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Shahid Khan has gone from pizza delivery man to in-demand producer — with a little help from Noel Edmonds.
When it comes to drive, ambition and dogged self-belief, Shahid Khan — or Naughty Boy, as he's known in the production world — should be an example for any headstrong kid trying to make it in the music industry. Khan grew up on a Watford council estate, where the Indian records and films he digested as a youngster made a big impression.
"I grew up listening to a lot of Bollywood music, so that was definitely an inspiration, although I don't make Bollywood or Asian music," explains Shahid. "Most of my childhood was spent hearing all those big epic film soundtracks, and it has definitely inspired me a lot. I do apply those influences to my music. In particular, there's a guy called AR Rahman and, when he started, I began to appreciate Bollywood music in a different way. There is something special that he does with his film soundtracks. As an influence, I think it's more in terms of my sound, actually, and that thing about being musical but it being cool as well. That's sometimes the hardest thing to achieve, because you want the best of each and then it's still got to have commerciality. That's what I loved about [AR Rahman's music] particularly. At that point, I wasn't thinking about songs and lyrics. That came later. It was the music I was more concerned with: 'How can I get what I hear in my head coming out from the speakers?'"
Although Khan taught himself the piano from an early age, and drums a little later on, he only really started writing music and began harbouring dreams of becoming a record producer during his latter teen years, creating what he describes as "Buddha Bar kind of chillout lounge music" using his Dell PC, MIDI keyboard and Cubase.
In 2004, Shahid started a Business and Marketing degree at London Guildhall University but he dropped out after a single term and began signing up to any job he could get to help fund his musical ambitions. While variously working in Watford General Hospital and delivering pizzas for Domino's, Khan heard about a Prince's Trust scheme whereby he might be able to secure funding to start a fledgling music production business. Naughty Boy Recordings was soon born.
"There's a process you go through where you have your business idea, you send it to them in a business plan and then, over a few months, they decide whether they're going to give you the funding, depending on whether they think you'll be able to achieve your goals," says Khan. "I basically explained how I was going to go about making money out of music. I wanted to set up a record label and be a producer, and I explained that I would find an act and I would produce their song and I'd release it. I had a mentor who kind of guided me through that process and, in the end, it came down to me playing them some music to show what I could potentially do. I made this piece and I played it to them and they approved the grant, which was £5000, and that's how I set up a little studio in my mum and dad's shed. It was really helpful and it helped me be confident. I felt like I'd got a bit of pressure now and there was a reason to do it.
"Basically, half of the shed was my Mum's pots and pans that she wouldn't be using, and then half of it was my studio, which was just more of a nice vibe then. I didn't have equipment like a good soundcard or an Avalon compressor or the things I have now, but that didn't stop it from sounding cool and I did buy a Macbook and Logic and Reason. I used to run Acid Pro on the Dell so I could sample, and I used to use Reason on the Macbook. I also had a mic set up at the PC and I'd record stuff into that, guitars and instruments, but I was still [mostly] using Reason sounds and drums. I'm still a firm believer that it's definitely not about what you have in terms of equipment. It's about using your ears and not really over-thinking it. I've never tried to be a perfectionist with music, because I think it's those little imperfections that can kind of separate you out sometimes."
Just a few months after his grant from the Prince's Trust in 2005, Shahid Khan also benefitted from a rather less traditional investment route for Naughty Boy Recordings. Step forward Noel Edmonds and his daytime quiz show Deal Or No Deal. "I went on Deal Or No Deal — it was random, because I'd never even seen the programme before, but I went on there and won £44,000!" laughs Shahid. "A friend of mine's mum wanted to go on there because she loved it and my friend asked me how she could apply to go on there. I got her the application form, but then I just thought I might as well send one off myself as well. They asked me to come down for an audition and then, next thing, I was in Bristol for three weeks, waiting to play while watching 26 shows. It was weird but that was how I learnt to play, by watching!
"When I won the 44 grand, I didn't really know what to feel because I'd never had that kind of money... but that's how I started the actual label and then I did a song with Bashy called 'Black Boys' for Black History Month, released that and it all just started. I bought a little mixer and I upgraded my soundcard. That money definitely helped me survive for those couple of years."
This unexpected windfall not only enabled Khan to upgrade his studio setup and get his label up and running properly, it also allowed him to take on an unpaid apprenticeship at London's Townhouse Studios during 2007 and 2008. Under the mentorship of Hank Hughes, Shahid assisted on numerous major sessions and learnt important lessons about the ins and outs of engineering, production and running a commercial recording studio, in addition to having access to the Townhouse's high-end facilities.
Townhouse Studios, sadly, closed its doors for good at the end of March 2008, but it wasn't long before Shahid Khan's career took another life-changing turn. While attending a 1Xtra showcase in Soho, he first saw Emeli Sandé perform. "It was the end of 2008 and she opened the show, and I was just amazed," enthuses Khan. "I didn't know who she was — and I couldn't believe that everyone else in the room wasn't reacting like me! Afterwards, I just went up and spoke to her. She was just there with her sister and she was going back to Scotland. We stayed in touch for a few weeks and she heard some of my music I'd done with Bashy, and she sent me over some stuff she'd written, and I just felt like there was something there and so did she. Then she just started flying down every other week and she'd stay in a bed and breakfast round the corner and we'd write together. That's when it really kicked off."
Emeli Sandé's debut album, Our Version Of Events, is, at the time of writing, the biggest-selling record of 2012, and Khan co-wrote and co-produced the majority of it. The last couple of years have seen Naughty Boy co-write [often with Sandé] and/or produce for a host of British stars including Leona Lewis, Lily Allen, JLS, Susan Boyle, Alesha Dixon, Tinie Tempah, Cheryl Cole, Ed Sheeran, Professor Green, Devlin, Wiley and Alexandra Burke. February 2013 will see the release of Naughty Boy's first solo album, Hotel Cabana, and, if the reception of his debut single 'Wonder' (a song co-written by Emeli Sandé, who also provided lead vocals) is anything to go by, could prove yet another milestone success for the young producer.
Of the many tracks that Khan and Sandé worked on during those first few months, a handful would end up on Our Version Of Events, but the pair's first charting success was Chipmunk's July 2009 hit 'Diamond Rings', which peaked at number six in the UK. It would prove a very important career breakthrough — and it all started with an Oxfam-bought ska sample.
"I used to buy CDs from Oxfam of old ska sort of tunes, and I didn't know what I was buying really, but I just heard that sample [from 'Miss Ska-Culation' by Roland Al and the Soul Brothers], and I heard the beat around it and I just took a chance, really," says Shahid. "UK rappers were underground then, and that was Chipmunk's first commercial hit, and I was really into how to bridge that gap between still rapping and still being British but making it on Radio 1. I always thought that ska had that sound and reggae in general had that sound where you could rap on it. It could still be quite commercial, but would still be cool. I wanted to use a sample which embodied all that, and that track did. I just built some drums around it and it was one of the first things me and Emeli did together as well. I think Emeli wrote that hook while she was hoovering! We went in and recorded it, and that was the first time I had had to get something mixed and mastered, so it was really cool, and then for it to go into the top 10 as my first commercial release — it succeeded, definitely!"
The knock-on effect of that one hit for both Shahid and Emeli was nothing short of extraordinary. "Basically, we had a song on the radio and we had a song in the chart," explains Khan. "I didn't have a publishing deal and nor did Emeli. I didn't have management and nor did Emeli. And people just started trying to hunt me down. Universal, EMI, Sony, everyone was making a [publishing] offer and then I had to find myself a lawyer, which I did. And people didn't know that me and Emeli had all these other songs until they met us, and that just made it a bit more intense. I went with Sony out of the three for publishing and then I signed with EMI [Virgin] for an album deal. It all happened at the same time, which is really weird."
Shahid's publishing deal with Sony/ATV in 2009 provided him with a budget to set up a studio, so he was finally able to move out of his parents' garden shed. He didn't have to think twice about where he wanted to build his new musical home-from-home. "Some of the people from the Townhouse had moved over to Ealing Studios and there was one block empty," Shahid tells us. "I had come down and used a studio here sometimes, and was just comfortable coming here. It's a film studio and it just had a nice cool vibe. There was always a room downstairs that was empty, so I just asked them if I could build a studio in that room, and they were happy with that, so that's how I spent my studio budget. There's two rooms and there's a booth. One room's a live room with a piano. Yamaha gave me and Emeli a piano as a gift so that was quite cool. We built a little side room where there's drums and the tabla and a ukulele and loads of guitars. Then you've got the booth, and then you've got my main studio bit. I've just got a massive M-Audio Keystation, my Mac, a Rosetta Apogee 800, some Adam A8Xs, which are the same speakers I've had throughout, my compressor and soundcard. There's no real gadgets."
Khan enlisted KMR Audio, who also supplied his equipment, to provide the necessary soundproofing and sound treatment. "Basically, it was just an empty room, but the quality of the soundproofing they put in is amazing," he explains. "It's really thick and it's everywhere. If I go into the booth and close the door, I can't hear anything. I think it's important for when I'm recording and also for when I'm listening to things. I can hear everything in here really clearly and I think that's down to the quality of [the sound treatment]. All the soundproofing is black so it makes the studio quite dark. I wanted to give it a dark feel and a dark vibe. I've got a massive fish tank [packed with piranhas, no less!] and just a few other things that help create that vibe. This studio was always called Cabana before Hotel Cabana became the name of my album. The first session Emeli and I did there, we wrote 'Heaven'! [Sandé's debut solo single, released in August 2011, which hit the number two spot on the UK charts]. That's one thing that's happened every time we've been together in that room — we write something. It is weird but it's just so natural."
The experience of working with Emeli Sandé caused Shahid to look at the process of writing songs in a new light. "Before I met Emeli, I think my approach was forever changing but Emeli was the first songwriter that I met. Until then, I'd worked with rappers, so I think writing the songs on her album with her did change my whole approach, especially in terms of musicality. I stopped sampling then. People always ask me how it works, but it just does! I think trust is an important part of it, especially when you're a producer and an artist and you're writing together. I think you've got to be able to trust the person. That's how you learn and we both trust and learn from each other... we do definitely [disagree] sometimes, but it will mostly be something like Emeli will say, 'OK, we need to change the chords there,' and I'll be thinking, 'No, we need to keep it that way!' But, we agree to try everything and we always agree after trying everything."
The writing and arranging process varies from song to song. "For example, 'Clown' was written here at the studio," says Khan. "We wrote it to a beat and then got a pianist in and finished writing it to a piano. When you hear it now, you wouldn't think that it started off to a beat. It then went through various stages of production. It's just interesting to watch songs grow, because they don't always start how they end up. I learnt a lot through that process of making the album. Also, we're both signed to the same label, Virgin, so we had to take other people's input in as well, but nothing was compromised in the end."
Recording sessions for Sandé's album, which took place progressively throughout the course of 2010 and 2011, would almost always start at the Cabana studio, although some of the beats and other elements began life in Shahid's original 'shed studio' back in Watford. String and choir parts and other overdubs were later laid down at London's Angel Studios. Khan enlisted Rosie Danvers to arrange and conduct the string parts, which were mostly based on synthesized Reason string melodies Shahid had already laid down. Other MIDI parts from Reason survived into the final mixes, notably the rich-sounding piano across Our Version Of Events, some of which was played by him and some by Emeli. "It is actually a Reason sound that's built in," explains Shahid. "I'm really impressed with the piano sounds in Reason 5. People have asked me where I get my piano sounds, assuming they come from a Logic plug-in, but they're all Reason."
Sandé's impressive vocal performances were captured using one of the only microphones Shahid owns, which he bought with his Deal Or No Deal proceeds. "Most of [the vocals] were recorded here on a Neumann U87," says Khan. "I bought it on recommendation in 2009. Almost everything that's been done on the album has been recorded with that, and it definitely gives a good sound. It suits Emeli's voice well. I just love the sound of it with the Avalon and the Rosetta 800. Everything just seems to work well together."
As well as working with Sandé and other stars, Shahid Khan has spent the last 18 months painstakingly writing and recording his debut album as an artist in his own right. The resulting long player, Hotel Cabana by Naughty Boy, will be released in February 2013 and was preceded by lead single 'Wonder' back in October. Guest stars featured on the recordings include Emeli Sandé, George The Poet, Tinie Tempah and Professor Green, with a slew of others yet to be announced as we went to press.
"Hotel Cabana definitely came from the name for the studio but when I actually thought about what kind of album I wanted to make as a producer, it wasn't the easiest thing in the world for me," explains Shahid. "I thought, 'I can't just make a normal album.' I don't sing or dance, or anything like that. I wanted to do something different and I thought the best way to do that was to make a record that entertained people, that was musical and that featured people that I admire and respect… but I also wanted something that told a story. It all just seemed to fall into place. The whole album is the journey of a guy who goes to a hotel and, as he goes up the floors, he becomes embroiled in what this hotel has to offer, which isn't the best. It's a bit like 'Hotel California' in that sense, where you kind of think you want to but you don't really need it. George The Poet is the narrator on the album and we wrote these skits that tie everything together. It's quite a British album in terms of the sound and the story I'm trying to tell.
"I'd say [the music] is a little bit sinister. I've drawn from that whole Quentin Tarantino kind of Rodriguez sound with a real filmic feel. It's still quite commercial, though. I've been really focusing on the writing and the lyrics and trying to make each song seem like an event. I've definitely taken a director's approach to it, so you're not just hearing the music. Even without visuals, you should be able to picture it."
Lead single 'Wonder', for example, is driven by Rio Carnival-esque beats. "At first, it was just a taiko drum with real hard kicks. I layered loads of kicks on there and there's a lot of 808 bass and stuff on them. It's not conventional! I hadn't made a beat like 'Wonder' before and I was just thinking, 'How can you get the energy of a dance tune but without having to actually make that kind of music and still keep it organic?' I was just experimenting with that idea with the drums, purely layered loads of sound, and it just seemed to work. And there's no real snare on 'Wonder' as well, because every time I put a snare on it, it just started sounding like a dance beat. It was definitely Bollywood-inspired, because they love their big epic kind of drums. I wanted 'Wonder' to have that balance of commerciality but not be cheesy, do you know what I mean? I still like keeping my edge as a producer because I do want people to think they get something different with me but, obviously, I still want to make commercial music for the most amount of people. It's probably the happiest track I've made."
Hotel Cabana has of course been made mostly at its namesake, but mixing and additional overdubs have continued at Fisher Lane Farm, Genesis's studio in Surrey. "It's great, and that studio has so much history," enthuses Shahid. "Nothing's been changed at all since the '80s, and it's brought a real different dimension to the sound. Mike Rutherford's son Harry is actually mixing the album with me and he's amazing as well. We're still mixing at the moment and it's really exciting times."
Exciting is an understatement, to say the least, and Shahid Khan sometimes finds it hard to believe what's happened to him over the past few years. "It has been a journey to get here. I grew up in West Watford on a council estate, and I was delivering pizzas in 2005, so it's crazy how things change," he explains. "You believe in yourself, but you don't ever really know what it's going to feel like if something happens. Lately, so much has happened but I don't have time to think about how crazy it is. Before 'Diamond Rings' came out, I wanted to phone a publisher and play them my music but I was a bit scared to. Then a year later they were all phoning me themselves, and that just made me start thinking, 'I might get somewhere.' Everyone always tells you, 'Oh, you'll never make it. It's hard. You've got to know people,' but I didn't know anyone. I dropped out of a degree that was supposed to help me get to this point — and the month I would have graduated, I met Emeli. You get rewarded in different ways. It doesn't have to be the scientific approach."
'Daddy', which was labelled as 'featuring Naughty Boy', was Emeli Sandé's second solo single and is one of the stand-out tracks on Our Version Of Events. "I made the music for the early version of that without the live strings in the shed, and it was mixed a year and a half later," explains Shahid Khan. "I had a drum break from a Reason sample pack, and that break had this bass line which was quite dark, actually. If you listen to the chords in 'Daddy', it has got quite a dark undertone. There was this bass line and the break and then the chord fill and I had a string arrangement that later on became a live string arrangement. It only had two sections, as well, so it was just like a bass and drumbeat and the chorus bit, but it still sounded a bit keyboardy because I hadn't explored all the different sounds and the chords yet.
"The vocal hook was written on the way back from Luton Airport. I was driving back to the studio with [Emeli] and I had the beat on in the car and she heard it and that's how it started. We went back to the studio and recorded it. Later [at Angel Studios], the actual process began of replacing the strings with the real strings, getting live bass played on it, and replacing the break with the real drums. That was exciting, because the track actually became more live. You think that it's going to lose something, but it definitely brought it out. Quite a few of the tracks were re-vocalled but 'Daddy' was the same vocal track that we did back then when the track was pretty much basic. I played the piano on it. Everything's a bit dark, so the piano was just one note and then the note would change key, and then for the chorus there were just some simple chords. There's a synth bass and a live bass that was played by a guy from these production people, Mojam.
"It took a while to mix, because there were times when it had lost some bottom end and then it had lost something else. That whole process of mixing that album was the first time I'd mixed real songs that I'd produced, and it was a real tense time. You want to be just happy with it, but it's hard to be because there's other people in the room, like engineers and people from the label. Everyone's got ideas, but that's definitely something I've got used to."
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I hope this doesn't make you uncomfortable, but I have to share. In January, we went to New York City, and I had a spiritual experience.
I went here, and my life was changed forever:
Prior to my trip to the Doughnut Plant, I was lukewarm on the question of doughnuts. Sure, I'd been known to eat them, but usually under conditions of extreme hunger or boredom or to win a bet.*
*That never actually happened. But how great would it be to win money for eating doughnuts?
Point being, I'd had a lot of mediocre doughnuts, and didn't think, in general, assembly-line fried dough was anything special. But then.
These doughnuts, at the Doughnut Plant? They are something special.
We actually made two trips to the shop, because the first time we went it looked like this:
MAYDAY MAYDAY. Doughnut Plant is closed on Mondays. Save yourself the heartbreak we experienced and check the days/hours before you go!
So after making two trips to the Lower East Side to try these doughnuts, we decided to go big and get a half-dozen flavors. Among those, we tried…
The distinctive square PB&J, filled with fresh raspberry jam and glazed with a chunky peanut butter glaze, which made Jason moan like this:
The Valhrona chocolate doughnut, full of chocolate pastry cream, which made me grin like this:
The carrot cake doughnut, packed with carrots, walnuts, raisins, and actual cream cheese frosting in the middle of the doughnut,
and the signature creme brulee doughnut, with a crackly, caramelized sugar top and a filling of vanilla pastry cream.
To be sure, the doughnuts you make with this pan aren't "real" doughnuts. They're cake-style, not yeast, and they're baked instead of fried. In taste and texture, they're really more like a doughnut-shaped chocolate cupcake. But what a cute doughnut shape they have!
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Okay, so they're not Doughnut Plant doughnuts. But they're still tasty, and they bake in five minutes, and they're a good excuse to go crazy with my sprinkle collection. And isn't that enough?
Chocolate Doughnuts
yields: about 4 dozen mini doughnuts
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1-1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 cup unsweetened Dutch-processed cocoa powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup buttermilk
1.5 tablespoons butter, melted
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Spray a mini doughnut pan with nonstick cooking spray.
In a bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt.
In a separate small bowl, whisk together the eggs, sugar, buttermilk, and melted butter.
Stir the wet ingredients into the dry. Use a pastry bag fitted with a round 1/2″ tip to pipe the batter into a thin layer in each doughnut mold. (It will rise a great deal, don't add too much or your doughnuts will puff out of the mold.)
Bake for 4-6 minutes, until they spring back when lightly pressed. Allow to cool in the mold for 5 minutes, then gently remove and cool completely.
Ganache glaze
1/2 cup cream
1/2 cup chopped chocolate
Heat cream to a simmer in a small saucepan. Pour hot cream over the chopped chocolate, and gently whisk to combine. Let ganache cool slightly so that it gets a bit thicker, then dip the tops of the doughnuts in the glaze. If it's getting too cool and thick, you can microwave it briefly to thin it out again. Sprinkle the tops of the doughnuts with sprinkles while the ganache is still wet.


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Reading Ewan Macintosh's recent post about time zones killing real global thinking, I realised why some of my posts seem to "take off", while others die quietly. (And, no, I don't think all my posts are equal in quality. It's just that some of the ones I carefully crafted haven't seemed to have the readership I would have expected / hoped for.)
I think Ewan's right when he says:
Twitter has, for most folk, become their aggregator of choice. No longer do blog posts have a half-life of 24 hours, happily resting in your Google Reader until you launch it in the morning (your morning). Instead, your blog post has to hit a sweet spot where the maximum number of connectors and spreaders are awake, at their machine and ready to press "Retweet". That means hitting "Publish" at a time convenient to the mass of educators on the East Coast US, with a half-life of minutes before it is lost in the stream of other thoughts, resources and locker-room banter about baseball.
The conversations have also disappeared from most of the blogs that I, at least, read from outside the US and Canada. They're maybe happening on Twitter, but are now dislocated from their origins, impossible to trace back, and even more impregnable to those coming in 24 hours late.
When you use Twitter, there's this constant nagging feeling that you're missing something important. And it's true. Unlike an RSS reader, which stores stuff until I'm ready to read it, Twitter posts will last a very short time.
Where are we going with our conversations? Do we want fast food, and immediate gratification? Or are we going to take time to really think and really communicate?
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I agree with most of what you wrote. I find that when someone picks up my blog post on twitter, I suddenly get a spike in readership.
However, it used to be (before twitter) that there was a timing issue also. An aggrigator might also list blog posts chronologically, especially if you had a number of blogs you are following. This means you might also miss out on a blog post if you didn't check on a regular basis. Also, as an East Coast educator who does most of my reading when I first get in the office at 7:00AM, I can tell you that there is no ideal time for us to catch up on our reading. However, there are "dark times" when we won't be on the computer or our mobile devices (2AM EST or 7AMGST).
I think what is more disturbing is the lack of conversation. I find that I am using facebook more and more. This allows for the shorter posts, but allows for one to go back and read later.
Hi Virgina,
I use Google Reader as my RSS aggregator. The only reason I might miss a blog post is if there are too many to read and I just tell the system to "mark all as read". Does your's drop posts off the list automatically?
I think conversation is just going to get harder as we're all on different networks/systems/applications. I'm not sure what the answer is to that though…


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Ok, I'm looking to get me a nicer air rifle mostly for squirrels and rabbits and the neighbors cat once and awhile!!
Why should I choose one over the other, .177 or .22??
Ok, I'm looking to get me a nicer air rifle mostly for squirrels and rabbits and the neighbors cat once and awhile!!
Why should I choose one over the other, .177 or .22??
This is mineimage.jpgI'd say get a 22.I have a 177 and have found it to be great for plinking and for birds but for a squirrel it needs a head shot which can get a little hard.The benjiman trail by crosman has a sling which is great,carrying a 6 pound gun all day can get tiring.
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My opinion; .22 caliber for shear knock-down power; especially for a dedicated hunting rifle.
What you would give up in marginal range; and a little rainbow effect; the smack-down is where it counts. If you hunt small game similar to how I do; it's up close and personal any way.
If you were hunting birds; I'd have to go with the .177.
Inside of about 65 yards; and you would be absolutely lethal with a spring-barrel .22 air rifle.
However; you shoot the neighbor's cat and it will be the next of his nine lives
No issues with a .177 on waskally wabbits in my backyard, head shot with a scope every time and its lights out.
I imagine my Benjamin Sheridan would have no problem, its just a lot louder.
If you are hunting furred critters, I would recommend a .22 (5.5mm). I use a Benjamin Sheridan 392 with a Williams Peep sight. This airgun anchors squirrels that eat my tomatoes and peppers out to 25 yds. Asking folks whether .177 or .22 is better gets the forum into the "small & fast vs. slow & heavy" bullet/projectile debate (as there are many on the internet!). It boils down to what you are comfortable using, and more importantly accurate with to make a clean kill.
Good luck and happy hunting!
Why not get both?
I use my .177 RWS 34 for squirrels and rabbits with no problems. I use a good heavy domed pellet, 10.5 gr, and haven't lost one yet.
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Split the difference and get a .20 cal. Ive got a Beeman in .20 and it does the job. I have shot a lot of vermin with it including 15 or 20 woodchucks, most dropped in their tracks with headshots. No problem with squirrels out to 30 yrds either.
I picked up a .177 last year and have taken over a dozen squirrels with it and half a dozen rabbits. It's got ample power for close range as one of the pellets went through a running squirrels shoulder and excited out the other. However, I did hit one tough old squirrel in the head (I always aim at the eyeball. It's a nice spot to aim for) and she ran off. I found her later in the summer and put another shot in her head. She had a scar like Scar from the Lion Kong and was missing an eye from my shot that was half a cm off of where I aimed. I felt horrible for unknowingly crippling her.
I had been using round nose pellets as I had heard they were the best option for hunting penetration with a 177. I switched over to Gamo pellets that have a BB in the nose; Rockets maybe, and never lost another shot but I was still a bit shaken.
So I just picked up a Crosman Venom NP (Wood stocked) for $149 from Wallymart with free site to store shipping last week. Spring squirrel season is coming in June and hopefully I'll fare better. It should be similar to shooting 22 shorts out of my little Winchester.
Tapatalk ate my spelling and grammar.
I added a Weihrauch single shot .177 that hits pretty hard from Pyramid Air. There is an art to cradling your left hand on the forestock that will improve accuracy.
My Ruger 10-22 is hard to beat for most things.
Don't rule out a .22 mag in a rifle. It can be a little loud if not in the country.


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line 6 hd 147 opinions
whats everyones general opinon of the line 6 hd147? and what would be a good price for one that is used? i know they are nothing like the spiders. opinions?
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It's pretty good for metal. They have the same metal models as the Vetta II afaik. If you can get one cheap they're a pretty cool piece of kit.
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I'd rather get a Vetta II. The HD147 is a Vetta II without any of the FX, just the amp models. Don't see the point personally.
As for the amps themselves, they're good. Trent Reznor used Vettas on The Fragile, and if they're good enough for Trent, they're good enough for anyone.
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As an owner of an HD147 for many years, I think I can probably answer any and all questions you might have.
Put against the Vetta II, the HD147 is missing dual-amp mode, the screen, some of the more 'classic' amp models, a couple of the synth effects, pitch bender, wah modelling and dedicated Variax guitar integration.
What it has in place is twice the stereo power, particular models expanded in gain, updated noise gates and compressors, an inherent wah boost and a simplified and quicker interface, so it's a little easier to dial in sounds as you would with a traditional amp, compared to the Vetta II where you're always going to be working from presets and on-the-fly control is awkward. As time as proven as well, the simpler nature of the HD147 means it's a little tougher than the Vetta II, which were always plagued with all manner of firmware, software and hardware issues (especially the screen).
Basically, the HD147 is the 'metal' bastard child of the Vetta and Flextone heads. The Vetta II is the better amp, objectively, but better on paper and better in practice are frequently two different things, which is why the HD147 was the touring amp of choice for damn near every alternative and nu-metal band in the early 2000s (not to mention the recording amp of choice for loads of goth metal and rock bands, most notably Lacuna Coil and Evanescence).
I've got one, it's my main amp. Sold a fair few valve heads in favour of keeping it, if that's any indication of its quality. I absolutely will not plug my 7-string or any of my down-tuned guitars into anything valve now, and I only use my E/Eb/Drop-D guitars with valves if I really need a plain mid-gain tone and know I won't be needing any effects that night. The HD147 is not without its flaws, but it gets the job done and any time I pick up another amp I always find them lacking in comparison.
The key to using the HD147 is to ignore the presets and don't think of the tone as modelling tones. The HD147 was made back when Line 6 were still more focused on making a nice sound rather than an accurate copy of another company's sound. If you turn the amp knob to the JCM800 mode and expect to hear the exact classic Marshall tone you've dreamt about in your head, you're going to be very disappointed. If you simply think of the amp models as varying degrees of gain, you'll be very happy. The amp models are put in order from Line 6 original clean tones to Line 6 original distorted tones, then modelled clean tones to modelled distorted.
You'll also need to get used to dialing in more mids and bass, and less treble, than you're used to, if you want to get a more valve-like tone. That's just the nature of solid state.
The way I use mine is I just cycle through until I hit roughly the level of gain I want, then I use the speaker cab modelling to set the overall EQ (since this is applied after the amp model and its EQ section), then use the actual EQ controls to tweak the sound.
That said, nine times out of ten I end up using the Line 6 original Spinal Puppet tone - not modelled on anything, this was just their attempt at getting the best high-gain sound that they could out of a solid state form - the Line 6 own-brand cab model (effectively just a bass boost), bass maxed, treble and presence at about 6-7 and the mids at 4 or 8 depending on if I want a metal tone or a hard rock one, then simply adjust the gain to suit. It guts me that Line 6 have abandoned the Spinal Puppet sound in their newer amps, as it's by far my favourite tone out of any amp and I know for a fact that three of my five favourite rock/metal albums were recorded with it.
Speaking to other HD147 owners, I don't seem to be alone. Most people find just two or three modes they like bet and stick to those. This is the main reason why I'm not too fussed about the Vetta II. Extra fluff becomes irrelevant if you're always using the same couple of settings.
Only thing I will say the HD147 fails at is thick mid-gain rock tones. It's no worse than any other solid state modeller in this regard, but it's no better either. It's just the nature of solid state; the high-end will always be a step more piercing, the bass will always be that step clearer and the gain will always be that little bit fuzzier than you'd get with a valve amp. For that reason, I am now myself looking at grabbing a medium-high gain, small valve amp like an Orange #4 or Carvin V3M, to fill in the HD147s weak spots.
If you play any sort of alternative music or any kind of metal, and if you can get one in good condition and at a fair price with a FBV Shortboard foot controller (absolutely do not try to use one without this), I think it's worth buying.
It's not an amp that will suit everyone, and as an imitation of more expensive amps it's not very good, but taken on its own merits, for particular styles of music, it can sound great. The lack of good mid-gain tones is a considerbale drawback, but the quality of its high-gain tones and its flexibility both in sound and operation, make it a winner for me.
This unfortunately not-HD upload of Lacuna Coil in Japan is basically a half hour-long HD147 demo; both guitarists are using them, straight to the mixer (the cabs on stage are just for show):
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wow.thanks for that. i may seriously consider one of these now. the legacy that i have handles mid gain and some high gain tones and has a beautifull clean tone but for my bands heavier stuff its lacking. all of our gigs are miced so we dont have to worry about that but then again 300w is pretty insane
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Excellent post.
Just to chip in, I own a Line6 Duoverb. It was their attempt at a boutique blues/rock-focused amp, but many of the same principles are true. I've previously owned a ton of nice valve amps; Boogie, Marshall, Orange, Hayden, all sorts, but I love the convenience of Line6 gear.
You have to dial them in with your ears, rather than your eyes. I've just spent 20 minutes programming tones into it for a gig tonight, and ended up using the Dual Rectifier into the AC30 cab model! In the real world I tend to favour JCM800s or Silver Jubilees, but the virtual Recto has a fantastic warm, chunky sound that I like better than the modelled JCM800!
If you've ever heard a Line6 amp and you thought it sounded awful, that's probably because the owner had the cab modelling dialled in wrong.
Some of the cabs simply sound awful, some of them only work with certain amp models, and a lot of the time it sounds better if you bypass them completely. Two of the cab models on my Duoverb are absolute muddy junk (especially on the Soldano SLO) so I use deep-editing software to switch them out, or bypass them completely.
The Legacy is a lovely amp but it's pretty much the opposite of what you need. It's dark, warm and smooth (which often surprises people), and more suited to fluid legato playing and chunky powerchords than tight metal riffing.
I think the HD147 would be a step in the right direction for you.
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I believe the Duoverb was the HD147's counterpart. The Flextone were the all-round low-end amps, the Vetta was the all-round high-end amp, the HD147 was the specialised metal amp and the Duoverb was the specialised classic amp. Doesn't surprise me to hear you have more or less the same method for dialing in tones as I do.
I think Line 6 probably would get taken much more seriously if they stopped naming their sounds after other manufacturer's amps. They can sound so good when you just take them as their own thing rather than as an attempt to copy something else.
OP, I think if you were to run the HD147 and the Legacy at the same time, using the Legacy where finesse is needed and the HD147 for floor-shaking power, you'd have pretty much every sound you could ever dream of covered. As I said, I'm looking at maybe getting a Carvin V3M to fill in the blanks in the same way, and I previously did this with a Marshall JCM2000. It is hard to compete with a nice valve amp when you want quality, singing lead tones, but when it comes to throwing out grinding rhythm, nothing beats the clarity and power of a solid state with the headroom the HD147 has.
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ill have to consider this. i really dont want to go back to solid state unless its a powerhouse of an amp. like this one is. im just gonna have to go play one i guess.
im looking at it from a gigging standpoint, we are always miced. i need a couple different tones. and i need to cut through. at this time im using my legacy with a gt10 using the 4 cable method. no gt10 preamps all legacy tone but using the eq's and fx from the gt10. it does the job and i have 4 patches that have different eq setups for different styles of music. ie: #1 is my main metal tone #2 is clean only #3 is 80's hair metal and #4 is rock/mid gain based. the only thing like i said that im lacking is the balls out metal tone even with a boost and an eq its like a boosted jcm800 which isnt a bad thing its just not good for the band.
from reading your posts im quite positive that the hd147 can do this and more with the shortboard but im also being drawn to the peavey Jsx. i dont want this to be a what amp thread tho. i need as much info as possible on the hd147 and so far you guys have brought the noise on that. and i thank you
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China's once-a-decade power transfer began March 3, marking the start of new president Xi Jinping's reign as the country's most powerful leader. Xi, 59, takes over the world's second-largest economy amid calls for increased democratization and an end to the country's reeducation-through-labor camps.
As China's National Congress convened, word emerged that Christian attorney Gao Zhisheng's family was allowed to visit him Jan. 23. They were the first visitors in 10 months for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, who was said to be "pale but in good health."
Gao, 48, has been in and out of Chinese prisons since 2009 for speaking out against the government's human-rights abuses. He was feared dead after his attorneys were forbidden to see him last August.
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History Channel's 5-part, 10-hour miniseries The Bible premiered March 3 to 13.1 million total viewers—according to Nielsen—making it the No. 1 televised entertainment of the year on cable TV.
The series, three years in the making by husband-and-wife co-producers Mark Burnett (Survivor) and Roma Downey (Touched By an Angel), covers Genesis to Revelation in a format meant to improve Bible literacy rather than to evangelize, with a target audience beyond Christendom (see "Ultimate reality," March 9).
With those ratings, The Bible was more watched than anything on the broadcast networks Sunday—including the two-hour NBC season premiere of Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice.
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Virginia lawmakers voted late last month to give college campus groups the right to restrict membership to students who agree with their mission. The bill is designed to prevent state universities from enacting "all-comers" policies, which undermine the ability of religious and political organizations to form around a specific set of beliefs.
Critics called the bill unnecessary, saying no group had been threatened by a "hostile takeover." But in recent years, colleges have used "all-comers" policies to prevent Christian groups from refusing to accept leaders who approve of homosexuality.
So-called nondiscrimination policies got a lot of national attention last year after Vanderbilt University, a private college in Nashville, Tenn., adopted one. Fifteen Christian groups refused to affirm the policy and lost their access to campus facilities and student-fee funding.
In an effort to force the school to reverse course, Tennessee legislators adopted a measure similar to Virginia's, except it included any private school taking taxpayer money. Less than a week after the measure passed, Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam, a Republican, vetoed it. Tennessee lawmakers resurrected the bill earlier this month. Ohio approved an "all-comers" ban last year.
Virginia's measure now awaits Gov. Bob McDonnell's signature.
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The likely successor to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez, vice president Nicolas Maduro, "is viscerally anti-American, opposes the checks and balances of liberal democracy and distrusts free markets," according to former U.S. ambassador to Venezuela Charles Shapiro. It wasn't out of step, then, that in the hours before Chavez's March 5 death formally was announced, Maduro said the government would expel a top U.S. diplomat, military attache David Delmonaco, and accused him of espionage in trying to provoke a coup to destabilize the country.
Mourners took to the streets of Caracas, the capital, following news of Chavez's death. The 58-year-old head of state, who secured the populist vote to win a 1998 election, had been ailing with cancer for nearly two years and died in the capital despite time in Cuba seeking treatment. He had not been seen in public since December.
When his health was strong, Chavez was a flamboyant symbol for Latin American socialism that came to be called "Chavismo"—and a brutal leader. Venezuela has five branches of government, yet Chavez managed to consolidate all five under his deputies. His presidency "was characterized by a dramatic concentration of power and open disregard for basic human rights guarantees," according to a statement released by Human Rights Watch upon his death.
Three months ago in a Miami Herald op-ed, Shapiro noted that relations between the United States and Venezuela "have ranged from difficult to hostile" since Chavez took office. Yet the United States remained the lead trading partner for a country that sits atop one of the world's largest petroleum reserves. Under Chavez oil production fell 30 percent, and the throttle on the economy and the people is likely to continue if Chavez cronies, namely Maduro, succeed in taking power. Under Venezuela's constitution, new elections must be held within 30 days.
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Almost half of Detroit's property owners failed to pay their tax bills last year, according to data collected by the Detroit News, a sign of both the high foreclosures there and the beleaguered city government. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has appointed an emergency manager over the city's taxes. Residents complained to the News that they don't receive even the most basic city services, and property taxes are among the highest in the nation's cities. As home values have plummeted, assessments have become heavily inflated, too. A handful of businesses—three casinos, General Motors Corp., DTE Energy, Chrysler Group LLC, and Marathon Petroleum Corp.—paid 19 percent of Detroit's collected property taxes, according to the report.
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An Alabama judge moved swiftly to delay a bill that would give children attending failing schools within the state an opportunity to attend private schools through tax deductions.
Majority Republicans slipped the provision into another bill right before a vote, then passed it amid shouts and finger-pointing from surprised colleagues. Gov. Bob Bentley was set to sign the bill three days later until a teachers union secured an emergency judicial hold.
The move damaged lawmakers' relationship with the state superintendent and will influence other education bills, said state Rep. Ed Henry, R-Decatur.
"That 8-page bill morphed into 27-page bill with no one getting to read it," said Betty Peters, a state school board member. "If something is good and true, it should withstand scrutiny."
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Early 2012 results indicate teen driving deaths may have increased for a second straight year after eight years of decline. The new Governor's Highway Safety Association report shows deaths among 16- and 17-year-old drivers spiked 19 percent in the first half of last year. Teen fatality accidents numbered 240 in 2012, compared to 202 in the first half of 2011. Overall traffic deaths rose 8 percent last year, an increase attributed to an improving economy as more drivers hit the roadways.


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Ignorance (or Ignoring) is Bliss: The Joys of MotherhoodMeredith Carroll
If there was one thing I couldn't stand as a kid, it was when my mom didn't hear me. Not because she was out of earshot, but because she turned on her Super Special Mother Selective Listening Device and tuned me out. It drove me nuts and made me [pick one] holler/whine/sob that much louder.
With some amount of maturing and distance, it eventually became clear to me that I mostly deserved to be ignored for [pick one] hollering/whining/sobbing, and that acknowledging my [pick one] tantrum/hissy fit/total nuclear meltdown would only have added fuel to my very, very loud and annoying fire. Thankfully when I became a mom, I picked up the same skill myself and have since honed it to perfection.
Yes, I'm quite adept ignoring my daughter.
Most people would think it would be too difficult or painful or cruel or worthy of a visit from Child Protective Services to turn a deaf ear to the woeful cries of their child. But oftentimes I realize if I don't, I might start crying louder than she does. When she starts bleating or weeping about the shape of her pasta or that her sippy cup isn't half full enough or the moon is hiding behind the clouds, and reasoning with her for a few minutes doesn't seem to curb the noise, that's when I switch the button to On. Sure, it frustrates her when I don't acknowledge every teary plea or word that passes her lips, but the feeling is quite mutual.
Sometimes at night after my husband puts her to bed, we'll listen to the sounds of her moaning wafting through the baby monitor. I don't bother turning the monitor off; I don't need to. I simply switch to a different mental and emotional channel instead. I know what she wants, but if I needed to add another minute of her to my already 14-hour day with her, I would have just kept her up later or simply packed up and moved into her room.
My husband is the one who usually ends up going back into her room to cuddle with her for "minutes," as she requests (or demands). I can't help it if he doesn't also have the Super Special Mother Selective Listening Device; apparently it's available to select customers only.
On rare occasions I put my daughter in Time Out. I usually mean to do it for two minutes since she's only two years old. And despite the fact that she complains — loudly — while suffering the fate of a deprived child forced to spend time in her bedroom full of toys, books and stuffed animals (although she has actually decided on her own that it means she must to stand up against the door like a ravenous dog waiting for its supper), sometimes I ended up leaving her exiled for much longer because her protest noises have become like white noise and I forget she's in there.
My greatest feat as a mom, however, is when I'm able to tune out the sounds of her distress when we're riding in the car. Separated by just inches, she'll wail to the heavens because a stuffed animal has dropped to the floor (or been purposefully thrown, as is usually the case). Since I know she gets that I can't turn around and pick it up while I'm driving (and I know this because in calmer moments she'll say, "Mommy picks it up when we get to Mommy's house"), I either turn the radio up as loud as it'll go, or I come the closest I ever get to meditating. When I snap out of it and she's still at it, I give myself a figurative pat on the back for managing to forget she's there for any amount of time despite the din. We all have of our methods of coping, n'est-ce pas?
I'd feel bad for her that she's also suffering through her childhood with a mom with selective listening like I did, but the reality is I'd feel worse for me if I wasn't blessed with the ignorance is bliss gene. And if I had to address each mewl and whimper, I'm not sure that either one of us would ever get on with our lives. It's a win-win situation, really.
Can you admit to occasionally ignoring your child's cries, or are you going to leave me alone out here on this limb?
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We currently have a secretary who serves as the central repository of rooms scheduling. If you want to use a room, you ask her first, she adds it to a calendar that she keeps. We want to replace this manual process with Zimbra.
We want the following functionality:
- All users should be able to request a room for their meeting
- All room requests need to be approved by this secretary
- All users should be able to see a room's current schedule
- The room should not be double-booked
So, some of this seems easy. If we make the rooms as locations, then users can request a room, and the room can say "hey I am already in use then". However, there is no workflow that defers the assignment of the room until the secretary approves the request. Is this possible?
Also, does a Location have a calendar view? For instance, if the secretary wanted to print out a list of each room's schedule at the beginning of each week and tape it to that room's door, does that view exist?
It seems we want rooms to act more like user accounts than locations. If they were user accounts, users could request the room's participation in a meeting, search that room's busy/free schedule, and the room user could share its calendar with everyone else for viewing. However, the approval workflow seems sloppy - like the secretary would have to log into each room's account and click accept on a bunch of messages. Seems ugly. Is there a better way?
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Consider Economic Impact of New Tax
March 3, 2013
If Ohio Go....
Texas has been seeing an explosion of drilling and production in the south end of the state, an area called Eagle Ford. Production figures are near the boom years of the 1970s already. Now they have started rechecking the old fields in West Texas, and finding there are new layers under the played-out aress, and there is more gas and oil there than they dreamed of. In addition, using fracking they can redrill the old fields and get as much or more than they pulled out the first time.
Dawg, the estimates are just in Texas we will be drilling for decades before they come close to running out. And the industry press is talking about finds in the Baltics, Poland and other energy giants. Peak oil, huh?
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The question is what are the other states doing. There is so much drilling being done that if you put too much extra cost on the companies, they will go elsewhere now, and drill here once the easier sites are used up.
BTW, have you heard about the new tax on medical treatments? YOU will have an additional charge on any bills sometime soon, to help pay for that "free" obiecare.
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Of course it will dampen their enthusiasm. Tough! All states that are blessed with this gift should be compensated to its removal and use. We only get one shot, and then its gone.
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By all rights, Bert Blyleven should get some long-awaited good news today.
The former Angels right-hander, who just missed Hall of Fame election last year -- when several misguided fools returned blank ballots to protest a steroids era he was not a part of -- should be rewarded with election to Cooperstown in his 14th season of eligibility.
Why a man who had 287 victories, 3,701 strikeouts (fifth in baseball history), and 60 shutouts (ninth in history, 14 more than Roger Clemens, 25 more than Greg Maddux) had to wait so long remains a mystery.
He also helped two teams win World Series, going 2-1 with a 2.35 ERA in four Fall Classic appearances, and threw a no-hitter (against the Angels).
Blyleven, 59, grew up in Orange County and pitched at Santiago High. He closed his career with the Angels in 1989-92, going 17-5 with a 2.73 in Anaheim at age 38.
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Read the clues to find out who's who in this fun, Halloween-themed problem solving challenge.
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Complete a Halloween-themed reading and problem-solving challenge by writing the correct name under each person.
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Complete a Halloween story by pasting pictures in the correct places in a text.
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Let your kindergartener practice her handwriting with a few Halloween friends. She'll write out spooky and silly items like candy, ghosts and spiders.
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I know everybody is just coming down from the busy-ness of the Summer gardening season, especially for you hard working people still canning and processing (tomato sauce, apple sauce, pear sauce, whatever sauce), but don't forget about the wonderful bounty Fall can provide! I've been planting onions, garlic cloves, broccoli starts, and seeds of all sorts of greens. It's so exciting to think about the deliciousness these favorites will provide! Of course, onions and garlic won't be ready to harvest until July, but the greens and brassicas will be enjoyed through Winter. For anyone who hasn't had success growing broccoli in the Spring, try now instead. It's a struggle in the Spring when temperatures warm up rapidly to keep the plants from bolting, but in the Fall, broccoli (and other brassicas-cauliflower, cabbage, brussellsprouts, etc) just gets sweeter as the temperatures get cooler (for those of us who like to know the "why", it's because brassicas produce sugar to act as an "antifreeze" to protect their cells from being damaged by cold-cool, huh?).
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this has spurred me on when I was feeling a bit jaded about my garden. The vegetables haven't gone well this year because there is too much shade from the trees but now the leaves are falling but the soil is still warm - who knows I might get something to grow yet!
Obviouslly written by someone not in Northern Ohio. My fall stuff went in the last week of August in an attempt to beat the heavy freezes… We have had our first frost already even in a hoop house late November is about as much as we can hope for most things.
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Rob100ci wrote over 4 years ago, Modified over 4 years ago
I was wondering what everyone thought of this show ? dsc.discovery.com/videos/the-devils-ride-season-overview.html
seems bogus to me,
I've read post from people in Cali saying they have never heard of this MC. and some saying these guys are actors.
What do you think ?
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Chaz wrote over 4 years ago
If its not set up then its the PG version of a MC. That's my take from the first episode
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We'll I can tell you I have been at the filming a a number of "reality shows" and none of them are real. I was at a filming of Gene Simons Family Jewels and they did 7 takes of Shannon getting out of the car because she could get her jacket on smoothly. Then 5 more takes of her returning to the car because her drunk walk didn't look real enough after supposedly spending over an hour in the bar... which was actually filmed immediately after her entering the bar.
Take it for what it is supposed to be - ENTERTAINMENT!
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StBobber wrote over 4 years ago
If that show is for real, then I need to get my butt back to the Vatican
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Rob100ci wrote over 4 years ago
I thought it was bullshit, But being from the North East, I wasn't quite sure how you all did things in California. haha
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Jimmyacorn wrote over 4 years ago
Never heard of that club and I'm no stranger to that lifestyle. As for what Jetman said, in the UK they ride the center line as fast as their bikes will go. Our last club brother that weent there said, "you couldn't get a grease BB up his arse".
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The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."-- Thomas Jefferson
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Lucky wrote over 4 years ago, Modified over 3 years ago
Not sure if they are real or not but I used to see Laffing Devils around San Diego at poker runs and such every now and then, but haven't seen much of them lately though.
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Jimmyacorn wrote over 4 years ago
A puppet club then, eh?
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I actually like SOA. It is a TV show. For entertainment, not true nor advertised as such. These so called "reality" TV shows are advertised as true and I really doubt most are anywhere near true. SOA is like a soap opera for bikers I guess................... I watched the devils ride, I have my doubts. I don't think they are targeting people who actually ride anyway or they would have aired it during the winter when we are not riding as much and might actually be bored enough to watch. Sorry Jonesy we can't all travel around the world chasing summer like you do, lucky bastard, lol!
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Seawolf wrote over 4 years ago
Jimmyacorn wrote...A puppet club then, eh?
As an X-patch member with a diamond included, I agree with JImmyacorn. No other way that oufit could exist. Nuff said.
Experience is a hard teacher, she gives the test first and the lesson afterwards.
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LeatherLace wrote over 4 years ago
I watched it and was not real impressed. Found it ironic that in the first episode of the show they needed to find a new clubhouse, celebrated the clubs 5 year anniversary and had the Prez step down. A awful lot of dramatics for the first one.
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Pat wrote over 4 years ago
for T.V. is about it why would the club prez. step down he was one of the founders of the club and hand it over to young blood not a founding member sounds like T.V.
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You mean the stuff I see in "the box" isn't real ????
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Ok, I watched the show for the first time. Really??? I mean really???? The show was definitely scripted - just little things you catch that tells you all of the filming is staged and scripted... like what's in the background during a scene to accent the scene, the way both people in a conversation are turned correctly so you can see both faces at once and they are evenly lighted. These aren't lucky coincidences on random shots of real stuff.
How about the scene with the suspicious car went by them and two of the club members jumped on their bikes to go check it out. Luckily there was a camera crew on the next block waiting for them to come around the corner, just in case this happened!
I know the Laffing Devils were a real club - at least a while back - haven't seen them for quite a while though (probably busy filming). Not sure if the club was just started and let run for a few year in preparation for the show, or if the network convinced them all to become actors (wouldn't be the first time).
I'll stick to watching SOA. It's fake, they tell us it fake and make it pretty entertaining.
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I'm with you Lucky!
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psychedelic wrote over 4 years ago
First off Yes I couldnt agree more. Yes Vergina there is a santa. There is "Some Real T.V.". But is this REAL T.V. I think not. Off color remarks about just what is REAL and FAKE is up to you the viewer. In the end, I can only speek for myself and what I beleve is "REAL".
2nd. As to the commet about lesser patch clubs or lesser knowen clubs or even clubs within clubs. In a world that can brand 3 guys dressed the same as gangesters, "Law here in washington state allowing the PA to charge you with a higher crime becuse it was done as a gang." Many clubs in a LESS than disarable place such as under goverment search and seziure laws or BANNED COLOR laws "I.E. The Mongles. can and will use lesser size clubs to cover there actives. Eather wrong or right. Not for me to decide. In the local area there are at least 6 small clubs. Not Dimond holders. But clubs non the less. There are also famlie clubs you have to be eather bloodline or married in. a few of these. Non of witch would be much fun to watch on the old boob tube. Condence of time or streaching of the truth is nothing new for "REAL T.V." But compleatly honestly I ve seen the use of lesser clubs to cover actives that are less honarble.
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Pat wrote over 4 years ago
I'm with ya Lucky no diamond patch on the show. I'm sure if there was the real 1%ers would have same thing to say about it. I'm sticking with SOA better t v anyway
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Seakers wrote over 4 years ago
Yep I saw the first show, and I agree with most of you as well. I'll stick with SOA, this was crap. This reality tv was a joke. If your going to show 1%er life style then do it or don't but don't claim to show it. As for the diamond yep that is a coveted patch just like the rest of the club patch. This may be ok for the local cager but not for me.
If You Can't Stand Behind Our Troops, Feel Free To Stand Infront of Them!
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wheels wrote over 4 years ago
Today me and the Mrs. went on a charity ride for the troops near our house in Cali and low and behold who we should see there but Mr. Gypsy the founder and ex-president of the devils. His buddies were all laughing at him that he was TV famous now. My opinion is that of any TV show on right now. None of them are real, it's TV right.
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sneakypete wrote over 4 years ago
When I saw the name Eric Bischoff as executive producer I immediately thought the show was staged, considering he was the executive producer of wcw wrestling and involved in wrestling for years.
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They are a Real Club here in SD, CA. Close Friends have answered this question for me, They are not acters, but also not all the Original Members stayed because of the show, so there are alot of "new members" to fill in the numbers to produce the show, although there is some scripting going on, alot of their drama is the real deal inside their club. Dont know them personally but i have Respect for all Clubs and know this type of MC is very real and there are alot of them here in SD! I stay away to keep outa trouble and Enjoy the Ride.
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fxrDave wrote over 4 years ago
Didnt C the show so no coment so far will watch it when it run's agen & there should b a pic of my Bike there
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OK, Here I am working with the TV on in the background and this show is on... I just couldn't help but to keep it on... kind of like a train wreck - it's a disaster, but you can't help but look!
I can't believe they actually said "There might be a leak in the club?" You think it might have something to do with all the TV cameras and microphones in the Club House!!!!
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In a tribute to the 23-year-old Delhi gangrape victim, government today announced setting up 'Nirbhaya Fund' of Rs 1,000 crore for safety and empowerment of women.
Nirbhaya (fearless) was the pseudonym given to the victim to hide her actual identity.
The announcement of Rs 1,000 crore fund was made by Finance Minister P Chidambaram while presenting the Union Budget for 2013-14 in the Lok Sabha amid thumping of desks by members.
"Recent incidents have cast a long, dark shadow on our liberal and progressive credentials. As more women enter public space - for education or work or access to services of leisure - there are more reports of violence against them," Chidambaram said.
Noting that all have a collective responsibility to ensure dignity and safety of women, the Minister said, "We stand in solidarity with our girl children and women. And we pledge to do everything possible to empower them and to keep them safe and secure."
He said a number of initiatives are under way and "many more" will be taken by the government as well as non-government organisations.
"These deserve our support. As an earnest of our commitment to these objectives, I propose to set up a fund - let us call it the Nirbhaya Fund - and government will contribute Rs 1,000 crore," he said.
The Ministry of Women and Child Development and other ministries concerned will work out details of the structure, scope and application of the fund, he said.
Following the public outrage in the wake of the incident, government had earlier this month promulgated an ordinance to enhance punishment for crimes against women, including death for rapists in case the victim dies or is left in a vegetative state.
It had also set up the Justice J S Verma Committee to propose amendments to laws relating to crime against women. The ordinance has incorporated the recommendations of the three-member panel.
A Commission of Inquiry was also established under Justice Usha Mehra to probe the lapses on part of the authorities in the December 16 gangrape incident.