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TSB, which split from Lloyds last year, has been named the worst bank for customer service in a poll of almost 9,000 people.
In an early blow for the re-born bank, only 37pc of its customers rated its service as "great", while 20pc said it was "poor" in the survey by MoneySavingExpert.com.
Perennial favourite First Direct was once again ranked top, with 92pc of its customers ratings its customer service as "great".
First Direct, a telephone and internet-based bank, has won every MoneySavingExpert customer service poll since they began in 2008. It is currently offering £100 to new customers who switch to its 1st Account, as well as a 0pc overdraft up to £250 and a linked 6pc regular savings account.
Santander ranked the second highest in the poll with 74pc of customers giving it the top rating.
The Spanish bank which was bottom when the bi-annual survey began five years ago, has climbed to second position due to its popular 123 current account, which launched nearly two years ago and offers cashback on bills as well as interest of up to 3pc on balances. There is a £2 monthly fee on the account.
The scandal-hit Co-operative Bank came in third place, down a place on the last survey, with Nationwide placed fourth.
Current Account service rating
| Provider
| Rank, February 2014
| Rank, August 2013
| First Direct
| 1
| 1
| Santander 123 account
| 2
| 3
| Co-op (inc. Smile)
| 3
| 2
| Nationwide
| 4
| 4
| Santander (all)
| 5
| 5
| Halifax Reward
| 6
| 6
| Halifax (all)
| 7
| 7
| Barclays
| 8
| 8
| Lloyds
| 9
| n/a
| 10
| 12
| Bank of Scotland
| 11
| 13
| Yorkshire / Clydesdale
| 12
| 8
| NatWest / RBS
| 13
| 10
| 14
| n/a
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TSB chief executive Paul Pester said he was "not surprised" that so many of the 4.6 million TSB customers were upset and had rated the bank badly.
"Given what we had to put our customers through last year to create TSB, and given the well-publicised failure in Lloyds Banking Group's systems which affected our customers I'm not surprised some customers are upset: I would be", he said.
Lloyds, which faced its own problems after splitting with TSB, fared slightly better in the poll, with a score of 45pc for 'great' customer service.
Last September, TSB reappeared on the high street as a stand-alone brand for the first time in 18 years after parent Lloyds Banking Group was forced to ditch 631 branches under European rules on state aid.
But on the first day of its relaunch, both TSB and Lloyds were hit by a website glitch which left customers unable to log onto their internet banking.
At the time, the Telegraph received a number of complaints from readers frustrated with the service they were receiving from TSB. Jayne Hill, 53, was locked out of her online banking for over a week, but was told her case was an "isolated incidence".
Paul Pester had previously stated he wanted TSB to be "fundamentally different" from its competitors by returning to local banking, with deposits being used only to fund mortgages and loans in local communities, or to help small businesses grow.
"The fact is we are on a mission to deliver the best customer experience in banking. And we've started. Over 23,000 customers we asked last month about the service they have received from TSB, with 70pc scoring us either nine out of 10 or 10 out of 10. The team at TSB and I won't rest until 100pc of our customers score us 10 out of 10", he said.
In September 2013, a new Current Account Switch Guarantee came into force making it quicker and easier for people to switch bank.
Under the customer guarantee, which is overseen by the Payments Council, the length of time it takes to switch is just seven working days, and all existing outgoing and incoming payments should be automatically swapped to the new account. Should anything go wrong and leave you out of pocket, customers are entitled to reimbursement.
Martin Lewis, founder of MoneySavingExpert.com, said: "With current accounts, customer service really counts. Whether you bank online or in-branch, this is the one financial product you do genuinely have a real day-to-day interaction with. What always staggers me with this poll is that there are banks where 60pc of their customers rate them either dire or just OK, yet those same people don't ditch and switch.
"So if you're unhappy with the service you're getting from your bank, ditch it. New rules mean all your direct debits and standing orders can be switched within a week, and any payments made in error to your old account will be auto-forwarded."


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I live on the East coast of China, and am trying to work out what to do in home cooking of the produce in the local markets. This produce is partly what I'd expected from Chinese cookbooks --- fresh meat and fish, veg, fruit, noodles, tofu products, grain, beans, tea, etc. The surprise has been mountains of dried fish, veg pickle, seaweed, and dried mushrooms.
Can anyone advise on what to do with dried fish, and the salt in it? I was an anchovy fan already, and there's also a salt issue there --- how to get the salt out and leave the goodness in? I guess that dried fish could be used in stock/soup/stews and would appreciate any tips.
(It's the same with local veg pickles --- they grow on you, but the salt content is high for daily consumption.)

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Census takers will come calling this month
With $13,000 per person in federal funding on the line, the Minnesota 2010 Census organizers are gearing up for next month's Census distribution.
The Census is nothing new -- it's been around since 1790, and is taken every 10 years. But in Minnesota, this year's Census is particularly important. The results determine how much aid the state receives from the federal government, but there are also some political implications.
Minnesota stands to lose a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives if the state doesn't produce the kind of numbers needed to support its current eight members. Projections show the state could be about 1,100 people short this decade.
Besides that, the federal government distributes $400 billion in funding to states, based on the numbers garnered from the Census. The federal government allocates $13,000 per person in federal funding. In order to get the maximum allotment, every person in Minnesota needs to be counted.
The 2010 Census forms will arrive in mailboxes in just a couple of weeks. They'll come in manila envelopes, said Mario Vargas, Minnesota campaign coordinator for Census 2010.
A long form was distributed to random individuals in 2000, but that form is no longer being used. The form itself should take no longer than 10 minutes to complete.
Census folks hope to see completed forms coming in by April 1. Any home that does not submit a Census form by the end of April will be placed on a "nonresponse" list.
In May, Census takers will be deployed to go into Minnesota neighborhoods. The Census takers will go to a residence as many as six times, Vargas said, to get the information they need. They're trained to go any length possible -- that means they are authorized to speak to neighbors and ask what is a good time to stop at the home, or to come at any time of the day.
The Census is designed to take a head-count of the state, and determine some of the demographics within the state. Information recorded is strictly confidential. It is against the law for any information gathered by the Census Bureau to be given out for 72 years.
"It has withstood every challenge," Vargas said. "Nobody, including the President of the United States can have access to that information.
"It is one of the reasons the Census Bureau has been so successful, because we can protect that information with the utmost confidentiality. The IRS, INS have tried to access that information and they have not been able to obtain any information."
Census takers are sworn to uphold the confidentiality of the Census. Releasing any information is punishable by a $250,000 fine and up to five years in prison.
Who counts?
For many residences, the question of who should be counted is fairly straightforward -- the head of the household is the first, followed by each family member in age.
Some family members -- college students, perhaps -- who are away for several months should not be included in the head count. The Census Bureau has a team that will go into college dormitories and apartments to seek out those transitional residents.
If an extended family member is staying in the household and has been there for more than six months, that individual should be counted. The Census Bureau doesn't care about the circumstances of the living arrangements, Vargas said, they just want to make sure everyone is counted and counted accurately.
"That's one thing you see with the housing crisis -- entire families kind of co-habitating. There are extended families staying, immigrant families, friends, any number of situations. It is critical that if you live in that household you should be counted and you need to be counted, period," Vargas said.
Minnesota 2010 Census has set up a web site that answers a lot of the questions people might have about the upcoming Census, www.mn2010census.org. Farmington City Hall has been designated as a local census office, and information is available there by calling 651-280-6800.
The final numbers will be submitted to President Obama by the end of the year. Once those numbers are compiled, Vargas said, the state should have a better sense of whether a congressional seat was lost.


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a sound for the "Happy New Ears / Sonokids", please read the entire article here: http://www.freesound.org/blog/?p=16
part of pack of 27 (funny) sounds, shorter than 3 seconds.
you have no life you should get out more and get a girlfriend or sumin, so get off you ass and do sumin except for sitting down and making sounds all day, that counts for all of you!
Thanks for the sample, I used it in my track called Ramune Pop.
Listen to Ramune Pop
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- http://www.travisjmorgan.com/sound/
- http://www.travisjmorgan.com/blog/2009/01/17/ramune-pop/
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Here we go again.
Gary Bettman is "intrigued" by the possibility of bringing the National Hockey League back to Winnipeg one day and the fact that isn't slamming the door in the faces of Manitobans anymore is a positive development.
What should be "intriguing" to those who hope the NHL returns to Winnipeg sooner rather than later (if at all) were two things that came out of Bettman's annual state-of-the-union address.
First and foremost, Bettman referred to going back to Minnesota after the North Stars packed their bags and headed for warmer temperatures in Dallas.
Minnesota is one of the biggest success stories as it pertains to U.S. markets.
The Wild have sold out every single game at Excel Energy Center since entering the league and are home to a passionate fan base.
"When we had the chance to go back to Minnesota, we did. Because it made sense, the right ownership, the right building situation," Bettman said Monday. "The market was strong and vibrant."
Secondly, it's plain to see that Bettman has no interest in seeing another team in Ontario -- and that includes a temporary solution in Hamilton at Copps Coliseum or a permanent one in the Kitchener-Waterloo region where Jim Ballsillie hails from.
Ballsillie, the BlackBerry guru, is waiting to see if the NHL board of governors approve the sale of the Nashville Predators to him.
Even if the sale moves forward, there are numerous logistical road blocks for Ballsillie to overcome before relocating anywhere can become a reality.
But it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if the NHL is open to adding a seventh Canadian team and they're not exactly enamoured about the possibilities in Ontario, Winnipeg could leapfrog to the front of the line.
A salary cap expected to rise to $48 or 49 million next season wouldn't be seen as a positive, but Manitoba Moose governor Mark Chipman is on record as saying that Winnipeg wouldn't be at the ceiling of a salary cap anyway.
The more important factor to consider is that the Predators received roughly $12 million in revenue sharing last season, which could help make up some of the shortfall with only 15,003 seats at the MTS Centre.
Throw in a strong Canadian dollar and you've certainly increased your chances -- though it's probably still in the long-shot stage.
Chipman has declined comment on the issue of a potential return to Winnipeg this week, but you can be sure he'll be in contact with Ballsillie if and when the time is right.


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For the love of Venice
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here we will sit and let the sounds of music
Creep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
Become the touches of sweet harmony.
Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
There 's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st
But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins.
Such harmony is in immortal souls;
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.
Things don't always work out
Planning and execution are two different things. I wanted to showcase another Vignette but I felt the interior of my home just wasn't right for the story I planned. Or at least not just yet.
This was one of the photos I planned to show to help tell the story. This photo or perhaps the angle … or maybe its the all zombie shows I've been watching, that conveys the "something wicked comes this way". Of course, its not the emotion I was looking for to tell the story I planned. Of course! Instead, I did a semi-raw shot. I did clip and clean the photo a little. I posted a variant on my flickr stream showing the amount of editing I typically do on photos.
Stay tuned for that story…
Home for Christmas
This was my welcome screen today so I thought what better way bring back my raw photography. Plus I also get to show off how I decorated the adorable C88 offering called Frostbite Cottage from Trompe Loeil. I did change up a few of the landscaping details. Look closing for the letters in the snow and the cutest angel on the doorstep are from the Together for Sway event.
Morning Light
All alone
In this heat my thoughts
Start to wander
Thought I'd showcase the new Belleza skin with no editing (other than my crop and name). Well, I also needed to get back into doing more Raw Photos for my collection. Hopefully I'll have this windlight out soon for download too.
Collabor88 opens today
As the flood of folks enter Collabor88 today, I'd like to show a few of the finds in this round:
Since my prior post wasn't shown in the raw, I felt I needed to make up for it with this photo. Playing with shadows for these unedited photos is really quite interesting and very rewarding.
All items in this photo, except for the house, are all found at Collabor88 this month. For the details, check out the style card on LunaJubilee.com.
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Things To Do In Dallas Tonight: Mar. 26
As what's-her-face in Pride & Prejudice says, I do love a laugh.
The Dallas Comedy Festival, happily, starts tonight and runs through the weekend at the Dallas Comedy House in Deep Ellum. Tonight's early show is stand up, and features quite a few locals to kick everything off. Frankly, I'm hoping one of them is Anonymous Internet Denizen "Karl," who got his start right here on this blog yesterday afternoon with a hilarious joke about what women can do if they can't make it to an ambulatory surgical center for a safe and legal abortion. Ask my coworkers. I was practically rolling on the floor.
I'll probably be disappointed, though, and have to make do with this lesser line up of comedians from Dallas, Austin, New York City, and Seattle. Tickets to that show and the late night hour, something bonkers-sounding called Black Out Diaries, are just ten bucks each. Let's put it this way: there's no way Black Out Diaries, however this audience-interactive performance of true drunken stories turns out, is worse than The Carrie Diaries. Or to create some drunken stories of your own, drop by Black Swan Saloon at some point during the evening.
Over in the Arts District, we have the musicians formerly known as the Fort Worth String Quartet as the guests of the Dallas Chamber Symphony at Dallas City Performance Hall. The night will feature pieces by Beethoven and Schumann, as well as one composed by Dallas' own Christopher Theofanidis. Word of The Greek's new happy hour hit my inbox at 6:33 a.m., and that'll consist of free flat bread and $5 wells and glasses of wine from 4-6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. It is only Tuesday, yes? Yes.
For more to do tonight, including a student film festival at the Angelika, go here.


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DietPower is software that helps you balance your diet by giving regular feedback on your dietary and exercise habits.
First, tell DietPower how much you want to weigh and when. Every time you record your weight, the program designs a calorie budget for you. Select from the 21,000+ foods in the database or add your own, and DietPower shows the effect of these foods on your weight goals and your balance of 33 nutrients.
The program also estimates calorie expenditures for over a thousand kinds of activity, from accordion playing to yoga teaching. (And if the counts here are accurate, it's much more slimming to attend a yoga class than it is to teach one.) If you stay within your calorie budget and faithfully record your meals and exercise, DietPower can help you to reach your desired weight on your target date.
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Version 4.0 introduced Nutrition Quotient, which charts your consumption of various nutrients - fat, cholesterol, carbs, vitamins, and so forth - and tells you if your intake is ahead or behind. Since then, Smart Seconds has joined NQ as a way to improve your eating throughout the day.
If you've eaten anything today that fits in to the "some is good, more is better" profile for your goal, DietPower highlights it in bright green.
Less useful - but still beneficial - Helper Foods get a light green. Taken together, Smart Seconds and NQ give a good thumbnail of your day's successes and mistakes and lets you tip the balance in the right direction.
The fudge we ate today gets an NQ of -9; the skim milk gets a 17. No surprise that Smart Seconds tells me to drink more skim milk, and that another slice of wheat bread wouldn't hurt us.
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DietPower is easy to use from the get-go, but you'll save time overall - and get more out of this deep program - if you avail yourself of the tutorials sprinkled throughout. Education and discipline are the keys to weight loss and good nutrition, and DietPower helps in both categories.


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Huge Salaries of Dimona Nuclear Researchers Are State Secrets Too
Finance Ministry: Either we sees workers' payslips or we won't bargain over their demands for a wage hike.
In the most secret workplace in the country, the Negev Nuclear Research Center in Dimona, there are senior researchers whose salaries - for now - are between NIS 60,000 and NIS 70,000 a month. How many? Interesting question, since their salaries are as classified as their work itself. So classified that even the Finance Ministry's budget director, Ilan Levin, has not been able to sneak a peek at their salary stubs.
The research center's spokeswoman will only say that the average salary of center employees is about half the amounts stated above.
That could change, after the ultimatum served by Levin to the Defense Ministry, which pays the workers' salaries. He said either he sees their payslips or the ministry won't bargain over their demands for a wage hike. Although the monthly salaries of the researchers are already - apparently - at least NIS 60,000, they are asking for more. They will be getting a special increase for military employers of between 5% and 18%, but they also want an additional 24.2% increase.
Why 24.2%? Because that's the wage hike awarded to university teachers a year ago, and since the research-level employees at Dimona also do research, they want the salary hike. If they do, some of them could be getting as much as NIS 100,000 a month.
Since these researchers are bound by a collective bargaining agreement, they also are protected against dismissal.
If you thought that these kinds of public-sector - that means, paid for by us the taxpayers - salaries could only happen when the military establishment is in the picture, you're wrong.
TheMarker has obtained payslips from two employees of Bar-Ilan University. One, a senior member of the law school faculty, showed a salary of NIS 127,000 for June and a cumulative salary of NIS 667,000 for the entire year. That averages out to NIS 55,000 a month. The other, who works for the university's fund-raising department, earns NIS 46,000 a month.
Dozens of university administrators make between NIS 40,000 and NIS 70,000 a month - more than either the prime minister or the president of the Supreme Court, and far beyond what is allowed for the private sector.
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Beautiful macro!
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Our products soon became the industry standards. As the world's premier manufacturer of ultrasonic instruments for the detection of pregnancy and for measurement of backfat and loin thickness, Renco Corporation has been a leading innovator of technology.
Considering initial investment, cost of maintenance, cost of use, and return on investment, Renco products are the most cost effective instruments available and are in use in over 120 countries. The durability of our products and suitability to intended purpose, is attested to by the fact that our service records indicate many instruments made in the 1970's are still in active use.


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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday defended the separatist drive in the disputed Crimean Peninsula as in keeping with international law, as Ukraine's prime minister vowed not to relinquish "a single centimeter" of his country's territory.
Over the weekend, the Kremlin beefed up its military presence in Crimea, a part of Ukraine since 1954, and pro-Russia forces keep pushing for a vote in favor of reunification with Moscow in a referendum the local parliament has scheduled for next Sunday. (AP)


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SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – Sacramento police have confirmed a deadly murder-suicide outside the smud headquarters Tuesday night was motivated by a love triangle.
The Sacramento County Coroner's Office identified the victim as 62-year-old Jerome Votaw and the suspect as 73-year-old Robert Gully.
Police say Votaw was having an affair with Gully's estranged wife.
Linda Sherwood says her next-door neighbor's wife packed up her car and left for good.
"Maybe four, five months ago his wife left him and I had heard that she was with someone," she said.
Linda flipped on the news Tuesday night and thought, "I just wondered in my own mind, could it be?"
Her neighbor was usually home at night but not Tuesday night.
"His vehicle still isn't there, which is strange," she said.
And it never came back.
Police say the men were part of a model airplane club meeting in a rented conference room at the business and not employees of SMUD.
The shooting happened around 7:20 p.m., at SMUD's campus at 6210 S Street.
Gully apparently got into an argument with his estranged wife, Glenda Gully and Votaw in the parking lot of the building. At some point, Gully pulled out a gun and shot Votaw, according to police.
"They were friends, longtime friends. It's a tragedy," said Steve Brown, who knew both men from flying model planes with them. "Some people just aren't as stable as the rest of us."
Gully then chased and shot at his wife n as she ran into the lobby of the SMUD building, according to police. She was not hit. Gully then returned to the parking lot where he fatally shot himself.
Sherwood says the Gully was mired in depression ever since his wife left.
"For a long time he didn't go out," she said. "He'd be home, his sons would come over, people would bring him groceries. He'd just begun going out recently."
Detectives are looking for what may have sent the shooter over the edge.


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Facing stiff resistance from the Federal Trade Commission, the Vatican and community leaders, Mercy Health has abandoned its efforts to sell its hospital in Hot Springs, Ark., to a for-profit health system. The announcement, issued Thursday by Chesterfield-based Mercy Health and Franklin, Tenn.-based Capella Health Care Inc., comes after a lengthy FTC investigation and several months of talks with Catholic officials. Mercy's planned sale, which was subject to approvals by the FTC and the Vatican, became caught in a crucible of health care politics, antitrust law and religious doctrine.


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Last post Mar 06, 2011 09:09 PM by Decker Dong - MSFT
Mar 05, 2011 01:54 PM|JuJuCode|LINK
I am trying to return all records from a table using a Linq strongly typed datacontext. I want this in its own dll and accessible via a public method. I am basing this on the following MSDN example: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb399375.aspx#Y224
I get no intellisense for appt in the Linq code and I also get a compile error for Table<Appointments>: The type or namespace name 'Appointments' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Here is my code:
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Data.Linq; using System.Data; using System.Data.Linq.Mapping; namespace bioLinq { public class bioAppointments { String _strConnString = "Data Source=local; Initial Catalog=MyDatabase; User Id=MyUser; Password=MyPassword;"; public List<Appointment> getAllAppointments() { DataContext dc = new DataContext(_strConnString); // Get a typed table to run queries. Table<Appointments> myAppointments = dc.GetTable<Appointments>(); //BookItOnline dc = new BookItOnline(_strConnString); var query = from appt in dc.myAppointments select new Appointment { AppointmentId = appt.AppointmentId, StartDate = appt.StartDate, EndDate = appt.EndDate, StartTime = appt.StartTime, EndTime = appt.EndTime, Notes = appt.Notes, }; return query.ToList(); } public partial class BookItOnline : DataContext { public Table<Appointments> myAppointments; public BookItOnline(string connection) : base(connection) { } } public class Appointment { public int AppointmentId { get; set; } public DateTime StartDate { get; set; } public DateTime EndDate { get; set; } public DateTime StartTime { get; set; } public DateTime EndTime { get; set; } public String Notes { get; set; } } } }
Mar 05, 2011 03:48 PM|coredev|LINK
How have you made your mapping to the database, with a dbml file or in another way? My guess is that it is that which is the problem. If you haven't already read this, here is a link to how to do it http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb546174.aspx
Best regards
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Mar 06, 2011 09:09 PM|decker dong - msft|LINK
Please confirm that you've really a linq file with a model class called "Appointments" first:)


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Flexible Labour, Firm Performance and the Dutch Job Creation Miracle
Unlike internal ('functional') forms of flexibility of labour, external ('numerical') forms of flexibility (i.e. high shares of people on temporary contract or a high turnover of personnel) yield substantial savings on a firm's wage bill. Savings on wage bills lead to higher job growth, but do not translate into higher sales growth. Externally flexible labour appears to be related to lower labour productivity growth, the effects being different for innovating vs non-innovating firms. We discuss these findings from firm-level and worker-level data against the background of the Dutch job creation miracle during the 1980s and 1990s. Modest wage increases and flexibilization of labour markets may indeed create lots of jobs. However, this is likely to happen at the expense of labour productivity growth, raising serious doubts about the long-run sustainability of a low-productivity-high-employment growth path.
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Napoleon Amber durum wheat.
Humphreys, D.G., Townley-Smith, T.F., Leisle, D., McCallum, B.D., Gaudet, D.A., Gilbert, J., and Menzies, J.G. (2010). "Napoleon Amber durum wheat.", Canadian Journal of Plant Science, 90(6), pp. 863-867. doi : 10.4141/CJPS10024 Access to full text
Napoleon is an amber durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. var. durum) that meets the end-use quality specifications of the Canada Western Amber Durum wheat class. Napoleon was evaluated in the Durum Cooperative Test in 1996, 1997 and 1998 as DT484. Overall, Napoleon had significantly higher grain yield than all checks except AC Avonlea, and Napoleon had higher grain yields in the Black soil zone compared with the Brown soil zone. Napoleon had maturity similar to AC Morse and AC Avonlea, but was 1 d earlier maturing than Kyle and 2 d later maturing than Hercules. Napoleon was similar to AC Avonlea in height, but was significantly taller than AC Morse, and significantly shorter than Kyle and Hercules. Napoleon had lower lodging scores than Hercules and Kyle, but had higher lodging scores than AC Avonlea and AC Morse. Napoleon is resistant to leaf rust, stem rust, and common bunt, and moderately susceptible to loose smut, leaf spot and Fusarium head blight. Napoleon is the first low cadmium durum cultivar registered in Canada.
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WWF and Sanlam water partnership lauded at this year's M&G Greening the Future Awards
Sanlam and WWF also became the first winners of the inaugural Sudley Adams Memorial Award. This Award has been introduced this in honour of Sudley Adams, the Mail & Guardian's Brand Manager and Convenor of the awards for the past decade who passed in May 2012. According to the Mail & Guardian, the judges considered all the entries for this special Award and decided the one that best embodied Sudley's forward-thinking vision and team spirit was the WWF Sanlam Living Waters Partnership.
Fiona Macleod, editor of the M&G Greening the Future supplement, said the partnership was an exemplary model for other conservation initiatives. "Sanlam's continued support for WWF SA's water programmes has been endorsed through the buy-in of other companies. The partnership presents win-win solutions for some of South Africa's most pressing natural resources problems, and as such is a deserving winner of Greening the Future's two top awards."


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yeah quintessential study music
kane, have you heard gavin bryars' "jesus' blood never failed me yet"? it was released on a disc from
brian eno's Obscure Disk label, i'm listening to it right now it's such love
i haven't but i'll look into it
have you heard anything by john cage, morton feldman or karlheinz stockhausen? pretty sure you'd like all 3
big fan of the first and last and even though i've heard extensively about him i haven't heard any feldman pieces. so will get on that
Album Rating: 5.0doesn't stockhaausen's stuff sound mostly like a parade of robot dicks though
Album Rating: 4.0So simple so exact so relaxing. i really enjoy this album i gotta listen to his other works
Album Rating: 4.5This may be the perfect album to listen to with rainymood.com in the background
love 1/1. havent much listened to the rest yet though.
Album Rating: 5.02/1 is my shit
Album Rating: 5.0best anything ever
Album Rating: 4.5so tempted to 5 this
SO close
Omg airportz
so relaxing
Digging: NoMeansNo - Wrong
so much airplane
Album Rating: 4.5so much airplane [2]
Album Rating: 3.5prefer another green world but m/
It actually is pretty revolutionary.
I think it's better to use as background music as well, it's kind of a soundtrack for whatever you're doing, it makes little things you may be doing mean a lot more.
Album Rating: 2.5zzzcore
Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound OffWell it is time to sleep, guess I'll give this my first listen.
Bands: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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The more you sit, the shorter your life span -Study
Too much time sitting and watching TV is taking years off your life expectancy, a study says. Researchers arrived at the conclusion from the results of five studies that explored the effects on nearly 167,000 people of sitting and watching television.
Peter Katzmarzyk, the study's lead author and a professor at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, La., said "…the study doesn't establish a direct cause-and-effect relationship between sitting, TV watching and death. But the evidence suggesting an association between shortened lives and sedentary activities, like TV watching and driving, is piling up"
There also seems to be something about sitting itself that is bad for one's health. Studies in both animals and humans have found that sitting leads to changes in resting glucose levels and blood pressure, and that lots of sitting bumps up levels of certain biomarkers of cardiovascular disease and cancer.
"The take-home message is clear: we may not know exactly why sitting is bad for you, but if you reduce the amount of time spent sitting, there are real health benefits," the researchers said.


text: Video News: United States Sam Taylor-Johnson to direct Fifty Shades of Grey movie PLEASE NOTE THIS EDIT CONTAINS MATERIAL WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY 4:3 Spanking, sex and submissives sellout story "Fifty Shades of Grey" steps closer to its silver screen incarnation. It's now got a director. Sam Taylor-Johnson has been handed the reins of the erotic adaptation of the EL James novel that took the world by storm. Taylor-Johnson most recently directed "Nowhere Boy" in 2009 about John Lennon's childhood in Liverpool. The Fifty Shades story centres on the sexual relationship between a mysterious businessman and a college student. The British media dubbed it "Mummy Porn", but the book broke records. The Fifty Shades trilogy has sold more than 70 million books and e-books worldwide, according to James' official website. Ever since its publication two years ago the showbiz world has been consumed with speculation over who would play its main characters in the movie. Talk of Taylor-Johnson's young husband Aaron playing the main © DailyMotion - Thursday, June 20, 2013


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The recipients of the Sheridan Police Protection Association Kaleigh Rose Ford Memorial Scholarships were, from left to right: Gabe Dahmke, Maria Owen and Don Nielsen Jr. The scholarships were presented on May 21, 2012 by PPA member Officer Dan White at an award ceremony held at Sheridan High School. Each scholarship was in the amount of $500.00. The scholarship funds are donated by police officers who are members of the PPA. (Photo Courtesy of Dan White)


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Fair poll: Support for outdoors, arts amendment
Nearly 50 percent of those participating in the 2008 House of Representatives State Fair Poll support raising the state's sales tax by three-eighths of 1 percent with the money dedicated to the environment and arts.
During the 12-day run of the Minnesota State Fair, 7,465 fairgoers took the poll conducted by nonpartisan House Public Information Services.
It was an informal, unscientific survey on issues discussed in prior legislative sessions and may again be topics of discussion.
Voters will be asked the dedicated funding question at the Nov. 4 election. While 42.9 percent of fair voters oppose the measure, 8 percent were undecided or had no opinion. Not voting for the question at the General Election will count as a "no" vote.
Sportsmen and environmental advocates have pushed for dedicated funding for many years, with the original plan being to dedicate a portion of the existing sales tax. In the 2007-08 biennium, the plan evolved into one that would raise the sales tax, and include funding for clean water, parks and trails, and the arts. Opponents have wanted to keep the original proposal and are opposed to the idea of constitutionally dedicated funding.
Another environmental question found that 76 percent of voters support requiring grocers and large retailers who use plastic carryout bags to make in-store bag recycling available.
With the state looking at a potential multi-billion dollar deficit next fiscal year, voters narrowly support budget cuts as opposed to tax increases, 46.5 percent to 43 percent. However, 84.6 percent of voters do not want to have clothing subject to sales tax.
Just over 7,000 votes were cast on whether law enforcement should be able to stop a motorist solely for not wearing a seat belt. By five votes, fairgoers believe they should.
Thirty more people voted "yes" instead of "no" when asked if public school students should be required to recite the Pledge of Allegiance each day.
Two-thirds of polltakers said voters should be required to show a picture identification at the polls; 62.1 percent believe undergraduate students at a state college or university should have their tuition locked in so it cannot increase during a four-year period; 61 percent said the state's nuclear power plant construction moratorium should be lifted; and 60 percent believe lawn care companies and other commercial applicators should post 48-hour advance warnings before spraying city yards or farm fields with weed killers or other pesticides.
Nearly 51 percent of polltakers say the state should set a maximum number of patients a nurse can care for during a shift, and 40.6 percent believe the state should offer an investment tax credit for bioscience business investments. However, 30.2 percent were undecided on the issue.
And, finally, 35.2 percent of polltakers said ice hockey should be designated the state sport, 6.9 percent more than fishing. But many fairgoers commented that the Legislature should not waste time on such "trivial" matters. More than 600 people did not vote on the question.
Here's a look at the questions and results. All percentages are rounded to the nearest one-tenth. Totals are for those that actually voted on the question.
1. This November, voters will be asked to vote for a three-eighths of 1 percent sales tax increase with the money dedicated for the environment and the arts. Do you support this?
Yes 49.0 percent (3,640)
No 42.9 percent (3,188)
Undecided/No Opinion 8.0 percent (595)
2. Should voters be required to show a picture ID before casting their ballot?
Yes 67.0 percent (4,986)
No 27.1 percent (2,017)
Undecided/No Opinion 5.8 percent (432)
3. A motorist can now only be cited for failure to wear a seat belt if they are stopped for another infraction. Should law enforcement be permitted to stop someone solely for not wearing a seat belt?
Yes 47.1 percent (3,504)
No 47.0 percent (3,499)
Undecided/No Opinion 5.8 percent (431)
4. Should the state's 14-year moratorium on nuclear power plant construction be lifted so new facilities can be considered to help meet the state's electricity needs?
Yes 61.0 percent (4,511)
No 26.4 percent (1,952)
Undecided/No Opinion 12.6 percent (935)
5. Clothing sold in the state is not subject to sales tax. Should it be?
Yes 11.6 percent (864)
No 84.6 percent (6,285)
Undecided/No Opinion 3.7 percent (276)
6. Should public school students be required to say the Pledge of Allegiance each day?
Yes 46.3 percent (3,436)
No 45.9 percent (3,406)
Undecided/No Opinion 7.8 percent (578)
7. The state is expected to face a deficit in excess of $1 billion next fiscal year. Do you generally support budget cuts as opposed to increasing certain taxes in times of economic distress?
Yes 46.5 percent (3,444)
No 43.0 percent (3,188)
Undecided/No Opinion 10.4 percent (773)
8. Should undergraduate students at a state college or university have their tuition locked in so that any semester during a four-year period it could not exceed the price the student was charged during their first semester?
Yes 62.1 percent (4,604)
No 26.7 percent (1,981)
Undecided/No Opinion 11.1 percent (826)
9. Should grocers and large retailers who use plastic carryout bags be required to make in-store bag recycling available?
Yes 76.0 percent (5,635)
No 19.7 percent (1,462)
Undecided/No Opinion 4.3 percent (323)
10. Hospitals are permitted to set staffing levels for registered nurses. Should the Legislature set a maximum number of patients a nurse can care for during a shift?
Yes 50.8 percent (3,770)
No 36.8 percent (2,725)
Undecided/No Opinion 12.4 percent (918)
11. Should a 25-percent investment tax credit be made available for investments in qualifying new bioscience business ventures?
Yes 40.6 percent (2,999)
No 29.0 percent (2,145)
Undecided/No Opinion 30.3 percent (2,243)
12. Should lawn care companies and other commercial applicators be required to post 48-hour advance warnings before spraying city yards or farm fields with weed killers or other pesticides?
Yes 60.0 percent (4,445)
No 29.3 percent (2,177)
Undecided/No Opinion 10.7 percent (797)
13. What should be the state sport?
Fishing 28.3 percent (1,931)
Football 4.6 percent (316)
Golf 2.2 percent (150)
Hunting 3.6 percent (245)
Ice hockey 35.2 percent (2,403)
Water skiing 3.2 percent (218)
Other 22.9 percent (1,564)


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Questar Pipeline Company
First Revised Volume No. 1
Contents / Previous / Next / Main Tariff Index
Effective Date: 07/25/2005, Docket: RP05-401-002, Status: Effective
Sub. Fifth Revised Sheet No. 31 Sub. Fifth Revised Sheet No. 31 : Effective
Superseding: Fifth Revised Sheet No. 31
the currently effective Statement of Rates, as adjusted from time to time.
The charges shall include the following:
(a) Usage Charge. Shipper shall pay the appropriate usage charge
for all gas nominated by shipper and scheduled by Questar for delivery. The
usage charge will be stated in the transportation service agreement and shall
be no more than the maximum nor less than the minimum rate specified in the
Statement of Rates.
(b) Fuel Reimbursement. Shipper shall reimburse Questar for fuel
use and lost-and-unaccounted-for gas in kind according to § 12.15 of the
General Terms and Conditions and the Statement of Rates.
(c) Additional Facility Charge. Any charge for additional
facilities necessary to provide transportation service to shipper will be
determined according to §§ 15 and 18 of the General Terms and Conditions of
Part 1.
(d) Annual Charge Adjustment. The annual charge adjustment
listed on the Statement of Rates shall apply to all quantities of gas
transported for shipper under this rate schedule.
(e) Cashout Charges. An imbalance charge will be assessed
according to § 12 of the General Terms and Conditions.
(f) Imbalance Trading Fee. Shipper shall pay Questar a fee as
listed on the Statement of Rates for any imbalance trades that are actively
marketed and facilitated by Questar.


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Tackling the youth "knowledge deficit" about HIV
Only 33 per cent of young men and 20 per cent of young women in developing countries have the necessary knowledge of HIV to protect themselves, according to a 2011 UN report.
This "knowledge deficit" is amplified in East and Southern Africa, where the risk of HIV infection is greatest. Only 7% of 13- to 14-year old pupils there have desired levels of knowledge on HIV (SACMEQ 2007).
In 2009, UNESCO and partners published the International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education to provide schools, teachers and health educators with the tools to develop and carry out comprehensive sexuality education programmes. There is a pressing need to scale up its implementation to ensure that young people have the knowledge and capacity to protect themselves from STIs and HIV, and lead a healthy sexual life.
To that end, UNESCO is convening an International Technical Consultation on Scaling up Sexuality Education at its headquarters from 13-15 March. The consultation will bring together more than 40 experts and key stakeholders involved in the development and implementation of sexuality education programmes, from ministry representatives to young people from four different organizations. The conclusions will form the basis of a publication on how to achieve sexuality education on a larger scale.
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Great Geek Gear Find: Space Invader Wall Decals
Thanks to TeamSugar user LillyRose who added these super fun space invader wall decals to the Geek Gear bookmark! Perfect for video game lovers, these decals by Bilk come in a pack of eight assorted colors or plain white. Totally geeky but for some reason they look geek chic on this plain wall with ivory furniture. They'd definitely add some flair to a game room!
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That man was Chris Carmouche.
In his first national interview, this engineer-extraordinaire explains how he's come from stumbling upon a Grammy as an intern at Stankonia Studios for Speakerboxxx/The Love Below—the 2003 "Album Of The Year" that has gone on to sell over 15 million copies —to becoming the A&R for Purple Ribbon Entertainment and associate producer of one of the year's most critically-acclaimed albums alongside one of his idols.
Whether you dig the ATLiens or just music in general, you'll enjoy hearing how the man known to most as simply "Mouche" can take turn songs into hits and goals into reality, while barely saying a word.
TSS: Mouche, whenever I do an interview, I make sure to do my homework. But, when researching you, I couldn't turn up too much information. Yet, somehow you've managed to align yourself next to one of the most successful artists of our generation in Big Boi. I'm curious as to what steps you've taken to earn accolades like A&R of Purple Ribbon Entertainment and associate producer of one of the most well-reviewed albums of the year in Sir Lucious Left Foot?
Chris Carmouche: Well, really it took…shit it took a lot of hard work, perseverance and a damn good ear. Just knowing when to listen, when to step forward and when to take advantage of an opportunity when presented. My background has always been in music, since my early years in junior high and high school, back in the Louisiana. I went from classical piano to playing drums in the band. I was a drum major. I went to college at Georgia State and entered the school of music, playing classical piano. So in doing so, I took their music program and it encompassed all aspects of the game. I got my degree in recording.
After going through that program, I just got this internship at Stankonia Records and worked hard; studied. I've always been an artist and producer at heart and being around all the artists—you know it leads into producing. So, I peeped out a lot of game. I stayed in the studio nonstop. If they needed something, I was there to get it for them. Whenever a session was ready to go, I was ready to do it. Lil' Jon. David Banner. At that time…Akon. All them folks was coming in.
Lil' Jon was a huge influence in how I learned to arrange records and just learn the business and be more time efficient. Because Jon works around the clock himself. There was a lot of pressure put on me to record him and the musicians that he worked with and when he would leave, I would be stuck with the musicians. So when he came in the following day, I would already have it arranged in song mode, with all of the musicianship that had went on edited up.
TSS: That's a task.
Chris Carmouche: Yeah it is, and it helped me become quick on my toes and how to get a song in a format—quickly. I worked with him for a good amount of years, his whole BME camp and when he was really jumping off during his prime. Like around the [Crunk Juice] album. I worked on a lot of records with him, recording and producing records and we had a factory. John Fry would mix them, and I moved onto projects with Jon.
I soaked up game working on their projects, especially Outkast's. I honed in a lot my skills following in their steps and studying how they made music. I became a sponge and, slowly, I gained their trust. Next thing you know, I'm in sessions with the lead engineer at Stankonia [Studios], doing a lot work, and eventually find myself working with Big [Boi] over the years. We've built a good relationship over the eight years I've been here at Stankonia. Especially within that time during Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, I worked on the latter half of that.
As an intern, I actually simultaneously made my own album at Stankonia. I had a partner and we called it Mouche and Drough. It was our last names. They still kind of clown me about it today, but it was a good album. I went from an intern to an assistant engineer during Speakerboxxx, asking favors. Can you play guitars or do vocals on my album? My whole development…Speakerboxxx/The Love Below was being used as the blueprint. Now, it's one of the ways of how I was able to know how to make an album.
TSS: And how to craft song concepts and such?
Chris Carmouche: Exactly. I don't think I could've gotten a better learning experience where an album of the year was being made. I got a Grammy for that album, as an engineer. I slid in on as a rookie on a NBA championship team. John Fry was my coach, my mentor…and I asked him everything.
Am I giving too long an answer? Too much of a long answer?
TSS: No! Not at all, man. The question I had in itself was long and wide-open-ended, and that was exactly the type of answer I was looking for. To see how someone I believe to be in a high-profile position went from point A to point B – while maintaining such a low profile is very interesting to us, especially seeing you took a route not everyone would take with your music studies in college. It sounds like the musical route you took facilitated you towards the business end of the industry, giving you an all-around perspective. Would you say that's a fair assumption?
Chris Carmouche: I would say that's a fair assumption. But to add to that, let me give brief synopsis of my studies. It was a music degree, but the main focus was in engineering. But I had to enter the school of music for playing piano, so the course kind of took me full circle, especially when I learned a little bit about the business. I was able to grab the musical part and study the technical part. So, when I took the internship during Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, I didn't – you know – my role was to shut the fuck up…and keep listening.
Because, a lot of people would talk themselves out of a position. So, I let my actions speak and not my words. And a lot of people know that about me, that I don't talk that much. But, Big was a guy that could always pick characters out, and I think he felt comfortable working with me, because I've worked at Stankonia since '02 as a studio engineer.
We really started hitting it off when we did the Idlewild project. I worked a good deal on that one and we built a good relationship. Then, when it came time for his album…I was kind of like…well, "let's just see what happens." I wasn't expecting anything. Although I know most aspects of making a record, I just approach it however the artist wants to approach it.
We went into it by recording.
"Back Up Plan" was the first song we recorded, but ironically it's the last song on his album. We started doing that record with just me recording, then mixing…and he started trusting my mixing judgment. Then, I started suggesting instruments and people to bring in on records. It got to the point where we developed a…type of…telepathy type of relationship, where we didn't even have to talk too much and we already knew what needed to be done. We discussed it, and he gave me freedom to do whatever I wanted on the record. "We'll try it out, see how they work."
We paired off and started suggesting people to get the records like B.o.B., or my homeboy Bosko, who did the talkbox. I brought them to Big, and "Night Night" was formed. We had done that record like two years ago, before he had even turned his name to Bobby Ray. I knew at the time that he was a great artist and that was when people were comparing him to Outkast. I really thought it was more of a compliment, almost a fresh start to keep the legacy going. So, I thought it would be cool to get him on the album and reached out to his manager—who I've known since the BME days when I was working with Lil Jon—and we into the studio and him and Playboy Tre knocked it out. Again, one of many ways I got Big to realize I was more than just engineering. He saw I could mix, I could A&R and whenever an opportunity presented itself, I took it.
TSS: It sounds like you can really facilitate a quality track into a finished product, because you know all the aspects.
Chris Carmouche: Right. And, on top of that, I also do my studies. I'm a huge fan of Outkast and the music, so [working with them] was easy since I was already familiar with the music. Of course, Outkast is the greatest rap group of all time, so it was a great experience and since I had soaked so much game earlier on—and that Big liked my work, it made it easy because I knew what he wanted.
TSS: Well, the bond certainly shows. Your "telepathy" comment is perfect, because the album sounds like that was the mentality the creators of this project had. It's very cohesive.
Chris Carmouche: Yeah, man. Big and I have probably collectively, I mean – shit…I'm not lying when I say that in the past 2-3 years since we started this shit, we probably listened to this album about 5,000 times or something. And that was almost an indication that we had a great album, because time and time we will comment to each other, man, I've heard this so many times and I'm not tired of this shit. We'll give honest assessments like that, and that made us feel good about our product, to present to people. No matter what Big was going through at. the time, we knew the product was solid. And that's what mattered to us most, was that fans and listeners wouldn't be disappointed. A lot of blood, sweat and tears went into it.
TSS: I know it. The album has been making the rounds in the media—for years. People have known. People have been anticipating. And for you guys to deliver on such a high note, it speaks highly of your working relationship.
Why don't you explain a few of the specific songs that stood out from that album, and give some insight on to how they made the rotation.
Chris Carmouche: Well, actually, one of the most fun songs to work on was "You Ain't No DJ."
TSS: Wasn't that one of the last songs you guys recorded? I thought I read that somewhere.
Chris Carmouche: Yeah. In true Outkast form, they never stop working and go 'til the final second. This was no exception. It was a record that Dré (3000) handed Big out of many beats. We listened to that beat CD in a big room together—Big, Dré and I—at his house – and that beat came on, and we were like, "Wow, that's a record." So, we came back into the studio and Big…well…he takes his time to write. He says it in his records. He really gives a 100% and you may not even get a verse back from him in a day's time. It marinates. So, while Big's working on his verse, Yelawolf comes in and takes the beat. He loves it. He goes off in his own world. We don't see him for like…a week or two weeks go by, then he comes back with a looooong-ass 32-bar verse. And we like "Okay."
TSS: (Laughs)
Chris Carmouche: We ain't about to put no 32-bar-verse on this song. (laughs) We gon' have to chop this up. Basically, what we did was make a 16, plus eight. We gave him one verse and then he did the eight bars on the third verse. It was the same verse, just the verse 24 bars of it.
TSS: That's interesting. At this point, I've heard that song at least 20 times and was always impressed by how you capitalized on using him again after the chorus. The "party in poverty" line just kicks off perfect from the hook and doesn't sound like he cut it at all.
Chris Carmouche: Nope, not at all. He came in and we redid the vocals, but that's also one of the things I was doing with Big on this album, is suggesting the song structure. Plus, I like hearing Big go back in fourth with somebody. He's a competitor and I like hearing that part, because it's really where he shines, when he's in fightin' mode. Dré had actually had a part for it. But that was one we knew couldn't get cleared. Dré's part, he was kind of experimenting on some things, but we didn't have a hook. We kept searching for a hook, but Dré didn't have a hook, he had somewhat of a verse. And we like, 'damn,' we not gonna' get this cleared. Then, it's damn near midnight and we still don't have a hook. It's witching hour. I'm driving back and fourth from Dré's house to the studio to grab instrumentation files. First, because I had to convert the files at his house, mix the record and then go back to the studio to Dré's so he could hear it. We still have no hook. It's now three or four in the morning and I've got a flight to catch for mastering.
So, finally, when Dré hears how the song is, he says, 'Shit, I think I got the hook.' So, he went in and demo-ed his vocals, we agreed that it was dope and then brought it back to the studio for Big. He dug it…modified it a bit, then we put Big's vocals on it, added some scratches and shit, put it into the final mix. That's it.
TSS: So, you got it done that night?
Chris Carmouche: We got it done that damn morning.
TSS: (Laughs) It sounds like the sun was coming up during that final mix down.
Mouche: Oh, man…it was amazing. Amazing. It's definitely one of Big and I's favorite records. We get excited every time it comes on. That was a good moment.
TSS: How about, the intro, "Feel Me." It's a great musical intro, that really sets the tone for the album. Tell us about that cut.
Chris Carmouche: Well, working on E-40's album is when I met Bosko, who did Talk-Box that and on "Tell Me When To Go." I actually recorded that whole album [My Ghetto Report
Card]. So, I was introduced to Bosko, who's from E-40's camp and I told Big, who was working on "Feel Me" at the time. I remember we were working this weird little noise for that record, and I told Big I was going to reach out to my boy who did Talk-Box. At that time, Auto-Tune was just poppin' off and people didn't know the difference between a Talk-Box and Auto-Tune.
TSS: A lot.
Chris Carmouche: Exactly. And so I told Big: "We'll try it and if it works, cool. If doesn't, fuck it." So, I called Bosko that morning, and I don't even think Big was in the studio at that particular time and it was something I was just going to try and say like "Bosko, we're just gonna give it a shot. If it works, it works." So, on that part on "Feel Me," the hook was already there and I coached Bosko into how I wanted it to sound, vocally produced it and the results came out great. And we played it for Big, and he knew instantly. Like "Okay, I know what's up. I'm fucking with this" and that added to Big's trust in my judgment call.
TSS: He's on "Shutterbug" too, isn't he?
Chris Carmouche: Yeah, Bosko's on "Shutterbug" too, which is another example of when Big and I got into that telepathy mode where our mind-reading skills started enhancing. We both immediately thought of Bosko. So I called him, and I had originally had my own idea for him to repeat what was going on in the hook. But, when he got to the studio, the first thing Big wanted him to do was, (imitates main melody in "Shutterbug")…"bub-bub bub-bub-bub bub-bub-bub-bum," and I was like, "Oh shit!" (Laughs) So, that's kind of an example of how our ideas have formed a marriage. We've gotten on the same wavelength and paired off of each other's energy. We can blend our ideas and take them to another level. We accept our roles and the feedback, and that's kind of how that song came to life. Bosko was the sprinkles on top of it.
And that's where we got to the point of embellishment on the album, which brings me to "Fo Yo Sorrows." The record was done by Organized Noize and when he got the vocal from George Clinton and well, George Clinton is George Clinton. He's gonna break down the funk and you take it how you take it.
TSS: Of course.
Chris Carmouche: So, I was going over the arrangement with Big and at the time the vocals was…the vocals was…(Laughs!!!) they needed some special attention. He definitely gave us the ideas, but it just needed some editing. I said: "We should just put him in the front, some stuff in the back and hopefully he'll have a bridge." That's originally what we had told George we had wanted…some spoken word and a bridge.
He sent it back to us and I had gotten it to make make sense, and it fell into place by putting it in the front with the bridge, where he sings, "Don't want no girlfriend." We put that twice again at the end. At the time it was just nothing, a fade out, but I was telling Ray Murray [from] Organized Noize, "I got an idea for this ending." Ray Murray was another person that trusted the judgments I was making and he was being supportive with expressing ideas. He knew that's how Big works, he knows…"hey it works or hey it doesn't." So, I tried it. I went into the studio, messed with the vocals and tried to get him to sound like that guy from the 80s, in those Pepsi commercials, where he had the stutters in his vocal…where it sounded like he was in a computer box. I wanted George Clinton to sound like that—stuck in the future and trying to break out. And a lot of folks really liked that part of the song. And, again, that—amongst other things, helped Big solidify my judgment calls.
TSS: Wasn't that one of the earlier songs recorded for the album?
Chris Carmouche: Yeah, actually it was. It went through a lot stages. It was one of two records that had Sam Chris' vocals on it. "The Train, Pt. 2 (Sir Lucious Saves the Day)" and "Fo Yo Sorrows."
TSS: Ok, now let's talk about that one, "The Train Pt 2."
When I first heard it, I was kind of caught off guard about the fact Big's voice was pitched higher. I know it's been somewhat of a staple to experiment with vocals, but I didn't expect it. However, the more and more I listen, it's becoming my favorite song on the album. It goes back to what you said earlier, about Big's lyrics and how they take him a good amount of time. You can totally tell that's the case with this song, because it's like….it's like decrypting a code, man. But, once you crack it, you can tell that what he's saying is very thought-provoking and to me, the theme seems to be something along the lines of "be true to yourself and set a proper example with the opportunities you're given." Would you say that's a fair assumption?
Mouche: Yeah, I'd say that's a great assumption. But, first of all, we definitely go all over the place with the vocals. We don't have any problems changing the form, based on what the rhythm is. We vocal produced Big. Well, I mean…shit, how you gonna vocal produce someone who's been in the game for so many years. I just added a second ear and made sure we kept everyone tentative. He took control of it. And this was definitely one of those records where he felt like he had something to say, to let out. It was exactly like you said, for people stay to true to themselves. The whole record was actually like that. Like on "General Patton," towards the end, where Big Rube come in and say, "People stop lying. You got pretenders to the throne." It's kind of like Outkast's music, in general, keeping that sense of consciousness, recognizing who you are as an individual and taking advantage of your life. Records like that, I always enjoy. "The Train" was a perfect fit towards the end [of the album] because I think that's when you want to hear a record with a message. But, it's cool. It's a real cool record.
TSS: Yeah, I dig how you decided to let the beat ride out for about an extra minute and a half or so, too.
Mouche: Yeah. Yeah. That part…(pauses)…some of these things you automatically know what's going to happen, and other times you just let the music dictate. More than likely, we just let the song dictate how it goes. Organized Noize put they foot in it, you know?
TSS: Right.
Chris Carmouche: Ray [Rayond Murray of Organized Noize] bought us in the beat with Sam Chris on the hook, and it was a great guideline for us to follow. Big, of course, put his vocals on it and took it to another level and when it got to the end….we had already started embellishing the song with a lot of instruments and of overdubs. We let the musicians in the studio just do their thing and it felt good, so we kept it that way. We edited it, broke it down a little bit to make it feel right. We added the horns and made it something you can really chill to, lay back and smoke to. It was a good ride out. Because, you know, not many artists give their listeners that ear candy where you can take it in and vibe. This was one of those moments. That's a record where you sit back and take it to the cosmos.
TSS: It definitely is one of the moments, and a well placed one, too, considering the depth of the song. It gives the listeners' time to process what they've just heard. The next question I've got is a kind of tough one. Yesterday I ran across an article online where Big Boi was speaking on a few albums in the works. One is his second album, Daddy Fat Sax, and also a proposed, new Outkast album that's supposed to drop around 2040.
Chris Carmouche: (Laughs)
TSS: What can you tell me about those albums without losing your job?
Mouche: Ahhh! Well…Big has taken it upon himself to become his own spokesperson, so I'll let him deal with that one. I'll follow his lead. I do know that they're always thinking about music. They're always coming up with ideas. To give you a little insight onto "Night Night," that record was part of their arsenal since 2004. It's one those records that sits around in infant stages and they always have a plethora of music on hand. And, at any moment they can turn it up and say, "OK, we can give the world this."
TSS: I remember reading in an interview where "Hey Ya" was done three years before it came out.
Chris Carmouche: Right. Right, man. And, truthfully, for this album to sit for so long and still have a time in a still, it's hard to do. There aren't too many lyrics or much music that dates it. It gives you a perspective as far as his life and as far as the time. Years ahead, people will go back to this album and it will sound as fresh as any other of their albums. For instance, I can always go back to Aquimini, Stankonia or ATLiens and they're just as fresh as the first day I listened to it. This is no exception.
But, to get back to your other question, naw…(Laughs)…I can't give you any information.
TSS: (Laughs) I figured as much. You know I gotta' ask, though.
Chris Carmouche: They're always working, man.


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Donald E. "Don" Walker, 78, of Keota, died Monday, Oct. 15, 2012, at his residence after a decline in health.
Celebration of life services will be at 1:30 p.m., Sunday, Oct. 21, at the Prairie Flower Baptist Church in Washington with the Rev. Don Collings and the Rev. Tim Hadley officiating. Visitation will begin at noon Saturday at the Jones & Eden Funeral Home in Washington, where the family will receive friends from 4 until 7 p.m. Private family burial will take place at the Competine Cemetery near Farson at a later date. Memorials have been established for Prairie Flower Baptist Church or the Keota First Responders.


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Look of the Day: Effortlessly Put Together
I commend Littlemissme for planning this effortlessly put together ensemble on a weekday; in this day and age it's becoming too easy to throw on a pair of jeans and a hoodie, and run out the door looking like you just rolled out of bed. I especially love that the green peacoat is cropped because if it were a bit longer, it might look outdated. I also admire how Littlemissme coordinated her flats with her tank; it pulls the look together but doesn't come off as matchy matchy.
Here's the outfit breakdown:
- Green Peacoat: H&M
- Skinny Jeans: Top Shop
- White Tank: Top Shop
- Flats: Wash&Go
Congrats to Littlemissme!
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Below is the PER ranking by position for Hornets players in the top 50 for their position. I know PER isn't perfect, but it is still the best way I know to measure players who play different positions. Also, with PER I don't care if so-and-so should be ranked above so-and-so. I use it as a general guide to where a player ranks compared to peers at his position, and that is always interesting. PG Vasquez 23 Roberts 34 SG Gordon 21 SF Aminu 30 PF Davis 4 Anderson 10 Smith 21 C Lopez 15
Not to pick, but did you remove low-minute-getters? Or did the list do that for you perhaps? It seems like it given how high some of the rankings are. I think that it's appropriate to do so just because those measurements are not robust.
The website has some minimums, but you can also see the minutes for each player. Most players have very robust minutes. I don't think minutes played is an issue here. http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/hollinger/statistics [It's not a restricted site. I can get to it an I am not an ESPN Insider.]
It filters. That explains it. Thanks.


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Shroud of the Avatar - Developer Insights From Vision to Virtual Worlds
In a developer blog, Shroud of the Avatar developer Rick Holtrop shares with us on how an idea is transformed into a virtual world.
I'm curious about how this will turn out in practice though. Hopefully, people on the other side of the world aren't aware that you've been a bad boy and cheated people out of their pocket money.
I actually suggested for Tides of Numenera that the Tides, IOW your behaviour, shape you appearance, so other people can have an idea of what you're up to. That might be just as cheesy, in certain ways, but I'd prefer that.
Hello 1990's 3d graphics.
The problem is it has been mentioned many times a lot of the art is placeholders and it is just getting repetitive.
Rather like the ideas in this blog, but still don't quite get the overall multi/single player balance in the game or whether they've really worked that out internally. It just seems that these ethical dilemmas would work best in a offline game, where the player gets to choose his/her destiny. In a multiplayer game you can't really make choices that can have any persistent impact on the world.
new info in this interview:
I like most Kickstarters but I'm a bit uncomfortable wtih this one.
I will pick gameplay over graphics but those graphics don't even look like placeholders - they really are quite mediocre. The concepts of the gameplay seem a little interesting but some are weird (e.g. player housing). And the fact that the man has spent millions on wasteful things but is asking for a million for his game? The RPS article even asked him and he didn't answer it satisfactorily.
I will wait and see how it develops further before I am convinced. But hey at least the Kickstarter seems to be going well!
P.S. In the RPS article, the classic shot of Lord British looks uncannily like Tom Green!
Those assets look significantly superior to what is on display in the video which is pretty weird.
Hopefully this is all just VERY work-in-progress…
Putting in simple models doesn't cost and takes a low amount of time. All you need is the basic shape and you could just generate basic textures.
Well, you know, their previous game looked like this
So you could say they are definitely making progress :)
Even though I'm totally in support of the kickstarter - I think their decision to show the placeholder graphics was a mistake. So many people are looking at it and making snap judgements, thinking it's their final art direction. And many won't take the time to find out they are placeholders, they'll just move on. People generally don't understand the concept of a prototype.
Just having concept art and no gameplay might have worked better (as Torment, Eternity, Wasteland, etc).
I am not sure its the graphics alone. I am confused by the single player, solo, offline, multiplayer and MMO keywords that are flying round and mentioned by the developers. Moreover, since I play single player rpgs mainly, I don't see how the multiplayer fits in and why should I play it anyway.
This is in addition to the fact that this is just a single episode and there are 5 more larger ones to come which puts me off a bit as I don't feel I am getting a full game. I don't mind expansion packs to an already huge game like Skyrim, but episodes .. not comfortable with them.
Another issue that bother me is the RG on the first day of the kickstarter mentioned in an interview that they had surveyed fans before the kickstarter about their prefernce and they preferred a single player rpg. But in his wisdom and far reaching sight said in that same interview that multiplayer is the way forward ignoring fans preference and that is how they designed that game originally. Now few days after the kickstarter he is saying that now they are listening to fans! and they made a single player only part in addition to the multiplayer. This immediatley tells me that they have not thought this through, they are only saying this to get money while the original concept is highly likely to remain, which is fine for people who like MMOs but not for me.
And if they are making an MMO to compete in the market with say GW2/Archeage/Elder Scrolls Online etc. they would seem to be taking an odd approach, not to mention that their budget and timescales, from all appearances, seem somewhat optimistic in comparison.
Yup, the placeholder graphics were a mistake. If they felt like they had to have it in the video there should have been a huge label on top of it saying WORK IN PROGRESS!! or FPO or PRE-ALPHA or similar…
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Last night I got my new Singer all cleaned up, got the tension set on some test fabric... and then decided to change the needle and "really sew". It all went to heck... I noticed the needle I took off said "Singer", and I just used some quilting needles to replace. I couldnt get it to stitch... then I put the old needle back, and it still wouldnt stitch. Ugh. I did rethread the top... but not the bobbin (of course, now that I am not at home I think, why didnt I do that). But... is there something else I should be doing? What about needles... is there special needles for a 401??
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Mortgages secured by multi-unit properties pose a higher fraud risk than all other property types, the antifraud technology vendor Interthinx says in its latest quarterly report.
The mortgage fraud risk index for multi-unit assets is 250 through the fourth quarter of 2014, which is more than double the figure for single-family residences, condominiums, or planned unit developments.
Occupancy fraud is the main driver creating possible fraud for multi-unit properties, said the Agoura Hills, Calif.-based risk mitigation solutions provider, which recently agreed to sell itself for $155 million to First American Financial. Multifamily housing units have an occupancy fraud risk of 484, while the propensity for occupancy fraud at all other properties is 140.
The employment/income fraud risk for multi-unit properties is also high compared to all other housing assets, with an index of 228 versus 77.
"These properties are most often used as investment vehicles and have a high propensity for occupancy and employment/income fraud," says David Kittle, senior vice president of industry strategy at Interthinx. "Knowing the market and where the risks lie go a long way in preventing fraudulent loans from reaching the postfunding stage."
California, Washington, Utah, Louisiana and Florida are the top five states that pose the greatest probability for fraud at multi-unit properties, Interthinx says.
Overall fraud risk nationwide in the fourth quarter was up 2% from a year earlier. However, it was down 7% from the third quarter.
The quarter-over-quarter decline was due to a 19% decrease in identity fraud risk as well as a 5% drop in occupancy fraud risk.
The employment/income category was the only index to show an increase from the previous quarter, up 1%.
With eight metropolitan statistical areas on the top ten list for overall fraud risk, California continues to be the riskiest state for mortgage fraud, followed by Oklahoma, Washington D.C., Colorado, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey, Illinois, Florida and Nevada.
Conversely, Nebraska has the least potential for possible mortgage fraud, Interthinx says. Other notable states that have low fraud risk include North Dakota, Indiana, West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Ohio and Wisconsin.
"It is important for lenders to take the long view when it comes to fraud risk and not become complacent when it seems as though the risk is declining," said Jeff Moyer, president of Interthinx, in the report. "As always, there is a greater risk for fraud in a tightening purchase market, and all evidence seems to point to this scenario for 2014."


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Stewart revives Priestley play
Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart is spearheading a revival of the plays of fellow Yorkshireman J B Priestley.
After his one-man exploration of Shylock in Shakespeare's Alien, Stewart is returning to the West Yorkshire Playhouse at Leeds in Priestley's Johnson over Jordan.
Kelly, artistic director at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, previously directed Stewart in Othello at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington DC.
Risky choice
Johnson Over Jordan found little favour with critics when it was last produced some 30 years ago. Director Kelly admitted the choice of play was a risky one.
"The timing of the seasons was particularly pertinent as Priestley grew up at the time of the Bradford riots a century ago," Kelly said.
Although the actor is best known for his screen role as Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation, he has had a long and successful career in the theatre.
"Leeds is only a few miles away from where I was born and grew up. My love of performing was nurtured there. It was West Riding County Council which gave me a grant to study," Stewart added.
Honorary associate
He began acting in theatre groups at the age of 12 and is an honorary associate of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Other than Star Trek, his television appearences include BBC productions of I Claudius, Smileys People, and Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.
He has won a string of awards, including the London Fringe Theatre Best Actor Award 1986 for his portrayal of George in Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf.
Johnson over Jordan is running from 28 August to 29 September at the Playhouse.
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Concerns about a US government shutdown have hammered the Australian sharemarket to its worst one-day fall in almost two months.
The Republicans and Democrats are struggling to strike a deal to keep government money flowing. President Barack Obama warned if an agreement could not be made it would force a partial government shutdown of services deemed non-essential.
The warring words sparked broad-based selloffs across global sharemarkets. Australia's benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Index fell 88.2 points, or 1.7 per cent, to 5218.9.
Finance stocks were among the worst hit during Monday's selloff. Commonwealth Bank plummeted 2.3 per cent to $71.50, while ANZ weakened 1.9 per cent to $30.93.
But Macquarie Private Wealth divisional director Martin Lakos said the losses were on slim volumes. "It's a big one-day fall. There has been a little bit of risk-off taking place," Mr Lakos said.
"But we've had about $2 billion turnover. That's half the daily average for the quarter. It certainly suggests that that's not a strong commitment to the downside."
Despite the slide into negative territory, the ASX finished the September quarter up 8.7 per cent, its best result since 2009.
St George Bank economist Janu Chan said a reversal of expectations of the growth of China, Australia's biggest trading partner, had fuelled optimism.
Fortescue Metals was among the biggest winners for the quarter, advancing 56.3 per cent, while fellow miner Arrium leapt 56.4 per cent.
Gold stocks also enjoyed a strong rally, particularly after the US Federal Reserve delayed tapering its $US85 billion-a-month asset buying program. Beadell Resources was up 84 per cent, while Evolution Mining firmed 48.25 per cent.
ANZ head of commodity strategy Mark Pervan said during the middle of the year it was widely expected that Chinese growth for the full year would disappoint. Mr Pervan expected China's economy to continue to moderately improve in the fourth quarter, which would flow through to the ASX.
Some defensive stocks were also caught in Monday's selloff. Blood products maker CSL dived 2.6 per cent to $64, while Telstra eased 1 per cent to $4.97. Wesfarmers, the owner of Coles and Bunnings, slid 1.4 per cent to $41.13.


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Handbooks and disciplinary rules help managers mete out consistent and fair discipline. But no handbook or set of rules can cover every possible disciplinary problem, and supervisors need some discretion when deciding what punishment fits the crime.
The problem is that any deviation from the rules may be seen as discrimination if an employee who belongs to a protected class perceives that he has been punished more harshly than a co-worker who broke the same rule.
To counter this problem, tell managers and supervisors to document exactly how and why they arrived at a particular punishment. Have them include all relevant factors—in writing—such as past disciplinary history, whether this was the first or a subsequent violation of the same rule, etc. Then file the memo away, just in case of a later lawsuit.
Recent case: Johnnie Rogers, who is black, was fired for poor performance from his supervisory job with FedEx. His supervisor had issued three "performance reminders" to Rogers in the 12 preceding months. In one, the company said Rogers had failed to discipline one of his subordinates for losing his driver's license.
Rogers sued, alleging discrimination.
FedEx explained to the court that its records showed Rogers had been "repeatedly disciplined by all his senior managers throughout his employment at FedEx." It said Rogers had been on the cusp of discharge many times. Rogers tried to argue that other employees had been treated more leniently. He pointed to one nonblack employee who had not been punished for failing to discipline a subordinate whose driver's license had been revoked.
FedEx pulled out its disciplinary records and showed that the two situations were not as similar as they might have initially looked. True, both Rogers and the other supervisor had failed to discipline a subordinate who lost his license. But there was a crucial difference: FedEx discovered the other employee's mistake two years after it happened, but the employee had a clear disciplinary history after that. In contrast, Rogers was a constant disciplinary problem. The court said that difference was enough to justify firing Rogers but not the other employee. (Rogers v. Federal Express, No. 07-5176, 10th Cir., 2008)
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Discussion in 'Crazy-Awesome almost Dakar racers (950/990cc)' started by Hipster, Jan 15, 2013.
Anyone know what brand & weight fork oil Super Plush uses?
I found my answer.
They re-valved KTM 640 last year and I'm happy with the setup and wanted to continue to use the same or very similar fork oil.
No, I was wondering what they use?
I'm going with Red Line 5W.
Maxima 5wt.
Redline is good stuff too.
Yes, like Chuckracer said Maxima Racing 5wt fork oil. When it's time to service the forks I'm going to try Motorex 2.5wt fork oil. The viscosity is similar and it has a better viscosity index (200 vs. 150), and it's available locally.
My table shows:
Maxima Racing 5wt to have a reported VI (Viscosity Index) of 150 with a actual VI of 98.
Redline 5wt has a reported VI of 407 with an actual VI of 409.
Unfortunately Motorex 2.5wt isn't shown.
For those wondering, Viscosity Index (VI) is how stable the viscosity is over a wide temperature range. Bigger numbers are better. It doesn't just mean hot-day vs. cold day, it means begining of race vs. end.
Not as big a factor when we are talking about forks. VI is more important with shock oil since it heats up much more. That is why most mfgs have separate oils for the two.
I use Maxima 5wt fork oil for my hydraulic clutch fluid. Works great & doesn't seem to fill & dirty with metal from the system like the Mineral/Magura/Motorex oils do. They're too thin-filmed to hold up to plunger-type system seals and wear the bore