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Remember carmageddon? It is not forgotten in Germany. As a matter of fact, Germany's biggest carmageddon happened last month, in May. While champagne corks popped in the U.S., propelled by a 19 percent plus in May, the Germans are crying into their beers. According to numbers released by the German Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA,) the new car market collapsed by heart attack inducing 35.1 percent in May. That's not the worst part of the story.
The really bad part is that sales in May were 9.3 percent below the same month in the dark days of 2008. The graph above tells the story. Germany had averted carmageddon in 2009 by pumping massive amounts of Abwrackprämien (cash for clunkers) money into the market. Result: See red line above. In 2009, the German market jumped well over normal levels.
With the money missing, the market is going into serious withdrawal. See green line for 2010. Except for March, new car sales have been below 2008 levels for each month of the current year. The traditionally active spring selling season collapsed.
Have a look at January. When January 2009 sales disintegrated (red line) it spooked the German government into laying on the cash for clunker program. You see it working. Then sales dropped as the money was withdrawn. Many cars are built to order in Germany, there were waits for delivery. The amphetamines, prescribed in Berlin, took a while to work themselves out of the system. With the market drug-free, we are now below crisis levels. Will there be Abrwackprämie, the Sequel? Only people on real drugs think so.
There is no end in sight. The headlines will get worse through June/July. By the end of the year, the numbers will have caught up with the new reality. So far, this is worse than the most pessimistic pundits projected.
In the first five months of the year of 2010, Germans bought 1.179,532 cars. That's 450.000 less than in the same period of the prior year.
Small cars, the darlings of the Abwrackprämien high, are nearly unsalable. That segment shrunk by more than half. The formerly eschewed upper classes and SUVs enjoy a come-back from near extinction and are the only segments with growth.
As far as brands go, Mercedes-Benz is he only winner of the May slugfest. Daimler grew by 6 percent, mostly due to the brisk sales of the new E-Class. Ashen faces in Munich: BMW lost nearly 15 percent. The so-called volume manufacturer were seen lining up at the drugstores of Rüsselsheim, Cologne, and Wolfsburg, from where antacid shortages are reported. Opel lost 51.5 percent, Ford gave up 45.9 percent, VW said good-bye to 34.1 percent of 2099 May sales.
The import brands didn't fare better, some worse. The few gains are by boutique brands on such a low level, that it could well be numerical flukes.
Bad omen: Lancia, which is supposed to be merged with the Chrysler and Dodge brands, is at the bottom of the list in May, with only 133 cars sold. Lada sold more (178.)
As far as the German market goes, I never subscribed to the pull forward theory. There was nothing to pull forward. Owners of clunkers usually don't buy new. They buy used, a younger clunker. The thinking was that by luring that usually new-adverse segment into buying new, the missing new car buyers could be replaced. They still are missing. As Germany gets older, they might never be back. What's back is the used car market. Solidly (+13,4 percent) up again in May.
If you want to cry for Germany, or watch with glee the belated carpet bombing of the German market, then you may download the data in all their ugliness here. In German, but the numbers need no translating. They are abgrundtief schrecklich (abysmally appalling.)
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Bill, thanks for a very insightful and thought-provoking analysis.
To me, the big question is: will those who previously lost change their strategies? I have a suspicion that those who do, will go farther than those who don't.
Who'd of thought it possible to build a tribe where Rob C. is the quiet one?
I don't care if Sue has swallowed axel grease with a rusty spoon in the past and feels that she is the toughest woman ever to storm ashore in this game. Did she not grasp the concept of brain parasites? Did you see the way Howard Dean acted after Iowa? Brain parasites… they can really hurt you.
I am worried about Rob C though. I fear he and Rupert might be making the same mistake, that being overcorrecting their previous strategy.
Rich is many things, but stupid is not one of them. He has a plan, and it may not work, as he knows that previous winners, especially the Great Hatch, will be targets early and often, but rest assured, everything he is doing was pre-calculated.
I love Rudy. He isn't going to win, but I love him nevertheless.

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It's that Gilles Peterson Worldwide Music Awards time of year again. Ninja Tune and Big Dada feature heavily in the nominations with Daedelus - 'Exquisite Corpse', Dwight Trible & The Life Force Trio - 'Love Is The Answer' and Roots Manuva - 'Awfully Deep' nominated for Album Of The Year. Keep It Unreal Mr. Scruff (Manchester / Brighton) is up for Club Of The Year. Dwight Trible and Roots Manuva are up for Session Of The Year and Ninja is nominated for Label Of The Year. Oh and if you think we're worthy you can put us in for The John Peel 'Play More Jazz' Award. vote, vote, vote.


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Texas Commences Highway 290 Upgrade Project
The Texas Department of Transportation in the US has broken ground on the $151.5m 610 Loop / Highway 290 interchange project.
The project will see construction of an inbound connection from US 290 and the 610 North Loop to the Katy Freeway as well as a ramp to eliminate traffic weaving across the Loop 610 main lanes to reach US 290.
Project K also includes the reconstruction of the IH 610 North Loop from the IH 610/US 290 interchange to Ella Boulevard and is expected to be completed by January 2015.
Another Project J-1, will build a connection from IH 10 Katy Freeway to outbound US 290 and the IH 610 North Loop, as well as the outbound US 290 frontage road from the IH 610/US 290 interchange to W. 34th Street.
This project is yet to be awarded and will commence construction in 2012.
The 610/290 project is part of $2.8bn US 290 Corridor programme, which will be funded by Proposition 12 funds.


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If you're after high quality headphones for wearing on the move, you may want to choose smaller cups which sit on the ear, although a lightweight "closed-back" model is still an option. One downside with open style headphones is that they are subject to bass leakage, which is why some manufacturers build bass boost into either playback devices or the headphones themselves. If you want something that cuts out external sounds but is still compact, an alternative to sealed cups is to use noise-cancellation headphones instead. Noise-cancellation headphones are designed for use in places with significant ambient noise (such as aeroplanes), and they work by using miniature microphones that record the ambient noise and mix a cancellation signal inside the cups. These are generally very lightweight and compact, but are often fragile as well. So if you are planning to buy a lightweight model, make sure it comes with a protective bag or case.
Another option is a pair of in-ear monitors (IEMs). These are similar to ear buds, resting inside your ear rather than on top of it; however, they go one step further and actually sit inside your ear canal. This can be a little uncomfortable for first time users, but once you get the hang of them, IEMs provide incredible sound quality and isolate you very well from external noise.
You won't need a long cable if you're carrying a portable media player around, but you might need a mini-jack adapter on the plug. Some headphones have screw-on ones which make them harder to lose. If you are looking for the best possible sound from a portable player, however, you might want to consider a portable amplifier. These are very compact and provide the level boost you need to get the most out of your headphones. On the down side, they are likely to cost at least as much as the headphones themselves as they are usually designed for professional use.


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Role of plasma adiponectin on the HDL-cholesterol raising effect of atorvastatin in patients with type 2 diabetes.
OBJECTIVE: Adiponectin, secreted by adipose tissue, plays an important role in lipoprotein metabolism and also affects carbohydrate and insulin pathways. We studied the effects of atorvastatin treatment on plasma adiponectin and high density cholesterol (HDL) levels in patients with type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS: In the 'Diabetes Atorvastatin Lipid Intervention' (DALI) study, a randomized placebo-controlled study on the effects of atorvastatin treatment in 194 patients with type 2 diabetes and mildly elevated plasma triglycerides, adiponectin levels, lipoproteins, cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) mass, as well as postheparin lipoprotein lipase (LPL) and hepatic lipase (HL) activities were assessed at baseline and after 6 months of treatment (placebo, 10 mg or 80 mg atorvastatin). RESULTS: At baseline, plasma adiponectin levels were positively associated with HDL cholesterol (r = 0.40, p < 0.001), and apoA-I (r = 0.38, p < 0.001) in both males and females. Adiponectin was negatively associated with triglycerides (r = -0.26, p < 0.001) in males as well as in females. Atorvastatin treatment had no effect on plasma adiponectin levels. However, adiponectin levels at baseline significantly predicted the effect of atorvastatin treatment on HDL-cholesterol (p = 0.007), i.e. patients with the highest baseline plasma adiponectin concentration (tertile 3) displayed the largest increase in plasma HDL cholesterol during treatment (8-10%), while the HDL-cholesterol increase in tertile 1 was almost negligible (1-3%). CONCLUSION: In this study, high baseline plasma adiponectin levels significantly affect the HDL-cholesterol response to atorvastatin treatment in patients with type 2 diabetes and therefore may play a role in defining future treatment strategy.
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Jeff Demps listed as probable for Alabama game
Florida junior RB Jeff Demps is no longer wearing a protective boot on his sprained foot and is listed as probable for Saturday night's game at Alabama.
"He's out of the boot today,'' UF coach Urban Meyer said Wednesday morning. "He'll have very limited practice, but we're counting on him Thursday, and even Friday with him in practice. So I'd say it's probable he'll play.
Demps suffered the injury when he stepped on the foot of one of his teammates in the Tennessee game. The injury worsened in last Saturday's game against Kentucky.


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World Cup 2010: Lacklustre England in Algeria stalemate
England 0-0 Algeria: England's poor World Cup form continued as they produced a toothless display in a goalless draw against Algeria in Cape Town.
Fabio Capello 's men seemed short of both ideas and confidence, and never looked likely to break the deadlock.
At times during the first half, the Italian coach must have been relieved that Algeria were every bit as uninspired as his own team, as he watched England surrender possession easily and struggle to clear the ball under pressure.
The goalless draw means England must now beat Slovenia in their final Group C game if they are to be certain of reaching the last 16 of the tournament.
Capello chose to drop Robert Green and bring in David James , as well as naming Jamie Carragher and Gareth Barry in his starting line-up.
The changes certainly didn't have a positive impact in the opening 25 minutes when England were distinctly second best.
Laboured passing, misplaced crosses and nervous defending were all features of the display and England were thankful Algeria were not good enough to take advantage of their possession and pressure.
Barry made a couple of crucial interventions in his own penalty area – including clearing a dangerous Hassan Yebda cross over his own bar – but James had few shots to deal with.
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In the closing stages of the first half there were signs of England improving, as Steven Gerrard and Wayne Rooney began to link up well, but Gerrard, Frank Lampard and Barry all shot straight at Algeria goalkeeper Rais M'Bolhi from promising positions.
If the England fans – who at times sang loudly enough to drown out the vuvuzelas – had expected the team to come out fired up after the break, they were to be disappointed.
As the second half progressed, confidence dipped and Gerrard and Emile Heskey both chose to try and find team-mates when presented with good opportunities to shoot.
The same nerves affected the defence and Jamie Carragher picked up a booking for a foul on Yebda, before John Terry's awful back pass put James in trouble. Fortunately for Terry, James was alert and just managed to beat Karim Matmour to the ball.
Capello threw on Shaun Wright-Phillips and Jermain Defoe in a bid to change the game, but although they added energy, they posed little threat.
Whether the performance was due to bad tactics, the wrong team selection or a lack of confidence among the players doesn't really matter – the situation is now simple, England must beat Slovenia.
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Fun time at the range (9mm)
Well I have been going to the range at least 3 times a week for about a month now even had the chance to take my 12 year old (I'm so proud) for the 1st time and he shot a beretta carbine after going over safety for the past week (loved it)! Today I was in my lane and there was a couple next to me the guy looked frustrated the lady looked scared to death. I'm all business at the range but as I was switching mags after a nice grouping I heard the guy saying to the lady this .40 is what you want to shoot not THAT glock 9mm you will just piss someone off if you shoot them with THAT glock 9mm. I just smiled the lady had enough and walked out with the guy and their rental right behind her! I couldnt imagine forcing my family/friends to shoot if they arent comfortable what an idiot! I guess I would be pissed off if someone shot me with a 9mm!LOL
I feel that the 9mm is a respectable self defense round. Especially so with todays ammo.
I thought it was funny the way he kept saying "THAT" glock! I have some Gold Dot HP rounds for self defense in the unfortunate chance that I might need it and thats what I will carry when my CCW arrives. I guess my gun wasnt manly enough for him! Sometime this year I will purchase a G30 just because I want a .45 not because my 19 isnt manly enough, just call it glock fever I guess.LOL
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Name: CHURCH OF ST KENTIGERN
List entry Number: 1326686
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County: Cumbria
District: Eden
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Parish: Castle Sowerby
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8/4 Church of 27.12.67 St Kentigern
Parish church. C12 with C13, C14, C15 and C17 alterations and additions; with restorations of 1821, and 1888 by C.J. Ferguson. Whitewashed rubble walls with west buttresses, under graduated greenslate roof with coped gables and cross finial. 5-bay nave and south aisle with south porch and twin open bellcote. 2-bay chancel. North wall of nave has C17 2- and 3-light hollow-chamfered stone-mullioned windows, one without chamfers and one original pointed-arched window between the two eastern windows. Aisle has re-used round-arched doorway within a C14 stone porch. C17 2-light hollow-chamfered windows under moulded parapet. East wall of aisle has blocked pointed-arched window. Chancel has north lancet windows; south C15 or C16 priest's doorway and larger pointed-arched windows. C19 east window is flanked by blocked lancets. Interior of nave has 5-bay aisle of pointed arches on octagonal columns. C18 or C19 open timber roof. C18 creed and pater boards were probably put up at same time as Royal Arms of George II dated 1752. White marble wall plaques to Richard Richardson of Whamhead, 1796; Jane Mitchell of Whamhead, 1868 and George Burnthwaite of Lamonby, 1780. Re-cut red sandstone font bowl dated 1671(?) on C19 stem. Aisle has 2 aumbry recesses. Chancel: remains of south respond for removed chancel arch. C13 piscina. Open timber C16 or C17 roof of king-post trusses. White marble wall plaque to Rev Joseph Hudson, 1811, by Kirkbride of Carlisle. C19 stained glass east window. See Transactions Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society, new series, lxxiii, pp,170-189.
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text: A FEW YEARS AGO, PRO PHOTOGRAPHER DENNIS FAST SPENT SEVERAL WEEKS at the headwaters of the Thelon River in the Northwest Territories of Canada. One night, the northern lights put on a breathtaking show. The Manitoba resident writes, "In spite of a full moon, the aurora was so bright that it maintained its intensity." This image shows his companion admiring the sight. He finally stopped shooting at 3 A.M. with the aurora still displaying overhead. Fast used a Nikon D1X, a 17-35mm lens and, of course, a tripod.


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'All Together' (unrated)
In All Together, five septuagenarians (including, most notably, Jane Fonda and Geraldine Chaplin) who have been lifelong friends make a group decision: Instead of the usual retirement-home route, they decide to move into the same house together, MTV Real World-style, and hire a young grad student (Daniel Bruhl), who wants to use them as research for a project, to help with everyday chores.
In their youth, they were rabble-rousers and rebels — in their old age, they retain their free-spirit personalities, but their frail bodies refuse to play along. That may sound awfully depressing, but writer-director Stephane Robelin's frothy comedy is much more Golden Girls hijinks than On Golden Pond. The story is scored by serious dramatic undertones associated with aging — hidden illnesses, Alzheimer's, impotence — but the movie opts to dwell on the positive and the comical, from a former playboy (Claude Rich) who can't quite kill the ladies like he did in his youth, to a left-wing activist (Guy Bedos) who still wants to demonstrate and disturb the peace but is deemed too old by the cops to even get arrested.
The main attraction in All Together is Fonda, who is 74 but looks at least 10 years younger, in her first French-speaking role in 40 years (her last was Jean-Luc Godard's Tout va bien in 1972). She plays a retired university professor who keeps an alarming medical diagnosis secret from her husband (Pierre Richard), who still loves her all these years later but is gradually going senile.
Fonda, who has recently acted in English-language productions to much lesser effect (Peace Love and Misunderstanding, HBO's The Newsroom), is the luminous center of the movie, a former radical naturally mellowed by age and circumstance. All Together throws in Viagra gags, naughty jokes and moments of absurd humor — the filmmakers clearly wanted the movie to appeal to all ages — but the melancholic streak coursing beneath the story is what works best: facing the end of the road with dignity and courage, and knowing that life is worth living, fully and noisily, to the natural end.
Cast: Guy Bedos, Daniel Bruhl, Geraldine Chaplin, Jane Fonda, Claude Rich, Pierre Richard.
Writer-director: Stephane Robelin.
Producers: Christophe Bruncher, Cedric de Saint-Jouan, Philippe Gompel.
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Gill firms as Wallabies chance
Queensland flanker Liam Gill is aiming to force his way into the Wallabies squad for the Rugby Championship after making an unusual cross-code switch as a junior.
The son of former St George and Gold Coast rugby league player Peter Gill was introduced to contact sport on the gridiron of Portland, Oregon, where he lived for four years during his childhood.
But after starting his athletic development as an American football running back and line-backer from ages seven to 11, Gill has long since ditched the helmet and pads for the Reds' number seven jersey.
There's no doubt the 20-year-old has taken a left-field path to Robbie Deans' training camp in Sydney this week.
Born in Melbourne before moving to the US for his father's work, Gill returned to play junior rugby in Adelaide.
Now he's determined to take the next big step in his career and learn all he can from star David Pocock in camp and push for selection in the final squad.
"He's (Pocock) set the benchmark and he's arguably the best in the world so you'd be crazy not to try and understand what he does," said Gill, who is happy with his new code but still keeping a keen eye on mates back in America who are now playing college football.
"It's more excitement to find out you're even considered a part of this set up (Wallabies train-on squad) ... It's a big onslaught of information then they throw you in the deep end and get you out there and do it and it's a good way to learn.
"Just take it on board and learn the hard way and pick up on the vibe of the other blokes and how they go about things."
As a 17-year-old, Gill was the youngest player to represent Australia at an IRB Junior World Championship.
He's shown enormous leadership potential as a youngster as well, captaining Australia's under-20s team this year.
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The acquisition of goods and/or services is called "Procurement". Typically, procurements are acquired through a contract or agreement. A simple procurement however doesn't necessarily require contracts, formal agreements or purchase orders. Complex procurements should involve looking for vendors or suppliers who want to establish a long-term buyer/seller relationship.
A person makes a buying decision after considering a number of factors such as price, shipping and delivery charges, quality of goods and/or services, other benefits and payment processing etc. Procurements could also involve making buying decisions based on economic analysis methods like cost-benefit analysis, cost-utility analysis, and risk analysis:
- Cost-benefit analysis: This involves looking at the overall costs and all the benefits of a decision, then weighing the pros and cons to determine if the planned action is beneficial before making the decision.
- Cost-utility analysis: This technique is often utilized as a basis for procurement decisions using a common unit of measure (for example, quality of life in health care, or money). This method tends to provide a more detailed analysis of total benefits over cost-benefit analysis.
- Risk analysis: This involves identifying and reviewing the factors that may jeopardize the success of a project. It can also help the project team in identifying the preventive measures needed to mitigate the risk (reduce possibility and the probability or impact) should the risk event ever occur.
The project manager can act either as the buyer or the seller, or both in a procurement transaction. For instance, a Project Manager could be a seller of project management services to a project sponsor and in turn contract for outside services from a third party or company (which makes the PM a buyer of vendor/supplier services). Regardless of which side of the fence you're on, it's always a good idea to understand the other side's perspective and responsibilities from the standpoint of Project Management.
Project Procurement Management is all about the processes related to purchasing or acquiring the products, services or results needed from outside the project team. Here's a look at the four project procurement processes according to PMI:
|Plan procurements: A part of the Planning process group this involves documenting procurement decisions on how procurements will be managed and deciding the criteria for seller selection on the project.
|Conduct procurements: This is a part of the Executing process group and involves initiating the bidder selection process, obtaining seller responses, choosing a seller and ultimately awarding the contract.
|Administer procurements: This involves maintaining the procurement relationship with the chosen vendor as well as monitoring contract performance and managing the changes and corrections needed to ensure compliance. The process group is Monitoring and Controlling.
|Close procurements: This is the process of completing each project procurement transaction and the contract services at the end of the project. This is a a part of the Closing process group.
The knowledge area of Project Procurement Management was cut down to four processes from six in the fourth edition of the PMBOK, thus streamlining the processes and making them a lot easier to comprehend.


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Please take the publication date into consideration for any date references. ] [ Media Contact: TPWD News, firstname.lastname@example.com, 512-389-8030 ] [SL] May 24, 2011 Bird Bracelets on Dove an Overlooked Prize for Hunters AUSTIN - To a waterfowl hunter, a duck band is a treasured find. Affixed to a duck call lanyard, these rare small metal rings become testaments of the hunter's skill or luck and reinforce the conservation success story they represent. Banding is an integral component for management of all game birds that travel across North America without regard for state, provincial or international borders. These migrants are a shared resource among all hunters. The unique identification numbers stamped onto each leg band illustrate the extent to which these birds are shared, for example, when a hunter on the Texas coast harvests a banded duck that originated in Saskatchewan. Not all bird bands are viewed as prizes. In fact, the ones affixed to the migratory game bird that gets the lion's share of hunting attention in Texas are not being viewed at all. Heading into the summer, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will be trapping and attaching tiny metal leg bands on several thousand mourning dove as part of a larger national effort coordinated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. White-winged dove will also be banded across the state and TPWD will be banding approximately 3,000 whitewings. Banding will be initiated June 1 and concludes August 15. As whitewing continue to expand across the state, keeping tabs on these dove populations is becoming increasingly important. Only three states are consistently banding white-winged dove, with the Texas banding program being the most comprehensive. Dove band recoveries are revealing extensive travel records and offer interesting insight into the ecology of this prominent migrant. For instance: --Most banded mourning dove in Texas do not survive to see a second year and extremely few live past three years of age. The oldest mourning dove ever recovered in Texas was 9 years old and the oldest mourner ever recovered was banded in Georgia and was a whopping 31 years old! --Mourning dove shot in Texas come from 21 states including Texas, with the most out-of-state banded birds coming from Kansas, Iowa, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. A few banded birds traveled all the way from Pennsylvania and Ohio. --The oldest white-winged dove ever recorded in Texas was 17 years old and the oldest whitewing ever recovered was banded in Arizona and was 21 years old! --White-winged doves banded in Texas have been recovered in four states including Texas, four countries, and one in international waters (oil rig). The farthest recovered white-winged dove banded in Texas originated in Hidalgo County and was recovered in Nicaragua, 1,242 miles from the original band site. For Texas, the implications of dove management are significant considering the Lone Star State boasts fall dove populations in excess of 40 million birds and its 300,000 dove hunters harvest about 6 million birds annually or roughly 30 percent of all doves taken in the United States. Dove hunting also has a major economic impact, contributing more than $300 million to the state economy. But, despite having more dove hunters than any other state and harvesting more birds than any other state, Texas has the lowest dove band recovery rate in the nation. "I think most dove hunters aren't aware of the banding effort," said Corey Mason, TPWD's dove program leader. "Unlike with ducks, hunters aren't looking for bands and because dove bands are only about the size of a bead they don't stand out." Size does not diminish the importance of these bands and the information they provide wildlife biologists. Data obtained from banding are used to estimate survival and harvest rates and population abundance. These estimates are then used in population and harvest models to determine hunting regulations. The complete 2003-2010 Dove Banding Summary is available for review online at http://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/game_management/dove_summary/. -30- [ Note: This item is more than six years old. Please take the publication date into consideration for any date references. ] [ Media Contact: TPWD News, firstname.lastname@example.com, 512-389-8030 ] May 24, 2011 Game Wardens to promote safe boating through increased water patrol Memorial Day Weekend Hoping to prevent boating injuries and fatalities, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game wardens will be increasing their numbers on lakes and other waterways Memorial Day weekend. In addition, officials in parts of the state will continue the tradition of the "no refusal" weekend to step up boating while intoxicated/driving while intoxicated arrests and citations. During the "no refusal" weekend on-site judges work with TPWD officers and law enforcement personnel with other agencies to issue search warrants for blood draws when a suspect is under investigation for a BWI/DWI charge and refuses a breath test. The "no refusal" weekend also employs mobile DWI/BWI intoxilyzer units. "Memorial Day weekend kicks off our water safety season, and we want to start things off right and make sure everyone is safe and doing the right thing," said Game Warden Lt. Cody Jones, of TPWD's marine enforcement section. Overall boating fatalities are down 26 percent from 2009 to 2010, decreasing from 38 in 2009 to 28 last year. So far this year 12 people have lost their lives in boating accidents. Jones attributes this decrease in fatalities to increased enforcement. He said officials made 316 arrests in 2010 associated with BWI/DWI charges as compared with 220 in 2009. "There's been a decrease statewide in boating fatalities, and we would like to see that trend continue," Jones said. Game wardens have five key safety tips for boaters: 1. Always wear a lifejacket 2. Drink responsibly and designate a non-drinking operator for the boat 3. Be weather wise: pay attention to local weather reports 4. Keep proper safety equipment onboard your vessel 5. Know the rules: take an online boater safety course. The online boaters' safety course is offered through www.boat-ed.com/tx/ for $13. Boaters with the online course certificate may receive a discounted rate from their boating insurance provider. -30-


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Cataract Surgery
Practitioners in phacoland
by Ivan Ossma-Gomez, M.D., M.P.H.
"At a mad tea party with a post-LASIK cataract patient, who received a Tecnis monofocal IOL following phacoemulsification and who was suffering from glare and halos"
Phacoland: At a glance
• Cataract patients who have previously had LASIK present a real challenge • Challenges include calculating IOL power and determining lens type • Type of spherical aberration relates to kind of LASIK performed • Be sure to evaluate topography before performing cataract surgery
"Into the rabbit hole with the case of a Salzmann's nodule patient scheduled to undergo cataract surgery."
Peering through the looking glass at curious post-cataract cases
Patient aberrometry before enhancements and after cataract surgery Source: Eric Donnenfeld, M.D.
Salzmann's nodular degeneration, an unusual disorder that may lead to less-than-perfect outcomes after phaco if undetected Source: Edward J. Holland, M.D.
They're cases that you just can't seem to forget that may stump you at first but which ultimately leave you grinning like a Cheshire cat. During this year's 2010 ASCRS Winter Update, held in Riviera Maya, Mexico, practitioners shared a host of such memorable cases. Here are two of these curious cases to consider. Would you have taken the same tact as practitioners here or would you ultimately have gone another way?
A pool of tears for a refractive/phaco patient
Eric D. Donnenfeld, M.D., co-chairman, Cornea, Nassau University Medical Center, East Meadow, N.Y., brought to light a type of case that is becoming more and more common—the post-LASIK cataract patient who is unhappy following phacoemulsification. The case involved a 68-year-old patient who had undergone phacoemulsification in 2008 with a Tecnis monofocal IOL (Abbott Medical Optics, Santa Ana, Calif.). Following the surgery the patient was complaining bitterly of glare and halos. His ophthalmic history showed that he had a conventional PRK done in 2002 and that he subsequently came back for an enhancement the following year when the technology changed. His original manifest refraction showed that he had a lot of cylinder and was hyperopic. His corneas were fairly steep. He also had a Q value of –0.29. It is important to note that this patient had a negative spherical aberration of the cornea caused by the hyperopic ablation.
Such cataract patients who have previously undergone LASIK many practitioners are finding to be a real challenge. "The number one problem is in calculating your IOL power," Dr. Donnenfeld said. "ASCRS has the best Web site for doing that and I think that it's a great place to start." New technology may also be helpful here. "I firmly believe that the new wavefront intraoperative aberrometry is going to be the answer," Dr. Donnenfeld said. "I don't calculate the lens [power] anymore. I just go take it in the [operating room] and I take my reading light there." He finds that this always gives him a great result within 0.5 D of his target.
The second issue is in determining what type of lens to choose. "Understanding the aberrations of the lenses that we use now are important," Dr. Donnenfeld said. "Spherical aberration is really the only aberration that you have to worry about—90% of all problems in refractive and cataract surgery are spherical aberration." Different types of spherical aberration have varying effects. "Positive spherical aberration creates halo, and too much negative spherical aberration can also create halos," Dr. Donnenfeld said. "A little bit of negative spherical aberration, however, is good since that increases depth of focus."
The type of spherical aberration usually relates to the kind of LASIK performed. "If you had a patient who had a myopic ablation that type of patient almost always has positive spherical aberration," Dr. Donnenfeld said. Likewise, those who have undergone hyperopic LASIK often have negative spherical aberration.
Indeed, in this case, the patient's wavefront from his original treatment showed negative spherical aberration. This was also present on his WaveScan. "The patient has negative spherical aberration from the previous hyperopic LASIK," Dr. Donnenfeld said. "What type of IOL do you want to put in here?" he asked the panel. Alan S. Crandall, M.D., professor and senior vice chair, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, pointed out that there are several Food and Drug Administration-approved aspheric lenses available. "Two of these lenses add further negative spherical aberration," he said. "The Alcon SNW [Fort Worth, Texas] adds –0.2 D and the Tecnis if it's an aspheric one adds –0.27 D." He points out that using one of these here would be a prescription for trouble. "If you already have –0.2 D and you're adding –0.27 and both of those have square edges so you have the potential for dysphotopsia anyway depending upon the centration," he said. While other aspheric IOLs don't add any spherical aberration, Dr. Crandall himself would opt to use a spherical, not an aspheric, lens here.
Dr. Donnenfeld agrees that neutralizing the spherical aberration is essential here. Before the cataract surgery the patient already had spherical aberration and after undergoing the cataract surgery this was compounded. "Here is the same patient after the cataract surgery. They've added two scoops of negative spherical aberration and that why the patient has glare and halo," Dr. Donnenfeld said. He sees the options as using a lens that adds positive spherical aberration, or using one that adds no spherical aberration. Dr. Donnenfeld himself would opt to use a lens with zero spherical aberration such as the Akreos AO (Bausch & Lomb, Rochester, N.Y.) or the SofPort AO (Bausch & Lomb). That was what was done here. "We replaced the lens with a Bausch and Lomb SofPort AO with zero spherical aberration," he said. "The patient became very happy and did very well."
One pearl that Dr. Donnenfeld offered up here was to consider the topography in such cases. "One of the rules if you're going to be putting these lenses in is to look at the topography on these patients before you do cataract surgery because that will help you determine what to do," he said. "If an ablation is well centered it opens up all types of opportunities for you." He finds that a well-centered ablation really allows him to consider a variety of lenses. "I personally am doing a lot of multifocal IOLs on patients after LASIK as long as they meet certain caveats," he said. "They have to have well-centered, large modern ablations—not the really old oblate ablations." Also they cannot have high myopia. However, if a patient was initially –3 or a –4 D myope Dr. Donnenfeld finds that such multifocal lenses in post-LASIK patients can work well.
Also, an accommodating lens can still be a good choice as well. "Just because someone has had previous LASIK or PRK does not mean that they can't have a refractive IOL and have had very good results, with one caveat," Dr. Donnenfeld said. "I tell them that their risk of enhancement is much higher than in a conventional case."
Adventures in Salzmann's nodule land
At the symposium, Edward J. Holland, M.D., professor of ophthalmology, University of Cincinnati, and director of Cornea Service, Cincinnati Eye Institute, offered up a case involving a patient who had been referred for a cataract evaluation. The patient's topography had come back as abnormal and the referring practitioner couldn't get a good reading. It appeared as if the patient had a high degree of irregular astigmatism. "Actually, the original referring clinician forgot to raise the lid and really wanted to know why there was abnormal topography," Dr. Holland said. "There was in fact a large Salzmann's nodule in the cornea." Salzmann's nodule degeneration is something that Dr. Holland finds is actually very common in his practice and that can create challenges for surgeons. The question Dr. Holland posed for attendees was whether to first remove the nodule with a superficial keratectomy technique, let the cornea heal and ultimately then do the phacoemulsification, or whether to instead remove the nodule in concert with phacoemulsification. The majority of attendees, 64%, claimed that if they were presented with such a case they would opt to remove the lesion and let the cornea heal first, but another 29% said that they would go ahead and do the phacoemulsification at the same time as nodule removal.
Jonathan B. Rubenstein, M.D., vice chairman and Deutsch Family Professor of Ophthalmology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, recommended doing the procedures separately. "I strongly agree with treating the cornea first and allowing it to become smooth for two reasons," he said. "Number one, it's going to help you to be a more accurate cataract surgeon because you're going to be able to assess the true power of the cornea." He points out that it can be difficult to get keratometry readings in such cases, making IOL calculations at times in these patients who have a Salzmann's nodule or a basement membrane dystrophy at times vexing. "Any time you don't have a good corneal topography corneal surface it's going to affect your accuracy of measurements," he said.
The number two issue, he finds in such cases is the induced astigmatism. "Of course visually these patients aren't going to see as well if they have something inducing an irregular astigmatism," Dr. Rubenstein said. So, he recommends smoothing the cornea and allowing a better assessment of corneal power and also of what their visual acuity would be like without the nodule interference. Removing these nodules Dr. Holland finds is fairly straightforward. "To take these off you'll typically find a plane and if they're small enough you can actually do it at the slit lamp," Dr. Holland said. "If you think that the nodule is going to be up toward the limbus, if you're worried about a little bleeding it's more comfortable for patients to do it in a minor room – you use a 64 or a 69 blade, scrape the epithelium and catch the edge of the nodule and frequently there will be a lamellar plane and the lesion will peel off almost in one sheet."
Dr. Donnenfeld points out that a case such as this one overwhelmingly has meibomium gland diseases or lid margin diseases as the ideology of the Salzmann's nodule. "Whatever you decide to do the real issue here is don't let it recur," he said. "To do that, you really have to treat the disease very aggressively." He stresses the need for good meibomium gland and or blepharitis therapy in such cases, with use of hot compresses, lid hygiene, nutritional supplements and possibly some steroid use as well.
Dr. Holland agrees. "Most of these patients have external disease—they have dry eye and/or blepharitis, 90 to 95% are women, and you do get recurrence," he said. Sometimes to help prevent this he uses mitomycin C (MMC). "If it's a small paracentral one I'll take it off without mitomycin," he said. "But in a lesion like this which is large and close to the limbus I think the risk of recurrence is high so I apply mitomycin (.04%) for a short time, just 10 seconds and I do think that it dramatically reduces the recurrence rate."
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A Chicago architect could spend the rest of his life in a California prison for raping his ex-girlfriend then asking an inmate to kill her and videotape the attack so he could watch it on Christmas, prosecutors said.
Mark Alan Jarosik, 46, apologized Thursday after being sentenced to 31 years to life in prison, the Orange County Register ( http://bit.ly/VEKALV ) reported.
"I (would) just like to express how sorry I am for all the pain I caused, emotional and psychological," he said.
Jarosik pounded the woman's head on a curb in 2009 until he was subdued by the woman's neighbors, prosecutor Jennifer Walker told jurors during trial. At the time, he was free on bail after being charged with raping and sodomizing her and violating a restraining order.
Jarosik testified that he punched the woman in the face, pushed her in the gutter and bashed her head into the curb in what he called "a rash impulse." He said he never wanted to kill her.
The woman survived and has severe physical impairments and memory loss.
In October, a jury convicted Jarosik of multiple counts of rape along with solicitation to commit murder, attempted murder and several misdemeanor counts.
While in jail, Jarosik asked a fellow inmate to kill the woman and videotape the killing, prosecutors said.
Jarosik, who once lived in Ladera Ranch, left his thriving architecture business, three children and his wife in Chicago after he and the woman began a relationship in Las Vegas.
When the relationship ended, Jarosik continued to pursue her in hopes of resurrecting their romance, defense attorney Michael Molfetta said.
"He saw (her). He snapped," Molfetta said.
"I am just happy for the victim to have closure to this case," Walker, the prosecutor, said after the sentencing. "It has been a long road to get here."


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Back in the mists of time when a Japanese game purchase involved picking up a telephone to order a hot new release like Lunar 2: Eternal Blue, my regular import shop also stocked an unusual assortment of knick-knacks that I'll call "Stuff their supplier scooped up on the cheap", and it was in one of these random assortments that I came across the (slightly dusty) Bemani Pocket 2 pictured below:
I've always quite enjoyed these nifty little LCD games and I thought I'd done quite well finding two Bemani Pockets and a Hello Kitty-themed DDR game in the early 00's (no, I'm not ashamed of owning a skeleton-pink DDR game with matching Hello Kitty toy), but as it turns out they were far more popular than I ever realised – there are a total of eighteen Bemani LCD games (including two based on Tokimeki Memorial, of all things), and the entire range of DDR, Guitar Freaks, Pop'n Music and Para Para Paradise LCD games spans twenty six individual releases.
Here are a few painfully low resolution photographs pilfered from the internet just to give you some idea of the broad similarities across the range:
As you can see they're all pretty much cut from the same cloth, having a play area for notes/steps on the left, a dot matrix "video" display on the right, and a "groove gauge" at the bottom. Pop'n Music and Para Para Paradise have a slightly different screen layout (Pop'n Music loses the "video" to accommodate the wider play area), but no drastic changes. The Bemani and DDR games have a standard headphone jack on the left hand side – I would assume, but don't know, that this is also the case for the Guitar Freaks, etc games as well.
The most important thing though in any rhythm game is obviously the sound, and these little Konami wonders have a love-it-or-loath-it gritty chiptune sound rather like an original Game Boy trying to punch well above its weight and very nearly pulling it off. There's also the odd scratchy voice sample in there too for those craving the most authentic of 90's rave experiences. The speaker on the back of the unit is pretty damned loud even on the lowest of the three available settings, ensuring everyone nearby can Get Up and Boogie™ to your hot DJ beats.
These games tend to have around six or seven tunes on them and two difficulty levels – Practise and Normal. There's also an "Auto" mode if you fancy seeing (and hearing) the game played perfectly without you having to do anything complicated, such as have the reflexes and dexterity to play Beatmania games properly.
All in all these are rather sweet little things that are more fun than a mass-manufactured "Quick! Abuse the IP while it's hot!" cash-in really should be, and if you do stumble across one while you're doing a bit of retro import shopping I'd recommend picking it up.
If you'd like to see more blog posts like this one I've done the unthinkable (and terrifying) and set up a proper GoFundMe campaign - http://www.gofundme.com/zs4xvs Absolutely any amount at all helps me out and would be very gratefully received!


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7-Year-Old Jack Hoffman Meets with President Obama
Jack Hoffman, the 7-year-old boy from Atkinson, Neb. who has been fighting brain cancer got to meet President Barack Obama Monday.
Jack became an Internet sensation and garnered national attention recently when he ran for a 69-yard touchdown at the Husker spring game.
Jack and his family, along with former Husker running back Rex Burkhead visited with Obama for 15 minutes in the Oval Office. According to Jack's father, Andy Hoffman, Obama gave Jack a new football and told him he was proud of him.
Sen. Deb Fischer helped arrange the presidential meeting so the Hoffman's could talk to the president about pediatric brain cancer and their Team Jack campaign to raise awareness for the disease.


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More SXSW 2010: I've previously mentioned that Edgar Heckmann, label chief of Germany's Blue Rose Records, produces one of my favorite daily SXSW blogs, complete with pictures and video clips. The only drawback was Edgar's blog has been that it was written in German. But due to popular demand, Edgar has begun translating his blog into English! So now you can get to see Edgar's view of SXSW without resorting to your German-English dictionary. The first installment is right here, and there's more to come.
In my SXSW daily recaps, I mentioned running into high school classmate and music writer Billy Altman. You can read Billy's take on his SXSW highlights by checking out his column in the L.A. Daily news here.
In the studio: It's been five years since Steve Wynn and The Miracle 3 went into the studio and cranked out an album. Not that Steve has been resting on his laurels during that time; he's just be writing and recording other things. But I'm happy to pass on the news that Steve and band mates Jason Victor, Dave DeCastro and Linda Pitmon are now ensconced in a studio in Richmond, Virginia working on the follow up to 2005's …tick…tick…tick. With any luck, the new record should be out by the end of 2010.
Words to Live By: Robbie Fulks is not only an excellent songwriter, he's an excellent prose writer as well. Here's Robbie's take on the philosophy of the late Alex Chilton:
Try to appreciate music, all music, without respect for denominations or hardline schools of thought. Do your homework. Don't let the hipsters and the know-it-alls bully you. Your flaws are yours alone — revel in them. Enjoy esoteric chords.


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ZKM Events May 2005
The Picture's Image
Scientific Visualisation as a Composite
Public Conference
Sat-Sun, 05/07/-05/08/2005, 10am
ZKM_Lecture hall, admission free
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The Picture's Image
Scientific Visualisation as a Composite
Scientific Visualisation as a Composite
Public Conference
Sat-Sun, 05/07/-05/08/2005, 10am
ZKM_Lecture hall, admission free
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A ZKM event, in collaboration with HfG Karlsruhe Graduiertenkolleg
»Bild. Körper. Medium. Eine anthropologische Perspektive«
[»Image. Body. Medium. An Anthropological Perspective«]
Medicine and the natural sciences have recently witnessed the emergence of a new version of the iconoclastic controversy. Not only has talk of an image-based medicine or of the imaging of the natural sciences provoked fierce dispute in these fields, but the humanities and social sciences too are increasingly engaging with the function of images in the production and organisation of knowledge. This topic has thus become a paradigmatic field of research for the investigation of very different types of question about the image.
The conference, The Picture's Image. Scientific Visualisation as a Composite examines the role of images in the formation of knowledge. The question has become all the more urgent as with the use of computer calculations, simulation and technically complex methods of data acquisition, knowledge is produced and organized through images that cannot be acquired by the unaided naked eye. Alongside these technical aspects, however, the pictorial-cultural conditions of scientific visualisation also require historical and systematic examination, for media techniques and pictorial practices together form a kind of composite. Within the research process, this composite can be seen as a nodal point at which several elements interact. These include instruments, preparation techniques, social agreement processes, strategies of print reproduction and so on.
The panel includes Olaf Breidbach, Manfred Faßler, Hans Ulrich Reck, Gunnar Schmidt and others.
Concept and co-ordination: Markus Buschhaus, Stefan Ditzen, Inge Hinterwaldner.
The conference has received financial support from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG] and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.
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Chamberlain is a village in south-central Saskatchewan, Canada. Health Department statistics for 2003 put its population at 116 and the new census of 2006 cites 108 for the new population.
Chamberlain is notable for being the last town between Regina and Saskatoon that Highway 11, the Louis Riel Trail, still passes through. The highway narrows to two lanes and its speed limit is reduced from 110 km/h to 50 km/h. A number of small restaurants and gas stations benefit from having traffic pass through at slow speed. The town is only about half an hour drive from Moose Jaw, an hour away from Regina and one and a half hours to get to Saskatoon. Highway 11 has been re-routed around other towns.
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Enhancing the Role of Women in Political Parties The first in a series of Policy Seminars on Women's Empowerment Women's Parliamentary Caucus with support from UNDP and UN WomenMay 7, 2014
Opening Remarks delivered by Tracy Vienings
Honourable Minister Ms. Saira Tarar, Madam Secretary of the Women's Parliamentary Caucus Ms. Shaista Parvez Malik, Honourable Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Parliamentary Affairs Mr. Jahangir Badar, Honourable Chairperson of the National Assembly Committee on Parliamentary Affairs Mr. Abdul Manan, Ladies and gentlemen.
Good afternoon,
It is an honour to be here today at the inaugural seminar on women's empowerment in politics - hosted by UNDP and UN Women.
As Joanne said in her opening remarks, one of the global priorities of the UN is supporting national efforts to empower women – socially, economically and politically. This is underlined with our commitment under MDG3, to promote gender equality and empower women.
Since I arrived in Pakistan, I have been struck by the determination of women from all walks of life – from remote villages in KP, to young women entrepreneurs in Karachi, to women parliamentarians here in Islamabad – to claim their rightful role in society, assert their basic rights and ensure they have a voice in shaping the community and society in which they live.
For example, in our Refugee Affected and Housing Areas project, which focuses on peaceful co-existence between Afghan refugees and local communities until conditions in Afganistan are conducive to their return, we have established Women's Community Councils, where women from local villages get together to find solutions to common challenges such as access to water, transport electricity.
The active engagement by women in these Councils is a source of inspiration, and an example not only of the desire by women to actively engage and the need to provide platforms to enable them to do so, but also of how women's empowerment is essential to advancing development agendas and improving livelihoods.
I am sure all of us here today recognize that gender inequality and lack of women's empowerment pose major barriers to sustainable development. We see this dynamic across the world.
If there is one thing we have learned from our work in 177 countries – development goals cannot be achieved if women are denied meaningful, and active, participation in governance structures.
Here in Pakistan, the Women's Parliamentary Caucus is making a significant contribution to diminishing the gender deficit. Through their vibrant advocacy initiatives several landmark pieces of legislation on women's rights have been passed.
They are increasing the role of women in parliamentary processes, and building cross-party consensus around legislative reforms that are required to increase the participation and representation of women in politics.
Their role in improving the quality of Pakistan's democracy through the promotion of a more equal and representative political process, is a testament, not only to their determination, but also to a collective recognition that this issue transcends party politics.
Making progress to ensure women enjoy an equal role in politics and the wider society is a non-partisan issue. No single party can champion this issue if real progress is to be made.
Only through robust cross-party consensus can women's representation in the political process be increased, and inequality based on gender diminished.
And so turning to today's topic for discussion, my challenge to the representatives of political parties here today is how can Pakistan improve the number of women directly elected to general seats (from six in the last general elections) and create a level playing field for women in the electoral process? How can the under-representation of women in governance structures be addressed?
A final point I would like to make is that I am very optimistic about progress being made to enhance women's participation in all spheres in this country.
It is easy to focus too much on the negative and overlook the positive trends that are emerging which reveal a stoic determination to promote social change premised on gender equality and women's empowerment.
Today's seminar is another example of this collective commitment, and I am very much looking forward to the discussion and debate that will take place this afternoon about the role of women in political parties.
My genuine hope, however, is that today's dialogue, and subsequent dialogues, will translate into meaningful change in the not too distant future.
Thank you.


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Big Country
Like Porter Wagoner and Dolly Parton, George Jones and Tammy Wynette, and Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, Buddy and Julie Miller are one of the great duos of country. Their work is truly white American soul music of the best kind. Soul, in this sense, doesn't necessarily mean music with a funky backbeat (though on album, Buddy displays his R&B stripes from time to time), but rather music that touches the soul, and inspires and informs.
The Millers have become icons of the alt-country movement, and for good reason. Together, and with others, they pen songs that spring from and apply to real life -- the art of true country songwriting.
Buddy sings like some magical combination of George Jones and Otis Redding, full of sincerity and emotion, while Julie's quivering whisper of a voice seems to contain both a tear and a smile. Buddy is an intelligent and economical guitarist who plays only the notes that matter, understanding that the silence between the tones is just as important. He has also proved himself a gifted sideman/foil for such artists as Harris, Steve Earle and Jim Lauderdale, among others, and an incredibly savvy and sympathetic producer for his and Julie's solo recordings (not to mention on albums such as Jimmie Dale Gilmore's latest, One Endless Night).
But what imbedded this duo deep in my heart was something more personal: During the funeral for our mutual friend Donald Lindley (former drummer for Lucinda Williams), Buddy and Julie performed Julie's song "Broken Things." It was the one moment in that Mormon church when I actually felt the benevolent presence of a divine and healing God to ease me through a time of great sadness and awful spiritual confusion.
Upcoming Events
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This is the promise of one of their all-too-rare tours: The opportunity to experience a show that can be inspiring and even transformational. Buddy's devotional and tradition-minded approach to modern roots music can renew one's faith in country. And the strong spiritual undercurrent in Julie's luxuriant songs creates a sense that something greater is at work in this earthly existence. The quality of the music, and the reverence the Millers show for it, only augment their combined impact.
Transformation? Inspiration? Heavenly music? All for the price of admission? Seems like one helluva potential bargain.
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Buddy and Julie Miller perform Thursday, April 27, at McGonigel's Mucky Duck, 2425 Norfolk. For more information, call (713)528-5999.
Three Black Pimps -- Actually, Three Black Pimps is not a trio of womanizers. It is a unit of revered and renowned East Coast DJs/producers/remixers -- Africa Islam, Jesse Saunders and Tyree Cooper -- whose records have earned each member a well-deserved place in the annals of house history.
The Bronx-born Islam considers himself the "spiritual" son of legendary rap DJ Afrika Bambaataa and has produced tracks for hard hitters such as Ice-T. Chicago native Saunders is seen by many as the father of house, recording such standards as "On and On" and "Love Can't Turn Around." And fellow Chicagoan Cooper secured his title as a believer of bass when he put it to use on "Turn Up the Bass." Their reputations have made them icons across the European underground scene. This concert marks the first time these turntablists will perform together in the States. Three Black Pimps performs Saturday, April 29, at the A&M Entertainment Center, 3917 Anderson. Tickets are $15. Doors open at 8 p.m. For more information, call (713)629-3700. (Craig D. Lindsey)
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Rice with Sour Cherries (Albalu polow)
Makes 6 servings
Preparation time: 35 minutes
Cooking time: 1 hour
2 Cornish game hens or 1 frying chicken, about 3 pounds total
2 large peeled onions
1 1/4 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon ground saffron dissolved in 2 tablespoons hot water
3 8 -ounce jars, pitted sour or morello cherries in light syrup, or 4 cups dried pitted sour cherries (see sidebar note)
1 cup sugar
1 cup clarified butter (ghee) or oil
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
3 cups long-grain basmati rice
1 piece lavash bread
1 tablespoon slivered almonds
2 tablespoons slivered pistachios
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/2 cup cherry syrup
1. Stuff the hens with the whole onions and 1 teaspoon salt. Add a few
drops of the saffron water and cook in a covered baking dish in a 350°F
oven for 2 hours.
2. Drain the cherries. Place cherries and sugar in a saucepan. Cook for
35 minutes over high heat. Strain the cherries over a bowl until no
syrup remains. Save the syrup. Add 2 tablespoons butter, and cinnamon
to the cherries and set aside.
3. Clean and wash 3 cups of rice 5 times in warm water.
4. Bring 8 cups water and 2 tablespoons salt to a boil in a large,
non-stick pot. Pour the rice into the pot. Boil briskly for 6 to 10
minutes, gently stirring twice with a wooden spoon to loosen grains
stuck together. Bite a few grains. If the rice is soft, it is ready to
be drained. Drain in a large, fine-mesh colander and rinse with 2 or 3
cups lukewarm water.
5. In the same pot, place 4 tablespoons oil, 1/2 cup water and 1
tablespoon saffron water on a layer of lavash bread so that it sits
evenly over the bottom of the pot to help make a golden crust (tah dig).
6. Place 2 spatulas of rice in the pot, then add 1 spatula of cherries.
Do not add syrup. Set aside 2 spatulas of cherries for garnish.
7. Repeat, alternating layers of rice and cherries in the shape of a pyramid.
8. Cover and cook over medium heat for 10 minutes. This will help form
a golden crust on the bottom of the pan. Pour the saffron water over
the pyramid and reduce the heat.
9. Place a clean dish towel or 2 layers of paper towels over the pot;
cover firmly with the lid to prevent steam from escaping. Cook 40
minutes longer over low heat. Remove the lid and pour a mixture of 1/2
cup of cherry syrup and 1/4 cup of melted butter over the rice. Cook
for another 10 minutes.
10. Remove the pot from heat and allow to cool on a damp surface for 5
minutes without uncovering it. Take out 2 tablespoons of
saffron-flavored rice and set aside with the rest of the garnish.
12. Gently taking 1 spatula at a time, place the rice on a platter
without disturbing the crust on the bottom of the pot. Place the hens
or chicken around the rice. Mound rice in the shape of a pyramid.
Garnish with the saffron rice, cherries, almonds, and pistachios. Pour
1/4 cup hot cherry syrup and 2 tablespoons melted butter over the rice
pyramid. Detach crust from the bottom of the pot with a wooden spatula
and serve on the side. Nush-e Jan!
Variation: You may substitute meatballs for the chicken. In a bowl,
combine 1 pound ground meat with one grated onion. Add salt and pepper,
and knead well to form into tiny balls the size of hazelnuts. Brown in
a skillet in 2 tablespoons oil. Add 2 tablespoons sour cherry syrup to
it and set aside. In steps 7 and 8, add the meatballs, 1 spatula at a
time, along with the cherries and rice.
Note: In the US, sour cherries are often called tart cherries.
Note: If using fresh or frozen sour cherries, add 1/2 cup of sugar to
each pound of cherries. Cook over high heat for 35 minutes, then drain.
If using dried sour cherries, add 2 tablespoons butter and cup sour
cherry syrup and cook over medium heat for 5 minutes. If using sour
cherries in light syrup, drain and discard syrup. Add 1 cup sugar, boil
over medium heat for 30 minutes, drain and save the syrup. If using
sour cherries in heavy syrup, do not add sugar. Do not cook the sour
cherries; just add 1/2 cup hot water to the cherries to dilute the
syrup, then drain them for further use, because the syrup is too sweet
to use on its own.
Recipe excerpted from New Food of Life: Ancient Persian & Modern
Iranian Cooking & Ceremonies or Silk Road Cooking: a Vegetarian
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In this work, we explore to the possibility of using accurate ground surface gravity measurements as a means to quantify and monitor water storage changes. Surface gravity measurements directly reflect the integrated amount of water masses at plot scales (several hundred meters), and so could provide additional information for a better understanding of hydrological processes. A superconducting gravimeter, located on the summit of a hill near Strasbourg (Eastern France), has been equipped with two multi-depth frequency domain reflectometer (FDR) probes. These probes have been monitoring variations of the water content of the soil column, since August 2006. The geometry of the land surface element has also been detailed: a 10cm-resolution local digital elevation model (DEM) has been established using differential GPS. The geometry and heterogeneity of the soil layer have been evaluated using geophysical and geomechanical methods. This collective information enables setting up the land surface model CLSM (Catchment-based Land Surface Model) to calculate water budget and thus evaluate real evapotranspiration and lateral subsurface water fluxes at the scale of the hill.
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