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I've been working on a project off and on in SDL for a number of months now, and I've had an issue from the start that I recently had some time to try and debug. I've been developing on Windows XP until this past week, so it was not really an issue until now.
Basically, my SDL bases game works perfectly fine on any Windows XP machine (ie. normal frame rate, shaders work no problem), but I initially noticed that if I ran the executable on Windows 7, the frame rate would only be 10-15 for no reason (on super high-end machines, ie. Phenom II X6 / 5970) but this was strictly a Windows 7 issue as indicated by testing on several different machines. Upon further investigation I realized that if I run the game from within Visual Studio 2008 on a Windows 7 machine it works perfectly (ie. 7000+ FPS w/o vsync), but as soon as I ran it from the executable instead, the frame rate would once again be between 10 and 15, and if shaders were being used via GLEW, the program would simply exit because GLEW 2.0 was unavailable.
tldr; SDL OpenGL game, works fine on XP, on Win7 works fine in VS2008 but EXE limited to 10 fps and shaders wont work
Honestly not sure what the issue could possibly be and has been baffling me for some time. If anyone has any suggestions or input, it would be greatly appreciated. It almost seems like SDL is somehow switching to software mode or some limited version of OpenGL. Also worth mentioning that the only things being rendered is some text (generated and rendered via lists) and a very simple skybox with 1024x1024 textures for each side.
My game is using SDLmain and a number of libraries, including:
FMOD Ex
Bullet Physics
Thanks for reading. Some code, if it helps any:
#include "Game.h" int main(int argc, char * argv[]) { Game * game = new Game(); if(!game->init()) { return -1; } game->run(); delete game; return 0; }
OpenGL Setup:
bool Game::init() { if(m_initialized) { return false; } settings->load(); if(SDL_Init(SDL_INIT_VIDEO | SDL_INIT_TIMER | SDL_INIT_JOYSTICK) == -1) { return false; } SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_DOUBLEBUFFER, 1); SDL_GL_SetAttribute(SDL_GL_SWAP_CONTROL, settings->verticalSync ? 1 : 0); m_graphics = SDL_SetVideoMode(settings->windowWidth, settings->windowHeight, 0, SDL_OPENGL | (settings->fullScreen ? SDL_FULLSCREEN : 0)); SDL_WM_SetCaption("Game", NULL); QString iconPath; iconPath.append(QString("%1/Icons/Block.bmp").arg(settings->dataDirectoryName)); QByteArray iconPathBytes = iconPath.toLocal8Bit(); m_icon = SDL_LoadBMP(iconPathBytes.data()); SDL_WM_SetIcon(m_icon, NULL); glShadeModel(GL_SMOOTH); glClearColor(0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.0f); glClearDepth(1.0f); glEnable(GL_DEPTH_TEST); glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D); glEnable(GL_BLEND); glDepthFunc(GL_LEQUAL); glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA); glHint(GL_PERSPECTIVE_CORRECTION_HINT, GL_NICEST); glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW); glViewport(0, 0, settings->windowWidth, settings->windowHeight); if(glewInit() != GLEW_OK) { return false; } if(!GLEW_VERSION_2_0) { return false; } etc.
Game Loop:
void Game::run() { if(!m_initialized) { return; } m_running = true; SDL_Event event; static unsigned int lastTime = SDL_GetTicks(); unsigned int currentTime = SDL_GetTicks(); do { if(SDL_PollEvent(&event)) { switch(event.type) { case SDL_KEYDOWN: if(!console->isActive()) { menu->handleInput(event); } if(!menu->isActive()) { console->handleInput(event); } break; case SDL_MOUSEMOTION: if(!console->isActive() && !menu->isActive() && SDL_GetAppState() & SDL_APPMOUSEFOCUS && SDL_GetAppState() & SDL_APPINPUTFOCUS && SDL_GetAppState() & SDL_APPACTIVE) { camera->handleInput(event); } break; case SDL_QUIT: m_running = false; break; default: break; } } if(m_running) { currentTime = SDL_GetTicks(); update(currentTime - lastTime); draw(); lastTime = currentTime; } } while(m_running); }


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On Deadline blog: Vigilance is still required even after 40 years of protecting open space, officials warn at 'Founders' Day'
Original post made by Jay Thorwaldson, editor emeritus, on Sep 21, 2013
Several hundred attendees and public officials gathered at a noontime Saturday (Sept. 14) event at Monte Bello Open Space Preserve along Page Mill Road in Palo Alto to celebrate the 1972 creation of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, commonly known as MROSD.
From the hilltop site they scanned a panorama that swept from Mt. Umunhum in the south up the Santa Cruz Mountains spine toward San Francisco, along the Skyline Ridge.
They listened under a large white canopy to state and local officials recount the early formation efforts starting in 1970 that led to voter approval in 1972 in Santa Clara County and four years later in San Mateo County.
The attendees, of all ages from strollers to wheelchairs, heard both historical anecdotes and plans for the future -- and a warning that the forested mountain lands need continuing attention and protection.
State Senators Jim Beall and Jerry Hill said the most recent threat was a strongly pushed proposal to allow extensive permanent logging rights in the Santa Cruz Mountains, which among other things would mean log-carrying helicopters flying over the protected lands, hiking trails and sweeping ridgetop vistas.
But in just a week before the anniversary event the logging provision was dropped from the legislation, AB904, they recounted.
MROSD General Manager Steve Abbors said the teamwork of Hill and Beall was key in the defeat of the logging measure. He said the issue is an example of how continuing watchfulness is vitally important in the protection and management of public lands.
Beall recalled his early support -- and petition signature-gathering for the creation of the district -- when he was still a student at San Jose State University.
"Those were exciting times," he said, citing creation of the coastal-protection act, the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and increased environmental awareness generally.
"My father grew up in the mountains in the 1930s," Beall recounted, adding that his father hiked many early trails. His father picked prunes one summer but the orchard owner never paid because the owner, John Steinbeck, went to London to sell his latest book: The Grapes of Wrath.
"We call that story, 'The Prunes of Wrath,'" Beall said.
Hill, indicating the sweeping vista of open lands from the hilltop, painted an alternative picture: "Think of what this could have been!" he declared, citing "freeways and housing developments.
"It takes a team effort" for such successes, he said, referring to his involvement with a working group that resulted in the district boundaries being extended to the San Mateo County coast.
Abbors introduced a bevy of public officials who had a hand in the formation of the district, including leading co-founder, Nonette Hanko of Palo Alto. Councilman Larry Klein was a member of the organizing committee, along with other residents, alive and deceased.
Former state Senator Joe Simitian of Palo Alto, now serving on the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, noted he has been recognized as being strong on environmental issues, including open space.
He asked the audience to recall back through the years of U.S. Presidents Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2 and Obama.
"Nonette Hanko has outlasted them all," in serving on the MROSD Board of Directors, he said, introducing her.
Hanko recalled how a February 1970 editorial in the normally conservative Palo Alto Times served as a "kick in the butt" for environmentalists when it declared that if they were serious about saving lands they should follow the 1930s example of the East Bay Regional Park District: get voter approval for a tax-funded district and buy lands at fair market value.
After an initial response of being hurt by the criticism, she said she realized that with that key support creating a district might be possible for permanent dedication of lands.
The newspaper also supported annexation of San Mateo County lands through a petition effort, bypassing the county's Board of Supervisors that earlier opposed its formation as a two-county district.
Abbors said the district focused strongly on acquisition of lands in its early decades and now is evolving toward a stronger focus on land management and extending public access through its network of trails and protected areas that will be there "10, 20, 30, 40, 100 years from now."
He quoted the late Mary Davey, an early supporter and former board member, in saying the district is "a forever kind of thing."
Note: Former Weekly Editor Jay Thorwaldson was involved in drafting the 1970 Palo Alto Times editorial for then-Editor Alexander Bodi. Thorwaldson can be emailed at email@example.com with a cc: to firstname.lastname@example.com. He also writes blogs for www.PaloAltoOnline.com (below Town Square).
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I remember hearing about saving the land and keeping it from development. While I remember hearing the why also heard there was enough space for future,development inside the present cities.
ABAG and other groups were started to direct growth which seems that now we,need to development our mis,mash of single story warehouses, strip malls, homes and apartment buildings. We need to save farmlands, cattle grazing lands beyond Silicon Valley.
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Well i decided to try out the WOF templates and make my own chest/ab shoulder armor. I had a nice size sheet of ABS laying around so i just used that.
heres where im at now..what do you guys think?
left chest plate before hittin it with the heatgun to curve it:
And here is both sides of the chest after curving with the heatgun and the medallion:


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Wayne Law Bids Fond Farewell to Long-time Law Library Director Georgia Clark
DETROIT (Nov. 19, 2008) – Wayne State University Law School Law Library Director Georgia Clark has announced her retirement after more than 35 years of service to Wayne Law students, alumni, faculty, staff and the community. Her last day at the Law School will be Monday, Nov. 24, 2008.
"On behalf of Wayne Law, it is with both great pleasure and sadness that we bid farewell to Georgia and wish her the best on her next journey," said Wayne Law Dean and Professor Robert M. Ackerman. "The Law School has had the honor of benefiting from her unwavering dedication and service for many years. Georgia has tremendously impacted this Law School and this community, and is a living legend to whom we are all very grateful."
"I will miss everyone I've come in contact with at the university, the Law School and the University Libraries," Clark said. "My entire career has involved working with people to accomplish good things. Many law school graduates have helped me do that by designating their donations throughout the years. Providing a wide group of users with access to legal and law-related information has been a personal mission and [Wayne State University] has provided me with both the venue and audience for the past 35 years."
Clark earned her bachelor's degree from College of St. Scholastica , and her master's degree in library science from the University of Michigan . Shortly after earning her degrees, she married George S. Clark, a then-student in Wayne Law's concurrent M.B.A. and J.D. degree program (whom she honored through a generous donation to the Law School Capital Campaign in 1999).
Clark joined Wayne Law in 1973, was hired as the library director in 1976, and has been a driving force in preserving legal documents and enhancing the accessibility of services to a large public ever since.
" When Georgia came to the Law School she completely took hold of the library and improved the system, the acquisition policy and the overall operation," said Donald Gordon, former Wayne Law Dean. "I can't find the words to express how pleasant and competent she was. She really dedicated so much of herself to the library.
One such example of Clark's dedication includes her role in launching one of largest library consortiums in existence today. In 1976 she, along with former Dean Gordon and Jerry Dupont, University of Hawaii Law School Library Director, set out to raise funds in the Detroit and Honolulu legal communities in an effort to provide greater informational access to a larger number of people. Together they formed a non-profit cooperative of libraries, known as the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC).
Today, LLMC's subscribers span the globe as the Consortium has expanded to include preservation and accessibility digitally through LLMC-Digital. Approximately 90 percent of American Association of Law Libraries-affiliated American law schools, 75 percent of Canadian law schools and virtually every library serving units of the U.S. Federal Court System are members and have access to more than 50-million page images.
"With Georgia's diligence throughout the years LLMC's membership grew to over 900 libraries, its master collection of legal microforms grew to over 105,000 volumes, and it placed over three million copies of those masters into libraries worldwide," Dupont said. "It is now well on track toward its goal of building the world¹s largest and most comprehensive, legal research library on the Web."
Clark's passion and commitment also led her to serve as the President of the Steering Committee that organized the Michigan Association of Law Libraries. And in recognition of her outstanding dedication and service to the University, the University Libraries and the Law School, she is a past recipient of the G. Flint Purdy Memorial Award for Service. She has also been named a recipient of the Wayne Law Review editorial board's Outstanding Contributor Award and was honored as the Special Treasure of Detroit Honoree at the Law School's 11th annual gala in 2008.
A book is currently on display in the Wayne Law Library now through Jan. 31, 2009, within which faculty members, students, alumni and friends can add comments and share memories. To send Georgia a message personally, please send an email to email@example.com. For information on how to make a gift to the Law Library in Georgia's name, please call the Law School Office of Development and Alumni Relations at (313) 577-4141 or send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
"More than they will ever know, innumerable people around the country, and indeed around the world, have benefited from her dedication, perseverance and vision," Dupont said. "I can testify that nobody could have asked for a more loyal, steadfast or pleasant partner. I feel very honored and exceedingly lucky to have had her as a colleague."
About Wayne State University Law School
Wayne State University Law School has educated and served the Detroit metropolitan area since its inception as Detroit City Law School in 1927. Located at 471 West Palmer Street in Detroit's re-energized historic cultural center, the Law School remains committed to student success and features modern lecture and court facilities, multi-media and distance learning classrooms, a 250-seat auditorium, and the Arthur Neef Law Library, which houses one of the nation's 40 largest legal collections. Taught by an internationally recognized and expert faculty, Wayne Law students experience a high-quality legal education via a growing array of hands-on curricular offerings, five live-client clinics, and access to well over 100 internships with local and non-profit entities each year. Its 11,000 living alumni, who work in every state of the nation and more than a dozen foreign countries, are experts in their disciplines and include leading members of the local, national and international legal communities. For more information, visit www.law.wayne.edu.


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RE: st: real vs destring
"Nick Cox" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
RE: st: real vs destring
Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:49:44 +0100
Sorry, serious misinformation here: It is -string()- that has a format
Nick Cox
To add to Phil's comments:
In essence, -destring- is a more or less elaborate or intelligent
for -real()-. So, a short answer is: if used appropriately, they should
give the same result.
Note crucially here that -real()- has two arguments, a string for
conversion and
a format to use in converting it. You can omit the second argument and
thereby use the default format. That is what Nicholas Harrigan did. He
also by default assigned his result to a float variable.
For his values, those are not good choices. -destring- is a bit smarter,
but in turn there are limits to its smartness.
Phil Schumm
On Apr 4, 2008, at 9:10 AM, Nicholas Harrigan wrote:
> I am trying to recode a variable containing large numbers which are
> currently held as strings.
> I am wondering why real and destring give different results
> gen new_var = real(old_var)
> gen new_var2 = old_var
> destring new_var2, replace
This is because your values (e.g., 5560001090 and 5560001108) are too
large to be stored accurately as floats. -destring- is smart enough
to recognize this, and, I believe, notifies you when it creates a
variable as a double. You would get the same result if you used
gen double new_var = real(old_var)
instead (see [U] 12.2.2 Numeric storage types for more information).
> Does this mean I should use always use destring in my coding
> instead of real?
Not a bad idea, since -destring- will balk if the conversion involves
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Discussion in 'Off The Beaten Track' started by skipaway, Jan 30, 2014.
Early but, here's this years Budweiser Clydesdale commercial.
Puppy Love
puppy marching down the road with Clydesdales behind him
puppy marching down the road
Awww...love every second!
Usually car ads are terrible, but the the Audi "Doberhuaha" ad had me rolling. Putting Sarah McLaclan in it just pushed it over the top. And the Volkswagen "Wings" ad is a perfect Super Bowl ad.
Still waiting for the Superb Owl commercials ...
New Cheerios ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKuQrKeGe6g
The You Tube Comments had to be disabled - again
OMG - the puppy ad is so cute!
Loved the puppy/Clydesdale ad. Haven't seen the others yet; guess I'm going to have to actually watch the Super Bowl this year.
I do love the puppy one w/the Clydesdales, but my favourite one has to be the Muppets for Toyota. I mean...It's Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem Orchestra....and Sweetums....It does not get any better IMO.
OMG! Soooo cute!!!
Ha ha ha Radio Shack!
Loved the VW wings ad! And of course, the Budweiser puppy...
I'm sitting here amazed that we're even seeing the ads during the game, even on FOX. Usually, the Cdn cable/satellite providers replace the US ads with Canuck ones.
The ads seem a lot more "feel good" and less out there and obnoxious and in your face than in recent years.
I liked the Goldie Blox one.
Tim Tebow must be the most successful failed quarterback ever.
They're either "feel good", or "funny" ads that aren't funny (Bruce Willis, the bear buying yogurt...).
Sadly, the ads were better than the football.
I liked that one, too. And the Cheerios one was cute. The dog comment is how my niece probably would respond in a similar situation, only she would demand a horse instead.
Loved the Bud puppy ad the most.
My favorites were: - no particular order
Coke's "America Is Beautiful"
Microsoft's "Technology Can Do This" - featuring Steve Gleason (football player living with ALS)
Budweiser's "Puppy"
Always luvs puppies and other animals.
But overall, the commercials were pretty blah.
Was that really Mary Lou Retton in the Radio Shack commercial? It goes by so quickly I couldn't really tell if that was her or you were just supposed to get the "Mary Lou" image since she was an 80's icon.
All the other icons were real so I assume it was her.
They were?! I'll have to watch that again in slo-mo or something.
I saw Dee Snider. Twisted Sister!
That Radio Shack commercial is the only one that made me crack up laughing during the Superbowl. Totally clever and I love how they were all the real people!


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Self Styled with Elliot Aronow: Summer Shoes
Kick Down The Door: Summer Shoes for Cool Dudes
Finding the right summer shoes can present three major sartorial challenges to the young go-getter. The first: you don't want to be too casual (no dusty Nikes, please). The second: you don't want to be too dressed up (black dress shoes in July make you look like the commuter train jerk who eats Lean Cuisine soup in his cubicle). And the last: you don't want to dress like a dad (sorry, Vampire Weekend fans, OG boat shoes now fit in this category).
Don't worry. There are options. One route to explore is to cop a pair of classy white oxfords or bucks. Bass does a suede buck in white (the Brockton model) that is a gentlemanly update on the shoes your mom bought you when you were little. I also really dig these Cole Haan Air Franklin oxfords in white. Usually I would totally clown a contrast sole (the kind brands are now doing in yellow or neon green), but in this case the blue gives it a nice pop and you won't look like you are trying too hard.
Another look is to go with something perforated. This will make the shoes more breathable and those micro holes look pretty cool, too. I really like these Rachel Comey Derringer shoes in tan. They go perfectly with jeans and a crisp white shirt.
I'm really just shouting out brands and models that I personally dig, so just think of these as points of departure to get you where you need to go. Think suede without a lot of laces, and colors like white, tan and light blue, and you will be on the right path. Easy.
About the Author
Elliot Aronow is a tv personality, editor and music and style hustler living in New York City. He is the host/producer/editor/publisher of OUR SHOW with Elliot Aronow and the Co-Founder of music site RCRD LBL. All of his hair and opinions are his own. Follow Elliot on Twitter @youngelz.
The author cuts up a (vintage Persian) rug w his scuffed up white bucks. Photo by Izzy Tuason for The Dandy Project


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Teresa Carmona's son Joaquin was an architecture student at a public university in Mexico City when in August, 2010, two days before his fifth semester, he was murdered in his apartment. "Someone broke a bottle, then they broke his head and he was strangled," says Carmona. "And there's no one held responsible because Mexican authorities do not investigate crimes in my country."
A native of Mexico City who moved to Cancun 25 years ago, Carmona traveled with the Caravan for Peace with Justice and Dignity led by Javier Sicilia to call for an end to the violence that has taken the lives of more than 60,000 people in Mexico since President Felipe Calderón took office in December 2006 and declared a war on drugs.
Aided by millions of dollars and military aid that has fueled an unprecedented rise in organized crime, the drug war has impacted people on both sides of the border.
A Poet Leads the Effort
Sicilia, one of Mexico's most revered and influential poets, writes a bi-monthly column in Proceso, a weekly news magazine published in Mexico City. When he learned in March 2011 that his 24-year-old son Juan Francisco was murdered along with 6 others by drug traffickers, he was devastated. Swearing he would never write another poem, he turned his talents toward calling for an end to the violence brought on by the war on drugs. After leading two caravans in Mexico, Sicilia brought his Caravan for Peace to the United States, where more than $51 billion a year goes to fight the drug war.
Partnering with Global Exchange, an international human rights organization founded in 1988, the caravan began in San Diego, California on August 12, then traveled through cities along the southern border, and arrived in Chicago for Labor Day.
Speaking inside the National Museum of Mexican Art, Sicilia noted the significance: "Chicago is the symbol of gangsterism and the barbarian results that the ban on alcohol brought to the United States in the twenties."
Sicilia then called on President Obama to do what President Franklin D. Roosevelt did in 1933 when he signed the law that repealed prohibition: "We ask the citizens of the United States and the government of Barak Obama to remember President Roosevelt and like him, in a gesture of defending democracy and its freedoms, decree, along with the Mexican government and governments of the world, the end to the war on drugs. So that together we put a stop to the banks that launder money and reduce the real crime: corruption, human trafficking and extortion and to seek together in compassion, justice for the suffering families of the victims, the orphans, widows and those who have lost our children in this absurd war."
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP)
LEAP, a non profit which will celebrate its 10th year in 2013, has about 3,000 criminal justice professionals, judges, prosecutors, police officers, prison wardens and parole officers as members.
Jim Gierach, a former Chicago drug prosecutor and current member of LEAP, says the drug war has led to more young people quitting school, joining gangs, getting guns and fighting over who's going to control the drug business. "We end up with violence that's epidemic, just like we, at one time, had with Al Capone here in Chicago," he says. "So we're on our second round of prohibition, having forgotten the lessons of old. We end up not only with the problems of drugs, but the collateral issues that are caused by the war on drugs."
Gierach says, "We started out with the war on drugs intending to help our kids, but really we've ended up making drugs more available, more dangerous," Gierach says. "It's the most effective way to put more drugs, uncontrolled and unregulated, everywhere."
Chad Padget, former correctional officer for the Indiana Department of Corrections, says the only way to regulate and control drugs is to bring the market above ground."If it's on the black market, it's not going to work," says Padget, who has been a speaker with LEAP since 2010. "That's why we say we should legalize drugs."
Padget also worked with youth services and saw firsthand the results. "Current policy has been horrible for young people," he says. "It's locking them up, splitting up families. If they would legalize drugs, families would be back together, people that are in prison are apt to be let out, and they would be a tremendous help in communities and we could just get rid of the whole policy of prohibition."
Former Deputy Chief Stephen Downing headed the drug enforcement division of the Los Angeles Police Department and was commander of the Bureau of Special Investigations, which oversaw all of the narcotics enforcement operations. Now retired, Downing recalls that when Nixon announced the war on drugs in the 1970s, he was commander and there were only two small gangs in south central LA.
"They were called the Crips and the Bloods," he says. "We had programs, they were neighborhood gangs, territorial and we had good programs that were calming them down, getting the kids home, targeting the hardcore toward juvenile justice. Then the war on drugs came along and the war on drugs had the effect of fueling the growth of gangs."
Downing notes that today there are 33,000 gangs across the United States with an estimated membership of 1,500,000. Today, he notes, the U.S. Department of Justice reports that cartels occupy and control the drug traffic through the gangs, using them as enforcers, collectors and distributors.
"Two years ago, they controlled drug traffic in 250 American cities," says Downing. "This last year the DOJ reported they control the traffic in 1,000 American cities."
Addicted to the Drug War
Downing says the real problem is that police in America have become as addicted to the war on drugs as the cartels and street gangs. "The cartels don't want to end prohibition and the street gangs don't want to end prohibition," he says. "Why? Because it's profitable to them. But the problem is, because it's a black market, that means the only way they can solve their disputes is by violence. And so they are a violent culture. If you support public safety, which the chief of police should support, there is no way that you can support prohibition in this country."
Nonviolent drug offenders now account for half of those in federal prison and about one-fourth of all inmates in the United States, up from less than 10 percent in 1980. Downing notes that since 1980, California has built 23 prisons, hired 14,000 prison guards, and fired an equivalent number of teachers.
"Just last week in Los Angeles, 500,000 students demonstrated because they can't get into community colleges and they can't get classes," he says. "The budget for prisons has gone from three percent in 1980 to 11.5 percent today. The budget for our schools has decreased by an equivalent amount, so doesn't that tell you that we're doing something wrong?"
Once he saw the effects of the drug war, Downing changed his mind and joined LEAP, where he now serves on the Board of Directors. He joined the Caravan for Peace when they crossed the border in Mexico, spent three days with them, and then rejoined them in Atlanta, Georgia with a vehicle specially painted to look like a police vehicle. Downing continued with the caravan and went on to Cleveland, New York, and Baltimore before arriving in Washington, DC on September 12.
"We do not advocate drug use. We advocate regulation and control of the drugs," says Downing. "We are on the Caravan for Peace because Javier Sicilia's philosophy is exactly our philosophy. If you support prohibition, you support violence and crime."
LEAP member Dean Becker—a former security police officer for the U.S. Air Force and a specialist in guarding nuclear weapons—now produces nine radio shows a week for the Drug Truth Network based at the Pacifica outlet, KPFT in Houston.
Becker says his goal is to return things to as they were before prohibition, when adults were trusted to do the right thing. He says he is in favor of locking up anyone who dares sell drugs to children, but that to lock up adults for doing what they want to do in the sanctity of their own homes is "just un-American."
More than Drugs
The caravan also raises issues of environmental degradation—from mining, migrants rights, and the estimated 5,300 disappeared since the rise of organized crime created by the drug war. "The war against drugs is not a war Mexicans asked for," says Rafael Trujillo, whose mother and brother were also on the caravan.
Trujillo says his family lived a quiet life in Michoacan, Mexico, where they made their living buying and selling gold. When two of his brothers disappeared on their way back from Guererro four years ago, everything changed.
Raul Trujillo Herrera, 21, and Jesus Salvador Trujillo, 27, father of two, disappeared, along with their car, never to be seen again. When two of his other brothers went to Vera Cruz to trade gold for money to support the families two years ago, they were also disappeared.
Carmona notes that only three percent of these crimes are investigated. "Yes, it's terrible," she says. "I mean the violence is terrible, but the impunity is just as bad."
Trujillo says until the caravan went to the School of the Americas (SOA), at Fort Benning, Georgia, he did not know that many of the top leaders of the government had been trained there. "It was a real shock to discover that, because the drug problems were not even put on the table because we didn't think they were our problem," says Trujillo. "Now we are realizing they are our problem."
U.S. Complicity
At the August Veterans for Peace Convention in Miami, Charles Goff explained the history behind the violence in a workshop called "Blood on our Hands: exposing U.S. complicity in the war on drugs in Mexico."
Goff explained how after President Calderón "won" the election by less than 1 percent, the first thing he did was raise the pay of military personnel 40 percent, because, Calderón said, he needed the armed forces to fight the war on drugs. The U.S. spends about $6.5 billion annually on drugs exported from Mexico, even as the U.S. government spends billions to support the war against the drug trade.
SOA Watch reported in 2011 that Jesús Enrique Rejón Aguilar, a captured leader of the Zetas, the most violent of the cartels, helped recruit the original Mexican special forces that were trained at the SOA at Fort Benning, Geogia.
The tactics taught there helped the Zetas to become the most dangerous criminal organization in Mexico. Rejón Aguilar also revealed that, "Los Zetas have operatives in the U.S. who have purchased (at least in the past) firearms and other weapons from different suppliers including from the 'U.S. Government itself.'"
Goff reports that Sicilia's talk at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore offered an analysis of the drug war, noting that it's not an ideological war, but a war declared against things that in many cultures have been considered sacred. He also noted how the privatization of prisons demands an ever increasing number of prisoners. The result threatens democracy when a huge portion of the population is denied the right to vote for having been arrested for a felony, such as the 13 percent of African-American men who have been disenfranchised in the U.S.
Goff reported in his "Charlie's Digs" column for the News, Mexico's only English language newspaper, that members of the Caravan met with members of both houses of Congress, with Maria Otero, the Undersecretary of State for Human Rights, and with leaders of various churches in Washington, DC.
It was a long journey, but the struggle to stop the war on drugs continues.
Trujillo says he feels that in all the towns they have been through, the families of the victims have told their stories and felt that at all levels they were understood. Not only the words, but the heart. That is very significant, he says, to know that people are feeling and understanding what is going on. "All the places we have been through, we have put the seeds in order that peace comes for our children," says Trujillo, who adds he was shocked to learn how jails in the U.S. were transformed into businesses."It's a terrible thing."
In a 2011 interview with Marta Molina of the Narco News Bulletin, an online magazine reporting on the drug war, Carmona called for a Mexico without corruption, starvation or child killers. Instead she wants to see honest and efficient law enforcement and an ethical mass media.
"We want to live without fear that someone will hurt our kids," said Carmona. "We want respect for diversity and a new and more human way of living together. We want to live in peace with justice and dignity."


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Please tell me why you want these bees and what behavior characteristics you are willing to live with.
Please tell me why you want these bees and what behavior characteristics you are willing to live with.
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
I know this is supposed to be about small cell foundation, but small cell and natural cell are not that much different of an animal. Why in the world do we need a study about this to tell us if it's beneficial. For natural cell the bottom line is it costs me much less money to do, so even if the bees survive exactly the same as they would on large foundation I am $$ ahead. Personally I think most of the studies that have been done were flawed. Either because they didn't properly regress the bees or the study wasn't long enough or who knows what else. Let's try a study comparing the 5 year survival rates of regular foundation bees and foundationless bees.
Rod Sullivan, MO
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Mike, I want to make sure that I express to you _exactly_ how I feel about you:
Sorry, couldn't resist
"Thinking Inside The Box"
...you are in a rather unique situation in NZ, as you don't allow any honey imports, a lot of unnavigable but productive land (helecoptering in bees for a honey crop and such), not that many beekeepers in most places, and a reasonable domestic demand...couple this with the MHMS (Manuka Honey Marketing Scheme) run along with the local university for the export market, and you have a great market for honey.
I thought that all beekeepers in NZ were single (unmarried)...as I (and a whole room of beekeepers at the organic conference in Arizona) was sure that Roy Arbon said he knew of no married beekeepers....it later became clear that he said "no Maori beekeepers"
There is no commodity market for "treatment free honey"...so the market price is really market determined. I don't know what other people pay, but our suppliers secure a reasonable premium for being treatment free in their management. I wonder if you would accept 20% losses if you were making double per pound for honey? I'm not offering anything here....I don't know what you get per pound....I don't know your market.
Here in New England, we have soccer moms and hipsters supporting what Dee is doing 2000 miles away...what Kirk is doing in Vermont, what Bob is doing in NY...because they want the purist product they can get, and they appreciate what we are doing....because they want to feel like they are doing everything they can to provide their family with food produced in sustainable ways without pesticides....in ways in which the actual producer is not being exploited.
If (as you say), all things being equal, you'd like to be treatment free.....consider that there may be a market out there that would actually like to buy honey from untreated and unfed bees....a market that (unlike you or me), has little time to do something like keep their own treatment free bees, but plenty of money to throw at the problem of obtaining honey from those that do. I see no reason why one couldn't (with a little work) double the price from that of NZ organic honey....I presume the organic standards allow feeding with organic cane sugar, and treating with essential oils and/or acids? Aren't there customers of NZ organic honey that would love to pay more for something that hasn't been fed or medicated...a true sustainable treatment free apiary?
Don't interpret this as disrespect for the customer...they are the ones that make the whole thing go round....I very much appreciate that _they_ appreciate what we all do.
However for the treatment free hives, to be consistent with methods currently being used by others, I am allowing losses, even though it goes against the grain. Current TF losses are greater than 5% but I'm writing this off as part of the learning process and possibly something that has to be gone through. Long term though it will have to work withing commercially acceptable parameters for someone who sells bees.
"Thinking Inside The Box"
A good post Dean. NZ already produces un mite treated honey because a good slab of the South Island has been varroa free, until this season. It has not been marketed as chemical free though because the beekeepers don't know where their bees have been, it is not differentiated from any other honey.
We also don't use some of the more nasty mite treatments like, say coumaphos, treatment is not an issue in the publics minds most of them have total faith in the product. Honey here is tested before sale to very demanding standards because the bulk of our honey is exported, we have to comply with the highest standards from around the world. NZ honey, in bulk anyway, does command a premium price around the globe because it is not adulterated or tampered with or even filtered for pollen, little sugar is fed here, and no corn syrup, we have a good rep.
The comments about accepting 20% losses for double the price for honey, do make sense from a commercial perspective. For me, it's a hobby and I don't have an approved honey processing plant so cannot legally sell honey, that why I'm selling bees and queens. Most bees are sold early in the season, or at least that's when they are worth the most. So if I had to spend the first part of the season making up my own losses it would damage my income and losses of 5% would be the most I would be prepared to wear. For a honey producer it would be of less financial importance, he could do early splits and the bees would recover before the main honey flow anyway. There is also a lot of crop pollination done and for that you want good hives early, a winter deadout would kill a major part of many beekeepers earnings on that hive.
Oh, glad you met Roy Arbon! Quite a character yes! He's wrong on the Maori beekeepers though I know several.
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"Thinking Inside The Box"
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
Is there a difference between a shirt made by an American union worker, and the same shirt, the same materials, the same quality, made by a slave in some far eastern country?
Is there a difference between an ipod maufactured in China (as they are now) and the same ipod manufactured in the U.S. (as they are now advertising they are going to do next year....one product)?
For a while there was a ruling in Pennsylvania that because in lab tests milk produced without synthetic hormones could not be differentiated from milk that had been, the the producers could not advertise this as a difference between the products. The producers could not advertise that they produced milk without synthetic hormones...this was later reversed.
I'm not sure why customers that want to buy honey from operations that aren't treating shouldn't be able to.
If you want to market premium honey based on a testing regimen, then I say go for it. Most organic standards are first and foremost based on practices, not testing standards.
You are selling a commodity product at a commodity price. Your price is subject to market forces beyond your control that include the supply/demand of honey in your own category, but of the worst stuff being sold at discount prices to be used in food processing. I'm not trying to be dramatic, and I'm not putting you down...I'm sure your product is well above average (although I doubt anyone could compete with Dee's honey on Penn State pesticide tests....out of 4 samples, one sample tested 1ppb coumaphos. All other samples and all other pesticides were below the limits of the tests). You should be getting a above average price....but you are selling as a commodity. Wouldn't it be great if we could do something about that
Jim I agree. It appears to me that no matter how you slice this bread the consumer still must rely on the honesty and integrity of the seller of the product they are purchasing from. Honey is a unique product in that it comes from different open source locations and is not produced directly by the seller. It is instead produced by the bees themselves and we only package what they provide us. It's not like your caging your chickens and monitoring everything they eat or every place they go. Honey sellers don't follow their bees around to make sure they are only bringing back what the seller says they do. I have always felt that my honey sells itself and that I don't have to bother to preach the virtues of mine over the guys down the road in order to get people to purchase it. I don't care what anyone else is selling, but I do pay attention to what goes into my jars. It boils down to the simple fact that even a good honey producer can profess quite the song and dance to their customer base regarding the virtues of their particular honey. Some sellers have to make certain that their buyer knows how knowledgeable they think they are about bees and honey. The buyer is generally satisfied that the seller is providing them with enough factual information so that they can feel comfortable consuming what they purchase. I have visited our local farmers market enough and stood listening to someone selling their honey to know well enough that too many people are quite adept at slinging the bull, to make their product seem more attractive. Regardless of the validity of some statements the buyer will generally buy into the marketing as gospel.
"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay".....Krishnamurti
is it true that honey cannot be sold as 'certified organic' because one cannot control what the foragers might come in contact with, (to jim's point about robbing, but also taking into consideration what chemicals may be used on gardens, orchards, crops, ect within foraging distance of the bees).
and am i understanding correctly that those soccer moms and hipsters are happy to pay $11.00 for a half a pound of honey, because it comes from bees that aren't being exploited?
how would they feel if they learned that the process of not treating means that some colonies are exploited, in that they end up dying an unimaginably horrible death due to mites?
i wonder why these customers aren't aware that not all methods of treating bees result in contamination of the honey.
i wonder what these customers would think if they found out that it's possible to have more formic acid naturally occuring in honey than is sometimes found in honey from a hive that was treated with formic acid.
if these customers are making an informed decision as to what may or may not be different about the quality of the honey, and if these customers are informed as to what the practices of keeping bees without treatment really means for the bees,
then yes customers that want to buy honey from those operations should absolutely free to do so.
my guess is that the average customer in this situation is giving somewhat less than an 'informed consent'.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
I will simply make an open statement.
There are few people as outspoken as myself on topics that might be termed as "controversial organicish style beekeeping practices". I stand by every statement I've ever made, and always have....and I've apologized when I've made mistakes or been wrong....consistently, for years.
I don't see any reason why anyone would think that I'm less than honest in my dealings with our customers, wholesale accounts, or suppliers.
If you want to imply otherwise, please give some specifics....or stick it.
...the consumer and retailer that relies on the honesty and integrity of Dee Lusby, Kirk Webster, and Bob Brachman as well as the integrity of Ramona and me, is in very good hands.
Another standard that is easier to achieve is Certified Naturally Grown. Essentially CNG pays minimal attention to where the bees may forage instead focusing on how the bees are managed.
There are a few beekeepers who have had their apiaries certified as organic over the years. Based on what we were told at EAS I think some (what percentage I'm not sure) found the paper work and hassle of jumping through hoops didn't result in the hoped for premium price for their honey, resulting in the beekeepers opting out of the organic program.
I looked at CNG for my operation and found some of the requirements (like minimum hive stand heights) over the top.
"...the consumer and retailer that relies on the honesty and integrity of Dee Lusby, Kirk Webster, and Bob Brachman as well as the integrity of Ramona and me, is in very good hands."
And thousands of others.
"Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay".....Krishnamurti
"People will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe."- Andy Rooney
"but our suppliers secure a reasonable premium for being treatment free in their management"
and why is that dean? is it because the public has come to believe that this honey is superior to honey that was obtained from suppliers that are not treatment free in their management?
how would the public come to believe such a thing?
welcome to the no spin zone.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
When we sampled honey from the shelf of local health food store (as I've posted here before), most was adulterated with up to 30% beet or corn sugar (from an "organic farm" no less). Small beekeepers that bought in honey from a large beekeeper had adulterated...the same large beekeeper's honey under their own label is pure. ...all the while the small beekeepers are claiming to have produced the honey with their own bees (in one case, the beekeeper had recently come to this country, and didn't yet have bees).
I can't keep track of thousands of beekeepers...but I can work with a few who have practices that make sense to me and are in line with my own. It's worth noting that they all have very different practices...Dee is the only one that is small cell, she and Kirk both make their own foundation, Dee keeps repopulating the same number of production hives with walk away splits from survivors to maintain numbers, Kirk overwinters nucs to hives 3:1, Bob is part of the Russian breeding program. Dee harvests year round, kirk in the summer, and Bob (even though he is not too far from Kirk) sometimes gets a summer harvest and a reliable fall flow or two.
When we have discussed this stuff before we have talked about rice syrup adulteration, about HFCS feeders on with honey supers, of shop towel treatments, transhipped honey, etc.
There is great honey out there...but it is rather impossible for the consumer to be sure they are getting it....and no segment of "the industry" is interested in solving this problem. Hobbyists want to be able to buy a few buckets and do a flea market or two and sell it as their own. Packers want to buy cheap and market high.
So you are free to figure out how to separate the wheat from the chaff for everyone go ahead...I don't have a clue. I can only do what I can do.
Are you accusing me of marketing an honest product that has the beekeeper's name and practices on the label? Of not making any misrepresentations but being honest in all my interactions with my customers? If not, please be specific.
In any case, I'm not really sure what your problem is...I've done my best to be as helpful as I can to you and answer your questions the best I can....I'm a pretty easy going guy, but I'm probably not going to waste any more time with your jeckyl/hyde act. ...it isn't terribly rewarding.


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not arguing with those successes sol, the argument is whether or not the successes are attributable to small cell or other factors. there are cases of treatment free success without small cell.
not arguing with those successes sol, the argument is whether or not the successes are attributable to small cell or other factors. there are cases of treatment free success without small cell.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
I'm not talking about successes. I'm talking about simply using small cell. There is a distinct lack of research that has attempted to use the methods of those who actually use the method. It's almost as if the studies were designed to fail. I'm not saying that's the case, but if you were going to study something you hadn't done, wouldn't you find out how it's done first?
like you will be sol, i have defended a master's thesis.
wouldn't the answer to your question be that a study should be designed to control all of the variables except that one?
i would think before such a study could start, one would have to already have regressed bees in the (small cell) experimental group, hopefully on identical comb material as the (not small cell) control group.
hive design, feeding regimen, colony size, ect. would have to be matched between the two groups.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
the more difficult variable to control would be genetics. one would have to first regress bees from the same lineage as the controls.
it would be no small task to conduct such a study.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
I'd do it given proper funding. I don't ask for much, money for supplies and a typical Master's candidate stipend for the duration.
can we do it on credit?
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
What are you trying to prove ? I don't see many indicating that small cell is the panacea for mites but that it is part of a larger management plan. As such rather than trying to prove the efficacy of small cell with these studies why not study the guys that are successful and mimic thier entire methodology?
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zactly. although it would be nice to know one way or the other, for example, if it is worth someone going to the trouble of regressing their entire operation to achieve whatever potential benefit there may be.
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
Here is a rough draft of the study I would do....if anyone wants to fund it, please let me know. There would be both observation hives and 10 frame hives I've been working on the observation hive setup for a while, so that is hashed out a bit more than the 10 frame trials. I can't take the time go through all the details at the moment....but I have given this some thought
Ideally the observation hive trials should be done in several locations concurently (I imagine a set of customized trailers that could be placed with various beekeepers).
(20) 2 Frame Observation Hives, in 4 groups, each group facing a different direction (NSEW). Cross A and Cross B combs are made from left and right halves of Mann Lake small and large frames "married" together (much like the "mosaic frames" used in comb contamination trials). Cross A will have small on the top left and bottom right, Cross B will have small on the top right and bottom left.
• Small Mann Lake
• Large Mann Lake
• Foundationless
• Cross A
• Cross B
Each observation hive (OH) will have 24 hour video recording on each face, as well as other metric data collection (weight, bee counter, array of temperature sensors).
Observational data obtained would be:
• Cell size preferences for various functions/activities
• Development time (pre and post capping)
• Behavioral Differences between the groups
• Survival
Experimental data obtained would be:
• Mite counts
o Shake/Wash/Drop
o Pulling Brood
o Behavioral differences in marked bees emerged from different sized comb
• Impact of queen could be measured by swapping queens between large and small cell hives
• Microbial analysis
o Bees
o Bee Bread
o Bee Poop
Costs (X 20 per location)
• Observation Hives ($200)
• Monitoring Equipment
o Cameras ($200)
o Scale equipment ($200)
o Bee Counter (?)
o Temperature Probes ($200)
• Package of Bees ($95)
• 5 Plastic Frames ($25) (packages will be started in a nuc to first draw comb and to regress where appropriate)
• Climate controlled space with outside walls on 4 sides (?)
Fixed Costs
• Computer equipment ($2000)
• Systems integration and customization ($2000)
• Time (?)
10 frame trials: Should be done X 100 by 20 beekeepers with various practices (weighted towards "no treatment" types) in all different parts of the U.S. (or world)…each beekeeper with 5 sets of hives in 5 locations.
• Small Mann Lake
• Large Mann Lake
• Foundationless
• Wax small cell
• Wax large cell
Is funding through Kickstarter a possibility?if anyone wants to fund it, please let me know
Trying to think inside the box...
Actually, that's not a terrible idea. Let me think about that.
Surely this would fit into the SARE Program.
SARE's vision is an enduring American agriculture of the highest quality. This agriculture is profitable, protects the nation's land and water and is a force for a rewarding way of life for farmers and ranchers whose quality products and operations sustain their communities and society.
You guys sure have a lot of testosterone
Anybody know off hand the size of a bee found in unmolested/isolated locations containing native bees in Africa or Europe or the Middle East? I've seen reports of cell sizes with a wide range. I ask this because you should have some basis in theory or fact for choosing 4.9, 5.1 or whatever cell size you use to test your hypothesis.
...We don't see things as they are, we see things as WE are...
This beekeeping is no game to me. I eat, sleep and drink bees. Other than our house, everything is invested in bees, treated for nothing but varroa mites. Would I like to see SC beekeeping be the successful future of beekeeping? You bet I would. Would I regress some apiaries if someone could show me the proof? You bet I would. Counting production colonies and nucleus colonies, with more than 1000 out there in the fields of Vermont and New York, do you really think I would start the change-over of my combs to small cell because some are claiming great successes, but losing most of their bees every year. I can't afford an expensive mistake at this point in my career.
Yes, there are those that hold up the successful SC beekeepers who have been at this for some time. Dee Lusby has recovered her operation at least 3 times. She says her bees' survival with no treatments is due to small cell comb. I think it's African blood. I think it's breeding from survivors. Kirk Webster has been treatment free for what, 10 years? I believe he's shifting to small cell...makes his own foundation. Claims it's his Russian stocks. But every other year or so he has a major loss of bees and re-stocks them with wintered nucleus colonies. Management, not small cell or any special breeding. And Dennis Murell claimed great successes with small cell. Gave great reports on his regression progress and success....until his colonies all perished from CCD. CCD?? Whatever.
So, all I'm saying is...as so well stated by Baja...and you SC, TF beekeepers, friends and not, can slam me if you want...
"As an old beekeeper I long for factual evidence supporting small cell beekeeping".
At this point in the SC evolution, I would put a lot more faith in good stock, and good management practices, than I would in trying to say all the success is due to SC. Far too many variables to definatively say, at this time, that success is due to SC. Twenty years from now, ( I won't be around), but others might be more convincing, with more proof.
Brian Cardinal
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Whatever happened to seeing for yourself ?
Discussion is beneficial, but I can't count the times people have demanded empirical evidence (and lots of it), while essentially defending methods and practices that amount to little more than dogma. My Dad farmed, and I used to hear "that's the way my Daddy did it, and that's the way I'm gonna do it."
My dad started strip grazing, and was inundated with predictions of failure. He had great success with it.
I experiment in order to learn what's best for me, here and now.
I'll try new ideas, and what works for me, works for me.
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Hello everyone, bit of a lurker here, had a few questions I wanted to get some feedback on. I am a 19 year old kid who currently works a decent summer job in the midwest. However, I do not want to continue doing this for years to come. Obviously as this is a Snowboard forum, I am highly interested in the sport. I am a very good rider, though I still have much to improve on.
Anyways, I've been thinking for some time that I want to turn my passion into something I can do for a while. I've seen the posts about the pros and cons of instructing, from someone like Snowolf who has a well informed opinion. Assuming I have enough saved up to live on my own in an area like Breckenridge, CO what can I do to make this happen? I have been to the area many times and love it. Would you say this is a complete mistake? I dont want to live thinking about what I could have done, or anything like that. So basically I am wondering what my first steps to accomplish this would be and some general advice.
First year you're guaranteed clients from Breck if you're a higher level instructor otherwise hello Kid Castle! Second year you're on your own as a higher level to get your own clients. Third year you hit the bottle so hard after blowing out your knee that you become washed up and bitter towards tourists. Fourth year everyone assumes you're dead even though you moved back to Ohio. Fuck working for the mountain you won't ride.
From what people have said, it doesn't look like you can make a living at it -- at least not more than you could get working at Home Depot. It seems like the best tactic is to find out what non-snowboarding-related but decent-paying jobs are available where you can live and work near the mountain. Preferably flex-hours or shift-work so you can ride weekdays.
At your age, you are in a good position to do this -- no dependants, no commitments built up yet. Ask again, but this time ask what types of jobs might fit these criteria.
Arlight, quality responses especially Avenger haha, so you guys are saying stay away from the mountain for work completely? I'm really not concerned about the money, I just dont want to get stuck doing busy work in an office the rest of my life now which is what I'm doing right now.
I work in a restaurant in Evergreen that I can get to from Breck in an hour. With my days off this affords me a minimum opportunity to ride 4 days a week and still work 50-55 hours.
I usually find people who hate on instructor lifestyles either teach at the wrong mountain, or aren't instructors.
My 2p, if you really are serious about teaching.
Start off in kids school, they aren't paying the bills, so less pressure and a better environment for you to hone your teaching techniques.
Take all the free training you can get.
Get as many certs at you can afford quickly. I hate the fact that AASI has such a huge part to play in our lives, but it is what it is, if you ever want to earn money out of teaching or actually ride, you need to be qualified.
When you have a couple of years under your belt, have a mountain in mind that has high end clientele, and work adults - they ARE paying the bills, which means if you do a good job, they will probably tip you depending on the mountain.
I work at a pretty decent mountain, I normally come out of the season about 5-6k in profit. It wasn't always this way, this season will be my 7th teaching and the early years were defo a struggle, especially when I worked in the east.
Some things to consider:
To earn good money it helps to have the following characteristics - you need to look good, be professional, be easy to get on with, connect with all types of people, be extremely nice, be willing to tie a few bootlaces/carry boards/stop old ladies from falling over.
If i were you kid, i would go to college first, the mountain will always be there and if you go near a mountain town you can teach in your time off. One day you might decide you want kids, you'll need that degree.
Good luck buddy, if you can swing it, and swing it well, lifes good.
^ These are all wrong decisions. College will always be there youth won't we're all gonna die some time might as well bang it out now before you're an old crusty bastard in a ski town getting drunk at 3 in the afternoon talking about the good ole days.
The fabled myth of ride all day, party all night in a ski town is a joke if you fall sucker to the pitfalls of being a snow carnie. Yes instructors are snow carnies and should always be noted as that. And for the record I have no respect for instructors and view them only slightly higher than mountain safety but somewhere below cafeteria dish washer.
Breck is a great town I love it, you love it, and the tourists love it. Remember this about any job here, you are here solely to serve the tourists your job is dependent on their money. Regardless of what you think you will not be a local until you get to the point that you don't even care that you live here or that you have banged every girl at least 4 times and contracted no less than seven STD's. Only then will you officially be a local. Losing bodily organs can be substituted for STD's.
Key jobs for letting you ride all the time. Dishwasher, food delivery, server, bar tender, night auditor, night stocker, snowboard shop, off mountain rental shop, anything with a split shift or afternoon shift, man slut, backseat skier, cougar tamer. In Breck high end waiting jobs are coveted but you can find ones at some of the more touristy places that have high turn over. Do not bother applying to Downstairs at Erics unless you have a vagina. Get here right at the start of September to secure a good job/housing.
Housing is another key important factor if you do not have a car you will be on the bus system which is awesome although always 5 to 15 minutes late at any given time. Remember this it's Summit County time. If you have a car parking sucks and you will need to learn how to become a fucking ninja of stealing parking spots or just take the fucking bus. But back to housing it's a lot like joining the army in terms of roommates, you'll meet people from all walks of life and most of them will seem stupid to you. Do not adopt a dog because you think you're cool, chances are it's one of the same 7 dogs that gets adopted then ends up back at the shelter at the end of the season. Do not live with women and if I have to go into detail about this you are already a lost cause and should proceed to smoke meth now while driving drunk and getting a suck off from some poor dude from Keystone. Blue River is not Breckenridge, no matter how close to town they tell you it is. Peak 7 is the fucking boondocks and you could die waiting for a search party to find you out there. If potential new roommate tells you, "I have some friends crashing on the couch they're chipping in on rent" read this as they will freeload off you and your rent will never decrease all while having your shit abused more than one of the 10 lifty chicks that lives in staff housings vagina.
Contrary to popular belief Breckenridge is not Amsterdam as much as people believe weed is legal here. We do have a few dispensaries and town law states that it's officers discretion on whether or not to prosecute if you have an ounce or less on you. County law supercedes town law and state law supercedes that followed by federal. It's decriminalized not legal, don't be stupid.
If you do work for the mountain make the right choices in terms of jobs. Lifty's do not ride, instructors are day care, food service means you're a slave, shuttle drivers are fat and cranky, day cleaners don't speak English, park crew is coveted, cat driver means you drink a lot, which means night jobs are the best bet i.e. night cleaning.
If you're not working for the mountain buy your pass. Regardless of if one of the jobs in town offers you it as an incentive buy it yourself. Then if you want to play hooky and go shred they can't call the pass office and have it turned off on you. Yes this does happen if you let it. Do not ever give an employer a chance to be your dark overlord masters.
Since you are 19 you can not get into any of the bars legally, get a good fake ID. Tip well, don't be a douche, and if a girl tells you she's 21 assume she's 18. If she tells you she's a 20 something figure she's a cougar and her vagina is more busted than the Delorean at the end of Back to the Future 3. If house parties are you thing do not party with the high school sluts from Summit High they are trouble and you will get one pregnant. You think I'm joking but those bitches are in heat.
Keystone has herpes it's the rumor year after year and it's true that is all you need to know about that.
This is how you live in summit county.
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Gratuitous "here comes the entire approved to post remix package" post starting in 3, 2, 1...GO! Patrick Wolf's new single Time of My Life is generally described around these parts as soothing, exciting and ultimately, pretty damn good. It's officially out on December 6, with a new album due out in May of 2011, and before that happens, he'll tour...and he'll also let us give you some sweet fixes on the free tip.
Discussing the first single, Patrick says: "Time Of My Life is a song that I began writing at the end of a relationship in 2006 and then finished three years later during a temporary break up in my current relationship. The new album has a direct narrative about love and optimism surviving through adversity and recession. I wanted to celebrate the love and hope I have found in the last few years."
Mixes come from DFA's Still Going, Leo Zero and Ceephax.
You can grab the entire zip of the package here, or pick and choose the single file you want below. Yes, I've strayed from doing this sort of dumping of tunes on you over the past year, but I'm legitimately loving all of these. I do have my favorite but will reserve judgement til you get 'em. Wait, no I won't. Still Going, you killed it brah. All equally rad in their respective sounds though...
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Led Zeppelin Is Really a Blast
Led Zeppelin plays music to launch a blitzkrieg by exploding in a three-hour volcanic eruption that spews boiling sonic lava into the wide-open ears of their willing victims.
Such was the nature of the English rock supergroup's Sports Arena concert last night, an event for which all 15,832 tickets were sold out last December and for which ticket holders began getting in line last Sunday afternoon.
What those eager fans got for their time and money was a virtuoso demonstration of hard rock by the skull-busters extraordinaire, thunderous drums by John Bonham and lightning guitar by Jimmy Page, along with the screaming occasionally Janis Joplin-like vocals of strutting, bare-chested Robert Plant and the steady but somewhat unsteady piano of John Paul Jones.
Theirs is an unsubtle formula that has resulted in a totally sold-out concert tour (this Friday's Sports Arena engagement, set up after the first concert sold out Sunday), six consecutive platinum albums, signifying sales of one million copies each and status as rock's top drawing group of the day.
Led Zeppelin gives the fans a complete show, though without intermission, with swirling lights and the ol' swirling smoke-over-the-stage routine.
Dazed and Confused opened for example with a purple pin spot on Jones' fingers as the bass rumbled ominously; an explosion and column of smoke shattered the mood as Plant took over with a bluesy vocal.
Page then tool the fans' attention, stroking his guitar with a violin bow, while smoke swirled about him and red and green laser beams drilled needle-holes of light from the stage to the back of the arena. Unfortunately, the music produced this was by Page resembled only horror-movie howls and screams.
The group chose its repertoire from its entire history, from its beginnings to the new double Physical Graffiti album; musically the most gratifying moments came on No Quarter opening with Jones' meandering piano solo during which the noise-loving crowd grew noticeably restless.
Bonham picked up the pace with his drums, however, inserting a march feel into the proceedings, and Page commenced one of his most compelling guitar solos of the evening, his instrument dancing to the rhythms established by Bonham and Jones.
It closed as did so many other numbers, in a cacophonous explosion that rendered meaningless the phrase "wall of sound", often used to describe loud rock; this was a pyramid, an Empire State Building, an Everest of sound. (San Diego Union, 3.11.75)
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2013 "Disability Worlds", Annual Rev Anthropology (with Faye Ginsburg).42: 53-68.
2012 "Disability Worlds" in Marcia Inhorn and Emily Wertzel, eds. Medical Anthropology at the Crossroads. Duke Univ. Press: 163-182.. (with Faye Ginsburg)
2011 "Reproductive Entanglements: Body, State and Culture in the Dys/Regulation of Child-Bearing" (Review Essay). Social Research 78: 693-718.
2011 "A Child Surrounds This Brain: the Future of Neurological Difference According to Scientists, Parents, and Diagnosed Young Adults in Martyn Pickersgill & Ira Vankeulen eds., Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences. London: Emerald: 3-26.
2011 "Reverberations: Disability and the Kinship Imaginary". Anthropological Quarterly, 84 (2): 379-410. (with Faye Ginsburg)
2011 "Chasing Science: Children's Brains, Scientific Technologies, Family Participation" Science, Technology & Human Values, 36 (5): 662-684.
2011 "The Paradox of Recognition: Success or Stigma for Children with Learning Disabilities". In Janice McLaughlin et al, eds. Recognition and Citizenship. Palgrave. (with Faye Ginsburg), pp 166-186.
2010 "The Human Nature of Disability". American Anthropologist Dec. 112 (4) 518. (with Faye Ginsburg).
2010 "The Social Distribution of Moxie" Disability Studies Quarterly June 30 (2): 1-12. (with Faye Ginsburg)
2010 "Enabling Disability: Rewriting Kinship, Reimagining Citizenship" in Lennard J. Davis, ed, The Disability Studies Reader, 3rd ed. NY: Routledge, pp. 237-253 (with Faye Ginsburg). Reprint of 2001.
2007 "Anthropologists Are Talking About Feminist Anthropology: Louise Lamphere, Rayna Rapp, Gayle Rubin". Roundtable, Ethnos 72 (3): 408-426
2007: "Enlarging Reproduction, Screening Disability" in Marcia Inhorn, ed. Disrupted Reproduction.BergenHahn Press: 98-121. (with Faye Ginsburg).
2007 "Imagining Gender Futures". Anthropology Newsletter May 48 (5) 5-6.
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2005 "Commentary: The Eclipse of the Gene and the Return of Divination" by Margaret Lock. Current Anthropology 46: S64-65.
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2001 "Genealogical Dis-ease: Where Hereditary Abnormality, Biomedical Explanation, and Family Responsibility Meet". In Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon, eds. Relative Values: Reconfiguring Kinship Studies. Duke University Press, pp. 384-409. (with Deborah Heath and Karen Sue Taussig)
2001 "Gender, Body, Biomedicine: How Some Feminist Concerns Dragged Reproduction to the Center of Social Theory". Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 15 (4): 466-477.
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For the last six years, Faye Ginsburg and I have pursued a research project on cultural innovation in special education in New York City; we were fortunate to receive initial funding from both the Spencer Foundation and NYU's Institute for the Study of Human Development and Social Change. In addition to our joint work among media, legal, and educational innovators on this growing sector, I am now conducting fieldwork in scientific laboratories on brain research about learning, memory, childhood psychiatric diagnoses and epigenetics. Of course, kinship relations lie at the heart of our project, and we are interviewing families across a wide array of social locations who have had the experience of having a child diagnosed with special educational categories and services. We see this as a particularly promising arena for understanding unanticipated cultural activism around gender, racial-ethnic, class and kinship claims on citizenship. Our new fieldwork concerns the rise of disability consciousness. We argue for an explicitly anthropological perspective on the growing public awareness and mediated diversity of "All Kinds of Minds" (to quote a famous and popular book on the subject) in U.S. families and communities. One of my contributions to this research involves intensive fieldwork at a pediatric neuroscience laboratory, where theories about childhood ADHD, Learning Disabilities, and other conditions are increasingly being folded into collaborations to produce "Big Data" on "Small Kids".
Forthcoming articles co-authored with Faye Ginsburg include:
2014 "'Not Dead Yet': Changing Disability Imaginaries in the 21st
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By Brian Rice
KODAK, Tenn. -- The Tampa Bay Rays organization stood by Matt Ramsey.
The team selected the former Tennessee Volunteer and Knoxville native in the 19th round of the 2011 Major League Baseball Amateur draft, knowing that an arm injury would require Tommy John surgery and delay the start of his professional career by at least a year.
The Rays brought him along slowly at first, allowing him to debut in rookie ball the following year in the Gulf Coast League. He made 11 appearances in 2012 for the GCL Rays, finishing with a 2-1 record and an impressive 1.98 ERA. He split the 2013 season between the Rays' A-level team in Bowling Green, Kentucky and the Advanced-A team in Charlotte before earning a spot on the opening day roster of the AA Montgomery Biscuits in 2014.
The rise through the ranks may seem natural, but for a pitching prospect, the timeline of the progression could be considered meteoric. Those facts made it all the more curious when Tampa Bay dealt Ramsey to the Miami Marlins on July 7.
"It's a weird feeling," Ramsey said. "When I first got the news from my manager in Montgomery, I thought it was a joke, I didn't know what to think. You're saying goodbye to a whole team that you've been with all year, then to meet a whole new group of guys and being in a different organization."
The trade itself was also a little untraditional. The Marlins gave up three international bonus slots, figures that go into a pool of money that the club can use to sign international prospects, in exchange for Ramsey.
In the long term, the trade could help speed up Ramsey's ascent in the pro baseball ranks, a tough task considering how brisk the journey already has been. In the immediate term, it allowed him to spend a little more time in the area where his baseball career blossomed.
Ramsey won a state championship at Farragut High School before a distinguished career both on the mound and at the plate at Tennessee. But after establishing himself as Tennessee's closer as a sophomore in 2010, Ramsey's junior season on the hill was cut short after an arm injury in early April that limited him to nine appearances. At the plate, he appeared in 33 games with a .229 average before the injury.
But as a minor leaguer, Ramsey hadn't even played in the state of Tennessee until this season. That changed on June 29 when the Biscuits visited the Tennessee Smokies. He didn't appear in the first game of the series, but threw the final three innings of game two to pick up his third win of the season by allowing just one hit while striking out four. Three days later, he struck out three in a pair of scoreless frames in a 16-inning marathon, a 4-3 win for the Biscuits.
Following the trade to Jacksonville, Ramsey was in Florida just long enough to make his debut for the Suns, two innings of hitless relief in a 3-2 loss, before boarding the bus for East Tennessee once again for a Jacksonville five-game series against the Smokies.
Back at home in Tennessee, if only for a few days, is a great experience for Ramsey and for the family, friends and fans that helped in building his career. But it's just another gift that the game of baseball has given him.
"It's been a pretty neat experience, playing with guys from all over the world," Ramsey said of moving up in the baseball world. "It's a neat experience and you see guys from all walks of life. The competition is definitely better, you just have to go out and do your thing."


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