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Confessions of a Neighborhood Watch Captain
George Zimmerman gives neighborhood watch volunteers a bad name. We don't go tracking down unarmed teenagers who are trying to get home to watch a basketball game. We keep tabs on suspicious activities and advise our neighbors about the small things that can prevent them from having their homes burglarized and their cell phones from being stolen on the streets.
With the recent acquittal of former neighborhood-watch volunteer Zimmerman for the shooting death of teenager Trayvon Martin, I wanted to reflect on my own time serving in the neighborhood watch.
At the last meeting of our Neighborhood Crime Council, July 24 ( last night), we learned from the police that though residential burglaries have declined, there has been an uptick of street robberies,which are occurring between 10 PM to 2 AM at night. We recently lost two of our most effective crime fighters, a couple who were veterans of Desert Storm. One night, a Korean American neighbor was wounded by two muggers. He ran down our block seeking help. The couple sheltered him in their home and prepared to meet his pursuers with armed resistance. Later, the couple had to move because their house was foreclosed, even though they were both employed. It was empty for about eight months.
There are still problems on our block but conditions are serene in comparison to how they were during the height of the crack epidemic. It was because of crack sales on my block that I became the block captain for my neighborhood after returning from Harvard in 1989, to find that a crack house had begun operating near my house. I even had conversations with the dealers. One told me that he began to deal because he had a job at the "Baby Food Factory" and the factory shut down.
Like many urban areas marked "dysfunctional," my neighborhood is inhabited by black working class people. All it takes is one house, like the houses of pestilence in the Bible, to draw unsavory types, drug dealers and suburban whites, who come into town for prostitutes and drugs.
At first, I wasn't worried thinking that all I had to do was to call the police. I had been spoiled by living in upper middle class neighborhoods where crack houses wouldn't be tolerated by law enforcement. I was to learn that things aren't that simple in the Oakland flats. (A representative of the Oakland Police Department didn't respond to a request for a comment.) In fact, even though we identified the crack houses to the police with whom we meet with monthly at our Crime Council meetings, two of the three that closed were done by private citizens, one, ironically, by an ex convict who expelled a gang that was operating out of his late mother's house. They had terrorized our block for three years and though the media image of those connected to drug sales are often black, the ring leader on our block was a Vietnamese kid, who was murdered around the corner by members of a rival drug gang. Having failed to find a job, the ex-con began selling drugs again, before moving from the neighborhood, permanently.The rats who occupied this abandoned house migrated to my home. It cost me $500 to get rid of the pests.
The third was closed with the help of Paul Brekke-Miesner, a white Neighborhood Services Coordinator. This position has been eliminated because of budget cuts, even though the regular police are paid well and have good pension plans, around eighty percent of them don't live in Oakland. With the help of Paul we closed down one of the worst of the crack houses. It took over two years because the absentee landlord had more power than we. I took a photo of its being demolished.
He would expedite minor requests like getting street bumps that we requested after a couple of drug related shootouts that occurred on our block. We wanted to have an opportunity to record the license plates of getaway cars.
Rarely mentioned by pundits, black and white, who comment about black dysfunctional neighborhoods is that black on black homicide, at least in my city, is the result of turf wars over drug sales.
Homicides have been connected to the underground economy throughout American history. The movie "Cotton Club" is about white ethnic gangs fighting over the spoils of the Harlem numbers rackets. Because of the historical hostility of the banks toward lending to blacks, the black numbers racketeers used to issue loans to black businessmen not only in New York but in cities like Chicago. One numbers racketeer, Casper Holstein, helped to finance the Harlem Renaissance of writers and artists.
My late anarchist friend Audrey Goodfriend, who died at ninety two, remembers her parents telling her that the streets were littered with corpses during the turf wars between bootleggers.
Most of the time during our meetings, where neighbors, white, black, Hispanic and Asian meet to be briefed about crime statistics in our neighborhoods, the chief topic is about shootouts between drug peddlers. They will tell you that more than one ethnic group is involved in the sale and distribution of drugs. They would regard the current "conversation" about black dysfunctional neighborhoods as off base. The media pundits will never tell you that before the introduction of crack into the inner cities in about 1984, the black on black homicide rate was at a low level. (They won't cite recent CDC statistics that show a plunge in the rate of children born to unmarried black mothers, either; that's the oldie but goodie that they will never give up). They don't know the half of it because they don't live where we live. They're not watching our neighborhoods.
Ishmael Reed is Visiting Scholar at the California College of the Arts and is the author of such novels as "The Free-Lance Pallbearers" and "Reckless Eyeballing." He publishes the online magazine Konch at IshmaelReedpub.net


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I have a few suggestions.
Izak Walton north.
Roush Lake shooting range.
Ideal C.C in Cherubusco
Sounds like fun. I would come. I have had my fill of running shoots from the old Kekionga Longrifles. Goodluck getting it going.
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Hey Larry,
That sounds like a great event. You've planned a good bit of variety and a number of attractions. I think you can have good attendance and it should be both fun and educational.
The NWTF has a package that's available and you may want to consider it. You can access information at[url=http://forum.turkeyandturkeyhunting.com/http://www.nwtf.org/special_events/images/turkey_shoot/2008_Sanctioned_Shoot_Rules.pdf]http://www.nwtf.org/special_events/images/turkey_shoot/2008_Sanctioned_Shoot_Rules.pdf[/url]
I've organized several of those shoots and would be happy to be of any assistance possible.
I think keeping it fun and family-friendly are the 2 keys.
Just let me know if I can be of help.
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I'll be sure some of my buddies from the Tennessee Wildlife Resourses Agency (Tennessee Game Wardens for short) stop by your booth in Nashville Larry.
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On Tuesday March 6, the French National Assembly (Assemblée Nationale) passed a law proposing the creation of a new biometric ID card for French citizens with the justification of combating "identity fraud". More than 45 million individuals in France will have their fingerprints and digitized faces stored in what would be the largest biometric database in the country. The bill was immediately met with negative reactions. Yesterday more than 200 members of the French Parliament referred it to the Conseil constitutional, challenging its compatibility with European's fundamental rights framework, including the right to privacy and the presumption of innocence.
12 years ago, hundreds of thousands of Serbians filled the streets of Belgrade, blocking the entire city in protest of Slobodan Milošević's regime. At the time such a widespread protest had seemed unimaginable. Before the uprising, the mood in the country was melancholic, cynical, and hopeless amid disillusionment with a government that became plagued with corruption, repression, and war.
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In another important victory for Internet users' fundamental rights and the open Internet, the highest court in Europe ruled yesterday that social networks cannot be required to monitor and filter their users' communications to prevent copyright infringement of music and movies. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) found that imposing a broad filtering obligation on social networks would require active monitoring of users' files in violation of EU law and could undermine citizens' freedom of expression.
News broke Tuesday that a British police agency called the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), had taken control of the popular music blog RnBXclusive and arrested one of the site's creators for fraud. The normal content from the site was completely unavailable, replaced with a new splash page: a notice from SOCA stating that it had taken control of the domain. Initial reports claimed that that the RnBXclusive.com domain had been seized by the UK government agency -- bringing to mind images of a post-SOPA fractured Internet -- but it turned out that the website takeover was done with the cooperation of the UK-based hosting company, Rackspace's UK arm. For its part, Rackspace claimed that the music site was taken down for breaching its Terms and Conditions.
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Family: Lycaenidae, Gossamer-wing Butterflies view all from this family
Description The Marine Blue or Striped Blue (Leptotes marina) is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is found in from South America through Mexico up to Southern Texas, Arizona and California.
The wingspan is 22–29 mm. Adults are on wing from April to September in the north and all year round in south.
The larva feed on Astragalus, Amorpha californica, Acacia greggii, Dalea purpurea, Dolichos lablab, Galactia, Glycyrrhiza lepidota, Prosopis glandulosa, Lysiloma thornberi, Lathyrus odoratus, Medicago sativa, Lotus scoparius dendroides, Phaseolus, Wisteria sinensis and Plumbago.
Dimensions The wingspan is 22–29 mm.
Habitat Cities, suburbs & towns, Freshwater swamps, marshes & bogs, Meadows & fields.
Range Great Lakes, Florida, Northwest, Plains, Southeast, California, Southwest, Rocky Mountains, Texas.


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|Pacific Northwest Sea Run Forum No such thing as rainbow trout, only landlocked steelhead
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RE:Spring Native Clave
Sage's 10151-4 (not the 10150-4), although a very sweet rod seem to have breakage issues when cast with long belly lines. Dana mentioned that he has been informed that the Sage designers throw the Wincutter/Kinney/Lemire style lines. I believe on this cast I tried to force too much cast with too great an anchor,(AKA I was pumped from the fish and jerked the cast).
I was throwing a DT11 with 15' wacked off the front with a looped 12' piece of type 4. I love the rod although, I'm losing confidence in the design.
The first break occured in the Butt section and Sage replace both the butt and the second section, now with the break in the third section, it will be a new rod.
RE:Spring Native Clave
Well told Andre! I can see it all, having been there many times... I was anticipating something happening again at the hold water down at the end of the run as your story came to it's undaunted ending. Could a break at at that location be an indication of a problem of over-stoutness on the complementary ferrule?
I'm sure you've taken all the typical Spey ferrule precautions of paraffin waxing or electrical tape per Vincent, Brown, et. al. The torsion is vicious on ferrules during the Spey stroke.
I'm knocking on wood... the one and only break out of the five Spey rods I've owned has been due to a young boy and his dog rumbling on it over some river stones. I forgave my son and the dog's still alive.
Thanks for the lucid description of your morning on the Sky, I look at that image often for inspiration toward my upcoming visit.
RE:Spring Native Clave
Absolutely great post Andre. Loved it and felt I was there. What's wrong with your Sage rods?
RE:Spring Native Clave
One of the luxuries of my travel schedule is visiting the Emerald City. A world class city that from the vistas of downtown on those not so rare clear days of Spring has few if any that contend with her beauty. This however, was not one of those spectacularly clear days when the reflection of the snowpack from the Olympics or Mt Rainier blisters the retina of those foolish enough to stare at their beauty too long. This was a typically cloudy PNW day; in fact the only unusual thing about this trip was I drove up from Portland instead of flying.
First stop was hop over to Bainbridge to pick up my 10151-4 which I had sent to Sage for repair. The 10151 is the quicker yet softer of Sage's 10wt 15's. The ferry ride was tranquil enough with the weather clearing to allow distant views of OP and Cascades, I found the time to steal a daydream or two. I picked up my stick after finding the factory and talking with a couple of very nice employees of Sage. Rushing back to the ferry I could get a couple hours of Friday mornings project done to grant more fishing time.
I had called Brian earlier in the day about the conditions on the Sky, "low and clear but it is raining" he said with some optimism. After getting some direction on a couple areas to fish and catching up on a couple other thoughts, I was set. First stop in the morning was to be Buck Island, a piece of water that I've heard of from both Jeff and Brian. The river had risen according the USGS, I took the temp at 40, and the clarity had dropped to 2ft, cool time for a big bright fly. Buck Island is a very typical steelhead run particularly in since I was third rod at O'dark thirty, following bottom bouncer. IRS, another choice piece of water that has produced many fish in the years it has been fished also failed to produce. I was driving back to hit Buck Island again, however it was occupied again by three rod this time. On to Monroe to check out Ben Howard, which rumor had it doesn't fish anymore. I pulled in and looked at the 6 cars parked and a truck unloading a Drift Boat, I thought "like I've got a snowballs chance in hell". Walking down I notice the run was open, grabbed my gear giving plently of room to the guys loading the boat.
I entered the run 100 yards below the ramp and proceeded to my preferred knee-deep depth. Working the run in this flow it felt like good travelling water and descent holding water, but at 9:00 this would be my last run of the day. As I reached the lower end of the run I recalled the previous time I fished Ben Howard three years ago on a sunny April I caught a nice small hen in the area I was currently fishing. This time the current over the apparently featureless bottom felt a little heavy for the 40 degree flows, I began working faster. Suddenly I did the grab dance, I hard hit at thirty degrees of swing, I felt secure about the hook being firmly in the hinge of this barrel-rolling ball of fury. A couple runs lightly into the backing, the CFO's song to the guys in the drift boat still anchored above the battle tightened. 15 minutes of short runs, head shaking, surface thrashing, and a gradual bar to beach this beauty as my heart raced with the my first of spring and Millennium fish. After a couple brief photos and a measurement, "off to spread those genes you precocious young male". Still pumped and a little shaken I reentered the water, and began casting and stepping again. Suddenly snap there went the rod again, this time the third section above the ferrule. My reaction reel in and keep smiling, I walked to the car grab my 8150 laced up and resumed the run.
RE:Spring Native Clave
Great looking fish! I will never look at the Ben Howard water the same way again. Way to go!!!!
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RE:Spring Native Clave
Super fish ! I'm sure there is a story with it. Is that a
GP in the jaws of that monster?
Great job and terrific photo, thanks for posting it.
Jay C.
RE:Spring Native Clave
As a fellow owner of the 10' 15fter, can appreciate the size of the fish vs. the Spey handle length... awesome.
RE:Spring Native Clave
That is a 10151-4 that broke about 10 minutes after I beached that fish, More later.
RE:Spring Native Clave
Andre -
Which Spey rod is that? The handle looks like the 10wt 15 footer?
RE:Spring Native Clave
Andre's Magnificent Skykomish Buck...
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Spring Native Clave
From a recent conversation w/ Andre, things are looking up! He landed a fresh 35" native on the sky the other day (before work!). I am totally pumped.
I can guess that what I can expect this time 'round will be fairly good timing on the runs and hopefully there will be a lowering of the rivers after a sizable flow increase from the rain.
Oly rivers should be holding fish, and with the appearance of fish in the Snohomish system I hope the Skagit system will follow suit. I'd love nothing more than to meet up with a Sauk river giant!
Since a clave is a significant gathering relative to the fishery style with overnight commitment - I guess this *is* a clave by our (ad hoc) definition. In this case the fishery is steelhead so 4 (anyone else?) is a healthy group, and this outing will involve a flight, several nights and a big romp around native steelhead country.
I can't tell you guys how much I am looking forward to this!
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I just got some Imperial Shuttle parts to upgrade one and nearly complete my second. I still need to upgrade to at least one if not two WHITE side doors. My second shuttle is only missing the big back gun.
There was supposed to be a Warok bow in the box too but I did not see it. I am hoping he forgot to send it or something.


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This week I did a number of things. One thing I worked on was a few dialogs for evolution. While not terribly impressive (the icons are certainly not final), the screenshots are available at http://primates.helixcode.com/~clahey/contact-editor-test.png (24K) and http://primates.helixcode.com/~clahey/contact-editor-test-details.png (22K)
Today I got my first viewable print preview of cards, but there's nothing interesting to show yet.


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Family: Strigidae, Owls view all from this family
Endangered Status The Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, a subspecies of the Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl, is on the U.S. Endangered Species List. It is classified as endangered in Arizona. Destruction of its habitat, by residential and industrial development, farming practices, livestock grazing, wood cutting, and other human practices, has been the greatest threat to this species. Surveys in recent years counted only three of these owls in Arizona. Greater numbers are found in Texas and Mexico.
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If you are a designer who offers plans, or kit boats, we invite you to enter your information in the Directory of Boat Plans & Kits. There is no charge! This is for boats of ANY hull material. And if you're in the market for a boat to build, this is a fine place to start.


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We are getting all hunters together in State and out of state to ban together and refrain from Hunting Colorado this year for big Game, This is in reference to the new Colorado Gun laws that will take effect July 1st.
All out of state hunters please stay home or go to Wyoming or other state and help there economy out!
Colorado residents do the same!!
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|Propwash A boat is a hole in the water into which you pour... good times!
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Getting yourself into.......
You are getting yourself into debt.
What was I thinking????
I am going to be buying a new sled. Won't be until I'm healed from my injury (I'm on L&I because I fell through a customers porch, but no homeowners and poor, so I'm SOL there). I will get a settlement from L&I though. I am going to buy a Northriver, already fell in love with them. Well, the morons went and built a NR dealer in Tacoma. YIKES!!!!!!!!!!! I had some time to kill, so went on down to look. I almost walked out with a boat. LOL.
But, it was nice to see the whole spectrum of boats. I changed my mind on boats, and now am going to get the 20' Mariner with jetpump. Wow, what a nice boat. Still keep saying to myself "What are you getting yourself in to?" LOL.
I hate boat shopping, they always sucker you in. LOL
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Kevin DrumFeb. 25, 2011 12:19 PM
The other day I linked to a post suggesting that states with higher union densities also had more progressive taxation. Via Ezra Klein, I see that University of Washington grad student Barry Pump took a look at the evidence and concluded this wasn't true. There's apparently no correlation at all. But how about social spending? That's a different story. It turns out there's a very strong correlation between union density and state spending on social programs, as the chart on the right shows. Pump comments:
While unions may be rather powerless to affect taxation, they may be able to influence where the tax revenues go. Unions generally support social welfare spending and a strong safety net, so greater union membership would result in more social welfare spending....It seems, based on the data above, that unions probably spend more time trying to influence where the taxes states do get ultimately go rather than from whom states receive that tax revenue.
While unions may be rather powerless to affect taxation, they may be able to influence where the tax revenues go. Unions generally support social welfare spending and a strong safety net, so greater union membership would result in more social welfare spending....It seems, based on the data above, that unions probably spend more time trying to influence where the taxes states do get ultimately go rather than from whom states receive that tax revenue.
Now, there's no telling if there's really any causation here. It could be that states with progressive politics simply tend to produce both strong union movements and higher social spending. But this is something that would be worth a followup. One of the arguments in favor of organized labor is that they advocate for broad social change even on issues that don't directly affect union members. (For example, national healthcare and high minimum wages. These don't really affect union members much since they've already negotiated health coverage and wages far higher than the minimum, but unions have consistently fought for them anyway.) This behavior is actually a little mysterious, since interest groups usually stick to fairly narrow parochial concerns, but there's a pretty broad consensus that unions have always acted this way, both in the U.S. and Europe. If Pump's correlation holds up, it's another piece of evidence that unions really do tend to produce more egalitarian social policies in general, not just policies that favor union members.
Suzy KhimmFeb. 25, 2011 11:14 AM
Faced with the looming prospect of a government shutdown, Senate Democrats are scrambling to put together their own spending plan for the remaining seven months of the year. Republicans only need four Democratic Senators to defect for them to pass the House GOP's budget bill, which includes a whopping $61 billion in cuts. Senate Dems, however, are trying to outflank them by putting together their own budget to fund the government for the remainder of 2011.
Senate Dems are aiming to craft a short-term budget bill to satisfy moderates without enraging liberals—legislation that must be passed before March 4, when the government runs out of money. Democrats are reportedly going to propose some $41 billion in cuts "to avoid the blame if the government shuts down, showing that they are willing to compromise—unlike their adversaries," Politico's Manu Raju reports.
The bulk of the cuts—$33 billion in total—will follow recommendations that Obama had put in the 2012 budget, with an addition $8.5 billion in earmark spending. But it's unclear exactly which programs the Senate Democrats will choose to target, as Obama's own budget contained some proposals unpopular with his own party, Raju explains. Will the Senate follow Obama's cut to low-income heating assistance, risking liberal rage? Or risk pushback from coal-heavy state legislators by cutting subsidies to the industry?
One thing's for sure, though: Senate Democrats aren't going to touch funding for health-care reform. According to Senate aides, "that means no defunding of the health care law, and no defunding of Planned Parenthood either."
Andy KrollFeb. 25, 2011 9:59 AM
It was an ugly end to 61 hours of debate and deliberation. After days of Democrats attacking Republicans and Republicans attacking Democrats, hundreds of amendments being offered, and Democrats using every move in the book to delay a vote, the Wisconsin state Assembly finally voted on Republican Governor Scott Walker's controversial "budget repair bill," which would gut collective bargaining rights for most public-sector unions, among other things. In the end, the final vote was 51 to 17, with 28 members—25 Democrats, two GOPers, and one independent—not even voting.
Why? Here's how it went down. A shade after 1 a.m. on Friday morning, the Assembly speaker pro tempore suddenly cut off the debate and demanded a vote. Then the voting window was opened for just a few seconds, long enough for a GOP majority to cast its votes and approve the bill. The moment the vote ended, the Republicans picked up and headed for the door. The move stunned the Democrats in the Assembly, leaving them livid. Some Democrats yelled "Shame!" and "Cowards!" at their Republican counterparts; others hurled papers into the air; one even threw a drink.
The whole thing caught Assembly Democrats by surprise. For one, they still had 15 speakers on deck to debate the bill. Republicans also failed to invoke the traditional motion and roll call used when signaling that the debate is over and it's time to vote.
The post-vote comments by Democrats hid none of their anger. "What a sad day for this state when we are willing to ignore the traditions that people died for in this state, that people fought bitterly for," said Rep. Peter Barca, a Democrat. "We ignore our forefathers who made this a great state." Said Democratic Rep. Kelda Helen Roys: "We never imagined they would do it as they did, not even properly using the nuclear option."
Mike Tate, the chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, said in a statement, "Under cover of darkness, in a practice that Scott Walker denounced while he was campaigning for governor, the Republicans of the Wisconsin Assembly sold their soul. Upending seven decades of labor peace and putting Wisconsin up for sale to the likes of their Koch Brothers masters, they voted to sanction the most divisive piece of legislation in our state's history."
Republicans saw nothing wrong with the move, which they say brought an end to days' worth of delay. "In the end, we're going to head the state in the right direction," said Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, the speaker of the Assembly.
Of course, the fight is only half over. The state Senate now takes up the bill. But with that chamber's 14 Democrats still in hiding—their "filibuster on feet," as one senator called it—it's unclear if or when the senate will take up the bill. Democrats say they have no plans to return anytime soon, not until Gov. Walker relents and throws out his ban on collective bargaining. "I'm not paid to be their rubber stamp," Sen. Chris Larson, a Democrat, told me last night. "I'm not elected to be their rubber stamp."
Jen QuraishiFeb. 25, 2011 8:52 AM
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Va. is for... Lovers?: Anti-abortion forces in Va. win a victory over clinics.
Bad Jokes: Florida mayoral candidate yukks it up over bombing abortion clinics.
Midwest Melee: Iowa is the latest state to propose legalizing murder of abortion doctors.
Loophole: Some poor families' varying incomes may hinder government assistance.
Cost of Care: As GDP goes up, we can expect rise in health care spending too.
High Cost: Oil companies are still exempted from royalties they should be paying.
Long Wait: Bill in South Dakota mandates 72-hour wait for abortions.
GOP #Fail: GOP blocks creation of children's product safety commission.
Vote Right: Gov. Scott Walker's voting history reads like a pro-life handbook.
Gone Too Soon: New film looks into increasing suicide, depression in kids.
Feb. 25, 2011 6:29 AM
U.S. Army Ranger students make the final push in a rubber boat across a lake during the swamp training phase at Camp Rudder on Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., Feb. 15, 2011. U.S. Army photo by John D. Helms
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Help! I feel like all my social media-ing is cutting into my productivity and life. I'm on all these different sites now, and sometimes I feel like I come to work basically to read Twitter all day. How can I get my social media fix without feeling like an Internet loser and/or getting fired?
Is there a bigger timesuck in the history of ever than the Internet? One minute you're trying to do your taxes, and the next thing you know you're skimming Portuguese newspapers, watching Skins recaps, Googling "hilarious condoms," and learning that tutorials exist for people who want to have sex with dolphins.
Wading through the muck and white noise of the interwebs can certainly be a daunting task. Here are some tips to help you strike a balance between taking a few bites of Internet cake and sticking your whole head in there like a diabetic Ostrich and never coming out again.
Create boundaries
I know, self-control: zzzzzzzz. What are you gonna tell me next, to eat more kale, exercise, and wear taupe because it goes with everything? No, asshole, you don't look good in taupe! But the self-control part we can totally work on. Start small. Tell yourself, I will only log-in to Facebook three times a day. Or I will only check my email once an hour. Or Twitter is reserved for lunchtime. If you find you can't adhere to your own rules, then consider enlisting the help of addiction-curbing websites like LeechBlock, which is a Firefox extension that blocks up to six websites during times you specify. Of course, this can be easily sidestepped by using another Internet browser, like Safari or Internet Explorer, since most of us have more than one on our computers, but LeechBlock can at least slow you down and help you realize just how Facebook-crack-addled you really are. Another perk/judgment LeechBlock provides is the ability to track how much time you spend playing Farmville or watching Justin Bieber blowdry his hair on YouTube, thus effectively shaming you into recovering a little bit of your dignity.
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Mac McClellandFeb. 25, 2011 4:00 AM
So you're lying on the floor with your eyes closed, and all of a sudden a guy pins your arms to your side. When your eyes flash open and you start to struggle, he holds you tighter and barks, "Behave!" You do, because you haven't figured out what else to do, and because he's put all his weight on top of you and put his nose to yours. His fingers are tight around your wrists and he's crushing your chest, and you go completely limp.
This non-response response is called Going To Zero. It can be a self-defense strategy if you use it to plan your next move, a fake out. But in this particular case you have just been paralyzed by the awfulness of what's happening and his breath on your face. "You thought you were tough, didn't you?" he coos. "But look at you now with your weak, hot ass."
It's the second eight-hour day of my full-force personal-safety course, an emotional- and physical-self-defense primer on deescalating unwanted advances and surviving a sexual assault. We've come to the So You Are In The Incredibly Unfortunate Position Of Being On Your Back And About To Get Raped module. Here's how to snap out of Going to Zero: Wait for your assailant to start strangling you so you can grab your elbows above your head and then clamp down, trapping his forearms against your chest hard enough to knock the wind out of yourself but long enough to roll him off, walk your way up his body, then kick him in the face. Or wait for him to pull your pants all the way down to your ankles so you can kick him in the face. Pretty much all your options lead to a dirty ground fight in which you'll have to free your legs from his grasp with a move called "pistoning" so that you can land enough heels on his (in this case, elaborately padded and protected) head to knock him out.
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Today's Wisconsin-themed Twitter humor:
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Ezra Klein reprints this chart from David Leonhardt, which shows that there's been no surge in government employment over the past two years (the short blip in 2010 is from temporary census hiring), and makes this comment:
But I also think the chart above speaks to what's driving the events in Wisconsin: a perception that people in the "real" economy have suffered greatly, while public workers have been cosseted by their union contracts, their lobbying might and stimulus dollars. And there's some truth to that. The public sector basically sat out the first year of the recession.
But I also think the chart above speaks to what's driving the events in Wisconsin: a perception that people in the "real" economy have suffered greatly, while public workers have been cosseted by their union contracts, their lobbying might and stimulus dollars. And there's some truth to that. The public sector basically sat out the first year of the recession.
Unfortunately, Ezra is almost certainly right that this perception informs the way a lot of people think about economic downturns. It's an unfortunate example of the way we like to view recessions as morality plays rather than macroeconomic events to be dealt with as efficiently as possible.
Start with the private sector. Why did companies shed so many workers? Answer: not because their workers were slothful layabouts, but because business was bad. If your widget sales decline by 10%, you don't need as many sales people, you don't need to run as many shifts in the factory, and you don't need as many accounts receivable clerks. So you lay them off. You don't really have any choice if you want to stay in business, but it's still unfortunate since people without jobs don't buy widgets, which just makes your situation even worse. If you could manage it, it would be pretty helpful if no one got laid off at all.
Now how about the public sector? It's exactly the opposite because the public sector isn't in the business of selling things. If the economy tanks, that doesn't mean there are fewer fires, less crime, or a smaller number of kids in school. That's why cops, firefighters, and teachers don't get laid off. Not because they're a bunch of cosseted union goons, but because the demand for their services is just as high as it was before the recession. In some cases, in fact, it might be higher. There's actually more demand during recessions for clerks to handle unemployment applications or Medicaid reimbursements than there is during boom times.
And it's a good thing, too, since, as Ezra says, "The worst thing for an unemployed person is another unemployed person. It means more competition for job openings, lower wages and less job security." The best outcome for everyone would be for government to employ more people during recessions and to keep their wages high. This would reduce competition for jobs and help keep consumption from falling, which is why, in a perfect world, the federal government would be running big deficits in order to fund the ability of states to keep the lights on.
But the fact that this makes sense doesn't mean most people see it this way. We're biologically wired to be envious of anyone who has things better than us, and there's never any shortage of demagogues to stoke that envy. So we demand that if we're going to suffer, then everyone has to suffer. And guess what? That's exactly what happens.
Suzy KhimmFeb. 24, 2011 6:04 PM
In his failed 2008 bid for president, Mike Huckabee cast himself as the Family Values candidate, and he seems to be rehashing the same gambit for 2012. Appearing at the National Press Club on Thursday to promote his new book, "A Simple Government," the former Arkansas governor unloaded about the economic cost of broken families, attempting to wed social and fiscal concerns. At times, Huckabee—a former pastor—struck the moralizing tone of a church youth group leader. "Families that do not have frequent dinners together around their own table are twice likely to use tobacco, marijuana," he told the crowd. He lamented single-parent families for passing on costs to the taxpayer—though he didn't go so far as to utter the word "welfare queen."
Huckabee's comments seemed to regurgitate old debates over the welfare state. But while fiscal concerns continue to eclipse social ones on the national level, there are a few issues that could fit into Huckabee's wheelhouse. On Wednesday, President Obama indicated that he would no longer support the Defense of Marriage Act. When asked about the president's decision, Huckabee laid into Obama for changing his stance after having supported "traditional marriage" during his 2008 campaign:
The president has made an incredibly, amazing inexplicable political error. He is out of touch with the voters in every state in which this is on the ballot...Had he taken this position in the campaign, he might not have been elected. He supported traditional marriage with a man and woman [in 2008]. Either not being honest then or he's not being honest now. Or he changed his mind, and he needs to explain when and how that happened, and why.
The president has made an incredibly, amazing inexplicable political error. He is out of touch with the voters in every state in which this is on the ballot...Had he taken this position in the campaign, he might not have been elected. He supported traditional marriage with a man and woman [in 2008]. Either not being honest then or he's not being honest now. Or he changed his mind, and he needs to explain when and how that happened, and why.
Despite his political attack on Obama, Huckabee laid off from moralizing against homosexuality or gay marriage, both of which he adamantly opposes. And he may choose to avoid that tack during the Republican primary in an attempt to reach out to more libertarian-minded tea party types.
But he could conceivably use a fiscal argument to inveigh against "non-traditional marriage." In an interview with Slate, Huckabee said he didn't know Obama's reasons for flip-flopping on DOMA, but added: "I do know there is a definite economic impact of the breakup of families in this country." When pressed by Mother Jones as to whether gay marriage truly imposed an economic burden on the country at the Press Club, Huckabee declined to answer.
But Huckabee did make time to crack a gay joke during his Thursday appearance. As Huckabee wrapped up his speech, he received a signal from the event host, Bob Webb, that it was time to move on to the question-and-answer session with reporters. "I think I'm getting the question signal—either that or you were making a pass at me, I'm not sure," he told Webb, as the audience chuckled.
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Students, scientists, engineers and technicians study results from a high-performance Alcator C-Mod plasma discharge. From left to right: Alex Ince-Cushman, Amanda Hubbard, Gary Dekow,and Maria Silveira.
I-Mode combines excellent energy confinement with favorable particle and impurity transport, and without large edge instabilities. The ability to separate turbulence-driven energy and particle transport provides a new research path into this complex topic.
I-mode may offer a solution to a long-standing challenge for magnetic fusion energy. Standard high-performance tokamak plasmas typically have both energy and particle transport barriers at the edge, in many cases leading either to impurity accumulation in the core plasma or to potentially deleterious edge localized mode (ELM) instabilities. The I-Mode has the promise of providing an operating space with improved energy confinement, but no change to particle transport. This keeps impurities from building up and limits the triggering of ELMs. Estimates of I-mode extrapolation to ITER indicate that this may be a very attractive alternate to the conventional H-mode for reaching the Q=10 burning plasma target on ITER. Recent C-Mod results have demonstrated that I-mode can be accessed at relatively low plasma density, and then maintained as both density and power to the plasma are increased, as is expected to be the approach on ITER.
I-Mode is an attractive tokamak operational regime, combining the high energy confinement and edge thermal barrier of H-mode, with the low particle confinement of L-mode, avoiding impurity accumulation and the need for ELMs to expel particles; ELM divertor heat fluxes are an issue of great concern for ITER. Alcator C-Mod experiments have confirmed and extended prior results which found particularly robust operation in this configuration, maintaining I-mode up to the highest ICRF heating powers on C-Mod, expanding the ranges of magnetic field, and obtaining detailed information on the core and edge profiles and turbulence which should help us understand better its physical mechanisms. Initial assessments of the potential application of I-mode to ITER were positive, indicating that I-mode may be accessible on ITER with the planned heating power, at average density of about 5 x 1019m-3, and that Q=10 could be achievable at about 30% higher density. An open issue was whether such a controlled density increase was achievable while maintaining the I-mode. This motivated recent C-Mod experiments to assess density dependences and implement active density control. Results were extremely positive. Gas fuelling was added to an I-mode phase, increasing average density from the initial 1.5 x 1020m-3, to a final value of 2 x 1020m-3. Plasma pressure remained nearly constant, with energy confinement following the ITER H-mode scaling, while I-mode turbulence features and edge temperature pedestal are clearly maintained. With further increases in power, from external sources, or from alphas in a burning plasma, it could well be possible to extend the I-mode operating space to even higher densities and performance. Additional experiments, both on C-Mod, and in coordination with larger, lower field tokamaks, are urgently required to increase our confidence in the extrapolations to burning plasma conditions on ITER.
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Teen idol-cum-trying-2-B-serious actor Zac Efron is profiled in the latest issue of BlackBook, and while I'm sure he had a lot of very interesting things to say, for some reason, I find myself primarily drawn to the photos that go along with the article. For the shoot, they enlisted the help of numerous wild animals, who had the enviable task of getting all up in Zefron's shit. Of course I'm totes jelly of the little guys, but did they even appreciate what good fortune had befallen them? Here are the titillating photos from the magazine, as explained from the animals' point of view. More


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I must confess, the last 6 were a total struggle, I can barely care about them, there's really nothing inspiring about those characters as figures, I wouldn't buy them again, they really don't mean much to my larger saga collection, but in the "gotta fill the list" list they're the top 6 choices I guess, they're the most interesting as figures.


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Kylee Cruz joined the KXLY news team in June 2011.
Back when she was only six-years-old her neighbor started calling her the "Cub Reporter" because she always asked so many questions. That eventually led Kylee to Arizona State University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Broadcast Journalism from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
While in college, Kylee interned at KTVK-TV in Phoenix in addition to interning in her hometown of Yuma and in Los Angeles at EXTRA-TV. Kylee worked for a year as a multi-media journalist, news anchor and weather anchor for Cronkite NewsWatch, a student produced nightly newscast on Arizona PBS. While working for Cronkite NewsWatch, she covered the Tucson tragedy as well as other stories on the Arizona border and at the Arizona State Capitol. Kylee was also named the Outstanding Undergraduate Student of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism in 2011 and even got to interview Diane Sawyer at the school's annual luncheon event.
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Externships in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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As an alternative to the regular course offerings, a limited number of full-time externships are available to qualified students fluent in Spanish. Externs receive three units of credit for 200 hours of field placement and two units for an accompanying course titled Argentine Legal Institutions. Externs are placed in Argentine appellate courts, the public defender's office before the supreme court, criminal courts, federal courts of first instance and private law firms.
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- Learn about the Civil Law System in general, and particularly Argentina Judicial System, Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure and Criminal Procedure;
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- Gain experience working in a multicultural legal environment;
- Learn professional skills for the international job market;
- Reflect on values and responsibilities of the legal profession;
- Reflect on the value of human and professional exchange with diverse people from other countries.
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All of Class 4A North is likely cheering against Corinth. As the MHSAA state basketball playoffs get going this week, not many teams welcome the idea of facing the Journal's top-ranked Warriors at their place with a trip to the state tournament on the line.
"I'd like to know their all-time record here at this gym," Biggersville coach Cliff Little said after a loss to the Warriors last week. "This is a tough place to play. When they hit the bucket to go up two at halftime, I thought the top of the gym was going to come off."
Two seasons ago, Aberdeen led the Warriors by double digits in the Class 3A North State tournament in Corinth. Corinth stormed back and eliminated Aberdeen behind a rowdy student section and packed home court.
Corinth now is scheduled to host the Class 4A North State tournament next week.
The Warriors will spend this week at Itawamaba Community College's Davis Event Center for the Division 1-4A Tournament.
"We feed off our crowd. It's a loud gym," Corinth coach Keith Greene said. "That energy, it gets so loud, you can't hear anything."
Booneville senior Kenny Paul Geno won't sneak up on anyone this playoff season.
There are, however, plenty of area players can make a name for themselves as the playoffs hit full speed this week.
Booneville junior guard Jack Nichols scored 18 points in a win against Baldwyn last week.
Baldwyn junior Martell Brown has helped the Bearcats on another state tournament run despite losing point guard Dee Gates for the season in December.
Baldwyn freshman Conner McKay has proven ready to handle his share of point guard duties for the Bearcats as well.
"I think we've both got some really good role players," Booneville coach Michael Smith said. "Kenny's a great player but we've got several really good players who do what they can do. They cover each other very well and they're unselfish."
Playoff time: Call promptly
With so many high school basketball tournament games this week it's important that teams call prompltly after the end of each game if possible.
If tournament host wait until after the fourth game of the night to call in all results, it will make it difficult to print any of them in next day's paper.
Call the results at 678-1601 or if out of the area, at 1-800-270-2612, extension 601.
As always, we'd rather get two calls about a particular game than none at all.
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I'm hoping that you many of you despise the left so much that you'll take a few minutes to vote for our project over at the Pepsi Refresh Everyting competition. There is a left-wing group called "The Progressive Slate" (http://forums.hannity.com/showthread.php?t=2127481 <here's a summary of what's going on off Sean Hannity's forum).
When they enter the competition, which has been on three different months including this one, they sweep the top spots. In November, we almost quit because they took the top nine spots in our category ($50K) and most of us little guys just couldn't compete against them.
The kicker is that they are apparently backed by, and are part of, Democratic political interests, which is against the rules and spirit of the competition (yet Pepsi continues to let them enter).
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I have an 11 month old female black lab with great hunting lines. I have put some training into her (Hillman) but if I have to be honest not as much as I could/should have. She did have the basics down before her first trip for pheasant in October however. Sit/stay, heel, here, retrieving, etc. I did not get the chance to introduce her to live birds before hunting, but did throw/hide pheasant wings quite a bit.
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Second trip two weeks later lasted 3 days and was more of the same with better handling. She got out in front better and was doing more "hunting." Flushed several birds and did some retrieves.
Third trip two weeks later (I just got home from) handled even better but....has decided to absolutely DESTROY bids and DOES NOT want to bring them to me. When I say destroy I mean shaking them, growling, yipping, tossing them in the air, etc. She acts as if it's the enemy and she is trying to kill it. I was stunned to see this and frankly I didn't know exactly what to do. My instinct said to yell NO, but then I was afraid that would make the fact that she found it a bad thing. So I ran over got grabbed it away from her the first time she did it. Then it went on for the next three days. Every bird she found she did this to. One of them was down in a nasty briar covered ditch that I couldn't get into and I could hear her down there destroying the bird. I was yelling here but she wouldn't come (she normally is great with this). She finally did bring that bird up out of the ditch to me but it was completely destroyed.
I have no idea why she all of the sudden starting doing this when she was great at first. Nothing happened or changed between the trips. I'm at a loss and frankly don't want her retrieving game until I get this sorted and worked out.
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Shares of Tenneco (TEN) were dropping 0.5% before the close Monday.
Despite an 8% jump in revenues, the Chicago-based automotive parts manufacturer reported a drop in diluted earnings per share to $1.10 from $1.14 last year, due to a higher year-on-year tax rate.
The company's tax rate for the quarter ended June 30th was 39%, up from 18% last year. The company expects a tax rate between 36% and 38% for the rest of the year.
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Why You Need to Push for Kickboxing to Rise in Your Home Country
- Written by Dave Walsh
As I was typing in that headline, I initially had put "in the United States" for the simple fact alone that I live there, as do virtually all of the contributors on LiverKick.com, outside of EKP who is in the Toronto area, Fletch in the UK and Traveler who is heading to Thailand and China shortly to cleanse his person and kick things.
Yesterday it was announced that Zuffa had purchased UFC's top competitor, Strikeforce. This caused many, many reactions sweeping across the world for MMA fans and pundits. It has become a polarizing topic and has effectively split a community that was merely on the way to being fractured over the course of a few hours. In between anti-Zuffa war cries, pro-Zuffa, anti-free market rants, comparisons to major league sports teams that don't seem to stick and some wait-and-see attitudes, it is clear that something very big happened yesterday. What I really find funny is that somewhere in between all of that, we saw a show happen in Italy that featured four top 25 70kg Middleweights and the rest that are well on their way to being on that list in the world of kickboxing.
On top of that, the #5 and #11 fighters, respectively, were competing in different parts of the world as well. It feels like a foolish distraction to get caught up in MMA while kickboxing makes such a great showing, internationally. Admittedly, I saw Royce Gracie in UFC before I saw Peter Aerts throw the head kick that turned me into a lifelong kickboxing fan. The issue with MMA will sort itself out, that I'm sure of, there needs to be a focus on Kickboxing and Muay Thai right now.
As of me writing this, in the United States there is no one Kickboxing or Muay Thai promotion that promotes on a national basis. To me, that is almost mind-boggling, as there are promotions that run regionally, in areas like New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas that all draw incredible crowds for what they do, but there is next to no overlap outside of a few top prospects like Kevin Ross who actually leave their region to fight in other ones as well as other countries.
This is unacceptable by any stretch of the imagination. It isn't like there aren't gyms and there aren't people training kickboxing and muay thai every day in the United States, and not just for self defense, either. There are people training for combat. Then there is talk about why there is no major Muay Thai or Kickboxing promotion, the lack of star power. I've seen local shows and seen the top talents, if they were promoted correctly on a national level, who says that they wouldn't catch on like MMA fighters have? People purchase shows headlined by fighters like Frank Edgar, who by all means does not live up to the tough guy stereotype image of what a fighter should be, nor does he give the most rousing, interesting interviews.
Someone needs to step up to the plate already and take the fractured scene and make something of it. Everyone can keep complaining or being condescending that there is "no market for kickboxing" as long as no one is out there trying and proving the doubters right. K-1 isn't going to do it, they are a Japan-centric promotion, always have been and always will be. Their monopoly on the sport has been both good and bad for it; good as in it created a yearly tournament that shows who is the best in the world, without a doubt, the bad is that no matter where they promote, the end game is to make good television for Japanese audiences, not local audiences. When K-1 promoted in the United States they never bothered localizing the product beyond using a select group of American fighters. The local promoters and men in charge like Scott Coker and Mike Kogan are the whim of what the Japanese promoters and producers want, leaving a scene that I've heard from a few fighters was disarray and confusion for K-1's USA shows.
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What we saw yesterday was that kickboxing can grow anywhere that someone is willing to promote it and build stars. It's Showtime has proven that as well, from working with K-1 initially to stepping out on their own, especially this year, 2011, and really making a global footprint for themselves and the sport. By all means, from the people I've spoken to at It's Showtime, they'd love to promote events in the United States, they just need to find a suitable business partner and market. I feel like I've personally done a lot, reaching out to local promotions here in the US and then reaching out to It's Showtime and other international kickboxing organizations to help grow the sport, but for some reason nothing is sticking.
So here is what I propose; if you love kickboxing or muay thai, do something about it. Take it out of the bingo halls and casino arenas without any way for the world to watch it. We need something that people can watch on the internet or on HDnet, G4 TV or any other network willing to take a risk on a sport that has potential to be huge in the US. If you aren't happy with the state of MMA but love kickboxing, do something about it. I can't do it alone, nor can the people that I work with and talk to on a daily basis that want the same thing.
I don't just mean this for the United States. There are other places that are virtually untapped markets for kickboxing and muay thai; Canada, Eastern Europe, MENA (Middle East and North Africa) and parts of Asia like China, South Korea and India. We know there are potential markets out there, so make it happen. Support your local promotions, look them up. If you know someone who runs a gym or local shows, tell them you want more, you want them to stream events online. There are free options like UStream out there, and websites like LiverKick.com that will gladly promote those events and gladly embed them for everyone to watch. Just like we link to It's Showtime events when they happen, just like we linked to Fight Code yesterday, just like we intend to for United Glory and for any show that puts itself out there.
If you know someone that is interested, there is a contact link at the bottom of the page, use that. Let's make this happen instead of wondering why things aren't better.


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Yep, have one right here. It's a little v-shaped but not bad overall, reminds me of the CKM99. Review coming soon.
Mr. Joker - what is your recommendation for a Dual/Triple BA for mostly rock. I really like the deep punchy bass and mids yet clear crisp highs. I currently have the GR07 BE and will be getting the FX700 on your recommendation but would also like an upper end BA. I already have the X10 which I like when amped but looking for an upgrade to those. Would like be around $200-$250 range but can alter that if needed. I do not need the exact same sound signature as I do like to change things up but they just cannot be bass lacking or muddy/veiled highs. Thank you Sir.
In that price range most of the dual BAs will have a TWFK, which doesn't have a whole lot of bass. You might just be best off with a plain ol' Triple.Fi 10.
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I wanted to ask how would u compare soundmagic e10 to beyerdybamic dtx101e or brainwavs m4/m5?
How is the sound compared to these? Also would like to know if u have tried sony mh1c and tell hows the bass compared to soundmagic?
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I have not heard the MH1C yet, or the Brainwavz M4. Between the E10, DTX101, and M5 the M5 is the bassiest with the most laid-back treble. The DTX101 has a similar but more balanced sound and the E10 has the least bass and is the most v-shaped, with slightly more treble energy compared to the M5 and DTX101. It's also the most spacious.
Thanks for responding Joker. I wasn't very clear in my post so I will attempt to clarify. I will be using my PFE 122's or the Hm RE 262's as the beater set but I was thinking about going the custom route for my nice set. I don't want to go though the trouble of a custom just to get a mid level set. I would prefer to go all the way, just from quick reading of this site and others I was thinking of the UM Miracle. It seems like it is well balanced, (the detractors just have minor complaints and it is not an item where some hate it and some love it). I personally prefer to spend the money up front and not spent the next 6 months worrying if I made the right choice and if another option would have been worth the money. Let me know if you or anyone else has some advice for me.
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Well, I prefer the Miracle to pretty much everything else I've reviewed here so that's an easy choice for me. You just have to have diminishing returns in mind and not expect a 5x improvement over the PFE112.


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