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'''AbleNET''' is an [[Internet Relay Chat|IRC]] network. It was founded, May 2001, by [[AfterNET]] Co-Founder and long-time Admin Anthony Sanchez and several others from that network. The network was set up primarily as a chat network for friends, and as a response to growing disillusionment with the policies of some of the [[AfterNET]] administrators. Several users from AbleNET were involved in the creation of [[AfterNET]]; some even tracing their usage back to [[TheNET]] and [[InnerNET]].

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'''Daminozide''' (trade name '''Alar''', '''Kylar''', '''B-NINE''', '''DMASA''', '''SADH''', '''B 995''', and others) is a [[plant growth regulator]], a [[chemical]] sprayed on [[fruit]] to regulate their growth, make their harvest easier, and enhance their color. It was primarily used on [[apple]]s, and was registered with the [[Food and Drug Administration]] (FDA) from 1963 to 1989 -- when it was voluntarily withdrawn by the manufacturer in response to public fears over a controversial study which found that Alar residue could produce tumors in mice.

AbleNET is a small network with an average of 150-300 users online at any given time. The [[Undernet]]-compatible [[IRCu]] [[Daemon (computer software)|daemon]] software is used on the servers. [[IRC_Services|Channel services]] are provided using [[srvx]]; the user authentication service is named AuthServ and the channel service is named X.

It has been produced in the [[United States|U.S.]] by the Uniroyal Chemical Company, Inc, (now integrated into the [[Chemtura Corporation]]) which registered daminozide (or Alar) for use on fruits intended for human consumption in 1963. In addition to apples and ornamentals, it was also registered for use on [[cherry|cherries]], [[peach]]es, [[pear]]s, Concord [[grape]]s, [[tomato]] transplants and [[peanut]] vines. On fruit trees, daminozide affected flow-bud initiation, fruit-set maturity, fruit firmness and coloring, preharvest drop and market quality of fruit at harvest and during storage. [http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/food/02.htm]

AbleNET is noted for its distinct lack of [[IRCOp]]s, instead using various services to control the flow of network stability and activity. Additionally, the Network is noted for its high standards of access, regarding the limit of multiple connections and unverifiable "bots".

==The campaign to ban Alar==

The network can be reached using irc.ablenet.org.

In [[1986]], concern developed in the U.S. public over the use of Alar on apples, over fears that the residues of the chemical detected in [[apple juice]] and [[applesauce]] might harm people. The outcry led some manufacturers and supermarket chains to announce they would not accept Alar-treated apples.

== Historical Timeline ==

In February, 1989 there was a broadcast by [[CBS]]'s ''[[60 Minutes]]'' highlighting a report by the [[Natural Resources Defense Council]] highlighting problems with Alar.

* May 2001, AbleNET is born and has served as a meeting place for chatters ever since.

* May 2003, with the looming threat of the [http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[e-mail] Fizzer Worm] AbleNET joins with a vast collection of [[IRC]] networks and news communities to form [http://www.irc-unity.org/ IRC-Unity]<ref>http://www.irc-unity.org/</ref>.

* December 2005, AbleNET becomes the first IRC Network to offer "blogging" to their community.

== Founder ==

Anthony Sanchez has been using and administering IRC Networks since 1995, starting as an IRCop with InnerNET subsequently [[NewNET]] during it's founding year. Later he went on to Admin servers for [[TheNET]], [[AfterNET]] and finally AbleNET.

Anthony was, coincidentally, the first to publish the story of the raid on and subsequent shutdown of the popular [[Lineage II]] private server, L2Extreme, on the AbleNET website.<ref>http://anthony.blogs.ablenet.org/l2extreme_fbi_shutdown</ref>

== External links ==

This followed years of background:

* [http://www.ablenet.org/ AbleNET IRC Website]

* [http://wiki.ablenet.org/wiki/SRVX SRVX Help Files & Command List]

* [http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Internet/Chat/IRC/Networks/A/ Google Directory]

* [http://searchirc.com/network/AbleNET Search Irc]

* [http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/details.php?net=AbleNET NetSplit.de]

* [http://www.srvx.net/ SRVX IRC Services]

* [http://irc-unity.org/]

== References ==

:Prior to 1989, five separate, peer-reviewed studies of Alar and its chemical breakdown product, [[unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine]] (UDMH), had found a correlation between exposure to the chemicals and cancerous tumors in lab animals. In 1984 and again in 1987, the EPA classified Alar as a probable human carcinogen. In 1986, the American Academy of Pediatrics urged the EPA to ban it. Well before the 60 Minutes broadcast, public concern had already led six national grocery chains and nine major food processors to stop accepting apples treated with Alar. Washington State growers had pledged to voluntarily stop using it (although tests later revealed that many did not). Maine and Massachusetts had banned it outright. [http://www.ewg.org/reports/alar/alar.html]

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In [[1989]], following the CBS broadcast, the U.S. [[Environmental Protection Agency]] decided to ban Alar on the grounds that "long-term exposure" posed "unacceptable risks to public health." Note, however, that before the EPA's preliminary decision to ban all food uses of Alar went into effect, Uniroyal, the sole manufacturer of Alar, agreed in June 1989 to halt voluntarily all domestic sales of Alar for food uses. (See Environmental Regulation: Law, Science, & Policy by Percival, et al. (4th ed.) Page 391.)

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== Backlash ==

Peter Montague wrote:

:"Laboratory animals were exposed to high doses of Alar and UDMH, to see if high doses would produce cancers. For humans to be exposed to equivalent high doses, they would have to eat a box-car-load of apples each day." [http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/bulletin.cfm?Issue_ID=590]

Apple growers in [[Washington]] filed a [[libel]] suit against CBS, [[NRDC]] and [[Fenton Communications]], claiming the scare cost them $100M. The suit was dismissed in [[1994]].

While Alar has been verified as a human carcinogen, the amount necessary for it to be dangerous may well be extremely high. The lab tests that prompted the scare required an amount of Alar equal to over 5000 gallons (20,000 L) of apple juice per day. [[Consumers Union]] ran its own studies and estimated the human lifetime cancer risk to be 5 per million, as compared to the previously-reported figure of 50 cases per million. [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alar_and_apples#The_risks_of_Alar]

[[Elizabeth Whelan]] and her organization, the American Council on Science and Health ([[ACSH]]) worked to establish a narrative of the Alar episode as a scare. The ACSH claimed that Alar and its breakdown product [[UDMH]] had not been shown to be carcinogenic. Whelan's campaign was so effective that today, '''Alar scare''' is shorthand among news media and food industry professionals for an irrational, emotional public scare based on propaganda rather than facts.

The Alar scare also prompted the introduction of [[food libel laws]] in 13 states.

==External links==

*[http://www.ewg.org/reports/alar/alar.html Myth of 'Alar Scare' Persists] Anti-Alar

*[http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.840/healthissue_detail.asp ACSH] Pro-Alar

*[http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/NEW00128.html March 1989 FDA press release]

*[http://www.yale.edu/opa/v31.n17/story3.html Meryl Streep testifies to congress as an expert on Alar]

*[http://www.epa.gov/history/topics/food/02.htm EPA: Alar pesticide]

*[http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Alar_and_apples#The_risks_of_Alar Sourcewatch: Alar and Apples]

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