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By JAMES GORMAN Should some of the most social, intelligent and charismatic animals on the planet be kept in captivity by human beings? That is a question asked more frequently than ever by both scientists and animal welfare advocates, sometimes about close human cousins like chimpanzees and other great apes, but also about another animal that is remarkable for its intelligence and complex social organization — the killer whale, or orca. Killer whales, found in all the world's oceans, were once as despised as wolves. But in the last half century these elegant black-and-white predators — a threat to seals and other prey as they cruise the oceans, but often friendly to humans in the wild — have joined the pantheon of adored wildlife, along with the familiar polar bears, elephants and lions. With life spans that approach those of humans, orcas have strong family bonds, elaborate vocal communication and cooperative hunting strategies. And their beauty and power, combined with a willingness to work with humans, have made them legendary performers at marine parks since they were first captured and exhibited in the 1960s. They are no longer taken from the wild as young to be raised and trained, but are bred in captivity in the United States for public display at marine parks. Some scientists and activists have argued for years against keeping them in artificial enclosures and training them for exhibition. They argue for more natural settings, like enclosed sea pens, as well as an end to captive breeding and to the orcas' use in what opponents call entertainment and marine parks call education. Now the issue has been raised with new intensity in the documentary film "Blackfish" and the book "Death at SeaWorld," by David Kirby, just released in paperback. © 2013 The New York Times Company
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 6: Evolution of the Brain and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Link ID: 18427 - Posted: 07.30.2013
An Ontario researcher has discovered that common male crickets talk trash, dance and brag after winning a fight. The discovery has caught the attention of fellow researchers and National Geographic magazine. Lauren Fitzsimmons, a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Windsor, discovered the brash behaviour. Fitzsimmons placed pairs of male crickets in a small, clear arena, which always led to fights. The arena included a viewing area for other crickets. She set up three audience situations: a male watching and listening to a fight, a female watching and listening to a fight, or no audience. The combatants bit, pushed and flipped each other around the ring. "After a series of these bouts, one male will kind of sulk away and not interact anymore, while the other will perform a song and dance," Fitzsimmons said. She said the winning cricket would "shake his body back and forth" and chirp in victory. "When we had a male audience watching, the male would produce more of these victory displays," Fitzsimmons said. "The speculation is they can tell there is another individual there, and they're showing off. "We know females prefer dominant males and males who win fights." © CBC 2013
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases; Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex; Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Link ID: 18378 - Posted: 07.16.2013
By Piercarlo Valdesolo The posed stare-down is a staple of the pre-fight ritual. Two fighters, one day removed from attempting to beat the memories from each other, stand impossibly close, raise their clenched fists and fix their gaze on the other's eyes as cameras click away. This has always seemed little more than a vehicle for media hype, but new research from psychologists at the University of Illinois suggests that there may be clues in this bit of theatre that predict the results of the fight to come. Specifically, the researchers hypothesized that there's something about the fighters' facial expressions in this standoff that reveal the competitive dynamics between them. A subtle, and perhaps unintentional, communication of submission from one fighter to the other. A recognition of the opponent's power. The smile. Facial expressions have long been thought to be reliable indicators of a person's true feelings. Indeed, in his book "The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals" Darwin suggested that such expressions have evolved precisely because they serve this important function. The smile has attracted much empirical attention and has generally been interpreted as a signal of an individuals' immediate, as well as long-term, well-being. In a particularly interesting study, the frequency and "authenticity" of smiles in high school yearbook photos tended to predict higher levels of subjective well-being years later. But smiles can mean different things in different contexts. The researchers here were particularly interested in what a smile might mean when displayed between competitors. Instead of merely communicating a fighter's good spirits, the researchers hypothesized that it would be a submissive signal that reveals a fighter's reduced hostility and lower willingness to aggress towards the opponent. © 2013 Scientific American,
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Link ID: 18232 - Posted: 06.05.2013
By Felicity Muth If you grew up with brothers or sisters you will know that competition is a key part of childhood. Personally, I experienced competition for food resources (the last bar of chocolate), parental investment (attention) and other more unusual resources (the best colour of lego pieces). As we age, we continue competing, although what we compete for changes. We compete in sports, for partners and for jobs. Like humans, pretty much all other animals will compete in one way or another. Even if they live a solitary life they may be still competing indirectly with others. But, like humans, animals need to choose which battles are worth fighting, and how much effort to put into it. One obvious way of deciding when to bother competing with another is the absolute worth of the thing you're fighting over. If you and a stranger stumbled across some money in the street, you might fight vigorously for a $100 note, but more half-heartedly for $5 (this is of course an example using some very money-driven and aggressive individuals). However, how much value an individual puts on an item's worth is going to be somewhat subjective. If you're poor and starving, you might invest more into fighting for $5 than someone who is not. Thus, most competitions will contain both objective and subjective aspects: the intrinsic worth of an object (large food items are better than small), and the individual's state when they're assessing that item. © 2013 Scientific American
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Link ID: 18225 - Posted: 06.04.2013
By CARL ZIMMER Imagine a wolf catching a Frisbee a dozen times in a row, or leading police officers to a stash of cocaine, or just sleeping peacefully next to you on your couch. It's a stretch, to say the least. Dogs may have evolved from wolves, but the minds of the two canines are profoundly different. Dog brains, as I wrote last month in The New York Times, have become exquisitely tuned to our own. Scientists are now zeroing in on some of the genes that were crucial to the rewiring of dog brains. Their results are fascinating, and not only because they can help us understand how dogs turned into man's best friend. They may also teach us something about the evolution of our own brains: Some of the genes that evolved in dogs are the same ones that evolved in us. To trace the change in dog brains, scientists have first had to work out how dog breeds are related to one another, and how they're all related to wolves. Ya-Ping Zhang, a geneticist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has led an international network of scientists who have compared pieces of DNA from different canines. They've come to the conclusion that wolves started their transformation into dogs in East Asia. Those early dogs then spread to other parts of the world. Many of the breeds we're most familiar with, like German shepherds and golden retrievers, emerged only in the past few centuries. © 2013 The New York Times Company
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 6: Evolution of the Brain and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Link ID: 18166 - Posted: 05.18.2013
By ADRIAN RAINE In studying brain scans of criminals, researchers are discovering tell-tale signs of violent tendencies. WSJ's Jason Bellini speaks with Professor Adrian Raine about his latest discoveries. The scientific study of crime got its start on a cold, gray November morning in 1871, on the east coast of Italy. Cesare Lombroso, a psychiatrist and prison doctor at an asylum for the criminally insane, was performing a routine autopsy on an infamous Calabrian brigand named Giuseppe Villella. Lombroso found an unusual indentation at the base of Villella's skull. From this singular observation, he would go on to become the founding father of modern criminology. Lombroso's controversial theory had two key points: that crime originated in large measure from deformities of the brain and that criminals were an evolutionary throwback to more primitive species. Criminals, he believed, could be identified on the basis of physical characteristics, such as a large jaw and a sloping forehead. Based on his measurements of such traits, Lombroso created an evolutionary hierarchy, with Northern Italians and Jews at the top and Southern Italians (like Villella), along with Bolivians and Peruvians, at the bottom. These beliefs, based partly on pseudoscientific phrenological theories about the shape and size of the human head, flourished throughout Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Lombroso was Jewish and a celebrated intellectual in his day, but the theory he spawned turned out to be socially and scientifically disastrous, not least by encouraging early-20th-century ideas about which human beings were and were not fit to reproduce—or to live at all. ©2013 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Link ID: 18111 - Posted: 05.04.2013
Regina Nuzzo In a twist that evokes the dystopian science fiction of writer Philip K. Dick, neuroscientists have found a way to predict whether convicted felons are likely to commit crimes again from looking at their brain scans. Convicts showing low activity in a brain region associated with decision-making and action are more likely to be arrested again, and sooner. Kent Kiehl, a neuroscientist at the non-profit Mind Research Network in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and his collaborators studied a group of 96 male prisoners just before their release. The researchers used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to scan the prisoners' brains during computer tasks in which subjects had to make quick decisions and inhibit impulsive reactions. The scans focused on activity in a section of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), a small region in the front of the brain involved in motor control and executive functioning. The researchers then followed the ex-convicts for four years to see how they fared. Among the subjects of the study, men who had lower ACC activity during the quick-decision tasks were more likely to be arrested again after getting out of prison, even after the researchers accounted for other risk factors such as age, drug and alcohol abuse and psychopathic traits. Men who were in the lower half of the ACC activity ranking had a 2.6-fold higher rate of rearrest for all crimes and a 4.3-fold higher rate for nonviolent crimes. The results are published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences1. © 2013 Nature Publishing Group
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 2: Functional Neuroanatomy: The Nervous System and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 2: Cells and Structures: The Anatomy of the Nervous System
Link ID: 17950 - Posted: 03.26.2013
Changing the channel on what TV children watch could improve their behaviour, but watching too much regular programming may have harmful long-term consequences, new research suggests. In Monday's issue of the journal Pediatrics, researchers reported that preschoolers spent less time watching violent programming when they were randomly assigned to participate in a program that encouraged aggression-filled shows to be replaced with educational or empathy-building viewing compared with a control group. Muppets Bert, left, and Ernie, from the children's program Sesame Street, were created to teach preschoolers that people can be good friends with those who are very different from themselves, which builds empathy. "We demonstrated that an intervention to modify the viewing habits of preschool-aged children can significantly enhance their overall social and emotional competence and that low-income boys may derive the greatest benefit," Dr. Dimitri Christakis of Seattle Children's Research Institute and his co-authors concluded. "Although television is frequently implicated as a cause of many problems in children, our research indicates that it may also be part of the solution." There was no difference in total viewing time between the 820 families involved in the study. The educational or "prosocial" programs included Sesame Street, Dora the Explorer and Super Why. A second category of shows also promoted co-operative problem-solving and non-violent conflict resolution but inconsistently, such as on Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. © CBC 2013
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 7: Life-Span Development of the Brain and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 13: Memory, Learning, and Development
Link ID: 17815 - Posted: 02.18.2013
By BENEDICT CAREY The young men who opened fire at Columbine High School, at the movie theater in Aurora, Colo., and in other massacres had this in common: they were video gamers who seemed to be acting out some dark digital fantasy. It was as if all that exposure to computerized violence gave them the idea to go on a rampage — or at least fueled their urges. Social scientists have been studying and debating the effects of media violence on behavior since the 1950s, and video games in particular since the 1980s. The issue is especially relevant today, because the games are more realistic and bloodier than ever, and because most American boys play them at some point. Girls play at lower rates and are significantly less likely to play violent games. A burst of new research has begun to clarify what can and cannot be said about the effects of violent gaming. Playing the games can and does stir hostile urges and mildly aggressive behavior in the short term. Moreover, youngsters who develop a gaming habit can become slightly more aggressive — as measured by clashes with peers, for instance — at least over a period of a year or two. Yet it is not at all clear whether, over longer periods, such a habit increases the likelihood that a person will commit a violent crime, like murder, rape, or assault, much less a Newtown-like massacre. (Such calculated rampages are too rare to study in any rigorous way, researchers agree.) "I don't know that a psychological study can ever answer that question definitively," said Michael R. Ward, an economist at the University of Texas, Arlington. "We are left to glean what we can from the data and research on video game use that we have." © 2013 The New York Times Company
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Link ID: 17795 - Posted: 02.13.2013
US President Barack Obama waded directly into scientific politics yesterday when he announced a series of measures addressing gun violence in the wake of the 14 December shooting in a primary school in Newtown, Connecticut, that left 26 people dead — 20 of them children. Of the 23 actions he took under presidential authority on 16 January, Obama chose to highlight just a few in remarks he delivered at the White House. One of them was a presidential memorandum directing the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other public-health service agencies to "conduct or sponsor research into the causes of gun violence and the ways to prevent it". An accompanying White House document added: The CDC will start immediately by assessing existing strategies for preventing gun violence and identifying the most pressing research questions, with the greatest potential public health impact. And the Administration is calling on Congress to provide $10 million for the CDC to conduct further research, including investigating the relationship between video games, media images, and violence. The presidential move is a direct challenge to gun-rights proponents in Congress, who since 1996 have used prohibitions written into funding bills to muzzle CDC research on gun violence, as Nature noted in an August 2012 editorial (see 'Who calls the shots?'). Congress also last year began forbidding the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to spend any money, "in whole or in part, to advocate or promote gun control." © 2013 Nature Publishing Group
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Link ID: 17695 - Posted: 01.19.2013
by Sara Reardon In the dark expanses of the Sonoran desert in the US, a terrifying creature stalks the night, searching for fresh meat. Anything will do: crickets, rodents, tarantulas – the nastier the better. Even the poisonous scorpion cannot escape the savage monster's little pink paws. It fights bravely, stinging its attacker on the nose. To no avail. The mouse ignores the painful venom and cruelly breaks the scorpion's tail by pummelling it into the ground, then bites its head and feasts on its flesh. Throwing its head back, the murderous animal howls at the moon. No, it's not the mythical Chupacabra. It's the southern grasshopper mouse (Onychomys torridus), the only carnivorous mouse in North America. Its unique biology and resistance to scorpion venom may one day help researchers treat human pain disorders. But for now, it's just after blood. Natural born killer From the day they are born, grasshopper mice are natural killers. Even pups born and raised in captivity quickly figure out how to take down prey much larger than themselves. They appear to learn some of their aggression from their fathers: pups raised with two parents are more likely to bully other mice and attack insects more viciously than those raised by single mothers (Behavioral Biology, DOI: 10.1016/S0091-6773(77)91933-2) © Copyright Reed Business Information Ltd.
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 4: The Chemistry of Behavior: Neurotransmitters and Neuropharmacology; Chapter 6: Evolution of the Brain and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 4: The Chemistry of Behavior: Neurotransmitters and Neuropharmacology
Link ID: 17670 - Posted: 01.12.2013
Fighting may have shaped the evolution of the human hand, according to a new study by a US team. The University of Utah researchers used instruments to measure the forces and acceleration when martial artists hit a punch bag. They found that the structure of the fist provides support that increases the ability of the knuckles to transmit "punching" force. Details have been published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. "We asked the question: 'can you strike harder with a fist than with an open palm?'," co-author David Carrier told BBC News. "We were surprised because the fist strikes were not more forceful than the strikes with the palm. In terms of the work on the bag there is really no difference." Of course, the surface that strikes the target with a fist is smaller, so there is more stress from a fist strike. "The force per area is higher in a fist strike and that is what causes localised tissue damage," said Prof Carrier. BBC © 2012
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 6: Evolution of the Brain and Behavior
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Link ID: 17629 - Posted: 12.22.2012
By Kate Shaw Early one morning I caught sight of Morpheus, silhouetted against a pink African dawn. Her long, sloping neck was stretched out as she loped away from me, disappearing over a hill. I followed her to a nearby plain and was met with the unmistakable sound of a group of hyenas squabbling over a carcass. Morpheus entered the fray, first lunging at a smaller male on her right. A moment later, she looked up briefly, her nose and mouth covered in blood, then turned and snapped at a hyena feeding nearby. I'm intimately acquainted with Morpheus and these other hyenas because they have been studied for more than twenty years by various members of the lab where I did my Ph.D. research; I've staked these hyenas out at dens for hours on end and followed them as they raced across open plains. From watching these animals, we've learned about hyenas' social system, their physiology, and the conservation challenges they face. But to me, it's the aggression that is the most fascinating thing about hyenas. It's rule-based and constrained by specific social norms, but at the same time, it's incredibly primal and ruthless. Studying aggression has helped us understand what makes hyenas tick, offering us a glimpse into the evolutionary pressures that have made them one of the most unusual and misunderstood species in the animal kingdom. For more than 1000 years, people believed that hyenas were hermaphrodites, since female hyenas have long, fully-erectile pseudopenises that mimic male genitalia. Seeing a hyena play the role of mom while sporting what looks like a penis would bewilder even an astute naturalist. Not only do female hyenas look like males, they are also the more aggressive and socially dominant sex, exhibiting aggression more than three times more often than male hyenas do. © 2012 Scientific American
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 17560 - Posted: 12.01.2012
By Caroline Parkinson Health editor, BBC News website The brains of teenage girls with behavioural disorders are different to those of their peers, UK researchers have found. The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry study of 40 girls revealed differences in the structure of areas linked to empathy and emotions. Previous work has found similar results in boys. Experts suggest it may be possible to use scans to spot problems early, then offer social or psychological help. An estimated five in every 100 teenagers in the UK are classed as having a conduct disorder. It is a psychiatric condition which leads people to behave in aggressive and anti-social ways, and which can increase the risk of mental and physical health problems in adulthood. Rates have risen significantly among adolescent girls in recent years, while levels in males have remained about the same. In this study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and Medical Research Council, UK and Italian researchers conducted brain scans of 22 teenage girls who had conduct disorder and compared them with scans of 20 who did not. BBC © 2012
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 12: Sex: Evolutionary, Hormonal, and Neural Bases
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 8: Hormones and Sex
Link ID: 17402 - Posted: 10.22.2012
Young people who sustain brain injuries are more likely to commit crimes and end up in prison, research suggests. The University of Exeter study says such injuries can lead maturing brains to "misfire", affecting judgement and the ability to control impulses. It calls for greater monitoring and treatment to prevent later problems. The findings echo a separate report by the Children's Commissioner for England on the impact of injuries on maturing brains and the social consequences. In the report, Repairing Shattered Lives, Professor Huw Williams from the University of Exeter's Centre for Clinical Neuropsychology Research, describes traumatic brain injury as a "silent epidemic". It is said to occur most frequently among children and young people who have fallen over or been playing sport, as well as those involved in fights or road accidents. The consequences can include loss of memory, with the report citing international research which indicates the level of brain injuries among offenders is much higher than in the general population. A survey of 200 adult male prisoners in Britain found 60% claimed to have suffered a head injury, it notes. The report acknowledges there may be underlying risk factors for brain injury and offending behaviour but says improving treatment and introducing screening for young offenders would deliver significant benefits in terms of reducing crime and saving public money. BBC © 2012
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 15: Language and Our Divided Brain
Link ID: 17398 - Posted: 10.20.2012
By Jason G. Goldman When my brother and I were young, we were very careful to share the last bit of dessert equally. It's not that we were particularly magnanimous. In their wisdom, my parents instituted a rule in our house: one of us would divide the snack in half, and the other would select his half. "You cut, I choose" was a common phrase in the Goldman household throughout the 1990s. The rule ensured that we'd each be as equitable as possible when in the role of divider. The kitchen ruler was retrieved on more than one occasion. If I thought I could have gotten away with scarfing down the last cookie without him noticing, I'm sure I would have done it. And I would not have been sorry. Imagine, however, what would have happened if my brother had decided to keep the entire last cookie for himself and run into the living room with it. Here's one way he might have kept me from snatching my fair share of the snack: find a decent hiding spot, and if I got too close, he could run back into the kitchen. Once back in the kitchen, if I got too close to him, he could have gotten up and run back to the living room. This is called a "stimulus-response rule." Eventually, being the bright child that I was, I would have caught onto the pattern and found a way to block his path from one room to the other, increasing the chance of getting some of the dessert. Here's a better method that my brother could use to protect his treat: keep his eyes on me the entire time, always moving away from me so that the distance between us was, on average, fixed. If I go right, he goes left. If I move towards him, he backs up. Short of backing him into a corner, my efforts would be futile. That's because instead of using a small set of predictable actions, my brother could call upon a wider range of behaviors. Its much harder for a thief to learn how you protect your food if your behaviors are variable than if they are predictable. This is called a "cybernetic rule." © 2012 Scientific American
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Link ID: 17337 - Posted: 10.06.2012
By Melinda Wenner Moyer Read any Web forum, and you'll agree: people are meaner online than in "real life." Psychologists have largely blamed this disinhibition on anonymity and invisibility: when you're online, no one knows who you are or what you look like. A new study in Computers in Human Behavior, however, suggests that above and beyond anything else, we're nasty on the Internet because we don't make eye contact with our compatriots. Researchers at the University of Haifa in Israel asked 71 pairs of college students who did not know one another to debate an issue over Instant Messenger and try to come up with an agreeable solution. The pairs, seated in different rooms, chatted in various conditions: some were asked to share personal, identifying details; others could see side views of their partner's body through webcams; and others were asked to maintain near-constant eye contact with the aid of close-up cameras attached to the top of their computer. Far more than anonymity or invisibility, whether or not the subjects had to look into their partner's eyes predicted how mean they were. When their eyes were hidden, participants were twice as likely to be hostile. Even if the subjects were both unrecognizable (with only their eyes on screen) and anonymous, they rarely made threats if they maintained eye contact. Although no one knows exactly why eye contact is so crucial, lead author and behavioral scientist Noam Lapidot-Lefler, now at the Max Stern Yezreel Valley College in Israel, notes that seeing a partner's eyes "helps you understand the other person's feelings, the signals that the person is trying to send you," which fosters empathy and communication. © 2012 Scientific American,
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Link ID: 17266 - Posted: 09.17.2012
Jeannine Stamatakis psychologist John Watson, the founder of behaviorism, once said, "Give me a dozen healthy infants, well formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in, and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select." If we take Watson's logic one step further, it may be possible to mold someone into a psychopath. Psychopathy, also called sociopathy, is defined by a lack of empathy, deceitfulness and complete selfishness. Current thinking is that although certain genes may predispose people toward psychopathy, their environment seems to provide the ultimate catalyst. Thus, a person who possesses the particular genes associated with this malady and is brought up in an abusive or neglectful household will be at a higher risk of exhibiting the traits associated with this disorder. Severe trauma to specific regions of the brain can cause a person to undergo marked personality changes, such as in the famous case of Phineas Gage. While working as a railroad construction foreman in Vermont in 1848, he survived an accident in which a large iron rod was driven through his head, damaging much of his brain's left frontal lobe. Although he did not become a sociopath, the reported effects on his personality and behavior were so profound that friends saw him as "no longer Gage." An incident two decades ago supports the idea that brain trauma can lead to psychopathic behaviors. In 1991 convicted sex offender Phillip Garrido kidnapped 11-year-old Jaycee Dugard and kept her as a prisoner in his home for 18 years. Experts believe that Garrido experienced severe brain damage after a serious motorcycle accident as a teenager, which was compounded by intense drug use. Garrido's father said that his son had been a "good boy" as a child but that he had changed radically after the accident and had become unstable. © 2012 Scientific American,
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 19: Language and Hemispheric Asymmetry
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 15: Language and Our Divided Brain
Link ID: 17222 - Posted: 09.07.2012
By Bruce Bower A callous, manipulative psychopath convicted of a brutal crime can count on a long prison stint. But a judge may issue a slightly shorter sentence if presented with a biological explanation for the criminal's psychopathic personality. Supplying judges with scientific evidence about suspected brain deficits in psychopathy led to a reduction in prison sentences from about 14 years to 13 years, researchers report in the Aug. 17 Science. The results come from a nationwide, online survey of state judges given a hypothetical scenario about a psychopath convicted of what lawyers call aggravated battery. Judges taking the survey tended to view psychopathic criminals as dangerous, whether or not scientific evidence was introduced, say psychologist Lisa Aspinwall, lawyer Teneille Brown and philosopher James Tabery, all of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. A hypothetical psychopath in the new study got sent to the slammer for longer than the average nine-year sentence given to non-psychopaths found guilty of aggravated battery in real courts. Aspinwall and her colleagues informed judges that clinicians use psychopathy — which is not an official psychiatric diagnosis — to refer to individuals who are impulsive, emotionally shallow, outwardly charming, lacking in empathy or remorse, chronic liars and callous manipulators (SN: 12/9/06, p. 379). Judges were told that psychopathy is incurable. © Society for Science & the Public 2000 - 2012
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress
Link ID: 17178 - Posted: 08.18.2012
By Winnie Yu If you want to keep your cool, you might want to pass up those greasy wings and gooey dessert. A new study from the University of California, San Diego, suggests that people whose diets are higher in trans fats are more prone to aggression. Trans fats, or hydrogenated oils, have made the news in recent years because studies have strongly linked them to heart disease and cancer, and some locales have passed laws restricting their use. They are still common, however, in restaurant food and many grocery items. Beatrice Golomb, a physician and associate professor of medicine at U.C. San Diego, wondered if trans fats might affect behavior, after noting how they interact with a type of healthy fat. Past studies found that docosahexaenoic acid—or DHA, a long-chain omega-3 fatty acid—has a calming, antidepressant effect. Trans fats disrupt the chemical process that leads to the conversion of fatty acids into DHA, which led Golomb to suspect that trans fats might be linked to aggression. Her study, which was published in March in PLoS ONE, involved 1,018 men and women older than 20 who filled out a food questionnaire and several other surveys that measure impatience, irritability and aggression. Even after considering other influences, Golomb's team found a strong link between the intake of trans fats and aggression. "Trans-fatty acids were a more consistent predictor of aggression than some traditional risk factors such as age, male sex, education and smoking," Golomb says. The findings were consistent across both sexes and across all ages, ethnicities and socioeconomic groups. © 2012 Scientific American
Related chapters from BP7e: Chapter 15: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 13: Homeostasis: Active Regulation of the Internal Environment
Related chapters from MM:Chapter 11: Emotions, Aggression, and Stress; Chapter 9: Homeostasis: Active Regulation of the Internal Environment
Link ID: 17110 - Posted: 08.01.2012


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Victims of Cuba embargo
Nov. 27, 2013 in Letters, Opinion on Page A11 Though almost unknown in the United States, Cuba developed its own type B meningococcal vaccine for use in 1991. VA-MENGOC-BC reduced the island's meningitis infection rate from 6.5 per 100,000 … 14
Follow stone soup recipe
Nov. 27, 2013 in Letters, Opinion on Page A11 There is an old story about a man who made stone soup. He came to the center of a starving village and set up a large cauldron into which he … 21
Pope delivers his mission statement
Nov. 27, 2013 in Nation/World on Page A12 VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis denounced the global financial system that excludes the poor as he issued the mission statement for his papacy on Tuesday, saying he wants the Catholic … 2
Return to form
Nov. 27, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 LAHAINA, Hawaii – There are no mulligans in college basketball, but until March there is always another opportunity. Sometimes those opportunities come in a condensed time frame. Gonzaga had roughly …
Big Sky honors Adams, Kupp
Nov. 27, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 Their numbers were so jaw-dropping that no one raised an eyebrow Tuesday when Eastern Washington quarterback Vernon Adams and wide receiver Cooper Kupp won two of the biggest awards in …
Local briefs: Weber State fires Sears
Nov. 27, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 College football: Jody Sears has been fired from Weber State after just two season as coach, the school announced Tuesday. The former Washington State co-defensive coordinator went 4-19 in his …
Blanchette: Moos puts up 'not for sale' for naysayers
Nov. 27, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 Man, even Santa gives everyone a clean slate each year. Not Bill Moos. His memory is long, and once you're on his naughty list, you aren't getting off. 14
Simmons, Sarkisian go way back
Nov. 27, 2013 in Sports on Page B1 PULLMAN – Steve Sarkisian and Dennis Simmons will be on opposite sidelines during Friday's Apple Cup. Though they coach rival schools, it will be the only time this year they …
Today's Best
Nov. 27, 2013 in Sports on Page B2 John Wall Had 31 points and nine assists in Washington's 116-111 win over the L.A. Lakers.
In revised suit, A-Rod accuses Selig of cowardice
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Nov. 27, 2013 in Sports on Page B2 Finalized The Minnesota Timberwolves have finalized the trade that sends Derrick Williams to Sacramento for Luc Mbah a Moute. Williams was the No. 2 overall NBA draft pick in 2011, …
Nov. 27, 2013 in Sports on Page B2 Basketball NBA
Maddux, Glavine and Thomas head ballot
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Packers' Sitton blasts Lions' coaches, D-line: 'They're all just scumbags'
Nov. 27, 2013 in Sports on Page B2 Green Bay Packers guard Josh Sitton called out the Detroit Lions on the airwaves in Milwaukee on Tuesday leading up to their Thanksgiving Day showdown. Sitton spoke on WSSP about …
NFL picks, fumbles turning into TDs at record rate
Nov. 27, 2013 in Sports on Page B2 NFL teams are turning turnovers directly into points at a record rate. STATS says that 13.1 percent of interceptions and fumbles – more than one out of every eight – … 1
Seahawks unanimous No. 1
Nov. 27, 2013 in Sports on Page B3 The Seattle Seahawks were a unanimous choice Tuesday for the top spot in the AP Pro32 power rankings, and their opponent on Monday night, New Orleans, came in second. Seattle … 1
Suspensions rock Seattle defense
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Lowly Redskins 'playing for their jobs'
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Carroll subdued
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Wilcox's strong second half powers Huskies
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Sizzle goes out of Blazers in WHL
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Kansas' Self stresses defense
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Vandals fall just shy of WAC title match
Nov. 27, 2013 in Sports on Page B5 Desiree Scott and Stephanie Ziegler had 18 kills apiece Tuesday night as top-seeded New Mexico State (21-10) rallied past fourth-seeded Idaho 27-29, 26-24, 26-28, 25-12, 15-12 at the Western Athletic …
BYU pulls away from WSU women in final minutes
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How Many Times Has Obama Been "Beneath the Dignity of His Office"?
June 23, 2015
The president used the n-word, and conservative media is appalled. Again.
The Charleston Suspect Is a Racist, But Republicans Claim His Motives Are Unclear
June 18, 2015
Governor Haley: "We'll never understand what motivates anyone to ... take the life of another." She can't be serious.
Before Fox News, Rupert Murdoch Battled Liberals on Their Own Turf
June 11, 2015
The trouble began when Murdoch bought New York magazine and The Village Voice in 1977.
Sheldon Adelson Turns Israel Into 'The Walking Dead'
May 14, 2015
Behold, the "only zombie democracy in the Middle East"!
The Obamacare Subsidy Challenge Is Built on Fox News Soundbites
February 20, 2015
You Can't Spell "Exchange Eztablished by the State" without BENGHAZI.
Conservatives Have Waged a 50-Year War to Prove the News Media Can't Be Trusted
February 13, 2015
They say the Brian Williams scandal is just the latest proof.
Right-Wing Politicians Exploit Their Faith for Votes, But the Solution Isn't to Separate Politics From Religion
February 04, 2015
Politicians should start helping the poor instead.
The GOP Flack Who Resigned After Scolding the Obama Girls Wasn't a Victim of the Liberal Media Machine
December 01, 2014
Black Twitter (rightly) spread the outrage.
Note to GOP: Just Because Right-Wingers Are Blind With Rage Doesn't Mean Obama's Immigration Action Is Illegal
November 19, 2014
Maybe we should, you know, look at what the law says instead?
The Right-Wing Echo Chamber Extends Far Beyond Fox News
October 21, 2014
Conservatives are way more locked in to one news source than liberals are.


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Re: Wiped Episode Discoveries
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They could find every single piece of missing TV that someone somewhere wants (and at this point that's basically what some rumors are claiming), and it still wouldn't rate more than a quick "lighter side" mention on the news, because the number of people who care about any archive television is comparatively quite small. If there's been a big find, it'll be promoted heavily by archive TV organizations and websites and discussed less if at all in wider media. It certainly would never be at any risk of overshadowing word of a new Doctor.
On the flipside, Doctor Who merchandising does generate a fair bit of revenue for the BBC. If there were a dozen new DVDs suddenly available for release they'd be keen to advertise it.
I can't fully remember how big the announcements were in 2011 but I remember most news sites covered it in a standard news story, and it was on twitter a fair bit (thanks to Moffat, Levine, etc).
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|Reviews for Smooch
| DemonKnightOfHell chapter 1 . 12/24/2008
Good stuff i loved this story just randomly looking for kigo storys to find yours and could not stop reading it like i usealy do if the first few pargraghs dont capture me you have grate skill would love to see more to this story or maby storys where kim turns to the dark side inside of staying in thelight and shego makeing the change beocues like she said she can do anything
| madforkigo chapter 1 . 12/24/2008
Please: Continue/Sequel
I have been waiting for a good story where Shego wasn't Bi or Lesbian from the start. It like how Kim took the lead with them instead of being teased by Shego because she has more experience.
Looking forward to more Kigo story's.
Hope you have a Merry Christmas.
| poo anonymous chapter 1 . 12/24/2008
Please continue! I really do enjoy this so far.
| yui1808 chapter 1 . 12/23/2008
nice... i love the possessive kim... just a question: i remember christy romano was the person behind kim's voice or dubber right?
i really love how you portray your characters... i'm so glad you posted this... maybe you can post another kigo story and i'm looking forward into it... thank you... merry xmas...
| Krugerfan18 chapter 1 . 12/23/2008
it was good i haven't seen that many fics out there were Kim is the aggressive one that have turned out good so this was nice to see you should continue to write
| xxDark Angel Babyxx chapter 1 . 12/23/2008
That was great! I loved it please update soon! Thanks
| Kapleon chapter 1 . 12/23/2008
Lmao! Your KP fics are always amazing.
I especially liked the taking over Iceland and the pool since junior high comments. *Hilarious*
I think Kim being aggressive is cool, but letting Shego occasionally assert some control would be nice as well. Shego saying, "I don't know what I'm doing" or ""I have no idea why I'm being like this..." seemed a little out of character to me. Anyways, those are just my thoughts.
I've always enjoyed your KP stories, and this one is no different. :)
| loneookami chapter 1 . 12/23/2008
love it ... lol the part at the end when kim said "mine" made my day ... if u write more ill defintly be reading it
| lollerpoop chapter 1 . 12/23/2008
well...i like the way Kim is now ...but think Shego is a little to eeh submissive in this fic...but thats just my oppinion:P
thx for this story! ]
| 0.0 NightRiders 0.0 chapter 1 . 12/23/2008
Ho jeez, i loe this really, it made me smile. the character switch was nice, and i like that we know what the other is thinking too.
Extremely well written
well done!
ps. cant wait for more, please, id love to see this continue
| piove chapter 1 . 12/23/2008
This was incredible - you honestly just made my day . Happy Holidays! (...and I hope you write more soon D)
| Mad-Hatter-5683 chapter 1 . 12/23/2008
fucking hot and awesome!
| King in Yellow chapter 1 . 12/23/2008
I remember seeing a few of your older stories, before you became a total degenerate, and liking them. You recently said something about having tried everything possible, and I wondered if that referred to plots or positions & number of participants.
While the action was a little too fast, in my opinion, and there was still a lot of emphasis on the physical aspects there was still some story here and a little nice humor slipped in several places. Nice job.
(The total degenerate part was... I was about to say done tongue in cheek, but that might be an unfortunate phrase given the particular story.)
| zardoz101 chapter 1 . 12/23/2008
Very good story. I liked the way you made Kim the more agressive one in the relationship and you didn't make Ron out to be a buffoon and leave him out of the story completly. I myself would enjoy more on this story. Thanks for the read.


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|1 Small, chopped
|Minced fresh ginger
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|2 Clove (10 gm), pressed or minced
|2 Teaspoon
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Dry thyme
|1⁄2 Teaspoon
|Fennel seed
|1 Teaspoon, crushed
|Roma tomatoes
|1 Pound, cored and chopped (5 Medium Sized)
|Shelled cooked crab
|1 Pound
|Lemon juice
|3 Tablespoon
|Chopped fresh cilantro
|1⁄3 Cup (5.33 tbs) (Cilantro)
|To Taste
|Iceberg lettuce leaves
|1 , washed and crisped
|Green onions
|2 , ends trimmed and thinly sliced
|Lemon wedges
In a 10- to 12-inch frying pan, combine oil, onion, ginger, and garlic.
Stir often over medium heat until onion is limp, 4 to 5 minutes.
Stir in paprika, cayenne, thyme, and fennel.
Add half of the tomatoes.
Simmer, uncovered, until sauce is reduced to a thick pulp, about 5 minutes.
Stir in crab and lemon juice.
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Spoon onto a platter lined with lettuce.
Garnish with the remaining tomatoes and onions.
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Why is Hannah Montana - Miley Cyrus- Best of Both Worlds Concert rated G?
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This concert video features Miley Cyrus (best known as Hannah Montana) singing a slate of her tunes in front of a packed audience. The only content issue is some brief, mildly suggestive dancing and a few short skirts and sleeveless tops. (Relative to most other musical celebrities, Miley's costumes are very conservative.) No profanities were noted, although some song lyrics were difficult to hear.


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I Love Egg
This series of cartoons is undeniably cute and inventive!
Bad Guys
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This is awesome are u gonna make a IB version? just wandering
Good question.
Maybe? I liked IB.
You Bastard!
That was brilliant! And you managed to scare the shit outa me!
For a while I just thought that I was supposed to be scared by some of the backgrounds, but once the music stopped and I saw the lady on the other dock I knew something was up. Job well done!
That Monoko appearance with the lamp effect was a nice touch. Also, including the Barracks Settlement people, awesome. Love this.
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I'm a big fan of Yume Nikki and I thought this was really neat. I like how you could change Madotsuki's effects and the different characters in the background. The music was really great too. I played this twice because the first time I did, nothing really happened with the other girl on the dock no matter how many times I clicked on her. But I played it a second time and I guess I figured it out... hah. I'm wondering if the chances of something happening are like the chances of you meeting Uboa in the game? :p Either way, cool game. (:
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It started last Saturday when Ohio State fell at Wisconsin. Then Kansas lost at Kansas State on Monday. Then Georgetown lost at Connecticut on Wednesday while Wisconsin lost at Purdue. And then, on Saturday, Pittsburgh lost at St. John's, Notre Dame lost at West Virginia and Texas lost at Nebraska, meaning we've seen the schools ranked first, second, third, fourth, eighth, ninth and 10th in the latest AP poll lose over the past eight days.
Four of those losses were to unranked teams.
All of them were on the road.
So, more than anything, this stretch is a reminder that winning road games is difficult without exception. But it also highlights how vulnerable even the so-called best of the best are this season, and it should make for an interesting NCAA tournament because the top seeds aren't going to seem invincible. Assuming it's true that believing you can win is the first hurdle an underdog must jump, let's go ahead and acknowledge that the eight and nine seeds will have more realistic dreams than usual of the second weekend because they're going to see the one seeds as beatable.
Take the schools projected as one seeds now, for instance.
The Pittsburgh Panthers? They've lost to two currently unranked teams. The Texas Longhorns? They've lost to two currently unranked teams. The Kansas Jayhawks? They've lost to a currently unranked team. The Ohio State Buckeyes? Well, they haven't lost to any currently unranked teams. But they have played one-possession games with three currently unranked teams (Penn State, Northwestern and Minnesota), and that alone suggests they're capable of losing to almost anybody even if they beat almost everybody.
In other words, who's scary good?
Who scares you?
Though neither Kansas nor Kentucky made the Final Four last season, both were intimidating outfits heading into March Madness. Nobody wanted any part of those rosters, and it was a major surprise when the Jayhawks and Wildcats were eliminated early. This March nothing will be a surprise. Any of the one seeds could make the Final Four or lose in the opening weekend. Granted, the former is more likely than the latter. But I've seen enough so-called elite teams lose over the past week to know nothing is guaranteed.
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The top 10 is stacking losses, one after another
Posted on: February 19, 2011 5:30 pm
Edited on: February 19, 2011 5:49 pm
Category: NCAAB
Tags: Connecticut, Georgetown, Kansas, Kansas State, Nebraska, Notre Dame, Ohio State, Texas, West Virginia, Wisconsin
Since: Feb 8, 2011
Posted on: February 21, 2011 3:04 pm
The top 10 is stacking losses, one after another
Duke ok, but SDSU and BYU???? GET REAL!
Since: Jan 10, 2011
Posted on: February 20, 2011 7:06 pm
The top 10 is stacking losses, one after another
sully, I can't argue with the strength of the BEast. And I would never argue SDSU would go without more than a few losses in that conference, but you know you can only play who is on your schedule. Duke, Arizona, and Washington pulled out of commitments to play the Aztecs, so we had to fill in with lesser quality teams. That's no excuse, but you would be mistaken to take them lightly. Both UConn and SDSU have 11 wins vs. Top 100 teams. But SDSU has just one loss. Whether we like it or not, that makes all the difference to the committee.
Since: Jul 30, 2007
Posted on: February 20, 2011 3:38 pm
Duke, SDSU, BYU
For real.
Since: Mar 20, 2010
Posted on: February 20, 2011 3:28 pm
The top 10 is stacking losses, one after another
Lenny-- Maybe you should have waited until after the Purdue game to respond. The useless nuts just got beat by 13 on the road. OMG, what is wrong with OSU; they can't win on the road against good teams. (he said with a sarcastic tone).
Like I said in my initial post, there are NO scary talented teams this year. I like OSU and think they are a fine team, but I don't really care if they are the No. 1 in UK's bracket.
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Posted on: February 20, 2011 1:09 pm
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Since: Aug 24, 2006
Posted on: February 20, 2011 12:25 pm
The top 10 is stacking losses, one after another
here is a question for you out there - if St Johns keeps playing as well as they are now, where will they be seeded in the tourney? Clearly they should be ranked this week after beating Pitt and Marquette. (Sj has won 4 in a row, and 6 of 7)
They are playing great. They started off slow, a new coach and all - but Lavin has brought them around. A TON of experience on the roster. A couple of nice big men. A slew of guards to throw at a time. Their press will cause teams lots of trouble.
They pounded the crap out of Duke, beat Pitt, beat Notre Dame, UConn, Geogetown, WVU, Cincy, Marquette - clearly they can play with and beat the best.
Since: Dec 2, 2007
Posted on: February 20, 2011 11:58 am
The top 10 is stacking losses, one after another
St. John's is the perfect picture of this season. Beat one top 20 team after another, but lost to Fordham.
Since: Dec 14, 2009
Posted on: February 20, 2011 11:47 am
The top 10 is stacking losses, one after another
whar easy road did Duke get??
Since: Mar 9, 2009
Posted on: February 20, 2011 11:40 am
The top 10 is stacking losses, one after another
Who are you talking to? Just my opinion, but if debating someone specifically, you should mention them. Because I have no idea on who you are talking to.. or if you are talking to me, since I just commented.
Since: Nov 3, 2006
Posted on: February 20, 2011 11:36 am
The top 10 is stacking losses, one after another
You need to look at the numbers before you speak. The top 9 teams in the Big East have a combined 9 losses out of conference.


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braehmer vs hopkins could be nicePosted May 28, 2014 2:43 am
Have to agree, this is a pretty pointless 'title fight'.Posted May 27, 2014 7:29 pm
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I agree here. Juergen Braehmer (43-2, 32 KOs) has a nice record on the paper and have made some nice fights BUT he is not a world light heavyweight champion, just a "Paper made" champion.
1# Bernard Hopkins, USA – IBF/WBA/IBA
All other fighters will have to stand in line to fight for champion recognition hunting.Posted May 27, 2014 5:21 pm
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Agreed! It's all a bit odd. BHOP beats Shumenov for the WBA title & Braehmer is declared the champion. (By Christ that beer must be strong)!Posted May 27, 2014 1:44 pm
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c level at best.Posted May 27, 2014 10:26 am
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The true WBA World Light-Heavyweight Champion is Bernard Hopkins, who is also the IBF World Light-Heavyweight Champion.
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Wire | March Means Music Month Plays On with Phoenix Lights Festival
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The March Means Music campaign in Downtown Phoenix has resulted in over 250 bands–spanning a wide spectrum of genres and tastes–playing to audiences at 165 music events over 30 days. From large-scale festivals like VIVA PHX and McDowell Mountain Music Festival to the Phoenix Chorale's Desert Song Tour, The Music of Queen at Symphony Hall and so many more excuses to dance, jam and rock out, the biggest month of music in the Valley is bringing hundreds of thousands of music fans into the urban heart of our city.
The March Means Music fun continues this Sunday, March 22 at Civic Space Park when renowned DJs Zeds Dead, Hardwell, Robin Schulz, Route 94 and Lane 8 headline the inaugural Phoenix Lights Festival.
This new multi-stage festival experience will not only feature some of the biggest DJs in the world but will also include dozens of art installations, including an oversized light-themed work by artist Isaac Caruso that pays tribute to the infamous UFO sighting that happened across Arizona on March 13, 1997.
Co-produced by True Music Xperience and Relentless Beats, Phoenix Lights Festival is an 18 and over event. For up-to-date information or to purchase General Admission ($55) or VIP ($99) tickets visit phoenixlightsfest.com
A Place of Hope
Posted on 3/18/15 by Wayne Rainey » No Comments
Phoenicians gathered last night at monOrchid on Roosevelt Row for RadiatePHX, a monthly networking event for business, community, and city leaders produced by Downtown Phoenix Inc. and Downtown Phoenix Journal. monOrchid owner Wayne Rainey welcomed those gathered speaking directly to the relationship between creative spaces and special places, and what we can do about it.
monOrchid is a place of hope.
It's a studio complex. It's two galleries. It's a venue. It's home to more than a dozen creative force businesses and is the platform for the symbiotic relationship of those businesses.
By being adaptable and flexible it provides an extraordinary opportunity for growth and advancement by consolidating experience with experiments and thus – often – art.
This building that is monOrchid is much like downtown Phoenix in many ways. Not that many years ago it was a broken and under-utilized place – a warehouse for forgotten things. It was inefficient and expensive to refit but its history and authenticity were still mostly intact, and that authenticity was an absolutely essential component for it – and its neighborhood's – revival.
The investment was worth it.
Today we gather here and celebrate the many future possibilities that are Phoenix.
But this great view is also the place of a precipice. As we evaluate and decide who we will be as a more mature city we must be cognizant of our path. There is so much potential here – perhaps more here now in Phoenix than in any other major city in the country – and that is because we have been, in the past, so bad at being a city.
We must do better.
We must plan for the long term. And that means we must be willing to be choosey.
We should be careful to not accidentally damage our best assets, like our great arts districts, but we must also find ways to encourage more density.
We should build our great parks but we must also find ways to facilitate those who would come.
There are incredibly difficult problems that we will face and there must be great discourse and conversation. But the conversations must begin in earnest now.
I'm so happy to see you here and engaged, and I hope some of those conversations will take place here tonight. Thank you for coming.
Photos courtesy of Wayne Rainey. Featured image by Douglas Proce.
Wire | The Phoenix Festival de España Arrives at the Phoenix Center for the Arts
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Phoenix Festival de España Annual Celebration of Spanish Arts & Culture Returns to Downtown Phoenix March 21 & 22, 2015
Phoenix Center for the Arts and Flamenco Por La Vida are proud to present the second annual Phoenix Festival de España, a celebration of Spanish Arts and Culture, March 21 & 22, 2015.
Phoenix Festival de España, sponsored in part by APS, will take place in the heart of the Downtown Phoenix art scene at Phoenix Center for the Arts (1202 N 3rd Street) and will feature Flamenco workshops for youth and adults, delicious Spanish food, culinary demonstrations, presentations on Spanish culture, live performances, and more!
Dance and music groups from throughout the Valley will perform in 30-minute intervals throughout the day on the festival's outdoor stage. Local and nationally-acclaimed Spanish historians, scholars, and curators will present lectures and workshops with a Spanish flavor. The Festival will also feature art exhibits, costumes, jewelry, and a beer and wine garden. Admission is FREE for the whole family.
In addition to the fantastic dance and music performances outside all weekend long, Sunday's festivities will include a screening of the documentary "Flamenco Flamenco" by Carlos Saura at 2pm in the Phoenix Center for the Arts Third Street Theater. Festivalgoers are encouraged to stay into the night for a very special closing flamenco performance, "Luz De Dia," also taking place in the Third Street Theater at 6pm.
"Luz De Dia" features internationally acclaimed guitarist, Misael Barraza Diaz, with special guest from Madrid, international flamenco star, Nino De Los Reyes. Ensemble includes Macarena Giraldez, Olivia Rojas, Jason Martinez, Mele Martinez, and Angelina Ramirez. Tickets are required for entry to both "Flamenco Flamenco" ($10) and "Luz De Dia" ($15). Those wishing to attend both events, can purchase a combo ticket for $20.
Additional sponsors include Otro Café, Crescent Ballroom, Jobot, Monica Robles Art + Design, Northwestern Mutual, PAZ, Arizona Commission on the Arts, ACEAZ, and the City of Phoenix Parks & Recreation Department.
For an updated list of performers, presenters and workshops, please visit www.phoenixcenterforthearts.org.
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Event: Phoenix Festival de España
Dates/Times: Saturday, March 21, 2015, 12-6pm & Sunday, March 22, 2015, 12-8pm
Admission: FREE
Anticipated Attendance: 2,000
Where: Phoenix Center for the Arts, 1202 N. 3rd Street, Phoenix AZ 85004
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Uncovering DeGrazia and Illuminating Birds on Roosevelt
Posted on 3/06/15 by Katrina Becker » No Comments
An ephemeral Art Detour pop-up space reveals long-covered DeGrazia murals and showcases plans for a new Lauren Lee mural.
Iconic Arizona artist Ted DeGrazia is most widely remembered for his commercially popular paintings of large-eyed children, faceless angels, and Southwestern-themed imagery. But two murals he left behind in downtown Phoenix—hidden under protective sheetrock for years—reveal a glimpse of DeGrazia's other subjects, and his unique mark on the community.
"A lot of times, DeGrazia would go into a place and someone would say to him, 'Oh, here's a sandwich and a pitcher of beer,' you know, 'Would you paint me a picture?' and he'd do it for lunch," says DeGrazia Foundation Executive Director Lance Laber. "Now, this is a pretty extensive mural, so I know he didn't do it for lunch," he continues with a laugh. "This mural is 12 feet tall and it's 40 feet long."
Laber is describing a mural covering a large expanse of interior wall at 222 E. Roosevelt in the former greenHAUS Gallery. "The establishment was a bar," he says, and explains that the murals were most likely painted around 60 years ago. "….They go along with the way DeGrazia's style was in the '50s."
On the Roosevelt walls, a smaller mural shows a dancer twirling in a glass, while the huge 40-foot work depicts scenes of alcohol production, from loincloth-clad figures gathered around a cauldron to a hillbilly moonshine still. "Everybody's making some kind of booze," says Laber. "That seems to be the theme of the mural." Both pieces feature opaque greenish-turquoise backgrounds, and while the dancer is painted on drywall attached to wood studs, the alcohol scenes were applied directly to a very thin layer of plaster adhering to a double- brick wall.
For years, the artwork was covered and protected by sheetrock and Laber learned about the murals when building owner Baron Properties contacted the DeGrazia Foundation back in September 2014. "I had never seen anything by DeGrazia that looked like that—truly amazing," says Laber. "The murals are kind of old…they're a little faded from time, but they're very interesting."
"We learned of the two pieces as we were conducting our due diligence to buy the property," says Baron partner Scott Fisher. "We called Lance [Laber] to understand what the murals were and what they stood for and their importance." He continues, "We wanted to do the right thing and…donate the paintings, so that's why we called the DeGrazia Foundation." Baron has owned property in the Valley since 2004 and intends to build a new building on the Roosevelt site, but the company has worked out a rare opportunity with Artlink in which the DeGrazia murals will be open to the public during March First Friday and Art Detour 27 from March 6-8. "We don't just share a desire to preserve the DeGrazia artwork," says Fisher. "We want to do what we can to actually enhance and expand a great arts neighborhood with additional efforts too."
Laber has been working with Baron and an art conservator to determine how the murals can be preserved, and believes the smaller mural can be saved. "That's on a piece of sheetrock that we believe can be removed from the wall," he says. The larger mural is a different story. No one has yet devised a method to protect such an expansive piece against the torque exerted on a thin layer of aging stucco. "If you start trying to peel it off or get behind it and get it off, you're probably just going to break it into a thousand pieces," says Laber.
"In either case, we plan on having a professional photographer take very high-definition photographs and donate those to the Foundation and whoever else is interested," says Fisher. "We understand that the Roosevelt Arts District is very important, and so our new projects on Roosevelt…we plan on displaying and highlighting local art from local artists. Our plan is to have more artwork, not less."
And the beautiful Lauren Lee mural "Three Birds" on the building's outside east-facing wall? Lee recognized that it was going to be difficult to save the piece, so she approached Baron Properties about the possibility of producing a new piece for the new building.
Fisher said, "When Lauren Lee approached us with her idea, the answer was a resounding yes. That's because our goal is to create a combination of the preserved art along with the newer works and contribute to a great success story in the heart of Phoenix."
Lee said, "I'll be painting three massive birds in flight on the five-story-high new building that will be called 'iLuminate.' Given their name, the developer suggested that we illuminate the birds from below so that they can be seen from far away, which I think will be spectacular."
Lee added, "The new concept design will be displayed at Art Detour this weekend in a pop-up art gallery hosted by Artlink in the greenHAUS building. I'll be there answering questions with the new painting and design rendering of the 'Three Birds in Flight,' as well as offering prints of the 'Three Birds' mural for sale. It's difficult to convey my happiness about this, but I am truly happy that the 'Three Birds' get to live on in a new way, in a new stage of their evolution."
Take advantage of this final opportunity to see the DeGrazia murals and Lauren Lee's "Three Birds" at Art Detour this weekend.
If You Go:
What: Artlink Pop Up Gallery – Art Detour 27
Where: 222. E. Roosevelt St.
When: Saturday and Sunday, March 7 & 8, 11:00 am to 5:00 pm
Update: Recently released, DeGrazia: The Man and the Myths is a new biography of DeGrazia by James W. Johnson and Marilyn D. Johnson from The University of Arizona Press. Both authors join DeGrazia Foundation Executive Director Lance Laber at the Tucson Festival of Books on Sunday, March 15 in the Student Union's Kachina room on the U of A campus for a panel discussion from 1 p.m.-2 p.m., followed by a book-signing.
Wire | Bikes, Beer, & Bands at DeTour de Grand
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DeTour de Grand to Highlight Art Detour 27 Activities along Historic Grand Avenue, March 8
Inaugural Daylong Event Features Bike Tour, Art Walk, and Block Party
The inaugural DeTour de Grand will take place on Sunday, March 8, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Historic Grand Avenue in downtown Phoenix. Organized by the Grand Avenue Members Association (GAMA) in conjunction with Artlink's Art Detour 27, the daylong bike tour, art walk, and block party will feature the best in local bikes, beer, and bands.
"The aim of DeTour de Grand is to highlight 'local Phoenix' along one of our city's most iconic and authentic streets, Grand Avenue," said Kirby Hoyt, event co-organizer and principal of Edge Industries, a landscape urbanism firm headquartered on Grand.
DeTour de Grand activities include:
- Bike Tour. The event begins at 10 a.m. with a one-hour bike tour that starts and ends at the intersection of Grand Avenue and 9th Ave. and follows Artlink's Art Detour 27 trolley route. Prizes for the most creative – and grand! – rider outfits will be presented at the end of the ride. Valley Metro will provide complimentary bike valet parking.
- Art Walk. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., participants can wander though dozens of galleries, studios, shops, and restaurants along Grand Avenue between Van Buren and Roosevelt.
- Block Party. Also from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., partygoers can enjoy local bands, street performers, vendors, food trucks, and a beer garden. The Main Stage and Beer Garden will be located at 915 NW Grand Ave. A percentage of the event proceeds will benefit local charities.
According to Laurie Carmody, GAMA member and event co-organizer, "For years Grand Avenue has been a gathering place for musicians and music lovers. In 2011 the Roberto-Venn School of Luthiery moved to Grand Avenue due in part to its music tradition and eclectic character. Inspirations in creating DeTour de Grand are the amazing students, who come from all over the globe to learn how to make and repair guitars at this world-renowned school."
DeTour de Grand sponsors to date include: Phoenix Brewing Company, Arizona Multibank Corp., Arizona Preservation Foundation, Artlink Inc., Butler Housing Corp., Carnagan LLC, Dunlap-McGee Management Co., Edge Industries, Grand Avenue Pizza Company, Habitat Metro, KS State Bank, Local First Arizona, Oasis on Grand Apartments, State Representative Debbie McCune Davis, and The Carmody Company. The poster and design materials for DeTour de Grand were designed by Design RePublic, a studio off Grand Avenue, and local artist Jake Early. Signed screen-printed posters will be available for sale at the event.
Participants are encouraged to post their photographs of the event on social media using the hashtag #detourdegrand #grandavephx #dtphx