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F. Xavier Castellanos, MD, is director of the Center for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the Child Study Center. He is also the Brooke and Daniel Neidich Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and professor of Radiology and of Physiology and Neuroscience at the NYU School of Medicine. Dr. Castellanos is board certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry and was previously board certified in general pediatrics.
Dr. Castellanos' research focusing on neuroimaging, neuroscience, psychopharmacology, and the genetics of Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and related conditions has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the American Journal of Psychiatry, the Archives of General Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences, among others.
Dr. Castellanos received his AB in linguistics from Vassar College cum laude, his MS in experimental psychology from the University of New Orleans and his MD from Louisiana State University Medical Center. Dr. Castellanos completed a combined residency in pediatrics, general psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Kentucky Medical Center. He completed a research fellowship in child psychiatry at the Child Psychiatry Branch of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
Prior to joining the faculty at NYU School of Medicine, Dr. Castellanos worked at the NIMH for 10 years, serving as a staff physician and chief of the ADHD Research Unit, Child Psychiatry Branch. Dr. Castellanos served as permanent member of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for Scientific Review Initial Review Group on Child Psychopathology and Developmental Disorders from 2002 to 2007, and served as chair between 2005 and 2007.
Dr. Castellanos is a member of the NIH Council of Councils. He also co-chaired the American Psychiatric Association Workgroup on ADHD and Disruptive Behavior Disorders revising the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) and was a voting member of the DSM-5 Task Force. Dr. Castellanos received the 2006 Blanche F. Ittleson Award from the American Psychiatric Association for excellence in research in child and adolescent psychiatry, the 2008 Outstanding Mentor Award from the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and is a member of the CHADD (Children and Adults with ADHD) 'Hall of Fame.'


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Another season over, another unwanted chance for Mets fans to say next year will be better. Given the way this year went, that's almost inevitable. How many more bad breaks can a team get?
It's rarely been easy to be a Mets fan, outside of those brief shining moments in 1969 and 1986 — we can never forget Tom Seaver's mastery of the mound or Bill Buckner's beautifully timed error. Accustomed to frequent disappointments, the faithful can revel in our memories while we try to forget most of what went on this year. The sign one fan held up in the final game said it all: "Thank God it's over."
But even for longtime fans who think they've seen everything, this year was especially disappointing, as we were looking forward to a great season in a great new ballpark, and instead had to watch injury after injury pile up, crippling a team that had looked so promising in the spring.
Even Citi Field itself turned out to be less than it should be, with the revelation of construction problems including leaks that have caused serious water damage, mold, flooding in some seating areas and even falling signs.
Dark jokes about the stadium reflecting the quality of the play on the field aside, Queens certainly should have gotten more for the $850 million spent on building it — most of it publicly financed through bonds.
And even before the infrastructure problems were exposed, many fans were struck by the inexplicable lack of Mets pride evident in the park. Management couldn't even bother to have the ushers wear the team colors — an oversight that just makes no sense. And why is there no equivalent of the Yankees' Monument Park? The Mets have had their share of stars over the last 47 years — not just Seaver but everyone from Ed Kranepool, Dave Kingman and Nolan Ryan — whose only World Series appearance was as a Miracle Met — to Doc Gooden, Mike Piazza, Darryl Strawberry and today's David Wright.
Maybe, after the team fixes up Citi Field, establishing a wall of fame of some sort could be put on the agenda. It would be a nice thing for the fans to see in time for the team's 50th anniversary season in 2012.
Of course those high-spending pinstriped divas in the Bronx have none of these problems. Their new stadium seems to be as rock-solid as the team's performance this year. Being the damn Yankees, the Bronx bums couldn't just finish the season on top of their division, their stars had to do things like break all-time hits records (Jeter) and knock in seven RBIs in the last game of the season, four of them on a grand slam (Rodriguez).
Damn Yankees.
At this point we Mets fans shouldn't even bother thinking our team can compete with the likes of the spoiled Yanks anytime soon. Next season is nearly as unlikely to result in a subway series as this one was. But 2010 can and should be about rebuilding the team to a respectable level and then going from there.
At least management did one thing right in the waning days of the season: cut ticket prices. They were pretty high to start with, and seemed simply outrageous given the team's dismal performance. Major League Baseball may enjoy an exemption from the anti-trust laws that bars direct competition, but that doesn't mean fans can't find another place to spend their entertainment dollars.
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Authors John Irving and Stephen King have made their plea. "Please Rowling, don't hurt 'em!" They actually didn't plea in the MC Hammer fashion I just quoted but you get the idea. And as I ate my Frosted Flakes that morning, I couldn't help but think these two authors (one of whom I am a big fan of – Irving) are absolutely nuts.
Harry Potter should die. Why should Rowling care about her fans anymore? She has more coin than you or I will ever see. She can do whatever she wants and she will still have that coin. She should care less what her fans think. Killing Harry Potter would harm her none. Sure, she'd probably get some angry e-mails and letters (if her fans even know how to write) and what not but that all will pass like Hurricane Katrina.
I was never much for Potter. I traveled to Milwaukee once with a friend of mine in 2003. She gave me a copy of the first book and said, "Read it on the plane, it's good." So I did that. I finished it rather quickly but it was exactly what I expected. Formulaic, clichéd, elementary, and boring. Nothing profound by any stretch of the imagination. But it was a quick read. And I think that was the appeal of it all. Harry Potter books were being scooped up by hundreds, thousands, of people who weren't frequent readers or even had kids for that matter. These people didn't really read all that much. With Potter, they finally found a book without pictures with lots of pages they could read, to impress their friends. And Rowling kept feeding this hunger too. Every Potter book that came out just got longer and longer and longer and longer. The last one could almost compete with War and Peace.
Now, I am not saying this about every Potter fan. I have many friends (including the one who told me to read it in the first place) who read outside of the Potter realm. And not just crap like Dan Brown excrement, I'm talking about other stuff, like Zinn or Vonnegut or Burroughs. They just read Potter to give their minds a rest.
Potter could never give my mind a rest though. I remember this feeling I got while reading that first book those many years ago – I sort of grew angry. Millions of people (many of them were adults) were reading this book about this silly little whiny kid with a lightning-shaped scar while hundreds, even thousands, of other books of importance were going unnoticed.
As time passed on, every time I heard the words 'read' and 'book' in the same sentence, people were talking about Potter (if they weren't talking about Dan Brown of course). I'd always try to intervene and ask them if they read the new Palahniuk and they look at me like, "How dare you not speak of childhood sorcery here."
Ever see those late night Jesus channels a few years ago where that fat dude was spraying this business about Harry Potter, witchcraft, and how this little wizard could ruin your family and its morals? That guy used to make me laugh. He had no idea what he was talking about.
Also, think about how good this story would be. Lovers of Harry Potter have concentrated hard about what he was going to do next and what kind of adventures would find their way to him. Think about all of the so-called 'interesting' things he has done since he first arrived at Hogwarth's. Now imagine, if all of that was done for nothing, because he died.
I get goose-bumps just thinking about it. I only wish it happened sooner (if it even happens at all).
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Felix Vasquez Jr. on Fri, 4th Aug 2006 10:07 am
I once read a Harry Potter book. The first one, obviously. About halfway into the book I just couldn't take it anymore.
Awful book series.
Lakshmi Subramanian on Sat, 5th Aug 2006 7:24 pm
Harry Potter does suck, but maybe i think so for different reasons. I haven't even heard of most of the authors u were talking about (don't kill me, im just a kid and my education is sadly incomplete). but i like ur blog anyway. thanks
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Lakshmi Subramanian on Sat, 5th Aug 2006 7:26 pm
ps. anybody who read his blog and were enraged, could u please maybe read my blog and find out exactly why it sucks (well, apart from his reasons). i swear it will be an enlightening and enriching experiance (hehe)
reuben cobia on Sat, 5th Aug 2006 7:28 pm
you gotta read jack black , (not the actor) "you cant win" . its about a thief a little before the depression. it went down as bukowski's favorite novel or was it burroughs. anyway its the greatest book i've ever read. thanks for passing on my email, did you read the first blog i wrote you about fucking twins in hawaii. god is real
yas on Fri, 11th Aug 2006 5:56 am
hiiiiiiiiiiiii . my love= harry potter
Michael Ferraro on Fri, 11th Aug 2006 7:51 am
Wow, Yas, you have nothing to contribute other than your love for the most idiotic character in literary history, do you.
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The noted collector and historian, Lord Rothschild, or Jacob to his international friends in high places, is famous for his passion for the arts. There is scarcely an event, cultural or creative, that the charming and genial Jacob has not dipped his knowledgeable finger into, at home in England or abroad. He is an authority on paintings and architecture and the decorative arts, and even something as esoteric as chess pieces specially created for an exhibition at Somerset House in London commands his attention.
As you read here before, ever since Putin came to visit the Queen, the English have gone a bit — more than a bit — à la Russe, Russian themes at parties and such. So it came to pass that Lord Rothschild and his only son, Nat, were hosts at a private dinner in Somerset House, not only to celebrate the opening of the exhibition, "The Art of Chess," but also the tercentenary of the Foundation of St. Petersburg. The dinner was sponsored by Oleg Deripaska, the Russian magnate who is, of course, very rich. Jacob's speech before dinner honored all Russians present and was translated into Russian by an interpreter.
There are no kitchens at Somerset House, so dinner was a catered affair, which was fine, but the glaring lighting was inquisitorial, as many of the grand guests there duly noted. In fact, Lord Rothschild caught it about that lighting from a couple of very influential ladies present. Women notice unflattering lighting more than men do, so in the future, it will behoove milord to think pink. Methinks he will.
"The Art of Chess" is a show of incredible 20th-century chess sets from private collections, including the only one ever designed by Fabergé and that for none other than Tsar Nicholas II. Among the 19 sets are designs by Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Alexander Calder, Max Ernst, Yoko Ono, Josef Hartwig and even Damien Hirst, whose pieces in crystal and silver resemble fancy apothecary jars. You will be thrilled to hear, maybe, that there were no parts of pickled animals floating around inside.


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We feel reasonably comfortable in stating that Mass Effect is this generation's definitive character-driven series - a miracle of narrative sophistication that also happens, against all odds, to be a miracle of choice and flexibility. With Mass Effect 3 just over a month from curtains-up, is it too early to think about what comes next? Executive producer Michael Gamble is happy to talk possibilities. Check out our chat from last week's EA Showcase below, and head over to the Mass Effect 3 hub for further BioWare insights.
You're on the final straight. Is the game finished?
We're in the final hours of it. Literally this week, we're heading off to certification. The team's pushing hard and I'm extremely proud of them. It's kind of bittersweet because it's so close to being done, but we're trying to squeeze as much as we can in.
Do you tend to make many last minute changes at BioWare?
It's all about getting the best quality we can get, so if something has to change, we'll change it. We'll pull out all stops to do it, so it won't prevent us shipping the game. Even in the last week we've made some changes, we've made some tweaks, we're constantly refining things. It's not done till it's literally out of our hands. At the same time you have to be considerate of wanting to hit the ship dates, so it's a bit of a balance.
Why did you delay the demo?
We just wanted to polish it, make it the best possible demo we could have done. We wanted to make it as robust as we could, and add as much stuff in there that was final final content. And that's basically what you'll see on the 14th - stuff that's just days away from final.
There's been a certain amount of fan fracas about the high action content of your trailers. What have you learned about promoting RPGs during your time with Mass Effect?
When you're promoting an RPG, you have to understand what your core strengths are. I think with Mass Effect 3 it's our ability to invoke really tight emotional responses from players. So what you do with demos and trailers is you capitalise as much as you can on that. So for the trailers, obviously we wanted to paint the picture of an impending galactic war.
The demos on the other hand, we focus in on all the relationship development, stuff like that. Even with venues like this, where we give the press an hour to an hour-to-a-half to play, that's really key. Because then they can start seeing how these things tie together. But with a 30 second trailer spot? You can't show a dialogue wheel.
The Mass Effect series straddles a shift in how RPGs are made - there aren't as many raw numbers floating around, and the choices you make are more intuitive. Can you talk a little about that?
It's definitely a learning process. In between Mass Effect 2 and 3 we took a lot of the fan feedback, a lot of the things that we've seen, and we've rolled some of those changes back in Mass Effect 3. Your story is customised around your Shepard and who you are - we stay faithful to that concept, but we did want to bring back some of the really stats-driven customisation options for those kind of players who like that stuff.
We give you the option to take the more standard approach to things, but if you really want to deep-dive into things - armour kits, weapon mods, customisations around that - it not only alters the gameplay, but also how your character looks, feels and so on. We're trying to hit both for Mass Effect 3.


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Brave new music: People thirsting for cutting-edge music can take a swim in it this weekend when the Creative Music Works, an organization dedicated to indoctrinating Denver to the charms of the avant-garde, sponsors a pair of concerts exploring unprecedented aural avenues. An adventurous mixture of haunting Native American song and supple scatting is the trademark of Navajo Indian Mary Redhouse, a multi-octave vocalist who twists her tongue around jazz standards and traditional chants. Redhouse will be accompanied this evening only by bassist Lee Gardner; the performance begins at 8 at the Houston Fine Arts Center, Montview and Quebec. Tickets are $8 ($6 students); call 477-3081 for information. Tomorrow, CMW continues on its roll by co-producing a concert uniting multi-instrumentalist Douglas Ewart--a Jamaican-born musician known both for his affiliation with the Association for the Advancement of Creative Music (members have included composer/reedman Anthony Braxton and pianist Muhal Richard Abrams) and for his hand-built wood and bamboo flutes--with Colorado-based trumpet player Hugh Ragin, Ewart's compadre from the AACM days. Ewart and Ragin collaborate at 8 at the Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Admission is $10 at the door; call 722-4276 or 477-3081.
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Texas toast: No one embodies the Lone Star State's unique musical synthesis--bred big and brawny like longhorn steers--better than Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, a stunning showman and virtuoso performer who seems to comfortably juggle rock, blues, country and Western swing with a flick of his little finger. Gate, a one-man band who sings, plays guitar, blows the harp and gracefully saws the fiddle, all with great zeal, appears tonight at 10 at the Bluebird Theater, 3317 E. Colfax Ave. Admission is $10 for a guaranteed treat; call 322-2308.
March 24
Bedtime stories: Feeling chlorophyll-deficient? You'll have a chance to get your green--and red, blue, pink, purple, orange, black and white--at the Picture a Great Garden photography exhibit, on display today from 9 to 5 in Mitchell Hall at the Denver Botanic Gardens, 1005 York St. The photos, snapped by shutterbugs of all ages at DBG's four planted sites, should help boost your chilly spirits, while a walk through the gardens' indoor tropical paradise is all you'll need to boost your body temperature. Afterward, cast your ballot for a people's choice award, to be given out after the show ends. Admission to the gardens is $3 ($1.50 seniors, $1 children ages six to fifteen); for details call 370-8187.
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Gown with the wind: Sequins, decolletage and hot air--when they dish out the Academy Awards each year, those three items seem to emerge as the overriding reasons for watching the proceedings in the first place. God bless the Wonder Bra. Yet no awards show is more anticipated, more glamorous or more talked about when all is said and done: The next day's buzz around the water cooler invariably settles upon whose dress was slit up to here or down to there, whose cracking voice seemed most sincere and which loser's pout was best caught by the cameras. You don't want to be left out of that conversation, do you? Dress yourself up and gossip freely at the Denver Film Society's Party With Oscar, an annual event featuring a light buffet, a Predict the Oscar contest, and large-screen TVs on which one can easily discern Sharon Stone's every dimple. This year's bash is at america, a new bilevel club in the Tivoli Student Center, Auraria campus; the fun begins at 6 p.m., when partygoers mark their ballots. Admission is $35 (proceeds benefit the society's upcoming KidsFest event); call 595-FILM.


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The Bartered Bride : Work information
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Bedrich Smetana
Bedrich Smetana was born in Litomysl, in what is now the Czech Republic, on March 2nd 1824. Taking music lessons from his father, he showed prodigious talent, playing in a string quartet when he was five, and making his piano debut a year later. He studied hard, and just about managed to earn a living as a teacher, but failed in his efforts to start a career as a concert pianist.
Smetana married in 1849, but life was still hard: in the years that followed, his financial problems continued, three of his four children died, and political uncertainty strengthened his patriotic feelings. In 1856 he accepted a position as a piano teacher in Sweden, and his prospects improved. He was in demand as a pianist and composer, and inspired by Liszt he wrote his first symphonic poems. He lost his wife to tuberculosis, and in 1861 returned to Prague with his second wife, wanting to be involved in the reawakening of Czech culture after its release from political tension.
It wasn't until 1866 that Smetana began to have much success with his compositions. The Brandenburgers in Bohemia, his first opera, was very well received, and was followed by The Bartered Bride. Between 1866 and 1874 Smetana was principal conductor of the Prague National Theatre, and in that time he wrote a further six operas, including Dalibor and Libuse (1881), his two most nationalistic works. He also worked on a huge cycle of orchestral poems called Ma Vlast (My Fatherland).
Syphilis caused the deterioration of Smetana's hearing, and while working on Ma Vlast he was driven to distraction by the constant high pitched whistling of tinnitus, a sound which appears in the String Quartet From My Life (1876). Although he managed to carry on working on operas and another string quartet, he became totally deaf in 1874, and by 1884 his mental balance was so disturbed that he was taken to an asylum, where he died that year on 12th May.
His work has never been very well known outside of his homeland, mainly because political pressures of the time prevented wider exposure. But with his fresh and bright expression of national identity he was perhaps the founder of Czech music, a forerunner of Dvorak, Janacek and Martinu.
Related composers: Liszt, Dvorak, Janacek, Martinu
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Smetana's second, and most popular, opera, The Bartered Bride, is a comic tour de force. Full of Czech folk melody and rhythm, the plot features ordinary villagers as its protagonists and established Smetana's style abroad as the musical embodiment of everything Czech.
Composition began in 1863 with the first performance taking place on 30 May 1866. The opera then underwent several revisions before reaching its final form in 1870. Its story tells of love's ability to overcome all obstacles and is full of mistaken identities and comic twists.
Popular extracts include the Act I love duet verne milovani neprerusi between Marenka and Jenik, and the Czech dances (polka, furiant and comedians' dance), frequently played alongside the overture in the concert hall. The famous overture was actually composed first, Smetana performing it on the piano as early as November 1863; the good humour of its opening bars explodes in a dazzling display of energy that is wonderfully infectious.


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AQAP Claims Responsibility for September UPS Crash
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UPS and Emirates cargo planes are inspected in Dubai on Oct. 31
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) on Nov. 5 claimed
responsibility both for the parcel bomb plot uncovered Oct. 29 and for
the crash of a UPS aircraft outside Dubai on Sept. 3. The Yemen-based
militant group released the message via its official media wing,
al-Malahim, to a number of jihadist websites. In it, the group accused
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because "he wants to hide the failure in security, especially since this
was done before the U.S. midterm elections," indicating the crash was
intended to affect the Nov. 2 elections in the United States. The
statement went on to criticize the Saudis, who provided intelligence to
UAE and Western authorities concerning the packages, saying, "These
devices were headed to Jewish Zionist temples, but you betrayed and
interfered to protect them."
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the group was the top suspect in the attempted attacks. However, the
group's claim for the Sept. 3 crash supports STRATFOR's theory that the
incident may have been a proof-of-concept mission kept quiet in the
group in order to be later replicated on a larger scale in late October.
UAE investigators said Nov. 1 that there was no sign that an explosion
caused that crash, but an exact cause has not been determined.
While this may simply be an opportunistic attempt on the part of AQAP to
claim credit for an accidental crash, there are a number of facts that
support the theory that the events were related:
* Both incidents involved UPS airliners.
* In both incidents, flights originated out of Dubai (though FedEx was
the Dubai target in the Oct. 29 incident)
* Some reports from the Sept. 3 incident said the crew smelled smoke
shortly after takeoff, prompting them to return to Dubai
International Airport. This indicates the device may have only
partially detonated, causing a fire in the cargo deck that could
have spread to affect critical systems. Given what we know about the
devices used in the parcel bomb plot, they could have produced the
same effect.
* While al Qaeda prime has been known to falsely claim responsibility
for accidents in the past, AQAP tends to only make legitimate
claims. The timing of the statement matches past lag time between
attack and claim.
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point possessed the ability to deploy a viable device capable of
bringing down an airliner but that a lapse in operational security
betrayed their Oct. 28-29 mission, allowing authorities to disrupt it.
AQAP's statement indicates the packages were targeting the Jewish
centers in Chicago. This goes against our assessment that the devices'
design indicated they were more likely to be targeting the actual
aircraft, which the Sept. 3 incident appeared to have done if it was
indeed an attack.
Pending more information on the ongoing investigation into the crash of
UPS Flight 6 from Dubai, AQAP's claim cannot be confirmed. But today's
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"Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it," Whenever you turn to the right hand Or whenever you turn to the left." (Isaiah 30:21)
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Michael Grover being held on $1 million bond
AURORA, Colo. - Trip wires and potassium nitrate were found inside the Aurora home where explosives were seized Tuesday.
The home's owner, Michael Grover, was arrested and is being held on charges of possession of an explosive device. His bond was increased from $250,000 to $1 million in court Wednesday.
Grover's hand was bandaged in court.
The explosive devices and bomb-making materials were found by firefighters responding to a small fire in the basement of the home on South Bahama Street and East Louisiana Street around 10:30 p.m. Monday.
According to an arrest affidavit, authorities found fireworks, guns, ammunition and eight pipe bombs on the property.
The Arapahoe County bomb squad was called in and neighbors were evacuated for safety until about 6:20 p.m. Tuesday.
Aurora police spokeswoman Sgt. Cassidee Carlson described the pipe bombs as "pretty powerful devices" and said bomb techs had informed her they "could have possibly totally demolished the suspect's house and possibly damaged other houses."
Grover told police he devices were not connected to a power source, and he planned to detonate them during the upcoming weekend.
So far, police have not speculated on Grover's motives.
According to the affidavit, potassium nitrate was also found inside. A hazardous materials team was called in to check it out and, in turn, they called a special team from Buckley Air Force Base.
Potassium nitrate, also known as saltpeter, was a key component of gunpowder in the 19th Century. While rendered nearly obsolete by dynamite and TNT, it is still used today in artillery shell detonators, hand-grenade fuses and fireworks, according to a science website. It's also used in fertilizer.
"This is a slow process, we want to do it safely," Carlson said of the investigation at the home during a Tuesday press conference.


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Whitney Houston Laid To Rest
Whitney Houston was laid to rest Sunday. The singer's very private burial took place at Fairview Cemetery in Westfield, New Jersey.
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Had the annual climate change summits sponsored by the United Nations fallen out of favor with Western journalists? That was the question on my mind when I arrived at the Reuters Institute at Oxford University earlier this year to research coverage of the meetings following the Copenhagen conference in December 2009.
Most of the climate correspondents I know that are working for mainstream media in Europe did not go to Cancun or Durban, the two summits following Copenhagen. I had not even attended myself. My colleagues and I were not alone, however. My research soon revealed that journalists from developing countries are now far more numerous at climate change summits than those from developed countries.
For the 16 years preceding Cancun, more than 80 percent of the journalists reporting these conferences came mainly from Europe, the US, Japan and Canada. But Cancun—otherwise known as COP16—saw a reversal of that dynamic, with 55 percent of the reporters from the Global South. This increased to 66 percent in Durban, while those from developed countries dwindled to 34 percent.
The decline of European media attendance is astonishing. European journalists have passed from representing the largest group at all the summits held until Copenhagen, to almost an endangered species. They have dropped from representing 60 percent of the attendance at Copenhagen, to 22 percent in Cancun and 19 percent in Durban. While a number of large developing countries, such as China, India, or Bangladesh, maintained their media presence after Copenhagen—even when expectations for an international agreement were much lower—European countries that traditionally sent a cohort of climate correspondents, such as France, Germany, Spain or the UK, drastically reduced their numbers.
The group of Chinese journalists in Durban, with almost 90 representatives, was larger than any from Europe; there were more journalists from India than from any other single European country, except Germany and the UK; and more came from Bangladesh than from France or Spain.
These new trends raise several questions. For example, does more media attendance from developing countries mean better quality climate news in the vulnerable Global South? I chose to maintain my focus on Europe, and particularly on the significant numbers of climate correspondents in the region that did not attend the last two conferences. The main questions I asked them were: How do you cover from your office in Berlin or London a climate summit that is happening in Mexico or South Africa? And how does that affect the coverage?
I interviewed seven experienced reporters working for mainstream outlets in Western European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom), all of whom used to attend climate summits until Copenhagen and now cover them from afar.
In addition to media organizations downsizing and making budget cuts, all their editors argued that as expectations were lower and there were fewer Heads of State attending Cancun or Durban, it was not worth spending money to send a correspondent abroad for at least a week. The irony is that it was in both of these Conferences that the final agreements, though modest, were nevertheless more noteworthy than those reached in Copenhagen.
Among others, parties agreed in Cancun to limit emissions from deforestation or to create a Green Climate Fund in poor countries, while Durban adopted a management framework for that fund and made significant progress on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation.
For most of these European journalists, reporting these events from their desks meant writing fewer stories about international negotiations on climate change and related issues. In fact, five of the seven submitted only a couple of stories about Durban as a result of not being there. Compare this with their experience while attending previous summits—not only did it mean covering climate change issues before, during and after the conference, but also reporting about local climate stories in the host country.
In most of the outlets represented by these reporters, climate change coverage has seen a dramatic reduction in terms of copy and broadcast minutes, at least during the autumn period when these events take place. Additionally, the lack of interest by editors in climate negotiations has been accompanied by less interest in the subject of climate change in general during the rest of the year.


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It's Freddie Starr dressing as Jimmy Savile
WEARING a blond wig, spangly jacket and holding an enormous cigar Freddie Starr appears on TV . . . as Jimmy Savile.
The picture is of Starr on the 1974 ITV show Who Do You Do, where comics did impresssions of major stars of the day. It emerged 24 hours after the 69-year-old said he would speak to police over claims he molested a girl of 14.


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Here is translation of the Holy Father's address to a group of faithful from Sri Lanka, who are on pilgrimage in Rome to celebrated the 75th anniversary of the consecreation of the Church in Sri Lanka to the Blessed Virgin Mary. * * *
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25 Jan 2013
by: Margaret Snell
A cross-industry education initiative designed to give school pupils a clear path into careers in the energy sector is giving children access to learning technologies used in industry.The Your Future In Energy scheme has kicked off with a pilot in Aberdeen's Northfield Academy. The programme, which has been integrated into the school curriculum, aims to highlight the diversity of careers within the energy sector and the different routes into them. Atlas, the learning and skills provider to the energy industry, is playing a key role in the project by giving children access to the Atlas Knowledge Centre, a cloud based oil and gas learning resource. Pupils can use it to build their own personalised content library for use throughout their education, supporting their future career choices and transition to the workplace. Tom Clark, managing director of Your Future In Energy said: "This is the first time experts spanning the education sector, energy industry and training bodies have come together to map where the skills shortages lie, which competencies are needed to fulfil these roles, and in turn which school subjects will steer pupils towards achieving these. This programme provides a streamlined, cross-industry approach to securing the future talent that the energy sector so desperately needs."John Rowley, chief executive of Atlas, said: "Learning technologies play an important part in education today, both at school and in the workplace. Young people are digital natives, at ease learning online and in their own time, it is what they have grown up with and it will continue to be an essential part of their working life. The Atlas Knowledge Centre is already benefiting people in the oil and gas workplace, where access to the right technical knowledge, at the point of need is critical to today's employees, and we hope it proves a useful learning resource for the pupils."Following the pilot, the programme will be reviewed with the intention of rolling it out across the North East, Scotland and beyond.


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Dinner With a Twist Bartenders and chefs join forces to shake up fine dining.
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They are "Ruthless People," these Dodgers. Nasty enough to "Throw Momma From The Train." So relentless you would think they were "Twins."
Good enough, even, to provide one more starring role for Danny DeVito.
It happened earlier this week at Chavez Ravine after a confluence of events that provided not only a buzzworthy video and front-page photo, but a symbol of everything that has gone so charmingly right with baseball's most charmed team.
"Everything you hear about Hollywood, it was all that," said a grinning Nick Punto, the unlikely leader of the Dodgers' latest walk of fame.
The incident happened at Dodger Stadium on Monday night, during what feels like about 10 Dodgers wins ago, but it's worth retelling.
The roots were planted on a recent televised baseball show, when Dodger Skip Schumaker joked that Punto reminded him of another diminutive Italian, namely DeVito.
Said Schumaker: "I kind of, sort of, said it."
Said Punto: "I believe he did say it."
It was just another chapter in the season-long teasing between guys who were teammates on the 2011 World Series champion St. Louis Cardinals before being reunited here this year.
Said Schumaker: "I guess we have sort of this thing going."
Said Punto: "Yeah, I'd say it's a thing."
It's more than a thing, it's a connection, perhaps the best in a tight Dodgers clubhouse brimming with them. Schumaker and Punto grew up in Orange County. They drive together to the ballpark. They dress in adjacent lockers. They are both role players who together have propped this star-filled club into first place ... while laughingly knocking each other down.
Said Schumaker: "We've been wearing each other out every day this year."
Said Punto: "More like every day for the last three years."
So now Nick Punto supposedly looks Danny DeVito, and the joke simmered for a few days until last weekend when a longtime season-ticket holder who sits next to the Dodgers dugout — Dr. David Kipper — casually mentioned to one of the ushers that he was bringing a friend to Monday's game.
Guy by the name of Danny DeVito.
Schumaker heard them talking, disappeared into the clubhouse, and returned with a package that he handed to Kipper with a request. It was a Nick Punto jersey and could DeVito please, please, please wear it on Monday?
Kipper, who says he "loves this team," agreed to present the shirt and the idea to his friend, which he did before Monday's game. One problem. DeVito had never heard of Nick Punto. But wanting to be a good sport, DeVito agreed to wear the jersey in the seventh inning.
You know what happened in the seventh inning Monday night, right? Punto hit his second home run of the season — and only the 17th of his 13-year career — to put the finishing touches on the Dodgers' 4-2 victory over the New York Mets.
Of course, DeVito was on his cell phone at the time.


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Serves 4
- 3/4 cup water
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon plus 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 7.5-ounce packages hoop cheese (about 1 1/2 cups) or 1 pound large-curd cottage cheese
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 tablespoons butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Caramelized Apples
Place 3/4 cup water, 2 eggs, vanilla extract and 1/4 teaspoon salt in blender. Add flour and blend thoroughly until smooth. Let batter stand 1 hour.
Place hoop cheese in processor. If using cottage cheese, place in center of kitchen towel and squeeze to remove excess moisture until cheese is very dry and measures 1 1/2 cups packed; transfer to processor. Add 1 egg, 1/4 cup sugar, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon and 1/8 teaspoon salt. Using on/off turns, blend until mixture is almost smooth. Transfer filling to bowl. Cover and refrigerate.
Heat heavy small skillet with 6-inch-diameter bottom over medium-high heat. Brush lightly with some melted butter. Pour 2 1/2 tablespoons batter into skillet, tilting to spread evenly. Cook until crepe is lightly browned on bottom, about 30 seconds. Turn crepe out onto paper towel and cover with another paper towel. Repeat with remaining batter, brushing skillet with more melted butter as needed.
Place 1 crepe on work surface. Place 3 tablespoons filling just below center of cooked side of crepe. Fold bottom over filling, then fold sides in; roll to enclose filling. Transfer to foil-lined plate. Repeat with remaining filling and 7 more crepes (reserve remaining crepes for another use).
Heat 2 tablespoons oil and any re-maining melted butter in heavy large skillet over medium-low heat until hot. Place blintzes, seam side down, in skillet. Cook until bottoms are brown and crisp, shaking pan occasionally, about 6 minutes. Turn blintzes over; cook until bottoms are brown and crisp, about 5 minutes. Transfer 2 blintzes to each of 4 plates. Top with Caramelized Apples and serve.
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recipe at a glance
main ingredients: Cheese, Egg, Cinnamon, Apple
cuisine: Jewish, Eastern European/Russian
dietary considerations: Kosher
holiday/celebration: Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur, Fall


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Special Thanks to:
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PDEA opens recruitment for drug law agents
-A A +AMonday, November 12, 2012
THE Philippine Drug Enforcement Agency (PDEA) is now accepting applicants for male and female drug law enforcement officers.
To initially qualify, the applicant must be a passer of the Career Service Professional examination or Board examination or Bar examination, or qualified by the Civil Service Commission or under special laws to be eligible for Career Service Second Level Position; a Bachelor's degree holder; at least 21 years old but not more than 35 years old on the date of appointment; at least five feet and two inches in height for men, and five feet in height for women, or have a height waiver if under height; computer literate; physically fit, with sound mind and body; willing to undergo the Drug Enforcement Officers' Basic Course, a six-month rigid training at the PDEA Academy in Silang, Cavite undertaken on the job but will result to separation from the Service if not passed; willing to be assigned anywhere in the Philippines; with burning desire to fight the illegal drug problem in the country; with commendable oral and written communication skills; with good moral background; and exuding with self-confidence.
Interested applicants in the Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR) can get a copy of the PDEA Agent Application Form from the PDEA – CAR regional office in Camp Bado Dangwa, La Trinidad, Benguet or thru download from the agency's website at www.pdea.gov.ph.
To apply, the applicant must personally submit to the PDEA–CAR regional office his/her green-colored, aptly labeled and tabbed application folder, containing the duly accomplished Application Form, as Tab "A"; Official Transcript of Records, as Tab "B"; college Diploma, as Tab "C"; Certification of Eligibility or Report of Rating, as Tab "D"; and if applicable, Height Waiver, as Tab "E". The application folder shall be subsequently forwarded to the PDEA Academy.
The Academy shall then evaluate those applicants who shall be eligible to take the Qualifying Examination (QE).
Those who shall qualify in the QE shall undergo Neuro Psychological Test. Neuropsycho Test passers will then undergo Medical Examination and those who qualify here will undertake the Agility Test. Passers during the Agility Test will be background-investigated. (PR)
Published in the Sun.Star Baguio newspaper on November 12, 2012.
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Room Selection 2014-2015
This process is for students that are current residents. All others must complete a campus housing application.
DATES: Tuesday, April 8, 2014 and Wednesday, April 9, 2014
TIME: 6:00pm-8:00pm
LOCATION: O'Connor Auditorium
- Please be on time in order to ensure the process runs smoothly. Students that arrive after selection begins may forfeit their place in the order of selection.
- Upon your arrival, you will be given a number that will determine the order of selection. This number is a combination of credit hours and any PAW points you have earned. You will not be issued a number if you are not on the list from Enrollment Services that indicates you are cleared for placement.
- Proxies will not be accepted. Each student must be present in person.
- After receiving your number, you will be asked to complete a 2014-2015 Housing Agreement, an emergency contact card, and indicate which meal plan you want for 2014-2015.
- When your number is called, you should proceed to the table that represents the residence hall you would like to live in for 2014-2015 and select your room.
- If you wish to stay in a double room in Kerby or Main but do not have a roommate in mind, you may complete a roommate preference form on site. While you will not be able to select your exact room that night, you will able to indicate certain room preferences (i.e.close to the bathroom, A wing or B wing, etc.) and we will do our best to accommodate your request.
- Once you select your room, you should proceed to the final station where you will turn in all of your forms and have your picture taken.
Prior to Room Selection
All current residential students who plan to participate in room selection for next year must do the following:
1. File the 2014-2015 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) at www.fafsa.ed.gov by April 1, 2014.
- Sign it with your PIN by April 1, 2014.
- Trinity's school code is 001460-00.
- Don't leave any questions blank. An incomplete FAFSA will not be processed. Use the IRS Data Retrieval Tool to complete the income sections of the FAFSA. This will reduce the likelihood that we will need additional documents to complete your application.
- Please note that at least one parent must also sign the FAFSA with his or her PIN by April 1, 2014 for dependent students.
2. You must also submit any other requested documents before April 7, 2014. This may include:
- Dependent or Independent Verification Worksheet
- Signed copy of your 2013 Federal Tax Return
- Signed copy of your parents' 2013 Federal Tax Return
- Any other forms or documents requested by Enrollment Services
3. You must register full time (minimum of 12 credits) for the fall 2014 semester.
- This may require for you to make contact with your academic adviser. Please plan accordingly.
4. You must be in good financial and academic standing.
- You can check your financial and academic standing through Trinity Self-Service.
If your FAFSA is missing any information or if you have not submitted any items requested by Enrollment Services, you will not be able to participate in Room Selection on April 8th and 9th. The FAFSA is due April 1st however you may begin filing immediately!
You will still be eligible to live on-campus once these steps are complete but you will have to complete the Campus Housing Application on-line.
Prior To Fall Move-In
In order to be cleared to move-in, you must finalize your payment arrangements for all of your Fall 2014 tuition, fees and room and board charges by August 1, 2014. To do this, you must complete the following:
- You must return your signed financial aid award letter to Enrollment Services by August 1, 2014.
- DC residents must submit DC TAG/CAP and/or College Success Foundation award letters by August 1, 2014.
- All outside agency/donor payment vouchers or awards are due by August 1, 2014.
- If you are borrowing any federal loans (Stafford Loan, Perkins Loan or Parent PLUS loan) you must complete the appropriate Master Promissory Note and Entrance Counseling sessions online.
- You must pay the balance due on your Fall 2014 student account (less financial aid) by August 1, 2014 or you must set up a payment plan online through e-Cashier and make the first payment by August 1, 2014.
- Your parent may apply and be approved for a Parent PLUS loan for your balance by August 1, 2014.
If you do not complete these steps by August 1, 2014, your room assignment will be automatically cancelled. You may request a new room assignment by filing a campus housing application on-line once cleared; such requests will be considered based on room availability but are not guaranteed.


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As gamers, we use the word 'epic' one hell of a lot. Whether discussing wins, fails, or Cliffy B's bosses, those two little syllables are never far away. Rarely however, do we use them in their literal context. A context of which this week's video is a stark reminder.
As we all know, Harry Gregson-Williams' Metal Gear Solid 2 theme makes anything epic. But what happens when you put it alongside something already epic? Say, the climactic Balboa vs. Creed fight from Rocky II? And what happens if by some miracle of audio-visual synergy both of those elements synch up better than The Wizard of Oz and Dark Side of the Moon, without the need for any tricksy editing whatsoever? Goose bumps and man-tears all around the GamesRadar office. That's what happens.
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