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This old barn, this new money: tobacco farmers are in trouble. Except that is, the ones who have discovered a lucrative alternative.
The barn stands in the shadow of Powell Mountain, a long, thin sandstone ridge in the southwestern corner of Virginia that is wedged between eastern Kentucky and Tennessee, about midway along the Appalachian mountain range that stretches across the eastern United States from Georgia to Maine. The Powell River runs below and parallel to the ridge, through the prime farmland it has carved out over the millennia-now Powell Valley. The next ridge to the south is Clinch Mountain, flanked by its own valley and river. Stone Mountain is to the North.
What sets this barn apart from its neighbors is the recent addition of a new refrigerator and packing shed for vegetables-one of the reasons why a handful of local growers have gathered here on a rainy morning. The men sit on stools and boxes in a new office built into the barn's loft. The office is solid, but unpainted and without finishing touches. Despite the very traditional hanging tobacco (a local grower-not present-is renting the space), a big change is brewing here.
Among the unlikely pioneers who have come to discuss this change is Sam Askins, a 54-year-old farmer whose family has been raising tobacco in nearby Russell County since 1786. "Growin' 'bacco is a bad habit," Askins says with a chuckle, as he adjusts his bright orange hunting cap. "So I quit."
For generations, local farmers have gathered in barns at this time of year to bundle their cured tobacco for auction. But this year, Askins has been working to rescue the last of his organic bell pepper crop from the coming frost. He has brought 61 boxes of peppers to the barn to be sorted, cleaned, and boxed in the new packing shed. The peppers are bound for an Atianta branch of Whole Foods Market, a U.S. chain believed to be the largest organic foods retailer in the world.
Other local growers have come here to admire Sam Askins' harvest and plan what organic crops they will raise next year themselves--mainly for Food City, a local grocery chain--and to discuss the reasons they are all kicking tobacco in favor of organic farming.
"I used to get sicker than a dog, with fever, burning skin, and nausea, if I wasn't real careful with the chemicals I sprayed on tobacco," says Askins. He became particularly leery of flumetralin, a plant growth inhibitor and herbicide marketed as Prime Plus, that farmers use to control the suckers that sprout at the base of the tobacco plant in spring. "I usually ran a low grade fever, with my skin itching and burning, when I used Prime." The chemicals may have affected the environment, as well. "You don't hear bullfrogs or toads anymore, because we've poisoned the streams and creeks with our chemicals," he speculates. He also describes the symptoms of nicotine poisoning from handling the ripe tobacco plant: sudden nausea, dizziness, and headaches. The other growers, all of them at least third-generation tobacco farmers, nod in agreement.
The shift underway in this rail end of a state renowned for its flavorful tobacco is representative of a trend throughout the United States and the world, as farmers beset by failing prices, and tired of dealing with chemicals, switch to organic crops to protect their livelihoods. Askins will receive $26 for each 25-pound box of his organic bell peppers, as compared with the mere $8 he'd get for a box of conventionally grown peppers.
As of the spring of 2003, there were 40 growers who had made this transition in Virginia, along with another 18 in nearby North Carolina. Together, they now manage a total of 550 acres-more than four times the amount of land turned over to organics just two years ago, but still only a tiny fraction of land in the tobacco belt.
Despite this small scale, I saw signs in this gathering that, contrary to the popular notion that you can't teach old dogs new tricks, we humans may not be just creatures of habit. The "old dogs" notion may well have its deepest roots in places like this, where traditions gain strength and permanence as one generation passes them to the next. But if stubbornness is innate to humans, so too is the ability to adapt to new circumstances. In fact, our prospects for saving life on Earth may well depend on such adaptability.
"The financial return is very attractive," says John Muffins, a 35-year-old who is part owner of the converted barn. Mullins has been around tobacco since he was a kid, but decided to raise Prudens Purple tomatoes, yellow Yukon potatoes, and half a dozen other heirloom vegetables--all organically--several years ago. (Heirlooms are traditional varieties not available from large-scale commercial producers.) Mullins says that whereas he netted about $2,500 from his best acre of tobacco this past season, he cleared roughly $20,000 from a nearby acre of organic grape tomatoes. "Growing tobacco is like riding a dead horse," he allows.
For years, a U.S. government-administered quota system stabilized the price of tobacco and offered farmers a level of financial security unprecedented in agriculture. (The rate for tobacco averaged about $2 per pound, about the same price that a corn farmer can expect for a bushel weighing 56 pounds.) But the quota system has collapsed in recent years as American cigarette makers use more and more cheap imported tobacco from Turkey, Brazil, Zimbabwe, and other developing countries. Today, an estimated half of the tobacco in a cigarette sold in the United States is foreign grown, according to Department of Agriculture statistics.
Despite this shrinking domestic market, farmers in these hollows remain bound to tobacco by history and habit. Their communities were originally formed around the rhythm and traditions of growing, harvesting, curing, and marketing tobacco. When a nonprofit group called Appalachian Sustainable Development first began helping tobacco growers raise and market organics in 1995, it found that among the majority of the farms, resistance to change was pervasive. "A few back-to-the-landers, some hippies, and one Amish family quickly got on board," recalls the group's head, Anthony Flaccavento. After that, despite the profits, very few of the traditional farmers seemed willing to make the leap.
Those who did produced mostly on a very small scale, to sell at farmers' markets or to neighbors who would subscribe to a season's worth of produce. "We mostly preached to the choir," Flaccavento says, "which kept our production capacity and our capacity to reach out to more traditional farmers fairly limited."
Then, in 1999, the group started to market their produce through the Food City chain under their own label, Appalachian Harvest--a trademark intended to capitalize on the strong cultural identity of the area. "Farmers and their wives began seeing the label when they shopped," giving the work some legitimacy and piquing the interest of the "old boys" network of tobacco growers, according to Flaccavento. The number of participating farmers jumped to 25 in 2001, then to 40 by the end of 2002. Appalachian Harvest produce began appearing in stores and restaurants throughout Virginia, as well as in North Carolina, Washington, DC, and as far north as Philadelphia.
Tom Peterson, an organic farmer who runs the sustainable agricultural program for Appalachian Sustainable Development, says that organic vegetable and fruit production requires an entirely different approach. "Tobacco is an industry not particularly interested in [the mature plant's] appearance," he says, explaining that tobacco farmers essentially market crinkled and burnt looking leaves. "Appearance can make or break an organic vegetable farm."
Organic farmers need to learn about different pests and plant diseases, watering requirements, and tools. They have to think about proper pollination, something that isn't even a concern with tobacco, which is raised to maximize leaf growth and prevent flowering.
Instead of having to worry about blue mold on tobacco, the new organic farmers have to deal with another plant disease common in humid regions: early blight on tomatoes. Instead of cutworms infesting tobacco fields, they cope with the striped cucumber beetle. The smallest scar from this pest early in the season can result in a mature cucumber that is bent and unmarketable.
As Peterson explains, organic farming generally results in fewer pest outbreaks, as insect and plant diversity build to provide a wider range of natural defenses. But "we still need to ease people into this new approach," he says. To control early blight, for instance, he encourages the growers to trellis their tomatoes to assure good air flow through the rows. Ladybugs and lacewings may be brought in to eat the eggs of the striped cucumber beetle. The beetle can also be contained by planting broccoli, nasturtiums, marigolds, or catnip.
Aubrey Paper, who runs a similar transition program for the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project in western North Carolina, thinks that tobacco growers in this part of the county, where small farms are the norm, might be ideally suited for the hands-on management of organic vegetable production. Most growers already keep vegetable gardens for household use, canning, and possibly some roadside marketing, he says. And the rich soils and long growing season mean that local farmers can grow pretty much anything they want.
Both Flaccavento and Raper feel that local government agencies and agricultural universities have not been as helpful in this transition as they could be. "The State Department of Agriculture has been scratching its head for years about what to do instead of tobacco," while ignoring the exploding consumer demand for organics, Raper says. "We are just a little wheel, a small gear in the giant machinery."
Ross Young, extension director for nearby Madison County, North Carolina, agrees that more can be done to help farmers shift out of tobacco, but says the organic effort is "just one small program" among many possible alternatives. "It's tough," says Young, "because developing scientific research and extension materials relevant to organic farming doesn't happen overnight."
The work being done by Flaccavento's and Raper's groups is partly underwritten by money from the 1998 landmark settlement between state attorney generals and the tobacco industry, which. sets aside funding for each state to help farmers convert to other crops or businesses. The Virginia Tobacco Indemnification & Community Revitalization Commission, created from settlement money, provides about one-third of the $500,000 budget for Flaccavento's Appalachian Sustainable Development Project, including most of the funding for the converted tobacco barn.
With the average tobacco farmer in this area now in his 60s, change here is slow. But Warren LaForce, who is 29 and farms 15 acres with his father in nearby Dungannon, Virginia, anticipates the emergence of some new local traditions. Laforce went to the University of Virgina for three years to study environmental science, then to Iowa State for a year to get some background in horticulture. He left before finishing his degree to take over the family farm--an unusual decision among young people in this part of the county, who often use college as a way out of farming. Many of Warren's friends have left the area. He has stuck around, but he's not stuck in old ways.
LaForce recently attended a conference on sustainable agriculture in Durham, North Carolina. He returned brimming over with ideas for his own farm, including the use of mobile greenhouses, mushroom compost, and production of organic seedlings to supply local growers.
Broad shouldered and with a mind for numbers ("He's a walking calculator," his mother chuckles), LaForce rattles off statistics to assess each scenario-- labor time per plant, seedlings per square foot, profits per acre. "I can fit 958 seedling trays in our new greenhouse. We'll say 1,000. Uh, 72 plants per tray. We use 72-cell trays for retail and 48-cell for growers because they use plants with bigger rootballs. That's about 70,000 plants for an organic transplant business. I can plant a 72-cell tray in four minutes. I did 15 trays while watching a basketball game last night. We'll sell five seedlings for a dollar at our farmstand. Seventy thousand will net about twelve thousand dollars."
At the conference in North Carolina, LaForce noted that the most seasoned organic growers only had 10 to 15 years of experience, compared with local farmers with 50 years of tobacco growing experience. "When I'm my dad's age," he says, "I want to be the guru of organic vegetables." He imagines a day in the future when younger growers struggling with a pest or drainage problem will come by his house to pick his brain.
LaForce has now grown organic cucumbers, tomatoes, squash, peppers, and other vegetables for Appalachian Harvest for several years. Each year, as his expertise grows, he shifts more and more of his family's land permanently into organic production. This past season, for the first time, he made more money selling organic produce than tobacco. "I got into organic for the money," he says with a smile. "But I'm staying with it, because it's the right thing to do."
Brian Halweil is a Senior Researcher at the Worldwatch Institute.
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Designed to reflect the stature of these esteemed guests, bronze gates frame the entrance into the interior of the Presidential Lounge. In addition to portraits of the Presidents who've visited the hotel, the décor features a heavy beamed ceiling and dark paneled walls that are brightened by an unusual skylight dome crafted from blue and gold stained glass.
The Presidential Lounge was originally built in 1902 as a luxurious four-room apartment. President Roosevelt stayed in this residence when he dedicated the initial structure in 1902.
President William Howard Taft enjoyed the seclusion of the suite in 1909 before attending a grand banquet.
In 1926, Crown Prince Gustavus and Princess Louise of Sweden occupied the suite briefly before being escorted to a festive dinner party in the outdoor Spanish Patio. By 1939, the apartment had been converted into a large room suitable for meetings or other functions.
In 1940, Richard Nixon and Patricia Ryan were married in a simple, Quaker ceremony on June 21. The space was remodeled in 1957 into a cocktail lounge and completely renovated again during the 1985 restoration.
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Gilbert Arenas has wasted no time getting back into the dating game, but will his behavior get him benched?
We've all been on that first awkward blind date with a new guy. You've prepped, plucked and perfumed yourself into a delight for four out of five senses…or so you thought. That was the position Gilbert's recent date found herself in.
The NBA player was less than impressed with his companion, who he took to a buffet. But instead of keeping his dissatisfaction to himself, he decided to share it with all of his nearly 30,000 followers on Twitter.
For starters, he took issue with her exotic attire for the evening, a zebra-print shirt with turquoise beads and shells.
"Got hooked up on a blind date..and I guess she was blind when she picked out this outfit ..OMG I thought she was the queen of ZAMUNDA," Gilbert tweeted Wednesday night. "And they want me to go in public with her..I thought she had a bunch of stretch marks but it was just her shirt..lookn like SIMBA."
Then he took a shot at her eating habits, writing, "This dragon can eat….I'm glad were at a all u can eat… She went to the rest rm..I think I'm busted you guys. Her friend texted her."
Well, at least the baller knew things weren't exactly working in his favor. Despite his distaste for her dress, he still wanted to get her back to his place for a little loving. Unfortunately for him, she wasn't trying to stick around too much longer once the bill came.
"She just said this was the worst date every. but I was thinkin the same thing.who wears a shirt they got from 5th ave in new york. on a date," Gilbert complained. "She called me a jack ass.. I said "she looks so cute with her little ugly self" who's NEXT."
In what must have been an attempt to save face, virtually speaking, he tweeted, "Its okay fellas she still wants action…ladies like rude boys..or the blk card I hav in my pocket."
The next day he did a little dating PR, defending his outrageous tweets with the age-old argument of "they started it." Apparently, when Gilbert rolled up for his blind date, the athlete admitted that the girl wasn't thrilled with his outfit and asked him to change into a dress shirt. Adding insult to injury, she clowned him for not brushing his hair.
"Very beautiful girl I'm not gonna lie but at this point I'm ready to get back to my video games," Gilbert tweeted Thursday. "I hate stuck up girls..I can't be on a date and were both stuck up."
It might have been in Gilbert's best interesting to keep his disparaging thoughts to himself, or at least his table. MyFoxDC.com reports that he could actually be facing fines for the tweets.
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Quico's best friend, Monster, is a huge beast with razor-sharp teeth, but that doesn't scare Quico away from playing with him. That said, Monster does have a very dangerous problem: an addiction to poisonous frogs. The minute he sees one hop by, he'll scarf it down and fly into a violent, frog-induced rage where no one, including Quico, is safe. And yet, Quico loves his Monster and wants to save him. As Quico, players will build their friendship with Monster by solving puzzles together and adventuring through a magical, surrealist world. Players will need to learn to use Monster's emotions, both good and bad, to their advantage if they want to complete their search for a cure and save their pal.
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Creator and only human in the punk-rock band Atom and His Package.
Atom is a God among men.
di Skitzo 11 agosto 2004
Funniest guy ever. He wants the head of septa to go to his house and kiss the nose of him till it feels better. He finds it hard to be happy when he's not using the metric system.
Juli shall marry Atom.
di xkilledxwithxaxsmilex 24 dicembre 2003
The new drummer of the band known as The Offspring, which happens to be one of the best bands in the world.
Atom is one heck of a good drummer.
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guitar player for the band Element. sounds like jerry cantrell meets slash.
whoa, Atom is a great guitarist.
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the smallest particle of a substance that can exist by itself or be combined with other atoms to form a molecule
Atoms cannot be seen by the naked eye.
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11 October 2013 15:01 [Source: ICIS news]
LONDON (ICIS)--A sharp fall in refining margins was lending support to the idea of further run cuts across refineries in northwest Europe, which could result in reduced naphtha supply, industry sources said on Friday.
Gasoline and middle distillates products from refineries are bringing in less profit as product price increases do not match rising upstream crude oil costs, and refiners are exposed to pressure from slow demand and, as in the case of diesel, competition from imports.
The gasoline crack spread to ICE Brent crude oil futures stood low at $2.25/bbl on Thursday evening, while the naphtha crack spread was negative at -$7.50/bbl on Friday morning.
A crack spread is the price difference between a crude product and upstream crude oil values, calculated in US dollars per barrel.
A fall in refining margins, especially those of gasoline, normally leads to a cutback in production at refineries.
Any production cutbacks would be on top of the already reduced run rates in European refineries due to the autumn maintenance season, traders said.
"Refinery margins are very bad," a naphtha buyer said. Naphtha cargoes were being bought up by banks because of the support created by the possibility of additional refinery run cuts, a naphtha trader said.
"Think banks bought a lot as refinery margins are low but most naphtha traders sold [cargoes]," the trader said.
Euroilstock data published on Wednesday revealed crude intake in the 15 EU countries included in the survey and in Norway fell by 3.3% to 9.855 million barrels per day (bpd) in September.
September has traditionally marked the beginning of the autumn refinery maintenance season. Despite the reduced crude intake, naphtha stocks remained unchanged from August to September, Euroilstock data revealed.
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Pune: Despite the Pune traffic police taking action against auto-rickshaw drivers for charging excess money and fleecing techies at Magarpatta City, the techies are still complaining of the same.
Thousand of techies, working in the IT and BPO firms at the Magarpatta City, are left with no option but to pay excess money for a ride. An IT professional, Gayatri Mishra said, "There is no way that the situation is going to change unless the traffic police department take strict measures. Things have not changed as we are still forced to pay Rs40 for sharing an auto-rickshaw."
Similar were the words of Rashmi Mavale, another IT professional.
"The situation has still not changed. Unless there is other mode of transport, things are going to remain the same as the auto-rickshaw driver are still charging Rs50 to drop at the corner of Magarpatta City junction," she said.
The city traffic police department, on the other hand, claimed that they have booked more than 30 auto-rickshaw drivers who had parked their vehicle illegally in the 'No parking area' under Magarpatta City flyover.
The Pune Regional Transport Office (RTO), cannot make an auto-rickshaw stand under the Magarpatta flyover as it has been marked as a 'No-parking Zone'. Yet more than 20 auto-rickshaws are parked illegally everyday.
Senior police inspector Tukaram Surve said, "In order to decongest the junction, we have made the 'No -parking. In the past two days, we have taken action against 30 auto-rickshaw drivers."
He added, "Moreover, we will be sending our men posing as customers to nab errant drivers and take strict action."
Deputy commissioner of police (traffic), Vishwas Pandhare said, "We are taking action against the errant drivers.But unless there is an active public participation the issue will remain the same. Commuters, who are facing the issue of auto-rickshaw drivers' charging excess money, or refusing to take them to their destination, can walk up to the Hadapsar traffic police and lodge a complaint."
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'Where There Is No Hope, There Is Hamas'
- By Dov ZakheimDov Zakheim is Senior Advisor, Center for Strategic and International Studies and former Under Secretary of Defense.
President Obama's call for an immediate cease-fire in the latest conflict between Hamas and Israel was as noteworthy for what he said as for what he did not say. Obama made it clear that he understood that Israel needed to defend itself against rocket attacks, and that it could not tolerate Hamas building tunnels into the Jewish state in order to kidnap soldiers and civilians. But he said nothing about the need to bring an end to the rocket attacks and kidnap attempts once and for all. He said nothing about getting Hamas to accept prior agreements that the Palestinians had reached with Israel. Or that Hamas come to terms with the existence of the Jewish state. Or that Hamas cease its incitement to kill all Jews, anywhere, which has inspired the spate of attacks on European Jews, most notably the pogrom-like riots targeting a Paris synagogue. Nor, for that matter, did Mr. Obama say a word about the FAA's restrictions on flights to Israel.
Without an arrangement that results in a different relationship between Hamas and Israel, the cycle of violence that results in biannual warfare will continue. Hamas will fire rockets at Israel's border towns and will try to reach its major cities. Knowing that it cannot destroy Israel, its objective will be, as it has been, to terrorize Israel's civilians, and to kill as many of them as it can. It will fire those rockets, as it has done before, from schools, hospitals, and mosques.
For its part, Israel will not tolerate incessant rocket attacks and, after a pause, once again will pummel Gaza. It will destroy the tunnels and the rocket launchers and, in the process, hit their unwitting human shields. And once again, it will be masses who are crammed into that unfortunate strip of land, rather than the leaders of Hamas, who will suffer the most.
The president's call for an immediate cease-fire, seemingly with no conditions attached, does nothing to address these fundamental causes of the conflict. Reflecting a pattern that has marked the administration's policies from the outset, the president is long on exhortation and woefully short on implementation. Without an arrangement that results in a fundamentally different relationship between Israel and Hamas, there will be no cease-fire for some time, and even if one is achieved, it will not last.
Hamas has thus far shown no interest in ceasing its attacks. Because its very existence is predicated on the destruction of Israel, it has no interest in a two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians. Somehow, those seeking a cease-fire must account for this reality. Perhaps the only way to defeat Hamas is for the people of Gaza to depose it, much as Egyptians deposed the Morsi government. In order for that to happen, however, Gazans must have an incentive to do so. Thus far they have none. Despite the fact that Ramallah is booming, Israel's continuing occupation of the West Bank, its ongoing construction of new settlements that with time become towns and small cities ("settlements" is a misnomer for many of the Israeli cities on the West Bank) offers little hope for West Bank residents who want a country of their own, and none for Gazans. And where there is no hope, there is Hamas.
Those in the West, especially in Europe, who support Hamas, support the destruction of Israel. That is not American policy. But if American efforts to bring a halt to the violence in Gaza are to succeed, they must include a change of Hamas policy, notably a total cessation of rocket attacks and kidnappings, and its acceptance of previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements. Israel would have to alter its policies as well, specifically lifting the blockade of Gaza's ports, and, importantly, halting its settlement construction. And there must be a renewed and serious commitment on all sides to the creation of a Palestinian state alongside the Jewish state of Israel. Nothing less will end Gaza's troubles, in either the near term or the long run.
It is probably hoping for too much to expect Secretary of State John Kerry to accomplish all of this in his latest round of Middle East negotiations. These goals seem Pollyannaish: Both sides are far too locked into their respective positions. But unless he and the president make it clear that American policy calls for nothing less, when the cease-fire comes, as it inevitably will, nothing will have changed, Washington's efforts will get nowhere, and the misery will continue.
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Chris Danforth '01, a University of Vermont mathematician who has devised a system for assessing widespread happiness from blogs, explains his work at Bates College at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, in Pettengill Hall's Keck Classroom (G52), 4 Andrews Road (Alumni Walk).
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Faculty grant recipients honored in gathering
Bates faculty members are active scholars, and many receive external grants to support their scholarship. Faculty in fields as diverse…
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Alumni survey will help Bates assess science, math programs
As part of a general assessment of its science and math programs, Bates is requesting that alumni who majored in those areas take part in a survey about their post-Bates careers.
August 5, 2009 2:48 pm
Summer Scholars Program gives first-years solid start in math, science
The goal of the Bates Summer Scholars Program is to build a community of science scholars from among a diverse group of first-years, including first-generation college students and students from groups underrepresented in the sciences. It introduces these students to college-level academics and helps them develop time-management, research and study skills.
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Hughes Travel Grants send academic stars into the public sphere
Like a sports team taking its game on the road, Bates' best and brightest academic stars take their research into…
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NBC-TV affiliate covers 'Girls Get It!' math and science fair
The local NBC-TV affiliate, WCSH6, was there when local girls in grades 5 through 8 attended a fair at Bates intended to encourage engagement with math and the sciences.
November 7, 2008 12:00 pm
Bates mathematician awarded $107,000 grant
Peter Wong, a professor of mathematics at Bates, has received a grant of nearly $110,000 to support his research in topology.
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The Packet— In death, the chance to know a Bates life
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Thiruvananthapuram: Students from 100 selected schools in the State will be trained in protection of consumer rights, under a State-level scheme supported by the Union Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution.
The scheme, named Consumer Club, will offer practical training in the implementation of the provisions of the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.
Food and Civil Supplies Minister C. Divakaran will inaugurate its district-level implementation here on Tuesday. The State-level launch is in September.
"The idea is basically to mobilise youngsters who can later act as consumer rights' activists and campaigners. By targeting school students, we hope to take the message of consumer rights' protection to their families," says K.R. Jyothilal, Secretary, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Department, who heads the scheme.
Although the Union Ministry initiated the scheme at the national level in 2005, the State government issued the Government Order for its implementation only in March this year.
The Union government will give each consumer club an annual grant of Rs. 10,000 for three years. A coordinating agency will monitor the activities of the clubs, provide resource persons and materials and manage the funds.
"High-school students, preferably eighth standard students, can become members of the clubs," says D. Venugopal, general secretary, Thiruvananthapuram Jilla Upabhoktru Samithi (Thiruvananthapuram district consumer council).
"Besides monthly meetings, the clubs will convene classes and discussions on specific topics, such as the Essential Commodities Act, misrepresentations and fraudulent transactions. There will be debates, discussions, quizzes, demonstrations and street plays."
The council is the coordinating agency for 28 schools in the district.
Each school will form a club committee of students, teachers and members of the Parent-Teacher Associations. The headmaster or principal will be its president and the District Supply Officer, coordinator. The scheme has generated much enthusiasm among consumer rights organisation in the State, but one concern is the funds.
"The government grant of Rs. 10,000 a school may not be sufficient for carrying out the activities as mentioned in the original scheme. So, there is a feeling among the coordinating agencies that they may have to mobilise funds on their own at some point," Mr. Venugopal said.


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- 1 pint(s) strawberries sliced
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- 1/2 cup(s) mayonnaise
- 2 tablespoon(s) white wine vinegar
- 1/3 cup(s) white sugar
- 1/4 cup(s) milk
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We washed the chicken and salted it and did the guts thing. Well, mostly Maacah did. She also made a super easy side dish to go along with it: broccoli florets, salt and olive oil that baked in the oven next to the chicken.
Because she's a perfectionist, Maacah flipped the chicken two or three times during the cooking process, though people have since told me you don't actually have to flip it and it still comes out fine.
But the chicken we made that night was beautiful, all lemony and garlicky and moist. And this time, my kids actually ate it. Even the broccoli.
After two kitchen successes, I built up enough confidence to try recipes on my own.
I bought a cookbook, "The Toddler Cafe." Some recipes, like the black bean and banana puff pastry, did not go over so well. Have you tried working with puff pastry? But other dishes, like Panko-crusted chicken tenders were total hits.
I've also been buying cooking magazines (Cooking Light = great, Every Day With Rachael Ray = not so much) and have upgraded my kitchen gadgets. Now I have a fancy apple slicer, an apple corer, measuring spoons and a flour sifter.
On this journey, I have also discovered that I like baking, and my daughters do, too. They help me mix ingredients together, but mostly they run their fingers through the flour that falls on the table and eat it.
With my newfound love of baking, I decided to make an apple pie for a big family get-together.
I gave up my afternoon of "Gossip Girl" to make the pie crust, putting two sticks (two sticks!) of butter, flour, sugar and salt in the food processor with just enough water to make it bind. I divided it into two discs and put them in the fridge to chill until the next day.
I kept thinking about the dough and how it maybe was too thick or too bland and, because we made our yearly trek to Julian that weekend, I bought a backup pie in case my own didn't turn out.
It wasn't easy to roll the dough, even though I did the trick where you wrap it in plastic wrap so it won't stick to the table. The dough cracked in certain spots and was thicker in others, but it fit in the brand new pie dish I bought.
Slicing the apples was tedious, especially since Marina and Ella kept sneaking off with pieces, but easy enough.
Finally, I placed the second piece of dough on top of the sugary, buttery apple mix. But it wasn't pretty. It was uneven and clumpy and Marina said it looked nothing like the gooseberry pie Snow White made for Grumpy.
Even when I took the pie out of the oven, it wasn't any prettier, but did it ever smell good.
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An acutely contemporary aspect of 2002's selection is the muddied boundaries between film and video, sound art, performance, Internet, and other arts. For example, videomakers Seth Price and Peggy Ahwesh create new pieces out of materials culled from the Internet and Tomb Raider, respectively, while various Web artists display jittering cartoons on laptops, desktops, and PDAs. Polymath Miranda July presents separate works in the video, sound art, and performance categories. In Trevor, video art pioneer Steina manipulates footage of a man singing into a virtuoso burst of digital scratching that easily challenges the skills of any trendy turntablist, while Stom Sogo's Guided by Voices masterfully remixes video, Super 8, and laptopish music into a post-cinematic K hole. One videomaker loses the image altogether, verging on sound art: Keith Sanborn's For the Birds plays nothing but an audio composition of birdsong warbles against an empty black video screen. Aping their more commercial counterparts, these disparate categories of music, film, video, and the Internet feel as if they're melting into a single form called digital media.
Perhaps in reaction to the ingestion of cinema by its own digital offspring, other filmmakers revive the archaic modernist impulse to explore the specific properties of old celluloid, looking backward to craft a new après-garde. Unlike its forebears, this current crop of neo-materialists loses the ideological and cognitive ambitions of the past in favor of optical play and wry historical quotes. A key artist in this mode is Brian Frye (also a curator of the Lower East Side's antique-y Robert Beck Memorial Cinema), who shoots silvery 16mm shorts that play like enigmatic, silent-era scraps rescued from a Hollywood junk shop.
Beyond Frye's films, there's a more baroque variant of Robert Beckism on view. A hallmark of Whitney film curator Chrissie Iles's first Biennial is an ambitious slew of "projector performances," providing a contemporary coda to her much lauded "Into the Light" exhibit of early expanded cinema installations last season. Largely composed of local filmmakers, including Glen Fogel, Zoe Beloff, Bruce McClure, Luis Recoder, and projector-manipulation pioneer Ken Jacobs, this group eschews narrative and, often, figurative representation, preferring on-screen collage, glowing abstractions, and rolling color fields. Sometimes adding voice-over, props, and life sound into the show, the performances combine elements of 19th-century sideshows, '60s happenings, and '70s conceptual art, transforming the cinematic apparatus into a motorized means of painting with light.
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Pure Data (Pd) is a real-time visual programming environment for audio and other multimedia applications. With it you can make patches that perform operations on audio and visual data. These patches are represented visually; you "draw" where you want the signal data to go and what you want to happen to it. This process is similar to how you program modular analog synthesizers. The process also is well suited to how you end up programming sound and video applications; signals come in and go out, and you manipulate various signals along the way. Due to space constraints, this article covers only the more mature audio capabilities of Pd. If you later want to try the video processing plugins, you should find that many of the concepts are similar to those for audio.
Pd uses two main types of data, messages and audio signals. Messages are sporadic, like MIDI note events. They can contain numbers or strings and are used to pass around information, such as "set the gain on the output to x". Audio signals are constant; whenever the DSP code is turned on, audio is being transferred. Internally in Pd, audio is represented by 32-bit floating-point numbers. This means that unlike conventional analog or digital sound processing, Pd signals can have nearly any amplitude you want. During processing you can make a audio signal really quiet for one stage and amplify it for another, with no loss in quality. Of course, when the signal is sent to a hardware output, you must make sure it's within the usable range of –1 to 1, or the audio gets clipped.
These messages and audio signals are manipulated by various types of boxes, described below. When put together, this collection of connected boxes is called a patch.
Boxes do all the work. Pd has four main types of boxes: object, message, GUI and comment. These boxes perform operations on messages and audio, provide ways to give user input and document what's been done. Object boxes in turn are divided into two types, control objects and tilde objects. Control objects work with messages and therefore perform their functions sporadically. Tilde objects work with audio data and perform their functions constantly.
Message boxes send their contents to their output port when the user clicks on them or when they receive a message on their input.
GUI simply refers to boxes you can interact with, such as the number box on the left.
Finally, comments allow you to put text into a patch. They actually don't affect anything.
Assuming you've compiled and installed Pd by now, you should try to start it. First, make sure you've set the setuid bit on the Pd executable, and make sure it's owned by root. Although this could be a security risk, you need to do this to enable real-time scheduling if you want to run Pd as any user other than root. If you don't and real-time scheduling isn't activated, you'll hear a lot of clicks and pops whenever any other process, even the X server, tries to do anything.
Run Pd with the -rt option and any other options you need in your setup. I'd recommend using -verbose, because Pd itself is not overly chatty and the verbose option does provide some useful information. When that's done you should see a window similar to the one shown in Figure 5. The IN and OUT boxes are peak meters for input and output, respectively, and can be enabled by clicking the peak meters option. If either clips, the respective CLIP box will go red. The DIO errors button flashes if there are any synchronization errors in the input or output. Click on it to see a list of recent errors. Finally, the compute audio check box turns audio processing on or off.
First, let's create a new blank patch in which to work (File→New). From this we are going to create a simple patch to print "Hello World!" to standard output. So, we need a message box to hold the message "Hello World!" and an object box to do the printing. Both of these can be created from the Put menu. You also can use the accelerator keys: Crtl-1 to place the object box and Crtl-2 to place the message box. Once you've done that, to enter the right text in the boxes, click on them and type. You also need to connect the outlet port on the bottom of the message box to the inlet port on the top of the object box. Your patch should look like the one shown in Figure 6. Get out of edit mode by pressing Crtl-E. Now try clicking on the "Hello World!" message box; if all goes well, a message saying so is printed to the terminal in which you started Pd.
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I too am happy with APB's second return. I hope that K2 can do what RTW couldn't. The game was fun and anyone that really played the game knows that. It might be seen even better if it becomes FTP; although I have been playing it for free for months after I first bought it with RTW point but we shall see.
I can't wait to get back in and blow some shit up. Garbage-Truck farming anyone? xD
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I highly doubt K2 will do any better than RTW did. I see K2 releasing it in the condition it was when it shut down, and not doing much to add to it.
I also wonder how they are going to make money on it being F2P. Are they going to have you pay for the gear? The gear and customization options? Or buy points to spend on time in the action districts?
In any of those cases, I believe K2 will charge more for them than what RTW would have (seems to be typical of the f2p companies). And then I would ask, "How is that better than what RTW was doing?"
I don't think K2 will do the game justice and will ultimately shut it down just the same. I will still check it out to see what's going on with it when they launch it, but I hold no hope.
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"Pablo Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth."
What was the point of this article?
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" However, changing the business model to F2P would only address one of the aforementioned flaws and issues"
The payment model wasn't a "flaw" or an "issue". Nice try at a dig there though. The payment model was flexible, and indeed, you could "play for free" (after buying the box of course), if you sold enough on the AH for the RTW currency to pay for more time. So, in essence, it was "F2P" already, and that couldn't save it from its REAL flaws and issues: hacking, hacking, and more hacking. To combat hacking, K2 will have to constantly SPEND money on the game to actively police it, and fight the never ending battle against new hacks (punkbuster failed miserably).
The game itself, aside from a couple of balance issues, was a blast to play. Never felt like I was "grinding" (Except trying to get the achievments for stealing cars, etc).
Will K2 actually, SPEND money on a game to a) get it to a playable state (without hackers) and b) keep it that way? From what we've seen from F2P publishers, the answer is: no.
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So im guessing, all of our character's will be erased ,all of my progress will be gone, all of my items and cash will disappear, and i will have to rebuy everything and try to remake my character exactly as i previously did to be happy?
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Il happily pay to play APB again, its a game like few others and unlike most MMOs its actually fun to play
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Ahoy Mr Aihoshi. Decent article.
You know, taking a dead game and making it F2P is all well and good, but in some cases it's just not going to happen, no matter how regrettable that is.
Personally I think that when a game is to be taken offline for good, it should be open sourced. Sure the company loses control of that product but unless they are making a sequal, which if the game is taken offline a sequal is often out of the question (unless one is already made.)
I found myself wishing that NCsoft would get off their high horse and release a Tabula Rasa open source. The game had so much potential that others could actually bring to the surface. Willing fans could make such a game with potential go somewhere.
Of course they had those issues with Mister Garriott, but still.
I'd also like to point out for the Open Source option that many 'fan' programmers would likely work in a collective (We are the Borg) and thus completely outdo the original programming teams, which for such games tend to be rediculously small due to 'project management' and the reshuffling of the programmer deck.
When your fanbase states that your game has a lot of potential that isn't showing, do you honestly leave it on maintenance mode with a tiny team, or do you keep a decent sized team to help the game flourish? When a game hasn't made as much profit as was projected or hoped, producers often pick the former when really they shouldn't. Because they pick the former, the games often die, and we're left with what we have now. Either a game being bought and made F2P by some other company, or left as an untouchable product that gathers dust. Really they should Open Source the products if no other company is interested in continuing the project. Why? Because for these games which had to be bought and paid for, often with a subscription, they kinda owe it to the masses who wasted their money for nothing at least that much.
MMO's played: Ragnarok Online (For years), WoW (for a few weeks only), Guild Wars, Lineage 2, Eve, Allods, Shattered Galaxy, 9 Dragons, City of Heroes, City of Villains, Star Trek Online (Got someone ELSE to pay for it), Champions Online (Someone else paid), Dofus, Dragonica, LOTRO, DDO and more... A LOT more. I've played good AND bad. The bad didn't last long. :P
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Originally posted by CujoSWAoA
I dont know.
If my aihoshi would read this sites other articles sometime he would have seen that this topic was already covered by jon wood a few days ago.
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Never attribute to stupidity that which can be adequately explained by malice.
I always thought the problem was APB was shoddy coding and buggy design. The concepts were solid enough, and I never heard anyone say it was improperly priced. Making a game free doesn't magically make it better. It just makes it cheaper. No one wants a bad product, no matter what it costs.
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K2 games being no more bugged or filled with hacks than WoW or any other game, APB will be welcom. It wasn't a buggy game, but a game that bugged the hell out of most because most mmo gamers are not competitive and do not like non-consensual or dynamic intrusion of their game-play by another player.
Most mmo/mmorpg gamers are accustom to being puppets on a static string or a dog on a leash that is lead safely from one encounter to another with a pause or 'do no harm to my character' clause.
So yea, I'd have another go at it, but....K2 has got to minimize and actively address hacking, which is something that RTW never did, though they want you to 'think' they did, communicate actively with the community and show active appreciation for the community and the willingness to hold onto it, which is something that RTW never did, and provide plans for content and feature adds, which again, is something that RTW never did.
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Players will keep hacking all over again. Hacking is what killed the game in the first place. If Artificialaiming.com will support APB hack after resurrection - there is no point to play it. Game needs adjusted mechanics to defeat the purpose of using an aimbot.
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Originally posted by Cik_Asalin
Um...the PvP was 100% concensual, and pretty much the entire point of the game. I find it hard to believe that anyone would look at the game, install the game, and then play the game with the expectation that there wouldn't be PvP. At least in the action districts.
BTW, can anyone do a comparison between Crimecraft and APB in terms of gameplay? I'm sure APB has the character customization down pat, but what about the action zones between both games?
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Yes I hope the game comes back again I really do miss the game itself. Based on Over 200 Hours of actual game play, I have to say I miss APB. The thing that will make me not want to play the game again is if they make the game with cash shops, and I do not know if K2 Networks is a trustworthy company to actually host a game like this. I have played games by K2 Networks before, and unless it is hosted like RTW had it but without the Aim Botting, the game itself will not be that good. The reason I say this is because I have played games by K2 Networks such as War Rock, and Sword OF The New World, and based on my game play from both of these games, War Rock sucked, and was full of exploits and cheaters, and at one time I did not even play on their service for such a long time that I forgot my password and tried to recover it which they told me if Ididnt remember my secret answer, or password I would have to be a premium member to recieve help for any of the games. Also the K2 Network Client Downloader is so buggy that when some people use it their internet explorer stops working correctly because the Launcher uses torrents to download the games I think instead of a server which creates massive lag for background applications and such.
I really do miss the Dump Trucks lol.
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Originally posted by eric_w66
The payment model was a flaw and a issue as far as I am concerned.The game was not f2p in essence or otherwise,you can play Eve for free too after buying plex for isk but it isnt considered a f2p game.And as far as APB it was a sub par shooter with excellant customization and a few(very few) mmo characteristics that didnt warrant a subscription.I guess we will see at the end of 2011 how many people are willing to pay a sub for a shooter when COD gets a subscription fee tacked on it.http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/06/new-transformers-spider-man-and-more-next-year-activision-doin/
As far as a grind I havnt found a shooter game I play yet that felt like a grind so thats not saying much.
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Originally posted by eric_w66
F2P means just that. You do not have to pay anything up front. Stating that the game is F2P (after paying for it) would mean that everything is free in this world (after you have paid for it).
The payment model was a major discouragement for many people. They were not willing to put their money down on the game, as they didnt feel that they would get their moneys worth... and it appears that they were right.
If the game had been F2P, they would not have had to put down anything, and as such, more people would have tried it. Will this approach work this time? We will see, but they have a lot less to lose, so they do not need to be as demanding for money up front.
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Originally posted by Superman0X
Your argument doesn't hold water. If people were afraid to buy the game with buying the box and getting free time after, why would they be not be afraid to plunk down cash on the microtransactions instead? Obviously, "F2P" doesn't mean "free to play". The game has to make money somehow, else it cannot be supported. If the game were truly "F2P", no one would bother making games outside of a few opensource minded people who weren't in it for money.
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I hope they release this and dont just use it for character creation technology.
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Heh, they'd have to redo the entire gameplay and purpose from scratch, and possibly even remove the 2 factions cops and robbers to make the game work.
APB was just a failed and abandoned concept. It fails because its over exploitable. Any 2 people could exploit the game by making alternate characters on the other faction.
The game is also a resource hog that created too much lag, it was cool creating your own getups, but having all that stuff constantly downloading in the background as you play, coupled with anticheat services created a poor game experience.
I doubt the sale of this game included any source code, just basic editing of certain things to change the game, which would mean, there's little they could do to make it fair.
The questing system was dumbed down because of this and the game was given up on and RTW exploited and scammed and frauded every game purchaser so they could get their invested money back,
Kinda funny how a lot of you guys will forgive all this and get a chance to play what is a poor concept.
Making this game F2P would be the dumbest thing ever, if you thought the exploiting and cheating was bad in retail, lol what would anonymous accounts add to this failure..
Sorry, I have to laugh at anyone attempting this, even if they got the IP for free
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"Pablo Picasso said art is a lie that tells the truth."
Originally posted by nobottters
I played the game at full graphical glory, and I never had a bit of problem with lag or "resource hog" related issues.
I like the game, and I laugh at anyone who laughs at anyone attempting this, even if they get the IP for free.


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