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September 29, 2007, 04:07:17 AM
The reasons why I dont want to become a film critic
The assumption is that when you write about films, you eventually want to become a film critic. There is evidence to support this idea because unless you are a published author of books about topical subjects in film, the main platform is film criticism. If you are an amateur writer, criticism is really the only thing you can do if want your pieces published in websites, journals or other publications. Then there is other problem in that criticism takes time to perfect and master so somebody getting into writing about film first has to dedicate themselves to years of writing it. Those years of practice and effort convinces the majority to stick with criticism as a profession.
I write criticism, too, but my progress to this point hasnt been strictly that. When I was a teenager I spent my afternoons listening to music and plotting out what the shots and sets would be for the music video to go along with a song. In the period of two years I believe I did this for over a hundred songs. The drive to focus on shots and production told me at the time I had everything that it would take to become a filmmaker. I believed it. So much so I pushed my high school to offer a course on film and video editing. The first year it was offered I took it with only one other person. We had to be mixed into a different computer class because we were only two people strong. Most people in the class had no clue what we were even doing there.
The hopefulness didnt pan out to much. After that class and another in community college, I started to focus entirely on writing about film. There were many reasons why. The main reason was that I could not afford the equipment to keep me ahead of the curve and two classes on video editing still left me a dunce with computers. So I decided to try to improve my status as a dunce in writing. I had no clue what I was doing, but a few years of reading criticism and books about film helped me a lot. The world of film was starting to become clear to me. I realized I didnt know anything about film because I didnt know the extent of what I didnt know. At the beginning, for me, film had a history that was short and slim. Then it became long and wide with histories and ideas still left to travel. Im just grateful because I now know it exists.
Next march it will be nine years. Nine years since I first thought big about film and nine years since Stanley Kubrick died. Both incidents coincidentally went hand in hand for me. Kubrick was my gateway into film and his passing is what got me serious. The first two years of my time with film was study of Stanley Kubrick. I was hard pressed to believe in anyone else. But as first loves go, things change and I discovered the world of film around Stanley Kubrick and moved past him. Instead of basing the success of a given year off how much more I knew about Kubrick, I was doing it for film in general. I wanted to learn so much each year that I didnt even know the person of the past year. Sometimes that happened.
Ive come to a point in my life where I no longer look back and see different ideologies or ideas about the art of film. Ive normalized certain ideas about film I believe will be constant beliefs. These beliefs will continue to be refined and enhanced, but they will consist of the same basic truths. Every person goes through growing pains to find themselves. Ive found myself and the pressure of life is forcing me to choose what I want as a career. To my own surprise, the last thing I want to be a film critic.
The main reason lays in the question of whether you want to be a critic or a newspaperman. People study the art of film to be critics, but the path to criticism many times isnt that. Bernard Shaw was asked by a young writer how you become a critic and he said, Twenty years of writing for a newspaper and the hope you get promoted when the main critic dies or retires. Examples today also exist. Roger Ebert had no clue his aspirations to become a journalist would lead him to become a lifetime critic of what was only a hobby for him in film. When editors are looking for critics, they are not first looking for experts in the field of film, but manageable writers who know the newspaper business and follow orders.
Then there is the situation of having to appeal to the business interests of the newspaper. It doesnt matter if you are a highly esteemed critic with good senses about quality, the fact is no editor will allow a film critic to attack every mainstream Hollywood film released. Its not good business because newspapers are advertising those movies for either local theaters or the studio directly. This situation also explains why there is so much analysis of the business of movies as there are about movies themselves. Articles are written about Hollywood so films and movie stars can be named dropped without any critical souring. The emergence of tabloid interest in Hollywood continues to blur lines of what importance film criticism really has in newspapers and magazines.
The other matter about film criticism is that practice and standards forces critics, if they are going to review fluff Hollywood works, to review them with as much care and thoughtfulness as any other review. When I took a class on journalism in the art of criticism, I was told to follow a strict layout of what parts about each film to comment on and in what order. It didnt matter what the movie was. I had to pay equal attention to every part of the very worst films. I wasnt too shocked to see this pattern repeated by most critics around the country. It meant that the same attention to evaluating Transformers should also be given to LEnfant.
It wasnt always like this. In the 1930s and 40s, film critics would use only a paragraph or two for each movie. Sometimes a description of the plot wasnt even given, but instead just a comment about the general art (or lack of) of the movie. Critics would only write larger pieces on films that inspired them to do so. Film criticism wasnt yet considered a true discipline to have the standards we see today. It was a low tier job for a newspaperman to write criticism about an art that was still just entertainment only for most people. Because of that most newspapers didnt have film critics and only the best newspapers or magazines had quality film critics. Critics like James Agee and Otis Ferguson werent the standard, but the exceptions.
Today the film critic has to struggle through every bad movie. Anything that they just want to stamp as shit has to be given full attention in the name of ethics and professionalism. The consequences of this is that since so few good films are released; the taste of the critic begins to wither away. An average film will be applauded as good and a good film will be heralded as great. Many times these movies arent as good as the critic says. It just shows the exhausting task of having to see every movie released. Even the people who like to go to movies arent forced to dedicate 1000 words to the movies that stupefy and disgust them.
So, I dont know. Film criticism doesnt appeal to me. There only exist a few places out there that give true freedom to the critic. They are in specific magazines. The critic will be allowed time to focus on one film and spend a good amount of time on it since magazine output can be few and far between. The fact is that newspapers represent all kinds of difficulties. I think the hardest job has to be the New York Times theater critic. Since the standards of the paper are so high, he or she has to write an excellent piece in a short amount of time. Sometimes it is less than a day because theater companies will only allow critics to attend opening night performances instead of dress rehearsals and the review would be due the next day. Its an impossible situation. Film critics have the luxury of a little more time, but numerous more films to review every week.
The current track I am following would see me as a Professor of Film Studies at a college somewhere. It never was my dream to follow this path, but the career represents many luxuries. First I would be able to teach and be surrounded with a continuing education in film. The second is that I could get medical benefits where a career in criticism would have truly humble beginnings that my current health cant afford to go through. The third reason is that I could write books about subjects I am passionate about. I dont care to be just another commentator on the latest academic trend in film. I want to write about people and subjects in film I truly care about and feel people have ignored. I want to personalize my work. Lately Ive been big into Christopher Hitchens. His ideology aside, he has a wonderful system of writing small books about large subjects but always done with a personal context or approach. He has issues and people he cares about. I feel the same way in film.
There is also the likelihood I wouldnt have been a good critic anyways. I must give critics their due respect because they can analyze different filmmakers and cinemas and have a good general comment about everything. I dont think Ill ever be able to do that. Part of me will always be ignorant to something so thats why I want to stick close to personal subjects. My favorite film professor endeared me to him when he admitted he knew little about Korean Cinema to comment on it. Other professors around him wouldnt give into that submission and instead would be horribly wrong about many things.
Do I still want to make original films? I dont know. Im beginning an original script right now but I do know my drive and passion is currently in writing about films. Though I think I could write a good original script, I could be wrong and my best form of writing could be in the discussion of films instead of creation of them. I dont know. George Orwell is known as an author, but his reputation as an essayist is much better than as a novelist. I think he knew he was limited in the latter field even though he really wanted to excel at it. Ill find out my fate soon enough. But for now Im still trying. It may end up that Ill always be trying.
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She remembers that first year. "Helena was not quite two and Hudson was about three months old. I remember rocking Hudson in his car seat with my foot while I was making a cappuccino for somebody. I don't know why I thought it was a good idea to open at that time, but we did, and we made it work."
To build the menu they hired chef Neil Dowson in November 2013. "He brought us to the next level," she says. "We didn't have a commercial kitchen but he did what he could, stepping over extension cords and using a toaster oven. In May 2014 I said enough is enough and put in our commercial kitchen. Neil ran with that and brought Agrarian Bistro to where it is today." Neil left in January 2016 and now works with County Road Beer. Paul Tobias, most recently with the Drake Devonshire, joined Patricia and they're moving right along. Paul is poised to take the Bistro even further. Hold on for 2017, it's going to be adventurous, ethnic, and fun.
We have said that Patricia has uncanny timing, and a quick trip to Picton proved serendipitous for the future of her little cheese market. In 2015 she was looking to expand the Market into a bigger local produce market, but hadn't settled on a new space. "In October I drove into Picton just as someone was putting a For Lease sign on the fence at LCBO building site." The new LCBO was not yet finished. She didn't know if the rented space would be in the liquor store or the old house being relocated from Main Street. "I just knew I wanted to be associated with the LCBO," she says. "For a business like mine, who wouldn't?!"
The space on offer was in the red brick house that was saved from demolition and moved to a spot between the liquor store and the Millenium Trail. "A lot of people called that number after me, but I was the first," says Patricia. "The owners had been thinking of renting to professional offices, but they really liked our plan."
She signed the lease in December 2015 and opened April 22nd, only 4 months later. "We did a lot of structural renovation, and I am tremendously grateful to Mike Bell, our former chef, Rachel Morris who ran the market for us in Bloomfield, and Jeff Hounsell, who jumped in and took over the kitchen when we needed it most." she says. "They painted, they moved stuff, they did everything. I tried painting but it turns out I'm not really good at it!" Mike has moved on, but Rachel is now manager of the beautiful new Agrarian Market. "She has a passion to succeed," says Patricia. "Not only is she smart and responsible and a lovely person but she always has my back. That is a really wonderful thing to have."
The team worked flat out through 2016. "Like chickens with our heads cut off," she laughs. "We were running the bistro and establishing the new Agrarian Market and also rebranding and relaunching the Speakeasy, the bar in the basement, and doing the patio and figuring out how to bring it all together. There were a lot of moving parts."
Patricia is very invested in promoting local produce. "When I moved here and got to know The County and we had our two children, I began to think 'why am I driving around The County for two hours to buy food locally?' It was lovely at first, it was an adventure going to the different farmers, and I still love doing it when I have the time. But I thought 'why do I have to work this hard to buy local food? We should be able to pick up local produce easily, especially here in Prince Edward County.' What she wanted was a market selling local food that is accessible and open year round. "Right now we don't have fresh produce apart from Vicki's greens and carrots," she admits. "But that's okay, too. Why should we buy strawberries in December?"
In their first year they are coming to grips with seasonality. "In January we want to offer more prepared meals, soups, things you can pick up and warm in the oven, and we are offering nutritional seminars, too," she says. "We have a fulltime nutritionist here who will start seminars in January. I am interested in being able to feed our families locally. The fact is everybody is busy. Period. If I can take a step out of everybody's day and make life a bit easier for them and support local farmers, too. Why not?
They've had growing pains. "A lot of our lessons were around the volume of people and what customers really want," she says. "I'm not going to lie, this first summer was a hold-onto-your-hat situation. There has been a lot of changes, staff turnover, surprises. We thought let's just get through this! We'll regroup in January and plan next year. But our first year has been wildly successful. The LCBO has been tremendous at sending people over here. It's such a great group of people over there, I mean they're all local obviously, and they are very supportive. The wineries have been great, Sandbanks Vacations has been supportive, The County has been supportive."
Staff at the Agrarian Market have been keeping a big notebook of ideas for things to launch in 2017. "Any feedback from customers and suppliers that we had through the summer we just jotted it down and said, okay, over the winter we'll look over everything and see what we've got. What have we done already and what do we need to do."
Agrarian Market has between 30 and 40 local suppliers. Apart from the cheese everything else is as local as they can get. "We can't get much cheese and crackers locally, but 90% of what is in the market is local," she says. "My wish list includes getting a butcher counter in here, and offering prepared salads to go and having picnic baskets for the beach and for wineries. I would LOVE to get a farmers market going on Sundays right here on the Millenium Trail. County council is onboard with that idea." They started the planning process in April but had to park the idea until next year.
"Bryan and I are always talking about what we can do next. Like having an E-Bike pick up and drop off location here at the market, one at the Bloomfield location and one at Keint-He. We have a lot of land here for it. People could pick up a bike and get straight onto the trail that connects three communities. We'd like to get some fun snowmobile parking signs out there."
Patricia has two main pieces of advice for people moving to The County or starting a new business here. "One, don't be scared about trying something new. You can do that here, so don't be scared. Two, be humble. I mean that. Don't be scared, but don't just assume either. Embrace the locals and local knowledge. Learn from them and take their advice for what it's worth. Because it can be worth a lot."
She is working harder now than she ever did in Toronto. "But I feel like the luckiest lady in the world. I get to do what I want to do, I get direct rewards." Then she laughs. "I don't mean financially! No business owner in the first year is financially rewarded! But just hearing good feedback from customers and seeing people come in and hearing them say Oh look at this, this is so great! The fact my husband is so supportive and proud of me and of all this is wonderful, too."
Patricia gets serious about opportunities in Prince Edward County. "I am so invested in the food culture here. I really believe Prince Edward County should be a self-sustaining community. There is no reason why we should be having food brought into us. Our history of canning and preserving points to a huge opportunity, and teaming with local farmers for that would be great. There are hundreds of acres of land here that farmers don't want to see go to wineries. I say, so don't let it happen! I can say that because we have a winery, so it's not that I am anti-winery. But there is a lot of land here, a lot of potential to diversify and grow more high value crops. We could be partnering with processors to have our own local food chain."
"It has to be a long term goal," she continues. "The target should not be tourists, the target should be growing a year-round economy and getting people to move to The County and getting people to stay here. We need people living here, young families who want to start something new. It will make it better for everybody, and new businesses don't have to just serve local markets, they can serve Eastern Ontario and wider."
Patricia has one more surprise. "I want to grow the Agrarian Market. I want to franchise it, starting with Belleville and then into Cobourg and Peterborough." She explains that the actual brand of the Market is about supporting local food. "That's not unique to The County. Every community should be self-sustaining. That way of living supports local economies and decreases our carbon footprint." She takes a big breath. "So, yes, my goal is to franchise the Agrarian Market."
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what are the chances of a hiv negative person at 90 days become positive at 6 month? for a low rish exposure does that ever happen ? i am aware of the late seroconverters with predisposing medical conditions take longer time to seroconvert apart from such people ,do normal people need to be worried of such a senario ??
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HIV antibody tests in a normal individuals - should be done atleast after 4-12 weeks of exposure. (Antibodies to HIV are produced by 4 weeks in 90% individuals who had a infective exposure and a positive test result). The test result at the end of 12 weeks can be considered conclusive. (This is to clear any remaining doubts).
It is extremely rare for a NORMAL person to take any longer then 6 months to develop detectable antibodies.
Conditions that result in late production of antibodies are rare genetic diseases - and do present much earlier in life and individuals will always be sick with respiratory and diarrheal infections throughout their life.
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The scientific rationale for using altitude training for the enhancement of aerobic performance is based on the body's response to changes in the partial pressure of inspired oxygen (PIO2) and the partial pressure of oxygen in the arterial blood (PaO2). PIO2 at sea level is equal to 149 mmHg. At Mexico City (2300 m, 7544 ft), PIO2 drops to approximately 123 mmHg. At the summit of Mt. Everest (8852 m, 29,035 ft), PIO2 is approximately 50 mmHg or only about 30% of sea level PIO2.
Because of the altitude-induced decrease in PIO2, there is a decrease in PaO2, which leads to a drop in renal PaO2 and renal tissue oxygenation (Ou et al. 1998; Richalet et al. 1994). It is hypothesized that this reduction in renal tissue oxygenation stimulates the synthesis and release of erythropoietin (EPO) (Porter and Goldberg 1994; Richalet et al. 1994), the principal hormone that regulates erythrocyte (RBC) and hemoglobin production. In turn, an increase in serum EPO concentration stimulates the synthesis of new RBCs in the red bone marrow by promoting the cellular growth of immature erythrocytes, specifically the colony-forming unit-erythroid (CFU-E). Erythropoietin receptors are present on the surface of CFU-E. Binding of EPO to CFU-E receptors initiates the production of cellular transcription factors, synthesis of membrane and cytoskeletal proteins, synthesis of heme and hemoglobin, and the terminal differentiation of cells (Bell 1996). The RBC maturation process takes five to seven days from the initial altitude-induced increase in serum EPO (Bell 1996; Flaharty et al. 1990).
These hematological changes may significantly improve an athlete's V·O2max by enhancing the blood's ability to deliver oxygen to exercising muscles. It has been shown that improvements in RBC mass, hemoglobin concentration, and V·O2max enhance aerobic performance (Berglund and Ekblom 1991; Birkeland et al. 2000; Ekblom and Berglund 1991). Essentially, many athletes and coaches view altitude training as a natural or legal method of blood doping.
Research by Chapman, Stray-Gundersen, and Levine (1998) suggests that some athletes experience a better hematological response at altitude than others do. Female and male collegiate runners who completed either LHTL or traditional "live high, train high" altitude training were classified as responders or nonresponders based on their performance in a postaltitude 5-km run. On average, responders demonstrated a significant 4% improvement (37 s) in the postaltitude 5-km run versus their prealtitude performance; nonresponders were approximately 1% slower (14 s). Hematological data showed that responders had a significantly larger increase in serum EPO (52%) compared with nonresponders, who demonstrated a 34% increase in serum EPO. Similarly, postaltitude RBC mass for responders was 8% higher (p < 0.05), but nonresponders' RBC mass was only 1% higher (not statistically significant) compared with prealtitude values. A breakdown of responders indicated that 82% came from the LHTL group, and 18% came from the "live high, train high" group. The authors concluded that each athlete may need to follow an altitude training program that places the athlete at an individualized, optimal altitude for living and another altitude for training, thereby producing the best possible hematological response.
Skeletal Muscle
As described, the primary reason endurance athletes train at altitude is to increase RBC mass and hemoglobin concentration. In addition, they may gain secondary physiological benefits as a result of altitude exposure. For example, altitude training has been shown to increase skeletal muscle capillarity (Desplanches et al. 1993; Mizuno et al. 1990). In theory, this physiological adaptation enhances the exercising muscles' ability to extract oxygen from the blood.
Other favorable skeletal muscle microstructure changes that occur as a result of training at altitude include increased concentrations of myoglobin (Terrados et al. 1990), increased mitochondrial oxidative enzyme activity (Terrados et al. 1990), and a greater number of mitochondria (Desplanches et al. 1993), all of which serve to enhance the rate of oxygen utilization and aerobic energy production.
Nevertheless, scientific data in support of altitude-induced skeletal muscle adaptations are minimal, particularly among well-trained athletes. Only Mizuno and colleagues (1990) examined elite athletes; Desplanches and colleagues (1993) and Terrados and colleagues (1990) examined the effect of altitude training on the skeletal muscle characteristics of untrained individuals. Additional studies conducted on elite athletes failed to demonstrate significant changes in skeletal muscle microstructure caused by altitude training (Saltin et al. 1995; Terrados et al. 1988). Furthermore, Desplanches and colleagues (1993) conducted their study at impractical simulated elevations (4100 to 5700 m, 13,450 to 18,700 ft), an altitude too high for athletes to train at. Thus, based on the current scientific literature, it is unclear whether altitude training, as practiced by most elite athletes at moderate elevations of 1800 to 3050 m (6000 to 10,000 ft) improves oxygen extraction and utilization via favorable changes in skeletal muscle capillarity, myoglobin, mitochondrial oxidative enzyme activity, and mitochondrial density. Additional research is warranted.
Another important physiological adaptation that may occur as a result of exposure to moderate altitude is an improvement in the capacity of the skeletal muscle and blood to buffer the concentration of hydrogen ions (H+). High concentrations of H+ are known to contribute to skeletal muscle fatigue by impairing actin-myosin crossbridge cycling, reducing the sensitivity of troponin for calcium (Ca2+) and inhibiting the enzyme phosphofructokinase (PFK) (McComas 1996). Thus, an enhanced H+ buffering capacity may have a beneficial effect on aerobic and anaerobic performance.
In support of this, Mizuno and colleagues (1990) reported a significant 6% increase in the buffering capacity of the gastrocnemius muscle of elite male cross-country skiers who lived at 2100 m (6890 ft) and trained at 2700 m (8860 ft) for 14 days. Significant improvements in maximal O2 deficit (29%) and treadmill run time to exhaustion (17%) were observed after the athletes returned to sea level. In addition, a positive correlation (r = 0.91, p < 0.05) was demonstrated between the relative increase in buffering capacity of the gastrocnemius muscle and treadmill run time to exhaustion.
Gore and colleagues (2001) reported that skeletal muscle buffer capacity increased 18% (p < 0.05) in male triathletes, cyclists, and cross-country skiers following 23 days of living at 3000 m (9840 ft) and training at 600 m (1970 ft). Furthermore, they found that mechanical efficiency significantly improved during a 4 3 4-min submaximal cycling test following the 23-day LHTL period.
The precise mechanisms responsible for enhanced skeletal muscle buffering capacity following high altitude training are unclear but may be related to changes in creatine phosphate and/or muscle protein concentrations (Mizuno et al. 1990). Improvements in blood buffering capacity may be due to increases in bicarbonate (Nummela and Rusko 2000) or hemoglobin concentration.


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In a recent report by Johan Rockström and many other leading scientists, Planetary Boundaries: Exploring the Safe Operating Space for Humanity the nitrogen cycle is identified as one of three areas (together with climate regulation and biological diversity) where we have surpassed a threshold for stable development. Nitrogen is the most common compound in the air, which is composed of some 78 percent nitrogen. Most of the nitrogen is, however totally inert biologically. It can be converted into active forms, such as nitrate and ammonia through thunderstorms, fire and biological processes such as symbiotic nitrogen fixation (by Rhizobium bacteria in the roots of leguminous plants) or fixation by blue green algae, nowadays called cyanobacteria. Nitrogen is a main building block in proteins and amino acids as well as in nucleic acids like RNA and DNA. The changes in the nitrogen cycles are manifold more market than the changes in the carbon cycle. The quantity biologically active nitrogen in the biosphere has increased nine times in hundred years, most of the increase has occurred the last fifty years (see figure). Increased use of synthetic fertilizers is the dominating reason. The increase is also projected to continue from 165 million tones year 2000 to 270 millions year 2050 (Millennium Ecosystem Assessment 2005). Locally we can see great effects of the release of all this Nitrogen, while the global impact is less certain, what is certain is that there will be an impact.
As mentioned above, nitrogen plays a critical role in life processes, and the short term effect of improved availability of Nitrogen is often improved growth, e.g. that the forests grow better. Nitrogen hungry plants are favored over those that don't need so much nitrogen, e.g. grasses a re favored over herbs and over leguminous plants. Surplus of Nitrogen and Phosphorus are according to Millennium Ecosystem Assessment one of the single most important factor for changes in ecosystems. The effluent of Nitrogen to the sea has increased with 80 percent between 1860 and 1990. However, in some areas the effluent has been more or less constant while the North Sea and coasts off China and the USA receive up to 15 times as much nitrogen now compared to hundred and fifty years ago. This run-off leads to eutrophication with tremendous effects on the composition of species, and in particular it stimulate the bloom of algae and the therewith associated dead zones, such as part of the Mexican gulf and the Baltic Sea. The use of synthetic fertilizers has lead to higher and higher levels of nitrates in drinking waters. Nitrogen also plays a role in the formation of tropospheric ozone, which leads to damage on crops and plants (MEA 2005). Synthetic fertilizers cause losses of other important nutrients such as calcium and phosphorus as well as acidification of soils and waterway (IAASTD 2009). Finally, the production of Nitrogen fertilizers is very energy consuming and in addition it incurs great emissions of laughing gas, one of the greenhouse gases. Mono-cropping of grain which is rather closely associated to the use of synthetic fertilizers leads to a reduction of carbon in soils and thereby increase the green house gases.
Agriculture represent two thirds of the emissions of nitrous oxide, the third greenhouse gas of importance. These emissions are directly related to the nitrogen cycle. The increase of livestock and even the use of chemical fertilizers are key divers. The use of nitrogen fertilizers is extremely inefficient and a lot more nitrogen is added to the soil than what is taken away with the harvest. The rest of this nitrogen "gets lost", some of it as nitrate run off some of it as emissions of nitrous gases. In addition, nitrogen fertilizers also consume a lot of energy for their production. Studies of grain production in Great Britain and Sweden shows an almost linear correlation between use of nitrogen fertilizers and GHG emissions (KRAV 2008). Reduced use of nitrogen fertilizer should be a main strategy for reduction of GHG emissions from agriculture.
In summary, there are good, and frightening, reasons to follow closely the development of the nitrogen cycle. We should not be surprised if we find effects and costs associated with disturbed nitrogen cycles as dramatic as those of the carbon cycle. Considering how farmers and farm lands have become "addicted" to the use of synthetic fertilizers it could become a real thriller to reduce nitrogen effluents. (Extract from Garden Earth)


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