larger riders. The versatile TT-R125LE is the perfect off-roader for discovering the freedom of trail riding. The TT-R110E boasts a torquey engine, 4-speed auto clutch transmission, and low seat height for young and old alike. And the TT-R50E makes the ideal starter bike with a 3-speed auto clutch transmission, ultra-low seat height, and throttle stop screw that restricts speed for learning. The Yamaha TT-R line. Off-road fun for the whole family. ®

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Professional rider on closed course. Dress properly for your ride with a helmet, eye protection, riding jacket or long-sleeve shirt, long pants, gloves and boots. Do not drink and ride. It is illegal and dangerous. Yamaha and the Motorcycle Safety Foundation encourage you to ride safely and respect the environment. For further information regarding the MSF course, call 1-800-446-9227. ©2019 Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. All rights reserved.

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WOLVERINE® X2 XT-R XT-R Features: • Factory-installed WARN® VRX 4500 Winch • Special Edition Paint • Aluminum color-matched wheels • Aggressive GBC Dirt Commander tires

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Yamaha is recommended for use only by riders 16 years and older.

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jacket or long-sleeve shirt, long pants, gloves for your ride with a helmet, eye protection, riding on encourage you to ride safely and respect Foundati Professional rider on closed course. Dress properly and dangerous. Yamaha and the Motorcycle Safety Motor Corporation, U.S.A. All rights reserved.

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ATVs with engine sizes of greater than 90cc are recommended for use only by those age 16 and older. YAMAHA recommends that all ATV riders take an approved training course.

For safety and training information, see your dealer or call the ATV Safety Institute at 1-800-887-2887 surfaces. Never ride on public roads. Always wear a helmet, eye protection and protective clothing. Never. ATVs can be hazardous to operate. For your safety: Always avoid paved carry passengers.

Never engage in stunt riding. Riding and alcohol/drugs don’t mix. Avoid excessive speed. And be particularly careful on difficult terrain. ©2019 Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. All rights reserved. • YamahaOutdoors.com

For Best Pricing Options Contact Your Participating Dealer. ©2020 Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. All rights reserved. Product and specifications subject to change without notice. Professional rider on closed course under controlled conditions. Always wear an approved helmet, eye protection and protective clothing. Ride responsibly and always ride within your capabilities, allowing time and distance for maneuvering, and respect others around you. Know the conditions. Observe all state and local laws. Don’t drink and ride.

Yamaha Motorcycles, ATVs & Snowmachines Available At These Participating Yamaha Dealers: jacket or long-sleeve shirt, long pants, gloves for your ride with a helmet, eye protection, riding on encourage you to ride safely and respect Professional rider on closed course. Dress properly and the Motorcycle Safety Foundati Yamaha s. . dangerou and illegal is It ride. and Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. All rights reserved and boots. Do not drink g the MSF course, call 1-800-446-9227. ©2019 the environment. For further information regardin Wasilla, • YamahaMotorsports.com

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YAMAHA recommends that all ATV riders take an approved training course.

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ATVs can be hazardous to operate. Side-by-Side Riders: Always wear your seat belt, helmet, eye protection and protective clothing. ©2020 Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. All rights reserved. • YamahaMotorsports.com

For Best Pricing Options Contact Your Participating Dealer. ©2019 Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A. All rights reserved. Product and specifications subject to change without notice. Professional rider on closed course under controlled conditions. Always wear an approved helmet, eye protection and protective clothing. Ride responsibly and always ride within your capabilities, allowing time and distance for maneuvering, and respect ot hers around you. Know the conditions. Observe all state and local laws. Don’t drink and ride.

Yamaha Motorcycles, ATVs & Snowmachines Available At These Participating Yamaha Dealers: Alaska Fun Center

Fairbanks, Alaska 99709 Phone 800-478-3455 www.alaskafuncenter.com

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One building remains busy during quiet time Ned Rozell On these wet, mushy April days, as returning ducks set their wings for landing at Creamer’s Field in Fairbanks, spring breakup is proceeding as it always has. This year is different, though, noticed in the striking quiet of places that would usually be hopping.

One of those is the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, where spring semester stopped in mid-March and classes went online. Buildings there are locked and dark, with only the occasional person in possession of a key card walking in or out.

One exception to this is the Alaska State Virology Laboratory. Inside the building, people are busy testing swabs for COVID-19, the unseen entity that has taken over 2020.

For onlookers, this tidy structure off on its own is a bit of a mystery. The operators probably want it that way; inside, they process about 85,000 tests each year for HIV, hepatitis, the rabies virus, mumps, influenza, and many other viral infectious diseases.

For the last month, workers in the lab have taken on COVID-19 testing. Workers there are now accepting courier-truck deliveries of long-handled swabs encased in plastic. Those swabs, from all over Alaska, have been deep within the nostrils of people who might have the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

Among the eight people confirming or denying the presence of the virus is Kyle Dilliplaine, a UAF research technician.

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two community transmissions.” react to a crude-oil spill (thesis spoiler: they don’t Parker, who remembers last year’s flu tests relatlike it).

But he also has a skill that people at the lab needing to a school shutdown in Southeast and an “enored: he is able to run diagnostic tests for COVID-19, mous” mumps outbreak in Alaska the year before, using technical ability he developed at the Instisaid this year is different.

“This is the first time in human history that we’ve tute of Arctic Biology Genomics Core Laboratory. had a global pandemic lead to restricting this much There, he runs a DNA sequencer. That sophisticated human movement,” she wrote in an email. “We’ve machine helps researchers find, for example, what seen decreases in specimens testing positive for gene an arctic ground squirrel expresses when it hiother viruses. We suspect this is because of social bernates and lowers its body temperature below that Photo by Anna Rozell distancing and extra precautions being taken at groof an ice cube.

When his supervisor, microbiologist Mary Beth The Alaska State Virology Laboratory on the UAF cery stores and other public places. Shutting down campus Leigh, asked if Dilliplaine might help with COVschools has certainly helped with the spread of other ID-19 tests in the virology lab, he said yes. viruses.”

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“I’m washing my hands for about to explain this tiny presence that has changed all our Jayme Parker manages the lab, including the 20 to 25 minutes a day. I had to buy hand balm.” lives. dozen volunteers, some from UAF and others from Dilliplaine could be at home watching Netflix “It’s not a microbe,” he said. “It’s just this parFairbanks Memorial Hospital. and readying his master’s thesis for publication — ticle, that, once it contacts your cells, it forces you “They have doubled our staff,” she said by email. and he is doing those things, as well as writing grant to make copies of itself. It’s not reproducing outside “We couldn’t have done this without them.” proposals for possible Ph.D. work — but he savors of you. It’s just waiting for you.

FROM MERRILL FIELD 5TH What they have done is detect more than 100 the structure he getsACROSS “Every ON five toEAST 10 years, we get some kind of new from working at the lab. cases of COVID-19 from Alaska. Other labs around Nearly Dilliplaine said.

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Where this all ends is anyone’s guess, but Dilnow coming from the Fairbanks virology lab. number of hours.”

People are working at the campus lab most nights In addition to giving doctors results on CO- liplaine will remember this unique work for the rest until 10. The hours are longer, Parker said, but “we VID-19 tests, lab workers have been able to track of his life.

“I’m just glad I can help,” he said. deal in outbreaks every year, so this seems some- where Alaska cases of the virus originated. what normal.” on2020 our viral genome analysis, Alaska This column is provided as a public service by the 16 G r e a t L a n d e r M a t -“Based S u April These days are not normal for Dilliplaine, who COVID-19 were from various places, but mainly Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks, passes through two security doors to walk into the from the East Coast (of the U.S.)”, wrote Jack Chen, in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned lab. He also has to outfit himself in a room-specific deputy director of the lab. “There were also at least Rozell is a science writer at the institute.

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