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In the spring of 1939, the father of the historian Peter Gay had a fateful premonition. As Gay writes in his memoir, "My German Question: Growing Up in Nazi Berlin," he and his parents were booked on a ship called the St. Louis, scheduled to leave Hamburg, Germany, for Havana, Cuba, on May 13th. But something told the father to switch to a ship called the Iberia, leaving for Havana two weeks earlier. On May 27th, a fortnight after the Gays (or Fröhlichs, as they were then known) safely reached Havana, the St. Louis arrived, and was overtaken by a ghastly tragedy. Nine hundred and seven Jewish refugees on board never set foot on Cuban soil. The Cuban government, with inexplicable callousness and arbitrariness, revoked their landing permits, and barred them from leaving the ship. The St. Louis circled the Caribbean, seeking asylum for its passengers, but no country, including our own, would take them. The ship finally returned to Europe, where four countries—Belgium, France, Holland, and England—accepted a quarter of the passengers each. The two hundred and eighty-seven refugees who went to England were the fortunate ones. Of those who went to Belgium, France, and Holland, only around forty survived the Nazi Occupation. Gay remembers standing in the harbor of Havana and watching the tragedy unfold. "It was thanks to [him] that we were looking at the St. Louis rather than traveling on it," he writes of his prescient father, and adds, "Would I have survived if we too had been passengers on that ill-fated ship, to end up an American citizen, an American family man, an American professor? The simple figures tell the story: the odds would have been against it."
Among the other fortunate passengers on the Iberia was a nineteen-year-old Hungarian Jew named George Jellinek, whose father, too, had been prescient, though, as it turned out, not prescient enough. Jellinek senior, who owned a restaurant in Budapest, felt the necessity of getting his son out of Hungary as war appeared inevitable and conscription in the Hungarian Army probable, but did not foresee the unimaginable. Jellinek's parents stayed in Hungary and perished in the Holocaust. His sister, Eva, who also stayed, survived by means of false papers.
Jellinek eventually reached New York—Cuba was only a way station for refugees waiting to be admitted to America—and became part of an emigration whose impact on postwar American culture has yet to be fully chronicled. If he is not among this emigration's most imposing figures, he is surely one of its most genial spirits. For thirty-six years, his hour-long radio program "The Vocal Scene" has given extraordinary pleasure to large numbers of listeners, and when it goes off the air, at the end of the year, its like will surely not be heard again.
Devotees of the program tend to be older people. I listened to "The Vocal Scene" on WQXR many years ago and began listening to it again after happening upon it one evening last April. It acted on me like a madeleine. It powerfully evoked my childhood in the nineteen-forties, when there was no television and families sat around in the evening listening to the radio—in the case of my family, to classical music. I could scarcely believe that Jellinek was still alive—he must be in his hundreds. Later, I discovered that my memory of listening to Jellinek when I was a child in the forties was a false one; "The Vocal Scene" did not begin until 1969. But such is the period flavor of the program, such is its atmosphere of anachronism, that my mistake is understandable.
"Hello, this is George Jellinek," says a voice at the outset of "The Vocal Scene." This voice is at least as integral to the pleasure of the program as are those of the opera singers which fill the hour with gorgeous sound. It is a voice with a slight hoarseness and a pronounced foreign accent. It is a voice also inflected by cheerfulness, kindliness, intelligence, and slight hamminess. The program on the night I rediscovered "The Vocal Scene" was entitled "Eight Ways to Sing an Aria," and began with this Jellinek commentary:
**{: .break one} ** In the third act of Gounod's "Faust," the rejuvenated Faust comes to Marguerite's house. He is already fascinated by the girl, and Mephisto has already awaked in him a physical desire for her. But the music Gounod wrote for this scene is almost entirely devoid of sensuality. The tone is almost worshipful in the aria "Salut, demeure chaste et pure" (I greet you, chaste and pure dwelling). We may know the outcome of Faust's visit, but at this juncture the tenor should not sound like a seducer. He should project a passion restrained by a sense of spirituality that transforms Marguerite's garden into something like a shrine… . We are about to hear this aria performed by eight different tenors ranging over sixty years of recorded history. This may seem like a reckless venture on my part, but I feel confident that you will find this hour neither dull nor monotonous. **
Jellinek's confidence was not misplaced. "Salut, demeure chaste et pure" is one of French opera's most ravishing arias. One does not have to see the opera's setting of a dark garden; one hears it in the music's lush sweetness. After listening to the aria once, one wants to hear it again; after eight times, one is satisfied but not sated. The eight tenors—César Vezzani (singing on a 1931 recording), Georges Thill (1930), Helge Roswaenge (1928), Jussi Björling (1949), Beniamino Gigli (1931), Plácido Domingo (1979), Richard Leech (1991), and Ivan Kozlovsky (1949)—gave eight conspicuously distinct interpretations. Some sang in French, and others in German, Italian, or, in one case, Russian. A little drama was provided by the high C that comes near the aria's end. How would the tenors dispatch it? Like baseball players at bat, they swung at the C. Some of them hit it out of the park; others didn't. "His high C is impressive," Jellinek said of Vezzani, but added, "That high C should not be judged in isolation. It is contained within a long legato phrase, 'où se devine la présence,' and Vezzani, like most tenors, takes a breath before 'la présence' in order to be able to negotiate that high C. No serious damage is done, but the legato arc is broken." Björling earned Jellinek's praise for taking "that entire crucial phrase … on one unbroken breath." At the same time, Björling's French "is only passable."
When I visited Jellinek at his home, in Hastings-on-Hudson, a few weeks later, I had to revise my image of him as a frail, very old man with a deeply lined Central European face and a shabby ill-fitting suit. In actuality, Jellinek is a sturdy, vigorous man of eighty-four, with a full, handsome face and the air of someone who knows that his suit is well cut. Moreover, he does not seem particularly foreign, nor does his accent seem as pronounced as it does when it comes from his disembodied voice. When we size each other up, our eyes evidently trump our ears; the actual Jellinek comes across as a fairly, if not entirely, regular American.
I come from a refugee family myself, and some of what has always drawn me to "The Vocal Scene" is my association of Jellinek with the New York émigré community to which my parents belonged during and after the Second World War. One of the striking characteristics of this community was its achievement—you could even say its overachievement—of mastering English. These émigrés made it their business to speak and write English that was not only grammatically correct but idiomatic beyond the requirements of ordinary usage. The pride that my father and his fellow-émigrés took in their ability to stroll through the language as if it were a field of wildflowers from which they could gather choice specimens—of stale standard expressions and faded slang—is touchingly evoked by Jellinek's radio commentaries. His accent only magnifies the predictability of the language he writes in—which, of course, is the language that all but the poets among us use. Just a few degrees separate Jellinek's English from that of the native-born. However, those degrees give it its character and flavor and place it in a time that is not our own.
Jellinek and his wife, Hedy, a retired economist, live in a two-bedroom apartment with a view of the Hudson in an unpretentious brick apartment building near the shore. Like Jellinek's commentaries, the Jellinek apartment gave me a feeling of déjà vu. It is furnished with the mixture of fifties American modern furniture and upholstery and late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European pictures and objects that constituted the homes of the émigrés I used to know. The Old World relics at the Jellineks'—photographs of Austro-Hungarian grandparents and great-grandparents in ornate gold frames, old prints and drawings, vases and bowls of European crystal and porcelain—derive almost entirely from Hedy's side of the family. She and her parents left Nazi Vienna in 1938. Among the very few traces in the Jellinek apartment of George's prewar life is an oval studio photograph of him as a boy in short pants with a violin tucked under his arm and a wonderful, schmaltzily serious look on his six-year-old face.
As Hedy served tea and pastries at a long table in a dining alcove, George spoke of his early life. Hedy confined herself to the role of hostess and supportive spouse, disclosing almost nothing about herself, and occasionally allowing a sense of tartness to emerge. George said he had studied the violin for eleven years, but never practiced enough to become a virtuoso performer. He came to opera late—he saw his first opera, "La Traviata," at the age of sixteen. "I was a typical chamber-music snob," he said. "We chamber-music people looked down on opera. It seemed like just a lot of noise and gestures, while chamber music was pure and refined. But, when opera hit, it hit me with a vengeance. I had no exit strategy." Jellinek's father's restaurant was near the Budapest opera house, and George went to the opera almost every night. The opera season in Budapest ran from September to June, and George attended a hundred and fifty performances during each of his last two years in Hungary.
"I was rather deficient in my knowledge of French opera," Jellinek said, and when he went on to attribute this deficiency to the Francophobia by which Hungary was gripped between the world wars, I felt yet another stir of childhood memory. I remembered the condescending way my Czech parents used to talk about Hungarians. Though not in the same league with the seriously bad Germans, Hungarians were regarded as inferior and somewhat absurd in our household. We used to sing a song that went:
**{: .break one} ** Nem sere fe pekete Gulásem se nacpete. **
The first line is nonsense, a kind of parody Hungarian. The second line is Czech and means: "With goulash you will stuff yourselves." When I reported these deplorable memories to Jellinek, he remembered, in turn, his own anti-Czech feelings. He recalled vile things that his teachers said about the (I always thought) innocuous second President of Czechoslovakia, Edvard Benes. All this enmity and jingoism, of course, came out of the alliances of the First World War and its aftermath. Hungary, which had fought alongside Germany, was carved up by the victorious French and English. Its most deeply resented loss was the vast region of Transylvania, given to Romania; the newly formed Czechoslovak Republic was given the smaller region of Slovakia but was only slightly less resented. As a consequence, Jellinek said, "the Hungarian government saw to it that we did not play the music of Enescu, we did not play the music of Smetana, we did not play the music of Dvorák."
After the Holocaust shattered the delusion of assimilation to which German and Central European Jews had clung until it was too late, a surviving Jew could hardly be expected to feel much of the old nationalistic pride. And yet I have to confess to the twinge of disappointment I felt when I learned that Jellinek, though his name is Czech, isn't Czech; and Jellinek himself continues to helplessly identify with his native culture. When he accepted an award from the American Hungarian Foundation in 1986, he felt it imperative to insert a bitter note: "I don't know what would have become of me in Hungary, because my native land rejected me, and my parents—who had held out bright hopes for me—were destroyed during those few years when Hungary brought disgrace to its heroic thousand-year history." But he went on to express his gratitude "for what my Hungarian heritage gave me: a terrific fundamental education, a basic understanding of history, an interest in languages, an immersion in a wonderful literature that is unfortunately unknown to much of the world, and the beginnings of my musical education… . And not the least of this Hungarian heritage is the recognition that, as a son of a small nation, speaking a language that is foreign to most of humanity, in order to succeed, one simply must try harder."
Jellinek's career in America is a kind of textbook example of trying harder. After he arrived in America from Cuba in the fall of 1941, he worked as a waiter in the Catskills and then—with the Spanish he had picked up in Cuba—became the Spanish correspondent for a New York export firm. He was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942 and served as a lieutenant in the infantry from 1944 until 1946. He considers his graduation, against all odds, from the tough officer-training school at Fort Benning, Georgia, the triumph of his life. In an article about the Fort Benning experience published in the magazine On the Air in 1977, Jellinek recalled walking in the woods practicing the officers' art of barking commands: "Night after night I walked among the trees that darkly towered over me, piercing the nocturnal calm with my ferocious shouts." He went on, "Do I find public speaking difficult? It's a piece of cake to the Benning graduate." At the tea table, one of the few remarks that the reticent Hedy allowed herself was to point out that, of two hundred candidates, George was one of a hundred who did not flunk out at Fort Benning.
Jellinek went overseas and fought in the final battles of the war in Europe; after the Armistice, he used the German it was obligatory for every Hungarian to learn to interrogate suspected war criminals. Back in New York, he worked at a succession of jobs in the recorded-music field: first as a salesman at a record store called the Merit Music Shop; then at an organization concerned with music rights called the Society of European Stage Authors and Composers; then at, of all places, the Muzak Corporation; and, finally, at WQXR, which hired him as its music director. He created "The Vocal Scene" as a corrective to what he felt to be the station's inadequate coverage of operatic music. During these years, Jellinek also wrote two books, "Callas: Portrait of a Prima Donna" (1960) and "History Through the Opera Glass" (1994); reviewed records for The Saturday Review of Literature, Opera News, and the Times, among other publications; appeared on the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday-afternoon broadcasts; taught at N.Y.U.; and built the enormous personal collection of vocal-music records—even more enormous than WQXR's collection—that has been the backbone of "The Vocal Scene." He and Hedy were married during his second year in America (they had met through a cousin on his first day in New York), and their daughter, Nancy, was born in 1948.
The walls in the Hastings-on-Hudson apartment that are not filled with the relics of Hedy's European past or with shelves of records and CDs are crowded with tributes to Jellinek's achievements in America. There is an honorary degree from Long Island University, an award from N.Y.U. for outstanding teaching, a Grammy, and dozens of inscribed photographs of opera singers and conductors, among them Ezio Pinza, Richard Tucker, Eugene Ormandy, André Kostelanetz, Victoria de los Ángeles, Maria Callas, Marilyn Horne, and Jarmila Novotná.
During the past decade, Jellinek has been winding down his enterprise. In 1984, he retired as WQXR's music director. He has gradually sold or donated more than a thousand of his records, and he has written no new scripts since 2000. What one has been hearing on "The Vocal Scene" is slightly emended repeats of old broadcasts. Jellinek told me of his decision to permanently retire "The Vocal Scene" at the end of this year, and invited me to come to WQXR to observe the taping of his farewell program.
The taping was a quiet affair. The broadcast engineer, a handsome young woman named Juliana Fonda, sat at a large computerized control panel while Jellinek sat in a darkened recording booth. Before entering the booth, Jellinek discussed technical matters with Fonda. They talked in the calm, settled way of people who have worked together for a long time and know what to expect of each other. Jellinek handed her the CDs from which she was to play excerpts at the proper intervals, and disappeared into his booth. The program was devoted to music of farewell and began with a duet from the fourth act of Gounod's "Roméo et Juliette," sung by Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto Alagna. The duet's trembling sweetness, like that of "Salut, demeure chaste et pure," takes one about as far from the present moment as it is possible to get. It evokes the nineteenth century's impossible romantic yearnings. It summons images of beaded velvet costumes and flats depicting ancient parks and forests. That the velvet is threadbare, the beads grimy, and the flats faded only adds to the music's nostalgic pull. The geographic accident that put my parents in a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that did not have to peevishly abjure French culture but, on the contrary, worshipped it makes me feel the pull especially strongly.
Jellinek next offered Bidú Sayão's rendition of Manon's farewell to her little table in Act II of Massenet's opera; followed by Joan Sutherland and Luciano Pavarotti saying addio to each other in "Rigoletto"; and Mirella Freni and José Carreras singing the finale of "Don Carlo." I glanced over at Jellinek as he read his commentary, and realized anew how great a part of the pleasure of "The Vocal Scene" is the pleasure of listening to George Jellinek. He is an artful broadcaster, reading with a storyteller's deliberation and an actor's grasp of cadence.
The "Don Carlo" selection ended the first half of the program, and Jellinek stepped out of the booth. "Any mistakes?" he asked Fonda, who shook her head. "That was the easy half," he said. And, indeed, the second half was not a piece of cake. Jellinek was nervous and several times stumbled over words. (Whenever this happened, he would take a deep breath and then repeat the entire phrase so that it could be spliced in later. ) He was obviously looking ahead to the last segment of the program. As the strains of Haydn's "Farewell Symphony" rose, he said, "And now it is time for my own personal farewell to you, and it is not easy… . As you can imagine, I am leaving 'The Vocal Scene' with a heavy heart, and I want to emphasize that no one is forcing me; it is my decision." He went on to speak of "the labor of love" the program had been and to say that those
**{: .break one} ** who know me regard me as a modest person. But my modesty has its limits, and I am not modest enough to deny that I am very proud of what I have accomplished in the past thirty-six years… . Every one of my nearly two thousand programs was conceived with a central idea in mind, and your thousands of letters, postcards, and e-mail messages have assured me of your enthusiastic appreciation. I am even immodest enough to believe that my scholarship and overall experience combined with a personal style left a legacy hard to duplicate. **
When Jellinek stepped out of the booth, Fonda came toward him and they embraced. Then they got to work splicing in the corrected stumbles and adjusting the length of one of the musical selections.
After the work was done, Jellinek and I went to talk in a conference room. I asked him why he was taking the program off the air instead of continuing to recycle the old broadcasts. "I am getting older and my listeners are getting older," he said. "It's time to go."
"But you will be flooded with requests to continue the broadcasts," I said. Jellinek shook his head. His mood of immodesty had passed. "I have not done anything that passes the test of immortality," he said. "Great artists pass this test. The legacy of a Rubinstein is preserved in his records. I have done nothing like that. I've done a number of clever programs."
Jellinek ushered me out of the studio, leading the way through long corridors and holding doors open with elaborate European courtesy. For the first time, I noticed that he walked with a slight sway—so slight as to be almost invisible—but one that subtly evoked the stylized movements of the czardas. I said nothing to him of this near-subliminal association, and when he reads of it here he will probably be surprised. ♦


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I am working on a civics related project and I need to be able to display all the properties in the City of Philadelphia on a map, so I'll need to get the latitude & longitude for all 580,000 properties. (Only once)
Most APIs like Google/Yahoo have limits of 5,000 per day, and even BatchGeo has a similar limit.
Is there a way I can do a one-time geocoding of all these addresses?

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new version out
gui available
since people actually seemed to like this and i won't have time to fix a gui for the new version for some time i'll publish it without gui.
the new beta fixes some bugs (especially the white balance one) and adds some feats.. no changelog available but here's what you can get/set if your camera supports it: auto-focus, absolute focus, relative focus, auto-exposure, absolute exposure, absolute iris, relative iris, auto-white balance temperature, absolute white balance temperature, brightness, contrast, gain, saturation and sharpness.
note that the argument order has changed since the last version, think "get/set <value> of <function> on <cam>". also included the source this time!
the binary included is "universal" (i386/x86_64) and have been tested on both os x 10.6 and 10.7 (thanks to Arvid). the source has also been compiled on freebsd9. it does not require python as that was only the gui. it does however require libusb.
known bugs (thank you Matthew and F-red for the reports)
- interactive session can't take negative values
- auto-exposure value description in wrong order
- show configuration segfaults
update thanks to Klaus' report it seems possible to fix the problem with programs resetting settings made by uvc-ctrl. if you have this trouble: try starting the program that resets your settings, from within it switch to your iSight, update the settings you want with uvc-ctrl on your other cam and then switch back. your settings should now still be in place.
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Boston Business Journal
Mary Moore
As he drives through downtown Lowell, Marty Meehan points with excitement at the Lowell District courthouse, a building he has his eyes on to house UMass Lowell's art department.
No matter that the state courthouse is still bustling with judicial proceedings.
"There's parking for it, too," Meehan said. "It would be fabulous."
This isn't the first time that the former congressman has had his eyes on a property in his hometown, and it certainly won't be the last. Since Meehan joined UMass Lowell as its chancellor in mid-2007, he has presided over a massive expansion of the school, with nearly $600 million in capital projects that have been completed or set into motion — representing more than a dozen new construction projects, acquisitions and renovations. The list includes UMass Lowell's Tsongas Center, a 6,500-seat arena acquired in 2010 from the city that is now generating more than $3 million in annual revenue for the university.
UMass Lowell's operating budget rose by more than 50 percent, and its student enrollment grew 40 percent to roughly 16,000 undergraduate and graduate students, since Meehan took over. He has used grants, donations and private partnerships to help build this empire. But most significantly, Meehan has used $160 million in new debt, betting that an array of new facilities will pay off for the school down the road. UMass Lowell now reports about $250 million in debt, up from $90 million in 2007.
The new construction includes a $40 million health and social sciences building that opened in April and houses, among others, UMass Lowell's burgeoning nursing department. There also is a new parking garage on the school's south campus and student housing on the east campus. Work has begun on the $95 million University Crossing student services complex, at the site of the former St. Joseph's Hospital that UMass Lowell bought for $6.3 million in 2011.
Across the Merrimack River, the $80 million Mark and Elisia Saab Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center was completed last year for the school's plastics research and product design, nanomanufacturing and biomaterials development work. To people like Lowell Mayor Patrick Murphy, it's projects like that 84,000-square-foot center that exemplify UMass Lowell's focus on technology, a focus that is creating job opportunities for the city.
"We're able to tap into the research going on (at UMass Lowell) and to be able to retain some of the talent," Murphy said. "As the reputation of the university rises, so will the attraction (to) all kinds of different companies that are really seeking talented people."
With the building boom has come new levels of debt. This fiscal year, UMass Lowell has a debt load that's equal to 4.6 percent of its operating budget, up from 2.9 percent when Meehan joined the school. UMass Lowell is paying $16.9 million in debt service payments in the current fiscal year, a $3.6 million increase from the previous year. Its debt load percentage puts it in the middle of the pack in the UMass system.
Meehan is hardly done yet: Other projects on the horizon include a new business school building, as well as a science and engineering building renovation.
UMass Lowell has received $150 million from a state-backed higher education bond bill in 2008, as well as $10 million from a 2008 life sciences bill for the Emerging Technologies and Innovation Center. The campus is also repaying $240 million in bond funds, initially issued by the UMass Building Authority, with revenue from student tuition and fees, and campus fundraising initiatives.
Since 2007, the campus has raised more than $85 million in private gifts and pledges and the endowment has increased to $60 million from $37 million.
"If you can get a donor to give you some money, that building gets built faster," said Robert Caret, president of the UMass system. "Lowell has been just about as aggressive if not the most aggressive of the five (UMass) campuses in getting private money."
Though its growth is ambitious, UMass Lowell has not outpaced UMass Amherst in capital projects or funding. That campus in western Massachusetts has roughly $700 million in debt. Such spending is expected at the flagship UMass campus, Meehan said. UMass Lowell has had to jump a higher hurdle in demonstrating that it has the revenue stream to pay debt service on UMass bonds, he said.
Revenue at UMass Lowell is expected to be $326 million this year, up 8 percent from the previous school year. UMass Lowell began to run an operating deficit, which was $3 million last year and this year is projected at $5 million. (The school has a $28 million reserves fund to help cover any deficits.)
Meehan's political background has certainly played a key role in this UMass growth spurt. One good example is the university's $15 million purchase of a former Doubletree hotel in 2009, a building now used by the university for an inn, conference center and dorms.
Meehan knew from some meetings he had attended early in his political career that more than 300 parking spots in an adjacent city-owned parking garage are deeded to the hotel property – a fact, he said, that most city officials did not realize. The parking made the hotel even more valuable to UMass Lowell, which has since taken those parking spots exclusively for its own use, Meehan said. Meehan knows that part of the university's success and ability to raise revenue is how it's perceived by the public. To that end, he looks for every opportunity to market the UMass Lowell brand —right down to the new brilliant blue UMass Lowell signs, paid for by federal funds, that line the city's downtown streets. "There's no doubt that political friendships can help," said James Karam, the previous chairman of the UMass board of trustees. "But I think it's really political skills and those are applicable to any industry. Change 'political skills' to 'people skills.' He's got the ability to galvanize people."
But Meehan is aware that his ambition also has the potential to turn people off. He says his aggressive plans have been termed by some locals as "Martyville."
Kendall Wallace, chairman of the company that publishes the Lowell Sun, says he coined the "Martyville" phrase, and it was not meant as a slight. The construction jobs helped the city make it through during the recession, Wallace said, and the extra students brought more traffic to the downtown area. "People are stunned by what has happened," Wallace said.


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300hp when? How?
300hp when? How?
You have full *torque* from 0 rpm. But power depends on the rpm, too. Technically, at the moment you floor it, you have 0 power, because you're not moving yet. Maximum power occurs at the rpm point where the torque starts to drop off, around 55mph IIRC.
Yep, accel from 0 requires infinite power.
How do you measure HP? Is it some display on Roadster?
I have a 1.5 Roadster and it's HP peak is 241, I have seen as much as 245 but the "rating" is only 241. And yes the VDS has a screen that shows you the HP, torque and g forces. It is kind of cool.
Wild guess: 300HP is actual motor rating, IE. how much electrical power it drains from the batteries when you floor it independent of motor RPM (conversion of watts to HP), and HP what you actually get is measured by combination of RPM and torque (actual HP definition). You never reach the rated power because motor torque in Roadster starts to drop before it reaches RPM that equals 300HP.
The exact definition of one hp is 33,000 lb.ft./minute. Put another way, if you were to lift 33,000 pounds one foot over a period of one minute, you would have been working at the rate of one horsepower. In this case, you'd have expended one horsepower-minute of energy.


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Oct 9 (Reuters) - A man who flew into Los Angeles International Airport from Japan wearing a bulletproof vest and flame retardant clothing has been arrested after a smoke grenade, various weapons and body bags were found in his luggage, officials said on Tuesday.
Yongda Huang Harris, who was due in federal court on Tuesday to face a charge of transporting hazardous materials, was in transit en route for Boston when airport security officials stopped him on Friday after noticing his odd attire.
Customs and border patrol agents searched his checked bags and among other items found a gas mask, bio-hazard suits, body bags, three leather-coated billy clubs, knives, a hatchet and leg irons.
The single charge against Harris, 28, stems from the smoke grenade, an item that is prohibited on passenger aircraft, officials said. While Harris lives in Boston, officials said, he had recently been living and working in Japan.
They did not give any explanation as to how he boarded his plane in Japan without raising suspicions.
Harris faces a maximum penalty of five years in prison if convicted.
(Writing by Mary Slosson; Editing by Cynthia Johnston and David Brunnstrom)
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text: From the shadows a character emerges. He is The Degenerate known as Sean Tyas. Equipped with an alternate belief and an armory of fresh, high tech soundscapes, each one skilfully crafted to engage his disenchanted generation of nocturnal followers who unite after dark to rebel against the candy floss pink. A new path is here for all Degenerates that choose to follow. Embrace the dark. His sound will guide you through to the other side.


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It was a fact-checker's dream.
The two major candidates for president, standing practically toe-to-toe, with contradictory versions of a basic fact: the level of oil production on public lands.
"Production on government land, ..." Mitt Romney began.
"Production is up, " President Barack Obama interrupted.
"Is down, " Romney insisted.
"No, it isn't."
"Production on government land of oil is down 14 percent."
"And production of gas…"
"It's just not true."
The exchange came in response to just the second question of the debate, from Phillip Tricolla of Long Island, N.Y., who asked the president about gas prices. Romney pounced on Obama's response that the most important thing the nation can do is "control our energy, " claiming overall production under his administration is up.
So who is right?
Our Investigations Inc. fact-checking team scoured the database of the U.S. Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration, which keeps records going back to the 1920s. We found Romney's statistic on oil production misleading. But Obama's claim of credit for increased domestic production is misleading as well.
Here are the official government numbers:
In 2008, the year before Obama took office, sales of crude oil produced on federal lands totaled 575 million barrels. The number jumped to 642 million in 2009, and 739 million in 2010. But public lands include "lands" offshore. And following the Deepwater Horizon disaster on April 20, 2010, the Obama administration declared a temporary moratorium on offshore drilling. Largely as a result, sales dropped to 646 million barrels in 2011 — the 14 percent drop Romney cited.
(Read More: Debate II: Obama Goes on Offensive Against Romney )
The 2011 figure was still higher than it was when the president took office, however. And analysts have predicted when 2012 is over, the number will be higher still. In fact, a Citigroup report says "production is bouncing back" since the moratorium was lifted, and this year the U.S. "could well recoup the depletion it lost since 2010."
Romney should know the report well, since his campaign cites it in a white paper on energy policy issued on Aug. 23. The report says North America is already on a path to energy independence by 2020 — a Romney campaign promise.
But as we first reported in September, it is a stretch for the president to claim credit for the nation's improvement on energy self-sufficiency. U.S. crude oil production is at its highest level since 1998, according to the EIA. That is a 14-year high instead of the 16-year high the president claimed, but still seems impressive. Except that the trend began long before Obama took office, starting when production began to rebound following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.


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Police respond to bomb threat at Sierra-at-Tahoe Ski Resort
Sierra-at-Tahoe Ski Resort evacuated employees and guests Tuesday after a bomb threat was called in about 3 p.m.
The anonymous threat was specific to the lodge, and the area was evacuated immediately, marketing director Mindi Befu said. Lifts were shut down by 3:30 p.m.
El Dorado County Sheriff's Office and California Highway Patrol responded to the call, she said. They were still on scene at 4:30 p.m., blocking access into the ski resort.
"It was a phoned in bomb threat, no device has been found at this time," sheriff's Lt. Pete Van Arnum stated in an email about 5:15 p.m. "The resort has been evacuated for public safety. A search is currently being conducted in an attempt to locate a possible device."
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For quick access of up to 24 cans of your favorite beverage, the Blizzard combines multi-layer construction and rugged materials to create a highly efficient and durable soft-sided cooler that will keep beverages and foods cold for many hours. The perfect cooler choice for anglers, hunters, and outdoor enthusiasts. Features : Heavy-duty, waterproof/leakproof PVC lining material and multi-layered insulation for efficient ice storage Molded, waterproof bottom for added insulation and to create stable base Five exterior accessory pockets Oversized, industrial zippers and molded pulls for durability and ease-of-use "Easy open" access pocket on lid Padded shoulder strap and top webbing "haul" handles Color : Bahama Blue/Sand Volume : 1,159 cu. in. Dimensions : 11.5 x 9 x 10 Fishpond products are backed by a Fishpond Guarantee Free Shipping Driven by Design Fishpond was created with the philosophy that innovation and design be the foundation for every product in our collection. We want to set the standard by which our competition is measured. We understand great design is about more than dynamic color combinations and versatile fabrics. Our designs blend style with functionality-yielding products known for their creativity, durability and value. Each fishpond design is inspired by our own angling experiences and travel adventures-resulting in products that perform flawlessly under the most demanding conditions. We thrive on creating new products that exceed customer expectations. We're committed to being on the cutting-edge. We're driven by design. The Ripple Effect Much of the success of fishpond is directly attributable to the passion and love we have for the outdoors. Each of us, over the years, has approached conservation in a personal way. We practice responsible stewardship and believe that every small act counts. We call it the "Ripple Effect"-the collective impact of individuals performing in an environmentally conscious manner and leading to lasting change-in thinking, in deeds and in results. Conservation of our natural world is a shared responsibility and we are proud fishpond is creating its own ripples in 2008. We're starting small-looking for ways to reduce our footprint on the environment while continuing to provide the highest levels of quality and value in every fishpond product. From an examination of our source materials to an analysis of our business processes, we're committed to being thorough and more cognizant of our impact as a company. We're confident these steps will yield positive results for both our company and our environment. With each step forward-each new ripple we create-we move closer to becoming a company that embodies our vision for what the fishpond brand can be.
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Is there anything Shwetak Patel can't do with a home electrical system? We're often left pondering that question after hearing about the latest high-tech exploits of the University of Washington assistant professor and his collaborators.
Patel in September was named one of 22 MacArthur Fellows, commonly known as the MacArthur Genius Award. The prize comes with $500,000 — no strings attached.
An assistant professor in the UW departments of Computer Science & Engineering and Electrical Engineering, Patel is one of our 2011 GeekWire Newsmakers. We're introducing a newsmaker every weekday throughout the month in preparation for the GeekWire Gala on Dec. 8, where we're inviting everyone from the tech community to join us to celebrate the past year.
Among Patel's inventions: A device that can detect noise on electrical systems to monitor the energy usage of specific appliances and electronics in homes. Zensi, the company founded on that technology, was acquired last year by computer peripheral company Belkin from Patel and his colleagues from Duke and Georgia Tech.
More recently, Patel has been working on a way of using electrical wiring as an antenna to receive signals from a variety of low-powered sensors around the home, to monitor conditions such as air quality. For more on his work, listen to our interview this summer on the GeekWire radio show and podcast.
Spin-off research includes the "Humantenna" project, led by UW student Gabe Cohn, which uses a receiver on the human body to determine a person's position in relation to electrical noise emanating from a home's wiring system — like Microsoft's Kinect motion sensor, without the need for the Kinect hardware.
Newsmakers at the GeekWire Gala
We'll be recognizing more than 20 Newsmakers of 2011 during the GeekWire Gala, Dec. 8 at the Great Hall at Seattle's Union Station. We'll introduce a new Newsmaker every weekday leading up to the big event.
The night is also a celebration of "Geeks who Give Back," recognized in a special GeekWire 2012 Calendar that will be given to attendees, with a share of sponsorship proceeds going to the Child's Play charity.
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Bangkok Bistro in East Hyde Park. I have friends that live within a block or two of BB but I'd never been! My friend Deb and I headed out Friday night.
Let me say - I don't understand the garnish on the plate. Am I going to eat a sliver of tomato with this? Just let the bags rule the plate. They were great!
Why Should You Go? I have to say - the barrage of Thai in Hyde Park/Mt. Lookout is just crazy - but I have to say - I LOVED IT! Bangkok Bistro will definitely be on my "go back" list for the future. Everything we had was delicious!


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Neil [Ned] Bryant is at present employed by the Lismore Men & Family Centre as a facilitator of groups for men dealing with anger management, loss & grief, building self-esteem & how best to meet change. Neil says he has been blessed & challenged by his involvement in "master classes†by such teachers as Margot Spencer, Brendan Nicholls, David Deida, Rosie Stave, the Shematrix collective, the trustees & leaders of the Pathways Foundation & the ultimate facilitators, his wife & three children.
He says " I'm as certain as I can be that between birth & death there's maintenance, and I feel fortunate to co-facilitate that which I need in my own life".
Ned attempts to avoid arguing with reality- sometimes successfully- as he realises that change is the only constant. In 2001 he was invited to join and work with an amazing group of men known as the Manscape Architects who presented the program 'Journey into the Heart of the Masculine' offering contemporary rites of passage for men.
This work has now evolved into Heart & Hara which he has co-facilitated for 4 years with Gary Simpson & Wolfgang Wildgrace.


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Geospatial Information Sciences (B.S.)
Geospatial Information Science (or GIScience) is the quantitative study of relationships of things in space and time. In recent years, powerful new technologies and techniques have emerged that greatly improve our ability to acquire, archive, analyze and communicate information regarding people, places and other things on or near the Earth's surface. These same technologies and techniques allow us to combine this information into multi-tiered databases describing the physical, social and other aspects of all or portions of the Earth. Such databases can then be analyzed in novel ways that take the data's spatial nature into account. The insights produced by these sorts of databases and analyses are revolutionizing many fields of science, government and business, and through now-commonplace consumer products such as web-based mapping systems and GPS units, are directly impacting the everyday lives of ordinary individuals.
Graduates of the Bachelors of Science in Geospatial Information Science program will understand the logical, mathematical and technological underpinnings of GIScience, and be skilled in solving geospatial problems to the point where they will be able to move into professional roles handling the geospatial needs facing typical corporate, government, and nonprofit organizations. Their level of understanding will transcend simple familiarity with common GIScience software packages; while these graduates will be skilled in the use of such systems, they will also understand the underlying principles upon which software systems are based. This will allow our graduates to transfer their knowledge from one software system to another, and more importantly, to view geospatial problems as issues that can be solved by applying basic theories, techniques and methodologies, and not be limited to solutions encapsulated in particular software systems.
Mission and Objectives
The mission of the Bachelor of Science in Geospatial Information Sciences program is to provide students with a rigorous understanding of the fundamental theories and concepts underlying GIScience, as well as to provide them with extensive hands-on experience with contemporary GIScience hardware and software. However, this program should not be confused with software training seminars or workshops; the goal of the Bachelor of Science in GIScience program is to give students a firm grasp on the theories, ideas and techniques that underlay software and hardware systems, and thus provide them with a foundation of knowledge and skill that transcends any individual piece of hardware or software. Graduates of this program will be able to successfully compete for professional positions within GIScience and related fields, and be admitted into the best graduate schools globally.
Students within the program will:
- Demonstrate their understanding of the underlying theories, ideas, concepts and techniques of GIScience.
- Master contemporary computer hardware and software systems commonly employed in GIScience.
- Demonstrate problem solving skills that employ their understanding of theories, ideas and concepts as well as their mastery of GIScience software and hardware.
Bachelor of Science in Geospatial Information Sciences
Degree Requirements (120 hours)
I. Core Curriculum Requirements 1: 42 hours
- A. Communication (6 hours)
- 6 hours Political Science (GOVT 2301 and 2302)
6 hours American History (HIST 1301 and 1302)
3 hours Social and Behavioral Sciences Elective (SOC 1301, SOC 2319, CRIM 1301, or CRIM 1307)
- 3 hours Mathematics (MATH 1325, MATH 2413 or MATH 2417)4
3-4 hours Quantitative Reasoning (MATH 1326, MATH 2414 or MATH 2419)4
- GEOS 1103 Physical Geology Laboratory
GEOS 1104 History of Earth and Life Laboratory
GEOS 1303 Physical Geology
GEOS 1304 History of Earth and Life
1 hour Science elective
1 Curriculum Requirements can be fulfilled by other approved courses, including courses from accredited institutions of higher education. The courses listed here provide the most efficient way of satisfying both core curriculum and major requirements.
4 Three hours are counted under Mathematics and/or Quantitative Reasoning core, and one hour is counted under Major Preparatory Courses.
II. Major Requirements: 55 hours
Major Preparatory Courses (18 hours beyond Core Curriculum)
CS 1136 Computer Science Laboratory
CS 1336 Programming Fundamentals
CS 1337 Computer Science I
CS 2336 Computer Science II
EPPS 3405 Introduction to Social Statistics with Lab
MATH 1325 Applied Calculus I2
or MATH 2413 Differential Calculus2, 4
or MATH 2417 Calculus I2, 4
MATH 1326 Applied Calculus II2
or MATH 2414 Integral Calculus2, 4
or MATH 2419 Calculus II2, 4
SOCS 3361 Social Issues and Ethics in Computer Science and Engineering
Major Core Courses (21 hours)
GEOG 3304 Tools for Spatial Analysis
GEOG 4380 Spatial Concepts and Organization
GISC 2301 Introduction to Geospatial Information Science
GISC 2302 Introduction to Geodesy
GISC 3301 Introduction to Remote Sensing
GISC 3382 Applied Geographic Information Systems
GISC 4317 Computer Programming for GIS
Major Related Courses (16 hours)
BA 3351 Introduction to Management Information Systems
CGS 4352 Human Computer Interactions I
GEOG 3357 Spatial Dimensions of Health and Disease
GEOG 3372 Population and Development
GEOS 2406 Geospatial Science and Methods
2 A Major requirement that also fulfills a Core Curriculum requirement. Hours are counted in Core Curriculum above.
4 Three hours are counted under Mathematics and/or Quantitative Reasoning core, and one hour is counted under Major Preparatory Courses.
III. Elective Requirements: 23 hours
Advanced Electives (9 hours)
Any non-GISC class that is either (i) upper division, or (ii) lower division but requires at least one prerequisite course.
Free Electives (14 hours)
This requirement may be satisfied with lower- and upper-division courses from any field of study. Students must complete at least 51 hours of upper-division credit to qualify for graduation.


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SpaceX to lease historic NASA launch pad
- NASA doesn%27t need pad 39A%2C can%27t afford to maintain it
- SpaceX has contracts to fly cargo to International Space Station
- Rival Blue Origin had proposed sharing the launch pad
MELBOURNE, Fla. -- A historic Kennedy Space Center launch pad is poised to become a Falcon's nest.
NASA said Friday it had selected SpaceX, the operator of Falcon 9 rockets, to take over launch pad 39A, a mothballed former Apollo and space shuttle pad that the agency no longer needs and can't afford to maintain.
SpaceX, of Hawthorne, Calif., has contracts to launch cargo to the International Space Station and numerous commercial satellites, and is competing to launch NASA astronauts as well as high-value national security and science satellites.
NASA made the decision immediately after the U.S. Government Accountability Office's rejection on Thursday of a bid protest filed by Blue Origin, which had put the selection process on hold.
"Permitting use and operation of this valuable national asset by a private-sector, commercial space partner will ensure its continued viability and allow for its continued use in support of U.S. space activities," NASA said in a press release.
Negotiations will begin with SpaceX to lease pad 39A for at least five years. If successful, launches could start within a few years, marking a major turning point in KSC's effort to transform into a spaceport for both government and commercial operations.
The competition for the pad was often framed as a battle between billionaire entrepreneurs, with SpaceX led by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk and Blue Origin started by Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos.
Blue Origin has yet to fly a vehicle in space and won't have a rocket ready to use the pad until at least 2018, but had proposed operating 39A for multiple users, in contrast to SpaceX's request for exclusive use.
SpaceX rival United Launch Alliance supported Blue Origin's approach but did not commit to using the pad.
Members of Congress also weighed in, some opposing an exclusive lease and others — including the entire Florida delegation — saying NASA should be left alone to make the decision.
On Friday, Blue Origin President Rob Meyerson said the company hopes NASA "will preserve options to make this national asset available for multiple commercial users."
SpaceX said it would welcome other users with NASA-certified human launchers.
NASA says pad 39B, which the agency is preparing for launches of crews on its own heavy-lift exploration rocket, also will be available to commercial users.
The space agency did not immediately explain why it chose SpaceX.
SpaceX has nearly 50 launches under contract and operates pads at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
SpaceX expects to launch so often in the coming years that it also wants to develop a private launch complex. Texas is said to be the front-runner, but Florida has proposed an alternative at the north end of KSC and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge.
"It would be used to deal with missions if we're too busy out of the Cape, basically," Musk said last month in Cocoa Beach.
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Marvelous Construction: the Power to Build!
In a slowed down economy with dissolving construction work, a builder has to stand out from the pack. Two hard working guys decided not to wait for the phone to ring and started their own business despite the apparent lack of work in the building trade. Marvelous Construction answers the call for most any home improvement job and features the dynamic duo of Andrew and Chris who are nothing if not versatile.
Their website lists a prodigiou s set of abilities in building and finishing work. Marvelous Construction is able to handle plumbing and electrical work along with carpentry and construction jobs, indoors and out. Though very versatile, these are not your typical handymen or fix-it guys. Andrew and Chris take on large projects: add-ons, remodels, roofing, drywall, and door and window replacement. They are often hired to design and build decks and stairs and Andrew has a talent for building elaborate gates and pergolas that grace any backyard and pool area.
Their most popular work is turning out to be kitchen and bath remodels. From simple cabinet refacing to custom-made work islands and floor to ceiling renovation, Marvelous can turn an old kitchen into a modern, efficient place you'll want to spend all day in. Hardwood floor installation and tile work are also part of their repertoire.
Custom built furniture is the specialty of Chris Fisher who has 30 years of experience in his trade. He has made just about anything you could name– sideboards, cabinets, bars, armoires, desks, bookcases, tables and chairs. All his pieces use solid wood with matched grain and are stained or varnished by hand to an elegant finish. You can see some of his pieces on the website.Marvelous Construction.com
Summer is winding down, but there is probably still time to take advantage of their whole house painting offer. Two tones, Valspar professional paint, up to 1600 sq. ft. and all trim for just $3995.00. The company is certified by the EPA in lead paint abatement so they can assess and remedy hazardous lead based paint from the past.
Why Marvelous Construction? Andrew Dubbs is a comic book afficionado and came up with the name of his company and its logo as a tongue in cheek tribute to Marvel Comics. Their work trucks are customized with large red, white, and blue graphics which make their presence known. Says Andrew, "wherever our trucks are parked, they draw kids like magnets."
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Sandra's Solutions
Sewing expert Sandra Betzina has spent many years teaching and sewing with a passion. In this regular column, Sandra shares her tips for hassle-free sewing.
Sewing Solutions
from Sandra
Even the most skilled seamstress can benefit from a good tip or shortcut. From fitting a sleeve to scheduling sewing time, these tips will help make your sewing easier and more rewarding.
Sleeve Smarts
If your arms are large in proportion to the rest of your body, try this nifty trick for fitting the sleeve into a smaller armhole.
Cut the sleeve a size larger than the rest of the garment. Instead of running an easeline between the front and back notches, run the easeline around the sleeve from underarm to underarm. A fuller arm can use ease all around the sleeve, rather than just in the cap.
Mark the dots, which align with the shoulder seam, on the sleeve-cap upper edge. Also mark the dot at the underarm of the sleeve to indicate the side seam location. Use the front and back notches only to help identify the sleeve front and back.
Match the dot at the sleeve upper edge with the shoulder seam on the garment. Match the side seam on the garment with either the dot at the bottom of a two-piece sleeve or the underarm seam of the sleeve. There's no need to match the notches or little dots in the sleeve cap.
Pin the sleeve into the armhole. If the sleeve is still too big for the armhole, run another easeline around the sleeve, right on top of the first easeline or right next to it. Sew the sleeve again.
Reining in Rayon
Rayons, while very drapey and abundant in the market place, can be difficult to cut out after preshrinking because they can easily stretch off grain in the washing machine. A front-load washing machine is kinder to these fabrics than a top load, but either can be used if the fabric is preshrunk in a machine in warm water. To allow the seams to relax as the fabric relaxes, sew vertical seams with a narrow zigzag stitch (0.5 mm wide, 2.5 mm long). After the garment is constructed, hand wash and air dry it.
Take Cover
When covering foam cushions, place the foam cushion inside a plastic dry-cleaning bag before inserting it into the cushion cover. The plastic will glide against the fabric and counteract the foam's tendency to stick. Remove the plastic before sewing the cushion cover closed.
Chain Gang
If you look inside a Chanel jacket, you'll see G" brass chain attached between the lining hem and the jacket hem. Any long or short jacket in a mediumweight or heavier wool can be weighted. Weighting a swing coat helps it hang in soft folds. The weighted chain helps the jacket hang closer to the body and helps remove wrinkles after wearing. The chain cuts regular thread, so use dental floss or beading thread to attach the chain to the seamline of the lining and the hem, attaching the chain to the jacket at every other link.
Rain, Rain, Go Away
While you may think that vinyl will make an ideal raincoat, think twice if you easily get warm. Vinyl does work for a lot of projects, such as home dec, aprons, place mats, even a straight skirt. Try these tips for working with vinyl:
Get In Shape
If you have difficulty getting collars, cuffs and pockets to have the same shape on both sides, use a pocket template. Trace the template shape with chalk on the sewing line around the rounded corners. For pointed corners, trace the 5/8" sewing line with chalk, intersecting at the corners. Once the fabric is under the presser foot, sew right on the chalk line and you won't have to guess where the 5/8" seam line is.
Stay Tape
While I'm a great fan of fusible stay tape to stabilize necklines, shoulders and armholes, I now prefer to use sew-in stay tape or the selvage from a lightweight fabric in the waistlines of garments and the crotch of pants. Fusible stay tape is simply not strong enough to support the weight of the garment around the waist or the stress of the seam at the crotch.
Steam Not Allowed
While I love to use leather and suede for garments, collars and piping, I often forget not to use steam on these fabrics so they don't pucker. Apply a press-on interfacing with a dry iron and a press cloth, but don't forget to turn off the steam or irreversible negative results will occur.
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If you pants and skirts fit at the waist but are too tight around the tummy, cut the waist area 3/8" wider at the side seams, tapering to the original cutting line 7" down on the hip. Run an easeline around the waist, pulling in 3/8" per quarter of the garment for a total of 1 1/2" total at the waist. Using a press-and-lift motion, flatten the ease and hold the ease in place by sewing on a 1/4" -wide strip of selvage from a lightweight fabric or sew-in stay tape.
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Insects form galls on the leaves of trees and shrubs, including elm (Ulmus spp.).
As an arborist, I work with a lot of people who care deeply about their trees and shrubs. Almost once a week, I will get a call from someone who is alarmed that something new they've noticed on their tree might be a major problem. Sometimes it is a problem that needs help, but often it is something that looks bad, but isn't. Here are some of the common issues that arise.
Leaf and Twig Galls
Some insects, wasps and mites use a chemical to lay eggs inside of leaves or twigs that causes a swollen area, called a gall, to form. This provides a nice place for the egg to grow into an adult. Most of the time these are not significant enough to harm the tree and no treatment is needed. However, treatment may be warranted if the majority of the leaves are heavily damaged, or if a lot of branches and twigs are dying.
Seasonal Evergreen Needle Drop
Evergreens shed their leaves, just like deciduous trees. Although deciduous tree leaves last one season, evergreen leaves, called needles, last for two to seven years, then turn yellow and fall. This can look pretty alarming, especially on white pine (Pinus strobus), but it is normal. It is still worth taking a close look because there are several fungal diseases that will cause early needle loss. Normal needle loss will have needles that are uniformly yellow, whereas diseased needles will have black spots and uneven coloration.
White pine and many other conifers normally shed needles in fall.
Dead Branches
Trees naturally shed branches, and some species are more prone to this than others. Honey locust (Gleditsia triacanthos var. inermis), ash (Fraxinus spp.), pin oak (Quercus palustris) and birch (Betula spp.) are examples of trees that shed branches. As long as the leaves have normal color, size and density, there is no issue. Be on the lookout for several branches dying from the tip back, because this is a sign of a problem.
Moss and Lichens
Trees provide habit for many other organisms, including mosses and lichens that grow on the trunk and branches. These are not causing any harm.
These harmless holes in the trunk of an Austrian pine (Pinus nigra) have been made by a sapsucker.
Sapsucker Damage
A sapsucker is a type of woodpecker that drills lines of holes on the trunk to feed on the sap and the bugs it attracts. Most of the time a healthy tree can deal with the damage.
There are enough bugs in the world to keep entomologists busy for several lifetimes. Watch for damage to the plants, and become familiar with the common culprits for plant damage in your area, but realize that most bugs you see are harmless.
'Harmless fungi form a condition called smooth patch on a bur oak.
Smooth Patch
This is found especially on bur oaks (Quercus macrocarpa). Fungi feed on the rough, dead outer bark of the tree leaving smooth patches. This doesn't cause any harm to the tree.
Anthracnose and Leaf Spot
Anthracnose and leaf spot are generic terms for fungi that damage the leaves of plants. Oaks and ashes are the most common trees to see anthracnose. Look for distorted and curled leaves with black and brown dead spots. Leaves affected by anthracnose will fall from the tree in late spring to early summer. Unless the tree has lost a majority of its leaves, or is severely impacted for more than one year, treatment is not generally warranted. Treatments are available for severe cases, or where aesthetic impact is important. Most of the time, the best defense is good general care, such as water and mulch. Fertilizer if a soil test shows that it is needed.
Many people would disagree that squirrels, the insatiable chewers that they are, are not a serious problem. At least for the trees, they are not. Squirrels make nests out of plant material. Sometimes they will pick a tree to harvest twigs from and will chew off the tips of dozens of branches, leaving a carpet of branch tips on the ground. It is alarming, but won't cause serious issues for the tree.
Fall Webworm
These caterpillars eat foliage from trees and build silky tents around the branches. Except in severe cases, they are not a problem for the tree and treatment is not needed. To help keep the population under control, clip out the tents and throw them in the trash.
This bug feeds on plants and covers itself in a substance that looks like spit. It does not cause severe damage. If the population is becoming large enough to be a nuisance, treat them with the spray of a hose, insecticidal soap or horticulture oil.
The spittlebug covers itself with a harmless, spit-like substance, which gives the insect its name.
Carpenter Ants
I'm listing this with the caveat that they are a serious problem for your home and can be a sign of a serious problem in a tree. However, with trees, ants are not the cause of the problem. These large black ants eat wood that is already dead. Carpenter ants signal there is dead wood in the tree. Dead wood, or decay, can be a structural weakness for the tree that the ants can make worse. If the ants are present, I recommend having an arborist inspect the tree.
Thin-skinned trees, such as a young red maple (A. rubrum), frequently develop a crack in the bark as a result of growth.
Ash Flower Gall
These tiny eriophyid mites attack the flowers of ash trees, making them distorted and black. It is unsightly, but doesn't cause any harm. I don't recommend treatment for this pest, unless you absolutely cannot live with the way it looks.
Bark Cracking on Maples
Many smooth-barked trees, especially maples (Acer spp.), have vertical cracks that appear in the trunk. This is because of the way that trees grow, not any kind of weakness or problem. A situation that can look similar that is a problem is when the bark is damaged during the winter, due to rapid heating from the sun. The difference is that there will be dead wood and peeling bark in the area damaged. Wrapping the trunk of thin-barked species with fabric during the winter can prevent this.
Ultimately, I'm always happy to take these calls, because it means that people are paying close attention to their trees. I encourage you to pay attention throughout the year. If you're in doubt about something you see, do a little research or check with a local expert to be sure. If nothing else, you will gain a greater appreciation for the many nuances and complexities of nature.
A version of this article appeared in a January/February 2014 print edition of State-by-State Gardening.
Photography courtesy of Jonathan Heaton and Bartlett Tree Experts.


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The fact that the atlas using $\phi: x \mapsto x^{1/3}$ on $\mathbb{R}$ is diffeomorphic to the trivial atlas using $\psi: x \mapsto x$ on $\mathbb{R}$ highlights my ignorance of diffeomorphisms and atlases. Apologies in advance for clustering several questions, but I'm not sure how to disentangle them.
First of all, which is the more relevant/correct statement here: that the atlases are diffeomorphic, that the manifolds are diffeomorphic ($M \mapsto N$), that the manifold-atlas pairs are diffeomorphic ($(M,\psi) \mapsto (N,\phi)$), or that the manifolds and their differential structures are diffeomorphic ($(M,\mathcal{A}) \mapsto (N,\mathcal{B})$)?
Is the relevant diffeomorphism patently obvious here given that the domain of $x \mapsto x^{1/3}$ is the same as that of $x \mapsto x$?
If we had two homeomorphic manifolds with atlases that were not diffeomorphic, would it be obvious?


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Jim Brulte likens the California GOP to the San Diego Chargers.
"Like the Republican Party, they didn't have a very good year," says Brulte, a Charger season ticket holder and the man in line to become GOP state chairman in March.
Brulte is a seasoned politician faced with the task of leading the party's resurgence, something desperately needed for a group San Diego City Attorney Jan Goldsmith, a former GOP state legislator, says is in "shambles."
For the GOP, the wreckage from the November election was widespread: Republican losses gave Democrats a powerful two-thirds majority in the Assembly and Senate, which gives them the ability to raise taxes without GOP votes. In San Diego County, a Democrat sits on the Board of Supervisors for the first time in 18 years, and three-term GOP incumbent Brian Bilbray lost his seat to Democrat Scott Peters, giving the congressional delegation its first-ever 3-2 Democratic edge.
Continuing his football metaphor, Brulte says the party that also holds no statewide offices has to erase the chalkboard and design a new offense.
"If you do the blocking and tackling right, your quarterback can connect with the pass," said the former assemblyman and state senator. "Just ask Philip Rivers — you can't connect with a pass when you're on your back."
Brulte faces no opposition to being anointed chairman when Republicans gather for their annual convention in Sacramento March 1-3.
He made his candidacy for the unpaid post official during an appearance in Rancho Bernardo Monday evening, telling more than 200 local party members that the GOP has to rebuild from the ground up.
Goldsmith says Brulte is the right man for the job.
"He cannot raise all the money, he cannot be the candidate, he cannot knock on every door, but he can give us the vision and strategy and energy to help bring us together," Goldsmith said.
Brulte's agenda is straightforward:
• Raise money to wipe out a roughly $500,000 debt.
• Establish a statewide fundraising operation.
• Early recruitment and training of candidates in every electoral district in the state, including traditionally Democratic ones such as those dominated by African-Americans, Asians and Latinos.
"If we do that, 2014 can be a great for us," said the Rancho Cucamonga area resident.
While many donors now bypass state parties in favor of political action committees or direct donations to candidates, the parties still matter in terms of optics, policies and platform.
The state GOP is deemed to have a large share of the responsibility when things go right for Republicans in California, and when things go awry.
Brulte is no apologist for the party's state of affairs. Republicans continues to lag in voter registration with Democrats holding a 14 percentage point advantage. The state platform includes strict views on immigration and opposes abortion and same-sex marriage, the latter two serving to alienate many independents and many of the party's own moderates.
"There is nothing wrong with GOP principles," he said. "We just have to get back to the basics of winning elections."
The party's fiscal woes also stem from heavily investing in candidates in last June's primary and backing a failed challenge to the work of a citizen's redistricting commission.
Brulte said Friday he's serious about the GOP no longer conceding any election.
"We're going to go into every neighborhood," he said in an interview. "There are some areas where Republicans have had no candidate recruitment operations and we've conceded election to Democrats, and that's not going to happen anymore."
Brulte's experience goes back to his teen years when he was a member of his county's GOP central committee at age 18. His success in the Legislature was marked by being his party's leader in both chambers, and helping establish a GOP majority in the Assembly in the mid-1990s.
That experience tells him what the party needs most is a nuts-and-bolts chairman, not someone to rewrite policy.
Sacramento GOP consultant Duane Dichiara said he thinks Brulte is right.
"He's exactly what we need when it comes to voter registration, raising money and fielding candidates," Dichiara said. "The policy positions will be worked out over the next year or so, and there are certainly people out there who want to make the party more compatible with the people in California."
Good luck, says John Burton, the blunt-speaking chairman of the California Democratic Party. It's the party's policies that make any resurgence in an increasingly diverse — and Democratic — state electorate unlikely, according to Burton.
"You can be the best basketball coach in the world, but if you have a pack of stiffs, you can't do much with it," he said. "He's good at politics and will be infinitely better than what they've had, but he ain't got the material because what the Republican Party stands for is basically tea party stuff."
Claremont McKenna College political science professor Jack Pitney says Brulte know the challenges.
"He's experienced enough to recognize how hard it's going to be, particularly when it comes to recruiting candidates in many areas of California. I think he has a smart approach and looking at this long-term. And when you're at rock-bottom, just about anything would be an improvement."
Republicans would be well-advised to copy the ground game of the Barack Obama campaign that relied heavily on voter identification and turnout, Pitney said.
But Francine Busby, the new chairwoman of the San Diego County Democratic Party, said turnout is also driven by policy.
"Until they change those and become less strident and extreme, it doesn't matter what they do because voters aren't going to vote for Republicans," she said.
Aaron McLear, who served as a spokesman for former Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, said there's no way Brulte can solve all the ills.
"The Republican Party has a long way to go to become as relevant as it once was, and Jim understands that," he said.
Brulte says the right mix of money, candidates and grass-root efforts will make 2014 "the year we can begin the Republican renaissance, and the year we can begin to take back California. The team will be big enough for anyone who wants to join and pull in the same direction."
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