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10.42 m of textual, graphic, publications, sound recordings and moving images (79 boxes)
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Ernest Mastromatteo was a Canadian occupational physician born in Toronto, Ontario on December 16, 1923. His work includes research into threshold limit values of hazardous workplace materials including extensive research on health hazards associated with nickel mining and processing. He has also done much research and advocacy on broader issues of occupational health including the physiological effects of exposure to other chemical and mechanical hazards such as dust, fumes, and noise, ethical issues around health surveillance of workers and the human rights of workers as they relate to a safe workplace.
Dr. Mastromatteo graduated from Bloor Collegiate Institute in 1940 and was admitted to the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto in 1942. He graduated with an MD in 1947. Dr. Mastromatteo also received a Diploma in Public Health in 1950, and a Diploma in Industrial Health in 1958, both from the University of Toronto. In 1958 Dr. Mastromatteo earned Certification in Occupational Medicine (FABPM) from the American Board of Preventative Medicine by Examination, and in 1981, he earned Certification in Occupational Medicine (CCBOM) from the Canadian Board of Preventative Medicine by Examination. In 1982, Dr. Mastromatteo became a Member through distinction of Faculty of Occupational Medicine, London.
Following his graduation from the University of Toronto in 1947, Dr. Mastromatteo did his Junior Internship at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto from 1947-1948 and his Senior Internship in Medicine at Ottawa General Hospital. In 1949, he became Medical Director of Virden Local Health Unit in Virden, Manitoba. In 1952, Dr. Mastromatteo joined the Ontario Ministry of Health, where he was appointed director in 1968. Between 1966 and 1974, Dr. Mastromatteo was also a Consultant on Occupational Diseases for the Ontario Workers’ Compensation Board and a Professor at the School of Hygiene at the University of Toronto in addition to his role at the Ministry of Health.
In 1974, Dr. Mastromatteo left his three roles in Canada to work as the Chief of the Occupational Health and Safety Branch of the International Labour Office in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1976, he returned to Canada to begin working as the Director of Occupational Health for INCO Limited, a mining company. From 1976 to 1997, Dr. Mastromatteo also served as an honorary consultant for the Occupational Health Clinic at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. In 1985, Dr. Mastromatteo left his position at INCO to work as a consultant for the Occupational Health and Safety Branch of the Ontario Workers’ Compensation Board until 1990. Between 1984 and 1994 Dr. Mastromatteo was the Program Director for Organization Resources Counselors Canada Inc. in Toronto. In 1987, Dr. Mastromatteo was appointed Professor Emeritus of Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Toronto. Dr. Mastromatteo never formally retired and continued to do consulting work after leaving ORC Inc.
Dr. Mastromatteo was very active in a number of professional associations throughout his career, most notably the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists, where he was president from 1969-1970, and Chair of the TLV (Threshold Limit Value) Committee from 1985-1990. Dr. Mastromatteo was also a member of the Canadian Medical Association, the Ontario Medical Association, where he chaired both the Section on Occupational Health and the Committee on Public Health, and he was a member of the Ontario Thoracic Society where he was President from 1966-1968. Dr. Mastromatteo was also a member of the Ramazzini Medical Society and the International Commission on Occupational Health among others.
Dr. Mastromatteo received many honours and awards throughout his career. In 1979, he won the Canada Safety Council Achievement Award for Occupational Health and Safety in Canada and in 1981, he won the Stokinger Award for Scientific Contributions to Occupational Toxicology in the United States. Dr. Mastromatteo was appointed to the ILO (International Labour Office) Panel on Occupational Carcinogens in 1981. In 1986, Dr. Mastromatteo was given the Yant Award for Scientific Contributions to Industrial Hygiene in the United States and was also elected Member of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians in London. In 1987. Dr. Mastromatteo was inducted into the Safety and Health Hall of Fame International and won the Knudsen Award for contributions to occupational medicine in the United States. In 1990, Dr. Mastromatteo was granted lifetime memberships in the Ontario Medical Association, Canadian Medical Association, American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists and the American Industrial Hygiene Association. In 1999, Dr. Mastromatteo received the Lifetime Achievement Award for Occupational Health in Canada.
Dr. Mastromatteo was the author of 45 publications on occupational health, toxicology and environmental health, as well as the author of four book chapters and a member of the editorial committees for two books.
Dr. Mastromatteo died on July 13, 2016.
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This fonds contains records related to the professional activities and personal life of Dr. Ernest Mastromatteo, occupational physician. The bulk of the material in this fonds documents his roles as a medical practitioner, researcher, and occupational health director. The series documenting the activities of the Nickel Producers’ Environmental Research Association, an association Dr. Mastromatteo was heavily involved in during the 1980s, is the largest, with smaller series documenting his career at Inco, his work with the American Conference of Governmental and Industrial Hygienists, and his many projects, case studies, organizations, associations and societies, as well as legal cases he provided testimony in. There is also a relatively large amount of material documenting his research in the form of addresses, and additional material chronicling his time as a student at both the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and the School of Hygiene.
Records include correspondence, notebooks, publications, drafts, prints, reports, meeting minutes and memoranda.
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The arrangement of this fonds is based on the order in which it was received by the University. Before this fonds was donated, it was already partially sorted and arranged by a group of contemporary scientists and occupational physicians. The degree to which this first arrangement adhered to Dr. Mastromatteo’s original order is difficult to discern. Comments written by the first arrangers on original folders have been retained within files.
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A man in the US has become the world”s first to sexually transmit an insect-borne disease to his wife.
Brian Foy, a vector biologist at Colorado State University who travelled to Senegal, was bitten by a mosquito and subsequently developed the Zika virus, which causes fatigue and joint pains.
When Foy returned to the U.S. and had sex with his wife, he unknowingly transmitted the disease to her.
Foy, who co-authored the study with his wife, initially wrote about three anonymous patients.
He later revealed in an interview with Science Now that he is patient No. 1; his colleague, Kevin Kobylinski, a Ph.D student who accompanied Foy on the trip, is patient No. 2; and Foy”s wife, Joy Chilson Foy, is patient No. 3.
Foy and Kobylinski returned from Senegal in August 2008 after collecting mosquitoes as part of their research.
Five days later, they both developed rashes on their torsos, fatigue, headaches, and swollen, painful wrists, knees and ankles. Foy said he also had an inflamed prostate, painful urination and blood in his semen.
By early September, Chilson Foy became ill – she also had a headache with hypersensitivity to light, muscle pains and chills. The Foy”s children did not get sick.
The couple said they started to feel better within a week, except for the joint pains.
The Foys took their case to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention lab for insect-borne diseases in Fort Collins, Colo., and the scientists there were just as stumped.
Foy and Kobylinski both tested positive for dengue fever, but Chilson Foy did not. But, a medical entomologist at the University of Texas Medical Brach at Galveston, Andrew Haddow, had another theory – the Zika virus.
Since Foy had kept serum samples frozen, he had a colleague of Haddow”s run tests and sure enough, the samples came back positive for Zika.
According to Foy”s study, the circumstantial evidence for Chilson Foy”s sexual transmission is strong.
“Patients 1 and 3 reported having vaginal sexual intercourse in the days after patient 1 returned home but before the onset of his clinical illness,” Fox News quoted him as writing.
Foy said there are hints in other literature that sexually transmitted mosquito-borne viruses are possible.
Boars who were infected with Japanese encephalitis shed the virus in their semen, and when female pigs were artificially inseminated with the boars” semen they also became infected.
Haddow said most cases of the Zika virus are mistaken for dengue fever, which is mostly found in parts of Africa and Southeast Asia.
The study has been published in Emerging Infectious Diseases.


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The unexpected death of Chicago superstar chef Charlie Trotter last week hit me hard.
You see, every week as I write about food and wine, Charlie stares down at me from the walls of my den. In addition to a picture with him, I’ve got a framed menu from the sublime meal I experienced at his eponymous restaurant in 2002. Adjacent to the grand tasting menu that fuses French traditionalism with Asian minimalism is a photo of the intense young chef.
He’s dramatically lit in his gleaming chef’s whites, his cuffs turned up as he leans forward over a series of pristine china plates being sauced by a sous chef. Like an eagle intently scanning its prey, Charlie lets no detail escape his glance. He’s focused on a simple mandate: guests “must feel cared for” and “have the dining experience of their lives.” He gazes perpetually over my shoulder, pushing the pursuit of excellence.
Charlie was one of the first chefs in the country to insist on sourcing fresh, local products. He developed tasting or “degustation” menus, presenting a progressive series of ethereal jewel-like presentations unfolding over a three-hour experience. He introduced a vegetarian degustation, which at the time was considered shocking. And most importantly, he didn’t believe in signature dishes but always wanted to cook spontaneously while never serving the same dish twice. The very idea of repetition was an insult; he likened cooking to jazz, fully embracing the improvisatory nature of each discipline at its best. Asking him to repeat a dish was the equivalent of asking Leonardo to paint another "Mona Lisa." He taught me that the “best food is cooked in the moment.”
Charlie produced a series of stunning cookbooks to document his unique style — even arranging his seafood cookbook by wine pairings, rather than by type of fish. He established such high service standards that his methods were chronicled for business as lessons in excellence.
The peak of Charlie’s fame in the culinary world came at the end of the 20th century when Wine Spectator named Trotter’s the Best Restaurant in the World for Food and Wine in 1998. This was followed in short order by James Beard Awards (the culinary Oscar) for Outstanding Chef 1999 and Outstanding Restaurant 2000, an accolade also echoed by Wine Spectator that same year.
I’m grateful to have met Charlie and listened to his impish wit several times at the New York Wine Experience. A highlight of this amazing event is a tasty and exceptionally entertaining food and wine pairing seminar that is a bit more in style like tag team wrestling. Our guides, in addition to Charlie, are three famous chefs with huge personalities: Mario Batali, Emeril Lagasse, and Wolfgang Puck. Each chef prepares a dish paired with two wines. One wine match is by a chef teammate, the other by the magazine’s editor, Tom Matthews.
I’ll never forget one year when Charlie decided to pair a dish with Trefethen Chardonnay from the Oak Knoll district of Napa Valley. He presented a slow roasted Tasmanian ocean trout (looking more like salmon) topped with shredded pork belly. As I took a bite and brought the wine to my lips, magic happened. Every single flavor was totally in sync. The fish and pork melded with the rich Chardonnay to produce an unparalleled sensory experience. “My God,” I thought, “this is perfection.” The rest of the crowd was also impressed. Editor Tom Matthews asked Charlie a simple question. “How many bottles of wine, Charlie, did you go through to tweak this match?” The chef smiled a puckish smile, leaned toward his mic and, with a little chuckle, simply exclaimed, “Only nine cases.”
Another fond memory is Charlie commandeering the microphone from host Andrea Mitchell and prevailing upon his fellow superstar chefs (including Thomas Keller and Daniel Boulud) at the Inn at Little Washington’s 30th anniversary to force the charity auction bids to stratospheric six-figure levels. If Julia Child is the queen of haute cuisine for Americans, Charlie Trotter is our prince of culinary poetry.
And as I sadly bid him farewell, I can think of no more apt words than the verse of Shakespeare: “Now cracks a noble heart. Good night, sweet prince, And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!”


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JACKSONVILLE, FL. (November 12, 2015) – Food Lion hosted a special breakfast on Veterans Day at its corporate headquarters to present a $2 million donation to Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP). The in-‐store initiative, which ran from Oct. 21 through Nov. 10 was a part of the WWP Believe In Heroes® campaign.
The donation by Food Lion will go to support the 20 free, life-‐saving programs and services that are offered by WWP, which are uniquely structured to engage warriors, nurture their minds and bodies, and encourage economic empowerment. Since 2003, WWP has grown its programs and services to meet the growing needs of the constituency it serves. Currently, WWP provides support to more than 80,000 injured service members and over 13,000 caregivers and family support members. Through a high-‐touch and interactive approach, WWP’s vision is to foster the most successful, well-‐adjusted generation of wounded service members in our nation’s history.
“At Food Lion, we are honored to support our military and veteran associates and customers,” said Rudy DiPietro, vice president of Merchandising for Food Lion. “Whether it's helping a teammate's family out while being deployed or raising money for Wounded Warrior Project in our stores, giving back to our communities and helping our neighbors is so important to who we are and what we do. We want our customers to know that we are there for them and they can count of Food Lion to meet their needs.”
Food Lion presented the check to WWP Alumnus Deven Schei, a U.S. Army Veteran. On Wednesday morning, Deven shared his story at the ceremony at Food Lion’s offices in Salisbury. Deven grew up in a military family; his father and his brother both served in the United States Army. After his brother Erik took part in Operation Iraqi Freedom and suffered a catastrophic injury that rendered him quadriplegic, Deven promised to finish the job his brother started and joined the Army as well. Fate dealt its own hand to Deven when four 80mm rockets wounded him, removing from him combat in Afghanistan. What followed was a painful recovery that included more than 17 surgeries. Throughout his journey, he found inspiration from his family and from the numerous injured service members he’s met who continue to live productive lives.
“This partnership with Food Lion shows what can be achieved for our nation’s wounded veterans when like-‐minded organizations join forces to honor and empower Wounded Warriors,” said Gary Corless, executive vice president of Strategic Giving at WWP. “We are grateful to Food Lion for their continued generosity, support and the critical resources they are providing to us to make a positive impact in the lives of injured service members.”
Believe in Heroes is one of the largest national cause marketing campaigns in the United States, annually bringing together brands, retailers and consumers in support of injured service members, their caregivers and families. The 2015 Believe in Heroes campaign began on Oct. 24, and runs until Nov. 20. The campaign aims to tell the stories of warriors and bring to light the non-‐profit organization’s long-‐term needs in order to honor and empower Wounded
Warriors. Believe in Heroes calls upon on Americans to support the brands that support our heroes. For more information, visit wwpbelieve.org.
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About Wounded Warrior Project
The mission of Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) is to honor and empower Wounded Warriors. WWP’s purpose is to raise awareness and to enlist the public’s aid for the needs of injured service members, to help injured servicemen and women aid and assist each other, and to provide unique, direct programs and services to meet their needs. WWP is a national, nonpartisan organization headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida. To get involved and learn more, visit woundedwarriorproject.org.
About Food Lion
Food Lion, based in Salisbury, N.C., since 1957, has more than 1,100 stores in 10 Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic states and employs more than 66,000 associates. By leveraging its longstanding heritage of low prices and convenient locations, Food Lion is working to own the easiest full shop grocery experience in the Southeast, anchored by a strong commitment to affordability, freshness and the communities it serves. Through Food Lion Feeds, the company has committed to provide 500 million meals to individuals and families in need by the end of 2020. Food Lion is a company of Delhaize America, the U.S. division of Brussels-based Delhaize Group. For more information, visit www.foodlion.com.

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Feminist author and Northwestern University professor Laura Kipnis wrote the recently released book, Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus, which details the insanity of regulating sex on college campuses with administrative tribunals and sexual conduct codes.
“The rules and the codes [on campuses] have been rewritten behind closed doors such that almost all sex can be charged as something criminal,” says feminist author and Northwestern University film professor Laura Kipnis. “It reinforces a traditional femininity that sees women as needing protection, sees women’s sexuality as something that is endangering to them.”
Kipnis’ new book is Unwanted Advances: Sexual Paranoia Comes to Campus, which explores the insanity of sexual conduct codes and attitudes at American universities. It grew out of Kipnis’ own experience of being investigated under Title IX of the Education Amendments Act at Northwestern for a 2015 essay she published in The Chronicle of Higher Education. Read the rest of this entry »


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The star of the "Back to the Future" trilogy, actor Michael J. Fox will receive an honorary Oscar for his contribution to the cause of humanism, The Hollywood Reporter informs.
"Fox's tireless advocacy of research on Parkinson's disease alongside his boundless optimism exemplifies the impact of one person in changing the future for millions," the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said in a statement.
The honorary Oscar is not awarded for a particular film, but for overall contributions to the art of filmmaking and distinguished service throughout his career.
The actor discovered the first signs of Parkinson's in 1990 at the age of 29. A year later he was diagnosed accordingly, but denied it, which caused Fox to have problems with alcohol.


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6 edition of A Place to Call Home found in the catalog.
A Place to Call Home
by Ulverscroft Large Print
Written in English
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|Number of Pages||223|
Oct 22, · Marta Dusseldorp has moved on from her hit Australian series, A Place to Call Home, after six seasons, but she isn’t saying goodbye to her iconic character, Sarah. “I’ll never be without her. I get to have her for the rest of my life,” Dusseldorp told me during a phone call. By turns tender and sexy and heartbreaking and exuberant, "A Place to Call Home" is an unforgettable journey between two hearts. It is a book to read, and reread, and cherish. "A Place to Call Home" has the magic of great storytelling. "An engrossing read with thoroughly engaging characters/5(7).
Feb 07, · Directed by Russ Mayberry. With Linda Lavin, Lane Smith, Lori Loughlin, Robert MacNaughton. Sam Gavin decides to relocate his family from Houston, Texas to a sheep station in Australia to protect his eleven children from the "destructive influences" of modern American society. Because of business obligations, he fails to join them and, more or less, abandons his wife, Liz, to the /10(15). *Due to James's travel schedule books may take up to 5 business days to ship. A Place to Call Home. A Place to Call Home. *Due to James's travel schedule books may take up to 5 business days to ship. Quantity: Add To Cart. Back to Top. James Farmer, Carroll Street, Perry, GA Brand: James Farmer.
By turns tender and sexy and heartbreaking and exuberant, "A Place to Call Home" is an unforgettable journey between two hearts. It is a book to read, and reread, and cherish. "A Place to Call Home" has the magic of great storytelling. "An engrossing read with thoroughly engaging characters/5(6). Oct 15, · When A Place To Call Home premiered on Channel Seven in , it was clearly something special. Axed after two seasons, then revived by Foxtel, A Place To Call Home has built a devoted fan base.
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Aug 25, · By turns tender and sexy and heartbreaking and exuberant, A Place to Call Home is an enthralling journey between two hearts—and a deliciously original novel from one of the most imaginative and appealing new voices in Southern fiction/5().
Sep 26, · In his new book, A Place to Call Home Schafer follows up his bestselling The Great American House, by pulling the curtain back on his distinctive approach, sharing his process (complete with unexpected, accessible ideas readers can work into their own projects) and taking readers on a detailed tour of seven beautifully realized houses in a range of styles located around the country—each in a unique place Brand: Rizzoli.
Deborah Smith is the New York Times bestselling author of A Place to Call Home, and the No. 1 Kindle Bestseller The Crossroads Cafe, A Gentle Rain and other acclaimed romantic novels portraying life and love in the modern Appalachian South/5.
By turns tender and sexy and heartbreaking and exuberant, A Place to Call Home is an enthralling journey between two hearts—and a deliciously original novel from one of the most imaginative and appealing new voices in Southern fiction.
Praise for A Place to Call Home “A beautiful, believable love story.”—Chicago Tribune. A Place to Call Home is a slightly darker read than usual in that it touches on the subject of domestic abuse but it still has her trademark lightness of touch and sense of fun.
It was a real stroke of luck for Ayesha and Sabina Rasheed when they found sanctuary with Hayden and his lodgers after escaping from Ayesha's abusive marriage with Suresh/5.
Feb 12, · A Place to Call Home. A thoroughly addictive drama brimming with secrets, passion, romance, and intrigue, A Place to Call Home explores the ties that hold families together and the betrayals that can tear them apart.
A Place to Call Home is set primarily in both the fictional estate "Ash Park" and the nearby fictional country town of "Inverness" in New South Wales.
Inverness was also used as the country setting of Always Greener. Camden and the Southern Highlands in New South Wales Composer(s): Michael Yezerski.
Jan 19, · This is the second book by Carole Matthews I have read, the first being ‘The Christmas Party’. When I saw this book on Amazon, and read the blurb, I thought it sound good, and couldn’t wait to get stuck in.
The best bit about A Place to Call Home was the voice, Ayesha Rasheed is not like any other female character I have read before/5().
Apr 28, · Olivia chooses a new path. Harry finds a new place to call home. Jack and Carolyn stand by their daughter. Sir Richard begins to draw up a blueprint for revenge against the Bligh family/10(K). Andrew Swanson is the wealthy heir to the Swanson title, Swanson is the son of Prudence Swanson and Sir.
Henry Swanson. Andrew lived in Sydney at the Swanson Estate until he decided to travel around Europe. When Andrew's mother Prudence Swanson and Elizabeth Bligh hatch a plan to try and marry Anna Poletti to Andrew, Andrew and his family go to Ash Park where Andrew meets Olivia Bligh for.
Jun 15, · A Place to Call Home, featuring the future Hawthorne Valley Inn of Hawthorne, Massachusetts, touches on themes of spousal abuse, prison, drugs, unsolved crime, and child custody. Kurt and Molly are sympathetic, likeable characters who are both grateful for second chances.
I felt that I understood these two and really connected with them/5. We discovered that the story of our beloved characters was eventually captured in a book titled A Place to Call Home by Samantha Swanson, a descendant of Olivia (Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood) and Andrew Swanson (Matt Levett), bringing the tale into contemporary times for a perfect wrap up.
A Place to Call Home was a series which was saved by its fans and so the journey of this, the final chapter, is a very important one. It was imperative for us that the series retain its integrity and that we would bring the series to a close at its natural story point and that is Original network: Showcase.
May 29, · By turns tender and sexy and heartbreaking and exuberant, "A Place to Call Home" is an unforgettable journey between two hearts. It is a book to read, and reread, and cherish.
"A Place to Call Home" has the magic of great storytelling. "An engrossing read with thoroughly engaging characters/5(16). Amid the critical praise were the sales — A Place to Call Home has been sold to more than markets apart from the US, including Belgium, Canada, France, Luxembourg, Monaco, Morocco, Switzerland, China, Fiji, Hong Kong, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia and Finland.
TV Guide Set in Australia in the s, A Place to Call Home is a compelling and romantic story of one woman's journey to heal her soul and of a privileged family rocked by scandal. A Place To Call Home All it takes is one life-changing decision Ayesha leaves behind a life of pain and heartache and boards a coach to London with her sights set.
"A Place To Call Home" was my first Deborah Smith book. It was highly recommended to me, so I decided, being a big romance novel reader, to heed my friend's advice.
I'm very glad I did. Since then, I've had to buy Ms. Smith's other bextselfreset.com and Claire had such a special bextselfreset.com by: 1. The Swanson estate was the base of Elizabeth Bligh 's scheme to try and rid her family of Sarah Adams as she planned for Prudence to have a garden party that would see Adams out of her depth.
Retrieved from " bextselfreset.com?oldid= ". Mar 21, · ‘A Place to Call Home’ set for 6th and final series as Ash Park will close its doors in August On: March 21,By: Bill Young While fans of A Place to Call Home will understandably be sad with the recent news that the forthcoming series of the brilliant Australian drama will be the final chapter, series creator Bevan Lee says.
Watch full episodes of A Place to Call Home and get the latest breaking news, exclusive videos and pictures, episode recaps and much more at bextselfreset.com Created with bextselfreset.com: Marta Dusseldorp.IN HIS BESTSELLING FIRST BOOK, The Great American House, Gil Schafer explored the qualities that make a house a home – architecture, landscape, and bextselfreset.com his eagerly awaited second book, A Place to Call Home: Tradition, Style, and Memory in the New American House, Schafer shows how traditional and classical principles can blend with a sense of place to create beautifully realized.The A Place Called Home book series by Lori Wick includes books A Place Called Home, A Song for Silas, The Long Road Home, and several more.
See the complete A Place Called Home series book list in order, box sets or omnibus editions, and companion titles.

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What does horse riding do to your brain?
Stress Release Riding a horse releases endorphins and other feel-good chemicals that make you feel good. If you’re having fun (and we bet you will!), these euphoric chemicals will be released by the brain, reduce your stress, and make you feel better.
Can horses have autism?
Newborn horses with a troubling disorder display some of the same symptoms as children with autism, including detachment, a failure to recognize their mothers, and a lack of interest in nursing. Abnormal levels of naturally occurring neurosteroids may be the connection, researchers say.
Why horses are good for anxiety?
While it has long been understood that spending time with animals and pets can positively affect our mood, new research suggests that horses may have a sixth sense that can identify anxiety, stress, and fear in humans, thus helping individuals identify these emotions in themselves.
What are coping mechanisms for autism?
Exercise/physical activity is a proven strategy to reduce anxiety symptoms with the broader population, as well as with individuals with autism. Consider establishing/adding basic exercise routines for the family such as wearing a FitBit and counting daily steps, a nightly walk, or an online/app based workout.
Are horses good for mental health?
Horses are, simply put – good for the soul. Just as being around and handling horses can offer incredible benefits to those dealing with physical and mental health issues. Many of us experience some level of stress or anxiety in our work or life, but being around horses has been proven to reduce our stress levels.
Does horse riding help anxiety?
A study published in the Journal of Traumatic Stress has analysed the effects of horse riding on volunteers with PTSD symptoms. After just six weeks of equine-assisted therapy, participants displayed fewer symptoms of anxiety and depression, and less severe emotional responses.
Can horses help autism?
In the first large study of its kind, researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus have shown a lasting reduction in irritability and other positive social and communication impacts on children with autism through therapeutic horse riding.
What is horse therapy called for autism?
Horses are used by physical, speech, and occupational therapists to reach their patients on a personal level through what is referred to as hippotherapy. Children with autism also benefit from equine therapy due to the motor, emotional, and sensory sensations that come with riding a horse.
Why are horses so good with humans?
Horses are special creatures. They are majestic, strong and can display a broad range of emotions. Whether they’re around humans or other horses, they are amazingly communicative and thrive in social settings. These qualities are part of the reason why horses can develop such a strong bond with humans.
Can horses sense emotions?
Horses can also discriminate emotions both intra- and interspecifically: they react differently when facing pictures of positive or negative facial expressions of both humans [26,32,33] and conspecifics  and when hearing positive or negative nonverbal vocalizations from humans  and conspecifics .
What does horse therapy do for kids?
Equine-Assisted Therapy is effective in reducing children’s irritability, agitation, and impulsivity, and increases cooperation, emotional regulation, capacity for delay, and behavioral control.
How do horses help with therapy?
Horses become the most popular animal to use in animal therapy because they give immediate feedback to the handler or rider’s actions. Horses also have the ability to mirror the feelings of the handler or rider. Horses’ large and intimidating appearance forces and individual to gain trust around them.
What triggers autism meltdowns?
- Sensory overload or understimulation. This is when a child is sensitive to sound, touch, taste, smell, visuals or movements.
- Changes in routine or dealing with an unexpected change. …
- Anxiety or anxious feelings.
- Being unable to describe what they need or want.
What’s high functioning autism?
High-functioning autism isn’t an official medical term or diagnosis. It’s an informal one some people use when they talk about people with an autism spectrum disorder who can speak, read, write, and handle basic life skills like eating and getting dressed. They can live independently.
Can kids with mild autism go to normal school?
Autism is a spectrum disorder; and children can be mildly, moderately or severely affected. A child might have behaviours, might be non-verbal or might not be toilet-trained. Those with mild to moderate disability can manage with some support in regular classrooms.
What are the disadvantages of horse riding?
It can be tiring A lot of physical and emotional strength is required to ride a horse and it will wear you out, especially if you are dedicating a lot of your time to the sport. If you lead a busy lifestyle, then you will need to take this into consideration before taking up horse riding properly.
What do you feel when you ride a horse?
Many horse riders will tell you about this feeling of “freedom” that you gain from the top of a horse’s back. Challenges, whether physical, mental, emotional or social are almost literally dropped to the ground the moment your seat is placed into the saddle that graces that horse’s back.
Does horse riding count as exercise?
The study found that horse riding meets the intensity level of exercise recommended by government guidelines. The report found that just half an hour of horse related activity, such as mucking out, is classed as moderate exercise, while trotting exerts more energy than playing badminton, says Megan.
Does horse riding tone your body?
While your friends will work their butt off in the gym, as a horse rider you’ll undoubtedly already have beautifully toned legs and glutes; great for those fitted jeans and no need to dread ‘leg day’. Toning and muscle building while having fun.


Indonesia’s Trade Minister, Enggartiasto Lukita, has been summoned by the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) for an interrogation.
The minister is set to attend to the anti-graft’s interrogation session today, as a witness against Golkar Party lawmaker Bowo Sidik Pangarso.
Pangarso has been named as a suspect in a case of alleged bribery pertaining to shipping arrangements involving the country’s largest fertiliser company, PT Pupuk Indonesia Holding Company (PIHC).
In April, Bowo told the corruption investigators that he had accepted a sum of approximately Rp2billion from the minister. At that time, Bowo was serving as the chairman of the House of Representatives Commission VI, overseeing trade and industry.
Earlier, Enggartiasto’s office was raided by the KPK as they needed to follow up and verify certain information obtained from Bowo. Investigators have seized documents related to sugar trading, which Bowo was responsible for. He had allegedly received a total of Rp8billion from several people, including Enggartiasto and Asty Winasty, manager of PT. Humpuss Transportasi Kimia, a company which provides sea transportation for PT. Pupuk Indonesia Logistik, is a subsidiary of PIHC.
According to the KPK, Pupuk Indonesia Logistik had terminated its service agreement with Humpuss Transportasi Kimia. The transportation company, however, wanted Pupuk Indonesia Logistik to use its services again.
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DAFT PUNK COMMENTS POEM
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A whiles back we did a Daft Punk Album Review for Random Access Memories. We received a whole mess of comments and decided to make a poem out of them! Have a watch!
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Submitted to: International Society of Sugar Cane Technologists Proceedings
Publication Type: Peer Reviewed Journal
Publication Acceptance Date: 4/7/2007
Publication Date: 7/31/2007
Citation: Comstock, J.C., Tai, P.Y.P., Miller, J.D. 2007. Identification of parents for breeding sugarcane yellow leaf and ratoon stunt resistant cultivars. Proc. Int. Soc. Sugar Cane Technol. 26:978-987.
Interpretive Summary: Sugarcane cultivars that were used as parents were evaluated on their ability to produce yellow leaf and ratoon stunt resistant progeny based on passed performance. Because of the relative slow rate of spread of yellow leaf by the aphid vector, Melanaphidis sacchari, parental evaluation was not possible in the early stages of the variety development program. In contrast, identification of parents that produced more ratoon stunt resistant progeny than the overall parental mean was possible using an inoculation method to screen individual clones. Several parental clones were identified that had more resistant progeny than the overall parental mean. The use of these parental clones may further increase the proportion of resistant clones.
Technical Abstract: The incidence of sugarcane yellow leaf virus (SCYLV) infection and ratoon stunt reaction of Stage II CP-clones were evaluated as means to identify parents for the development of resistant cultivars in the Florida sugarcane breeding program. Over two seasons (2002 and 2003), natural SCYLV infection and ratoon stunt infection characteristics resulting from inoculation were determined. Because of limited data, parents that would give rise to progeny with a lower incidence of SCYLV infection could not be identified. One parental clone, CP 94-1528, had a higher incidence of SCYLV than the overall mean of all the parents. The ratoon stunt data showed that three cultivars, CP 81-1384, CP 84-1198, and CP 93-1634, used either as a female or male parent over two years produced more resistant progeny than the other clones used in crosses at the same time.

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Museums are full of inspirational drawings, paintings, sculptures and other forms of brilliant art and design work. However, it’s even more intriguing when the building is an architectural wonder as well!
Here are a few well-known museums that add an extra element of surprise. Enjoy!
Quai Branly Museum in France
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21c Museum Hotels in the United States
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Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam
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Ecology and Planning Museums in Tianjin Ecocity,
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Some of the hottest celebrity sightings from the past couple of weeks!
MONDAY, SEPT. 12
--Gerard Butler flew in from Toronto and took time out of his busy schedule promoting Machine Gun Preacher to sit front-row with Petra Nemcova at the Diesel Black Gold Fashion Show in NYC.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 13
--Nine West and Paper magazine hosted a party to celebrate the launch of the Karen Elson for Nine West Vintage America Collection at Beauty & Essex in NYC. Lindsay Lohan swung by to see Karen perform.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 15
--Emmy Rossum and William H. Macy hosted Los Angeles Confidential magazine's Annual Pre-Emmy Party at the London West Hollywood. Other guests who joined William and Emmy were Elijah Wood (who deejayed), Gillian Zinser, David Arquette and Jerry Ferrara.
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--Mario Lopez and Maya Rudolph were excited to order personalized Sarah Chloe Jewelry at the HP TouchSmart Gift Lounge by I Can't Believe It's Not Butter!®. Mario created a necklace for his wife with their daughter Gia's initial, while Maya designed a gold J charm to add new son Jack to the necklace she wears every day.
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The Wallas 87 D marine forced-air oven and stove is truly a one of a kind combination, providing genuine forced-air cooking by using safe diesel forced-air technology. The convection oven bakes your cake evenly while the stove cooks your meal efficiently. Wallas 87 D can be gimbal-mounted for the most demanding seagoing applications. The oven is constructed of rigid stainless steel and the stove of durable anodized aluminum.
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Do fertility experts recommend embryo transfer on day 3 or on day 5?
Embryo development is a complex topic – one which has far-reaching consequences on the entire process of pregnancy. Embryo quality, after all, is one of the deciding factors in embryo implantation. Only by closely observing the development process can we determine which embryos are healthy enough to be transferred, and which ones won’t result in a successful pregnancy.
The day at which the embryo is transferred is also a significant factor in the entire IVF process. Two main points of embryo development have been pinpointed as the best time to transfer: day 3 and day 5. Is one option better than the others?
In order to answer that question, we have invited three experts to share their knowledge and views with us:
Answer from Dr. Rios
The implantation rate is better on Day 5 so we always prefer it for transferring blastocysts. There are several reasons for this. First, it helps to make a better selection of the embryos to transfer and to freeze because it’s a more morphological stage, when the embryo is attached across the endometrium during natural conception. Another advantage is that we have more information about the genetics, morphology, synchrony of the cells and the cleavage process. It allows greater synchronicity with the endometrium preparation. We can use more days of progesterone with the aim of having less contractive activity of the uterus since the progesterone acts as a uterine relaxant. It allows us to make a preimplantation genetic study to select euploid embryos in the fresh cycle without the need to freeze and refer the eggs for transfer. The culture of these low quality embryos to the blastocyst stage allows us to recover and freeze some embryos that would have otherwise been discarded. This action helps us to distinguish between viable embryos with the greatest potential for replantation. There is no consensus on deciding the fate of poor-quality embryos on day 3. The transfer of these embryos is highly inefficient due to their low implantation rates. However, by discarding the embryos, we risk losing embryos that might be implanted. The culture to blastocyst stage is an additional opportunity to assess whether it’s worth cryopreserving them. The best option to do this is to individualise the day of the embryo transfer according to both the maternal age and the number of available embryos on day 3 in order to decide if it is possible to carry it out on day 5, if the previous embryo transfer was unsuccessful on day 3.
Answer from Dr. Najdecki
The topic of our podcast, “Day 3 vs Day 5 embryo transfer”, is still a controversial issue with no common consensus yet reached. Early studies have failed to show a significant difference between day 3 ET and day 5 ET, where hCG levels, clinical pregnancy, implantation and early pregnancy loss are concerned, resulting in an individualised specialist approach.
But first, let’s just go back to the basics and review the sequence of events taking place after ovulation. On day 14 of a 28 day cycle, the oocyte (egg) is released by the ovary and picked up by the fimbriae (finger-like projections) of the fallopian tube. The egg is moved along passively by the ciliated endothelial cells of the fallopian tubes, towards the uterus. If on its way, it is met and fertilised by sperm, it becomes a zygote, the very first cell of the whole new organism, consisting of the combined maternal and paternal genome.
Following a series of identical mitotic divisions, the embryo’s growth results solely from the oocyte’s potential to become a mass of 6-8 undifferentiated cells by day 3. After the embryo’s own genomic activation, this mass of cells develops into the blastocyst.
By day 5, the blastocyst has a fluid-filled cavity surrounded by a layer of differentiated trophoblastic cells, which will form the placenta, and an inner cell mass, which will eventually become the fetus. By day 5, the blastocyst has entered the uterine cavity, and in the next day or so, it will hopefully manage to hatch out of its prospective protein coat, the Zona Pellucida, and successfully implant into the receptive endometrium.
During IVF, the oocytes are picked up by ultrasound-guided transvaginal aspiration on the designated day. They are appropriately prepped, evaluated and fertilised in the lab. The embryos produced are put under close supervision and strict lab conditions in specially designed cultivation media and incubators. The later, so-called Time-Lapse incubators, allow their 24 hour observation. All developing embryos seem to pause on day 3 and day 5, allowing us to evaluate their dynamic state and select the best looking ones, based on specific morphological criteria, for transfer into the uterine cavity. This is done via the cervical canal and onto the well-prepped, by progesterone, endometrium.
Some IVF specialists argue that day 3 embryo transfer is preferable in older patients and poor-responders, with a low number of good quality embryos. In this instance, day 3 embryo transfer is less expensive, with low risk of losing good embryos by culture, and can potentially yield better cumulative pregnancy rates, as studies have shown that even borderline quality embryos transferred on day 3 may potentially lead to pregnancy, compared to no embryos transferred.
Nowadays, however, and in clinics such as ours, with extensive experience in the cultivation process and excellent blastocyst survival, following the vitrification process, day 5 embryo transfer makes much more sense, even in poor responders. In labs, when the blastulation rate index is over 60%, and the possibility of achieving the blastocyst stage is high, day 5 embryo transfer is favoured. Allowing the embryo to reach the blastocyst stage allows us to make an educated guess on the embryos that have the highest potential to survive and successfully implant, thus avoiding futile attempts of transferring day 3 embryos destined to arrest, and reducing the time needed to achieve a successful pregnancy. Additionally, day 5 embryo transfer offers patients more transparency, giving them a clear view of the available embryos which are of the best quality, since they survived and grew through the biologically selective process. But, what if the embryos which are available on day 3 are of very poor quality? Is it a good idea to carry out the embryo transfer on day 3, rather than wait until day 5? In the group of fresh-cycle, followed by fresh embryo transfer, day 3 transfer is an acceptable decision. For us, it accompanied by a detailed discussion about the expected implantation success rates. However, in the case of frozen-cycles, which nowadays account for more than 70% of all cycles, day 5 transfer is the preferred approach to ensure that only the best quality embryos will be vitrified, thus yielding better pregnancy rate or subsequent transfers.
Lastly, day 5 embryo transfer reduces biopsy embryo loss rates. Performing a trophectoderm biopsy during PGT (prenatal genetic testing) in day 5 allow us to extract more cells, consequently improving the accuracy of the genetic diagnosis, with concomitant lower risk of embryo viability, compared to whole blastomere extraction during day 3 biopsy. From our own experience, day 5 ET have higher clinical pregnancy and live birth rates compared to day 3, especially with fresh-cycle.
In summary, day 5 embryo transfer is shown to be more transparent for the patients and reproductive scientists, giving them a clear view, as it acts as a biological filter on embryo quality. In the era of total freezing strategy, which includes 70% of all performed cycles, day 5 frozen embryo transfer shows higher percentages of clinical pregnancy, reaching up to 50%. In our lab, the survival rate after blastocyst thawing is over 95%, and strongly supports the use of frozen blastocysts. Day 5 blastocyst embryo stage makes it easy to use the NGS (next generation techniques) during prenatal genetic testing, which is shown to be the new trend in reproductive medicine, and by transferring the euploid blastocyst, we achieve over 60% in clinical pregnancy rate.
Answer from Dr. Sanchez
The implantation rate is better on Day 5 so we always prefer it for transferring blastocysts. There are several reasons for this. First, it helps to make a better selection of the embryos to be transferred and to be frozen since we have more information about the genetics, morphology, synchrony of the cells and so on. Second, it allows a greater synchronicity with the endometrium preparation—more days of progesterone, less contractual activity of the uterus since the progesterone acts as a uterine relaxant. Third, it allows a preimplantation genetic study to be made to select euploid embryos.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge nominated to the nation’s second-most powerful court said Wednesday that he was writing as an academic and commentator when he criticized as “indefensible” a Supreme Court ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act. Justin Walker, a 37-year-old protege of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, said he will have an open mind on the Obama-era health care law if it comes before him as a district or appeals court judge. At a hearing on his nomination to a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Walker declined a request by Senate Democrats to recuse himself on matters related to the health-care law if he’s confirmed. Walker said he was “an academic and a citizen engaged in the public sphere” when he wrote a 2018 article calling Chief Justice John Roberts’ opinion upholding the health care law “indefensible” and “catastrophic.” Walker said he would be bound by the ruling as precedent and would consider any challenge to it with an open mind. Democrats say Walker’s confirmation could threaten the health of millions of Americans protected by the law, which the Trump administration is challenging in… Read full this story
- Amy Coney Barrett’s Judicial Neutrality Is a Political Fiction
- Trump Supreme Court Nominee Confirmation Hearings Reach Final Day
- Supreme Court Nominee Barrett Declines to Answer Questions on Key Court Cases
- Donald Trump says Kim Jong-Un is 'in good health' amid rumors dictator is in a coma - and adds 'never underestimate him' after their 'love letters' were revealed
- Romney, GOP senators' support for Supreme Court vote opens lane for confirmation, but obstacles remain
- Gov. Cuomo blasts synagogue's 'blatant disregard for the law' and pledges to hold rabbi accountable for hosting 7,000-guest wedding in 'secret' to defy NYC's lockdown rules as COVID cases surged
- Alito to far-right litigants: The buffet is open
- Tory MP blasts The Crown's twisted portrayal of Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands War as 'utter rubbish' as Netflix show is slammed for being 'pro-IRA'
- Boris Johnson blasts Nicola Sturgeon for focusing on Scottish Independence during Covid crisis – as he slams SNP's abysmal record on public services
- Grey’s Anatomy star hits back at fan complaints as drama blasted for ‘wasting face masks’ for hospital scenes
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When thermal energy is added to a solid, liquid or gas, most substances increase in volume because the increased kinetic energy of the particles causes an increased distance between the particles. This results in a change in density of the material. Generally, solids have greater density than liquids, which have greater density than gases due to the spacing between the particles. The density of a substance can be calculated from the slope of a mass vs. volume graph. Differences in densities can be determined by interpreting mass vs. volume graphs of the substances.


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LYONS BROOK — Brody Blair has turned his sights toward professional boxing.
Blair, 25, is looking forward to his second pro bout in August in New Brunswick after winning by knockout in the second round in his pro debut last spring.
It was a contracted 170-pound catch weight bout against an American opponent Tim Valdez, who entered the ring with a 1-2 won-loss record in his first three pro fights. It took place on May 27 at Aitken Centre in Fredericton, N.B.
Blair was pleased with the results, given that he has been lobster fishing once again this year and had found it challenging to train.
“I felt really good — I felt sharp,” Blair said, after returning home once the lobster season ended in June. “I was in shape, although it was hard to do during lobster season but we did it. It was great to start things off with a win.”
Blair said he knew little about his opponent, but he knew enough to defend against a strong right hand.
“I knew he had a great right-handed punch,” he said. “I just watched for that and got him to miss. That tired him a lot from missing. I dropped him twice in the first round and, 15 or 20 seconds into the second round, I ended it.”
Blair turned pro after a promising amateur career stalled. He took home a bronze medal while representing Canada as a middleweight at the 2012 Pan-American Games. He won his first two bouts but lost in the quarter-finals of the Olympic Qualification tournament later that year.
He won two bouts and lost a third one at the 2013 AIBA World Boxing Championships and in 2014 represented Canada at the Commonwealth Games in Scotland.
“Amateur boxing helped me,” he said. “It kept me relaxed and focused.”
Blair is waiting for a contract to be signed for his second bout, which will also be in New Brunswick. He’s also glad to have more time to train at regular hours instead of the shoulder hours when he was fishing.
“I had to get up at 4 a.m. and train and then work all day after that, then train some more,” he said. “ It paid off for us so I’m happy about that.”
Brody Blair has his hands raised after winning his first professional boxing match last spring. (Submitted photo)

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In The Not-So-Perfect Princess and the Not-So-Dreadful Dragon, Princess Petal is NOT what you would expect the ‘perfect’ princess to be. In fact, she is quite the opposite. Her princess dresses are torn and scruffy, she wears an old woolly hat instead of a golden crown and she is very (very) loud. So when Princess Petal meets a fire-breathing dragon while out hiking in the forest, both are in for a bit of a shock! An enchanting tale about friendship, diversity, acceptance and being exactly who we are meant to be. The moral behind this story is imperative yet simple: we are all different and that’s okay, making judgments and assumptions about people is not okay, all genders should be treated equally. Also included are Discussion Questions for parents, caregivers and educators.
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About the Author
Jayneen Sanders (aka Jay Dale) is an experienced early years educator, author, publisher and blogger. Jayneen writes children’s books on Body Safety, consent, gender equality, respectful relationships, and social and emotional intelligence. She believes empowering children from an early age makes for empowered teenagers and adults. Jayneen is Lead Author for the children’s literacy series Engage Literacy published by Capstone Classroom, and has written over 120 titles in that series. Jayneen is importantly a mother of three daughters and has always advocated for their empowerment. Jayneen’s ongoing passion for the safety and empowerment of children continues today with new manuscripts and free-to-download resources always in the wings.


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|Here and Nowhere Else
Winner of the 1996 L. L. Winship / PEN New England Award
Beacon Press 1995
Second paperback edition: North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004
After years of living away Jane Brox made the decision to return to the family farm of her birth, where her aging father still tended the crops. In this striking memoir of her reintroduction to the land and its habits, Brox captures the cadences of farm life and those who sustain it, at a time when the viability of both are waning.
|PRAISE for Here and Nowhere Else
A loving, precisely written evocation of a New England place and its people....reminiscent of Thoreau in its exactness and breadth of implications.
from the judges' citation, L. L. Winship / PEN New England Award.
A poignant account of return and recommitment....Brox describes crisply yet with great feeling.
Maxine Kumin, New York Times Book Review
Arresting. With a poet's sensibility and an essayist's search for meaning, Brox gives us keen and sensuous observations of the land....with compassion, honesty, and restraint.
The Boston Globe
A strangely joyful book. Brox looks hard at what she sees, breaks down the minute workings.... No object, however humble, is unworthy of the slow craft and mindfulness of her regard.... [She] finds the image that makes the match, invests the thing with rightful singularity. And implicit in the quality of her attention is a plea for patience, for the need to see the thing in the context of the time in which it lives.
Amy Godine, Orion
A beautifully written tribute to the family farm.
[Brox} forges compelling narrative from the workaday.... This slim book's surprising strength accrues line by line in Brox's keen observation and spare, poetic prose.
Brox subordinates dramas of personal longing and disappointment to the longer, larger story of an ancient vocation playing itself out between the implacabilities of nature on the one side and the American present on the other.
Franklin Burroughs, The Southern Review
This is a book that quietly, insistently speaks to love of land... Through Brox's... sensitive and powerful language, the reader celebrates but also mourns what seems the inevitable passing of a way of life that... is rooted in the knowledge of growing things and the secrets of the land.
Daphne Abeel, Harvard Review


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JHM Development and „Bank Polskiej Spółdzielczości” have signed a loan agreement with a value of over PLN 32 million, on the basis of which the bank will finance realization of the „Twoja Dolina” first stage.
The funds – PLN 29,09 million investment loan and PLN 3,03 million VAT loan – will be used to erect two housing buildings and an underground car park of „Twoja Dolina”. 196 apartments covering the usable area of 10 457 sq. meters and 9 commercial units (697 sq. meters) as well as 249 parking places will be delivered within the first stage of the undertaking.
The construction work on the stage was commenced at the beginning of May this year and is scheduled to be finished by 30th of October 2016. The estate is being built at 17-19 Pułaskiego St. in the close proximity of the Three Ponds Valley. Mirbud was appointed prime contractor of the works.


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GREENSBORO, N.C. – Bruce Beckford scored 21 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead North Carolina A&T over Division-III Greensboro College 91-61 in the season opener for both teams on Friday night.
James Whitaker scored five points to end the first half to give North Carolina A&T a 34-25 halftime lead. Whitaker scored seven unanswered points to open the second half, stretching the lead to 39-25 and the Aggies led by double digits the rest of the way.
Beckford made 8 of 18 shots and was 5 of 6 from the line. Whitaker and Trey Brown each finished with 16 points while the Aggies held a 53-38 rebound advantage over the Pride.
Simeon Howard scored 15 points and Devan Gregory added 14 points to lead Greensboro. The Pride shot just 29.7 percent from the floor.


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1 And let you, Stephen, make a novena to your holy patron saint, the first martyr, who is very powerful with God, that God may enlighten your mind.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4
2 I have read your letters to poor Lucy, and know how good you are and how your husband suffer; so I pray you, if it may be, enlighten him not, lest it may harm.
3 I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.
4 Hence things which have perplexed you and made the case more obscure, have served to enlighten me and to strengthen my conclusions.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
5 To his daughter it was unintelligible, and he did not enlighten her.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
6 True, these remarks sufficed to indicate the tender impulses of the speaker's heart, but also they did nothing to enlighten his examiners concerning the business that was actually at hand.
7 He was thinking that Prince Andrew was unhappy, had gone astray, did not see the true light, and that he, Pierre, ought to aid, enlighten, and raise him.
8 Not another word had I heard to enlighten me on the subject of my expectations, and my twenty-third birthday was a week gone.
9 Her next question was not of a nature to enlighten him.
10 An old broken lantern which I have just seen at a bric-a-brac merchant's suggests a reflection to my mind; it is time to enlighten the human race.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II—PRELIMINARY GAYETIES
11 It seems to me, however, not out of place to notice in the following Chapter, a method employed by the Roman senate to enlighten the people in making this distribution.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XLVII.
12 Nor were his colleagues a wit inferior to him in enlightenment.
13 "The cause is lack of enlightenment," said Chichikov.
14 Yet enlightenment has reached us right enough.
15 You will perhaps also see in your further initiation a like method of enlightenment.


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This natural food grocer is off nearly 40% from its 52-week high just six months ago, but it’s still one of the best bets on the fast-growing organic food trend.
Shares of Whole Foods Market (NASDAQ: WFM) have now tumbled close to 12% over the last month and are off some 40% from their 52-week high in February.
With the organic grocery stock trading around $35 a share, it’s now at multi-year lows. Sentiment surrounding the company was crushed after a weak quarterly earnings report, with same-store sales continuing to slow.
Figuring out pricing is a must for the company. Same-store sales are declining because the company can’t figure out how to keep customers coming back, especially when the likes of Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT) and Kroger (NYSE: KR) are now offering organic foods for much cheaper.
The worry of larger grocers like Kroger taking market share from natural grocers is very real. At the same time, this isn’t anything new. Recall last summer, we saw a large selloff in Whole Foods’ stock with the threat of rising competition, only to see the stock rally from $40 to $55 a share in just a few months.
Since then, Whole Foods actually appears to have a more sound strategy for addressing any competition that comes its way. Previously, the company was just going to lower prices – ultimately compressing its margins – to stay competitive. Since then it’s announced a completely new brand of stores to tackle the lower-priced organics market, dubbed “365 by Whole Foods Market.”
This concept is expected to be akin to farm-to-table offerings and will compete more with Trader Joe’s from a pricing standpoint. Five such stores are expected to be rolled out this year, and an acceleration of square footage and store growth will help grow company-wide sales over the interim.
Its nationwide marketing campaign should help get the message out about lower-priced products and its new store format. Granted, this will boost marketing spend, but it’s a near-term cost to capture customers that will hopefully become recurring shoppers. And its planned home-delivery service is a long-term strategy that could help the company gain and retain even more customers.
Just last month I did a roundup of the major grocers, noting that much of the market was starting to write off the specialty and natural foods players. At the time, The Fresh Market (NASDAQ: TFM) was the most appealing company in the industry. However, with the selloff in Whole Foods, the valuation has made the story there very compelling.
Kroger shares are up a whopping 60% over the last year, while Whole Foods is down 6%. But for the first time ever, Whole Foods is now trading at a cheaper valuation than Kroger. Whole Foods trades at an enterprise value-to-EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) multiple of 8.8, while Kroger is at 9.3.
And what’s more, Whole Foods’ return on invested capital still remains at an impressive 15.5%, which is about 40% higher than Kroger’s. Being in the premium natural foods space, Whole Foods enjoys a profit margin that’s double that of Kroger.
Then there’s the dividend. Whole Foods dividend yield is now up to 1.4%, with Kroger’s still sub-1%.
The natural food segment is still growing fast enough for Whole Foods to succeed even if it doesn’t recapture some of its lost market share. But it could easily start to make headway with market share gains by lowering produce prices to drive traffic, as well as by becoming more aggressive with its marketing and the 365 by Whole Foods Market rollout.
This is making ordinary people rich
Ordinary people across America are getting insanely rich. Take Gladys Holm. She never earned more than $15,000 a year as a secretary. But by making one simple move, she was able to leave an $18 million fortune to a children’s hospital when she died. There’s many more just like her. Find out how they did it right here.

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DALLAS, Texas — A new study on access to pharmacies in the United States has come up with some surprising findings.
The study, conducted by Healthaffairs.org, found that one in three American neighborhoods does not have readily available access to a pharmacy.
Dallas was included in the list of major cities in the United States with the worst pharmacy access.
The study found that some 15 million Americans are living in one of these "Pharmacy Deserts," 8.3 million of whom are Black or Latino.
They also found that Black and Latino neighborhoods are more likely to experience pharmacy closures.


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I am Jae, a sysadmin & dev at TeDomum.net. I am the author of the Imgur authed upload mechanic of Glowing Bear and the creator & main developer of GetPouet. My hobbies are mainly about code but also old microcomputers such as the Commodore 64.
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Game Revolution writes: PSP owners who have been (or should be) anticipating this week's launch of God of War: Chains of Olympus are in for some bittersweet news. In the same week Ready At Dawn's stellar new action game reaches shelves, the Orange County-based developer announces that they have no further plans to support the system. It's always some new drama with these Orange County kids, damn it.
Ready at Dawn debuted in 2006 with Daxter, a solid PSP platformer spun off the Playstation 2 franchise. The slick little title is one of the only serious action games in the system's catalog, and after a year the feisty rodent charmed his way into silver PSP bundles.
As Daxter marked the high point in PSP action, God of War: Chains of Olympus is now the new standard. This pint-sized adventure proves that the PSP can rock the action epic every bit as well as the home theater. It is a lean, mean reproduction of the console experience that invites strangers to gasp "Oh, shit!" wherever you take it. Ready at Dawn has maintained the high-fidelity visuals and the silky flow of the home versions with a brand new story and only a few minor flaws.
+ Smooth, full-speed action
+ Sharp graphics and sounds
+ Careful level design
+ Leaner and meaner than the console version
- Needs better blocking and dodging
- Overall intensity not spread evenly

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A day to celebrate all the good things nature has brought us…
Apples, veg and potato displays, excellent food, cake and bread sales, cob-oven cooking, foraging walks, storytelling from the Green Man, dancing with the Glorishears of Brummagem Molly Dancers, snap apple, apple printing and other family craft activities.
Bring a bottle to fill with your own juiced apples. Bring any apples from your own trees or have harvested from trees on common land.
A day of sharing, swopping recipes, sharing cooking secrets and making.
Our apple harvest hasnt been great this year, but there is still plenty on common land trees. You are welcome to bring apples to share or to crush and take home in your own bottles…
(we cant guarantee your success, but lets have a go)
Join Dr Rob Tilling for a foraging walk around and outside the Gardens and outside the walls (1.30 ish for 40mins).
Food from Change Kitchen, our local jam and cake wizards and more.
Normal entry prices
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Yup’ik dance performances headlined the Cama-i Dance Festival in Bethel. But just off stage, dozens of artists and craftspeople from around Western Alaska showed off handmade work for sale, from carved ivory earrings and beadwork to colorful kuspuks and beaver skin hats.
Tununak artist John Oscar sold out of his mixed-media collage pieces on the festival’s first day.
“It’s been a very successful day,” he said.
Oscar, who lives in Bethel, combines materials like driftwood, feathers and ivory with acrylic paints to depict stories or scenes in nature.
His table was wedged into a corner of Bethel’s Yupiit Piciryarait Cultural Center. Dozens of other tables were packed in around his, showcasing handmade crafts from all over the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
Oscar has been coming to Cama’i since the ‘90s. Not having the festival the last few years due to COVID-19 was tough on vendors like Oscar, especially as the pandemic made it more difficult to get materials.
Vendors said this year’s return to Cama-i was about more than just sales. It’s a relief.
“It feels like a breath of fresh air,” laughed Ida Alexie, who sat with her husband Roy Alexie behind a table covered with pine- and oak-handled ulus Roy made out hand saw blades. He’s been making the curved-blade knives for almost 50 years.
The first day of the festival, Ida said they sold half the ulus they brought. She was hopeful they’d sell the other half on day two.
“We missed having Cama-i,” she said as Roy nodded in agreement. “Because it’s a good moneymaker.”
There have been fewer opportunities to make that money since the pandemic started.
Many of Cama’i’s artisans sell at local Saturday Markets in Bethel or at venues in Anchorage to keep income flowing. Jonathan McIntyre is an ivory carver from Eek, but lives in Bethel. He sells at the Dimond Center in Anchorage sometimes, but his sales are better in Bethel.
“The people know me,” McIntyre said. “They rush coming in, coming to see me. It’s good to see a lot more people now.”
Every inch of McIntyre’s table was laden with pairs of carved ivory earrings, decorated with baleen and beads. He said he wasn’t sure if Cama-i would come back this year, but he carved all winter anyway, hoping he’d have a chance to sell his work at the festival.
McIntyre said he can make about 30 pairs of earrings in a week, using a hand saw with a metal-cutting blade, and templates he inherited from his grandfather. He learned to carve from watching his father and grandfather when he was a child.
“I was always in the shop, the garage … I look up to the older generation. That’s who I watch,” he said.
McIntyre said getting to keep his family’s craft alive makes him feel like a provider. He’s started to teach his nephews and his children to carve, too.
Around the corner, Helen Lane was also working to keep tradition alive. Lane, who was born in Point Hope, helped launch an Alaska Native women’s sewing shop called IñuPiphany in Anchorage last November.
“A lot of them haven’t sewn before. And so this is just a way for them to come and learn and heal. It’s a cultural healing center,” she said.
The Native women who attend make one piece for themselves and one for the shop. Then IñuPiphany sells the second piece to purchase more materials. Lane’s helped sell some of that work at Cama-i — caribou skin masks, fur gloves and hats, and a toddler-sized parka lined her table.
She said Cama-i provides a healing space for artists to carry on their traditions.
“You get to see different cultures, different villages do their dancing. And then they have their doors open for other artists to sell, because a lot of them, they rely on their art sales for providing for their families,” Lane said.
This year was Lane’s first time at Cama-i. Already, she said, sales were strong.


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Congress should not use the California legislation as a model. Despite months of intense advertising and promotional campaigns from third‐party marketers, only 38,000 consumers — less than 5 percent of the California ratepayers — have taken advantage of their ability to choose a different electricity company. Enron Corp. — the giant natural gas, electricity, and renewable energy conglomerate perhaps most responsible for the successful campaign to restructure the electricity industry — recently announced that their nearly decade‐long quest to enter the residential electricity market has turned to ash and that they would henceforth get out of the California market. Other would‐be utility competitors are expected to follow Enron’s lead, leaving California residential consumers back where they began at the beginning of this exercise. Soon, it appears that they will have nowhere to turn but to the very utilities that just a few months ago were written‐off as the relics of a by‐gone era of regulation and monopoly. What went wrong?
The short answer is that politicians rather than market forces designed the restructured California electricity system. Politicians, while paying lip service to deregulation and the magic of the market, could not bring themselves to simply let go of the industry. Reflecting the fear of both consumer activists and electric utilities that real markets would prove disastrous, the California legislature placed constraints on the restructured industry whose net effect was to stifle the very forces necessary to drive down California’s utility rates. Consumer choice thus became a meaningless exercise.
Utilities worried that in a free market most of their high‐cost nuclear and renewable sources of electricity would prove so uncompetitive that bankruptcy could result. The California legislature accordingly allowed utilities to impose a transition charge on customers who abandon their high‐priced power for the greener pastures of lower‐cost non‐utility power generators. Consumers, not utilities, would thus pay for those white elephants regardless of which company ratepayers choose to buy from.
Consumer activists worried that prices might rise in a free market. Thus, they lobbied successfully for a provision that froze retail rates at 1996 levels. As a result, customers who switch from a traditional utility to a new power marketer pay the wholesale price for power plus a delivery charge plus a variable “transition charge.” The sum of these charges cannot exceed the 1996 rate for electricity.
But since a rate freeze did not offer anything to consumers that they did not already have under the old regime, the legislature decided to mandate a 10 percent rate cut for all residential and small business customers. The legislature paid for this rate cut by selling 10‐year bonds issued by an off‐budget agency of the California State government.
The bonds are essentially another device to shift the costs of the uneconomic nuclear and renewable power from the utilities to the ratepayers, stretching out the payments over a longer period of time at slightly lower interest rates. Now, if all of us could refinance our VISA bills with state bonds over a longer period of time, our monthly payments would go down, but the total bill due would actually rise because we would be paying interest for a longer period of time. This sort of politically clever sleight‐of‐hand is costly not only for consumers but also for the economy as a whole. Capital that would have been used to finance new private investment is used instead to finance uneconomic power plants. Moreover, you don’t need to switch from a traditional utility to get the rate cut.
The net effect of California’s market meddling is to severely reduce the incentive for customers to switch companies. And because the benefits from switching for consumers in the politically designed system are low, the overwhelming majority of them have chosen to stick with the devil they know rather than switch to the devil they don’t.
What Congress should do is use its own legislation on intrastate trucking regulation as a model for electricity restructuring. Congress deregulated interstate trucking in 1980, but state regulation of intrastate trucking continued. The main effect of the continued state regulation was to restrict entry by new firms and raise the price of shipping for consumers. For example, a shipment of tobacco from Texas to Louisiana (125 miles) cost $450 in 1994 while the same shipment cost $750 to cover 85 miles within Texas.
The seeds for change in these cozy cartel arrangements were sown by a court case affecting Federal Express. California attempted to regulate Federal Express’s extensive truck operations within that state. Federal Express sued saying it was regulated under federal airline regulation. The initial judgement went against Federal Express, but the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the California regulations in 1991, and the Supreme Court refused to hear the case letting the Appeals decision stand in the Ninth Circuit.


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One night, poet and environmental writer John Lane tuned in to a sound from behind his house that he had never heard before: the captivating howls of coyote. Since this was Spartanburg, South Carolina, and not Missoula, Montana, Lane set out to discover all he could about his new and unexpected neighbours. 'Coyote Settles the South' is the story of his journey of discovery.
Coyote Settles the South
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More than 18,000 eBirders from 164 countries and territories joined together on 19 October to go birding on the second October Big Day. The global count of 6,497 species broke last year’s total of 6,360 species, setting a new October Big Day record!
This month’s eBirder of the Month challenge, sponsored by Carl Zeiss Sports Optics, will keep get you snapping photos and recording bird sounds. Every time you take a photo or hold out a microphone, you're creating an incredibly powerful piece of data.
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The Opila lab is equipped with two custom made thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) furnaces.
The TGAs are based around a vertical tube furnace which has the ability to be raised and lowered for fairly rapid heating rates of the sample. The samples are exposed to a controlled gas flow, and suspended from a precision microbalance to measure mass evolution over time. One TGA is equipped with dry, flowing oxygen. The second TGA is equipped with a saturator to control water vapor content in the flowing oxygen gas stream. The data collected can be used to help determine degradation mechanisms and rates of oxidation of high temperature materials.


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A new Israeli scientific study has shown that the use of medicinal cannabis in children under the 18 who are diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) can alleviate common and common symptoms such as seizures, disruptive behavior, depression and restlessness.
ASD is a set of neurological disorders that affect communication, behavior and social skills and for which there is no specific treatment. According to the World Health Organization, it affects 1 in 160 children worldwide, and over the past three decades, the number of children diagnosed has risen three-fold, the study said. Interventions often focus on intensive behavioral therapies that require a high level of care.
The Israeli study was conducted by researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheva. Among them was Professor Raphael Mechoulam, the acclaimed organic chemist who in 1964 was the first to identify cannabis's THC compound, the chemical known for causing the "high feeling" associated with cannabis use. Mechoulam is regarded as the foundation for scientific research into cannabis and its use in modern medicine.
Read the full article Nocamels.com (source), photo Demi Pradolin.


The biggest strength of the software-defined vehicle is that it evolves. A vehicle leaves the factory with a certain set of capabilities, but the OEM is able to leverage usage data and expand those capabilities over the vehicle’s full life cycle through over-the-air updates, enabling it to deliver better driving performance, improve the in-cabin user experience (UX), and otherwise make an aging vehicle feel new every day.
Hardware, however, does not evolve. Historically, once the vehicle left the factory, the hardware remained the same.
This dichotomy eventually presents a challenge to the software-defined vehicle. While centralizing and serverizing compute can be a cost-effective solution for sharing workloads, reallocating resources and extending its usefulness, at some point, the compute hardware will be too outdated to take on new software features that require faster processing, more memory or greater storage capacity.
OEMs can address these limitations with the right software and hardware architecture — one that not only has the flexibility to dynamically reallocate resources in real time, but also allows physical upgrades to just the specific compute components that need it the most, well into the future. Done right, the approach will also help them create independent software and hardware ecosystems while greatly extending the life of their vehicles.
We often think of the compute in a vehicle as its “brain.” After all, just as a human brain takes in information and acts based on that input, the vehicle’s compute platform takes in data from sensors and other outside sources and makes decisions about what to do and what to communicate.
A human brain, however, changes and grows over time. Babies grow into children, and children grow into adults. As their brains physically change, they become capable of greater understanding and more complex reasoning.
In contrast, computers are static, with defined processing limits. As software developers create ever more sophisticated and capable applications, they push those limits until it is necessary to move to the next generation of hardware to enable the functions they create.
In the automotive world, newer hardware could also become necessary to meet evolving safety regulations or to ensure that the vehicle continues to employ the latest cybersecurity measures.
Consumers are used to this upgrade cycle in other contexts. In the mobile phone world, for example, many people upgrade to a new device every two to three years, in part to obtain a processor that can adequately support the latest apps, functions and cybersecurity protections. A key difference, of course, is that the expense of replacing an entire phone is much less than that of replacing an entire vehicle. A vehicle also is obviously far more complex, with hundreds of devices distributed throughout, which are increasingly connected to a central compute unit.
The solution in automotive is to structure the software and hardware architecture so that OEMs can upgrade just the compute needed to execute higher-level functions.


In Search of Chicago's 'Bizarre Foods'
By Prescott Carlson in Food on Feb 12, 2011 9:00PM
Bizarre Foods' Andrew Zimmern must have run out of large bugs to munch on in Madagascar, so he came to Chicago in search of foodstuff oddities. So what did he find here? Maybe "sketchy ass" hot dogs? Outlandish deep dish pizza? And what is in that giardiniera on your Italian beef sandwich, anyway? In the clip below, Topolobampo/XOCO chef Rick Bayless takes Zimmern on a tour of the Maxwell Street Market for a taste of some "exotic" tacos al pastor -- noticeably without insects:
Watch the Chicago episode of Bizarre Foods Tuesday, February 15, at 8 p.m. on Travel Channel.


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|Rock outcropping at Roche-A-Cri|
Roche-A-Cri State Park was basically established to protect a 300-ft rock outcropping and Native American petroglyphs. The park has about 5 miles of hiking trails, 41 campsites and a creek that supposedly has decent fishing. The rock mound supposedly was an island in Glacial Lake Wisconsin about 15,000 years ago. Despite the park's small size, I recommend a visit and would camp there again.

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If approved, it would be the most sweeping environmental legislation in nearly 20 years. Similar bills could cost up to $7 trillion by 2050, by some estimates. Distinct winners and losers would be created among U.S. corporations. The leading proposed bill was drafted by U.S. Sens. Brett Lieberman, a Connecticut independent, and John Warner, a Virginia Republican. Their bill would cut carbon to 2005 levels from most sources by 2012 and then 70 percent below 2005 levels by 2050.
Similar to a 1990 system that greatly decreased sulfur dioxide emissions and reduced acid rain, the carbon "cap and trade" would allow polluters so many carbon emissions per year. In theory, these could be sold off if a polluter has extra ones or bought if a company needs more carbon credits to build a new generating station or factory. The European Union already has a variant.
The yet-to-be-decided details are extremely important. The biggest carbon polluters are big coal-burning utilities, such as American Electric Power or the Southern Company. If all of carbon units from all their coal-fired plants are grandfathered in, they could make a very large pile of cash once carbon trading commences.
Here are some possible winners and losers.
Winners: Large electric utilities with coal-fired capacity; natural gas companies, nuclear power service plants, railroads (which are now projecting themselves as very "green."), auto companies that have switched to less polluting hybrids.
Losers: Large electric utilities with non-coal-fired capacity such as nuclear or hydroelectric, large manufacturing companies, coal mining firms, oil companies (potentially), airlines, unreconstructed auto firms, trucking companies.
The legislation is always expected to wean industry away from carbon-based fuel by making it more expensive. That will hurt lower income people but some aspects of the proposed laws would create special funds to help them. George Bush and the National Manufacturers Association hate the cap and trade idea. Although the bill garnered only 48 of 60 needed votes in the U.S. Senate, the bill isn't going to go away. This week's debate may spotlight areas of possible compromise when this Lieberman-Warner bill or other variants come forward again.