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The O2 is Silicon Graphics's successor of the Indy workstation. It comes in several versions with R5000, RM7000, R10000 or R12000 processors. The firmware is a 32-bit ARCS.
The O2 Workstation is based around the CRIME, MACE, VICE, and GBE ASICs. CRIME ASIC is the main system ASIC which interfaces the MIPS cpu, memory system and the I/O system in the MACE ASIC. CRIME ASIC also contains the 3D gfx rendering engine which renders to main system memory -- part of which is used as the frame buffer which is DMA'ed to a video connector using the GBE ASIC. A MACE chip is used to provide legacy device support (serial, parallel, video, RTC...). VICE ASIC is used to process video streams and images stored in memory.
Currently only R5000 based IP32 (O2) systems are well supported in Linux. Framebuffer works, but to get a usable X you need a small patch. Experimental patches for audio exists and did work for a while, until the kernel was made 64-bit only for IP32. SCSI works ok, and booting from a harddrive works using arcboot or ARCLoad.
Some experimental work has been done on the VICE engine: Experimental patches for using VICE.
R1x000 support
The combination of R1x000 speculative execution feature and lack of hardware cache coherency in IP32, causes problems that need special workarounds in kernel (and also possibly GCC). The kernel portion has not been achieved yet. Discussion of the R10k issue (TODO: write up in more detail here)
- http://www.linux-mips.org/~glaurung/
- http://www.total-knowledge.com/progs/mips/patches/
- http://www.tal.org/~milang/o2/
- http://arnaud.giersch.free.fr/parport_ip32.html

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JOHANNESBURG - A large shipment of reptiles smuggled from Madagascar and destined for the exotic pet trade in the United States were confiscated in South Africa, said animal protection activists.
An estimated 1,600 reptiles and amphibians were discovered during a routine inspection at Johannesburg's international airport, said South Africa's Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said in a statement Friday.
Geckos, frogs, chameleons, skinks, lizards and toads, many of which are endangered species, were tied up in small muslin bags, or crammed into overcrowded plastic tubs for approximately 5 days before they were discovered. Many of the animals had already died.
The animals, bound for the U.S. from Madagascar, were left unattended in the cargo area when flights to the U.S. were cancelled. The surviving reptiles were taken to the Johannesburg Zoo for treatment, according to local news reports.


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Prosecutor calls drug lab case canvassing process a disaster
A prosecutor says about 300 to 500 defendants may be released into Boston streets because of the alleged mishandling of evidence at a Massachusetts drug lab.
Suffolk District Attorney Dan Conley says those numbers include some "pretty dangerous people."
Chemist Annie Dookhan is charged with obstruction of justice for allegedly skirting protocols and faking test results at the now-closed state drug lab. At least two dozen defendants whose cases Dookhan handled have been released.
Conley says city officials are "concerned that there may be violence" and have discussed intervening in the lives of those released so they don't re-offend.
Mayor Thomas Menino has called for support from federal officials to ensure those released are monitored so "they're not back out on the streets doing the same thing they did in the past."


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ROCHESTER — A man facing numerous charges for two incidents, one where he allegedly struck a police officer and a hospital worker in the face and another where he yelled at the school superintendent and others, is motioning for a change of venue for his court trials, claiming the Rochester court system is discriminating against him because of his race.
Kris Kimber, 47, of 83 Crown Point Road, appeared before Rochester Circuit Court Thursday afternoon to face sentencing for a November trial, in which he was found guilty of crimes stemming from an incident at the School Department in the Rochester Community Center.
On June 12, Kimber yelled in proximity of Superintendent Michael Hopkins's face at his office, according to court documents. That same day, Kimber allegedly yelled in Spaulding High School Principal Rob Seaward's face and "disturbed" employees at the public facility. The criminal trespass charge was brought because Kimber remained at the office despite being told to leave, according to the official complaint against him.
Kimber was charged with criminal trespass and three counts of disorderly conduct for the School Department incident, all misdemeanor level charges.
The tension was palpable before the proceedings started, with Kimber sitting on the other side of the room from the witnesses to the School Department incident. Before the judge entered the room, a bailiff told the large group, "Everybody is supposed to be on their best behavior today. We don't know what's going to happen."
Rochester Police Detective Steve Gahan moved to remove one of the counts of disorderly conduct briefly before Kimber claimed his trial in the early weeks of November was unjust. In a dramatic fashion, he demanded Judge Daniel Cappiello consider his request for "change of venue."
"I definitely know I'm not going to get a fair trial on this charge," Kimber told the judge. " … I'm not going to get a fair trail from you. I know I'm not. I want a change of venue in another court in another town. This is the most racist town I have ever been in. I've lived here for 50 years. My mother was here 50 years before me … And my daughter is still going through racial discrimination ... And these schools, they haven't done anything about this. These charges should have never been brought up. They should have never been brought up."
Cappiello insisted the proceedings were not racist and Kimber shot back, "It is. It is. I can prove it." Cappiello said he would consider his request and quickly moved to continue the hearing.
Kimber thanked the judge and then stormed out of the courtroom yelling "racist" several times loudly.
A few staff members from the Rochester School District were present for Thursday's sentencing hearing, including Hopkins and Seaward, along with several Rochester police officials.
Following the school incident almost two weeks later in June, Kimber was arrested for allegedly striking a police officer and a staff member of Frisbie Memorial Hospital in the face, in a room where his 12-year-old stepson had just died. Kimber reportedly punched a hospital security guard after bursting into his stepson's hospital room. He was screaming, according to reports, before he punched the officer.
According to a Rochester court clerk, Kimber was found guilty for the charges stemming from that incident, for two counts of simple assault, one count of criminal contempt, resisting arrest and one count of disorderly conduct. He was found not guilty for a charge of criminal threatening.
Following Thursday's hearing, Kimber sat trembling and crying, telling his wife, Amy Kimber, he couldn't "fight" anymore and that he was inclined to become violent. He said the two had just learned that day their son's cause of death was related to his nocturnal epilepsy and he asphyxiated in his sleep.
Kimber said he wishes to bring suit against the schools for allowing ongoing bullying of his children, and claimed the district has not reported those incidents to him. He said he initially confronted Hopkins and Seaward regarding one of his children's emotional and physical welfare in school.
Kimber also said he believes he has been singled out for his race and denied his rights to a fair trial.
"I can't fight this fight no more," he said. "… (But) I'll be damned if I'm not going to protect my (family)."
According to Gahan, Kimber has another court appearance scheduled for Jan. 14 at 1 p.m. in Rochester Circuit Court. A new date has yet to be set for Kimber's sentencing hearing.


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Many of you know that I grew up on a family dairy farm in Pennsylvania. If you have seen the increasingly popular and ridiculous show Amish Mafia, then you have seen the backdrop to my childhood. Life was a lot of work, even with five pairs of calloused hands keeping our farm afloat. Under the weight of two milkings per day, fences and equipment repair, the planting of crops, the harvesting of them later in the summer heat, and tracking down newborn calves in the back meadow, we all groaned, griped, and whined. Having a grandfather who loved to bark orders at us did not help the situation, and made us rather resentful.
As I grew older and dug myself out of the manure trenches, I started to understand why my grandfather loved to bark orders from on top of machinery or from his apartment upstairs to us working-folk; it was because he had already put in a lifetime of hard labor. Through his 50s onwards he had a limp. And that limp was from doing 40+ years of precisely the type of daily, back-breaking work my family was subjected to.
I didn't want that for myself.
Working day in and day out from before the sun rises until after it descends and seeing such little money stay in my parents' pockets made me reassess the seemingly linear relationship between work and money. When you work yourself to the bone and you see little monetary return five, ten, and fifteen years out, you really change your perspective. You start to respect money. Money to me was never about being a vehicle for getting what I wanted; it was about keeping as much of it as possible to have something to show for all of the work I was doing. I didn't want to hand crank the survival cycle of hard work and low pay for the next 30+ years. Don't get me wrong, I was never averse to work and some weeks could be the poster child for a workaholic. But I wanted something more.
For all of my childhood and most of my 20s I was curious about people who did not seem to have to work themselves to the bone for pay. Not envious, just extremely eager to observe, learn, and implement whatever they were doing. While I dreamed that one day I would be able to sustain myself without having to work to the bone for everything—a pipe dream if my grandfather ever heard of one—deep down I just didn't know if it was possible. And then something wonderful happened. I figured out that life didn't have to be so hard, and that earning decent money did not mean I had to physically exhaust myself. This coincided around the time when Paul and I paid off our non-mortgage consumer and student loan debts and our cash flow opened up. Our bottom line grew, and with it our financial independence and security. Suddenly everything seemed possible, including early retirement.
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You Need to Redefine the American Dream
As I mentioned in my recent Fox 26 news segment, if we want to be able to dream about and potentially live in early retirement, then we need to redefine the American Dream. Whose American dream is it to be mortgaged or financed? In whose dream is someone thinking about a scenario where they can rent-to-own? I would venture to say that no one would associate these financial terms with their American Dreams. And yet, many of us fund our "American Dreams" with loans that ensure we stay deeply entrained in the survival cycle. Under the current mainstream system of "buy now, pay later", we are literally trading years of our lives in sometimes back-breaking work for trinkets and "luxuries" today. Trust me, these trinkets and luxuries on loan today will not shine so brilliantly when you are stuck working extra years in a cubicle and/or high-stress job.
So what does the new American Dream look like? It is paid for as you go, it is simple, and at the core are the true gems: financial independence, security and freedom.
You Need to Redefine "Retirement"
Most people within the extreme early retirement world are targeting not only an early age for retirement, but also a different kind of retirement than the traditional one. Retirement, in the traditional sense of the word, is when you resign from your last 9-5 job and take up, well, living. If you have saved enough money and can withdraw a decent income (from a mixture of savings, social security income, pensions, 401(K)/IRAs, etc.), you can do practically anything that you want to. That is, once you turn the typical age of 62 years or older.
So what could an extreme early retirement look like? The extreme part about it is that you will be much younger when it happens. This is partially achieved through a large sum of savings that you have set aside, and partially achieved by redefining the traditional definition of retirement. Retirement could perhaps be a second act of employment where instead of working a 9-5 job you only marginally enjoy to pay the bills, you are working an enjoyable part-time job, hobby job, or passion job to help buffer your retirement savings. Instead of living in a relatively expensive area and or country, you research and move to a cheaper area or a cheaper country that offers free healthcare. Perhaps you change your entire spending habits around like Jacob who saved more than 75% of his income for 5 years and has lived on just $7,000 a year for over a decade now.
Living the Principles of ERE will Redefine Your World
Not working in a 9-5 job for 40+ years of your life is truly a revolutionary and sometimes counter-culture idea. If you choose to go down this path, prepare to have your life change dramatically (they don't call it "extreme" for nothing). Even if you don't want to follow the path through to its eventual end, living by some of these principles will give you more financial security, more financial freedom, and less money headaches. It will also teach you that paychecks aren't a life-sustaining force, growing and declining just enough so that we can feed ourselves.
On the "extreme" early retirement scale, my husband and I are probably considered moderate to extravagant. We still have vehicles, we have a home, we did more than go to the county courthouse when we got married, and we don't even have a target age of when we would like to "retire". That's right; to us it's more about living the principles of ERE and benefiting from it long term rather than actually retiring at a very young age. But compared to many people's lives, we are considered extreme.
In the next article I will discuss the steps you need to take in case you want to start down the extreme early retirement path, as well as share with you more of our lifestyle to show you how it parallels with this concept.
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I wrote this code to access a file for input, but now i need to make the input into an output converting all characters to upper.
import java.util.Scanner; import java.io.*; public class IoDemo { public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { //Create scanner object Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); //Get file name System.out.println("Enter the name of the input file: "); String filename = keyboard.nextLine(); //open the file File file = new File(filename); Scanner inputFile = new Scanner(file); //Close the file inputFile.close(); } }
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thats all that the program will display but it turns the text in the input file into a new output file that is now all upper.Enter the name of the input file: quotations.txt
Enter the name of the output file: allupper.txt
How do I write the code to directly create a new text file while turning all the text into uppercase?


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Aging alters the molecular dynamics of synapses in a sexually dimorphic pattern in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
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The zebrafish has become a popular model for studying normal brain aging due to its large fecundity, conserved genome, and available genetic tools; but little data exists about neurobiological age-related alterations. The ...
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It's been raining in Katine. The genteel English expression doesn't do it justice. One moment the sun is out, the next instant the sky darkens and whole bathfuls of water tip from the skies. People flatten themselves against the mud walls of houses if they can. Those who can't, walking slowly with heavy loads on their heads or cycling with wife and children on the pannier, are drenched in an instant. And it keeps raining. The swamps overflow.
Three years ago, I watched women with yellow jerrycans on their heads wade through the swamp, their skirts gathered up in one hand as best they could. They were on their way to a place where the swamp bubbles. There is a spring beneath. Their pitiful hope was that the water there would be cleaner. In the dry season, they would frequent an old shallow well beside the swamp. In the rains, it disappears, overrun by the high water and full of mud.
Edith Apiango, 23, and her grandmother, Erima Anayo, who says she is around 70, recall how it was. "When it rained, we crossed the swamp. The water came up to here," says Apiango, drawing a line with her hand just below her hips. "The water there was flowing a bit. We walked 4km. I had a 20-litre jerrycan. I had to rest on the way back. I was very tired because I had to make two journeys."
She has three small children – Irene Assege, eight (children take relatives' names, not those of their parents), Timothy Emuru, four, and Sarah Apeco, two. They all used to get ill. Diarrhoea, the biggest killer of small children here along with malaria, was a constant problem and so were worms.
"My boy almost died," said Apiango. "I took him to Ojom [the small local health centre] but there was no improvement, so I went to town [Soroti, which is 28km away]. They treated him but they said he will continue to get sick if you use that water."
Today, during the rainy season, they are nowhere near the swamp. They are pumping water at a new borehole, installed by Amref, near Ominit village where they live. The grandmother, who has brought a 10-litre can, is beside herself with enthusiasm, waving her hands in the air and beating them on her thighs to emphasise her words.
"We are very, very happy and very grateful to receive this borehole," she says. "We don't have diarrhoea these days – only malaria."
Ominit is one of 11 boreholes the project has installed, along with five shallow wells so far. One more borehole and two shallow wells are under construction – and one borehole needs redrilling because it takes half an hour of pumping to raise a trickle of water. "Water has been very successful," says Anthony Akello, Amref's assistant water and sanitation officer for the Katine project. When the project started, less than half of Katine families – 42% – had access to safe drinking water. Now it is up to 69.6%, he says, and will rise to 73.2% by the end of 2010.
Just as important as digging wells has been helping communities maintain them. It's where water projects fail. Inevitably, pumps break down. If the spare parts are not easy to obtain and there is no money to buy them, it's back to the swamp.
Apiango pays 500 Ugandan shillings (about 15p) every month to a water committee that Amref has helped set up and train. Each well has one, and each family contributes – around 300 households in most cases. Some tried to levy 1,000 Ugandan shillings, but it was too much for these families. There is a caretaker at each well, chosen from those who live close by, who collects the money and keeps an eye on things. Each well has been surrounded with robust hedge plants to keep animals out. Women collecting water sweep away leaves every day.
The levy forms a fund to pay the handpump mechanic. Amref has trained three of them in Katine. Every six months, with the help of those on the water committee, the mechanic will clean the pipes, which can rust and develop holes because of the amount of iron in the water. Rust, in fact, has been an issue at one or two boreholes, where, understandably, people have refused to drink the brown and foul-tasting water. The district water department has installed an iron filtration plant which appears to be working.
But the most ambitious innovation to keep the wells working is a parts store, which will be run by a water and sanitation association representing all the individual well committees.
"Very few people locally will stock parts," says Akello. There's not a fast turnaround, so profits are limited. "The water and sanitation association opened an account at Barclays to stock pump parts in Katine."
The monthly levies will initially go towards stocking the parts store at the sub-county local government office in Katine. Once it is operational, villagers will save their funds so they can buy a needed part from the store – and the money they pay will be used to restock.
Then there are toilets. Or rather, their absence. It's the unsexy issue in development, but fundamental to saving lives. Faecal-borne diseases are a problem in Katine. Three years ago, only 7% of households had a latrine. Most people went in the bush - and handwashing afterwards was not even considered.
Amref trained village health teams (VHTs), comprising members of the community, to talk to families about the risks they ran without proper sanitation and hygiene. The same message was promoted in schools. Amref put together 240 dig-your-own latrine kits, consisting of wheelbarrows and tools such as spades and pickaxes, which were sent around the villages, remaining for a week or two at each. People got together to dig in groups. By last autumn, the proportion of households with a latrine had risen to 39%. Amref's target for the next year is to increase this to 75%.
It appeared to be going so well. But now, nobody knows whether the progress has been sustained. The best guess is that it has stalled.
The 272 VHT members stopped working last September in anger and dismay at a decision by Amref in Kampala not to continue paying them an allowance of 5,000 shillings (about £1.50) every time they came to a training session, for the time they spent out of the fields and to help cover travel costs. Last month, Amref reinstated allowances.
If the health plan has suffered, the impact on hygiene and sanitation is not far behind. These were the educators, the motivators and the data collectors. Every month they filled in and submitted lists, which included the numbers of households with latrines. Even the act of touring homes asking whether people had dug a latrine helped push them to do it.
"It is critical," says Akello. "For about one year we have had no information about progress on latrine coverage." There is also talk of some of the latrine-digging tools having broken. Katine is too big and the homes too widespread, down rutted bush tracks, for project officers to get a clear idea of what is going on.
Recently, Akello and colleagues hit on an idea at least to get the hygiene and sanitation messages back into the community. They recruited young people into drama groups of the sort that sometimes put on performances to promulgate moral messages for the church. Two have got underway so far.
A central part of the project's sanitation component was equipping the schools with more toilets. The situation three years ago was dire. "In Ojago primary school, they didn't have any latrines at all," says Akello. "Elsewhere we found one traditional pit latrine shared between boys, girls and teachers." The worst consequence was that menstruating girls without separate facilities would stay at home out of embarrassment. That's changed. Some 116 toilets have been built in 13 schools and there are separate blocks for boys and girls.
There have been significant problems, however, with the design and choice of materials for the toilet blocks. Some of the 24 Ecosan toilets have failed because what should have been a sealed unit underneath for faeces and urine let in rainwater. Akello believes the roofs were not wide enough, allowing pools of water to collect at the base. Amref is now looking to renovate or replace them.
But the traditional-style toilets were not sufficiently robust, either. Some of the blocks were made of plastic and did not stand up to stormy weather. At Ojama school last year, two blocks of four were blown away. They were replaced, but parents asked for a brick structure instead when one was damaged a second time. The blue plastic structures could have been moved when the pit they covered was full, but Katine residents believe they are unsuited to local conditions. Seven of the nine plastic blocks are now being replaced.


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- Best Picture - Best old family photo that appeared on your blog in 2009. Tell us which you liked best and why.
- Best Screen Play - Which family story that you shared in 2009 would make the best movie? Who would you cast as your family members?
Tina, Anne, Jackie, Gabrielle and myself were in each of those three photos. The life stories of these five women would make an excellent mini-series or docudrama. Between us we have been married, widowed or remained single, had no children or large families. Three were teachers as that was one of the few professions easily accessible to women in the late sixties. We have maintained the faith or turned our backs on the Church, we have lived in the city and the outback. We have been mature students changing careers in mid-life or have stayed in the one job for the duration of our working lives.
With the help of lighting, makeup and filters the girls have what it takes to play themselves in this series.
The real life stories of my classmates would show that Vinnie's girls are not Desperate Houswives but that each is a "Woman of Substance".
- Best Documentary - Which was the best informational article you wrote about a place, thing, or event involving your family's history in 2009?
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Recoreded SUPERBOWL - the only choice given on the DVR to record extended time is now "Auto extend".... we chose that option thinking it would record the whole game.
The recording however, extedned to 4:48 seconds left in the game.
Did anyone else have this happen?
What happened in the last minutes of the game?
anyone? this is not ok!!!
No, the default option is auto extend. You can still change it to stop recording 1.5 hours late, like I did.
I'm sure it will be re-airing on NFL Network. Keep an eye out if that channel is in your package.
First Phillies spring training game of the season and auto extend has let me down already! If they can't fix this, why can't they just add the option to extend ALL of my baseball recordings by 1 hour or so?! It really stresses me out every time when I'm watching a game and it gets near the magic 3 hour mark and it's the bottom of the 9th and I don't know if I'm going to see the ending or not. PLEASE FIX THIS!!!!!
You just need to manually add record time until Comcast fixes this.
Using the "DVR Manager" on the Comcast home page you can add up to two hours of record time or you can always record the following program.
@Nightwolf wrote:
First Phillies spring training game of the season and auto extend has let me down already! If they can't fix this, why can't they just add the option to extend ALL of my baseball recordings by 1 hour or so?! It really stresses me out every time when I'm watching a game and it gets near the magic 3 hour mark and it's the bottom of the 9th and I don't know if I'm going to see the ending or not. PLEASE FIX THIS!!!!!
Hi Nightwolf,
Could you please provide the day and time of the baseball game that you were expecting to extend?
Hi Gwen,
The Phillies game was on channel 847 (CSNHD) from 1 PM till 4 PM on March 1st. The game was almost over when the recording ended, so I missed about the last 10 or 15 minutes. Luckily I was able to catch it on a replay later.
Thanks for helping,
Hi Nightwolf,
In order for a game to Auto Extend, when you're scheduling your recording, you must ensure that the "Stop" setting in the Recording Options is set to "Auto Extend." If you don't see the "Auto Extend" option there, or if that setting is set to any option other than Auto Extend, your game will not automatically extend.
The Auto-Extend option is only there if I schedule a single recording. The point I am trying to make is this: I have the Phillies set as my favorite sports team, so the X1 will record ALL of their games for me. Unfortunately, there is no way to set Auto-Extend for ALL live broadcasts of these games, and I don't know why. I know I can change the stop time for just a single recording, but if I select 'All Future Recordings', the stop time option simply isn't there. Right now the only way for me to ensure that I don't miss the end of a game is to go into Scheduled Recordings and manually change the options for each and every game. That means I will have to do that over 180 times this year alone! Why can't the Comcast engineers do something to make it a little easier to extend the recording time for live sports broadcasts?
Hi Nightwolf,
Yes, you are correct. Currently there is not an option to Auto Extend recordings at the Series and Team Level. If you Record an entire series or a team, the associated games will not be set to automatically extend. That is working as designed. You will need to extend the individual games at the listing level.
We recognize that it would be helpful to Auto Extend at the Series and Team level and we are working to provide that functionality.
It's now May and auto extend STILL doesn't work. Trying to record Nationals games and must record 1-3 hours of recordings after the game ends. More frustrating is that auto extend is the default and I must change it every time I set a recording for live games.
Any fix soon or good workarounds?
Hi Mercury,
For which game did Auto Extend not work? Please provide a specific example so that we can look into what you experienced.
I have not been using it lately because it did not work. So I just recorded a Nationals game last night June 2nd, and it did auto extend. So, I will try other games and let you know what happens.
@adammusic22 wrote:
It happens on like 90% of my games. I set each individual Orioles game to auto extend, and it never records to the end. There no need to request a specific game or channel. Auto Extend simply does not work as it should, since inception. Make fixing auto extend + various bugs the focus before rolling out new beta features.
If you provide an example of a recent game that was set with "Auto Extend" as the Stop time that did not extend, we can
investigate what you're experiencing. Thank you!
I know exactly how you feel! I also use it for Baseball, and while it works 99 percent of the time, it's that 1 percent that didn't work in the past that makes me feel anxious every time I get close to the 3 hour mark and the game isn't over yet. I start to worry, did it record the whole game or not? Will I need to look for a replay on TV, or just go online to find out how it ended? And if there is a replay, then I have to fast forward through the entire game since there still isn't any way to jump directly to a certain point in a recording. It gets very frustrating. This issue has been unstable for so long now, it seems like they're not even trying to fix it.
There are other very current threads in this forum discussing Auto Extend. In those threads, Comcast Phill told us that Comcast is aware of the problem and they are working on fixing it.
@dmast wrote:
Three games in a row, Auto Extend does not work! This is so Comcast - half baked, half done features. I am going back to manually setting the end times on recordings.
This feature hasn't worked for a long time and can't be trusted. Why have the feature if it isn't reliable? It's even the default when you hit record on a live broadcast so I have to take extra steps to UN-do it. Remove it until it actually works.
I just missed the end of a 12 inning Nationals vs Cubs game on 6/15/16 because it did extend but for only one-half hour and then stopped. Very frustrating to say the least.
Please see the post just above yours.
@mercury52 wrote:
This feature hasn't worked for a long time and can't be trusted. Why have the feature if it isn't reliable? It's even the default when you hit record on a live broadcast so I have to take extra steps to UN-do it. Remove it until it actually works.
I just missed the end of a 12 inning Nationals vs Cubs game on 6/15/16 because it did extend but for only one-half hour and then stopped. Very frustrating to say the least.
Thanks, but where are these other current threads? Maybe they'll answer some of the questions I posted.
Looked at all of them. Doesn't really tell you anything that this thread already said. Posted my questions/concerns on those threads too.
Thanks anyway
Yeah, I don't know why we're getting in trouble for posting in the ORIGINAL thread about this. Usually it's the other way around. It's the people who started a new thread without first searching the forums to see if it was already being discussed who messed up!
well this IS the first thread that appeared on my first page about auto-extend, so I will post my gripe here.
auto-extend is STILL not working. I just lost the end of the mets-braves from last night (6/18). it didn't record ONE MINUTE after the 3 hours originally scheduled. this is very frustrating. how long has it been since this feature was originally announced, over a year? and it still does not work right, and has not been pulled?
I can go back to the old way, but it's not the default, so it takes extra clicks. if one of the software engineers working for me couldn't debug a piece of software in this much time, I would fire them.
Auto-Extend has just failed me again. Top of the 8th inning, TIED at 7, bases loaded - and the recording ends. Words cannot express my anger and dissappointment.
Well that was an AWFUL viewing experience...
UEFA Euro 2016 - Quarterfinal
Poland vs. Portugal
Match goes to extra time and one minute before penalty kicks, the recording ends right at the three hour mark! Dreadful. Hours wasted. So much for "Auto Extend." Thanks, Comcast... YA BLEW IT!!
From now on, add an hour or whatever to the scheduled recording. That's what I did. There is no way auto-extend is going to work on the soccer games.
Another failed example. June 26, 2016. Washington Nationals 7:05 pm game; several rain delays. Did not auto extend. Sigh.
I've been auto extending AND recording shows following the game too. What a way to go.
Did this game record as a result of a sports team recording for either the Falcons or the Buccaneers? If so, we do not support Auto Extend at the team level. You will need to go in and set each of the individual games to "Auto Extend" in the Recording Options for the individual games. We do not yet support setting all games related to a team to Auto Extend, although that it a feature that we're working on.
If you'd like to extend games associated with their of these teams, please find the listing for the game in the guide and set that game to "Auto Extend."
Thank you,
@Xienen wrote:
Another failure example: Atlanta Falcons against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers today, 9/11/16 at 1PM EST. Auto extend did not kick in and the recording stopped at the standard 3 hours.
That is pure malarkey. Obviously you subscribe to the theory that if you can't dazzle them with brilliance then baffle them with BS. How are we to know if the autoextend is set to 'team' level and how to adjust for that. Your DVR says "now you'll record the whole game even if it runs long." It hasn't done that once and in fact the games haven't actually run long; it just stops at 3 hrs. I'm going to ignore the feature entirely and record the 2 hours following each game and see if that works. That's my solution to this utterly useless 'feature'.
Wow, so this post is over a year old and the auto-extend feature still doesn't work? Recording the Chicago Cubs/SF Giants playoff game last night it "auto-extended" 30 minutes. YAY! I get to watch to the Bottom of the 8th inning (didn't even finish the bottom of the 8th). NOT EVEN THE FULL 9 INNINGS! But wait... this game went to 13 innings. So this should have auto-extended at least another hour if not more. I got fooled once and thought it was a fluke with the Blackhawks going into overtime before but now shame on me and I'll just be filling up cloud storage servers with useless extra 2 hours of recordings and since it's playoffs I'll prolly find whatever show is 2 hours after and record that one for an extra 2 hours too.
I set this recording before the game even started so you can't claim the auto-extend signal wasn't sent soon enough either.
Just for additional info
Chicago Cubs @ SF Giants
Channel 237 FS1
Game Start Time: 8:30PM
I too tried to record the SF/Cubs game last night using Auto Extend, only to have it cut off at the 3 hour mark.
Very frustrating. I'm a Giants fan, and they went on to win that game. Critical do-or-die playoff game. And I missed the ending. That's unacceptable.
Yep. Same issue with the Nationals vs Dodgers NLDS Game 4. Auto extend again did not work. Cut off at three hours. Fortunately I have absolutely no faith in Comcast so I also recorded shows after the game. Not really good for Comcast.
I agree that unitl it works you should allow extending recordings up to 3 hours or even any amount desired.
Autoextend still does not work. Cut off several minutes of the fourth quarter for the Broncos - Chargers game.
Comcast is terribly unresponsive to this longstanding problem.
No. It just cut off the end of the Ala/TN game.
@adammusic22 wrote:
Its been like 2 years now since auto extend was introduced and hasnt worked since its inception.
Are they even working on it or aware it doesnt work? Insanity. Come on already.
Remove it until it works 100%.
Send out an email or letter to customers, advising them to change the stop time to 1.5 hrs, until its fixed.
Agreed, especially with the following suggestion:
Goodness, I remember reporting on this problem a year ago. And to think the default Stop time for these recordings is still "Auto Extend".
Seahawks-Falcons game stopped with 2:07 to go. It recorded 3:05 so it autoextended 5 minutes. Fail....
With Auto Extend enabled, recording stopped at the 8th inning of the 7th game of the World Series, missing the end of an historic game. A totally useless and misleading feature. Perhaps a class action suit will wake Comcast up, to spend money on providing an accurate and reliable service and not on raising rates and buying networks such as NBC.


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The specification Web Services for Java EE, JSR 109 defines two ways of implementing a web service. One way is based on the Java class programming model -- the web service is implemented by a Java class that runs in a web container. The other way is based on the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) programming model -- the web service is implemented as a stateless session bean that runs in an EJB container. A previous Tech Tip, Developing Web Services Using JAX-WS, described how to develop a web service using the Java class programming model and Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) 2.0, JSR 224. In the following tip, you'll learn how to develop a web service using JAX-WS and the EJB programming model. In particular, you'll learn how to use an EJB 3.0 stateless session bean to implement a Calculator service -- the same Calculator service that was covered in the previous Tech Tip.
A sample package accompanies this tip. It demonstrates a standalone Java client accessing the EJB 3.0-based Calculator service. The example uses an open source reference implementation of Java EE 5 called GlassFish. You can download GlassFish from the GlassFish Community Downloads page.
Writing the EJB 3.0 Stateless Session Bean Class
Let's start by creating the stateless session bean for the service. One of the significant improvements in the Java EE 5 platform is a much simpler EJB programming model as defined in the Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 Specification, JSR-220. One of the simplifications is that a bean implementation class is no longer required to implement the javax.ejb.SessionBean or javax.ejb.EntityBean interface. You can declare a class a session bean or entity bean simply by annotating it. For example, you can declare a class a stateless session bean by annotating it with the @Stateless annotation.
EJB 3.0 does specify additional rules for the bean implementation class:
- It must be declared public and must have a default constructor that doesn't take any arguments.
- It must not be final or abstract and must be a top-level class.
- It must not define a finalize() method.
Another simplification in EJB 3.0 is that a component interface or home interface is no longer required for a session bean. The one interface a session bean needs is a business interface that defines the business methods for the bean. Unlike business methods in a component interface, the business methods in a business interface are not required to throw java.remote.RemoteException. However the business methods can define throws clauses for arbitrary application exceptions. The EJB 3.0 business methods should not be static and final.
Given these simplifications and rules, here is a stateless session bean for the Calculator class that conforms to the EJB 3.0 programming model (you can find the source code for the Calculator class in the endpoint directory of the installed sample package):
package endpoint;
Because the EJB 3.0 bean doesn't need to implement the javax.ejb.SessionBean interface, it no longer needs to include unimplemented lifecycle methods such as ejbActivate and ejbPassivate. This results in a much simpler and cleaner class. Various annotations defined in EJB 3.0 reduce the burden on developers and deployers by reducing or eliminating the need to write a deployment descriptor for the component.
Marking the EJB 3.0 Bean as a Web Service
To mark a bean as a web service simply annotate the class with the @WebService annotation. This is an annotation type defined in the javax.jws.WebService package, and is specified in Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform, JSR 181. Here is the code for Calculator class marked as a web service:
package endpoint;
Marking a Java class with a @WebService annotation makes it a service implementation class. Note that you don't have to implement a service endpoint interface. According to the JSR 109, you only need to provide a javax.jws.WebService-annotated service implementation bean. Deployment tools can then be used to generate a service endpoint interface, as well as a WSDL document, using JAX-WS rules for Java WSDL mapping.
Packaging the Web Service
A web service based on the EJB programming model needs to be packaged as a JAR file. Using the @WebService annotation, you only need to package the service implementation bean class (with its dependent classes, if any) and the service endpoint interface class (if explicitly provided). Additionally, the @Stateless annotation frees you from packaging ejb-jar.xml. By comparison, in the JAX-RPC style of packaging web services based on EJB 2.0 or earlier, you were responsible for providing the service endpoint interface class, the service implementation bean class (and dependent classes), generated portable artifacts, the JAX-RPC mapping file, and a web services deployment descriptor (webservices.xml and ejb-jar.xml).
With JSR 224, JSR 109, JSR 181 and JSR 220, an application server deployment tool can generate all the necessary artifacts such as a deployment descriptor (if not explicitly provided by the user) for deploying the web service. These artifacts, bundled in the EJB JAR file, are deployed in an EJB container. A deployer can choose to overwrite values specified by the @WebService and @Stateless annotations by explicitly providing any of the previously-mentioned artifacts and packaging them in the EJB module at the time of deployment. For this tip, the following files are packaged in the EJB module to be deployed:
endpoint/Calculator.class endpoint/jaxws/Add.class endpoint/jaxws/AddResponse.class
The rest of the deployment artifacts are generated by the application server (in this case, GlassFish).
Writing the Client
After you deploy the web service, you can access it from a client program. A client uses a @WebServiceRef annotation to declare a reference to an EJB 3.0-based web service. The @WebServiceRef annotation is in the javax.xml.ws package, and is specified in JAX-WS 2.0 Web Services Metadata for the Java Platform, JSR 181. If you examine the source code JAXWSClient, the client program used in this tip (you can find the source code for JAXWSClient in the client directory of the installed sample package), you'll notice the following:
@WebServiceRef(wsdlLocation= "http://localhost:8080/CalculatorService/Calculator?WSDL") static endpoint.CalculatorService service;
The value of the wsdlLocation parameter in @WebServiceRef is a URL that points to the location of the WSDL file for the referenced service. (The @WebServiceRef annotation supports additional properties that are optional. These optional properties are specified in section 7.9 of the JAX-WS 2.0 specification.) The static variable named service will be injected by the application client container.
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endpoint.Calculator port = service.getCalculatorPort();
The service object provides the method, getCalculatorPort, to access the Calculator port of the web service. Note that both endpoint.CalculatorService and endpoint.Calculator are portable artifacts that are generated by using the wsimport utility. The wsimport utility is used to generate JAX-WS artifacts (it is invoked as part of the build-client step when you run the example program.)
After you get the port, you can invoke a business method on it just as though you invoke a Java method on an object. For example, the following line in JAXWSClient invokes the add method in Calculator:
int ret = port.add(i, 10);
Running the Sample Code
A sample package accompanies this tip. It demonstrates the techniques covered in the tip. To install and run the sample:
- If you haven't already done so, download GlassFish from the GlassFish Community Downloads page.
- Set the following environment variables:
- Download the sample package for the tip and extract its contents. You should now see the newly extracted directory as <sample_install_dir>/ttmar2006ejb-ws, where <sample_install_dir> is the directory in which you installed the sample package. For example, if you extracted the contents to C:\ on a Windows machine, then your newly created directory should be at C:\ttmar2006ejb-ws. The ejb-techtip directory below ttmar2006ejb-ws contains the source files and other support file for the sample.
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- In the ejb-techtip directory, execute the following commands:
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where <GF_install_dir> is the directory in which you installed GlassFish.
ant build
This creates a build directory, compiles the classes, and puts the compiled classes in the build directory. It also creates an archive directory, creates a JAR file, and puts the JAR file in the archive directory.
ant deploy
This deploys the JAR file on GlassFish.
ant build-client
This generates portable artifacts and compiles the client source code.
ant run
This runs the application client and invokes the add operation in the Calculator service 10 times, adding 10 to the numbers 0-to-9. You should see the following in response:
run: [echo] Executing appclient with client class as client.JAXWSClient [exec] Retrieving port from the service endpoint.CalculatorService@159780d [exec] Invoking add operation on the calculator port [exec] Adding : 0 + 10 = 10 [exec] Adding : 1 + 10 = 11 [exec] Adding : 2 + 10 = 12 [exec] Adding : 3 + 10 = 13 [exec] Adding : 4 + 10 = 14 [exec] Adding : 5 + 10 = 15 [exec] Adding : 6 + 10 = 16 [exec] Adding : 7 + 10 = 17 [exec] Adding : 8 + 10 = 18 [exec] Adding : 9 + 10 = 19
ant undeploy
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Madam Speaker, I would like to congratulate the hon. member for Burnaby—Douglas for his speech. His concerns for human rights date back many years. He addressed a number of points in his speech.
Before asking my question, I would like to make some comments. I represent the riding of Lévis-et-Chutes-de-la-Chaudière, a riding in which is located a company called Davie Industries. Despite a bankruptcy last Wednesday, there is an economic recovery project under way.
When the Minister for International Trade is questioned about projects submitted to the EDC, he or his assistants always reply "We cannot speak of them, because that is a crown corporation". They are, when it comes down to it, merely required to table an annual report in the House. There is always the aspect of confidentiality. When the hon. member refers to the access to information aspect, I find it vital to democracy for people to be kept informed.
In closing, let us recall that Davie did eventually obtain something from the EDC, the famous Spirit of Columbus platform, after two years, when the work on it was completely done. Examination of the project took two years. I assumed that they were probably busy looking at the human rights aspect, and if it respected the environment, and the like.
Finally, I realized that was not the case. It is even worse with the changes. The corporation is not even subject to the international treaties Canada has signed. This is inconceivable. There is nothing in writing. The amendment proposed by the hon. member for Joliette was refused. So there is still the matter of transparency, environmental problems and the like.
I would ask the hon. member, with his lengthy parliamentary experience, he who says he does not understand how the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade could have changed its mind in its report, what in his opinion are the possible responses he has in mind that would cast some light on it for me, with my lesser experience in foreign trade. In my opinion, it is inconceivable. The government will not give us a reply on this.
What, according to him, are the reasons the government side is behaving in this way, doing such an about turn in its position?
In the space of only a few months, the committee members changed their position, surely under someone's influence. I would like to hear some hypotheses from him on this.


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Gerald Barry's last full-length opera, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, was based upon a screenplay. His latest, first performed last year in Los Angeles and brought to Europe for concert performances with Thomas Adès conducting Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, is based on one of the most iconic texts in English. It doesn't just sidestep the question of what's gained by turning Wilde's play into an opera – it tramples it underfoot.
Barry may have cut the text of Wilde's "trivial comedy for serious people" by two-thirds, but he still left himself with a very wordy libretto. Much of that is delivered at machine-gun speed, in the kind of vocal setting that is Barry's 21st-century equivalent of a comic-opera patter song, which makes it all but indecipherable. At the Barbican, surtitles supplied what the ear could not catch (as well as many of the stage directions), but it did mean that the humour came much more from reading than from listening; Wilde's wit was transmitted exactly as it would have been by reading the play.
Barry's music does contain its quota of hilarious moments, however. Having Lady Bracknell played by a bass (Alan Ewing) is a good start; and the way s/he delivers the famous handbag line, almost reduced to speechless incoherence, is beautifully judged.
Both Lady Bracknell and Hilary Summers' Miss Prism deliver high-speed versions of Beethoven's Ode to Joy, while Auld Lang Syne is regularly referenced. When Barbara Hannigan's Cecily and Katalin Károlyi's Gwendolen argue over tea and muffins about which of them is engaged to Ernest, and to which one – John Worthing (Peter Tantsits) or Algernon Moncrieff (Joshua Bloom) – they communicate through megaphones, accompanied by one of the orchestra's percussionists solemnly smashing a series of dinner plates.
Mostly, though, Barry's ensemble-writing forges its own path independent of what the singers are doing. It's like a startling series of musical machines, brassy riffs and wild passages that punctuate and criss-cross the vocal lines. It's all ferociously difficult to sing and play, but the performance under Adès seemed staggeringly good. Yet the core problem remains: the disjunction between the music and its subject matter is deliberate, and the effect uncertain. Many years ago, Barry wrote a piece called Things That Gain By Being Painted. One wonders what Wilde's play gains by being painted in music.
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DBIx::Class::Schema::PUseraContributed PerDBIx::Class::Schema::PopulateMore(3) NAME DBIx::Class::Schema::PopulateMore - An enhanced populate method VERSION Version 0.19 SYNOPSIS The following is example usage for this component. package Myapp::Schema; use base qw/DBIx::Class::Schema/; __PACKAGE__->load_components(qw/Schema::PopulateMore/); __PACKAGE__->load_namespaces(); ## All the rest of your setup Then assuming you have ResultSources of Gender, Person and FriendList: my $setup_rows = [ {Gender => { fields => 'label', data => { male => 'male', female => 'female', }}}, {Person => { fields => ['name', 'age', 'gender'], data => { john => ['john', 38, "!Index:Gender.male"], jane => ['jane', 40, '!Index:Gender.female'], }}}, {FriendList => { fields => ['person', 'friend', 'created_date'], data => { john_jane => [ '!Index:Person.john', '!Index:Person.jane' '!Date: March 30, 1996', ], }}}, ]; $schema->populate_more($setup_rows); Please see the test cases for more detailed examples. DESCRIPTION This is a DBIx::Class::Schema component that provides an enhanced version of the builtin method "populate" in DBIx::Class::Schema. What it does is make it easier when you are doing a first time setup and need to insert a bunch of rows, like the first time you deploy a new database, or after you update it. It's not as full featured as DBIx::Class::Fixtures but is targeted more directly at making it easier to just take a prewritten perl structure --or one loaded from a configuration file-- and setup your database. Most of us using DBIx::CLass have written a version of this at one time or another. What is special to this component is the fact that unlike the normal populate method you can insert to multiple result_sources in one go. While doing this, we index the created rows so as to make it easy to reference them in relationships. I did this because I think it's very ugly to have to type in all the primary keys by hand, particularly if your PK is multi column, or is using some lengthy format such as uuid. Also, we can embed expansion commands in the row values to do inflation for us. For example, any value starting with "!Index:" will substitute it's value for that of the relating fields in the named row. This distribution supplies three expansion commands: Index Use for creating relationships. This is a string in the form of "Source.Label" where the Source is the name of the result source that you are creating rows in and Label is a key name from the key part of the data hash. Env Get's it's value from %ENV. Typically this will be setup in your shell or at application runtime. This is a string in the form of "!Env:MY_ENV_VAR" Date converts it's value to a DateTime object. Will use a various methods to try and coerce a string, like "today", or "January 6, 1974". Makes it easier to insert dates into your database without knowing or caring about the expected format. For this to work correctly, you need to use the class component DBIx::Class::InflateColumn::DateTime and mark your column data type as 'datetime' or similar. Find Used for when you want the value of something that you expect already exists in the database (but for which you didn't just populatemore for, use 'Index' for that case.) Use cases for this include lookup style tables, like 'Status' or 'Gender', 'State', etc. which you may already have installed. This is a string in the form of '!Find:Source.[key1=val1,key2=val2,...'. If your find doesn't return a single result, expect an error. It's trivial to write more; please feel free to post me your contributions. Please note the when inserting rows, we are actually calling "create_or_update" on each data item, so this will not be as fast as using $schema->bulk_insert. METHODS This module defines the following methods. populate_more ($ArrayRef||@Array) Given an arrayref formatted as in the "SYNOPSIS" example, populate a rows in a database. Confesses on errors. We allow a few different inputs to make it less verbose to use under different situations, as well as format nicely using your configuration format of choice. The $ArrayRef contains one or more elements in the following pattern; $schema->populate_more([ {Source1 => { fields => [qw/ column belongs_to has_many/], data => { key_1 => ['value', $row, \@rows ], }}}, {Source2 => { fields => [qw/ column belongs_to has_many/], data => { key_1 => ['value', $row, \@rows ], }}}, ]); The @Array version can be one of the following: ## Option One $schema->populate_more( {Source1 => { fields => [qw/ column belongs_to has_many/], data => { key_1 => ['value', $row, \@rows ], }}}, {Source2 => { fields => [qw/ column belongs_to has_many/], data => { key_1 => ['value', $row, \@rows ], }}}, ); ## Option Two $schema->populate_more( Source1 => { fields => [qw/ column belongs_to has_many/], data => { key_1 => ['value', $row, \@rows ], } }, Source2 => { fields => [qw/ column belongs_to has_many/], data => { key_1 => ['value', $row, \@rows ], } }, ); The last option is probably your choice if you are building a Perl structure directly, since it's the least verbose. 'SourceX' is the name of a DBIC source (as in $schema->resultset($Source)->...) while fields is an arrayref of either columns or named relationships and data is a hashref of rows that you will insert into the Source. See "SYNOPSIS" for more. ARGUMENT NOTES The perl structure used in "populate_more" was designed to be reasonable friendly to type in most of the popular configuration formats. For example, the above serialized to YAML would look like: - Gender: fields: label data: female: female male: male - Person: fields: - name - age - gender data: jane: - jane - 40 - '!Index:Gender.female' john: - john - 38 - !Index:Gender.male' - FriendList: fields: - person - friend - created_date data: john_jane: - '!Index:Person.john' - '!Index:Person.jane' - '!Date: March 30, 1996' Since the argument is an arrayref or an array, the same base result source can appear as many times as you like. This could be useful when a second insert to a given source requires completion of other inserts. The insert order follows the index of the arrayref you create. AUTHOR John Napiorkowski, "<firstname.lastname@example.com>" BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests to: C<bug-DBIx-Class-Schema-PopulateMore at rt.cpan.org> or through the web interface at: L<http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=DBIx-Class-Schema-PopulateMore> I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes. SUPPORT You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command. perldoc DBIx::Class::Schema::PopulateMore You can also look for information at: o RT: CPAN's request tracker <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=DBIx-Class-Schema-PopulateMore> o AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation <http://annocpan.org/dist/DBIx-Class-Schema-PopulateMore> o CPAN Ratings <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/DBIx-Class-Schema-PopulateMore> o Search CPAN <http://search.cpan.org/dist/DBIx-Class-Schema-PopulateMore> ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to the entire DBIx::Class team for providing such a useful and extensible ORM. Also thanks to the Moose developers for making it fun and easy to write beautiful Perl. COPYRIGHT & LICENSE Copyright 2011, John Napiorkowski This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.24.1 2014-10-DBIx::Class::Schema::PopulateMore(3)
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Early Fall Color Could Be Sign of Tree Distress
In many parts of North America, people will soon enjoy one of nature's finest shows - fall foliage. Color-changing leaves make for a beautiful display, but early changes in leaf-color can be a sign that your tree is stressed and is susceptible to insect and disease attack.
If the leaves on your trees seem to have gotten a jump-start on fall compared with those on similar trees in the area, you might want to consult a professional arborist who can identify any problems and offer possible solutions.
"Premature colors can be an indication that a tree isn't vigorous enough to withstand insects and disease organisms that may attack it, not to mention the usual changes that occur when the weather turns cold," says Tchukki Andersen, BCMA, CTSP* and staff arborist with the Tree Care Industry Association. "Occasionally, only one or two limbs of the tree will show premature fall color. This could be a sign of a disease at work, weakening only the infected limbs."
The more common situation is for the entire tree to exhibit premature fall coloration, a phenomenon usually linked to root-related stress. "Trees respond to these stresses by trying to curtail their above-ground growth," adds Andersen.
Leaves can be thought of as small factories containing raw materials, products and by-products, all in chemical form and some with color. As the leaf is "abandoned" by the tree, the green chlorophyll - the dominant chemical found in most leaves - is broken down and "recycled," leaving behind other-colored chemicals. Supply lines to the leaves also become clogged. If the major chemical remaining in the abandoned leaf is red, the leaf turns red. If it's yellow, the leaf turns yellow, and so on.
"The yearly variation in color intensity is due to varying weather conditions, which can affect the balance of chemicals and their composition in the leaves," Andersen says. Differing amounts of rainfall, sunlight, temperature, humidity and other factors may have an effect on how bright, how quickly and how long the "leaf-peeping" season will be in any given year.
Find a professional
A professional arborist can assess your landscape and work with you to determine the best course of action. Contact the Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA), a public and professional resource on trees and arboriculture since 1938. It has more than 2,000 member companies who recognize stringent safety and performance standards and who are required to carry liability insurance. TCIA has the nation's only Accreditation program that helps consumers find tree care companies that have been inspected and accredited based on: adherence to industry standards for quality and safety; maintenance of trained, professional staff; and dedication to ethics and quality in business practices. An easy way to find a tree care service provider in your area is to use the "Locate Your Local TCIA Member Companies" program. You can use this service by calling 1-800-733-2622 or by doing a ZIP Code search on www.treecaretips.org.
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Barnstable is a town in Massachusetts. It was formed in 1638 and can be found in Barnstable county. For more information, contact the county at 367 Main St., Hyannis 02601. On the attached map, Barnstable is shown as 5 in Barnstable county.
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