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MongoDB, Data Durability and Improvements coming in 1.8
10 January 2011 by Mathias Meyer
Last weekend I tweeted two links to two tweets by a poor guy who apparently got his MongoDB database into an unrecoverable state during shutdown whilst upgrading to a newer version. That tweet quickly made the rounds, and the next morning I saw myself staring at replies stating that it was all his fault, because he 1.) used kill -9 to shut it down because apparently the process hung (my guess is it was in the middle of flushing all data to disk) and 2.) didn't have a slave, just one database instance.
Others went as far as indirectly calling him an
idiot. Oh interwebs, you make me sad. If you check out the
thread on the mailing list, you'll notice a similar
pattern in reasoning. The folks over at http://learnmongo.com seem to want to be the wittiest of them
all, recommending to always have a recent backup, a slave or
replica set and to never
kill -9 your database.
While you can argue that the guy should've known better, there's something very much at odds here, and it seems to
become a terrifying meme with fans of MongoDB, the idea that you need to do all of these things to get the insurance of
your data being durable. Don't have a replica? Your fault.
kill -9 on a database, any database? You mad? Should've
read the documentation first, dude. This whole issue goes a bit deeper than just reading documentation, it's the
fundamental design decision of how MongoDB treats your data, and it's been my biggest gripe from the get go. I can't
help but be horrified by these comments.
I've heard the same reasoning over and over again, and also that it just hasn't happened so far, noone's really lost any considerable data. The problem is, most people never talk about it publicly, because it's embarrassing, best proof is the poor guy above. This issue is not even related to MongoDB, it's a general problem.
Memory-Mapped Persistence
But let me start at the beginning, MongoDB's persistence cycle, and then get to what's being done to improve its reliability and your data's durability. At the very heart, MongoDB uses memory-mapped files to store data. A memory-mapped file is a data structure that has the same representation on disk as it has when loaded into memory. When you access a document in MongoDB, loading it from disk is transparent to MongoDB itself, it can just go ahead and write to the address in memory, as every database in MongoDB is mapped to a dynamically allocated set of files on disk. Note that memory-mapped files are something you won't find in a lot of other databases, if any at all. Most do their own house-keeping and use custom data structures for that purpose.
The memory mapping library (in MongoDB's case the POSIX functions, and whatever Windows offers in that area) will take care of handling the flush back to disk every 60 seconds (configurable). Everything in between happens solely in memory. Database crash one second before the flush strikes again? You just lost most of the data that was written in the last 59 seconds. Just to be clear, the flushing cycle is configurable, and you should consider choosing a better value depending on what kind of data you're storing.
MongoDB's much praised insert speed? This is where it comes from. When you write stuff directly to local memory, they better be fast. The persistence cycle is simple: accept writes for 60 seconds, then flush the whole thing to disk. Wait for another 60 seconds, then flush again, and so on. Of course MongoDB also flushes the data when you shut it down. But, and here's the kicker, of course that flush will fail when you kill it without mercy, using the KILL signal, just like the poor guy above did apparently. When you kill something that writes a big set binary data to disk, all bets are off. One bit landing on the wrong foot and the database can get corrupted.
Database Crashes are Unavoidable
This scenario can and does happen in e.g. MySQL too, it even happens with CouchDB, but the difference is, that in MySQL you usually only have a slightly damaged region, which can be fixed by deleting and re-inserting it. In CouchDB, all that happens is that your last writes may be broken, but CouchDB simply walks all the way back to the last successful write and runs happily ever after.
My point here is simple: even when killed using the KILL signal, a database should not be unrecoverable. It simply
shouldn't be allowed to happen. You can blame the guy all you want for using
kill -9, but consider the fact that it's
the process equivalent of a server or even just the database process crashing hard. Which happens, believe it or not.
Yes, you can and probably will have a replica eventually, but it shouldn't be the sole precondition to get a durable database. And this is what horrifies me, people seem to accept that this is simply one of MongoDB's trade-offs, and that it should just be considered normal. They shouldn't, it needs more guys like the one causing all the stir bringing up these isses, even though it's partly his fault, to show the world what can happen when worse comes to worst.
People need to ask more questions, and not just accept answers like: don't use kill -9, or always have a replica around. Servers crash, and your database needs to be able to deal with it.
Durability Improvements in MongoDB 1.7/1.8
Now, the MongoDB folks aren't completely deaf, and I'm happy to report they've been working on improvements in the area of data durability for a while, and you can play with the new durability option in the latest builds of the 1.7 branch, and just a couple of hours ago, there was activity in improving the repair tools to better deal with corrupted databases. I welcome these changes, very much so. MongoDB has great traction, a pretty good feature set, and the speed seems to blow peoples' minds. Data durability has not been one of its strengths though, so I'm glad there's been a lot of activity in that area.
If you start the MongoDB server with the new
--dur option, and it will start keeping a journal. When your database
crashed, the journal is simply replayed to restore all changes since the last successful flush. This is not a
particularly special idea, because it's how your favorite relation database has been working for ages, and not unsimilar
to the storage model of other databases in the NoSQL space. It's a good trade-off between keeping good write speed and
getting a much more durable dataset.
When you kill your database harshly in between flushes with a good pile of writes in between, you don't lose a lot of data anymore, maybe a second's worth (just as you do with MySQL when you use InnoDB's delayed flushing), if any at all, but not much more than that. Note that these are observation based on a build that's now already more than a month old. Situation may have improved since then. Operations are put into a buffer in memory, from where they're both logged to disk into the journal, and then applied to the dataset. When writing the data to memory, it has already been written to the journal. Journals are rotated once they reach a certain size and it's ensured that all their data has been applied to the dataset.
A recovery process applies all uncommitted changes from the log when the database crashes. This way it's ensured that you only lose a minimum set of data, if none at all, when your database server crashes hard. In theory the journal could be used to restore a corrupted in a scenario as outlined above, so it's pretty neat in my opinion. Either way, the risk of losing data is now pretty low. In case your curious for code, the magic happens in this method.
I for one am glad to see improvements in this area of MongoDB, and I'm secretly hoping that durable will become the default mode, though I don't see it happening for marketing reasons anytime soon. Also, be aware that durability brings more overhead. In some initial tests however, the speed difference between non-durable and durable MongoDB was almost not worth mentioning, though I wouldn't call them representative, but in general there's no excuse to not use it really.
It's not yet production ready, but nothing should keep you from playing with it to get an idea of what it does.
Bottom Line
It's okay to accept trade-offs with whatever database you choose to your own liking. However, in my opinion, the
potential of losing all your data when you use
kill -9 to stop it should not be one of them, nor should accepting
that you always need a slave to achieve any level of durability. The problem is less with the fact that it's MongoDB's
current way of doing persistence, it's with people implying that it's a seemingly good choice. I don't accept it as
such. If you can live with that, which hopefully you don't have to for much longer anyway, that's fine with me, it's not
my data anyway. Or maybe I'm just too paranoid.


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Does David Lynch's Dune — replete with its wing bikinis and Toto soundtrack and weird coloring books — benefit from having any and all conversation excised?
Rob Beschizza of Boing Boing seems to think so. As a cinematic experiment (and bizarro tribute to David Lynch's original cut), he cut out "those elements that made the movie so confusing and shapeless," namely all the chit-chat. Explains Beschizza:
By removing all that talking, we could transmute the 3-hour epic to about 45 minutes of pure Lynchian imagery, unburdened by the need to make a story out of 650 pages of verbose political maneuvering by people who spend half the book analyzing their own superhuman, chess-like conversations.
Frankly, I think the movie would've been improved with randomly interspersed scenes of Dennis Hopper screaming at Paul Atreides about Pabst Blue Ribbon, but that's just me.
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Now that the dust has settled around her high profile break-up from Ashton Kutcher, Demi Moore is ready to get back to work. And she's snagged a sure-to-be high profile project.
According to Variety, Moore is set to have a small but featured role as feminist icon and "Ms." magazine founder Gloria Steinem in the upcoming film "Lovelace," a biopic about the tragic life of porn star Linda Lovelace.
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When their time as players come to an end, professional athletes typically gravitate to a few different careers. Those that don't go into broadcasting or coaching tend to find jobs that allow them to use their fame as a way to drive sales or investments from clients who like to associate with the guys they used to watch in stadiums or on TV. Those paths didn't appeal to two-time Super Bowl winner John Elway, however.
Elway has shifted gears dramatically, going from a guy who threw long bombs to a guy trying to stop them from going off around the United States. The former Bronco found a gig narrating a video for the Department of Homeland Security trying to teach people the "8 Signs of Recognizing a Terrorist."
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One wonders how well Elway would have done in the NFL if he'd applied the same level of suspicion he advocates in the video. At one point or another, he urges people to be wary of those using cell phones, binoculars, gift cards, taking notes and looking at their watch. We're all for stopping terrorism and vigilence is certainly part of any sound defense strategy, but Elway's 8 signs wind up covering far too many everyday activities to know how the average joe is supposed to separate the wheat from the chaff. To put it in football terms, worrying about all everybody on the opposing defense only works so long as it doesn't distract you from blocking the one guy who is really going to harm your offense's chances of scoring a touchdown.
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After years of negotiation, PEAC has helped community activists in Northwest Portland to win a Good Neighbor Agreement with steel foundry company ESCO to reduce pollution by an estimated 20%. The agreement, incorporated in ESCO's 5-year draft permit from the Oregon DEQ, requires ESCO to install new pollution controls, allow neighborhood representatives to audit emissions data, and hire a neighborhood-approved emissions testing firm to verify the effectiveness of the controls.
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Several weeks ago, I wrote about the shenanigans of my cat while I tried to sew tea wallets, but I neglected to say what a tea wallet is. That prompted several readers to call to inquire.
A tea wallet is a tote for teabags. It has four pockets that will accommodate eight teabags. It folds to a size not much larger than a teabag and can be carried conveniently in a handbag. That way, if you are at camp or a restaurant where there is no tea to be had or only a kind you don't especially like, all you have to do is reach into your handbag. I did not come up with the idea for the tea wallet and have no idea who did, but I suspect it was someone in the vast world of quilting, since those folks know how to get the most out of cloth.
I learned about tea wallets when a friend gave me one. It intrigued me, so I did a little measuring and figured out how to make one.
I use a sewing machine to make tea wallets.
You will need:
• 2 fat quarters of two different fabrics that look nice together
• Matching thread
• Approximately two inches of very narrow elastic
• An interesting button that complements the fabric.
Here's what you do:
Reach for yesterday's Bangor Daily News and cut a pattern that is 7 inches wide by 14 inches long. Layer one fabric over the other, right sides together. Pin the pattern to the fabric and cut around it. Sew the two pieces together using a quarter-inch seam, leaving an opening in one side big enough to allow the piece to be turned right side out. Press the piece, making certain the seam allowances at the opening are tucked in. Fold the piece in half and press lightly along that line. Bring both short sides to that center line. Pin in place. Form the elastic into a loop and place the cut ends of the loop approximately an inch from one corner between the layers. Sew along the entire edge making sure to stitch then backstitch over the elastic when you come to it. Then stitch the opposite side together. Now you have two pockets — to create four, stitch lengthwise down the center of the piece. Fold the piece in half, then in half again. Line up the elastic loop with the opposite side and sew on the button. And that's it.
I have to warn you, though, that making tea wallets can descend into that dreaded affliction — binge crafting. All your tea drinking friends and relatives will want one, it's a great way to reduce your fabric stash and before you know it you'll be thinking of all kinds of ways to embellish them. And the next thing you know, you will have so many you won't know what to do with them. Try to limit yourself to six. I dare you … Oh, and have a cat perched next to your sewing machine while you make the tea wallets. It's way more fun!
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Sometimes, with even the best planning, we miss the obvious.
And miss the obvious is what happened when the city of Cape Coral revamped the parking at the Yacht Club Community Park to coincide with the opening of the new restaurant there.
While the trial plan to double the public parking spaces from 38 to about 80 near the Boathouse Tiki Bar & Grill by using valet parking made good sense from a numbers standpoint, it failed to take into account a key user demographic of the park itself. That's older, longtime residents who visit the pool for arthritis exercise sessions; the Tony Rotino Senior Center for classes; and "their" beach for a little sun, fishing or camaraderie.
Sure, finding a prime parking spot was sometimes hard, but it was free and if you timed it right, you could usually get a place by the pier.
Valet parking in those close-by spots - at $3 on weekdays! and $5 on weekends!! - was viewed as not only an unfair cost, but a "taking," a taking of parking that belonged to park users, many of whom are least able to walk from the "overflow" lots should they still want to park for free.
Call it the Cape's third rail: The outcry was immediate.
What was next?
Meters at Four Freedoms?
Also immediate, though, was a response on the part of city officials and the owners and management team at the Boathouse.
Just 18 days into what was to be a six-week experiment with the valet parking plan, it was agreed that the valet service would be redirected to the overflow lot, making the 38 disputed spots again free.
Kudos to the city for its responsiveness to the public.
And kudos as well to the Boathouse for the quick demonstration of its "good neighbor" promise.
While we had no issues with KC's Riverstop - count us among those who for years enjoyed a soda and a dog on those so-called tacky plastic chairs - we welcome the Boathouse and we thank the owners for their continuing investment in the city.
What they have done - and done in an economy still on the mend - is to be commended.
In addition to Ford's Garage on Cape Coral Parkway, Kearns Restaurant Group has made a significant investment - and improvement - at the Cape's oldest park complex. As part of its lease arrangement with the city, Kerns, in fact, completely rebuilt the old concession-style facility. Using an island-style, tiki hut concept, the group added 2,200 feet of decking with seating for 200 as well as a full menu with more than 40 offerings for lunch and dinner and a selection of beers and cocktails.
Meanwhile, the city's lease revenue is expected to increase accordingly due to its awarding the competitive requests-for-proposal to the Boathouse.
Change is not always a bad thing.
Just ask the residents who have filled the new venue since its opening to enjoy dinner, a drink and a sunset.
Parking brouhaha or not.
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One Year Later: The Food Industry on Coming Together After Sandy
Yesterday, we published part one of our two-part check-in on New York's food industry one year after Hurricane Sandy. We spoke with 21 businesses about their stories, about their struggles, the broken promises made to them, and how they're doing today. Today we return with the second act: tales of community togetherness and resilience, their takeaways from the storm, and a few conclusions of our own.
How Communities Came Together
Caroline Parker and Kevin Moore spoke about both the power of community support and of a hot meal.
I remember I had been working with a woman for years prior, in an antiwar group, and she came in. We had worked in so many circumstances together talking to people who were affected by the war and had lost loved ones. And she all of a sudden walked in and asked, "What can I do?" She was here to help me, help us rebuild. There were a lot of people who would just come in and help out and give fair prices or do little bits and pieces for free. It reinforces your feelings about your neighborhood, and reasons for being here.
This marble bar is an amazing story. We made a phone call, looking up marble in Red Hook or Brooklyn and we came to a business called Red Hook Marble. This guy had already left the neighborhood, way before the storm, but he hadn't moved all of his marble and was trying to get rid of it. He told us he had extra pieces sitting over on Beard Street, go and look and choose. He found us a person to cut it, and here we are are.
[Restore Red Hook] were the first people on the ground. From day one, they helped us cleaned up, brought supplies, general support. The force of a community, they just pulled everyone together.
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Noah Bernamoff brought up the grassroots efforts that took the place of broken promises from the government and insurance companies.
The only program designed to help is the power of community. That was the only thing there to help after the storm. There was Restore Red Hook with an $8,000 grant. From a financial perspective that was a drop in the bucket for me. For others it made a greater difference. But the meaning behind it is immense.
There was a group called Red Hook Volunteers that had no money whatsoever; they were set up in the VFW on Van Brunt Street, and were a sort of offshoot from Occupy Sandy. They were sending volunteers down for weeks after the storm. Volunteers would just go down to Red Hook looking for projects to help out on, go to the volunteer office and they'd send them our way. Even little things like, I'd go to Court Street Grocers for everyone that was working in Red Hook and just the little desire to help, that extra tray of coffee that they gave us, those sandwiches and granola bars they gave us for free. Everybody giving of themselves, that was really what got us through. It certainly wasn't money. Psychological motivation to keep at it was definitely driven by the community itself.
If some of our vendors had not been who they are we would not have made it. I called them up and said, "Guys, I don't know when I'm ever going to be able to pay you again, so you have to tell me right now if I'm still your customer or not." Luckily, 90% of my vendors said we're with you all the way, companies like DeBragga and Spitler who supply our meat. Those are our biggest bills obviously. I don't know what I would've done if they hadn't been so accommodating and sympathetic to our situation.
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Ian Marvey spoke about the year-long setback at Hometown Barbecue caused by Sandy, and how pit master Bill Durney came to help out anyway.
We had hundreds of volunteers for the first month when we needed it, each weekend. What was amazing about Billy Durney from Hometown is that he was affected by the storm, but that didn't stop him from doing a lot of work. There were people like Billy doing it, and you'd go to the bar and somebody would just order pizza—come in with 10 pies—and lay them out for everybody. I would go next door to the Ice House, grab 100 wings and bring them back. That still exists. Red Hook was a tight community before, but there's more caring and sharing than there was before.
Hoboken Farms
Brad Finkel of Hoboken Farms:
When we finally got the warehouse back, that warehouse was one of the only things in that area—in Hudson County—that had power. We told all of our friends that we have a freezer, it's working now and kind of empty because we had to throw out all of our stuff, so we were able to actually help out a lot of people and save tens of thousands dollars of other peoples' product. I was honored to do it.
Brooklyn Cured
Able to move their product from the powerless Hana Kitchen to a second space in Hell's Kitchen, Scott Bridi's charcuterie company was largely unaffected by the storm. He found himself, like many culinary professionals, helping others in greater need.
We just happened to be in the position where we didn't lose anything but were not able to produce or distribute, because we didn't have power or gas. It affected us in a very short-term way. So we went out and tried to help in whatever way we could, which I did for a week after the storm. I helped Allison Robicelli for the first week, and after that I went out and ran a soup kitchen that was about a block from the Red Hook Initiative. It was a pretty powerful experience. All those residents we were serving didn't have power for weeks.
Rockaway Beach Club
Rockaway Taco suffered major damages at their beachside concessions commissary kitchen, but were fairly fortunate at their Beach 97th Street shack. As the storm hit after their season was over, they lost no inventory. They did lose a decent amount of equipment, though not everything, and had to rip the walls out and use propane heaters to kill the mold. Sensing a community need, Andrew Field and his crew raced to open the shack back up.
We opened [the shack] the earliest we ever opened. We were trying to shoot for weekends in April because of the whole vibe of the neighborhood. Everybody was down and putting their heads down to continue to work to put their homes back together. We felt, not a pressure, but a desire. Come, tell us your stories, eat with us and take a break. The moment we opened the doors on Friday there were people coming with big smiles, saying how glad they were for us to be back. It was probably 75 degrees, it was warm, a great mark in the beginning of the summer. The power of a meal—that was exactly what was in our minds. We need to do this as fast as we can, to get open to restore some sort of sense of normalcy to our neighbors.
Takeaway Lessons from the Storm
Heritage Meats
For Patrick Martin of Heritage Meats, the storm's community-building crisis doesn't mean a new market is in place.
I think what we realized is how the Essex Street Market is run the rest of the time. Not during the hurricane. We're like, what happened during those critical 96 hours after hurricane Sandy? When the question we should be asking is, what is part of the everyday that we need to fix for the future? We were hoping that post-Sandy would cause a renaissance for our businesses, people appreciating that we're still around, but, you know, it's not just the people. They have want to come, and the market has to look like an attractive place and a fun place to bring your family.
Il Brigante
I'm operating at a loss and hoping that once we open, it'll all be worth it. While the whole process was really frustrating, the positive side is that the restaurant is going to be much prettier, efficient, and better in every way than before.
Added Value Farm
Ian Marvey spoke of how Sandy reinforced his mission and resolve, and the improvements they were able to make to the farm.
There was some talk of giving up. The second week my brother in Seattle said if you want to get up and go, you're welcome. I made the personal decision to not make any radical decisions for a year after the storm. On an institutional level, there was the opportunity for Added Value to continue its mission of promoting sustainable development through youth empowerment and urban agriculture. To now be a place where we can highlight the issues of global climate change is almost a second calling for the organization.
One of the many phenomenal things is none of us were disaster recovery specialists, none of us knew anything about this, but now we have a group of people that are studying it, talking about it. We have a food task force talking about what could, should need to happen in our food system right here in Red Hook so that after the next storm we're taking care of ourselves. What's exciting is the depth of soil here is now two feet. Now we'll be able to put in cane fruit, trees, asparagus, things that we hadn't been able to grow here before. I'd like to bring in some dwarf apples and do some education about how people can grow a large amount of food in a small space.
La New Yorkina
I allowed myself a couple of minutes to think, "Alright, I'm going to throw in the towel." Just to think, if I wanted to just walk away from it and it would be understandable and that would be okay. But that's not really who I am or what I wanted to do. I took from the experience that I want to come back and come back stronger and more focused and make the best out of a bad situation. It's not what happens to you, but the attitude you take towards it and what you do with what happens to you. I felt that I wanted to have a strong summer and be more focused, do little things I've been wanting to do for a long time. As crappy as it was, I still felt fortunate. I still have a support system, a home, I have some savings. I was brought up to be a fighter in Mexico. Growing up there, it's about making the best out of what you've got.
Hoboken Farm
Well first of all I was unbelievably nervous. You're woken up in the middle of the night saying, "Oh my God, I hope—how are we going to do this?" And then it gets pushed into people's lives. How am I going to pay rent? How am I going to pay Frank, Cesar, Tommy, Dave? They are all fathers and sons trying to support families, and if I don't come through for them how are they are going to come through for the people that need them? That was a tremendous amount of stress, but also a real honor to be able to figure out how to work as a team.
Mile End
It's given me a bit of a go-for-broke mentality, because if you're just going to wait around, hoping things happen, then some day a storm is going to come and eliminate your dreams anyway. It's such a real thing. I'm not waiting around for something to happen, take it slow and build it slowly, if I want something to happen I'm just going to have to figure out how to do it and go after it.
Allison Robicelli has mentioned in the past that she feels awkward to be included in the new Brooklyn food scene since that's where she spent her whole life. But the storm changed things.
I think Sandy was the thing that brought out who we really were, because I was just incensed by the way native Brooklynites and New Yorkers were being treated.
Where to From Here?
Last fall, we ran a brief post imploring you to do your holiday shopping online with MadeInNYC, the local and small business advocacy organization. That call for support still stands. From the Lower East Side to Brighton Beach, businesses like Saxelby Cheesemongers and New York Bread told us that they took on substantial debt in order to survive.
The storm hasn't left New York and its consequences are still very real. As Brad Finkel told us, "what's lost is lost." Clients disappeared, demand dropped, and some loyal customers left. As a result, people are still very much hurting, and most of their stories remain untold.
When we spoke with Christophe Hille about Northern Spy's streetside barbecue the week after Sandy, he admitted to feeling uneasy about the support his restaurant received.
"I think we all felt self conscious afterwards about the whole 'support lower Manhattan' thing. You know, we don't really need support. We just need regular business," Christophe told us. "Everybody was demolished, so how do you support one over the over? There was a lot of social media stuff like "Save Lower Manhattan." We didn't need saving. The Rockaways needed saving. Un-flooded East Village didn't need saving."
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Interview: Co-creator Elise Doganieri discusses The State of 'The Amazing Race'Emmy winner talks Non-Elimination Legs, Double U-Turns, Vietnam and much moreBy Daniel Fienberg Friday, Sep 27, 2013 1:30 AMBack in June, I trekked down to Palos Verdes, wherever that is, to take part in a junket for the new "Amazing Race" season, conducted just days before the teams headed off on their race around the world. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with my conversations with the different teams -- at the very least, I have lots of dramatic irony-laden quotes to toss back at the teams when they're eliminated -- but I also got to chat with both executive producer Elise Doganieri and host Phil Keoghan. Both interviews were fun for me because I had a long time with both "Amazing Race" veterans and if you're a reader of my regular weekly recaps, you'll note that I was able to ask about an awful lot of the issues that are weekly bees in my bonnet through any given season. This interview with Doganieri, for example, includes discussion about the planning of Non-Elimination Legs, the rise in alliance-building in recent seasons, the controversy over the show's trip to Vietnam last year and, my personal favorite bugaboo: The structure of Double U-Turns. Doganieri also teases some of this season's locations and talks about the potential for another All-Stars season in the future. Click through for the full conversation... HitFix: When you're starting to cast up a season, do the agendas or needs change in any particular year? Elise Doganieri: The agendas don't really change in any particular year unless we are doing, you know, like All-Stars, which we did a few times. Then we start looking back at what we've done before. We always cast for Type A personalities, super-competitive people. It's always nice if they have a sense of humor, because you have to have a sense of humor to be on the road for so long. And it's also for people who have interesting personalities with each other. It can't just be, "We're best friends and we have a good time." People who tend to have relationships that are so perfect and easy-going aren't the best TV sometimes. We have to see, underlying, that there's a little drama there, a little spark. We always look for that -- Just really interesting character that we know will have good relationship moments on the road. HitFix: What would you say is the best way to get noticed? To get that spark noticed? Elise Doganieri: You know what? Some people just naturally have it. It's like the charisma that a movie star has sometimes. When you meet them, you can see it. They just kinda shine a little bit brighter than everybody else and we like to think that we're able to find all those types of people. People who speak really well... It is a reality show and there's no script involved, so they might be super-intelligent people, but if no words come out of their mouth, then we don't have a TV show. People who love to talk are perfect for this show. Everybody that's a future contestant on the show, we always ask, "Do you think you can win this?" And the ones that are always on the show are the ones that always say, "Yes, I think I can win this." Or not even, "I think I can win this." "There's no competition," usually they say, "I can win this." HitFix: So far, I've asked seven teams about phobias and thus far, all seven have said, "No phobias." How much do you want or need something like that that you can, hypothetically of course, exploit? Elise Doganieri: Yeah, I don't believe them. I don't believe that contestants don't have phobias. I think they don't want other people to know they have a phobia. We don't even ask them that question anymore. "Are you afraid of heights?" "Are you afraid of spiders?" Most people are afraid to just fly sometimes. Elevators. Claustrophobia. People have all these hidden agendas and phobias that most people don't even like to talk about, so we usually find those out when they're in that situation and many times we put them in extreme situations, so it's far worse. I don't know anybody who isn't afraid of a snake. You may not be afraid of a spider, but when you're in a certain country and they're the size of your hand, you might feel a little differently about that. So I know all these teams want to come across super-strong and most of them are, but everybody's got something that irks them a little bit. HitFix: And the one phobia that a couple teams mentioned is snakes. ["Isn't that funny?" she asks.] So if you have any open challenges for this season, I recommend, "snakepit." Elise Doganieri: it's too late to change the creative now. It's already locked in. But we'll see. There might just be a snake that comes up just from the location they're in. You never know. HitFix: How *totally* locked is the creative in any given season? Elise Doganieri: 100 percent. In every season, before we leave, the creative is 100 percent locked. It's actually locked a few weeks in advance before we leave, because we have to make sure of two things that are really important: This is a reality competition show for a million dollars, so if there was anything that would change on the road just because we felt like changing it, we wouldn't make it to another season, so many people would come after us. The only way anything ever gets changed is by a force of nature. That means that if we're in a location and all of a sudden there's a monsoon... I mean, it doesn't even exist anymore. We have people that are advanced, already on the road. There are people already out on the road before we even started that are in their countries, so we're checking weather reports every day. Many times if there's a location that we lose because of weather, there is backup plan. We have a lot of Plan B's in place that we know like, "OK. If that river's gonna flood, there's another river over here that we know we can use." So the creative pretty much stays on path, but it's really a weather issue or, worst case scenario, a fight gets cancelled and the whole team can't get in and the contestants are trapped somewhere... But this show has to run on-schedule on a daily basis and we know every day where we're gonna be and what challenges are going to occur. HitFix: And that includes the To Be Continued Legs and the Non-Elimination Legs? Elise Doganieri: The Virtual Pit Stops... Everything is planned out. All the Non-Elimination Legs are planned out. All the Fast-Forwards. Everything is planned out and locked before we leave. All the clues have been written right now. All the host scripts have been written. CBS and the legal team have signed on everything at this point. HitFix: OK, so convince me on why Non-Elimination Legs aren't the worst thing ever. Elise Doganieri: [Chuckles.] You know what? They're not the worst things ever, because there have been times where someone has been saved by a Non-Elimination Leg and they've actually won the Race. So I think that's special. It was something that we always struggled with at the very beginning: How many teams can we really have racing around the world that the viewer can follow? What can we do within the parameters of the show? I don't know. I think it adds a special little twist. And every so many seasons we try to switch up what that penalty might be for coming in last. Right now we have the Speed-Bump that follows in the next show -- You know, "You were the last one in and you've gotta do something extra." Some people don't recover from that. Look, the teams look forward to something like that happening and there's always a dramatic moment where Phil is standing there and says, "So-and-So and So-and-Son, you're the last team to arrive... But!" So, it plays well on TV and I kinda like it. HitFix: OK. And what is the strategy when you look at the course of the Race where you stick those Non-Elimination Legs? Elise Doganieri: For Non-Eliminations? It's what we didn't do the season before. There is a little bit of a strategy. We definitely sit down and look at the layout. We have a room called the War Room in our office and every episode is laid out and it just has to fit organically, sometimes, where it works best for us, where it feels like it works within the show. So it's not a random pick, but we also try to make it so if we picked Episode 4, 6 and 7 in the previous season, we don't want to do that again. We want to throw people off-guard so they're not expecting it. HitFix: Looking back on last season, were you surprised by how easy it was for Bates & Anthony to get other teams to not want to get rid of them? [She laughs.] That's the thing that surprised me all season. From the first episode, people were like, "OK, these two are the biggest target out there" and then they just helped them all the way along to the million. Elise Doganieri: I find it really interesting, the psychology of people when they're in groups and how they work and the pack mentality sometimes. People feed off of what other people are thinking. Sometimes people don't want to rock the boat. Or Bates & Anthony seemed like two big guys that weren't such a threat. They just came off very likable and I think that was to their advantage. There's also a certain amount of charisma, which I talked about when we do the casting. They're both very charismatic guys that have great senses of humor, so they tended to put the contestants at ease all the time by their personalities, so it was a very smart, manipulative strategy that they used to get people to believe that maybe they really weren't a threat, when ultimately they were the biggest threat out there, because they won the show. HitFix: So when people say, "Oh, they're two professional athletes, so of course they have an advantage when they're carrying barrels up steps and whatnot!" your response is, "Well, other teams should know that
" Elise Doganieri: Other teams should know that and if there's a chance to ever knock them out, you've gotta get rid of those people right away. People forget that they're racing for a million dollars and they kind of fall in love with all the other teams because they're all in it together and it's like this big group mentality, but some of the smarter ones really pull away from that and say, "This is a competition. I'm not making friends with anybody." But a lot of people get caught up in it, because when you look at this tiny group of people traveling around the world for a month, there's a camaraderie that starts to happen and you can't help but start to like the other people, because you're playing the game together and you're experiencing something together. It's a unique situation, but don't ever be fool. But you know what? Don't also ever be fooled by the people who aren't super-athletic, because we've certainly had plenty of teams come in first that weren't super-athletic. And if you're smart, when you're doing your Detours, there's always one that's a little bit more mental and then a little physical, so take the one that suits you best and if it's gonna be the one where you're not lifting heavy barrels and you've gotta think a little more, go for that one. Go with what suits you. HitFix: You talked about the teams sorta bonding as they go along. I've felt like the past couple seasons, alliances have come more to the forefront than they ever did in the first 20-ish seasons. Does it feel like that to you as well? Elise Doganieri: I've noticed a little bit of a trend in that and what I see is happening is that when contestants get separated from the pack, they get really scared. They don't know if they're ahead or if they're behind. They can't see what the viewer's seeing. They can't see what production is seeing. So sometimes the teams, right now they're tending to want to stay in a pack, because they think that if they keep their enemies closer, then they know where everybody is and they just have to beat the people they're with. That seems to be a little bit of a trend right now. But you know what? With this group that we have this season, it's so unpredictable. I don't know which way they're going to go. We've got doctors, we've got guys who live off the grid, we've got professional athletes, we've got super down-and-dirty manipulative people that are ready to find a way to get ahead any way they can. It just depends on the group and how they start to act together. They're not allowed to talk to each other until we start the show, but they're all looking at each other in our pre-interview meetings, but they're not allowed to speak. They have no idea what they're up against, but don't judge a book by its cover. That's one thing I'll say to them: Never judge a book by its cover. HitFix: Do you like the idea of alliance-building on this show, though? Or do you like that the absence of that sort of thing was part of what made "The Amazing Race" different? Elise Doganieri: You know what? It doesn't bother me, but I think it's not something that's necessary. If you want to win this Race, you've gotta focus on your game. This is not a team sport. It's you and your partner and that's the only team, just the two of you getting ahead, moving forward and getting ahead. The ones that fall into the trap? I think it makes great television, because it's an interesting challenge, it's an interesting perspective for the viewer to see how people react to one another and the way that they fall into categories.HitFix: The Race has remained fairly stable in its structure over the years. Occasionally you try something new and then you pull it back. So like the $2 million twist two seasons ago or the double Express Pass last season, do you feel like those were experiments that worked? Did you not go back to the $2 million for any particular reason? Elise Doganieri: You know what? Everything is an experiment when we come up with something. "Oh, let's come up with a twist for the next season." I think the $2 million worked and it was a great idea. I don't know if we got so much out of it in the end. The double Express Pass? I think that worked out really well. What person gets a double Express Pass and gets eliminated because they're so sure that there's another team behind them or they're so sure that they're going to get to use it later? That's where the double Express Pass played on somebody's mind and it gave him a sense of security that really wasn't there. So it actually backfired on John and Jess and, unfortunately for them, hopefully if we use that again, which we're thinking of, it'll be something that somebody takes advantage of and uses early on. HitFix: Everybody was sitting at home for that entire episode yelling at the TV and yelling at John and Jess. What's happening in production as that's happening? Elise Doganieri: As it's happening in production, while that was going down, we're all talking to each other and whispering in pure amazement and saying, "What is wrong with this person? What is he thinking? It's now getting dark outside. Doesn't he think that all the other teams have come in?" And there's Jess, who's standing up by the Pit Stop waiting for him and seeing all these other teams coming, all these other teams coming in. Every time she goes and checks in at the Pit Stop with him and Phil tells him he's wrong, she's not speaking up either! She's not saying, "Let's use it." She's saying it a little bit, but she wasn't strong enough to convince him to use it and that's unfortunate for them, that they got really so secure in themselves that they thought there was another team that was behind them. We were frustrated beyond belief but, on the other hand, we're thinking, "This is great TV." HitFix: It made for good TV for one episode. It cut off strategy going forward... Elise Doganieri: Yeah, but still! What a great ending to an episode there. HitFix: OK. I'm not going to forgive myself if I don't ask this. Why at a Double U-Turn can a team that has already been U-Turned then turn around and U-Turn another team before they complete the other half of the U-Turn? Elise Doganieri: [Long Pause.] Oh. Why? That's a good... That sounds almost as complicated as the U-Turn. HitFix: Once you've been U-Turned, you have the responsibility to go do the other half of the Detour. But you haven't completed your portion of the task. So why can you U-Turn somebody else? Elise Doganieri: Right, but you are going to that location where the Double U-Turn board is, so your time there is to select another team. HitFix: But you haven't really checked in there, because you have to go perform the other Detour and then turn around and come back. Elise Doganieri: Right. Well... That's a very good question. I don't know. I'll bring it up with the Challenge department. HitFix: This is a question that I raise every year when it happens. Elise Doganieri: And you raise a very good point. I don't know if we'll change it, but I will definitely think about that a little more. It's not a bad idea, not a bad suggestion. I will definitely consider that. HitFix: I understand that it allows for the bunching up that you want. Elise Doganieri: There's no penalty for the person who is applying the U-Turn to somebody else. It's just part of the game. So why do we choose to do that? It's just the way that we designed it. It works out nicely for us. It makes good TV. Again. HitFix: Changing gears. Were you surprised by the brief Vietnam tempest-in-a-teapot last season? Or did you anticipate it? Elise Doganieri: Yes. I was surprised by it. But I think we all did the right thing by responding and apologizing and moving on. It was a big learning experience for all of us, right? We should have paid a little more attention to the feelings of everyone out there when we get to a location like that. To be perfectly clear, we have been to extremely sensitive places around the world. We have been to Auschwitz. We have been to the Berlin Wall. We've been to Robben Island where Mandela was locked up. We've been to Goree Island, where the slaves were all taken from Africa and sent over. We have given moments to respect, we've paid homage, we've had a moment of silence in all of these places and we never wanted to show any disrespect to anybody, so it was clearly something that we should have addressed more formally when we were there. Moving forward, we'll pay the same attention that we've given to all the other locations when we find a sensitive area and do that in the future, just like we always have. HitFix: Was the correct solution just as simple as giving a moment of reflection like you previously have? Elise Doganieri: I think so. Don't you think? It could have been that simple. We were in Hiroshima and we took a moment of silence, of course. There are so many sensitive places in the world where we should do moments like that if we're going there. Unfortunately, sometimes the contestants also run through a location and they don't sometimes even see, unless we stop them and say, "Stop here. Look what you're looking at. Think about what you're thinking about." For example, in Vietnam we'd also gone to the prison where John McCain had been held captive. We went there. We've been there many times. We've been to places in Vietnam where we have honored those locations and respected them with the due respect that they all deserve. So that's it. It was nothing we ever intended to do on purpose. HitFix: What do you have by way of new locations coming up this season? Can you tease any of them? Elise Doganieri: I can tease some cities and countries that I'm excited for. We are going to go to Abu Dhabi, which we've never been to before. This is the most futuristic city you will ever come across and it's built on sand. It's built on a desert and it's become a desert oasis and it's so super-high-tech and the fantastic thing they're doing there is they are creating a city that is environment. They're using solar power and they're building all these high-tech locations that can hopefully one day run without the use of a lot of the world's natural resources. It's sustainable living and we found that a fantastic thing that we want to express in the show. We're going up to Norway to the Arctic Circle, way, way, way up north. Not a lot of people can say that they've been to the Arctic Circle. We're going back to Chile, but to a different city called Iquique, which is a city where the desert meets up with the ocean, and right where the desert meets up with the ocean, this giant sand dune comes down to the ocean is a fantastic city. It's visually an incredible looking city. We're going to go back to Tokyo, because we love Tokyo. It's always fun and a super-challenge for the contestants. And there are some other really fun place, but I think I've given you enough already. HitFix: Has regional fatigue set in anywhere? Are there places where you look and go, "OK, we've been to this general area enough times, let's take five or six seasons off"? Elise Doganieri: We take a couple breaks from different locations. I would love to go to India every season, because I always find it challenging for the contestants and challenging for production. It just is always great story and India is such an incredible country with so many different environments. There's tropical, there's congested super-packed cities. But sometimes we've gotta take a break from even places like that which we love to go to so much. We always go back. Africa, we would love to go through the entire continent of Africa and go to all of the fantastic countries in Africa and try to find new things, but we've got to keep it fresh for the viewers and the contestants. Whatever we can do to keep it interesting we try to do. HitFix: Does the world feel safer now than eight or 10 years ago in terms of travel or just stability? Elise Doganieri: It's interesting. The world to me feels safe and not safe in many ways. Different countries have fallen into "safer" categories and other countries have fallen into "unsafe" categories, where we've gone to countries in the past, for example, like Egypt -- I loved going to the Pyramids and we had a Pit Stop right at the Sphinx. Different countries fall in and out and so we just switch our security position with our team. We have an incredible security team that keeps us updated on the latest things that are happening around the world and sometimes new places open up that we've never been able to go to before that we want to go into right away, because want to get there. But we're always very much well aware of security and keep our contestants' safety as No. 1. We want it to be an exciting adventure, but we want to get everybody home safe. That's our Number 1 priority. HitFix: As a last question: "Survivor" has now gotten to the point where they apparently really can't do a season anymore with entirely new players, without at least a few All-Stars. You guys have mostly resisted that. You've done the couple All-Stars seasons and that's been it. Do you feel like you might go in that direction more in the future? Bringing back occasional favorite teams? Or is there another full All-Stars season coming? Elise Doganieri: I think casting, you always have to look at where there's some fantastic contestants that were eliminated early on that we wish would have been on the show longer. Sometimes we lose our personal favorites right off the bat and then nobody ever gets to meet them or know them, so that's frustrating. I'm sure down the line at some point we will think about that, but right now we have still so many thousands and thousands of people applying for the show that are interesting and fascinating characters. We're very happy with this season's cast and so that's where we are. We find great contestants every new season right now. HitFix: So you don't feel like there's an All-Stars season coming around the bend? Elise Doganieri: I don't know. It's always brought up every season and we'll discuss it when it comes up and we'll figure out as we go. HitFix: Who fights for it and who fights against it? Elise Doganieri: Oh my God! Talk about Type-A personalities! All of the executive producers and CBS, we all throw our opinions in the mix and then there's a giant vote and wherever the vote leans is where we got to. It's gotta make great TV, so what's what we're all about. We want to entertain the viewers and keep people watching the show. "The Amazing Race" premieres its new edition on Sunday, September 29 at 8 p.m.
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Duke students to become unwitting rapists
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education(FIRE) in a news release, April 7, 2010, charges that Duke University in a recently implemented sexual misconduct policy has rendered students as unwitting rapists and removed protections for students accused of sexual misconduct. The entirety of the FIRE news release appears at the end of this post and by clicking here one can read the entirety of the Duke sexual misconduct policy.
The dankprofessor views this new sexual misconduct policy as both draconian and authoritarian. The policy attempts to regulate the most intimate aspects of student lives. The major rationale given for such intrusion into the private lives of Duke students is that the policy attempts to insure that all sexual interaction between students is 'absolutely' consensual. The irony is that the policy has been applied to Duke students without their consent. There was no vote taken by Duke students authorizing this policy. The policy is being imposed on Duke students by the powers that be at Duke. In essence, Duke administrators and their confreres come off as authoritarian adults disciplining their children.
The utter hypocrisy of the creators of this policy is apparent. They argue that this policy in essence functions to upgrade the principle of consent and to sexually protect Duke students. If such be the case, then why do the creators and implementors of this policy exempt themselves? Why aren't all Duke administrators, staff members, and faculty also beneficiaries of this policy? Aren't they deserving of the same protections granted to Duke students? Aren't these policies applied to Duke students with the hope that students will apply these approved practices throughout their lives?
The dankprofessor feels that he knows why these policies are not applied to Duke constituencies beyond students. Such non-application occurs because administrators, faculty and others would not tolerate being treated like children, would not tolerate having their sex lives governed by self-serving authoritarians. In the area of sexual civil liberties Duke students deserve the same basic rights as their so-called superiors.
The dankprofessor hopes that Duke faculty and administrators stand up for the rights of their students. Too much abuse has gone at Duke. Too many authoritarians have already hurt too many innocent Duke students in their zealous quest for so-called justice.
FIRE statement-
"Duke's new sexual misconduct policy could have been written by Mike Nifong," said FIRE Vice President Robert Shibley. "Members of the men's basketball team could be punished for consensual sexual activity simply because they are 'perceived' as more powerful than other students after winning the national championship. Students who engage in sexual behavior after a few beers could be found guilty of sexual misconduct towards each other. This is not just illogical and impractical, but insane. Given its experience during the lacrosse team rape hoax, Duke, of all schools, should know better than to institute such unjust rules about sexual misconduct."
The new policy was introduced at the beginning of the school year with fanfare from the Duke Women's Center—the same center that apologized for excluding pro-life students from event space in a case FIRE won last month. Women's Center Director Ada Gregory was quoted in Duke's student newspaper The Chronicle justifying the new policy, saying, "The higher [the] IQ, the more manipulative they are, the more cunning they are … imagine the sex offenders we have here at Duke—cream of the crop." (In a follow-up letter to The Chronicle, Gregory claimed that the quote was inaccurate and did not reflect her views, but stood by her analysis that campuses like Duke are likely to harbor smarter sex offenders who are better able to outwit investigators.)
Duke's vastly overbroad definition of non-consensual sex puts nearly every student at risk of being found guilty of sexual misconduct. Students are said to be able to unintentionally coerce others into sexual activity through "perceived power differentials," which could include otherwise unremarkable and consensual liaisons between a varsity athlete and an average student, a senior and a freshman, or a student government member and a non-member.
Further, students are said to be unable to consent to sexual behavior when "intoxicated," regardless of their level of intoxication. Duke has turned mutually consensual sexual conduct, which might merely be poorly considered, into a punishable act. Adding to the confusion, if both parties are intoxicated at all, both are guilty of sexual misconduct, since neither can officially give consent. North Carolina law does not support this definition of consent.
"Of course, there is no way that everyone who was intoxicated during sexual activity, let alone 'perceived' as more powerful, is going to be charged with sexual misconduct," said Adam Kissel, Director of FIRE's Individual Rights Defense Program. "Add to that the provision about an unintentional atmosphere of coercion, and anyone can see that Duke's policy is impossible to rationalize or to fairly and equitably enforce. As a result, this policy effectively trivializes real sexual misconduct, which is a gravely serious crime."
The new policy even makes reporting of so-called sexual misconduct mandatory for any Duke employee who becomes aware of it, regardless of the wishes of the alleged victim.
Furthermore, Duke has made fair enforcement of the sexual misconduct policy even more difficult by establishing different procedures and even a different "jury" to judge sexual misconduct complaints. For instance, sexual misconduct charges are judged by two faculty or staff members and only one student, but all other offenses are judged by a panel of three students and two faculty or staff members. Duke fails to explain why a jury with a majority of one's peers is necessary for charges like assault or theft but not sexual misconduct.
Other problems in the sexual misconduct policy, detailed in FIRE's letter to Duke President Richard Brodhead of March 4, include giving the complainant more rights than the accused, requiring the results of a hearing to be kept secret in perpetuity even if one is found not guilty or is falsely accused, and allowing anonymous and third-party reporting so that the student may never be able to face his or her accuser.
FIRE wrote, "As a private university, Duke is not obliged to agree with the authors of the Bill of Rights about the value of the right to face one's accuser. Nevertheless, Duke ignores their wisdom at the peril of its own students and reputation." Duke has declined to respond to FIRE's letter in writing.
"More than any other school in the nation," Shibley said, "Duke should be aware that its students deserve the best possible rules and procedures for ensuring that rape and sexual misconduct charges are judged fairly. Sexual misconduct is a serious offense. Duke students deserve a policy under which true offenders will be punished but the innocent have nothing to fear."
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It seems like a no-brainer: If you happen to live or work or go to school across the street from a field or orchard where pesticides are sprayed, you might think, "Maybe I'm breathing some of these pesticides." Especially when the wind blows from the field towards you. Especially when you can smell the pesticides. And you might also think, "Maybe this isn't good for me." Especially when the guys applying the pesticides are wearing Tyvek spacesuits. Especially if you start feeling ill.
And you'd be right to think these thoughts, even though most growers and pesticide applicators will tell you that you're crazy and have nothing to worry about. For years PAN's been working with concerned communities to show that these exposures are real and need to be taken seriously. And now a new study by scientists from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and various states' Departments of Health, corroborates what we've been saying all along.
Mistakes happen, rules aren't followed & buffer zones are too small.
The study, published this week in Environmental Health Perspectives, analyzed pesticide poisoning data from 11 states from 1998 to 2006. The authors identified almost three thousand cases of illness associated with pesticides drifting from outdoor agricultural applications. This number likely underestimates the true burden of drift-induced illness, since pesticide poisonings are notoriously under-reported and misdiagnosed. In addition, the study looked only at acute illness — cancer, birth defects and developmental delays, Parkinson's disease and other chronic diseases linked to pesticide exposure weren't assessed in the study.
Nonetheless, the researchers made some interesting findings:
- Most cases were "non-occupational." Translation: Most often those sickened by drifting pesticides are not farmers or farmworkers, but are "bystanders," people who live, play, or work at non-farming jobs that just happen to be near pesticide-treated fields.
- Children bear the brunt of the "non-occupational" drift incidents, getting sick more often than any other age group.
- Fumigants — which are highly volatile, highly toxic, and have very high application rates —are responsible for more cases than any other class of pesticides.
- Californians living in the five counties with the most pesticide use are 69 times more likely to be involved in a drift incident than people in other counties.
Of course, none of this is very surprising. We've been saying for years that bystander drift exposure is a huge problem, that fumigants are particularly problematic, and that children are especially at risk. Rural residents have known this all along too — every week I get at least one phone call or email from someone dealing with drift, and each time I visit partner groups in California's Central Valley, the Great Plains, or on the Florida coast I hear yet more stories of drift.
The authors try to dissect why these drift incidents happen:
Common contributing factors identified for drift events included applicators' carelessness near/over non-target sites (e.g., flew over a house, did not turn off a nozzle at the end of the row), unfavorable weather conditions (e.g., high wind speed, temperature inversion), and poor communication between applicators/growers and others. Improper seal of the fumigation site (e.g., tarp tear, early removal of seal) ... accounted for [a large portion] of cases.
Fumigants are just plain dangerous
Finally, they note that the quarter-mile buffer zones recently introduced to protect schools and daycare centers from fumigant drift are probably too small. "We found that, of 738 fumigant-related cases with information on distance, 606 (82%) occurred > 0.25 miles from the application site, which suggests that the new buffer zone requirements, independent of other measures to increase safety, may not be sufficient to prevent drift exposure." PAN previously reached a similar conclusion based on our own fumigant air monitoring study in Sisquoc, California.
This study comes at time when activists across California are fighting to keep methyl iodide out of their backyards. State officials have made assurances that despite methyl iodide's extreme toxicity, the risks can be "managed" with modest buffer zones, rigorous operator training, and better tarps.
But as we've suspected and this study shows, mistakes happen, rules aren't followed, and buffer zones are too small.
I'd like to end this post by saying something like, "Let's hope state officials heed the lessons from this study," but California regulators already ignored their own scientists when they approved methyl iodide. So I'll say this instead: Let's hope growers and county officials heed the lessons from this study, listen to the state's top scientists, and do what the citizens of the state have been asking: Say no the methyl iodide.
Someone has been reading my FB blogs! I just went through this Monday with my neighbor spraying less than 100 ft. in front of my house. Four days later and we can smell the fumes.Confronted him to no satisfaction, called EPA to no satisfaction. Six phone calls and a whole lot of run-around, talked down to like a first grader and no returned phone calls. I want answers. He plans to spray again next week. Gramoxone Max this week, Round-up next week. I wanna know who I'm supposed to talk to.
Hi Sherri - So sorry to hear about your situation. In most states, it's either the Department of Ag or your County Ag Commissioner who's supposed to handle drift complaints like yours. But in general you've got to be tenacious to get them to do anything. See this page for more information: http://panna.org/science/drift/if-youve-been-drifted-on
If you bought a home 100 feet from a farm field, then you need to expect that they will spray 100 feet away. You do not mention, however, which way the wind was blowing. See my other post about the options they have related to that.
A quick review of the Farm Subsidy Database for my zip code shows that there are plenty of small farmers here ready to farm if they can get fair prices. A big problem has been that there hasn't been enough money to keep younger family members employed, after nearly 6 decades of lower and lower farm prices.
Labor is replaced with pesticides: that's one problem.
When farms then get rented out or sold to larger operations with more capital we have large machinery traveling some distance to do the work, for example, from the next county. It then creates a virtually impossible situation for spraying. If machinery comes in from that far away, and it can do a spraying job in 4 hours, then it can't just do half and then come back on another day when the wind changes. For example, based upon the wind, part of a farm can be sprayed without directly drifting across an acreage home from up close, but down the road another may be directly down wind.
You then move in urban people not used to this. Farmers will likely be more ticked off than the urban folks if push comes to shove, as they have huge investments.
Behind it all are macro farm economic policies, managing the markets with price floors and supply mangment. These policies were reduced 1953-1995 then ended. The food movement, with few exceptions (like PAN), doesn't know about these policies. It typically advocates for mere subsidy reforms, that do not affect prices. It therefore unknowingly sides with agribusiness against farmers. It advocated for mere subsidy reforms, to lower f farm income while doing nothing to prevent cheap prices for CAFOs, fructose, transfats, export dumping etc. This is done because few food movement leaders correctly understand this, their biggest issue (ie. cheap corn). They're on board in spirit and values, but not in practice.
I am a farmer concerned about my own health, that of my family members, my workers and the consumers who purchase my products. And of course, we are concerned for neighbors like Sherri.
Reading articles on a variety of subjects, including yours about strawberry farmers and also on the "Occupy" movement, I am struck that the farmers are the 99% and the chemical companies are the 1%.
The problem is that the farmers get 99% of the blame while the chemical companies only 1%. What every farmer wants is for governments and the chemical companies to ban and stop the production of harmful chemicals and provide us with safe, cheap and effective alternatives. Given the choice, we would always use safe pest control agents but we are seldom, if ever, given and effective and economical choice.


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The MLB Fan Cave is pleased to add B.o.B to the October lineup of the 2013 MLBFanCave.com Concert Series. B.o.B will play an exclusive live set on Friday, October 18, beginning at noon.
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