Dodged a liquid bullet...

I'm very careful with my laptops and liquid so up until yesterday, I never had a problem. So, there I was sitting on my couch typing away and then I reached for a can of Tab (non-sugar) drink. The can slipped in my hand and went horizontal for a brief instant, spilling a quick splash on the left side of my keyboard. After a nanosecond curse, I quickly went slightly over vertical with my MB. It was unplugged from the mains, so I quickly turned it off and removed the battery.
After a good wipe down to get any moisture left off the keyboard, I turned it upside down for the rest of the day and into this morning. While it probably wasn't necessary, I blew it with a hair dryer for a couple of minutes this morning. Then, I replaced the battery, turned it on and it booted right up. So far no problems. I think the "quick" over vertical move probably saved the day. And if I had instead turned over a glass of soda instead of a quick shot out the can opening, this story might have had a different ending.
Hope some of the future spill incidents I read about here also have an ending like mine.

For some reason the MacBook I use is "immune" to water. I use water droplets to clean the keys of my keyboard and some of the water seeps inside. However, my MacBook doesn't explode or something like that.

Similar Messages

Max Degree of Parallelism, Timeouts and Deadlocks

We have been trying to track down some timeout issues with our SQL Server. Our SQL Server runs a AccPac Account System, an Internal Intranet site and some SharePoint Content DBs.
We know that some of the queries are complex and take some time, though the timeouts seem to happen randomly and not always on the same pages/queries. IIS and the SQL timeouts are set to 60 and 120 seconds.
Looking at some of the SQL Server settings, I noticed that MAXDOP was set to 1. Before doing extensive research on it and looking through the BOL, another DBA and I changed it to 0.
Server is a Hyper-V VM with:
Processors:4
NUMA nodes:2
Sockets: 2
Interesting thing happened. Our Timeouts seem to have disappeared. Going from several a day, we are now at 1 every few days. Though now the issue we are having is that our Deadlocks have gone through the roof. Going from one or two every few days, we are
up to 8+ a day!
We have been changing our Select statements to include WITH (NOLOCK) so they do not compete with the UPDATE statements they usually fall victim to. The Deadlocks and timeouts do not seem to be related to any of the SharePoint Content DBs. All of the deadlocks
are with our Intranet Site and When it communicates with the AccPac DB, or the Internet Site on its own.
Any Suggestions on where I should be focusing my energy on benchmarking and tuning the server?
Thank you,
Scott<-

Thank you all for your replies.
The server had 30GB of RAM and then we bumped it up to 40GB at the same time we changed the MAXDOP to 0.
It was set to 1 because if it isn't MS won't support your SharePoint installation. This is from the Setup Guide for SharePoint on SQL Server, MAXDOP = 1 is a must in their book for official support. It always forces serial plans, because to be honest
the sharepoint queries are extremely terrible.
I understand this, though I would guess that the install of SharePoint didn’t actually do the MAXDOP =1 setting during the install? We basically have two Sharepoint sites on the server. One has about 10 users and the other has maybe 20 users. The Sites are
not used very much either. So I didn't think there would be too much impact.
Though now the issue we are having is that our Deadlocks have gone through the roof.
You probably didn't get this before (though they probably still happened) because the executions were forced serially and you dodged many-a-bullet because of this artificial speed bump. Deadlocks are application based, pure and simple.
The accounting system we are running is something we typically do not alter the DB Contents directly, we are only peering into the database to present information to the user. We looked at READ_COMMITTED_SNAPSHOT, though since that is a DB setting on not
on individual queries, we do not want to alter the Accounting DB as we could not know the potential ramifications of what that would cause.
A Typical Deadlock will occur when the Accounting system is creating or modifying an order’s master record so no one else can modify it, though instead of row lock, it locks the table. This is something that is out of our control. When we do a select against
the same table from the Intranet site, we get a deadlock unless we use the WITH (NOLOCK). The data that we get is not Super Critical. The only potential issue that might happen is that in an uncommitted Transaction form the Accounting system, it could be adding
multiple rows to an order and when we SELECT the data, we might miss a line Item or two.
We have been changing our Select statements to include WITH (NOLOCK) so they do not compete with the UPDATE statements they usually fall victim to.
This really isn't going to get very far to be honest. Are you deadlocking on the same rows? It seems to be the order of operations taken by either the queries or the logic used in them. Without deadlock information there really is nothing to diagnose, but
that definitely sounds like the same resource being used in multiple places when it probably doesn't need to be.
This is one of the typical deadlocks that we get. Intranet Site is getting Totals for Orders while the accounting system is in the process of setting its internal record Lock on an Order.
<EVENT_INSTANCE>
<EventType>DEADLOCK_GRAPH</EventType>
<PostTime>2014-05-12T15:26:09.447</PostTime>
<SPID>23</SPID>
<TextData>
<deadlock-list>
<deadlock victim="process2f848b048">
<process-list>
<process id="process2f848b048" taskpriority="0" logused="0" waitresource="OBJECT: 12:644249400:0 " waittime="1295" ownerId="247639995" transactionname="SELECT" lasttranstarted="2014-05-12T15:26:08.150" XDES="0x69d1d3620" lockMode="IS" schedulerid="2" kpid="2856" status="suspended" spid="184" sbid="0" ecid="0" priority="0" trancount="0" lastbatchstarted="2014-05-12T15:26:08.150" lastbatchcompleted="2014-05-12T15:26:08.150" lastattention="2014-05-12T14:50:52.280" clientapp=".Net SqlClient Data Provider" hostname="VSVR-WWW-INT12" hostpid="15060" loginname="SFA" isolationlevel="read committed (2)" xactid="247639995" currentdb="7" lockTimeout="4294967295" clientoption1="673185824" clientoption2="128056">
<executionStack>
<frame procname="SFA.dbo.SAGE_SO_order_total_no_history_credit" line="20" stmtstart="1190" stmtend="5542" sqlhandle="0x030007004c642a7a7c17d000e9a100000100000000000000">
SELECT SUM(t.price * t.qtyord) AS On_Order_Total
FROM PRODATA01..somast m
INNER JOIN PRODATA01..sotran t ON m.sono = t.sono
INNER JOIN SFA..item i ON i.our_part_number COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT = t.item COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT
INNER JOIN SFA..supplier s ON s.supplier_key = i.supplier_key
INNER JOIN SFA..customer c ON c.abbreviation COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT = m.custno COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT
INNER JOIN SFA..sales_order_ownership soo ON soo.so_id_col = m.id_col
LEFT JOIN PRODATA01..potran p ON p.id_col = t.po_id_col
LEFT JOIN SFA..alloc_inv a ON a.sono COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT = t.sono COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT AND a.tranlineno = t.tranlineno
WHERE c.is_visible = 1 AND m.sostat NOT IN ('V','X') AND m.sotype IN ('C','','O')
AND t.sostat NOT IN ('V','X') AND t.sotype IN ('C','','O')
--AND t.rqdate BETWEEN @start_ordate AND @end_ordate
AND UPPER(LEFT(t.item,4)) <> 'SHIP' AND t.item NOT LIKE '[_]%'
AND ((SUBSTRING(m.ornum,2,1) = 'A' AND p.expdate <= @end_ordate) OR (t.rqdate <= @en </frame>
</executionStack>
<inputbuf>
Proc [Database Id = 7 Object Id = 2049598540] </inputbuf>
</process>
<process id="process51df0c2c8" taskpriority="0" logused="28364" waitresource="OBJECT: 12:1369823992:0 " waittime="1032" ownerId="247639856" transactionname="user_transaction" lasttranstarted="2014-05-12T15:26:07.940" XDES="0xf8b5b620" lockMode="X" schedulerid="1" kpid="7640" status="suspended" spid="292" sbid="0" ecid="0" priority="0" trancount="2" lastbatchstarted="2014-05-12T15:26:08.410" lastbatchcompleted="2014-05-12T15:26:08.410" clientapp="Sage Pro ERP version 7.5" hostname="VSVR-DESKTOP" hostpid="15892" loginname="AISSCH" isolationlevel="read uncommitted (1)" xactid="247639856" currentdb="12" lockTimeout="4294967295" clientoption1="536870944" clientoption2="128056">
<executionStack>
<frame procname="adhoc" line="1" stmtstart="22" sqlhandle="0x02000000304ac5350b86da8b9422b389413bf23015ac25d0">
UPDATE PRODATA01..SOTRAN WITH (TABLOCK HOLDLOCK) SET lckuser = lckuser WHERE id_col = @P1 </frame>
<frame procname="unknown" line="1" sqlhandle="0x000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000">
unknown </frame>
</executionStack>
<inputbuf>
(@P1 float)UPDATE PRODATA01..SOTRAN WITH (TABLOCK HOLDLOCK) SET lckuser = lckuser WHERE id_col = @P1 </inputbuf>
</process>
</process-list>
<resource-list>
<objectlock lockPartition="0" objid="644249400" subresource="FULL" dbid="12" objectname="PRODATA01.dbo.somast" id="lock18b5e3900" mode="X" associatedObjectId="644249400">
<owner-list>
<owner id="process51df0c2c8" mode="X" />
</owner-list>
<waiter-list>
<waiter id="process2f848b048" mode="IS" requestType="wait" />
</waiter-list>
</objectlock>
<objectlock lockPartition="0" objid="1369823992" subresource="FULL" dbid="12" objectname="PRODATA01.dbo.sotran" id="lock2ce1c4680" mode="SIX" associatedObjectId="1369823992">
<owner-list>
<owner id="process2f848b048" mode="IS" />
</owner-list>
<waiter-list>
<waiter id="process51df0c2c8" mode="X" requestType="convert" />
</waiter-list>
</objectlock>
</resource-list>
</deadlock>
</deadlock-list>
</TextData>
<TransactionID />
<LoginName>sa</LoginName>
<StartTime>2014-05-12T15:26:09.447</StartTime>
<ServerName>VSVR-SQL</ServerName>
<LoginSid>AQ==</LoginSid>
<EventSequence>2335848</EventSequence>
<IsSystem>1</IsSystem>
<SessionLoginName />
</EVENT_INSTANCE>
I'd (in parallel) look at why parallel plans are being chosen. Not that parallel plans are a bad thing, but is the cost of the execution so high that parallelism is chosen all of the time?
How can I determine the cost of different statements? The Current Cost threshold value is 5.
The last place I would set my effort is on the Dev team. Internal Intranet queries should not take 60 to 120 seconds. That's just asking for issues that you already have. If some larger functionality with that is needed, do it on the back end as
aggregation over a certain time period and use that new static data. Recompute as needed. This is especially true if your deadlocks are happening on these resources (chances are, it is).
We are working with the long queries. Trying to Break them up. We thought about backend processing of the data so its available for the user when they need it, but some of the pages that take time are not accessed that often, so if we gathered
the data every 10 minutes in the background it would be called way many more times in a day than would be called on demand.
Thank you all again!

Getting Creative with FrameMaker 1x and Windows 7

For some years I have been treading water with my FrameMaker installation, mainly because of nagging inconsistencies and 'unforeseen consequences' relating to Windows, Acrobat, FrameMaker (and the phases of the moon).
Back in 2009 I updated my workstation to a HP HP xw4600 with a Quad Core, 4GB ram, and 2 x 250GB SATA. I installed Win XP Pro and subsequently patched it to SP-3 with ALL the hotfixes, including 'WindowsXP-KB952909-v2-x86-ENU.exe', which fixes some PDF font issues. Having got FrameMaker 8.0p277 installed along with with Distiller 8.x.x everything more or less worked. Being a careful soul I made sure I used OpenType fonts where possible (Garamond Pro, Minion Pro & Myriad Pro - all licensed). So far, so good.
I got reckless and upgraded to Creative Suite Design Pro 4 with Acrobat Pro 9 and then installed it. Disaster. Acrobat 9.x.x and Distiller 8.x.x don't co-exist. And FrameMaker 8 doesn't particularly want to play with Acrobat/Distiller 9.x.x. Damn!
So, I pulled all the software offa my workstation, reinstalled Creative Suite Design Pro 4 and Acrobat Pro 9 on the xw4600, and installed FrameMaker 8.0p277 and Acrobat Pro 8.x.x on a HP dc7900 SFF that I just happened to have lying around :-). OS as before. Both machines fully patched.
This is not particularly efficient, but everything works. Howsomever, Win XP Pro, though I love it dearly, is slated for the chop in 2014 according to Microsoft. Now I managed to dodge the Vista bullet, but I have to start making plans to migrate to Win 7/8 in an orderly fashion.
Which brings me to Win 7.
Reading the Creative Suite forums suggests that CS 4/5/5.5 has 'issues' with Win 7, especially Win 7 64 bit. But you need 64 bit to use more than 3.46GB of RAM, and RAM is a very important commodity when you're running Photoshop. Very!
Also, FrameMaker 10 was released just before Win 7, and has it's own 'issues' with Win 7 64 bit (see recent posts in the Frame forum).
So, my question is: At what point do Windows 7/8, FrameMaker 10/11, Acrobat Pro X/XI, and Creative Suite 5.5/6 all get together and play reliably without munging fonts or locking up? Is this a pipe-dream, or is there a team at Adobe addressing the really big issue of collaboratively getting your stuff (!) together?
Just asking...

There's a slightly tangent (but still germane) issue about font munging for many "old time" FMers who use older Type1 PS fonts (e.g. Helvetica) and who also happen to have upgraded to Office 2010.
Office apps, especially Outlook and Word, crash when these PS fonts are installed. The event log msg involves "usp10.dll" which is the Uniscribe component that MS uses to render fonts. FM doesn't use Uniscribe, but application crashes involving fonts would always seem to put FM at greater risk, even if only from gobbling RAM or whacking the font cache and thus requiring reboot.
MS finally released a hotfix for this issue, which from my testing seems to have solved the problem.
More info:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/767210
Sheila

Macbook Pro got spilled on water.

Here what happened,i went to a friends house to party for new year,i use my mac on the table then all the sudden this baby just took a water bottle and fell which cause my mac to be spilled a bit.So it automaticly turn off and i got worried so i tried to dry it off by(maybe wrong move) putting near a heat source not higher than 50 celcius. I also tried tilted it so i can use gravity so water can escape my mac. Now later on to the following day,i open my mac,it did work.So i tried also my window partition that works also.But now theres a problem(no keyboard problem),its the light setting of my mac. What i meant by that is the lights go randomly low and high at a random pace(think of you use low then it goes high and low).I was curious to what did the water touch last night so i went to open my mac(unscrew the lid then look at the inside),there it was ,it touched the motherboard. So now i wonder should i countinue drying the mac, by a new motherboard(im not sure if anyone sells these) or do i have to by another mac.
Problem:random light settting(low and high light setting everytime)
Question:Do i have to countinue do attempt to dry,by another mac or another solution(note that the mac is dry)
Thanks for reading and responding this question.

MBPs like oil do not mix with water. If you are very, very lucky, you may survive this incident, but the odds are against you.
I would suggest that you keep the cover off of the machine, place it in a warm envoronment and direct a fan on it to get all of the moisture out of it. I do not recommend utilizing an outside heat source. If not controlled correctly you may inflict additional damage.
If it works, you have dodged the proverbial bullet. If not, its the repair shop. Do not be surprised if the repair costs are in the price range of a new MBP.
A last gasp measure is to spray nonresidue electronic cleaner on the internals of the MBP and dry it out. No guarantees as to results.
Good luck.
Ciao.

FS7: A Camera of Many "Whys"

Why does the shutter speed change of its own accord and become either "Shutter Angle" or a different setting, say 1/30 instead of 1/60?Why does the "Full Auto" button light up of its own accord, and remain lit, even when Full Auto is disengaged? Of course, giving the impression that it's on when it isn't.Why did the On/Off switch not work, forcing me to pull the battery to switch off power. And of course, having done that . . .Why did the camera fail to turn on at all when the battery was reinstalled or DC power from the wall applied?Why was I only able to restore the camera and power up after removing every attachment: lens, cards, EVF, battery, and DC power supply?Why are there so many issues with this camera that leaves me less than confident in its longevity and its reliability? I know this is a Swiss Army knife kind of camera, cramming so many features and functions into a small package. But i can count on a Swiss Army knife. I just wonder how long I can count on my Sony FS7?David

Just today, we're shooting in a studio green screen set-up, and there's the illuminated Auto button flickering. WTF, we're not even using Full Auto. At least the camera turned on and off as it should. Whew! Lenny, on a separate note, I think i have to bump up the to Metabones IV from the free one we got from Sony, the II. I think the baffling is suspect, and you know that those ****** adapters love to let in unwanted light, glare or whatever. Thought I could dodge the $400 bullet, but nope.

Liquid found on logic board

Hi all!
Basically I had to get my battery replaced today, and after they replaced it they said they found liquid on the logic board and 2 other places (I did spill some water over it a couple of weeks ago). I'm now wondering whether it is worth replacing or not... my laptop does seem to be working fine, but the apple person said it could gradually get worse. The only problem is, is its going to cost £430 to replace, and I'm finding it hard to part with that money while it's currently working fine! what are the chances it will get worse? Do you think I should just bite the bullet as I probably will have to do it sooner or later?
Thanks
Megan

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
I don't recommend people to continue using their MacBooks Pro if they have spilled liquid because their computers may fail at any moment.
If you spilt liquid a long time ago, you can consider the option to continue using your computer and just make backups to make sure that your files are safe, but it's dangerous because something may happen to your computer. The safest way is to have your logic board replaced, but it's up to you

Bullet point alignment problem

Hi I am having a problem with the alignment when I use bullet points?
the body of the text is aligned so it does not exceed the screen width. But once I enter bullet points it exceeds the right hand side alignment. How do I make the alignment remain the same?
i.e.
blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah Blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah
I have written codes as
 
</div>
<div id="content">
 

What is BioprimeTM – and why do you need it? 
BioprimeTM is a simple, inexpensive soil conditioner which allows farmers to change the nature of soil biology. It is a way to weed out the bad bugs and give the good bugs a boost. The outcome is better soil health, better plant production and better root disease management.
 
BioprimeTM
<ul>
 <li>is made in Perth. </li>
 <li>is backed by trial data from work done in WA.</li>
 <li>does not cost a fortune (per liter and per hectare it is probably the cheapest input you will use this season).</li>
 <li>does not require a leap of faith to use, nor any rocket science to understand what it is and why it works.</li>
</ul>
BioprimeTM was originally developed about 15 years ago for vegetable producers as a way to control root disease. In those days you couldn’t actually prove what was going on, but growers kept buying it because it did what it was intended to do – it stopped root disease. 

Below is the complete page code including a doctype, the <head> and <body> tags.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<link href="../CSS/Bio_CSS.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="all" />
<script src="../Scripts/swfobject_modified.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<title>Welomce to Bioscience</title>
<style type="text/css">
body {height:100%;
max-height:100%;
overflow:hidden;
padding:0;
margin:0;
border:0;
#content {
overflow:auto;
position:absolute;
z-index:3;
top:150px;
bottom:20px;
left:270px;
right:0;
background-color: #FFFFCC;
color: #000;
font-size:14px;
* html #content {
top:0;
left:0;
right:0;
bottom:0;
height:100%;
max-height:100%;
width:100%;
overflow:auto;
position:absolute;
z-index:3;
border-top:150px solid #fff;
border-bottom:25px solid #fff;
border-left:270px solid #fff;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
font-style: normal;
line-height: 25px;
#head {
position:absolute;
margin:0;
top:-2px;
left:-2px;
display:block;
width:100%;
height:150px;
background-position:0 0;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
font-size:4em;
z-index:5;
overflow:hidden;
color:#000;
background-color: #9acc99;
#foot {
position:absolute;
margin:0;
bottom:-3px;
left:2px;
display:block;
width:100%;
height:25px;
font-size:1em;
z-index:5;
overflow:hidden;
color:#fff;
background-color: #66CC99;
text-align: center;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
visibility: visible;
#content p {
color: #000;
text-align:justify;
line-height:1.5;
font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size:1em;
padding-top: 0px;
padding-right:40px;
padding-bottom:0px;
padding-left:40px;
width:950px;
#content h1 {
color: #663300;
padding: 0px;
text-indent: 30px;
#content h2 {
font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px;
color: #000;
text-indent: 30px;
#content h3 {
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
color: #000;
text-indent: 50px;
* html #left {
position:absolute;
left:0;
top:150px;
bottom:25px;
width:270px;
height: 100%;
#left {
position:absolute;
left:0px;
top:149px;
bottom:20px;
width:270px;
font-size:1em;
z-index:4;
overflow:auto;
background-repeat:no-repeat;
background-color: #9acc99;
color: #663300;
text-align: left;
vertical-align: middle;
background-image: url(../Assets/Side_Background7.jpg);
font-family: Andalus, "Palatino Linotype", "Times New Roman";
#left h2 {
text-indent: 15px;
#left h3 {
text-indent: 30px;
#left ul{
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;
#left a {
colour#663300;
#left li a:link,#left li a:visited{
padding:0 0;
display:block;
text-decoration:none;
font:Andalus, Georgia, "Times New Roman";
color:#FFFFFF;
#left li a:hover {
background:#306726;
color:#FFF;
#left li a.current,#left li a.current:hover,#left li a.current:active {
color:#663300;
background:#ffffcc;
cursor:default;
* html #left li a.current,#left li a.current:hover,#left li a.current:active,#left li a.current:visited {
color:#663300;
background:#ffffcc;
cursor:default;
#content ul {
margin: 0;
padding: 0 0 12px 55px;
#content li {
margin: 0 0 5px 0;
padding: 0;
font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="head"><img src="../Assets/BioLogo.jpg" width="300" height="150" align="left">
<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" width="980" height="150" id="FlashID">
 <param name="movie" value="../Assets/Bio_980x150_Banner.swf">
 <param name="quality" value="high">
 <param name="wmode" value="opaque">
 <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0">
 
 <param name="expressinstall" value="../Scripts/expressInstall.swf">
 
 
 <object data="../Assets/Bio_980x150_Banner.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="980" height="150">
 
 <param name="quality" value="high">
 <param name="wmode" value="opaque">
 <param name="swfversion" value="6.0.65.0">
 <param name="expressinstall" value="../Scripts/expressInstall.swf">
 
 <div>
 <h4>Content on this page requires a newer version of Adobe Flash Player.</h4>
 <a href="http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer"><img src="http://www.adobe.com/images/shared/download_buttons/get_flash_player.g if" alt="Get Adobe Flash player" width="112" height="33" /></a>
 </div>
 
 </object>
 
</object>
</div>
<div id="foot">©2010 Bioscience Pty Ltd, 488 Nicholson Road Forrestdale, WA, 6112, Ph: (08) 9397 2446, Fax: (08) 9397 2447, Email: <a href="mailto:[email protected] ">[email protected] </a></div>
<div id="left">
<ul>
<li>
<h2>
<a href="../index.html">Home</a>
<a href="../Enviro/enviro_acid.html">Environmental</a>
<a href="../Water/water.html">Water</a>
<a href="soil.html" class="current">Soil</a>
</h2>
</li>
<li>
<h3>
<a href="soil_diversity.html">Soil Biodiversity</a>
<a href="soil_microbial.html">Soil Microbial Ecology</a>
<a href="soil_bioprime.html">BioprimeTM</a>
<a href="soil_orderform.html">Order Form</a>
</h3>
</li>
<li>
<h2>
<a href="../Geotech/geotech.html">Geotechnical</a>
<a href="../Horti/horti.html">Horticultural</a>
<a href="../Analyt/analyt.html">Analytical</a>
<a href="../Research/research.html">Research </a>
<a href="../Products/products.html">Products</a>
</h2>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="content">
 
What is BioprimeTM – and why do you need it? 
BioprimeTM is a simple, inexpensive soil conditioner which allows farmers to change the nature of soil biology. It is a way to weed out the bad bugs and give the good bugs a boost. The outcome is better soil health, better plant production and better root disease management. 
 BioprimeTM
<ul>
<li>is made in Perth. </li>
<li>is backed by trial data from work done in WA.</li>
<li>does not cost a fortune (per liter and per hectare it is probably the cheapest input you will use this season).</li>
<li>does not require a leap of faith to use, nor any rocket science to understand what it is and why it works.</li>
</ul>
BioprimeTM was originally developed about 15 years ago for vegetable producers as a way to control root disease. In those days you couldn’t actually prove what was going on, but growers kept buying it because it did what it was intended to do – it stopped root disease. 
In the last 10 years there have been many advances in understanding what microbes are in soil, and what they are doing. This has largely come about because of the so-called DNA revolution. By using this DNA technology, we can now see exactly what changes occur in soil microbiology when BioprimeTM is applied. 
 How is it made ? 
BioprimeTM is made by fermentation of molasses using baker’s yeast. This sounds really simple, but there are a number of factors involved to make it work. 
The amount of oxygen in the fermentation determines how much alcohol, acid or CO2 is made from the sugar in molasses. BioprimeTM is made with the amount of air carefully controlled in order to make a maximum amount of both alcohols and acids. These then condense to form esters. BioprimeTM is full of esters. 
With BioprimeTM we want lots of yeast, so nutrients are added to make the yeast grow quickly. At the end of the process we have a lot of biomass, because just like in Vegemite, yeast biomass contains a lot of protein and vitamins. 
The fermentation which makes BioprimeTM doesn’t stop completely, it slows down as it becomes pickled in its own acids. We then arrest the process by bursting the yeast cells, making a stable, long-life product. 
 How does it work ? 
Looking at soil microbiology using DNA shows it is very complex. There are tens of thousands of different species in each gram of soil. There is no point in looking at any single species, for they all seem to come and go with changing seasons and conditions. 
Instead we look at the major groups and the diversity within each group. We look at 5 major groups:
<ul>
<li>Proteobacteria: These are simple, fast growing bacteria (formerly called gram negatives), can dominate anaerobic (no oxygen) environments, live off simple organic matter – they generally don’t do your soil much good.</li>
<li>Fermicutes: More complex, also fast growing (formerly called gram positives), some are important pathogens, can be anaerobic or aerobic, also don’t do soil much good.</li>
<li>Archea: These are tough and ancient life forms, slow growing, but live in extreme environments (hot, salty, acidic etc). Their importance in soil was only realised with DNA methods. They build up to significant numbers in cultivated soil.</li>
<li>Actinobacteria: These are quite complex bacteria which are involved in soil carbon dynamics. They are slow growing but feisty, as they are the chemical warfare specialists in soil. (Most of the antibiotics and drugs we use come from this group). When there are plenty present, root pathogens are suppressed.</li>
<li>Fungi: These are more complex than bacteria, and fall into two groups, the lower fungi are mainly moulds, and the higher fungi, the Dikarya are the mushrooms and the mycorrhyza.</li>
</ul>
The more diverse a soil’s microbial population, the healthier it is. All the above five groups should be present, but because the Actinobacteria and Fungi are beneficial to plant growth, high diversity in these groups is particularly important. 
When BioprimeTM is added to soil, the Actinobacteria and Dikarya get a boost because they get a dose of vitamins. The proteobacteria get suppressed, firstly because the way they communicate with each other, a process called quorum sensing, is interrupted. Secondly, they can’t grow s easily on the complex esters, but higher bacteria and fungi can. 
When we look at the way group diversity changes, we see short term and longer term impacts. In the short term, anaerobic bacteria are quickly suppressed. Then we see Dikarya and Actinobacteria start to build up numbers. 
These changes mean the best time to use BioprimeTM is when you sow your crop, then again once it is established – at the two to four leaf stage. 
In moist soil, grains take a few days to imbibe water and start to germinate. During this time, the presence of proteobacteria can be harmful, as they can feed on the exudates produced by a germinating seed and make a local anaerobic zone in wet soil, slowing down emergence. On the other hand, you want Dikarya active, for within this group are the mycorrhyzal fungi which colonize roots and help plant phosphorous uptake. There is plenty of competition in soil, so the quicker they can colonise the root, the more likely they will persist. 
There are a number of important pathogenic organisms which lurk in soil, and they often go unnoticed until stress hits the plant. An important control against pathogens is the Actinobacteria which feed on the pathogens. They also antagonise the simple bacteria which mineralise nitrogen. 
So BioprimeTM does quite a lot of things, all of which are good for the ability of soil to support healthy plant growth. 
 How much to use ? 
The optimal application rate depends on two important factors, pH and soil organic matter. 
BioprimeTM works best at a soil pH of 7 – and this is the point of optimal plant nutrient availability. We always advise to lime soil to get it to pH 7 – because we now we realise this is also the point of maximum microbial diversity. 
At a pH of 7, you only need to apply 3 liters per hectare at each application to get a maximal response. If the pH is lower, you get a better response by applying more – 5 liters per hectare at pH 4.5 – 5.5, and 4 liters per hectare at pH 5.5 – 6.5. 
The amount of organic matter in soil also influences the best application rate, but in a complex way. At low soil organic matter (under 0.5% organic carbon), a low rate works well (but adjusted for pH). If your soil carbon is between 0.5 – 1.5%, it takes a bit more for maximal impact because there is more background microbes living off that carbon, so you apply about 50% more. But if your soil carbon is very good (say 1.5 – 2.5%), you can drop the rate back again. If organic carbon is above 2.5% - you are blessed, and you soil is likely to already be very healthy and it is unlikely BioprimeTM will give you a further benefit. The following table summarises the best application rate.

<table border="4" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2" width="50%">
<tr>
<td>Application Rates</td>
<td colspan="3">Organic Carbon </td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>pH Range</td>
<td>0 - 0.5%</td>
<td>0.5 - 1.5%</td>
<td>1.5 - 2.5%</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>4.5 - 5.5</td>
<td>5 L/ha</td>
<td>7.5 L/ha</td>
<td>5 L/ha</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>5.5 - 6.5</td>
<td>4 L/ha</td>
<td>6 L/ha</td>
<td>4 L/ha</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>6.5 - 7.5</td>
<td>3 L/ha</td>
<td>4.5 L/ha</td>
<td>3 L/ha</td>
</tr>
</table>

How to apply BioprimeTM 
If you have a liquid system on your drill rig, it is best to apply BioprimeTM as a spray into the drill row after the press wheel. Simply dilute the volume you need in sufficient water to get even spread. 
Application with a boom spray just before seeding is an acceptable alternative. Again, simply dilute BioprimeTM with water to get even spread. 
Once your crop is up and established, the second application can be with a boom spray. BioprimeTM is acidic and completely water soluble, so it is compatible with most chemicals (but check first with a jar test). 
 Bad Start ? 
Sometimes the seasons are unkind – sow dry and no rain comes, or too much rain comes and paddocks waterlog. BioprimeTM opens an opportunity window for about 3 weeks. If you dry sow and it hasn’t rained in the first three weeks, it is probably worth another application once it rains. Likewise if things get too wet and the crop starts to get stressed and yellow, another application of BioprimeTM will help it get back on its feet. 
 Seeing BioprimeTM at work 
We always encourage you to sow a bit of your crop without BioprimeTM so you can see it at work. You should see earlier emergence, and once the crop is established, compare the root structure between treated and untreated areas. If you believe root structure is important, you will be impressed. 
If you want to get into detail, Bioscience provides an assay of soil microbial diversity which is a world first. Send us a 50 g sample of soil (sampled properly from the top 150 mm, and put into a refrigerator and send it to us on ice). We extract the DNA, then measure how many types of microbes are present in significant numbers in each of the 5 major groups. From this we can derive a biodiversity index and a health index. If you are interested in soil biology and soil health, this leading-edge assay can show you how your soil changes from year to year, guiding you with information on what treatments work and what doesn’t. 
 Is there anything else like BioprimeTM ? 
There are a number of products which come and go which make claims about improving soil health. They never come with a technical description of what they are, and they never come with field trial data. Usually there are lots of testimonials from someone in Utah or New Delhi, and there are pictures of a guy holding big onions in one hand and small onions in the other. 
We take notice when farmers start talking positively about getting a good response from a product, so we go out and buy some and pull it apart in our lab. There are only two we have found which are somewhat similar. TM21, made by Best in Canada is fermented molasses, but it is lot thinner, and poorly stabilised – smells a bit putrid compared to BioprimeTM . Vitazyme is made in the USA, but it is fermented corn syrup rather than molasses, but for some odd reason they add vitamin D to it (even though there is no known function for Vitamin D in anything other than higher vertebrates! 
But the huge difference is the price. 
 What does BioprimeTM Cost and How Do I Get It ? 
Getting BioprimeTM is easy. You buy it online direct from the manufacturer. It is only sold in 1000L IBC’s for $2 per liter (FOB). 
If you have your own IBC’s, drop them off and we will fill them up. If you don’t, you will have to pay $150 for a serviceable second hand one.
 
 
</div>
<script type="text/javascript">

</script>
</body>
</html>

Can I show a color bar instead of a color bullet in iCal Monthly view for all my events in all calendars?

In the Monthly view of iCal the only events that show a color bar in the event is the Birthday Calendar. All other events in all my other calendars only show a color bullet next to the event (unless I click on that event which then shows as a color bar). I would like to know if it is possible for all the calendar events to have a color bar in the monthly view instead of just that tiny color bullet.

Greetings Judith,
Before making any attempts at deleting calendar data, backup what you have just in case:
Click on each calendar on the left hand side of iCal one at a time highlighting it's name and then going to File Export > Export and saving the resulting calendar file to a logical location for safekeeping.
iCal has an automated function located in iCal > Preferences > Advanced > Delete events "X" days after they have passed. By typing in a value for days you can tell iCal to delete all events before that time frame.
Example:
Today is 4-16-2012.
If I wanted to delete all events prior to 1 year ago (4-16-2011) I would type in "365" for the number of days.
Once you type in the number of days you want kept in iCal, close the preferences and then quit iCal.
Re-open iCal and check to see if the events are gone. If not you may want to leave it open for several minutes and then quit again.
Once the events are removed go back to iCal > Preferences > Advanced > Delete events "X" days after they have passed and make sure the check mark is removed to prevent future deletion.
Hope that helps.

"Bullets & Lists" in Text Options

Hi,
i format some text as "Header", format the text (bold, underline, 18px, and Aphabetic Bullets), see the "Update" button an update the textstyle.
Next step i write a line,mark it and choose textstyle "Header" .
Now its Bold and 18px and underlined but the next Alphabetic Bullet is missing (In these case "B.").
Now i´m looking at the textstyle options and there are no bullets selectet. If i select once more "Alphabetic Bullets" tere ist no "Update" Button appearing.
Whts wrong?
I´m using Mavericks and Pages 5.1 (1769) - No Updates are availible on a late 2013 MB Pro.
Thank you

Because they rewrote Pages as a completely new application to match the iOS version.
They removed over 100 features.
It is really a beta version, but hasn't told its users, and heaven knows what features will eventually be in Pages 5. I don't think even Apple knows.
Peter

How to print a bullet in smartforms?

Hi All,
How to print a bullet in smartforms?
I need it urgently.
Any help would be appeciated.
Regards,
Mahesh.

Hi,
if i remember correct <600> is the value for bullets.
you can insert this using sap system symbols ---> select bullets (before this place your cursor where ever you want the bullets.
eg:
P1 <600> test.
Thanks,
Sree.

In Pages 5.0 is it possible to add a footnote to a bulleted point?

In new Pages on Mavericks, I can't seem to add a footnote to a bulleted item. Is there something I can do about this?

I didn't have any problem but I used Pages 5.1. HAve you updated Pages?

I have a macbook air bought in 2010 wit liquid damage that might has affected the SSD card. I need to get my data but apple won't help. Authorized dealers never seem to have the same model to try whether the SSD card works. How can I get my data quickly?

Hi
I have a macbook air bought in 2010. It has liquid damage that might or might not affected the SSD card. I need the data on my SSD card for work and I need it urgently. Apparently Apple won't get the data out, even if I have apple care... Licensed apple dealers need to have the same macbook air model so they can insert the SSD card and check whether the data is there, and they never seem to have one...
I'm really disappointed with apple. It's been two weeks and I haven't been able to find out whether the SSD card is holding my data. It can't take that long to do it in store... How can they sell a product and then wash their hands on the matter?
Anyway, enough with the apple rant. I need to get this data urgently so I need to find out how I can get it out of the card. The SSD card and data might be fine so I don't want to take it to a data recovery centre and get charged loads.
Thanks for your help.
Olatz

See this link for a 4870 card, best instructs for flashing for a noob like me. (last lowest price was $150 for a 1GB vRAM 4870 from TigerDirect).
http://web.me.com/jacobcroft/4870Flash/4870Flash.html
However, not every 4870 card will work with the ROM currently floating around out there. BEWARE!
Link to recovering a bricked card:
http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=64328

Please help - Trying to create a realistic liquid morphing

Hello
I’m fairly new to Flash and vector art but have a
project to create a Flash based flowchart that is made up of liquid
blobs that morph to show the various paths to the chart.
I’ve had a go making the blobs in flash but when l go
to animate them, it all looks a bit rubbish - see:
http://www.mintmedia.co.uk/example2.html
Could anyone suggest a better way of attempting to do this
animation....
Thanks in advance
Rich

Is there no way to create an appcontroller that works like an applescript? Or get an applescript to be recognized so a new NSButton added to the Bookmark bar be activated?
i.e.
*tell application "System Events"*
* tell application "Safari" to activate*
* keystroke "n" using {command down}*
* delay 0.1*
* keystroke "l" using {command down, shift down}*
*end tell*
Or,
_Something Like:_
/ AppController /
*#import <Cocoa/Cocoa.h>*
*@interface AppController : NSObject*
*IBOutlet id NSButton;*
*-(IBAction) autoFill:,delay 0.1,checkSpelling:(id)sender*
@end
I really don't know if that AppController looks anything like it should or if it's even close.

Faulty/stuck power button again! Who was the genius that located the ear-jack hole with the "Liquid Contact Indicator" at the top of the iPhone, so perspiration can accumulate and void the warranty

My Power button is stuck again...... like many, many other owners....like two of my previous iPhones. According to the Genius at the Genius Bar in Reno, Nv., my warranty is void because the LCI which is located in the ear-jack hole on the top, has come in contact with moisture/humidity/sweat. My iPhone has never been dropped or wet. My iPhone4s is in pristine conditon and is in great working order except for the "stuck" power button, but because of a poor quality and location of the ear-jack hole, my warranty has been voided. Everything I have is Apple. The Rep/Genius in Reno while fullly aware on the chronic power button problems, tried to put the stuck button on an exposure to moisture. He said, "It doesn't matter if mositure didn't cause the button to stick or not. Your warranty voided because of the Liquid Contact Indicated turned color. Of course, the "power/sync" hole LCI is perfect. Thank you Apple! I think I'll refuse my iPhone5 delivery on Friday and go buy a "Droid" phone.
Hey, who out there wants to buy my new iPhone5 when it gets to me on Friday???

Thanks for your reply. I too would not rule out moisture damaging the power button, but ...
I guess was being too subtle. My points are:
1. "Stuck" power buttons is a known issue/problem and Apple has been dealing with it since the first iPhone. This is quality problem. The evidence is with other users all around us and all over the web.
2. The "sweat" issue is a design problem and should've been addressed long before the release of the iPhone5 in a few days. Yes, they moved iPhone5's headphone-jack to the bottom/underneath of the iPhone. To say that the "sweat" issue is the users' fault is like saying, Apple iPhones should only be sold to swine or other mammals without sweat glands. We're talking about as little as one drop from someone's temple running down the headphone-jack opening while one is engadged with a phone call. That's all it takes to change the color of the LCI.
3. Also I wanted to make my complaint public on this forum and not Facebook, hoping to both, not only catch the eye of an Apple lurker, but let others know of the danger of speaking on their iPhones while out in the sun, high humidity or driving a car with the top down....... my point being, even the free AT&T Go Phones have protection against the slightest elements.
4. I paid close to $700 for this iPhone4s 64G less than a year ago. I don't like being dismissed with a cut and dry, cookie-cutter answer from a 20yr old without reasonable explanation and then be shoo'd out the door. "Next?"
5. I love Apple products and I'm glad the new release has addressed the jack/perspiration problem although I know there were other factors involved in the decisions to not move/move it.

The bullet list, numbered list and the normal text is not converting when I am converting from RH 9 to MS Word 2010

Hi all,
Greetings for the day
I am created a new CSS in Robohelp 9. I have also created a new template in Word 2010. The style sets for different information elements like (Heading, bullets, body text, ) are more or less same between the CSS and the new templates. I am also able to map the .css styles to Word template when I am converting from RH to Word as I am getting the necessary option in the drop-down list.
However, when the output is generated, the bullet, the numbered list and the body text is not converting at all. The body text works sometimes. However, the numbered list and bullet list is coming out as images.
If anybody knows the solution, I can share the .css and Word template.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Parag Deb

Create a new project with two or three topics containing lists of both types. Generate a printed output that shows the problem. Then zip it up and send it to me. See the Contact page on my site for instructions.
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

Dodged a liquid bullet...

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for