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What does the Ontario PC landslide mean for education and for progressive politics?
It looks like the Ontario legislature will look, in many ways, like the outgoing seating plan, with an 83 seat (+7) PC government based on 41% of the vote, a 31 seat NDP official opposition (-9) based 0n 23.6% of the vote, and an 8 (+1) seat Liberal third party without official party status based on 23.7% of the vote, such are the distortions of the first past the post electoral system. There was also one Green Party MPP elected and one independent MPP. This we all know by now but what does it mean for education?
Let's look at the plus side. Ford signaled the day after the election that it may be time to raise the wages for teachers, along with nurses and other public servants. Nobody should should hold their breath waiting to be compensated for the lost pay due to Bill 124, but on a go-forward basis it's a tiny bit of progress. A full restoration of free collective bargaining should be the only position acceptable to the unions.
Hopefully Ford can be persuaded to destream grade 10 after grade 9, and continue baby steps forwards on a destreaming agenda for all grades. On the down side, class size relief would be a blessing but may be a bridge too far for the PCs.
Ontario politics, however, may be in for a realignment. For the second election in a row, we have a PC government with a fairly strong NDP official opposition, and they are the only two official parties! The Liberals are in single digits notwithstanding the fact that they got slightly more votes than the NDP. The Liberal vote is what the pollsters and pundits call "inefficient" in that it produces a large number of 2nd place showings but few seats. Could this result be the death knell for the Ontario provincial Liberals as we have seen across western Canada (the BC Liberals are a conservative party in a red sweater). In the west, the NDP is in first or second place in all four provinces.Could this be extended from Victoria to Cornwall? The next couple of elections could determine this.
One sure sign of Liberal problems is a shift of building trades unions away from the Liberals to Ford's PCs as the PCs reoriented themselves away from a cutbacks agenda towards an infrastructure and industrial agenda of building hospitals, schools, highways and the conversion of Ontario's critical auto industry to electric vehicles. We seem to be witnessing a shift of Ontario's PCs back towards its "Red Tory" center-right Bill Davis incarnation and away from hard right positions that characterized the Mike Harris years, the Pierre Poilievre leadership bid, and even Ford's own first term.
Ford teased Andrea Horwath during the debates that he now had union backing, but the construction trades unions (the aristocracy of labour), with the exception of perhaps the ironworkers,never really supported the NDP, but were actually Liberal supporters. The NDP's labour supporters were concentrated in manufacturing, resource extraction, and the public sector. Still, the loss of building trades is a tough blow for the Liberals.
In their important 2018 book "Why the Left Loses" Rob Manwaring and Paul Kennedy surveyed the social democratic and Labour left across Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada (NDP), to document the reasons behind a decade-long series of electoral setbacks between the 2008 financial crisis and 2018. They blame timid, over compromised leadership, populism on the right that attracts many working class voters, mission accomplished beliefs that some voters have, that the welfare state is complete and therefore the social democrats are no longer needed, unfair media particularly the Murdoch Press in the Anglosphere, and too many parties splitting the center-left lane. Germany may have since patched up this problem post Merkel, with a center-left-green coalition due to its MMP style PR system, Australia grabbed a Labour victory this past month, but the problems remain in Ontario provincially and Canada federally. No political scientist would call either Ontario's or Canada's Liberals "left" but they are centrist on a good day, and at least half and as many as two thirds of their supporters are progressive, left of center voters that would vote NDP if the Liberals disappeared. Add this to the Greens and 53% of Ontarians voted center-left as opposed to the PCs plus fringe right parties at 45%.
The solution then, might be posed as the elimination of the Ontario Liberals as an electoral force, as in western Canada alongside a transition to a much greener NDP to absorb the green vote - easier said than done.


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Q: DAX measure (PowerBI) for "filter and extract" certain Temperature ranges I am trying to do Measure to"extract" certain temperature range from my T01 as shown on screenshot, but I have difficulties.. My goal is to "extract" and to show only temperatures that are >=90 and <=120 degrees, only in that interval, so that bandwidth gets thinner and for my assessment. This can be accomplished by adjusting it on Visual level filters directly in PowerBI report, but I wanted to have measure for that, which I can change and use for my needs. What can be good option?

A: Instead of adding a measure, you can also add a column using DAX like Temperature Filter=AND('Query_Name'[T01]>=90,'Query_Name'[T01]<=120). Replace 'Query_Name' with your query. This will return a TRUE/FALSE as output in the new column.
Then you can use this column in your visual filter or as a slicer and choose TRUE. You can even change the DAX whenever you like and the filter will be update accordingly.

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What Is 'TV'? Hulu, FreeWheel, dataxu, comScore, 4C Execs Discuss
SAN JUAN — If you listen to the tech crowd and if you look at some of the consumer behavior, TV is "dying".
But, if that is the case, how do you explain Netflix?
Many executives in the industry have long since moved on from using "TV" to describe the box in the living room connected to an antenna, with many choosing the describe all moving-picture content, including "TV", as "video", whatever device it is delivered on.
But what is the current state of "television", does it matter and what's in a name?
A Beet Retreat panel convened by Beet.TV discussed the issue in Puerto Rico…
TV is the same – and different
Television is becoming something very different, with hugely different capabilities. But, for both viewers and advertisers alike, there has been no wholesale recalibration of the enduring nature of "TV"…
Julie DeTraglia, Head of Research, Hulu:
"I mean, Hulu is television. If we don't define it as television, I don't know what else we'd call it. Increasingly, especially as you get to younger generations, they define streaming as television. Older generations slightly less so.
"We do have advertisers that consider us in two different ways. You have sort of more traditional reach-and-frequency linear buyers who look at Hulu as a reach extension, as a way to brand their products, as a branding platform. And then increasingly, we have all of these direct-to-consumer advertisers … who treat television a little bit differently, who want the data that they're accustomed to getting in digital."
But TV is fragmenting
Viewers may still have a unified sense of what TV is – but that doesn't mean that, for broadcasters and advertisers, the medium isn't nevertheless splintering in to umpteen different challenges…
Neil Smith, GM, FreeWheel Markets:
"It's clear from our data that the consumer defines OTT as television. It's the fastest growing platform, it kind of enfuels dataset, and it's also the largest.
Now the challenge, I think there are a couple that we see with publishers. One is it's very fragmented. We look at kind of OTT – there are a couple different buckets of devices that we include in that. So there's kind of plug-in devices like Roku or an Apple TV or an Amazon Fire. There are gaming consoles. There are (also) smart TVs."
Advertisers want 'TV', but like digital
From the advertiser perspective, the panel heard how advertisers want all of this complexity simplified so they can execute video- or TV-like ad buys across all the screens. But there is a tension – they want TV-like simplicity, but they want far more of the benefits of digital channels…
Anupam Gupta, Chief Product Officer, 4C Insights
"What they're looking to do is buy a single audience across different platforms – plan, and buy, and get the outcomes that they need. In each of those cases, there is friction. Using first party data, third party data, all that is possible, but there's friction like the matching process that the previous panel talked about.
"The number of days it takes (is significant). By contrast, campaigns can be live on digital platforms in literally an hour, (or) a day. So if it takes two weeks, that there is friction."
Addressable TV hard to scale
The panel heard from one tech vendor that was early in to helping brands benefit from digital targeting of TV viewers. He said that addressable TV is powerful, but hard to expand…
Mike Baker, CEO, dataxu:
"We started experimenting with addressable TV for Ford. (They asked), 'Could you literally show us the incremental cost of selling an F150 using highly targeted addressable TV?' We said, 'Sure, we do data science innovation'.
"We did the campaign, and it was like $767. The VP of sales was like, 'Yippee, this is great'. And then I want to scale this, and it just ground to a halt. And we were sort of snake-bitten by that, because what you could show is the promise of using all this data and analytics really could ring the bell for a major marketer and get them very enthused. But it just couldn't scale.
"So we sort of retrenched a little bit and said, what is – back to the friction point – how could you have a more digital like workflow? And what would it require?"
But beware excess scale
But a panel member also echoed a view heard elsewhere during Beet Retreat, that the extent of available content against which to sell ads has a profound impact on how ads are sold there…
"We're potentially falling into the same trap we did with digital video on other platforms – we're kind of sacrificing the quality of the content and that ultimate TV experience to go get scale in places that's kind of a different-quality-of-content, different-context, probably different-value-proposition to marketers."
Measurement needs metadata
Advertisers want to be able to straightforwardly understand who is viewing content and ads, no matter what the device. But, in a world of proliferating platforms, each with their own commitments and approaches, that can be difficult…
Carol Hinnant, EVP, National TV, Comscore:
"It's a very difficult environment to try to pull all of that together. What we're working on cross-platform is really taking that linear television approach and bringing in all the various (other) platforms and lining it up with the linear television.
"Metadata behind all of this is what is absolutely critical. And that has to be solved. Because there is no group today that is good at their metadata."
This video was produced in San Juan, Puerto Rico at the Beet.TV executive retreat. Please find more videos from the series on this page. The Beet Retreat was presented by NCC along with Amobee, Dish Media, Oath and Google.
By Robert Andrews on January 20, 2019 January 22, 2019 @robertandrews
Beet Retreat, San Juan, November 2018Tagged comScore, FreeWheel, matt prohaska, hulu, neil smith, mike baker, dataxu, Anupam Gupta, 4C Insights, prohaska consulting, Julie DeTraglia, carol hinnant
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'I Want My OTT': Vevo's Judelman Offers Ad Scale
It may have started out solely on YouTube and may have been cast simply as an online version of MTV, but music video network Vevo has bigger ambitions than that. In this video interview with Beet.TV, the company's ad sales SVP Jesse Judelmann explains that partnerships with a host of other platforms have given it […]
OpenAP Wants More Publishers On Board, Davis Says
When OpenAP, a TV industry consortium for making advanced TV targeting more straightforward, announced the addition of CBS to its repertoire last year, it was just the latest addition to a roster that now numbers: Fox ViacomCBS NBC Universal Univision But Ed Davis isn't stopping there. In this video interview with Beet.TV at Consumer Electronics […]
With Upfronts Around The Corner, Neutrality Is King: LiveRamp's Prasad
A new year, a new decade may have only just begun but, for some, minds are already turning to the key point in the US TV ad sales calendar. Upfronts season peaks in May, when video and TV content owners showcase their upcoming repertoire in a bid to secure advance ad buyers from brands and […]
S4's MightyHive Lays Infrastructure To Help DCO Fly, Del Greco Says
One of the foundational acquisitions for Sir Martin Sorrell's new S4 Capital group is now working alongside a sibling company to light up opportunities in "dynamic creative optimization" for digital ads. But, in many cases, it has had to help clients build foundational architecture to get there. In December 2018, Sir Martin Sorrel's new vehicle […]
Data Plus Math Is Ramping-Up LiveRamp, Metcalfe Says
LAS VEGAS – Ad-tech platform LiveRamp is now helping advertisers to buy campaigns centered on real business outcomes, not marketing proxies, after its earlier acquisition of the vendor Data Plus Math. LiveRamp acquired the company back in July. In this video interview with Beet.TV, Allison Metcalfe, the GM of LiveRamp's TV offering, explains what new […]
Dentsu's Maggie Zhang: ACR Creates a 'More Relevant Experience'
LAS VEGAS– As ACR data becomes more available, how will it lead us to better understand measurement across platforms? In an interview with Beet.TV at CES, Maggie Zhang, executive vice president of video research and insights for Dentsu Aegis Network explored the ways in which OTT and linear are evolving due to these new capabilities. […]
"Hurry Up!" Group M's Matt Sweeney Urges Broadcasters to Migrate to CTV
LAS VEGAS – Media agencies have been watching the growth of subscription video-on-demand (SVOD) services with alarm. If more people are paying for ad-free TV, where will brands go to reach audiences? At least the overall growth of connected TV as an overall category is giving them some reassurance. After all, connected TV services provide […]
Sir Martin Sorrell to Ad Holding Companies: Go Private or Break-up
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Wytyczne techniczne K-1.10 lub K-1.1(SIT) – zbiór geodezyjnych zasad technicznych dotyczących sposobu podziału tematycznego i geometrycznego treści podstawowej mapy kraju w Polsce sygnowany przez Głównego Geodetę Kraju jako "System Informacji o Terenie. Podział treści podstawowej mapy kraju. Wytyczne techniczne K-1.1". Jedynym wydaniem wytycznych jest wydanie pierwsze z 1996 roku. Wytyczne stanowią uzupełnienie instrukcji technicznej K-1 będącej do 8 czerwca 2012 standardem technicznym w geodezji.

Zasady techniczne
Wytyczne określają zasady podziału tematycznego i geometrycznego treści podstawowej mapy kraju, a elementami podziału są grupy tematyczne określone mianem warstw, których jest 34. Warstwy dzielą się na podwarstwy. Zgodnie z tymi wytycznymi elementy podziału treści mapy oznacza się symbolem pięcioliterowym, z czego trzy pierwsze litery oznaczają warstwę, natomiast kolejne dwie podwarstwę.

Sposób podziału treści mapy numerycznej na warstwy jest obowiązującym standardem i uwzględnia podział treści na części:
 warstwy obligatoryjne – możliwe do utrzymania w stanie aktualnym przez państwową służbę geodezyjną i kartograficzną, na mocy innych przepisów prawnych
 warstwy fakultatywne – niepodlegające obowiązkowi aktualizacji lub aktualizowaną na zamówienie
Podwarstwy rozróżnia się ze względów technicznych w dwóch zakresach:
 kategorii danych
 uszczegółowienia wynikającego z rozwiązań indywidualnych i warunków lokalnych.

Zobacz też
 Standardy techniczne dotyczące geodezji w Polsce
 Instrukcja techniczna K-1 (1979)

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Fancy learning the Cha Cha Cha in Kilkenny?
Fancy learning the Salsa, Cha Cha Cha or the Kizomba? Dance classes are starting in Kilkenny from January 25 and "no experience is necessary".
With RTÉ's Dancing with the Stars in full swing and hundreds of thousands of people tuning in every week, demand for dance classes is likely to go up and people aspire to be able to Tango their way around the floor.
The classes in Kilkenny – which include adult Latino and Ballroom Dance - will take place in the Kilford Arms Hotel between 7-8pm for beginners and 8-9pm for intermediate and advanced.
Participants don't need to have a partner to attend the classes which are €10 pay as you go.
Social dance parties are to be announced later.
The dance teachers will be Kris Baranowski who is an All-Ireland dance champion and Basia, who is a world champion.
For more information call Kris on: 086 836 0552.


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Why I Refuse To Buy Girl Scout Cookies From Parents | Hold On Daddy's Coming!
Hey Lori! Youre right – that is cheap. I dont understand why so many parents do that. Im sure they get a lot of pressure to sell as many as possible, but it really defeats the point if scouts arent involved whatsoever in the transactions. Im pretty sure kids can still make posters and send emails and make phone calls. Oh well.
Totally agree, I work at a major wholesale retailer ; ) there's a posting up at work to buy the cookies from the one of the guys in the Pharmacy… drugs and munchies all in one spot!
I think the issue goes a whole lot further than GSC's though, it seems as if parents do everything for their kids now; and kids are leaving the proverbial nest completely unprepared for the real world. I can't possibly fathom how a parent thinks it's helping their kid to give them everything they want. If you think politicians are babies now, just wait until this bunch takes office.
I don't know how to deal with issues like these, but I'm not a parent yet… I wish more people would wait to have kids until they grow up themselves.
PS: $3/box??? Man, we are getting hosed!
Whoa! Conditioner? Shampoo goes on first and cleans the hair!
I love your blog! I'm currently 7 months pregnant with twin boys! Any time I get a chance to read about real life experiences from twin parents I jump on it. I love your light hearted, hilarious view on everything! And your children are adorable! Gods little miracles for sure!
Hey Nicole! What an exciting time. Jackie and I didnt do much research – we just kind of dove right in. It was rather shocking to say the least! We are having fun (especially now that they are a bit older). Thank you so much for your comments about the kids. They are indeed Gods little miracles!
Although this is how it was for me when I was growing up, respectfully, I disagree. I have a compromise – my daughter walks door-to-door in our neighborhood and asks family in person, too, but I do not put the hard sell on co-workers or friends. I had her visit my workplace with her cookie form for the last 2 years, but I decided that was more of a pressure sale than ever and I didn't want to make my co-workers feel awkward. So, this year, I brought in the form, left it on my desk, and sent around a "Hey, if you want Girl Scout cookies, my daughter is selling them" e-mail. Same things with my friends. Not a cop-out at all because here's the thing – a sort of compromise: My daughter will deliver them in person to each buyer in her Brownie uniform with a handwritten note on top of each order thanking them for buying them. So, she is still very involved – selling about 50% on her own – and the work is not done once the sale is made as she still has a job to do by delivering them all in person. She also adds up all the sales numbers on the form, counts and organizes the boxes, etc. Not bad for an 8-year old. So, please don't assume that because the parents put an order form on their desk at work that their daughter is doing nothing. Selling Girl Scout cookies is more than just the sale. If you keep them involved from start to finish, it's still a great learning experience for them.
Like Jen above, I also have to disagree. I am currently taking my daughter door to door on the weekends, she handles and counts the money with me only helping when she gets stuck. She pitches, not me, but their are times when the question are too much for her or her shyness kicks in. We do have the cookie club online that she is registered to, where we have sent emails out to 26 family and friends. I of course helped with this and had her tell me verbally what she wanted to say on it because she is in 1st grade, she could not manage all the typing, or at least, my patients would run out for the 8 hours it would have taken her! I have a case of assorted cookies on my desk right now and I have walked around the office with them, to help my daughter reach her goal, for the troop and for the girl scouts everywhere. My daughter set a goal of 214 boxes she wanted to sell, there is a prize involved at that level, but just because I am helping her reach that goal, does not mean that she is missing out on the value of learning, or doing it herself. As she gets older it is expected that she do more and more and by 4th grade she will do all of it. But kids sometimes need to have that carrot dangled in front of them to work hard, they don't learn the value of doing it without reward until they are older. I am not doing it for her, I am helping because she is not old enough to do everything. Heck, she wouldn't even be able to walk to enough houses with those little legs of hers!


Welcome to the first BlogWork assignment for the 2010-2011 school year. I would like you to spend a little time exploring this site so that you know about the kinds of things you can find here. Throughout the year, I will use this site as a learning environment as we move through the content of Earth Science.
This week we have been talking about "Elements", the substances found on the periodic table of elements that make up our entire world, and indeed the entire universe. Elements can stand alone as they are and be very useful. Iron is an element that we use every day in its pure form. Some elements want to combine with other elements to form something completely different (like salt, right?).
1. Please watch the video below and write three facts stated in the song about elements.
2. Search through the blogsite and write a sentence about something else that interests you.
All posts should be written in complete sentences.
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Carbon in its ordinary form is coal and if you crush it it turns into a diamond. Also balloons are full of helium. Mostly every living thing has four elements and they are carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen,and oxygen.
The bike monorail is the new future. It is awesome because you can go any where you want to go without traffic or a speeding ticket.
1) That oxygen rots away iron.
2) When you combined silicon and oxygen you get sand.
3) Neon is what lights up signs outside places like shops, and restaurants.
Iron is a metal and oxygen will make it rust.
Neon lights up the sun.
Stars are full of helium and so are balloons.
the size of an acorn.
Three things I learned about the elements were, that silicone and oxygen make sand. That the neon element makes the neon lights, like at restaurants and stores. Another thing I learned was that hydrogen may one day fill your car, and replace gas.
Something else I found interesting on the blog site was the "shweeb". I thought that it was pretty cool how it was like a monorail, but its human powered.
1.) Carbon in it's natural form is coal,when you crush it together, it makes diamonds.
2.)helium makes up stars.stars are also mostly made of hydrogen.
4.) every living thing is mostly made of 4 elements:carbon, hydrogen,nitrogen and oxygen.
i thought that this was interesting because it was human powered.
1. Oxygen over time causes Iron to rust and deteriorate.
2. Coins are made out of Zinc, Nickle and Copper.
3. When silicon and Oxygen come together they can be turned into concrete, glass and bricks.
Something on the blog site that catches my attention is the people powered Monorail, because this could led to more green breakthroughs in the ways of transportation.
2. Bacteria is made of four elements just like People.
3. The four elements in every living thing is Carbon, Hydrogen, Nitrogen :-), Oxygen.
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the song states that Hydrogen, carbon, and oxygen make sugar. I also found that almost all living are made of four elements. Lastly Silicon and oxygen make sand.
I find dirt to be of great intrest because most living origenate from the soil.
1. All living things are made of four elements.
2. Diamonds are just pressurized coal.
3. Coins are some times made of zinc.
I've never looked at the additional videos but I really want to.
Where did you find the Darth Jellyfish?
1)Carbon Is really coal and If you crash them together it will make a diamond.2)The Sun is lit by a Neon. 3) The coins we use and sometimes play with are made out of Copper, Nickle, and Zinc.
Solar panels capture the sun's energy and turns the energy into electricity.
iron is a metal that you see every day. phosphorus is the head of a match. carbon + hydrogen + Oxygen = candy.
Eleaphants are made of 4 elements.
carbon is coal but when it is pushed and crushed together it makes diamonds.
Neon signs are acually made of neon not colored light bulbs.
I thought the may 18th post about fishies was interesting. I didn't know that stingrey were bottem dwellers. How's hank?
1.) Oxgen makes irons rust.
2.) Silicon and oxgen make concrete bricks.
3.) Hydrogen may someday fuel cars.
Darth Vader Jelly seems interesting.
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Q: GDB C++ How to Stop Stepping Inside Standard Libraries this post briefly discusses the same trouble I am facing. Essentially, is there a default setting or a hack for gdb to stop stepping inside every single glib library and only step inside user files? I know I can call finish each time it steps inside one but it's some wasted keystrokes I'd rather avoid.
It's already annoying as it is to deal with g++'s output. If this exhibitionism cannot be stopped, are there good alternatives to these gnu tools? I do hear good things about eclipse, but I'm just a student looking for quick and dirty fixes with minimal effort.

A: If you have GDB 7.12.1 or above you can add the following to your ~/.gdbinit file:
skip -gfi /usr/include/c++/*/*/*
skip -gfi /usr/include/c++/*/*
skip -gfi /usr/include/c++/*

Double check that these are in fact the right places for those libs. This answer comes from here.
Some options without editing gdb init
If you want to "step over" a line (like std::vector<int> a;) without stepping into it, you can use next.
If you have a situation like int b = is_negative(a[0]) and you want to stop in is_negative you have a few options:

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*Step into the a[0] function then use finish to step out again.

*Use tbreak is_negative to create a temporary breakpoint on the is_negative function then use next to step which will break on the breakpoint.

2 is faster in the case where you have something with many sub calls in a function like:
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Home/Agriculture, Citations, News/Transcriptomic and splicing changes underlying tomato responses to combined water and nutrient stress
Transcriptomic and splicing changes underlying tomato responses to combined water and nutrient stress
Authors: A. Ruggiero, P. Punzo, M.J. Van Oosten, V. Cirillo, S. Esposito, A. Costa, A. Maggio, S. Grillo, G. Batelli
CNR-IBBR, National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources, Research Division, Portici, Italy
Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples, Federico II, Portici, Italy
CREA-CI, Council for Agricultural Research and Economics, Research Centre for Cereal and Industrial Crops, Foggia, Italy
Publication: Frontiers in Plant Science
Date: November 2022
Link: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2022.974048/full
Tomato is a horticultural crop of high economic and nutritional value. Suboptimal environmental conditions, such as limited water and nutrient availability, cause severe yield reductions. Thus, selection of genotypes requiring lower inputs is a goal for the tomato breeding sector. We screened 10 tomato varieties exposed to water deficit, low nitrate or a combination of both. Biometric, physiological and molecular analyses revealed different stress responses among genotypes, identifying T270 as severely affected, and T250 as tolerant to the stresses applied. Investigation of transcriptome changes caused by combined stress in roots and leaves of these two genotypes yielded a low number of differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in T250 compared to T270, suggesting that T250 tailors changes in gene expression to efficiently respond to combined stress. By contrast, the susceptible tomato activated approximately one thousand and two thousand genes in leaves and roots respectively, indicating a more generalized stress response in this genotype. In particular, developmental and stress-related genes were differentially expressed, such as hormone responsive factors and transcription factors. Analysis of differential alternative splicing (DAS) events showed that combined stress greatly affects the splicing landscape in both genotypes, highlighting the important role of AS in stress response mechanisms. In particular, several stress and growth-related genes as well as transcription and splicing factors were differentially spliced in both tissues. Taken together, these results reveal important insights into the transcriptional and post-transcriptional mechanisms regulating tomato adaptation to growth under reduced water and nitrogen inputs.
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SA-Mozambique taxi association meet to defuse rising border tensions
Politics / 19 June 2019, 3:36pm / SIHLE MAVUSO
People and trucks moving up and down with police and SANDF groups monitoring the borders at Kosi Bay border control. Picture: Motshwari Mofokeng/African News Agency(ANA)
Johannesburg - Fearing a backlash, taxi operators from the crime-ridden Manguzi area in northern KwaZulu-Natal where on Sunday South Africans soldiers allegedly shot and killed two Mozambican police officers, met their counterparts on Tuesday to ease the tensions.
The meeting, according to several taxi operators in the area, came as a result of tensions between the two countries as a result of the shooting incident. One operator said they got information that after the shooting incident, some operators and villagers on the Mozambican side of the border were allegedly planning to blockade the road and retaliate for the deaths.
"There were tensions in the area after the shooting incident and we got information that the Mozambicans were angry and were planning to blockade the border and our leaders called a meeting to iron out the differences," one operator told Independent Media at the Farazela border gate connecting the two countries near Manguzi town.
The chairman of the Border Taxi Association which draws members both from South African and Mozambican border towns, Kenneth Mlambo, confirmed that they met with their Mozambican counterpart.
"After the meeting, we agreed that as the transport industry we should not be drawn into the shooting incident involving our security forces because we were not there and that issue is being investigated those responsible for our forces. The reason why we decided to call the meeting and plead for cool heads was because we feared that some rogue people within us may worsen the situation and find ourselves unnecessarily fighting each other. The good thing is that we all agreed that we should continue to transport people as usual and leave the incident to those who are investigating it," said Mlambo, adding that if the situation was left unattended, it may have led to xenophobic attacks.
A shop operator on the Mozambique side said it was true that there are tensions in the area as a result of the shooting incident but said they were hopeful that eventually, the situation will ease. Am immigration worker at the border gate said it was business as usual at the border gate but they were on high alert as Mozambican villagers may secretly avenge the killings.
"For now everything is fine at the border, we are operating as normal. However, we don't know what they are secretly planning to do in order to avenge the killings. Maybe they will do something secretly," the worried worker said.
It is still not clear what exactly sparked the killing as several versions that are being advanced, but Independent Media was reliably told by several locals that the incident happened on Mozambican soil and the soldiers involved in the killing have since been removed from the army base in Kosi Bay and replaced with new ones.
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Tom Burkgren is a veterinarian with the American Association of Swine Veterinarians.
He said there are enough veterinarians with experience with swine in the country, but some areas have a distribution problem.
"If there aren't enough of the food animals in some areas, the veterinarians can't make a living there," Mr Burkgren said.
He said there aren't enough pigs in the eastern states, for example. People who do have pigs raise them more as a backyard hobby than as a career. Those pig farmers will need to use a small animal or companion animal veterinarian to get the antimicrobial drugs the pigs need.
Most veterinarians handle a variety of animals. There are only about 150 swine-only veterinarians in the country, he said.


I just adore these two so much!! I had been communicating with Shannon back and forth for a couple months and I could tell just from those emails and 1 phone call that she was exactly the type of bride I always aspire to book! She's sweet, kind, well-organized, easy going and head over heels in love with her sweet fiancé, Austin. Within just a few minutes of starting our session, it was so apparent how much they love each other! You'd never tell from the pictures but it was H-O-T during our evening session at Norfolk Botanical Garden and we ended up doing quite a bit of walking. Now lets be honest, who would enjoy going "nose to nose" or "forehead to forehead" when it's 90+ degrees out?! Well Shannon and Austin never once complained about the heat, the sweat or the small hike we took covering half the gardens. In fact, they never stopped smiling from the first picture I took of them.
My favorite part of the session was when Shannon came out in her second outfit, the most gorgeous slate blue evening dress! Talk about stunning! I just love the movement and elegance that long dresses or skirts create! Austin was rather light on his feet and had no trouble twirling and dipping his sweet fiancé for a kiss! Shannon and Austin have been together since they were just 16. There is always such an ease and playfulness when working with couples who have been together for a long time. They're best friends and know each other better than anyone else. These two are both currently in law school at WVU and between grad school and planning a wedding, I can only image the anticipation and excitement they'll have for their big day to arrive! I'm so excited just thinking about seeing these two again in May at Hollyfield Manor!


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Каза́нская может означать:

 Казанская — Казанская икона Божией Матери.
 Казанская (летняя) — день народного календаря славян, выпадающий на .
 Казанская (осенняя) — день народного календаря славян, выпадающий на .

Фамилия
 Казанская, Алла Александровна (1920—2008) — актриса.
 Казанская, Евгения Владимировна (1915—1996) — архитектор-реставратор.
 Казанская, Инна Ивановна (1923—?) — советский учёный, специалист в области прокатки, лауреат Ленинской премии.
 Казанская, Мария Борисовна (1914—1942) — советский художник-живописец.
 Казанская, Татьяна Борисовна (1916—1982) — русская советская поэтесса, филолог, переводчик, педагог.
 Казанская, Элеонора Евгеньевна (1930—2017) — российский кинематографист, актриса и звукорежиссёр.

Населённые пункты
 Казанская — станица на Дону, административный центр Верхнедонского района Ростовской области.
 Казанская — станица на Кубани. Расположена в Кавказском районе Краснодарского края.

См. также
 Казанская площадь
 Казанская улица
 Казанский
 Казанское


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Calgary votes not to host 2026 Winter Olympics, only two cities remain
By Sydney Franklin • November 14, 2018
Fifty-six percent of Calgary voters opposed the city's bid to host the 2026 Winter Olympics. (Via Creative Commons)
The world is running out of cities that are willing to host the Olympics.
Last night, residents of Calgary, Canada, voted no on a special plebiscite to host the 2026 Winter Games, making them the fifth city to drop out as a potential candidate. Stockholm, Sweden, and a joint bid between Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo remain the only two finalists, but even their futures are on the rocks.
Though Calgary hosted a successful 1988 Winter games, and 11 of the sports venues built for the event still stand, over half the voters rejected the idea to bring the Games back, citing the huge financial risk as something the city wouldn't be able to recover from.
To host the two-week-long event, Calgary, Alberta, and the federal government would have spent an estimated $5.1 billion combined, according to The Globe and Mail. While the city wouldn't have had to start completely from scratch by building all new architecture, two additional arenas and the athlete's village would have needed to be built on top of the retrofits and infrastructure upgrades done for the games.
Unofficial #yycvote results for Vote 2018:
304,774 Ballots Cast
132,832 FOR Calgary hosting (43.6%)
171,750 AGAINST Calgary hosting (56.4%)
— City of Calgary (@cityofcalgary) November 14, 2018
Despite support from Mayor Naheed Nenshi and a strong campaign by the Calgary 2026 Bid Corporation, which saw the Games as an opportunity to "put the city back on the map," the message was clear: 56 percent of voters opposed the project. Critics say Calgary can now use the budget money it would have invested in the Olympics to take on new, much-needed public projects similar to the dazzling new Central Library, designed by Snøhetta, which opened last week.
Though yesterday's vote was non-binding, the mayor and local city officials say they'll respect their constituents' decision and officially suspend Calgary's Olympic bid at a council meeting on Monday.
Locals argue that Calgary should spend more money on updating existing infrastructure and invest in new architecture like the recently opened Central Library. (Courtesy Snøhetta and DIALOG)
Finding a solid host site is proving more challenging for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) year after year. Out of the seven countries that submitted bids for 2026, Sion, Switzerland, Sapporo, Japan, and Graz, Austria all withdrew earlier this year. The IOC eliminated Eruzum, Turkey, from the list in October due to its lack of experience hosting large-scale sporting events.
Stockholm's plan for the games puts some sporting venues two hours outside the city—a potential cause for IOC concern, and its incoming government coalition is determined to get rid of taxpayer funding for the events. Italy's joint bid for Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo was just finalized this month after Turin, the 2006 Olympic host city, dropped out of the effort. The Italian government supports the decision but says it won't offer a single euro to help.
The IOC is set to make its final decision for 2026 in June.
Associate Editor, The Architect's Newspaper
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what is it that you all love about coffee?
The taste, the feeling of the caffeine coursing through your veins, the smell, the ritual of brewing it, buying it, looking at it...... I feckin love coffee!!
so what's your favourite brand then? Do you go all Tassimo, or are you an instant coffee guy?


Rob has been a successful, hands-on restaurant and catering owner for over 25 years. He began by co-founding Occasions Catering in Whittier, CA in 1991, and soon opened the first restaurant named after its popular, newly created marinade: Sundried Tomato. Rob has opened and operated several restaurants and is now focused on locations in San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente. With the success of these bistros well under way, Rob has been able to turn his focus back to catering and event venues in recent years. The Sundried Tomato catering division continues to grow exponentially, adding a new catering-specific kitchen and additional staff to keep up with demand. Additionally, clients are now offered exclusive and preferred event venues throughout Orange County. Rob is committed to forging new business ventures, giving back to the community, and supporting local organizations. When he is not at work, he enjoys traveling, trying new cuisine and golfing.
Rey joined the Sundried Tomato team over 20 years ago and has worked his way through the ranks to become Head Corporate Chef. He oversees the staffing, training, and management of all kitchen staff for the bistros, catering and event venue divisions. In creating new dishes for these divisions, Rey prides himself on using only the highest quality ingredients and respects guests' dietary restrictions and allergies. He loves to design new sauces since they are the foundation of so many unique dishes. When Rey isn't at work (which isn't often) he enjoys spending time with his family, trying new cuisine, and spending time outdoors.
Saul is an accomplished restaurant executive with more than 20 years of industry experience. Having joined the Sundried Tomato team over five years ago, he exemplifies and demands the highest quality of service through exceptional operational, fiscal, and team leadership. Saul is very hands-on as he oversees both bistros, and plays a key role in the operations of the catering and event venue divisions. His flawless attention to detail and level- headed decision-making in high stress situations makes him a valuable resource to the entire brand. Saul enjoys spending time with his kids, and playing racquetball in his free time.
Patti found her passion when she joined the Sundried Tomato team over 13 years ago. She was instrumental in growing the catering division; providing excellent customer service while executing small and large events flawlessly. When our exclusive event venue, Plaza de Magdalena, opened in spring 2015, Patti became Sales Manager, booking and overseeing all weddings. As a member of the Association of Bridal Consultants, Patti keeps up-to-date on the most current wedding trends and professional vendors. Our brides know they are in good hands with Patti–from their initial tour, to their private tasting, and their very own, custom menu creations. When Patti isn't working, she enjoys cruising the world, mountain biking, skiing, or really anything her kids are doing!
Orlando grew up at Sundried Tomato! Now a second-generation employee, he would often accompany his mother to the restaurant's catering events, and thus learned the business at a very early age. Orlando continued to work for Sundried Tomato on and off while earning his Bachelor's degree with a minor in Business. Upon graduation, Orlando became our full time Event Supervisor. Overseeing all staff, event production, and scheduling, he is an asset to the entire team. In Orlando's free time he enjoys wine tasting, shopping, and spending time with family.


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So, it is finally time for a well-earned holiday, whether it's a week in the sun or a trip around the country side, we all need a few days holidays to unwind from work.
In the run-up to your time off its important to not enter holiday mode too prematurely and organise your work duties and handover your work as best you can, which will avoid leaving your co-workers with any difficulty whilst your away.
Depending on your workload, arrange a hand-over of your work to one or numerous colleagues within your company. Spreading your duties across numerous employees may be easier in the long run if your work load is too much for one person alone.
Make sure your cover buddy is comfortable overseeing your work and then hold a private meeting where you give a full insight into the ins and outs of the duties they will be overseeing. Once you have this done it's important to let all your co-workers know who is covering what, especially your boss.
Don't forget to share your passwords with your associates, in case some are needed and a free coffee or lunch when you are back from your holidays is always a nice touch!
Don't leave your high priority clients out of the loop, let them know you are off on holidays and who will be handling your work while your away. This way, if there is anything urgent, you can help them before your vacation.
Checking in pre-holidays enhances your professional relationship and makes your clients feel important, so brownie points for you!
No matter how much of your work you have handed over, you are sure to come back to numerous voice messages and emails. The best way to deal with the barrage of work is to have a plan at hand. So, before you head off write out a small plan for your desk, mapping out what you see as urgent when you are back.
A further preparation you should make is a quick summer clean! Clear away the clutter of documents on your desk, sorting things as neatly as possible. Therefore, when a colleague of yours is looking for something it is locatable and you return to a nice clean space.
It is likely you have missed someone in the run up to your vacation, so don't forget to set your out of office email. It will take the least amount of time, but is one of the most worth-while tasks before you head on your holidays. Be sure to set an external and internal email saying you are away and when you intend to return. Your voicemail should have similar details and will eliminate any angry voice messages upon your return!
Although you may feel like the foundation that holds it all together, as long as you have prepared your colleagues and clients for your time off there shouldn't be any major issues. However, as we all know issue can and do arise, so give your boss and co-workers a number which you can be contacted on if a matter does happen to arise. Therefore, you have no other need to check your work emails while you are away as you will be contacted with anything urgent!
When you are back from your holidays, DON'T forget to thank your colleagues who have maintained your work. Lastly and most importantly, a Duty Free Toblerone for the staff kitchen is essential upon your return – were you even away if you didn't pick one up!


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St Petersburg, here we are!
Academy of Fine Arts, Admiralty, Neva River, Rostral Column, Sphinx No Responses »
Apart from the learning opportunities a major point for this cruise was the fact that the ship would be visiting St Petersburg.
St Petersburg the home of the Russian Royal family, the place of many history books I have read, the Hermitage Museum, Catherine's Palace, the many other Royal Buildings, the 1917 Revolution, the Siege of Leningrad and the Soviet Era.
Over the years it has taken on an air of mystique. The fact travel in was restricted for so long also added to this. Even today it isn't that easy to visit and being on a cruise ship was easier as you did not need a visa but you were not allowed to leave the ship unless you were on an escorted tour.
Buses all in a way!
I signed up for the two day St Petersburg tour and a full two days it was with us docking at 7am on day one and leaving 6pm the following day.
So we headed off through the Russian passport control where we were given an entry permit and a passport stamp, not sure why it had to be on the last page of my passport! So far the first seven pages of my passport are clear with intermittent stamps from various countries scattered throughout and most countries there is no evidence you were ever there! When I think of all the colourful stamps in my grandmother's passport it seems a little unfair.
We assembled at the bus and met our guide Svetlana and we were off. The sound system in use off the bus was very good as each person had a receiver and Svetlana was able to speak normally and we could all hear and if you got more than around 40 metres away it faded out so you could always find her. A bit like the old childrens game of "Hotter, Colder"
Opposite the port were banks of apartment buildings all looking drab, grey and utilitarian.
When I asked about these I was told they were built in the 1970s and were part of the "Soviet Era" and you could hear the capitals.
Apparently some of these were not built with kitchens as you were fed all meals at the factories in which you worked and they were more a place to sleep rather than to live and some even now do not have kitchens.
There were quite the variation in buildings particularly in closer to the centre. Many of the historic buildings showed evidence of need of repair although there were quite a number of buildings encased in a shade-cloth style of material that were undergoing "reconstruction" in Svetlana's words. I am sure this is at a great cost but with so many still to do to retain their heritage it must be a concern.
There were quite a few flower boxes and gardens in public spaces which did make it look pretty.
St Petersburg was founded by Tsar Peter the Great 27 May 1703 on the Neva River in the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. It was the imperial capital of Russia during this time and is still considered the cultural capital. It was renamed Petrograd in 1918, then Leningrad in 1924 then back to St Petersburg in 1991. Moscow became the capital in 1918.
Many of the original buildings were constructed of timber so very few of these survive today. Many of the buildings were rebuilt in stone and as these were the Royal residences and are the beautiful buildings we admire today. There is a strong European influence and in fact the Royal family did not speak Russian but instead spoke French as a language of culture.
Gold Straw Anyone?
Gold Statue on top of the Academy of Arts
Admiralty and St Isaacs Cathedral
Lots of photos on the way to the Hermitage which was our point of call this morning. The sun hid from us and we had grey skies but no rain at this time.
Even with this limited amount of sun the gold domes are quite visible.
There were so many things to see on every side and so much history.
Eric and Rosemary Kopittke beside the Sphinx
Sphinx on the bank of the Neva
There were two sphinxes facing each other on the bank of the Neva River. The sphinxes were collected by the Royal family.
Taken from the bus, unknown church
He looks a fairly hungry lion, seen near the Burger King
We stopped next at the Church of the Spilled Blood but I am going to put that in a new post.
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Gaining self-control is a real challenge for anyone in Kali-yuga. The solution is to change your lifestyle. Read on to know more.
Translation: With a laugh full of deep significance, the worshipful Brahma then evolved by his own loveliness, which seemed to enjoy itself by itself, the hosts of Gandharvas and Apsaras.
Context: Brahma is the secondary creator of the universe who is entrusted with the duty of populating the material world with different types of living entities. Here we see that Lord Brahma created the Gandharvas (musicians who live in the higher planetary systems) and Apsaras (dancing girls in the heavenly planets) out of his own loveliness.
In the purport to this verse, Srila Prabhupada elaborates: Music and dancing employed in sense gratification are to be accepted as demoniac, but the same music and dancing, when employed in glorifying the Supreme Lord as kirtana, are transcendental, and they bring about a life completely fit for spiritual enjoyment.
This material world is created by the Lord for those who want to enjoy their senses. There are different levels of sense enjoyment – subtle to gross. In the heavenly planets, enjoyment is predominantly on the subtle level and in the lower planetary systems it is predominantly at the gross level.
The scriptures tell us that the Lord is the supreme enjoyer, and the living entities are meant to take part in His enjoyment through service to Him and not by trying to enjoy separately.
The living entities are wandering from one planet to another, transmigrating from one body to another, trying to experience varieties of sense enjoyment, but all their attempts meet with frustration. The more one tries to enjoy, the more one is frustrated.
Because of attachment to material existence, the living entity is constantly transmigrating from one body to another, born sometimes as a demigod, sometimes as a man, sometimes as a beast, as a bird, as a worm, as an aquatic, as a saintly man, as a bug, etc.
Even at the time of dissolution, the desire of the living entities to enjoy their senses and lord over material nature does not subside. Thereby the conditioned living entities remain merged within the spiritual existence of the Lord, as if in deep sleep, and then again come out at the time of cosmic manifestation to be awarded different types of material bodies by Lord Brahma. Thus they appear in different species of life.
One day of Brahma (called kalpa) is calculated as 4,300,000,000 of our earthly years and his night is of the same duration. At the end of each kalpa, all living entities along with the material manifestations rests in Lord Vishnu, and again in the beginning of the next millennium they are manifested again by the potency of the Supreme Lord.
The spirit soul is pure in nature. But due to its association with the three modes of material nature, the living entity becomes conditioned.
karanam guna-sango 'sya – and thus it takes birth in different species of life – sad-asad-yoni-janmasu.
When we are under the grip of the material nature, we are forced to act helplessly according to the impulses born of the modes of material nature. Sometimes the mode of passion or ignorance becomes prominent, defeating the mode of goodness; and sometimes the mode of goodness defeats passion and ignorance. In this way there is always competition.
The three modes of material nature induce the living entity to act in a certain way. Those who are influenced by the mode of goodness act on the platform of goodness; the rajo guna induces rajasic activities and the tamo guna induces tamasic activities.
Conversely, by acting in a certain way we can associate with a specific mode of material nature and come under its influence. For example, if we align our actions to be in the mode of goodness, then we are automatically elevated to the mode of goodness. So, by changing our lifestyle we can reduce the influence of the lower modes, and come to the platform of goodness. It is recommended that we should act in such a way that the mode of goodness becomes prominent in us. For this we need to associate more and more with the mode of goodness.
The last two chapters of the Bhagavad-gita deal with this topic in detail.
For example, it is said that people in the mode of passion eat foods that are too bitter, too sour, salty, pungent, dry or hot; and in the mode of ignorance people consume meat and liquor. Those who are in the mode of goodness eat foods which are sweet, juicy, fattening and palatable.
Examples Milk products, sugar, rice, wheat, fruits and vegetables.
If we avoid food in the mode of passion and ignorance, and accept only food that is in the mode of goodness then we can make advancement and situate ourselves on the platform of goodness.
There are three types of austerities: austerities of the body, speech and mind. People in the mode of passion perform austerities with the intention of gaining respect, honour and reverence.
Characteristics Austerity practiced by people whose aim is not to benefit materially but to please the Supreme, is in the nature of goodness. Those ostentatious (dambhena) penances and austerities which are performed in order to gain respect (satkāra), honor (māna) and reverence (pūjā) are said to be in the mode of passion. They are neither stable (calam) nor permanent (adhruvam). Those penances and austerities which are performed foolishly by means of self-torture (pīḍayā kriyate tapaḥ), or to destroy or injure others (parasyotsādanārthaṁ), are said to be in the mode of ignorance.
But if we perform these austerities and penances for pleasing the Supreme Lord then we can be elevated to the mode of goodness.
Similarly Lord Krishna classifies faith, sacrifice, charity, renunciation, knowledge, action, performer of action, intelligence, determination and happiness on the basis of the three modes of material nature.
This is one way of dealing with the modes of nature: to change our lifestyle with actions in the mode of goodness so that the influence of the lower modes reduces and the mode of goodness prevails.
But Krishna Consciousness offers a different approach of transcending the modes of material nature: sa gunan samatityaitan.
In this Age of Kali, the holy name of the Lord is the incarnation of Lord Krishna.
The Supreme Lord Krishna and His names are non-different. Thus we can associate with the Lord by chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.
Lord Krishna is the reservoir of vishuddha sattva (pure goodness) which is beyond the three modes of material nature. He is pure goodness, pavitram.
Therefore when we associate with the holy names by chanting the Hare Krishna mantra: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare – Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, we will be influenced by transcendental goodness (vishuddha sattva) and transcend the three modes of material nature.
Lord Krishna being the Supreme Absolute, His form, qualities, pastimes and everything else related to Him is non-different from Him. The food offered to Krishna is also non-different from Krishna.
Prasadam or the food which is offered to Krishna is spiritual; it is the mercy of the Lord and is non-different from Him. If we take only Krishna prasadam, then we will be gradually purified and thus become free from the influence of the lower modes.
By regularly attending classes on the Bhagavatam and by rendering service to the pure devotee, all that is troublesome to the heart is almost completely destroyed, and loving service unto the Personality of Godhead, who is praised with transcendental songs, is established as an irrevocable fact.
As soon as irrevocable loving service is established in the heart, the effects of nature's modes of passion and ignorance, such as lust, desire and hankering, disappear from the heart. Then the devotee is established in goodness, and he becomes completely happy.
Thus Krishna consciousness is the direct method of transcending the modes of material nature. When one practices Krishna consciousness, his faith, austerity, charity, renunciation, happiness, knowledge, determination, etc., will automatically rise from tamo guna to rajo guna and from rajo guna to sattva guna. In this way, one will be elevated from lower modes to higher modes.
In this Kali-yuga, there is no hope of controlling the senses. From everywhere we are bombarded with objects that attract our senses and thus everyone is bewildered. It is very difficult to give up sense-gratification because the senses are very powerful.
The senses are so strong and impetuous that they forcibly carry away the mind; even of a man of discrimination who is endeavoring to control them.
Therefore the only way to control the senses is to move to the higher guna by engaging in devotional service and associating with devotees.
An iron rod put in the fire gradually becomes red hot and acquires fiery qualities because of the transfer of energy from fire. The Supreme Lord is sat-cit-ananda vigraha: the eternal form full of knowledge and bliss. Being part and parcel of Krishna, we also have the same qualities.
When we associate with the fire of sat-cit-ananda by chanting His holy names, taking prasadam, hearing His glories, etc., we can realize our sat-cit-ananda qualities.
Spiritualize yourself so that the lower modes cannot touch you. Then, the process of self-control becomes very easy.


Home Supplements What to Take to Lower Cortisol?
Cortisol is a hormone that is released into the body. Your body produces it naturally. It produces excess cortisol in stressful situations. The more stressed out you get over all the things that happen to you in life, the more cortisol your body will produce. Prolonged periods of having high cortisol levels can affect your sleep, irritability, cause your body to break down proteins in your muscles, and it makes your body store more fat. Which over time can add to your overall weight gain.
There are several solutions to this problem. You can't get rid of cortisol completely but you can lower your levels significantly.
Vitamin C – Increasing your intake of Vitamin C is probably the easiest thing you can do. This works but may not have enough horse power to significantly lower your cortisol levels.
Fish Oil – Fish oil lowers cortisol levels, assists neuron function and inhibits carcinogens.
Phosphatide – Reduces cortisol by up to 30%, protects the nervous system, protects the brain, helps prevent neurodegenerative diseases and can increase intellectual abilities.
5-Hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) – Stabilizes cortisol, regulates appetite, improves mood, can alleviate hyperactivity.
DHEA and Ashwagandha can also help in lowering cortisol and improve mood.
There are a lot of things that you could take to lower your cortisol level and also staying away from stressful situations does help. These are some of the supplements you might want to try out and see if it can help you.
1Stress causes an excessive amount of cortisol secretion.
2Lack of sleep negatively affects the regenerative factors of muscles and body.
3High levels of cortisol are associated with weight gain.
Phosphatide, as one of the few substances, has the ability to reduce cortisol levels by up to 30%. It has been shown that significantly protects the nervous system from the effects of acute and chronic stress. In addition, it supports the functioning of the nervous system and the brain, prevents neurodegenerative diseases and increases intellectual abilities.
Don't let stress get you down; popping some vitamin C could be all you need to chill out.


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Polyvinyl Alcohol Market Share, Size, Trends, Industry Analysis Report, By Application (Food Packaging, Textiles, Paper, Construction, Electronics, Polymerization Aids, Others); By Grade; By Region; Segment Forecast, 2022 - 2030
Published Date: Jan 2022
The global polyvinyl alcohol market was valued at USD 791.7 million in 2021 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 6.3% during the forecast period. The increasing demand in end-use industries, including paper, food packaging, construction, electronics, and others segment, including printing, textiles, and coatings, is expected to drive the polyvinyl alcohol market over the forecast period.
Polyvinyl alcohol, a water-solvent synthetic polymer, had been a crucial element in the composition of several end-use businesses. Packaged foods, building, coatings, printing, textile, electronics, cosmetics, and papers are among the major end-use businesses.
The trade restrictions and worldwide lockdowns impacted the demand for textile products, electronics, construction materials, and paper. Furthermore, the COVID-19 pandemic has largely impacted the demand for these products and has restricted the growth of construction projects along with infrastructural development in several emerging economies, which in turn has hampered the growth of the polyvinyl alcohol market.
Polyvinyl alcohol is primarily fueled by packaging sector demand since it is a substance with excellent oxygen resistance, absorption in water, and biodegradability. Furthermore, the expanding potential in the electronic industry for producing devices such as transistors that require high dielectric properties is expected to create lucrative opportunities for the polyvinyl alcohol market growth.
The sustainable packaging solution has gained importance on account of the safety, performance, and convenience of the packaged product. polyvinyl alcohol film is a widely used polymer and has contributed significantly to the growth of the packaging industry. However, the volatile raw materials prices required for the production of polyvinyl alcohol are expected to challenge the polyvinyl alcohol market growth.
Report Segmentation
The market is primarily segmented on the basis of grade, application, and region.
Fully Hydrolyzed
Partially Hydrolyzed
Sub-Partially Hydrolyzed
Polymerization Aids
Europe (France, Germany, UK, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Austria)
Asia Pacific (Japan, China, India, Malaysia, Indonesia, South Korea)
Middle East & Africa (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Israel, South Africa)
Insight by Grade
Partially hydrolyzed segment accounted for the largest revenue share in 2021 and is expected to continue its dominance over the forecast period. Partially hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol is widely used in several applications such as warp-sizing for spun and filament yarn, pressure-sensitive, remoistening adhesive, soil stabilization, films, and emulsifier for EVA and PVA Emulsions. As a result, the demand for the segment is high in the food packaging and construction industry driving the product growth over the forecast period.
The fully hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol sector is predicted to develop the fastest over the projected timeframe because of rising demand in the textile processing and paper industries. Paper's increasing use as a plastic alternative in various sectors is predicted to stimulate paper manufacture in Asian countries. Over the forecast term, this is expected to increase fully hydrolyzed polyvinyl alcohol segment growth.
Insight by Application
Food packaging application segment is expected to dominate the industry over the forecast period. The growing demand for non-toxic and biodegradable packaging solutions in the food & beverage sector, advantages such as moisture resistance, and increasing trends such as out-of-home consumption are some factors anticipated to fuel the segment growth.
Construction segment is expected to grow at a significant pace over the forecast period due to polyvinyl alcohol's numerous properties, including static percolation of cement slurries, adsorption capacity, along with superior solubility in water and particle density.
Asia Pacific dominated the global market in 2021 and is expected to maintain its dominance over the forecast period due to the increasing consumption of ready-to-eat food products from emerging economies such as China, India, and Japan. China is expected to hold the largest market share in the region due to the presence of a large number of manufacturers and new end-use opportunities in this country which in turn is fueling the market growth.
North America is expected to grow at a considerable pace over the forecast period due to rising innovation in packaging and consumers' demand for properties such as safety, convenience, technology, and sustainability. Europe is expected to grow at a significant pace over the forecast period due to growing awareness pertaining to environmental issues about bio-based packaging and increasing demand for ready-to-eat food.
Some of the players operating in the global market include Anhui Wanwei Group Co., Ltd, Astrra Chemicals, Celanese Corporation, Chang Chun Petrochemical Co., Ltd., Dow Dupont, Eastman Chemical Company, Japan VAM & Poval Co., Ltd, Kuraray Co. Ltd, Merck KGaA, Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry Co., OCI Corporation, Polychem Limited, Polysciences Inc., Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd, Sigma-Aldrich, Sinopec Sichuan Vinolyn, and Solutia, Inc.
These players are investing in research & development and are adopting strategies such as partnerships & collaborations along with mergers & acquisitions in order to launch innovative products and to increase their market presence. For instance, in March 2021, Eastman Chemical Company invested in its Springfield, Massachusetts manufacturing plant to enhance and extend its extrusion capabilities for the manufacture of interlayer's product lines.
Polyvinyl Alcohol Market Report Scope
USD 791.7 million
USD 1,337.5 million
By Grade, By Application, By Region
Anhui Wanwei Group Co., Ltd, Astrra Chemicals, Celanese Corporation, Chang Chun Petrochemical Co., Ltd., Dow Dupont, Eastman Chemical Company, Japan VAM & Poval Co., Ltd, Kuraray Co. Ltd, Merck KGaA, Nippon Synthetic Chemical Industry Co., OCI Corporation, Polychem Limited, Polysciences Inc., Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd, Sigma-Aldrich, Sinopec Sichuan Vinolyn, and Solutia, Inc.
Global Polyvinyl Alcohol Market Size Report, 2022 - 2030


The Loveliest Mountain of China is a 3-channel video installation that lays bare the bones of the participatory documentary medium, deconstructing narrative film production modalities, and presenting them across a wall space on three screens simultaneously. Comprised of one screen of interviews, one of fixed camera landscape views, and one of "B-roll" of tourists posing in front of the mountain, a self-reflexive epi-narrative unfolds between the screens with an awareness of the illusion of ethnographic representation, gaps in translation, and the complexities of the politics of landscape. Ecological change is approached through the voices and perspectives of people who inhabit and visit — the locals and the tourists — the picturesque landscape of Huangshan (Yellow Mountain).
Future Teller is a 30-second, 360-degree (3D) lyrical narrative in which a fortune telling grandmother is asked for her predictions. As a premonition enters her head, a world of mystical colors and visions opens up, taking us floating into space to view earth from afar, as it heats up and explodes. The 1930's fortune telling machine used in the footage reminded me of the naysayers of climate change, who have likened climate scientists and their predictions to fortune tellers. While the tone is fantastical and somewhat humorous, this piece also gives a voice to the feeling of helplessness of the average citizen facing the global enormity of the causes of climate change. The piece was presented on the "Art on the Marquee" sculpture in front of the Boston Convention Center. It was viewed by more than 100,000 pedestrians and motorists daily and is visible for half a mile in many directions.
Subway Sleepers uses the form of the historic process of tintypes to transform digital images of contemporary people sleeping on the subway of Beijing into reminiscences of death portraits and reflect on the effects of the pace of modern life.
Since 2001, I have been researching, photographing and making short films about sites that had been used for public executions at different times in history. When I began this ongoing project, people were petitioning for Timothy McVeigh's execution to be televised, a modern form of a public arena. The desire to watch or show people being killed, as perceived justice or as a political act, is still alive in America and other parts of the world such as the Middle East (the most recent form coming in ghastly videotaped beheadings broadcast on Youtube and social media sites).
What does a society choose to show of its history in public space? Are shifting values visible in the function of space? Can images reflect the power of society to impact social change?
I found some sites that were quite venerated as places for public execution, such as St. Peter's Square in Rome or the field in Salem, MA (now named Gallows Hill Park) where accused witches were hung. Some places are now well known for other reasons, such as the Louvre, in front of which the guillotine was installed during the French Revolution. The different ways in which the history of these places has been dealt with (some capitalizing on the executions, others concealing the execution history with other events that also occurred in these places) spoke more to me about present day morality and values in each country than the abolishment or continuation of capital punishment in those countries.
The photographs in this series are sepia-toned silver prints presented in French mats. This presentation is a reference to historical photographs and cataloguing of images made for documentation purposes. Each of the mats have calligraphic titles describing the dates and types of executions that occurred on that site, rather than the name and place pictured, as is customary. By subverting the viewers' expectations in the text, they may question what they thought they knew of these places.
New images in this series include sites in the American West and Mexico. I have also begun a series of current execution sites with images captured from Google Earth in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria.
A book with images and stories from this series was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Watch This at Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA, Fall 2007. Second edition was published in 2010.


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Celebrating the birthday of Charles Eames and his colorful trip to Mexico Posted June 16, 2016 by Ross Atwood
On the birthday of Charles Eames, we reflect on his nearly year-long trip to Mexico, where he went to find himself and start life afresh.
In 1933, Charles Eames left his life and work as an architect in St. Louis to travel alone throughout Mexico. He was hoping to find and reinvent himself, and he didn't return home until he figured out how to do just that.
Julian Blaustein, a successful Los Angeles film producer and friend of Charles Eames, once recalled what made him so unique as a person and a designer: "Charles knew who he was. And that's a tough assignment right there. . . . I don't know about you, but I think as you go through life you'll suddenly become aware that not many people know who they are, what they are about. Are in touch with themselves. Maybe I'm wrong, but I know I find it very difficult among the people I know to find many who can answer that, who can live up to that criteria of personal behavior. I think Charles knew who he was."
People who knew Charles personally, as well as scholars who have studied his life, would agree with Blaustein's assessment. This self-understanding, which is evident in his and Ray's work and design philosophy, began developing during his time in Mexico. The trip was one that Charles desperately needed, for himself and for his work. When he returned, "he was no longer mired in the frustrations of St. Louis but instead seemed to be seeking a way to transcend them and to take himself to a new level," wrote Eames Demetrios in An Eames Primer. "This is not to say that Mexico was a magic bullet for Charles, but rather that it was the beginning of a process of taking stock of and ultimately changing his approach and situation in life."
In Mexico, Charles absorbed the vibrant colors and textiles, adobe homes, the big open sky, distant green hills, and beautiful chapels. His daughter Lucia long remembered her father's joyous return home to St. Louis, carrying with him boxes of fabric, colorful folk art, paper-mache dolls, and even a metal cane with a small knob on the handle carved to resemble the head of Satan.
When Charles left St. Louis for Mexico, he had very little money in his pocket and knew no Spanish, but that didn't deter him from an adventure. With the clothes on his back and his art supplies in hand, Charles drove a very old Ford as far south as he could go. He got to the end of an old road somewhere in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi, and from there traveled by horse, and then eventually by foot to the more remote villages.
During his ten month sojourn, Charles had no camera. Instead, he documented his travels by making an abundance of watercolor paintings. These works were put on display at the St. Louis Art Museum after he returned home, and many were sold. Fortunately, a few of the paintings still exist today. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch did a feature on Charles's time in Mexico, in which they discussed the richness of his watercolors:
"Each picture is a memento of a personal experience. A water color of a market place in Monterrey recalls the day Eames spent in jail for painting it. A view of a little mountain church reminds him of the simple, kindly people who worshiped there and their hospitality to him. A street scene in Saltillo brings back the sounds of fiesta and the fragrance of frijoles and pan dulce. Some of the paintings merely record, of course, occasions when the artist was delighted by a fine harmony of line or mass or a striking arrangement of color in something he saw; but these occasions are important personal experiences to the artist."
Those experiences shaped Charles. He traded manual labor and, quite often, his sketches and paintings for food and shelter. However, this didn't always provide for steady meals, and he often went to bed hungry.
Always moving from place to place, Charles stayed with locals of little wealth, working when he could and learning all the time. He had a fond memory of being the guest of honor in a small mountain village. The foreigner was not only welcomed, but much celebrated after he repainted an old statue of St. Peter in their chapel. It must have been a job well done, because a fiesta was held to commemorate the event, and it is said that citizens, with tears streaking down their cheeks, thanked Charles for the deed.
Not all of Charles's encounters in Mexico were pleasant; however, looking back on them, he knew they were all important. As he would later note, any place can be hostile when you have no money and you don't speak the language.
Charles was arrested on two occasions: The first time occurred in Monterrey. As Charles understood it, he was brought in because a local felt his painting of a small market place depicted the town in an unfavorable way. The second arrest happened in Linares. He spent a few nights locked up after officials found a book in his possession that contained pictures of ancient Mexican archeological treasures. The officials were concerned that the images showed their country in a bad light. The rats wandering through the dank cells painted a lasting impression for Charles, but as always, he made the best out of the situation.
"Another close call for Charles was being rounded up with the citizens of a village for an involuntary smallpox vaccination and watching the dirty needle get closer and closer as it was used over and over again. He got the shot and, fortunately, he and the other recipients were lucky not to have suffered anything worst than a sore arm," wrote Demetrios.
Charles's friendly and adventurous nature served him well during his travels. One of his colleagues later noted how comfortable he was experiencing other cultures on their own terms, which Charles attributed to his time in Mexico. In the end, he said that the most important lessons he learned during his trip were that, "At least, damn it, you're not afraid to be broke!" and lastly, "I would never be suckered into a mistake I did not make myself."