Bismarck: The state’s female prison population has reached capacity, leaving some inmates in the custody of counties. The Bismarck Tribune reports that the state’s female prison population reached capacity for the first time in May. Under 2017 legislation, county inmates are transferred to state prisons based on the severity of crimes, medical needs and other factors. Last week, only six of 12 inmates intended for movement from county to state were admitted. The statewide system for women has a daily average capacity of 224 inmates. Donnell Preskey, who represents the North Dakota Association of Counties, says a mechanism must be established to reimburse counties for the cost of holding inmates who should be in state facilities.

The toy-sized potato harvesters, antique tractors, plows and combines built to scale in his shop are so incredibly detailed, they appear to have been created by somehow shrinking real machinery.

Steve Zimmerman, left, and his father Leroy Zimmerman discuss the tools and methods Leroy uses to build miniature farm equipment.

Pasi frowns, then leans across the desk and tenderly presses Einstein’s mustache back into place with his thumb.

The defect: the 2019 Ford Ranger recall says that the improperly torqued fasteners could allow the shift cable bracket to come loose, allowing the transmission to be in a gear other than that indicated by the shift lever. This could allow the driver to remove the ignition key with no instrument panel warning or chime indicating that the vehicle isn’t in park.

CHASSIS When it comes to 2-stroke weaponry, keeping weight down is key. It should come as no surprise then that the KTM 150 XC-W TPI is one of the lightest, slimmest and most agile offroad machines in its class.

“I can remember tracing an old tin can to make a wheel and putting little finishing nails in the wood wheel to make a steel wheel out of it,” Zimmerman said.

One of the things that stands out immediately with the Crystal Series 680X RGB are the clear glass panels, which make this feel a little more contemporary after a few years of varying degrees of dark tinting in most cases we’ve seen implementing tempered glass. But this is far more than another cases with a glass side panel (it also has a glass front and top panel), as its dual-chamber design – which has origins dating back to Corsair’s Air 540 which we reviewed way back in 2013 – offers a level of room and ease of build that is quite a departure from the typical mid-tower design.

I think of the black and red handprints left on the cave walls at Chauvet, of the painted red dancing figures with their outstretched arms I saw in a Norwegian sea-cave, of the spray-can hand stencil I saw on a catacomb wall in Paris. I think of the many people I have encountered in and through the underland who have been committed to shared human work rather than retreat and isolation. Many of them have been mappers, really, of networks of mutual relation, endeavoring to stitch their thinking into unfamiliar scales of time and space, seeking not the scattered jewels of personal epiphany but rather to enlarge the possible means by which people might move and think together across landscapes, in responsible knowledge of deep past, deep future, and the inhuman earth.

One problem that cropped up at about 1,300 miles is that the countershaft seal started to leak. At first, it just looked like excess chain lube seeping under the countershaft sprocket cover, but as the leak progressed, it became clear that the problem was an oil seal. The fix is pretty simple for a mechanic of average skills. Still, we’re waiting to have it done the next time we take the bike to be serviced. We just keep the engine clean and check the oil level frequently. 

Curtis Petzel, 60, of Arlington, was driving a tractor with a farm trailer westbound on Highway 19 when the farm trailer separated from the tractor and traveled into the eastbound lane and collided with the Fandriches’ motorcycle. The farm trailer and motorcycle both entered the eastbound ditch.

Far above us, waves crash eastward through the Gulf of Bothnia, the sea shifts under its cracked jacket of ice, a multinational workforce prepares a turbine housing to receive the largest blades ever fitted in a nuclear power station, the sun swings over a shattered Syria, atmospheric CO2 increases its parts per million, and the Knud Rasmussen glacier in Greenland hastens its calving into the fjord.