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Nick MacKinnon, winner of the NHS section of the 2012 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (Image: Reproduced by permission of the Hippocrates Press)

Poetry and medicine may appear an unusual combination, but can prove an effective cocktail for patients and poets alike.

For Jo Shapcott, her experience of cancer and its treatment inspired her poetry book, Of Mutability, which won the 2011 Costa Book Award. Last Saturday, Shapcott read from her works at the 2012 International Symposium for Poetry and Medicine at the Wellcome Trust in London. In her poem Hairless, she explores the impact of chemotherapy on her body: where she describes “the nature of the skin” as “newborn-pale, erection-tender stuff”.

So what is it that makes the mix of poetry and medicine so potent? “The body is a site of drama for poets”, Shapcott explains.

It is this common ground that the symposium founders aim to highlight. This small group of researchers – clinical pharmacologist Donald Singer, writer Michael Hulse, and Literature postdoc Sorcha Gunne – from the University of Warwick were convinced that the poetry and medicine crossover deserved more attention and set up the symposium in 2010 to provide a space where doctors and writers could come together and discuss the multiple facets of uniting the disciplines.

They did just that at Saturday’s symposium. Where poetry was a source of inspiration for Shapcott, it proved an effective therapeutic aide for one patient of nurse Sue Spencer. Poetry allowed Spencer?s patient, who suffered from advanced MS, to rediscover herself, giving her back what she called a ?worthwhile identity?. Spencer helped her produce a 15-poem pamphlet, which markedly improved her patient?s mood and sense of self at the end of her life.

Poetry is not just for patients, though. Paediatric surgeon and Member of European Parliament Eleni Theocharous is a widely-translated, award-winning poet, whose work draws on terrifying, sublime first-hand experiences from her work in the world?s most war-torn areas. To a rapt symposium audience, she described carrying “three or four children, with blood running down my body?[this contributed to] the poetry of a surgeon”. Theocharous?s language evocatively juxtaposes the perseverance of life with the destruction of war: she described “the taste of white strawberries picked from unprotected minefields” and how the memory worked its way into her writing.

The symposium is home to the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. The prize boasts the biggest monetary award for a single poem and aims to unite poetry and medicine.

Awards are divided into a category for those who work in the NHS, and an open category. Mary Bush won the Open Award for her poem Women?s Work (see below), which explores tissue engineering. Her vivid poem came from reading about the work of renowned stem cell scientist Doris Taylor. ?The medical details of this process were a perfect metaphor for poetry,? said Bush upon accepting her award.

The winning poem for the NHS Award grew from first-hand experience. Nick MacKinnon?s Claybury (see below), in which he imagines the changing role of a psychiatric hospital from the point of view of a local landmark, was informed by his own experience as an auxiliary nurse on a psychogeriatric ward in the early 80s. By taking the viewpoint of a long-standing architectural feature, MacKinnon highlights the change over time in psychiatric treatment for patients.

This year?s winning poems were described as ?literary x-rays? by medical professor and prize judge Rod Flower. The ensuing anthology produced from the year?s shortlist is a fine example of the engagement of verse with medicine.

Claybury
by Nick MacKinnon

Before the lunatics could find asylum
there had to be this chess piece water tower
in Victorian high-gothic: five flights
up to a gabled tank kept out of sight
behind a frieze of blind lancet windows.

Clocklessly it supervised the regime
of cleanliness, its daily shadow sweep -
male chronic, male acute, male epileptic,
female epileptic, female acute, female chronic -
solstice to solstice as a century passed.

It drove the Roding Valley aquifer
along the branching copper axons,
down to the vast pressure cookers,
around the laundry’s steam mangle,
inside laboratory condenser jackets,

through asbestos-lagged service tunnels,
out of the delouser’s scalding nozzle,
into strapped baths for hydropathy,
enamel basins in the nurse’s quarters,
patented cisterns and the chapel font.

It stood complicit in the autoclave’s
preparation of stainless lobotomies;
knew the drip of insulin coma therapy;
kept silent while the beige Psychotron
washed a sad brain with threshold current.

And when the cold war tablets came -
Largactil, Acuphase, Seroquel -
it drained itself, glass by glass,
down the salt-glazed Doulton sewer pipes
into the Roding’s sluggish sanity.

Women’s Work
by Mary Bush

To make a heart from scratch, even tiny,
mouse-sized, she was surprised to find
that soap was best. No chemicals, reagents,
electrospinning, leaching: none of it

as good as common soap. The soap was best
for flesh. An elegant solution:
when concentrated in the lab,
the steady drip strips the donor heart

of once-living cells. A lung requires ?
hand-washing, the bluish marbled meat
dissolved, the pulmonary tree exposed,
the delicate hollows symmetrical, alveolar.

The liver is simpler, mere reduction, translucent
as tallow and ashes. The first soap
was gleaned from sacrifice. A thousand years ago,
she would have cast bones and entrails

to burn, boiled fat, scrabbled in the fire
for cinders. A body is made clean from the flesh
of another body. All around her, ghost hearts,
ghost lungs, faint superstructures of cartilage

glowing like radium. Today, she will deliver
life, infusing organ scaffolds with broth,
draping small galaxies in a swath of stars,
pluripotent tissue cells hung

like pale fabric. Not yet stained
with rude blood, her mouse heart waits
to beat, the lungs to breathe, silent
in amniotic glass, dumb life

re-assembling. Common as birth.
She could be making cutwork lace.
She could be on her knees to wash
the stillborn lamb for rendering.

Copyright for the poems rests with the authors.

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No doubt, T-Mobile is in the middle of a rebuilding stage as a result of the AT&T merger attempt. Should it be much of a surprise, then, that the carrier would be looking at cranking out a smartphone lineup full of tempting options? Not at all. It turns out that Samsung is making some contributions to the cause, as a UAProf file for the unannounced T699 has been discovered. Just like most user agent profiles, there’s little to discern here aside from the obvious inclusion of a 720p HD display — but at least this lets us know that the handset exists, and that we have something new to look forward to on T-Mobile. Check out the source if you want to do some deciphering of your own.

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Plus Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake and others make special cameos in the show’s 100th Digital Short segment.
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<P>Exactly one month before his new album, <a href="/news/articles/1682140/usher-looking-for-myself.jhtml"><i>Looking 4 Myself</a>,</i> hits shelves, the wheels of <a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/usher/artist.jhtml">Usher</a>'s promotional wagon gained momentum when the entertainer provided America with a set of contrasting performances and chuckles during this weekend's "Saturday Night Live" episode, which was hosted by "SNL" alum Will Ferrell.</P><P>Rocking simple black jeans, a jacket and tee, and a faux hawk, Ursh looked vibrant and energetic as he performed his brand-new single "Scream." Unlike previous expertly choreographed numbers for his dance tunes, the sunglass-donning singer showed off minimal, but nonetheless slick, moves, while his band and two backup singers filled his Studio 8 back stage.</P><P><object width="460" height="260"><param name="movie" value="http://www.hulu.com/embed/U94NsydHnYe4qA61SBc-bw/424/3531/i1411"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.hulu.com/embed/U94NsydHnYe4qA61SBc-bw/424/3531/i1411" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="460" height="260" allowFullScreen="true"></embed></object></P><P>"We at it again, 'SNL,' and this time we going to make you scream," he told the crowd at the start of the energetic cut.</P><P>His second performance was for the Diplo-produced cut "Climax," during which the singer showed off his sensual and smooth side. Clearing the area of his accompanying singers, Usher made his smooth falsetto the forefront of the number. It was a simple, authentic rendition of the hit song that was essential proof of his multi-faceted vocal talents.</P><P>In addition to his set of performances, the ATL singer appeared alongside Ferrell in the "2012 Funkytown Debate" skit, in which he played a character named Galactic Fantastic. Dressed in some sparkling duds and an oversized afro, the R&B entertainer played a wacky sidekick who brought in his singing voice to support Farrell's side of the grooving song debate.</P><P>Usher got even more airtime when he was joined by Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake, Michael Bolton, Will Ferrell and Natalie Portman, who all made cameos in the episode's special 100th Digital Short. Paying tribute to some of the most popular Shorts like "Di– in a Box" and "Shy Ronnie," Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone and the Biebs most fittingly put on a big-time celebration with accompanying jingle. It was an all-star affair and brought back some major giggles — especially when JT and Portman reprised their original Short roles.</P><P>To add to the night's surprises, Liam Neeson popped up during a "Weekend Update" segment for the Nicolas Cage parody "Get in the Cage." Neeson's upcoming summer flick "Battleship" was the main topic of conversation, with Samberg, as Cage, asking his usual "How am <i>I</i> not in that movie?!" Samberg went on to babble jealous nonsense about Neeson's other flicks in his spot-on Cage impersonation.</P><P>Like <a href="/news/articles/1684560/rihanna-saturday-night-live-performance.jhtml">last week's musical guest Rihanna</a>, Mr. Raymond's gig on the late-night sketch show marks his third appearance. And it's one of the many stops that the singer will make to promote his upcoming project. He's set to kick off the "Today" show's summer concert series on Friday, perform at the <a href="/news/articles/1684239/usher-kelly-clarkson-billboard-music-awards.jhtml">Billboard Music Awards</a> on May 20 and head overseas for Capital FM's Summertime Ball 2012 in London in early June.</P><P>Mick Jagger will perform double duty as host and musical guest on next week's "Saturday Night Live" season finale.</P><P><i>What did you think of Usher's "SNL" performances? Sound off below.</i></P><P><center><a href="http://www.mtv.com/photos/?fid=1617615"><img src="http://www.mtv.com/news/photos/s/spotted/banner/spotted.jpg"></a></center></p>

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Somali pirate attacks have dropped, from 45 in 2010 to 24 in 2011, but there’s no evidence that more naval patrols and aggressive private security firms are actually keeping pirates ashore.?

To some, the solution to Somali piracy is blindingly obvious. Patrol the seas. Capture the pirates. Send them to the briny deep. If it worked on the Barbary Coast, it should work in Somalia.

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But with Somali pirates going further out to sea, such a solution is more difficult than it sounds. Patrolling the narrow waters of the Gulf of Aden ? as the European Naval Force and some other countries such as China, India, Japan, Russia, and Taiwan are doing ? is relatively simple. Patrolling the much broader Indian Ocean, where Somali pirates have moved, is more difficult.

And for those pirate crews who do get captured, there?s one more consideration. Where do you take them for trial? Very few nations ? none of them, interestingly, in the countries providing naval patrols off the Somali coast ? have taken Somali pirates to put them on trial. Most pirates who do get captured are simply disarmed, dragged in their skiffs closer to Somali shores, and released.

As a Guardian headline this week sums it up, ?Outgunned Somali pirates can hardly believe their luck.?

Not all of the navies patrolling for pirates use gentle methods, of course. In November 2008, the Indian Navy sank a pirate ship in the Gulf of Aden. Russian Navy sailors apparently captured a Somali pirate ship earlier this year, and blew it up afterward. The video of this action went viral, alleging that the Russian sailors blew up the ship with the pirates on board, but there is no proof of that. (Advisory note: the video contains violence and may be difficult for sensitive viewers to watch). And on March 25, 2011, private security guards aboard a commercial freighter called the Avocet opened fire on an apparent Somali pirate crew aboard a skiff. The pirates never made it aboard the ship, but the video stirred controversy about the use of force in commercial shipping.

Does militarizing the seas actually deter piracy? The data don?t provide easy answers.

Since 2008, Somali pirate gangs have launched more than 800 attacks on commercial ships, with 170 ships hijacked, and 3,400 sailors held for ransom. Shipping firms have paid more than $530 million on private security firms during that time period, and $160 million was paid out to pirate gangs last year alone.

That, clearly, is the reason Somali gangs get into the pirate business. Do a few well-armed security guards onboard commercial ships, or a few naval patrol ships deter those pirates from taking to the high seas? Some point to the dropping number of pirate attacks ? from 45 attacks in 2010 to 24 in 2011 ? as a sign that naval patrolling and private security may be working.

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By Ford Turner
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A lame duck Congress. The Supreme Court ruling on the health care law. Tax regulation expirations.

For human resource directors, a simmering stew of national issues could begin to boil within the next year.

Some of those issues were detailed by Michael P. Aitken, vice president for government affairs of the Society for Human Resource Management, during a presentation last week to SHRM?s Berks County Chapter 179.

SHRM has more than 250,000 members worldwide. Chapter 179 has about 170 members, all involved in human resources in Berks.

Aitken said the fact that it is a general election year means at least some people who steer national policies ? members of Congress and the president ? will have lame duck status following the election. The potential actions of nothing-to-lose politicians who will be out of office soon have triggered lots of conversation.

?We are very nervous about this time and what could happen,? Aitken said. ?There are some significant issues at stake.?

One is the year-end expiration of Section 127 of the Internal Revenue Code, which allows employees to exclude from taxation educational assistance given to them by employers.

If Congress fails to renew Section 127, those benefits ? up to $5,250 a year ? would become taxable.

?For those of you who are offering those plans, we are working hard to try and get it extended,? Aitken told Chapter 179?s membership.

The tough economy, he said, made it the wrong time to be cutting back on worker training and investment.

But the tax protection offered through Section 127 costs the U.S. Treasury about $3.8 billion a year, according to Aitken. And the pressure on elected leaders to reduce spending is huge.

How to reduce the nation?s $15.3 trillion in long-term debt has become a dominant political issue. Aitken said human resource departments will almost certainly be affected if a cost-cutting Congress acts to change retirement plan regulations, Social Security, or the health care infrastructure.

On health care, though, the main focus is the upcoming U.S. Supreme Court decision on the fate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The court heard oral arguments in March and is expected to announce a decision in late June.

?There are lot of practical things that will impact your plans heading into 2013, depending on what the Supreme Court does,? Aitken said.

Also on the radar screen for human resource industry observers, Aitken said, is immigration. The federal government has ramped up audits of immigration paperwork.

?They are not only coming after employers, they are coming after employers with a vengeance,? he said.

One recent federal audit of I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification forms at a single company turned up about 1,000 problematic forms among 9,000.

Aitken said the initial suggestion for a fine against the company was $4 million. Ultimately, the agreed-upon settlement was a fine of $1 million.

Aitken jokingly confessed to being a lobbyist, a profession not often singled out for public admiration.

However, he noted that the public approval rating of Congress has decreased to a historic low of 12 percent.

?We actually have a higher approval rating than Congress,? he said.

During his Berks appearance, Aitken conducted the swearing in of Chapter 179?s officers for 2012-13.

The officers are Chet Mosteller of Mosteller and Associates, president; Audra Donato of Misco Products, vice president; Marguerite Kline of Joe Jurgielewicz & Sons, treasurer; and Shannon Schulze of Benecon, secretary.

Contact Ford Turner: 610-371-5037 or fturner@readingeagle.com.

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Kobo is the underdog trying to scrape points while the e-reader heavy hitters of Amazon and B&N duke it out. The Vox was the Canadian outfits response to the Nook and Kindle Fire, but despite a similar price tag, our e-reader expert found that its last-generation hardware was no match for the big boys. That said, plenty of people must have bought them so tell us; how has it been? Do you regret shunning the other two for it, or does it have hidden charms that we didn’t see first time around? Let us know in the comments below.

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