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djfurio said 1 month ago:
Just seen this article on BBC news site about Amen Brother and it links to whosampled.com Interesting read http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-32087287
2011, anyone?
Almost at 200, have to dig through around 50 more tracks... but not today, I'm taking a break now (one that's not Amen :P).
179 samples at the moment, not far from 200 now... :D
Now up to 135, we're slowly crawling towards 150 samples!
By the way, I found a nice collection of pre-chopped and pre-filtered Amen Breaks. Great for producers and sample spotters!
120 now... That's a lot with only one song.
I added 2010, yay!
Come on, producers! Spice up your tracks with some Amen sauce!
I'd always verify something myself before submitting, evenmoreso when it's from a blog or database somewhere as there's bound to be inaccuracies or personal interpretations. Thankfully, I didn't put that list together myself and only listened to a handful, which all checked out.
Spinks said 4 years ago:
If any sample listed seems wrong please flag it to WhoSampled Support and we'll review it. Please remember everyone that you shouldn't list samples of individual drum hits - there are too many to list and they're often hard to verify. Only submit drum loops that are clearly identifiable and contain all or most of the original elements of the loop.
tick said 4 years ago:
if all those recent submissions were from that list, I would question the list. I couldn't really hear it in any of them. Maybe they chopped and changed it completely, but they don't even sound like the same elements.
I've filled in the gap for 1987 with a 2 Live Crew song, now 2010's only missing.
@MrBlondNYC: got it from SmuttySy's list... wasn't too sure about it, but it did sounded similar to me. But if isn't correct, please remove it.
MrBlondNYC said 4 years ago:
Xanadu, it may be the "Amy break" but it sure as hell ain't the "Amen break".
2010 is also missing!
Thanks guys, we reached 100.. Since you guys know what you're doing, no releases in 1987 with this one? It's the only gap we currently have.
I added the break in Amy Winehouse's You Know I'm No Good as a replayed sample... I'd call it the Amy Break ^^
I'd also say if anyone feels like running through my oldskool submissions to extract from there go right ahead, there be rich pickin's to be gotten from there, yahaarrrr! (don't ask me why I just wrote that, the gerbil in my head just pulled the wrong wire)
Just added the Technoheads sample in "Hippy" ;) 9 more to 100! @SmuttySy: Great list! Wow, even Unreal Tournament composers sampled the Amen Break! One of my favorite games ever...
I've found a blog with a list of tracks using the Amen, if anyone wants to have a look through and see what's missing from here. Link - http://soundstatements.blogspot.com/2010/01/tracks-that-use-amen-break-by-winstons.html
25 volumes. And if you count the unofficial ones, 29.
Thx Stationary, I def should check those Ultimate Breaks and Beats collection... How many are there? Maybe by the end I finally know the differences between all these breakbeats, I have to learn ^^
Stetsasonic's track samples the trumpet that comes right before the break, and not the break itself. Salt-n-Pepa's track samples both the break and that trumpet. I'd suggest that both tracks just found out about "Amen, Brother" due to it being included "Ultimate Breaks and Beats 1", released in 1986. I'll keep looking for more tracks that sample the break, and maybe I'll come up with something pre-1986.
Does anyone know who used it first? At this moment it's between Salt-N-Pepa & Stetsasonic (only 12 more to having been sampled 100 times :)
Yeah Xanadu I know that. Most DnB headz nowadays would roll their eyes if you played the amen break at a club, it's more that tech type DnB. But submit any tune from the mid to late-90s and it's Ayyyyyyymeen.
Xanadu said 5 years ago:
There are several new DnB samples that do not solely sample Amen Bro'.
I've noticed a few more DnB ones going up. It's like "awesome, a new sample, oh wait, it's just Amen." lol
Xanadu said 5 years ago:
I've added a few Drum 'n Bass/Jungle tracks to the list... :D
DJ Anubis said 5 years ago:
TBH I think the only way to go is grouping some samples together just for the lay-out (as you suggested Sublime)... In stead of EVERY sample linked to be stated under it, it would be great if it was indeed split up in Drum samples/Vocal Samples/... (with a + if you want to see those particular samples)... Will be A LOT easier to link other records and we don't have to worry about overfilling a track with it's samples. Btw: don't forget people come on here to search for a track, if it's not linked to it's samples, they might think the sampling artist came up with this Amen break for instance and think that song is an original, if you see where I'm going at
Hey Sy - yeah, it's unwieldy looking through a list of samples by an artist who is mainly known for a drum break. Perhaps in future their listing could be separated along those lines (drums, riff, melody, etc.)
What I have done, and will keep doing is if I submit a sample for a riff or vocal or something, and that same track also samples a drum break, I'll submit that too to kind of "fill" in that particular submission. But I'm not about to go and submit a bunch of old-ass DnB tracks that use Amen haha.
SmuttySy said 5 years ago:
I was just as surprised as you about this. I'm an oldskool raver and almost every single track of the genre from 1991 to 1994 had the amen break, but I'm not about to go submitting every track I know just to get the rating on here up. I stick away from submitting drumloops purely because some artists will become saturated with these submissions and there may be other parts of the track sampled that will become lost in the huge list.
I was actually more surprised by the fact that the Lyn Collins "Think" break didn't even feature in the blog at all, despite being just as widely used as "Amen" and "Funky Drummer".
Just thinking about the WS blog and how this break isn't listed as number 1. I'm just wondering how mods want to play this. I'm a big Jungle and DnB fan, so could get together like 350 submissions of this... but how boring is that ?
@Mods - should we submit every damn track of DnB and Jungle that ever used this to try to get near to the number of times it has actually been used over the last 20 years, or should we forget that thankless task and just add examples from more popular tracks ?
bikstok said 5 years ago:
some in depth info about the amen break, very insightful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac
SmuttySy said 5 years ago:
Amen Brother is the genesis of pretty much all rave music from the 90's and has been sampled by more artists and acts over the years then would be possible to list on here. There's probably a billion more examples of that famous drum solo on records than there are of the James Brown vocal stabs that tended to litter the mirriad of sampled music over the decadces.
As the 'net video says "six seconds from a B-side record that changed the face of music forever"
Now repeat after me - "Our sample, who art from Winstons. Amen Brother thy name, forever and ever, thank you"


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I don't tell people this often, Desmond Blair began, but I sometimes forget I don't have hands.
I have partial palms, he explained. I was actually born with a small thumb and a pinkie, but I had to get them amputated when I was about three years old because I slammed one of them in a door.
Desmond's palms formed, but his fingers did not. He has no hands on either arm.
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I think one of the benefits of being born without hands is that I have had to learn to become a problem-solver throughout my life, Blair said.
He might have learned that, but art comes naturally.
Desmond has created remarkable works on canvas. Dozens perhaps hundreds of paintings, portraits and abstracts by navigating the brush with the ends of his two arms.
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I still can't tie a tie, and I still can't drive a stick shift, but those are on my list of things to figure out, he added with a smile.
News 8 first met Blair in 1999 when he was entering high school and just recognizing his abilities.
Of course, then there were people with square arms, big heads and squiggly hair, a young Blair said at the time.
He graduated from Dallas' Skyline High School at age 16 and enrolled at the University of Texas at Dallas.
I just learned to not let it bother me, he explained when asked how he responded to stares and children who made fun of him.
Desmond navigates photographs without effort, is quick on a keyboard, and loves his iPhone which he easily types on with the ends of his arms on its flat surface.
Blair earned an undergraduate degree and a master's degree from UT Dallas, and currently works there managing digital projects for the Army and Baylor.
Being born without hands isn't the only challenge Desmond faced. He grew up in a modest Pleasant Grove neighborhood. He was raised by a single mother. After he was born, therapists gave her one piece of advice.
She said to give him the best education, and what did that mean to me? Joyce Blair asked. I couldn't afford to put him in private school, so that meant I was going to have to really be involved.
Prayer helped her stay positive.
One doctor said what possibly could have happened is his hands broke through the placenta, and the placenta grew back and cut the circulation off, she said.
Desmond sells his paintings to raise money for charity.
He has prosthetics, but rarely uses them insisting he's not disabled just different.
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During the teen years, pressures to use and abuse alcohol and other drugs are at their highest. Statistics from recent studies show that 27 percent of teens misuse some type of drug every month and teen alcohol abuse remains one of the biggest problems our youth face. Unfortunately, more and more teens die each year from alcohol related poisoning or drunk driving crashes. In addition to these hazards, alcohol has been shown to stunt the development of several key internal functions.
Many teens question why it is against the law to drink alcohol when they are asked to join the military and vote on critical issues that affect their community — and are now being asked to act even more like adults. Many believe that if they are asked to be an adult, they should be treated as an adult and should be able to consume alcohol. Even some adults believe teen alcohol consumption should be allowed and will compare statistics in the United States to those in other countries with lower legal drinking ages.
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Mustache mode
Select Adventure mode. Before stacking your plants and defeating zombies, type mustache using a keyboard. All zombies will have mustaches, and will result in the "Mustache Mode" achievement being earned.
Gold trophy
Get all the trophies in Mini-Games, Puzzle, and Survival modes.
Silver trophy
Complete Adventure mode.
Walkthrough (PC)
Walkthrough (Xbox 360)
Easy money
- Get the Zen Garden. Water the plants until they do not need anything else. Advance the system date ahead. The plants will need water again. Buy new plants, grow them to full size, then sell them. Repeat this to earn more money. You can also use this technique when you have to get Marigolds in Crazy Dave's shop when they are out of stock.
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- Set up your defenses around the slot machine. Try for one row of walnuts on the right side, one or two rows of sunflowers on the left, and fill everything else with pea and snow pea shooters. Protect the lawn mowers. Each is worth a Gold Coin at the end of the game; do not let them mow the zombies. Stop collecting sun at about 1,900 sun points. At this point, the garden should be full; getting the extra 100 points to win should be easy. Just collect enough sun to offset the slot machine. Keep the slot machine spinning. It will randomly drop one or three gems as long your patience lasts. If the zombies get close to the mowers, end the game. Just collect the sun lying on the field to end the game.
- Use the following trick to make Walnut Bowling more profitable. Protect the lawnmowers. Each mower is worth one gold coin ($250). Line up shots off the front runner. After the first zombie is hit, each additional zombie strike generates coins. Create a front runner where none already exists.Pole vaulting zombies will run fast until they vault over a nut, and the newspaper zombie runs fast after getting the paper destroyed by a nut. Let them run a short distance down the lawn before sending a nut their way. You do not need to use nuts. When there are a few zombies ambling down the lawn without a clear ricochet shot, wait some time to see if more of them will step out to play. They can always be killed once they cross the red line. Remember how many nuts it takes to kill a zombie. This is important when they cross the red line. Use one nut for regular zombies, three for bucket wearing zombies, and two for the others. Keep the exploding nuts in reserve. Try not to use them unless a mob crosses the line or there are not enough nuts or room to clear out a difficult to kill zombie. Use the regular walnuts for the zombies that have not reached the red line. Do not use exploding nuts to kill pole vaulting zombies directly. Pole vaulting zombies only jump obstacles in their own lane. A pole vaulting zombie who has not vaulted yet will safely jump over explosions or nuts in their own lane. Find a neighbor in the next lane and time the nut to hit when the pole vaulting zombie gets close to the neighbor.
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If you do not like the cards from Crazy Dave, exit the game and restart. The cards will change randomly.
Increase plant growth
Disable full screen mode. Go to your zen garden. After feeding the plants, it will normally take thirty minutes to feed them again. To feed them all, change the system time to an earlier value. This will increase their growth.
"Dr. Zomboss": Easy completion
When Dr. Zomboss comes down to throw an ice ball or fire ball, you can use Freeze Shrooms to freeze him. This allows your various pults time to get some damage on Dr. Zomboss himself. Jalapenos will also cause damage to him when he is down to toss a fire or ice ball. The more damage you can do to Dr. Zomboss, the faster and easier it is to end this level. Save at least one Freeze Shroom and one Jalapeno for whatever he tosses.
"Last Stand": Easy completion
- You must have at least eight slots of seed before starting. Choose the following plants: Repeaters, Gatling Peas, Tall Nuts, Tangle Kelps, Lily Pads, Torchwoods, Coffee Beans, and Magnet-Shrooms, After you pick them up, set up the following layout. Put two Repeaters from the back columns on every row (except the pool). Put only one Repeater on the back columns on every pool row (use Lily Pads first). Change the Repeaters on the pool to become Gatling Peas Put Torchwoods in front of the Repeaters and Gatling Peas (on the pool use Lily Pads first). Then, give the space a column and plant the Magnet-Shrooms on the lawn only. Wake them up with Coffee Beans. In front of the Magnet-Shrooms on the lawn, plant the Tall Nuts. Note: Plant the Tangle Kelps on the last time. The layout should appear as follows.
R R T <> M N R R T <> M N ------------------------ G T K K K K G T K K K K ------------------------ R R T <> M N R R T <> M N R = Repeaters G = Gatling Peas T = Torchwoods K = Tangle Kelps M = Magnet-Shrooms that have been awakened N = Tall-Nuts
- Select the following plants (at least eight slots required): Marigold, Pumpkin, Lilypad, Wall-Nut, Magnet-Shroom, Gold Magnet, Doom-Shroom, Coffee Bean. Fill the rest of the slots with plants of your choice. Use the following layout. Note: Put Pumpkins on the first three Marigolds starting from the Wall-Nut, except the Marigold on the pool. Do not put any Pumpkins on the pool. Then, start the onslaught. If you have sufficient sun power, put a Doom-Shroom in to replace with thing in the two Gold Magnets, then awaken the Doom-Shroom with a Coffee Bean.
M M M M M M M M W M M M M M M M M W M M M M G M M M W M M M M G M M M W M M M M M M M M W M M M M M M M M W M = Marigold P = Pumpkin L = Lily Pad W = Wall-Nut A = Magnet-Shroom G = Gold Magnet D = Doom-Shroom C = Coffee Bean
- Use the following formation. Note: Upgrade Repeaters to Gatling Peas when you have enough sun.
MP R* MS T MP R* MS T MP R* MS T MP R* MS T MP R* MS T MP R* MS T MP = Melon-Pult R = Repeater MS = Magnet-Shroom T = Tall-Nut
Suburban Almanac: Finding the imitator
Look at the top left of the almanac and click there. You will now see the imitator.
Zombie mini-games: Earning sun
The only way to earn sun in the zombie mini-games is to kill sunflowers. First, put a good zombie for the situation in the lane you want it to go in. Make sure that there are sunflowers planted in that lane. Collect the sun when the zombie eats the flower, then buy more items and eat the brains.
Creating a fort
Use the following plant formation with the following items.
- 0: Sunflowers or upgraded flowers
- 1: A shooter plant
- 2: Repeater/upgraded
- 3: Three shooter plant (three lanes)
- 4: Fire Plant (fire tree that turns bullets to fire balls that pass through it)
- 5: Cattail
- 6: Squash (or Wallnut/Tallnut)
- 7: Small mushrooms
- 8: Chomper
- 9: Scardey Shroom
- X: Free space
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Defeating the final Boss
The final Boss will launch massive fire balls and ice balls at your plants. They will crush everything in their path except for zombies (basically, all plants in that row). To destroy the ice ball, use a Chili Pepper in that row. To destroy the fire ball, use an Ice Shroom, but also with a Coffee Bean or else it will fall asleep.
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Pole Vaulters
When there are Pole Vaulters, pick a Walnut and a Chomper and make sure you can dig up plants and have lots of sun.. Put down a Walnut and a Chomper behind it. The Pole Vaulter will go over the Walnut and straight into the Chomper. Then, dig up the Chomper and he is gone.
Getting light in fog
When you are in fog and need light (and you do not have a lantern), use the torch wood if you have the sun. It shows you the space in front of it.
Kill Bungees
To kill Bungees, use Chompers, Squash, Ice Shroom, Jalapeno, or an Umbrella Plant.
Hidden achievement list objects
The achievements are displayed as an underground list. Scroll through the list and keep going down to see various hidden objects including a zombie, the bookworm from Bookworm, jewels from Bejeweled, a unicorn fossil, and finally Chinese zombies staring back down the hole.
Easy "Ask Me About Mustache Mode" achievement
PC Type mustache during a level after you finish selecting your plants.
Easy "Sunny Days" achievement
PC Play Zombiquarium and do not purchase the trophy for 1,000 Sun. Continue until you have 8,000.
Easy "Towering Wisdom" achievement
PC Growing the Tree of Wisdom for 100 feet requires 94 bags of Tree Food and $245,000. To make this easier, Play the Survival: Endless and Last Stand; use money from Zen Garden; kill Zombie Yeti; and play the mini games Wall-nut Bowling 2 and I, Zombie.
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NORFOLK-- When Dale Holbrook dropped offhis 13-year-old son Duncanat Northside Middle School this morning, the talk focused on violencein schools and how times have changed. The issue has been on many parents' minds since the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut.
'I've seen people (fight) when I was growing up and they were friends the next day,' Holbrook said. 'Now when that thing happens, the kid who got the worst end of the bargain is going to come back in retaliation with a gun it seems.'
The new principal at his son's school does not want that type of violence for his students, which is why Dr. Mark Makovec is pleased to have the Rachel's Challenge program at Northside.
'When I look at Rachel's Challenge, I think it's a proactive opportunity for principals, assistant principals, and teachers to really be aware of what's going on with their young people so we can address the problems before it becomes a violent situation,' Dr. Makovec said.
Through various workshops and activities, the program encourages students to engage in acts of kindness and respect. It helps students realize how one small act of kindness canpositively impact classmates. It also stresses the importance of looking for the best in others, eliminate prejudice, treat others the way you want to be treated, choose positive influences, forgive yourself and others, and speak words of kindness not cruelty.
'As kids go through middle school, they're looking for their identity and want to find out where they fit in,' Dr. Makovec said. 'A lot of times kids don't understand how simple terms like 'you're ugly,' 'you're not smart' can be so detrimental to a student's development.'
He also added, 'Sometimes kids have those feelings and they harbor them within themselves and the feelings of isolation and resentment turn into violence.'
Through Rachel's Challenge students work together on various projects to give back to the community and to make their schools more positive places.
Oneproject students have participated in is making a kindness chain. Each link represents an act of kindness done at school. The bigger the chain, the more acts of kindness that were performed. It's a visual way for students to get the message.
Holbrook's son Duncan tells 13News he's all in. 'Be nicer to people and think about stuff before you do it,'Duncan said.


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I'm an average age group triathlete. I ride around 1000 miles per summer. This trainer allows me to roughly double that through the cooler chicago months.
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A VERY small Beatrix Potter drawing has sold for nearly £50,000 at an auction in America.
The three-and-three-quarter inches by six inches ink and watercolour had been expected to sell for up to 37,500 at the Sotheby's auction, in New York, but reached £47,438
The miniature, called 'Guinea pigs going to their garden...' was among 193 original illustrations sold by wealthy American couple, Kendra and Allan Daniel. The painting depicts four guinea pigs following a fifth along a path carrying garden tools.
A spokesman for Sotheby's said: "Early in 1893, when she was in her twenties, Beatrix Potter borrowed a number of guinea pigs from her friend, Miss Paget. One, named Mr Chopps, proved to be no problem but another, named Queen Elizabeth, apparently 'took to eating blotting paper, pasteboard, string and other curious substances and expired during the night. A pair of gardening illustrations date from this time: four guinea pigs following a blue-coated guinea pig and four guinea pigs working under the guidance of the blue-coated guinea pig.
"These were later redrawn in 1922 and used in Potter's book Cecil Parsley's Nursery Rhymes."
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'VERY knowledgable' staff at a popular Kendal attraction are celebrating after securing a top accreditation.
Kendal Museum has been accredited as a Quality Assured Visitor Attraction - an assessment run by Visit England and recognises customer service and visitor experience at attractions across the country.
A Visit England assessor praised the strong collections, recognising the effort that has gone into creating a well-balanced wildlife gallery and the considerable effort that has been put into modernising the Wainwright Gallery.
In a report, the assessor said of the museum: "The Wildlife Gallery succeeds in presenting specimens from five continents in an imaginative and lively fashion that can be readily grasped by children".
Learning facilities for children were also praised along with 'excellent' reading books being available.
The Wainwright Gallery was also commended for its cabinets and the assessor said that the staff 'engaged well and were very knowledgeable'.
The assessor summed up his judgement and reported: "There is a wealth of excellent material in the museum – with the Wildlife Gallery and the Wainwright exhibits showing what can be achieved. The possibilities for mutually beneficial exchanges of skills with college courses and museum qualifications seem exciting. There is huge potential scope for the Museum."


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There's an old adage in federal management circles: You can't manage what you can't measure. And now, performance improvement officers say agencies are getting better at the measuring part — using data to driver better performance.
Overall, 71 percent of agency PIOs who responded to an exclusive Federal News Radio survey said their agency makes good use of performance data, and a similarly high number of respondents said the administration focus on performance management has increased in recent years.
The survey, sent to 46 PIOs or deputy PIOs over the summer, garnered a 15 percent response rate. Most of the PIOs who responded hailed from small agencies.
One possible challenge facing agency PIOs is the sheer volume of data they're confronted with. But the solution, according to the officials surveyed, is to put the focus on quality analysis.
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Matthew Piester, deputy PIO at the Department of Health and Human Services, said his agency tracks a total of 1,000 different performance measures. But HHS also zeroes in on a more specific subset of the data, using the two-year-old Government Performance and Results Act Modernization Act as a guide, he explained.
That helps to narrow the range of data the agency actually gauges, Piester said.
"(With) the other measures, while still important and while still tracked, spend a little bit less time on and so you can use the resources that you have accordingly," he said in an interview on In Depth with Francis Rose.
The focus on quality over quantity is especially important given the budget constraints nearly all agencies are facing.
"From a data perspective, there's always a desire to have more," Piester said. "And from a resources perspective, it's always nice to be able to have more folks engaged on it. But at the same time, constraints are what they are."
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The focus on better performance management hasn't occurred in a vacuum. Seventy-one percent of respondents said the Office of Management and Budget's attention to the issue has increased over the past three years.
"Shelley Metzenbaum (OMB's associate director for performance and personnel) and her teams ... are doing a fantastic job with leading a culture change of performance management across the federal government," one of the survey respondents commented. "The Small Agency Council has formed a performance improvement committee, as well, and the small agencies are shadowing their efforts. Progress is evident, and there is more to come."
Piester cited Performance.gov, which tracks agencies' performance on governmentwide high-priority goals.
"We've been very much engaged with (OMB) from our perspective in updating our information for them and engaging in that process," Piester said.
Both OMB and agencies see the benefit in communicating agency successes. But, used effectively, it can also leverage greater accountability.
"If you're ultimately providing information that says you're not meeting your expectations, but you're the only one providing it, that's a very uncomfortable position to be in," Piester said. "But when you present it amongst other agencies or other operating divisions... and you are able to communicate it in a holistic way — here are the positives as well as the negatives — I think that's a much more useful means to do it."
However, Performance.gov, which OMB recently revamped, does not encompass small agencies, which was reflected in the survey. All of the respondents to the survey (a majority of whom work at small agencies) said the site was "neither helpful nor detrimental to my agency's performance improvement."
Survey respondents also were divided on several key questions.
An even split of 40 percent separated respondents on the question of whether the focus on agencies' high-priority goals had improved the mission or not even made a difference. Similarly, respondents were split evenly on the question of whether the administration's evidence-based approach to analyzing programs was effective or not.
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