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|Dec 17, 2012, 01:55 AM
In PRSI threads there is so little self-policing going on that the problems involve extensive editing over several pages of posts. In addition, these type of offenses are often borderline (one member's trolling is another member's opinion), so discussion across continents and time zones is part of the process.
Edit: About shutting down threads:
Please keep in mind that this is sometimes done temporarily simply to keep things from getting out of hand while we decide what to do. If a thread spirals out of control, and if it happens while there are few mods and/or admins available or in a situation where a thread is moving very fast with multiple problems, sometimes the best thing to do is to close or remove a thread until we can take action. That doesn't mean a thread will necessarily come back to life, but we do strive to let a wide variety of discussions exist for as long as possible (= until the tone gets so ugly or until so many rules are broken that we see no other way to deal with the situation).
Please remember that we are all volunteers, and things can take time. I want to emphasise that we are NOT interested in deciding what can and can't be discussed.
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|Dec 17, 2012, 09:30 AM
Having moderated here before, at times paying close attention to PRSI, Ill throw some thoughts into this discussion.
But before I start, temporary closure of heated threads is a good and necessary thing. At times, it has to be done and let me assure those who have no experience of moderating here, is that moderating PRSI can be an extremely difficult and tiring chore, full of judgement calls, so in this area, its probably best to cut the moderators as a whole some slack. This doesnt mean that individual moderators arent at fault. Also, moderating PRSI is often done invisibly by people who arent even participating in the thread.
Just because I used to be a moderator, doesnt mean that I automatically side with them as a group, as some people well know. However, having seen different sides of what goes around here, beind the scenes and how it appears to others, my three cents:
MacRumors needs PRSI
Why? Because almost everything in life is touched by politics, religion and social issues, at one level or another. Sometimes, these discussions are about far more important things than sports, entertainment, gadgets and so on. There is no reason to draw an arbitary and fuzzy line on why these important matters should be off-limits.
Some examples of blurred lines:
Sports and doping
Safety and fuel standards in cars
Current events that have a political or religious dimension
Any time a political figure/organisation has anything to do with Apple e.g. Greenpeace and Apple
If MacRumors didnt have PRSI, human nature being what it is, political points and posts would then crop up everywhere, from news threads, community discussion and so on, sometimes derailing a discussion. If there was a no-politics rule on MacRumors, moderator workload would probably double or triple overnight, with threads subject to massive editing.
Calls for PRSI to be shut down
From long experience here, these calls usually come from people who ventured in there and found themselves consistently on the losing side of an argument and were sometimes made to look fools in the process. If you cant stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Calls to ban talk about politics is an inherently political and reactionary stance in itself.
Why PRSI is moderated
As well as the over-riding forum rules about civility and so on that apply to all threads on MacRumors, an obvious point that many participants who call for an unmoderated political forum seem to overlook, is that MacRumors is a business with a brand a reputation, so to speak. And that brand is relatively safe for work and family-friendly.
A completely unmoderated political forum would mean, for instance, the freedom to post hate speech, such as neo-Nazi material or from people condoning child pornography. After all, an unmoderated forum would mean that anything goes. Im quite sure that Arn wouldnt want this sort of material and anything else in this league to be associated with MacRumors.
Whats more, as contentious as these threads often become, wading through pages of insults and flamewars is a pain in the arse, for readers and many participants alike. All those who regularly participate in PRSI and those mods who take an interest in keeping it useful, interesting and informative should take some credit that its threads rarely descend into the territory that many other places on the web seem to.
Those who complain the most about moderating in PRSI are possibly spending a little too much time in there that is personally healthy, especially as most know that there are very few minds to change. I speak from experience here.
So, in summary:
Moderating PRSI can be tricky. Although individual moderators can and should be called to account when they push their luck, its probably best to give the entire team the benefit of the doubt.
You cant take politics or religion out of life. It is fundamental to the human experience and shapes the fabric of the societies we live in.
MR needs a politics space to comtain and siphon off this stuff, lest it derail or ruin other threads.
PRSI needs to be moderated. Opinions vary to what degree.
If PRSI is your first port of call every day, and youre enmeshed in its in and outs, consistently putting your own membership at risk by getting embroiled in running feuds or other dramas, then perhaps youre overdoing it just a little.
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|Dec 17, 2012, 11:45 AM
To the ucfgrad93 (and, to a lesser extent, to the OP): Politics leaches and leaks into every other area of life, whether or not one wishes it to - such as, movies, music, simple current affairs.... So, it makes perfect sense to have somewhere to actually discuss these issues or every slight reference - intentional or not - to a political stance, or viewpoint, or event, in any other thread will have to be met with an application of duct tape, which means a lot of extra work for the mods, and probably, much frustration for users.
Re the curbed thread which is under discussion, I've been away for a few days, and haven't read it and so can't comment on content; the length of the thread alone is forbidding.
However, I will say that the cloak of anonymity afforded by the internet allows for a degree of offensiveness in discussion which would not be countenanced in face-to-face meetings (even in the pub, where I have many political discussions), or in emails with known interlocutors.
Personally, I'd prefer to see more reasoned argument and less personal abuse on the forum; however, having said that, I welcome the opportunity provided by this forum to debate - and discuss - some of these public issues with the sort of multinational membership that my domestic environment does not provide. For it enables me to see new ways of looking at things, and reasons for these opinions, even if I often find myself in disagreement with them. And it opens my eyes to matters considered of compelling importance elsewhere in the world.
|Dec 17, 2012, 02:59 PM
The need of a Political forum is to address all those subjects to that specific place, otherwise it would filter to Community forums or some other more visible forums.
|Dec 17, 2012, 03:32 PM
I'd rather have a PRSI forum that I know I can stay away from, or participate in, depending on the mood. I wouldn't want to get caught in the crossfire (pun totally intended (sorry)) innocently trying to read a community discussion thread.
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|Dec 17, 2012, 09:02 PM
Let the talk flow freely. Moderating a discussion based on opinions can only be done subjectively. Nobody wants to feel censored. It doesn't make sense to close a thread because its becoming a heated discussion. That's where the true colors come thru, where all's put out there for everyone to see. And it's not always a bad thing. It's where breakthru's happen. Where common ground is found.
If the site is going to encourage discussions about PRSI, it needs to allow the conversation to run its course. Flipping it on and off like a light switch doesn't do anybody any good.
|Dec 17, 2012, 09:10 PM
|Dec 17, 2012, 09:36 PM
My take as a user of why PRSI should be moderated:
Even with the post count limits, it's very easy for PRSI threads to descend into useless and quite often mean spirited ad hominem attacks. It's supposed to be a discussion forum, and a series of "You're a dick!" "no you are" "no really, your whole family are" "..." just doesn't do anything for me, and sometimes they go so far that our just can't go back to having a civil discussion.
These fights spill over into other parts of the forum and get dragged from thread to thread within PRSI to the extent that they drown out conversation like the Monty Python spam skit.
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|Dec 17, 2012, 10:00 PM
Because I wrote my previous post from an ex-moderator point of view, trying to put some things over to forum members in a way that moderators aren't so free to express themselves and also addressing forum members who might not have been here that long or may not know me too well, I've also realised that I have some things to say about the moderating of PRSI and in general, so I'll direct my comments by and large to those moderators who care to read them.
However, just as I know they won't publicly engage in specifics, especially with a nuisance such as myself, I'll add that I won't respond to any replies to this post or post anymore in this thread.
Before I tackle some things and make some suggestions, I want to stress that although there is a sizable group of forum members that communicate with each other off-board and have known each other for years, for various personal reasons, I'm not really in that loop, hardly ever post on Twitter and only engage on social networks with those I've met in person, so what I'm going to say is a distillation of my own thoughts and no-one else's. I'm not taking up anyone else's battles as my own.
For those who think otherwise, I've covered why PRSI has to be moderated. For business reasons and the kind of joint that Arn wants to run, MacRumors has standards. Where there are standards, there are rules. Where there are rules, someone has to enforce them… and thinking it over, I don't think those who have been calling for a completely unmoderated forum seriously mean this, but have concerns about appearance, process, tone and style. For those forum members, it's important to bear in mind what Ann said upthread:
In other words, for various reasons, because PRSI participants rarely report stuff, there is a far more pro-active stance towards PRSI, especially during times of nationally or globally important or contentious issues and stories. So, to put it bluntly, the mods are looking for trouble.
Sometimes, they seem to me — and I'm speaking from my own personal experience here because I've done it myself — to be so eager to keep things on a leash, for the best of intentions, that they might be making more work for themselves in unexpected ways. How they occasionally handle it is fair game for discussion, so I'll try to pitch in with some constructive observations:
Although mods have been poring over PRSI, I've noticed that the news threads — the most important threads on MR — seem to be occasionally littered with one-word posts, insults and the like. Rhetorically, is the balance of moderator attention where it should be at the moment?
Moderating the Newtown school shooting threads
I have no axe to grind here as I didn't post in them. However, I would question some decisions:
1. Splitting off a 'gun-related' thread from the main thread, thereby making a political judgement on what was relevant to the topic. Those who put forward the argument that people shouldn't politicise the issue have a vested interest in restricting the terms of the discussion, because in the face of such an atrocity, they want to talk about everything and anything except guns. This artificial distinction is utterly absurd, as it's integral to the entire story and what's more, has been treated as such by any media outlet of national or global consequence.
2. Ask yourself whether it was completely necessary to monitor this thread or others like them in PRSI so closely and in real time, leading to thread closure and clean-ups while people were still champing at the bit. Not only does it make modding more obvious and intrusive and the experience of moderating a bit more stressful, nothing seriously is going get broken on the forum if things are dealt with when threads take a natural lull or burn out of their own accord. Clean-ups can sometimes be less obtrusive and more straightforward when there's a clear chain of responses to mark up and work through when they're played out, even if people then bitch about things not being dealt with immediately.
Although PRSI regulars may not be so keen to report every small or borderline infringements, you know as well as I do, that if someone egregiously crosses the line with something offensive and out of generally-accepted bounds, it will usually be reported.
People get antsy when you mess with threads too much when they're deep in the hustle-bustle and then, when they inevitably complain about it later, more time and energy is spent dealing with addressing or discussing their complaints, either in public or in private. And to be honest, sometimes certain people shouldn't be protected from themselves: if a thread is going off the rails, sometimes it's better to give regular troublemakers some rope, let the cards fall where they may and dish out the mod actions as you see fit later at a more considered pace.
From the school of hard knocks
• Your title and status affect how people see you and respond to your posts. As difficult as it can be, try to cultivate an air of objectivity, or at least detachment, and if you take a stance, it's better to expand and reinforce on others you agree with than getting into running skirmishes, because as sure as night follows day, you will stoke resentment which can have unintended consequences.
• Your reputation is the most important thing here. Choose your public battles carefully.
• Ignore those who will never ever change their minds.
• For some reason, people seem to accept duplicate or similar thread merges with redirects more readily than thread closures.
• Bear in mind that conservatives — including moderators — in PRSI will always be outnumbered, due to forum members who participate not only being from strongly blue states, but also being drawn by and large from Anglo-Saxon countries like Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand as well as European countries, where the political centre is well to the left of the USA. This also includes American expats who have been changed by their travels. What's more, sometimes they're fully up to speed with what's happening in the US as American news is often on the front pages across the world. It's not a liberal conspiracy, it's just the demographics.
• Take your time. Try not to use Forum Spy for PRSI, as like Twitter, it can lead to rash and ill-advised posts, drawing you into a morass of claim and counter-claim. Better to draft something of substance, preview it and add it to the thread when it matters.
• If you have to close a thread for a temporary period, be inclusive and try to give some casual indication of when you think it might reopen, even if it's as vague as 'in a few hours' or 'tomorrow at some point'.
OK, enough. See you in the soup, if the Mayans don't get us first.
Edit: Also, I don't think it's helpful for site editors to venture into site and forum feedback threads about moderation. Rightly or wrongly, people will think that you're not minding your own business.
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|Dec 17, 2012, 11:30 PM
I've participated in heated discussions on another site where one of the participants was a "moderator" and she proceeded to "moderate" the same discussion. It's a terrible way to manage a discussion; the credibility of that website forum was destroyed. An individual moderating in a discussion where they are also participating will have, at best, the appearance of impropriety.
Well done, MR.
|Dec 18, 2012, 06:45 AM
Excellent post, BV.
I'm just going to pick out 2 points to comment on.
Spot on. I will give him a pass though as his first few articles here had him taking a beating from forum members and he likely harbors a bit of resentment. Who wouldn't?
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|Dec 18, 2012, 07:08 AM
Heated discussions can be conducted within the rules, and in those cases threads can live forever as long as we're concerned.
If members would challenge the content of a post rather than attack the post author, stay away from sarcastic one-liners and other comments that only serve to irritate, and challenge each other to provide sources for claims, I believe there would be very few problems in PRSI. It should be that simple.
|Dec 18, 2012, 08:30 AM
A tree is known by its fruit.
|Dec 18, 2012, 08:58 AM
Temporary closing the thread can help calm down a heated situation and gives us the chance to moderate properly. We don't just do it in PRSI, we often have to shut news discussion threads for the same reason. And before suspending a thread we almost always post a Moderator Note asking for members to calm down and keep on-topic so we can't be accused of not giving fair warning.
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|Dec 18, 2012, 09:03 AM
Re stopping the offenders, I think that this boils down individual perspective sometimes, and reporting of the offences, which is undertaken with reluctance (in the interest of promoting free and open discussion) in PRSI.
In any case, some people are more sensitive than others, and some, by contrast, are considerably more boorish. Personally, I find that as the environment of the web allows for anonymity, a great deal more by way of casual gratuitous insult can be offered than if one was communicating face to face, or under one's own name. And MR is a long way from some of the more awful sites, where vicious free-for-alls replace debate.
Having said that, I agree that the nature of PRSI means that discussions can become more heated very quickly, that there can be a reluctance to report transgressions, and that what may have started as reasoned debate can descend all too rapidly into a robust trading of personal insults.
However, I think that the line can be drawn at personal insults, and that posters ought to be advised to address the argument rather than the individual who posted it.
|Dec 18, 2012, 09:06 AM
We only close threads to prevent more work from piling up on us. If the thread already has plenty of posts that need moderation, it's easier for us to close it than let more violations pile up.
|Dec 18, 2012, 09:24 AM
A tree is known by its fruit.
|Dec 18, 2012, 09:37 AM
Putting people in TO is not something we do lightly. This is something else that doesn't seem clear to many, particularly in PRSI. Unless a transgression is completely over the top or the user has a history we will generally opt for a more measured response, be it a reminder or warning. These moderator actions aren't visible to anyone but the person who received them, and then when a user doesn't get a TO we get accused of not acting or acting unfairly when we have in fact acted completely by the book. Our process takes time, but IMO it's worth it.
We can, and sometimes do, certainly do as BV suggests and wait for a lull in the action to act. However, I don't think it is fair to let the thread take its course if the end result is that half of the thread's participants will end up with (in some cases) long TOs arising from their actions.
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|Dec 18, 2012, 10:36 AM
I'm not saying nothing should change; I'm just trying to give you a picture of our reality.
|Dec 18, 2012, 11:52 AM
|Dec 23, 2012, 04:50 AM
Moderator Note:
Please remember we are discussing the state of the PRSI forum.
This thread is not the place for political debate.
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|Dec 24, 2012, 08:58 AM
I appreciate to have a community like MR where we have a common baseline/interests, can help and support each other in the technical forums and during this to get to know each other a bit and reduce the anonymity at the same time.
I also believe PRSI is an important part of a site like MR. Closing PRSI would be like closing our eyes for real life topics when they occur (specially with a magnitude as in the past week or two). Just go ahead with the next funny rumor or bending iPhones would not make it a place to stay.
No question: PRSI is tough terrain. That must be clear to everyone entering this area; even more for those who decided to be an active part in a discussion. Required skills are the ability to stay line, take a fair punch and also to just ignore certain comments. It is not for those with thin skin.
But of course stay within the rules is a given. Huge violations to be reported instead of answered in thread will help us all to keep it working. That is what I would expect from the more senior members ... I was surprised to see some now in TO ...
Finally a big thank you for the efforts of all actual and former moderators and admins to keep PRSI open.
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SHELBY — In a game where tempers flared, the Forestview High girls basketball team found a way to overcome the emotional fireworks and complete a stunning comeback, 61-59, to edge host Crest in the Big South 3A Conference championship game on Friday night.
The Lady Jaguars stormed back from a 54-40 deficit entering the final four minutes at Ed Peeler Gymnasium to claim their seventh consecutive Big South 3A tournament title and eighth in the league's 12 years of existence.
That came after an exchange between Forestview's Kaitlyn Taylor and Crest's A'Diyah Ussery after a whistle in the open court with 3:45 remaining. It was unclear exactly what began the altercation, which led to the both players being removed from competition and was cut short by teammates pulling them apart.
If the decisions on the players stand as "ejections for fighting," that could lead to missed games for them in the playoffs.
"I'm still not 100 percent sure what happened," said Forestview coach Kevin Gurganus, whose bench was on the opposite end. "I saw the reaction. It was so far away and there were so many bodies in front of me.
"It's unfortunate for both teams. In tense games, sometimes people lose their heads. They're both good players."
Crest coach Shane Compton said Ussery was provoked.
"Their girl threw a punch and we responded," Compton said. "We just can't respond to that."
Leah Smith also fouled out for the Jaguars (20-6), while Se'Dasia Love, Caleia Jones and Shadalya Hamilton fouled out for Crest (18-4), which with the loss of Ussery was left with one starter on the floor by game's end.
Forestview took advantage of the attrition, using a mix of steals and layups to earn the comeback victory. Bre Armstrong's old-fashion three-point play with 1:40 left cut it to 57-55 before a Nikkyanna McCaskill layup off a steal tied it 57-all.
Crest's Amber Mintz sank a pair of free throws for a 59-57 edge with 1:31 remaining before McCaskill tied it with another layup.
The Jaguars' Felicia Berry and McCaskill each hit 1 of 2 free throws in the final minute.
"Things were going to have to start going our way, and they did," Gurganus said. "We caught a lot of breaks."
Gurganus said the ability to come up big in the midst of such a tense finish was a product of his five seniors showing the way.
"My seniors, they stepped up, calmed everybody down when I was dealing with the situation," Gurganus said.
The final play, out of a timeout with 31.1 seconds left and the Jaguars clinging to the 61-59 lead, featured Crest trying to foul but Forestview able to pass it around and avoid being fouled. Its success was no shock to Gurganus.
"We work on that two or three times a week," Gurganus said.
Compton was disappointed in more than a lost lead after the game.
"The officials lost complete control of the game," Compton said. "They had no business being in a conference championship.
"You've got to give (Forestview) credit. They fought back and found a way to win."
McCaskill scored nine of her team-high 16 points in the fourth quarter, with Sydney Harris pitching in 11, Taylor 10, Armstrong nine and Lauren Smith eight for Forestview.
Jones led Crest with 22 points, followed by Ussery with 19.
While the commotion in the fourth quarter was unexpected, McCaskill said the Jaguars' captains helped Forestview's players stay together.
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Jarm Turner said it's one thing to feel strongly enough about a cause to collect money or write a check for those you're trying to help.
But there aren't many people, he said, who'll bump their commitment to another level.
"It's another thing to go through what they're experiencing," said Turner, one of two student ministry pastors at St. Mark's Church. "It takes a real sacrifice."
Friday night, about 100 teenagers got a brief taste of what it's like to be homeless and hungry. They camped in cardboard boxes in the ballfield across the street from the Burlington church.
What they created resembled a homeless camp.
More impressive, they fasted from 12:30 a.m. Friday until 7 this morning. The "30 Hour Famine" exercise raises awareness of worldwide hunger and homelessness.
Teens at St. Mark's Church in Mebane also participated.
"It brings one person to another person's suffering," said Turner, who serves as student ministry pastor at St. Mark's along with Nick Jordan.
It wasn't all bad, though. Participants admitted to having a good time as they built their cardboard box village Friday afternoon and evening.
Kara Sheppard, one of the church volunteers, pointed to an assortment of boxes that formed something resembling a fort. Her husband and his charges, she said, were somewhere inside.
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Husband Ben laughed when he heard his camp described in such a fashion.
"Oh, yeah, we're going to have fun," he said of the night spent camping. Sheppard is a volunteer who works with seventh-graders at the church.
Sheppard said he went out of his way to get some deluxe boxes for the event. He said the four students he works with raised almost $700 to help fight hunger as part of the "30 Hour Famine."
"I just felt I needed to reward them," Sheppard said.
One of his students, seventh-grader Taylor Pack, was asked if he'd had anything to eat Friday.
"No, sadly," Taylor replied.
But a smile that crossed his face proved he wasn't as downcast as he pretended.
Taylor and other students from grades seven through 12 who participated in the event said a little hunger was a good thing when it involved raising money for others who might go days with nothing to eat.
Money raised through "30 Hour Famine" goes for Christian humanitarian aid while simultaneously raising awareness of worldwide hunger and homelessness.
The event is sponsored by World Vision. Participants are encouraged to fast for 30 hours to experience a bit of the hunger that almost 1 billion people who lack access to proper food experience daily. Students at the church spent about six weeks raising money for the project.
About $2,000 was raised online and organizers at St. Mark's said they expected the figure to climb to close to $5,000 by the time all donations are totaled.
According to a news release from World Vision, each $30 raised helps feed and care for a child for a month. Since it was started in 1992, the "30 Hour Famine" has raised close to $150 million.
Jim Rocheleau is a volunteer at St. Mark's who works with 10th-graders.
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Strengths: Light, fast tire in all-around xc conditions, very quick on hard pack and pavement. Mounts and removes from rims very easily thanks to the kevlar bead, no levers needed.
Weaknesses: Poor in sand, seems sketchy on loose gravel and leaf-covered
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Date Reviewed: November 8, 2011
Strengths: Fast, light weight, long lasting tread, smooth, great cornering grip, made in France.
Weaknesses: thin sidewall
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Price Paid: $25.00
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Date Reviewed: July 25, 2011
Strengths: Very fast rolling resistance, light weight, good climb traction in the rear, low wear even on paved roads, have only had one pinch flat which was my own fault for running low PSI, light weight and low rolling resistance make climb sprints and gaining speed super easy, not bad on small turns at high speed.
Weaknesses: Very poor turning traction, no confidence in turns at all, tire folds over on its sidewall in turns even when inflated properly which is very scary, poor in sand almost scary but its not designed for that terrain, also very sensitive to PSI.
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I would ride this tire on fast fairly straight single track, but anything with fast braking turns forget it! Have taken some nasty falls due to this tire failing or rolling over on the sidewall in highspeed braking turns, one off a small cliff.
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Strengths: Fast tire. Great traction. Handles all terrains and all the climbs. Disapointed that the price went up
Weaknesses: Not good in mud
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: More than 3 years
Price Paid: $22.00
Purchased At: Price point
Similar Products Used: Maxxis
Bike Setup: Full suspension anthem xc
Date Reviewed: September 27, 2010
Strengths: Light, fast rolling, good enough grip for all around XC use here in NC.
Weaknesses: Weak rubber, prone to flat.
Bottom Line:
Value gets Four chilis, a great price for a fast rolling lightweight tire.
Overall, 2 chilis (fair) as a flat or two may have happened to any tire, and I have a few friends who use and love this tire...I however have removed them and will never use them again.
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Duration Product Used: 3 months
Price Paid: $25.00
Purchased At: Performance
Similar Products Used: Maxxis Larsen TT Exception, IRC Mythos XC II, Kenda Nevegals
Bike Setup: 26" 22lb Single Speed
Date Reviewed: September 18, 2010
Strengths: Light
Weaknesses: Poor cornering in sand; paper thin sidewalls; rim slip
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid: $30.00
Purchased At: Nashbar
Similar Products Used: WTB Velociraptor, Tioga Psycho II
Bike Setup: Old school Trek 990 custom...no suspension
Date Reviewed: August 23, 2010
Strengths: Light wt. fast rolling, Affordable.
Weaknesses: Side knobs tear off. Inner belt delaminated after one race rendering the tire useless with "stretch" holes in several places where the tire came apart. This tire may be better suited for non-rocky terrain which is in short supply here in the U.P. of Michigan
Bottom Line:
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Price Paid: $35.00
Purchased At: ONLINE
Similar Products Used: Continental XC Pro. Python Tubless
Bike Setup: Full suspension
Date Reviewed: April 23, 2010
Strengths: Very light and fast rolling
Weaknesses: No grip!
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 2 Years
Purchased At: came on stock on the
Similar Products Used: WTB Exiwolf, Specialized Fast Trak LK Control 2Bliss, IRC Mythos XC
Bike Setup: Giant Anthem
brakes: hayes 9, derailleurs: Shimano XT, Fork: Manitou Seven, Wheels: Mavic 717 Shock: Manitou S-Type SRL, Crank/handlebar/stem/seat post: Raceface evolve
Date Reviewed: February 28, 2010
Strengths: Product is: light in weight, Rolls well on hard surfaces, Excellent in SNOW
Weaknesses: On hard pack with loose gravel they are sketchy, feels like wash out is possible
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Good tire to practice on or run in the winter
I have been riding it in the off season and it hooks in Powder and really well in Slushy melting snow and snow banks, A OK!
Good tire and is light
Not for Loose gravel on hard pack
FLIP your rear tire the opposite way of rec. Rotation!
Added traction!
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $56.00
Purchased At: Schwag
Similar Products Used: Kenda product line and Bontrager
Bike Setup: Mongoose Teocali
Tires mounted on Mavic 317's
Date Reviewed: January 19, 2010
Strengths: Lightweight. Rolls fast. When purchased on sale, price is reasonable.
Weaknesses: Side knobs added to the New Generation tires fall off the tire, leaving the kevlar belts exposed. Rubber has cracked, rendering the tire useless.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Similar Products Used: Maxxis Crossmark, Panaracer Fire XCPro
Bike Setup: Trance X
Date Reviewed: April 29, 2009
Strengths: Very Light, and Very fast rolling. Low center knobs provide fast rolling and good climbing.I run the python on the rear as it really isn't aggressive enough for front end duties. When on the rear you MUST run it backwards or climbing will induce rear wheel spin.
Weaknesses: The tire slides on anything wet. Wet roots, wet pavement, you name it it'll slip on it. The tire is also expensive and wears quickly on pavement.
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: 1 Year
Price Paid: $25.00
Purchased At: Bikes Unlimited
Similar Products Used: Michelin AM tire, Python first generation, anc CST copperhead.
Bike Setup: RockShox SID Race, SRAM X9 rear derailleur, Fox Float R AVA
1998 Heavily upgraded Sunn Xchox Alu.
Date Reviewed: April 14, 2009
Strengths: Fast, low rolling resistance. Long lasting, hard compound. Excellent traction on hardpack.
Weaknesses: Abrupt washout in turns at limit. Stretchy bead doesn't hold up for tubeless setup (if you try, you will experience a tire fly off the rim unexpectedly). Poor traction in muddy conditions
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: More than 3 years
Price Paid: $19.00
Purchased At: price point
Similar Products Used: Spesh FastTrack, Captain. Mythos IRC. Maxxis CrossMax
Bike Setup: 08 S-Works Epic.
Date Reviewed: April 4, 2009
Strengths: Lightweight. Grips like glue on hardpack. Does well in sandy patches. Climbs well. Easy to mount. Cushiony without being scary.
Weaknesses: None so far
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $21.00
Purchased At: Performance
Similar Products Used: Kenda Komodo. Continental Traffic.
Bike Setup: Mongoose Tyax Pro. Sun RhinoLite rims. Suntour XCM RL Fork.
55psi in tires.
Date Reviewed: March 14, 2009
Strengths: Rolls Fast, Smooth, Cushy, Light
Weaknesses: Front tends to slip out
Bottom Line:
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Duration Product Used: Less than 1 month
Price Paid: $40.00
Purchased At: Blue Sky
Similar Products Used: Kenda Kharisma
Bike Setup: revamped 2001 Haro Escape
Date Reviewed: January 24, 2009
Strengths: Grip, grip & more grip. Durability, rolling resistance, price, converts easily for tubeless use.
Weaknesses: Wet roots, cornering.
Bottom Line:
As a rear tire it's terrific. I bought it during the summer when everything was hard & dry & it was money. I was curious to see how it would stand up in the fall & into winter since most say it's a dry hardpack tire. No worries. You can climb up the side of a building with this tire. I climbed hills that were covered in wet leaves & pine needles that I didn't think I had a prayer of getting up. The 'paddles' dig thru the mess & find grip. If it's starts to give out I just adjust my weight back a hair & they dig in again.
Snow? No problem. Mud? Powers through. Rocks? No problems with cut sidewalls, punctures or pinch flats (again, this is the 2.3). Only weakness I've found is wet roots & logovers. They slip like a greased eel on wet roots. Probably something to do with it being a harder compound (at least it feels like it to me).
I'm a big fan of finding something that works & sticking with it & I can't imagine using another tire on the rear.
On the front it's nearly perfect when mounted backwards as the 'paddles' provide exceptional grip on descents. They can be a little sketchy cornering. The front tends to wash out on initial turn in until it gets down on the side knobs. Overall it's an excellent tire but I'll probably try something else on the front.
5 chilis for value as I got 'em at close out price. 4 for overall due the the wet root thing and turning.
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Duration Product Used: 6 months
Price Paid: $25.00
Purchased At: Price Point
Similar Products Used: Maxxis Crossmark, Bontrager Jones XR
Bike Setup: Me - 200 lbs
Bike - 4" suspension XC
Tire - 2.3 @ 30 psi
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Sometimes it takes time for an idea to germinate.
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E-Authentication struggled to gain traction and OMB refocused it in 2007 with the emergence of Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
Flash forward to fiscal 2013, the Postal Service issued a draft request for proposals and a final RFP to create and run a Federal Cloud Credential Exchange (FCCX). The system would let citizens log onto federal services using usernames and passwords from third parties, such as Google or PayPal, as long as those companies meet federal standards under the Federal Identity Credential and Access Management framework (FICAM).
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The FCCX would act as the identity authenticator, taking advantage of the build once, use many philosophy. Agencies wouldn't have to build separate identity management systems or manage separate usernames and passwords for each of their online services, and citizens would reduce the number of usernames and passwords they have to remember.
Experts in and out of government say the FCCX is borrowing heavily from E-Authentication.
"Looking back at E-Authentication, it was not a bad idea, but it was a little bit ahead of its time," said Jeremy Grant, the senior executive advisor for identity management at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and leader of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) program office. "Certainly, having worked, when I was in industry, on some of the implementations then, you had agencies that didn't necessarily understand the value of it. You had technology and standards that were not necessarily bad, but they were relatively new to the marketplace and not readily understood or easy to work with. If you fast forward from 2005 to 2012, you have lots of agencies where senior executives not only understand the value of federated identity within government, but are actively looking to bring these types of applications online and realizing they can't do it unless they have a better identity infrastructure than they do today."
He said the technology, policy and processes have all matured to the point that creating an identity exchange in the cloud is possible.
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This effort began with the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) and received a push from a White House-led tiger team, which began looking at identity management in the cloud in 2012.
"By enabling agencies to adopt federated identity solutions, these efforts will improve the security, privacy and convenience of the government's transactions with the public," Steven VanRoekel, the federal chief information officer, said in email to Federal News Radio. "With its unique role within the American economy and society as a trusted institution., the U.S. Postal Service is the perfect partner for this enterprise. Ultimately, initiatives like this will enable the Federal government to more easily offer a variety of customer-facing services online, allowing the American people to access government services anytime, anywhere, and on any device."
Over the last decade, agencies have laid the groundwork for the FCCX through trial and error with efforts such as E-Authentication, the Federal Bridge and even HSPD-12.
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Judy Spencer, the policy management authority chairwoman for CertiPath, which provides aerospace and defense companies a public key infrastructure bridge so they can securely share information, spent 36 years in government, including working at the General Services Administration where she ran the governmentwide identity management efforts, including E-Authentication and the Federal Public Key Infrastructure Bridge.
She said the biggest difference between now and then is the cloud.
"Now that we have the cloud out there, we think there is a better environment to really be able to build this and making it work the way it needs to work," Spencer said. "This is an implementation piece to me, especially given the work they have done in developing federal profiles for the open standards, and also defining different identity providers and which standards they accept. A federal agency could make a determination and program that application to be able to accept all of these different credentials from different providers and validate them. But that would be everyone having to rebuild and what this does is allow that identity credentials to all go through this single function in the cloud, and the identity applications need to only process what the cloud sends them, and this cloud will always send them the same thing."
She said part of the goal of the draft RFP is to figure out what the front end will send and how it gets safely transmitted to the back-end system to make identity proofing easier.
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Bill Corrington, the chief cloud strategist for Stony Point Enterprises and a former chief technology officer at the Interior Department, said what the Postal Service detailed in the draft statement of work is a type of identity broker model. He said that makes perfect sense with the push from OMB to use cloud services. Corrington said there are several critical success factors USPS needs to keep in mind, starting with privacy and security.
"The other critical success factors that I see in anything like this is you have to build critical mass early and get the thing off the ground. They'll need to have some agencies lined up to be relying parties," he said. "They also will need to focus attention on pricing model. Obviously, there's pricing USPS will pay some vendor to deliver the service, but how's the charge back model going to work with the agencies and how's that going to be structured so the agencies see it's a cost effective approach."
Corrington, who also was the co-chairman of an ACT-IAC special interest group that issued a white paper in November on identity management in the cloud, said agencies may not yet realize the need for this type of approach.
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"The name of our unit was 'Journey to Become a Leader' and it started with leadership and who can be a leader. What does a leader look like and how do they act? What kind of character traits does a leader have?"
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McLeod said the high school students were learning as well.
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Donnie Richards, a member of the high school leadership class, said the program was a good experience.
"We do activities like this in class all the time," he said. "This gives us a chance to have another way to go through it. It's been great. It's actually good teaching experience for us."
The project ended Tuesday on Election Day when the elementary school students voted for president.
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According to the United Nations Population Fund, the world will reach seven billion people as of Oct. 31, 2011, with some groups projecting that the seven billionth person will be born in India. However, it is difficult to claim that any one individual is that person.
A concern of population growth is overpopulation, which can put a significant strain on resources, including food production, water and energy sources. This has led some countries to adopt population control policies, such as China's one-child policy that limits married urban couples to a single child.
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Despite trailing by 17 points nearly six minutes into the third quarter, the Finns prevailed 82-70.
The Turks dominated the boards, out-rebounding Joensuu, 35-20, yet they shot themselves in the foot with a whopping 30 turnovers.
Point guard Branislav Ratkovica and center Torin Francis each turned the ball over six times for Aliaga Petkim and Taquan Dean had five.
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I found that Swag's just down the road from Iroquois had a pretty good selection. I got some awesome goretex running shoes there that are perfect for disc golf. It's at the corner of New Cut and Old 3rd
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Yeah I wanted the Wings WP for awhile but wanted to try them on first. I couldn't find them around here so I settled on a pair of Merrell Moab Ventilators. I have wide feet and wanted the Gore-tex instead but they are not available. The wider Ventilators were to big so I went with the mediums and they fit fine. The mediums in the Gore-tex which I wanted more was way to tight. I'm still stumped on this and can't figure it out. I bought them at Swags due to the advise of many and don't regret it.
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PLYMOUTH — Lejeune simply ran into a better team Friday night.
Coach Darryl Schwartz didn't dispute that following the Devilpups' 50-13 loss to defending state champion Plymouth in the NCHSAA 1-A East Regional final.
"I would say so," he said. "They were good. They are a good team, they are well-coached, they were disciplined and they were just better than us."
The final score would indicate that, although Lejeune (13-2) had its moments to stay competitive with the Vikings (14-0), who play Murphy on Dec. 14 at 11 a.m. in the state 1-A final at BB&T Field at the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem.
The Devilpups took a 7-0 lead on their first possession as senior Alex Ynfante reeled in a 10-yard touchdown pass from sophomore Daxton Derrick. Lejeune's Jamaz Richardson also returned a second-quarter kickoff 86 yards for a touchdown.
But it wasn't enough as the Vikings prevailed and now will take on Murphy (12-3), who beat Albemarle 53-21 in the West Regional final Friday night.
"They (Vikings) just outplayed us," Lejeune senior linebacker/fullback Stephen DiCenso said. "We just made a few mistakes here and there."
Richardson, Lejeune's standout senior running back, agreed that Plymouth was just too good.
"They played a good game," he said, "Their offensive line was pushing. It wasn't an easy game. They just played a good game overall."
Still, the loss won't overshadow the season the Devilpups had this season. Lejeune, the Coastal Plains Conference champion, reached the regional final for the first time in program history.
"I told them 'Let's focus on what we had accomplished this year," Schwartz said.
Plymouth won this game in the trenches.
The Vikings outgained the Devilpups 325-125 on the ground. Senior Demetrius Davis led Plymouth with 147 yards rushing and five touchdowns on 18 carries. Senior Demarkice Price added 100 yards on 11 carries.
"It started up front with the blocking and then we got in the second level," Plymouth coach Robert Cody said. "We moved the football pretty good on them."
Schwartz was impressed with the Vikings' line.
"Their line was exceptional," he said.
Meanwhile, Richardson and the Lejeune offense were unable to sustain many drives. Richardson ended with 81 yards rushing on 15 carries.
"Their linebackers were quick to the ball," Schwartz said.
The Devilpups' first of just two scores came on Ynfante's touchdown catch that was set up by Richardson's 37-yard halfback pass to senior Brady Bodine on the game's third play from scrimmage. Bodine's catch moved the ball to the Plymouth 10-yard line.
"We had seen it on film but they caught us off-guard," Cody said. "It was a heck of a play."
Lejeune's other score came on Richardson's 84-yard kickoff return that brought the Devilpups to within 22-13 with 3:43 left in the second quarter.
"I had to do what I had to do," Richardson said. "I went full speed.
But Plymouth answered each Lejeune score.
Down 7-0, the Vikings went 79 yards on seven plays in 3:21 and capped the possession on a 5-yard touchdown run by Price. Price then ran in the two-point conversion to give Plymouth an 8-7 lead.
The drive was highlighted by quarterback Malik Webb's 34-yard pass to Chad Dance to the Lejeune 20 on third-and-nine.
"Once in a while you have to have that kind of stuff," Cody said. "That wasn't coaching. It was just a whole lot of athletic ability. It got us out of a jam and it set the tone."
Plymouth then got two touchdown runs by Davis in the second quarter to take a 22-7 lead before Richardson's kick return.
Davis then followed Richardson's return with a 1-yard touchdown plunge to extend the Vikings' lead to 28-13.
However, the Devilpups appeared in position to make it a one-possession game entering halftime as Lejeune reached the 1-yard line in the final minute of the second quarter.
But Derrick fumbled while trying to score on second down and the Vikings recovered at the one.
"We made some key errors here and there and they hurt us," Schwartz said. "You can't do that against the defending state champion. We knew that going in."
The Vikings then pulled away in the second half en route to a second consecutive trip to the state final and setting up a rematch of last year's game with Murphy.
"We didn't recover and they (Vikings) grinded us down the whole second half," Schwartz said.
And while the end result was not what the Devilpups wanted, Lejeune players knew they were a good team this season that just ran into a formable foe.
"We had a great season," DiCenso said. "We did everything we could. We deserved to be out here."
Richardson agreed.
"The mentality we had this season was that we had to win. Actually our mentality was to get the championship and get a ring," Richardson said. "But things don't go as planned. We were stopped short, but we worked hard."
Lejeune 7 6 0 0 — 13
Plymouth 8 20 14 8 — 50
First Quarter
L — Ynfante 10 pass from Derrick (Johnson kick) 9:43
P — Dance 5 run (Price run) 6:12
Second Quarter
P — Davis 9 run (Price run) 6:52
P — Davis 31 run (run failed) 3:56
L – Richardson 84 kickoff return (kick failed) 3:43
P – Davis 1 run (run failed) 2:20
Third Quarter
P — Davis 31 run (run failed) 9:05
P — Davis 2 run (Price run) 2:02
Fourth Quarter
P — Webb 1 run (Spruill pass from Webb) 5:11
First downs 10 24
Rushes-yards 27-125 58-325
Passing 94 74
Comp-Att-Int 7-12-2 3-4-0
Fumbles-Lost 3-1 0-0
Penalties-Yards 1-5 4-35
Punts 6-27.6 0-0
RUSHING—L: Richardson 15-81, Bodine 4-18, DiCenso 5-22, Derrick 3-(-4). P: Dance 11-81, Price 11-100, Davis 18-147, Webb 6-34, Barrow 10-45.
PASSING—L: Richardson 1-1-0-37, Derrick 6-11-2-57. P: Webb 3-4-0-74.
RECEIVING—L: Bodine 4-53, Ynfante 1-10, DiCenso 1-27, Richardson 1-4. P: Dance 1-34, Price 1-32, Purvis 1-8.


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LPD posted about the incident on its Facebook page Tuesday morning, along with screen shots from Walmart security cameras. The women�s identities and whereabouts were not immediately available Tuesday evening.
The theft took place around 4:50 p.m. May 7 at 2450 Allentown Road. The three women involved were caught on Walmart security cameras at the store�s exit and parking lot. The first woman pictured pushed a cart overflowing with groceries out the door. Two other women walked out soon after; one of them had a smile on her face. The women were seen leaving in what appeared to be a Buick Century.
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