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'We know they're coming' – area trees face bug invader apocalypse
By T. S. Last / Journal Staff Writer
Friday, July 28th, 2017 at 12:02am
Evidence of the Honey Locust Borer was found on a tree in Santa Fe's Railyard Park in 2016. (Courtesy of City of Santa Fe)
SANTA FE, N.M. — They're coming. Some of them are already here.
With names that sound like they were lifted from a horror novel, different kinds of tiny insects seem to launch a new invasion threatening Santa Fe's urban forest every year.
It was the airborne and awful ash whitefly two years ago. Then came the dreaded honey locust borer last year. Now, the evil European elm flea weevil is here, eating away at all species of elm trees in Santa Fe. Each one is a type of non-native invasive tree pest that has been identified as new to the area by Victor Lucero, who heads up city government's Integrated Pest Management program.
In a recent report about "Pests of Concern," Lucero writes that the weevil larvae "mine and feed inside the leaf tissue," and adult weevils leave tree leaves with a "shot hole appearance."
Invasive pests such as these can damage trees in a variety of ways, spread disease and in some cases kill them by choking off their water supply.
Lucero warns that the European elm scale, fruit lecanium scale and the elm leaf beetle are already here, and in large numbers can cause branches to die back and premature leaf senescence, destroying tree canopies.
It's not just Santa Fe. Insect invasions to ash, elms, oaks and piñon trees in the City Different are no different than what's happening elsewhere.
"Generally speaking, across the entire country, we're seeing an invasion of all urban forest species," says Jennifer Dann, manager of the state's Urban and Community Forest Program.
And they come from all over the world.
Dann says some bugs cross oceans embedded in wood pallets or in shipping containers, arriving at seaports up and down the continent. They'll then often hitch rides on trucks, so they invariably pop up along highway corridors.
They sometimes latch on to ornamental trees sold in nurseries or in firewood, leading The Nature Conservancy to create the website dontmovefirewood.org, which implores people to "buy it where you burn it," to limit the spread of invasive pests.
"Some of them aren't here yet, but we know they're coming," Dann said of the non-native intrusive pests, noting an interstate highway passes right by Santa Fe.
The 'green menace'
One yet to arrive is the emerald ash borer, which in recent years has turned up six hours up the interstate in Boulder County in Colorado and next door in Texas.
The green invertebrate is the worst nightmare for city Parks Director Richard Thompson.
"It keeps me up at night," he says of his fear of the bug.
Thompson says city workers are bound by ordinance to follow an Integrated Pest Management strategy that allows for pesticide use, though that's a last resort.
But there appears to be no stopping the emerald ash borer, or EAB for short. He says trees infested by the bug have a 90 percent fatality rate. Once a tree is infested, it may be dead in two to four years.
Tom Zegler, the Forestry Division's forest health program manager, says that when the emerald ash borer arrives – and it will arrive – it will bring devastation.
"We expect it will be the most damaging invasive pest since the chestnut blight in the early 1900s," he said of the fungal infection believed to have been transported to this continent from Japan in nursery stock and that nearly wiped out the once plentiful American Chestnut tree.
Zegler says little can be done about the EAB except "try to slow its spread."
"This insect has already devastated the native American ash population in the Northeast," he said. "What it does is disrupt the flow of water through trees. There's no genetic resistance to it in ash trees, so basically as soon as it arrives, it will kill any ash tree in our urban forest."
The EAB, native to northeast Asia, is believed to have turned up first in North America in southeastern Michigan in 2002, probably on ash wood pallets or wood packaging material. It has since infested millions of trees in 27 states and is estimated to have cost billions of dollars to treat, remove and replace ash trees.
The "green menace," as it has been called, was first confirmed in Boulder in 2013. Officials there are worried because there are about 98,000 ash trees in the city and roughly 1.45 million in the Denver metropolitan area.
Zegler says there are treatments to try to thwart the threat, but they're expensive and probably impractical. There are too many trees in the forest, but it can be done on a more individualized basis.
Websites advertise various insecticides to fight EAB.
"With any dead or dying ash trees, it's very important that they are detected early and contained," Zegler said. "You can't do it in the forest, but it's something homeowners can do."
In the meantime, "What we recommend is that city planners and urban foresters plant a variety of trees to replace ash," Zegler said.
Because existing ash trees may be good only for firewood before too long.
"It's only a matter of time," Zegler said of the EAB's arrival. "It's already on our doorstep."
Keeping them in check
Entomologist Tom Coleman of the U.S. Forest Service fears the Emerald Ash Borer too.
"Early detection of these exotic threats is crucial for implementing management options," Coleman said. "We are also running survey traps in coordination with this monitoring effort at the Albuquerque and Santa Fe botanical gardens."
Coleman said USFS's Forest Health Protection monitors urban forest health in several New Mexico cities because the pests are most commonly first detected in urban areas. The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has also set up traps to detect the presence of the EAB throughout the state.
Coleman said they are also monitoring invasive bark beetles and wood borers at the botanical gardens.
Bark Beetle funnel traps have been placed in the botanical gardens in Albuquerque and Santa Fe to monitor the presence of the pests. (Courtesy of USFS)
"We are generally more concerned about bark beetles and wood borers because trees are less tolerant to this type of injury, whereas trees can better tolerate injury from leaf-feeding insects. The diversity of trees found at the gardens makes them a great place to survey," he said.
Coleman warns of another exotic pest probably coming to New Mexico, the European gypsy moth, which could someday threaten the stands of aspen in the mountains overlooking Santa Fe.
"The caterpillar can feed on hundreds of tree species, but prefers to eat oaks and aspen," he said. "It's currently found in the northeastern part of the U.S., but moths are frequently collected in other parts of the country. Repeated bouts of severe defoliation can lead to tree mortality or predispose them to attack by other insects."
Coleman says that the EAB and European gypsy moth are two of the most prominent exotic insects because they travel well.
"The movement of firewood has been attributed to the spread of the emerald ash borer in the U.S., whereas the European gypsy moth will lay egg masses on vehicles, lawn furniture and outdoor tools, which are then moved to other regions of the country," he said. "We stress that people buy local firewood and to not move firewood long distances."
Zegler of State Forestry has the same message … because they're coming.
"What I tell people is the emerald ash borer is just one truckload of firewood away," he said.


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Q: Navbar not changing background immediately - IOS I'm trying to change my navbar's background with the code:
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It works, but the problem I'm having is that the change first takes effect when you go BACK the the view where this code is located. So it you go to this view the navbar is not changed but if you go further and then go back to this view the changes take effect.
Does anyone have any clue what the issue might be?
Thanks in advance

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A: viewDidLoad only fired once when the view is loaded. To run the code every time when you see the view, put the codes in viewDidAppear or viewWillAppear (depends on your usage)
This answer helps you choose from viewDidLoad , viewDidAppear or viewWillAppear.

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The Raspberry Pi platform has become popular in the maker community for various CNC projects. The single board computers are readily suited to acting as a server for a small CNC setup or 3D printer, though it's fair to say that for heavy work they probably aren't quite up to the task of driving the steppers in a serious rig directly. [Danny] set out to try to build a CNC plotter of his own, using a Pi Zero, and learned a few things along the way.
The plotter uses 3D printed parts combined with brushed DC motors which are geared down. Potentiometers are added to allow the Pi to keep track of the location of the pen. This enables the position to be corrected through feedback.
While the plotter does move and accept commands, it does have some issues. There is significant play in the gear train which [Danny] suspects of causing the poor output results. If you've got any ideas as to how this could be improved or overcome, throw them down in the comments!
We've seen another take on CNC control with the Raspberry Pi, too. Video after the break.
I applaud Danny's courage for posting this.
1. The lack of structural rigidity of the setup is the most serious issue, IMHO.
2. Closed-loop is not always better than open-loop. This implementation of a closed-loop system increases the design complexity (over an open-loop stepper-based system), but without a net payoff in accuracy, because it can only correct for errors after they have already been made. A well-designed and tuned open-loop stepper-based system can operate (in many cases) without significant positioning errors over thousands of moves. Consider a 3D printer running an overnight print job.
I'd echo this. A closed-loop system is also only as accurate as the sensor – which isnok if you're using an encoder on a stepper to detect failed steps, but using a potentiometer into an ADC won't be that accurate due to the resolution of the ADC and potentially noise.
Nice ones presumably less so/over a longer period of time; but pots also have the nasty habit of wearing.
For trimming that usually isn't a huge deal, but repeated cycling(especially over a small area of their range) does not do the stability of their resistance values any good; and the wear is rarely perfecily linear across their entire range.
I've had to swap out a bunch volume control pots over the years when things start to get horribly erratic, especially around the region of the dial that actually saw frequent use.
Mechanical encoders can wear as well; but since they depend on a bunch of binary switch states they don't drift around as much; and optoencoders are paragons of reliability by comparison to either. Pity they are more expensive.
I agree that the pots will wear out quickly. I hoped to eventually switch to higher-quality encoders to improve accuracy and lifespan.
Unfortunately, I don't think pot inaccuracy can explain my results. I had the Pi print the calculated positions; they closely resemble the actual positions. It appears that the Pi "knows" where the end effector is.
I definitely get noise, but only 1-3 units (on a scale from 0 to 1023). This corresponds to less than a degree of rotation; the arm's joints would need errors of several degrees in order to get the behaviors I'm seeing.
Only if you're running a naive control loop that doesn't look ahead. A closed loop system can have an internal model of the system, so it can track and prevent the accumulation of error before it happens.
The power of closed loop control is that you have the error information at hand all the time, and you can tune to minimize the error by trying different control values. That means you can capture some of the (semi)static properties of your system automatically, like how much mass your robot is carrying, or how great the friction between the pen and paper, while you're performing the motion. Better yet, you can implement an internal model of your system and compare with that you're expecting to happen, which yields more accurate results.
A closed loop servo system is only as good as the rigidity between the feedback pots and the tool end. Here, there's so much slop, the position at the pots doesn't come close to representing the position at the tip of the pen, so it is impossible to correct for that portion of the error.
If you are trying to prove that stiffness and rigidity isn't important in a mechanical system, the key is to take the same approach that 4-wire ohmmeters (aka Kelvin sensing) take: use a separate mechanism for sensing the tool position that isn't affected by the forces on the tool.
(1) The errors can be almost as large as 1cm. Each dowel is only 2cm long, and the printed parts are even smaller. I don't see how the any part(s) would bend enough to cause the large errors I'm seeing.
(2) As a debugging technique, I had the arm print its estimated position, as determined by the pots. The calculated position closely matched the actual position; i.e. the Pi knew that the arm was in the wrong position.
Dowel flex would be one of the last things I would worry about here, as there are far more critical design issues. The main problems are that each axis is really only supported on one end, and the angular errors (primarily from joint slop) are cumulative. Also, the pen lifting mechanism is trying to lift the majority of the structure, rather than just the pen. Look at how the angle of the pen changes as moves are made.
For reliable operation, each axis should be supported on both ends.
To keep the stresses more uniform, I would have the pen remain vertical at all times, with only motion being in Z.
In 2.5D plotters, a hobby servo is commonly used for pen lifting, to reduce the load on the rest of the structure.
Danny: First thing: don't get defensive. If you've already ruled out things that people have suggested, just let it go. The problem is that there are MANY problems with this design, so fixing any one problem is NOT going to fix the system. But to address your response directly, if you are getting large error values, then ONE of your problems is that your feedback loop is not tuned right. There are two things I have to add: 1) it may be that with all of the mechanical issues (backlash, slack, and just plain lack of stiffness), it would take an impossibly complex feedback algorithm to correct for all of these, and 2) even if you get your error signal down to an acceptable amount, you're STILL going to have inaccuracies at the pen tip due to mechanical issues between the pen tip and the pots.
What I would suggest is working from the pen tip out, concentrating on ONE axis at a time. Once you have each axis behaving well, work outward to the next, first by controlling that axis alone and then that axis combined with all others out to the pen tip. This will reduce the number of unknowns at each iteration.
So technically this is a project that should file under the name "fail of the week"? Or perhaps that is a bit to harsh.
But with some extra effort, improving stiffness, better way of position sensing this can go a long way. I'm pretty sure that this project will evolve.
This is to mechatronics, as 50 Shades of Gray is to literature and erotica.
This is to engineering, as Hackers (1995) is to technical documentaries.
Which is to say, the tragedy isn't actually the product, so much as the failure (on the part of much of the audience, and perhaps the author as well) to recognize that they've made an absurdist comedy. Which makes it all the more absurd.
Which may make it a masterwork.
no, hackers (the movie) was a masterpiece because it was a well-executed good representation even if it was not a literal representation. the 3-D printed internal combustion engine head in the other article today, that is a masterpiece! it could not have succeeded, and the craftsman knew that and then thoroughly and competently explored the non-solution space anyways! this is just an ambitious project by someone who hasn't yet learned the fundamentals. normal, progressive, laudable, and even a good exhibit. but not a masterpiece by any stretch…we've all started on projects that turned out to be failures because of backlash, flex, and inappropriate sensors. this is just mechanics 101, the way we learn.
I wrote an earlier comment outlining why this isn't the case.
Every axis you add to the arm introduces errors caused by the length of the arm sections. The first gear train will have a large error at the end of the arm. The weight compounds the problem. Adding rigidity often also adds weight, however the first motor/gear train can be stationary and should be the most rigid and can be the heaviest, then progressively smaller and lighter for each section. 3D printed material is also not the most stiff material. Try to build it using aluminium for example. If you own a cnc router or mill you can make plates that interface between the sections. Using proper bearings (and used in the proper way) will also reduce compliance.
Also, the sections are only supported by the motor. The dowel only gives support to one side which is no support at all basically.
Usually you see u shaped couplings where the motor only supplies rotational forces. Try printing a U shaped part where there are bearings at the ends of the U. Use gears (V shaped to reduce backlash/compliance) or toothed belt to drive the shaft using a stepper motor. Use collars to lock the shaft between the upper and lower bearings. There are optical encoders you can add to the shaft for closed loop feedback or use end stop switches. It's also possible to use TMC2130 drivers that have StallGuard, so basically you can skip the end stops reducing complexity at the cost of a little accuracy.
Another option is to use steel wires guided through the arm and put the motors in the base. You could use a corexy like setup.
(1) Thanks for the comment regarding errors at the base of the arm; I completely agree. I'm thinking of switching to a parallel scara or a linear design to fix this issue. I knew this issue existed, but it seems to be more of a problem than I anticipated.
(2) The vertical dowel (parallel to the motor shaft) was added to hold the pot in place; it is not intended to support weight. I wasn't excited about having the motors support the weight of the arm, but I assumed it wouldn't be a problem for this small of a robot. However, the stress may have contributed to the loosening of the gear system.
(3) Thanks for the recommendation of the TMC2130. But does it work for DC motors? I looked it up; it seems to be a stepper driver. I could switch to using steppers if I need to, but I'm hoping to design a robot that doesn't use them. The current design uses DC motors that are driven by PWM.
(4) The bearings and u-shaped couplings would definitely be an improvement; I might need to implement them in later versions.
I'd come up with a damper system and compensate for the backlash in code.
Thanks for all the helpful replies! I thought I should post an update regarding the project, in case someone visits the article later and wonders what became of the project. I'll probably post the same update to my project page.
Several issues have been pointed out that would not be fixed by replacing the wobbly worm gears. Each issue could be addressed individually, but this would be time-consuming.
Therefore I've decided to reduce the scope of my efforts. I plan to continue testing the Pi and DC motors, but to use a conventional, cartesian robot that will be similar (or identical?) to existing open-source designs. This will reduce complexity and make debugging much simpler.
Since I'm rebuilding the robot anyway, I might as well invest in higher-accuracy sensors. Perhaps I'll get some optical encoders. Alternatively, I might make an attempt at using computer vision- others on this website have had success with this approach. I would have to purchase and calibrate a camera of sufficient resolution, but OpenCV definitely has the capability to do this sort of thing (at least to moderate accuracy).
I'll probably post something to this website when (if) I get another robot built and working. But it will probably be a few months (or even a few years).


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Forget romance, marry for money
Money can't buy love, but love may bring you money — if you're married, that is. Though marriage has evolved from a strictly businesslike arrangement to a more romantic union, an official partnership can result in decidedly pragmatic benefits: increased wealth.
A study completed in 2005 by Jay Zagorsky at Ohio State University's Center for Human Resource Research followed subjects for 15 years and found that being married increases an individual's wealth above and beyond that of two single people.
Single study subjects accumulated about $11,000 of wealth after 15 years. People who got married, and stayed married, accumulated about $43,000 in 10 years of marriage.
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Similarly, couples can take advantage of economies of scale that make buying for two more cost-effective than buying for one.
For instance, grocery shopping for one can be just as expensive as buying for two.
"Larger quantities are usually priced lower per unit than smaller quantities. This also usually applies to health and auto insurance. It is easier and cheaper to add another person to a policy than to take out a separate policy," says Michael Greaney, CPA, of Equity Expansion International in Washington, D.C.
Cost efficiencies are less obvious than the savings reaped by buying extra-large cans of ravioli or fruit in bulk.
"For a single person, finding the time to prepare dinner, do the laundry, iron clothes, vacuum, wash dishes is difficult. Add just one other person and the same or lesser effort tends to have more than twice the result," says Greaney.
A single person may be tempted to outsource some chores, and pay for it.
Efficient management of financial resources
Being accountable to another person can keep spending on the straight and narrow, particularly when working toward a mutual goal such as buying a house or financing an exotic vacation.
To keep household finances shipshape, budgets and goals should be reviewed often. In fact, running your household finances similar to a business may not be a bad idea.
"The business model of (evaluating earnings and expenses) at least four times a year would probably be good for most families. A marriage is not a business, but being businesslike is another matter. Aristotle in 'Politics' characterized the family not just as the basic political unit of society, but as the basic economic unit," Greaney says.
The U.S. government clearly agrees with that sentiment and gives married couples some breaks related to taxes and retirement.
Income tax benefits
A married couple can file their taxes jointly. With disparate incomes, a married couple pays less in taxes than they would singly.
"The way that our tax system works is that the more you make, the more you're taxed. And when you're married, the rate goes up at a slower rate than when you're single," says Noah Rosenfarb, CPA and founder of Freedom Wealth Advisors in Short Hills, N.J.
There is one possible financial disadvantage to being married: the marriage tax penalty.
Though the 2001 Bush tax cuts eased the tax burden on married couples earning close to the same amount, the marriage tax penalty lives on for couples whose earnings exceed a certain threshold.
Depending on their tax bracket, a married couple could end up paying more in taxes than they would if they were single.
Based on the income of the working spouse, a joint-filing stay-at-home spouse can fund a spousal IRA.
"All you need is the income necessary for the IRA contributions, the max of which is $5,000 this year or $6,000 if you're over 50," says Steven Weisman, a lawyer and professor at Bentley University in Waltham, Mass.
Additionally, spouses get special treatment when it comes to inheriting their spouse's retirement assets.
For instance, an inherited Roth IRA can be rolled over into an existing Roth IRA. A spouse inheriting a Roth IRA gets the option of keeping the funds in his or her retirement account indefinitely.
Anyone else inheriting an IRA has to take withdrawals based on his or her life expectancy.
Spouses can also elect to take Social Security payments based on the other's work history if the payout is greater than the benefit based on their own earnings.
For example, if you have reached full retirement age and have been married to your spouse for more than nine months, you can receive Social Security payments equal to 50 percent of your new spouse's benefit as long as you are currently married.
Estate-planning benefits
While the government tends to automatically reward married couples with certain benefits, it pays to know a little bit about estate planning to fully reap the government's marital largesse.
If sheltering assets from possible lawsuits is a priority, Weisman recommends that married couples who own property together use "tenancy by the entirety" as opposed to "joint tenancy with right of survivorship." Tenancy by the entirety is available only to married couples.
Both types of ownership pass the assets outside of probate to the surviving spouse. "But perhaps even more importantly," says Weisman, "with tenancy by entirety, the property is out of the reach of creditors."
It's not automatic, though. Couples have to indicate that they want to title the property in this manner.
The devil's in the details
Finally, workers often neglect to update their beneficiary information on their retirement accounts. As that's likely the biggest pot of money most people own, slipping up on that detail can be incredibly costly.
"With retirement accounts, if they go through the estate or even if someone makes the mistake of naming their estate as their beneficiary, you get a lot less tax deferral. So it is very important to be proactive and put your spouse as the beneficiary," says Weisman.
And if marital bliss doesn't last forever, don't forget to update beneficiaries right after a divorce. Nothing will sabotage your wealth-building efforts in life more than inadvertently giving the bulk of your estate to your ex after your death.
Nothing will take the spark out of your romance as quickly as arguing about money. Keep your love alive by tackling financial issues together.
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The American Meteorological Society (AMS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) work together to share knowledge and information about weather and climate, ocean, and coasts with educators and students across the country. The goal of this effort is to build a scientifically informed and engaged society and a diverse STEM workforce prepared to respond to environmental hazards.
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) work together to share knowledge and information about weather and climate, ocean, and coasts with educators and students across the country. The goal of this effort is to build a scientifically informed and engaged society and a diverse STEM workforce prepared to respond to environmental hazards. AMS facilitates a national offering of the DataStreme Atmosphere and DataStreme Ocean courses and supports Project ATMOSPHERE leadership training workshops at the National Weather Service Training Center for in-service K-12 educators, with focus on those at schools with considerable numbers of students underrepresented in STEM. By 2023, about 2,100 educators will earn graduate credits through a partnership with California University of Pennsylvania and become confident Earth science educators. These educators are expected to impact more than 20,000 additional educators and several hundred thousand K-12 students.
Competition: 2017: Cooperative Program for Atmospheric Sciences Education
Partners: Consortium for Ocean Leadership · NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) / National Centers for Environmental Prediction · NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Grand Rapids, MI Forecast Office · California University of Pennsylvania (CalU) · NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Training Center · NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Quad Cities, Iowa Forecast Office · NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Newport, North Carolina Forecast Office · NOAA National Ocean Service (NOS) / NOAA Planet Stewards · American Geosciences Institute (AGI) · American Institute of Physics (AIP) · Lockheed Martin Corporation · National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) · GLOBE Program · NASA Headquarters / NASA Disasters Program · University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) / Unidata · National Earth Science Teachers Association (NESTA) · Austin Peay State University · Brandeis University · State University of New York (SUNY) / Oswego · University of Central Missouri · University of Mary Washington · West Virginia University Institute of Technology · EdCuration · Washington College · Adelphi University · Ohio State University (OSU) / Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center ·
CREATE Resilience: Community Resilience through Education, Art, Technology, and Engagement
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CREATE Resilience: Community Resilience through Education, Art, Technology and Engagement, is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between youth and community to 1) improve environmental hazards literacy, and 2) increase engagement in resiliency actions by youth and adult residents in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. CREATE Resilience is designed to increase community knowledge about weather and climate science, risks from local hazards, and strategies for hazard mitigation, while co-creating a vision for community resilience.
CREATE Resilience: Community Resilience through Education, Art, Technology and Engagement, is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between youth and community to 1) improve environmental hazards literacy, and 2) increase engagement in resiliency actions by youth and adult residents in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. CREATE Resilience is designed to increase community knowledge about weather and climate science, risks from local hazards, and strategies for hazard mitigation, while co-creating a vision for community resilience. Developed by Nurture Nature Center (NNC) in Easton, PA, the four-year project will work with local, state and federal partners in three hazard-prone communities in the Lehigh Valley (Easton, Bangor and Wilson areas). Hazards, particularly weather-related hazards including flooding, have had major impacts in these communities historically and recently, causing extensive damage to property and disruption to community services. Damaging river flooding along the Delaware River in 2004, 2005 and 2006 highlighted major planning and safety challenges for many municipalities in the area with high flood risk, and a recently updated regional Hazard Mitigation plan highlighted other hazards – as well as the need for public education about hazards and mitigation. CREATE Resilience's advisory board will work with NNC to bring education and engagement events to teach the science of these hazards, as well the household and community-level strategies and tools available for resilience. Partners include the National Weather Service (NWS) Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center and Mt. Holly, NJ Weather Forecast Office, and Weather Prediction Center, as well as LV Planning Commission, Northampton County Emergency Management Agency, LV Community Foundation, Lafayette College, and FEMA Region 3 Mitigation Division. In years 1 and 2, the project will form CREATE Youth Ambassador teams, in which student interns from area high schools will meet NWS meteorologists, engage in community storytelling events, develop local hazard and resilience tours, and learn from climate and other scientists about hazards and strategies for resilience. Ambassadors will also develop and lead programming for community residents. Simultaneously, residents will participate in active-learning education events, dialogue forums, arts-based activities, technology-based programs using NOAA assets, and hands-on preparedness activities. Each community will build a collective understanding of local hazards and mitigation strategies, and co-create a vision for resilience, represented in traveling visual artist-designed murals in the third year of the project. This education and shared vision will build community support for planning and resilience and help households in making better preparedness decisions. Dissemination through Science on a Sphere® and guidebooks will share the replicable model with other organizations and communities, extending the reach of the project. Close cooperation with NWS offices helps the project meet key goals of NOAA's Education Strategic Plan, related to safety/preparedness and a science-informed society. Through public events and print materials, the project will showcase and interpret NOAA-related science and data with area residents, while creating collaborative learning opportunities for youth and community to interact with NOAA scientists. CREATE Resilience also engages youth and adults in preparing for hazards, and in multi-generational learning to improve community awareness and involvement in preparedness and mitigation.
PI: Rachel Carr
State: Pennsylvania County: Northampton District: PA07
Partners: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center · City University of New York (CUNY) / Hunter College · NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) / National Centers for Environmental Prediction · NOAA Climate Program Office (CPO) · Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN) · NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Mount Holly, NJ Weather Forecast Office · NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) State College, Pennsylvania Forecast Office · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Lafayette College / Civil and Environmental Engineering · Easton Area School District · Wilson Area School District · Northampton County Emergency Management Services · Lehigh Valley Planning Commission · Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency · NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) / Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center (RFC) · Bangor Area School District · American Society of Civil Engineers / Lehigh Valley Section · Northampton County Conservation District · Northampton County Parks & Recreation Division · City of Easton · Martins-Jacoby Watershed Association · Borough of Wilson ·


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Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques addressed the summit, welcoming the GCC leaders, in Saudi Arabia and welcoming, in his own name and on behalf of the leaders of the GCC member states, the King of Morocco Mohammed VI, who the GCC member states hold a great reverence for him, for his country and its fraternal people, as well, adding that this meeting is but a reflection of the special and distinct relations, binding GCC member states and Morocco.
'Absolutely silly': Saudi FM refutes Amazon's Bezos phone hacking claims /node/1616596/saudi-arabia
DUBAI: The Saudi Arabian embassy in the USA has denied claims the Kingdom was behind the hacking of Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos' phone, describing the accusation as "absurd."
And speaking at Davos the Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud said: "The idea that the Crown Prince would hack Jeff Bezos' phone is absolutely silly."
Bezo's phone was hacked after receiving a WhatsApp message sent from the personal account of the Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Describing the claims as "absurd" the tweet also called for an investigation into the claims "so that we can have all the facts out."
Recent media reports that suggest the Kingdom is behind a hacking of Mr. Jeff Bezos' phone are absurd. We call for an investigation on these claims so that we can have all the facts out.
— Saudi Embassy (@SaudiEmbassyUSA) January 22, 2020
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Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's hotly anticipated performance at the second annual ADF in CLE summer dance festival in Cleveland was a family affair of sorts. All five of the works on the program, Saturday, July 28, at Playhouse Square's Connor Palace Theatre, were by choreographers from within the Hubbard Street family including three by former company dancer and current resident choreographer, Alejandro Cerrudo.
The program, presented by DANCECleveland in collaboration with the American Dance Festival, led off with Cerrudo's latest work and perhaps his best to date, "Out of Your Mind" (2018). Created for the company's 40th anniversary season, the "sock" work was inspired by and titled after, a lecture by 20th century British philosopher Alan Watts. A recording of Watts reading excerpts from his thought-provoking lecture about the nature of the self, was incorporated into the work's soundtrack that also included music by Canadian DJ duo Blond:ish, American composer Keith Kenniff (a.k.a Goldmund), and English composer Greg Haines. It is the first time Cerrudo has used text in one of his creations.
While the work's title can imply a loss of one's sanity, Cerrudo says he sees the title as meaning "thinking outside of your mind." It was apparent from watching it that his thought process was without restraint and truly inspired.
Abstract and darkly atmospheric, the contemporary dance work for fifteen dancers began with group unison dancing in a series of ever-changing body positions with shifting hand and arm movements; some having the dancers' arms swarm about their heads. Watching the precision dancing was spellbinding and Hubbard Street's adroit dancers were exquisite in it.
As the piece progressed, group dancing gave way to various smaller dancer configurations. A duet between dancers Rena Butler and David Schultz fascinated as did a male trio in which two dancers held up and rotated in place a third in a headstand; the upside down dancer frozen in a pose looking as if he were trying to flee. The work's many dazzling movement phrases came at you as if looking into a kaleidoscope.
The work's final section then returned the full cast onstage, this time with the dancers entwined arm-in-arm in a line executing cascading and wave-like movements along that line that sometimes resembled a centipede in motion.
Sure to take its place as a signature work of Cerrudo's, "Out of Your Mind" was far and away the best piece on a program filled with worthy runners-up.
Next, the curtain opened on a brief but visually startling ballooning of a large piece of parachute-like fabric that was quickly yanked into a stage wing revealing a dancer pair with a female dancer lifted over her male partner's head and positioned in front of another large swath of similar fabric hung as a backdrop. The opening theatrics were part of former Hubbard Street dancer Robyn Mineko Williams' 2017 dance work for the company, "Cloudline".
Set to a varied soundscape by Sufjan Stevens, Olafur Arnalds and others, the work, after its dramatic opening, slipped into a dreamlike haze conjuring up the hypnotic and surreal mood of the David Lynch TV series Twin Peaks.
Delivered in a series of delicious moving tableaux that drifted across the stage like a line of clouds, each tableau hinted at the joys and heartache associated with being in a romantic relationship or at the longing felt by one who is not. In one such tableau, a male dancer stood still staring into the wings at a back corner of the stage while dancers Alice Klock and Schultz engaged in sweeping and enveloping movement at its center, and a male/female couple sat pressed together at the front left of the stage watching them.
Over the course of "Cloudline" the fabric backdrop slowly sank to the floor like a setting sun and the dancers then used it to make it appear as if a few of them were dancing among the clouds. The piece then ended as dramatically as it began with a male/female couple in an embrace and tented by the billowing fabric, this time magically disappearing in the whoosh of fabric bring yanked off stage and replaced by a forlorn Jacqueline Burnett standing staring after them.
After a brief intermission, the other two Cerrudo's works were shown beginning with his often performed, "Lickety-Split" (2006). Danced to the folksy music of Venezuelan American singer-songwriter Devendra Banhart, "Lickety-Split" had a small town, back roads breeziness to it. In it, you could see the early craft of a choreographic mind that would twelve years later be ready to birth a gem like "Out of Your Mind".
Sprinkled with carefree play and a touch of humor, the work's bendy, elongated contemporary dance movement proved as delightfully quirky as the music it was danced to. In one section to Banhart's tune "This Beard is for Siobhan" a dancer is seen banging their nose on another's butt cheek while we hear Banhart sing "Because my teeth don't bite I can take them out dancing and show them a real good time."
A last minute replacement for choreographer Crystal Pite's "Grace Engine" due to lighting requirements that couldn't be met, Cerrudo's "PACOPEPEPLUTO" (2011) was another piece of choreographic kitsch wrapped in some serious solo male dancing by Schultz and dancers Kevin J. Shannon and Michael Gross. Set to classic songs by Dean Martin including "Memories Are Made of This" and "That's Amore," the work, usually performed wearing nothing but a "dance belt" (jockstrap), had the performers here opting for a more full coverage bottoms. In those, keisters wiggled, hips gyrated and the men leaped and bounded about the stage to the approving shouts of audience members.
Hubbard's program concluded with a signature work from its repertory Stone Age prior to the company becoming the global contemporary dance juggernaut audiences have come to know and love. Choreographed by company founder Lou Conte in 1978, "The 40s" was nonetheless a beauty of a jazz dance piece performed to big band music by Sy Oliver. Fast, light-footed and full of Broadway "cool cat" spunk, the work unfolded like a grand Gene Kelly movie production number. It was a joyous end to a monster evening of dance capped by a rousing standing ovation from the audience.
The ADF in CLE summer dance festival concludes with Caleb Teicher & Company (Tap), 8 p.m., Saturday, August 4 at Cain Park's Evans Amphitheater. For information and tickets visit ADFinCLE.org
(Archive Photo) Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in "Out of Your Mind" by Alejandro Cerrudo.
Photo © & courtesy of Cheryl Mann
(Archive Photo) Hubbard Street Dancers Michael Gross and Connie Shiau in "Out of Your Mind" by Alejandro Cerrudo.
(Archive Photo) Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in "Cloudline" by Robyn Mineko Williams.
Photo © & courtesy of Todd Rosenberg
(Archive Photo) Hubbard Street Dancers Jessica Tong and Jason Hortin in "Cloudline" by Robyn Mineko Williams.
(Archive Photo) Hubbard Street Dancers Alicia Delgadillo and Elliot Hammans in Alejandro Cerrudo's Lickety-Split.
(Archive Photo) Hubbard Street Dance Chicago in "The 40s" by Lou Conte.


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2 For Lamin Sowe, and the children of fisherfolk everywhere. Protect Africa s Sawfishes works throughout Africa to collect information on sawfish populations and collaborates with governments and local communities to understand how best to protect those populations from decline. Mama, what is this? Is it from a shark? Is it a weapon? This book was produced with support from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Marine Fisheries Service (grant number NA15NMF ), the Save Our Seas Foundation (grant number SOSF ), the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation and the IUCN Shark Specialist Group. Special thanks to Nick Dulvy, Peter Kyne and Michael Scholl.
4 There used to be many sawfish in Africa, close to the coasts, in the mangroves and rivers.
5 Now, many sawfish have disappeared. But why? There are a few reasons why sawfish have disappeared. Adult sawfish live in the sea. They can grow to be very big, sometimes longer than a pirogue, but they are not aggressive and do not try to attack humans.
6 But the sawfish s saw gets stuck in fishing nets, and then they are easy to catch. The more fishing nets there are, the more sawfish get caught. Unlike some other fish, sawfish only have a small number of babies every year. So if we catch too many sawfish, they will disappear very quickly!
7 Far from the coast, the roots of the trees in forests hold the soil together. But when people cut down trees so that they can sell the wood, or farm on the land, the soil becomes loose. When it rains, the rain washes the soil into the rivers, where it builds up, making the rivers much shallower. Female sawfish that want to swim into a river to give birth to their babies in fresh water might not be able to enter the river if it has become too shallow.
8 Baby sawfish like to hide in the mangroves, to stay away from crocodiles and big sharks that want to eat them. But when people cut down all the mangrove trees for wood, or to grow rice, the sawfish have nowhere to hide.
9 But why should we protect sawfish? Sawfish and other big sharks and rays are an important part of the life in the sea, the mangroves and the rivers.
10 But if you take too many of any one kind of animal out of the river, or mangrove, or ocean, it becomes unbalanced. Then the quantity of other types of animal changes, and the animals that people catch for food might disappear. So we need to keep balance in our rivers, mangroves and seas, by not fishing too much of any one species. Then there will be enough food for everyone!
11 If you catch a sawfish, keep it in the water if possible. Try to take its saw out of the fishing net, or cut your fishing line. Then let it go back into the water, alive. But be careful, sawfishes are strong! Ask a friend to help you. Then, report your sawfish catch to your nearest fisheries officer. They can use this information to learn more about sawfish in your area.
12 Take care of sawfish where you live, and they will take care of our rivers and seas, so we can have plenty of food now and in the future!
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Business Class Travel is Not a Thing of the Past?
Per your December 2008 request, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) conducted a limited review of business class travel made by officials of the Front Office of the Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (OES) during fiscal years 2007 and 2008. The purpose of the review was to determine whether the OES Assistant Secretary and the four deputy assistant secretaries complied with federal and Department of State guidance as it relates to overseas and business class travel. OIG found that OES officials did not always adhere to travel regulations for properly preparing, authorizing, and maintaining documentation required by the guidance.
OIG reviewed 30 travel authorizations; 30 travel vouchers; and supporting documentation that included DS Form 4087, Authorization Request for Business Class Air Travel, memoranda, travel itineraries, airline tickets, and receipts for lodging and miscellaneous expenses. OIG compared the travel authorizations with the itineraries and the vouchers to determine when travel authorizations were created, authorizations were properly approved by a supervisor, and expenses were accurate and allowable.
OIG found that business class travel expenses represented $258,512 (about 83%) of the $311,154 of total travel expenses for the 30 vouchers. Each OES official used business class for every trip.
Five of these trips were actually less than 14 hours (from one TDY stop to another).
Four of these authorizations were signed by officials at a leve1 lower than that of the traveler.
Three authorizations had no authorization signature, employee signature, or authorization date.
5 travel authorizations did not include a DS Form 4087.
8 authorizations included actual expenses for lodging and meals but were not supported by a memorandum indicating approval that actual expenses could be incurred. The analysis showed that lodging expenses exceeded the established per diem rate by up to $188 per night.
11 authorizations were prepared after the traveler had returned from TDY.
7 authorizations did not reflect the business class authorization in Section 5, "Other Authorizations," or Section 11, "GTR Ticket Information" of the travel authorizations.
Holy mother of goat and all her crazy nephews!
I wonder if that GAO report was required reading for the engine room bees who wanted to argue about traveling over 14 hours, but not for officers on the bridge?
The Acting IG, Harold W. Geisel writes that OIG "would appreciate a response from an appropriate Department official within 30 days as to the actions taken or planned to address recommendation." Here is the old crew of the OES Bureau before the new Administration took over. Who's left behind to give an appropriate response?
On December 14, 2009, the Department of State published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to increase the nonimmigrant visa application processing fees, also called the Machine-Readable Visa (MRV) fee, and Border Crossing Card (BCC) fees. The proposed rule also establishes a tiered structure with separate fees for different visa categories.
The Department is proposing the increase to ensure sufficient resources to cover the increasing cost of processing nonimmigrant visas (NIVs). This increase applies both to nonimmigrant visas placed in passports and to border crossing cards issued to certain adult applicants in Mexico.
The new tiered fee structure was created to cover the higher unit costs for processing certain categories of nonimmigrant visas that are more complicated and require more in-depth consideration than most other categories of nonimmigrant visas. U.S. law requires the Department to attempt to recover the cost of processing nonimmigrant visas through the collection of the application fees. Because of ongoing process and security enhancements, the $131 fee set on January 1, 2008 is lower than the current, actual cost of processing nonimmigrant visas.
Under the proposed rule, applicants for all visas that are not petition-based, including B1/B2 tourist and business visitor visas and all student and exchange visitor visas, would pay a fee of $140.
The application fee for K visas for fiancé(e)s of U.S. citizens would be $350. The fee for E visas for treaty-traders and treaty-investors would be $390.
The Department says it will not begin collecting the new proposed fees until it considers public comments and publishes a final rule. See the proposed rule and submit comments here. Or check out www.regulations.gov. The Consular Affairs Bureau has also released a media note on this proposed fee increase including a FAQ here.
"This time around, with everything based on who you know and whether they can exert the right pressure on the right person in a decision-making position, I feel like I'm at a distinct disadvantage. I wasn't able to get the types of assignments I needed the first two times around, and thus I haven't had a chance to make the necessary connections within the parts of the organization I'd actually like to work in. You've all probably heard the adage about bringing a knife to a gun-fight. Well, this is the Foreign Service, so maybe it's more like a sword fight (let's face it, there might be blood, but nobody's going to get shot and die). And to this sword fight, yours truly has brought a toothpick.


To inform and inspire! That is the motto of the Los Angeles International Textile Show (LA Textile). And as the fashion industry's West Coast destination for premier textile, design and production resources, LA Textile showcases a high-caliber range of resources and trend direction for designers. Open February 25-27, 2013, attendance was essential to find out the latest in textile design, what we'll see in the fashion industry that will translate to interior design and meet the trend makers in this cross-industry platform.
Resources at the show presented their latest collections to the trade for the Spring and Summer 2014 season. With these introductions, we see several trends pushing forward in the fashion industry for 2014. Presented and displayed by Stylesight, a leading trend forecasting organization for the fashion industry, here are the trend highlights to note from the runways to interiors.
Based on fantastical escapism, there is an explosion of color in this trend theme. Think jungle paradise with a touch of modernism.
Created with a basis of meditation and contemplation, this trend focuses on the quiet escape of the oceans below and skies above. Colors are tranquil, heavy on blue hues and with a touch of the life force of coral.
The 1970s is reviewed through filtered rose-colored glasses inspiring memories and reflections of time past. Colors are muted, filtered, rosy and with a touch of 70s yellow and avocado.
Mathematics inspire this trend and highlight the beauty in symmetry and simplicity. Colors are architectural and muted with chalky whites, terra cotta shades, grays and black.


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Men 1st, Women 2nd at XC Championships
Men's cross country championship team. Lacey, WA
The Titan men go one, two with Andy Muha winning his second NWAC men's title, and freshman Shane Henderson in 2nd. Muha won the race with a time of 25:28:00, and Henderson 25:39:00. Anthony Stone and Tyler Anderson also finished in the top-10. Overall the Titans had eight finishers, all in the top-28. The Titans as you would expect also won the team title, their third in a row. Spokane finished 2nd, only two points behind. Head coach Bill Steyer now has as many titles as season as coach, two.
The women finished 2nd to Spokane. Alexis Manning-Crowl and Melody McGrath were the Titans top two finishers, placing 6th and 7th. Crowl finished with a time of 19:43:90 and McGrath 19:50:90. The women had eight finishers as well, five of which were in the top-21.
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Here's a science activity for kids that offers basic exposure to density and the law of gravity. It also gives your child an opportunity to engage in the trial and error method of problem solving. It's very simple and lots of fun.
Bozo Buckets is a kids' game you play for points and prizes. It offers enough variety that you can change the format each time you play.
Magnet activities for kids are a fun way to introduce your child to the world of science. The activities are easy to set up and fun to play. Here's some easy ones to get you started.
When it comes to toys, the ones that do the best job cultivating learning skills are usually the simplest in nature.
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You're gonna have to work for those levels.
Nintendo President: "We Don't Expect All Games To Become Cloud Games Any Time Soon"
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Assassin's Creed Odyssey Expands on Its RPG Roots With Story Creator Mode
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The info might have leaked, but see it all live anyways.
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Ubisoft is making a big play in Asia, and mobile is the key.
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QPRnet.com: When you first moved to QPR how quickly did you think you'd be involved in the first team?
SW: (laughs) It was unbelievable, I thought I would spend at least two seasons in the reserves trying to adjust to the professional game. I didn't realise how quickly I'd be put straight in so it was shock for me. It was a massive adjustment in a way, the difference in fitness is huge, training every day compared to a couple of evenings a week. I had to make big changes and I found it hard but I loved every minute of it at the same time.
QPRnet.com: You came on at Huddersfield for the first match of the season in midfield despite being signed as a centre half. Was this something that Gerry had discussed with you beforehand or did it just happen that way?
SW: Well prior to that I'd played two reserve games been put in the middle. I did really well and I think I scored in both. Gerry told me he thought I had great energy and could do a job there so I was happy to listen to him. Obviously I went to Rangers as a centre half and I'd played there in some of the pre-season games so I was expecting to be competing for that position. When I arrived Rangers had Karl Ready, Steve Morrow, Chris Plummer, Danny Maddix etc so it might have been a blessing in disguise really because there were a lot of centre halves at the club at the time.
QPRnet.com: It was the Port Vale game where you really first shone, just three games into the season and you score two goals, must've seemed a million miles away from Saffron Walden?
SW: Oh it was fantastic, being my first home game I wanted to do well. When I scored the first it was an unbelievable buzz, an absolute dream come true. The lads seemed really happy for me too, which was great and to get the second one was like all my Christmases coming at once! When I was at Saffron Walden I was used to scoring, I got seventeen from centre half but doing in front of sixteen thousand people was a massive difference!
QPRnet.com: You went on to get fourteen goals that season, how did you find the press and fan attention following that first season? Was it overwhelming for you?
SW: It was really nice to pick up the Sunday papers and see yourself in there and it was very flattering to read the nice things people were saying about me. I wouldn't say it was overwhelming though. At the end of the day you just have to get on with it and make sure it doesn't go to your head. I thought it was nice.
QPRnet.com: The following season things didn't go so well for both you and the team, in a way were the successes of your first season as much of a curse as they were a blessing?
SW: I guess it might have been, people probably expected me to do the same again and score another fourteen or fifteen, I don't think I played well personally that season but as a team we were struggling too.
QPRnet.com: I remember the game when you ended up in goal was it an instinctive thing for you to do or was no one else up for it?
SW: It's funny actually because before we go out training I'd be the idiot standing in goal while the others all lashed balls at me so when it happened I had a look over at the bench and I gave them a nod and they nodded back so I took the gloves and went for it! I enjoyed it actually and I got quite a good reception out of it. I'd do it again if I had to.
QPRnet.com: What was that relegation season like for the squad, we did well the previous year then the next season with pretty much the same players we struggled, could anyone understand what the problems were?
SW: No, it was very odd actually. The season before we were going to the big clubs like Ipswich and Manchester City and beating them, then the next year we were just so inconsistent. It was very frustrating and so hard to put your finger on what went wrong.
QPRnet.com: We hear now that the attitude of some of the players that season wasn't good, how did you find the team spirit around the place?
SW: The first season I was there things were really good, there was a great buzz around the place and the lads would have died for each other. The next year that seemed to die down a bit, I'm not sure I could put it down to attitude but things weren't the same. Gerry was trying everything but it didn't seem to happen for him.
QPRnet.com: Gerry obviously helped launch your career to what it is today, I assume you have a lot of respect for the man?
SW: Yes, definitely. He took me from non league and gave me my chance. I'll always be grateful for that. As a manager he knows what he wants, he very tactically aware and it was great to work for him.
QPRnet.com: What difference did Olly make when he arrived?
SW: Whenever you get a new manager everyone wants to impress so I think it lifted the lads because they were all fighting for their places.
QPRnet.com: Into your third season, we were in the second division and Olly had experimented with you as a striker, how did you find playing totally upfront?
SW: I enjoyed it, I didn't score though and it was much harder than I thought it would be but at the time we were struggling for forwards and Olly said he was going to give me a go and I didn't mind going up there but as I say it was very hard.
QPRnet.com: What was your favourite game and goal for Rangers?
SW: My favourite game would have to be the Port Vale game at Loftus Road, it was my home debut and an amazing experience, to hit two goals was fantastic and it's something I'll never forget. As for a goal, I've got a couple! There was one against Blackburn, it wasn't a great goal but I remember thinking at the time that if I scored there it would be something to tell the grandchildren and I did, it was just funny how it came about. My best goal though was defiantly the one away to Torquay in the cup.
QPRnet.com: You came to the end of your time at Rangers and were playing on a month to month deal, how did the move to Rushden come about?
SW: Obviously I wasn't getting in the side at the time, I was playing in the reserves and we went up and played Rushden for a game. My agent had heard they were looking for a midfielder and I couldn't see any future for me at QPR so it was a good opportunity for me to go and play first team football again.
QPRnet.com: How are you enjoying Rushden and how does it compare to QPR?
SW: We're doing really well. Last year I came in and we got to the play off final, playing at the Millennium Stadium was a great experience for me. We were devastated on missing out but we've come back stronger and we're looking for automatic promotion and maybe the championship so it's going really well at the moment. The facilities here are second to none and the stadium is great. There isn't as many fans as at QPR, we get about four to six thousand but everyone is really nice and we've got a good squad so hopefully we'll get promoted.
QPRnet.com: If things don't go so well for us you'll be back at Loftus Road next season, will you be looking forward to that?
SW: I'd love to go back definitely, I don't know if I'd get a good reception or not, hopefully I would though because I really liked the fans at Rangers.


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December 15, 2018, 7:32 PM ET
Listen To David Sweat Breaks Down The Night He And Richard Matt Escaped From Prison
In spring 2015, Sweat began cutting a hole through an 18-inch steam pipe to escape the Dannemora prison.
By Aly Vander Hayden
Dannemora Prison Break: David Sweat and Richard Matt Escape
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In late January 2015, Clinton Correctional Facility inmate David Sweat was transferred to a cell next to friend and fellow convict Richard Matt. According to The New York Times, Sweat "almost immediately" began cutting a hole in the steel wall at the back of his cell with a hacksaw blade that had been smuggled into the facility by prison employee Joyce Mitchell. Night after night, Sweat carved the opening, and once he was finished, he sawed through the back of Matt's cell.
When spring hit, an 18-inch steam pipe used to heat the Dannemora prison began to cool off, and Sweat realized it led through a concrete wall to a manhole on the street about 400 feet beyond the prison walls. It took Sweat more than four weeks to cut a hole in the pipe, but by June, their escape tunnel was complete.
During a later interrogation with law enforcement that aired in Oxygen's two-hour special "Dannemora Prison Break," Sweat opened up about the night he and Matt made their daring escape. Following their evening bed check, the two left dummies made of clothes in their beds and snuck through the sawed-out holes. Sweat explained that he took a guitar case filled with supplies because he "figured well if somebody sees a guitar case, they're not thinkin' you escaped."
The two inmates, who were both serving lengthy sentences for murder, made their way through the prison's interior catwalks and tunnels before reaching the steam pipe.
Sweat, who was younger and more agile than Matt, explained, "I went through the pipe first. I knew I was probably gonna have to pull him. ... So I knew he wouldn't be able to pull himself through. So I threw the sheet down to him, and I just pulled him through. About halfway through his hat fell off, got stuck on his stomach. He got all scared."
By midnight, they had reached the manhole. Sweat crawled up the ladder and opened the cover to look for their accomplice Mitchell, who had agreed to meet them with car and supplies. What they did not know, however, was that the married 51-year-old prison worker had no intention of meeting them at the rendezvous point.
That night, Mitchell had suffered a panic attack and checked herself into an area hospital. She would later tell NBC she feared the convicts would murder her and her husband after she outlived her usefulness, and that she "panicked and couldn't follow through with the rest of the plan."
Once he realized Mitchell was nowhere in sight, Sweat said he had "an 'oh sh*t' moment."
"We told her, 'Listen, if you're not there, then we're f*cked because they're gonne be comin' to kill us," explained Sweat.
Sweat and Matt decided to make a break for it and ran through a man's backyard before cutting into the dense forest and swamps surrounding Dannemora. Without Mitchell, the two decided to flee on foot to the Canadian border. Over the following three weeks, a massive manhunt ensued that cost the state of New York $23 million and resulted in the killing of Matt, capture of Sweat and arrest of both Mitchell for her role in the breakout.
To hear more about Sweat and Matt's escape, watch "Dannemora Prison Break" on Oxygen.
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David Evangelista's Oprah Audition
June 28, 2010 by Lila Delilah
We all know that Oprah has ended her legendary talk show and is moving on to dominating her own network. Producing a show is one thing but programing an entire network with original and thoughtful content is another. So in classic Oprah style, she's hosting an online audition contest called, Your Own Show.
Of course, there is a mom cooking with her kids, a woman pitching a show about leaving a legacy, and a former pro-wrestler who wants to inspire others to open doors to a new life. But it was famed hair stylist, David Evangelista's audition that really caught our attention. We were so excited to get great style hints and beauty suggestions but all we got was a jar of narcissism.
In his 2:20min segment, David pitches a marriage between a traditional talk show format with his knowledge of beauty and fashion to create an "hour extraaaavaganza." David also explains that he knows how to be a great host but never describes the format of his dream show or how it would be unique.
"A great host is someone who can listen, someone who can take themselves out of the studio and put themselves on the couch with the viewer at home." He later continues, "I'm a Sagatarieous. We have the gift of gab. We don't shut up. Trust me, we keep on going and going and going."
No kidding, but please don't.
We'll give you one of those big beauty bear hugs if you bring back the David Evangelista we are used to seeing on CBS.
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Veterans honored Monday in Lewiston tribute
By Daniel Hartill, Staff Writer
LEWISTON — In Bill Stretton's tight grasp Monday morning, the U.S. Army flag never faltered.
He wanted to contribute to the Veterans Day event at the Lewiston Armory — when representatives of so many military and veterans groups passed in review for the crowd of 300. His old Army uniform, from his days as a medical assistant in emergency rooms and operating rooms, still fit his lean frame, but he worried about the weakness on his right side.
Seven years ago he had a growth removed from his brain. It shook him up and left him with the lingering weakness and problems with such things as giving directions.
"People see me and they think I'm all better," said Stretton, who lives in Lewiston.
But no one thought he looked weak as he walked without a misstep with his fellow Army vets. With him, ranging from teenagers to old men, walked members or former members of the Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Disabled American Veterans, police officers, firefighters and junior Air Force cadets from Lewiston High School. The Knights of Columbus and, for the first time, members of the Kora Temple Legion of Honor also marched.
Together, they outnumbered the people who filled the 150 chairs on the floor of the armory and the additional seats in the balcony.
Few folks without ties to the marchers attended, said organizer Jerry DeWitt, a veteran who served in Iraq.
"Mostly this has meaning for veterans," said DeWitt, as the Just Us Singers stood on the stage and sang Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
DeWitt wished more everyday folks had attended to honor the veterans, he said. However, he felt worse that some vets were unable to attend because of their jobs.
Though banks were closed Monday, most retail stores and many other businesses remained open.
"There are vets who are working today," DeWitt said. "If we want this holiday to have more meaning, we need to take this more seriously."
However, he was pleased with the event, shaking hands with Stretton warmly after the procession.
To Stretton, Monday's event was a chance to walk tall.
As a young man, he had served in the Marine Corps. He switched services to specialize in medicine.
As a civilian, he worked as the safety director for the city of Lewiston. He retired at 60, when he became ill.
"I'm broken down," Stretton said.
But any cracks were covered by his Army uniform, his military posture and his determination. He held the flag.
In his care, it never fell.
Jerry DeWitt, organizer of Monday's entertainment at the Lewiston Armory, salutes as colors are presented during a Veterans Day tribute.
Joci Witham, a junior at Lewiston High School, waits to march with the Air Force Junior ROTC color guard Monday at the Lewiston Armory.
Ruth Goding of Auburn sings the national anthem during a musical tribute to veterans Monday morning at the Lewiston Armory. Goding's father was a veteran and lost his best friend at the Battle of the Bulge. Her grandson is also in the Junior ROTC.
The AmVets Post 6 from New Gloucester presents its colors during a tribute to veterans Monday morning a the Lewiston Armory.
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