A week ago when Phoenix Mountain Pointe and Anthem Boulder Creek squared off in a sectional battle, Mountain Pointe sophomore Kaylah Lupoe was unable to participate.
Lupoe, a 6-foot-1 forward, sat on the sidelines with a flu bug, but if the two teams met again, she knew what her role would be.
"She's (Sam Young) the tall girl on her team; I'm the tall girl on my team," Lupoe said. "I knew I had to shut her down to give us a chance to win."
Lupoe did just that in the rematch, limiting the impact of Boulder Creek's 6-foot-3 Young, and that defensive effort helped No. 19 Mountain Pointe to a 43-36 win at Boulder Creek on Wednesday in the first round of the Division I girls basketball tournament.
"We talked about how we didn't play very well last week, and we thought we could play a much better game," coach Trevor Neider said. "We obviously did. I'm very happy."
Not only was Lupoe sidelined for the previous meeting between these two teams last Tuesday, a 54-47 victory for Boulder Creek, but so were two other key contributors.
Mountain Pointe (22-9) had a healthy lineup this go-around, and that provided the edge Mountain Pointe needed.
"Everybody played with a little more focused," Neider said. "We executed a little bit better."
Play was tight at the outset, but the No. 14 Jaguars started to pull away midway through the second quarter with back-to-back 3-pointers that helped Boulder Creek (23-7) to a 20-15 lead at halftime.
But momentum started to swing the other direction when the action resumed. Quick transitions by Mountain Pointe enabled it to get behind the Boulder Creek defense. After a bucket by junior guard Caitlyn Hetrick, she stole the ball back on the in-bound and tallied two more points. That made it 25-24 for Mountain Pointe.
"That was a huge difference in the game," Neider said.
Boulder Creek took a two-point cushion into the final quarter but had trouble executing on offense. The Jaguars only made one field goal the entire period, thanks in part to Lupoe's solid defense. She finished with 10 blocks.
A lay-up by senior guard Myesha McGhee made it 33-30 for the Pride, and the team sealed the win at the line, going 9-for-17.
Next up, Mountain Pointe will encounter top-ranked and No. 3 seed Phoenix St. Mary's in the second round on Friday.
"We're excited, but we know who we're moving on to just like everybody else," Neider said. "To play the No. 1 team in the nation, at least you got that going for you."
Feb. 15, 2012 - Mountain Pointe's Kaylah Lupoe, left, and Maddy Sulka fight with Boulder Creek's Kali Morris, middle, for the ball during their high school Division I girls basketball first round game.
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The US Federal Reserve's decision last month to maintain the size of its economic stimulus was a shocker. Just about everyone expected a pullback in its bond purchases, which have helped keep loan rates low.
Thanks to the Government's partial shutdown, many analysts don't think the Fed will reduce its stimulus before next year.
And with the White House's choice of the like-minded Janet Yellen to succeed Ben Bernanke as chairman next year, the Fed will probably be cautious about any pullback early next year.
Bernanke and the Fed may also now look a bit wiser to those who questioned their stance last month.
A key reason Bernanke gave for maintaining the pace of the Fed's stimulus was Washington's budget impasse. It posed a risk to the economy and financial markets, he suggested.
Bernanke said the budget standoff would probably make it harder to know whether the economy was strong enough for the Fed to slow its stimulus.
If anything, the economic outlook is getting darker.
Even if the partial shutdown ended now, a graver threat awaits - a deadline to raise the federal borrowing limit. If Congress doesn't raise the limit by next Friday, the Government will soon run out of cash to pay interest on its debt. Any missed payment would cause a default. Another recession would probably follow.
Even after the Fed chose last month not to slow its stimulus, some analysts said it might reduce the bond purchases this month or in December.
Few are saying so any more.
What's changed was the partial shutdown, which many analysts hoped would be averted, and the growing risk that Congress won't raise the debt limit.
"With everything that is happening with the federal budget, the Fed is going to be even more cautious about doing anything," predicted Sung Won Sohn, an economics professor at California State University.
"The best approach they can take right now is stand pat and watch."
The economic outlook will remain murky as long as the partial shutdown continues, as it has delayed the Government's release of critical economic data.

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Art on old book pages. cute as framed pictures in a little girls room or library! (its a cute idea, then i started reading the actual page and this particular page is not entirely appropriate to put it in a little girls room!
authenticarts: it’s like a Jane Austen book come to life. e-picart: mixed media collage made from tiny cutouts from a text book inches took about hours to make (alternately, a poem or autobiography inside)

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Freshman Rep. Justin Jones has been elected to a key House Democratic Caucus position.
The newly elected Nashville lawmaker was elected by his fellow freshmen to the coveted role of Minority Assistant Floor Leader. In this role, he will assist Minority Floor Leader Bill Beck in organizing discussions and developing strategy on the House Floor. He will also assist the Democratic House Whip in counting heads and rounding up party members for votes.
Jones also received his committee assignments and was named to the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee and its accompanying subcommittee and the Education Administration and Government Operations Committees.


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New Yorkers protest SOPA & PIPA bills (photos)
Protesting PIPA (photos)
Andrew Rasiej, chairman of the New York Tech Meetup and one of the organizers of today's protest in New York, calls on Sen. Chuck Schumer to give up support of controversial antipiracy legislation known as the Protect IP Act. According to organizers, more than 2,000 people attended the rally, held outside Schumer's offices.
Sara Chipps, one of the founders of Girl Develop It, an organization that offers to teach women to code and create their visions of the Web, tries to fire up the gathering. The following photos are of the rally and the march that took place later. CNET's vote for best sign: "Sopa-thetic."

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The CRC for Psychological Well being researches early detection and remedy of neurodegenerative illnesses and psychoses. What mental health specialists can offer is affirmation that these signs are real, that they may be worse than the untrained individual suspects, and that there are extra productive ways of handling them than deflection or denial. A wide range of components can contribute to the prevention of psychological-health issues. Psychological illness refers to all of the diagnosable psychological issues and is characterised by abnormalities in considering, feelings, or behaviors.
Psychological health refers to our cognitive, behavioral, and emotional wellbeing – it’s all about how we think, feel, and behave. Please help us and assist us lead a movement to build understanding and help folks to be less scared to talk up about their psychological health. Finally, psychological well being is about being cognitively, emotionally and socially healthy – the best way we think, feel and develop relationships – and not merely the absence of a mental health situation.
For example, some research indicates that ethnic minorities may be extra at risk for developing psychological disorders if there are fewer members of the ethnic group to which the individual belongs of their neighborhood. Indeed, at no different time in US history has a bunch of mental health professionals been so collectively concerned a couple of sitting president’s dangerousness.
We select to use the phrase ‘psychological health issues’, as many people have informed us this language feels most useful for them. Psychological diseases may be brought on by a reaction to environmental stresses, genetic components, biochemical imbalances, or a combination of these. With correct care and therapy many individuals learn to cope or recover from a psychological sickness or emotional disorder.
These “co-occurring” circumstances include coronary heart disease , stroke , diabetes , cancer , hormonal disorders (especially perimenopause or hypothyroidism , often known as “low thyroid “), Parkinson’s disease , and Alzheimer’s disease While it does not seem that allergy symptoms trigger depression or visa versa, people who suffer from nonfood allergic reactions have been found to be considerably extra weak to additionally having depression compared to people who do not have allergies Some medicines used for lengthy intervals, comparable to prednisone , certain blood pressure medicines, sleeping drugs, antibiotics, and even contraception drugs , in some circumstances, could cause despair or make an existing despair worse.

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In Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, Hamlet the character begins a soliloquy, asking himself, “To be, or not to be, that is the question.” He is contemplating life vs. death, pondering mortality and the meaning of life. He speaks of dreams, “For in that sleep of death what dreams may come…” Yet, while Shakespeare, through Hamlet, dove into the very heart of human existence and the deepest quandaries of life, they predated the scientific confirmation that without sleep we do die. To be or not to be is integrally entwined with sleep.
In our modern, 24/7-paced world, another life quandary beckons our attention. We rarely ask, “To do or not to do.” Suddenly, you are being forced to confront this question. Heretofore, your modus operandi has been to constantly do, and do, and do, and do until exhaustion overwhelms you. The global COVID-19 pandemic and its unprecedented impact is forcing us not to do: Not to go to crowded events, albeit now canceled. Not to go to your workplace. Not to go to school. Not to travel. And the not list goes on. In these cases, you have no choice but to comply. In others, you must choose carefully about where to go and what you do. Yet with fewer places to go and things to do, when so many are working from home and saving time with commuting, this is an excellent opportunity to attend to things that were not getting your proper attention.
Enter sleep. A nonnegotiable construct that remains a constant, now and always. Before this coronavirus outbreak, insufficient sleep was already a global epidemic. Now, as your daily life patterns are greatly disrupted and shifting drastically, and for an unknown duration, you are presented with a choice: Prioritize sleep or not. You can let the stresses and strains and schedule alterations make sleep all the more of a challenge, or you can use these unusual times to focus on your sleep and shift habits that compromise your sleep quality and quantity. This may not be easy, especially during such stressful times with so many unknowns on the horizon, but opportunity and necessity beckon for you to do less, but not to sleep less than you need—and for adults, 7 to 9 hours are recommended.
So, amidst the challenges you are facing, here are some specific tips to make surrendering to slumber doable:
And in a way, a good night’s sleep begins in the morning. Here are some tips for your waking hours to set the stage for a peaceful transition to sleep at night:
We all hope to be and stay well. We are all experiencing changes in our to-do list, evaluating necessities and choices. We are all required to sleep. Sleep is a gateway to support your immune system, especially during this global COVID-19 pandemic. Sleep is also a natural blessing for the restoration of your body, mind, and spirit. Wishing you sweet dreams.
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"It's a fraud" and "worse than tulip bulbs", Dimonsaid. This phrase is something of a shorthand for an economic bubble, a situation where an asset's price is far higher than its intrinsic value. That's a reference to the arrival and boom of the tulip plant in 17th-century Europe.
That wasn't it. Dimon said that if any JPMorgan traders were found trading Bitcoin they'd be fired right away. Besides, it may have a negative impact on all altcoins, such as Ethereum, and even blockchain-powered business models that do not directly deal with bitcoin. It fell by 4% after Dimon's comments. He called it a "fraud" and said he would fire any trader at the bank who touched it.
However, the banker revealed that his daughter had bought bitcoin: "It went up and she thinks she's a genius now".
However, according to the TheStreet, China is planning on launching its own digital currency that will trade on their exchanges. "I'm not saying 'go short bitcoin and sell $100,000 of bitcoin before it goes down".
The virtual currency fell as low as $3,766.36 on Wednesday and traded down 8.7% at $3,792.43 as of 11:03 a.m.in NY, according to CoinDesk.
Bitcoin may be the buzzword of the year but some industry veterans are not buying into the hype.
However, he acknowledged that the blockchain, the " chain of blocks", a technology behind the bitcoin, was, it, useful, but its usages in the daily life would take a long time.
Dimon's warning occurred as the United Kingdom regulator Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning to investors about the speculative activity occurring around ICOs.
This comes just a day after Citigroup CEO John Gerspach issued a similar warning. Also, we had news that one of the Chinese exchanges, bitkan, would be stopped OTC trading from Thursday.
Tropical storm conditions are possible on the Treasure Coast throughout the day Monday with showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Emera's Tampa Electric utility reported 300,000 homes and businesses lost power by Monday morning.
People swimming across a river near Laung Don village in northern Rakhine state as they travel towards the border with Bangladesh. Rohingya refugees making their way along a muddy path through a padi field after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border.
Johnson rushed for 814 yards and three touchdowns in his first year with the team in 2015. " Andre [Ellington ] looked very good". Tight end Troy Niklas suffered the same injury as Logan and Johnson, and said he had been afraid that was Johnson's issue.
After discontinuing the product this spring, Nintendo has announced that it is bringing back the NES Classic Edition in 2018. Finally, Nintendo has heard our cries and confirmed that they would be re-releasing the #Nes Classic Edition in 2018.
The stock of Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc (NASDAQ:CRZO) has "Accumulate" rating given on Tuesday, October 20 by KLR Group. Macquarie Research maintained Smart Metering Systems PLC (LON:SMS) on Wednesday, June 28 with "Outperform" rating.
Downgraded to a tropical storm, Irma brings heavy rain, wind & isolated tornadoes to our area today , tonight and early Tuesday . But it stipulated, "Special events, such as Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party, will also take place".
Cwm Lc stated it has 652 shares. 186.07 million shares or 9.83% less from 206.35 million shares in 2016Q3 were reported. Oppenheimer reinitiated the shares of TEVA in report on Wednesday, December 7 with "Outperform" rating.
It increased, as 55 investors sold CVX shares while 689 reduced holdings. 86 funds opened positions while 273 raised stakes. Capital Research Global Investors increased its position in Microsoft Corporation by 212.3% during the second quarter.
Marco Rubio attack ad that aired after learning the actress they hired for the commercial was softcore porn veteran Amy Lindsay. The "like" caused the very explicit tweet from the account @ SexuallPosts to appear briefly on that portion of Cruz's profile.
Director Rian Johnson has made it clear that he has no intentions to helm " Episode IX " of the " Star Wars " franchise. Abrams has been confirmed to handle both writing and directing Star Wars: Episode IX .
Hope Hicks Replacing Scaramucci
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Turkey Pad Thai
- 1/4 cup boiling water
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 limes, 1 juiced and 1 cut into wedges for serving
- 1/4 cup fish sauce
- 2 tablespoons rice vinegar
- 1 tablespoon sriracha hot sauce
- 1 1/2 cups shredded or cubed cooked turkey
- 8 ounces linguini, broken in half
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1/2 yellow onion, sliced
- 3 cloves garlic, minced
- 3 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1 large carrot, grated
- 1/2 cup chopped peanuts
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
- 2 cups bean sprouts
- 3 scallions, cut into 3/4-inch pieces
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
To make the sauce: In a bowl, pour the boiling water over the brown sugar and stir to dissolve. Add the lime juice, fish sauce, rice vinegar, and sriracha and stir. Place the leftover turkey in the pad Thai sauce and let it absorb the flavors while prepping the rest of the dish. Next, prepare the pasta: cook the linguine one minute less than the manufacturer's directions. Drain, and set aside.
Heat the oil in a wok or large saute pan over high heat until very hot, almost smoking. Add the onions and stir fry 1 minute. Add the garlic and stir. Then add the eggs and cook for 30 seconds, stirring. Add the linguini and turkey with sauce and cook, stirring for a few minutes. Remove from heat and toss in grated carrot, peanuts, cilantro, bean sprouts and scallion. Serve with lime wedges, if desired.
Recipe courtesy of Melissa d'Arabian

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The Emergency Laparotomy Collaborative (ELC) has been shortlisted for the BMJ Awards 2019 in the Innovation in Quality Improvement category.
Laparotomy – or abdominal surgery – sees surgeons perform emergency operations in the abdominal cavity.
Between 30,000 to 50,000 of these high risk, complex procedures to treat life threatening conditions are performed across the UK every year.
Around 10 per cent of patients were reported to die within 30 days of surgery and over 25 per cent of those who survived remained in hospital for more than 20 days.
ELC was founded in 2015 to tackle this and has grown from the Emergency Laparotomy Pathway Quality Improvement Care (ELPQuIC) bundle that was run from Royal Surrey in 2012 with three other hospitals. The initial project was found to successfully decrease risk-adjusted mortality by 42 per cent.
After successfully being implemented in 28 hospitals across the South of England, ELC has now been commissioned by NHS England to run across the entire Academic Health Science Network and separately by NHS Wales.
The project is led by Consultant Anaesthetist Dr Geeta Aggarwal and Consultant Anaesthetist and Deputy Medical Director Dr Nial Quiney, who was previously named Quality Lead of the Year at the Health Service Journal Patient Safety Awards.
Dr Quiney said: “An emergency laparotomy is a major operation that involves opening the abdomen, thus allowing a surgeon to view a patient’s organs and repair any problems or damage that may have occurred.
“Usually this is an emergency and is a high risk procedure. Patients can develop multi-organ failure and sepsis.
“Having worked in the NHS for 25 years it struck me, about 10 years ago, that the mortality for this type of surgery was extremely high.
“This was unacceptable and I set about improving the care and reducing this high rate by using an evidence based care bundle and implement it.
“I am delighted to see that the work of the entire ELC project team and the 28 hospitals that we worked with continues to receive recognition.”


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Animal farm : a fairy story
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The Good, The Bad and The Ridiculous is a series of essays from Khushwant Singh. It is his last published work prior to his retirement.
Summary of the Book
The book covers Khushwant Singh's encounters with various emminent personalities from India and Pakistan. In these essays, Singh has profiled: Jawaharlal Nehru, Krishna Menon, Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Amrita Sher Gil, Begum Para, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, M. S. Golwalkar, Mother Teresa, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Dhirendra Brahmachari, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, General Tikka Khan, Phoolan Devi, Giani Zail Singh and Bhagat Puran Singh among others. According to his public statement, this is his last book.
About Khushwant Singh
Khushwant Singh was an Indian writer and journalist. He was well known for many books, including: With Malice towards One and All, The Company of Women, Delhi: A Novel and Train to Pakistan.
A graduate of King's College London, he has been the recipient of many prestigious awards including the Padma Vibhushan and the Punjab Rattan Award.

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Wedged bodily into one of Emperor Sr. Circus Trolley's fanciful cattle cars, you'll go on a cramp-filled train ride to Storybook Heart and get an inconvenient view of micro-scale replica cartoon locations.
- Guests visiting with too much money should be forwarned that this attraction exits into a scandalous rat.
- Expectant fathers will probably want to avoid this attraction.
- Make sure to keep your arms and strollers within the vehicle at various times.
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Last night, a podcast called Scriptnotes interviewed a panel of screenwriters before a live audience. The Summer Superhero Spectacular panel included Andrea Berloff (The Legend of Conan), Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (Captain America: The Winter Soldier), and David S. Goyer (Man of Steel). Podcast hosts Jon August and Craig Mazin asked the screenwriters a few questions on how they approached the genre of superheroes and mythical warriors. As expected, Goyer answered some questions but avoided giving away spoilers on his upcoming projects bringing the DC Comics Universe to live-action. But it’s the way he spoke about a Marvel Comics hero which got our attention.
Well…can’t wait to see how Wonder Woman in the new Batman/Superman turns out! HIGH HOPES EVEN HIGHER NOW. /sarcasm
After reading this I feel as though Goyer should be dropped from any comics related adaptation project. The future of Wonder Woman on film does not look very bright. If he can’t take a character like She-Hulk seriously, even for the hypothetical situation of adapting the character for her own film, then how can anyone expect him to take Wonder Woman seriously?

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This Sunday, NASCAR’s opening event featured a Black race director, grand marshal, driver and four owners – two with North Carolina ties – as well as a car proudly sporting HBCU colors.
Sunday’s Daytona 500, the opening event of the NASCAR season, showed the historically white-dominated sport may be succeeding in its push to attract new blood and expand its appeal.
Jusan Hamilton held sway as Daytona’s first-ever Black race director. Heisman winner and NFL Hall of Famer Charles Woodson was grand marshal. And four Black owners — two with North Carolina connections — fielded cars, the most in history for the event.
Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan (23XI Racing)
Ex-NBA player (and Jordan’s former North Carolina State teammate) Brad Daugherty (JTG Daugherty)
Entrepreneur John Cohen (NY Racing)
Boxing legend Floyd Mayweather (The Money Team Racing)
Bubba Wallace, who with Jordan makes the only top-tier pairing of a Black owner and a Black driver, finished in second place.
Cohen’s car, which matched the gold and black of his alma mater, Grambling State University, developed engine trouble but drew no shortage of HBCU fans taking pictures of the vehicle.
The sold-out event hints NASCAR’s efforts to diversify its traditional audience may be working. This year’s Busch Light Clash, the pre-season exhibition, had a halftime show with Ice Cube performing. The Daytona 500 sold out over a month in advance and counters estimated 120,000 spectators on site.
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Dry hot wind (DHW) is one of the main agro-meteorological disasters that occur during the grain filling stage of winter wheat in northern China. In this study, three major winter wheat cultivars planted at the Mazhuang experimental station, Xinji city, Hebei Province, including Henong 6119 (HN6119), Gaoyou 5218 (GY5218), and Jimai 325 (JM325), were analyzed. Through natural DHW and artificially simulated DHW experiments, we investigated how the physiological parameters of the three cultivars were affected on the day with DHW and the day before and after DHW occurred. Comparative analysis of the different responses among the physiological parameters of the three cultivars demonstrated that HN6119 experienced less leaf water loss by reducing its stomata conductance and transpiration rate under natural DHW conditions, while GY5218 and JM325 experienced more leaf water loss by increasing their stomata conductance and transpiration rates under natural DHW conditions. The net photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, and stomata conductance of HN6119 recovered after the DHW conditions, while those of GY5218 and JM325 showed a continuously decreasing trend. The leaf photosynthetic water use efficiency decreased on DHW days because the net photosynthesis rate was reduced for HN6119, but the transpiration rate increased for GY5218 and JM325. HN6119 showed a significant positive correlation between physiological parameters, while GY5218 and JM325 showed a poor correlation after being affected by DHW conditions. The effect of artificial simulation under mild and severe DHW stress on the thousand kernel weight (TKW) of HN6119, GY5218 and JM325 was 0.01%, 3.51%, 3.57% and 0.36%, 8.12%, 8.84%, respectively. HN6119 showed better resistance to DHW, followed by GY5218, and JM325 showed the weakest resistance.
Citation: Kang X, Le Z, Li C, Dai L, Quan C, Shi M, et al. (2022) Study on the different responses of different winter wheat cultivars to dry hot wind. PLoS ONE 17(10): e0274118. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0274118
Editor: Guanfu Fu, China National Rice Research Institute (CNRRI), CHINA
Received: January 17, 2022; Accepted: August 23, 2022; Published: October 5, 2022
Copyright: © 2022 Kang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Data Availability: All relevant data are within the manuscript and its Supporting Information files.
Funding: This study was supported by National Key Research and Development Plan (Grant No.2017YFD0300906, Basic Research Project of Hua Feng Meteorological Media Group (Grant No.CY-J2020003) and The Transverse Item-research Project of Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (Grant No. IN_JS_2022031).
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Dry hot wind (DHW) is a kind of catastrophic weather with a high temperature, low relative humidity and high wind speed, and this type of weather has different names across many countries, such as “sharav” in Israel, “sirocco” in North Africa, and “sukhovei” in the former Soviet Union . It is one of the main agro-meteorological hazards that occurs during the grain filling stage of winter wheat in North China and can cause wheat yield reductions of 10% to 20% under severe DHW weather [2,3]. Hebei Province is one of the main wheat planting areas in China and a region with severe DHW damage , and the winter wheat area of central and southern Hebei are DHW high-risk zones . Under the conditions of global warming, the frequency and severity of extreme weather and climate events, such as droughts and high temperatures, are likely to increase in the future [6–15]. Zhao et al. reported that the most serious damage caused by light and severe DHW over the past 50 years (1961–2010) occurred in the 1960s and then in the 1970s and 2000s on the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain in China . Therefore, studying the responses of different winter wheat cultivars to DHW is of great practical significance for understanding the characteristics of different winter wheat cultivars and the production of winter wheat.
Many researchers have paid substantial attention to studying the spatial-temporal characteristics of DHW and its impact on crop physiological functions and yields. Lydolph noted the index of sukhvoey for crop reactions and methods of reducing its negative effects in Russia and its distribution and two cases in North America [17,18]. Tavakol et al.  analyzed the spatial temporal variations in the frequency of compound DHW events in the central United States. Smika et al.  reported the effect of DHW on wheat growth and yield by means of a wind tunnel test and found that DHW reduced the number of spikes, grain number per spike and grain weight of winter wheat. Studies on the DHW hazards for winter and spring wheat in China began in the late 1950s, and the meteorological index, damage mechanism, effects on crop growth and yield, and defense measures of DHW have been studied over the last 40 years [20–26]. Some researchers have discussed the different resistances of different wheat cultivars to DHW [27,28]. The effects of DHW on the photosynthetic physiological parameters of wheat were studied by artificially simulated DHW experiments after 2000, and some experiments were combined with remote sensing models to study the effects of DHW on the stomatal behavior of winter wheat [29–32]. Most previous studies focused on the comparison of photosynthetic physiological parameters before and after DHW event, while there are few studies on the variation characteristics of each parameter on the day affected by DHW. Additionally, most of the studies were carried out by using a single winter wheat variety. With continually updated winter wheat cultivars, it is essential to investigate the different responses of different winter wheat cultivars to DHW to meet the needs of modern agricultural production.
In this study, the experiment was carried out at the Mazhuang (37°58′N, 115°13E′) experimental station of Hebei Agricultural University in Xinji city, Hebei Province, China, during 2019–2020. The terrain is flat, and the station is surrounded by farmland. The climate is warm temperate with subhumid lands, an annual average temperature of 13.6°C, an annual rainfall amount of 466.4 mm mainly from June to September, an annual relative humidity of 63%, and annual sunshine of 2610.1 h. The soil type is loamy with a pH of 7.1. The soil has medium fertility and an average field capacity of 22.7% (percentage of dry soil quality), a bulk density of 1.37 g cm-3, and an average wilting humidity of 5% (percentage of dry soil quality). The objective of this study was to identify the response characteristics of the three winter wheat cultivars to DHW in Hebei Province. Under natural and artificially simulated DHW conditions, we conducted field experiments in 2019 and 2020 to examine the responses of winter wheat physiological characteristics, such as net photosynthetic rate (Pn), transpiration rate (Tr), and stomatal conductance (Gs), to identify the effects of DHW on leaf photosynthetic water use efficiency and thousand kernel weight (TKW) of wheat and to provide useful information for winter wheat production and cultivar choice.
Materials and methods
Experimental materials and design
The experiment was carried out in one of the main wheat planting regions of Hebei Province. In addition, the phenotypic differences among varieties (including plant height, days of full growth period, panicle type, etc.) were also considered. The three tested winter wheat cultivars were Henong 6119 (HN6119), Gaoyou 5218 (GY5218), and Jimai 325 (JM325); the plant heights were 70.7 cm, 72.71 cm and 75 cm, respectively, and the days of the whole growth period were 239 days, 240 days and 242 days, respectively. The panicle types were spindle shaped, rectangular and nearly rectangular. There were 6 planting plots in this experiment for the three different cultivars, and the same cultivar was planted in every two plots. The planting plot of each variety was 2000 cm × 3000 cm in size, and each variety contained a replicate area with the same sowing time. Fertilizers (Shidanli compound fertilizer) were manually broadcasted before sowing and incorporated during basal application at rates of 389 kg ha-1 N, 75 kg ha-1 K and 55 kg ha-1 P. Fertilization, irrigation, pest control and other management practices were consistent across plots. The initial flowering date of the three tested wheat was May 3rd, 2019, and there were no plant diseases or insect pests and no drought during the whole growth period. The categorization of DHW was performed according to Huo et al.  (shown in Table 1).
A mild DHW occurred on May 22nd, 2019, from 13:00 to 18:00, and a severe DHW occurred on May 23rd, 2019, from 13:00 to 17:00. The field measurements were carried out from May 21st to May 24th and on May 28th and May 31st 2019, when the weather conditions were good. Table 2 gives the meteorological element values on DHW days in 2019.
In 2020, no DHW weather occurred during our experiment; hence, we used the DHW simulation generator developed by the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to conduct the experiment and a control test (i.e., normal growth and not exposed to DHW), which were designed during the experiment at the same time. Specifically, a mild DHW experiment was carried out from 13:00 to 16:00 on May 23rd, with an average temperature of 35.8°C, a relative humidity of 26.9% and a wind speed of 3 m/s. Moreover, we carried out observations on May 23rd (the DHW day), May 24th (the day after the DHW day), and May 26th (three days after the DHW day) 2020. In addition, a severe DHW experiment was carried out from 10:00 to 17:00 on May 24th, with an average temperature of 39.5°C, a relative humidity of 20.8%, and a wind speed of 3 m/s. Moreover, we carried out observations on May 24th (the DHW day), May 25th (the day after the DHW day) and May 27th (three days after the DHW day). After the wheat matured in 2020, the TKW, grain length, grain width and grain thickness of the different wheat cultivars were investigated.
The experiment conducted complied with relevant institutional, national, and international guidelines and was approved and guided by the Ethics Committee of the China Meteorological Administration. This study obtained permission to collect the wheat cultivars Henong 6119 (HN6119), Gaoyou 5218 (GY5218), and Jimai 325 (JM325) during the experiment in China.
Measurement and methods
The net photosynthetic rate (Pn), transpiration rate (Tr) and stomatal conductance (Gs) were measured by the LI-6400XT Portable Photosynthesis System (LI-COR Inc, United States). As the flag leaf is the primary photosynthetic organ for grain filling and yield formation , 5 flag leaves with a similar growth pattern, which were designed to repeat observation 5 times, were selected randomly from each cultivar for the physiological parameter measurements, and each leaf was measured 3 times. Therefore, 15 data points were acquired in one observation. We excluded the data with the largest deviation and considered the average value of the remaining 14 data points as the value in one observation. To avoid the influence of the daily variation in different parameters [35–40] on the comparability, the measurement was at 14:00 pm in 2019 (intensive observations at 10:00 am, 12:00 pm, 16:00 pm and 18:00 pm on DHW days) and immediately after the DHW stress experiment in 2020, with 3 replications for three winter wheat cultivars. After the measurements, five leaves were cut and weighed to determine their fresh weight (FW) and then weighed to determine their dry weight (DW) after treatment at 120°C for 20 minutes and drying at 80°C for 10 hours in an oven. Therefore, the relative water content (RWC) of the leaves was calculated by the following formula: (1)
The stress index (SI) of DHW on the parameters was calculated as follows: (2) where nb is the value measured for physiological parameters (i.e., Pn, Tr, and Gs) after DHW stress, na is the value measured for physiological parameters (i.e., Pn, Tr, and Gs) without DHW stress; if nb>na, then it indicates that there is no obvious negative effect on wheat after DHW stress. When the SI value is larger, the disaster stress is stronger, and vice versa.
The F test and correlation method were used to analyze the responses of the different winter wheat cultivars to DHW. Table 3 shows the significance test results of the photosynthetic physiological parameters measured in 2019.
Differences in the responses of net photosynthetic rate (Pn) for the three cultivars
Fig 1A presents the change curve of Pn (μmol CO2 m-2 s-1) for each cultivar from May 21st to 24th and on May 28th and May 31st in 2019, and the Pn of HN6119 showed a decreasing trend from May 21st to May 24th and an increasing trend on May 28th and May 31st. The F test result for HN6119 was extremely significant from May 21st to May 22nd and May 28th to May 31st and significant from May 24th to May 28th. The Pn of GY5218 showed no significant change from May 21st to May 23rd, a significant decrease from May 23rd to May 24th, and an extremely significant decrease on May 24th and May 31st. The Pn of JM325 showed an increasing trend from May 21st to May 23rd and was similar to that of GY5218 after May 23rd. The F test result for JM325 was extremely significant from May 22nd to May 23rd.
(a) Change curves of Pn (unit: μmol CO2 m-2 s-1) for the three cultivars affected by DHW from May 21st to 24th and on May 28th and May 31st, 2019; (b) the daily change curves of Pn (unit: μmol CO2 m-2 s-1) for the three cultivars affected by DHW from May 22nd to 23rd, 2019. (SE is the abbreviation of the standard error of Pn. The red, blue, and green lines denote the wheat cultivars for HN6119, GY5218, and JM 325, respectively).
Under the influence of DHW, the variation characteristics of Pn showed differences among cultivars, which indicated that the responses of different cultivars to DHW were not the same. For HN6119, the Pn was at a high level on May 21st, and it decreased from May 22nd to 23rd when DHW occurred. While it showed a significant increasing trend on May 28th and May 31st during the recovery time after DHW conditions, DHW had little effect on it. For GY5218, the Pn on May 21st was also at a high level; it showed no significant change and remained at a high level when DHW occurred, and there was a significant decreasing trend and no sign of recovery of Pn when the DHW ended, which indicated that DHW had a negative effect on it. For JM325, the crop responded to it by increasing the Pn when DHW occurred, and there were no signs of recovery of Pn but with a continuous decreasing trend when DHW ended, which indicated that DHW also had effects on it.
Fig 1B is the daily change curve of Pn on the day when DHW occurs. For HN6119, the daily change curve of Pn showed a bimodal pattern on May 22nd, 2019, with two peaks at 10:00 am and 16:00 pm, which indicated that mild DHW had no obvious effect on this cultivar. This result was similar to the observation shown in previous literature . On May 23rd, Pn still reached a higher level at 10:00 am, but this peak was followed by a continuous decrease when the temperature increased, as shown in Table 2; in addition, no peak appeared at 16:00, which indicated that severe DHW had a significant effect on this cultivar. For GY5218 and JM325, the peak of Pn was observed at 12:00 pm on May 22nd, and the peak time showed a significant difference from that in a previous study . This result indicated that mild DHW had a certain but not severe effect on these cultivars. On May 23rd, Pn also reached a higher level at 10:00 am, and the change was similar to that for HN6119 afterward, which indicated that severe DHW caused damage to these two cultivars.
The Pn of HN6119 was sensitive to DHW, and its Pn decreased greatly; however, the Pn of GY5218 and JM325 was not sensitive to DHW; therefore, their Pn had a minimal decrease.
Differences in the responses of the transpiration rate (Tr) for the three cultivars
Fig 2A is the Tr (mmol H2O m-2 s-1) change curve of the three winter wheat cultivars from May 21st to 24th and on May 28th and May 31st, 2019. As shown in Fig 2A and Table 3, the Tr of HN6119 showed a decreasing trend from May 21st to May 24th and an increasing trend on May 28th and May 31st. The F test of Tr for HN6119 was extremely significant from May 23rd to May 24th and on May 28th and May 31st. The Tr change trends of GY5218 and JM325 were similar; both showed a continuous increase from May 21st to May 23rd, while they significantly decreased from May 23rd to May 24th and on May 28th and May 31st. The increasing trends of GY5218 and JM325 from May 21st to May 23rd were significantly different, but the decreasing trend was almost the same; the overall change trend decreased after May 23rd 2019.
As in Fig 1, but for (a) Tr (unit: mmol H2O m-2 s-1) from May 21st to 24th and on May 28th and May 31st, 2019; (b) Tr (unit: mmol H2O m-2 s-1) from May 22nd to 23rd, 2019. (SE is the abbreviation of the standard error of Tr).
The different variation characteristics of Tr indicated that the responses of different cultivars to DHW were different. For HN6119, the variation characteristics of Tr were similar to those of Pn, and the crop responded to DHW by decreasing the Tr, which indicated that DHW had little effect on it. For GY5218 and JM325, the crop responded to DHW by increasing the Tr, but Tr showed a significant decreasing trend when DHW ended, which indicated that DHW had an effect on it. The value of Tr was closely related to the amount of water loss in leaves.
Fig 2B shows the Tr daily variation curve of the three cultivars experiencing DHW on May 22nd and 23rd 2019. The Tr remained at a low level at the beginning and continuously decreased on the day with severe DHW for HN6119. The Tr remained at a high level at the beginning and peaked at 12:00 pm on May 23rd for GY5218 and JM325. The results showed that the Tr of HN6119 decreased to reduce the water loss from the leaves, while the Tr of GY5218 and JM325 increased to increase the water loss from the leaves when they were affected by DHW. From Table 4, it was obvious that the variations in the leaves’ FWs, DWs and RWC of the three cultivars occurred one day before (May 21st) and after (May 24th) DHW. The RWC of the leaves decreased by 0.24%, 1.94%, and 3.71% for HN6119, GY5218, and JM325, respectively (Table 4). This result indicated that the Tr of HN6119 decreased and caused less water loss from the leaves, while the Tr of GY5218 and JM325 increased and caused more water loss from the leaves.
The Tr variations among the three cultivars implied that HN6119 with the low Tr was not very sensitive to DHW, but GY5218 and JM325 with the high Tr were sensitive to DHW; thus, their Tr had greatly changed.
Differences in the responses of the stomatal conductance (Gs) for the three cultivars
Fig 3A shows the Gs (mol H2O m-2 s-1) change in the three winter wheat cultivars from May 21st to 24th and on May 28th and May 31st. The Gs variation tendency of the three cultivars was significantly different. For HN6119, Gs showed a decreasing trend from May 21st to May 24th and an increasing trend on May 28th and May 31st. The variation characteristics were similar to those of Pn and Tr, and significant changes were observed on May 21st, 22nd, May 24th, May 28th, May 28th and May 31st. For GY5218 and JM325, the Gs variation characteristics were similar; both showed a significant increasing trend from May 22nd to May 23rd and a decreasing trend after May 23rd. However, a significant decrease was found in different periods for GY5218 and JM325, as shown in Table 3.
As in Fig 1, but for (a) Gs (unit: mol H2O m-2 s-1) from May 21st to 24th and on May 28th and May 31st, 2019; (b) Gs (unit: mol H2O m-2 s-1) from May 22nd to 23rd, 2019. (SE is the abbreviation of the standard error of Gs).
The variation characteristics of Gs showed the different responses by the three cultivars to DHW. For HN6119, the Gs decreased during the DHW conditions and recovered after the DHW, which indicated that DHW had little effect on it. GY5218 and JM325 responded to DHW by increasing Gs, with a continuous decreasing trend and no signs of recovery when DHW ended, which indicated that DHW had an effect on them.
From Fig 3B, it can be seen that Gs of HN6119 remained at a low level from the beginning, which was similar to the variation characteristic of Pn and Tr, and HN6119 showed strong resistance to DHW by reducing the stomatal conductance to reduce Tr and Pn to reduce the damage caused by dry hot wind. For GY5218 and JM325, Gs remained at a high level when affected by DHW, which was consistent with the variation characteristic of Tr. However, the increase in Gs and Tr at 12:00 pm, 14:00 pm, and 16:00 pm on the day affected by severe DHW was significant compared with the increase in Pn. This result indicated that the increase in Tr did not cause the response of Pn and only increased the water loss of leaves, so the resistance to DHW of GY5218 and JM325 was weak. HN6119 had low Gs and was not sensitive to DHW, while GY5218 and JM325 had high Gs and were sensitive to DHW, so their Gs had greatly changed.
Differences in leaf photosynthetic water use efficiency (WUE) among the three cultivars
Fig 4A shows the variations in leaf photosynthetic water use efficiency (WUE), i.e., the ratio of the flag leaf’s net photosynthetic rate to transpiration rate, for the three cultivars from May 21st to May 24th and on May 28th and 31st. The WUE of the three cultivars decreased under DHW conditions from May 22nd to 23rd and increased after DHW. The reason for the WUE decrease was not the same among the three cultivars. Generally, for HN6119, the net photosynthetic rate decreased, and the transpiration rate decreased minimally; however, for GY5218 and JM325, the transpiration rate increased, and the net photosynthetic rate changed minimally. After the DHW conditions, the WUE of the three cultivars recovered gradually to some extent on May 28th and 31st, indicating that the three cultivars resisted DHW by changing WUE by adjusting plant physiological processes. As shown in Fig 4B, the WUE of HN6119 was higher than those of GY5218 and JM325 on DHW days. Under mild DHW conditions, the WUE changed for the three cultivars in two kinds of patterns: one had two peaks for HN6119, and the other had one peak for GY5218 and JM325. Under severe DHW conditions, the changes in WUE for the three cultivars showed almost the same decreasing trends, implying that the differences in the WUE variations for the three cultivars were not the same for the different intensities of DHW.
As in Fig 1, but for (a) leaf photosynthetic water use efficiency (WUE) (unit: μmol CO2/mmol H2O) from May 21st to 24th and on May 28th and May 31st, 2019; (b) leaf photosynthetic WUE (unit: μmol CO2/mmol H2O) from May 22nd to 23rd, 2019. (SE is the abbreviation of the standard error of Pn/Tr).
Differences in the responses of the photosynthesis physiological parameters for the three cultivars
To examine the different responses of each cultivar to DHW, the correlation coefficients of the photosynthetic physiological parameters of the three cultivars were analyzed.
As shown in Table 5, the correlation coefficients of Tr and Gs of the three cultivars  for all measurements showed a significant positive correlation (P < 0.001); the correlation coefficients of Pn, Tr and Gs before and after DHW days were also significantly positively correlated (P < 0.001). The significance levels of the correlation coefficients of Pn, Tr, and Gs on DHW days were different among the three cultivars. The correlation of all measurements was significantly positive at P < 0.001 for HN6119 and at P < 0.05 for GY5218. For JM325, the correlation coefficients were significantly positive except for the correlation between Pn and Tr at 16:00 pm and 18:00 pm on May 22nd and the correlations of Pn, Tr, and Gs at 14:00 pm and 16:00 pm on May 23rd, which were closely related to the effect of DHW; however, some parameters had no significant correlation. Based on the hourly meteorological elements, the DHW lasted from 13:00 pm to 18:00 pm on May 22nd and lasted from 13:00 pm to 17:00 pm on May 23rd. The correlation of Pn and Tr of JM325 was affected by DHW at 16:00 pm on May 22nd and continued to be affected until May 23rd. The effect on the correlation of Pn and Tr was exacerbated when a severe DHW occurred as the temperature reached 35.7°C at 14:00 pm and 37.1°C at 15:00 pm on May 23rd, affecting the correlation of Pn and Gs. The correlation difference in these parameters suggested that HN6119 had a better self-stability when affected by DHW, and its metabolism balance still maintained normal regulation. For GY5218 and JM325, the correlation coefficients of Pn, Tr and Gs showed poor correlations when affected by DHW, which indicated that their regulatory function had been disrupted.
The above correlation analysis showed that in comparison to GY5218 and JM325, HN6119 had a better resistance to DHW.
Test of different resistances to DHW for the three cultivars
To verify the reliability of the above results, an artificially simulated DHW condition experiment was conducted in 2020. Table 6 shows the stress index of the photosynthetic physiological parameters for the three cultivars after DHW stress.
As shown in Table 6, the variation characteristics of the parameters under mild and severe DHW stress were similar; the SI reached the highest level on the day DHW occurred and then decreased for HN6119. In particular, Pn had the highest decreasing speed, and the SI reached the control level on the first day after mild DHW stress and the third day after severe DHW stress. The SI of TKW under mild and severe DHW stress was 0.01% and 0.36%, respectively (shown in Table 7), indicating that HN6119 had a better resistance to DHW. For GY5218 and JM325 under mild and severe DHW stress, Pn showed the most significant variation, and the SI had a decreasing trend; however, the SI did not reach the control level on the third day after DHW stress. Tr and Gs did not show obvious consistent variation after DHW stress. The SI was still at a high level on the third day after DHW stress, indicating that DHW caused damage to the wheat. The SI of TKW under mild and severe DHW stress was 3.51% and 8.12% for GY5218 and 3.57% and 8.84% for JM325, respectively. This result indicated that GY5218 and JM325 had weak resistance to DHW. It can be seen from Table 7 that the effect of DHW on grain morphology (i.e., grain length, grain width, and grain thickness) indicated that the SI of the three cultivars were all smaller under mild DHW stress than under severe DHW stress. At the same time, the SI of grain length was the smallest, and the SI of grain thickness was the largest among the three cultivars. HN6119 had the smallest SI value, and JM325 had the largest SI value among the three cultivars. The above results indicated that the resistance to DHW was different among different cultivars and that DHW had different effects on grain morphology. Therefore, in comparison to the other cultivars, HN6119 had a better resistance ability to DHW.
The responses of the three cultivars to DHW were inconsistent under natural and artificial simulation experiments, indicating that the three cultivars possess different DHW resistance abilities.
Under the natural and artificially simulated DHW field experiments, some physiological parameters of the three wheat cultivars, such as photosynthesis, transpiration and stomatal conductance, were analyzed to assess the response differences to DHW of the three cultivars.
In this study, we found that the cultivar with strong resistance to DHW showed better stomatal regulation ability under natural DHW conditions. The transpiration rate and leaf water loss were reduced by stomatal conductance adjustment to avoid serious damage to plants. The physiological functions could be recovered gradually after the end of DHW. The cultivar with weak resistance to DHW showed more leaf water leaves by increasing the stomatal conductance and transpiration rate, and the physiological parameters showed a significant decrease with no increase when the DHW ended. As in the literature , the results showed that DHW increased the transpiration intensity and stomatal aperture, which resulted in water loss from leaf cells. This result was consistent with the response of cultivars with weak resistance to DHW in this study. However, the conclusions in previous literature were obtained for one cultivar and did not reveal the response of different cultivars to DHW. Few research results about the recovery of physiological functions after DHW were mentioned in previous literature.
This study shows that the physiological parameters of cultivars with strong resistance to DHW could maintain a significant positive correlation when affected by DHW, which indicates that the cultivars have better self-regulation ability. The physiological parameters of cultivars with weak resistance to DHW showed worse correlations when affected by DHW, especially severe DHW, which means that the regulatory function of wheat was damaged and that normal physiological functions, such as photosynthesis and transpiration, were stressed. However, this finding has not been reported in previous studies [29,41].
According to the analysis, we found that the leaf photosynthetic WUE of the three cultivars was lower when DHW conditions occurred than when no DHW occurred. Because of the cultivar attributes, the reasons for the WUE changes were different. There were two different ways for the decreasing WUE to adapt to adverse conditions: one was to reduce the net photosynthetic rate for the cultivars with better resistance to DHW, and the other was to increase the transpiration rate for the cultivars with relatively weak resistance to DHW.
In this study, the variations in photosynthetic physiological parameters for different cultivars under natural DHW conditions were analyzed. The results show that the Pn, Tr and Gs of the three cultivars all decreased on the first day after the end of DHW. Under the artificially simulated DHW conditions, the photosynthetic physiological parameters of different cultivars all decreased compared with those not under DHW conditions, which indicates that DHW has inhibiting effects on the photosynthetic physiological parameters of winter wheat. Zhao et al.  reported that the photosynthetic transpiration of wheat flag leaves at the grain filling stage was restrained significantly and caused partial closure of stomata under artificially simulated DHW. A study by Zhang et al.  showed that the net photosynthetic rate, transpiration rate, and stomatal conductance of wheat flag leaves on the first day after DHW were lower than those of the control group. These results were consistent with those of our study. Lu et al.  reported that the maximum value of stomatal opening of cultivars with no resistance to DHW showed a trend of appearing earlier, its duration was prolonged significantly, and the transpiration intensity had no significant change. The maximum value of stomatal opening of cultivars with strong resistance to DHW showed no significant change, and the transpiration intensity had a significant decreasing trend. There were some differences with the conclusions of this study, which may be related to the difference in cultivar resistance. In short, the three cultivars showed different photosynthetic responses to DHW, reflecting the different resistances of the three cultivars to DHW, as environmental factors such as CO2 concentration and soil moisture were consistent in this study.
The responses of the three winter wheat cultivars to DHW were studied by field experiments under natural DHW conditions. The results suggested that the photosynthetic physiological parameters of Pn, Tr, and Gs for the three cultivars decreased on the first day after DHW ended; the Pn, Tr and Gs of HN6119 recovered with time after DHW; and those of GY5218 and JM325 still decreased. The SI values of TKW under mild and severe DHW stress among the three cultivars were different; HN6119 had the smallest value, GY5218 had the median value, and JM325 had the largest value. The resistance to DHW was different among the three cultivars, and DHW had a different effect on grain morphology. The response differences in the Pn, Tr and Gs variation characteristics and their correlations among the three cultivars suggested that HN6119 had a better resistance to DHW, while the resistance of GY5218 and JM325 were relatively weak. Further studies should be carried out to determine how to cope with the negative effect of DHW on crop production under global climate change conditions.
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The authors acknowledge, with deep gratitude, the contribution of the anonymous reviewers whose time and effort in providing comments has improved this paper substantially.
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The man whose minimalist signature is the first to adorn a letter sent to the Islamic Republic of Iran might very well be a Republican frontrunner for the 2020 presidential election. Sure, it's a long ways off, but Arkansas Junior Senator Tom Cotton is a possible presidential 2016 contender, and he's already making a big splash on the national level. Cotton and 46 Republican senators ranging from fellow newcomer Bill Cassidy of Louisiana to senior Senator Orrin Hatch all signed an open letter to the Iranian government explaining presidential term limits and legislative voting protocols in a surprisingly passive aggressive attempt to thwart current nuclear negotiations with the United States.
The bold move runs concurrent with a bid from fellow Arkansas Republican Senator Bart Hester to allow candidates to seek multiple offices at the same time. Hester says his push for such legislation, which is expected to hit the Senate floor this week, is most certainly inspired by Cotton:
Tom Cotton would be my current idea of someone who should be afforded this opportunity. Politics, if I've learned anything, it changes every day and there could be the great next hope show up tomorrow but I don't think it's reasonable to say I wouldn't be looking at Tom Cotton to have that opportunity.
Cotton's humble roots are in the rural Arkansas town of Dardanelle, where he grew up on a cattle farm. His "local boy makes good" story of being wholly dedicated to one Ivy League institution and one alone landed him at his dream college of Harvard, where his worldview was shaped by politics and the founding fathers in particular. It is his undergraduate dissertation on the Federalist Papers that to this day still informs a majority of his political ideals. As unearthed by The Atlantic, the 92-page dissertation lends itself to a Hobbesian worldview that argues for an intellectual caste system in which the government is composed of the smartest, most driven individuals to lead the plebeians. Really. As per Cotton's dissertation:
Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings. Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.
The impracticality of such rigid fundamentals makes Cotton a purely idealistic candidate within the vein of Rand Paul, whose initial arguing against vaccines during the fever pitch of the measles outbreak felt less like a shirking of sound medical advice and more a true buying into the purest form of libertarianism's social freedom — that individuals should have a choice no matter the consequences. Despite Cotton staying true to his beliefs in the face of helping to pass necessary funding for FEMA or his signature singular dedication honed precisely to keeping Gitmo detainees exactly where they are, Cotton has proven himself as a standout, if not boisterous, candidate for the Republican party to continue to thrust into the spotlight.
Cotton, just 37 years young, is the yawping, incoherently enraged voice of the people, after all. He's the man who falsely claimed that ISIS was working with Mexican drug cartels and lied boldfaced to voters about his decision to vote no on allowing $300 million in funding to reach the Arkansas Children's Hospital, while also lashing out at Democrats and claiming that next they'll be saying he hates puppies. Cotton is the ideal politician in the age of Fox News, which is just as delusional in their defense of Bill O'Reilly by attacking the "liberal media." If the GOP has nowhere to go but insane, they've made the right choice in putting their faith in a man so unconcerned with reality such as Cotton.
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Since July 2012 those wishing to apply to join family in the UK or extend their family visas have had to meet a financial requirement which only allowed evidence of income from the UK based sponsor (for out of country applications) or cash savings from the applicant and/or their partner to be relied upon. Partners applying from within the UK to extend their spouse visas or unmarried partner visas could rely on their own income.
For a partner visa, the Immigration Rules specify that to show the financial requirement is met, a gross annual income of at least £18,600 must be evidenced, or alternatively, that savings of at least £62,500 have been held continuously for six months. If there is a child applying and income is evidenced, an additional £3,800 must be shown plus a further £2,400 for each additional child. If a child applies and savings are being evidenced, the amount to be shown increases to £72,000 and then a further £6,000 per additional child.
Following the decision of the Supreme Court in MM (Lebanon) & Ors v Secretary of State for the Home Department  UKSC 10, the Home Office have amended the Immigration Rules to allow other sources of income to be relied on by family members to show that the financial requirement is met for their visa applications.
As of 10 August 2017 applicants may show that the financial requirement is met by providing evidence of credible prospective earnings for themselves or their partner, a credible guarantee of sustainable financial support from a third party, or any other credible and reliable source of income or savings. The level of income or savings that must be evidenced has not changed. The Immigration Rules have also become more flexible with regard to how the financial requirement can be evidenced. Applicants will still have to provide the required specified evidence to show that the financial requirement is met but they will only be able to rely on the new rules if it is evident from the information provided in their application that:
1) There are exceptional circumstances which could render refusal of their application a breach of the UK’s obligations under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights;
2) Such a refusal would result in unjustifiably harsh consequences for them, their partner or a child. If applicants can show that they meet this test they will be issued with a visa in a ten-year route to settlement rather than the five-year route. If they can later show that the financial requirement is met as per the original provisions, they may move into the five-year route.
Whilst these new immigration rules appear to allow some flexibility to those applying for family visas from within and outside of the UK, the high threshold of exceptionality and the need to show that there would be unjustifiably harsh consequences if the application was refused mean that utilising them may be difficult and equally undesirable with the reward for success being a visa in a route to settlement which will take twice as long.

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We’re so excited to offer this unique and adventurous yoga retreat in the south of Italy with Molly Cofman La Selva is located just south of Naples on one of the most famous coast lines in the world. La Selva is a working organic farm that offers a rare and humble base camp for exploring the picturesque Amalfi coastline. While daily yoga and delicious meals will anchor our experience, those that choose will have access to amazing rock climbing, while others will spend their free time hiking the coast, exploring nearby villages or simply relaxing.
During your free time, hike down into the town of Positano for the beach, shopping or hop a city bus and explore some of the other Amalfi towns such as Ravello, Praiano and Amalfi. La Selva is also perfect for relaxing with a book or taking a nap in a cozy hammock.
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Share info on 'benami' properties with PMO: Babulal Gaur
Gaur said he would himself gather such information and share with the PMO as he believes that war against corruption is not against any specific party.
Deaths of accused "natural": Babulal Gaur on MPPEB scam
"All deaths are natural deaths," Gaur told PTI when asked about the deaths of so many...
Babul Supriyo's convoy attacked in Asansol
Union minister Babul Supriyo's convoy was allegedly attacked in Asansol.
Vyapam deaths natural, says MP minister Babulal Gaur, rejects probe demand
He also dismissed opposition Congress' repeated calls for ordering a CBI investigation into the scandal, commonly known as Vyapam scam.
Congress demands MP minister Babulal Gaur's apology over remarks about women
MP Congress unit's chief spokesman KK Mishra said, "Seasoned and senior leaders like him should refrain from making such comments."
Babulal Gaur, Akhilesh Yadav should step down for 'irresponsible' remarks: Congress
Party spokesperson Shobha Oza also questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi over continuance of incidents of rapes in various parts of the country.
Will sue Trinamool MPs for defamation, says Babul Supriyo
"I will file separate cases of defamation, both civil and criminal, against Saugata Roy, Tapas Paul and Nandini Paul," Supriyo told the media here.
Metro in Indore, Bhopal in five years: Babulal Gaur
Babulal Gaur today said that metro rail will start running in the state capital Bhopal and Indore in the next four to five years.
Madhya Pradesh minister Babulal Gaur lauds Ansari's stand on Ram Janmabhoomi case
Gaur urged all political parties, leaders and religious heads to welcome Hashmi's statement to establish statue of Lord Ram from makeshift tent to grand temple.
Age no bar in MP: '80-proof' Babulal Gaur, Raghuvanshi set for polls
These veteran politicians-- Babulal Gaur of the ruling BJP and Hazarilal Raghuvanshi of Opposition Congress-- are ready to face the voters at the ripe old age of 83 and 84.
No objection if court asks CBI to probe MPPEB scam: MP Home Minister Babulal Gaur
Madhya Pradesh Home Minister Babulal Gaur has said the state government would not have an objection if a court hands over the inquiry to CBI.
No water in my Circuit House room, alleges Babul Supriyo
Supriyo reported this to BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, who is also the party's co-observer for West Bengal.
Cops summon Babul Supriyo for booze barb at TMC MLA
Supriyo on Tuesday received summons from the Alipore police station late in the evening. Meanwhile, he sent a legal notice to Moitra.
Union minister Babul Supriyo attacked with bricks
Local TMC leader Shivdasan said the BJP workers should have lodged protest with the administration instead of deciding to hold an agitation in front of the minister's house.
Babulal Marandi unable to digest development works by Raghubar Das government: BJP
Recalling the 2014 Assembly elections, Prabhakar said Marandi had lost from two seats, but still was "indulging in divisive politics".


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Saturday, April 16, 2011
Holyrood independents Caroline Johnstone and Mev Brown unite on crime policy, one doesn’t understand it and the other is a raging crack pot!
At every election whether it be Westminster, Holyrood or Council, people stand who are independents.
The most famous group of independents are of course the Monster Raving Loony Party, they have never won or even come close but they do add a bit of colour to make the counts a festive affair.
In the Holyrood election there are a number of independents standing.
One such person is Anti-knives campaigner Caroline Johnstone, she won’t be elected.
As part of her ‘manifesto’ such as it is she wants online mug shots and tougher prisons.
What does she mean by tougher prisons, God only knows.
Johnstone has joined together with former homeless sector worker Mev Brown saying they will work with each other on law and order issues if elected to Holyrood.
This begs the question, why isn’t Johnstone standing as a Tory?
Johnstone is standing on the Glasgow list after resigning as a Justice of the Peace earlier this year.
The Glasgow list is very popular with some people depending on who you talk to.
Mev Brown worked at a homeless drop-in centre in Edinburgh, and said the mainstream parties "really don't get it" when it comes to crime.
"If our political elite got out of their ivory towers more often they would know about the gulf between the image of the hard man with street credibility, against the substance of a coward”.
"If we want to change the culture, we need to stop promoting these thugs' image with convictions like GBH and assault. Let the charge fit the crime. We need a new legislation: The Cowardice Act”.
He went further:
“We must hit these thugs were it hurts most, their reputation. A key component of this policy will be to post conviction details and a mug shot on court websites. These thugs must be seen for what they are: cowards."
Has he never heard of the Human Rights Act and the European Convention on Human Rights?
When a person is convicted and receives a sentence, he/she is then processed to start their sentence whatever that maybe.
That is the punishment aspect demanded by society, online mug shots and tougher prisons are old style Tory and even they have abandoned such rhetoric down south.
Brown also believes this policy would have a particular impact on domestic violence.
And there is no evidence to back that claim up.
"These days, many women do an internet search on their new partner. With conviction details available online, this would provide an opportunity to avoid a disastrous relationship for countless thousands of women."
People can simply change their name under Scots Law provided it isn’t done to defraud.
Brown hasn’t thought this through and I suspect even taken the time to study the law, he has just opened his yap and let spew.
Is he really MSP material?
True there are some dense pieces of cannon fodder at Holyrood but they have the sense to keep their mouth’s shut and sit up the back and just take the salary.
Brown is just venting crap.
Slightly wiser Johnstone, said:
"Looking at Labour's knife policy, it simply doesn't stand up”.
It’s a con, not even legally and highly immoral to boot but at least with her JP training she could work that out.
But she goes awry:
"At a time when prison budgets are being cut, to free up spaces for violent offenders, we need to seriously consider prison reform and we need to ensure that prison is a tougher option that involves mandatory interventions to change values and beliefs. How else will we change the current culture?”
Mandatory interventions don’t change values and beliefs; she doesn’t understand the mindset of these people.
"With Labour's approach, where is the justice in a thug putting somebody in hospital with a baseball bat and getting off with community service, while somebody who didn't actually hurt anybody gets six months for carrying a knife? Labour really hasn't thought things out."
She really doesn’t like the Labour Party but that isn’t enough to go to Holyrood, she needs proper policies, encompassing policies that would help break the cycle of reoffending.
Just say no, tough on crime etc etc hasn’t worked, time to be smart on crime but I fear she doesn’t have the mental tools for the task.
And she will always fear want she doesn’t understand.
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow University


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The girl who dared... author Hazel Gaynor on journey from rejection to bestseller
Hazel Gaynor has lived every would-be author's dream - from rejection to best-seller
'Not for a minute did I allow myself to think I'd win! I genuinely was floored when Barbara Taylor Bradford read my name out!" Hazel Gaynor is laughing at the strange and wonderful turn of her life. She is talking about winning the Historical Romantic Novel of the Year award, at the recent Romantic Novelists' Association awards, for her first novel The Girl Who Came Home, after years of rejection.
These awards are a big deal - previous winners include Philippa Gregory and JoJo Moyes -and as such the perfect culmination (for now!) of the remarkable trajectory of Hazel's book - from rejected manuscript to New York Times best-seller, via the very modern phenomenon of self-publishing. The thing that kept her going was simple: "Repeated rejection was heartbreaking, but I found it just made me keep writing."
Hazel was born in Yorkshire and moved to Dublin from London with her Irish husband, Damien in 2001. Here, she worked for A&L Goodbody and had two children, and then, in 2009, was made redundant. "I had reduced to part-time work by then, but still, it was a very hard shock to the system. Our world was completely turned upside down, but in a funny way, it was the best thing that ever happened."
It was, she says, "a massive push to make the decision I would probably have made anyway - to stop working, and be at home more." It was also a massive push to begin doing something she had talked about for years: write. She began with a parenting blog, Hot Cross Mum. "I wanted to write, but I didn't have the confidence to tackle a novel. In hindsight, the blog was a lovely way to come to terms with the change I was going through - from the boardroom to the bathroom."
From there, Hazel wrote a first novel, found a UK agent, and was almost at the point of letting the book be submitted, when another idea, one she had been kicking around in her mind for years, suddenly took firm hold. "I had a moment one day, I knew I wanted to write a novel about the Titanic." So she put the first book on hold, and wrote The Girl Who Came Home instead, in about six months, about an Irish immigrant travelling in steerage. She was highly conscious of being under pressure to make the Titanic Centenary in 2012, and so the book was sent to publishers towards the end of 2010. "My agent had warned me the market might be saturated, and indeed, unfortunately the rejections came in."
Hazel is able to be phlegmatic now, with all that has transpired since, but at the time; "I was fairly despairing," she admits. "I had a few tears. I felt I'd poured myself into that book, so it did feel very personal. Nobody wants to hear 'it's not good enough'."
This of course is the point where grit and determination reveal themselves, making the difference between those who may succeed, and those who won't. "Rejection made me realise this wasn't just a hobby," Hazel says now. "I really seriously wanted to be an author. Hearing somebody saying 'it's not good enough' made me more determined."
And so she decided to self-publish. "It was not the first choice," she says. "My goal was always to sign with a publisher, so yes, self-publishing was a compromise; fortunately it was a compromise that worked out very well."
The Girl Who Came Home was put online as a Kindle e-book, and for the first day it was free to download. Hazel did no pre-publicity at all - "there was no excitement or Champagne, no launch party. I hit 'publish', then I went and hung some washing on the line" - but that first day, it got 20,000 downloads, which sent it shooting up the rankings, and momentum began to gather. The book was a Kindle bestseller on and off for a year, and Hazel earned "a moderate income" from royalties.
A year went by, during which time Hazel wrote her next novel, A Memory of Violets, the poignant story of two young girls, sisters, selling flowers on the streets of Covent Garden and its surrounds in the 1870s. "I imagined what it would be like if all you had was your sister. I have an older sister, and we're very reliant on each other. I lost my mum when I was 23, so my sister and I are incredibly close, because it's just the two of us, and our dad."
Perhaps ironically, it was when A Memory of Violets was finished that Hazel really hit her lowest moment. "The Girl had gone on to do well, and so I naively thought that would help me to get the much longed-for traditional publishing deal." A Memory of Violets went out to publishers in the UK and Ireland, "and the rejections started coming, and coming. Ultimately, that was harder to deal with. I think that was the lowest point. I remember being really crushed, and thinking 'How many knocks can you take? This isn't good for anybody.' Because the disappointment does bleed through into your life and your family, no matter how much you try not to let it."
Hazel and her agent then parted company; "I felt as if I had taken 13 steps back!"
It was then that Hazel got a message, "almost a year to the very day that I published The Girl, right out of the blue" through her Facebook page, from a New York-based agent. "She had read the book on her Kindle and said 'I love your book. Have you written anything else? Are you represented?'"
Within six weeks Hazel had a two-book deal with William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins, after an exciting auction. "It was amazing, a really special experience," she says now. The book then became a New York Times and USA Today best-seller.
But there was more to come. "The Girl Who Came Home is the book that keeps on surprising me," she says with a laugh. The book was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association awards, and indeed won. "It was so great," she says. And meeting Barbara Taylor Bradford, queen of romantic fiction? "She was witty, charming, fearsome. A force to be reckoned with!"
A Memory of Violets, by Hazel Gaynor, is out now, published by William Morrow, €11.95
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