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Guitar Improvisation ^_^

The first and last parts are improvised and I play some of my riffs in between :) I'm playing a Dean USA Dime Razorback... more

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British bank Barclays to sell business to BlackRock

U.S. investment management firm BlackRock has agreed to purchase Barclays Global Investors from British bank Barclays for $13.5... more

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British schools told to scrap 'i before e'

British elementary schools have been advised to scrap one of the most venerable rules in English spelling: "I before e except... more

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British Vogue blasts skinny models

Why? You told them for so long that they had to look this way! Now you are telling them you want them to fatten up? Make up your... more

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BBC says election broadcasts disrupted from Iran

The BBC said Sunday that the satellites it uses to broadcast in Persian were being jammed from Iran, disrupting its reports on the... more

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Meteors may have brought life to Earth billions of years ago

Researchers suggest that meteors may have delivered enough water and carbon dioxide to the planet to create the conditions for... more

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Sigourney Weaver Joins Greg Mottola’s Paul?

Scripted by Pegg and Frost (the duo from Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz), the story follows two British nerds, fresh off a trip to... more

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Yoghurt fans 'urt over spelling

To the dismay of traditionalists, more manufacturers and retailers have have been using the Americanised spelling of yogurt that... more

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Guitar Solo ♪♪♪♪♪

(Jacqueline Mannering) age 16 playing an original piece over a backing track recorded with a USA Dean Dime Razorback!! Ratings... more

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XFM's Best British Songs Of All Time

XFM conducted a poll to find out the Top 100 British Songs of all time and of course a poll wouldn't be a poll without... more

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United Kingdom Talk Tuesday 26th May 2009

Tuesday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch the show here on CURRRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats. In... more

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Away Days. Leave a Review!

Away Days released in UK cinemas 22nd May directed by Pat Holden, starring Stephen Graham, Nicky Bell, Liam Bell. What did you... more

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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost go to Comic-Con to meet an alien named Paul

I like the genre: sci-fi road trip comedy. And the fact that the alien's name is Paul. -- "While not much is publicly... more

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United Kingdom Talk Saturday 16th May 2009

Saturday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch or listen to the show on Tues, Thurs & Sats here at... more

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We're all a little Fawlty: Brits angriest in Europe

Traffic jams, rude service, people swearing loudly in public and foreign call centres all piss off the British public - royally.... more

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United Kingdom Talk Video Thursday 14th May 2009

Thursday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch or listen to the show on Tues, Thurs & Sats here at... more

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Is Sylvia Plath to blame for her son's death?

February 11, 1963 - Sylvia Plath Hughes kills herself during London’s coldest winter in a century. Nicholas, just a baby, and Frieda, age 3, were asleep in the next room. Sylvia made sure they had milk at their bedsides before taking sleeping pills, sealing up the kitchen doors, turning on the stove, and gassing herself to death.

March 23, 2009 - Dr. Nicholas F. Hughes, age 47, follows in his mother's footsteps 46 years later and hangs himself at his home in Alaska. Frieda reports he had suffered from depression for some time, though he had not inherited his mother's mania. This tragedy inspires the question: Is Sylvia Plath to blame for her son's death? Surely her own suicide had a powerful effect on him. Coline Covington of The First Post muses on the subject:

"Children whose parents have committed suicide - at no matter what age - tend to feel not only responsible for their parent's depression and ultimate suicide but also profoundly rejected by them.In short, the parent who kills herself is perceived by the child as not loving him enough to want to live."

It must also be noted that the Hughes-Plath children's step mother, Assia Wevill, also gassed herself in 1969, when Nicholas was 7 and Frieda was 9. Two mothers killing themselves the exact same way would be too much for many of us to handle. Perhaps Ted Hughes had this effect on women?

Further investigations into the Plath and Hughes family mental health history would have to be conducted to come to a definite conclusion. Aurelia Plath, Sylvia's mother, who died of natural causes in 1994, seemed stable enough. It would be especially helpful to know the mental state of Plath's surviving child, Frieda. In an interview by David Burges for Time, Frieda states that she was shocked to find out the truth of her mother's death at the age of 14 from a classmate. She also very truthfully tells us:

"You can analyze [my parents] as much as you like, but if you weren't actually the people themselves . . . It's interesting to me that people have been so interested in them."

Today, she is a successful writer, like her mother. Will she too become victim to her family's plague of suicidal depression? Probably not.

Burges: "If all this had happened to your mom now... do you think it would have resulted in her death? With modern pharmacology, could somebody have helped her?"

Hughes: "I think there's no doubt about that. The advancements in the past 30- or 40-odd years, are huge. I don't believe there's any way that that situation would have arisen now. She'd still be here."

Check out NYTime's Room for Debate on the subject: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/why-the-plath-legacy-lives/February 11, 1963 - Sylvia Plath Hughes kills herself during London’s coldest winter in a century. Nicholas, just a baby,... more