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There is a possibility that I may take a job which would require me to move to Salt Lake City. As far as beer drinking goes, do you get plenty of good stuff over there? How is it for a homebrewing supplies and the homebrewing community? Anything I should be aware of?
You've heard that utah has strange alcohol laws, and that is true. There are three good homebrew supply stores in the salt lake valley and iirc a couple in southern utah (richfield and st. george?). Grocery stores don't have anything over 4% ABV and availability on sunday varies by city BUT good beers from local breweries are almost universally available (in 4.0ABV form). Everything higher than 4% is sold either direct from the brewery or from state-owned stores that have a good but not exhaustive selection. A complete list of beverages available from the ABC stores can be found here: http://abc.utah.gov/products/index.html I have heard it alleged that the salt lake valley has the highest per-capita concentration of breweries in the nation and i sort of believe this. There are many microbreweries i have not had the pleasure of visiting. Epic is very good but you pay for it. Utah Brewer's Co-Operative aka Wasatch and Squatters breweries (they share) is now technically an award-winning medium-size brewery producing hundreds of thousands of gallons of truly decent beer per year. Uinta is quite good as well. Of course you can get stronger beer in bars but you generally cannot leave with it (with the possible exception of growlers with a seal sticker applied over the cap). Oh, and ordering a mixed drink at a restaurant in utah is a fool's errand due to nonsensical restrictions on how many shots can be in it.
As Timp Slim said, you can still get good beer in SLC, you just have to work harder for it. The local microbrews are really good (Epic is one of my favorites, and not overpriced at all). It can be difficult to get good out-of-state brews as the beer is all imported by the state DABC. If it's not on their list, you won't be able to get it. The Beerhive and the Bayou are your best bets as far as selection goes. It can be frustrating, but where there is a will... All that being said, I'm moving back to TX, and beer is a significant reason.
It is still too soon to tell but it looks like this may become a reality. Just to clarify... You CAN get beers above 4% but just not grocery stores? You CAN brew your own beer but is it very frowned upon by the rest of the community? Other than you two responders, are there plenty of us (homebrewers) around?
Thank you for responding Timp. As long as there is a dive bar that serves a few options of craft beer and I can go to the brewery to grab some there, I think I will be happy down there. I am slightly disappointed though, I spent the last year and a half upgrading and upsizing my brewery. I do 10 gallon AG batches and brew outside. However, now that I will most likely not be renting a HOUSE anymore, instead maybe an apartment or town-home, I feel like I will have to sell off some equipment and downsize my brewery to brew inside. The thought of this makes me very sad... but hey, gotta go where the money is I guess. I am very ignorant to the layout of the state, how far is Orem from SLC?
Oh, and since you are coming from the rain forest, prepare yourself to be dry. And hot.
I would be working with Fastenal Corp. In the beginning of the job, it sounds like I would be traveling out of state the majority of the time, Utah would/will/possibly be more of just a home base for me. If I am not around all the time I guess it would at least make it easier for me to age my beers and my pipeline will probably need less replenishing. Everything is still up in the air, I have only been offered the job over the last several months but now I told them I want to jump on it. With that being said, they are making it sound more than just a strong possibility but the timeline of when the job will actually be open is yet to be seen. Not trying to count my chickens before they hatch but I really hope this all goes through. Anywho, if this does all go down I may need someone who knows the area to show me a few good watering holes...
Ah Fastenal. If it holds something together and McMaster doesn't carry it, Fastenal can get it to you. Eventually. Well congrats on the job, if it's a step up for you, and you get it. We'll have to go have a homebrew somewhere if you get here.


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While living in New York City after college, Kimberly worked at a small Italian restaurant named Caffe Buon Gusto (meaning "good taste"). All the food was made with fresh ingredients, something that gave her pride in the food she served. Most of the produce came from New Jersey farms, the pasta from a local producer and the fish from a Connecticut fisherman. Fresh, wholesome, local foods did taste amazingly good!
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Now working for Farm Fresh, Rebecca continues honing her skills in new directions, and finds that working closely with Farm Fresh staff and Harvest Kitchen trainees inspires her each day in ways she'd never imagined. Rebecca graduated from Brandeis University with a BA in Classical Studies.
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What *Sign* Are You Wearing? The Truth About First Impressions
As they spent more time together, Belinda would frequently express her disbelief that Eric would like her. Eric would get irritated hearing these disparaging remarks and kept telling Belinda how pretty, how smart, and how kind and thoughtful she was. But Belinda was not so easily convinced that Eric's view of her was more accurate, and her inability to believe him was a constant source of stress in their relationship.
If Belinda could see it, she would recognize the sign she was wearing on her shirt said, "I'm unworthy and undeserving of your attention and love."
These examples demonstrate how first impressions have the potential to provide an accurate clue into someone's personality and style. First impressions can be powerful forces to attract or repel others. For singles looking to find and create a life partner relationship, it supports the importance of knowing yourself, liking yourself, and knowing what you have to give in a relationship. Without that self-knowledge, one would be hard pressed to control the first impressions they convey.
Consequently, the dating problems experienced by Cindy, Jack and Belinda began with their beliefs about themselves – Cindy's fear of getting close, Jack's arrogance, and Belinda's poor self-esteem – and the obstacles they encountered to reaching their relationship goals were due to being oblivious that they were communicating these beliefs. . . . and on their shirts, no less.
Contrast the previous scenarios with this one:
Emily was invited to a Thanksgiving dinner party by her married friend Annette. Annette's husband Kirk invited other single men, hoping that some of their friends might meet someone special. Emily was not feeling very happy that day, as she was unable to fly home to be with her own family for Thanksgiving. However, she decided to be grateful for Annette's invitation, and made the effort to be friendly to the other guests during the dinner party.
What sign is Emily wearing? Because she understood herself well enough to know she might feel homesick, she made the conscious effort to wear a sign that said, "I'm happy to be here. Come meet me!"
Tim was invited to Annette and Kirk's as well, but had plans to join a friend to watch the football games after the meal. Arriving at the party around the same time, Emily noticed Tim was attractive and outgoing, but he seemed to be distracted by his Blackberry's beeping of football scores. When they all sat down to eat, the conversation eventually turned to football, and Tim found himself interested in Emily's stories of her childhood experiences going to professional football games with her father, and the football games she went to in college. Tim eventually noticed that he was only talking about football, so he initiated conversations about other topics during the meal, focusing most of his attention however, on Emily. After the meal, Tim decided not to meet his friend, and instead he and Emily went into Annette & Kirk's family room to continue talking and to watch the football games together.
What sign might Tim have been wearing? Because he noticed he was distracted by his interest in football that day, his sign might have said, "I love football, but I'm happy to talk about other things. Just ask me!"
Emily and Tim had the self-knowledge and the motivation to make themselves available to others, even though they may have been distracted by other feelings (homesickness) or interests (football).


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Another big advantages of using MMS to manage your mongo deployments is the ability to automatic upgrade agents and instances. For agents you can simply open the deployment area of a group and select edit mode. If some agent is outdated, the interface will immediately warn you with an alert on the top of the page as you can see in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Mms is telling you that agents are out of date
If you choose to upgrade agents pressing the update link at the top of the pages, you should see some unpublished changes appears in the Ui.
Figure 2: Upgrading agents is a simple modification of the deploy
Remember that each modification you do through mms will be downloaded by all the agents and should be reviewed and confirmed for deploy. Pressing Review & Deploy will show pending operations:
Figure 3: Pending modification to deploy
When you press confirm and deploy, mms will confirm all modifications and the next time that the agents will poll the site, the new deploy instructions will be downloaded and applied from the various automation agents.
Upgrading automation and monitoring agents is not the only upgrade you can do from the web interface, the real killer feature is upgrading the version of mongo that your instances are running. In Figure 4 you can see that mongo mms shows my current version as red, because is not the latest one available.
Figure 4: Mms interfaces shows mongo version in red because is not the latest one available.
If you come back to edit mode you can edit any monitored instance, in this example I want to edit configuration for the entire replica set, upgrading mongo to the latest version.
Figure 5: In edit mode you can change configuration of your mongo deployment
Now you can simply edit the configuration and choose whatever version you like to install. You can install newer version, but you can also install older version if you want to rollback your environment to previous version.
Figure 6: Editing of configuration of your replica set.
Figure 7: From edit panel you can change version to whatever version you like.
Once you have done your changes and pressed Apply button, you should review your modification and confirm as for agent upgrade.
Figure 8: Changes of your replica set ready to be deployed, version will be upgraded from 2.6.2 to 2.6.5
As usual mms interface starts showing what is happening to your machines, in Figure 9 you can verify that the three machines of the replica set are downloading the new version of mongo.
Figure 9: Environment is upgrading to new version
Figure 10: Not all the machine have same speed, rs1-red is already in goal state, while the other are still installing new version
Figure 11: Replica set was upgraded to latest version, primary has changed
After a little bit, all of your machines are upgraded to the latest version. Thanks to Mongo MMS you can manage upgrade or downgrade of your instances with few mouse clicks, because automation agents will take care of all operations needed to upgrade your servers.
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In an old post I've shown how to easily deploy mongo thanks to MMS online services. Mms is not only useful to deploy mongo instances, but it is exceptional also for monitoring and configuring. One of the most interesting features is managing users easily from mms web interface. Suppose you had installed mongo on an Azure Virtual Machine and you do not want everyone being able to access your instance. A possible solution is enabling authentication.
Thanks to mms you can simply go to Deployment / Authentication & Users and enable authentication. With the green Add User button you can add how many user you want and you can give them permission using roles.
Figure 1: Manage mongodb users through mms web interface.
Once everything is configured, mms will deploy changes to all of your instances that belong to the same group, so every database shares the same sets of users. Wait a little bit and then try to authenticate to your instance, ex with robomongo.
Figure 2: Test auth from Robomongo
Et voilà, with few clicks you have now authentication enabled on your mongo databases of that group, it could not be easier than this :).
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One of the greatest advantage in using Git over a centralized Version Control System is branching system. It is quite common for developers to start branching whenever they need to add a new feature, work on that branch and finally merge back to mainline when the feature is finished. One of the most famous workflow is called GitFlow, a way to work in Git that is implemented even in some GUI tool like SourceTree.
One of the main problem when you heavily use feature branches is the moment you merge back to mainline. One of the technique to easy the pain is periodically do a forward integration from mainline to feature branch, because it is usually easier doing several little merge than doing a big merge when the feature is complete.
Assuming that the mainline contains only stable code, because all feature branch merge to mainline only when they are stable, it is usually safe to periodically merge from mainline to branch to avoid a big merge at the end. In this scenario the question usually is: how frequently I have to merge? One possible solution is to take advantage of your Continuous Integration system to warn you when a modification you did on a branch introduces problem because:
- Does not merge automatically with mainline but it generates conflicts
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- Even if the branch merge automatically and the code compile, some tests where broken.
With TFS Build you can achieve this result quite simply, first of all configure a build with a trigger for each push, then in the Source Settings specify that this build should be triggered whenever any branch that starts with feat got any push.
Figure 1: Source code configuration, only build when a branch that starts with feat got a code increment
This build is intended to monitor the status of all feature branches. All you need to do is including a PowerShell script in source code that will be run pre-build. This script basically merge with master with command line git (Build Agent where that build runs should have git installed and available in PATH environment variable). This is a possible PowerShell script to accomplish the merge
$teststring = $env:TF_BUILD_SOURCEGETVERSION $branchName = "" $teststring | where { $_ -match "/(?[^/]*?):" } | foreach { $branchName = $Matches["bname"] } Write-Host "BranchName = $branchName" $rootDir = "$env:TF_BUILD_BUILDDIRECTORY\src" Write-Host "Source folder is $rootDir" #be sure to checkout the right branch $ps = new-object System.Diagnostics.Process $ps.StartInfo.Filename = "git" $ps.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = $rootDir $ps.StartInfo.Arguments = "checkout $branchName" $ps.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = $True $ps.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = $True $ps.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = $false $ps.start() [string] $Out = $ps.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd(); [string] $ErrOut = $ps.StandardError.ReadToEnd(); Write-Host "Output git checkout $branchName is:" $Out Write-Host "Return value: " $ps.ExitCode if ($ps.ExitCode -ne 0) { $Host.ui.WriteErrorLine("Branch cannot be checked out") } #try to merge $ps = new-object System.Diagnostics.Process $ps.StartInfo.Filename = "git" $ps.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = $rootDir $ps.StartInfo.Arguments = " merge master" $ps.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = $True $ps.StartInfo.RedirectStandardError = $True $ps.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = $false $ps.start() [string] $Out = $ps.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd(); [string] $ErrOut = $ps.StandardError.ReadToEnd(); Write-Host "Output git merge master:" $Out Write-Host "Return value: " $ps.ExitCode if ($ps.ExitCode -ne 0) { $Host.ui.WriteErrorLine("Branch does not merge correctly") }
This is really a first tentative in this direction, there probably better way to do it, but it solves the problem without any great complexity. It just uses a regular expression to find branch name from the environment variable TF_BUILD_SOURCEGETVERSION. Once you have name of the branch just checkout it and then try to "git merge master" to merge the branch with master. Quite all git command return 0 if the operation is successful, so if the ExitCode of "git merge master" command is different from 0 it means that the merge operation did not complete correctly (conflicts occurred). If the merge is unsuccessful the script use UI.WriteErrorLine to write error on the UI and this has two effects: first the message will be reported on the Build Summary, then then build will be marked as partially failed.
Now even if your branch compile correctly and every test is green, after you push to TFS your Build Server will try to merge and run the build, if the branch does not automatically merge with master the build will partially fail and you got this:
Figure 2: Code does not automatically merge after the latest push.
This is a signal that is time to do a forward integration from mainline to your branch, because the amount of conflicts will be probably small. Another advantage is that you can merge the code while your modification is fresh in your mind. Nothing is more painfully than merge code you have written a month ago.
If the merge is successfully it does not mean that the code is in good health. Suppose you rename a method in your branch, but in the mainline another one has pushed an increment with another class that uses that method. This is the perfect example of code that gave no merge conflicts, but it does not even compile. Since the script actually does the merge before the build, the rest of the build works on the code result of the merge, now the build fails.
Figure 3: Merge was successfully, but the result of the merge does not compile
In this situation you surely have a standard build that simply works on the feature branch that is green, but the Build System can run for you this another special build that runs on the result of the merge with mainline that is Red. This means: In your branch code everything is green, but when you will merge to mainline you will have problem, so it is probably better to look at that problems now!.
The very same happens if the result of the merge breaks some unit test. In conclusion, thanks to few PowerShell lines, you can instruct your TFS build to automatically try to merge each increment of code in your feature branches and then compile, run test and do whatever any operation you usually do on your build on the result of the merge between the feature branch and mainline. Thanks to this you can immediately merge from mainline to your branch to fix the problem as soon as you have introduced it.
This approach has some disadvantages. First of all a PowerShell script cannot make the build fails, so if the code does not merge, usually you will have a failing build because the build system try to build source code during a merge and find invalid characters in source code. Second, this special build runs only when there is a push on some feature branch, but nothing happens if someone pushes in the mainline. In that case you should run this special build for every feature branch you have in your repository.
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One of the reason why Mongo is gaining a lot of momentum in the industry is the easy of use. Just download the package, start mongod and you are donw. When you are in production, you cannot surely simply install your mongo as a service, start it and then forget it without any kind of monitoring, because this will surely lead to problems. When is time to create more complex topologies, like sharding or replica set you can commit some mistakes and you have some tedious work to do. I strongly suggest you to have a look at Mongo Mms, because the online version offers a lot of functionalities for free, and every developer can use it to simplify even deployment of dev servers.
The new version introduced some interesting capabilities to automatically deploy and manage your mongo instances with few clicks of your mouse. Suppose you want to create a classic replica set of 3 machines using 3 VM with Linux Ubuntu. After you register with MMS you can simply proceed to install the MMS automation agent on your machine with few steps
Figure 1: Instruction to install automation agent on Ubuntu
Once you installed the automation agent on all of your machines, you can simply start creating your mongo deployment using MMS web interface. Agents poll server periodically for instructions, this implies that mms only requires your machines to be able to reach mms site to poll instructions and to send monitoring data. All of your machines can be in a private NAT network. If you go in the Administration section of MMS web interface you can check status of your agents.
Figure 2: List of all of your active agents
In this picture you can check not only automation agents, but also monitoring and backup ones. The automation one is the most important, because is the responsible for installing other agents and configuring your mongo instance. Now you can move to the deployment tab, and if some of your agents are out of date you can simply upgrade with a simple click.
Figure 3: List of all of your deployment servers and in the top area of the page you can check if some of the agents are old
In the upper right part of the deployment area, there is a button called Add that can be used to create a new deployment of Mongo, in this example I want to create a new Replica Set.
Figure 4: Create a replica set from the web interface.
Now it is just a matter of configuring all the options. The most important one is the Elegible Server RegExp where you should specify a regex that will select all the servesr that will take part of the replica set. In this example I used three distinct names, and I separated with a pipe to create a regex that choose all the servers, you can use prefix for convenience.
Figure 5: Options to create a replica set.
You can configure a lot of options and once you are done you can simply press Apply. This will create a script to create your new deployment, and you can review it before agents starts applying it to destination machines.
Figure 6: Pressing apply creates the script but you still have time to review before starting deploy
Figure 7: Reviewing the script tells you every operation that will be triggered in your environment
Pressing Confirm & Deploy activates the script, and the web interface starts showing you the status of the various machines that will take part of the deploy.
Figure 8: Deploy starts and the web interface starts waiting for it to finish.
The status is pushed from the automation client to the mms server and you can see the status of the single machines.
Figure 9: One of the machine is in goal state, the other two still needs time
In Figure 9 you can see that the machine avalanche reached Goal State, this means that the automation agent finished applying modification to the system. The other two machines are in WaitRsInit, this means that mongo is started and they are starting the replica set. Once everything is ok, all the machines are in the Goal State and the version of mongo installed in shown in Version column.
Now you can switch to View mode, where you can look at your deployment.
Figure 10: View mode shows the status of your servers, as well as witch instance is primary and which instance is secondary
You can change every aspect of your deployment after it was provisioned, as an example I decided to change priority of one of my server after the replica set was up and running because avalanche VM is stored on an SSD and writing speed is higher than the other two VM.
Figure 11: Changing options after replica set is created.
You can also change the installed version of mongo, and the automation agents will take care of all operations needed to update or downgrade your instance of mongo.
If you use Amazon AWS, Mongo MMS will be also able to automatically provision your virtual machines in the cloud, automatically installing automation agents on it, so you can really deploy everything, from virtual machines to mongo with few clicks.
I must admit that I'm really impressed from deployment capabilities of Mongo MMS especially because you can manage up to 8 servers for free.
Gian Maria.
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1 CommentOne of the most interesting news of VSO in last months are service hooks and REST API to integrate VSO with third party tools. This capability is a key for success because ALM is really a complicated subject and rarely you can manage all of your applications with a single tools.
VSO and TFS are no exception to this rule, they are more a set of suites and tools glued together under a single brand. TFS is composed by a Work Item Store plus Two options for source control (TFVC/Git) plus a Continuous Integration service (Build service) and a Release Management Tool for release, it integrates with SCOM to keep Ops and Devs in contact, plus much more.
But no tool can cover all of the need of every possible user, and VSO solves this problem giving full access to every data through Managed and Java API and now even with a REST interface. In this article I'll tell you how you can integrate with Trello, a widely used online tool to manage Kanban boards. VSO has support for Kanban, but is still rough and many people around the world are using Trello to manage Kanban Cards. If you like VSO but really prefer using Trello for your Kanban you can follow this guide to link your VSO account to Trello.
Possibilities are infinte, as an example I can configure VSO to create a particular card in trello whenever a PBI is created in my project
Figure 1: Automatic creation of card upon creation of PBI in VSO
If you start adding PBI in VSO
Figure 2: Create PBI in VSO account
You will find corresponding card in Trello automatically created.
Figure 3: Card are automatically created with a Link to the corresponding PBI
Actually the integration is still rough, because I've no way to keep the two synchronized, but the direction is promising.
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Birth of a New Sector: Life Sciences Why the likes of Dow, DuPont, and Monsanto are the Street's newest buzz stocks Start with a chemical stock -- shares of a company whose business is cyclical and whose earnings seldom grow at an eye-popping rate. For good measure, make sure the stock is susceptible to busts in overseas markets such as Asia. Add to the mixture a biotech lab or gene-splicing unit that's working on new-fangled seeds and plants that ward off fungi or insects. What you'll end up with, most likely, is a stock in what Wall Street has started to call a "life-sciences company," a hybrid straddling the worlds of agribiotechnology and ordinary farm products such as seeds and feed. You�ll also have a stock with buzz. When it was a chemical stock, it traded at a discount to the market. Now that it's a life-sciences stock, it can command prices of 40 to 50 times projected earnings. "The label life science is to the chemical industry what dot.com is to technology stocks," says Standard & Poor�s analyst Richard O�Reilly. "Add that name, and it seems you�ll get a premium to the market in no time." Monsanto Co. (MTC) is a good example. The closest thing there is to a life-sciences pure play, it spun off its chemical operations in September, 1997, spent $8 billion in seed and biotech companies and went off to tinker with the DNA of plants. Now, it's true that Monsanto is down 2% this year, to 46 and change, even after a $4 run-up on Apr. 23, while chemical oldies such as Dow and DuPont have done much better, rising 26% and 25%, respectively. In part, though, that's because the traditional chemical group looked undervalued compared with the economy. RARIFIED SPACE. Another way to look at Monsanto's current status is that its shares hover at 50 times Wall Street consensus 1999 earnings estimates of 84 cents a share as compiled by Zacks Investment Research. That�s rarified space normally reserved for biotech shares, which historically have averaged a p-e ratio of 34, vs. the 18 or so multiple allotted plastics and chemicals companies. Does this mean that investors should keep their noses out of the greenhouse? Not necessarily. For instance, DuPont's decision to snap up the 80% of agribiotech player Pioneer Hybrid it doesn�t already own in a $7.7 billion deal and Dow�s stated intent to increase its presence in that burgeoning market might also be factors in the rally of those two stocks. And Monsanto�s latest earnings, announced on Apr. 22, may foreshadow good things ahead for life-science companies. While profits for the quarter fell 12 cents, to 20 cents a share, from a year earlier because of the earnings dilution from recent acquisitions, sales rose to $2.5 billion for the quarter, up 25% from a year ago. One highlight: The company's arthritis pain drug, Celebrex, is off to perhaps the most rousing start of any pharmaceutical product ever with sales of $279 million from its launch in mid-February to the end of the first quarter -- and while there are now reports that Celebrex might have caused 10 deaths among the 250,000 patients who have used it, both the company and analysts are downplaying the significance of the news. Monsanto also reported that sales of agricultural products, the source of roughly 50% of its revenues, rose 31% for the quarter, vs. a year earlier. That segment of the company�s business includes strains of soybeans and cotton genetically engineered to withstand herbicides, pesticides, or even ward off legions of beetles and weevils. SOYBEAN MASTER. The ag unit's performance is a key indicator for the company's life-sciences group, which is anchored in agribiotechnology. It�s also telling that since their introduction in 1996, soybean seeds developed on Monsanto's designs have gone from zero to capture a 30% share of the overall domestic market, while its cotton strains have captured a 45% share. That includes insect-resistant varieties as well as brands that are resistant to Monsanto�s line of Roundup herbicides. The future could be even brighter. By 2000, Standard & Poor's analyst Robert Izmirlian estimates that 40% to 60% of the seeds solid in the U.S. will be genetically enhanced. And portfolio manager Christopher Bonavico of Transamerica Premier Value Fund thinks that�s just the beginning. He says Monsanto and DuPont, now that the latter has swallowed Pioneer Hybrid, have locked up the sweet spot of agribiotech. "It�s a situation that�s analogous to Intel, which sets the tone for the computer industry and has software companies writing programs to fit its architecture." 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