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Fulbright-Hays Seminars and Group Projects Abroad
Since 2004, LLILAS has worked with the Fulbright-Hays educator programs in the U.S. Department of Education. Two programs bring U.S. educators abroad for short-term summer study programs and related projects. Both programs require participants to create country-specific curriculum units that are complete and ready-to-use in K–16 classrooms. LLILAS edits and disseminates the curriculum units from all of the programs we have facilitated over the years; these are free and available for download from this site.
Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad (SA) provide short-term study and travel seminars abroad for U.S. educators in the social sciences and humanities for the purpose of improving their understanding and knowledge of the peoples and cultures of other countries. LLILAS organized the pre-departure orientation and now hosts the curriculum units developed by several SA programs.
For more information on programs and how to apply for a Seminar Abroad, please visit Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Bilateral Projects.
Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) provide grants to educational institutions to support overseas projects in training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies for teachers, students, and faculty engaged in a common endeavor. LLILAS has organized three seminars and curriculum development projects through the GPA program: Brazil in 2004 and 2010, and Mexico in 2006.
Previous Projects
2012: Colombia and Mexico: Exploring Culture and Society beyond the Headlines
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2011: Mexico in the XXIst Century: Dealing with Social and Cultural Diversity
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2011: Argentina: A Cultural Crossroads
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2010: Arts & Empowerment in Brazil
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2010: Inside Mexico: A Journey through History and Society
Read some of 2010's Mexico Curriculum Projects
2009: Down the Roads of Southern Mexico: History, Traditions, and Modern Challenges
Read some of 2009's Curriculum Projects
2008: In the Footsteps of the Mayan and Inca Peoples: The Indigenous Inheritance of Mexico and Peru
Read some of 2008's Curriculum Projects
2007: Learning and the Land: How Sustainable Development Can Build a Strong Educational Foundation - Brazil
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2006: Seminar and Curriculum Development Project on the Performing Arts in Mexico
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2005: Sustainability and Development in Action - Ecuador as a Case Study
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2004: Southern Cone Exploration: Argentina and Peru
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2004: Study Seminar and Curriculum Development Project in Brazil
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Although CWD has existed for at least 40 years, we still do not know how the disease will ultimately impact deer and elk populations. Early mathematical modeling suggested that CWD could eliminate entire populations of deer or elk. Few scientists today believe that is likely. Rather, more recent models suggest that CWD will eventually decrease the population, sometimes substantially, but over time the population will rebound and stabilize, albeit at levels less than those prior to the disease's arrival.
Despite herculean efforts by some state and provincial wildlife management agencies to stop CWD, these efforts have not stopped or controlled the spread of CWD. Today, there are many commonly accepted management practices (i.e. targeted/individual animal removal, annual statewide surveillance, carcass transportation regulations) adopted by most states and provinces, including Wyoming, to help slow the spread of CWD. Few wildlife professionals today think that CWD can be eradicated once it becomes established.
Studies conducted by the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, the Colorado Division of Wildlife, and the University of Wyoming concluded that it is highly unlikely that domestic cattle can contract CWD. These conclusions were based on the following findings:
1. After 10 years, 10 cattle given a single oral inoculum of CWD showed no signs of disease.
2. After 10 years, 20 cattle living amongst CWD-infected deer and elk showed no signs of disease.

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Below is the poem entitled Is anytime the right time which was written by poet
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Leonard Taormina
Silent echoes pierce my mind;
As logic spins out of control and a blinding light illuminates;
The very vortex of most gathered conceptualities.
But I know one must not dally for long;
For it may disrupt continuance.
Perhaps like an atom that has mutated;
Both negative and positive; nuclear in fashion;
It dictates urgency for;
To terry too long could cause fusion and;
Thus desired direction becomes the whim of fate.
But these are only ramblings for;
There are no real answers;
There's only the search for the way out;
Because this is only a piece in a puzzle depicting a vastness;
Too far beyond the reach of our current conceptions
And the echoes—it is the sound of we the repeaters;
Waiting for our time when choice might return.


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News about DNA, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Jul. 21, 2015
Hannah Landenmark study in journal PLoS Biology calculates global biodiversity using new metric of amount of DNA found on Earth; study reports Earth contains around 50 trillion trillion trillion DNA base pairs. MORE
Jun. 23, 2015
Atlanta jury awards more than $2 million to Atlas Logistics Group Retail Services workers who were required to submit to DNA samples in effort to identify out who had been defecating in warehouse. MORE
Jun. 23, 2015
DNA matching Richard W Matt and David Sweat, murderers who escaped from Clinton Correctional Facility in upstate New York, is found in cabin 15 miles from prison; Matt and Sweat were discovered missing from prison on June 6. MORE
Jun. 23, 2015
DNA evidence extracted from elephant dung, tissue and hair could help researchers to identify origins of illegal ivory and target poachers. MORE
Jun. 20, 2015
Researchers have created fuller picture of how Ebola virus spread and evolved during 2014 outbreak by sequencing genomes of viruses from over 400 patients in Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia. MORE
Jun. 19, 2015
Study published in journal Nature finds that Kennewick Man, 8,500-year-old skeleton that was discovered in Washington state riverbed, has no European DNA, and that he was likely most closely related to Native Americans; remains became subject of controversy as various groups attempted to claim them. MORE
Jun. 18, 2015
London-based skincare store GeneU uses DNA testing to match treatments to each customer. MORE
Jun. 16, 2015
Two studies in journal Nature present largest examinations ever done of ancient European DNA, extracted from 170 skeletons found in countries from Spain to Russia; both studies show Europeans descend from three groups who entered area at different stages in history. MORE
Jun. 2, 2015
Atlanta judge rules that Atlanta warehouse owner Atlas Logistics Group Retail Services violated Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act when it tested DNA of two men to determine if they had been leaving piles of feces around workplace; decision in unusual case shows scope of law goes beyond its original intent. MORE
May. 24, 2015
Mat Johnson Lives essay describes taking DNA test in order to clear up question of how black he really is, and having one done for his mother as well; notes that there are issues of identity that cannot be resolved by finding out details of one's racial heritage. MORE
May. 19, 2015
Researchers are making progress in using immunotherapy to fight cancer, or using DNA mutations inherent in immune system to beat cancer at its own game; questions remain, however, as to why treatments work better against some cancers than others and why some patients do not respond. MORE
May. 15, 2015
National Institute of Standards and Technology announces new reference standards that could be used to ensure accuracy of DNA testing; marks important step towards new era in the use of genetic medicine. MORE
May. 12, 2015
Profile of Dr Jennifer A Doudna, biochemist at University of California, Berkeley, who is fighting for control of potentially highly profitable intellectual property rights to what is known as the Crispr-Cas9 genome editing technique; Doudna, who helped discover the process, is also actively working to deepen scientific community's understanding of bioethics concerns that have arisen from the revelation of this new way to alter DNA. MORE
May. 5, 2015
Dr Love Dalen study published online in Current Biology reports that researchers have sequenced DNA of woolly mammoth and have determined that species most likely died out on an isolated island from inbreeding. MORE
May. 2, 2015
Law enforcement authorities arrest Joseph Giardala at Los Angeles International Airport and return him to New York to face charges after DNA evidence links him to 1995 rape case in West Village; case is latest effort by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr to use DNA to solve cold cases. MORE
Apr. 24, 2015
Chinese researchers try and fail to permanently alter DNA in human embryos; widely-predicted failure follows outcry from scientific community, which had called for halt to research until it could be proved safe and until ethical debate could proceed; researchers were attempting to alter DNA in manner that would be passed on to future generations. MORE
Apr. 5, 2015
DNA-matching web sites have brought to forefront stories of babies illegally sold by Gertrude Pitkanen of Butte, Mont, to adoptive couples through the 1950s; baby-sellers like Pitkanen, midwife who also performed illegal and sometimes fatal abortions, are part of mid-20th century American subculture; so-called Gertie's Babies, who have found relatives through sites, say they are unique as they never found living biological parents due to how securely secrets were kept. MORE
Mar. 11, 2015
DNA study published in online digital library bioRxiv reports that geneticists in Great Britain have found Armenians are mix of ancient populations that existed from 3000 to 2000 BC; period confirms date given by fifth century historian Movses Khorenatsi for founding of Armenia. MORE
Mar. 8, 2015
Scientific community is engaged in debate about whether majority of any given genome's DNA actually serves purpose; recent research has caused some to question idea, and debate is in many ways latest skirmish in intellectual battle that has been going on for 200 years. MORE
Mar. 3, 2015
Study in journal Science concludes that wheat has existed in Great Britain for 8,000 years, according to DNA evidence, suggesting that it made its way from Neolithic farmers of Southern Europe to Mesolithic hunter-gatherers of Britain. MORE
Feb. 24, 2015
Scientists are developing tools that allow investigators to create facial image of suspect using DNA found at crime scene; process, known as forensic DNA phenotyping, has raised concerns among some who question technology's accuracy or warn that it could increase racial profiling or lead to privacy violations. MORE
Feb. 24, 2015
Study in journal Current Biology shows that mice embryos injected with bits of human DNA grow brains 12 percent larger than embryos injected with chimpanzee genes, demonstrating role that gene sequence HARE5 plays in human brain development. MORE
Jan. 27, 2015
Scientists are finding that they can confirm presence of animal species in a particular location and track their movements by collecting animal's DNA that was shed in environment; DNA samples may persist in area for weeks, allowing researchers to detect invasive and resurgent species, animal diversity, and, perhaps eventually, to measure animal populations. MORE
Jan. 25, 2015
Pres Obama plans to request hundreds of millions of dollars to fund research into medical treatments attuned to specific patients' DNA and other characteristics; some experts consider so-called 'personalized medicine' or 'individualized medicine' to be forefront of field. MORE
Dec. 4, 2014
California's First District Court of Appeal strikes down state law requiring collection of DNA from anyone arrested on suspicion of committing a felony, citing state Constitution's ban on unreasonable search and seizure. MORE
Dec. 4, 2014
Nobel laureate James D Watson, a pioneer in DNA science, will auction his prize medal and donate much of proceeds to educational institutions; move is part of Watson's effort to redeem himself after making offensive remarks about race in 2007 that tarnished his reputation. MORE
Dec. 2, 2014
DNA analysis of bite marks on harbor porpoises shows that gray seals are often responsible for wounds. MORE
Nov. 18, 2014
Research shows that obtaining DNA swab from fang mark of snake bite can accurately identify type of snake, helping medical professionals to administer correct antivenin. MORE
Nov. 10, 2014
Office of Chief Medical Examiner holds New York City Missing Persons Day to help identify the roughly 1,200 bodies they have received since about 1990 that they have been unable to identify; relatives gather to offer DNA samples, which will be used to create a corresponding forensic number that is then crosschecked against genetic information in a city database and others maintained by municipalities across the country. MORE
Oct. 23, 2014
Study in journal Nature reports that scientists have reconstructed genome of man who lived 45,000 years ago, by far the oldest genetic record ever obtained from modern humans; research provides new clues to expansion of modern humans from Africa into Europe and Asia, as well as strong evidence that early humans interbred with Neanderthals. MORE
Sep. 16, 2014
Prosecutors in Massachusetts hope that judge will admit cutting-edge DNA test as evidence that they say shows that Dwayne McNair, and not his twin brother Dwight, committed rape and robbery in 2004; McNair's case could be breakthrough for criminal cases involving identical twins. MORE
Aug. 28, 2014
Experts working to identify the victims of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 say they have positively identified 173 individuals from DNA samples. MORE
Aug. 12, 2014
Food and Drug Administration approves first screening test for colon cancer that uses patients' DNA to help spot potentially deadly tumors and growths. MORE
Jul. 27, 2014
Italian police link Massimo Giuseppe Bossetti to 2011 murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio after embarking on country's largest DNA dragnet, taking genetic samples from nearly 22,000 people; DNA testing also unexpectedly revealed that Bossetti was the illegitimate son of a man who had died in 1999, setting off debate over risks of privacy violations in criminal investigations involving DNA searches. MORE
Jul. 15, 2014
Dr Bryan Sykes study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B performs first rigorous genetic analysis of three dozen hair samples that collectors claim came from undiscovered living humanoids, such as the Yeti or Sasquatch; study reveals that hairs came from range of known creatures, from humans to dogs. MORE
Jun. 17, 2014
Study published in journal Nature Communications reports that researchers are able to determine where strain of malaria originated by using DNA 'bar code' of 23 short snips from genes of parasites. MORE
Jun. 5, 2014
Researchers at University of California, San Francisco, use DNA sequencing to pinpoint, within 48 hours, what had been causing 14-year-old Joshua Osborn's brain to swell for weeks; breakthrough holds great promise for diagnostics, but experts say it will be years before method is in widespread use; case is reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. MORE
May. 20, 2014
Adam Liptak Sidebar column; South Carolina Supreme Court will decide whether to hear appeal of Billy Wayne Cope, who claims his confessions in 2001 rape and murder of his daughter were coerced; DNA tests identified a different man, James Sanders, as the perpetrator. MORE
May. 8, 2014
Scientists at Scripps Research Institute create first living organism with artificial DNA, taking significant step toward altering the fundamental alphabet of life; accomplishment could lead to new antibiotics, vaccines and other products, though a lot more work needs to be done before this is practical; research, published online in journal Nature, is bound to raise safety concerns and questions about whether humans are playing God. MORE
Apr. 29, 2014
Study in journal PLoS One reports that Harvard researchers generated hemihelix, helix that changes direction midway, while working with complex rubber band; unusual shape is variation on helix often associated with DNA strand. MORE
Apr. 25, 2014
Op-Ed article by evolutionary geneticist Svante Paabo warns against using sequenced genomes of Neanderthals to re-create Neanderthal individuals; contends from an ethical perspective such an idea should be condemned, and argues that using stem cells to create cells and tissues in test tubes for research is far more ethically defensible and technically feasible. MORE
Mar. 4, 2014
Scientists have revealed that unusual repeating DNA sequence occurring next to gene in common bacterium are part of sophisticated immune system used to fight viruses; molecular system, known as Crispr, may provide scientists with power to edit genome and make precise changes to DNA of humans, essentially rewriting code of life. MORE
Feb. 23, 2014
Municipal administration in Naples, Italy, decides to take DNA samples of dog waste on the sidewalks so that they may track down owners who do not pick up after their dogs; cutting-edge campaign is attempt to address widespread urban problem. MORE
Feb. 13, 2014
British scientists will grind up some of King Richard III's bones to try to sequence his genetic code, about a year and a half after discovery of his corpse. MORE
Feb. 13, 2014
British scientists will grind up some of King Richard III's bones to try to sequence his genetic code, about a year and a half after discovery of his corpse. MORE
Feb. 9, 2014
Anne Eisenberg Novelties column holds that as technology becomes more sophisticated, genomic sequencing will inevitably expand into the world of newborns, but the process has both medical and ethical implications. MORE
Jan. 30, 2014
Two studies show how the legacy of Neanderthals endures 30,000 years after their extinction, finding Neanderthal genes in skin and hair that may have helped humans evolve; findings appear in journals Nature and Science. MORE
Jan. 25, 2014
Federal Bureau of Investigation, in review of national DNA database, has identified nearly 170 crime scene profiles that likely contain errors, some result of handwriting mistakes or interpretation errors by lab technicians; New York State authorities have also turned up mistakes in DNA profiles in New York's database; in most cases errors have impeded investigations rather than leading to identification of new suspects. MORE
Jan. 22, 2014
New York City medical examiner says DNA tests confirm that remains found along rocks in College Point, Queens, are of Avonte Oquendo, autistic boy who disappeared from his school in Queens on Oct 4, 2013; police say the investigation into his death will continue. MORE
Jan. 21, 2014
Scientists have enlisted color coding in effort to better understand X chromosomes, genetically engineering active chromosomes to produce different colors when exposed to proteins; research may help explain phenomenon of X-chromosome inactivation, in which females shut down X chromosome in every cell, and its effects on males and females. MORE
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Science Times: Beyond the Gene
A special Science Times section on genetics published on Nov. 11, 2008.
Articles About DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid)
Using DNA to Fight Dog Owners' Discourtesy in Brooklyn
Appeals to decency have failed, so the operators of a condominium in Brooklyn Heights turned to science to combat dog waste in the halls and elevators.
August 2, 2015, Sunday
MORE ON DNA (DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID) AND: Dogs , One Brooklyn Bridge Park (Brooklyn, NY, Apartments) , Waste Materials and Disposal , DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) , Brooklyn Heights (Brooklyn, NY)
Police Identify Man Whose Severed Legs Were Found in New Haven
DNA tests determined that a pair of human legs found in a plastic bag by a train station in Connecticut belonged to a 54-year-old homeless man who was last seen alive on May 20.
July 28, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON DNA (DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID) AND: Murders, Attempted Murders and Homicides , Roberson, Ray , Homeless Persons , DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) , Stations and Terminals (Passenger) , Legs , New Haven (Conn)
Scientists Trace an Ancient DNA Link Between Amazonians and Australasians
Two papers agree that some people in the Brazilian Amazon are distant relations of indigenous Australians, New Guineans and other Australasians, but they disagree on the source of the ancestry.
July 22, 2015, Wednesday
MORE ON DNA (DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID) AND: Genetics and Heredity , Nature (Journal) , Science (Journal) , DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) , Archaeology and Anthropology , Genealogy , Research , Science and Technology , Australia , Brazil
Book Review: Taking on 'The Vital Question' About Life
The biochemist Nick Lane offers an eloquent suite of answers about evolution, looking deeper than a warm, little pond and a lightning strike.
July 21, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON DNA (DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID) AND: Books and Literature , Lane, Nick , Darwin, Charles Robert , Evolution (Biology) , Genetics and Heredity , DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) , Biology and Biochemistry , Physics , Mitochondria , The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life (Book)
Counting All the DNA on Earth
Hint: It takes an awful lot of trillions to come up with this sort of estimate for global biodiversity, a group of researchers in Scotland has found.
July 21, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON DNA (DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID) AND: DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) , Biodiversity , PLoS Biology (Journal) , Earth
Rhode Island Judge Vacates Conviction in Grisly 1982 Murder
A judge cited tainted police tactics in vacating the conviction of Raymond D. Tempest Jr. in the 1982 killing of a former homecoming queen.
July 14, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON DNA (DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID) AND: Murders, Attempted Murders and Homicides , Forensic Science , DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) , Woonsocket (RI) , Rhode Island
Georgia: $2.2. Million Penalty for Illegal DNA Testing
A jury in Atlanta awarded $2,225,000 on Monday to two warehouse workers whose employer required them to submit DNA samples in violation of the federal Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act.
June 23, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON DNA (DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID) AND: DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) , Atlas Logistics Group Retail Services , Feces , Atlanta (Ga) , Discrimination
DNA Matching 2 Escapees Is Found in Cabin 15 Miles From Prison
The forensic evidence indicated that Richard W. Matt and David Sweat had been in Franklin County, N.Y., 15 miles west of the Clinton Correctional Facility, within the last 48 hours.
June 23, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON DNA (DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID) AND: Matt, Richard W (1967- ) , Sweat, David P (1980- ) , Prison Escapes , Friendship (NY) , Clinton Correctional Facility , DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) , Fugitives , Dannemora (NY)
DNA May Help Track Ivory Poachers
DNA evidence from elephant dung, tissue and hair can help identify the origins of illegal ivory, researchers have found.
June 23, 2015, Tuesday
MORE ON DNA (DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID) AND: Ivory , DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) , Poaching (Wildlife) , Elephants
Genome Studies Show How Ebola Spread Initially
Scientists have developed a fuller picture of how the virus spread and evolved by tracking mutations in its genome.
June 20, 2015, Saturday
MORE ON DNA (DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID) AND: Ebola Virus , Epidemics , DNA (Deoxyribonucleic Acid) , Guinea , Liberia , Sierra Leone , Genetics and Heredity
The DNA Age: A Series
Amy Harmon reports on the impact of new genetic technology on American life.
The DNA Age: Genetic Kin
Two families are brought together by an extremely rare genetic disorder.
Exonerated, Freed, and What Happened Then
The Times interviewed 137 exonerated prisoners about their lives since leaving prison. The findings are presented, along with dozens of audio interviews and profiles.
Down Syndrome
Some parents of children with Down syndrome want prospective parents to know the positive side of raising a child with the genetic condition.
When a DNA Test Shows a Lethal Fate
Katharine Moser is learning to live with the knowledge that she will inevitably develop Huntington's disease.
Embryo Screening
The Times's Amy Harmon talks about the increasingly common practice of the embryo screening procedure known as PGD.
Amy Harmon on Genetic Tests
Genetic testing, once an obscure tool for scientists, has begun to influence everyday lives in many ways.
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August 4, 2015
TABOR, Texas We have an update to a story on a oilfield pipeline coming through our area we first told you about last week.
Gendron Homegrown Tomato Farm in Tabor had been fighting a lawsuit filed by BridgeTex Pipeline Company which is building a 20 inch crude oil pipeline from Colorado City to the Gulf Coast.
Patrick Gendron tells us they settled with the pipeline company Monday night after BridgeTex agreed to more concessions including not using herbicides along an easement and agreeing not to disturb an embankment which provides protection for the property.
The pipeline will impact about a quarter acre of their property along Zweifel Road.
A special commission would have decided the value of the agreement Tuesday had the Gendrons not signed an agreement.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
Trek's New Stache
The five inch travel fork sounds like a lot, until you set the sag at 1" with proper pressure. The sixty eight degree head angle sounds way slack, again, until it sags down to around a normal sixty nine or so. Overall this bike is a big kitten. It's light enough to be easy to ride, and very stable through rough terrain.
This bike is our shop demo bike, and is built very similar to the stock bikes from Trek. Built with a full Shimano SLX parts kit, this bike is a great value for the performance. SLX is one of our favorite choices for parts that work and don't break the bank. It looks pretty great too!
Shimano's clutch type shadow derailleurs go a long ways towards making chain slap a thing of the past. These keep functions quiet, and shift very precisely. An on/off switch allows the user to turn the clutch off to facilitate easy wheel removal. Shown here is the captured 142mm rear axle that keeps the rear end all together.
The wheels on this bike are built with Bontrager's excellent Duster tubeless rims. Paired with their new 29-3 2.3" tubeless tires made for easy tubeless set up with just a floor pump. These rims build up very well, and are quite strong while being fairly light. They are some of my favorites.
Fox's Float 32 fork is light and supple. The tire clearance is generous, and it looks and rides great. The tread pattern on the 29-3 is quite nice. It rolls and hooks up well, and at just over 700 gms it's not a pig either. It's a high volume, fast rolling tire that will work very well for a lot of folks.
Shimano's SLX shifters work great as advertised. The brakes are a standout component though. These easily out perform most of the brakes I have ever used, and they are quite reasonably priced to boot.
Fox's new Climb, Trail, Descend, (CTD,) damper on the Float works great. It's easy to adjust, and does exactly what it says. The clicks in between each step are nice and tactile, and the knob is easy to manipulate.
I'm thrilled to see the return of these top caps on newer Trek mountain bikes. I have one form a long time ago, and it's made the rounds on some of my favorite bikes over the years. Good words to live by.
The Trek Stache is a great bike. It rides well, looks great, and is quite affordable for the quality of components. Stop by the shop and take this one out for a ride!
4 comments:
- Exhausted_Auk said...
Are you saying that Bontrager has rims available separately for wheelbuilders? They do not advertise this on their web site, just complete wheels.
- Ben Witt said...
That is correct. Most rims are available to match their stock wheels. Some are only made in 28h, these are also available in 32 hole drilling in black or silver as pictured. It is my understanding that you need to be a Trek bike or part dealer to have access to these though, which is likely why many smaller builders don't advertise their availability.
- Jason Fuller said...
I like how I can see the critter's progress along the tire from shot to shot.
Also, funny how geometry is so location-specific. Around here (north shore), 68 is pretty steep for a HTA!
- Ben Witt said...
I thought the grasshopper added something nice.
I'll agree on the head tube angle point. That very fact is why I said they've marketed this wrong IMO. I think the bike fits a lot more riders than will be assumed looking at Trek ads. The bike is pretty normal for trail XC around here, which is albeit quite tame compared to where you are.


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GW GroW Garden
The GroW Garden is a collaborative project that brings together students, faculty, staff and the community to engage in growing food in an urban environment. The garden was the 2011 recipient of a Nature's Path Gardens for Good grant, and the award is being used to expand and enhance GW's garden. A majority of the produce from the garden is donated to Miriam's Kitchen, a local soup kitchen in the area. The Food Justice Alliance (more information below) has been instrumental in seeing this project take form. Watch the garden unfold in this video.
As of summer 2014, the GroW Garden will be contributing to the Freshfarm Markets Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Program. This program gives community members the opportunity to purchase a share of produce that can be picked up at any of the three farmers market locations. For more information and to sign up for a share, visit the CSA website.
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The Urban Food Task Force is an initiative of George Washington faculty, students, staff, and volunteers who share an interest in healthy eating, sustainable food production, and food policy. Its mission is to identify and recommend ways in which the university might further support scholarship and instruction on sustainable urban food policies and related issues; provide practical information on, and training in, healthy eating and food preparation to interested students and the greater GW community; and offer healthy and sustainable food choices to students, faculty and staff.
Meatless Mondays
Meatless Mondays take place in J Street and Pelham Commons. Vegetarian meals are highlighted and students are educated about the benefits of going meatless. Animal agriculture has been implicated by the United Nations as one of the top contributors to global environmental problems, due to its vast use of water, land, and fossil fuels, and high carbon dioxide and methane emissions. Prominent environmental organizations have advocated for reduced meat consumption. According to Environmental Defense Fund, "If every American skipped one meal of chicken per week and substituted vegetables and grains…the carbon dioxide savings would be the same as taking more than half a million cars off of U.S. roads." Meatless Mondays at GW is a partnership between Sodexo, Campus Support Services and the Office of Sustainability.
The Real Food Challenge
The Real Food Challenge (RFC) is a national, student-led initiative that is geared towards providing healthy, sustainably harvested, local/community-based, and fair-trade foods to students in colleges and universities throughout the United States. In April 2014, GW signed the Real Food Challenge Commitment, agreeing to work towards procuring 20% of Real Food by 2020.
The Food Working Group
The Food Working Group works to implement sustainability projects in Sodexo run facilities and on campus more broadly. To date, the group has been instrumental in bringing biodegradable plate ware to J Street and to Pelham Commons as well as increasing signage about these products. Other focus areas include increasing local food options, and expanding composting options.
GW runs a front-of-house pilot composting program in Pelham Commons at the Mount Vernon Campus. Current studies are underway to investigate the feasibility of bringing composting to our Foggy Bottom facilities.
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The White House held its first ever summit on Climate Change and Public Health on June 23. The event brought together senior White House officials, health professionals, academics and other important stakeholders with the goal of providing communities with the information and tools they need to protect public health in the face of climate change.
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For the past few months, we've been collecting comments in support of a life-saving proposal to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants. The comment period for the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Clean Power Plan ended earlier this week, and thanks to our fantastic supporters from across the country, we helped submit over 48,000 comments in support of the regulation!
Next week, the U.S. Senate will vote on S. 2280 which would approve the Keystone XL (KXL) pipeline. The proposed pipeline would stretch 1,700 miles from Alberta, Canada to the Gulf Coast, carrying the dirtiest oil on the planet through the U.S. to be refined and then shipped overseas to other countries.
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With an array of project management software products available in the marketplace, it's difficult to find the one that doesn't cause disappointment after purchase. Depending on needs, a company may focus on any or all of the following: scheduling, cost control, budget management, resource allocation, communication, quality management, documentation and project complexity. To better understand what different project management products can provide and how they relate to specific businesses, three companies and their project management software are highlighted.
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Active Collab, developed by A51, is a project management and collaboration tool that can be set up on a company's own server or local network. Brian Whyers is president of Artistic Digital, a full service graphic and web design concept, illustration and full advertising collateral production services company in Evanston, Illinois. He uses it to work with his team and clients. Active Collab allows Whyers to keep full control of his data. He has been using this project management software for a little over a year.
Before selecting Active Collab, Whyers was using Filemaker Pro database, a custom database and layouts product, which was used for regular weekly output and as necessary in conjunction with GoDaddy calendars. Artistic Digital's business is very much about details, literally down to the comma and period. "As volume increased, the number of full-time employees increased and email accounts that we needed to keep track of grew. So, a centralized, documented area for all communications, timing, source files, etc. was discussed at a company production meeting," he says.
Whyers "test drove" four or five products. Most of them were either without significant support or too heavy (server-side size and CPU usage) and required a fairly extensive learning curve that his employees and clients would need to come up-to-speed. "The latter was a particularly key consideration, in that it needed to be readily used by our clients to do what we envisioned," Whyers points out.
Whyers believes that Active Collab is a better project management product for his business for the following reasons:
- The code resides on one of his servers, key for his use as it holds sensitive data.
- It's lighter with a relatively short learning curve.
- Active Collab is PHP/SQL-based so he can adjust code when necessary.
- It's relatively inexpensive.
- Active Collab had most of the features he was seeking.
Active Collab makes Whyer's business run more smoothly by centralizing all items associated with a project. This addresses a number of issues by tracking communications. It also speeds task completion so that when delivered to the system, all persons associated with that ticket or discussion are immediately notified so action can be taken. The project management software also identifies "out of scope" items and/or verification of communication from a client for billing purposes. In addition, the project management software allows for an easy way to move large files.
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Active Collab offers permission based access, which allows Whyers to let clients or employees see or not see information. Other important features include a short learning curve, php/mySQL based platform, local server control, and tested, 'no bugs' reliability.
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A Pine County woman shot in the chest by her ex-husband in early December continues to recover, just over a month later.
According to her daughter's Facebook page, Dawn Christen is still recovering from her wound after the gunshot damaged her stomach, lung, and diaphragm.
Christen was in the process of obtaining a restraining order against her ex-husband, Daniel Shilts, when he broke into her home near Brooke Park, Minn, on December 5 and shot her before killing himself.
There is a benefit for Christen on February 23 at Wings North in Pine City.
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After an hour and 20 minutes of largely steering clear of criticizing Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich (finally) offered up a slight--albeit an oblique one--against the former Bay State governor.
"I sometimes get accused of using language that is too strong. So I've been standing here editing. I'm very concerned about not appearing zany," he said, to an uproar of laughter from the audience.
That was a reference to a Romney interview with The New York Times from Wednesday, in which the former governor said, "Zany is great in a campaign. It's great on talk radio. It's great in print, it makes for fun reading. But in terms of a president, we need a leader, and a leader needs to be someone who can bring Americans together."
Thursday night's performances from Romney and Gingrich represented something of a cease-fire after several days on the campaign trail in which the two sides have been launching barbs against one another; Romney, in particular, has significantly ramped up his criticism of Gingrich in the media, doing national interviews rife with criticisms directed at the former House speaker. On Thursday night, however, barbs between the two candidates were hard to come by.


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Sylvia Carrizales is a San Antonio native and communications professional who has loved Tejano music since she first heard it in the early 1990s. Sylvia started writing about the Tejano music scene in 1995 while a student at John Jay High School where she started a column for the school's paper called "Tejano Beat."
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Just as Shelly Lares celebrates her birthday bash Tejano style tonight, Grammy-winning Tejano (conjunto, folk, rock, etc.) group Los Texmaniacs, will play a Friday night birthday concert at Moses Rose's Hideout, 518 E. Houston St. The concert is open to the public. The celebration is not for any member of the Texmaniacs, but for a friend […] [Read More]
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Catherine Dent To Read From New Story Collection
Published on March 10, 2014
Catherine Zobal Dent, assistant professor of English and creative writing, will read from her new short story collection, "Unfinished Stories of Girls," at 7 p.m. March 13 at Isaacs Auditorium in Seibert Hall at Susquehanna University. She will be joined by Ann Piper, associate professor of art, whose artwork is featured in the book. The event is free and open to the public.
The 16 stories of Dent's debut collection, to be published by Fomite on May 1, are framed by the quiet yet violent towns, fields and riverbeds of tidewater Maryland. The reader is invited inside the lives of people who are trying to figure out the gleaming, marshy world. A girl in the tiny town of Cordova believes she is receiving holy instructions to save men through sex. An Oxford housekeeper serves time in prison for forging employers' signatures. A jewelry clerk and an undercover cop from Cambridge live in a doomed TV marriage. The tidewater community stews in its guilt over a hit-and-run accident that leaves a child dead.
Each story is paired with a drawing or painting by Dent's friend and colleague, Ann Piper.
"Ann's art speaks to me," says Dent. "Her paintings and drawings are simultaneously narrative and symbolic. And so emotional, so visceral. One thing I like about the pairings is that they increase the possibilities for each story. Unlike illustrations, which can have the effect of narrowing the imagination, the visual and literary pairings stretch the imagination further."
Dent teaches workshops in fiction writing, as well as literature and composition courses. Her fiction and reviews have appeared in numerous journals, including Harvard Review, North American Review, Green Mountains Review and PANK. She is the faculty president of the Forum of Undergraduate Student Editors (FUSE) and is adviser of the FUSE chapter at Susquehanna and the undergraduate journal, Susquehanna Review.
Piper teaches studio art at Susquehanna, and her work has been shown in exhibitions nationwide. She is the recipient of many awards, including an artist's residency in Roswell, N.M., and has been featured in publications such as "The Perception of Appearance: A Decade of American Contemporary Figurative Drawing," curated by Norman Lundin.


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Patrice Evra's third goal of the season after 16 minutes of play gave United the lead at the Liberty Stadium, shortly before Michu equalised.
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I have some good news and some bad news. First, the bad.
This girl is home sick with the flu today, and oh. my. gosh. this thing really took the wind out of me. Fever, aches, upset stomach, you name it.
I'm lucky enough to be camping out at my grandparent's cozy apartment until I feel better, and I've got an arsenal of products from the drugstore to (hopefully) help speed up that process.
Now, for the good news: I have an incredibly delicious recipe to share with you all today.
Last week Alysha made a cranberry swirl bread and mentioned that she was on the hunt for a cinnamon raisin swirl bread. I've never been a big fan of raisins, but for some reason I couldn't get it out of my head.
I had all the ingredients on hand, so I found this recipe on The Kitchn and got to work while watching Sarah's Key on Friday night (a great movie and even better book, by the way!).
Before the bread was even done, I knew it was going to be good based on the smell coming from my oven. So sweet and delicious.
Once the bread was finished and cooled, we dug in. The result was a perfectly moist and slightly sweet bread with a nice ratio of perfectly plump raisins.
Even though the bread was fairly time consuming to make, it was so worth the effort. I snacked on the bread all weekend and had finished the entire loaf by Sunday morning!
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- 1.5 teaspoons active dry yeast
- ½ cup skim milk
- ⅛ cup unsalted butter, melted
- 2 teaspoons salt
- 2¾ cups all-purpose flour
- For the filling:
- ¼ cup granulated white sugar
- 2¼ teaspoons cinnamon
- 1 large egg beaten with 2 teaspoons warm water
- Put the raisins in a small bowl and cover with hot water. Let plump for at least 10 minutes. Drain and set aside, reserving the water.
- Pour ½ cup of the drained raisin water into the bowl of a standing mixer or large mixing bowl. Sprinkle the yeast over top. Let sit a few minutes, then stir to fully dissolve the yeast into the water.
- Stir the milk, butter, and salt into the water. Add the flour and stir to form a shaggy dough. Knead in your mixer on low speed with a dough hook or knead by hand for 8-10 minutes to form a smooth, slightly tacky dough. If the dough is still very sticky (think: bubble gum), add a ¼ cup additional flour. The dough is ready when it forms a ball without sagging and quickly springs back when poked.
- Toss the raisins with a few tablespoons of flour to absorb any residual moisture. With the mixer on gradually add them to the bowl and continue kneading until they are evenly distributed. (If kneading by hand, turn the dough out onto your work surface and pat it into an oval. Sprinkled about half the raisins over the top and fold the dough like a letter. Pat it into an oval again, sprinkle the remaining raisins, and fold it again. Knead the dough by hand for a few minutes to distribute the raisins through the dough.
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- Let the loaf rise until mounded over the top of the pan and pillowy, 30-40 minutes. Halfway through rising, preheat the oven to 375° F.
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PARIS — Wearing a scarf to mask his face, the gunman sneaked into the posh Cannes hotel and held up a diamond show as three security guards looked on, then fled on foot about a minute later. In the end, he made off with a breathtaking $136 million worth of valuables — the biggest jewelry heist in years, maybe ever.
It was a French Riviera robbery that might make Hollywood scriptwriters smile. And it even happened at a hotel that was featured in Alfred Hitchcock's jewel-encrusted thriller "To Catch a Thief."
On Monday, a state prosecutor provided new details about the brazen heist a day earlier at the Carlton Intercontinental hotel — not least that the loot was actually worth more than twice the (euro) 40 million ($53 million) estimate that police had first announced.
The noontime caper Sunday along the town's seaside promenade, La Croisette — a playground for the rich and famous, sunbathing tourists, and most notably, world cinema stars every year — looked set to dwarf the value of two other jewelry thefts in the Riviera during the Cannes Film Festival in May.
It also could eclipse two other massive heists over the last decade. In 2008, thieves — some dressed as women — stole $118 million in rings, necklaces and luxury watches from the Harry Winston store in Paris. A robbery five years earlier at Belgium's Antwerp Diamond Center netted an estimated $100 million.
Philippe Vique, assistant prosecutor in the nearby town of Grasse, said the show's Dubai-based organizer — whom he would not identify — had carried out a more complete inventory of the jewelry by Monday, and came up with the $136 million figure.
In a telephone interview with The Associated Press, Vique described a canny, quick and logistically simple break-in.
So far, the suspect is believed to have acted alone. He wore a scarf, cap and gloves, and somehow got into the ground-floor showroom through the hotel's French doors, which open out onto a terrace on the Croisette — not the main entrance.
The suspect then held up the show participants with a handgun, took the valuables, and fled through a side door onto a perpendicular street.
"He took a bag containing a briefcase and a small box," Vique said. Rings, earrings and pendants were inside the bag. "He left on foot ... it was very fast."
As the suspect exited through the side door in his getaway, a few jewels spilled out of the bag and were quickly recovered.
The holdup itself took about a minute — with three private security guards, two vendors, and a show manager on hand, Vique said. No customers were present at the time, and no police were deployed at the hotel.
"This was a private event — so it had private security," the prosecutor said. It was not immediately clear whether the security guards were armed.
"I wouldn't say it was easily done — opening a locked door," Vique said, wondering: "Why was he able to open this door?"
The jewelry was part of a summertime display centering on the prestigious Leviev diamond house, owned by Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev. It was to run until the end of August.
The show was hardly low-key. Large banners adorned with pictures of diamond rings or necklaces over Leviev's rose-themed background were draped over the street-front terrace on the Croisette.
A Leviev spokesman declined to comment. A day earlier, the company issued a statement saying its officials were cooperating with authorities and were relieved that no one was injured in the robbery.
The Carlton, in a statement, confirmed the robbery had happened and said none of its employees or guests "were involved in or affected by the incident." The hotel said it was cooperating with police and would not comment further on the criminal investigation.
Vique said French authorities were pursuing all possible leads — which he would not describe — and reviewing surveillance video footage, notably from cameras put in place by Cannes municipal authorities. But he said there was no indication so far that the suspect had links to any organized crime group.
Scott Andrew Selby, co-author of "Flawless: Inside the Largest Diamond Heist in History," about the 2003 Antwerp heist, said initial estimates of jewel heists are often wrong: He believes that the safe-deposit box theft in Belgium actually brought in $400 million to $500 million.
Selby said he doubted the Cannes culprit was working alone, because the quick-in, quick-out operation seemed professional, "and people who know what they're doing operate in teams." He said Cannes was particularly tempting to high-end jewel thieves who are looking for a "soft target."
"Cannes is an amazing place to rob because you have this stuff coming in just for temporary sales," he said.
The Carlton, a Cannes fixture which is celebrating its centennial this year, featured in Hitchcock's "To Catch a Thief," which starred Grace Kelly as an heiress and Cary Grant as a reformed burglar chasing a jewel thief.
Fiction aside, it's not the first time the hotel has dealt with jewelry theft: In 1994, machine-gun-toting thieves stole $45 million in gems there.
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Showtime keeps pushing boundaries with its original series. Their latest, Californication, features David Duchovny drinking, drugging and sexing his way through Hollywood. He plays Hank, an out of work writer who couldn't hold his family together, and can barely hold himself together. If the pilot is any indication, each week will feature blasphemy, debauchery and other political incorrectness, all for our amusement.
CraveOnline: Is Hank more like a real man than most of the guys we see on TV shows?
David Duchovny: Tom [Kapinos] is much ballsier than me because he's the one that wants to push it further and I'm always the one who says, "Wait, can we recover this guy?" It's always that question of like whether he can come back next week and will you still like him. What I like rather than saying male or female, I just like that there's no bullsh*t about the guy. So that makes him manly in a way, I think. Although, a woman can certainly be that way too and I'm not sure if that makes her manly.
CraveOnline: Would it be wrong to want to be like Hank? Is he so unhealthy?
David Duchovny: It'd be healthier if he was actually doing what he wants. I mean, he's supposed to be a good writer and he says that he wants to write. So there's something missing there.
CraveOnline: Are you going to the gym more since we're seeing you naked every week?
David Duchovny: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd like you to rephrase your question to be, "Obviously you've been to the gym a lot." You know what, for the first time I started lifting a little weights. That's it, but I always did something. Just something, sports, swimming, yoga, boxing or basketball. Not really a diet change. With the kids it's hard because they leave the macaroni and cheese out. I learned early on in X-Files, don't eat the M&M's.
CraveOnline: The pilot starts so strong, how do you keep that up for the series?
David Duchovny: It's hard. Sometimes, or what really should happen on a television show is that you get better at it because you start to figure out what the show is. In many ways it's not that hard to make a great pilot. I mean, it is hard, but it's less amazing to me than a great series. So now the hard work begins. I'm proud of the pilot and I'm happy that we made it the way it is and it's close to what I thought it would be and now I just want to get better. That's on the writers, it's on the actors, it's on all of us.
CraveOnline: And the directors?
David Duchovny: Yeah, and you have to find your core group of directors that are going to keep it in the same ballpark really. It's a hard thing to do.
CraveOnline: Did you drive the car into traffic in the beginning?
David Duchovny: No, that was a stunt. It was a nice stunt. I was nowhere near that one.
CraveOnline: Was ashing out in holy water always in the script?
David Duchovny: Yeah. That was right there in the script. Tom comes from a Catholic background and he just loves to do that. Me being half Jewish and half Protestant I'm like whatever. If that really turns him on I'm like, "Okay. Ooh, it's so profane. I'm so offended."
CraveOnline: Was it your choice or was it in the script that you were laughing during both punches?
David Duchovny: That was a choice because that was one of these instances in this show where it's such a fine line for us to try and make it what we want it to be, what I want it to be and it was a character insight. What I said to Tom as we've been shooting is that this guy's response to chaos is laughter because that's actually what he feels all the time and so when it actually turns out the way that he thinks it is it's actually pretty funny to him. So rather than get outraged that I've been punched in the nose or horrified. I said to the director, "You need to stay on me because I need to laugh at this." It became one of the best moments in the pilot and that's something that we're trying to continue. There'll be scenes that we're doing and I'll say, "We need to show Hank laughing here, at the worst possible time."
CraveOnline: Are Garry Shandling and Jonathan Katz going to be upset if you don't give them a cameo on the show?
David Duchovny: I would love to have Garry on. It's just figuring out a character that would be perfect for each other. I never met Jonathan Katz, we just did that in a sound booth. That's a great show though.
CraveOnline: Have you seen the DVD segment of you playing basketball with Garry?
David Duchovny: I saw that cut together. I didn't see the other interviews. It seemed okay. I loved that show and I love Garry. When I saw it, it seemed like I was maybe being too complimentary, but I actually do mean it. I think that Garry is not just a wonderful friend, but he created a great environment and that show, not only that show, but to my mind Sanders created HBO and then created comedy, the strain of comedy that I love that we have today. So I can't really say enough about Garry and I think that people forget how innovative that show is and how smart and funny Garry is.
CraveOnline: Is there a project or role that you've passed on that you later wish you took?
David Duchovny: No, there are probably ones that I've almost gotten that I wish that I'd gotten, but ones that I passed on, no. And to be honest with you, I always think that it's bad form to say that you were offered something and then someone else did it and made a huge hit out of it, and you're saying, "Yeah, I could've even been better than that."
CraveOnline: It seems like there's always an X-Files script in the works. What's different about this one?
David Duchovny: I'm actually supposed to see it next week. Before I would just say that because they told me, but now I've been talking to Chris [Carter] and he's been giving me progress reports. He actually called yesterday and said, "Next week you should have something to read."
CraveOnline: Is the plan still to be a standalone?
David Duchovny: It should be a one off. It should be.
CraveOnline: Is there a tentative schedule for shooting and releasing it?
David Duchovny: I think that it was November for a summer release.
CraveOnline: Are you looking forward to bringing Mulder back?
David Duchovny: Yeah, I am, because he's cool and it's a great show and I love playing the character, and I like the people.
CraveOnline: What does Mulder have in common with Hank?
David Duchovny: Well, as you say, I think that Hank might be in a little better shape. I guess that they both want to know the truth and they both speak the truth. I haven't really thought of it that way, but I guess that they both speak their minds to their detriment.
CraveOnline: What sort of green things do you do for the environment?
David Duchovny: I poop in the backyard. Well, we recycle. We have solar energy. I drive an electric car. I wear disposable diapers. I don't know. That's a lot. We try to set an example. Unfortunately, you have to have the means to be green. That's what has to change in this world. It should be cheaper to be green. I can afford to put solar energy in and I can afford to drive an electric car because I can also have a gas car if I need to drive more than eighty miles in a day. So that's too bad.
CraveOnline: You've done a lot of indie films in the past few years. Is that just where the good parts have been, or is that what's been the easiest to do?
David Duchovny: Both, kind of. I think that I started there and The X-Files was kind of a crazy mainstream success that I never expected and was wonderful and I think that my personal view always kind of fit more in the independent world and I just really like some of the parts that I was able to do. I love Trust The Man. I love Bart Fruendlick and I thought The TV Set with Jake Kasdan as writer/director was really good. So I've been really happy.
CraveOnline: Does Californication have an indie feel to it?
David Duchovny: Yeah. I feel like on this show I can do the kind of work that you want to do in an independent film, but I get to do it 11 weeks out of the year and pursue a character and a story through a much longer kind of genesis than you can in film. So, yes, exactly that and that's where it came from. It originally was conceived that way. So it still has that flavor and yet it's also a comedy. I think I said it out there, but that conjunction of things was really what hooked me into wanting to do that.
CraveOnline: Did you help out with some of the music?
David Duchovny: No, but I certainly have opinions on the music and Rocket Man, the cover of that which we used at the end of the pilot, that was a struggle because it was expensive. Showtime is great, but they don't have bottomless pockets and to their credit they recognized that it was really kind of integral to the end of the pilot and to the feeling at the end of the pilot. They bought it. What I love about that is that it's a comedy and yet it has these moments of like great kind of feeling and pathos and to me that's what's really interesting about pursuing the show through all of these episodes. It's like, how are we going to do that and how are we going to balance the comedy and the insane life that this guy is living with real moments of feeling like that.
CraveOnline: Does having to talk about your work this much affect the way you look at it?
David Duchovny: No, because you kind of do it in these intense doses. It can tend to make you self-conscious because you go, "These things that I was doing unconsciously before I said that thing about myself. Is that the way that I work?" Then you go to work and you stink because you're self-conscious. So, luckily I have tomorrow off and I'll hopefully forget all the things that I was saying about the way that I work and these kinds of things.
CraveOnline: Is there something that you wish people were asking about this show that no one is asking yet? Is there a point that everyone is missing?
David Duchovny: No. I don't think so. I think the only thing that concerns me sometimes is I wouldn't want people to judge it superficially, morally in that way, that it's a show about a drug addict or a show about a sex addict or a show about all of these tags that you try to put on it because they're spectacular or they might make good copy or they might enrage someone. I think it's a comedy. It's a human comedy. It's an adult comedy. It's an adult doing adult things. It's not an adult acting like a six year old which is what most comedies are like.
CraveOnline: Do you think that X-Files would've been different if it had been on Showtime?
David Duchovny: Well, Mulder and Scully probably would have had sex right away and then the show wouldn't have lasted.
CraveOnline: What's been the most difficult or most physically demanding role you've done?
David Duchovny: Probably this one because I have my shirt off and there is some physical comedy as it's playing out in the series which I'm all for.
CraveOnline: Do you enjoy that?
David Duchovny: Very much, very much. That's just like playing a game to me.


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This is the second edition of a book first published in 1992, just after the collapse of the Soviet Union. The book collects reflections and memoirs about mathematics in Moscow during the Soviet years, a period that was hardly "golden" for Russians in general. But mathematics in Moscow flourished during this time, particularly in the 1930s and then in the 1950s and 1960s. This was partly due to the fact that mathematics was a "safe" topic, free from political interference, and partly due to the presence of a few great and inspiring mathematicians who created a school and a tradition.
The articles collected here mostly focus on mathematicians. There are articles on Kolmogorov (two of them) and on Markov, and two other articles are basically collections of stories about mathematicians. Many photographs are included. Several articles have an autobiographical thrust. One article, by A. B. Sossinsky, tells the story of his return from the West to Russia, and ends with a discussion of the dangers of the early 1990s. He asks whether perestroika would "destroy what the KGB could not" by allowing a massive "brain drain" to the West. The answer to that seems to have been yes.
In 1992, a group of scholars had just established the Independent University of Moscow, an attempt to preserve, and maybe regenerate, the Moscow mathematical tradition. IUM is mentioned briefly in the original preface, but it was clearly too recent a development to feature in the articles. The mood seemed somber. The past was golden; the future was uncertain.
The new edition adds a new preface and one new article, in addition to a list of errata and an index of names. (One can easily tell the new material, since it is in a slightly different typeface.) The index of names and the errata are certainly very welcome. The new preface notes both the huge number of mathematicians who emigrated and the fact that many of them have preserved some sort of tie to Russia, often by visiting frequently and giving lectures.
The new article, by V. M. Tikhomirov, is something of a disappointment. Rather than focus on the period since 1992, Tikhomirov has written an overview of mathematics in Moscow since the 1920s. That is well and good, but it means that very little space is given to updating the story. The phrase "in the 15 years since the collapse of the USSR" occurs on page 281, and the article ends on page 283. Those two pages contain a little bit of information, but not much. In particular, we learn little about the fortunes of IUM except for a list of those who have spoken at its "Globus" seminar.
One infers from the tone of Tikhomirov's article that these have been hard years for mathematics at Moscow. One cannot read this book without admiring what was achieved during those golden years, nor without a bracing awareness of how easy it was for all that to come to and end.
Fernando Q. Gouvêa is Carter Professor of Mathematics at Colby College in Waterville, ME. He is the editor of MAA Reviews.


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A judge in Manhattan ordered Twitter to hand over more than three months of tweets from an Occupy Wall Street protester. The tweets will be used by the prosecution in a pending trial.
Writer Malcolm Harris, the protester, was arrested last fall for disorderly conduct during a march down the Brooklyn Bridge. At the time, he sent out a number of tweets that have since been deleted. He was one of around 700 protesters arrested.
Judge Matthew Sciarrino rejected the notion that Twitter messages, which are posted in the public domain, are protected by the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution, which outlines individual privacy and what constitutions a violation.
"If you post a tweet, just like if you scream it out the window, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy. There is no proprietary interest in your tweets, which you have now gifted to the world," Sciarrino said in his ruling, which was handed down on Saturday, but made public on Monday.
A Twitter message "is not the same as a private email, a private direct message, a private chat, or any of the other readily available ways to have a private conversation via the Internet that now exist," he said. Private messages would require a court-mandated search warrant that is based on probable cause.
"What you give to the public belongs to the public. What you keep to yourself belongs only to you," Sciarrino wrote.
The decision was assailed by privacy groups and by Twitter, which attempted to quash the Manhattan district attorney's office's subpoena to obtain Harris's tweets.
Harris's subpoenaed account was cleared and then restarted. It is the second time the court has ruled that Harris's tweets should be turned over.
"We are disappointed in the judge's decision and are considering our options. Twitter's Terms of Service have long made it absolutely clear that its users *own* their content. We continue to have a steadfast commitment to our users and their rights," Twitter said in a statement.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said that Twitter should be applauded for their effort to challenge the subpoena.
"The request covers all of the user's tweets (no longer available on Twitter), as well as his subscriber information, which includes his personal email address, the IP addresses he used to access Twitter—that can be correlated with the user's geographic locations over time," ACLU senior staff attorney Aden Fine wrote on Monday.
Fine said that the prosecution "shouldn't be able to get this sensitive and constitutionally protected information without a warrant and without first satisfying First Amendment scrutiny," noting that the district attorney's office in this case did not fulfill those requirements.
Harris said he is not sure what he should do next. "It's shocking they're still pouring these kind of state resources down the drain over a politicized traffic ticket," he told New York Magazine.
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Letters to the editor (07/18/13)
Rail Heritage Day successful
I would like to thank the community of Belen for a wonderful Hub City Rail Heritage Day here at the Library on May 4. So many people contributed to a delightful and educational event.
Special thanks to Debbie Woodward, art teacher at Gil Sanchez and La Promesa elementary schools, and to her many students who helped decorate the entire library. The students and their teachers used the month of April to create the art work and learn about trains, railroads and railroad work in anticipation of the day.
And thank you to musician/poet Gair Linhart, musician/author Debbi Miller Gutierrez for their performances in the patio, and for the performance by the New Mexico Special Orchestra under Gair's direction.
We also wish to thank the authors signing books they had authored, Dr. Richard Melzer, John Taylor, Annmarie Pearson and Georgia Santa Maria.
Marla Segura provided information on the Rio Metro's programs and the Rail Runner, and the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Harvey Girls were represented by Heidi Green and Pam Turner, complete with period costumes.
We would like in particular to thank the Mansion Players, who performed their original musical play "How the Trains Came to Belen." The play combines entertainment with a revealing review of Belen's history. The lyrics to one of the songs sums up the incredible spirit of the day:
Belen, Belen
Where everyone fits in.
You might come here a stranger
But you go away a friend.
And everyone who visits here
Is sure to come again.
'Cause everyone is someone in Belen.
Belen has the one exceptional asset that makes it a better place to live than anywhere else — wonderful people. We would like to thank all of those who made the heritage day special.
Deborah Graham
Belen Public Library
Let's all clean up Belen
This is written to give my full support for the letter Mr. Ed Padilla contributed in the May 16-22 edition.
In it, he expresses his concern with trash and weeds that can be found on Belen's streets and neighborhoods. I agree with him fully, and as one citizen, pledge to try to make the city I love a more pleasing one to the eye.
I also ask you, neighbor, to join me in the following endeavor. What can we do?
How about this: Every time you venture to a local business, church, the post office or home, pick up a piece of trash and deposit in an appropriate container. Yes, just one piece of garbage; it's just that simple.
Our population is about 8,000. Imagine if one half of us, every day, pick up one paper or pull one weed. In a week, our community would be so much more appealing to visitors and residents.
If you see someone doing this simple act, thank them for being so positive. This small gesture could regenerate and make Belen an example for surrounding communities in Valencia County.
What do you think? Can we count you and your family in?
Thank you for supporting Belen, and Go Eagles!
John Padilla
Getting the best teacher
To parents of public school children: It is becoming abundantly obvious that, either by design or default, the political will of New Mexico legislators to significantly improve public education while your children are in school will probably not happen.
For those who cannot afford private school or home-school, the only possible alternative for concerned parents is to demand a great teacher every year for every child through the existing public school system.
After all, since taxpayers are providing $10,963 for each student in the Los Lunas Schools, it seems only reasonable to expect a great teacher.
Although we just ended a school year, now would be the time to get started in selecting your child's teachers for the fall.
To its great credit, Los Lunas Schools has made available on their website a slide presentation of performance data at each of the schools in the district. In addition to a lot of great information on the school, the last several slides include data on teachers in each class.
Although the names of teachers are not included, these slides should be helpful to parents in their quest to find the best teacher for next year.
Go to www.llschools.net. In the top left corner, point to "Schools" and select elementary, middle or high schools. Click on the school your child will be attending next year. From the left column menu, click on "Performance and Data." If you click on the little Acrobat Reader icon at the very top (Performance and Data 2012-13), you will be able to scroll the entire slide presentation.
All the slides are very informative, but the last slides includes performance of teachers in both SBA test results and MAPS test results. As a side note, if you are looking at elementary schools, other than Bosque Farms or Sundance Elementary schools, you might be interested in checking out those two schools for comparative purposes.
Although, as you will see, matching the names of the best teachers to the data will present a challenge, but I do trust that the school principal would be cooperative in helping you achieve your goal.
Even though school is out of session, principals, central office staff, school board members and your state legislators are available throughout the summer month.
Remember, your child has only one shot at next year's grade level. Please make the best of the opportunity.
Dennis Schlessinger
Los Lunas


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The Yukon Government has set aside 97 hectares (239.7 acres) for Yukon College.
It has pledged not to develop the land for the next five years.
The chair of the college's board of governors says the college will use the time to develop a land use plan.
"We're continuing to attract a lot of attention from around the country and we obviously need facilities to be able to house these great things that are happening," says Paul Flaherty.
Flaherty says the resource sector is booming, and so is the Northern Institute for Social Justice. "We're finding that we're almost bursting at the seams," he says.
New developments, according to Flaherty, could include new research and faculty facilities, as well as student residences.
He says the land is a positive step toward to the College, one day, becoming a university.
The land is near McIntyre Creek, which is protected by the City of Whitehorse community plan.
Flaherty says the college will continue to preserve the area in line with that plan. They'll be consulting with government, students and staff to determine just how the land will be used.
This story is posted on Alaska Dispatch as part of Eye on the Arctic, a collaborative partnership between public and private circumpolar media organizations.


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110 W. New York Ave.
DeLand, FL 32720
Orange City woman reported missing is OK, Sheriff's Office says
posted May 14, 2013 - 7:45:46pm
UPDATE 11 a.m. THURSDAY, MAY 16 — Deputies made contact with Theresa Spaid Wednesday night, May 16, and confirmed that she was OK, not in duress or harmed in any way and was not in need of any law enforcement assistance.
"Accordingly, the missing persons case has been closed," the Sheriff's Office reported.
REPORTED EARLIER — The Volusia County Sheriff's Office is seeking the public's help in locating a 41-year-old woman who authorities fear could be in danger. The Sheriff's Office has been searching for Theresa Ann Spaid since Monday.
Spaid is homeless and had been living in a tent with her boyfriend, Harry Marrison, in the backyard of a residence on West Minnesota Avenue near Orange City. Apparently on the verge of splitting up, the two reportedly engaged in a verbal argument on Friday, the Sheriff's Office reported.
Then early Monday morning, deputies responded to another quarrel between the two that deputies said turned violent. Spaid managed to escape, but Marrison was gone by the time deputies arrived. On Monday, family members said that Spaid took off to meet with Marrison and they haven't seen her since. They did speak to Spaid by phone on Tuesday, but deputies are continuing to look for her to make sure she's safe.
Anyone who sees Spaid or has information on her whereabouts is asked to call the Sheriff's Office at 386-736-5999.
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A homeless person who has a phone?
let me guess, an Obamaphone ?
@ Scott
No I was too busy servicing your mom and sister....they are so greedy.
People living in a pup tent then claim they are homeless?
It is rent free, no taxes, no power bills...maybe society is evolving back to the 19th century.
Look for more people that are homeless as we march into an uncertain future.
I hope she is okay , homeless in the great Superpower USA .
People were living in tents in the 19th Century...might as well in the 21 Century
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