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The first seed with the above- and belowground insect refuge contained in the bag has been planted on about 300,000 corn acres. The new Genuity SmartStax RIB (refuge-in-a-bag) Complete corn was approved in April. The late planting season helped Monsanto move more of the new product out to growers who were still waiting to plant corn.
"The response has been overwhelming," reports Matt Kirkpatrick, Monsanto corn traits marketing manager. "This is the only product on the market with the refuge in a single bag. So farmers don't have to worry about different hybrids, grabbing the wrong bag, or making sure the calculations on the refuge are correct. It's just one bag in the planter and you are done.
"Plus, growers will not lose yield on a refuge [planted separately]," he adds.
Next year, Monsanto should have approval for an RIB product in its Genuity VT Double PRO line. Kirkpatrick says this RIB product is for aboveground protection and does not include corn rootworm control.
Monsanto will convert the majority of the Genuity SmartStax and Genuity VT Double PRO over to the RIB Complete products, Kirkpatrick says.
Developing the RIB product was a challenge. "We couldn't put 20% unprotected seed in the bag with traited seed because we would lose too much yield," he explains. "The pests eating on the 20% caused too much damage. So if we could get the refuge down to 5%, we could obtain comparable yields. There is a halo effect with the 95-5 blend. Roots cross and offer protection on plants that aren't traited."
Monsanto partnered with Dow AgroSciences to bring in the Herculex technology and combine with its own SmartStax and YieldGard technologies. This enabled the refuge reduction from 20% to 5% so RIB was possible, Kirkpatrick says.
"I think we'll see a quick adoption for this technology," he continues. "It is primarily for growers with heavy corn rootworm pressure, 90- to 105-day hybrids, heavy corn borer and corn-on-corn."

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Just got back from Grampians Jazz Festival and what a terrific trip. A beautiful setting, wonderful people, excellent music and fine food and wine - all the right ingredients for a great time. And they were all there in spades at Hall's Gap this last weekend.
What follows is as much a timeline of the entire weekend, so it features far more words on the music than wine.
I left Canberra early last Thursday with a car chock-a-block of musical gear and a box of nice wine and drove to Bendigo in central Victoria to stay the night with great friends, Bill and Margie Beasley. Cracked an almost ok 1995 Dom Perignon (with one of Marg's delicious savoury vegetarian crepes) that unveiled probably the mildest cork taint I've ever experienced. If it had not been for this annoying faint mustiness the wine may have scored in the low 90's. In this instance, we still enjoyed what was in the glass - light and fluffy, yeasty pastry shop smells, a little autolysis character mixed with bright acids, a little citrus and grated ginger and then, of course, the totally forgettable miniscule mustiness. The palate displayed a remarkable lightness, dancing like a miniature prima ballerina in full swing all around the mouth and then unravelling with equilibrium and class on a similarly impressive finish, just marred ever so slightly by our old friend, Mr TCA. Still, worthy of about 86 points from me. Bill whipped up a mixed grill on the barbeque and I decided to open a 1988 John Riddoch that looked somewhat jaded at first but improved dramatically in the glass with an, ultimately, delicious combo of blackcurrant, damp earth, capsicum, herbs, cedar and black olive. The wine displays a most excellent fully resolved structure & was very easy to drink. 90 points. If you have any, drink it over the next several years.
Friday morning we put the finishing touches on a few tunes to be played in Bill's band, "1947" - so named due to all the original members being born in that year. Over several years, the original line-up has changed considerably and now only a couple of "authentic" 1947er's remain. I left for Hall's Gap about mid-morning and arrived at about 1pm. The village was already buzzing with musos and delegates and I set up my gear in the Black Panther Cafe for my three day residency over the course of the jazz festival. A couple of nice sessions went down until I had to do my first gig at 5pm with the Double A Jazz Band at the enormous Seppelt Marquee (holds about 800 people with overflow of several hundred if required either side). The gig started quite shakily but fired up as the set progressed. Then it was back to the cafe for one of the best steak and pepper pies I've ever eaten with a crunchy fresh garden salad and piping hot tasty chips. Due to a very busy schedule that night (4 gigs), I decided to try a local beer, a Three Troupers Pale Ale and was most impressed. After dinner I took the shortish walk back to the big tent and played with a very popular Victorian working jazz band, The Maryborough Traditional Jazz Ensemble, a well-established and competent group but with me added at the last moment to replace their seriously ill band leader and pianist, Rueben. The set went off well - the front line are fabulous entertainers and I felt comfortable throughout the bulk of the set. I then had to rush off to play up the Country Plaza Motel with my band, The Milenberg Joys - a set that went very well, especially our rendition of Jelly Roll Morton's challenging composition "Froggie Moore Rag" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlhNDaP_ZFI), then back to the big tent to do our second set of the night with Double A (which went much better than our first set a bit earlier). We did manage to try my first bottle of 2004 Leo Buring Eden Valley Leonay Riesling DW 17 - simply gorgeous with awesome fruit, structure and balance - and brimming with intense lime juice/grapefruit pith aromas and flavour. Drink now or keep for a decade or more. 93
Saturday morning I was down at the cafe at 9am playing my digital piano after breakfast with a huge influx of people coming in from the mid-morning traditional street march. The fabulous pianist Kim Harris dropped in for a bite to eat and took up my offer of having a tinkle. What a fine player! At midday, I did a somewhat mediocre set with an unrehearsed band doing charts transcribed from a Dan Barrett and George Masso (both top US trombonists) album called Two Friends. Luckily the next day, the band, called "T N T" (Trom 'n' Trom), performed its second set of the weekend, mostly from the same album with the band "finding its feet" and performing far better. Also trombone guru, Harry Price (82 years young) sat in, so effectively, we were Three Troms. Back to the cafe for lunch and a great afternoon of mixed blowing with several fine musicians including Joe Pryke (trumpet), Nicola Shaw (trombone) and Danny Sowter (guitar). Later in evening I did 4 sets in a row - Maryborough, Milenberg Joys, 1947 (all mentioned before) and my first set with the wonderful trumpet player, Graham Eames. His band, called "JIG" (Jazz In the Gap), played very well, especially with most of the band reading the music for the first time on stage. Once my band commitments were fulfilled I opened a most delicious bottle of red burgundy. J. J. Confuron's Nuits-St.-Georges Aux Boudot 1993 is an amazingly fresh, subtle, feminine wine with layers of smoothly textured plum, cherry, cola, sap and perfectly-judged (i.e. delicate) complimentary spicy/savoury oak. It's drinking brilliantly today but somehow I think it has some way to go. Its line, depth, breadth and length are without fault. 93. A truly memorable drinking experience,
Sunday dawned with the fine warm weather repeating itself for the third day in a row and the mandatory early morning breakfast/music performance at the "Panther". The TNT gig I mentioned happened at midday and a truly memorable blow with Bill Beasley at the Black panther over lunch was followed by a very quick gear decommissioning in the restaurant and then my two final blows of the festival with JIG and 1947. I did manage to open a Leasingham Classic Clare Aged Release Watervale Clare Valley Riesling 2002 during the afternoon - a truly outstanding white with enormous reserves of intense lime and crunchy green apple fruit. Indelible, complex minerally acidity and an amazing path through the mouth lead to a long riveting clean and crisp finish. Will live for another decade, at least. 94. The Maryborough guys had a gig that night at the nearby Parkgate resort and with things working out with the band over the weekend, I was invited to play with them on Sunday night. It was a blast. The crowd were every bit as receptive as in the big tent and at one stage I counted about ten people in their seats and well over a hundred having a ball on the very large dance floor. Thanks be to the band for having me and I look forward to going all the way back to Victoria the weekend after next to do two more gigs with them.
After an enjoyable Monday morning socialising with heaps of good people in and around the confines of the Panther, I motored back to Bendigo in the early afternoon to Bill and Marg's for another overnighter to break up the long trip home. We drank the remnants of a 2005 Leasingham Classic Clare Riesling I had opened the night before. Unlike the unreadiness present the previous evening, this was now singing like a nightingale. Somewhat similar to their 2002, this vintage is higher in acid and currently has a tighter, linear fruit profile. It is, potentially, a most outstanding wine but leave it for 5 years if you have any. With sumptuous eye fillet medallions in a mushroom, red wine and garlic sauce, I opened the wine of the trip and true testimony to the terroir from which it was borne. Henschke's 1991 Cyril Henschke Cabernet Sauvignon is a true star. Supremely elegant but with a solid core of delectable sweet blackcurrant fruit, this superior cabernet displays exemplary colour for its age, a superb nose oozing with aged complexity over almost floral (violets) black fruit (-currants and -berries) followed by a quite thrilling mature and complex palate showing resolution, precision and sensuality. I asked Bill how I would rate it. He answered "94" and he was right. This bottle could last another decade if well kept. Another blast from the past for me.
The drive home yesterday afternoon was long and not that boring as I managed to pick up some more work with the Canberra Jazz Club and another gig in Victoria.
If anyone reading this likes any of the jazz genres, I can assure you a good time in Hall's Gap every February. Over 4,000 attend and I am yet to meet a person who disliked a festival weekend. The only problem is getting accommodation, although with an aging trad jazz audience cancellations are becoming more common.
I'm already booked for next year's festival.


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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Two new prints in the shop!
I've been so busy lately with taxes and spring cleaning! Yikes!
So this is just a quick post to let you know that I have added two new prints to my etsy shop.
Hope you are all doing well!
P.S. If I'm not following you yet on your blog, leave me a message here saying you have the following feature so that I can.
29 comments:
- andrea said...
You're following my blog, thanks :)
I love your new paintings....
- April 29, 2009 at 11:13 PM
- snippetgirl said...
Sooooo precious as always!! I love that a cute black cat is often the star of your paintings! That is purrfect....
You are welcome to follow my blog...i am ALL about animals especially cats.
Carrie the SnipPet Girl
- April 29, 2009 at 11:14 PM
- nollyposh said...
ooh! OOH! (Hand waving in the air!)
PiCK me! Pick mE! i have a bloggy thingy tOO X;-)
Hee! HEE! i ~Love~ your blog Tascha and your art always makes me feeL so chirpy and inspired X:-)
vicki x
- April 30, 2009 at 12:00 AM
- magicalsummer said...
love your new work tascha, even though i'm not a 'cat person' my daughter who adores your work and has a dog asks if you will ever do one of a little girl with a pug!
you're welcome to follow my blog - it's a little bit of this and that...
and tascha, thank you for allowing me to use your girl with the blue bird - it's stunning!
- April 30, 2009 at 12:04 AM
- Dream on the wave said...
So lovely again your paintings! I just love them. I am still fairly new to the blogworld and not so active yet but working on it. Many greetings from a small island in the sun.
- April 30, 2009 at 2:05 AM
- PilliPilli Handmade said...
Wow! These new painting are lovely as ever!
I used to be a dog-person, but since we have our Maia, I'm ALL FOR KITTIES! And cats and Frida are a match made in heaven! Well done!
Best wishes, K.
PilliPilli Handmade
Ps. There's catpictures in my blog... kittens to be precise. You're welcome to drop by! (I don't think you follow yet...)
- April 30, 2009 at 4:50 AM
- Silke said...
So cute! I just love your little paintings! Being a cat (and dog) person myself, I truly enjoy your subject matter... You are very welcome to follow my blog if you want to. :) Silke
- April 30, 2009 at 6:20 AM
- Janine said...
Great pictures (like always)
Do you know, what little german witches do on this night?
If not, check it out on my blog.
Have a lovely weekend
- April 30, 2009 at 8:10 AM
- Carolee said...
LOVE these! I'm pretty sure you're already following my blog (thanks!)
~ Carolee
- April 30, 2009 at 9:31 AM
- kat said...
Awww, kitties and scarves, thank goodness no more scarves here in Michigan! Would love to see your face following my blog as it is not yet there... thanks :)
- April 30, 2009 at 9:41 AM
- Diane Duda said...
Sweet, as always.
Not sure if you're following me or not, but I do have that feature...and i love it!
- April 30, 2009 at 10:25 AM
- Janine said...
Dear Tascha, thank you for joining my blog.
I really feel honoured, cause it´s because of you, that I started painting again.
I found your blog after seeing a youtube- video of you (three month ago I didn´t even know what a blog was), were you showed how to make a little book. When I saw all those wonderfull, colourfull, funny paintings on your blog, it reminds me of how much fun it was to paint, but I didn´t do it for more than ten years.
So I started again, the first one was "perfect night" which became my header.
And I startes blogin aswell.
And it is still so much fun and for me a way to rlax totally.
Thank you for your lovely paintings and for inspiering me.
Have a great Weekend
- April 30, 2009 at 12:49 PM
- Victorian Lady said...
Hi Tascha! :) I would love for you to come visit/follow me.
A big fan!
- April 30, 2009 at 1:34 PM
- marie*jolie said...
You already follow my blog, which is an honor (by the way), but I want to tell you that I absolutely love the new prints- most especially the girl in the tree. I wish I'd seen that and added it to my recent order from you. I just framed the others and I love them to pieces, and will order a few more when I can. :)
- April 30, 2009 at 3:22 PM
- Kiki said...
OH! I absolutely adore the bottom of the two! You create such vibrant sunny feeling paintings.
You've been Tagged - http://thestoryofu.blogspot.com/2009/04/tagged.html
- April 30, 2009 at 3:45 PM
- *myrarte* said...
I love the purity of your painting! continues to create
Greetings from Spain
- April 30, 2009 at 5:43 PM
- Kaili (Billy and Button) said...
Hi Tascha,
I would LOVE to see your lovely avator following my blog, you are welcome anytime! Pop in for a visit :)
And Babushka in the tree is one of my favourites! She is just so sweet.
Kaili xx
- April 30, 2009 at 7:04 PM
- Jill said...
Hi Tascha! I always love checking out your blog, especially the funny videos & pictures of Lily & Opie. You're welcome to stop by my blog for a visit anytime! Have a wonderful day! ~ Jill
- April 30, 2009 at 9:37 PM
- Tracey said...
Hi Tasha,
Please do come follow my blog...I'd be honored :)
- April 30, 2009 at 11:07 PM
- Pea said...
Hi Tasha
I love your paintings and videos.It would be an honour if you would visit my blog. And if you follow me I will faint :)(kidding)
- May 1, 2009 at 6:10 AM
- Mi said...
Thhhanks for your lovely work and amazing...videosssss...
- May 1, 2009 at 9:42 AM
- Cris said...
I love the cameo ladies, they are so bright and fresh, yet old fashioned! You are welcome to come follow my blog, I hope to have some new paintings up by tomorrow--tell me what you think! I am heading for the St. Louis Art Museum now to accompany my "art major" daughter as she sketches there. It will be a fun day, probably lunching at Wolfgang Pucks~Yummy
- May 1, 2009 at 10:50 AM
- Charmaine D'Silva said...
Hi Tascha...LOVE your blog and artwork! I'm in Toronto as well and an up and coming (really struggling) artist! Would really love it if you would follow my BLOG!! http://reincharnated.blogspot.com/
Cheers, Charmaine
- May 1, 2009 at 3:16 PM
- Keely BDD said...
Always love you artwork and it puts a smile on my face to visit your little blog and see what you have been up too. Feel free to follow my blog also. Not much there yet, but I am working on it.
- May 2, 2009 at 11:59 AM
- Fuzzy Brush said...
Love your sweet people who love animals. Me too. I follow you from now on..You can follow me at dorisbritt.blogspot.com Good thoughts from the brush...doris
- May 2, 2009 at 5:27 PM
- Dean Grey said...
I love the pattern on the scarf the girl is wearing in the second print.
Too cute!
- May 3, 2009 at 6:53 AM
- angeltreats said...
Hi Tascha, I just discovered your blog (I followed you here from Peazcreation) and I'm so in love with your paintings! I have to catch up on all your older posts.
I have followers enabled but I'd be happy even if you just felt like stopping by to visit :)
- May 3, 2009 at 2:00 PM
- Karin Grow said...
I've been following you blog for awhile now, but just made it official. I think you work is fabulous, and very inspiring. Feel free to check out my blog and follow it if you wish. Cheers, Karin
- May 12, 2009 at 12:46 AM
- Jaz said...
LOVE your art! Your Frida's are ADORABLE!! I'm glad I stumbled across your blog :) I will follow and you're welcome to follow me too!
- May 10, 2010 at 2:05 AM


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In the 2009/2010 season, the Metbank Pro40 (then known as the Faithwear/Metbank 1-Day Competition) was played over two rounds with each franchise playing eight games.
The final was played at Mutare Sports Club between Mountaineers and the Mid West Rhinos on 10 April 2010.
In a low scoring but very exciting game, the Mountaineers emerged champions after laboring to beat the Rhinos by three wickets chasing a target of 145 runs.
Helped by some strange bowling changes, the two all-rounders Prosper Utseya and Shingi Masakadza shared a magnificent and totally unexpected unbroken partnership of 83 for the eighth wicket that took the home side home.
In the 2010/2011 season, Mid West Rhinos got a second chance to take the rebranded Metbank Pro 40 title when they faced Southern Rocks in the final at Harare Sports Club.
But it was not to be; consistent batting from Southern Rocks' top order - led by Tafadzwa Kamungozi - took them to a fine eight-wicket victory and their first tournament trophy.


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Nearly all Perimeter products are available in the Peace Love Productions webshop now.
Experimental Dubstep Vol 2 & 3 remain steady in the upper 1/2 of the charts at Producer Loops.
And lastly, work continues not only on 'World Tek 3', and the next Experimental Dubstep collection, but also something else I think will be quite interesting to those who liked the Kunundrum series, Bio-Mechanic Beats II, and especially a certain 3 volume series we did for Producer Loops. More information as that project develops, and is nearer to release.
July 5th 2012
Experimental Dubstep Vol 3 has been released. Picking up where Vol 2 left off, with more slow motion dub/dubstep goodness for your new tracks. Be sure to hear the short and rawkin' mp3 demo, made by Perimeter friend Horatiu-Cristian Petrila who just released his first soundset for the Diva softsynth this week, check it out via our *links* page – scroll down to 3ee.
June 21st 2012
The 2nd Soundspice title – Darc Skreen 2 : Fx & One Shots loop sample collection is released, available now in the Perimeter webshop, and at Producer Loops. Be sure to check out the mp3 demos, and grab the freebee try-before-you-buy pack, and hear what it's all about.
May 24th 2012
A quick write up about ED2 – Experimental Dubstep Vol 2 review
May 16th 2012
Experimental Dubstep Vol 2 has been released. Jeff Rhodes of Perimeter Sound is very proud to join this new loop sample series. This is the first collection of construction style kits we have ever done, and we hope to continue in this style in the future. Be sure to stop by and check out the mp3 demo, it was made by Perimeter friend Horatiu-Cristian Petrila.
May 1st 2012
Special offer for May 2012
We hope to have news about a new product release very soon. And the first 2012 IDC sale is in the works for this summer, expect that one to be massive.
And lastly for now, the special 2X freebee synth patch set for Zebrasonix will continue to be available @ Rekkerd.org, see below for more information about that.
April 12th 2012
Get an exclusive double-sized Zebrasonix freebee pack over at Rekkerd.org through the end of April only, and *only* available there. If you like what you hear, then be sure to stop by Producer Loops and check out the Dance Glitch Bundle on sale this month for 20% off the already discounted bundle-price, because Zebrasonix is included 100% free with the DG Bundle through April.
April 2nd 2012
This month Zebrasonix is available free with the purchase of the Dance Glitch Bundle at Producer Loops. Check it out here
March 28th 2012
It's the last couple of days to get in on the special double sale/freebee deal with World Tek 1 & 2, see the links below in the March 1st news post. We'll announce a new special deal (on different products) in April, more information once that starts up next Monday.
March 16th 2012
Just a reminder, still 2 weeks and a day to go on the buy World Tek 1 or 2, and get Projektor free deal at Producer Loops. Don't miss out. The World Tek loop sample collections are also on sale this month, so it's like a double bonus.
Perimeter friend, contributor, and photographer : Lance Roethle, has made a music video featuring some of his amazing new time lapse footage, for a song off the new Todd Milne/Moksha album. You can view it here – DEEPLY A Short Film
March 1st 2012
We are having a special offer in March at Producer Loops. If you purchase a copy of World tek, or World Tek 2, you get the Zebra Projektor patch set free. Projektor was used in the making of WT2. More info at these links – World Tek and World Tek 2
February 11th 2012
World Tek 2 has climbed to #4 on the -World- chart @ Producer Loops, so thanks to everyone who has purchased a copy. And if you haven't yet, we invite you to grab the freebee pack and try-before-you-buy, on us, no strings attched, no email sign up needed, just click the WT2 page link in the previous post.
Darc Skreen is also doing pretty good on the -Cinematic- chart, and that title also has a big no strings freebee pack as well. So go check out the mp3 demos and get the freebee pack for Darc Skreen
January 27th 2012
Perimeter Sound is proud to announce the release of World Tek 2 on the Producer Loops netlabel. Featuring even more flutes and live percussion/drums than the original, and the same massive amount of content and variety. There is a freebee pack, 50megs big, for you to try-before-you-buy. So be sure to stop by, check the mp3 demos out, and claim your freebee pack on us.
January 10th 2012
Welcome to the new year, and we hope you had a good holiday break. We are currently working on 2 more loop sample collections for release in the first quarter of 2012. More news here as things progress.
December 12th 2011
Another new demo mp3 has been added to the Dance Glitch bundle product page. The new demo features more hard dance styles, and less glitch. If you are wondering if Dance Glitch can help you get a more modern sound, the answer is yes, it can do that too. Check it out when you get a chance, it's the middle of the 3 demos posted.
December 6th 2011
The IDC winter sale has ended, but Perimeter Sound is having a 20% off everything sale at Producer Loops from now through December 26th. Darc Skreen is also on sale, so be sure to check those out here Perimeter Sound and here Darc Skreen
November 25th 2011
The IDC winter sales event has begun. Check out all the amazing deals here !
November 21st 2011
A brand new dubstep style demo track featuring only beats & percussion loop samples from the Dance Glitch collections has been posted here and on our *Tracks* page.
November 15th 2011
We are proud to announce that Darc Skreen FX & One Shots on the new Soundspice label has been released. Available now in the webshop, in Acidized .wav, Apple/Garageband .aif, and REX2 .rx2 format.
November 11th 2011
On sale 25% off, from now through Monday the 14th, all individual Tone Sets and Zebra patch collections @ Producer Loops
November 9th 2011
Gearing up for the winter 2011 IDC sales event. You won't want to miss it. More information as it becomes available, but I can tell you it's going to be soon, very soon.
October 11th 2011
The Pro Sessions titles : Abstract World Fusion II, Field Of Vision, and Tension Theory, are all available in proper Apple Loops format, thanks to Laszlo Panyigay who added the extra tagging for us. They are available in the webshop, same low price, just more Mac love now.
September 23rd 2011
Zebra Fill – the bundle of all 3 of the Zebra softsynth patch collections released by Perimeter Sound, is available in the webshop now. You get every Zebra and Zebrify patch from all 3 sets, and the price is the same as Zebrasonix and either of the others, so it's basically just like buy 2, and get 1 free.
And last chance *bump* for the charity auction mentioned in the previous post, it ends on the 30th. So just one week left to get a deal on some software/patches/samples, and help out a good cause.
August 9th 2011
Perimeter has donated a Tone Sets Bundle, and 1 copy each of the 3 Zebra patch collections to a charity auction. More info can be found here charity auction info
August 5th 2011
We have put back the old graphics, as you probably have noticed. Why ? For any number of reasons, they will be used for a new brand name. Making some changes, and we decided that changing Perimeter was unecessary. So those graphics will be used with the new brand here shortly, and I'll post more info here as things develop. Now back to your regularly scheduled summer (or winter, depending on your global positioning).
July 24th 2011
Projektor hit #1 on the Zebra patch charts at Producer Loops this week. And there is exactly one week left to save 20% on the Dance Glitch Bundle, and get your free copy of Rate Of Motion with it. That's really a good deal if you have Zebra, so that's why I'm mentioning it again, 7 days remain, last call so to speak.
Speaking of Zebra, I got the new update with the 2 new Osc FX and have been working on some new patches, so don't be surprised to see (or better yet hear) a 4th Zebra patch collection from me before the year is over.
Other than that, Darc Skreen FX & One Shots is all but done and ready for your sample looping use and abuse. I'm finishing up some mp3 demos for it, writing the final descriptions, and loading up a phat freebee pack for ya'll. Expect that one to go *live* no later than September 1st.
July 15th 2011
Added the Ugo demo for 'Dance Glitch Vol 2' to the *Tracks* page, just click the tab above to check it out.
July 9th 2011
Added the Bill Davies demo for 'Dance Glitch Vol 1' to the *Tracks* page, just click the tab above to check it out.
July 4th 2011
Projektor, our 3rd patch collection for the U-he Zebra 2.5 softsynth is now available, check the webshop for ordering info and details about the set.
June 29th 2011
The new graphics for our loop sample collections are now *live*, thanks again to Mildon of Mildon Studios for all his help with them. Also, we have new lower prices. Click the Webshop link/tab above for more details.
June 25th 2011
Some Perimeter & related tracks have been added to the site. Click on the *Tracks* tab above and have a listen.
June 20th 2011
Today we're debuting the new Perimeter Sound logo and header. Soon to follow – new loop sample collection graphics. Thanks to Mildon of Mildon Studios for his extensive graphics work in the redesigning of the Perimeter Sound logo, and the new template for the loop sample collections. Mildon is also a vst plug-in developer, and a member of the IDC.
June 19th 2011
Just a quick note to let everyone know that now through the end of July, you get Rate Of Motion included free when you purchase the Dance Glitch Bundle at Producer Loops. There'll be an official emailing announcement coming next week, but the deal is up and running right now, no waiting and passwords or invites needed. The reason for this special bonus give away is 1) to get people to check out DG of course, and 2) because Rate Of Motion is a cool set of Zebra presets that I made while making the DG loop samples, so they are -related- in that way. Anyways, check it out HERE
June 14th 2011
Gearing up to release our 3rd Zebra 2.5 patch collection soon, codename – Projektor. 118 brand new patches. Expected release date July 1st 2011. Stay tuned for more information.
May 29th 2011
Thanks to everyone who supported the 3rd IDC sale. We're still working on making the IDC better for our customers, and we hope to be bringing you some year-round savings in the near future.
The 3rd Zebra patch collection is completed, and mp3 demos are being made now. We hope to have it released in July, so stay tuned for that.
The 'Dance Glitch' 3 Volume Bundle is doing well, latest ranking is #15 on the *Glitch* chart at Producer Loops. And buying the bundle saves you about 25% or so off the individual price, so it's a bit of a bargain now (scroll down to the May 14th post for linkage).
And it's the last couple of days to get a 20%-40% off discount during the multibuy sale on all Perimeter products at Producer Loops. So if you haven't checked that out yet, now is the time (scroll down to the April 27th post for the shopping link).
May 15th 2011
Somehow it got lost in last week's news, so much going on lately and all. But Perimeter founder Todd Milne has a new site up with some music, artwork, and a calendar for his live performances. Check out Todd Milne Music
May 14th 2011
The Dance Glitch Vol 1-3 bundle is now available at a discounted price, check it out HERE
May 12th 2011
The IDC sale continues on, as does the multi-buy save 20% – 40% sale at Producer Loops. May is savings month. All the Perimeter REX format titles are now listed in the webshop, and a super discounted bundle featuring our 8 independent releases.
May 8th 2011
The IDC sale is now live !! Hit the linky below for some of the best deals you've seen yet this year.
May 6th 2011
All Perimeter titles are now available in REX/Reason/RX2 format, hit the webshop up for some instant diced/chopped/Rex tagged gratification.
The next IDC sales event begins Monday. Yes this coming Monday, May 9th. No need to stand in line though, just check it out after you stagger from bed – IDC
April 29th 2011
Brain Danse Rex version is now available in the webshop ! 🙂
April 28th 2011
It must be the coffee, I'm actually gettin'er done this week. The webshop has been updated to include the Pro Sessions bundle (just $38.99 for all 3 titles!) and the 'Perimeter Dvd Compilation' as a download. The dvd comp contains 8 titles for just $85, that's our best value by far. Check it out in the webshop, link above.
And the other news is that I personally REX'd the rest of Abstract World Fusion (1) yesterday, and bickety bam, now it's available in the webshop. It will be available on the Producer Loops and Peace Love Productions webshops in a few days as well.
April 27th 2011
It's like I never sleep or something ha-ha. The big news today is that we are having a multi-buy sale at Producer Loops – here Save from 20%-40% off your entire order !
Also, I've updated the *Links* page to show all of the sites you can purchase our products on now. Of course we encourage you to buy direct, since we get a few extra points that way. But we do realize that some folks aren't Paypal-friendly though and already have accounts with other webshops, so we are making our stuff available all over the place to accomodate those of you. 🙂
April 26th 2011
The first 2011 IDC sales event has an official starting date, and the website is almost ready to go, I peeped it yesterday. Yes, the discounts are crazy, and the variety of products on offer is BIG ! You won't want to miss it. 🙂
April 24th 2011
Gearing up for the IDC sales event here in May, finishing up that 3rd Zebra patch collection, and actually having a demo made for another synth patch collection that may be released as soon as June 1st. Stay tuned for all the latest information, or at least monthly updates ha-ha. 🙂
April 4th 2011
We are *live*. 🙂
Producer Loops has released 'Dance Glitch Vol 3', check it out here
And lastly but certainly not leastly, the Tone Sets bundle has been reduced in price, now you can get all 6 Tone Sets, 768 tones for the Line 6 POD Farm & Gearbox software (and PodXT hardware) for just $19.99 Get that killer new deal here
March 27th 2011
I suppose the news of the day is this new website. Woot ! Go Perimeter etc.
We've been busy getting our products listed at various fine webshops around the innernetz for the past several months, and now you can get them at most of your favorite places. See the *Links* page for more info on those sites. We do of course encourage you to consider buying them directly from us though on our Web Shop page. From time to time we will run -Perimeter Exclusives-, discounts/sales which will only be available through us.
The 1st Perimeter Zebra presets collection – 'Zebrasonix', was recently reviewed at Rekkerd.org
Producer Loops is gearing up to release 'Dance Glitch Vol. 3', the final installment of the massive collection of dirty glitchy grungy filtered dance beats, synths, sounds, fx, and percussion bits and pieces that we assembled in 2009 and 2010. Look for news on that when it is officially released, and maybe go check out the first 2 volumes now – Dance Glitch Vol 1 and Dance Glitch Vol 2
Other than all that, work continues on a 3rd Zebra softsynth preset collection, and a first ever for Perimeter Sound, an 'FX' loop sample collection. A lot of people commented on the 'Fx' type material in the Ambient Glitch Vol 1-3 series that we did for Producer Loops, and it was also well received in World Tek as well. So we took some time and made our versions of some of the fx staples, drones, upswooshes, hits, percussions of all kinds, various fx, some looped, some one-shot. It's going to be the Fx sample collection to get in 2011. Look for both of those exciting new projects to be completed and released sometime around June-August of this year.
And lastly for now, the first IDC sales event of 2011 is rapidly approaching, and you know Perimeter will be there with the latest stuff at great prices. More information about that when it's up and running for sure. Sometime around May 1st. You heard it here first eh.


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Principal retires, board discusses need to fill position
The Barnum School Board approved the resignation, due to retirement, of High School Principal Steve Brandt, and reviewed the process for hiring another principal, at the meeting of the board on Tuesday, March 19.
However, several members of the board expressed strong feelings against board chair Pat Poirier's question about the need for a high school principal. He said that budget concerns in a year's time were his biggest worry.
"I wouldn't sleep at night if we had to cut teachers when we could save $80,000 for a principal," he said.
Board member Donnie Juntunen recalled that Barnum had a dean of students at one time.
Board member Colleen Fetters pointed out that a dean would have limited authority. She added that the principal observes the teachers in the classrooms for two or three hours a day, and that keeps teaching on track. The principal also is available to parents.
Board member Lenore Skoglund said that so much damage would be done in one year that it would take a long time to catch up.
"The principal takes care of discipline issues," she added. "Who is going to take care of that? I'm really not in favor of not having a principal, that's really short-sighted."
Board Member Paul Coughlin suggested alternatives in administrative expenses as a better fix.
Board Member Mike Line supported Poirier's suggestion.
The topic was to be discussed further in a working meeting following the board meeting.
The current timeline for hiring a principal is to advertise the position, with the closing date of April 15, narrow the field of applicants by April 19, interview the selected candidates from April 29 to May 3, and hire someone at the May 21 meeting of the board.
Superintendent Dave Bottem spoke about the uncertainty in health care coverage that is going through the legislature. However, he said that it was safe to say that the schools are going to get more money this year from the state. He listed several pieces of legislation, but it is not known at this time which will be successful.
In sequestration, he said that the Barnum School District will not be hit as hard as schools with a larger Native American population.
The school board may be forced to increase prices for lunches. He said that would make a hardship for families.
Kurt Langhorst spoke to the board again about serving chocolate milk. He presented information that 45 percent of the students do not drink white milk and that they are missing the valuable minerals of calcium and phosphorus.
It is the board's policy not to respond during the public participation portion of the meeting, and no answer was given to Langhorst's comments.
High School Principal Brandt reported that numerous problems with the Plato program has the administration considering other options. A presentation will be made about Odyssey Ware on March 22.
The next meeting of the board was set for Tuesday, April 16, at 6:30 p.m. in the board room.


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This article describes hotfix rollup 2784148 that is available for the .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 in Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. This hotfix rollup is available to fix several issues in the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2. For more information about the issues that the hotfix resolves, see the "More information" section.
More Information
Hotfix InformationA supported hotfix is now available from Microsoft. However, it is intended to correct only the problem that this article describes. Apply it only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem.
To resolve this problem, contact Microsoft Customer Support Services to obtain the hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Support Services telephone numbers and information about support costs, visit the following Microsoft website:Note In special cases, charges that are ordinarily incurred for support calls may be canceled if a Microsoft Support Professional determines that a specific update will resolve your problem. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for the specific update in question.
PrerequisitesTo apply this hotfix, you must have the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SP2 installed in Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
Restart requirementYou must restart the computer after you apply this hotfix if any affected files are being used. We recommend that you close all .NET Framework applications before you apply this hotfix.
Hotfix replacement informationThis hotfix package does not replace a previously released hotfix package.
Issues that this hotfix rollup resolves
Common language runtime (CLR) issueWhen you are using some non-English operating systems, the PerformanceCounterCategory.GetCategories method cannot return a list of performance counter categories. Additionally, a .NET Framework application returns no values when you run code that resembles the following to enumerate performance counter categories:
After you apply the hotfix, you must add the following LocalizedPerfCounter configuration key to the application configuration file for your .NET Framework application:
PerformanceCounterCategory[] categories;
categories = PerformanceCounterCategory.GetCategories();
Console.WriteLine(categories.Length + " categories are registered on this computer");
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What do we do?
EDF Energy is one of the largest energy companies in the UK, supplying around 5 million residential and business accounts with electricity or gas. We produce around one-fifth (20%) of the nation's electricity and that makes us the largest supplier by volume - something we're really proud of.
EDF Energy is part of EDF Group, a leading global electricity company which began investing in the UK in 1998. Today, EDF Energy employs over 13,500 people across the UK - from Torness in Scotland right down to Exeter in Southern England.
Generation and Supply
Within EDF Energy there are two separate businesses: one that produces electricity, called a generation business, and one that buys gas and electricity from the wholesale market to sell onto our customers. We call this our customer supply business.
The generation business operates the power stations that produce electricity. This goes directly into the National Grid to be transmitted throughout the UK.
The gas infrastructure works in a similar way using pipelines. However, EDF Energy doesn't actually produce gas; we buy it from the wholesale market to supply to our customers.
The wholesale market
This brings together companies producing electricity and gas with energy suppliers who need to buy it to meet their customers' needs.
We buy and sell gas and electricity in advance to ensure we can meet our customers' demands. In order to do this, we have to predict how much our customers will need over a period of time. However, things can change which affect this, such as changes in the weather or if a power station develops a fault. Therefore we are constantly adjusting what we buy from the wholesale market.
All the gas we supply our customers comes from the wholesale market and most of the electricity we supply to our customers does too. Whenever we buy energy we'll always pay the market price - even if it's from our own generation business.
We buy and sell energy up to three years ahead and this helps to even out prices over time and cushion customers from dramatic swings in prices. It also means we can offer fixed-priced tariffs over several winters.
Supplying our customers at home and work
Our residential customers can choose two types of energy tariff: fixed or variable. Just like mortgages, fixed tariffs guarantee that the energy price won't change for the length of the deal. With a variable tariff, prices can go up or down at any time.
Our business customers fall into two categories: small and medium-sized enterprises, known as SMEs, and larger businesses. As with residential, our SME customers have a choice of tariffs and contracts, whereas our large business customers usually negotiate their contracts on an individual basis.
Energy prices
We think it's the right thing to do to keep our prices as low as we can for customers. This means keeping a close eye on what it costs to supply gas and electricity to homes and businesses.
The cost of buying electricity and gas makes up around half of our residential bill. The other half includes things like operating and network costs and government obligations. In 2015 EDF Energy made a small profit of less than 1% from its supply of gas to residential customers. However, the total cost of supplying electricity exceeded the prices charged to customers, creating a 1% operating loss from the supply of electricity.
You can view a full break down of a typical residential electricity and gas bill here.
EDF Trading
When EDF Energy wants to buy or sell energy on the wholesale market it will ask EDF Trading to perform this function on its behalf. Essentially, EDF Trading acts as the agent through which these trades are conducted. It's a role it performs not only for EDF Energy in the UK but across the global EDF Group. In some instances, EDF Energy may conduct the role of trading themselves. Check out edftrading.com for more information on how they operate.
Meeting customer demand
The amount of electricity and gas our customers use is measured in units or kilowatt hours (kWh), with one unit working out as one kWh. Typically, watching TV for four hours costs around 14 pence of electricity and 3 minutes of a hot shower costs 4 pence of gas*. Find out how much electricity certain household appliances use and find out about saving energy in general.
*Prices are correct as of 5 June 2014. Examples are based on the national average of our Standard (Variable) Direct Debit unit rate prices (incl VAT) for a standard metered customer.
Demand for energy varies over the course of the day, for instance first thing in the morning as people are getting up. In winter, as it's darker and colder, residential customers use nearly twice as much electricity and over three times as much gas as they do in summer. Electricity isn't easy to store, so when we source our supply we need to make sure we have the right amount to meet potential demand.
Our Energy Mix
To provide a secure energy supply for the future, the UK needs a diverse mix of energy sources. But the closure of old power stations, declining resources of known oil and gas in the North Sea and the need to tackle climate change means we face a potential energy gap.
No single energy source - whether its nuclear, renewable, coal, gas or hydro - offers a complete solution to meeting our long-term energy needs. Together though, the different sources can compensate for each other's limitations.
To secure the UK's energy future, our energy mix has to reflect the need for low-carbon emissions, a secure supply and affordability for customers.
Openness and transparency
These are two key values that drive our business and help us to stand out as the Feel Better Energy Company. In March 2012, our Chief Executive, Vincent de Rivaz, made three promises to our customers: to deliver fair value, better service and simplicity. You can read about our Customer Commitments here
These Customer Commitments represent our dedication to putting customers first. They are also a public acknowledgement of our responsibilities as an energy supplier and a producer of electricity.
EDF Group - which operates in countries around the world - publishes details of its financial performance twice a year. These financial results relate to its entire global business and include details of EDF Energy's performance here in the UK.
Each year we give the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem) a breakdown of how our generation and retail businesses have performed over the previous 12-months in terms of profits and losses. We also put this information on our website.
In 2013, our annual segmented accounts show we made a combined operating profit of £926m from our generation and supply activities. Our residential business made a loss of £90 million from selling gas and electricity to our customers.
How do we spend our money?
Policy and Regulation
The Office of Gas and Electricity Markets (Ofgem), is the independent regulator for the electricity and gas industry. Ofgem is responsible for protecting the interests of consumers, including promoting a secure and sustainable supply, and supervising and developing markets and competition.


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How about this — I'll tell you a couple of things that it isn't. It's not an iridescent oil slick, and it's not the interference patterns of a soap film. But you knew that already, didn't you? After all, this post is tagged as space porn.
That was your big hint. Answers below!
Alright, so I may have lied a little bit. Technically speaking, this isn't a picture. To be more precise, this is a false-color mosaic — two of them actually, one on top of the other, each one comprising a total of 84 images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft earlier this year (click here for the hi-res, "panoramic" version).
These mosaics chronicle the changing appearance of a massive storm that first formed on Saturn's northern hemisphere back 2010, but eventually grew so large it wound up wrapped all the way around the planet.
Each image was taken over the course of about 4.5 hours on February 26th of this year, and the top image was taken about 11 hours before the bottom one. (Other psychedelic mosaics can be found here and here.)
According to the Cassini Imaging Central Lab for Operations (CICLOPS):
This storm is the largest and longest-lasting observed on Saturn by either NASA's Voyager or Cassini spacecraft. The storm's active phase ended in June 2011, but, as of October 2011, the turbulent clouds have continued to linger in the atmosphere. As seen in these and other Cassini images, the storm encircles the planet whose circumference at these latitudes is 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers). From north to south, it covers a distance of about 9,000 miles (15,000 kilometers), which is one-third of the way around the Earth. It encompasses an area of 2 billion square miles (5 billion square kilometers), or eight times the surface area of Earth. This storm is about 500 times the area of the biggest of the southern hemisphere storms observed by Cassini (see PIA06197).
The images above are just a couple from a whole batch of new images of the storm, recently posted over at CICLOPS. It's Friday. Treat yourself. Go check it out.
[Spotted on Bad Astronomy]


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Random Nonsense - The Lazarus Bird
The Lazarus Bird
A true story. Well, most of it anyway. OK, some of it…
I left the house earlier today and returned fifteen minutes later to find, what appeared to be, a freshly deceased little bird (he wasn't there when I left) lying by the front door, apparently the victim of an unsuccessful attempt at flying through the window of our front door. I stepped into the house, grabbed a paper towel, and carefully picked him up by the tail feathers to throw him into the garbage can by the curb when he suddenly blinked and gave me a "What the heck are you doing?" look. I put him back down so he could shake it off and he flopped around a bit and then flew to a railing just a couple of feet away. I went back into the house, leaving him to gather his wits. Thirty minutes later he was still sitting there with a look on his face like he wanted to come into the house and discuss what sort of favor he could do for me for having saved his life. I told him that my house was no place for a little bird, that a couple of three year old boys have assumed control of the place and it's, well, dangerous and he wouldn't last ten minutes in there. I said "You need to go on now, go back to your own kind, your own species, raise a family, live a good full life and stop flying into windows. He seemed disappointed, but was about ready to fly off anyway when I said, "Wait, there is one thing you can do. Please tell all your little friends to stop pooping on my truck."


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A community education program by one of Niagara's leading cardiologists, a free community lipid panel screening, promotion of the "Go Red For Women" awareness campaign of the American Heart Association, and a hospital-wide information event are just some of the activities being coordinated in conjunction with the cardiology team at Mount St. Mary's Hospital as part of "Heart Month" in February.
The Cardiac Center at Mount St. Mary's Hospital consists of a team of five cardiologists and a 40-member staff that provide the care that makes Mount St. Mary's a leading provider of cardio-pulmonary care services in Niagara County. Services include cardiac rehabilitation, EKG, Holter and event monitoring, echocardiography, cardiac stress testing, pulmonary/rehabilitation, pulmonary function testing, respiratory therapy, EEG and EMG testing.
The featured activities of the month-long awareness program are:
Feb. 1
Feb. 3
Feb. 4
Feb. 11-15
Feb. 12-14
The month's overall programs include:
•On Friday, Feb. 1, Mount St. Mary's will recognize "Go Red For Women" day with special emphasis on providing information to women about signs and risk factors of heart disease.
•On Sunday, Feb. 3, Mount St. Mary's Hospital will conduct its annual free community lipid panel screening for cholesterol levels. The tests will be taken from 6 until 10:30 a.m. in the hospital's north lobby. This is a fasting test. Participants should not eat after midnight or prior to awakening. No reservations are required. For more information, call 716-298-2145.
Also on Feb. 3 at 8 and 10 a.m., Dr. Zina Hajduczok, cardiologist, will discuss "Risk Profiles" in the cafeteria. The program is free. In addition, there will be free blood pressure testing and a free breakfast.
•Starting on Monday, Feb. 4, and continuing on Feb. 11 and 18, "Fall Out of Addictions: Stop Smoking," a series of three classes will be offered from 6-8 p.m. in Room 723A of the hospital. The class will be conducted by exercise specialist Elyse Updegraph. Register by calling 716-298-2145 or 716-298-3030.
•On Friday, Feb. 8, Mount St. Mary's will conduct a blood drive for the community blood bank of Upstate New York Transplant Services. The UNYTS drive will be held from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Appointments are available at 716-298-2145. Walk-ins are welcome
•Starting Monday, Feb. 11, and continuing through Friday, Feb. 15, a Heart Month health fair will be held at Mount St. Mary's. A variety of displays on health topics will be setup in the hospital's main lobby.
•On Feb. 12-14, "Taking Charge of Your Diabetes" will be presented by certified diabetes educator Debra Hoffman. This is a series of three sessions, each held from 6 until 9 p.m. in Room 249. To register, call 716-298-2297.


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S. Hosseinzadeh, A. Eley, and A. A. Pacey, "Semen quality of men with asymptomatic chlamydial infection," Journal of Andrology, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 104–109, 2004.
Chlamydial Infection and Its Role in Male Infertility
Mary K. Samplaski
Trustin Domes
Keith A. Jarvi
Advances in Andrology
Sep 16, 2014
Introduction. Chlamydia trachomatis is an established cause of tubal factor infertility; however its role in male fertility is not as clear. We sought to determine the prevalence of Chlamydia in infertile men and evaluate its impact on male reproductive potential. Materials and Methods. We compared the incidence of Chlamydia in our infertile male population with that reported in the literature. We then reviewed the impact of Chlamydia infection on male fertility. Results. The incidence of Chlamydia infection in our population of infertile men was 0.3%. There is considerable variability in the reported incidence, likely due to variation in the population studied, and detection technique. The optimal testing method and sample are presently unclear. The effect of Chlamydia on male reproductive function is also variable in the literature, but appears to be relatively minimal and may be related primarily to sperm DNA fragmentation or female partner transmission. Conclusions. The prevalence of Chlamydia in the infertile male population is low and routine testing is not supported by the literature. For high-risk infertile men, nucleic acid testing of urine +/? semen is the most sensitive method to detect Chlamydia. A validated testing system for semen needs to be developed, so that a standardized methodology can be recommended. In this way the full implications of Chlamydia on male fertility can be elucidated. 1. Introduction Chlamydia trachomatis (C. trachomatis) is the most prevalent sexually transmitted disease in the world and a common cause of pathology in both men and women, causing urethritis, epididymitis, prostatitis, cervicitis, pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), ectopic pregnancy, and tubal factor infertility [1]. While there are regional differences in the prevalence, it remains a common cause of genitourinary pathology in both men and women. In women C. trachomatis is a well-established cause of tubal factor infertility. In men it is a known common genitourinary pathogen, and electron microscopy has clearly demonstrated that C. trachomatis attach to spermatozoa [2–5], both on the surface and in the nucleus [6]; however its role in male fertility (sperm function, pregnancy rates, and live birth rates) is not clear. As the etiology of approximately 55% of male factor infertility is unknown, it is possible that Chlamydia is contributory in some of these cases. In our study in a Canadian clinic, we identified a very low prevalence of Chlamydia in the infertile male population of only 0.3% [7]. This is the largest study of the prevalence of C.


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I am relatively certain that nobody reading this article for the first time will know what "event-reflexive" means, because it's a term I just made up. Or rather, I made up about a year ago while thinking over a bunch of related ideas that I felt needed a name. I'm hoping I didn't invent the basic concept because the reason for this post is to ask people a bunch of questions about it (as well as get the idea out of my head and onto at least some virtual paper).
Event-reflexive programming is a technique to manage the collection of a number of loosely-connected and perhaps interchangeable pieces into a larger coherent form, to work together to solve some common task. It is perhaps most illustrative to explain this story in roughly chronological order.
My first ever post-University job (and as it happens, the one where I learned Perl, and picked up such controversial habits as three-space indent) was centred around a large Internet Service Provider back-end provisioning system. In this system we had a large number of plugins to provide hooks into various components that made up a user's account. This was all hung together, at its core, by basically a big foreach loop looking something like
sub run_plugins { my ( $action, @args ) = @_; foreach my $plugin ( @plugins ) { $plugin->$action( @args ) if $plugin->can( $action ); } }
At its very basic level, this was all there was to it. Plugins are just classes, each can hook into the processing of some named action merely by having a method of its name. The list of plugins was determined by a config file, one per virtual reseller the ISP hosted users for. This made for a very powerful yet very simple way to customise and vary the capabilities per reseller - simply provide different plugin modules for them.
I should perhaps at this point explain the meaning of the word "event". An event here could mean a reaction to some external stimulus - the toplevel events used in this ISP provisioning system were such requests as "create a user" or "change this user's password". However, most large actions were really broken down into a sequence of smaller steps that themselves were run through the plugin system. A simple action like "change the user's password" is likely to be handled directly by each plugin module that cares, but an action as large as creating a user is probably broken down into several stages - create the initial user config in a database, mkdir their home directory, fill it with skeleton files, and so on.
It is at this point that the first of the awkward architectural questions of this approach comes to light. We started off with a list of the plugins stored in an array, and as we know, arrays are ordered containers. This approach necessarily imparts an ordering onto the plugins. The order each plugin reacts in this ISP system is determined by the order the names of the plugins appear in a configuration file. This allows us a certain degree of control, but also brings up the first large problem - it is the plugins that have order applied to them, but sometimes it is the individual action hooks that you wish to order.
For example; the action to create a new user has the stages of creating user's config in a database, then mkdiring their home directory, filling it with skeleton files, and so on. The ordering of these steps is fixed - we can't fill skeleton files in their home until it exists, and we can't create the directory until we have the basic user config in the database to look up where their home is. So naturally this leads to a good ordering relationship between the plugins that are responsible for these steps.
But now lets consider what happens when we want to delete a user again. By this plugin ordering we'd first remove their config from the database, before we rmdir their home, but if we did it that way we'd forget where their home was. Clearly, the solution here is that some events (such as deleting a user) have to be executed in reverse. This leads fairly quickly to the invention of a second control function:
sub run_plugins_reverse { my ( $action, @args ) = @_; foreach my $plugin ( reverse @plugins ) { $plugin->$action( @args ) if $plugin->can( $action ); } }
Some actions have more interesting ordering constraints even than this, however. The most complex action we had was the action used to regrade a user out of one product and into a different one. This basically involved a partial tear-down of the user, followed by some shuffling around of data, then a recreation again to add back the pieces that were removed, now in a different product. There is no simple way to express this simply in terms of plugin ordering, as a lot of plugins are needed both near the beginning and again near the end of the process.
The solution to this was to re-invoke the plugin action system again as part of handling a particular action. By decomposing this large action into three smaller steps, the plugin system's action ordering abilities help us ensure things all run correctly.
sub regrade_user { my %args = @_; run_plugins_reverse teardown_user_for_regrade => ( user => $args{user}, product => $args{old_product}, ... ); run_plugins regrade_user_inner => ( user => $args{user}, ... ); run_plugins setup_user_for_regrade => ( user => $args{user}, product => $args{new_product}, ... ); }
This toplevel action has virtually nothing to do - the above code is a slight over-simplification of the real implementation of course, but in principle all it contained was three recursive calls back down to the plugin management system to execute the three main stages of regrading a user. This is where the "reflexive" part of the name of the technique comes from - a lot of its power derives from the way that events are broken down into smaller pieces reflected back through the core of the system a second time, or further, to react to the whole thing as a large nested tree of individual steps.
I didn't remain at this job for long enough to properly see this idea through to its logical conclusion, but had I continued further on this route, I may well have decided to break these actions themselves into smaller chunks with small wrapper functions like the one given above, to split stages of other actions - for example, to split the stages of creating a user in the first place into the configuration stage, the home directory stage, and the provisioning of 3rd-party services stage. Continuing to break code down into smaller chunks like this leads to the idea that actually, the order in which the individual plugins run starts not to matter, because the order the steps are performed in is controlled by the way it is reflexively decomposed.
This now leads me on to ask the first of several questions I still have about this as a general programming technique:
Is it ever required to actually have strict ordering control of plugins in an event-reflexive system, or can any ordering problem always be resolved by breaking down actions into ordered requests to perform sequences of sub-actions? Even if so, is it ever desirable to have such an ordering control anyway; does it make any kinds of system neater or easier to create, at the cost of having to manage that order?
Edit 2014/06/09: I am leaning to the conclusion now, that if any kind of ordering were to be guaranteed, it starts to defeat the entire purpose of using event-reflexivity in the first place. The basic premise is to build a large system by loosely glueing together smaller components which are largely independent. If you have to think about which other components exist and what order they come in relative to the current one, it makes it harder to write that, and you might as well have written it by some other method. I think therefore, the answer to this question ought to be:
No; the base of an event-reflexive system should not attempt to give any kind of ordering guarantees between plugins. Any strict ordering that is required should be constructed out of explicit inter-component reflexive calls, and not by relying on the implicit side-effect of plugin execution order.


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Some BPM platform from other software vendors using the XPDL standard are being phased out. Now that BPMN also allows execution with the version 2.0 I built a converter that takes any XPDL file (1.0 or 2.1) and converts it to BPMN 2.0 including gateways, subprocesses, data, lanes. I also handle some specific vendor extensions (forms, scripts).
I used JAXB on the standard schemas for the processing.
Then I load the resulting BPMN 2.0 in the Rational Software Architect BPMN Editor or IBM Business Process Designer.
The following image shows some of the correspondance between the process definition standards, however that correspondance needs real Java progamming. XSLT is not enough.


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Would You Kiss A Man In The Mouth Like This? Miguel Cotto Kisses Some Guy In The Lips After His Win Against Clottey & Post Fight Interview (With Vicious Cut In His Eye)
Puerto Rico doin it big. Congradts to Miguel, but watch as he leans in to kiss some guy and camera moves away fast. Was that his father? In the past people had a problem with Lil Wayne kissing Birdman
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Posted 17 March 2008. PMN Crop News.
Insecticide Combo Delivers Knockout Punch
Pennsylvania State University. www.cas.psu.edu
College Park, Pennsylvania (March 11, 2008)--A cocktail of insecticides containing a plant protein and a common insecticide may be more lethal to crop pests than either ingredient used alone, according to biologists. The one-two punch also inhibits the insects' growth rate and reduces their chance of developing resistance.
"We found a synergistic effect, where the two insecticides together decreased the growth rate of caterpillars more than either one did alone," said Dawn Luthe, professor of plant stress biology at Penn State. "The insect mortality rate was also much greater than the sum of mortality rates when only one insecticide was used."
One of those insecticides, Bt, is commonly used around the world. When insects feed on plants genetically modified to produce Bt, the toxin binds to chemical receptors lining the insects' midgut. This disrupts the receptor's function, eventually killing the insects. But researchers say some insects always survive the ordeal and over time subsequent populations could develop resistance to the toxin.
Luthe and her colleagues Srinidhi Mohan and Peter W. K. Ma, post-doctoral student and professor at Mississippi State University, and W. Paul Williams, research geneticist at the U.S Department of Agriculture studied a unique plant-based insecticide known as Mir1-CP.
Their goal is to see if Mir1-CP, when used in tandem with other biological pesticides, such as the Bt toxin, can prevent pests from developing resistance and make the toxin more effective.
"This protein, which we developed from certain strains of corn from Antigua, breaks down other proteins and peptides in the insects' gut," said Luthe, whose findings appear in the current issue of PLoS ONE.
Unlike Bt, Mir1-CP breaks down proteins in a protective membrane covering the midgut. This membrane acts as a barrier that protects the caterpillar from toxins in the diet, and cycles nutrients to the midgut.
"It is the caterpillar's first line of defense against toxins and chemicals in its diet," said Luthe.
The researchers fed insects a sub-lethal dose of the two insecticides to test the effectiveness of both insecticides on the pests.
They found that when used alone, a concentration of Bt at five parts per billion killed four percent of all corn earworms and five per cent of tobacco budworms. Mir1-CP, when used at a concentration of 60 parts per billion, killed eight percent of the corn earworms and three percent of the tobacco budworms.
But when researchers added the two insecticides together, the mixture killed 61 per cent of corn earworms and 57 percent of tobacco budworms, which is more than 10 times better than either by itself. Researchers saw similar results against the fall armyworm and the southwest corn borer, when the insecticides were used at slightly different strengths.
In addition to a high mortality rate among the insects, the study indicates a significant decrease in the growth rate of the survivors.
"We think that Mir1-CP is making holes in the membrane, which in turn is making it easier for the Bt toxins to reach the insects' midgut," explained Luthe, whose work is funded by the National Science Foundation.
The Penn State researcher says the findings have important implications for agriculture because each year insects cause major losses to farmers. Nearly 20 per cent of major crops worldwide are lost to insects.
Genetically modified crops that produce the Bt toxin have managed to check the insects to some extent but Luthe says insects may be winning the fight.
"Researchers in the Mississippi delta have found resistance to Bt among some insect populations in the region," Luthe noted. "There is a chance that some time in the future Bt will not be as effective against pests as it is now."
The Penn State researcher suggests strains of corn that naturally produce Mir1-Cp could be cross-bred with other strains of corn that produce Bt to develop new varieties that are more effective against pests.
"If you have two mechanisms of attack, it will take much longer for an insect population to develop resistance to both modes of attack, and help slow the development of resistance," Luthe added.


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"American studies at its best, a penetrating reflection on why this former seat of the Confederacy exists in the national imaginary as both a political, economic, and cultural backwater and a site where the Goliath of Jim Crow was slain by humble descendants of slaves. Alabama Getaway is a rich and surprising journey to which you'll want to return."
—Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original
In Alabama Getaway Allen Tullos explores the recent history of one of the nation's most conservative states to reveal its political imaginary—the public shape of power, popular imagery, and individual opportunity.
From Alabama's largely ineffectual politicians to its miserly support of education, health care, cultural institutions, and social services, Tullos examines why the state appears to be stuck in repetitive loops of uneven development and debilitating habits of judgment. The state remains tied to fundamentalisms of religion, race, gender, winner-take-all economics, and militarism enforced by punitive and defensive responses to criticism. Tullos traces the spectral legacy of George Wallace, ponders the roots of anti-egalitarian political institutions and tax structures, and challenges Birmingham native Condoleezza Rice's use of the civil rights struggle to justify the war in Iraq. He also gives due coverage to the state's black citizens who with a minority of whites have sustained a movement for social justice and democratic inclusion. As Alabama competes for cultural tourism and global industries like auto manufacturing and biomedical research, Alabama Getaway asks if the coming years will see a transformation of the "Heart of Dixie."
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Remember that terrible snow we had this week? Sorry, that was my fault. I was dreaming of relaxing on my outdoor patio. So Minnesota had to punish me.
I, like most Minnesotans, love being outside. But our summer lasts just a few short months.
I was actually thinking how awesome it would be to have a patio heater so I wouldn't have to wait until summer to enjoy the outdoors.
In terms of backyard ideas for the Midwest — especially one including outdoor dining or outdoor kitchens — patio heaters are a must. Otherwise, it can just get too cold in the spring to truly enjoy being outdoors, especially at night.
But this one I've been drooling over the last few months really offers something different.
First of all, you won't find anyone huddling under this heater (available in natural gas and propane). The Totum envelopes up to a 10-foot radius with 360 degrees of heat and maintains the same level of warmth starting midheight. It uses infrared technology to heat up your entire body — not just from top down — along with surroundings, using indirect heat from 35,000 BTUs.
Second, it's fun. It flashes different colored LED lights and connects to iPods and iPhones to play music straight from its tower.
Talk about a party-ready patio heater.
Talk about buying me one.
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I've recently been helping a friend research an ancestor was killed at Galipoli in 1915. Almost by accident I found that the war diaries for 15 Battalions of the Wiltshire and Berkshire Regiments between 1914 and 1918 are available online at the Salisbury Rifles Museum website.
The War diaries cover the daily summary, normally written up by the Adjutant. The transcriptions on the Rifles Museum website do not include appendices, orders, reports or maps. Men are very rarely mentioned by name, but officers are.
For example, take a look at the entry for 10 August 1915, when my friend's great-uncle was killed at Galipoli serving with the 5th Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment. The war diary entry for that day shows that the Battalion suffered very heavy casualties fighting at ANZAC Bay.
War Diaries for the First and Second World Wars are also available to purchase from the Museum's website.
Handy for researching family history, and much easier than going to Kew and leafing through and transcribing thousands of pages!


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Discussion in 'The Bar' started by Smell Muhfinger, Jan 21, 2013.
It's OK though, you can't blame them. They can't help it.
omg dying here - I know my thread was retarded but srs
stop talking about Kelle
Nice one!
I love the women here, they are self aware. Not saying that to be mean, either.
Thread not directed at you aca.
Directed towards me?
No, kel honey. Just most womens in general.
Women aren't stupid. They're just not very funny.
women are smart about how to clean stuff and cook stuff
...and how to spend money on useless shit.
Maybe most women u know, that says a lot about u and ur thread
Oh snap. jajajajajajajajja.
that was mean Mari
We only have one head to think with.
I hypothesize that the presence of so much estrogen in their systems leaves women in a constant state of diminished capacity, much like having a hard on temporarily diminishes a man's ability to think. That's why many women's brains grows like the Grinch's heart once menopause happens.


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They're exactly right.
I've heard pundit after pundit talk about the New England Patriots being uniquely suited to handle the media scrutiny that will come in training camp as a result of the Aaron Hernandez situation. And while I detest groupthink and typically go against the grain if possible, in this instance they nailed it.
As a guy that played parts of two seasons in the Pats organization, here's why:
Bill Belichick. It is really that simple. He did what he had to do in Wednesday's media conference, talking longer, much longer, during his opening statement than he typically does and showing previously unseen regret. He was genuinely apologetic, something that he wasn't even in the face of the Spygate scandal in 2007.
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Belichick then ended his statement by stating that he had been advised not to talk about a person in a judicial proceeding and then repeated that many times when asked questions by the assembled media. That's the Patriot Way with the media because that is the way Belichick wants it.
Based on my experience there, I can tell you that the quotes from the players when asked about the Hernandez situation in the coming days will be almost identical because that is what they will be told to say. I spent seven years in the NFL with five different teams, and I had never had a coach spend as much time talking about the media and there was no close second.
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"Unlike any other team or coach I played for, Belichick actually prepares the players for the media in team meetings," 15-year veteran and three-time Pro Bowler Chad Brown confirmed to me recently. "He's almost a media coach as well as a football coach."
He's right, and it was both intriguing and impressive to watch the process as a player. Belichick would start the morning on the treadmill reading all of the "clips" for the day and highlighting certain things he found interesting. The "clips" are a compilation of everything written about his squad that day.
Then he'd go into the team meeting, tell the players exactly which questions were going to be asked that day (he was about 95 percent right somehow) and more or less tell the players what the team's stance was on those topics. I still remember several from our first playoff game after the 2005 season:
Jacksonville playing in a cold playoff game in Foxborough? Weather is not a factor. Jimmy Smith nursing an injury? He'll be there. Pressure going for a third straight Super Bowl title? New team, new season, and last two years mean nothing. All that matters is this week and focusing on this game.
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And with that, the players know what it is they are expected to say that day. This continues every single day, and I never quite understood the level of emphasis that he placed on controlling the message and am still not convinced it is necessary, but I suppose it is hard to argue with his results.
People wonder why the Patriots' players seem like drones and say nothing to the media. Well now you know. Belichick's focus on it and discipline of players like Wes Welker that swerve outside the prescribed lines ensure the message is top of mind for players while the fear of punishment lurks in their subconscious.
Right or wrong, that is how they do things in New England and why they are in fact best suited to handle the questions they will inevitably face over the next couple of days.
Ross Tucker is a 2001 Princeton graduate who played seven years in the NFL for five different teams before retiring in 2008. He is currently the host of "The Opening Drive" weekdays from 8-11 a.m. ET on SiriusXM NFL Radio.


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Research papersHigh Quality, Scalable and Parallel Community Detection for Large Real Graphs. Arnau Prat-Pérez, David Dominguez-Sal, Josep-Lluis Larriba-Pey: WWW (2014)
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King James Does It Again: Hits An Incredible More Than Half Court Shot During Interview With 60 Minutes!
"How many times can you do that in a row?" Shout out to HipHopNews24-7
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