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October 17, 2008
A look at the components of the BCS
David Fox
Rivals.com College Football Staff Writer
The BCS rankings have undergone several tweaks since being unveiled in 1998. Most recently, the BCS replaced The Associated Press poll with the Harris poll, put greater weight on the human polls, removed strength of schedule and decided to use only computer polls that don't consider margin of victory.
But for the third consecutive season, the BCS has made no changes to the overall formula. Here's a run-down of each component.
Sixty-one coaches rank teams one through 25 weekly in the coaches' poll, compiled by USA Today.
The voters are somewhat evenly distributed between the 11 conferences. The Big Ten, Big 12 and SEC have seven each; the ACC, Conference USA and Mid-American have six each; the Pac-10 has five; the Big East, Mountain West, Sun Belt and WAC have four; and independents have one (Notre Dame's Charlie Weis).
The coaches are selected by the American Football Coaches Association and reviewed by USA Today. The only coaches not allowed to vote are coaches of teams on major probation (those teams also aren't eligible to be ranked). The AFCA urges all coaches to make themselves available for the poll, but some decline to take part (usually first-year coaches). There are no tenure requirements.
About a quarter of the voters change each season, either because coaches decline to take part or no longer are FBS coaches. Eleven coaches who voted last season are not voting this season, including seven who no longer are coaching.
Coaches' ballots are kept secret until the final regular-season poll.
The coaches vote in a preseason poll, then vote weekly throughout the season.
In replacing The Associated Press Top 25, which removed itself from the BCS formula after the 2004 season, the BCS turned to the Harris Interactive Poll.
The Harris poll consists of 114 voters. All have some connection to college football. The poll consists of former players, coaches, athletic directors, conference commissioners and sports information directors, as well as media members.
Harris Interactive randomly selects voters from among the more than 300 people nominated by conference offices and FBS universities.
Unlike the coaches, Harris poll voters do not submit votes until midseason.
Before the season, Harris Interactive releases the names of the 114 voters � but does not make public any information that describes the voters' location or connection to college football.
Like the coaches' poll, each voter's final ballot will be made public.
Six computer rankings make up the final third of the BCS formula. The best and worst computer rankings are thrown out, and the sum total of the remaining four is divided by 100 (the maximum possible points) to come up with the BCS' computer rankings percentage for each team.
The computers are included in the equation with the intention of removing human bias.
Though the BCS removed strength of schedule as a stand-alone component in 2004, schedule strength is included in some form in each of the computer rankings. The BCS also removed margin of victory from the formula and uses only computers that do not take the final score into account.
Each computer ranking has its own formula, using different ways to calculate strength of schedule and, in some cases, conference strength.
Here is a brief description of each computer ranking:
Anderson & Hester: Its organizers says their rankings do not prejudge teams. The rankings are not compiled until the fifth week of the season, reflecting a team's "actual accomplishments on the field, not its perceived potential." The strength-of-schedule component judges the records of each team's opponents and the opponents' opponents. The rankings also put weight on conference play in strength of schedule. Conference strength is rated by each league's non-conference record and difficulty of the league's non-conference schedule. The Anderson & Hester rankings also take into account home and road records in evaluating strength of schedule.
Billingsley Report: The Billingsley Report is one of three computer polls that give teams a starting position. Rather than preseason rankings, teams start where they finished the previous season. Unlike the human polls, there is much more movement from the first poll. For example, defending national champion LSU started at No. 1 this season, but the Tigers dropped after they defeated Appalachian State because other teams defeated higher-ranked opponents. This computer poll takes team's opponents' rank into account in strength of schedule rather than simply a team's record. For example, a team would get more value from defeating Oregon State than UTEP, though both are 3-3.
Colley Matrix: The founder, Wes Colley, has a Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton. He bills his rankings as bias-free, ignoring influence from opinion and past performance. Strength of schedule has a strong influence on the final ranking, but it is calculated by a simple won-loss record. In the formula, a four-loss team playing against opponents with better winning percentages will be ranked ahead of a two-loss team facing weaker opponents. The rankings claim to be free of bias toward conference, tradition or region. All teams are assumed to be equal at the beginning of the season, so, for example, Florida starts at the same point as Florida International. As a result, early polls bear little resemblance to the human polls. His computer model does not account for home and road wins. Colley won't be surprised if his rankings differ from the AP and coaches polls, the two most commonly cited rankings, since Colley says the two human polls reinforce each voter's perceptions.
Massey Ratings: Like some of its computer counterparts, the Massey Ratings are designed to evaluate past performance, not to predict future outcomes. The rankings only take score, site and date of game into account. BCS computers are not permitted to use margin of victory, but points scored and points allowed are a factor for Massey, including calculations for a team's home-field advantage. The site of the game is included in his formula for schedule strength. Preseason ratings based on each teams' postseason ranking is included, but he says that effect is "damped out completely" by the end of the season. Though margin of victory isn't a factor, the final score is used to calculate the probability a team would win a rematch under the same conditions. Massey indicates that the scores help assign an objective value to non-quantifiable elements, such as motivation or weather. A team that wins a close, high-scoring game receives a lower probability to win a rematch than a team that wins 10-0. In his formula, there are diminishing returns for a team that runs up the score. The difference between a team winning 30-0 and 56-3 is minimal, though there is an advantage to winning comfortably. Conference strength does not play a role, but non-conference records do factor into the rankings; therefore, conferences with better non-conference records will have stronger schedule strength.
Sagarin Ratings: Jeff Sagarin's ratings are published by USA Today and probably are the best-known computer rankings. Sagarin has multiple computer rankings, including one that takes margin of victory into account. The rankings that include margin of victory are featured in USA Today, and he considers them his "best effort." But the BCS uses the rankings that don't include a margin-of-victory component. Input in Sagarin's rankings for the BCS are wins, losses and site. The site is sorted by home, away, neutral or a "close-by," which would be an LSU game in New Orleans but not Florida-Georgia in Jacksonville or Oklahoma-Texas in Dallas, which are neutral-site games. Since the ratings compound the record of team's opponents and opponents' opponents, strength of schedule is implicit, though it is not considered a separate entity in the formula. Road wins receive more weight, as do undefeated teams. Before the BCS releases its rankings, Sagarin removes preseason rankings from the formula so each team starts on equal footing.
Wolfe: The Wolfe rankings use a method called the "maximum likelihood estimate." The formula determines the likelihood of one team defeating another, using win/loss data collected on all 697 four-year teams. These rankings take into account conference strength and location of the game.
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Ben's Bells Project Spreading Kindness Throughout ConnecticutTuesday, July 28, 2015 at 9:41 am
Jeannette Maré's visit to Newtown the week of July 20 was three-fold.
Ben's Bells: Ringing Out The Old, Ringing In The NewSaturday, July 25, 2015 at 10:18 am
This story has been amended to reflect the correct spelling of the Ben's Bells founder's last name, which is Maré, not Maté.
Wednesday, July 29, will be the final workshop at the 17 Church Hill Road Ben's Bells Newtown Studio. The doors will not be closing permanently, however, on the program that has issued thousands of the handcrafted ceramic bead and bell ornaments to the Newtown community, and many other communities in need of an act of kindness.
June 7 At Dickinson Park: Ben's Bells Planning Celebration Of KindnessMonday, June 1, 2015 at 8:15 am
Ben's Bells Project will present Celebration of Kindness — a free family event that will take place at Dickinson Park — on Sunday, June 7, from noon until 4 pm.
The mission of Ben's Bells is to "inspire, educate, and motivate people to realize the impact of intentional kindness, and to empower individuals to act according to that awareness, thereby strengthening ourselves, our relationships, and our communities."
Girls Night Out At Ben's Bells Studio, May 21Friday, May 15, 2015 at 9:00 am
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Who is Ben? What is a Ben's Bell? Where are Ben's Bells hung? How are Ben's Bells made? What is the Be Kind mission all about?
Area residents who are interested in learning the who, what, where, how, and why of the Ben's Bells Project have two opportunities to attend an Advanced Volunteer Orientation this month.
The Ben's Bells Newtown studio, at 17 Church Hill Road, will offer 60-minute presentations on Tuesday, April 28. Sessions will begin at noon and 6:30 pm.
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Tricia Guiry of Bethel started her new position as studio and community relations manager at Ben's Bells Newtown in November, and has tackled the job with enthusiasm, and a determination to match the dedication of the dozens of volunteers at the 17 Church Hill Road studio, she said.
Ben's Bells Founder Visits NewtownTuesday, August 5, 2014
Ben's Bells Project Founder and Executive Director Jeannette Maré arrived in Newtown Friday, August 1, to visit the Ben's Bells Newtown studio on Church Hill Road. She was also a participant on Saturday at the 2014 Kindness Conference: Building the Science of Kindness Together, held at Walnut Tree Hill Church in Bethel.
"One of the main reasons for the visit was not only for the conference and Kindness Education Program, but to see the new studio [located on Church Hill Road]," Ms Maré said Friday afternoon.
Ben's Bells Newtown Is Taking Bell Making To Beardsley ZooThursday, July 24, 2014
BRIDGEPORT — Ben's Bells Newtown will be at Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo on Sunday, August 3, from 10 am until 3 pm.
There will be a number of special events that day including a bell making workshop, bead sculpting, and Kindness Coins being handed out.
The mission of Ben's Bells is to inspire, educate and motivate people to realize the impact of intentional kindness. The pieces that come together to form each bell are crafted by volunteers. By the time a Ben's Bell is finished, at least ten people have participated in its creation.
Choose Love, And Kindness, Sunday At Ben's Bells StudioFriday, June 20, 2014
The Ben's Bells mission recognizes that everyone has the capacity to be kind, and that kindness can be cultivated through intentional practice.
The mission of The Sandy Hook Project, Inc is to emphasize that the expression of love for others and yourself are key elements of healing, health and well-being; raise funds to make mental health resources affordable for those affected by the Sandy Hook School shooting; and educate about the symptoms of trauma, so that those struggling know when and how to seek help.
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So Ted meets the Mother in four months! How are they going to sqeeze another season of the show in? The obvious choice would be to show the first year of their lives up til their wedding day, but I still have this feeling that Ted meeting the Mother won't happen until the last episode.
This was a really good episode. Lily was actually interesting for the first time since she and Marshall got married. It struck me that the entire show makes more sense as things proceed. Ted started the story of how he met the Mother by going all the way back to the day he met his first major love, the woman whom he would eventually have to give up and at whose wedding he would met his wife.
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Lansing's hospital sector continues to be highly concentrated, with two major systems, Sparrow Health System and Ingham Regional Medical Center (IRMC). While Sparrow has traditionally been the larger system, IRMC has successfully pursued profitable specialty-service lines. Lansing's health plan market is even more highly concentrated than the hospital sector, with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) having increased its already commanding position in recent years.


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For Those Who Enjoy Deathcore (such as jd) - Russian edition!
The Russian metal scene pretty much sucks, apart from various deathcore bands, and one pagan/black metal band called Arkona. I'll just link them here, and I hope you guys check them out.
Arkona (appearing w/ Finntroll, Turisas, Alestorm on Heidenfest this year)
Last.FM: [url]http://www.last.fm/music/Arkona?ac=Arkona[/url]
Facebook: [url]http://www.facebook.com/arkonarussia?ref=ts&sk=app_178091127385#!/arkonarussia?sk=wall[/url]
Random song: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tt6_65LDZ60[/url]
Last.FM: [url]http://www.last.fm/music/Katalepsy[/url]
Facebook: [url]http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Katalepsy/30378494747[/url]
Random song: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5Vs_XbMNQA[/url]
Taking Your Last Chance
Last.FM: [url]http://www.last.fm/music/Taking%2520Your%2520Last%2520Chance?ac=Taking%20Your%20[/url]
Facebook: [url]http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Taking-Your-Last-Chance-Band/182327911804379[/url]
Random song: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zPy5oWwsEo[/url]
Ease Of Disgust (IMO they outdid Suicide Silence last December opening up for them)
Last.FM: [url]http://www.last.fm/music/Ease%2520Of%2520Disgust?ac=Ease%20of%20Disgust[/url]
Facebook: [url]http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/pages/Ease-Of-Disgust/197824990472[/url]
Random song: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoLPWuVcKlw[/url]
Last.FM: [url]http://www.last.fm/music/Sumatra[/url]
Facebook: [url]http://www.facebook.com/?ref=logo#!/SumatraBand?sk=wall[/url]
Random song: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihR-xQMh-N4[/url]
Yes, everyone who likes deathcore, post in this thread so we can easily identify you all in one place and ban you.
[QUOTE=mankvill;372311]Yes, everyone who likes deathcore, post in this thread so we can easily identify you all in one place and ban you.[/QUOTE]
Seriously, though, I will check this list out when I have time and get back to ya. Thanks! I remember finding this one techy-deathcore band from Russia called Neverending War back in the day, and I liked 'em.
I typed for about 20 minutes to reply to this, and the computer I'm on logged me out and I lost all of it. Fuck, I guess I'll just have to do it again. :bawling:
Ok, I'll try and remember everything I had down, since I'm bored and have nothing else to do. Here are my impressions of the bands. I'll rank them from worst to best, how I feel about them:
[B]5.) Sumatra[/B]
I'll give it to them, they're talented musically. There was a solid solo shredding there, but in the end, that was about it. They tried to fit too many ideas into the song. Mindless breakdowns? Technical shredding? Screaming over the whole thing? Once I got done with the song, I couldn't recall a single hook or riff I just heard. Same thing happened to me when I tried to listen to Within the Ruins and The Red Shore; I can't stand bands like that. Its just a sign of not bearing a single ounce of songwriting ability. Oh, and:
[B]4.) Arkona[/B]
LAWL wut? I mean, I like folk metal, but this is too folk-y for me. I'll admit, they gave me a good laugh, but this doesn't do anything for me. I like the harder, more metal folk music, like Finntroll or Ensiferum. Nothing made me hate them, and nothing made me like them, so I'm indifferent. Eh.
[B]3.) Taking Your Last Chance[/B]
Ok, I have to get this out of the way: that name sucks. So bad. Like, it sucks harder than a Monica Lewinsky in the oval office. They can join the ranks now of decent bands with terrible names, like Miss May I and MyChildren MyBride. And I realize that this band isn't original, super talented, or special. And vocalist, LOOK AT WHAT I WROTE FOR #5.
But thats about all the bad I can find here. Right off the bat of all 4 songs I checked out by them, they play great, mindless, grab your guts breakdowns that I enjoy. When I listen to deathcore, this is what I want: to relax, not have to focus, and hear some kind of groove. Potential work-out music for me, if the vocalist wasn't so goddamn annoying. I'll keep my eyes on these guys.
[B]2.) Ease of Disgust[/B]
Eh, not a fan of that band name either. But these guys are full of crazy good potential! I have 2 main problems with them: vocalist's highs are terrible, and should be shot down and stopped, and they have breakdowns. Yeah yeah, I like my breakdowns, but in their music, they just felt uninspired and out of place, like they were forced to write them into the music. I mean their BREAK-breakdowns, when the music changes pace. I feel like if they cut those out, they would be an awesome brutal death metal band, and keep in the faster, groovier breakdowns-in-tempo, like Benighted or Suffocation. What they need is a good producer to guide them with this, and they have a good chance of being a truly great band.
[B]1.) Katelepsy[/B]
Gentlemen, we have a winner. This band is fucking AWESOME. I love it. This isn't a deathcore band; no no no no no. This is a straight up nasty, dirty, unfiltered, gory, violent, moshworthy deathgrind slam band. From the raw production, to the burped vocals, to the must-mosh-now slams, this band is great. I'd want to see them live way more than the other bands here. And the sad thing is they're probably the smallest band here, lacking the popularity or catchiness or "I'm gonna try and sound like the vocalist from Suicide Silence" of deathcore bands nowadays. Keep it up! :party:
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I have had a real poopie (sp) day!!!
I have had a real poopie (sp) day!!!
There is a guy sitting in his house reading the paper. He hears a knock at the door. He goes to answer and opens the door, there is no one there. He looks around and spies a snail sitting on his stoop. He picks it up and tosses it out into the yard. Two years later, he gets another knock at the door. He goes and opens it. The same snail is sitting on the stoop. The snail looks up at him and says "Hey, what the hell was that all about?"
My favorite joke.
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<flying through the air> "I think I missed that switchback"
If your not bleeding your not trying hard enough, now excuse me while I get my bike dirty.
My 3D art
Ummm.. Go to the Road Cycling file and read the thread about "My first Spin Class"
BTW...don't let the gals get to you, that's what they want.
Those voices in your head aren't real, but they have some great ideas
-"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...Originally Posted by George Carlin
...and you finish off as an orgasm."- That one kills me.
Also "the seven words you cant say on t.v." ****, Piss, ****, ****, **** Sucker, Mother ******, Tits. I had a friend teach me that and i will never forget it. did that help?
that second quote was by george carlin.
I was riding home last night and as I was standing up to pull away from some lights, my chain skipped and threw me abruptly to the ground, banging up my right knee and elbow.Originally Posted by snowy
This morning as I was riding to work I was pulling up to a light and as I was standing on my pedals to dismount, you guessed it, my handle bar snapped and threw me to the ground. I landed on the same knee too.
If we learn from our mistakes, I must be a goddamn genius.
You obviously planned the whole thing.Originally Posted by Allister
No worries
"Black holes are where God divided by zero"
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"Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches."
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Thanks guys!!!
The best part about ************ is the cuddling afterwards.
"When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that
the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me."
-- Emo Philips
what did the astronaunt have for lunch?
launch meat.
The last man on earth walks into a bar. He gets his beer, stares down into it and says "Beer, I'd like another bartender."
/not funny.
Mounting a biker doesn't make you a mountainbiker.
Aww, fellows, she wants us to entertain her!Originally Posted by snowy
Go there, snowy, and let's see a big smile on your face!
Two atoms walk out of a bar. The first atom says, "Hold on a sec. I think I left some electrons in the bar."
The second atom says, "Are you sure?"
The first atom says, "Yeah. I'm positive."
Cyclists of the world, unite! You have nothing to lube but your chains!
Three guys are shipwrecked on a desert isle. They are the only ones on it except this annoying bird that lives in the one tree on the island. One guy asks, "Does anyone know what kind of bird that is?" One says he's pretty sure it's a Foo bird.
Well they hang out on this island a day or two when one morning one of the guys wakes up with an awful goo on his shoulder. He immediately wipes it off and then dies. The other two are puzzled and proceed to bury him. Just as they lower him into the ground, the Foo bird flies over and poops on one of them. He wipes it off and he too falls over dead. The third guy sees some correlation with the poop and the wiping, so when the Foo bird poops on him, he leaves it alone. Several days later, he is rescued. But he is covered with Foo Poop.
The moral of the story - If the Foo $hits, wear it.
Chuckster,Originally Posted by Rev.Chuck
Like, what is your job? Are you bored, or something?
No worries
"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return." - Leonardo daVinci
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Celebrity lives are crazy! We're quite sure that Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge is upset with the news of her pictures in a bikini being leaked. The pregnant queen to-be was holidaying at a private Caribbean Island when a fellow vacationer took pictures of her strolling with her husband. The picture that was printed in Italy's Chi magazine, showed the Duchess' tiny baby bump. Here's a look at other celebs whose pictures were leaked.
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On this weeks show, we are honored to have with us - The Drill Sergeant of Life, Beatrice Bruno. Beatrice is an Author, Speaker, Consultant and an Army Veteran - but always and forever be a Drill Sergeant. Having trained more than 2,000 Basic Combat Trainees while serving on Active Duty, Beatrice learned the main reason a Basic Trainee could not endure eight weeks of training was because that soldier "needed to get over him or herself!" Beatrice now uses her Army training to help you get over your excuses and procrastination and be ALL you were called to be on the Battlefield of Life! Beatrice is the creator of the Let Go of the P.A.S.T. Boot Camp Series and author of several books to include "How To Get Over Yourself, Get Out of Your Own Way, and Get What YOU Want Out of Life!" and "How To Get Over Yourself and Let Go of the P.A.S.T."
In honor of Veterans Day join Mark and Carolyn in a salute to Veterans and life as we learn strategies from Drill Sergeant Beatrice Bruno on how you can get out of your own way and fulfill the purpose you were created for.
Dayplayerdish with Carolyn Hinsey
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Due to a scheduling conflict Mark and Carolyn will not air live today. In our absence we decided to replay one for the guys. Hey Guys... Do you want to be a superhero?
This interview first aired during the relationship series where we focused on enhancing and growing relationships and features one of our favorite guests, Philip Bruley, Certified Men's Success Coach, former Army Ranger, International Business Consultant, Author and Speaker. He works with men to help them not only better understand their feminine partner but also how to use their masculine gifts to create a red-hot romantic and sex life.
According to Philip, "there is no better pursuit for a man than to learn how to powerfully love his woman. When you are truly rocking this area of your life you become super-charged and everything else you do becomes so much more powerful. You literally become a Superhero."
So are you ready to learn how to tap into your super powers and be all you can be? Are you ready to step up to the challenge? If you are tired of settling for mediocre and want to start living and loving more powerfully, passionately and authentically without sacrificing your manhood then you must tune into to this show. Enjoy the replay and listen as you learn how to create a super-charged, powerful life.
"Hip Hop Friday" w Authoress Carolyn B
Your favorite Hip hop show is back, and in full affect!!. Welcome to "Hip Hop Friday" w Authoress Carolyn B. Yeah baby, its the weekend, and we ALL know what that means... Its time to turn the volume up on 10, inside the Red Carpet Room. The Queen is about to put it down hip hop style, for those lovers of hip hop music. You'll hear some new tracks, to not so new, but either way, you'll be returning every weekend to one of the hottest & down to earth networks, out here. Presented by Diversity Of the Minds. If you have some lyrical abilities and would like to spit em out live on the air, please dail 516-531-9334 and we can make that happen.
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I AM BEAUTIFUL both inside and out - Thriving through breast cancer
"You have breast cancer." These are words no woman, or man, ever wants to hear but in 2013 Traci Smith received the diagnosis and heard the words, "You have breast cancer." Those very words can pierce the soul of the hearer, resulting in worry, depression and despair. Questions are raised like, will I survive? How will I continue from day to day? But Traci chose not to see her diagnosis as negative, but rather she faced it positively. She received rave reviews on her personal appearance every visit to chemotherapy. She lived her life around with the affirmation "I am BEAUTIFUL both inside and out", regardless of the loss of her hair, nails, and eyelashes. Traci wanted other women to feel the strength and power she felt during a time when many feel powerless. Following her belief to serve others, "Traci's BIO (Beautiful Inside and Out)" was founded in 2014.
The mission of Traci's Bio is to help women who are battling with cancer to maintain a level of normalcy while going through an abnormal process. It is her desire to provide women with services and resources to assist them with this life changing process. It is her desire to see them not only survive, but thrive. Tune in to Let's Coach with Mark and Carolyn as Traci shares her source of strength, story of survival, and the exciting work that Traci's Bio has done to uplift and inspire women and men across the globe.
Carolyn Griffey of Shalamar Reflects On Growing Up Under A Real Empire
Tune into Talk Show Host Gregory D. Anderson Jr. behind the scenes chat with Shalamar's beautiful, singing sensation Carolyn Griffey as she reflects on living the life of a true musical empire! Griffey shares with GregSpeaksLive how her father Dick Griffey & mother Carrie Lucas inspired her growing up and just what wisdom she still carries with her this day. We discuss her mother Carrie Lucas musical influence, Shalamar, Industry and what's next for her. Carolyn Griffey gives us the scoop on how she was motivated and inpired by her father Dick Griffey, the successful business mogul of Solar Records.
"Diverse Radio" Hosted by Authoress Carolyn B
"Diverse Radio" is back on the air this evening, and bringing with it some of your favorite songs at random play. On this show, we specialize in Pop, R&B, Rap, Blues, a little Jazz, 70s,80s,90s music, and more. Yes, we play it all---Well at least most of it. :) Join Authoress Carolyn B tonight inside the Red Carpet Room for a fun evening of diverse music. You just may hear a song you haven't heard, in years. Presented by Diversity Of The Minds. If you have a song choice that we may have in the studio, please dail us up at 516-531-9334 so we can get it on for you!
"Diverse Potpourri" Hosted by Authoress Carolyn B
If your ready to take your Tuesday work days from 0-100 of pure entertainment with the crazy crew of Diversity Of The Minds, then you'll love Diverse Potpourri, Your Afternoon Talk Show. Join us as we get our laughs on with comedy, #uncut, # unscripted and random off the wall topics,celb gossip,music, poetry readings and more. Yes, we have come to shake up your afternoons with a barrel of fun rapped into a 2hr session. You'll love the experience!. To interact with the team or to read your own poetry, please dial 516-531-9334.
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The Jones Family Singers, consisting in part of five sisters, two brothers and their father, have been tearing up churches and festivals alike for over two decades. But they've never before made a studio album that displays the depth of their pure musical gifts quite like The Spirit Speaks, recorded to analog tape at Jim Eno's Public Hi-Fi studio in Austin, TX and released on April 1st, 2014 via Arts+Labor. "Modern practitioners of a long musical tradition…infusing their joyful, reverent songs with elements of vintage soul and R&B" declares the Wall Street Journal. We will discuss two of their songs "LEANING" and "I AM".
Carolyn Simms is a Washington D.C. Metropolitan area based entrepreneur who has experienced success in various business ventures while simultaneously contributing to society in ways that exceed monetary value. Cosmetology, psychology, nonprofit, real estate, and the United State Federal Government are some of the industries/areas in which she has entrepreneurial or employee experience. Mother of 4, which she insists has been her "most important job". At present Carolyn continues to refine her skills in the previously mentioned areas while using her education and experiences in cosmetology, psychology, nonprofit, real estate, and the United States Federal Government to "pay forward" the success and enlightenment she has cultivated therein to help others.
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Universal early childhood education and care programs have been shown in other jurisdictions to lead to improved academic outcomes and labour market participation, reduced use of social assistance and higher labour force participation among mothers. Canada's current patchwork of child care does not meet the needs of Canadian families. The new federal government has shown an understanding of the importance of improving our child care for the health and well-being of children and their parents.
Brown kids can now see people who look like them be brave and powerful and white kids can see people who don't look like them be brave and powerful, too.
Our governments do not want us to understand that wittingly or unwittingly (the jury is still out on what role they have really played) they created the conditions for the rise of ISIS, and they did so through exactly the same disastrous policies that they now claim are the only way to destroy it.
For those not counting, there have been eight B.C. trade missions to China alone in the last 18 months. Forests minister Steve Thomson is set to leave on a ninth mission this Friday. Trade missions aren't cheap, they set the B.C. government back $767,000 in 2014 and that doesn't include the bill for local governments, universities and other agencies.
With the holidays a few weeks away the yearly "what am I going to do with all those gifts" anxiety is settling in.
Ah, that first visit to Santa. Remember how your little one cried and was scared, clinging to you? But you knew that this was temporary. Next year, he/she would be fine with the Santa visit, a rite of passage for most North American children today. But what if your child is not like all the other children?
With the holidays around the corner, it is easy to get caught up in the whirlwind of stress and exhaustion. When this happens, I take a step back, breathe and hit the mat. For me, the holidays is about being present and spending time with loved ones and people in my community.
Without limiting your day-to-day decisions, you can easily burnout on the decision-making process, which leads to poor choices and the potential for error. This phenomenon is otherwise known as decision fatigue.
It's encouraging that our newly elected federal government has agreed to improve efforts to safeguard Canada's oceans. Ocean protection here is shamefully deficient, currently at around one per cent. Weak ocean protection hinders our coasts' ability to remain resilient in the face of many challenges.
Deep learning is the buzzword of the moment inside tech circles and as the public plugs into what this breakthrough in artificial intelligence (AI) means for the future of technology, a number of common misconceptions have emerged. Below, our machine learning experts at Architech Labs clear up some of the confusion.
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m3035 - How do I verify the hard disc is dead?
I have the HP m3035. The device was sending scans to email fine, then it just failed.
I have tried cold reset, no change.
I have re-updated the firmware (I already had the current version installed), no change.
I tried to re-initialize the hard drive from the reset panel but the option for re-initializing did not appear on the display!? Does that mean the hard drive is dead?
I did notice that during the startup sequence there appears in the bottom right of the digital display panel an icon of a hard drive with a flashing , moving magnifying glass. Does that mean it can't find the hard drive?
Thanks for your help.
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Re: m3035 - How do I verify the hard disc is dead?
I should note that I suspect the hard disc because we can no longer digitally send anything from the mfp. It was sending fine until last week when it started giving the "E-mail gateway not responding" error. It will not "send to folder" either.
I have tried cold resetting and when I tried to re-initialize the hard disc (press and hold "5" etc.) no option to do re-initialize appeared on the printer's lcd panel screen. Also on restart, there appears an icon in the lower right of the lcd panel of a hard disc with a moving magnifying glass (searching for the disc?).
The only odd errors are these two and one without a description. All other errors were paper jam related.
54 13-Aug-2013 11:36 AM 54960 49.4C02 48.283.4 D970 198424 Device Error
53 13-Aug-2013 10:59 AM 54960 68.1101 48.283.4
52 13-Aug-2013 10:59 AM 54960 68.8006 48.283.4 68 Storage error settings changed
Thanks for your help.
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ail and send to folder not working
I can access the printer on the LAN at the ip address assigned to it. I can access the printers web interface at that address also.
The real problem with the printer, and the reason I am questioning the hard drive, is that the machine is not sending anything out over the network. That is, it will not scan to email ("email gateway not responding" error), it will not send to folder (HP wizard says the setup is correct), and it will not Autosend to my email.
The machine was sending email fine, and then about three weeks ago it just stopped. No changes were made to the settings, it just stopped.
I have tried everything I can think of including, cold reset, hard drive re-initializing, re-inputting all network info.
Do you have any suggestions?
Could the hard drive cause this to happen?
Hard drive is Fujitsu MHZ2080BH G2.
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Christina TT Kirbach Christian, 42, of Rutland, died Jan. 16, 2013, at Rutland Regional Medical Center.
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FISH focuses on what more can be done to help ensure that everyone gets enough to eat.
In Knox County 57,000 people live in poverty -- more than 25% of them are children. Thousands of other families live near the poverty line and struggle for the basic necessities of live. The number of families who come to our pantries has more than doubled in the last two years. Learn more about who we are or how people can get help.
Soon after 7 am, people begin to line up to await the 10 am pantry opening. More than 11,000 food packages are provided each month from our three Knoxville neighborhood-based pantries.
The new canopy pavilion provides shelter from the sun and rain for the many hundreds of guests coming for food assistance each day to our Northwest Pantry. It also allows for large donations of fresh fruits and vegetables to now be distributed outside in all weather conditions.
More Than FoodRather than being concerned with who is deserving, FISH Hospitality Pantries responds with respect to anyone who asks for food. We seek to nourish both the bodies and the spirits of those we serve.
FISH Hospitality Pantries provides more packages of food to hungry Knoxvillians than all other Knoxville pantries combined.
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The final construction phase of the Northwest Pantry parking lot project has been successfully completed. Many of our pantry guests have told us how much they appreciate our efforts on the new parking lot to make their needed food relief more easily accessible. So many of our guests are burdened with health issues and handicaps that make it difficult for them when they have to park far away and walk great distances with groceries. Over the years we had observed the agitation, and even panic of some, when they are unable to find parking space nearby our pantry, adding to the already stressful time for those in need of food for their families.
With the completion of the new parking lot we have experienced much less vehicle congestion and other related parking issues that were chronically stressful problems (for pantry guests, volunteers, and surrounding businesses) over the previous five plus years. As I have said to many, the new parking lot is contributing more to peace around the Scott Ave pantry than we could have ever imagined when planning the project. Thank you to all who contributed to the successful realization of this project. Hundreds of people are benefiting from it every week now.


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When celebrity chefs cut themselves, how much they bleed is a matter of brand. Just ask Nigella Lawson and Paula Deen. Full report …
When celebrity chefs cut themselves, how much they bleed is a matter of brand. Just ask Nigella Lawson and Paula Deen. Full report …
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A federal judge signed off Monday on a deal to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit against celebrity cook Paula Deen.
A New York man charged with trying to extort money from embattled celebrity cook Paula Deen has agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors.
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But Syrian regime's opponents call decision to move up referendum too little too late
With Syrian cities under fire and residents saying life is ever more unbearable, President Bashar Assad moved up an expected referendum on a new constitution establishing a multiparty system by more than a month, to Feb. 26.
The accelerated vote, to be followed within 90 days by parliamentary elections, appeared to be a modest gesture of government flexibility after nearly a year of the most sustained crackdown in the revolts of the Arab Spring. But Syria's critics dismissed the move as irrelevant at this stage in the crisis.
The state-run SANA news agency described the draft constitution, which Assad received from a panel set up in October, as transforming "Syria into an example to follow in terms of public freedoms and political plurality in a way to lay the foundation for a new stage that will enrich Syria's cultural history."
The call for constitutional changes was made by opposition figures at the beginning of the uprising. However, their demands have hardened into a clamor for Assad's departure — a refrain echoed by much of the Arab League, Syria's former ally Turkey, and many Western nations.
"Promises of reforms have been usually followed by an increase in brutality and have never been delivered upon by this regime since the beginning of peaceful demonstrations in Syria," said the White House press secretary, Jay Carney. "The Assad regime's days are numbered."
It was not clear how voting could take place in the numerous areas where government forces are fighting daily battles with army defectors.
Such is the sense of deprivation in some Syrian areas that French officials in Paris on Wednesday urged humanitarian corridors be created to allow international aid workers access.
French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe took his turn Wednesday in efforts to restart international negotiations on a solution in Syria after Russia and China vetoed a plan backed by the Arab League and Western nations almost two weeks ago that would have required Assad to step down.
In the besieged central city of Homs, where activists have now reported shelling for 13 straight days, an explosion damaged a fuel pipeline early in the morning in the Baba Amr neighborhood. Images posted by activists on social networking sites showed thick black smoke billowing over what seemed to be homes.
The SANA news agency said an "armed terrorist group" had blown up the pipeline, which supplies diesel fuel to Damascus and to the south of the country.


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My client is entering into this plea against my advice, defense attorney Nelson Floyd told Judge Theresa DiMauro.
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It was the best-selling single of last year, and signalled a radical change of musical direction for Cher -- complete with bizarre vocal processing. Yet, surprisingly, it was produced in a small studio in West London. Sue Sillitoe relates the astonishing tale of 'Believe'. Extra material by Matt Bell.
For most of last year, it looked as though Celine Dion's track 'My Heart Will Go On' was going to be the best-selling single of 1998 -- but this accolade was snatched from the Canadian Queen of AOR at the 11th hour by another female vocalist who not only launched a successful challenge for the title, but did so with a song that was massively different from anything she had ever done before.
For those of you who've been stuck on a radio-less desert island for the last two months, the single in question is Cher's dance hit, 'Believe', which spent seven weeks at the top of the UK charts and -- at the time of going to press -- had already achieved sales of 1.5 million and rising. What's less well-known is that it was produced by two London-based producers Mark Taylor and Brian Rawling, in their own studio.
Cher's 'Believe' (Dec 1998) was the first commercial recording to feature the audible side-effects of Antares Auto-tune software used as a deliberate creative effect. The (now) highly recognisable tonal mangling occurs when the pitch correction speed is set too fast for the audio that it is processing and it became one of the most over-used production effects of the following years.
In February 1999, when this Sound On Sound article was published, the producers of this recording were apparently so keen to maintain their 'trade secret' process that they were willing to attribute the effect to the (then) recently-released Digitech Talker vocoder pedal. As most people are now all-too familiar with the 'Cher effect', as it became known, we have maintained the article in its original form as an interesting historical footnote.
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Together, Mark & Brian run Metro Productions, a production and publishing company which operates from Dreamhouse, a three-studio complex in Kingston, Surrey. According to Mark, despite the track's mainstream commercial success, the story behind the creation of 'Believe' is a strange one. As released, the single incorporates the work of six different songwriters, two producers and executive producer Rob Dickins, the erstwhile chairman of Warner Brothers, who has now left the company for pastures new.
Mark, whose previous production credits include Gina G and Danni Minogue, says the fact that the single happened at all is down to a series of lucky breaks, which began when Metro's songwriters were asked by Rob Dickins to submit a song for possible inclusion on Cher's new album.
He explains, "Thanks to the work we had done with Gina and Danni for Warners, we had a good relationship with Rob, and that's why we got the opportunity to work with Cher. Rob asked us to write a song and we came up with the song 'Dov'é L'Amore' [now a track on Cher's new album, also entitled Believe]. Initially, he wanted Junior Vasquez to produce it, which we were delighted about, because it was quite a coup to have the song accepted in the first place."
'Dov'é L'Amore' was duly sent over to Vasquez in New York, but when he sent back his version, it was rejected by Rob, who decided instead to give the production of the track to Taylor and Rawling as well.
"It was one of those scenarios where lucky breaks, chance and other people's bad luck come into play," says Mark. "We were only meant to do one song, but in the end we were responsible for the bulk of the Believe album -- six tracks in total including 'Believe' itself. Vasquez did another and producer Todd Terry did three."
The 'Believe' Balancing Act
The starting point for 'Believe' was a song by Brian Higgins, Matt Gray, Stuart McLennen and Tim Powell, which had been knocking around the Warner offices in demo form for months. "Everyone loved the chorus
Mark says Torch and Barry were given a DAT with a programmed demo in a firmly eurobeat style, which they weren't too keen on, so they sat down with guitars and began to rewrite it. In the end, they kept only the chorus, which went through some minor chord changes but basically remained intact. "The lyrics for the chorus were already there, but our guys added the lyrics, melody and chords for the verses and middle eight, then put the whole thing back together again. We sent it over to Rob Dickins and he highlighted a few changes. Then Cher heard it and she liked it straight away."
Once the demo version was agreed, Mark and Brian took over for the actual production, working at Dreamhouse, which has Mackie consoles in every room. Mark says, "We knew the rough direction to take, because Rob had said he wanted to make a Cher dance record. The hard part was trying to make one that wouldn't alienate Cher's existing fans. We couldn't afford to have anyone say 'I hate this because it's dance' -- then we would have turned off loads of people who are used to hearing Cher do rock ballads and MOR songs. I think we can safely say we succeeded in maintaining the balance, because kids on their own will buy a certain type of record, and adults on their own will buy another. The only way you can achieve sales of 1.5 million is to appeal to both camps. Getting that right was the most difficult part -- and was the reason why I ended up doing the track twice!"
Mark got halfway through the first version before consigning it to the bin without having played it to anyone else. "It was just too hardcore dance -- it wasn't happening," he says. "I scrapped it and started again, because I realised it needed a sound that was unusual, but not in a typical dance record sort of way. This was tricky, because dance music is very specific. To get what I was after I had to think about each sound very carefully, so that the sound itself was dance-based but not obviously so.
"It was really a question of finding, say, a kick drum that didn't sound like a typical TR909 dance kick drum -- and instead, using something that had the right sound but wasn't so clichéd. I ended up using all kinds of sounds mixed together. The drums are all samples, but samples that have been mutated, EQ'd and compressed. The kick drums in particular were heavily compressed to give them a weird, pumping, smacky sound."
Mark believes one doesn't need expensive technology in order to make a hit record, and adds that 'Believe' exemplifies this philosophy. "Don't forget I was only using a Mackie desk, and the rest of the equipment involved was the sort of thing any Sound On Sound reader could aspire to. Having a really expensive piece of kit doesn't mean you'll make hit records. My view is that the end result is what matters -- not how you get there."
With this attitude, it's not so surprising that Mark used nothing fancier than Cubase VST on a Mac G3 to assemble the entire track, including the vocals (although these were initially recorded to Tascam DA88s -- see below). The G3 contains a Korg 1212 I/O card, but in fact a stand-alone Soundscape converter unit provides the main audio interfacing with the rest of the Metro kit, particularly their DA88s (via TDIF). "The sampler was an Akai S3000, and for other sounds we used several of our synths, including the Clavia Nord Rack, Oberheim Matrix 1000 -- for the white-noise wind effect at the very beginning of the track -- and the Moog Progidy for some sub-bass. A lot of the time I was just fiddling around to see what came out! The samples were a combination of sample CDs and ones I've collected myself over the years. As I've said, I wanted the samples to sound different, so that the track didn't sound like any old dance hit. We did this by using the EQ in the Akai sampler, from our little ART Tube EQ and on the desk to really crunch things up, and compressing and squashing sounds to give them an unusual edge. The great thing about the S3000 is that you can put four different samples on each note in a keygroup -- so for the kick drum, for example, I used four different kick samples from my own collection playing together. One was just a noise, one was a splat, one had all the bottom end and so on. By mixing everything together I was able to create something unique."
Cher's vocals were recorded onto three Tascam DA88s with a Neumann U67, at her suggestion, as she had just finished a recording with George Martin using that mic and was particularly pleased with the results. From the DA88, the vocals were loaded straight into Cubase VST on the Mac, and nearly everything else was then done on the computer's hard disk. Mark: "There's also some guitar in the chorus, which we ran through a Sessionette amp miked with an AKG C414. Then we put it through a Zoom to add tremolo and severely EQ'd it to make it sound a bit odd. For the piano we used an Emu Vintage Keys sound which I really like. It's based on a Yamaha CP80 electric piano which we slightly modified to make it cut through the track better. Then we compressed it quite hard to give it a definite ringing sound. We also added lots of delay using a Roland SDE330, which sounds really spacious and adds ambience without cluttering the track -- although the really obvious delay on the vocal phrase 'after love, after love' at the very beginning wasn't done using that -- we just sampled that phrase and repeated it with the S3000's internal filter on it, so that it fades in very dull and brightens up."
Mark explains that the main synth pad remained the same throughout the recording of the track, and was the only element that survived from his first version. "It's a very distinctive, core part of the record -- the song hinges on it. I combined two sounds to get that -- one from my old Roland Juno 106 and another from the Korg TR-Rack. There is something about the way the pad and melody work together that gives the whole track a sort of hanging feeling. When I started putting the song together for the second time, I had the pad running, and I rebuilt the drums to make the pad and the drums sound like they were driving everything along. Then I added the other instrumentation -- the guitar and the piano."
That Vocal Trick In Full
Everyone who hears 'Believe' immediately comments on the vocals, which are unusual, to say the least. Mark says that for him, this was the most nerve-racking part of the project, because he wasn't sure what Cher would say when she heard what he'd done to her voice. For those who've been wondering, yes -- it's basically down to vocoding and filtering (for more on vocoders and the theory behind them, see the Power Vocoding workshop in SOS January '94).
Mark: "It all began with a Korg VC10, which is a very rare, very groovy-looking analogue vocoder from the '70s, with a built-in synth, a little keyboard and a microphone stuck on top", he enthuses. "You must mention this, because SOS readers will love it -- and I know, because I've been reading the mag for years!
"Anyway, the Korg VC10 looks bizarre, but it's great to use if you want to get vocoder effects up and running straight away. You just play the keyboard to provide a vocoder carrier signal, sing into the microphone to produce the modulator signal, and off you go. The only drawback is the synth -- you can't do anything to change the sound, so the effects you can produce are rather limited.
"I played around with the vocals and realised that the vocoder effect could work, but not with the Korg -- the results just weren't clear enough. So instead, I used a Digitech Talker -- a reasonably new piece of kit that looks like an old guitar foot pedal, which I suspect is what it was originally designed for [see review in SOS April '98]. You plug your mic straight into it, and it gives you a vocoder-like effect, but with clarity; it almost sounds like you've got the original voice coming out the other end. I used a tone from the Nord Rack as a carrier signal and sequenced the notes the Nord was playing from Cubase to follow Cher's vocal melody. That gave the vocals that 'stepped' quality that you can hear prominently throughout the track -- but only when I shifted the the Nord's notes back a bit. For some reason, if you track the vocal melody exactly, with the same notes and timing, you hardly get get any audible vocoded effect. But I was messing about with the Nord melody sequence in Cubase and shifted all the notes back a fraction with respect to the vocal. Then you really started to hear it, although even then it was a bit hit-and-miss -- I had to experiment with the timing of each of the notes in the Nord melody sequence to get the best effect. You couldn't hear an effect on all the vocals by any means -- and on others it made the words completely impossible to understand!
"In the end, we only used vocoded sections where they had the most striking effect, but didn't make the lyrics unintelligible. To do that, I had to keep the vocoded bits very short. So for example, when Cher sang 'Do you believe in life after love?', I think I only cut the processed vocals into the phrase on just the syllables 'belie-' from 'believe' and 'lo-' from 'love' -- but that was enough to make the whole phrase sound really arresting. I made sure throughout that the last word of each vocal phrase was unprocessed, because again, I found it sounded too bubbly and hard to understand when it was vocoded."
Mark spent time alone in the studio painstakingly processing Cher's vocals in this way, and by the following morning, he was convinced he didn't have the nerve to play her what he'd done. "It was a bit radical," he laughs. "Basically, it was the destruction of her voice, so I was really nervous about playing it to her! In the end, I just thought it sounded so good, I had to at least let her hear it -- so I hit Play. She was fantastic -- she just said 'it sounds great!', so the effect stayed. I was amazed by her reaction, and so excited, because I knew it was good."
Although the vocoder effect was Mark's idea, the other obvious vocal effect in 'Believe' is the 'telephoney' quality of Cher's vocal throughout. This idea came from the lady herself -- she'd identified something similar on a Roachford record and asked Mark if he could reproduce it.
He explains, "Roachford uses a restricted bandwidth, and filters the vocals heavily so that the top and bottom ends are wound off and the whole vocal is slightly distorted. It took a while to work out exactly what it was that Cher liked about this particular Roachford song, but in the end we realised it was the 'telephoney' sound. I used the filter section on my Drawmer DS404 gate on the vocal before it went into the Talker to get that effect."
Better 'Believe' It...
'Believe' took approximately 10 days to record. Once it was completed, Mark ran a monitor mix onto DAT and sent it to Rob Dickins for clearance. To Mark's surprise, Rob was so pleased with the sound that the monitor mix basically became the final version, with only the most minor of tweaks. "The vocals were much too loud, because I was trying to clear the track," he laughs. "But apart from that, it worked fine, and everyone was really happy with it. It just goes to show that you don't need to spend days mixing in order to
"...we only used vocoded sections where they had the most striking effect, but didn't make the lyrics unintelligible. To do that, I had to keep the vocoded bits very short."
The single was mastered at Townhouse, although very little was actually changed at this stage. "It was very straightforward," says Mark. "Just the fades and the odd dB of cut and boost here and there -- standard mastering stuff."
Looking back, Mark says the most satisfying part of the project was getting to know Cher who spent six weeks at the studio working on the album. "The first day was incredibly nerve-racking," he admits. "I thought she might think our setup was a bit small, and that she would turn out to be a bit 'Hollywood'. But she was really great and easy to get on with. These days, artists like Cher are used to working with producers who have their own studios -- and these are not necessarily big, just well equipped."
With such a massive hit to their credit, it's not surprising that the eight-man team at Metro is now in great demand. They are currently finishing a Gypsy Kings album (which was started after the group guested on the 'Dov'é L'Amore' track), and other high-profile projects are in the pipeline, such as the first single from Gary Barlow's new solo album, and the next Tamperer release. Whether they will continue their relationship with Cher, however, remains to be seen.
"She's said she wants to work with us again, but you know how record company politics can be," says Mark. "I hope it does happen, because it was a great project and one we all thoroughly enjoyed. We certainly never expected the single to do so well -- let alone seven weeks at number one. But when I listen to it now I can see why it worked. It's a great song with a fantastic chorus, and the weird vocoder effect on the vocals makes it special."
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"The situation has been tough for all of us, lawyers and regulators alike," said Jochen Kindermann, a capital markets lawyer at Simmons & Simmons in Frankfurt. "The step was dropped on us like a bomb and no one really had any time to prepare."
Germany was criticized for banning naked short selling of debt securities as well as naked credit-default swaps last week. BaFin published the ban late in the evening of May 18 and the rules took effect less than four hours later. Stocks around the world fell and Germany's benchmark DAX Index has dropped more than 7 percent since the ban was announced.
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Artist: Depeche Mode
Album: Playing the Angel
Genre: Electronic
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Playing the Angel
Oh, Lillian
Look what you've done
You've stripped my heart
Ripped it apart
In the name of fun
Oh, Lillian
I'm a poor man's son
And precious jewels
Weren't found in schools
Where I came from
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Oh, Lillian
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Oh, Lillian
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Oh, Lillian
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Oh, Lillian
Look what you've done
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