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Waaow!! Your BFF gets Married? Survive the mood-swings!!October 21, 2016 18:40
The wedding season has already started knocking at our door. However you love or hate it, if your best friend is getting married, you are suppose to go through an emotional rollercoaster.
As the best friend of the bride, you must have a huge responsibility plannings of being her anchor. She will be moody, and her emotions will vacillate between extremes - joy, sadness, excitement, anxiety, paralysing fear. She may even transform into a Bridezilla! But you have to keep your cool and make her emotionally engaged in party mood and huge plannings.
You have to be the patient audience for every thought she has, no matter how tear-jerking or silly it is and make her comfortable as much as possible. You have to be involved in all the rituals and the drama, and try to be that person who makes sure that the bride gets her downtime when she needs it. You'll be the one fixing her choli to chunni, and her drink.
On the very outset, you may be calm, composed and your celebratory best, but, as the best friend, your heart will be crying, silently knowing that she won't be only yours anymore. It will not be just her life that's about to change, it will be yours too. No more 3 AM phone calls, no more hanging out for hours on end or sleepovers, no more"You are only mine".
There will be a huge change in your life too, with your BFF's wedding, and you have to now reinvent things, and find a new balance between the two.
One thing always you have to keep in your mind that you should noway get into their personal life, even keeping in mind how much intense relationship you had with your best friend.
Now enjoy your best friend's wedding to the fullest. And keep all the secrets and feelings within yourself until she returns from her Honeymoon!
Also Read: Get married to quit drinking!
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Weekend Rewind - April 2011 Edition
I have to apologise for my poor hosting performance last week. I tried to pop over to as many posts as I could but this garage sale business takes up a LOT of time. That and the school trivia night that our table just happened to win* which resulted in a(nother) day of horizontal parenting. I promise my nights on the booze are over for the time being.
We are embracing April. A great month for me because my eldest child has his birthday. What were you doing in April 2011? I can't wait to find out.
So if you are prepared to get started, the rules of this meme remain the same each week. All you have to do is become my friend, if we are not already acquainted, then link up a relevant post from your archives and get reading and commenting. The more comments the merrier. And don't forget to Tweet, Facebook and/or Stumble your favourites to share the joy with other readers. Try to add a link back to me in your posts so that we can expand the reach of the Weekend Rewind.
Here is mine... I need a bex and a lie down
Now show us yours...
* The prize? The honour of hosting the event next year. You can imagine how that went down?!?
9 comments:
- Maxabella said...
As usual, the post I wrote that month that had such a lot of me in it had quite a lukewarm response. So I thought I'd give it another whirl!
Well done on your trivial win! Not surprising, really. x
- 4 November 2011 at 22:19
- MaidInAustralia said...
We had a really eventful April. Thanks for encouraging me to revisit it!
- 5 November 2011 at 00:30
- joeh said...
Finally I don't have to cheat, this post is from April. Three people read it then so here is a second chance for "DRIMKIN"
Please reed it in sobriety, so it maken sum cents.
Cranky Old Man
- 5 November 2011 at 02:01
- A Farmer's Wife said...
For some reason I can't see your linky but people have obviously seen my link up. Weird. Think it must be a blogger glitch (just for something different).
- 5 November 2011 at 09:41
- danneromero said...
hi MM... i am playing - hum, i don't know what, exactly - anyway, my posts are never for the month you ask for - i have a huge gap from my first post (january) to the next (june)... so i am filling in the months with random months.....
- 5 November 2011 at 10:22
- Clarabel said...
Hey, its my first rewind over here, but I seem to have messed up..big apologies! My links come up twice, with the first one linking to entirely the wrong blog!!! I don't know if you can delete the first one, but my real rewind is number 22.
I'll do better next time! x
- 5 November 2011 at 10:33
- Diminishing Lucy said...
I have cheated slightly - a rewind post from April 2010 instead of this April...
- 5 November 2011 at 20:41
- Amy said...
I have rewound a post that has already been in a weekend rewind... It reflects where I was in April though.
Off to re-read your bex and a lie down post. I think that was one of the first posts of yours that I read. Can't remember if I commented though... That was probably when I had a phobia of commenting :P
- 6 November 2011 at 17:54
Please remember that Buy Nothing Day is November 25 this year.
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Filling the gaps in my knowledge to understand the tmf question.
So, what is the analogue of elliptic curve over the category of spectra?
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Filling the gaps in my knowledge to understand the tmf question.
So, what is the analogue of elliptic curve over the category of spectra?
First you should know what a "derived scheme" (or "spectral scheme") is. Roughly, this is the same as an ordinary scheme, except instead of locally being the Spec of an ordinary commutative ring, it's locally the Spec of an E-infinity ring spectrum, or just E-infinity ring for short. An E-infinity ring is not the same as a ring spectrum; a ring spectrum is something that is "a ring up to homotopy", and an E-infinity ring is something that is "a ring up to coherent homotopy".
As a topological space, Spec of an E-infinity ring A is defined to be the Spec of pi0(A), which is an ordinary commutative ring. The difference is that the sheaf of functions is no longer a sheaf of rings but a sheaf of E-infinity rings. This sheaf of E-infinity rings is (analogously to the structure sheaf for ordinary affine schemes) defined by Uf -> A[f-1], where Uf is a distinguished open subset, and the localization A[f-1] is now taken in the category (or rather infinity-category) of E-infinity rings (see section 2.2 of Lurie's survey for a characterization of this localization).
There is a natural functor from derived schemes to ordinary schemes. It is (X, OX) -> (X, pi0(OX)), where pi0(OX) denotes the sheafification of the presheaf U -> pi0(OX(U)).
Then Definition 4.1 of Lurie's survey article defines an elliptic curve over an E-infinity ring A: it is a commutative A-group E -> Spec A such that (E, pi0(OE)) -> Spec pi0(A) is an ordinary elliptic curve over pi0(A).
I think one of the punchlines is that there is a derived Deligne-Mumford moduli stack of oriented derived elliptic curves, which becomes the ordinary Deligne-Mumford moduli stack of ordinary elliptic curves after hitting it with pi0. Taking global sections on this derived moduli stack is more or less tmf. I don't have a good short explanation of what an orientation is, but it's in the beginning of section 3 of the survey.
Unfortunately I think a lot of the details of this stuff are still not available. (I think it is supposed to be in "DAG VII: Spectral Schemes"; there may be some hints and related material in "DAG V: Structured Spaces".)
Jacob Lurie has notes on this question: (pdf). The short answer is "an oriented spectral (or derived) elliptic curve." A more primitive answer is given by an elliptic spectrum (due to Hopkins and Miller), which is an even periodic complex-oriented cohomology theory, an elliptic curve, and an isomorphism between the formal group corresponding to the cohomology theory and the formal group of the elliptic curve.


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Gore based his claim on what he called "fresh" research by Dr. Wieslav Maslowski with the U.S. Naval Post-Graduate School. "I don't know when they were released, but I just got them yesterday," Gore said of the data. "Some of the models suggest to Dr. Maslowski that there is a 75 percent chance that the entire polar ice cap during some of the summer months could be completely ice free within the next five to seven years." Gore underscored the severity of the situation, stating, "It's hard to capture the astonishment that the experts in the science of ice felt when they saw this."
However, it was not melting ice that astonished Dr. Maslowski. "It's unclear to me how this figure was arrived at," he told the UK Times online. "I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exact as this." The Times reported Gore's office backpedaled, admitting the estimate was a "ballpark figure" from a conversation several years ago between Gore and Maslowski. Gore's staff explained in a formal statement he intended to say the polar ice cap would be "nearly" ice free, according to an update in the Times. The article pointed to Gore's track record of basing claims on unpublished data rather than scientific consensus. Dr. Maslowski clarified that his research identifies polar ice "beyond 2020," even though Gore's formal statement stubbornly maintained the five-year window based on the U.S. Navy data.
Gore's latest blunder is hardly his first eco-faux pas. In 2007 the High Court in London identified nine errors in Gore's film An Inconvenient Truth, which the UK government had sent to all secondary schools in England. The judge in the case stated were it not for the government's follow up sending information explaining the mainstream scientific position on the errors to the schools, he would have ruled its distribution of the film an "unlawful contravention of an Act of Parliament prohibiting the political indoctrination of children," reported the Science of Public Policy Institute. The errors claim human-generated greenhouse gases are at fault for:
1. forcing a sea level rise of 6 meters (20 feet) in the near future;
2. drowning low-lying Pacific islands in coming decades;
3. plunging Europe into an ice age;
4. driving up levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, thereby dangerously increasing temperatures (The High Court found even the research on which Gore based his film made clear throughout history increases in CO2 concentration have followed rather than preceded increases in global temperatures.);
5. melting the snow on Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa;
6. drying up Lake Chad in Africa;
7. creating Hurricane Katrina;
8. killing polar bears; and
9. bleaching coral reefs.
When a reporter questioned him recently at a press conference about whether he plans to correct the errors, Gore dodged the question, and the journalist was forced from the microphone.
Gore's latest fib at Copenhagen in the wake of Climategate casts even more doubt over climate science and the work taking place at Copenhagen that skeptics say is intended to set up an energy-regulating global government. Lord Christopher Monckton, former policy advisor to UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told Glen Beck on his November 8 broadcast the Framework Convention on Climate Change being negotiated now in Copenhagen says, "there is going to be a world government." He went on to explain specific provisions in the treaty. "I've negotiated international treaties... I've interpreted them. I've even written them. And never before have I seen the word 'government' put in a treaty in this capacity. They're going to close down the free market... They're going to take powers in that treaty to operate in interference of and control of all financial markets worldwide. They are going to take a tax of two percent on every financial transaction into... a rich country like America."
Monckton credited the idea of global government based on environmental regulation to Sir Maurice Strong, who set up the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 25 years ago for that purpose. He accused Jacques Chirac and Al Gore of carrying Strong's torch. "This is something which is being menaced everywhere you look. And now they've put the word government in the treaty, and they have given this body powers which I have never seen transferred before to any transnational entity by any treaty, ever."
Photo of Al Gore: AP Images


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A friend to Brightworks School needed a temporary home for four baby goats this week while she attended a conference… and where else would those goats stay but our school!
Not only are they the newest kids (pun intended) to experience a day in the life at Brightworks, but they've become excellent teaching tools as we move on from the history of San Francisco to how cities work. If we think about the school as a city, the question becomes: What do you do with goat poop? Will they be a problem to solve (where their excrement ends up), or can they become part of the solution (a part of composting)? We have a week to work it out while learning more about how cities deal with waste, transportation, and constantly-changing needs of their citizens.
The younger kids hung around school today to explore trash in the neighborhood. The first stop was the corner Starbucks with Chane, where a few of the six- and seven-year-olds examined the bins and counted the numbers of people using reusable cups compared to the paper cups.
Some of the other kids went with Josh to explore the taxonomy of shopping carts. Incredibly, there's a whole classification system for carts, and they were able to find seven in the neighborhood, particularly near the Potrero Center up the hill.
In the meantime, the older kids went on an excursion to the South San Francisco Scavenger Company – aka the dump – and the Ox Mountain landfill.
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Though Gallucci will not be directly replaced as CEO, Dominic Shales has been promoted to the vacant role of MD and will lead the Next 15 Group agency alongside chairman and former ad man Stephen Woodford.
Woodford, who joined last winter, told PRWeek that Gallucci was leaving Lexis to set up a marketing software company.
He said that the departure of Gallucci, who took on the CEO role in 2011 following the resignation of Margot Raggett, had been a "carefully managed process internally", adding:
"Jason has been working on this idea for some time and when I joined making this transition was on the cards."
Gallucci departs amid moves by Lexis to diversify, with the agency recently hiring Red Bull's Tessa Barrerra to lead its social offer.
Woodford, who denied Gallucci's departure was linked to the changes, said: "It's about trying to broaden our capabilities so we can become a more integrated partner to our clients.
"PR is at the core of what we do, but in a world where earned media is becoming ever more important PR agencies are as well placed to be integrated brand leaders as advertising agencies have been, and you should expect to see more of that from us over the coming months."
Shales steps into the role having been head of digital, planning and content following the acquisition of his agency Paratus Communications in 2012.
Next 15 Group CEO Tim Dyson said: "We extend our thanks to Jason Gallucci, for the work he's done in repositioning Lexis as an earned-media agency driving marketing success for its clients through the power of recommendation.
"We wish him all the best for the future. But I'm excited by the new leadership of Lexis. Stephen Woodford brings deep marketing experience that extends into the paid and owned arena through his work with DDB, while Dominic Shales brings strong digital capability. Putting this mix of skills at the top of the agency is a clear sign of where we see the future for Lexis."


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Open Source Bridge 2011 sessions
Open Source Bridge will take place June 21-24, 2011 in Portland, Oregon.
Sort by: Title, Track ∧, Scheduled time
* Diary of an Open Source Sysadmin Entrepreur
Half the story of the building of Puppet Labs and half instruction on how to build your own company, Luke Kanies, the founder of Puppet and Puppet Labs, will tell how he built his company and product and how you can, too.
|Luke Kanies
* Drupal Distributions, an Open Source Product Model
Drupal has the ability to bundle contributed modules, configurations and settings, and custom code into a single package that can be easily installed and further configured by end users. The end result is an application-in-a-box focused on a specific set of requirements. Now that you or your business has invested hundreds or even thousands of hours creating your masterpiece, what do you do with it?
|Lev Tsypin
* How 5 People with 4 Day Jobs in 3 Time Zones Enjoyed 2 Years Writing 1 Book
Hear how a distributed team tackled a big project (a book about a large open source project) in our spare time. Along the way, we encountered tools, techniques, and working styles that may be useful to you in your own career—or at least serve as a humorous warning.
|Ian Dees
* How Governments are Building Communities with Open Source
This session will provide examples of major government uses of open source technology, and provide some examples and case-studies of how government is contributing to open source and the web.
|Chris Strahl
* How to Ask for Money
Have a project that just needs some cash to get off the ground? Need someone to fund beer and food for an event? Have a great idea and want to get paid for implementing it? Come find out how we did it.
|Selena Deckelmann, J Chris Anderson, Teyo Tyree
* Improving Estimates for Web Projects
How many times have you received an email or phone call from a potential client who describes their project in a few sentences and expects a formal proposal the next day? This session will address this seemingly impossible task by going over the method we have created at OpenSourcery to estimate web projects. This method has helped us work with clients to prioritize functionality, set realistic schedules, and has improved our ability to close sales.
|Alex Kroman
* Keeping Agile at the Heart of the Internet
BIND is the nameserver which runs 80% of DNS world wide... It is maintained by a non profit managed open source company and driven by an international user and developer community. What does product management, using scrum, on an open source project, with developers on three continents, look like?
|Larissa Shapiro
* Learn Tech Management In 45 Minutes
It took me two years to get a master's in tech management. I save you $40K and give you the short version.
|Sumana Harihareswara
* Marketing: You're Soaking In It!
Come join me as I dispel some of the clouds of pollution which obscure the name of marketing, show how it can help your projects, reveal how--whether you realize it or not--you already use marketing every day and how that's a very good thing indeed.
|VM Brasseur
* Open Source at Microsoft - Less Evil and More Organized Than You'd Think
There's more real open source going on at Microsoft than you'd think.
|Scott Hanselman
* Open Sourcing Your Legacy Project: A Game of Adventure, Danger and Low Cunning
You are an employee of COMPANY. COMPANY is investigating open sourcing PROJECT. You will explore some of the most obscure and frustrating territory as you lead this effort. Hardened leads have run screaming from the terrors of this undertaking!
|VM Brasseur
* Pulling the Plug
In order to keep a tree healthy, you have to prune its branches. This too is the case with an organization's websites and projects. Let's look at how Mozilla handles the end-of-life portion of a website's life-cycle.
|Ryan Snyder
* Sales-fu
Tricky to master. Sometimes the last thing you care about. (Let me code already, dammit.) However, a small amount of work on your sales-fu will pay off. So let's do this thing.
|Amye Scavarda
* Starting and Scaling a Startup Outside of the Silicon Valley
Join Michael Richardson, a cofounder of Urban Airship, as he elaborates on the decisions around creating a startup outside of Silicon Valley, how to keep your head above water, and how to find and manage a team during explosive growth.
|Michael Richardson
* The Independent Software Developer
So you love open source? Spend more time doing what you love: go into business for yourself.
|Peat Bakke
* Turning Mediocre Products Into Awesome Products
A holistic approach to design for people through sketching, product blueprints, and team overlap (used by Apple and others).
|Jeremy Britton
* Beaming Up With Alien and Lua
lua is an extension language that is used in everything from mail filters to World of Warcraft. Learn how you can script C libraries with lua and alien.
|Brandon Philips
* Cookies are Bad for You: Improving Security on the Web
Almost every web application relies on cookies to authenticate each request after the user logs in. Cookies are vulnerable to cross-site request forgery and session hijacking. It is time to explore better, more secure alternatives that are now possible thanks to practical in-browser cryptography.
|Jesse Hallett
* Doing NoSQL with SQL
How to use the new NO-SQL MariaDB features from SQL.
|Sarah Novotny
* Gearman: From the Worker's Perspective
Many people view topics like Map/Reduce and queue systems as advanced concepts that require in-depth knowledge and time consuming software setup. Gearman is changing all that by making this barrier to entry as low as possible with an open source, distributed job queuing system.
|Brian Aker
* Geek Fitness: Your Body is not Just Transportation for Your Brain
Optimize your productivity by keeping your body healthy. Learn how to prevent 'laptop back' and RSI; extend your workday by taking care of your body.
|Kurt Sussman
* GraphViz: The Open-Source Body Scanner for Code, Systems, and Data
Do you generate, manage, or analyze a lot of data? Do you develop software? Do you like pretty pictures? If your answer was "yes" to zero or more of these questions, this talk is for you.
|Matt Youell
* OSWALD: Lessons from and for the Open Hardware Movement
Envisioned as a cutting-edge computing platform that would encourage students to tinker with all the latest developments in the mobile space without fear of breaking their own gadgets, the initial version of the OSWALD project out of OSU failed in several key areas. In this talk, Tim will explore lessons learned from OSWALD and how they can help the open hardware and open education communities.
|Tim Harder
* Open Source GIS Desktop Smackdown
See the leading open source GIS desktop systems solve real world problems.
|David Percy, Darrell Fuhriman, Christian Schumann-Curtis
* Parrot: State of the VM
Parrot is an ambitious and long-lived project that aims to be a VM for interoperable dynamic language implementation. We'll take a look at what Parrot's developers have been doing of late, what kind of awesome goodies we've plundered from the OSS world and where we want to go in the next year.
|Christoph Otto
* Previously Untitled Meditation on the Zen of Python
In a language that strongly enforces a formatting style on the programmer, keeping it "pythonic" is only the tip of what makes python a wonderful, but confusing language. See what all the fuss is about in this introduction to the styles and nuances of the Python programming language and the tools you should be using when writing it.
|Dan Colish
* Qs on Queues
Not sure what queuing system to use for your next project? How about the differences between broker vs direct queue services? What is a good fit for cloud vs your own data center? This session gathers information from open source queuing projects to help answer these questions and more. Queues are part of almost every scalable website and application, it's time to find the best fit for yours.
|Eric Day
* Scaling with MongoDB
MongoDB is a popular new document-based non-relational database. Like all new technologies learning its strengths and weaknesses while trying to support a quickly growing dataset is trying.
|Michael Schurter
* So, You Want to Make a Map?
Practical cartographic geekery for accidental and padawan mapmakers: a crash course in Mapping 101 where we'll talk about the anatomy of maps and what you need to know when creating them. Topics include cartographic standards, projections, visualization, and the fine art of finding, deciphering, and using geodata and metadata. Included will be examples of the good, the bad, and the ugly, as well as resources for further exploration.
|Sarah Beecroft, Darrell Fuhriman
* The Current State of OAuth 2
If you've ever written any code to authenticate wtih Twitter, you may have been confused by all the signature methods and base strings. You'll be happy to know that OAuth 2 has vastly simplified the process, but at what cost?
|Aaron Parecki
* The History of Concurrency
With node.js brining callbacks back into fashion and new languages like Go baking concurrency primitives directly into the language syntax, it can be difficult to keep straight what different concurrency approaches offer, what their shortcomings are, and what inspired them.
|Michael Schurter
* The Locker Project, TeleHash, and You
Get an introduction to what these projects are, how they can help you with your personal data, and what kinds of exciting things are being built atop them.
|Jeremie Miller
* "Don't Give that Book Away!": Why Every Project Needs an Open Source Book
So your project needs a book? Do you write it yourself, or do you approach a publisher? This talk walks you through everything that factors into this decision providing real world examples of projects and companies offering open source books.
|Tim O'Brien
* A Dozen Databases in 45 Minutes
What OSS database to use is an important decision, but recently languishing in the shadow of the sexier "what framework should I use" talks - or underplayed as though the battle were only SQL v noSQL. If your understanding of data storage tops out at "Mongo is webscale" or "mysql + memcached = win" then this talk is for you.
|Eric Redmond
* CoApp -- An open source package management system for Windows
The CoApp project is bringing real open-source style package management to Windows; this session demonstrates the basics of creating and consuming CoApp packages.
|Garrett Serack
* Composing Software Systems
If you can't reproduce your work reliably then you can't maintain it. You may get by for a while with ad-hoc build/release/deployment processes, but sooner or later they'll bite you. We'll present a new practical approach to assembling both software products and installed systems, drawing inspiration from sources including the functional programming community, commercial software projects, large IT deployments, and Linux distributions like Debian. Slides available at http://apters.com/osbridge2011.pdf
|Jamey Sharp, Josh Triplett
* Cooking GeoData with PostGIS
Importing, managing, correcting, reprojecting and mashing up geodata with PostGIS and OGR
|Larry Price
* Creating Your Specific Live GNU/Linux Distribution with Debian Live Build
How to use Debian live build to create a specific live GNU/Linux distribution. It will be illustrated by these 3 live distributions: Clonezilla live, DRBL live, and GParted live, special live GNU/Linux distributions for system imaging/cloning, diskless linux, and graphical partition editor, respectively.
|Steven Shiau, Chenkai Sun, Yao-Tsung Wang, Thomas Tsai
* DNSSEC @ Mozilla
As the Internet world moves slowly towards implementing DNSSEC, this session aims to start at the basics of DNSSEC and goes on to discuss implementation details as well as best practices, some of the most common mistakes that happen during and after deployments and finally what's in store for the near future.
|Shyam Mani
* Data Science in the Open
Data Science promises to transform ubiquitous and cheap data into insights with the potential for great social, scientific and personal value. I will provide a lightning tour of high level theory, concepts, and tools to extract knowledge and value from data.
|John Taylor
* Data Warehousing 101
ETL. OLAP. BIDW. ELT. M/R. MPP. Windowing. Matviews. Data Marts. Column Stores. Are you at sea in a tidal surge of arcane terminology, trying to cope with big data problems?
|Josh Berkus
* Designing Error Aggregation Systems
So often we're solely focused on the performance of our production systems. When disaster strikes, your team needs to know when error conditions begin, where they're coming from, frequency, and an indication of the last time they occurred. Parsing logs isn't fast enough, and email can't keep up or preserve metadata.
|Gavin McQuillan
* Fast VoIP: Build Your Own Asterisk Server in Less Than an Hour
Methods of communication are constantly evolving, and traditional phone systems can not keep up. Open source phone systems allow for infinite possibilities for customizing the way we interact with each other. This session will walk through setting up your own Asterisk IP PBX from bare-metal to making calls.
|Jonathan Thurman
* Getting Started with FPGAs and HDLs
Lots of attention has been given to GPUs for speeding up certain types of computations. While GPUs are very well suited for vector operations, there are other things they are not so well suited for. FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) are not used as widely yet, but they offer a much more flexible computing fabric than GPUs. You can implement a GPU in an FPGA, for example, or you could implement your own custom processor optimized for very specialized tasks. The barrier to entry can be high for FPGAs: how does a person with a software development background get started using them? And what about HDLs (Hardware Description Langauges) used to program FPGAs? What's the difference between simulation and synthesis? What kinds of tools are freely available? These are some of the questions that will be addressed in this session.
|Phil Tomson
* Getting Started with Semantic Web Applications
Leave rigid tables behind, and work with your data as a graph, using standard web data schemas.
|Leif Warner, Brian Panulla
* Hands-on Virtualization with Ganeti
Ganeti is a cluster virtualization management software tool built on top of existing virtualization technologies such as Xen or KVM and other Open Source software. This hands-on tutorial will give an overview of Ganeti, how to install it, how to get started deploying VMs, & administrative guide to Ganeti. The tutorial will also cover installing & using Ganeti Web Manager as a web front-end.
|Lance Albertson, Peter Krenesky
* Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Meta-Programming Techniques for Java
You'll learn about the techniques needed to transform classes at runtime, adding new behaviors and addressing cross-cutting concerns. The presentation will discuss a new framework for this specific purpose, but also draw examples from the Apache Tapestry web framework, which itself is rich in meta-programming constructs.
|Howard Lewis Ship
* Inclusive Design From The Start
More and more FOSS projects are benefiting from a formal design process. This is an opportunity to see accessibility as a design requirement and integrate into earlier stages of the project's cycle as opposed to the afterthought it often is. In this talk we will see what a design process that integrates universal design looks like, and open the floor to discussion about inclusivity in design.
|Eitan Isaacson
* Intro to CouchDB
Overview of Apache CouchDB, who is using it, and how you can too.
|J Chris Anderson
* Inviting Contributors to Open Source Webdev through Virtualization
The bar to contribution in Open Source web development projects can be lowered through the use of devops tools and virtual machine technologies.
|Les Orchard
* JavaScript Up and Down the Stack
|Mikeal Rogers
* King of the Data Jungle
In this puppet show, a wise lion coaches an eager but inexperienced mouse through the process of normalization and (equally important) denormalization.
|Melissa Hollingsworth
* Massively Scaling Django for a Global Audience with Playdoh
Django is a great web application framework that allows for rapid web app development out of the box. Since Mozilla picked up Django in 2009, they've started over a dozen Django-based projects. For these sites to scale to an international audience of millions of users, bells and whistles were needed that a stock Django instance does not offer. Playdoh combines the experience of these projects into a template that contains various fixes and add-ons to make professional Django apps fast, featuring aggressive caching, instant localization support, and bullet-proof security.
|Frederic Wenzel
* Modern Perl Made Painless
Improvements in Perl 5 over the past several years allow great programmers to do great things with less code. You too can turn your Perl 5 code from mere scripting into powerful, clear, and modern programming--with help from a few tools the world's best Perl programmers already know and love.
|Chromatic X
* No More Joins
Everything you learned about database modeling is wrong. At least for document databases like CouchDB and MongoDB. Learn about these differences, the trade-offs, the use cases, and put it all in practice in a discussion about a real-life document database problem. Unlearn SQL habits and relax.
|Nuno Job, J Chris Anderson, Roger Bodamer
* Preventing Runtime Errors at Compile Time
Are you tired of null pointer exceptions, unintended side effects, SQL injections, concurrency errors, mistaken equality tests, and other run-time errors that appear during testing or in the field? A compile-time tool named the Checker Framework has found hundreds of such errors. Oracle plans to include it in the Java 8 javac, but you can use it today to improve your code and avoid errors.
|David Lazar, Michael Ernst, Werner Dietl
* Put THAT in Your Pipe and Deploy It!
A deployment pipeline combines several development best practices, fully automated and taken to their logical extreme. The result is almost magical: changesets go in one end, and fully-tested software packages come out the other. We'll take a tour of the components of a deployment pipeline, with concrete examples showing how to use Hudson, Rake, and Puppet to deploy PHP projects.
|David Brewer
* Read the Docs: A Completely Open Source Django Web Site
Read the Docs is a documentation hosting site for the community. It was built in 48 hours in the 2010 Django Dash. In January 2010 it had 100,000 page views, and increases daily. I will talk about all of the code to deploy and run a sizable Django site. We will go through the highlights and interesting parts of the code, as well as some of the lessons learned from the site being open source.
|Eric Holscher
* Run Your Javascript Everywhere, with Jellyfish.
|Adam Christian
* Similar, But Not The Same: Designing Projects Around Three Open Datasets
The traits of an 'open' dataset -- factors like accuracy, geographic scope and copyright entanglements -- shape the development process in profound ways. I'll share what I've learned building projects around heritage trees, public art and poetry posts in Portland, and extrapolate a blueprint for evaluating and planning open data projects.
|Matt Blair
* Technical Debt
Technical debt is something that most project teams or independent developers have to deal with - we take shortcuts to push out releases, deadlines need to be met, quick fixes slowly become the standard. In this talk, we will discuss what technical debt is, when it is acceptable and when it isn't, and strategies for effectively managing it, both on an independent and team level.
|Elizabeth Naramore
* Testing Antipatterns
Tests are great - except when they aren't. Learn how to avoid writing tests that are more trouble than they're worth.
|Matt Robinson
* The Big Data Exploratorium: Data Mining, from Patents to Memes
Learn to use simple natural language processing and graph analysis tools in Python and R to explore the structure of the dataverse. From Reddit to the USPTO to Google Books, come try some data hacks!
|Noah Pepper, Devin Chalmers
* The Open Cloud
Why be locked into a cloud vendor? Shouldn't Cloud be Open Cloud and powered by Open Source software? Open Stack is a collection of open source technologies to deliver a cloud operating system. Learn about Open Stack and how to use it to deliver your own Open Source powered clouds.
|James Turnbull, Eric Day
* User, User, Who Art Thou?
What's going on in the mind of the user as they use your system? Did they choose it, or was it chosen for them? Do they like it or hate it? How can you tell? This talk discusses the types of users that exist, and their motivations.
|Jacinta Richardson
|Chris Pitzer
* ePUB - What, Why, and How
ePUB is the open e-book standard. Building on previous open standards, the ePUB format allows for flexible and flowing documentation, perfect for viewing on a variety of devices where the forced page sizing of other formats fails. We'll crack open some ePUB files and take a look at the innards and then we'll check out some tools to make ePUB generation less painful.
|Jason LaPier
* "Why did you do that?" You're more automated than you think.
Your brain is really good at surviving in neolithic Africa, but not because of our powers of higher levels of thought; they're much too slow. Humans are so successful as a species because we're champions at automating things, including our own thoughts and behaviours. What's fascinating is that we're profoundly unaware of just how much our own lives run on automatic, and just how much our own behaviour is influenced by external factors. Join internationally acclaimed speaker Paul Fenwick as we examine the fascinating world of the human mind.
|Paul Fenwick
* A Tangled Tale
Forum-based interactive learning is an important open tech community activity. We will look at a storytelling-based example from the past.
|Bart Massey
* Bitcoin 101
An introduction to the cryptocurrency system called Bitcoin. The cryptography, the economics of currency bootstrapping, and the traction its getting today.
|Don Park
* Get 'Em While They're Young: Cultivating the Next Generation of Open Source Contributors
Many open source projects participate in college mentorship programs, but what about younger students? Should we be cultivating the next generation of contributors from an earlier age?
|Jane Wells
* Give a Great Tech Talk
Why do so many technical presentations suck? Make sure that yours doesn't. Josh Berkus and Ian Dees will show you how to share your ideas with your audience by speaking effectively and (when the situation warrants it) showing your code.
|Ian Dees, Josh Berkus
* Hacker Dojo: Anarchy with Respect
Imagine an open source project was an actual place: a place where people volunteer to make something better; contribute their time, knowledge and resources; a place to share ideas or just to get work done. Hacker Dojo is for hackers and thinkers and this session will describe how the open source ethos can successfully be applied to a physical space.
|Kitt Hodsden
* How Python Saved 263 Lives, and Our Sanity
Faced with bit rot, expired proprietary software, and imminent collapse, we spent 2 weeks re-inventing a tsunami casualty simulator using open-source technologies. Come hear about the pitfalls, the elation, and how switching to an open stack changes the economics of city planning.
|Jonathan Karon
* Is your Community Connecting to the Future?
Are you taking the underlying infrastructure that allows you to do the cool stuff you do online for granted? Do you think that ubiquitous, affordable, high speed broadband will just happen? Merger mania in the telecommunications arena means we prosumers will have less and less of a choice in our connectivity options. What role can communities play in ensuring broadband communications infrastructure and connectivity strategies promote openness, and improve accessibility and responsiveness of government to citizens.
|Mary Beth Henry
* Kick Asana
"Yoga for Geeks", sometimes known as "Yoga for Long-Haul Travelers", returns to Open Source Bridge! Come with your stiff shoulders, sore wrists, tight hips and aching back. Leave with ideas on how to incorporate 5 minutes of practice into your busy day to care for your body and mind.
|Sherri Koehler
* Law is Code, and We're Here to Open Source It
Anyone can show how to save the world. We tell how to receive unsolicited love letters while doing it.
|Robb Shecter, Lisa Hackenberger
* Learn Open Source Skills Without Embarrassing Yourself
New contributors are often intimidated the first time they appear in public to share a tarball, submit a patch, or open an IRC client. What if they could practice within "training levels" for open source contribution? This talk introduces the OpenHatch training missions, an open-source, interactive, entertaining way to learn the tools and culture of our community.
|Asheesh Laroia
* Morning Keynote - Hacking for Freedom
The last year has shown the Internet and computers to be a major force for freedom and self-determination around the world. The presenter discusses his work as a hacktivist. Working with Anonymous and Telecomix, he has helped organized protests in support of WikiLeaks, provided communications support to Egypt and the Middle East, and generally fought the good fight.
|Peter Fein
* Mozilla School of Webcraft @P2PU
P2PU School of Webcraft: Web developer training that's free, open and globally accessible.
|John Britton
* Online Community Metrics: Tips and Techniques for Measuring Participation
Do you know what people are really doing in your open source project? Having good community data and metrics for your open source project is a great way to understand what works and what needs improvement over time, and metrics can also be a nice way to highlight contributions from key project members. This session will focus on tips and techniques for collecting and analyzing metrics from tools commonly used by open source projects. It's like people watching, but with data.
|Dawn Foster
* Open Source Communities Panel
Learn from open source community leaders who work on projects big and small.
|Audrey Eschright, Asheesh Laroia, Noirin Plunkett, Jane Wells, Chris Strahl
* Open Source: Open to whom?
What makes the culture of open source so hostile to women and how can we as individuals act to change it?
|Valerie Aurora
* Open Source: Saving the World
Most of us get involved with open source as a way to solve the problems we face on a day-to-day basis. But technology in general, and open source software in particular, also provides the key to solving the more catastrophic problems that people face around the world today.
|Noirin Plunkett
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Jan 20, 2011
The purpose of my blog…
Apart from those who comment, do you know who else reads your blog? I know for a fact that my family, back in India, with the exception of my brother does not read it. For them it is just a hobby I indulge in, especially since I didn't cook much for the first 27 years of my life.
It doesn't matter that this blog has been a launching pad for a long due apology to my mom for my bratty behavior when I was in my troublesome teens. It has been a platform to pen an ode to my grandma and the battered heirlooms she passed on to me. Have they read any of it? No. For them, if I am not working in an "office" and bringing home a paycheck, it is a hobby. (In their defense, my grandma does not own a computer and my mom is not computer savvy or refuses to be one.)
Then there are friends of mine from college days who sometimes drop by to catch up and once in a while leave a comment. But these are few and far in between. Recently, one of these friends, let's call him Y (because his name starts with it), told me that he could not figure out the purpose of my blog. When a good friend of 20 years can't figure out the purpose of a blog which is titled Desi Soccer Mom, the writer of the said blog has to pause and do some soul searching.
The blog was started, like most things in my life, with an impulse and no clue. If I had done some research, I would have gone with Wordpress just because they have so much cooler templates than blogger (no offense blogspot). As it happens, I went with blogger.
It is true I did not have a purpose in mind when I opened my template and started writing. In the beginning it was an attempt to chronicle the goings-on in my life, which, now that I think of, are not that interesting. The kiddo had just started preschool, I had a few hours to myself and this seemed like a good way to brush up on my writing skills. To be honest, the skills needed more than just brushing. They needed to be sanded, scrubbed, brushed and polished. (The polishing is still going on and hopefully will never end.)
Like most desis I know I too cook almost every day, to the great surprise of my American neighbors. It was natural that writing about food or about my life somewhat overlapped. Once the food was put to pen, I couldn't stop, not because I am a great cook or everything I cook is finger licking good. Heck, I am not even a versatile cook like some bloggers I know.
I am however, what I like to call, an evolving cook. In my dictionary, an involving cook is one who does not follow a recipe to a T or stresses over just the right ingredients the recipe calls for. Ok, that may be because I am incapable of following a recipe to a T and I never plan in advance for a recipe, so I am forced to innovate substitute garam masala with sabzi masala and sometimes omit the dhana-jeera because I have run out of it. I have been known to use red chili powder instead of green chilies because I was too lazy to chop them.
So, why do I blog mostly about food, but sometimes also about the books I read? It is certainly not intended as collection of recipes for Jr. who is as picky an eater as I was till I started college. I also do not have scores of followers waiting with bated teeth for me to post a recipe. Maybe it is because I like the fact that I created something edible and possibly delicious that my friends and family liked. I think that warrants it getting recorded, possibly for posterity on the world web.
I do love reading books and our book club directs me to books I may never have chosen or found out about on my own. So instead of reading the labels on the back of processed foods, I pick up a book every month, read it, review it and sometimes cook from it. Reading well constructed sentences and clever use of words gives me pleasure no amount of dark chocolate can. Never mind that I savor the dark cocoa confection while I devourer the book.
My last post, some months ago, was a piece of fiction I wrote for one of the finest bloggers to grace the blogging world. I have to admit, I have enjoyed the attention garnered by my fiction pieces. In fact, my fiction posts seem to be more popular than my food posts. Does that give me another purpose to keep blogging? Possibly yes. Because as much as I blog for me and me alone, I also like the little bit of attention I sometimes get.
Which brings me to the second part of the story, It takes two to err..., that all of you have been waiting for me to post and that I haven't finished writing yet. But I am working on it and hopefully, will post it sooner than later.
As to the purpose of my blog, well, I have to say, I still am not sure what it is. Maybe it is the pleasure of knowing that my words are read and appreciated. Maybe the thrill of knowing that my recipes, stories and anecdotes, no matter how lame or corny, have been recorded on the invisible tracks of the internet for posterity.
I know for certain that I enjoy the comments that start to trickle in a couple of hours after I post something. I certainly feel lucky to have made some wonderful friends through this blog, friends who have indulged me in my rants and patiently answered my questions about their photography skills.
I guess, above all, it is the unbridled pleasure of knowing that Desisoccermom is MY space to write whatever it is I want, when I want or not. There are no pesky editors, no demanding boss or nagging overseer. It is my domain, to do as I please or take a three month break if it pleases me.
If you haven't drifted off to another blog by now, let me ask you this: what is the purpose of your blog?
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Purpose? To say whatever the heck I want to say and get away with it. ;-)ReplyDelete
That sounds good to me. :)ReplyDelete
Welcome back to the club :)ReplyDelete
Great to see you back Jaya!ReplyDelete
Am yet to know the purpose of my blog ... except that I can share my recipes and a wee bit of my life there ... and also make friends. :-)
Purpose of my Blog:To write what I cook and then cook what I write @ Cilantro.ReplyDelete
My blog is my cookbook for my daughter which one day I am hopeful will be useful for her who of course does not seem to enjoy Indian food as we do. My mother passed on a hand written one to me and so will I thru Cilantro.
It has been a pleasure having some friends and to read their wonderful comments along the process.
First all welcome back Jaya. It is good to see you back in action & I love this rant, apt to the current circumstances where some ppl consider blogging as a sort of addiction than a pleasurable experience. It is sad but it is true. I like you becoz you are different. You write when you want to write.ReplyDelete
Likewise, I cook when I want to cook. The purpose of my blog is to get my hands-on as many different recipes I can. Otherwise, I would be this lazy snob who feeds on dal-chawal everyday. :-). and the blogging exp definitely did one good thing to me - gave some dear friends whom I look upon to.
Hope to see you around longer this time.
Can I copy your post to my blog? :-)) It felt like I was reading my inner voice...ReplyDelete
My draft on this topic is now obsolete. I will just link your post for my readers. :-))
As one of your newer readers/followers, I wasn't sure why(Let me clarify: MY overburdened memory, not a critique on your blog) I had added your link to my blogroll several months back---you just validated that decision of mine. I like what I read here at DSM.ReplyDelete
And in answer to your question: why do I blog? Because I like it.
I second Deepika. As with the New Years and resolutions/revolutions, I've been going through the same thought process. Why exactly do I blog. And maybe the lack of a purpose explains my infrequent posting.Lovely write-up Jaya.ReplyDelete
Thank you girls for sharing. :)ReplyDelete
Siri, you always manage to perk me up with your comments. Thank you. :)
Deepika, go ahead. :)
GB, thank you for that and welcome to DSM. :)ReplyDelete
Ann, thank you girl.
nice to see you back Jaya:-)ReplyDelete
The purpose of my blog: Hmm... I did start it with a purpose of record all my recipes that I had been writing down in a diary from 15 years back. I do say I love it and it has gone beyond that for me. I love it as I have learned a lot more about cooking than I did for the past so many years that I have been cooking. I enjoy trying out new recipes, & I feel there not have been a better way than blogging to learn and get exposed. The purpose now is slowly branching off to photography. I do find it as an outlet of creativity, which I still hope i have within me. Last not the last, I have connected with some lovely people.
I do LOVE your space Jaya, tho' I know I do not always leave a comment.:-( esp. your writing. and I learn about food from every space including yours.
purpose now thats a difficult one,..because in my blog posts i share almost everything,about myself my son,..:-)ReplyDelete
nice post and ya glad to cee u back,.
Well, hello there and welcome back!ReplyDelete
It is good - no, refreshing, to see a blog like yours, Jaya, which is there really for the pleasure of blogging, unlike for some others for whom it is an addiction, or a race for popularity.
I started blogging because I was a SAHM, and getting bored with not too many things to offer any mental stimulation. I had a blog earlier and used to love blogging. Since cooking was a newfound passion, a food blog happened.
I continue to blog because I love the boundaries blogging is helping me stretch - in writing, in photography and in cooking.
Soma, Notyet100, Aqua, thank you for sharing and yes, I am glad to be back too. :)ReplyDelete
So glad to see yor post Jaya :) and hope to see u around often ;)..ReplyDelete
Purpose of my blog..Well started coz i had sooo much of free time n one of my buddy wanted some recipes to try n that's what got me started into blogging.
I am keeping it going as I am so keen on trying out new recipes and of course the number of people whom u meet thro blogging..
I like to drop by ur blog for the way u write and still remember the day I looked up ur blog when we were paired for T&C.. :)
Waiting for the remaining part of the fiction :)
I thought it would be a good outlet to share my love of food with fellow foodies, others get bored or amused listening to a foodie rattle on and on about food. It was also an outlet to write about things I had no writing outlet for :) And there is the feedback, which I don't get in my other ventures. I really have no greater purpose :)ReplyDelete
Jaya, a good read as always.ReplyDelete
I blog because I enjoy it and it's my sole hobby. I have always enjoyed cooking and trying out new stuff, but with blogging I have pushed my self to try and learn much more than I would have otherwise.
Also as a result of food blogging I have ventured into learning photography which now has become an addiction.
But best of all I like the fact that I can stay anonymous behind the scenes and present my recipes the way I liked them.
Hi Jaya, was eagerly waiting to read your post. And for sure come here more often to read your fiction pieces.ReplyDelete
I jumped into the bandwagon of food bloggers pretty late. And like the idea of writing, organizing and storing what I can cook or had cooked over the years apart from learning from fellow bloggers. And for the reason of getting to know lovely people whom I could never meet otherwise.
Best wishes.
YOur blog is you, so you can put whatever you want into it. That's just it the end of the day.ReplyDelete
My mom, some family and others I know also see my blogging as "I am not working in an "office" and bringing home a paycheck, it is a hobby". You'd be surprised to know the first question many people have asked me when thay find out I write a blog is "do you make any money?" !!! :D
But I'm used to it because I have had zillions of people ask me "how I spend my time at home doing nothing" after have got an education.
So go ahead and write what you want, and at your pace. I enjoy reading your posts.
And that reminds me, I need to write a post for the book club! :D
I almost thought you had stopped blogging! I never thought I would be into the third year of blogging. Initially it started off as rambling thoughts and the main readers were my daughters. Now it appears that they hop in occasionally and I have a few regular readers, which does make me feel good.ReplyDelete
Interesting food for thgout as I'm wondering this myself right now. I love blogging though- its just a matter of finding the time.ReplyDelete
To be honest, I didn't plan or learn what a blog is before starting. One fine day Vaishali from Holy Cow says in an email 'I think you should start a blog of your own. You know so much about baking' and there it was. If I had seen that there are tons of food blogs floating around, I would've kept my recipes to myself in a word document. Then it because like I have started it, I need to learn something out of it. I blog a lot. Almost 5 times a week. That is because I am making something different every day. I have done that for the past decade. And I record them here. I feel good when people send me an email or leave a comment saying they tried it and it came out nice or whatever. I feel most of the bloggers are looking for some response that they don't get around in their lives. I definitely don't get praised everyday for my cooking and heck I am an excellent cook. Am I obsessed about this? No. I can leave it just like that and be done with it if I decide to do so. Am I going after popularity - I don't think so. Since I have realized that there are way too many blogs out there and I can't compete with all of them. I just write and if someone wants to read it, they can or leave it. Hey, this is the longest comment you have got on this post - not necessarily a meaningful one. Take care and write whatever makes you feel good about it.ReplyDelete
Hey Jaya.. there doesn't have to be a purpose to every activity. Why do people do photography or painting or reading bestsellers for that matter.ReplyDelete
My blog has no purpose. It is just me having a bit of fun... just a place to offload my pakaau jokes! ;)
Thank you for visiting my space. I miss my former editors, so any form of criticism/ appreciation is welcome. :)


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Should Mid-South farmers be adding a residual herbicide to their glyphosate applications on Roundup Ready and Roundup Ready Flex cotton sooner rather than later?
Some growers have been applying residual herbicides at lay-by to try to prevent late flushes of problem weeds, such as Palmer amaranth, from germinating and producing more seed.
But studies by weed scientists indicate that may not be the best approach for forestalling glyphosate resistance in Palmer amaranth, a problem that is turning up in an increasing number of areas across Arkansas and other Mid-South states.
"When you apply Valor, which is very effective on pigweed, at lay-by, the computer models show we have about a 75 percent chance of Palmer amaranth developing resistance (to glyphosate) over time," says Ken Smith, Extension weed scientist with the University of Arkansas.
"If you add a residual herbicide to the burndown treatment with glyphosate (Roundup, Touchdown, others), it skews the resistance curve to the right (delays the onset of resistance) and reduces the probability to 35 percent."
Speaking at the Mid-South BMP Workshop sponsored by the National Cotton Council and The Cotton Foundation in Tunica, Miss., March 18, Smith said there's something to be said for trying to reduce the amount of weed seed going into the soil at the end of the growing season.
"We've been talking a lot about sustainability," he said. "Weed scientists think that one of a farmer's goals should be to have less weed seed in the soil at the end of the season. If you have more, then the system is not sustainable."
Smith and the University of Tennessee's Larry Steckel conducted the weed management portion of the BMP Workshop, which is built around the "First 40 Days" and "Fruiting to Finish" publications developed by Extension, university and USDA researchers and consultants with the assistance of the National Cotton Council and Bayer CropScience.
Steckel, Extension weed scientist with the West Tennessee Experiment Station in Jackson, Tenn., said the better name for the series from the weed science standpoint might be the "First 70 Days."
"The clock actually started in February," said Steckel. "Our experience shows that you've got to jump on weeds, particularly marestail or horseweed, when they are small if you want to get good control."
Research has shown that late February may offer the best window for applying herbicides on horseweed. For farmers in west Tennessee, where glyphosate resistance showed up in horseweed several years ago, that means a tank mix of dicamba (Clarity, Oracle, Banvel) with the burndown application of Roundup.
Although horseweed can emerge 10 or 11 months of the year, the two peak events are in February and March and in August and September. "With these dry springs, we've been getting less control of horseweed with dicamba," said Steckel, who acknowledged the problem might not be as severe with the rains that have been inundating the Mid-South in recent weeks.
"One of our problems is that we are seeing much larger populations of horseweed than in the past. Where we used to see 10 plants in a small area, we're seeing 20 to 25 and 85 percent control of 25 plants is not good enough. If you miss them with the dicamba, the game's over. You have to live with them the rest of the season."
Those and other weeds that emerge in early spring are more competitive in cotton than in other crops that may be better adapted to the cooler, wetter soils than cotton may be, according to weed scientists.
"If you control those weeds when they're small, they're not only easier to control, but you also eliminate the competition with cotton," says Jennifer Ralston, technology development manager with Monsanto.
Ralston, a member of Monsanto's weed resistance team, acknowledged that many farmers prefer to wait until later in the season to apply a residual herbicide so they only have to make one application.
"If you put a residual down early, it will provide better control and give you more flexibility," she said. "If you wait, you may have weather problems and not be able to get in the fields in a timely manner."
The choice of a residual herbicide can vary from one region to the other. Monsanto has been offering a new herbicide formulation called Parrlay that contains metolachlor, an older residual labeled for the control of more than 20 grasses and small-seeded broadleaf weeds.
Several Southern states have also requested and received registrations for fomesafen or Reflex, a soybean herbicide, for use on glyphosate-resistant Palmer amaranth in cotton. Reflex can be rainfall dependent in a region where rains can be hit and miss.
"There can be a difference in performance on sandy and silt loam and clay soils," says Ralston, "And, in the Mid-South, farmers have experienced splash-back problems — water can hit the soil surface and splash the herbicide on the cotton, causing injury."
Smith recommends that farmers use a residual herbicide such as Cotoran, Direx, Prowl or Caparol with their burndown herbicide. If no burndown application is made, they should use a residual herbicide at planting.
"The choice doesn't matter as long as you use a residual in one of those applications," he said. "We use a lot of Direx in Arkansas because we're cheap."
For over-the-top postemergence applications, Steckel says, growers should tank mix another herbicide with the Roundup or glyphosate spray; herbicides such as Dual (metolachlor) or Staple.
"Products such as Cotoran or Caparol can be tank-mixed with Roundup or hooded sprayer applications," he said. "Dual, especially, will provide good control of pigweed or Palmer amaranth."


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 38 diseños de 16 diseñadores freelance.
We are looking for an updated look of an existing logo. The name of the store is "Main Street Pizza (subs & more)", and it has been in business for 15 years using the "pizza guy" as its logo icon. We do not want to lose 15 years worth of branding, so the goal is for the new logo to be a more 'national' looking revision of the existing one. We reserve the right to end the contest early if we are happy with a submission.
Main Street Pizza considers its pizza to be top quality. They use only the best ingredients. They pride themselves on being a traditional and home-style pizza shop. Be creative... the only real restriction is the need to maintain some link to the past through the 'Pizza Guy' icon ... but it can be modified and upgraded significantly. There are 2 versions of the 'pizza guy' icon.... a head only and a full body. No need to do 2 versions, but i wanted you to see what they were currently doing. You can see their existing logo and its use by going to ftp://m-marketingconsultants.com
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