Sentences with phrase «as gold farming»

To me, it's less the racism per se that is interesting, but how assumptions of race and nationality help socially construct the group of people known as gold farmers, and the activity known as gold farming.

Not exact matches

I used the Target Archer Farm's Brand, but I know Gold n» Plump makes some stellar ones as well (I believe those are uncooked).
As the aspen turn gold and the robins re-gather and the first flights of southbound geese murmur overhead during the night, another farming season, too, draws to close.
The following ACO clients are locked in as Gold sponsors so far: Cleavers Organic Meat Company, Australia's Own Organic, Nature's Gift Australia, Gemtree Wines, Spiral Foods, Thomas Chipman Organic Chips, Bhumi Organic Cotton, Arahura Farms, Bean Ground & Drunk and five: am Life.
The revamped menu, which will feature rotating dishes daily, will be inclusive of staples such as Line Caught Wood Grilled Grouper Cheeks, Celery Root Gnocchi with Vanilla Bean Buerre Blanc, Wood Fired Lamb T - bone with Carolina Gold Hoppin» John, Heirloom Carrots and Melted Leeks and Smoked Pork Belly with Braised Mustard Greens, Delta Farms Rice Grits and Romesco Butter.
«The transitional certification program developed by OTA reflects perspectives from across the supply chain, and will provide an on - ramp to producers while safeguarding organic as the gold standard of food label claims,» said Nate Lewis, Farm Policy Director for OTA.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, the Dean Foods portfolio includes DairyPure ®, the country's first and largest fresh, white milk national brand, and TruMoo ®, the leading national flavored milk brand, along with well - known regional dairy brands such as Alta Dena ®, Berkeley Farms ®, Country Fresh ®, Dean's ®, Friendly's ®, Garelick Farms ®, LAND O LAKES ® * milk and cultured products, Lehigh Valley Dairy Farms ®, Mayfield ®, McArthur ®, Meadow Gold ®, Oak Farms ®, PET ® **, T.G. Lee ®, Tuscan ® and more.
Many of them, like 15 - year - old Mala (known by her troops as «General Robotwalla»), endure physical threats from their bosses to farm virtual gold, which is then sold to rich First World gamers.
Perhaps surprisingly, until only about forty years ago, trading futures markets consisted of only a few commodity farm products, however, now they have been joined by a huge number of tradable financial and other tradable products such as precious metals like gold, silver and platinum; livestock such as hogs and cattle; energy contracts such as crude oil and natural gas; foodstuffs like coffee and orange juice; and industrials like lumber and cotton.
In the ancient world, retirement meant continued work at a slower pace on your farm, living off of savings (what little was storable then — gold, silver, etc.), and help from your children whom you helped previously as you raised them.
Through our innovative leadership initiatives from our No Animals Were Harmed program in Hollywood to broad - based farm and conservation animal welfare certifications, to rapid response rescue and care across the country American Humane sets the gold standard as the most visionary and effective animal welfare organization in the nation.
Migrants from all around the world settled on the Atherton Tablelands (also known as the Cairns Highlands) thru the Gold rush periods and then firmly established the area for farming all sorts of tropical foods like mangos, lychee's, avocados and passion fruit.
Newbury Racecourse makes for a great day out, especially when events such as the Hennessy Gold Cup are on, and families with young children will love the 4 Kingdoms Adventure Park and Farm.
Players can use it for various actions that are not covered by the Gold Bars, such as affecting difficulty in key levels (Farm Heroes) or buying extra Block Buster boosters (Pet Rescue).
I tried to use the Arena as a way to farm gold, but found this to be fairly ineffective too.
Assuming that Pandora entry is about 100 gold and ignoring the exclusive avatar items, this would have cost you 3000 in game gold, which takes while to farm though quests, so to get this quick boost as soon as you start the game feels worthwhile to me.
Loggers on the Ottawa River or in the British Columbia wilderness, western settlers living off of and clearing prairie land to prepare it for farming, gold prospectors in the Klondike, oil sands pioneers punching holes in the boreal forest — all of them became intimate with Canadian nature even as they transformed it from ecology to commodity.
Peru has come under fire as a country where some of the worst deforestation of the Amazon is taking place as a result oil drilling, gold mining, illegal logging and land clearance for farms.
As we've seen, most of the profit from gold farming does not go to the actual gold farmers.
As Nick has said, gold farming is a good job in China and other countries that have «lower» standards of living than the US.
As the following manager implies, most other employment options for people who do gold farming involves hard labor.
But we all know that in WoW at least (many of the anecdotes used in the article and in the comments relate to that game), every player has to «farm» for resources at some point, whether to complete quests, get resources for tradeskills, earn gold for in - game items such as mounts, or simply for their own in - game profit.
Gold farming should not be seen as good / moral behavior regardless of who is doing it.
The fact that racists are using the gold farming phenomenon as an opportunity to hurl racial epithets does not affect the gold farmers» moral culpability one way or the other.
Basically gold farming has an impact, it influences the way that everyone plays their game, it is unsolicited and even if it is seen as being harmless or making a small impact, how much of it should we be forced to put up with?
To sit at Li's side for an hour or two, amid the dreary, functional surroundings of his workplace, as he navigates the Technicolor fantasy world he earns his living in, is to understand that gold farming isn't just another outsourced job.
Race has a lot to do with gold farming because many players use racial cues to «identify» gold farmers who they then label as hostile.
That assumes that we aren't talking so much about gold farming as we are about a general dislike for Asians and Asian culture... the fact that people are free to use this particular stereotype in this particular genre is less of an issue.
Infact, I almost view the people who take pity on them as racist themselves, thinking simply because these people are asian they can amount to no better in life than gold farming and thus deserve pity.
Not all farmers are bad - players have to farm as part of the game Persistent farmers are bad - the type that do nothing but farm (since we know their gold / items are used for sale, not personal use) Not all farmers are rude The majority of farmers seem to be Chinese (see above as to why) Chinese - speaking players are only encountered when they are farming Chinese farmers are rude, train mobs, try to control an area, and are disruptive to players attempting to play in the same area Chinese farmers monopolize an area, causing other players distress Non-Chinese farmers typically do not exhibit the rudeness and other negative attitudes / behaviors
It's probably because I'm from the same background as many gaming workers (many gold farm owners were former gaming workers.)
Another fork, Bitcoin Gold, claimed to exist as a decentralizing force that would not rely on massive mining farms of SHA - 256 miners as Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash would.
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