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Carlos Sandoval
Carlos Sandoval Mendoza (born 1956, Mexico City) Is a Mexican/German freelance composer and multimedia artist mostly recognized for his work joining technology, nature and art.
Biography and Work[edit]
Carlos Sandoval was born in an archetypal barrio in downtown Mexico city. Since his childhood he was exposed to harrowing social and cultural conditions which were later reflected in his work.[1] He has lived in Mexico City (1956–64), Cuernavaca City (1964–78 and 1983-03), New York City (1979), Vienna (1980–82), Los Angeles California (1983) and Berlin, Germany (2003–present). In 2009 he became a German citizen and now holds a dual Mexican-German passport/nationality. Having abandoned his studies at Escuela Nacional de Música UNAM 1976-79 (classical guitar and composition), Sandoval went on to study composition, analysis and theory, privately, with Julio Estrada (1985–90). He also assisted and took part in private sessions with a number of composers, including Brian Ferneyhough, Joji Yuasa, Peter Garland, Lorenc Barber, Leo Brouwer, François Bernard Mâche, James Tenney, Stefano Scodanibio and Iannis Xenakis. Sandoval is among a few active Mexican composers of his generation who did not receive education primarily in Europe or the US and have no formal degree in composing. He did however, eventually take up studying in Europe, where he learnt Piano tuning and construction at the Bösendorfer Klavier Fabrik in Vienna (1980–82). This stint, rather than the "Vienna School")[2] changed his outlook on music in general. Later on As photo- and videographer he studied with Fabri (Austria), Sirgo (Mexico) and Fathi (Berlin). His work has been shown mostly in Germany but also in Mexico, France, UK and The Netherlands. Since 1999, with no interruption, he has been fellow of the SNCA which is the highest recognition awarded to Mexican artists by the Mexican Government. He also worked as an assistant to Conlon Nancarrow (1991–94). He has been invited to take part numerous events and contemporary music festivals such as Darmstadt Summer Courses (1990 Germany), Donaueschingen Musik Tage (1994 Germany), and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2009, UK, headlining), among others. He is an author of multiple articles and essays about music. Recently, Sandoval has been focusing on combining both music and video, "Maquina Latina" being his last piece.
Early Work — Estradian-Xenakian period (1987-1990)[edit]
His early work can be identified with Julio Estrada's Techniques and the Xenakian school and includes the use of Cartesian graphics representing sonic trajectories and its evolutions, multi parametrics (utilizing several simultaneous performance and compositional resources in a single line or stave) as well as internal sonic imagination analysis.[3] "Ginantria", for cello solo, 1990, is the best example of this period. A number of out-of-cataloque pieces also belong to this stage:
- "Traepes", 1985, 4:58", Glissandi studies, made before his studies). Chamula harp and tuning forks.
- "Filos", 1987–89, 12:00" Chamber concert, never premiered.
- "Lomos", 1989, 7:35" UPIC System
- "Ginantria", 1990, 12:05" Violoncello.[4]
- "Homenaje", 1991, 7:39" UPIC system[5]
Postmodern-Synthesis Period (1993-04)[edit]
In 1991 Sandoval met Conlon Nancarrow and began work as his assistant (1991–94).[6] The influence of Nancarrow´s music was strong at this time while some remains of Xenakian style were also present. Sandoval´s musical thinking began to lose channelization.[7] This lack of "school", "channelized impulse" or "Style" ("Style is just a super thin ham slice between your "freedom" and your own limitations" (Sandoval, 2009)[8]) remained a characteristic of his work and can be easily identified with a radical postmodern approach. Besides this, it took Sandoval almost four years to assimilate and synthesize the influence of both Estrada and Nancarrow, apparently the polar opposites of one another but in fact both belonging to a Cartesian, rational, object-oriented way of thinking.[9] Sandoval's music from this period is described well by the list of 16 postmodern music characteristics defined by Kramer (Kramer 2002, 16–17).[10] Between 2002 and 2003, just prior to relocating to Germany, Sandoval published two of his "manifestos": "Imaginación, análisis y posmodernismo"[11] and "De la fenomenología al ejercicio estético, o una apología del cinismo".[12]
Still in Catalogue from the "Fellini Circus Series":
- "Slow piece for Player Piano", 1993, Player piano.
- "Fast Piece for Player Piano", 1993, 6:23" Player piano[13]
- "Fast Piece for computer controlled acoustical instruments", 1994, 6:23", pf., xil., barrel organ, vib. and accordion.
- "La Pasión Según la Gente", 1999, 25:27" Indian Brass band, Cl, B.cl, percusión and tape[14]
- "8to-01", 2000-01: Ca. 15:00", Flute, G FLute, Cl., B. Cl., Pf and string quitent.
- "CcMd-01", 2002, 13:47" String quartet and CD. Premiered by the Arditti String Quartet.
- "PfMd-01", 2001, 16:35", Piano and CD.
- "Pf-03", 2002, 7:49", Piano.
- "Bcl-01", 2002, 7:49", Bass Clarinet.
- "KPmd01", 2002–03, Ca. 15:00", Orchestra, piano and tape.
- "K-02" 2004, Ca. 10:.00", Orchestra and toy airplanes.
- "K-03" 2005, Ca. 9:.00", Orchestra.
Still in catalogue transition pieces:
- "Negative Study for Sensible Hands", 1996, Sensors on Hands, first gloves prototype.
- "Suite Antimodem", 1997, 50:00", ETC-ETC Ensemble. Bio-energetics, disposition and improvisation.
- "Pf-01", 1998, 7:58", Piano,[15]
- "Pf-02", 1999, 7:49", (Huitzilac period) Piano,[16]
German Period 1 (2003-2007)[edit]
Carlos Sandoval moved to Berlin, Germany in September 2003. His first German project was "Mextoys", 2003–04, 80:00", commissioned by the Festival Eigenarten and the Culture Ministry in Hamburg and premiered at the city's prestigious Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg. Although this piece had three background works ("Negative Study for Sensitive Hands", 1996, "Suite Antimoden", 1997 and "La Pasión Según la Gente", 1999), it constituted a breakthrough in Sandoval's work: it was his first true "phenomenological" work, his first full multimedia piece and his first work joining video and music into a single conceptual and constructive layer. This point marked Sandoval's departure from traditional score writing and deterministic thinking, towards developing either an experience-oriented cognitive approach to music and a cognitive Piagetian approach to animism towards music and life in general, within concepts like "Lifework", "Empathy and Subjectivity", "Evidence", "Intuition", "Intentionality of consciousness" and, last but not least, Technoethics, opposed to a strict "Artificial Intelligence" objective, non-experience based approach ("...AI algorithms do not make sense by itself. It is the assumed, and forgotten, horizon of everyday practice that make technological devices and solutions show up as meaningful." See Dreyfuss).
Jean Piaget´s theories of language as an object and the cognitive inability to distinguish the external world from one's own psyche, had a strong influence in Sandoval's work in this period.[17]
- "Mex-toys", 2003–04, three movements., 80:00", percussion, dance, video and tape. Scenes from videoclips projected during the performance are reenacted live by the musicians performing on stage.
- "The Birth of a Ship", 2006, 25:00", Ships as living organisms and percussion instruments. Lange Nacht der Museen, Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin and the TU Studio Berlin.
- "Die Schaukel", 2007, 3:08:06" Improvised ritual, sound installation, stage actions and live electronics. Bauhaus Naunynstr. Interaktion Festival, Initiative Neue Music, The Tilt.
- "Petenera", 2004, 11:50", guitar, toy guitar, tuning-fork, tape and stage action, in two movements. The guitarist becomes a mother, the toy guitar the baby.
- "Qu Vara", 2004, 10:14" trombone, water, saliva, tape and stage actions
- "Qu Trompa", 2007, 10:14" Trumpet, water, saliva, tape and stage actions
German Period 2 (2006-2012)[edit]
While living in Berlin, Sandoval met a number of computer-science specialists and began developing work incorporating the use of sensors. His third "manifesto", published in Germany in 2009[18] intejects cultural, artistic and political values to the pure act of sonification via the use of technology. His work incorporating living trees, accelerometers and hands equipped with tactile sensors is based on random-picking software, and adds a mystical quality to the otherwise objective process of transduction of physical phenomena.
- "Sotavento", 2006, no duration. International network of sounding trees. Tree installation in Florence, Italy, Berlin, Germany and San Luis Potosí, Mexico. With the support of the TU electronic studio, Berlin, the GSLI in Florence and the Festival de San Luis in Mexico.
- "Baumberauschen", 2007, No duration. Three networked trees. Commissioned by the European Union's "Soziale Stadt" program, throughout the "Kunst : Identität" project.
- "The body", 2007 Gloves with sensors and a female body as a musical instrument, Ca 20:00"
- "Mosaicos" 1 and 2", 2008, Ca. 20:00" Chamber ensemble, any instruments and gloves with tactile sensors.
- "Die basta-Zeiten sind vorbei", 2008, Ca. 22:00" Chamber ensemble, any instruments and gloves with tactile sensors.
- "Baumberauschen 2", 2009, Sound installation. Trees with accelerometers.
- "Klangkaskaden", 2010, Sound installation. Trees with accelerometers.
- "8to-02", 2010–11, 6:22", String quartet, 2 trombones, 2 double basses.
- "The forest is above the man", in four independent parts: 2008-09 Part I: "The myth of Globalization", open duration. Fl, Ob, Cl, Bss, Trp 1 and 2, Sx ten, Sx Bar, Trb1 and 2, Piano and perc. Part II: "The myth of Alienation", open duration. Fl, Ob, Cl, Percussion, Piano, String quintet and piano.
- "The forest is above the man", in four independent parts: Part III: 2009-10 "The myth of lacking of time", open duration Fl, Cl, Ob, Bs, P, String quartet Percussions 1 and 2. Part IV: "The myth of relativity", open duration, string quartet.
- "The forest is above the man, Epilogue", 2012, 12:00", two tubas, two trombones and tape.
- "The Mexican Wave", 2012, 9:00", string quintet (from one to five musicians pro stave)and tape.
German Period 3 (2014-)[edit]
A Sandoval's stye is clearer in this period. As Saxer explains: "Antipodal to the overall tendency to instrumental theatre in media-integrative music, the Live-actions by Sandoval are combined with highly manipulated stop-motion video parts in such a way the "normal", real-time of the live-performance becomes a special emphasis." [19]
The pieces in this period deal, Sandoval dixit, with what is called (in Decision Field Theory) "violations of stochastic dominance" or "violations of independence between alternatives". Notwithstanding the stringency of the score and the unstable metronomes, these "violations of stochastic dominance" do happen because of cognitive (and other non-statistical-rational) factors. "Maquina Latina", for instance, is based on nested (Matryoshka-doll style) musician-generated metronomic inaccuracies. "Teleprompter" is based on, as Sandoval call it "isolated-musicians synchronization" and "AntiLegos", a series of 3 autonomous pieces, is based on strictly planned discursive contradictions. The raw "mother-cell" composition materials in all cases where video-generated by the performers themselves reading open scores.
- "Maquina Latina", 2014, Ca. 15:00", for Piano, Time-lapse video and Tape. An Ernst Surberg commission kindly supported by the Sistema Nacional de Creadores (FONCA, México. Premiered November 2013 at the Piano +, Imatronic Festival of Electronic Music", ZKM, Karlsruhe.
- "Teleprompter", 2015, Ca. 2:54", for soloists ensemble (Ob, Cl, detuned Keyboard, Perc., Viola and Violin), video (with same performers, cloned) and tape. Commissioned by the German NDR´s for the Festival "Das Neue Werk". Premiered at the "Resonanzraum" St. Pauli, in Hamburg by the Ensemble Mosaik. Second version kindly supported by the Sistema Nacional de Creadores, FONCA. Premiere at the Akademie der Künste Berlin, by the Ensemble Mosaik.
- "AntiLegos Part One", 2015, Ca. 2:54", for detuned keyboard, video (with same performer, cloned) and Tape. Commissioned by the Ensemble Mosaik. Premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2015.
- "AntiLegos Part two", 2015, Ca. 4:18" for Oboe and Violin, Video (with same performers, cloned) and tape. Commissioned by the Ensemble Mosaik. Premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2015.
- "AntiLegos Part three", 2015, Ca. 4:40" for Bb Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Viola, Video (with same performers, cloned) and tape. Commissioned by the Ensemble Mosaik. Premiered at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2015.
Video works[edit]
- "Lips" (Video, Color, HD, 13:57", edited and modified voice improvisations by Almut Khüne, Germany 2011).
- "Hidden 2" (Video, Color, HD, 4:57", featuring Charlote Grude, Germany 2011).
- "Ursula" (Video, Color & BW, HD, 30:00", Germany, 2010).
- "Hidden 1" (3:29", Color, Video HD, Mexico-Germany, 2010).
- "Doña Soco, her Mother and the chicken. Three non-fiction portraits" (16:05", Video, Color, Mexico-Germany, 2003–09).
- "Dream" (6:05", Video, Mexico-Germany, 2001–2009).
- "La Pasión según la gente" (18:05", video, Color, Mexico 2001-2003).
- "Mextoys 1" (5:00", video, Color, Mexico 2004).
- "Mextoys 2" (5:00", video, color, Mexico 2004).
- "O cigarro de Möbius", 2013, in The Marvellous Transatlantic, Ápice AP 002. Collaboration with the Mexican anti-ensamble Genración Espontánea. Mexico.
- "Petenera", 2011, in Pages acoustiques, Christelle Sery, Guitar. SACM, XTL001/1, France.
- "PfMd 01, por piano et band", 2009, in 17 Mars 2009, Théâtre d'Orléans, Concours International de piano d'Orleans. France
- "Liz-Mix" Electroacoustic piece, 2009, in Ready Media: hacia una arqueologia de los medios y la invencion en Mexico, Laboratorio de Arte Alameda, Mexico City,
- "Chillida", 2004, continuous loop, electroacoustic piece using a never-repeating simultaneous 2-CDs looping, in Danilo Veras, puntos Comas Acentos Palabras , DVD, Facultad de Arquitectura, Palmera Films, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
- "La Pasión Según la Gente", 2002, in La Pasión según la gente y otras obras, Quindecim, PACMyC, Sireña, monographic CD, Mexico
- "Homenaje", 2002, in De vez en vez, SACM, Quindecim, track 4, Mexico
- "Fast Piece", 1994, in Donaueschinger MusikTage 1994, Col Legno Produktion, WWE-3CD-31882, track 1, Germany.
- "Cien Años de Nancarrow" La Tempestad, Arts Magazine, Mexico City, December 2012.
- "Heimat? Identität?" Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, p.p. 40-45. The German translation of "Composición y Colonialismo hoy?". Germany 2009.
- "Composición y colonialismo hoy?" Pauta, Music Magazine, 2008.
- "Música electrónica en vivo: gesto, inexpresividad y cinismo en la música del siglo XXI" Pauta, 100, p.p. 37-47, 2006.
- "De la fenomenología al ejercicio estético, o una apología del cinismo" Artelugio 2002, versión revisada y publicada en Pauta, 2005.
- "Imaginación, análisis y posmodernismo" Artelugio 2002; (versión revisada, Pauta, 2005).
- "Suena el tambor, ladran los perros", in La pasión según la gente, booklet, 2001, Quindecim Recordings
- "Nancarrow, Samuel Conlon", Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoame-ricana, Madrid 2000.
- "Estrada, Julio", Diccionario de la Música Española e Hispanoamericana, Madrid 2000.
- "Conlon + Tiempo = Nancarrow", Mexico City, Pauta, Music Magazine, 50-51, pp. 148–178. 1994.
- "Música Nueva en México", Cultural supplement "La Comunidad", 177, Newspaper La Opinión, Los Angeles, 1983.
- "La nueva Canción", Cultural supplement "La Comunidad", 152, Newspaper La Opinión, Los Angeles 1983.
External links[edit]
- Carlos Sandoval 's personal website With catalog, activities, sound-examples and video.
- Nature, Art and Technology Music with trees and sensors
- Audio-portrait of Carlos Sandoval Produced by CastYourArt.com
- Carlos Sanoval's You Tube channel
- Carlos Sandoval's Nancarrow´s site Specific information on Nancarrow's studio, music library (databased) and other very specific issues regarding his work with Conlon Nancarrow.
- ^ "(…)I was born in one of the poorest barrios in Mexico City and had an unstable primary education. Since there were six of us children and the resources were very limited, my parents decided to subscribe only one of us at a time, each year, to the first Freinet active-school in Mexico City, a very expensive one.(…) Growing up, I have always lived in between two extremes: the incredibly violent street life in the barrio and the most delicate family friends like David Alfaro Siqueiros, Leopoldo Méndez, Elena Huerta, Pablo O'higgins, Elizabeth Cattlet, Mariana Yampolsky and others. I cannot imagine this fact not having some kind of an influence, or a role later in my artistic life." Ituarte Maru, "Interview with Carlos Sandoval (In Spanish, German subtitles), HD Video, 2010, 24:15", http://vimeo.com/17957124
- ^ Ibid., Ituarte, Maru, 2010
- ^ Sandoval, Carlos: "Los Yuunohui: un acercamiento al continuo en la obra de Julio Estrada", 80pp, DGAPA/IIMAS/IIE, UNAM, 1992.
- ^ Sandoval, Carlos: "Ginantria", in La Pasión según la gente, Quindecim, QDO 1153, PACMyC, Sireña, México.
- ^ Sandoval, Carlos: "Homenaje", in De vez en Vez, Quindecim, SACM, 2002.
- ^ Hocker, Jürgen, Begegnungen mit Conlon Nancarrow Schott Musik International, Mainz 2002. 294pp.
- ^ Tosi, Michèle, "...une pièce mixte au titre très énigmatique – l'absence de notes de programme préserve tout le mystère ! - du compositeur mexicain présent dans la salle Carlos Sandoval Mendoza. PfMd-01 se nourrit des contrastes plus ou moins radicaux entre une partie de piano aux ambiances pastorales et légèrement «détempérées», diffusée en continu par les hauts parleurs, et les interventions du pianiste dont la brillance du jeu et la fulgurance du geste rehaussent l'intérêt d'une écriture parfois peu canalisée" in "Grands Prix « Piano d'Orléans » 2009" http://www.resmusica.com/2009/03/19/grands-prix-piano-dorleans/
- ^ Woschnick, Thomas, "Carlos Sandoval: setting in Motion", interview in Cast your Art http://www.castyourart.com/en/2009/04/08/carlos-sandoval-setting-in-motion/
- ^ Ibid, Ituarte, Maru.
- ^ Kramer, Jonathan. 2002. "The Nature and Origins of Musical Postmodernism." In Postmodern Music/Postmodern Thought, edited by Judy Lochhead and Joseph Aunder, 13–26. New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-8153-3820-1 Reprinted from Current Musicology no. 66 (Spring 1999): 7–20. "1. Is not simply a repudiation of modernism or its continuation, but has aspects of both a break and an extension 2. Is, on some level and in some way, ironic. 3. Does not respect boundaries between sonorities and procedures of the past and of the present 4. Challenges barriers between 'high' and 'low' styles. 5. Shows disdain for the often unquestioned value of structural unity. 6. Questions the mutual exclusivity of elitist and populist values. 7. Avoids totalizing forms (e.g., does not want entire pieces to be tonal or serial or cast in a prescribed formal mold). 8. Considers music not as autonomous but as relevant to cultural, social, and political contexts. 9. Includes quotations of or references to music of many traditions and cultures. 10. Considers technology not only as a way to preserve and transmit music but also as deeply implicated in the production and essence of music. 11. Embraces contradictions. 12. Distrusts binary oppositions. 13. Includes fragmentations and discontinuities. 14. Encompasses pluralism and eclecticism. 15. Presents multiple meanings and multiple temporalities. 16. Locates meaning and even structure in listeners, more than in scores, performances, or composers."
- ^ Sandoval, Carlos, "Imaginación, Análisis y Posmodernismo" Artelugio Magazine, Querétaro City, 2002. Revised version: Pauta Magazine. Mexico City, 2005.
- ^ Sandoval, Carlos, "De la fenomenología al ejercicio estético, o una apología del cinismo", Artelugio Magazine, Querétaro City, 2002. (Revised edition in Pauta Magazine, Mexico City, 2005). http://www.carlos-sandoval.de/pdf/La_catastrofe_web.pdf
- ^ Sandoval. Carlos, "Fast Piece", in Donaueschinger Musik Tage 1994 CD 1, Track 01, Col Legno, WWE 3CD 31882.
- ^ "La Pasión Según la Gente" SACM, Quindecim Recordings QD01153, PACMYC, Mexico, Sireña, Track 01.
- ^ Sandoval, Carlos: "Pf-01", in La Pasión según la gente, Quindecim, QDO 1153, PACMyC, Sireña, México.
- ^ Sandoval, Carlos: "Pf-02", in La Pasión según la gente, Quindecim, QDO 1153, PACMyC, Sireña, México.
- ^ Sandoval, Carlos, "Imaginacion, Análisis y Posmodernismo", Artelugio Magazine, Queretaro Citi, UAQ, 2002. Revised edition in Pauta Magazine, Mexico City, 2005)
- ^ Sandoval, Carlos, "Heimat, Identität?", Neue zeitschrift für Musik, 1-2009, p. 40-45. Germany
- ^ Saxer, Marion "Präsenz und ihre Reflexion" in "Positionen, Texte zur aktuelle Musik / 107, Live Liveness", Verlag Positionen, Mai 2016


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Osborne Urged to Refrain From More Austerity to Meet Debt Rule
U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne should abandon his debt target rather than risk damaging the economic recovery by introducing new austerity measures, according to a Bloomberg News survey of economists.
All except one of 18 economists polled between Sept. 21 and Sept. 28 said missing the goal of starting to bring down government debt as a share of output by 2015-16 is preferable to extra spending cuts at a time when the economy is mired in recession. Most said further austerity would alarm investors more than letting the debt target go, which may risk the U.K.'s top credit rating.
"There are no easy options for the government here," said Melanie Baker, chief U.K. economist at Morgan Stanley in London. "The least worst option, we think, would be to stick to the existing austerity plans and make no attempt to repair the fiscal slippage."
The findings provide leeway for Osborne as a weaker-than-forecast economy blows his fiscal planning off course, threatening a key plank of the deficit-reduction strategy created after the Conservative-led government took office in 2010. Bank of England Governor Mervyn King said last month it may be "acceptable" for Osborne to miss the debt goal if there is a genuine excuse.
Only economist Philip Rush at Nomura International Plc in London said Osborne should introduce further cuts rather than ditch the debt target.
Balance of Risks
The survey was almost as conclusive in forecasting how financial markets would react, with 13 of the 18 economists saying further austerity would unsettle investors more than allowing some slippage in the debt target. Three said missing the target would hurt gilts and jeopardize Britain's top credit rating, while giving a boost to equities and the pound.
"If the chancellor sticks to the existing fiscal consolidation path the economy will probably stay weak anyway and the deficit slippage would probably cause the U.K. to miss its debt rule," said Michael Saunders, chief European economist at Citigroup Inc. in London. The U.K. "may well lose its top-notch credit rating."
Osborne is due to make a statement to Parliament on Dec. 5 after receiving revised fiscal and economic forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility. The fiscal watchdog will say whether he has a realistic chance of meeting the debt target. In March, the OBR predicted debt would peak at 76.3 percent of gross domestic product in 2014-15 and begin falling the following year.
Osborne's Decision
Osborne would have to decide whether letting the target slip would scare investors and drive up borrowing costs or be seen as a sensible move given the fragility of the economy.
Last year, Osborne was forced to announce an additional 23 billion pounds ($37 billion) of spending cuts and extend his plan to balance the budget by two years, meaning austerity will continue well beyond the next general election in 2015.
The U.K. economy has fared far worse than the government predicted and is set to shrink this year for the first time since 2009 as budget cuts bite and the euro-region crisis hits demand in the biggest market for British exports.
GDP shrank 0.4 percent between April and June, the third consecutive quarter of contraction. Weak tax revenue left the budget deficit in the first five months of the fiscal year 20 percent higher than a year earlier, putting Osborne on course to miss his full-year target of 120 billion pounds, according to economists.
The dilemma facing Osborne was underscored when Fitch Ratings said on Sept. 28 the country faces an increased risk of losing its AAA rating. It predicted government debt will peak at a higher level and later than it previously thought.
Deficit-reduction efforts are "standing still" and the pound could come under pressure if investors lose confidence in the fiscal plans and the economic recovery, Fitch Managing Director David Riley said.


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You can't judge a book by its cover. Or can you? From his on-court antics to what is perceived as a clear DGAF attitude that he portrays off the court, Marshall Henderson is now being referred to by the media and public as the "Bad Boy of the NCAA." But does that title really define who the 22-year-old actually is? The answer isn't as obvious as you think.
To understand the Marshall Henderson you see today, you need to comprehend his past. When he played for Bell High School in Hurst, TX, Henderson's father served as the team's head coach. While the tutelage proved to be valuable for his game, given the fact that Marshall averaged 25.8 points, 5.0 rebounds, 5.1 assists and 3.8 steals, as well as being named All-County and District MVP in his senior year, Henderson was also battling issues outside the game of basketball. In an interview with the Lexington Herald-Leader, Henderson admitted that playing with his father was "freakin' miserable" and while his stats and accolades began to pile up, things at home got so miserable he left his parents' house.
During this time of uncertainty, Henderson's life took a downward spiral which included trying to buy 57 grams of marijuana with $800 in fake money, twice, and tried to exchange $100 of those counterfeit bills for real ones. He was charged with a misdemeanor account of forgery. Looking back at the situation, Henderson doesn't brag or find humor in it all. Instead, Henderson came to the realization that he was "definitely on the wrong path" and "it really opened my eyes to how much of an idiot I was being." Is he alone in learning the hard way by getting arrested? No. In fact, according to a December 2011 ABC News report, "by age 23, up to 41 percent of American adolescents and young adults have been arrested at least once for something other than a minor traffic violation."
Henderson followed that same trend, got in trouble and paid the price, but through it all, realized the error of his ways. Hardly the work of the prototypical "bad boy."
Of course, every success story has its ups and downs along the way. In January 2012, Henderson tested positive for cocaine, marijuana and alcohol, and was forced to serve 25 days in jail for violating his probation. Now, we're not saying that failing a drug test isn't bad, however, no one can condemn him for it when schools like Syracuse University are currently getting investigated for a wide-range of issues, including drug-related violations, and the University of Oregon was mired in widespread marijuana usage among students and athletes in 2012. Drug usage on campus is still alive, the coaches and athletic departments just conceal it.
Also, when it comes to campus life, people have ridiculed Henderson for openly speaking about his extra-curricular activities, which include dominating at the beer pong table or getting some, uh, attention from ladies on Twitter. But when did athletes engaging in sex or drinking while in college become so surprising? In this day and age of social media, more and more "private" matters are being aired out for the whole world to see. So, when you're fighting a losing battle with social media, why not embrace it whole-heartily like Henderson? At least we're not being tricked into believing something that isn't true. *cough, Tim Tebow's a virgin, cough*


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Chargers sign Britt
The Chargers signed fifth-round draft pick Wesley Britt, an offensive tackle from Alabama, to a three-year contract.
The Chargers selected the 6-foot-8, 314-pound Britt with the 164th overall choice. He was a four-year starter for the Crimson Tide.
Britt is the Chargers' third draft pick to sign a contract. Sixth-round selection Wes Sims, a guard from Oklahoma, and center Scott Mruczkowski, a seventh-round pick from Bowling Green, each signed earlier this month.


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RSS Feeds
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- Allow harvesting for Open Archive [1] to allow syndication by e.g. Scientific Commons http://www.scientificcommons.org
- Introduce OpenID [2], give two trust levels for it, implementation can be done e.g. with https://rpxnow.com/ or http://openidenabled.com/php-openid
- investigate furtehr options to check ID and determine Trust Level at RC. Candidates are: Trufina http://www.trufina.com/ , credit card clearing, mobile phone number check
- Fetch work from URL
- Link tool for social network portals (to embed html code or add bookmark etc) such as http://www.addthis.com/customization.php
- Offer to user, when looking at own work, to register another release of the work (for example a new version or using another resolution or codec), taking all metadata from current work
- Drag & Drop registration from desktop (watch out for solutions at www.Safecreative.com)
- Find similar / altered releases of work (investigate 3rd party solutions)
- Bulk registration (client for all platforms?)
- REST-style web services API, at least for fetching information
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All those features went live in spring 2009 after a beta testing phase. For details what we have done see Licensing Refinements.
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Granting a scholarship to the spouse:
A student can apply for a scholarship for his/her spouse if they meet the following criteria:
- If the study is for undergraduate level or above.
- To be admitted in an accredited institution and all financial benefits start at the approval of the scholarship.
- Tuitions for the ESL level are paid for the spouse while she/he is waiting to get an admission in the following specialties: Medicine, Pharmacy, mathematics, accounting, computer science, law, English, health science, special education, health management, communication, architecture.
- A scholarship could be granted for other than the above mentioned majors pending on the following conditions:
- If the student has studied two years in one of the majors that is not included above.
- If the student has a full admission from one of the accredited universities by MOHE.
- If the student has no less than 40 transferable credits.
- If the wife is pursuing graduate studies, then she is entitled to the scholarship if her major is taught in one of the women universities in Saudi Arabia.
- A scholarship could be extended for one year in the case that the spouse finishes his study before she could complete the requirements of the graduation.
As for the spouses who have no high school diploma, they can study one of the following:
Computer, languages, medical records, first aid emergency, nursing, nutrition, home design and library, etc. In the cases above tuition will only be paid subject to a full attendance in these courses


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Extended Nicotine Patch Use Helps Some Smokers QuitApril 20, 2010 in Medicine & Health / Health
(PhysOrg.com) -- Quitting smoking is a hard task for anyone, but tailored cessation therapy may increase an individual's chance of success, according to Caryn Lerman, PhD, Mary W. Calkins Professor of Psychiatry and Deputy Director of the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Over the last several years, Lerman and colleagues have found that individuals who metabolize nicotine relatively slowly benefit from nicotine patch therapy more than people who metabolize it quickly. The fast metabolizers do better with drug therapy, such as bupropion (Zyban), as compared with the patch.
Now, in a randomized blinded clinical trial, Lerman's team found that slow metabolizers benefit from extended treatment with the patch, according to findings presented at the American Association of Cancer Research meeting this week. At the end of six months of therapy, slow metabolizers who had six months of therapy were more than twice as likely to be abstinent as were slow metabolizers who had had only eight weeks of patch therapy followed by placebo patch for the remainder of the time. However, six months after therapy stopped for everyone there was no longer a difference between the treatment groups.
"Extended therapy helps people stay quit and recover from lapses, but it only works as long as people are on it," says Lerman, who presented these data at a session on Tuesday, April 20th, devoted to lung cancer risk and addiction. "Those data lead to the compelling question of whether some smokers should be on nicotine patch therapy for the long term." Lerman says the new data suggest that the guidelines for nicotine replacement therapy need to be reconsidered so that patients receive therapy longer than the current standard of eight weeks.
The team saw no difference in response to short or extended duration in fast metabolizers, further supporting their past results indicating that these individuals, which make up three-quarters of the population, need a different type of treatment. With that in mind, Lerman's team is planning a nation-wide randomized trial to test the effectiveness of tailoring treatment - patch versus drug therapy - based on an individual's nicotine metabolism rate.
Provided by University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
"Extended Nicotine Patch Use Helps Some Smokers Quit" April 20, 2010 http://phys.org/news/2010-04-nicotine-patch-smokers.html


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Ni no Kuni II Announced For PS4
Today at the PlayStation Experience, developer Level-5 announced Ni no Kuni II, a sequel to the lovely cartoon role-playing game they developed in coordination with the talented animators at Studio Ghibli.
Today at the PlayStation Experience, developer Level-5 announced Ni no Kuni II, a sequel to the lovely cartoon role-playing game they developed in coordination with the talented animators at Studio Ghibli.
From Ni no Kuni to Pokémon, we're talking all things JRPG on today's Very Special Edition of Random Encounters slash Burning Questions slash Kirk And Jason Talk About JRPGs For A While.
This is pretty incredible: 23-year-old musician Sam Joseph Delves put together an orchestra and re-scored the RPG Ni no Kuni in its entirety.
With all the top-notch game engines out there, and next-gen on the horizon, video games are impressive in both their technology and their art. But let's play around with c64yourself to squeeze recently released games into an old timey skin anyway.
This nifty-looking iPhone app breaks down all of Ni no Kuni's collectable familiars in a helpful guide.
This weekend, I came upon a curious conversation: a stranger telling a friend of mine if they wanted to play Fire Emblem: Awakening for the "throwaway romantic skits," that they were doing it wrong. And all I could think was: those "throwaway" skits are the only reason I care about that game!
What's more adorable than Ni no Kuni? Homemade Ni no Kuni arts and crafts.
The first time I heard the battle music in Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, I thought, "Ugh."
When playing video games, it's easy to get caught up in the notion of utility. Is this ability useful to me, does this skill make my character more powerful, will it improve the ratio of my numbers to my opponents' numbers, robot, robot, numbers, beep, boop, etc.
Today, possibly to coincide with the release of my Ni no Kuni review, but probably not, the folks at publisher Namco Bandai made two announcements.
It would be easy, while reviewing Ni no Kuni, to sit at my desk and fling adjectives on the page like a fantasy novelist. I'd call the game whimsical, charming, beautiful, fascinating, smart, pleasant, challenging, slow-paced, grand, surreal, and aggressively colorful.
Thanks to My Inner Fred for making this "Official Pro Wizard" video of Ni no Kuni. (It's somewhat spoilery, in that it shows some stuff from after the first act.)
The splendid new role-playing game Ni no Kuni is, in many ways, a game about stories. It's a fairy tale of the purest sort, full of morals and messages, overflowing with heart. So it's fitting that within the game lies a book filled with richly-drawn fairy tales.
No doubt about it: we all love video game world-maps. That moment when you first set foot into a game's wide blue yonder and see just how far the horizon goes… it's magic.
I'm a sucker for sidequests in Ni no Kuni. I blame the stamps. In the game, each time you do a sidequest, you get a number of "merit stamps" on your stamp-card, and if you fill out a card, you can trade it in for power-ups. The tougher the sidequest, the more stamps you get.
I heard this one thing this one time. I heard that Ni no Kuni is whimsical? Have you heard that? I dunno man, I just heard it randomly somewhere.
This morning, I got an e-mail from a Kotaku reader named Jaime.
There's a lot to love about Ni no Kuni, the wonderful PlayStation 3 role-playing game that came out last Tuesday.
Fans were not pleased this week when they learned that their orders of Ni no Kuni Wizard's Edition were cancelled due to stock shortage. Some were puzzled as to why an eBay merchant, Play Canada, was able to get hundreds of copies of the game; many postulated that there was something sketchy going on.


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I have come to think that Japanese people are definitely not as cool as one might think they are if one only superficially knows about them, and I have even come to dislike Japanese society a bit as well, but I do think that the doujin world is something that the western world lacks. Regardless of whatever "quality" or "meaningfulness" Touhou has, it is, unlike everything else, fundamentally something non-commercial - shall we say "anti-commercial"? According to this, ZUN himself has said that the two biggest reasons for Touhou's popularity is:
- 続編のつくりやすさ - translation: The ease in making continuation [i. e. derivative] works
- アンチ商業 - translation: anti-commercial (As it is not commercial, it is anti-commercial)
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With another spike that sent the average price of a gallon of gasoline rocketing to $3.81, President Barack Obama reluctantly pulled himself away from his NCAA Basketball Tournament bracket late last week to make a campaign appearance where he defended the defenseless - his energy policy.
And once again, the president proves he is clueless about what his policies are doing to the average American working family. Rising energy costs not only increase the cost of the fuel we put into our vehicles, but add to every other expense, also.
Yes, the Middle East situation has caused the price of a barrel of crude oil to rise over the past several months. But we have known for years instability in that region causes prices to fluctuate. Past administrations - even Democratic ones - have attempted to increase our domestic output to guard against this. Obama not only has turned his back on domestic production, he has used every means at his disposal to make domestic production harder to accomplish by imposing crippling regulations issued by unelected bureaucrats in charge of federal agencies, like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Lisa Jackson and Energy Secretary Steven Chu, both vocal enemies of fossil fuels, as anyone who lives in coal country already knows.
Because of regulations, it is cheaper for oil producers to export their products overseas than to make them available for U.S. consumption.
This is Obama's energy policy.
Obama refuses to take the blame for the higher gasoline prices. According to his Neverland view, he says we are producing more oil now that at any time in the past eight years and has quadrupled the number of operating oil rigs. What he fails to mention is these were put into motion by former President George W. Bush's administration. Very few have been approved under his.
Obama and his faithful continue to believe Americans are clueless. Like a magician, he hopes we continue to admire the trick - and not realize it is being accomplished is by blindly pursuing narcissistic policies that create permanently rising energy costs that will cripple every portion of the American economy for years.


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Regulator Orders More Choice on Canadian TV News
By Paul Vieira
The pledge a few months back by Canada's Conservative government to introduce greater rights for consumers is beginning to take shape.
On Thursday, Canada's broadcast regulator ordered the country's cable providers to distribute all five of the country's all-news channels, and give households the choice as to which ones they want to subscribe to.
""With the rules we are announcing today, Canadians, as citizens, will have access to the news services that are of interest to them and will therefore have an opportunity to be exposed to a variety of opinions on matters of public concern," said the head of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, Jean-Pierre Blais, in a statement.
Starting in May, cable customers can choose to buy one, two or all of the five news services available, or opt to take a pass. BCE owns the CTV News Channel, while Quebecor controls the French-language Le Canal Nouvelles service and the English-language Sun News Network. The other two news services, in English and French, are run by the government-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
The ruling marks a victory for sorts for right-leaning Sun News, as it was denied mandatory carriage on Canadian cable systems in a decision in August. However, the CRTC agreed then to review how news services were distributed, acknowledging there were barriers in the system that made it difficult for upstarts, such as Sun News, to get viewers.
Meanwhile, this ruling comes as the CRTC is undertaking another wide-ranging study on the future of TV services. Thursday's decision "in no way restricts the CRTC's intent to shape the television system into one that meets the needs of Canadians as consumers, creators and citizens and that is adaptable for years to come," the regulator said.
All this is against a background in which the Conservative government — in the lead-up to a national election campaign in 2015 — has promised to defend consumer rights. Among the measures pledged in a policy-setting speech this fall was an ability for Canadian families to choose the combination of TV channels they want to watch. At present, cable customers are generally required to take on a bundle of channels even if they are interested in just a handful.
In a related decision Wednesday, the Canadian government said it would introduce legislation in the new year that aims to cap roaming charges levied by the country's wireless carriers.


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Wolski Finishes Season In Style
Monday, 03.20.2006 / 10:00 PM MT / News
Colorado Avalanche
The Ontario Hockey League announced Tuesday that Avalanche prospect and Brampton Battalion captain Wojtek Wolski is the OHL Player of the Week for the final week of the regular season after scoring four goals and five assists for nine points last week.
Wolski started the week with two goals and an assist and was the first star in a 6-2 win over the Kingston Frontenacs on March 16. He added an assist in a 4-3 win over the Mississauga IceDogs on March 17 and finished the week with two goals and three assists and another first star selection in a 7-3 win over the Belleville Bulls on March 19.
Wolski helped the Battalion stretch their season-ending winning streak to 14 straight games and helped them clinch first place in the Central Division. He finished third in the OHL scoring race with 47 goals and 81 assists for 128 points in 56 games. He is Brampton's all-time scoring leader with 328 points in four seasons.


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A surveillance camera in one of the IDF bases near the village of Iraq-Burin documented the shooting.
after reviewing the video evidence, police ruled the shooting was in self defense.
A police investigation has concluded that the shooter, who was armed with a gun, was walking alone on a path near the village of Iraq Burin when he was attacked.
The man tried to ward off his assailants, but one of them approached him with a stone, police said. He fired a single shot and fled the scene. The victim has been identified as Udai Maher Qadous.
Yitzhar spokesman Avraham Binyamin responded to the report as well. "The police announcement proves once again that the Arabs have blood on their hands. The hands of the extreme leftist organizations are filthy as well, for touting Arab blood libels," he said.
Palestinian sources presented a different version, however. They claim settlers from Yitzhar came to the village and began assaulting people. At some stage they opened fire and killed a resident, sources say.
Head of Iraq Burin's local council, Abd al-Rahim Kadus, told Ynet his version. "Udai Qadous went with his cousin to the fields near the village. The fields are located underneath the settlement of Har Bracha, and at some stage shots were fired at them from the settlement. The shots wounded him in the chest. Then the settlers came down, beat them, and fled," he said.
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AAA Hockey Promotes Player Development at Grassroots Level
The Ohio AAA Blue Jackets program provides opportunities for young players to be great.
Saturday, 10.13.2012 / 7:54 AM ET / Features
By Staci Pawlak - BlueJackets.com
Columbus is not your typical hockey town. It's not the largest city, and many people overlook the mid-sized town during discussions about the greatest hockey havens in America. Then again, not many people know about the Ohio AAA Blue Jackets. The Ohio AAA Blue Jackets is an elite youth hockey program, consisting of eight teams and 135 players from 10-18 years old. All teams play in the Tier 1 Elite Hockey League, the top youth hockey league in the United States. In other words, the players on the Ohio AAA Blue Jackets teams are among the best players of their age in the country – and the majority of them hail from the greater Columbus area. "It's great because players don't have to leave the area to become great hockey players. They can play the game they love right here in their hometown," said Ed Gingher, the program director for the Ohio AAA Blue Jackets and head coach of the 18 & Under Ohio AAA Blue Jackets team. The program started with one Midget 18 & Under team back in 2004 with the support of the Blue Jackets and former General Manager Doug MacLean. Currently, the program also includes a Squirt team (age 10), two Peewee teams (ages 11-12), two Bantam teams (ages 13-14), a Midget 16, and a 14 and under girls team. "The area was hungry for a program like this, and the Blue Jackets have done a great job building this hockey base," said Gingher. When it was formed, the Ohio AAA Blue Jackets were the only AAA youth hockey organization affiliated with an NHL team. According to Gingher, the Blue Jackets connection not only gave the program instant credibility, it also helped the organization to grow rapidly in the years following its formation. "We quickly became a model for other youth hockey organizations in cities like Pittsburgh and Buffalo. They all wanted to know how we did it," said Gingher. While Columbus's AAA program is fairly new compared to similar organizations in other cities, the Ohio Blue Jackets have still captured significant on-ice victories throughout its nine-year history, including three regional championship titles, four state championship titles, and three appearances in the USA Hockey National Tournaments. Most importantly, the program opens doors for players to continue their hockey career at the junior or pro hockey levels. Some of the AAA Blue Jackets Alumni have gone on to play at the highest levels of junior hockey in North America, such as the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) and the United States Hockey League (USHL). Other players choose to play college hockey at the Division 1 NCAA or ACHA level. A few AAA Blue Jackets players have already committed to play Division 1 college hockey at universities in Ohio, including The Ohio State University, University of Miami (OH), and Bowling Green State University. One program alum and Columbus native, Trent Vogelhuber, was even drafted by the Blue Jackets when they hosted the draft in 2007. Vogelhuber recently signed a two-way AHL/ECHL contract with the Blue Jackets American Hockey League affiliate, the Springfield Falcons. Currently, the Blue Jackets prospect plays for the Evansville IceMen (ECHL). The program's success is due in part to the staff's emphasis on player development. Every coach for the Ohio AAA Blue Jackets has college, junior, or pro hockey experience and players are given all of the resources they need to become great hockey players. However, Gingher insists development doesn't just occur on the ice. The coaches and staff also strive to teach players valuable life lessons, such as the importance of teamwork, discipline, and leadership. "We're not a 'win at all costs' organization. We want to win, but we want our players to also be good people." All in all, hockey is more than a game for Ohio AAA Blue Jackets players – it is an opportunity to be great. And it is right here in Columbus.


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Feds to Pay 110% of Medicare Rates for Haiti Evacuees
Medical evacuation flights from Haiti to the U.S. started up again after HHS officials said hospitals can receive federal payments equal to 110% of Medicare rates for providing care to Haitians.
A flight last night took 17 patients to Palm Beach, according to the Miami Herald. (That's one of the arrivals in the photo.) The medical evacuations had stopped last Wednesday after Gov. Charlie Crist had said that Florida hospitals – the destination of the vast majority of Haiti earthquake victims – were reaching the saturation point.
The feds yesterday activated more provisions of the National Disaster Medical System to help U.S. hospitals provide care to "critically ill survivors" from Haiti. The NDMS is a voluntary system under which U.S. hospitals set aside some of their acute-care beds for NDMS patients and are guaranteed federal reimbursement at 110% of Medicare rates. Here's the HHS announcement and more on the NDMS.
Since the Jan. 12 earthquake, Florida hospitals have treated 526 earthquake victims, Florida officials said yesterday. The largest number — 413 — have received care at hospitals in South Florida. While the flights were suspended, there was concern that patients would die if they didn't reach U.S. hospitals. Here's more on the situation from this morning's WSJ.
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by Marianne Moore
Analysis: What's Up With the Title?
We don't have to dig around too much to figure out what the title, "Silence," means. In the poem's lines 11-12, the speaker's father dishes out this bit of wisdom: "The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence;/ not in silence, but restraint." We've all heard versions of this before. Polonius, in William Shakespeare's Hamlet, warns his son Laertes, "Give thy thoughts no tongue…Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice," but our own parents probably used the less poetic "Mind your mouth!" or "Think before you speak!" to get the same point across.
We could say that "Silence" reveals two different reasons for why keeping quiet is often the best option. The speaker's father gives us the first reason directly. Talk is cheap; if we really care about something, we won't go running our mouths about it. Then again, however, we have to consider why silence, or restraint, is given so much value in a poem. Isn't writing a poem basically a way to talk (and sometimes talk a lot) about our deepest feelings?
Yes, we definitely shouldn't miss the title's irony. It claims the poem is about silence, but then 14 lines of verse follow it. And almost all those lines are quoted from the man who says silence is so important. This gets at the second reason we might want to think before we speak. If we say something, just as the father does, who knows what our listener will do with what we said? Our listener could always repeat our words – even turn our words into a (maybe ironic) poem! Anything we say immediately becomes public property, and that's the implied warning "Silence" gives us.


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British Playboy star Shanti Dynamite, who will be seen flaunting her sexy toned figure in an upcoming Bollywood film, says she fell in love with Bollywood while growing up in India.
The 21-year-old adult star is of Indian descent from Britain.
"While growing up in Indian culture, I fell in love with the world of Bollywood. My all-time favourite stars are Amitabh Bachchan, Rekha, Sridevi, Salman Khan and Shah Rukh Khan and now I am going to be part of the great industry, I feel blessed," said Shanti in a statement.
Shanti, who does adult chat shows for a UK television, began her career as a teenager, starting as a glamour model on the popular Hotel Voyeur, a Britain-based topless show.
Her mother is a Punjabi and her father is a Greek and they got divorced when she was very young. Her mother brought her up single-handedly.
Her maternal grandfather was from Jalandhar, called Jullundur those days, and taken to Uganda by the British settlers among indentured labourers to develop railway lines and to work in coal mines.
Shanti has a Twitter account with a name "Sofiya". The account introduces her as "the first Punjabi to go topless on UK babeshows... an angel with a devil's mind."
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We're all anxious to see how our landscape plants are going to survive this cold winter we're having here in Aiken; a friend in Woodside had a dependable reading of 11.2 degrees at sunrise on Jan. 7. We are in Zone 8A according to the 2012 USDA plant hardiness map, meaning that our average annual minimum winter temperature is between 10 and 15 degrees Fahrenheit, so you can see that we're at the lower end of our average this year. According to the local Gardening Almanac for Aiken and Vicinity, we will still have a 50 percent chance of frost on March 26, so we have about a two-month wait for spring. So what is a gardener to do while waiting impatiently for spring? There are many tasks that will keep us busy until the weather warms up, and one of the most important and rewarding is pruning.
Pruning 101
It's much more effective to demonstrate pruning than to describe it. But I will share a few "rules of thumb" with you here, and encourage you to consider pruning your own landscape plants. We will limit this discussion to pruning shrubs because you can reach them safely and I hope you can find one in your yard to "practice" on if you are inexperienced. You will need three basic pruning tools: a hand pruner for branches that are under a half-inch diameter, a lopper for cuts up to an inch and a half, and a saw for thicker branches.
A properly pruned shrub can be a work of art and does not look as if it has been pruned. Pruning cuts should be hidden inside the plant where they will be covered by remaining leaves. When pruning, you should remove only about a third of a shrub's healthy branches at a time. The first step in pruning a shrub is to remove all dead, diseased or injured branches. Remove branches that cross or touch each other and those that look out of place. Then use either the shearing (heading back), thinning or renewal pruning techniques.
Shearing: The practice of shearing a shrub is most often accomplished with a hedge trimmer that produces uniform shapes in our landscapes (think ice cubes or meatballs) that appear formal to the eye. You should make the cuts about 3 to 6 inches below the desired height because the pruning will encourage a new flush of growth that will bring it up to its desired height. This new flush of growth creates a dense layer of outer foliage that shades the interior of the shrub, and this is how a shrub with an abundance of outer growth and a dead-looking center is created. Over the years it becomes increasingly troublesome to prune sheared shrubs because removing even the recommended third of their growth produces an unsightly result (no leaves, just bare branches).
Thinning: The thinning technique for pruning shrubs is often preferred over shearing. If the shrub is still too dense or large after removing dead and/or crossed branches, cut back some of the oldest branches (those with the largest diameter) from the shrub's interior at several different heights. This practice will allow light to reach the shrub's center and will result in growth in the interior of the shrub. Varying the cutting height of those interior branches will result in a more natural appearance of the shrub, and using the thinning technique ultimately results in healthier shrubs. When light gets into a shrub you will have better air flow through it and the shrub will suffer from fewer diseases.
After using the thinning method for a year or two and you see increased interior growth in a shrub, you may notice that when you pull the outer branches away you'll see a "shrub within a shrub." Then you can just prune the tall branches lower than the newly-leafing branches, and have a "new shrub" in the landscape. This process results in a continuous renewal of the shrub and a healthy-looking landscape. Important note: To prevent cutting off next year's blooms, some flowering shrubs should be pruned as soon as possible after the bloom period ends. For a complete list of these shrubs and more information on pruning in general, visit Clemson's online Home and Garden Information Center.
Renewal: If you have a shrub that has outgrown its space or needs a new start, you may be interested in trying renewal pruning. This technique involves cutting the entire shrub back to 6-12 inches high. Timing is important; the best time to prune severely is before spring growth begins (mid- to late-February), and can result in abundant new growth by midsummer.
Most broadleaf shrubs (azaleas, camellias, privets, glossy abelia, nandina, cleyera) respond well to renewal pruning. But shrubs like boxwoods, junipers, pines, cypress, cedar, arborvitae, yews and other narrow-leaf evergreens do not respond when severely pruned and may decline. Transplanting, instead of pruning, may be better for these particular shrubs when they overgrow a site. After renewal pruning, and once the new shoots are 6 to 12 inches long, prune the tips to encourage lateral branching and a more compact shrub. It's important to note that shrubs, like all living things, have a life span and will reach a point where pruning can no longer rejuvenate them or save them. If a shrub doesn't respond well to pruning, then consider replacing it.
I hope you will try your hand at pruning. Pick at least one shrub in your yard as an "experiment," make some cuts, and then see how the shrub responds to those cuts. Your pruning confidence will grow as your shrubs grow and flourish. If you need to hire a qualified pruner, consider contacting a local certified arborist or landscaper who is trained in these pruning techniques.
Upcoming event
The Master Gardener's lunch box lecture series will be held at 12:30 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 17, at Trinity United Methodist Church, 2724 Whiskey Road. Local Rosarian and Master Gardener Jane Burckhalter give a talk titled "Roses to Love." It will include a rose pruning demonstration, information about roses that thrive in the southeast, instructions on rose care (growing conditions, pest and disease control), and an introduction to new rose varieties. This series of free monthly lectures is open to the public, lasts about an hour, and no reservations are needed. Participants are welcome to bring a lunch to enjoy during the lecture. For more information or for gardening questions, call the Master Gardeners at 803-649-6297 ext. 122, email to email@example.com, or visit the office at 1555 Richland Ave. E.
Happy gardening.
Pam Glogowski moved to Aiken in 2001 from Janesville, Wisconsin, and has been an active Master Gardener volunteer since 2007.


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The NFL might as well stand for the No Family League. In a sport that glorifies workaholic coaches who sleep nightly in their office and put their jobs ahead of family, a man could easily overlook that today is Mother's Day.
Not Mike Singletary, who has the date circled on his calendar.
"Oh, we'll do something special," the 49ers' coach said with a big smile last week.
Singletary is a coach today because his wife, Kim, mother of their seven children, urged him to pursue that line of work. He attributes his Hall of Fame playing career to Kim's love and support.
The couple, who will celebrate a quarter century of marriage this month, met at Baylor University. She was a freshman from Detroit, feeling like "a fish out of water" in Texas and looking for a place to study in a crowded library. He was a sophomore, a budding star on the football team, and he had covered one large table with all of his books.
Kim asked if she could sit. Mike was sure she had come to flirt. Kim had no idea who he was. Mike was sure she was fawning over his football prowess. Kim, who was struggling in calculus, noticed the problems he was working on and asked for help. Mike, who was actually doing business math but confidently offered to tutor her in calculus, was still sure she was trying to flirt.
"We couldn't have been further apart from each other's brains," she said.
That's not surprising to anyone who knows them now.
"My parents are very opposite," their oldest child, Kristen, a 23-year old senior at Baylor, said. "That's why they complement each other so well."
Kim is the velvet to Mike's iron. She moderates the white-hot flame that he brings to every endeavor. She points out the bigger picture surrounding the object of his intense focus.
"She pulls him back," Kristen said.
As Kim said, he's "always asking me to map out our top five goals for the next five years.
"And I say, 'Mike what are we doing for dinner?'"
Setting an example
The young Baylor students forged a strong friendship. They also shared a faith in God. But Kim had never envisioned herself in an interracial relationship. She kept thinking, "I'd sure like to meet someone like him who is white."
Pretty soon she figured out there wasn't anyone else like Mike Singletary.
They married in 1984. Singletary, the youngest of 10 children, wanted 10 of his own. Kim thought four children was more reasonable. Four became seven: Kristen, Matthew, Jill, Jackie, Brooke, Becky and John.
When Mike retired as a player, after the 1992 season, he dedicated himself to his large family. He brought his linebacker's intensity to the home front: to the dishes, the laundry, the school projects.
"He wanted you to do everything with all your heart," Kristen said. "Even if it was folding the laundry."
"Everything he does, he does hard," Kim added. "He played hard. He studied hard. And he loves hard."
Family matters most. And Singletary says he is blessed to have such a strong partner.
"I tell all my kids that I hope every one of them finds someone they can feel about the way I feel about their mother," he said.
A young man named Cooper Calhoun is the first to meet the test. He and Kristen plan to be married at the end of the year.
"I feel bad for my fiancé sometimes," Kristen said. "He's got a lot to live up to."
One night at the dinner table, Mike came up with the idea of crafting a family mission statement. The statement still hangs in their kitchen. It reads:
"This is the home of champions. As Singletarys we will always strive to do our very best in all we do. We will strive to be honest and respect each other's feelings, property and time. We will always pray for one another, fight for one another and encourage one another. For our trust be not in our home, nor our money or status or knowledge, but in each other, and above all, in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."
"That was one of those moments when it hit me that, 'Wow, this is so different from other people's families,' " Kristen said.
Loyalty and belief
Kim knew Mike's passion and intensity were better suited for coaching than for unloading the dishwasher. After a lot of prayer, she told him she thought it was time to make the leap to a profession that is notoriously hard on families.
He threw himself into it, preparing his own binders and notebooks for the day he'd become an NFL head coach. But when he got the 49ers job midway through last season, after his friend and boss Mike Nolan was fired, Singletary was conflicted.
"Loyalty is so big for him," she said. "He was loyal to the Nolans in an old-fashioned way."
But, as usual, he threw himself into the new role. Right off the bat he proclaimed his intention to be the best coach in NFL history. Most people raised their eyebrows, but Kim wasn't surprised.
"Well, from Day One he said he was going to be the best linebacker in history," she said. "And then he kind of ends up doing it. He doesn't have cheap words."
'Everything to me'
Singletary's family, scattered in different locations, watched his controversy-filled first game — the one in which he sent tight end Vernon Davis off the field for insubordination. Perhaps better than anyone else in the world, Singletary's children knew just what Davis could expect.
"I thought, 'Ohhh, Vernon, don't turn back around,'" Kristen said. "And of course he did. So when Dad sent him off, I thought, as his kid, 'of course he'd do that.' He does not make idle threats."
And then there was the postgame news conference, the one in which Singletary famously went off on selfish players by ranting, "Cannot play with them, cannot coach with them, can't do it." When Kim watched him come to the podium, she could tell what was about to happen.
"I thought, 'Oh no. No, no, no,'" she said. "I think he's learned that you don't have to say everything."
But Singletary does things his own way. Always has. For example, 253 men have been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. But Singletary is in a class of one. He is the only man in that macho club to have his wife introduce him at the induction ceremony.
"That was a very easy decision," Singletary said. "My wife, outside of my faith, is everything to me. If she's not there, I'm not there."
She's there. Every step of the way.
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Rani Mukherjee's special relationship with Aditya
Rani admitted that she has a very special relationship with Aditya Chopra. She admitted that she admires and respects him. It was he, who spotted her in Raja Ki Aayegi Baraat and recommended her to Karan Johar for Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, and has faith in her.
So, is she disturbed by the speculations on her love life? She said that she is not bothered by rumours, as she is enjoying her work. She added that she is in a very happy frame of mine at the moment.
Rani assured that she would announce to the world when she is ready to tie the knot. She said that she is not a kind of person to hide marriage.
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DENVER (AP) -- Colorado lawmakers are trying again this year to boost the state's incentives for film for production companies to compete with other places in the country.
A proposal released Wednesday would increase the tax rebate the state gives production companies from 10 percent to 20 percent.
Colorado has a rich history of film that includes the original "True Grit" movie with John Wayne. But film production companies have been going to other states, like New Mexico, because they have better incentives. Supporters of film incentives say movie productions bring jobs to the state and helps local economies.
A bill last year to boost the state's incentive fund with an optional 10-cent fee on tickets failed. This year, Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper is advocating for better film incentives.


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Marketing Director
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- £65,000 + Package
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- 22 Feb 2013
- Closes
- 22 Mar 2013
- Business Type
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- Specialism
- Brand Management
Marketing Director- £65,000 + Package
Our client is a retail business that is looking to double in size in the next two to three years. It has significant financial backing to do so, and this role is about further growth of the brand and the business, as it enters this incredibly exciting time of growth. As Marketing Director, reporting directly to the board, you will be responsible for:
- The full marketing mix, and you will manage a team of seven
- Rethinking current marketing strategies
- Looking at process and delivery
- Reviewing brand and communications to the customer
- Tactical commercial and 'operational' marketing devised to intervene and drive sales and brand recognition in specific 'one-off' ways
- Any events organized both locally, regionally, and nationally, and associated PR
An understanding of how franchised business operate would be a distinct advantage but is not essential. What is important, however, is your ability to influence at board level and to devise clear strategies for your team to implement.
You will be fully p & l responsible with a decent budget and, of course, as the company grows so will the role.
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