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Was up at the Senate today, walking through old haunts and winding passages off the tourist trail. For fun, on the way to the credit union, went the back way, down old staircases and underground passages where staffers still hug the walls as they walk down the long corridors. As I went up one old staircase, I was stopped by a trail of pages followed by a journalist doing a story on the pages. When I returned to the staircase after completing my business, I found the same trail of pages passing me by once again, still followed by the intrepid young journalist.
The hallways are still filled with tourists and activists in their matching outfits, the well-dressed, well-healed lobbyists looking spiffy and sharp – just a little too sharp, the earnest young staffers speaking in tones just a little too loud as though to say "Look at me, I work at the Senate!" Now blackberries fill the palms of mid-level staffers and one of the Senate List boards was digitalized, which must make the comings and goings of elections far more easier. I use to know that board by heart, but now I just see a few names that I remember from the past.
When I first came to the Senate in my twenties I had such energy whenever I was in the building. Later, when I returned in my thirties, I still had that energy, that excitement about life on the Hill. But now, it's like visiting the old high school, I was indeed so much older then, in so many ways. All the halls are filled with ghosts of memories, of so many memories from what seems as though a lifetime ago.
I can remember at one of the last staff meetings I attended during my tenure at the Senate in the 1980s. The Loyal Opposition had taken control of the Senate and we were all packing up our boxes and moving on. The chairman of my committee called us all together for one final hooray. We had been through a lot together, had worked through days and through nights (I remember one night I fell asleep over the phones in the central office of the committee and woke up to find a beaming Senator Moynihan chuckling as I nearly fell out of my chair, I was so startled.
But on that late morning in 1986, the chairman called us all together and then recited from memory this soliloquy from Henry V:
This day is call'd the feast of Crispian.
He that outlives this day, and comes safe home,
Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd,
And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
He that shall live this day, and see old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbours,
And say 'To-morrow is Saint Crispian.'
Then will he strip his sleeve and show his scars,
And say 'These wounds I had on Crispian's day.'
Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot,
But he'll remember, with advantages,
What feats he did that day. Then shall our names,
Familiar in his mouth as household words-
Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter,
Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester-
Be in their flowing cups freshly rememb'red.
This story shall the good man teach his son;
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition;
And gentlemen in England now-a-bed
Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
That comes to mind on this eve before the historic meeting of the House of Bishops. But I do not think so much of the bishops, tonight, but for those many – names we know, names we do not know, who worked so hard for so long to bring the Church back to her Anglican roots. It's hard not to be sad tonight, to wish it was all so different than it is, to feel overwhelmed by the might and power of a institution long-accustomed to getting its own way. But what I remember tonight, as Henry remembered, or the committee chairman remembered all those years ago – it wasn't the meetings, the legislation, the battles even that we remember, it is the people. It's their faces that come through my memory tonight.
If anyone could have predicted we would be where we are at this moment, I would not have believed them. But here we are, our scars still visible, tears still in our eyes, hope still in our hearts, we press on to what is set before us.
When I think of those who gathered in that room that day in the Dirksen Senate Office Building, I know where some of those friends and colleagues have gone. Some are in greater halls of power and some lost everything. Some you would know their names, and many you would not. But for that moment we were brought together for a historic time that led to the Rose Garden and a signature by the President. Now we walk forward for another historic moment, but what garden will we find ourselves in, what signatures will we see?
As I left the Senate buildings and walked back to Union Station, all around me was evidence that so much had changed, evidence of the recent years of threats to all that we believe in. And yet, inside those buildings are people not so different from the ones I once knew, even myself.
As we head to New Orleans we will find a city greatly changed, a church greatly challenged, but what will we find in ourselves? Shall we find ourselves accurs'd for being there, for such a time as this? Or shall we find ourselves
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered –
We few, we happy few?


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In the austerity wracked eurozone, the cash machine is about to start spewing money. Yes, we've heard the promises of ending the crisis before. But this time, something, at least, is happening.
Christmas is no longer cancelled in Dublin, Lisbon and Athens. Even Madrid could celebrate should its procrastinating PM Mariano Rajoy put his hands out to catch some of the falling euro notes.
Not only has the European Central Bank (ECB) said it will supply unlimited loans to replace debts held in private hands, the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, has joined in.
Why has she changed her mind? Several reasons.
1. The economic situation is getting worse. Austerity is driving the countries worst affected by high debt levels further into recession.
2. Social unrest is tearing at the fabric of Portugal and Greece.
3. Regional separatism is gaining ground in Spain.
4. In Ireland, emigration and a prolonged banking crisis is crippling the economy.
5. And Merkel has established an unassailable position in German public life, allowing her to marginalise hardline MPs and the previously influential Guido Westerwelle, her free market, austerity-loving coalition partner and foreign minister.
Merkel has told the Irish, Greeks, Portugese and Spanish, don't worry what austerity does to your economy and the short-term hit to growth. Keep with the programme and you'll get all the money/loans you need.
In the last couple of days Antonis Samaras, the Greek PM, has assured his own MPs that the money promised for November by the country's lending "troika" – the EU, the International Monetary Fund and the ECB – will arrive on time.
It's just as well, given that the Greek finance ministry reported on Monday that its annual deficit is rising again and the overall debt pile jumped. The prospect of restricting the mountain of loans to 120% of GDP by 2020 now looks fanciful.
Enda Kenny has likewise told his parliament that Merkel agrees Ireland is a special case. And consequently, desperately needed funds for the banking sector will find their way from ECB headquarters in Brussels and Frankfurt to Dublin, probably never to return, except in some de-valued form in 50 years.
Spain was nervous about asking for a bailout in case Germany inflicted all manner of extra austerity measures on its weak economy. A recession this year and next is already in prospect so deeper cuts would be particularly unwelcome.
The nerves are still jangling in Madrid, as an effective vote for independence in the Basque country looks like being replicated next month in the more politically significant region of Catalonia.
Yet Rajoy, like the other leaders, has had all the reassurances he needs that he will need only to pursue existing spending cuts to open Brussels' fighting fund.
So can this policy become a platform for lasting prosperity? Unfortunately, the omens are not good.
Merkel is also demanding closer regulatory and fiscal ties as a price for the loans, which is throwing up all kinds of problems. Not least that some aspects of regulation cover the 27 members of the EU, while others only affect the eurozone 17.
Yet even if there is a way to gain the agreement of Britain and Sweden to rules made largely for the eurozone, there is still the issue of social unrest.
It seems implausible that leaders in the peripheral countries can mask their financial problems with more and bigger loans from Brussels and the ECB. With an exchange rate dictated by the German economy, these countries face years struggling to export their way out of recession. Their main problem is that the debts left over from the crisis are too big. Without debt forgiveness in some form, the Merkel sticking plaster will peel away while the wound remains unhealed.

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Topic Page: Plath, Sylvia (1932 - 1963)
Novelist and poet
Author of The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, The Bell Jar, Crossing the Water, Winter Trees, and The Collected Poems
SYLVIA PLATH (Victoria Lucas) was a creative American poet who died at the age of 30 in 1963 in England by putting her head in a gas oven. She wrote several volumes of poetry and a novel. Her work was based on her life experiences and had a confessional quality common also to the poets Robert Lowell and Anne Sexton. Plath had a severe depression when she was an undergraduate student, during which she attempted suicide. She was treated with electroconvulsive therapy and psychotherapy. Her life provides an opportunity to explore how creativity and psychiatric disorder interact throughout the course of a life history.
Plath's father, Otto Plath, was born in 1885 in the German town of Grabow. He emigrated to the United States when he was 15 years old and earned a doctorate in 1928, specializing in the study of bees. He began teaching at Boston University where he met a student named Aurelia Schober who was 21 years his junior. After divorcing his first wife, he married Aurelia in 1932. Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, three weeks ahead of schedule. She was somewhat frail because of a sinus condition that plagued her for the rest of her life. Two and a half years later, her brother Warren was born.
Plath's early years were uneventful. She apparently was quite bright and used her intelligence to please her father, as many firstborns do. She learned the Latin names for insects, and Otto would show off her skill to visitors. From the beginning, she earned straight As in school, impressing teachers with her intelligence and dedication. Aurelia read a lot to the children as they grew, and Plath's verbal skills were so advanced that she went to school at age 4 and excelled right away. By age 5, she was writing short poems.
Otto fell ill in 1935, and he deteriorated over the next 4 years. He decided that he had lung cancer and chose not to seek treatment so that he would die quickly. He, therefore, initially refused to consult with doctors. In 1940, he noticed weird symptoms and finally sought medical advice. He found out that he had diabetes, which was treatable at that time, but he had waited too long before seeking treatment. In October 1940 his leg was amputated, and he died of an embolism on November 5, 1940, 8 days after Sylvia's birthday. Early loss is common among those who later commit suicide, and it may make them less able to cope with loss later in life.
Aurelia moved to Wellesley where she could raise her children in an educated and middle-class community and give them high-achievement experiences. Plath's first poem appeared in the Boston Sunday Herald in August 1941, when she was 8½ years old, and she won a prize for a drawing in another contest. As she progressed through school, her work continued to be outstanding, and she received many awards. She quickly developed an interest in literature and in writing. In junior high school she received straight As and a perfect record of punctuality. Her poems and drawings continued to win prizes. Her IQ was about 160. High school continued in the same vein. Plath took the advanced literature courses and edited the school magazine in her senior year. Her stories and poems appeared in magazines such as Seventeen and the Christian Science Monitor. She was also active in the local Unitarian church and in the community. She ranked first among the 158 graduates and was admitted to Smith College on a scholarship. Her biographers do not mention psychological problems at this time in Plath's life, though she tended to suffer from depression whenever her sinuses or menstrual cramps bothered her. However, the frequency and severity of the depressions is unclear. Plath's career at Smith was outstanding. From the first, she obtained mainly As, and her literary achievements steadily grew. Throughout her stay at Smith, she worked hard, often ending up fatigued and depressed. She continued to write and submit her work for publication. Despite frequent rejections, she built up an incredible body of published works. Indeed, a $500 prize from Mademoiselle in the summer of 1952 led to an offer by Knopf and Dodd Mead asking her to consider writing a novel. However, not surprisingly, a run of rejection slips led Plath to question her ability and to fall into a depression.
Her junior year led to her most severe depression. She confided to her mother thoughts of suicide, and she saw a psychiatrist in December of that year. But she continued to study hard and work toward winning a guest editorship at Mademoiselle in the summer of 1953, which she indeed won.
The summer of 1953 is the focus of Plath's novel The Bell Jar, written mostly during 1961 and 1962. At Mademoiselle Plath worked for Cyrilly Abels, reading and judging manuscripts and participating in all of the social activities planned for the group of guest editors. Abels noticed Plath's distancing manner and tried to break through and relate to the real Sylvia, but she failed to penetrate Plath's social mask. Although the guest editorship was exciting, Plath came home depressed by the experience.
Back in Wellesley, Plath was rejected for a course on creative writing at Harvard summer school, which left her with two months to fill. She could not write, and her depression worsened. After she cut her legs in a suicidal gesture, her mother began locking up the sleeping pills in the bedroom that they shared and took Plath to a local psychiatrist who diagnosed a depressive disorder and recommended electroconvulsive therapy. (In the 1950s, effective antidepressant medications had not yet been developed.) The electroconvulsive shock therapy seemed to make Plath's condition worse, and she developed chronic insomnia.
Plath contemplated using a razor blade to kill herself and she tried to drown herself in the sea. Eventually, on a Monday morning in August 1953, she took 40 sleeping pills from where her mother had locked them up, went into the basement of the house (after leaving a note saying that she was going for a hike and would be back the next day), and crawled behind some wood that was stacked there. (It appears that she threw up some of the pills, which possibly saved her life.) Her mother called the police that evening, and search parties were organized. Plath was not found until Wednesday afternoon when her grandmother went into the basement to do the laundry and heard Plath moaning. After a week in the hospital, Plath was transferred to the locked psychiatric ward at Massachusetts general Hospital where Erich Lindemann examined her. He diagnosed an adolescent nervous illness, whereas another psychiatrist diagnosed an acute schizophrenic episode. Her depression did not lift, and so she was transferred to McLean Hospital where she received insulin shock therapy, then chlorpromazine, and finally electroshock therapy again. This treatment was supplemented by psychotherapy from a female psychiatrist, Ruth Barnhouse. Barnhouse observed that Plath first refused to talk much and was angry at her mother. Barnhouse saw Plath as an intuitive-feeling type in Jung's schema, and Plath said that she felt she had been forced into using thinking to the neglect of feeling. Surprisingly, this time the electroconvulsive therapy helped and during the Christmas holidays Plath's depression disappeared. Plath was released in January 1953. She told a friend that she had tried to kill herself because she feared she had lost her talent to write. She also told him that she had tried to slit her throat when she was 10 years old, and she did have a scar on her throat. Barnhouse had encouraged Plath to no longer suppress her sexual impulses, so Plath had sex for the first time. When she returned to college, Plath confided to another friend that she had both loved and despised her father and probably wished many times that he was dead. When he died, she imagined that she had killed him (a theme that later appeared in one of her poems).
Aurelia heard from one of Otto's sisters that Otto's mother, a sister, and a niece had all suffered from depression, raising the possibility that an inherited predisposition to depression ran in the family. Plath spent another 1½ years at Smith and graduated in June 1955. Although Smith took away the scholarship for her first semester back, the college restored it for her final year. Graduation resulted in many prizes and awards, including Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude (one of only four students in her class so honored), and she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to Cambridge University in England.
Plath had written at least 200 poems, short stories, newspaper articles, and magazine pieces, some of which had been published in national periodicals. Of course, she also received numerous rejection slips, but although the rejections often damaged her self-confidence they did not deter her from writing and submitting her work for publication.
Plath spent 2 years at Newnham College of Cambridge University, where she eventually obtained her second BA. She hated the cold and rainy weather and the poor heating of the rooms. She fell ill frequently with sinusitis, colds, and the flu. She realized how much better prepared the British students were, and she abandoned plans to obtain a doctorate. She kept busy with course work, writing, and dating. Plath determined that she would be, at best, a minor writer and decided to settle down as a wife and mother who would write only in her spare time. Her depression worsened, and she saw a psychiatrist at the university. Then in February 1956, she met Ted Hughes. Hughes, an aspiring poet and writer like Plath, had graduated from Cambridge in 1954 and had worked in various odd jobs. Plath met him at a party in Cambridge and was attracted "at first sight." They married in June 1956.
Plath began to work with dedication on their literary careers, typing up and sending off submissions of both Hughes's work and her own. Their publications grew more and more numerous, and Hughes's first collection of poems was accepted for publication in 1957. They came to the United States, and Plath taught at Smith College for a year.
At this time, Hughes was the more successful poet. He had soon completed a second book of poems and a book of children's stories. His poems appeared in The New Yorker. The couple decided to return to England, especially as Hughes was not happy in the United States. But first they spent a year in Boston, and they supported themselves with the money Plath earned working at odd jobs along with their income from writing. Plath audited a course at Boston University from Robert Lowell, during which she met Anne Sexton, and her poems were eventually accepted by The New Yorker. Plath went back into therapy with Ruth Barnhouse and dealt with some of the feelings she had toward her mother and, with Barnhouse's encouragement, visited her father's grave.
Hughes was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, which eased the couple's financial worries, and they were invited for three months to Yaddo, an artists' colony near Saratoga Springs in New York. They spent 3 months touring the United States during the summer of 1959, and during this trip Plath found out that she was pregnant. They left for England in December 1959. Plath was twenty-seven, pregnant, and headed for permanent residence in a foreign country.
The couple first rented an apartment in London. Plath gave birth to Frieda in April 1960. Visits to Hughes's family did not go well, as Plath and Hughes's sister Olwyn had severe conflicts. Later that year, Plath and Hughes looked for and found a house in Croton, Devon, with the help of loans from both of their families. Before moving, Plath found out that she was pregnant again. They rented their apartment in London to a Canadian poet, David Wevill, and his German-Russian wife, Assia Gutmann, and moved to Devon. Their literary careers continued to progress, and Plath's first book of poems was published in 1960. They each won prize after prize and by 1961 were successful enough as writers that their finances were thereafter in good shape. In 1961, Plath was awarded a Saxton Foundation grant to work on The Bell Jar. Plath gave birth to a son, Nicholas, in January 1962, but Hughes seemed unhappy to have a son and kept distant from the baby. He later admitted that he had not wanted any children. The cold winter made Plath ill and depressed, but life was full and busy with writing, the children, and a new house to fix up. By the summer of 1962, another woman had entered Hughes's life. Hughes and Plath had invited poet David Wevill and his wife Assia Gutman to visit, and soon Hughes and Gutman were in love and having an affair. Hughes left Plath in July, but Plath maintained hope that he would return to her.
Her work did not go well at this time. Plath's Colossus and Other Poems had received poor reviews, and the poems written in her new style were being rejected. She was also finding it hard to write. On her 30th birthday in October 1962, she was in Devon with two children, deserted by her husband, and now writing poems furiously every morning. By December Plath had moved to an apartment in London and had rented the house in Devon to others. The last few weeks of Plath's life were difficult. She corrected the galley proofs for The Bell Jar and was awaiting publication and comment. She was working feverishly, smoking heavily, hardly sleeping, and eating little. She had lost 20 lb. since the summer and developed influenza, after which the children came down with it. The winter was one of the worst ever, with frozen plumbing, strikes by the electrical workers, and snow and ice everywhere. The weather did not break until the end of January.
The reviews of Plath's book appeared at the end of January, and they were lukewarm. (She had published it under a pseudonym, which meant that reviewers would be less likely to give the work close attention that a work by Sylvia Plath would merit.) Her recent poems were being rejected, and her publishers could not sell The Bell Jar to an American publisher. In the last week of her life, from February 4, 1963 to February 11, Plath had a fever and wildly fluctuating moods. She lost her au pair on February 7 after arguing with her, and the weather was still bad. Plath kept in close contact with her physician, John Horder, and after February 4 she saw him daily. He treated her depression on his own, but also tried to refer her to a regular psychiatrist. Horder put Plath on antidepressants (a monoamineoxidase inhibitor), and then, on February 7, searched for a bed in a suitable hospital so that Plath could be admitted. Two he approached were full, and one he deemed unsuitable. Friends invited Plath and the children to come and stay that day. On the evening of Friday, February 8, she met Hughes briefly and then came back to her friends' home. However, on Sunday she decided to take the children home, despite the protestations of her friends. Horder called her that night. That night she put the kids to sleep, opened their windows, placed milk and bread and butter by their beds, left a note on her downstair's neighbor's door to call Horder, sealed herself in the kitchen, and put her head in the oven and turned the gas on. Horder had arranged for a nurse to come on Monday morning, February 11. The nurse arrived at 9 a.m., but could not get in. She went to a public telephone to check on the address she was supposed to visit, and came back to see two children crying at the bedroom window. She found a workman who helped her break in, and they found Plath. The workman began artificial respiration, and the nurse took over. A police officer rescued the children, but when Horder arrived he pronounced Plath dead at 10:30 a.m. The gas had asphyxiated the downstairs neighbor too, and he did not regain consciousness until the late afternoon.
The loss of her father when she was 8 years old looms large in Plath's life, especially because of the way she wrote about him. Plath seemed to be filled with anger over his rejection of her, both while he was alive (neglecting her for his research) and upon his death. Her poem written in the months prior to her suicide casts him as a devil, a concentration camp guard with her as a victim. She viewed Hughes as a father substitute. Yet she loved her father too and casts her suicide attempt years earlier as an effort to be reunited with him. (Interestingly, Plath eventually kept bees, as did her father, and she studied German, the language of her father. Her identification with him was strong.) Plath was depressed throughout her life, and it is likely that she had an affective disorder. Her first major breakdown occurred when she was an undergraduate, and her suicide has partly been attributed to her fear of becoming psychotic again. On top of this, she lost her husband, whom she loved, and who provided her with the environment to flourish as a mother and author. He not only left her, but he rejected her for another. In her novel about her psychiatric breakdown in 1953, Plath shows a distrust of her ability. She had worked hard to get good grades and to publish, but she feared that the success was temporary. However, Plath seemed to be quite persistent in her writing career and sent off poems and stories despite rejections.
Is writing therapeutic for creative writers or is it a stressor that can contribute to their psychological disturbance? Martin Silverman and Norman Will have argued that, although Plath tried to control her suicidal impulses by means of her poetry, she failed in this endeavor. Successful poetry, they suggested, must communicate between the inner worlds of the creative person and the audience. (Presumably they mean critically successful, for even poor poetry can serve a useful psychological function for the writer, even if it is merely cathartic.) To be successful, poetry must first achieve a balance between the writer's use of the audience to serve his or her own narcissistic needs (a type of exhibitionism) and the desire to give others a way of structuring the terrors and anxieties that afflict us all. The writer must also achieve a balance between the potentially destructive conscious and unconscious forces motivating the writing and the constructive desires to harness these forces for the purpose of writing creatively. In terms of psychoanalysis, the writer must balance primary and secondary process mechanisms. The writer must also compromise between the fantasy permissible in writing and the acceptance of reality necessary for successful living.
When they applied their ideas to Sylvia Plath, Silverman and Will asserted that the successful creative process is successful only when the unconscious forces in the writer operate silently and remain hidden from view. This assertion represents a rather traditional view of creative writing. It would seem to express a preference on the part of Silverman and Will for a particular type of literature rather than expressing a universal truth. For example, the unconscious forces motivating Ernest Hemingway may be under control in his writing, but they are certainly not hidden, and the confessional style of poetry developed by W. D. Snodgrass and Robert Lowell and pursued by Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath is in direct opposition to Silverman and Will's view. In Plath's later poems she revealed her deepest feelings, using her experiences to create the poem rather than to simply transform it. Silverman and Will noted that she described her early poems as "proper in shape and number and every part" but not alive. Her poems moved from being a reordering and reshaping of experience with a poetic purpose to becoming expressions of herself. She identified with her poems, which made their rejection even more painful, and Silverman and Will labeled this change as a "narcissistic regression." The causal sequence that Silverman and Will propose for Plath is simply one reading of Plath's life. Other equally plausible alternative paths can be proposed. For example, it is quite likely that Plath's participation—along with Anne Sexton, with whom she became very close—in a poetry workshop run by Robert Lowell had a major impact on her writing style. Several members of his workshop adopted a more selfrevealing content for their poems, and two received Pulitzer prizes for their work (Lowell and Sexton). Furthermore, Plath, as she herself clearly recognized, was prone to recurring depressions. In all probability, Plath had an affective disorder, possibly bipolar, and her depressions were likely to reoccur periodically. It is evident from the severity of her depression in 1953, which led to a very serious suicide attempt, that she would likely become suicidal again with each new depression (much as VirginiaWoolf had).
It is interesting to note that although her writing may not have helped her cope with the stressors, external and intrapsychic, with which she was confronted during the early 1950s, in the later 1950s her switch to a more revealing and personalized style of writing may have helped her survive. Silverman and Will claimed that her writing failed to prevent her suicide. Perhaps it may have postponed her suicide? In the months prior to her suicide, Plath wrote feverishly, sometimes producing several poems in one day. (This feverish activity in the months prior to a suicide was apparent also in Anne Sexton's life.) What would Silverman and Will suggest as a more appropriate strategy for a person confronting intrapsychic turmoil who is not under professional care? It is very likely that the writing helped Plath control her inner turmoil, and some commentators think that the poems she produced were among her finest.
David Lester and Rina Terry have argued that writing poetry can be useful with suicidal clients. They saw the construction and revision of poems as serving a similar function for clients as the journal assignments devised by cognitive therapists by giving the clients intellectual control over their emotions and distance from the traumatic memories. Both Plath and Sexton showed manic trends prior to their suicides, writing poems furiously, poems with more emotional expression and less poetic crafting. Rather than arguing that writing poetry contributed in part to their suicides, it makes much more sense to say that, in their final breakdowns, poetry was no longer able to help them deal with the intrapsychic forces driving them as it had in the past. As their inner turmoil increased, both wrote feverishly, almost like a safety valve letting out the steam under pressure in a boiler, but to no avail because the pressure was building up faster than they could release it.
This final failure of the craft of poetry to keep Sylvia Plath alive may not signify total failure. She was an outstanding poet and functioned quite well given her psychiatric disorder. Perhaps the craft of poetry kept her alive for many years after her self-destructive impulses first manifested themselves.
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Social media appears to becoming more and more integrated into the way our country does business. Even though these tools are completely reliant on the use of technology, IT recruiters and job seekers have not really taken advantage of them up until now.
As social media continues to develop and establish a more stable presence in consumer culture, companies and potential employees may be looking to these channels to help them carry out their day-to-day tasks.
South West News Service explained that a substantial number of businesses have followed the general public's lead in social media use, engaging their consumer audiences. They have invested time and money into creating comprehensive company pages on a variety of outlets, sharing relevant posts with Internet users. This has enabled them to reach and interact with a broader scope of prospective customers, building a more clearly defined brand image and a stronger consumer following.
With that said, these social media practices are no longer the only ones out there, especially among information technology firms. Businesses have started to see these websites in a new, innovative light. Instead of depending on them to connect with just possible clients, they have expanded their audience to include job prospects.
Looking into employer pages
According to Business Insider, a growing number of IT professionals looking for work are turning to these platforms to help them in their employment search. If tech job seekers decide to utilize social media as an instrument to check up on companies that are hiring, all they have to do is go through a couple of simple steps.
The news source stated that as soon as tech applicants come across a job posting, they should conduct a follow up social media investigation to figure out just what the company hiring is like. Because most businesses now have an active social media presence, applicants can peruse these organizations' profiles and pages. As a result, they will be able to get a better sense of companies' identities, missions and overall values.
This preliminary research will benefit IT job candidates in more than one way. With a more complex picture of a business' functions and goals, applicants can be better equipped to determine whether they are a good fit for a given organization. If the information on a company's social media pages indicates that it's general objectives and expectations are in line with employment seekers' qualifications, then they will know that they are a match and that submitting an application would be a wise use of their time.
All of that aside, employees – both prospective and contracted – need to pay attention to their own social media pages. Even though they are being clever in utilizing these outlets to examine businesses, IT professionals should bear in mind that companies are doing the same to them. For this reason, they should make an effort to keep their profiles as private as possible, ensuring that they'll have a squeaky-clean image in the eyes of future employers.
Despite the increased adoption of social media channels to assist businesses and IT professionals alike as they check up on one another, the Financial Times stated that the rest of the job application process appears to be void of this technology.
Applications still social media-free
Some tech experts may be under the impression that these platforms will be the future of recruitment and employment practices. So far, that is not proving to be the case. Job candidates and employers still prefer traditional application methods and are even skeptical about replacing them with social media solutions.
The newspaper cited a study conducted by a UK firm Hyphen, in which employment prospects stated they do not consider social media to be a credible medium to use when submitting job applications. In this research, almost one-quarter of respondents reported that even if they did end up applying for a position through one of these outlets, they would feel like recruiters would see them in a negative view.
"Fortunately, most employers are now becoming better at engaging with candidates through these channels," said Zain Wadee, managing director at Hyphen, according to the Financial Times. "But there is still a lack of applications made through social media channels. Candidates prefer to apply using traditional methods for fear of not presenting themselves as a serious candidate."
Additionally, few recruiters have come up with working solutions that will even accept applications.
"Of course, there are good versions of third-party apps, but in effect they still bring you back into the central corporate careers site," Wadee explained.
For this reason, most IT professionals continue to depend on tried and true application protocol. As social media has become more mainstream for various recruitment functions, it appears that many prefer to keep it out of the actual application process. Consequently, tech candidates remain reliant on sending in their CVs, résumés and cover letters to companies the good old fashioned way.
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Shanghai, China, Thursday, November 1, 2012: Hutchison MediPharma Limited ("HMP") announced that it has initiated the first-in-human Phase I clinical trial of Theliatinib (HMPL-309). This is the fourth oncology compound from the internal discovery programs of HMP to enter into clinical development in China. Theliatinib is a novel, orally active small molecule inhibitor targeting the wild type epidermal growth factor receptor ("EGFR") or resistant EGFR tumors. The first patient was dosed on October 30, 2012.
The primary objectives of the Phase I study are to evaluate its safety and tolerability in patients with advanced solid tumors and to determine its maximum tolerated dose. This study will also evaluate its preliminary efficacy against non-small cell lung cancer ("NSCLC"), determine the pharmacokinetics of Theliatinib under single dose and repeat doses and explore the relationship between the Theliatinib's activity and certain biomarkers.
In pre-clinical studies, Theliatinib demonstrated strong anti-tumor activity against EGFR wild type tumors at doses that are expected to be well tolerated. Theliatinib was also found to have good pharmacokinetic properties and a favorable safety profile. These studies also exhibited good tissue distribution and stronger anti-tumor activity in EGFR wild type and EGFR resistant tumors, compared with first generation small molecule EGFR inhibitors. "If these attributes are also demonstrated in clinical studies, we believe that Theliatinib could become an important therapy in this area," said Christian Hogg, Chief Executive Officer.
About epidermal growth factor receptor ("EGFR") and non-small cell lung cancer ("NSCLC")
EGFR is a protein that is a cell-surface receptor for epidermal growth factors. Activation of EGFR can lead to a series of downstream signaling activities that mediate tumor cell proliferation and the suppression of cell death. Small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors of EGFR block these signals, limiting tumor cell growth and survival.
The estimated incidence of lung cancer worldwide was over 1.6 million in 2008, with over 520,000 cases in China. Lung cancer is the most common cancer both worldwide and in China.
Gefitinib (Iressa™) and erlotinib (Tarceva™), first generation small molecule EGFR inhibitors, are used to treat NSCLC, particularly in patients with EGFR sensitive mutations. Worldwide sales of Tarceva™ alone reached approximately US$1.4 billion in 2011. However, EGFR mutations generally occur in 10-30% of NSCLC patients, with the range differing slightly by region. Currently available EGFR inhibitors have been shown to be less effective in treating patients carrying the wild type EGFR compared to treating patients harboring EGFR activating mutations. Pre-clinical studies suggest that Theliatinib has potential in the treatment of NSCLC patients with wild type EGFR or resistance to gefitinib or erlotinib.
About HMP
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Las Vegas, Florida and Philadelphia Sign with nSight Travel Intelligence
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NASHVILLE, TN – December 12, 2013 – World-class destination marketing organizations Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA), VISIT FLORIDA and Visit Philadelphia™ have signed with nSight travel intelligence, the largest aggregator of global travel search and booking data, to receive an unprecedented view of online travel consumer behavior from around the world.
Aggregating 25 billion global travel searches and bookings from 5,000 online travel websites, nSight's decision platform and data products help hotels, destinations and attractions of all sizes make better, more informed decisions on all aspects of their business, market smarter and establish more profitable operations.
"As one of the most popular destinations in the world, 17% of our visitors are from outside the U.S.," explained Cathy Tull, Senior Vice President of Marketing at LVCVA. "It's important for us to understand the people and the behaviors behind the analytics and we look forward to reviewing the intelligence nSight provides."
Through advanced analytics, nSight enhances consumer search and booking data with offline demographic and psychographics along with web behavioral data. This provides a view of what the consumer looks like behind every search and booking, benchmarked into 10 unique persona categories.
"Predictive analytics from nSight will put our hotels and attractions ahead of the curve in terms of planning and execution on all levels," explained Paul Phipps, Chief Marketing Officer at VISIT FLORIDA. "Better visibility into our global opportunities will advance our goal of higher visitation from international markets, and help grow revenue for local businesses."
Using this simplified view of online travel, users leverage nSight travel intelligence for a range of activities including revenue management, visitor acquisition and real-time marketing as well as long-term planning and asset management.
"The days of one-size-fits-all marketing are over, and nSight is the newest way we're developing our understanding of how to reach people, influence their travel decisions and close the deal," said Meryl Levitz, President and CEO of Visit Philadelphia™. "nSight will help us identify the types of people thinking about a trip to Philadelphia and the markets we should consider for our media plans."
nSight also works with national and city DMOs as well as global travel brands to help them optimize their existing web data by extending it with consumer and behavioral personas.
"These organizations are innovators with breakout marketing and best-in-class advocacy for their member hotels, attractions and local businesses," said Richard Maradik, Chairman at nSight. "Their focus on international growth reflects the increasing demand of global DMOs, hotels and destinations for data-driven marketing, monetization of traveler insights and solutions that enable all levels of their organizations."
About LVCVA (www.lvcva.com)
The Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority (LVCVA) is charged with marketing Southern Nevada as a tourism and convention destination worldwide, and also with operating the Las Vegas Convention Center and Cashman Center. With more than 150,000 hotel rooms in Las Vegas alone and 10.8 million square feet of meeting and exhibit space citywide, the LVCVA's mission centers on attracting ever increasing numbers of leisure and business visitors to the area. For more information, go to www.lvcva.com or www.lasvegas.com.
About VISIT FLORIDA (www.VISITFLORIDA.com)
VISIT FLORIDA, the state's official tourism marketing corporation, serves as Florida's official source for travel planning to visitors across the globe, welcoming over 90 million visitors per year.
About Visit Philadelphia™ (www.visitphilly.com)
Visit Philadelphia™, the region's official destination marketing organization, makes Philadelphia and The Countryside® a premier destination through marketing and image building that increases the number of visitors, the number of nights they stay and the number of things they do in the five-county area.
About nSight (nsight2.wpengine.com)
nSight is the largest aggregator of live, global travel search data that redefines travel intelligence and transforms how it's used. nSight was founded to simplify and monetize big data by making business intelligence about the traveler again. We're a new kind of travel intelligence company, providing the human connection between data and intelligence. Aggregating 25 billion global travel search and booking transactions from more than 5,000 travel websites, together with hundreds of millions of unique consumer insights on active travelers, nSight makes travel marketing more relevant and decisions more precise. Visit nsight2.wpengine.com. Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.


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Monday, January 4, 2010
I just made a big mistake.
The beauty of my dark speckled granite counter tops is that they do not show dirt and grime.
The problem with my dark speckled granite counter tops is that they do not show dirt and grime.
Guess I have another item to add to my to-do list.
Welcome home, indeed!
15 comments:
- Annikke said...
Been there, done that!
- January 4, 2010 at 12:57 PM
- Momisodes said...
Oy. I'm sorry.
I have the opposite problem. We have light colored formica countertops. Even 1 grain of salt shows. :(
- January 4, 2010 at 1:22 PM
- Colleen said...
Oh man, you were in my state, and we missed each other!! Where did you stay?
- January 4, 2010 at 1:29 PM
- Corey~living and loving said...
dude...that is totally my mom's carpet. It shows NOTHING....and thus....she forgets to vacuum it. Then the grandkids come, and their socks are nasty in an hour, and she realizes it is time to clean. LOL
- January 4, 2010 at 2:50 PM
- Lee and Beth said...
Oh dear, hate it when that kind of thing happens.
Just turn on some energizing music, and dance around and sing while doing your chores. Maybe that will make it all better.....maybe. :)
- January 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM
- Cecily R said...
My counters DO show the dirt and grime and let me tell you, it is THERE. I wish I could say it's there because I can't see it (turning off the light and walking away only works when I'm being really delusional) but it isn't. I'm just that crummy at housekeeping! :)
- January 4, 2010 at 3:02 PM
- Mari said...
I have the same thing with my counters. It's a mixed blessing!
- January 4, 2010 at 3:51 PM
- EntertainingMom said...
I cannot wait for granite. I have terrible icky-blecky white something or other from Circa 1989. It shows EVERYTHING!
- January 4, 2010 at 5:52 PM
- Beth (A Mom's Life) said...
Colleen - my husband is from Wellesley, MA. We stayed at his parent's house there. We ventured into Boston a couple of times and if it weren't for the weather, I think Boston would be a great place to live!
- January 4, 2010 at 5:57 PM
- RR Mama said...
Light granite does the samething..oh wait I just choose to ignore it!
- January 4, 2010 at 8:13 PM
- rhemashope said...
i hate it when that happens!
we don't live too far from wellesley. next time you're in MA i'd love to see you!
- January 4, 2010 at 9:04 PM
- JHS. said...
I just purchased & moved into my new house in early September. Beautiful granite counters in the kitchen. Sometimes I can't tell if it's the pattern in the granite or a crumb. Worse, I wipe the counters down & think they are clean until I run my hands over them and feel the stuff that is stuck on but not visible. To be fair, I have visual challenges due to a history of detached retinas, but my friends say the same thing so I know it is a common problem!
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Writing My Life
- January 4, 2010 at 11:13 PM
- Grandma T said...
Chuckle! Now, that's funny!!
- January 5, 2010 at 7:47 AM
- Jeff said...
Aggghhhh!!! I read your post and thought 'no way'... so I just bent down, looked across my counter at eye level and it's FILTHY. I had no idea. Something else to be compulsive about now.
- January 5, 2010 at 5:27 PM
- Jaina said...
At least it's not too bad of a chore. ;)
- January 6, 2010 at 4:39 PM


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Precious metals had a rather quiet Monday and Tuesday as the tug of war continues between U.S. equity weakness, lower bond yields, very weak German economic data, a strong USD and the collapse of energy prices led by the fall in crude oil.
Precious metals had a rather quiet Monday and Tuesday as the tug of war continues between U.S. equity weakness, lower bond yields, very weak German economic data, a strong USD and the collapse of energy prices led by the fall in crude oil. Gold's sensitivity to a move in the USD was front and center overnight as all four precious metals moved sharply lower during Asian trading hours as the USD was probing higher, gold and silver traded down to $1,222.00 and $17.02.
In early U.S. trading, gold and silver have recovered and reversed as they are now positive on the day while platinum and palladium are still down on the day, but well off the Asian lows. Shockingly weak economic date from Germany, weak economic data here in the U.S., another huge sell-off in U.S equities, an enormous rally in bonds which sees the 10-year yield below 2.00 percent, another big sell-off in crude oil and another confirmed Ebola case in the U.S. are all making this a very volatile day. Perhaps this is the day where gold and silver find concerned investors in other markets looking for insurance and we finally see a big rally in our market.
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The belief in "yichud" – G-d as something unique and special, with nothing else that can be compared to Him – raises a fair amount of difficulties when we try to understand the verses in the Bible. The straightforward language of the Bible implies that there are a number of deities, where G-d is directly related to the Children of ... Read More »
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The strong words in the prophecy of Isaiah, son of Amoz, which include the harshest phrases ever to be used against the Children of Israel in the entire Bible, reach the peak of their sting when the prophet compares the nation of Israel to Sodom and Gomorrah: "If the G-d of Hosts had not left us a tiny remnant, we ... Read More »
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The tribes of Reuben and Gad came to Moses and asked to get possession of the land on the eastern side of the Jordan River. This is part of the Land of Israel but not within the Land of Canaan. The Land of Canaan does not share any borders with a foreign population. To the south is a desert, to ... Read More »
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What is the meaning of the Divine revelation to the Prophet Elijah at Mount Horeb? The explanation given by Rav Tzvi Yehuda Kook is well known, that in a way it was a lesson for Elijah, accompanied by a scolding, since his zealous defense of G-d was not perfect and was tainted by a personal matter, when he said, "They ... Read More »
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Jephthah is not considered an especially outstanding man, not in Torah wisdom and not as a public leader. The sages list him as one of the "minor people" of the world, whose lack of seriousness cost him the life of his daughter. He collects empty people around him, and he is banned from his own family (Judges 11:3). However, when ... Read More »
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Rahab helps the two scouts that Joshua sent, even though she knows that they have come to conquer Jericho. At first glance this would seem to be an act of treason against her own people and an act supporting the invaders. However, she can justify her actions based on a number of significant claims. Rahab's first claim is a realization ... Read More »
Exception to the Rule
There have been a number of prominent people in the history of Israel who lived as a nazir, an ascetic who refrains from drinking wine. The one whose laws are discussed in greatest detail is Samson, as appears in the Haftarah for this week: "The boy will be a nazir of G-d from the womb" [Judges 13:5]. Evidently the reason ... Read More »


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This year's Super Bowl Sunday might just be the best of the worst of times for advertisers. As the industry faces one of their most dismal years ever, agencies still need to deliver the high quality entertainment expected during their 30-second spots (which run $3 million this year) while trying not to alienate consumers by pushing their most expensive products. "Advertisers have to strike a delicate balance this year," said Tim Calkins, a marketing professor at Northwestern University, adding, "You don't want to seem tone-deaf" regarding the recession. At least two ads for Denny's and the Universal Orlando Resort will reference the economy through savings offers, and the Anheuser-Busch beer commercials (with those trotting Clydesdales) will have lighthearted tones.
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Theater review: 'The Eccentricities of a Nightingale' at A Noise Within
There have always been Sue Sylvesters. Those shame-inducing, joy-killing gym coaches of the soul have ever been with us, ready to crush an artistic spirit at the first sign of self-expression. And a "Glee" club to the rescue is all that's missing from "The Eccentricities of a Nightingale," now at A Noise Within.
Tennessee Williams flips the script on the spinster stereotype with Alma Winemiller (Deborah Puette), the daughter of a starchy minister (Mitchell Edmonds) and his mentally disturbed wife (Jill Hill), trapped in a small Mississippi town just before World War I.
Like a caged bird, the socially anxious but imaginative Alma can display passion only in song--until John Buchanan (Jason Dechert) comes home from medical school for the holidays. On track to marry well and excel professionally, a restless John sees in Alma the kind of honesty he cannot claim for himself. She's drawn to the clarity of his beauty and curiosity. Their awkward encounters--half-therapy, half-seduction--are the production's vivid, human center.
With its backdrop of antiques suspended in air, Joel Daavid's set evokes the languid world of Deep South mores, church gossip and airless nights. Nothing in this nostalgic (read: repressed) world seems truly alive except Alma's time with John. Under Dámaso Rodriguez's direction, Puette gives a fearless performance: manic, swoony, exposed, acute —a being struggling to break free. Dechert deftly underplays his John, a steady tenor vibe to Puette's lyric soprano.
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"The Eccentricities of a Nightingale" A Noise Within, 234 S. Brand Blvd., Glendale. See website for schedule. Ends May 28. $42-$46. Contact: (818) 240-0910 or www.ANoiseWithin.org Running time: 2 hours.
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Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck <at> x-port.net> writes: > > Aaron, > > We obviously have very different concepts of what web services are! > > I would have thought that just about all web services that you refer to > would be in "domains different to the one where the page was downloaded". As > it happens, that's what makes it so exciting - in one form we can search > both Google and Amazon for the same word; in one form we can find a zip code > from an address, and then use that zip code to find weather and traffic > reports; in one form I can monitory umpteen news feeds or RSS logs, or even > manage my Atom-powered blog (coming soon ;)). > > In other words, far from causing a problem, XForms makes these new-fangled > web services accessible. Let's face it, despite being around for years web > services are pretty much unusable by anyone outside of a corporate IT > department. > > Regards, > > Mark > > > Mark Birbeck > CEO > x-port.net Ltd. > > e: Mark.Birbeck <at> x-port.net > t: +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 > w: http://www.formsPlayer.com/ > > Download our XForms processor from > http://www.formsPlayer.com/ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: www-forms-request <at> w3.org > > [mailto:www-forms-request <at> w3.org] On Behalf Of Aaron Reed > > Sent: 24 August 2004 21:50 > > To: www-forms <at> w3.org > > Subject: XForms - Secure or Insecure? > > > > > > > > I also have a question about XForms security. For example, > > the formsPlayer example at: > > http://www.formsplayer.com/community/samples/google-search.html. > > > > Running this example in a browser should raise eyebrows. > > Submitting SOAP to > > domains DIFFERENT from the one where the page was downloaded > > and REPLACING content in the current page so that the user > > doesn't have any kind of cue that something just happened > > seems like the kind of power for a form that we don't want to > > encourage (in a browser context, at least). Is this > > something that is going to be addressed in the 1.1 spec when > > the SOAP stuff goes in? > > > > --Aaron > > > > > > > > Hi Mark, Let me give you an example to ponder: A user browses his corporate intranet. He loads a page that connects him to a Web Service that lives on his corporate intranet. His browser prompts him to enter his username and password for HTTP authentication (or some other mechanism, cookies perhaps, are used to manage his logon session). Now, the user checks his email and receives a very familiar looking email regarding some familiar work-related thing, and he clicks the link. Unbeknownst to the user, the link he is directed to is actually to a web site on the _internet_ (established in this case by a disgruntled employee). The web site directs the user's browser to the aforementioned Web Service, collects some corporate secrets, and then sends them out over the internet. This problem exists because the hypothetical browser in this example allows a web site from one domain to communicate with Web Services from a second domain. The Mozilla web browser takes care to avoid these sort of cross-domain security problems by restricting XML transactions to the origin host exclusively. This is done for XMLHttpRequest (the equivalent of MSXML's XMLHTTP ActiveX component), document.load, and SOAP. Mozilla does permit cross-origin HTML form posts because it is very difficult to exploit those (save for some classic examples involving SMTP). As a developer of Mozilla's XForms submission code, I am very concerned about allowing XForms XML submission to any host other than the origin server by default. There would definitely be preferences to allow this to be configured, but I think it is important to select the default behavior carefully. Regards, Darin Fisher IBMReceived on Tuesday, 23 November 2004 07:19:08 UTC
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The Dune Defenders are once again battling ice plant. The Hottentot Fig was once considered the ground cover of choice. This non-native is a challenge to dune stewards, so come help and enjoy the unique surroundings. There will be a large group joining Mountain Watch for this Saturday's restoration work, so if you think you're coming, then notify Ariel so he can make sure there is enough equipment to go around. Thanks!
Volunteers should meet at 9:45am next to the Hilldale School at 250 Thiers Street, Daly City, 94014. Street parking is available, and overflow parking is also available on a gravel and dirt road next to the Hilldale School's entrance sign (this road is actually a continuation of Thiers St, not part of school property)
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To facilitate the 'easing in' of these new regulations the Minister of Agriculture of that era made an exception which became known as the 'grandfather rights' – to give time for all spray operators to get qualified. In the 28 years since these rights were first allowed, many litres of chemical have flowed through the sprayer pipework and now it is time for them to end! This and other changes to the way we use pesticides, are part of the UK's programme to implement the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive 2009/128/EC (known as SUD) issued by the European Parliament. This directive called for all member states of the EU to draw up plans to make the continued use of pesticides sustainable for the future.
Statutory Instrument No 1657 "The Plant Protection Products (Sustainable Use) Regulations 2012" (SUR 2012) were laid before the UK Parliament on 27th June 2012 and came into force on 18th July 2012. These regulations will bring an end to the grandfather rights and introduce the requirement for regular testing of application equipment. In this short article I will discuss the implications these changes will make to the sports and amenity turf market.
The grandfather rights allowed uncertificated spray operators to continue to apply PPP's on land that they or their employer owned, if they were born before the 31st December 1964. The rights did not apply to spray contractors. These rights are being laid to rest on the 26th of November this year (2015). After this date it will become a legal requirement for everyone applying PPP's, authorised for professional use, to hold an appropriate certificate of competence.
With regard to the responsibilities of employers and managers, there are new rules relating to the purchasing of PPP's and delegating their application. It is now an offence for anyone to purchase PPP's, if it is known that the person carrying out the application is not qualified to do so, unless they are to be supervised during the whole process by a suitably certificated person. The regulations also state that "No person shall cause or permit any other person to use a plant protection product authorised for professional use unless the person using the product holds a specified certificate or works under supervision".
Individuals who are already qualified to use application equipment will not be affected by these new rules, as their certificates meet the requirements of the Directive and will remain valid. However, anyone who has attended spray application training but has not yet taken the test will need to do so before the 26th November this year if they wish to continue to apply PPP's in the future. For those affected by the loss of grandfather rights there will be a special training course to ensure they meet the standards set out by the Directive. City and Guilds Land Based Services has developed a new Level 2 award in the "Safe Use of Pesticides, replacing Grandfather Rights". This course will not be the same as that for candidates new to spraying, as it will take account of previous experience. As a consequence it will take significantly less time and should also cost less than the full course. More details are available on the National Proficiency Test Council website at: http://www.nptc.org.uk/qualificationschemes.aspx?id=2
The new rules in SUD 2012 detail the requirement for routine testing of certain types of application equipment. This includes sprayers mounted on aircraft and trains and those that are vehicle mounted or trailed with a boom greater than 3 metres in length. The testing requirement also relates to the age of the kit; if it was purchased or leased for the first time (i.e. not second hand) on or before 26th November 2011 – then it will need to be tested before the 26th November 2016, when the requirement for routine inspections comes into force.
Sprayers that were first purchased after 26th November 2011 must be tested before they are five years old. Equipment will need re-testing every five years until 2020 when the cycle will be changed to every three years. Hand held and pedestrian controlled sprayers, such as knapsacks and the small electric or peristaltic pumped sprayers do not need to be tested but they should be checked by a competent person to ensure their efficient operation, keeping records of when they were examined.
Properly maintained and adjusted application equipment is safer to the environment and the spray operator, more reliable and potentially more economical. Regular examination of application equipment can be arranged through the National Sprayer Testing Scheme who have 230 test centres across the UK and over 600 qualified examiners itching to get a look at your pumps and pipework! They have a presence on the web at: http://www.nsts.org.uk/
It is unlikely that the loss of grandfather rights will affect many of those working on golf courses in the UK, as the vast majority of course maintenance staff are trained and tested in pesticide application as part of their greenkeeper training programme, usually at a local college of agriculture. However, they will need to address the issues of sprayer testing as most use some form of vehicle or tractor mounted sprayers. Under the regulations users have a responsibility to make sure the equipment they use is properly maintained and has a test certificate where appropriate. The parts of the turf market where most grandpas operate are in the village sports clubs such as football, cricket, tennis and bowls and also on schools playing fields. These are the area's most likely to be affected by the demise of the grandfather rights.
Potassium is an essential component of plant nutrition. Potassium deficient plants are known to be less resistant to plant diseases.
Phosphorus is an important requirement of many plant compounds that are essential for growth.
Nitrogen is one of the most important nutrients that grasses need to sustain healthy growth
Autumn is often referred to as the 'season of mists and mellow fruitfulness' and each year it can bring back the problems caused by fungi on turf.
This spring we learnt of the loss to the Amenity market of the insecticide chlorpyrifos, currently used to prevent damage to turf on sports and recreational turf.
A wind of change is on the way towards the end of this year, for those who apply professional plant protection products (PPP's) approved by the government.
Rosate Green is one of a new generation of glyphosate formulations exhibiting high levels of safety to humans and animals and to the environment.
This article explores the life cycle and potential control methods of Chafer grubs, the larvae of the chafer beetle, which are a fairly common pest of turf in Britain.
The role of plant nutrition is increasing in importance as we strive to improve the quality of playing surfaces. This booklet takes an in-depth look at the basics and more.
To plan accurate turf fertiliser input it is important to know how much actual nutrient is being applied in any given treatment.
Lichens grow on a variety of plants and hard surfaces and sometimes need to be controlled or removed by those managing amenity areas.
Liverworts will grow in containers and on the surface of flower borders and rockeries where they are usually associated with compacted soil or poor drainage.
A range of seed mixes with renovation & overseeding for golf courses, sports pitches and new surface establishment.
Focussing on three diseases of turf that we may see in the summer months.
Bracken is a rhizomatous species of fern belonging to the Dennstaedtiaceae family that are characterised by large, highly-divided fronds.
Harness the power of tank-mixing with T2 Green Pro, Depitox and Duplosan - to put real weed control muscle in your spray tank.
For those whose job requires them to use pesticides, the chemical store is an important feature of the working environment.
As we finally head into spring, Bayer recommends that Greenkeepers act now to safeguard against potential Chafer Grub infestations.
The Butterfly Bush, Buddleia davidii, was introduced to the UK from China in 1896. It is a non-native invasive species that can be difficult to control.
We are often asked to advise on the control of the weed, Mare's-tail, causing problems in cultivated land.
For the second year in a row, fairy rings and thatch fungi were the most queried subjects at the STRI Pest & Disease Clinic.
'The Day of the Triffids', the invasive species Giant Hogweed is not to be messed with. . .
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A range of Sherriff Amenity products have improved the overall health of the turf on the fairways at Hampton Court Palace Golf Club, according to course manager Richard Hill.
Okehampton Golf Club in Devon has signed a deal which sees Sherriff Amenity as its preferred supplier of products for a period of three years.
A tank mixture from Sherriff Amenity is helping Richard Quelch, groundsman at Budleigh Salterton Croquet Club, to improve the health of the eleven fantastic law
Biochar is a high-carbon, purified form of charcoal that improves the structure, aeration and water-holding capacity of soil prove to be successful at Mullion Golf Club.
Visitors to the Sherriff Amenity stand (E060) at SALTEX 2018 will get the chance to find out how they could significantly improve their turf through a range of
Stephen Fyles, track manager at Hamilton Park racecourse, has noticed significant improvements since switching to a variety of Marathon Sport extended release f
Tait, Course Manager at Sweetwoods Park Golf Club in Cowden, Kent, has reported
excellent results from using two tank mixes containing a range of Sherriff
Amenity products.
Sherriff Amenity has announced the launch of E2 Pro Elicitor - a new unique soluble plant biostimulant which contains Harpin aβ.
to Head Greenkeeper Rob Hill the unique nine-hole course at Rustington Golf
Centre in West Sussex is looking the best it has ever been thanks to Sherr
Lee Bishop, Course Manager at Burnham Beeches Golf Club in South Buckinghamshire, has said that Limagrain UK's range of Colour Splash flower mixtures have
James Bledge, Course Manager at Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club in Deal, Kent, says he has successfully treated Dry Patch with monthly applications of Qualibra wetting agent.
Sherriff Amenity is delighted to announce that it is now the exclusive UK distributor of Carbon Gold's Enriched Biochar Turf Improver.
Sherriff Amenity recently hosted the very first myTurfClub event at Syngenta UK's Jealott's Hill Research Centre in Bracknell
Aqua-Zorb Liquid eliminates Dry Patch at Cowdray Park Golf Club
Olmix Group is proud to be among the official technical partners of the prestigious golf course Le Golf National in Paris, home of the HNA French Open and host
Pete Smith, Course Manager at the highly exclusive Birch Grove Estate in Sussex has reported 'phenomenal' results from using Sherriff Amenity'
A recent EU meeting, held by the Standing Committee on Plants, Animals, Food and Feed (SCoPAFF), has voted for the non-inclusion of iprodione.
Sherriff Amenity has announced the launch of StimZyne – a new range of hydrocarbon encapsulators and plant growth promoters.
Stuart Vause, head groundsman at Castleford Tigers RLFC, believes that Sherriff Amenity's range of Marathon Sport fertilisers have signalled dramatic impr
Sherriff Amenity, the fine turf and landscaping division of Agrovista UK Limited, announces the acquisition of Terra Firma (Scotland) Ltd
The Sherriff Amenity Academy is now offering CPD points for BIGGA members, sign up FREE for 12 months in 2017.
Bespoke Grass Seed Mixtures for Beaufort Polo Club.
Andy Thompson, head groundsman at Sheffield Wednesday FC, has reported excellent results since using Sherriff Amenity's GoGreen Energy bio-stimulant.
Sherriff Amenity recently underlined its commitment to educating and supporting volunteers in the turf industry after proudly....
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Sherriff Amenity has announced the launch of GoGreen Energy, a concentrated bio-stimulant formulated to assist plant health and relieve stress symptoms.
Sherriff Amenity has announced the launch of Marathon Turf Core Renovator, which is the latest addition to the popular range of Marathon fertilisers.
Sherriff Amenity to feature new products and FREE education
Sherriff Amenity is pleased to announce the addition of two new fungicide tank mixes to its comprehensive portfolio.
Sherriff Amenity has announced the launch of a new range of Amino, Humic and Fulvic Acid bio-stimulant products designed to improve plant health and root growth.
Sherriff Amenity are please to announce the addition to our ever expanding product portfolio a range of high quality water soluble fertilisers.
This effectively means there is a very limited time for storage and use of Asulox to control Bracken.
Exeter Golf and Country Club with the advice of Sherriff Amenity have created a 'mirror- like pond'
Sherriff Amenity is delighted to now be offering Calciprill a 2.6mm lime granule (calcium carbonate) made from finely ground, high purity limestone.
Sherriff Amenity is delighted to now be offering Garland a concentrated suspension fertiliser based on garlic extract produced by cell-burst technology.
Dennis and SISIS educational seminars combined practical tips and information from industry experts followed by the now infamous 'Turf Clinic' open forum session.
Sherriff Amenity is delighted to now be offering BunkerFilter a robust bunker filtration system offering drainage at a flow rate of up to14.5 litres per minute.
ICL has expanded its product portfolio after announcing the launch of four new formulations.
A new Leaf SAP Analysis service available through Sherriff Amenity.
Everris has announced an addition to its H2Pro range with the launch of a new product called DewSmart.
Hammer has received approval to be used on hard surfaces by The Chemicals Regulation Directorate (CRD).
Lamberhurst Golf Course has turned to Sherriff Amenity to help create a beautiful array of wildflowers.
Bayer Cropscience has received a formal notification from CRD that its granular insecticide Merit Turf (MAPP No 12415) is to be withdrawn from the market.
Sussex County Cricket Club has heaped praise on Marathon fertiliser products, noting a vast improvement in the turf of its famous cricket pitches.
Ferromex - a high performance liquid moss killer, has been given a new license approval.
TurfReports is an exciting new service that will help industry professionals monitor the health and performance of their turf.
One Leisure, a multi sports complex based in St Ives, deservedly picks up the 2014 IOG Grassroots Sports Grounds Team of the Year.
Following a tailored nutritional programme from Sherriff Amenity, two bowling clubs in Chesterfield can now boast of healthy greens of the highest quality.
Fossil is a phosphite & silicon based nutrient product that supports the plants natural defences against disease.
Matthew will be focusing on maintaining and growing business opportunities in Cambridgeshire and its surrounding areas.
Basic principles and sound biological knowledge are helping to turn around playing surface difficulties at Sweetwoods Park Golf Club.
Channel Islands golf club has become the latest course to sign an exclusive supply agreement with Sherriff Amenity.
GoGreen range enhanced with the addition a new dual action wetting agent which utilises new surfactant technology.
MGD, a rapidly expanding golf course maintenance contractor based in the South East of England, is pleased to announce the appointment of Paul Copsey as Project Manager.
The Fortetub range of twin walled tree shelters are available exclusively through Sherriff Amenity to the UK market.
Sherriff Amenity has announced that it is launching some new additions to its popular fungicide packages.
Turf technology was the theme of the most recent seminar for groundsmen and greenkeepers in the Channel Islands.
With the help of Evolution5, our controlled release fertiliser, Head Groundsman Barry Boustead has produced the best outfield grass cover anyone can remember.
Mytime Active has made a decisive move to raise its environmental credentials with the introduction of a bee and wildflower package on its courses.
The Annual Conference Exhibition of the Amenity Forum is to be held on Thursday, October 16th 2014 at the King Power Stadium, Leicester.
LanGuard VM has taken delivery of the UK's first new Weedingtech MW Series unit.
Interface wins the NWST Innovation Award in the Turf Maintenance category.
David Bentley, Head Groundsman at Darlington Cricket Club is the winner of our Bowdry competition.
Turf Rewards is a brand new programme for sports and amenity turf managers in the UK and Ireland who use Everris and Syngenta products.
Create an impression that will be the talk of the clubhouse with the new Bunkerstamp from Sherriff Amenity.
Sherriff Amenity launching a new service to tackle the disposal of hazardous chemicals, and in particular revoked products.
A party of Sherriff Amenity customers and staff from the company and sponsors Everris recently attended the Golf Industry Show in Orlando.
Jockey Club Racecourses has signed a 3 year supplier agreement extension with Sherriff Amenity.
Sedgwick Cricket Club had a season to remember in 2013 both on the pitch and because the pitch, thanks to Kevan Grieve and Sherriff Amenity.
York City Football Club has signed a three year supply agreement with Sherriff Amenity for all line marking and paint requirements.
To commemorate the 100 year anniversary of the start of the First World War, Limagrain UK have created two poppy seed mixtures.
A free event in Edinburgh explains new legal requirements for the use of pesticides introduced under the Sustainable Use of Pesticides Directive.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Duo, the only spreader available on the market to feature two dispersal plates for a highly accurate spread pattern.
Martin Guy Developments, a golf services supplier and maintenance contractor, has signed a rolling 12-month preferred supplier agreement with Sherriff Amenity.
Hainault Golf Club in Chigwell, Essex has signed a three year preferred supplier agreement with Sherriff Amenity.
A local authority in Nottinghamshire has seen a marked improvement in its fine turf sports facilities since it adopted a prescribed fertiliser programme from sp
Oldham Athletic Football Club has signed a three year supply agreement with Sherriff Amenity for all line marking and paint requirements.
Marked improvement in the sports facilities that the company looks after since exclusively using a range of Sherriff Amenity products.
Sherriff Amenity continue to give on-going support to the work of the Surrey Cricket Groundsman's Association.
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From CNBC:
This June, the Museum of Science, Boston will feature an exhibition showcasing the STEM concepts used by artists and computer scientists who work at Pixar. Each section of the exhibit will focus on a step of the filmmaking process and feature hands-on activities.
From Broadway World:
"Sesame Street Presents: The Body" is an interactive exhibition about the human body and is a result of the Sesame Workshop program Healthy Habits for Life. The exhibit features three different education zones related to the human body: Your Insides, Your Outsides, and Staying Healthy
From The New York Times:
This article tracks the history of No Child Left Behind as well as the current debates about rewriting the law. It also looks at how schools have aimed to show success through measures other than test scores and the role of academic standards like the Common Core.
From ESchool News:
A new initiative led by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) will help school leaders adjust to changes in STEM instruction based on the Next Generation Science Standards. The NSTA Administrators Initiative will include face-to-face professional development opportunities and resources for school and district leaders.
Researchers at the MIT Media Laboratory recently announced that they are developing a system that would allow young children to program interactive robots. Developers said the system could also serve as a tool to help determine which computational concepts children can easily learn and how interactive robots could best be integrated into educational curricula.


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Normal people were also disgusted to hear that the underclass should be prevented from handing down their hard un-earned privileges down to their vast selection of progeny like some kind of medieval feudal Lord.
'My family haven't worked hard all their lives to not pay for this house', said one dole dosser yesterday, 'I don't see why I shouldn't be entitled to inherit the place, rather than it being given to some greedy employed person just because they've got a job. It's about time these people realised that earning money and conducting themselves in a socially responsible manner doesn't entitle them to some kind of special privilege.'


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The purpose and goal of the BNI Summer Camps is to educate and produce Mu'minaat – believing Muslim ladies – who worship and serve Allah, The Almighty One and only true God, in the best way. They exemplify true Islam–the living Sunnah of the Holy Last Messenger Muhammad, peace be upon him, and personify excellent Muslim ladies, daughters, wives and mothers. These goals can easily be accomplished through the proper education and spiritual discipline under the guidance of a perfect Sufi Sheikh, coupled with Love for Almighty Allah, and with hard work and determination. All praise and thanks be to Allah, by whom the young ladies attending this year's BNI camp have been blessed with all of the required components necessary to reach these goals and achieve success!
Participants ranging from the ages of 15 to 25 arrived at the camp with various levels of educational and spiritual attainment, but all were expected and were being prepared to leave the camp able to read Holy Quran in Arabic with proper Tajweed, the rules of recitation, having memorized the last 10 ayat of Holy Quran and the 40 Hadith Jami, ability of basic conversation in the Arabic language, knowledge of Tafsir of Holy Quran, skills in Arabic writing and calligraphy, knowledge of the Sunnah applicable to daily life, basic Shariah, Science of Hadith, Islamic laws of marriage and divorce, Islamic etiquette, Islamic history from the advent of the first revelation through the Four Righteous Khalifas, and skills in Islamic cooking, knitting, crochet, sewing and embroidery. The BNI camp schedule is vigorous, with each day beginning with Tahujjud Salat at 3:30 a.m and ending after Ishaa Salat at 11:00 p.m. However, care was taken to insure that regular exercise, rest, relaxation and outings were woven into the schedule to provide a much-needed physical and mental reprieve from their studies.
Following the commencement and awards ceremony on July 17, the ladies remained in Holy Islamberg for a three-day seminar, demonstrating what they had learned over the previous six weeks. The goal of the seminar was to settle into a schedule of ibadah (worship) and study that will continue even after returning to their respective homes.
left column top to bottom Skills taught in Islamic Cooking and preparation of foods, Middle column top to bottom The ladies camp schedule is vigorous, day commences with Tahujjud, Right column top to bottom care was taken to insure that regular exercise, rest, relaxation and outings were worked into the schedule