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Castle is the story of Richard Castle, played by Nathan Fillion. Castle is a best-selling author who lives with his mother, Martha Rogers – played by Susan Sullivan – and his daughter, Alexis – played by Molly Quinn. They live a posh life in a penthouse apartment in New York City. Castle is known for his crime novels. In fact, sometimes, he plays card games with other great crime novelists of our time, and they discuss plot lines and murder cases. He finds himself with a case of writer’s block and finagles his way into a police precinct in New York, where he meets Detective Kate Beckett – played by Stana Katic – as well as Detectives Javier Esposito (Jon Huertas) and Kevin Ryan (Seamus Dever). Castle’s friendship with the mayor of New York gets him a ride-along that soon turns into a full-fledged partnership with Beckett, and she becomes the inspiration for his next best-selling heroine, Nikki Heat.

The Premise
At first, Beckett is annoyed with Castle’s presence. She is a serious detective driven into the profession because her mother was murdered when she was younger, and she wants to find her killer. This becomes a storyline that is threaded through all four seasons, as we sometimes see Beckett getting closer and closer to her mother’s killer, only to be thrown off track again. In between this storyline, Beckett and Castle, whom she becomes quite attached to, along with Esposito and Ryan, solve different murders every week. Castle is known for his harebrained, sometimes wacky theories about who the murderer is, and he’s right about as much as he’s wrong. However, having a writer on their team proves to be beneficial, because he usually sees something that they don’t. As you might expect, Castle and Beckett dance around a romantic interest, but as yet they have not acted on it.

Richard Castle
Part of the marketing strategy for Castle is to create the personae of Richard Castle and for him to have a presence in the world. “Richard Castle” has released three books since the show started titled Heat Wave, Naked Heat, and Heat Rises, released in 2009, 2010, and 2011 respectively. Read the rest of this entry »

In the process of learning music the brain modifies, it actually enlarges within certain areas connected with this particular task. Studies (Pascual-Leone 2001) and brain scans have revealed that the musicians’ brain is different; for example a piano player has got more gray matter in the region that controls the fingers’ movement.

In the study named “The Effects of Musical Training on Structural Brain Development several scientists namely Krista L. Hyde, and Alan C. Evans (from Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University), Jason Lerch from (Mouse Imaging Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada),Gottfried Schlaug, Andrea Norton, and Marie Forgeard (from the Department of Neurology, Music and Neuroimaging Laboratory, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School) and Ellen Winner (from the Department of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA) have brought relevant insight with their study. They investigated the structural changes that occur in the brain as a result of 15 months of instrumental music teaching on young children; this group was compared to a group of children that did not have musical training.

As expected, the children who participated in the music training showed improved finger moving and rhythm task yet the tasks that did not involved musical field remained the same. The gray matter development has been also observed in areas other than those directly connected with music namely – hearing and finger moving. The complex process of learning produces growth in other parts of the brain and these facts lead to the idea that long-term programs of brain training may well help neuron growth in children. This is particularly relevant for children with developmental problems as well as for grownups with neurological conditions.

Musicians generally have more gray matter (Schlaug et al 2005) compared to non musicians and he also has shown that children who play instruments have also a significant increase of gray matter. What’s more, when professional and amateur musicians are compared, it is clearly revealed that the professionals who actually practice twice as much have again, more of a brain development than the amateurs (Gaser and Schlaug 2003). It is than obvious that brain development can be associated with learning music, yet is this development only significant for music related tasks or is it relevant in other tasks as well?

Studies conducted on musicians and non-musicians bring light upon a diversity of differences, some notable and some statistically proven. A testing on cognitive tasks (Schellenberg 2006) shows that musician usually do better than their non-musical peers when it comes to cognitive tasks. Also increased memory levels have been noticed in musically trained children with ages between 4 to 6 years old when compared to the non-musical children of the same age. Read the rest of this entry »

The poetry that we call lyrics or lyrical poems, are basically short and easy. They are direct expressions of the poet’s thoughts, feelings and sentiments. In the past, in the ancient Greece, the lyrics were recited to the accompaniment of an instrument called “lyre”. In the context of today’s scenario, lyrical songs are sung to the tune of the guitar.

But there are lyrical poems you may find unsuitable for singing. Poems like Pope’s Essay on Man and Wordsworth’s Prelude are such a long in length that one can not call them lyrics. They are too much thoughtful. Therefore, a lyric involves feeling rather than thought!

Wordsworth’s the Rainbow deals with beautiful reflection on nature:

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began,
So it is now I am a man:
So be it when I shall grow old,

Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

This poem is lyrical in real sense of the term expresses the feeling of joy. If Wordsworth had thought of describing the effects of nature on human beings, it would have been reflective poem rather than being lyrical. Read the rest of this entry »

On a recent BBC interview it was revealed that President Bush told 2 reporters that God, Jesus Christ ordered him to invade Iraq. This would explain why President Bush publicly announced to the world that he was launching a Crusade. Today, the 1 billion Muslim people refer to the American people as the Crusaders. Every Muslim person knows that the Crusades were a thousand years ago when the Pope marched his Christian Army across Europe massacring every Jew in their way, until they stood knee deep in Muslim blood in Jerusalem, reclaiming the Holy Land for Christianity.

Look at Natalie’s words from her Today show interview 2½ years ago: “I think people were misled and ‘I think people are fighting a war that they didn’t know they were going to be fighting’, and I think that they were misled by people who should have been asking questions and weren’t.” At the time, it was the President of the United States of America, the United States Congress, and the American people against Natalie Maines. Well look out George because Natalie now has a supporter, Charlie Sheen.

Charlie Sheen is an actor and son of a former President of the United States, Martin Sheen. Charlie Sheen has been watching a free movie called “Loose Change, The Truth About 9/11″ by Korey Rowe, Dylan Avery and Jason Bermas, available at loosechange911.com. Anyone watching this movie will have no doubt that in fact the 911 attacks were carried out by the President of the United States, the Defense Department and the CIA. How does a 757 a football field wide go through a hole the size of a football in the Pentagon wall? The answer is that it was a cruise missile. The proof is overwhelming that the twin towers and building number 7 were brought down by previously planted explosives in a controlled demolition. Only Natalie Maines knew 3 years ago that the American people would soon be fighting a war against their own government. “I think people are fighting a war that they didn’t know that they were going to be fighting”, she said.

So far, Pope Judas Bush has killed 3,000 American people in New York City, 3,000 American men and women soldiers and 100,000 Iraqi men, women and children. Another 17,000 American soldiers have had their arms or legs blown off. The President just announced that the United States would still be occupying Iraq until after his Presidency in 2009. What would motivate a President of the United States to attack his own people?

To make a long story short, the American economy runs on oil. George Bush and his dad are oil men. Think J.R. Ewing. Every scientist knows that there are only 40 years of oil left on planet Earth. 85% of that oil is located in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Iran, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates aka “The New Puerto Rico.” Que Pasa? Charlie Sheen’s brother is Emilio Estevez. Pink is doing Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton impersonations. Natalie Maines was ashamed of George Bush before she knew that he brought down the twin towers, David Robinson and Tim Duncan, 2 American pole vaulters. Read the rest of this entry »

The blood red state Republican Party politicians have claimed repeatedly ad nauseum that they are the party of Jesus Christ and the Democrats are the party of Satan. George Bush has publicly declared a Christian Crusade against the Muslim people of Iraq in the name of Jesus Christ. He told 2 BBC reporters that Jesus Christ commanded him to invade Iraq. Which Jesus Christ was George Bush talking about? The Prince of Peace? Jesus stood on the mountain and said, “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God. Love yourself. Love your neighbor as you love yourself. Do not murder. Love your enemies. An eye for an eye is wrong. Be a total pacifist. Do not strike back even in self defense. If a man hits you on the right cheek, do not strike back. Turn your left cheek to him also and let him strike it.” (Matt. 5:38).

Natalie Maines is a singer with the popular country group The Dixie Chicks. Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks was born in Lubbock Texas. Months before the Iraq War began Natalie Maines said at a show in London, England that she was ashamed that President Bush was from Texas, because she opposed the idea of the United States invading Iraq. As a result of this comment, Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks faced scorching criticism and even death threats from the American media and public. American country music stations vilified her and refused to play the Dixie Chicks music, even to this very day. Americans boycotted the albums of the Dixie Chicks. This modern Salem Witch Hunt of the Prophetess Natalie Maines forced Natalie Maines to apologize to President Bush. More interestingly, on Nov. 21, 2003, three and a half years ago, Natalie Maines said on NBC’s Today show, “I think people were misled and I think people are fighting a war that they didn’t know they were going to be fighting, and I think they were misled by people who should have been asking questions and weren’t.” This was 3 ½ years before the Scooter Libby trial.

Of all the leading Presidential candidates from both parties only Barack Obama opposed the Iraq War. All the rest persuaded the United States to invade Iraq and voted to do it. In an interview in Newsweek magazine in 2002 former South African President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner Nelson Mandela repeated his call for George Bush not to invade Iraq. President Nelson Mandela said that George Bush was trying to please the American arms and oil industries, whose profits have soared because of the Iraq War. President Nelson Mandela reminded us how America had supported the Mujahideen including Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan against the Russians. President Nelson Mandela said that no evidence had been presented to support the claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and former U.S. Marine and United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter said repeatedly in 2002 that “there is no such evidence and Iraq does not possess any weapons of mass destruction”. Read the rest of this entry »