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Jan 27, 2013 at 9:44 am #1298468
Cary DwigginsMember
@cary75Locale: NW
I have never correctly hung a bear bag. I've been thinking about it, so I dragged my 13 year old to the local woods to practice. We tried for an hour to get our line over our chosen branch, to no avail. I've decided that bear bagging is only for strong tall men, or at least those with better arms than my son and me. This is why my bear bag attempts have been so pathetic when out in the backcountry. My attempts have only achieved a hang that most bears could probably reach if they wanted to. I have only attempted the PCT method, as I don't believe any other method would be successful in its purpose.
Should I just give up and get an Ursack? There is no way a bear vault would fit my family's trash, pots and food. It's not like I'm traveling places where they are required. But I have done the Rogue River in Oregon (and saw several bears), and of course used their bear repellant areas where possible.
CaryJan 27, 2013 at 10:04 am #1947648
James ReillySpectator
@zippymoroccoLocale: Montana
Have you tried a rock pouch? I've not used them myself but am sure they would help a lot.Jan 27, 2013 at 10:07 am #1947652
W I S N E R !BPL Member
I don't know what to recommend for bear bagging other than more practice. I'd put in the time to do that rather than carry a bear container if it's not required.
But as for your assumption that an Ursack would give you more room than a canister, I'm not sure that makes a big difference. They weigh less for an equivalent volume, but they're not huge.
You mention not being able to fit trash, pots, and food.
Pots don't need to go into a bear container; just wash them.
As for trash, if you're talking food trash and wrappers, what starts as a full food package in your canister take up far less space as an empty wrapper…plus you can repackage and consolidate things at home to produce less trash. I can typically finish a week long trip with only one quart-sized ziplock of trash at the end.Jan 27, 2013 at 10:15 am #1947656
Ben CBPL Member
@alexdrewreedLocale: Kentucky
If you don't have a rock pouch, I would try one.
Site selection is key too. Spend more time looking for a good tree than you spend throwing rocks.Jan 27, 2013 at 10:43 am #1947666
Cary DwigginsMember
@cary75Locale: NW
I do have a rock pouch. I just simply can't throw high enough. I'm sore from all of our throwing:p. Any branch that I can manage to get my pouch over results in a hang that I can almost reach from the ground. Also, I take my kids out with me, so we create quite a bit of trash.
I was wishing for some sort of launcher to get my rock bag over the branch.
I know I'm completely pathetic. I can't even lift my 130 lb self up for a single pull- up.Jan 27, 2013 at 10:51 am #1947670
Randy NelsonBPL Member
@rlnunixLocale: Rockies
Definitely use a throw sack. Probably like most people, my line is kept it and the mini-biner clipped to it. So it's kind of dual purpose.
I've played baseball and softball a good portion of my life, but for bear bagging, I toss it up underhand. My bag will hold a rock a little smaller than fist size and I try to find one that will pretty much fill it. Don't get very far away from the branch. Just toss it up and over. And be ready to get out of the way of a miss or toss that bounce off the branch. It doesn't take much arm strength to underhand a decent weight rock 20-30 feet up. Use your legs for a little more power.
When I've seen people struggle with it, they are usually standing well away from the branch and trying to overhand it. Makes for a longer, tougher throw.Jan 27, 2013 at 11:15 am #1947677
Bob GrossMember
@b-g-2-2Locale: Silicon Valley
Years ago, before we had bear canisters, there was the Yosemite method of bear bagging. This is the two-rope-two-bag method. Still, you have to get the first line up in the tree.
Some people recruit a friend with a baseball throwing arm to go along and throw the first line. Some use the overhand throw. Some use the underhand throw. Some sling it like David and Goliath.
If you are trying to throw a rock in a roch pouch with a big rope behind it, you will have great difficulty. If you do it with a teeny tiny cord, it is much easier. Part of that comes from having the cord laid out on the ground between you and the tree branch, so the cord can be "taken up" without any snags. Once you get the first cord up over the branch, it can be used to pull up a heavier cord if that is needed.
For one particular campsite, I knew that there was only one suitable tree to use. For it, I could stand uphill from the branch so that I didn't have to throw the cord so far up. I threw it more outward, and that made it a lot easier.
If you start your baseball throwing exercises now, your arm will be ready in time for backpacking season. Think of this as spring training camp.
If all else fails, you could get a big bear canister. No throwing required.
–B.G.–Jan 27, 2013 at 11:32 am #1947687
Paul McLaughlinBPL Member
My first piece of advice is get a canister. I gave up on bear bagging myself after I got tired of having to camp where the trees were suited for hanging instead of camping where I wanted to. As others have mentioned, pots don't need to be in the canister – just wash them and leave them out. A bear may sniff them, even lick them, but no damage will be done if they are away from where you sleep. Trash is more a matter of management – after all, the trash can't take up more volume than the food did when it was in the package, right?
However – if you must hang, you need to learn to sling your rock up into the tree. Which means using a rock sack,and swinging the rope around in a circle to get up momentum, and then releasing at the right moment and angle so that the rock goes where you want it to. It will take a lot of practice, but it will allow you to get the rock higher than you can throw it.Jan 27, 2013 at 12:25 pm #1947701
John HarperBPL Member
@johnnyh88Locale: The SouthWest
I gave up on bear bagging and bought an Ursack. I don't regret it one bit. Not wasting 15-30 minutes every day hanging my food, looking for a good tree, and getting frustrated is worth the weight penalty to me (about 4-5 oz). Additionally, I honestly could not always find a good tree and had several sub-par hangs. You don't always have many choices when in a canyon. I figure a bear has less chance of getting into my food with an Ursack than with a poor hang, which is better for both the bear and me.Jan 27, 2013 at 1:23 pm #1947722
Jerry AdamsBPL Member
@retiredjerryLocale: Oregon and Washington
I don't get it
Loop line around rock several times and tie with taut line hitch, pull tight.
Throw over branch – maybe under handed.
Maybe it takes several throws. Maybe it comes off the rock and you have to re-tie. Maybe you have to select a different rock that is shaped better. Good for a laugh or two at pathetic throwing, rock selection, and tieing skills.
But, I mainly just go in PNW where bears aren't that big a problem. Rodents are the main culprits and maybe Raccoons.Jan 27, 2013 at 4:22 pm #1947768
Hiking MaltoBPL Member
"I do have a rock pouch. I just simply can't throw high enough. I'm sore from all of our throwing:p. Any branch that I can manage to get my pouch over results in a hang that I can almost reach from the ground. Also, I take my kids out with me, so we create quite a bit of trash."
Don't use a 5 lb rock!!!!! :).
Agree with the others, the key is finding that perfect tree and a bit of practice. Just don't wack yourself in the head with the rock.Jan 27, 2013 at 5:39 pm #1947794
David ThomasBPL Member
@davidinkenaiLocale: North Woods. Far North.
I, too, hate having a sore shoulder from repeatedly attempting to throw a fair-sized rock again and again.
"However – if you must hang, you need to learn to sling your rock up into the tree. Which means using a rock sack,and swinging the rope around in a circle to get up momentum, and then releasing at the right moment and angle so that the rock goes where you want it to. It will take a lot of practice, but it will allow you to get the rock higher than you can throw it."
Yup, that's the ticket. Imagine Ayla from Clan of the Cave Bear, whipping a stone in a sling around her head before accurately casting it to dispatch a hyena or scare off a cave lion (backpackers were tougher back then!). Then turn that whole assembly 90 degrees – not a horizontal circle but a vertical one.
The bigger the circle, the more energy you've pumped into the rock bag and the further it will fly – way too far is easy to do. To allow a bigger circle, you can stand on a flat log or boulder to get a few more feet off the ground.
Rock bags (versus a cord around a rock) are especially good for the sling technical. Because the rock gets traveling FAST and if it comes loose, it could veer off and hit someone or go straight up and put yourself at risk.
You can lay our the extra line towards the target tree so it doesn't get tangled as you release the rock.
Try this at home only if you have a very large yard. Otherwise, find an empty field or park.
You've a got a kid along? Make a game of it. Put a target up in a tree at home and have the kids compete to see who can hit it first / most often / hardest. Then they'll have the timing and rock speed to arc over the desired branch. They also be all sighted in, should there be a bear on that branch late at night. THAT'S when I really throw my arm out – throwing heavy rocks as hard as I can at the bear.Jan 28, 2013 at 7:37 am #1947958
Kevin BabioneBPL Member
@kbabioneLocale: Pennsylvania
I use a rock sack and get the line going in a 2-foot diameter loop in a forward direction (my natural inclination was to loop backward). It doesn't take too long for you to realize the point where you need to release the line (right around 11:00) to get the arc you need to go up and over your branch. One of my friends could only loop it backwards so he'd walk past the target branch and actually release the rock sack backwards over his head.
I've used this to go over branches 20-25 feet in the air and it only takes a try or two now.
With that said, our group policy is that the new guy (if there is one) is responsible for putting the line over the branch. It's usually good for a laugh or two.Jan 28, 2013 at 7:55 am #1947964
Mike VBPL Member
@deadboxLocale: Midwest
I am unsure why you are having trouble with a PCT hang unless you are trying for a branch that is over 25' up or you are using way too heavy rock(s). Try to keep the weight of the throw sack to less than a baseball and throwing 15'-25' up should not be difficult, even if you do not have much upper body strength. Also don't stand directly under the branch, throwing at an angle is much easier than strait up, also this makes it less likely to hit yourself with a rock!
Here is a helpful link for how to use the PCT method. Happy hiking!
http://www.bsa69.com/backpackingmb/hanging-a-bear-bag.pngJan 29, 2013 at 10:00 am #1948418
Brian LewisMember
@brianleLocale: Pacific NW
In the real world, most bear bag hangs don't look as neat and nice as do the illustrations you might see on a powerpoint slide in a beginning backpacking class or in a book about backpacking. The majority of hangs I've seen range from inadequate to pathetic, given that black bears evolved to climb trees. Flight responses from black bears I've encountered are more typically of the "run away" sort, but I've definitely seen them climb the closest tree instead, quite quickly and effectively.
In that context, I think that it's better to carry an Ursack. Use an odor proof liner, and follow the instructions and recommendations.
Of course use an approved canister when hiking in areas that require those. But in contrast to hanging food, an Ursack is in general a superior way I think for the average person. Not only to have an easier time of it with this otherwise frustrating and sometimes time consuming issue, but to do a better job of keeping bears from getting to your food — with all the unfortunate consequences that entails for future hikers, and for the bear(s) involved.'
Hmm, while the above could be read as me being a paid shill for Ursack, I'm not — no connection, I just think it's generally a better compromise. Maybe I would see this differently if I hiked more in areas with lots of deciduous trees of the sort that have long strong branches.Jan 29, 2013 at 12:53 pm #1948477
Mary DBPL Member
@hikinggrannyLocale: Gateway to Columbia River Gorge
I also use an Ursack unless a bear canister is required. As Brian says, it's really important to use an odor resistant sack inside the Ursack. Thanks to arthritis and a general lack of skill, I can't throw and I never could hit the side of a barn when inside it anyway.
Do note that there are a few places where bears have learned that any hanging bag is a piñata but canisters are, for some reason, not required. For those, I recommend a canister or at least a really good high hang. Otherwise the bears will keep after the Ursack for hours until they get finally inside.
As with any other item, it's really important to follow the directions exactly. If the opening of the Ursack isn't closed tight, the mice and birds will get in even if a bear doesn't!
And no, there's no way you'll get your pots inside; the space in an Ursack is similar to the large Bear Vault or Bearikade Weekender. Wash the pots or use the "Freezer Bag" method in which you rehydrate in the plastic bag containing your dinner and your pot only contains water (see http://www.trailcooking.com for details). You can cut trash to a minimum by repackaging at home. Remember that the amount of space used by the food is (or should be) far more than the volume of your trash. That's been true even when my grandkids have come along on the trip.
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I often hear a person should never shoot one brand of paint over another. They say use a single system from start to finish.
How can companies like MS stay in business as no OEM uses thier product? Do repair shops not use MS products or ?
Martin Senour products ARE Sherwin Williams. Not just "made by" Sherwin Williams, we are talking exact same product with a different label on the can, same batch code, same exact product.
But this is all a moot point because the products that are used in production aren't even available to repair shop or anyone else as a rule. They are applied in a way that no repair shop could apply it, they are different products.
The manufactures have accepted products that they recommend, from every manufacturer who has spent the time and money to get that ok. When I was a rep for MS I had a book with all the products oked by the big manufacturers like GM and Ford, a list of Dupont, S-W (MS) PPG, Sikkens, products.
Now, that all being said, applying a PPG primer over the OEM Dupont paint isn't a problem at all. Even applying your Dupont paint over the PPG paint that was painted on you car 10 years ago after an accident. That really isn't an issue at all.
Applying a product over a different manufacturers fully cured product isn't a big deal, it's insoluble (if it's a good product) It's when you are asking the products to intermix, like a clear over another brand of basecoat, that is a HUGE no-no. The base isn't fully cured or dried even, and you are applying another clear over it, not good.
If you are mixing products, what tech sheet do you follow?
HOWEVER, you "can" do it, hell yes you can.
Pro's who know WHAT these products are can get away with it, for instance you are spraying a paint over an epoxy primer of a different manufacturer you follow the tech sheet on the epoxy primer and then you follow the paint's tech sheet as it may refer to spraying over THAT companies epoxy primer. This isn't "that" big of a deal, but it is opening up the door a little bit for trouble.
Your typical quality shop is going to use the same products start to finish, they have a warranty provided by that company BECAUSE they are using all their products. The painters have been trained by them, their products are all that is in the shop, and for this they get a life time warranty like at the shop I work at.
Does it mean the shop isn't a good shop if they mix some products, no not at all. But as a rule, as a rep, funny things often happen in those shops, we called them "Junior chemists" and they had problems, OFTEN. It wasn't so much that they used a different primer or something, it was that they were VERY open to making their own rules, the different primer by it's self wasn't a issue, it was that opened a door, that was just an example of the other hair balled things they did.
If you want to eliminate issues, if you want your project to go as smooth as you can, you stick with all the same products as they are suggested on the tech sheets.
For the home hobbiest, follow the tech sheets, use all the same products from one line and you are going to be WAY better off.
This is a great question and I hope some others will chime in because I look forward to hearing all sides of this discussion.....I have been guilty of using PPG base and dupont clear, as well as using standox base coat and PPG clear. Plus there are apparently shops using SPI products for primer and clear with the quality base coats (mostly BASF from what I understand) of their choice with Barrett-Jackson type results. So is it really a big issue to mix primers, bases and clears as long as all of them are quality products? Now I should say I am referring to compatible and quality products from different manufacturers
well then I'm screwed, as I have 3 gallons of duponts top line clear and the reducers and cat. that is before the "envo" 2k stuff..
it was like a c-note a gallon jobber then (late 1999) + reducer + cat.
If I'm using a clear I'd use that brand's activator but reducer not so important, but do try to keep it in line. I don't put much emphasis on having the same brand base as clear, but probably would if I had a lot more money cause in that case I'd get the top of the line all across the board, and the same brand, with the exception of blockable primers, but from sealer on it would be same brand.
This is an interesting thread. The way I see it is if a custom paintjob gets damaged and ends up at a body shop to be repaired that shop most likely will not know what brand of paint was used originally. So if a fender or door or quarter have to be blended, they are going to use their brand of paint over the original shoot. So that throws out keep all the same brands with out cross mixing out the window. I have done jobs that were all PPG all the way through as well as mixing transtar primers with ppg bases then prospray clears. As long as you don't mix different brands of activators with others hardeners you should be safe enough. And also follow that brands tech sheets with flash times and mix ratios. Now if your shooting a ppg clear and run out half way through the job and try to finish it of while it is still wet with a different brand of clear, now your introducing a good recipe for disaster as your now mixing different chemicals while still in the flash stage of the paint. But to use a sealer of one brand then a base of another then a clear of yet another, happens a lot of the time. Sure ideally it is nice to work with all the same paint line all the way through, but the truth is that does not always happen.
This is a funny subject, sooo many different opinions. First off, you have the people who throw around the "compatible" word. When there is a failure on a forum you will see someone throw out the "your paint wasn't compatible with the primer" or something like that. Seldom is it really an issue IF the replacement is in the same family as the one you should be using.
I am going to throw names out there randomly, they mean nothing other than to make a point.
For instance, if you were shooting PPG urethane primer for surfacing that you are then going to shoot Dupont paint over it, it's still urethane primer what difference could there be from using the Dupont Urethane primer? It isn't like you are using house paint or something, it's urethane primer for goodness sakes. But then you have someone who swears by that PPG urethane primer it is so much better than the Dupont so they are going to use it. Think about this, if it is SOOO much better, than it IS "different" in some way right?
But tell me, why not just use all the same products? Why mix and match at all?
If there is one thing I learned as a paint rep, most every company sells a pretty similar product, if you are comparing apples and apples. Sure if you used some PPG value line paint and it didn't cover very well and then you shot some Dupont top the line paint it covers way better so you want to use the Dupont over that PPG primer. Why not just get the top of the line PPG paint? If you are comparing apples and oranges of course they may appear to be miles different, the apples and apples are way closer, if not pretty much the same.
I went around to shops all over the state of California (mostly northern Cal) and saw every brand there is performing perfectly for people.That old "Oh XXXX paint sucks, it's horrible" stuff cracked me up. Oh yeah I would think to my self, XXXX is horrible, that's why there are 50 thousand shops in America using it, your COMPETITOR is using it and he is putting out twice the work you are, oh yeah, it's junk.
No paint rep can walk into a shop and blow them away with some product that is far better than what that shop COULD be using in their paint line. I say could be because often they were using some out dated junk like Dupont lacquer primer painting tractors and you come in and show them epoxy and blow their minds. They could have done the same thing with the Dupont, but the Dupont rep didn't show them the epoxy.
So if most any paint line (apples and apples remember) can give you a good system, why mix and match? If you want cheap, go with the value line if you want top of the line go with the top of the line. If you want super durable go with the "fleet" line that they sell to trucking companies.
Choose apples or oranges and then go with the whole line, why not?
I've always mixed products since I started. And even more in the last ohh 10 years, since the majors have got so ridiculous on prices. And the majors value lines suck, I feel there are much better products from some smaller companies that are around the same price is the majors value lines. Can't remember any catastrophes in all the years mixing brands. Of course there are certain things you should never mix. One companys hardener usually doesn't work in a different companies paint, and many different mixing ratios out ther. You should always should use the correct hardeners for what you are using (there are companies that actually make hardeners to use in certain ppg, dupont ect paints, but I've never used them) About the only thing I've used a different brand hardener in is enamel at some jobs that had a universal hardener.
And certain lines you must use there reducer in, because there are more then just solvents in their reducer. Dupont chromabase, crossfire, reactive reducer. If its a line you could use another reducer in without it causing major problems, you must use a high enough grade of reducer. You should never use something like ppg omni reducer in ppg deltron line, although you could use Deltron reducer in omni.
But all in all, I find most companys undercoats and topcoats are pretty compatable with one another, so long as you mix the product you are using itself with the proper stuff. Of course, they would like you to use only their product, more sales for them. They do design products to work together, but you can mix lines. No blowups I remember mixing products yet that I remember anyways. You won't get any warranty, but unless you are some big shop with an account, probably wouldn't anyways.
Now if using certain things like rust convertors and other so called miracle products, well all bets are off.
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The thing of it is even if you stay in the same paint line there is always a rare chance you will still have a problem. I have a friend that works in a body shop in the boston area and has been doing body and paint a long time, so occasionally he will work on one of his own cars when things slow down a little. This plymouth he did about a year ago, was done with all high end PPG, no cross mixing. A few days after it was painted he went to blow off some dust out of the engine compartment and don't you know the clear just blew right off the car in sheets. Now this is a guy that does this day in and day out, using one line of paint and still has a problem and a big deal at that. Of course his jobber supplied all new base and clear, but he was stuck on all labor. So just because you stick with all the same high or low end paint lines don't think that some freak incident can't occur.
if there wasn't "fear" of one brand not working with someone elses,
no shop would stock or spray "sealer"
they'd just prime..
so the b/s that it doesn't matter is b/s.. as you'd skip the use of sealer and save both time and money..
anyone that says it don't matter, ask if they are spray'n a sealer coat. if they are, they were talking out their corn hole..
[QUOTE=mr4speed;1627435]This is an interesting thread. The way I see it is if a custom paintjob gets damaged and ends up at a body shop to be repaired that shop most likely will not know what brand of paint was used originally. So if a fender or door or quarter have to be blended, they are going to use their brand of paint over the original shoot. So that throws out keep all the same brands with out cross mixing out the window. I have done jobs that were all PPG all the way through as well as mixing transtar primers with ppg bases then prospray clears. As long as you don't mix different brands of activators with others hardeners you should be safe enough. And also follow that brands tech sheets with flash times and mix ratios. Now if your shooting a ppg clear and run out half way through the job and try to finish it of while it is still wet with a different brand of clear, now your introducing a good recipe for disaster as your now mixing different chemicals while still in the flash stage of the paint. But to use a sealer of one brand then a base of another then a clear of yet another, happens a lot of the time. Sure ideally it is nice to work with all the same paint line all the way through, but the truth is that does not always happen.
Thats what I was trying to say just worded much much better . I don't for see a problem as long as the activators arent switched around randomly mixing things. Or trying to "wet on wet" with two different products. I guess this is like the ford, chevy, dodge argument....everyone has their own opinion and reasons for them. Just like some shops swear by PPG, or dupont, glasurit etc.
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A decade ago, most people only knew about sweatshops through what they had read in history books. Today, people read about sweatshops in their daily newspapers. The sweatshop, once thought to be a relic of another time, has returned with a vengeance.
The resurgence of the sweatshop can be directly linked to the expansion of corporate globalization. The sweatshop is both metaphor for and proof of the lawlessness and inequities of the new global economy.
Every new sweatshop exposé raises new doubts about who corporate globalization is really benefiting.
The Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) will drastically accelerate corporate globalization in the Americas, giving more power to multinational corporations at the expense of ordinary citizens. This will likely spread sweatshop-style production to more countries. As dog-eat-dog competition among countries increases, workers will likely see their already-low wages drop even further and their already-assaulted rights face even more threats.
What Is a Sweatshop?
There are several different ways to define a sweatshop. According to the US Department of Labor, a sweatshop is any factory that violates more than one of the fundamental US labor laws, which include paying a minimum wage and keeping a time card, paying overtime, and paying on time. The Union of Needletrades Industrial and Textile Employees (UNITE), the US garment workers union, says any factory that does not respect workers' right to organize an independent union is a sweatshop. Global Exchange and other corporate accountability groups in the anti-sweatshop movement would add to this definition any factory that does not pay its workers a living wage—that is, a wage that can support the basic needs of a small family.
In the popular mind, a sweatshop is identified with hard work. And, in fact, garment manufacturing's reliance on human labor helps explain why apparel factories are so often sweatshops.
The softness of the garments used to make our clothes, along with the complicated patterns involved, means that apparel production doesn't easily lend itself to mechanization. For more than 150 years, the sewing machine has been, and today remains, the best way of making clothes. The basic method of garment production continues to be a worker, usually a woman, sitting or standing at a sewing machine and piecing together portions of cloth. Every blouse, every pair of jeans, every t-shirt, and every pair of shoes has to be tailored by a person doing the work. Everything we wear is made by someone.
To keep labor costs low, apparel shop owners usually pay workers a "piece rate." That means workers don't get paid by the hour. Rather, their wage is based on the number of items—shirts, shoes, socks—they complete in a shift. If workers hope to earn a decent income, they have to work hard, and they have to work long. Basically, they have to sweat.
What Kinds of Abuses Do Workers Face?
Around the world, garment workers spend dozens upon dozens of hours a week at their sewing machines to make the clothes and shoes that eventually end up on retailers' shelves. Verbal, physical and sexual abuse are common. Workplace injuries occur regularly. The wages are low. And when workers try to organize to defend their interests and assert their dignity, their efforts are invariably repressed. In country after country, the stories are hauntingly the same.
Workers at a plant in El Salvador, for example, say they are frequently required to work mandatory overtime as they sew jerseys for the National Basketball Association, according to the National Labor Committee, an anti-sweatshop group. That means they often put in 11-hour shifts, six days a week. If the workers at that factory refuse to work overtime, they lose a day's pay. Workers making jeans in Mexico say that sometimes they are forced to work all night shifts, and are prevented from the leaving the factory by armed security guards.
"I spend all day on my feet, working with hot vapor that usually burns my skin, and by the end of the day my arms and shoulders are in pain," a Mexican worker, Alvaro Saavedra Anzures, has told labor rights investigators. "We have to meet the quota of 1,000 pieces per day. That translates to more than a piece every minute. The quota is so high that we cannot even go to the bathroom or drink water or anything for the whole day."
In the grueling atmosphere of desperate cost-cutting by corporations, work is accorded little value and, by extension, workers are afforded little dignity. Viewed more as production units than as people, sweatshop workers regularly suffer abuse and intimidation from factory supervisors. "They don't respect us as human beings," a Nicaraguan worker has told anti-sweatshop groups.
Verbal abuse is particularly common, and workers regularly report being harassed and bullied by shop managers. Workers who managers think are not working fast enough are usually the target of shouting and yelling. Physical abuse is also not unusual. Workers in at a factory in Mexico making collegiate apparel for Reebok and Nike have said managers there regularly hit them and slap them, according to the Workers' Rights Consortium.
Sexual abuse is endemic. Most garment workers are women, the vast majority of them young women in their teens or twenties who have left their homes for the first time so that they can earn money to send back to their families.
According to Human Rights Watch, in the maquiladoras along the US-Mexico border, factory managers who want to weed out pregnant workers so they can avoid having to pay maternity benefits force women workers to prove they are menstruating, a demeaning procedure that is against Mexican laws. Mandatory pregnancy tests are also common in El Salvador, and women who test positive are fired, also in violation of that country's laws.
Workplace injuries and exposure to toxic chemicals also pose a daily risk to apparel workers. To prevent workers from stealing the items they are producing, factories sometimes lock the plant's doors and windows, creating a fire hazard. In many factories, workers are not given masks to put over their noses and mouths, exposing them to tiny cloth fibers that get stuck in the lungs or dangerous glues.
But What Kind of Jobs?
Whenever a debate about corporate globalization and sweatshops arise, defenders of the status quo will almost always say: Sure a sweatshop is bad, but at least it gives people jobs they wouldn't have otherwise. The response to this short sighted argument is: But what kind of jobs? Yes, poor people want jobs. But they also want to be treated with dignity and respect. It's always worthwhile to give people new opportunities. The problem is that sweatshops don't provide real opportunities because the corporations are so determined to keep wages low.
The shantytowns of the free trade zones and the squalid dormitories connected to garment plants reveal that a sweatshop is defined as much by the factory itself as by what surrounds the factory. That is, the corporations may have invested in their factories, but they have not invested in the workers.
In their drive to keep consumer prices low, sales numbers growing, and post profits that will please investors on Wall Street, the US retail industry has become more ruthlessly competitive year after year. As the retailers put pressure on their subcontractor manufacturers to keep prices down, the manufacturers in turn squeeze the costs out of the workers, forcing them to work harder for less. The big losers are the workers—the people actually making the products.
According to the National Labor Committee, a worker in El Salvador earns about 24 cents for each NBA jersey she makes, which then sells for $140 in the US. A Global Exchange investigation revealed that workers in Mexico producing jeans for the Gap earn as little as 28 cents an hour. In poorer countries such as Haiti and Nicaragua, the wages are even lower.
In their efforts to attract investment, developing countries deliberately keep their wages low. While multinational corporations often say that workers are paid the local minimum wage, the minimum wages are set at a poverty level, rarely high enough to support a family or allow a person to save for the future.
The 60 cents an hour the Salvadoran NBA seamstresses earn is only about a third of the cost of living, and even the Salvadoran government says this wage leaves a worker in "abject poverty." Likewise, the women making Gap jeans say they would have to earn about three times what they do to support their families. When Nike workers at seven of the company's subcontractor plants in Central and South America were asked about their earnings, two thirds said they didn't make enough to save or support others, according to a study funded by Nike itself.
But if the conditions and wages in sweatshop are so terrible, why to workers tolerate it? Often they don't. In countries around the world, garment workers have sought to improve their situation by trying to organize unions. Those efforts are almost always crushed. Union organizers have been beaten, thrown in jail, blacklisted, and even killed. In some countries, such as Mexico, the government often cooperates with factory owners as they try to bust organizing drives. In a few countries with strong labor histories, such as Nicaragua and the Philippines, unions are tolerated, but not in the "free trade" zones where most sweatshops are located. In these manufacturing zones, workers are expected to leave their liberty at the factory gates.
"We're not against foreign investment in Nicaragua," a worker there has told rights groups. "But we are against exploitation."
Sweatshops, the New Global Economy, and the Race-to-the-Bottom
The signature characteristic of the new global economy is the increased mobility and flexibility given to finance capital. Corporations now have more freedom than ever before to locate to whatever countries will provide the lowest wages and the loosest regulations, thereby keeping the company's costs in check. The retail industry has taken advantage of this new dynamic like few other business sectors.
If sweatshops have become a metaphor for globalization's excesses, that's because garment factories are, in fact, the shock troops of the global economy. Visit a country that has just recently opened itself up to foreign investment, and you will likely find a host of garment factories, even if there are very few other multinational enterprises located there. Nicaragua and Cambodia are a typical examples—poor, war-torn countries that have attracted scores of garment manufacturers but very little else in the way of foreign investment. Low tech, intensely dependent on cheap labor, clothing manufacturing is the crest of the corporate globalization wave.
Separate forces meet in a shameful mix: A footloose industry scours the world for the cheapest wages; countries eager for any kind of investment auction off their workers to the lowest bidder; government regulators deliberately look the other way when abuses occur in order to keep foreign investors happy. It's that combination of desperate profit-seeking and equally desperate investment pursuit which has created the race to the bottom that is at the root of the sweatshop resurgence.
For workers, the current system is a trap. The apparel manufacturers fear that if they raise their workers' wages, and therefore their prices to the US retailers, the US retailers will simply go someplace with even cheaper workers. The threat is real. Because the garment industry is so mobile, and because the purchasing ability off the retailers is so flexible—they can shift sourcing from one country to another in a matter of a fashion season—any country that raises its wages or enforces its workers' rights risks is, as mainstream economists say, "pricing itself out of the market." That risk is what keeps wages low as long as the retail corporations demand the cheapest price possible.
The race to the to the bottom is happening. Regardless of which country they live in, garment workers endure the same long hours, the same hard work in demeaning environments, and same small wages.
NAFTA, the FTAA and Sweatshops
So-called "free trade" agreements such as NAFTA have exacerbated this race-to-the-bottom. NAFTA is, in a sense, an "investors rights" treaty. That is, it gives investors new abilities to move production facilities and finished goods and services across international borders while providing investors with guarantees that governments won't get in the way of their business.
Lower tariff rates and the elimination of import quotas make it easier for goods and services to move across borders. At the same time, NAFTA's rules have given corporations assurances that government regulations won't interfere with their operations. NAFTA gave corporations new legal rights to sue national governments for the enactment of policies that can undermine their profits.
The changes wrought by NAFTA gave US and Canadian corporations new incentives to relocate factories to Mexico, where wages are lower and labor unions weaker. This contributed to an increase in the number of sweatshops in Mexico.
Corporations have been happy to use the new advantages given them by "free trade" agreements, especially when facing organized work forces in the wealthier countries. According to a study conducted under the auspices of NAFTA's labor side agreement, 90% of 400 plant closings or threatened plant closings in the US in a five-year period occurred illegally in the face of a union organizing drive.
If the FTAA becomes reality, the race-to-the-bottom will accelerate as corporations gain even more ability to move throughout the Western Hemisphere. This will spread sweatshop style production to new places, while making current sweatshops even more miserable as workers are asked to toil for less and less. Under the FTAA, corporations will be able to pit exploited workers in Mexico against even more desperate workers in countries such as Haiti.
In fact, this dismal prospect is already becoming reality. China's entry into the World Trade Organization has led to some companies moving their factories from Mexico to China, where wages are cheaper. Since 2000, about 350 maquilas have left Mexico in search of cheaper labor and looser environmental regulations. Approximately 300 of these have moved to China.
Under the FTAA, the corporations will gain more powers to act without being accountable to their workers, the communities in which they operate, or the public in general. The corporations' gain will come at workers' expense, as more and more people can find only jobs that offer no dignity and provide no opportunity. The FTAA will be a boon for the sweatshop economy.


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I posted some info a while back on my attempts at building a homemade oxalic acid vaporizer and thought that I would provide an update on my progress.
Formerly I tried using a small tuna can and a diesel glow plug. It worked OK, but the heated interval was too small and I just didn't get the amount of vaporization that I was looking for. I am looking for a unit that I can place beneath the screened bottom board of my hives and emit a nice cloud of vapor that will waft up. The tuna can setup just kind of fizzled – not really enough to treat a hive.
I then tried a couple of different household items that may work. Wife's candle melter? Sure, why not? Why the heck doesnt she just light the candles like you are supposed to anyway? I actually got some vaporization, but the temperature was way too low to get much (good thing for me). Note; You can see a partially dismembered heat controller/probe that I retrieved from my wife's electric fondu pot in the lower right corner. I tried some rigging with it, but did not try to test it.
Next up, the old coffee pot in the basement. I made quick work of tearing the guts out, obtaining the heating disk and re-wiring without all of the controls. This worked really good. Not hot enough to thermally destroy the OA, but enough get good vaporization. I also liked the nice large and flat surface area to place the OA on.
Looking good (note it is hard to see the vapor in the picture, but rest assured there was plenty).
Next, off to the hives. The worst part was dragging 200 feet of extension cord (the tuna can ran on 12 volt DC, which was nice). Again the pictures do not come out so good, mainly because the vaporizer was placed in the dark recesses underneath the hive. My hives are up on cinder blocks and the was a slight breeze, so I took a long sheet of poly plastic and some bags of mulch to seal off the area under the hive. This setup worked good enough to keep most of the fumes where they need to be and not vent to the atmosphere. After I was sure that I got good vaporization, I closed up the front of the hive with more plastic and let her rip.
The results? Hello OA and goodbye mites! Yeah me!
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text: We are relatively new beeks, but we have a friend who wants us to remove a hive from a crawlspace that is relatively 8 to 10 inches. This seems to be an enormous hive. They also get relatively hot whenever you bother the hive. It has been in place for two years or there about. The owners are highly allergic and just want us to get them out. We used an engine light and diagnostic camera to look into the hive which really pissed em off but for as far as you can see it is filled with bees. Camera light reaches at least two feet. What is the best options for going in and retrieving this hive. We have a bee vac and boxes to capture them in and have some dishpans to place the comb of brood and honey. I know that as a new beek this probably isn't a great idea but the owner doesn't just want anyone doing it and he said that he really doesn't want them killed. Any help will be appreciated.


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The first Pine River duck races, originally scheduled for June 21, were postponed until June 28 due to high water levels at the Pine River Dam.
Water levels were still high on June 28, but not high enough to postpone the races for another week. Heather Hackler from Mt. Vernon Washington was named dutchess of Duck after four heats and a winner's race.
Duck races will be held every Friday at the Pine River Dam until Aug. 16 starting with registration at 1:45 p.m.


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The latest game in the Dead Space series has just been released, Dead Space 3, and it's on my list of games to play this year. Although it's been a while since I've played Dead Space (1), I can still recall numerous instances where I literally jumped in my chair. I played it mostly at night, lights off, headphones on… and the Creep Factor was always high. As good as any quality horror flick, the sound, lighting, and pacing of this game got my heart racing.
And what a story! Set on the USG Ishimura, you take the role of Isaac Clarke (a nice nod from the game devs to Issac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke) as he explores the derelict ship looking for information, survivors, spare parts, and his girlfriend, a doctor stationed on the Ishimura. I'm going to avoid spoilers (even though the game has been out for five years), but if you like science fiction and horror games, this is one you'll want to hunt down. You can often find it on sale for around $10 on Steam, so keep your eyes open. Continue Reading "The Dead Space Book Roundup" »


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Express-News editor to speak at UTSA Nov. 14
By Marianne McBride Lewis
Associate Director of Public Affairs
(Nov. 10, 2005)--Robert Rivard, UTSA alumnus and editor of the San Antonio Express-News, will read from his first book, "Trail of Feathers: Searching for Philip True," at 3:30 p.m., Monday, Nov. 14 in the Main Building Auditorium (0.106), UTSA 1604 Campus.
Hosted by the UTSA Department of Communication, the reading is free and open to the public. Steven Levitt, associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication, will introduce Rivard.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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"Trail of Feathers" chronicles the murder of Express-News Mexico City correspondent Philip True and the search for justice. Two Huichol Indians murdered True in 1998 during a solo backcountry trek in Western Mexico. Rivard was part of a small search party that found True's body as the result of a trail of feathers leading from the missing reporter's sleeping bag.
Rivard is editor and executive vice president for news at the San Antonio Express-News, a position he has held since 1997.
In 2002, he received journalism's oldest prize, Columbia University's Maria Moors Cabot Prize for Distinguished Journalistic Service. One year earlier, he was named Editor of the Year by Editor and Publisher magazine.
Earlier in his 27-year career, Rivard was the winner of the 1982 Sigma Delta Chi Distinguished Service Award for Foreign Correspondents for his writings from El Salvador during the country's long civil war. All three awards grew out of his work as a journalist in Latin America and along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Read a review of "Trail of Feathers" at MySanAntonio.com.


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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reorganized his governing coalition and canceled a call for elections less than a day after his cabinet agreed to hold them early this September. For Canada, this is welcomed news. Any shift in Israel's government would pose a challenge for this country's Israel policy, which often confuses support for Netanyahu with support for Israel.


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In late summer my observation hive absconded. I caught them back and placed them into a 10 frame deep with a follower board, their original 3 frames and some empties. As the season wrapped up I grew them out a few more frames and then gave them a couple empty drawn combs at harvest...bring them to 8 frames.
I dropped in a frame feeder that took up the remaining space and started feeding. They mostly filled up the empties and and the bulk of their brood frames. I think they are in pretty good shape stores wise.
We have some warm weather today and tomorrow. So i popped the top, pulled the frame feeder and filled the space with a couple of candy frames that got made last winter and the bees didn't use thinking " hey why not they are just lying around"
When I came back in, I realized that the frame feeder had been located on the south (sunny) side of the hive. Now I am wondering if I Should have shifted all the combs over so the cluster could use the sun heat in winter, and placed the sugar frames on the north side...or perhaps just skipped the sugar frames and dropped the follower back in.
I have read that the late-winter/early spring cluster will generaly form against that south wall for daytime heat on those days when cleansing flights might be possible....if this is true it seems I set things up poorly.....


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Item copyright: © Australian War Memorial licensed copyright
|ID number
|Collection type
|Object type
|Black & white - Glass original postcard negative
|Thuillier, Louis
|Place made
|France: Picardie, Somme, Vignacourt
|Date made
|10 January 1917
|Portrait of Chaplain (4th Class) James Patrick Gilbert MC (left), 15th Brigade, from Randwick, NSW and Captain Keith McKeddie Doig MC, 60th Battalion medical officer from Princes Hill, Victoria. Chaplain Gilbert was awarded the Military Cross in January 1917 for actions at Fromelles. Under heavy fire, Chaplain Gilbert had tended the wounded and dying unceasingly for 48 hours. On 1 January 1918 Captain Doig was also awarded the Military Cross, for his courage and devotion to duty during the Somme fighting. The two returned home to Australia.
From the Thuillier collection of glass plate negatives. Taken by Louis and Antoinette Thuillier in Vignacourt, France during the period 1916 to 1918.