Hey everybody, what's going on? I am Greg Salsman joined today by Davis Matic of dailyroadroom.com, who's here to give you six future bets of teams to win the NBA championship this season. What's happening, Davis? You know, we're on NBA also, Greg. So we're trying to do anything we can to find something to gamble on. I got bets out on tennis matches today, Greg. So we definitely, we're scraping the bottom of the barrel. Hey, man, we gotta do what we gotta do. We gotta earn a living here. So that makes sense to me. So let's put some money and lock it in in the NBA and let's start out in LA with Los Angeles Lakers, one of the favorites to win it all. And you like them at plus 300. I know it's not exactly a great number, but why do you like the Lakers here at that number? So I actually, I actually do think it's pretty much a great number. I think the Lakers are the best team in the NBA. I think that LeBron in a playoff series is generally gonna be the best player you can have. I think Anthony Davis is one of the five best players and I think that their coaching has set them up to be successful and I have no concerns about health, about chemistry, any of those things. And you know, I basically do not feel that way about any other team in the NBA. I think that the Lakers collectively are pretty clearly the best team. All right, the Lakers are Davis' best team in the NBA and you get them at plus 300 when you got LeBron, you have AD and Frank Vogel doing a nice job this season coaching, he likes them at plus 300, there's value there.  That's not the only team that plays in Staple Center that you like here, Davis, because the Los Angeles Clippers are also at a good value. According to you. So the Clippers are the most talented team. I think the Lakers are the best team, but the Clippers have the best collection of talent. You know, they have Kawhi who went healthy is probably one of the three best players. They have Paul George, who's one of the 10 to 15 best players. They have Lou Williams, who's one of the best scoring guards. They have a center rotation with a defensive center and a scoring center, so they can switch that depending on the matchup, but they have health concerns. You know, Paul George basically has not been the same as to what he was in Oklahoma City and in Indiana after he had surgery on his torn labrums. We have Kawhi Leonard, who basically always has this knee injury and it really has changed the way he's played. Now he's still a great player, but it has changed the way he's played. I think that there are some coaching concerns there. And I think that there are some experience concerns with pretty much everyone other than Kawhi, but they are the most talented team. And if you look at the Western Conference odds, everyone else is so deep that I actually think there's a ton of value in just betting the Lakers and the Clippers. Two of the clear best teams in the West. A lot of people have already written it in stone. That's going to be the Lakers and the Clippers in the Western Conference finals. Get them both a plus 300. You don't really care who wins. You have a good shot in the NBA finals to lock in the Lakers and the Clippers. Let's move on away from Los Angeles here, Davis. And let's now go, well, to the Eastern Conference where the Philadelphia 76ers are plus 1,700 to win it all. They have the best home record in the NBA. They've only lost twice at Wells Fargo, but away from home, not nearly as good. No, they really are not nearly as good when they leave. But when we're going through this list, keep in mind, basically, I do not expect the Milwaukee Bucks to, you know, cakewalk to winning the Eastern Conference. And that's not the way it's priced on the Fan Dual Sports Book right now. They are actually plus 275 to win the NBA Championship. So the Bucks are the favorite. And I just think that, you know, it's very hard when your best player does not shoot three pointers. And the same is true for the 76ers. You know, their two best players don't really shoot three pointers, but you're getting a much better price. You know, they were a bounce shot away from being in the NBA finals last year. Imagine if they probably would have won if, you know, the Warriors would have sustained the same injuries. And now they're plus 1,700. And I actually think the team is probably a little bit better as currently constructed. So I really like this price. This is, to me, is the best price on the Fan Dual Sports Book. It won't be a cakewalk, four-mil walkie. So why don't you go with another team that has a legitimate shot to win the East and ultimately see what they can do in the finals. He likes the Philadelphia 76ers. It's a good number at plus 1,700. So lock it in now before the momentum starts to build in Philly. Heading back out West, the Clippers, they're not the number two team right now in the Western Conference. That would be the Denver Nuggets. And you can get them to win it all at plus 2,500. Nuggets learned a little bit last year and they pushed that knowledge into the NBA finals and beyond this year, Davis. It just feels like for my entire lifetime, the Denver Nuggets are gonna win 52 games, be the three seed and then losing the second round to the playoffs. It really just feels like that is their destiny as a team. But Nikola Jogic is an incredible player. I think their young guards have a lot of ceiling in a playoff series, kind of how we used to see those Spurs teams where they would, you know, you'd have Marco Bellanel, you'd have Patty Mills. You'd always have one of those guys who was capable of going, you know, four for four from three in the second quarter and just turning the game on its head. And I think the Nuggets kind of have some of that same potential.  And it's very hard for them to win a matchup against the Clippers or the Lakers. But, you know, the Clippers, they don't really have a great center rotation. And I think that they could potentially be the Clippers in a matchup, I think the Nuggets. So to me, that does make this price pretty intriguing. Nuggets are well-coached and they, I agree with you. Listen, they have been in the same spot for most of our entire lives, the Camarillo Anthony years and out here in the Nicolet-Yokic era. But if the Nuggets can do damage, man, as the number two seed is a tough place to play in Denver, I like the Nuggets here at plus $2,500. I think that's a good number. Let's head back out East where Miami Heat did a lot of damage at the NBA trade deadline and they got a lot tougher and toughness certainly can prevail in the playoffs. Yet, at 2,500, why do you think Miami has a shot? So I just think Miami's really good. They have really good players, right? They have Jimmy Butler, they have Bam out of bio, they have Kendrick Nunn, who's been one of the most surprising and impressive rookies. They have Tyler Hiero, who's been way better than anyone really thought he was gonna be in terms of being a shooter. And the fact that they have so many capable shooters, they have a center who in the playoffs, I mean, Bam could play 38 minutes a night in the playoffs, Jimmy could play 38, 40 minutes a night in the playoffs, and they're just a team that's not gonna beat themselves. Are they as talented as the Bucks or the 76ers? No, but they also are so much less likely to make mistakes. They are so much better coached than the 76ers are that they might even be favored over Philadelphia in a series. Heat are strong, they're dominant. They're a team that's gonna bully their way deep into the playoffs, and then you're right. Simply put, they're really good. So consider liking the Heat, because if it's not gonna be a cakewalk, four-mil walking, we'll see. The Heat has a good chance as anybody. So consider Miami when making your bets. One final team in the Eastern Conference that we have to mention here is the defending champs, the Toronto Raptors, who was just on the longest winning streak in the league this year, 15 games it went out to. That's of course without Kawhi Leonard. Why do you believe in Kyle Lowry and Nick Nurse to try to do it again? They're just good, man. The Toronto Raptors are a good basketball team. They have eight really good NBA rotation players, and they are one of the only Eastern Conference teams that can really say that, that every guy that they give minutes to is a competent NBA player. And I guess their issue is gonna be, do they have a star? And they really don't. Pascal kind of counts, but he doesn't shoot three-pointers, so they kind of have that same problem as Milwaukee, where if your best player doesn't shoot three-pointers, it's just really hard to win NBA games. But I kind of think that they might be like the third best Eastern Conference team, and they're not really priced that way. Totally. They're not priced that way. If people see what they are without Kawhi Leonard and they say, I love a superstar. They're not good enough. Pascal Siakum is that guy. They seem to get healthy. We know they're battle-tested, and having proven they could already win, they're going to be a tough out. I like the Raptors at this price as well. One final thing I want to ask you, Davis, before we wrap up, you said it's hard to bet on a team that doesn't have a true three-point threat. As their superstar. One team I noticed was not on your list was Houston Rockets, who has like seven three-point threats as their superstars. No love for the Rockets here? You're just not going to get me to publicly say that you should bet money on the Houston Rockets to win the NBA championship. I totally buy all of the organizational philosophies for the Rockets. I think that every team should more or less play the way that they do. I think people actually are bored of how great James Harden is. I think Russell Westbrook is playing the best basketball of his career, but it's very, very, very hard for me to see that team beating the Lakers or the Clippers. I actually think like the Nuggets are a worse matchup for those teams. And as a result of that, I just, and the price is fine. So if you wanted to bet it, whatever, but if you bet that, you definitely can't bet the Lakers or the Clippers. And that's why he's a lot smaller than I am. Davis Maddock, DailyRotor.com. We appreciate your time and we'll see you next time. Hey man, thanks for having me. And you know, just good luck making it through NBA All-Star break. And in order to get through the All-Star break, we got the WGC Mexico Championship, baby. We'll talk about it tomorrow with you and Jim Sones. Have a great night. We'll see you tomorrow.


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to Around the World in 8 Minutes, a show by People's Dispatch which brings you stories of resistance and struggles against capitalist exploitation and state repression. We first bring you breaking news from Bolivia, with security forces massacred at least five protesters demonstrating against the right-wing coup in the country. In the second segment, we go to India, bringing you voices from the fee-must-fall movement in Jawaharlal Nehru University and the International Windows Day march in New Delhi. Finally, we take a look at the custodial killing of an aboriginal teenager in Australia. Bolivian security forces killed as many as five protesters on November 15 in Sakaba, Cochabamba and gravely injured hundreds. The indigenous and peasant protesters who hail from Koka Farmer federations were attempting to march from the small city of Sakaba to the department's capital Cochabamba when they were met with a military and police cordon. As the peaceful march attempted to advance, soldiers and police officers fired at the protesters with tear gas canisters and life bullets. The protesters intended to march to the city of Cochabamba and to reach the country's capital La Paz on Sunday in order to join the thousands of Bolivians mobilizing against the civic military coup carried out against President Evo Morales and Vice President Alvaro Garcia-Linera. On November 12, right-wing Senator Jeanine Anez declared herself interim president of Bolivia in a session without quorum which would theoretically render the declaration illegitimate. Shortly after she was decorated with a tricolor sash by military officials, she thrust up a massive bible and proclaimed, the bible has returned to the palace. She was accompanied by right-wing leader Fernando Camacho who was one of the driving leaders of the pro-coup mobilizations. Now we go to India. Students from New Delhi based Jawaharlal Nehru University are continuing their protest against the massive hostile fee hike and curfew timings. On Tuesday, the university administration partially rolled back the fee hike after the executive committee meeting. The students in teachers union called this a hogwash and an attempt to fool the students as major demands remained unanswered. We spoke to JNUS representative Saqeet Moon to know about the partial rollback and what it actually means. This is a clear indication of the pressure that we managed to build upon the JATI ministry and the JNU administration. However, this is not what we wanted. This is a compromise. We are not fighting this movement for the last month to reach a compromise. We are fighting it so that our demands are completely accepted by the JNU administration. So, there is no question of going back. And why that is, I will just explain to you in a couple of simple reasons. First of all, Twitter is no substitution for dialogue. Dialogue cannot be replaced by tweeting on an important issue like this. So, the vice president should first of all come and meet us and talk to us regarding what is happening in JNU and why it is happening and what can be done. Second of all, the draft of the manual has certain provisions. The first provision is that the power to do a C-hike has been transferred from the IFC meeting where two world representatives, whether it be from JNUSU or the hospital just, it has been taken from their ambit into the ambit of the vice chancellor and his extraordinary powers. Now, there is not a single person in the university who will trust the vice chancellor to not increase the C-hike once we take our movement back. On Thursday, November 14, rallying beneath the red flag of the Centre for Indian Trade Unions, street vendors in the capital city of New Delhi, organised under the street hawkers union of Delhi, marched through the parliament's street commemorating International Street vendors day. The primary demand of street vendors is implementation of legal protections according to them by law, which would grant them security from extortion and eviction by police and municipal authorities. They also spoke out against foreign direct investment in the retail sector. A 2015 study by the Centre for Civil Society, based on eight markets in Delhi, comprising of 8,150 street vendors, found that a hawker loses an average of around Rs. 1,766,000, which was then equal to around $2,650 every year. This amounted to almost 30% of the annual income, lost to paying bribes, penalties, everyday with charges, and costs incurred due to goods damaged during evictions. Let's hear from people who joined the protest. Apart from that, all other ready patris in different streets are being allowed because they provide cheap goods to the common people, because they provide cheap goods to the working class of this country, and which is a requirement. Secondly, they have also said that they are the kind of unemployment which is there in the country if some people are doing some self-jobs or self-created works that needs to be protected. So that was some substance of the Supreme Court judgment. On the basis of that judgment only, the High Court also gave a similar kind of judgment with slightly stronger in its tone on encroachment, because there are some problems in encroachment also in Delhi, especially in some areas where there is congestion in the population and traffic, and especially around the schools. So that is there. But apart from that, Delhi High Court also allowed ready patri wallas to have their radies in different localities. Both the orders are being misused by Delhi police, by the central government under their dictates and by MCD to remove all the ready patri wallas from Delhi, and that is what has happened and what is happening. As far as we know, at least in 40 places, ready patri is being replaced. In Ring Road, inside the Ring Road, almost all the ready patri places are being dislocated or they are displaced, and there is a continuous attack on them. There is a kind of haptavasuli and all kinds of things happening. This is a sheer exploitation which needs to be opposed. So that is what we are trying to argue that through unionization, we should oppose this kind of move of Delhi police. Next, we go to Australia, where last week, protest demonstrations and rallies took place all across the country in response to the custodial killing of Kumanjai Walker. Walker was a 19-year-old Aboriginal man from the Walpere tribe. He was shot on November 9th in his home in Yundumu, a small town in Northern Territory with a population of less than 800 people. Protests took place in major cities including Sydney and Melbourne and also in the parliament lawns in Canberra. Other places where demonstrations took place include Darwin, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, etc. Following these nationwide protests, Zach Rolf, the police officer responsible, was charged with murder. However, he was later released on bail with full pay following and out of session court hearing. Walker is the second Aboriginal person to die after being shot by police in the last two months adding to a long list of incidents of custodial deaths of Indigenous people in Australia. Deborah Green, a Yamaji woman, wrote that there has been a long history of our people being afraid of the police because historically, the organisation was conceived to keep First Nations people away from colonisers in many cases by shooting and killing them. Today, the same continues to occur, though under the guise of maintaining law and order. And this is all we have for this episode of Around the World in 8 Minutes. For more such stories and videos, visit our website peoplesdispatch.org. Follow us on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.


After relentless protesting, immigration reform advocates were heard earlier this month as President Obama announced his executive action on immigration reform. There are actions I have the legal authority to take as president, the same kinds of actions taken by Democratic and Republican presidents before me that will help make our immigration system more fair and more just. Up to 5 million undocumented immigrants who apply and meet all the requirements will be protected from deportation under this plan. Applicants must have citizen children or have lived in the country for at least five years, have no criminal record, pass a background check, and vow to pay taxes. Yet even with this plan, 6 million undocumented immigrants are left out. Among them are some of the so-called dreamers who did not qualify for DACA as they arrived in the country after the age of 15. Though this plan eliminates the older age cap, all undocumented immigrants must have arrived in the U.S. before the age of 16, a requirement of the DACA program. So the different action for childhood arrivals really focuses on a population of young people who came here when they were a young age and have basically grown up in the United States. This is the country that they see as their home. Amanda is one of them, a dreamer unable to qualify for the second time as she arrived in the country after the age of 15. Knowing that you're so close to something but that again you're left out is just frustrating. After working hard to adapt to this country, Amanda is like any other American except she's unable to fulfill her dreams because of her legal status. Now that I have my college degree it feels amazing but again it's not like I'm able to you know pursue my career like I want to. In a way it is unfair because I do feel that my life is on hold. For many like Amanda, the required age cap limits the opportunities but this nonprofit organization is determined to change that. That's a responsibility for us to continue to fight for them. There's a lot of people here who aren't a priority for removal. There are people that are working hard that are contributing to the country and have deep ties and roots in the country. Though a change may not come soon, Amanda remains hopeful that one day she'll be able to change her legal status. Well I hope that every day. I do hope that every day. I don't know when it's going to happen. I know it's going to happen because I'm a very faithful person and I know that eventually it will happen. I just don't know how long it's going to take. The prospect of providing relief for dreamers like Amanda is an issue the Latino community will continue to fight for and with the power of the Latino vote in 2016 candidates will need to listen to them. For BU News Service, I'm Noelia Valero.


Today, we will cover insect pests that cause economic damage in blueberries. We will cover some of the select pests in detail and I will list other pests in presentation. However, if you have any questions regarding pests that I do not cover, feel free to type in the chat or just speak up at the end of the presentation and I'll be glad to answer your questions. So we'll start with the blueberry bud mites, in fact, sorry, there was some issue with the slide movement. So here is a table that shows a list of insect pests that may cause economic damage in blueberries in the southeastern United States and those pests are, this table is organized based on the blueberry growth stages during the year. As you see those growth stages starting from pre-bloom-bloom mid-season pre-harvest, harvest and post-harvest and list of those insect pests on the leftmost column on your slide. If you look at those gray boxes across in rows from the list from the pests, those gray columns show the time of activity or period when those particular pests are active and it starts with blueberry bud mites, scales, borers, then it gets into gallmage, trips during bloom, starting from pre-bloom to bloom, even into mid-season. Then if it's leaf hoppers, cranberry fruit worm or cherry fruit worm, and at this point there may be some other leaf roller type lapidopter and pests as well because that's the time and most of the green growth occurs, lots of foliage, lush green foliage available on the plants. Then we get into that mid-season plum curculio as the fruit starts to develop. As soon as we get into pre-harvest and harvest is getting closer to harvest, we get into those fruit flies. Blueberry maggot is the old most known and then spotted wing becomes the key pest that has become a serious issue most recently. Then we get into white grubs, ground poles, and some other pests that may occasionally occur in some situations. Let's start with the blueberry bud mites. They're really tiny mites. They're not even true mites because true mites do have four pairs of legs, whereas these alufi family of mites, they have only two pairs of legs. As you can see, their body is banana shaped. As you see, those legs are right at the front of the body. As you see in this middle picture, the body is transparent to whitish in color about 1 over 128th of an inch, really about 200 microns in length. Females lay approximately 200 eggs. They develop through four stages to complete life cycle in about 15 days at 19 degrees centigrade. They can disperse by this movement locally, but they can be dispersed by air to longer distances. Once they get airborne, they can go long ways. They can also disperse by but disperse with other insect pests as well by hitchhiking. Populations peak in December through February timeframe, where it depends on where you are located and then decline in summer due to high temperatures. Mild winters tend to boost populations leading to severe bud damage in the spring. These are the critters. The picture on your left shows an inside of a bud under the camera, where you see this large number of buds feeding on the buds. The picture on the right side of your screen shows the structure of the plant tissue that you will observe after a lot of feeding has happened because when they feed, they actually, obviously they excrete their waste as within that waste, there is toxic material that causes plant tissue to have this swollen type texture after they have released a lot of that excreta in the buds. And this bud mites, while they don't seem to be serious issue in most situations, in some situations, they can cause extremely high levels of damage. Last year and year before, we observed one blueberry orchard here in Georgia, where we had 100% crop loss because of bud mites. In other words, they could not even harvest. So these minor things, if they are not addressed in a timely fashion, they can cause serious damage. When it comes to management, post-harvest pruning and removing of old canes will reduce bud mite population. That's one of the best strategies to manage it without applying insecticides or miticides. If that strategy doesn't work, our populations build up really high. There are some miticide options that we have now in blueberries until maybe last two or three years, we did not have no miticides that were registered for blueberries, but now we do have. So portal is the one that we, in our trials, was one of the best ones that you can use if you see high land numbers of bud mites. Other options are oberon, acromite, and also insecticide brigade, denitol-7, evamectin, or movento, may work as well. Historically, for mites control or horticultural or spirit oils have been used. Using high volumes of water is recommended no matter what chemical you use, because these are protected inside the buds. Using extremely high volumes and high pressures are required to get good coverage to make sure that the insecticide residues are dispersed or delivered to where they are located, or as soon as they get out of the buds, they will get exposed to the residues to pick up. In tedious spaces, a bud scale must be better, as I mentioned, using surfactant to improve spreading and penetration of the spray also helps achieve the desired coverage to the tissues that we are targeting in this time frame. Spray timing and coverage becomes key issue for managing bud mites. As I mentioned, bud mites, they feed inside the buds. They are rarely exposed. They are exposed only when they are moving from one bud to another bud. That is called flagrant stage. That's the only time when they are exposed. And if there's a really good sampling program in place in the field, if you keep doing frequent sampling to actually identify that stage when they are moving from one bud to another, that would be another good strategy to make time spray applications to get direct exposure and good efficacy. Spider mites is another issue that we have seen come up in some blueberry orchard, as you see in these pictures. These spider mites feed primarily on the lower surface of leaves. They can build up really high populations, especially during dry weather conditions. Once you have a high population established in the orchards, they suck the sap out of plant tissues or leaves, leading to this yellowing or bronzing of the leaves. The symptoms when populations are high, they're very distinct. Even aerial mapping has shown distinct differences between the areas within an orchard that are highly infested with mites as compared to uninfested areas. So they can go unnoticed at lower numbers, but when populations are high, you can easily identify those. Leaf bronzing, as I mentioned, is the characteristic symptom of mite injury. And that's what you should be looking for when sampling for mites. They can build up high populations in a relatively short period of time and cause economic damage.  Basically they deprive plants of the material they need to photosynthesize their food. So that causes a lot of impact on the following year of your crop. We did some trials here in Georgia to see what options we can use. We did a try, test a number of miticides. Porter was the best one on eggs as well as on the mortal stages of these mites. But other miticides also are effective when we need to make more than one applications. Scales is another issue that has been around blueberries for decades. However, recently scale infestations have significantly increased. And one reason that we suspect this may have happened because of the spotted ring drosophila. I will discuss in detail about it at a later point in presentation. But because SWD is a key pest with zero tolerance in the market, lots of broad spectrum insecticides are applied to control it, which leads to killing all beneficial insects in the system. That leads to those secondary pests like scales. The secondary pests become serious issue, then they have normally pain. And here in Georgia, we have seen reports that almost every orchard has some level of scale infestation. Some are really bad, as you can see in these pictures. If we don't control them at the right time, this can become really out of hand. And once you have scale infestations, like you are seeing here in these pictures, it will take some time to get control of those. Because what you're seeing is several layers of scales. Basically females have these all, these obisacs, these white sacks that you're seeing.  As soon as they hatch, each obisac has, I don't know, 200 to 600 eggs in it. So there will be lots of scales that as soon as they start, the crawlers come out, they can spread and they can also get wind-borne and land on new bushes within the same field, or they can get wind-borne and spread infestation to orchards nearby, or they can go long ways that way once they're wind-borne. That can cause serious issues and becomes real problematic if those new populations start to grow. Their scale control is historically has been done using oil applications, you know, one to two applications of two percent oils made during the fall. However, we have done some studies to see what products may be effective at what time. Because now we have a number of other options too. As far as the scale species, we have a complex of several species, cotton equation scale, azalea bark scale, maple leaf scale, and potentially other species as well. And also more recently, close cousins of scales, mealybugs have started to show up in our blueberries. More, I also got reports actually last week from Florida that they have some mealybugs showing up in blueberries too. They started from citrus and now they're moving into blueberries. So as far as management, we have a number of options that we can use to control scales. Historically, applications of oils, dam oil, or GMS, or some other oils during the fall in November, they work really well. However, when we compare those applications of products in November versus right after harvest in August, August applications work better as compared to the fall applications in November. And the reason is that at that time in August, plant sap is more active and any of the systemic products are, they are moving up and down really well. And also, scales are feeding more at that time, whereas compared to November, when this corridor and scales are slower in feeding, it takes a while for them to take up the residues of insecticides. Whereas in August, they're feeding, they can pick up residues quickly. And we get, as a result, we get better control in relatively short period of time. However, there are some restrictions on our things that we need to keep in mind while making oil applications. You know, do not make oil applications during high temperatures or even low temperatures. Temperatures below 50 are not good for oil efficacy. Do not use oils within 14 days of lime cell for cap, tan, chloro, talanel, and dimethylate, because there is some compatibility issues which results in some phyto toxicity. If you don't wait 14 days after making these fungicide applications. Dormant oil applications exacerbate exobacidium. There are some correlation found. So just keep that in mind if exobacidium is an issue. Current recommendations are to make oil applications as early in the dormant period as possible to allow as long as possible between oil and sulfur applications. So that's kind of a bottom line strategy to avoid any of the side effects. Flat headed borers are another group of occasional pests of blueberries that have been reported. These are beautifully marked metallic colored beetles about half an inch long. They have short antennae and large conspicuous eyes so they're relatively easy to identify if you have a dirt small moving around. Damage occurs when larvae pour into the canes that they create galleries as you see in some of these pictures. The entry hole is relatively small but larvae feed inside the canes and basically completely girdle them. Adults are attracted to stressed or damaged blueberry cans particularly areas with pruning scars or sunburn. So they somehow sense that those stressed plants or plant tissues where they can find opportunities to infest. So one thing you can do is keep your blueberries healthy and vigorous. Preventing bushes from mechanical damage, wounds, or drought stress can significantly reduce this kind of damage from flat headed borers. Once infestation is detected the flat headed borers can be managed by pruning bushes to make sure that old canes that exhibit borer damage are removed pruned at a time of the year and in a manner that prevents the bushes from sunburn to reduce any further susceptibility or vulnerability of those plants. After pruning chip or remove prunings from the field if high levels of infestations are observed then insecticide applications may be warranted. In most situations we haven't seen high levels of infestation but if that becomes the case then an application of admire with irrigation through soil will be helpful in controlling these flat headed borers. Blueberry gallmages another issue that has made it to one of the top three pests in blueberries. These are tiny flies, females lay eggs in flowers and vegetative birds as bird scales separate instead of late stage two birds are the most vulnerable. Up to 80 percent of flower bird loss has been observed in some situations. Major injury is easily underestimated because it happens at the time and we are also struggling with the cold damage and many of the symptoms do get confused with the cold injury as well. Monitoring for gallmage is relatively easy just collect birds from the field select field two to three times per week place them in ziplock bags and in a short period of time basically in a matter of an hour or two those tiny larvae will crawl out of the birds and you will be able to see those larvae and get an idea of the infestation levels you have. There are other ways to monitor as well as you putting those clear sticky cards out in the field will monitor for adults and also using inverted buckets in the fields that have a history of infestation can you be used to monitor as those adults overwintering adults emerge out of the ground to over positive in bird to start the next year's cycle. So once you have detected infestation diazinone is one of the most effective products we have early application of diazinone during stage two would be the best way to go as I mentioned these birds feed in sorry these gallmages will feed inside the birds females lay eggs on stage two to three birds and larvae feed inside the birds they are very protected once the eggs have been laid and larvae have started to feed spray applications may not be very helpful so spray applications should be made sort of on a proactive basis to and they serve as a protectants rather than killing after the effect because exposure of the target pest is less likely once they are inside the birds. If you have sphere infestation and have already used diazinone then other options may include the delegate civanto movanto movanto label has some restrictions so you might want to look at the label and also check with local extension to see what the situation is because there is a some restriction in label language that may prevent use of movanto during this gallmage period in organic situations and trust is the only option that will as effective insecticides that can be used. So again make sure to use makespray applications as stage two to prevent further infestation and our sprays serve as a protectants rather than controlling the bugs after infestation. Spray timing again is key because if we miss the stage two to three birds females may have already laid eggs and infestation may have progressed already. And next as we get into the bloom stage trips become a serious problem and flower trips over the past couple years again have become one of the most serious issues we have seen for the same reasons you know lots of broad spectrums are being used and the beneficials are not as abundant in the fields as they used to be say before SWD times. In flower trips we have several species of trips that feed on leaf and flower surfaces that active before during and after bloom may move from other flowers nearby into blueberry fields they feed on internal parts of flowers to reducing pollination and fruits up to 60 percent damage has been recorded because symptoms include tight curling and malformation of the leaves. Monitoring for trips is also relatively easy because they are not good that they don't fly they just move around within the blooms. So sampling two to three times per week beginning stage three birds and placing some bloom clusters in sealed plastic ziplock bags as soon as you put them in a very short period of time those trips they come out of the buds and you can see sort of get an idea of what the population levels are. The thresholds have been somewhat developed again these are not hard and fast numbers these are sort of estimated thresholds and they vary depending on the situation and management strategies being used at a particular farm. Overall if you have more than two trips per cluster of eight flowers it means your population may need to be treated otherwise this will get out of control pretty quickly. A Dazinan is a good way to control trips if it has not been used for gullmage before doing that one season because we get only one Dazinan application per year if it has already been used then your other options will include delegate a sale or Sivanto for organic situations and trust is the way to go. However tips they are during bloom and they are the most difficult pests to control because during bloom we need lots of pollination pollinator activity in the field from wild pollinators wild bees native bees as well as honey bees that some farmers rent and others may also purchase those bumble bees that may be active in the field to help with pollination. So that's what one thing that makes trips control wheel complicated however there are ways to get around it and to still be able to control which one thing that you can do is make spray applications really early in the morning before pollinators are active around dawn or dusk at the late in the evening to make sure direct exposure to pollinators to pesticides does not occur that way you can minimize any unintended damage to the pollinators in the field. Now let's look back at the table. As I mentioned we will cover some of the select pests but all of these pests are important but spotted winged asapola has become the key pest all of the management or insect pest management this thing and this should keep SWD control in mind and make sure that any products and strategies that are effective to control SWD should be reserved for that time period. Let's get into the weeds of SWD. Spotted winged asapola is a vinegar fly of Asian origin it was it's been in Asia was initially recognized in early 1900s in Japan China South Korea as a pest of cherries have been called cherry fruit fly or cherry fly it was first detected in Hawaii in 1980 and stuck there for a while and then in the mainland US it was first detected in 2008 since then it has become a serious issue in all across the US and all fruit growing regions in the US. Spotted wing name comes from these two dark spars on the wings of male estability and females of this fly overall this you know estability belongs as I said it's a vinegar fly it belongs to family drosophility which has about 1500 members in this family and only two of those members have ever been known to become pests and this obviously is the worst one and the reason it becomes pest is that females are have this very unique ovipositor which is scarapized which means it's a hardened and has these serrations on it which females use to puncture otherwise intact fruit and deposit eggs inside the fruit a lot we develop inside the fruit and cause a lot of damage when females lay eggs you can actually see those breathing tubes from the surface if you have some trained eyes even without all the hand lens but with hand lens it's very clear that it's a pair of tubes that stick that sticks out of this on the surface of the fruit where eggs are laid and then once eggs are laid larvae do the eggs hatch and larvae come out within 12 to 72 hours and from that point on they feed inside and turn otherwise normal intact fruit into unmarked able through in relatively short period of time this time frame was done in the lab and in the field where we have lots of other factors and even higher temperatures going on this process will happen even faster the whole process from our whole development from egg to adult of this fly this happens really fast whole process can be completed in 8 to 10 days at 25 degrees and but this means is that this fly can go through several generations during the field season can build up populations even from starting lower numbers to really high numbers and can cause serious damage serious damage in the in the fields if management strategies are not applied but we have seen we monitored SWD populations in Georgia blueberry orchards for more than two years up to three years now and we have seen that flies are can be trapped a year around so they don't have no downtime and the numbers were higher year round in those wooded areas nearby blueberry orchards that we have here and most of the blueberries in the southeast do have some some forested areas of some non crop areas nearby where there are some other potential hosts that may be present so the bottom line is that flies are active and we have we do not have developed any threshold numbers that may translate into okay until we have this many no flies in the traps we can we don't need to make applications no once you have one fly in the trap you have to make spray applications immediately otherwise situation can get out of control very quickly in the past we have or several years we have used these liquid traps which were basically yeast sugar water slurry about 150 ml in this 32 ounce plastic cup or some people have used those peanut butter jars as well with the holes around the sides to you get an idea of what fly if you have any stability set the farm but numbers do not correlate to the population levels or damage so any one fly once detected means you have to implement control strategies we did some studies to develop a more convenient monitoring method where we tried these red sticky cars are mated with this commercially available lore and we found comparable results so now starting from last year we have recommended the the use of these red sticky cars mated with these commercially available lures to monitor swd and once you have swd detected in those red sticky cars that can be used up to six weeks you know one lore is good for six weeks we can look at the cars weekly and sort of get an idea starting about two weeks before fruit starts to change color as as mentioned these flies are after the ripe or ripening fruit that's when the susceptibility window starts you might want to put these traps two weeks prior to the time and you would expect their first fruit to turn color and if you see to detect swd especially males using those two dark spots on the wings is really easy to detect in those red sticky cars if you have trained eyes you can even detect males by pressing on the abdomen and their unique ovipaster can be distinct from other flies that may be present in the field but males are real easy once you have a male and in the traps you need to implement management recommendation management programs in the wooded areas nearby we did some studies to see to evaluate or assess populations in non-crop areas different kinds and pines with the understory of all kinds of wild fruiting plants was the habitat where most flies were present this is how it looks no spines on the primarily with the lots of things in understory these are potential hosts that swd flies can lay eggs and also in some of them can complete their development and one of my grad students did is research pieces work we found several species where swd were able to lay eggs and complete development so if there's anything you can do even you know burning within those areas to minimize number of fruiting plants nearby that can help at least in the short term to lower swd pressure if you have high pressures management there are several strategies by control chemical control behavioral and cultural I'll just show you a little bit about each of those and then we'll take questions a group of us a multi-regional grant that we we are working on or we have been working on this project as a multi-regional group for more than seven eight years now and finally last year we were able to get permits from USDA aphids to release this exotic parastoid ginespus the one on the top ginespus resiliensis this was one that passed all the tests and has shown some efficacy we are building populations currently and will have some get some some of those released at the at some point later this year and then we'll monitor to see how they establish and what kind of impact we observe but local biological control based on native parastoids has been negligible chemical control luckily for conventional systems we have lots of insecticides that pass this threshold of being good as you can see in this figure here so it's really easy to control in conventional systems but in organic systems that's where we are in serious trouble because interest is the only organic product that barely touches that threshold of being good rest of them are not even close so we we need to be really thinking about organic including other strategies than just relying on organic spray applications to manage swd in high pressure situations in organic orchards here is a sort of an efficacy picture as i mentioned earlier when the interest gets even closer the rest are not as good so what can we do to improve efficacy to get the most out of our organic products one thing we can do is that we can make spray applications during dawn and dusk time because based on studies one of my grad students did on behavior of this fly and the fly numbers were higher during dawn and dusk in the field especially in southeastern us days get really hard so flies were using those opportune times of dawn and dusk when temperature was lower humidity was still reasonable for them to be out there to making spray applications during those time can get direct exposure of the flies to insecticide and overall efficacy can be much better as compared to making spray applications during the day time these are some you know suggested programs we developed depending on your target market and strategy that you want to use at the orchard reduce risk based strategy delegate xl some new actually some other reduced test products are also available if you look at the drop that i showed organic and trust and evo-pigantic and a number of other products also that need to be rotated with and trust otherwise and trust resistance has is a serious issue although we haven't seen in the southeast in california high levels of and trust resistance of widespread resistance has been already reported now in uh conventional settings how do we have lots of options what would be the best way to go here is a graphs that and show you know if you have to make a decision excuse me what product to start with and use the heaviest hammer possible as the first thing that will knock the population down to the lowest numbers and then you can go with the medium to low efficacy products to make sure that you do a practice resistance management that way not no repeated applications are being made of one particular uh mode of action behavioral control is also in the making and the number of us as a multi regional grant uh group we are working on developing a attract and kill strategies based on um an attractant that attracts the flies and we have a toxic and mixed with it so they get killed as they they approach the attractant one of the products that we are have mostly suddenly been working on is a convie protector was developed in europe where we did observe in initial studies that even half of the rates of interest or we did similar we did find similar results with the with the delegate as well we're in conventional settings that half the rate application mixed with convie protect did provide did produce similar results so this this is one approach that we are working is still not finalized yet but as soon as we have final results from large-scale field trials that us will be going on this year we will make those recommendations cultural control as i mentioned are necessary in organic systems and recommended in all systems because they do help minimize uh use of broad spectrum and sec besides to relieve some pressure from beneficials out there again the goal here is the to manipulate your modify the environment to make it less hospitable for flies in the field physical exclusion is you know very simple way is one of the most foolproof strategies to control SWD in blueberries with 100 protection where you use those you know panels to keep flies out of the system in other berry crops it also helps significantly so it's one of the best strategies while it seems expensive up front results have been very promising for the long-term management of festivity and other pests and also in some studies uh fruit quality was also improved when grown inside the tunnels so it doesn't have multiple benefits if implemented irrigation if there are options you go with the drip irrigation as compared to overhead irrigation because overhead irrigation increases humidity which also flies like so high humidity means high and more flies or environment that is hospitable to keep flies in the field for longer time mulching there are several types of mulches that can be used to put on the grounds under berries the principle here is excuse me that fly when these larvae are fully fed they come out of the berries and drop to the ground either intentionally or unintentionally to pupate in the soil if we have a barrier on the soil they will get toasted because of high temperature and will not be able to complete their development that way there are a number of mulches you know black bead mat was the best one that we studied some region for example pacific northwest they are using those reflective mulches they also help with fruit quality as well in cherries and also potentially with berries because they do reflect light and even distribution of light on all berries does help with the fruit quality as well pruning is again another way principle here is that heavy pruning will expose will open up the canopy for more light to penetrate into the fruiting zone where flies will be present and it also slightly increases temperature and decreases humidity which does create environment less hospitable for flies and it did help in some situations especially with blueberries other berries it did not because the other growth was so fast that pruning did not make much difference during the field season harvest frequency more frequently you harvest the batter because believing more ripe fruit in the field for longer period means that there is an attractant in the field for flies to come in and develop populations so frequent harvesting does have minimize that attraction in the field and keeps flies out of the field and removing you know every two days or harvesting every two days was found to be the best in raspberries in in in michigan and the same thing in blueberries as well if you can that's the every other day or every third day would be the best way to harvest or as frequent as possible and same principle applies to sanitation if we have lots of rotten fruit over ripe fruit on the ground that means we have an attractant in the field for flies to come in over positive build populations and invest fruit so moving and destroying any cold fruit as frequently as possible once you do that make sure or leave in a sealed container or two for two to three days in direct sun that will kill everything in there or alternatively you can bury at least two feet deep into the ground to make sure that those few pair of flies when adults emerge they will not come out of the ground once you have harvested if you suspect infestation you can still keep the fruit in cold storage to maximize the to minimize their development in number one it will kill majority of the larvae if they are not killed the development will be slowed enough that that will that will give you enough of time to market the fruit to summarize as WD is a key pest and flies in our region can be trapped year-round so using the most convenient way of red panel traps to monitor it would be the best way if you detect even single male SWD on red panel traps that means you have to implement management strategies wooded areas where there are lots of alternative hosts in the understory that may be another place where flies stick around when we don't have blueberries in the field for conventional management we have a number of insecticide options but due to risk with resistance development make sure to rotate insecticides between with different modes of actions and we do have lots of options to do that use more reduced insecticides to minimize uh exposure and harm to non-target uh the beneficials out there majority of pestability activity occurs during dawn and dusk so making insecticide applications during dawn and dusk time will be the best way to improve efficacy of otherwise not too effective products organic management still remains a challenge that will require a combination of cultural behavioral and other strategies to get the good control in high pressure situations other pest like button mites spider mites scales dolmae trips they are the most important ones in blueberry systems as secondary pests frequent sampling is necessary to determine infestation levels and number of insecticides including oils and other options are available to control those insects astability biocontrol as i mentioned has been approved using exotic peristorts and will keep you posted you know how well they do and then make it available to stakeholders in multiple states more research is going on and will keep you posted to presentations and webinars like this there are some resources that rebecca also mentioned we have a southeast regional blueberry guide we have my ipm app we have uga blueberry blog that we've posed resources timely resources on pest and disease management and other aspects of blueberry production we also have this organic astability management pressure that was developed out of uga if you have interest this has a lot of information on organic management of astability with that i would like to thank you for the invitation and listening and i'll at this point i'll take any questions you may have


Hi. Thanks for coming and staying. Does everyone in this room know about Genome? For the ones who doesn't know, Genome is a free Linux desktop, and Genome is all about the community. We have people all around the world, and we are building the applications together, and I wanted to give a talk about one of the applications we are working on. First thing, I'm going to be talking about where did the idea come from for the recipe app. Second thing, I'm going to be talking about the design process, and then Matthias is here and he's one of the main developers of the application, and he will give a live demo of the application to you. Actually, this is not a new idea. People in the Genome has always been interested in cooking, and we have a wiki page for the Genome cookbook that dates back to 2007, and people even contribute to recipes there, but for one reason or another, we just couldn't make that thing happen. This year is quite important for Genome because we will be celebrating our 20th year, and we just wanted to make this application happen, so we can give it to Genome as a birthday present. When you do the design work, it's quite important you should be following some kind of structure design process, and for us, the most important thing is to define your goals. Defining your goals is quite important because you just enables you to focus on your design, and for the recipe app, those goals were finding recipes all over the world, and Genome is a big community, and there might be some people that has food allergies, and we want to support those people by allowing them, describing the food restrictions, and we just wanted to share the recipes, sharing recipes, and printing recipes, so you can put them on your fridge, and thinking about your goals, help you defining your focus, and that mostly involves what you are not going to build, as much as what you are going to build. So it's very useful to have the mangos while you are focusing on your design, and constraints are also important. It is like the technology you are using for the resources you have, because based on your resources, you want to drop some of the features you are planning to develop, and the second stage in the design process is exploration. It is a research-based thing, and this involves user research, and looking at the relevant art, and for the Genome Recipe app, we look for the Gourmet application, it's a Genome 2A application, endless cooking application, cave recipes, and BBC Food website, and while you are looking at the existing applications, you should be evaluating them, like what you like about them, and what you don't like about them, and the third thing is, in the design process is to develop your design, and here you can use your notebook, pen, and ruler, or you might use inkscape or sketch tools like that, and here you just have lots of things in your hand, lots of design ideas, concept ideas, and by going through the process, you just narrow them down, and at this stage you can start to do your mock-ups, and but the thing you should be careful that you shouldn't be like detailing everything, every little thing you have, you don't want to detail every little thing your app is gonna do, it should be a high-level thing. It is just a three-step process definition, you are just defining what you are gonna build, exploration, you just explore your problem space, and in the development stage, you just design something, but this is not a linear process, you are just going through back and forward in this process, and while you are doing this, you just rerun your goals here, and once you want to design an application for a platform, you need a design language for that, and for GNM it's Hic, this is our application icon, and our visual designer, Jakub, wanted to do this for us, and those are the first sketches he has done in the beginning, but at the end we have this logo, and we have the stickers here, you might want to get them at the end of the presentation, and I will just walk you through the screens we have, I just wanted to put my mock-ups and the actual design we have right now, so you can see that how this evolved by time, and this thing is quite similar to what we have for the GNM software application, we just want to keep the things similar as in the GNM, and this is for the cook it later feature, you just went on the recipe detail page, once you press the button for the cook it later, you just, the ingredients on the recipes are added to your shopping list, and you may print them and you may go with them to the market, and cuisine page, it was one of the goals while we are working on it, because GNM is a comic sitting, and we have people all around the world, and we want to categorize those countries, but countries we just want to categorize those things, and for the chefs page, so people can explain them here, can explain themselves here, this is just for adding a new recipe page, and we have the restrictions, food restrictions, the data restrictions, and the spiciness level as well, and on the recipe detail page, we have start cooking button, once you start cooking button, a full view appears on your screen, and by the full view, you can just follow your process step by step, because you might have like messy hands, and you might, you can just your one hand like going through the screens here, and this is the UI reveal that is done in Bruno last week with Matias, Thomas, and Jakub, and they came the idea that it is quite difficult to add a new recipe on our screen and editing as well, so we are planning to simplify this process, and it will be done by time, so if you want to see the details for the recipe app, you can go for the project page, and those are the people that contributed to the recipe app, and I wanted to thank them all, so I'll slide them all. Can you hear me? Okay, now let's see, we can also see something. It might work, so this is a live demo, and that's always the fun part, and something we feel, but I hope you all enjoy that, I always enjoyed, so let's switch this to mirroring. It might still work, that's the hard part, right? After that it gets easier. So I'm Matias, hi everybody, I've done most of the coding on this application, and I was going to do a bit of a live demo here, and see if this actually works, if I can find my application. So as I've been said, she showed the paper mock-ups that I started working from initially, and that was back in October, and it was the first step I tried to implement just what was in those mock-ups, pretty much as accurately as I could, and this is how the application looked, I guess mid-November, so after like three or four weeks of working on it, and I just clicked through a few things here to show some things. There's quite a lot of functionality there already, like we have this recipes landing page in place, we have the cuisines page, we actually even have an ingredients page that is no longer there, I'll talk about that in a minute, but first I can dive into this here, this is the original details page for an individual recipe, and just arrange things on the screen somehow here, and functionality is actually in place here quite a bit, there's like an image switcher here, so you can have multiple images for each recipe, and this is actually something I'm a little proud of, you can say I want to serve six people instead of four, and then the ingredients list actually gets scaled up, so that's neat, and then there's the start cooking button that Evan talked about, but this was the initial idea, just a quick sketch for what we could do for supporting people when they actually went to cook this recipe, so we came up with this idea of having a checklist where you can say, okay, I've gathered my ingredients, now I've preheated the oven, and I've followed all the instructions, and now I can set the timer, and then I'll be done, so that was like a very quick idea for supporting cooking, and yeah, I mean, I got that implemented relatively quickly, oh, time's up, okay, let's see what else, and now I'll switch to the application as it looks today, and actually go to the landing page again, and I think it looks clearly more refined, so after implementing the original mock-ups, we went over basically every part of the application with Jacob and Evan and revisited the initial design and came up with some nicer visuals for the tiles and arranged everything neatly in three columns and all these things that make it look good, and you can, as Evan said, this is the landing page looks kind of similar, it looks and feels similar to the landing page of other GNOME applications, like this is the GNOME 3 application style, I would say, you can just start the type and search will happen like this, so this is the search results, and I wanted to find this recipe because this is one I can actually play around a little bit with, so this is again the recipe detail view, but you can see it looks clearly more organized now than it was back then, and the neat scaling feature is still there, so if I do that, it works again, awesome, and we have the images here, we actually have like a full screen, lightbox for the images now, so you can actually see in detail and you can go through them, kind of expect the functionality, I guess. What else here? There's the ingredients list, you can see that we can actually split the ingredients list in separate sections, like there's a segment for the dough and then you can have a different ingredients list for the toppings, and the shopping list feature or cook later feature that we mentioned is now called buy ingredients just because it's more obvious that that's what it does, but I'm not gonna click that now, I'm gonna click on edit, so this is the edit view for this recipe now, and I just wanted to very quickly show that I can actually change this here, maybe I want to say, oops, this is gold off screen, yeah, this is gold off screen, that's gonna be bad, see if I can bring this down, actually you may recall this pitted, and so that works, editing works, and if I scroll down here, this big text field at the bottom here is where you enter the main part of the recipe, the instructions for what you're actually gonna do, and originally we just had a plain text field for that, and people were writing their text there, and everybody's kind of itching to do some formatting there, so you want to make it a sequence of steps, and maybe actually put some images there and help to use it that way, and we try to support this now a little bit by actually defining a kind of wiki like mini syntax here, and that's explained here, and we decided to not hide this from the user, but actually just put it in the text here so you can actually see the markup so people can learn how to enter that menu if they want, but we do have buttons to support that, and it's a little bit, maybe an inspiration from good type, you have this edit view here, but you can also switch to preview, and then you see how it's gonna look in the actual cooking mode, and you can step through this here, so this is the sequence of steps that we entered, and there's a timer here, so you can actually add timers to this, and if I click the start button, it'll actually start ticking down slowly, so that's all functional, and oops, now I forgot a picture here in this step, so I can go back to the edit view and actually add that picture, so we add this one, and if I now go back to the preview, it should be there, hopefully, yes, so that works too, and I think that is almost all I want to demo here, so one more thing, I'll go back to the old view, the old application from back in November, and what I mentioned is that we have up here, we have this ingredients view, which was in the original paper mock-ups that I received, so I had quite a bit of fun actually implementing this, there's like this little alphabetical sidebar here, you can click and it'll like nicely animate and things like that, so I spent like a weekend on that, but we couldn't really figure out how to make this useful for the overall goal of the application, so we also are operating on the deadlines here because we want to have this basically ready for GNOME's 20th birthday, so it needs to be in GNOME 3.24, which is gonna be released in mid-March, only a few weeks left, so we decided to cut this from the application, it's no longer in the, it's no longer in the, I can see it here, I need to go back to the menu, so no longer there, sometimes you have to cut a feature to like make the deadline, right, and again that's basically what I wanted to show here, so I hope you enjoyed it. And I guess then we can ask for questions. Do you want to, we have to pass this back and forth, I guess. For any questions, yes. What do you use to do it? Right, so yes, I'm one of the main GTK maintainers, so obviously I'm using GTK and I'm very familiar with it, so I don't necessarily need an IDE to like get something like this put together, but part of my motivation for working on this was to, sorry, I repeat the question, I forgot this, oh, I'll go back, I'll start over. So the question was, what tools did I use to develop this? Did I use an IDE for this, or did I just like use VI? To be honest, most of the time I just use VI because that's what I've gone up with and what I'm familiar with, but part of my motivation for working on this was testing a lot of new things that we develop in GNOME, like sandboxing with Flatpak and GNOME Builder and GTK3, new widget tree and things like that, so I did actually make a conscious effort to try and use GNOME Builder for doing some of these things, but it's really hard to teach an old-horse new tricks and I very often just fall back to use VI in the terminal, just, I can't help myself. Did you use JavaScript or which language? No, this is written in C and I mean, it's using a lot of like UI files like XML templates, so the UI is not neatly separated from the functionality, but it's written in C because I'm an old horse. Yes, in the back. We wanted to keep it kind of minimal. You're talking about the image and time, I think, that I showed there. Yeah, we didn't really discuss that much. We could probably, at some point, we probably want things like headlines, headings and more markup for sections. Yeah, I see where you're coming from and we will consider that. I live in Istanbul and he lives in Boston, so we are just communicating online for this project. Like every few days, every few days, we just talk online, yeah, or telegram we are using here. What I did do at some points was like screencasts, just to show functionality as a developer because I'm developing this on Linux. And I have Mac. There's a Mac here and I did actually make it build and work on OSX over Christmas, but initially that was not the case, so yeah. So there's lots of communicating about design and building and things like that. Yeah, lots of screenshots I'll get you here then. Things like that. Any more questions, comments? Peter, yes. Can we expect an importer from other recipe formats at some point? Because I've got about 20-inch recipe that I could easily give you if you want to come. Okay, so I repeat the question, I remember that this time. Will there be an import from other recipe formats? There could certainly be. I mean, I've been working on this as a weekend site project, so I don't necessarily have infinite resources to sink into this, but if somebody were to give me a pet for that, I would be really happy. Currently, we're just importing and exporting a very stupid homegrown format just because I needed to have import functionality early on because we are asking the community to contribute their recipes, so we kind of need to have a way for them to like get them to us, so they need to put them in the application and they export them and they send them whichever way to us. So that was an early priority to have that in place, but having an importer for like more established recipe formats would be awesome if somebody wrote it. Yes, for now?  Yeah, I will make sure that the application will be able to load the old recipes, I think. If not, you can blame me for that. Yes. We have kind of this idea at Genome as a Genome cookbook and it takes back to 2007 and we have an upcoming birthday for the Genome and we wanted to Genome this as a birthday present. That's the thing, yeah. It's a really long-standing idea to have this kind of application in the moment. It just never happened. We're trying to make it happen now. How was working between not in the same city and having to sort of do lots of applications? How was that? Was it easy? Was it difficult? We also have one designer in Czech Republic and it was like, for example, three of us were not available at the same time so sometimes Matias was talking to me, I was talking to him and then he was talking to Jakub and it was kind of a difficult communication but we just made it happen at the end, yeah. Because I really have like working like crazy so I just couldn't have that much time to have it to set up a call at the same time but it happened at the end, yeah. Yeah, I think we had like one or two hangouts all three together to just sync up and see where things stand and the starting point for this application was actually at Guadaga, I believe. You sat down with Jakub to like talk to your mock-ups so there was some initial face-to-face meeting at least and some sync up at various points via hangout, yeah. All right. No further questions, I guess? Everybody's welcome to come up here and grab a sticker as long as they last. I would ask everybody who takes a sticker to maybe try the application and if you submit a recipe, that would be really awesome.


Texas Heart Institute's rich history and commitment to education makes it the perfect host for students in search of a deeper understanding of cardiovascular research and medicine. This summer, T.H.I.'s Vice President for Research, Dr. Darren Woodside and Director of Biology, Dr. Peter van der Sleis, mentored two bright students. My name is Matthew Nguyen, I'm a junior at Texas A&M University and I currently work at Melvick Glitter Choreology Research Lab as a student intern at Texas Heart Institute. My name is Mikayla, I'm an incoming freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. Why are you interested in STEM? I've always loved science and thanks to shadowing and volunteering and working at different research labs I was able to you know open my eyes to what really goes on behind the scenes in medicine and what it really takes to help patients. Going into a career in STEM whether that's in the clinical setting or the research setting or something similar would really help me to develop a more in-depth understanding of things that I illnesses and mechanisms of disease and health that I see in everyone every day and that's always fascinating to me to be able to say you know I read about that in the lab, I saw that in the lab and now I understand why it's happening. There's a lot of things that I learned in here that I didn't learn in school or type baking. I didn't really get to do a lot of that during the COVID because everything was online but being able to work in person and work in the lab was very helpful. I thought that coming to THI and doing research in a lab the summer before my first year as an undergraduate would not only be really helpful for me in terms of kind of deciding what my interests are specifically in scientific research but also to form connections and learn a little bit more about the research going on here and about molecular cardiology. McKayla visited us a few years ago through the Make-A-Wish Foundation and her main interest was to follow the cardiac surgeons around that was a real goal at the time and on her final day she had some spare time so she was brought up to the research labs to see what we were doing and so I gave her a brief overview of her projects and we got to one in which my lab actually developed small molecule drugs to enhance various therapies including stem cell therapy done here at Texas Heart but one of the drugs also as we followed the science found that it worked very well in conjunction with immunotherapies for various solid tumor cancers and I just happened to mention to McKayla that you've probably seen commercials for these products, Updivo, Ketruda, et cetera and she just out of the blue said yeah I'm on Updivo so she took a sudden interest in that and I have her working on that project actually on the actual drug that's in clinical trials now. Coming back to the lab and seeing all those new discoveries and seeing how they moved on from the compound I saw three years ago to what they're working on now is just been really exciting. What I work on is very personalized medicine so being able to look up certain mutations and really be able to make those mutations and test certain, test out the mutations and see whether or not drug works or not. I look forward to coming here to work here really. It's just absolutely amazing to be a part of it and I'm so excited for the next breakthrough that will happen in that department and it could happen any day.


Hi and welcome to the session I am Shashi and I am going to help you to solve the following question. Question is proof that root 5 is irrational. Let us now start with the solution. Let us assume root 5 is rational root 5 equal to a upon b where a and b are coprime such that b is not equal to 0. Let us recall that two numbers are coprime if they have no common factor other than 1. Now root 5 is equal to a upon b which implies b root 5 is equal to a. Now squaring both sides we get 5 b square is equal to a square. Clearly we can see 5 and b square both are factors of a square. So we can write a square is divisible by 5. This further implies a is divisible by 5 because if prime number b divides a square then b divides a where a is any positive integer. So we can write a is equal to 5 c where c is any integer. Let us name the equation obtained above as 1 that is 5 b square is equal to a square We name this equation as 1. Now substituting the value of a in equation 1 we get b square is equal to 5 c whole square. This implies 5 b square is equal to 25 c square. This further implies b square is equal to 5 c square. Now clearly we can see 5 and c square both are factors of b square. So we can write b square is divisible by 5. This implies b is divisible by 5. This is because if prime number b divides a square then b divides a where a is any positive integer. Since a is divisible by 5 and b is also divisible by 5. So therefore a and b have at least 5 as common factor. But this contradicts the fact that a and b are co-prime. So our assumption that root 5 is rational is incorrect. Therefore we conclude root 5 is irrational. This is our required answer. This completes the session. Hope you understood the session. Take care and goodbye.


All right, welcome to Wendy's birthday vlog. First she got a new jersey with Kenny's number. She's going to do the grand reveal. I am in remission. She's in remission. I get my estrogen blocker medication next week. So I have to take that for five years and then they say technically I'll be cancer-free. Okay, so you're in remission. I'm in remission. Okay. Still fighting. A reveal. This is a reveal. An unwigging. Unwigging. Ready, set, go. Oh my god. Ashes are finally growing back and whatever else. Uh-huh. You do have some hair. Can I put it? Yeah. Oh, it's really soft. It is. It is. It's really soft. I can use a baby brush to brush mine. Aww. The next day. It's the next day. What are we doing? We're celebrating Wendy's birthday. How old are you? 57. Yeah. And this is being filmed on her actual birthday. Actual. September 17th. Welcome to the official start of this vlog. I know it's just been clips of like Wendy and Jerry pretty much. But we're on our way. Yeah. But we are on our way to Disney Springs and we're gonna meet up with like Perry and Bailey. Is Brock and Steph coming? Okay. And then just the cool kids. Right? You're right. Okay. Anyway. I'll see when we get to Disney Springs. Fans here. So they're so cute. Where did you get that shirt, Perry? No. Where did you get it? Really? Oh, it's cute. Yeah. So those are the cupcakes Perry made. Look how cute they are. We have to have this beard. Sherry, show us. Look, it's a steamboat, Willie. And look, I got three just for me. Sherry's getting presents on Wendy's birthday here. How does that matter? Sure it is. Sure it is. Oh, a book. Why is Sherry's thing always present? Oh, that is so funny. Birthday girls opening some presents. I forgot to wear my bracelet. Oh, Bailey's playing with me. It is. Who's it from? The Plankin' Chips. Oh, they're from everyone? So I have to take it back because I told them the wrong size. That Perry belt's a clown. I'm scared. Okay, wait a minute. That's what I thought it was when I saw Poppy Lobby. That's great. Get all my crafts on here. Do you have a beer called Medello? Oh, it's so cute. I love this one. The apple. So I can smell that. Oh, I like it. I like it. I love it. And you adult, please. I love Marshall. Yeah. I don't like it. I don't like it either. Me either. Yeah. Thanks very much. This is her birthday shot. Yeah, I don't know what it is. Lily made it. Lily, the bartender. So it made me a compliment. Grow the shop for the league I have here. I told you you're turning 22. Mini Moons ago. Yeah. Thank you. We're not going to count. But I appreciate it. Perry got a Moscow Mule as well. Yeah, let's do a cheers. I don't think. My face is still all red. I don't think I'll be drinking. But I had to drive your car home because everybody else got drunk. Oh, that's right. Oh, yeah. That was so good. I don't know what. Did you have like seven beer? There's something crazy. Okay, cheers. At least you get a souvenir. When did you try your birthday shot? Yeah, they're sugar on the side. It will not be going down in one shot. I'll tell you that. The one shot. That's like two shots. It does. It's two shots. Yeah. Some of these, the most. You take me? Oh, yeah, of course. It's like too late. Oh, that's underwhelming. I think you're trying to get my dad to taste like a pillan. It tastes like a pillan. It's not. Actually, most people don't like it. That part was stronger than the drink. I haven't had raw fish since my surgery back in March. Okay, let's see you have it on camera now. First time at the Timo. This really isn't that good. This is the Wendy vlog here. All right, Eric, come on, okay? Everybody good? You got to get with the other sushi roll. Oh, it's over there. All right, excellent. Enjoy. Thank you. Hope they are doing good. Hope they are doing good.  It's always got to be a good thing. You don't want it to ruin it. It ruins the whole experience. Yeah, exactly, yeah. You know, you're a bit like, it's only either where they're, you know, the service pass might fall, but if the first service or food's back, they're good. Like, we never had it for ourselves, but we've gone out twice for my son's birthday, my kid's birthday, and service or food's always been bad because we always go to places they like. Is there salt? And oh, my God. Yes. No. How for you? How I'm four-year-old? It's big. Cherry. God. Club sandwich. Fun. Look at this pizza. Oh, my God. That's gorgeous. It's cute. And then they're splitting this sushi. What is the dragon roll? Oh, it's a dragon roll. Chicken fingers. And then my salmon meal. He's bringing some salt, but their fries are so good here. Bam. Yes. Always. Some day he's going to be here. Oh, my God. What? We're all going to know. What a fine memory here. He's going to take care of all of us. I know. I know. You better hurry up, because we're all getting older. Yeah. Yeah. All right. The party can start because Bailey and Gabby are here. Hey, Gabby's in a video now. Okay. Explain just what happened. Okay. So our waiter used to work with Bailey at Landry's many years ago, and he remembers Bailey by his hair, his voice, and he always went to band practice. And he remembered Brock picking up Stephanie at work. And then he finally met the siblings and kind of connected the pieces together. Very nice. Very nice guy, you know. Now we're going to head over to City Works. I guess. I don't know. They're kind of still over on the table. Okay. We're making our way to City Walks. City Works. Sorry, not Walks. City Walk is at Universal. We're making our way to City Works to try to see if they have the beer. Yeah. The Eminem store moved over here. I didn't know there was an Eminem store. Oh, maybe this is something new that you missed. So what beer are we trying to find? Mudelo. Mudelo, Mudelo. Mudelo. Mudelo. Because Uncle Kenny, her twin, loved that beer, right? It was his favorite. Yes. That was his favorite when he went to his favorite Mexican restaurant in Alpharetta, Georgia, which I don't know the name of it, but yeah. That's where he went. So City Works didn't have the beer. We're going to try House of Blues. We're going to try House of Blues, I think, because they didn't have it. They do. They do. Oh, it's a sign. Let's go. Um, I guess. Let's get maybe two. Two? Two. There's no real wealth in this great game. I didn't see the right. You know that was Kenny's favorite beer, and I'm definitely going to go in there. Cheers to Kenny. We have to do a boomerang in honor of Kenny. Do you want anything? Oh, it's pretty good. It's nice and light. You should try it. Okay, ready? Wait, oh, we're waiting for Barry. Cheers to Kenny. Happy birthday, Kenny. Is it good? What's it taste like? The flour? The lemon drop martini. And what did you get, Sherry? Red blend. And brock got water. Cheers. What happened? A bit of alcohol. Abandoned the duck. Fair night for Wendy. And instead of the muffin man, I guess he's the cupcake man. We all stayed man. We all stayed. He wore it in. Wendy, where are we off to now? Favorite. Favorite. I said no petite kids. Anyway, they have the Rosa Regale. And if you guys have never had this, you need to try it. So good. You can get this in Epcot, but they have it here at Amarads right now. And you get the white chocolate cookie. Cookies. The white chocolate mini mouth here. But anyway, it's so good. So I'm going to get one for me and Wendy, because it's her birthday. So why not, right? Wendy, what are we getting? Pumpkin, pumpkin, pecan cheesecake. Definitely. We have to try that. We'll pumpkin. Mickey. Yeah. Mickey, that one. I want to try that. Okay. Just tell them what you want. Okay, great. Okay. I can do that. Yeah. We like the Mickey mouth. The macaroons. So adorable. We're just trying Rosa Regale. Don't spill that. That's like 50 cents right there. Okay, ready? Go try. It's really good. It's really good. The girl is out. Oh, I bet she's working. I thought you were thinking about Gaby just working the silverware. Here. I'm just going to use my fingers. Take a fork. Let's just got a fork. This is pumpkin cheesecake. Cheesecake. Oh my gosh.  Okay, let's try first. Since you're the birthday girl. Okay, got it. Here we go. Is it good? It's very pumpkin. Okay, I love pumpkin. I highly recommend it. Mmm, it's good. Okay, I want to go fast. No, it's really good. I really like it. Oh, man. Get in there. You said the magic words. Yeah. Okay, go. Hey, Gaps, do you want some more? All right, cool. The sacrifices I made for you. She does like sacrifices. You should know there's a little 50% tides and more. The birthday girl says A plus plus. Cheesecake from Emirates. Disney Springs. So it has a heart and a cherry. It's cute. Cherry, cherry. No, I just didn't think that's so nice. I think it looks like. Is it plastic? It's plastic. So it's like a little candy. It looks like what I'm talking about. We stopped in Ever After and we're getting one to this candy right now. It's so pretty. I brought my charm bracelet with me. You did? Yes, I don't have it on at the moment. But yeah. As soon as I tell guests it's Epcot, it's the ball, and then the pink part is the country. They freak out and they're like, oh my gosh, it's so awesome. That is so cool. You excited, Wendy? I'm excited because I'm going to wear it tomorrow. Oh yeah, because you're going to Epcot.