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News about Terrorism, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Sep. 23, 2014
Federal jury finds Arab Bank liable for knowingly supporting terrorism efforts connected to two dozen attacks in Middle East; closely watched case in New York City is first civil case brought against a bank under the Anti-Terrorism Act to go to trial, and verdict is expected to have a broad impact. MORE
Sep. 23, 2014
United States and France are asking United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions on as many as 15 suspected terrorist fighters, recruiters and fund-raisers, including some connected to the Islamic State. MORE
Sep. 22, 2014
Pres Obama will preside over unusual meeting of the United Nations Security Council poised to adopt resolution that would compel all countries to adopt laws to prosecute those who travel abroad to join terrorist organizations and those who help them. MORE
Sep. 20, 2014
Adel Abdul Bary pleads guilty to charges that he helped Osama bin Laden pass messages claiming responsibility for deadly 1998 bombings of two United States Embassies in East Africa and issuing new terrorism threats, but federal Judge Lewis A Kaplan declines to accept his plea; Kaplan is concerned that Bary, who is also charged with hundreds of counts of murder, may be getting off with a light prison sentence. MORE
Sep. 19, 2014
Closing arguments are made in landmark terrorism-financing trial that pits victims of terrorist attacks in Middle East against Arab Bank; jury, to hold the bank liable, must find that the bank's support of Hamas was direct consequence of the terrorism events. MORE
Sep. 18, 2014
Australian police conduct antiterrorism raids in Sydney and Brisbane, detaining at least 15 people; Prime Min Tony Abbott says intelligence shows militants connected with Islamic State were planning to abduct and behead a random person in Australia. MORE
Sep. 18, 2014
Gunmen storm a college in northern Nigeria, firing on fleeing students and setting off an explosion in an attack that killed at least 15 people and wounded 35. MORE
Sep. 18, 2014
New York City police beef up security in response to possible threat of terrorist attack in Times Square; officials stress they have no credible information about specific plans against city, but are being cautious in light of online post purportedly from Islamic State encouraging 'lone wolf' attacks on tourist attractions around nation. MORE
Sep. 16, 2014
Homeland Security Dept and Federal Bureau of Investigation officials say there is no truth to warnings from conservative groups and leading Republicans that militants from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria plan to enter the United States from Mexico to carry out terrorist attacks. MORE
Sep. 16, 2014
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, Gov Andrew M Cuomo and New Jersey Gov Chris Christie meet with Homeland Security head Jeh Johnson to review counterterrorism procedures; three politicians, in rare joint appearance, follow meeting with somber news conference in which they warn of heightened threat of terrorism. MORE
Sep. 13, 2014
Rapid surge of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, and its ability to draw fighters from across the globe, have set off alarm bells in capitals worldwide; countries that rarely see eye to eye are now trying to blunt its recruitment drive, passing a raft of new rules that they hope will stop their citizens from joining extremist groups abroad; United States is pushing for a legally binding United Nations Security Council resolution. MORE
Sep. 13, 2014
Australian Prime Min Tony Abbott raises terrorism alert from medium to high after warnings from security officials that growing number of Australians joining extremist groups represents increased threat to country. MORE
Sep. 12, 2014
Pres Obama honors victims of Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the Pentagon day after announcing a new mission to fight Islamist terrorism; makes no mention of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, speaking only of challenges facing the country. MORE
Sep. 12, 2014
Pres Obama's call for expanded American military campaign against militants of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has special resonance among people gathered for ceremonies marking 13th anniversary of Sept 11 terrorist attacks; Jordan Thompson, whose uncle Leon Heyward died in 2008 of lymphoma related to World Trade Center attacks, decides to join the Marines. MORE
Sep. 12, 2014
Shukry Bishara, Palestinian finance minister and former executive at Arab Bank, testifies that bank forwarded money to families affected by Palestinian uprising; 300 plaintiffs are accusing Arab Bank of knowingly handling transactions for terrorists, in the first civil trial of a bank under the Anti-Terrorism Act. MORE
Sep. 11, 2014
American intelligence agencies are struggling to gauge threat posed by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, even as United States prepares to act; American counterterrorism officials reviewing threats to United States believe ISIS has no ability to attack inside the US, therefore Al Qaeda and its affiliates remain the most immediate focus. MORE
Sep. 10, 2014
Jose Padilla, convicted in 2007 of supporting Al Qaeda and terrorism conspiracy, is sentenced to 21 years in prison after a federal appeals court ruled his original 17-year sentence was too lenient. MORE
Sep. 8, 2014
Qatar has come under withering attack from wide spectrum of interests who insist that tiny monarchy is a godfather to terrorist causes worldwide; country has helped support a number of Islamist groups by providing safe haven, diplomatic mediation, financial aid and even weapons, and allows private fund-raisers for terrorist organizations like Al Qaeda to freely operate within its territory. MORE
Sep. 8, 2014
David Carr The Media Equation column contends videos that show Islamic State in Iraq and Syria militants beheading American journalists are modern media artifacts being used to medieval ends; maintains careful crafting of videos are evidence of mastery of medium and message; asserts that militants understand that social media can be used to spread fear and terror. MORE
Sep. 7, 2014
Intertwined journeys of Troy Kastigar and Douglas McAuthur McCain, Minnesota men who died after joining Islamic militants, offer sharp example of how allure of Islamist extremism has evolved; tools of online propaganda and shadowy networks of facilitators are now drawing hundreds of Europeans and about dozen known Americans to fight with Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. MORE
Sep. 5, 2014
Arieh Spitzen, former chief of Israeli military's Palestinian Affairs Dept, testifies in terrorism financing trial of Arab Bank in federal court in Brooklyn. MORE
Aug. 30, 2014
British government, alarmed by suspected presence of hundreds of British jihadists among Sunni militants in Syria and Iraq, increases terrorism threat level to 'severe' and says new laws will be introduced to counter security threats. MORE
Aug. 27, 2014
Rabbis from around the world arrive in Mumbai, India, to reopen Nariman House, Jewish center attacked and gutted during 2008 killing rampage by Pakistani gunmen, which left six people dead; center will include a $2.5 million museum that will be the first in Mumbai to memorialize those killed in the attacks. MORE
Aug. 23, 2014
Obama administration has used increasingly pointed language to describe danger posed by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria in response to group's rapid advance across northern Iraq; some American officials and terrorism experts say the ominous words overstate group's ability to attack the United States and its interests abroad, and that ISIS could be undone by its own brutality and nihilism. MORE
Aug. 22, 2014
Texas Gov Rick Perry warns that militants from Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and other terrorist groups may have already slipped across the Mexican border; says while there is no clear evidence that such a breach has happened, United States' southern border should be considered security issue as well as social and economic problem. MORE
Aug. 22, 2014
Joshua Faudem testifies at trial in Brooklyn about 2003 bombing of bar in Tel Aviv, where he worked; around 300 plaintiffs are accusing Arab Bank of knowingly financing terrorism by maintaining accounts associated with Hamas. MORE
Aug. 22, 2014
Editorial laments execution of journalist James Foley by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria extremists, and fact that hostage-taking has become standard weapon in terrorists' arsenal; reflects on difficulty of deciding whether to submit to terrorist extortion; contends Foley's death should be reminder to honor the many brave journalists, aid workers and civil servants who risk their lives in conflict zones. MORE
Aug. 20, 2014
Former Canadian Idol contestant Khurram Syed Sher is acquitted of conspiring to facilitate terrorism; judge finds insufficient evidence that he intended to join complex plot that involved sending money to terrorists abroad and scouting targets in Canada. MORE
Aug. 15, 2014
Plaintiffs in case against Arab Bank lay out their case in federal court in Brooklyn, accusing bank of knowingly financing Hamas; plaintiffs totally almost 300 are victims or family members of victims of 24 terrorist attacks in early 2000s linked to Hamas; case is first civil trial against bank under Antiterrorism Act. MORE
Aug. 14, 2014
Saudi Arabia donates $100 million to a fledgling United Nations counterterrorism agency and expresses hope that infusion will strengthen its abilities and set an example for other donor countries. MORE
Aug. 14, 2014
Basic bank account at Arab Bank's Al Mazra branch in Beirut, Lebanon, is at center of first civil trial against a bank under Anti-Terrorism Act; account is in name of Osama Hamdan, a spokesman for Hamas, and suit charges that account and ones like it make up critical financial infrastructure for terrorist networks; suit was filed in Federal District Court in Brooklyn by 279 plaintiffs who represent victims of Hamas attacks. MORE
Aug. 6, 2014
Secret documents leaked to online magazine The Intercept show that about 20,800 United States citizens and permanent residents are included in federal government database of people suspected of having links to terrorism, of whom about 5,000 have been placed on one or more watch lists. MORE
Aug. 1, 2014
Norway calls off terrorism alert, saying attack by a militant Islamist group with combat training in Syria is no longer seen as imminent. MORE
Jul. 31, 2014
American authorities say Moner Mohammad Abusalha, Florida youth who died in a suicide attack in Syria in May 2014, traveled to United States for several months after training with extremist group allied with Al Qaeda; with so many Americans traveling abroad, US officials face difficult question of how to deal with potential danger posed by small group of radicalized citizens. MORE
Jul. 29, 2014
Violent Islamists of Boko Haram are targeting prominent political figures in Cameroon and Nigeria; terrorist group has attacked or kidnapped prominent citizens in Cameroon and committed a series of suicide bombings in Nigeria that have killed at least 11 people over two days. MORE
Jul. 25, 2014
Norway's intelligence service says it has received information about an imminent 'concrete threat' against Norway from people with links to Islamic fighters in Syria. MORE
Jul. 19, 2014
Dispute emerges over who is paying legal fees for Libyan terrorism defendant Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, who faces conspiracy charges related to Al Qaeda's 1998 bombings of two American embassies in East Africa; at issue is whether Libyan government retained Ruqai's lawyer and if there is conflict of interest; complicating matters is Ruqai's declining health. MORE
Jul. 18, 2014
Lady Justice Heather Hallett, appointed to look into legal matters arising from Northern Ireland peace process, releases report saying British government's program to inform some potential terrorism suspects that they did not face arrest is 'flawed' but not an amnesty. MORE
Jul. 17, 2014
Ahmed Abassi, Tunisian man accused of engaging in terrorist acts against targets in United States and other countries, is sentenced in Manhattan to time he has served in prison since his arrest in 2013; he plead guilty to lesser charges in June and will be deported. MORE
Jul. 14, 2014
Atty Gen Eric H Holder Jr expresses 'extreme, extreme concern' over reports that bomb makers from Yemen responsible for 2009 underwear-bomb plot are now in Syria cooperating with foreign militants there; Holder seems to confirm reports that Yemeni bomb makers are working to design small explosive devices, without explicitly saying so. MORE
Jul. 11, 2014
Five California men file federal lawsuit challenging national Suspicious Activity Reporting database, which gathers data about individual Ameridans in hunt for terrorists; plaintiffs contend federal standards are too lax in allowing reports from security guards and police to be uploaded without restriction or scrutiny, and that they encourage racial and religious profiling. MORE
Jul. 10, 2014
Matthew G Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism Center, is resigning after three years. MORE
Jul. 9, 2014
Atty Gen Eric H Holder Jr implores more European countries to adopt American-style counterterrorism laws and tactics, including undercover stings to prevent potential terrorist from traveling to Syria. MORE
Jul. 7, 2014
Editorial calls on Obama administration to address issues of targeted drone attacks on suspected terrorists, which can cause unintended civilian deaths; agrees with warnings that United States' continued use of drones to carry out secretive killings could have serious negative repercussions, including growth of terrorist organizations; calls for more transparency and creation of independent commission to review drone policy. MORE
Jul. 6, 2014
Islamic State in Iraq and Syria releases 21-minute video of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi delivering a public sermon in Mosul, Iraq; until video release, he has been all but invisible, seemingly reluctant to risk a public appearance as his group grew in strength and he became the United States' second-most sought-after terrorist; US is offering a $10 million reward for information leading to his capture. MORE
Jul. 4, 2014
News analysis; Sunni militants' seizure of large parts of Iraq stuns Obama administration and lays bare limitations of terrorism strategy that relies less on American soldiers and more on training troops in countries where threat abounds; White House, faced with a war-weary American public, is struggling to contain fast-moving Islamic State in Iraq and Syria with measures that officials concede will take months or longer to be effective. MORE
Jul. 3, 2014
Department of Homeland Security tightens passenger screening on many United States-bound flights from Europe, Africa and the Middle East in response to intelligence reports of increased threat from Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen; intelligence of new threat is latest indication that Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is trying to bring down a United States-bound airliner. MORE
Jun. 29, 2014
Ahmed Abu Khattala, Libyan militia leader charged in connection with 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, enters not guilty plea during federal arraignment proceedings in Washington DC; plea formally opens one of most complicated terrorism cases Justice Department has mounted in recent years. MORE
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Mali: Bomb Kills 5 U.N. Peacekeepers
A roadside bomb in northern Mali killed five United Nations peacekeepers and wounded several others, a United Nations spokesman said.
September 19, 2014, Friday
MORE ON TERRORISM AND: Mali , Terrorism , United Nations
The Muddled Message in ISIS' Latest Agitprop Video
British journalist John Cantlie appears with a promise to expose Western media, but viewers must be skeptical of every word he speaks under presumed duress.
September 19, 2014, Friday
MORE ON TERRORISM AND: Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) , Video Recordings, Downloads and Streaming , Cantlie, John , Terrorism
Congress Gives Final Approval to Aid Rebels in Fight With ISIS
Lawmakers sidestepped the debate over the extent of American military action until the lame-duck session of Congress later this year.
September 19, 2014, Friday
MORE ON TERRORISM AND: United States , Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) , United States Defense and Military Forces , Iraq , Syria , Obama, Barack , Senate , Terrorism , United States Politics and Government
Chile: 3 Suspects Arrested in Bombing
Chilean officials said Thursday that they had arrested three members of an anarchist cell suspected in the country's worst bomb attack in more than two decades.
September 19, 2014, Friday
MORE ON TERRORISM AND: Chile , Stations and Terminals (Passenger) , Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire , Terrorism
Iraq: Deadly Attacks Strike Baghdad
At least 29 people were killed and more than 65 wounded in attacks in and around the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Kadhimiya in Baghdad.
September 19, 2014, Friday
MORE ON TERRORISM AND: Iraq , Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) , Deaths (Fatalities) , Terrorism , Baghdad (Iraq) , Sunni Muslims , Shiite Muslims
In Closing Arguments, Arab Bank's Role in Flagging Terrorists Is Debated
The federal civil trial, in Brooklyn, pits the bank against victims of terrorist attacks in and around Israel that they say were carried out by Hamas.
September 19, 2014, Friday
MORE ON TERRORISM AND: Arab Bank , Hamas , Suits and Litigation (Civil) , Brooklyn (NYC) , Terrorism
Against the Odds, Finding Refuge in El Paso
A Somali woman was granted asylum in Texas, bucking a national trend in which a majority of applicants do not receive asylum.
September 19, 2014, Friday
MORE ON TERRORISM AND: Immigration and Emigration , Asylum, Right of , Terrorism , Hassan-Mohamed, Dekha , Shabab , El Paso (Tex) , Somalia
New Islamic State Video Features British Hostage as Group Spokesman
The Islamic State released a new message with a British hostage, the journalist John Cantlie, warning the West against another war.
September 19, 2014, Friday
MORE ON TERRORISM AND: Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) , Great Britain , Propaganda , Cantlie, John , Syria , Iraq , Foley, James (1973-2014) , Sotloff, Steven J , Video Recordings, Downloads and Streaming , Kidnapping and Hostages , Terrorism , News and News Media
Obama Faulted in Terror Fight, New Poll Finds
With Americans' fears about a terrorist attack on the rise, a New York Times/CBS News poll finds the public is questioning President Obama's strategy for combating the militant organization calling itself the Islamic State.
September 18, 2014, Thursday
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In Brutal Year, 7th Journalist Is Killed in Afghanistan
The stabbing of Palwasha Tokhi adds to a toll that was already the deadliest for the news media in the country since the fall of the Taliban.
September 18, 2014, Thursday
MORE ON TERRORISM AND: Afghanistan , News and News Media , Murders and Attempted Murders , Terrorism , Taliban , Tokhi, Palwasha
Stopping Homebound ISIS Fighters
A look at how governments around the world have been dealing with citizens turning jihadists.
ISIS' Goals and Tactics Worldwide
Some background on goals, tactics and the potential long-term threat to the United States from the militant group known as the Islamic State.
Boko Haram Kidnapping Tactics, Explained
In Nigeria, nearly 300 schoolgirls have been held captive for over a hundred days. Some background information on the Islamist group that has been trying to topple the country's government for years.
John Cantlie and ISIS' Video Strategy
Some background on how video plays a big role in the propaganda strategy of the militant group the Islamic State.
Results of the New York Times/CBS News Poll on Politicians' Approval Ratings
A New York Times/CBS News poll shows that President Obama's approval ratings are similar to those of President George W. Bush in 2006 when Democrats swept both houses of Congress in the midterm elections.
Obama's Remarks on 9/11 Anniversary
The president commemorated the 13th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at a ceremony at the Pentagon.
Obama's Full Speech About ISIS
The president revealed the plan from the United States and its allies to combat the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
Speech Excerpt: Obama on ISIS Strategy
The president said the United States would lead a coalition against ISIS and laid out the four parts of the strategy.
SWAT: Mission Creep
SWAT teams were created in the 1960s to combat hostage-takings, sniper shootings, and violent unrest. But today they're often used in more controversial police work.
Terrorism Around the World, 50 Years Ago
A look back finds unrest in some unlikely spots, and some likely ones too.
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Recent research suggests fascinating connections between the effects of the psychedelic drug psilocybin and personality traits related to inner experience. Personality appears to influence response to psilocybin and psilocybin can promote changes in personality, suggesting a reciprocal relationship. Further research in this area could lead to new insights into the basis of human personality and creativity.
A review of studies on factors affecting response to psilocybin found that after dosage, the strongest predictor of alterations in consciousness was the personality trait of absorption (Studerus, Gamma, Kometer, & Vollenweider, 2012). Absorption is defined as a person's tendency to have episodes of "total" attention where a person's awareness is fully engaged in whatever has their interest. The degree to which people had "mystical" type experiences while on psilocybin was related to their individual proneness to absorption. Absorption is associated with the broader personality trait openness to experience, which relates to a person's receptiveness to new ideas and experiences.
What I found particularly interesting was that another study on psilocybin found that people who had never before taken the drug experienced an enduring increase in their level of openness to experience that was evident more than a year later (MacLean, Johnson, & Griffiths, 2011). In this study, people who experienced what the researchers described as a "complete mystical experience" developed increased openness to experience whereas those who did not have such an experience had no increase in openness. Because absorption is closely related to openness to experience, this suggests that there may be a two-way relationship between openness and mystical experiences associated with psilocybin. That is, people who are more open to their inner experience seem more likely to have a mystical experience and those who have a mystical experience tend to become more open as a result.
There is evidence that individual differences in absorption are associated with particular neurotransmitter receptors that are acted upon by psychedelic drugs such as psilocybin (Ott, Reuter, Hennig, & Vaitl, 2005), which might explain why absorption-prone people are more responsive to the drug's effects. Since psilocybin can apparently cause increases in openness to experience in some people, it seems possible that the drug might permanently increase the sensitivity of these neuroreceptors resulting in associated personality change. This would need to be confirmed by research.
Another intriguing research question concerns what effects increased openness to experience might have. Openness to experience is associated with creativity among other things, so it would be interesting to scientifically examine whether psilocybin use leads to long-term improvements in creativity or other aspects of behaviour associated with openness to experience. In the 1960s many popular musicians experimented with psychedelic drugs such as LSD and this apparently influenced their music. Unfortunately, research into these drugs was effectively banned around this time and only recently has there been a revival of scientific activity in this area. Such research could lead to some intriguing findings about the relationship between the brain, personality, and consciousness.
(via Psychology Today)
Human emotions are highly contagious. Seeing others' emotional expressions such as smiles triggers often the corresponding emotional response in the observer. Such synchronisation of emotional states across individuals may support social interaction: When all group members share a common emotional state, their brains and bodies process the environment in a similar fashion.
Researchers at Aalto University and Turku PET Centre have now found that feeling strong emotions makes different individuals' brain activity literally synchronous.
The results revealed that especially feeling strong unpleasant emotions synchronised brain's emotion processing networks in the frontal and midline regions. On the contrary, experiencing highly arousing events synchronised activity in the networks supporting vision, attention and sense of touch.
Sharing others' emotional states provides the observers a somatosensory and neural framework that facilitates understanding others' intentions and actions and allows to 'tune in' or 'sync' with them. Such automatic tuning facilitates social interaction and group processes, says Adjunct Professor Lauri Nummenmaa from the Aalto University.
The results have major implications for current neural models of human emotions and group behaviour. It also deepens our understanding of mental disorders involving abnormal socioemotional processing, Nummenmaa says.
Participants' brain activity was measured with functional magnetic resonance imaging while they were viewing short pleasant, neutral and unpleasant movies.
(via Medical Xpress)
There are lots of metaphors floating around in creativity. We talk about 'thinking outside the box', 'putting two and two together' and 'seeing both sides of the problem'.
But are these only metaphors or can we boost our creativity by taking them literally? We know our minds interact in all sorts of interesting ways with our bodies, so what if we enacted these metaphors physically?
That's the question Leung et al. (2012) examine in a new study published in the journal Psychological Science. This brings together two of my favourite topics here on PsyBlog: creativity and embodied cognition. Across five studies they tested ways of making people more creative by simply changing postures.
Creative ideas are often arrived at by bringing together two apparently unrelated thoughts. When we can think about a problem in terms of two different sides, we are more likely to find a way to integrate them. This is encapsulated by the phrase "On the one hand…on the other hand…"
So, what if while trying to solve a problem you physically hold up one hand followed by the other? Might this send a signal to the unconscious to encourage it to consider the problem from more than one angle?
Leung et al. had participants doing this and found that those who gestured with both hands came up with more novel ideas than those who gestured with just one hand.
'Thinking outside the box' is an awfully overused cliché. Nevertheless it does capture the idea that in creativity you have to try and explore new areas.
In their research Leung et al. had participants literally either sitting in boxes or sitting next to boxes while doing creativity tests. Magically just this simple manipulation worked. People quite literally sitting outside the box came up with more ideas than those sitting in the box.
If you don't have a box handy, you might like to try just wandering around randomly, but whatever happens don't walk in a square.
Leung et al. found that people came up with more ideas when they wandered around randomly than when they walked in a square or than when they didn't walk at all.
Not all creative thinking is about plucking amazing ideas out of the ether.
Sometimes we need to do the grunt work of logically fitting together ideas or objects we've already got in front of us. We've got to put two and two together and make sure the answer isn't 17, metaphorically speaking.
This is what psychologists call 'convergent thinking' and it's where we bring our logic, knowledge and skills to bear on a problem.
A fourth study tested the idea that sorting piles of cards from two stacks into one would encourage convergent thinking.
It did. Participants who sorted the cards from two piles into one did better on a test of convergent thinking than those who just fiddled around with the cards in one pile.
Too lazy to get a box or wander around randomly? Then this last study is for you. Here participants either watched a Second Life avatar wandering freely or walking in a square.
According to the results this also worked as those watching the freely wandering avatar came up with more unconventional ideas for gifts than those watching the square-walking avatar.
This one is cool because it shows that the postures aren't as important as the state of mind that they encourage. The mere suggestion that someone might adopt these postures was enough to cue a more creative state of mind.
This new research joins previous studies which have suggested that simple postures can affect creativity.
In one study people lying down were better at solving anagrams (Lipnicki & Byrne, 2005); in another their concentration was boosted by wearing a white coat. And another used mind-body dissonance—e.g. thinking an unhappy thought while smiling—to boost creativity (How To Promote Visionary Thinking).
All of these studies show how the position of our bodies feeds back into the state of our minds. And it also shows how deeply metaphors are planted in our consciousness.
Related Reading: 10 Simple Postures That Boost Performance
(via PsyBlog)
Stress management techniques can have a host of health benefits such as better mood and lower blood pressure, but relaxation response techniques may also alter the body at a deep, fundamental level — by influencing the expression of certain genes. Harvard Medical School's recently updated Special Health Report Stress Management: Approaches for Preventing and Reducing Stress explains how this is possible and also how a person can learn to identify stress warning signs and develop new tools to better manage stressful situations.
The genetic changes associated with the relaxation response were identified several years ago. A study examined the effects of the relaxation response on certain sets of genes and found that the relaxation response can turn certain genes on and off. The genes were involved with controlling how the body handles free radicals, inflammation processes, and cell death. While further research is needed to confirm these findings, the study has enhanced the credibility of the connection between mind and body, and could have important implications for how diseases are treated.
The study compared the activity of genes — whether the genes were being activated or suppressed—in 19 healthy adults who were long-term users of relaxation techniques and in 19 healthy adults who hadn't used relaxation techniques. Those who used relaxation techniques used a variety of methods—such as meditation, yoga, breath focus, or repetitive prayer. The researchers found that the activity of certain genes differed between these two groups. In order for the genetic changes to persist, relaxation response techniques have to be done regularly.
(via Harvard Medical)
For thousands of years, human beings have looked down on their emotions. We've seen them as primitive passions, the unfortunate legacy of our animal past. When we do stupid things – say, eating too much cake, or sleeping with the wrong person, or taking out a subprime mortgage – we usually blame our short-sighted feelings. People commit crimes of passion. There are no crimes of rationality.
This bias against feeling has led people to assume that reason is always best. When faced with a difficult dilemma, most of us believe that it's best to carefully assess our options and spend a few moments consciously deliberating the information. Then, we should choose the alternative that best fits our preferences. This is how we maximize utility; rationality is our Promethean gift.
But what if this is all backwards? What if our emotions know more than we know? What if our feelings are smarter than us?
While there is an extensive literature on the potential wisdom of human emotion – David Hume was a prescient guy – it's only in the last few years that researchers have demonstrated that the emotional system (aka Type 1 thinking) might excel at complex decisions, or those involving lots of variables. If true, this would suggest that the unconscious is better suited for difficult cognitive tasks than the conscious brain, that the very thought process we've long disregarded as irrational and impulsive might actually be more intelligent, at least in some conditions.
The latest demonstration of this effect comes from the lab of Michael Pham at Columbia Business School. The study involved asking undergraduates to make predictions about eight different outcomes, from the Democratic presidential primary of 2008 to the finalists of American Idol. They forecast the Dow Jones and picked the winner of the BCS championship game. They even made predictions about the weather.
Here's the strange part: although these predictions concerned a vast range of events, the results were consistent across every trial: people who were more likely to trust their feelings were also more likely to accurately predict the outcome. Pham's catchy name for this phenomenon is the emotional oracle effect.
Consider the results from the American Idol quiz: while high-trust-in-feelings subjects correctly predicted the winner 41 percent of the time, those who distrusted their emotions were only right 24 percent of the time. The same lesson applied to the stock market, that classic example of a random walk: those emotional souls made predictions that were 25 percent more accurate than those who aspired to Spock-like cognition.
What explains these paradoxical results? The answer involves processing power. In recent years, it's become clear that the unconscious brain is able to process vast amounts of information in parallel, thus allowing it to analyze large data sets without getting overwhelmed. (Human reason, in contrast, has a very strict bottleneck and can only process about four bits of data at any given moment.) But this raises the obvious question: how do we gain access to all this analysis, which by definition is taking place outside of conscious awareness?
Here's where emotions come in handy. Every feeling is like a summary of data, a quick encapsulation of all the information processing that we don't have access to. (As Pham puts it, emotions are like a "privileged window" into the subterranean mind.) When it comes to making predictions about complex events, this extra information is often essential. It represents the difference between an informed guess and random chance.
How might this work in everyday life? Let's say, for example, that you're given lots of information about how twenty different stocks have performed over a period of time. (The various share prices are displayed on a ticker tape at the bottom of a television screen, just as they appear on CNBC.) You'll soon discover that you have difficulty remembering all the financial data. If somebody asks you which stocks performed the best, you'll probably be unable to give a good answer. You can't process all the information. However, if you're asked which stocks trigger the best feelings – your emotions are now being quizzed – you will suddenly be able to identify the best stocks. According to Tilmann Betsch, the psychologist who performed this clever little experiment, your feelings will "reveal a remarkable degree of sensitivity" to the actual performance of all of the different securities. The investments that rose in value will be associated with the most positive emotions, while the shares that went down in value will trigger a vague sense of unease.
But this doesn't meant we can simply rely on every fleeting whim. The subjects had to absorb all that ticker-tape data, just as Pham's volunteers seemed to only benefit from the emotional oracle effect when they had some knowledge of the subject. If they weren't following college football, then their feelings weren't helpful predictors of the BCS championship game.
The larger lesson, then, is that our emotions are neither stupid nor omniscient. They are imperfect oracles. Nevertheless, a strong emotion is a reminder that, even when we think we know nothing, our brain knows something. That's what the feeling is trying to tell us.
(via Wired)
Underground neuropharmacologist discusses his phantom limb inspired work with dissociative designer drugs.
There are medicinal chemists who work on an unseen side of the pharmaceutical industry. Like their legally sanctioned counterparts, they work to synthesize drugs they hope will produce therapeutic effects in their users. But they do not work with billion-dollar budgets or advertising agencies; doctors are not bribed to distribute their products with ergonomic pens or fine terrycloth beach towels. Their advertising comes solely from word of mouth and semicautionary articles like the one you are about to read.
The creation of these chemicals is an extraordinary feat of interdisciplinarity; often the pharmacologist, the chemist, the posologist, the toxicologist, and the experimental animal are all the same human being. This is the way drugs have been developed since the beginning of medical history—it is only in recent years that the practice of self-experimentation has become stigmatized, and accordingly these experimenters, like M., must remain shrouded in mystery.
M. is one of the most respected chemists in his underground field. Singlehandedly, he has popularized and discovered numerous novel drugs for gray-market distribution. His most recent investigation of ketamine and its chemical variations produced a new dissociative anesthetic named methoxetamine, which has recently made its way into the nostrils and anuses of lay experimenters worldwide. Methoxetamine is an exemplary product of rational drug discovery; each of its atoms is the result of arduous study and consideration, all created independently on a minuscule budget. But the success of drugs like methoxetamine does not entail great profits for their inventors. Indeed, it is they who wring their hands most over the unknown fate of the chemicals they conceive. Herein we shall explore the great bioethical quandary faced by the underground medicinal chemist.
How did your interest in the chemistry of dissociatives begin?
Well, when I was a young boy, only 13, I was badly hurt in an IRA bombing in London. My left hand had to be amputated after the explosion, and I knew I'd lived through a psychological stress that most people cannot even conceive. I would definitely say this triggered my interest in altered states. When you lose a limb, especially when the limb is exposed to serious trauma before the loss, there is a significant chance you'll be left with an agonizing phantom limb.
Right, treatment for phantom limb has been one of the great riddles of neuroscience. Have you tried Ramachandran's mirror-box therapy?
Oh yes, I've read Phantoms in the Brain and tried an awful lot of things. It's a complete bastard to treat. God knows how many drugs I've been prescribed. Antidepressants, anti-epileptics, muscle relaxants—none of them really worked. For the worst excesses of phantom-limb pain, traditional painkillers like opiates don't even touch it. You might as well not even bother with them. I was prescribed high doses of pethidine [also known as Demerol] but returned the bottle to my doctor because it wasn't doing me any good whatsoever. When I came back, my doctor was agog. He said, "Nobody returns pethidine!" The pain involved can be so bad as to effectively detach your mind from consensus reality. Without suitable analgesia I end up looking like a psychiatric inmate, just rocking backward and forward, unable to do anything, sometimes for more than a day. All that considered, anything that does work is an absolute godsend.
And what works?
I discovered a long time ago that ketamine and cannabinoids helped my phantom hand. I'm quite convinced these classes work by distorting body image so severely that you phase out triggers for the pain. I have experienced profound proprioceptive distortions after intramuscular PCP injection, as if my whole body were a proportional model of the sensory homunculus. But in a sense, what I feel is not hallucination or a distortion, I actually find dissociatives corrective, that is, they make the phantom disappear. This is not just an idiosyncratic response on my part; there are at least three articles published on the effectiveness of ketamine in treating phantom-limb pain…
Shown here are the effects of psilocybin that the researchers observed. Regions labeled in blue indicate a decrease in brain activity. Many people have either had or heard of mind-bending experiences attributable to psilocybin — so if you or someone you know has experimented with mushrooms, the fact that the researchers' observations reflected a decrease in brain activity during a trip will probably strike you as odd. What's going on here, man?
"Psychedelics are thought of as 'mind-expanding' drugs, so it has commonly been assumed that they work by increasing brain activity. Surprisingly, we found that psilocybin actually caused activity to decrease in areas that have the densest connections with other areas."
Did you catch that? The most important thing to take away from this study isn't the fact that brain activity decreased, it's where the activity decreased. The greatest dips in activity were observed in regions of the brain known as the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the anterior and posterior cingulate cortices (ACC and PCC, respectively). And as if that wasn't enough, the researchers' findings also suggest that psilocybin takes its disabling effects one step further by disrupting connections between the mPFC and PCC.
You can think of your mPFC, PCC, and a third region of your brain called the thalamus, as transportation hubs that coordinate the flow of information throughout your brain. Decreased activity within and between the brain's hubs allows for "an unconstrained style of cognition."
What the hell does that mean? Mo Costandi fleshes things out for us, with a little help from Aldous Huxley:
In his 1954 book The Doors of Perception, novelist Aldous Huxley, who famously experimented with psychedelics, suggested that the drugs produce a sensory deluge by opening a "reducing valve" in the brain that normally acts to limit our perceptions.
The new findings are consistent with this idea, and with the free-energy principle of brain function developed by Karl Friston of University College London that states that the brain works by constraining our perceptual experiences so that its predictions of the world are as accurate as possible.
(via io9)
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Why We Need To Start Taking Magic Mushrooms Seriously
Psilocybin. It's the psychoactive substance in those "sacred mushrooms" that causes hallucinations and other novel mental experiences. The effects of those mushrooms have been explored and appreciated by members of the ancient Capsian culture in North Africa, Aztec shamans, and modern college students. But they're now the subject of serious study by scientists.
A team from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine recently published results from a roughly year-long experiment. The researchers worked with 18 volunteers who were given pure psilocybin to measure how it affected people and how different dosages changed the experience. The subjects were screened for psychological health and given the drug in a pleasant environment, after preparatory guidance. They even had a soundtrack consisting of "classical and world music chosen to complement the arc of the psilocybin action, from onset, through the peak of the effects, and subsiding back to baseline."
The results? At high dosages people occasionally experienced fear, anxiety, or delusions. But the negative effects of those "bad trips" were easily mitigated by the reassuring researchers and didn't outlast the session. At more moderate doses, the results were almost unambiguously positive. Moreover, people didn't just appreciate the experience as fun; they found it spiritually meaningful, with lasting benefits.
As a piece on Newswise explains:
Looking back over a year later, most of the experiment's 18 volunteers (94 percent) rated a psilocybin session as among the top five most or as the topmost spiritually significant experience of his or her life. […] Most volunteers (89 percent) also reported positive changes in their behaviors, and those reports were corroborated by family members or others, the researchers say. The behavior changes most frequently cited were improved relationships with family and others, increased physical and psychological self-care, and increased devotion to spiritual practice.
Reading the volunteers' first-hand reports of how the experiences affected them is a testament to their value. "More and more, sensuality and compassion and gratitude continue to unfold around me." "I try to judge less and forgive more." "I feel that I relate better in my marriage. There is more empathy." "I need less food to make me full. My alcohol use has diminished dramatically."
I'm not saying we should all start doing mushrooms. These were carefully measured doses, taken in a setting designed to be comfortable and supportive. There are certainly situations in which it would be dangerous or irresponsible to take psilocybin.
But these results illustrate the artificial dichotomy between medicine and recreational drugs in America. Stateside, Prozac is regarded as medicine, but psilocybin is a schedule 1 controlled substance like heroin. Americans assume that if some substance is made by nature instead of Eli Lilly, it can't be medicine. But if psilocybin has true psychiatric and emotional benefits, what's the difference? Sure, you can have a bad experience with psilocibin, but antidepressents like Prozac have been linked to suicidal thoughts, and it's hard to imagine a worse side effect than that. We also think that if a drug is used for fun, there must be something bad about it. But Vicodin and OxyContin are all still on the market. There are plenty of FDA-approved drugs that get used (and abused) recreationally.
We should aim to evaluate any drug objectively, whether it's made by an enormous pharmaceutical company or grows in the forest. If an engineered antidepressant generated reports like those from the volunteers in this study, it would be regarded as a breakthrough in psychiatric medicine.
(via GOOD)
The scientists found that the slow waves that characterize sleep didn't occur throughout the brain. In fact, they found that only local clusters of neurons switched voltage in a slow pattern. From time to time, the clusters would crackle and shift to a faster frequency—in effect, waking up. When EEGs pick up slow sleep waves, Tononi and his colleagues found, only a third of the brain was actually participating in the event. Tononi has thus found a shocking symmetry: parts of our brain sleep when we're awake, and parts of our brain are awake while we sleep.
A new study finds that young children are less likely to help a person after seeing that person harm or intend to harm someone else. The study placed nearly 100 German 3-year-olds in scenarios where they observed an adult help, harm, intend to harm, or accidentally harm another. The children were less likely to subsequently help that adult in a game if the adult had harmed or intended to harm another person in the initial scenario.
Young children's helpfulness is tempered when they see that the person they intend to help has harmed another person. But it also diminishes when they see that the object of their attention meant to harm another, even if no harm was done. That's the conclusion of two new studies of 3-year-olds conducted by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. The research appears in the November/December 2010 issue of the journal Child Development. "In finding that children are quite sophisticated and discriminating helpers, our studies show that youngsters are sensitive not only to others' moral behaviors, but also to the intentions behind those behaviors," according to Amrisha Vaish, postdoctoral researcher at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the studies' lead author. Researchers carried out two studies with almost 100 middle-class German 3-year-olds. The children participated in several scenarios in which adult actors carried out various actions involving helpfulness (taping together a drawing that someone else tore), harmfulness (tearing another person's drawing), intentions to harm (wanting to but not being able to tear another person's drawing), and accidental harmfulness (accidentally tearing another's drawing). The adults then began playing a game; children's helpfulness was gauged by whether or not they gave the adults a game piece they were missing. The studies found that the children helped an adult less not only when they saw that the person harmed another person, but also when they saw that the person intended to harm another person without causing actual harm. When the adult was helpful and when he or she accidentally caused harm, the children were helpful, too. This suggests that children are sensitive not only to others' moral behaviors, but also to the intentions behind them. The research sheds light on our understanding of children's moral development. And it raises questions about our assumptions that young children are not discriminating helpers, but help everyone in the same way. (via ScienceDaily)
Young children's helpfulness is tempered when they see that the person they intend to help has harmed another person. But it also diminishes when they see that the object of their attention meant to harm another, even if no harm was done.
That's the conclusion of two new studies of 3-year-olds conducted by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.
The research appears in the November/December 2010 issue of the journal Child Development.
"In finding that children are quite sophisticated and discriminating helpers, our studies show that youngsters are sensitive not only to others' moral behaviors, but also to the intentions behind those behaviors," according to Amrisha Vaish, postdoctoral researcher at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the studies' lead author.
Researchers carried out two studies with almost 100 middle-class German 3-year-olds. The children participated in several scenarios in which adult actors carried out various actions involving helpfulness (taping together a drawing that someone else tore), harmfulness (tearing another person's drawing), intentions to harm (wanting to but not being able to tear another person's drawing), and accidental harmfulness (accidentally tearing another's drawing). The adults then began playing a game; children's helpfulness was gauged by whether or not they gave the adults a game piece they were missing.
The studies found that the children helped an adult less not only when they saw that the person harmed another person, but also when they saw that the person intended to harm another person without causing actual harm. When the adult was helpful and when he or she accidentally caused harm, the children were helpful, too. This suggests that children are sensitive not only to others' moral behaviors, but also to the intentions behind them.
The research sheds light on our understanding of children's moral development. And it raises questions about our assumptions that young children are not discriminating helpers, but help everyone in the same way.
(via ScienceDaily)
Activation of a default mode network (DMN) including frontal and parietal midline structures varies with cognitive load, being more active during low-load tasks and less active during high-load tasks requiring executive control. Meditation practices entail various degrees of cognitive control. Thus, DMN activation patterns could give insight into the nature of meditation practices. This 10-week random assignment study compared theta2, alpha1, alpha2, beta1, beta2 and gamma EEG coherence, power, and eLORETA cortical sources during eyes-closed rest and Transcendental Meditation (TM) practice in 38 male and female college students, average age 23.7 years. Significant brainwave differences were seen between groups. Compared to eyes-closed rest, TM practice led to higher alpha1 frontal log-power, and lower beta1 and gamma frontal and parietal log-power; higher frontal and parietal alpha1 interhemispheric coherence and higher frontal and frontal-central beta2 intrahemispheric coherence. eLORETA analysis identified sources of alpha1 activity in midline cortical regions that overlapped with the DMN. Greater activation in areas that overlap the DMN during TM practice suggests that meditation practice may lead to a foundational or 'ground' state of cerebral functioning that may underlie eyes-closed rest and more focused cognitive processes.
How do children understand fantasy-reality distinctions? Better than we had assumed. A fascinating study.
via @TheSocialBrain
ENCODE (Encyclopedia Of DNA Elements), a massive database cataloging the human genome's functional elements, including genes, RNA transcripts, and other products, has been created by an international team of researchers, with principal investigators at Penn State University and HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology.
ENCODE is being made available as an open resource to the scientific community, classrooms, science writers, and the public. It provides an overview of the team's ongoing efforts to interpret the human genome sequence, as well as a user's guide for accessign the vast amounts of data and resources produced so far by the project.
ENCODE comes on the heels of the now-complete Human Genome Project, the 13-year effort aimed at identifying all the approximately 20,000 to 25,000 genes in human DNA, which used open-source data sharing to further scientific discovery and public understanding of science.
Scientists with the ENCODE Project are applying up to 20 different tests in 108 commonly used cell lines to compile the data. The ENCODE User's Guide also explains how to apply the data to interpret the human genome.
The ENCODE project adds data such as where RNA is produced from our DNA, where proteins bind to DNA, and where parts of our DNA are augmented by additional chemical markers. These proteins and chemical additions are keys to understanding how different cells within our bodies are interpreting the language of DNA.
The researchers say that the ENCODE data can be immediately useful in interpreting associations between disease and DNA sequences that can vary from person to person (single nucleotide polymorphisms). For example, scientists know that DNA variants located upstream of a gene called MYC are associated with multiple cancers, but until recently the mechanism behind this association was a mystery.
"Very few proteins and other DNA products differ in any fundamental way between humans and chimps," says principal investigator Ross Hardison. "The important difference between us and our close cousins lies in gene expression — the basic level at which genes give rise to traits such as eye color, height, and susceptibility to a particular disease. ENCODE is helping to map the very proteins involved in gene regulation and gene expression. The User's Guide not only explains how to find the data, but also explains how to apply the data to interpret the human genome."
Ref.: Peter B. Becker, Academic Editor, A User's Guide to the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE), PLoS Biology (open access), April 19, 2011
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Tools to facilitate data use at: http://encodeproject.org

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Dr. Shiel Gives Perspectives Of Interest On Arthritis Drugs & New Medications From 2001 Annual Scientific Meeting Of The American College Of Rheumatology
Below are perspectives on key reports presented at the recent national meeting of the American College of Rheumatology:
Scientists throughout the world are studying many promising areas of new treatment approaches for arthritis and rheumatic diseases. These areas include monoclonal antibody therapy that is directed against a special inflammation factor called the tumor necrosis factor (TNFalpha) (as described below regarding Remicade and Enbrel), and new TNF human antibodies. Also, new non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), with mechanisms of action that are different from current drugs, are on the horizon. Genetic research and engineering are also likely to bring forth many new avenues of earlier diagnosis and treatment in the near future.
Below are perspectives on key reports presented at the recent national meeting of the American College of Rheumatology:
Remicade (infliximab) is an antibody that blocks the effects of tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF-alpha). TNF-alpha is a substance made by cells of the body that has an important role in promoting inflammation. By blocking the action of TNF-alpha, infliximab reduces the signs and symptoms of inflammation.
Remicade was a topic in over 100 papers presented at the meeting, most of which related to rheumatoid arthritis. Remicade, an approved treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, is given by intravenous infusion every 2 months.
Researchers at this meeting reported Remicade to be effective and safe in treating rheumatoid arthritis. Some reported an 80% significant response rate in the first year of use.
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: This is my experience with this medication, which is very effective in calming the pain, stiffness, and swelling from the inflammation due to arthritis in a high percentage of patients.
It was also reported by researchers from the Netherlands that a combination of Remicade/methotrexate prevents structural damage to the joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, regardless of whether or not the patient was feeling better!
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: The fact that blocking TNF with drugs like Remicade and Enbrel stops disease progression has already been shown. The interesting point of this study is that they seem to prevent joint damage irrespective of whether patients' signs and symptoms of arthritis were improving. This seems to imply that the drug has an essential effect in stopping the rheumatoid disease.
Remicade or Enbrel treatments resulted in the increased ability of patients to work.
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: While it seems patently logical that controlling a disease that results in loss of function would help people return to the work place, it is good to see it documented.
Remicade was also effective for treating juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, thereby resulting in a significant and prompt reduction in disease activity and improved quality of life. Another paper presented data demonstrating that doses of Remicade that are higher than currently recommended doses could be effective and necessary in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis.
Dr. Shiel's Perspective: This does not surprise me since it is the same situation for adults with rheumatoid arthritis.
Remicade treatment allowed for the reduction in the use of simultaneous arthritis medications over time in 40% of patients. In fact, in many instances, patients were able to fully withdraw from other medications to the use of Remicade alone. This included tapering completely off of steroids (such as prednisone) and methotrexate.


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2) A popular character in the video game, Killer Instinct.
2) A popular character in the video game, Killer Instinct.
JAGO Productions, LLC are the creators of great independent films.
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Addison police are looking for a man who stabbed his wife and the Good Samaritan who saved her.
The family of the Good Samaritan contacted FOX4 News with details on how the man may have prevented the murder of the mother.
On Wednesday, May 8th, Martin Robison, 34, was in the process of taking his 7-year-old daughter to school when he saw his neighbor being attacked at his apartment complex. Addison police said Robert Pineda, 27, was caught stabbing his wife, 21-year-old Leticia Velasquez 17 times.
When Robison intervened, Velasquez ran to safety. Robison's wife Nattnoi answered her door to find her own daughter screaming and Velasquez bleeding profusely. She looked across the parking lot to see her husband lying in the parking lot.
"I just tell my husband please baby don't move everything will be fine," said Nattnoi Robison.
Police say the stabbing suspect Robert Pineda is still on the run and could be in the Houston area.
"We need justice. This is just not fair. I love him and the worst thing is my daughter saw everything about her daddy," said Nattnoi Robison.
Not fair in part because these families were friends. Nattnoi would baby sit for Velasquez who'd just dropped off her 4-year-old daughter with Nattnoi moments before the attack. Nattnoi believes Pineda knew that and was waiting for her, not expecting Robison to be close behind.
"He intervened and she's alive and there's a 4-year-old little girl who has a mother now, who probably wouldn't have," said Paul Robison, Martin's father.
Martin Robison remains in ICU at Medical Center of Plano. Of the seven times he was stabbed, three were to the head. As a result of his injuries, he had a stroke over the weekend and developed a blood clot in his lung. Robison's family said there is a chance he could have paralysis on one side of his body.
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WWE released its financial results for the quarter this morning. We'll have an extensive look in the next Observer on it. Revenue was $152.3 million, largely due to WrestleMania. With the show being more successful as far as generating money, the revenue was up from $141.6 million last year.
However, profits declined from $11.9 million in the WrestleMania quarter to $5.2 million. which is a very low figure for what is traditionally the biggest period of the year.
A lot of that was expenses in getting ready for the network and opening up the new performance center. They push that long-term, the performance center will be a major plus when it comes to creating new talent, and that television long-term is strong with the belief they can get significantly higher rights fees when the current U.S. contracts expire.
They did concede that profits in 2013 will be at the lower end of projections from when the year started.
House show attendance was down 2%, but that was impacted by a bigger WrestleMania or the drop would be slightly more. The post-WrestleMania European tour was up somewhat.
PPV, even with WrestleMania's increased price was down, partially due to cutting back on one PPV, the former Over the Limit show.
PPV total buys for the quarter were:
WrestleMania 1,039,000 - down 15% from last year based on numbers recorded at the same time
Extreme Rules 231,000 - down down 14%
Payback 186,000 - down 4% from No Way Out
Increased television revenue more than offset that, but it's not that revenues are down, but that profits are down.
Again, a lot of that is future investment and PPV and house shows are no longer the main revenue source.
Toy sales were up, but the video game issues that are not the company's fault hurt them. DVD business was down.
Web site business was up 27% to $6.1 million, while merchandise on the web was even.
To fully evaluate the quarter, the key would be costs. For example, in prior quarters there have been increases in PPV and television when it came to revenue, but in spending more to get those increases, profits have been down.
Vince McMahon admitted they were down more than they expected to be, but they are donig a lot of things to prepare for the future, so evaluating certain aspects by just profit/loss may not be fair.
However, the decline in a lot of categories when it comes to selling product to the consumer is real and not something that is a growing pain of building the future.
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|Differential expression of antenna and core genes in Prochlorococcus PCC 9511 (Oxyphotobacteria) grown under a modulated light-dark cycle.
|L. Garczarek1F. Partensky1H. Irlbacher2J. Holtzendorff2M. Babin3I. Mary1J. C. Thomas4W. R. Hess2
|The continuous changes in incident solar light occurring during the day oblige oxyphototrophs, such as the marine prokaryote Prochlorococcus, to modulate the synthesis and degradation rates of their photosynthetic components finely. How this natural phenomenon influences the diel expression of photosynthetic genes has never been studied in this ecologically important oxyphotobacterium. Here, the high light-adapted strain Prochlorococcus sp. PCC 9511 was grown in large-volume continuous culture under a modulated 12 h-12 h light-dark cycle mimicking the conditions found in the upper layer of equatorial oceans. The pcbA gene encoding the major light-harvesting complex showed strong diel variations in transcript levels with two maxima, one before the onset of illumination and the other near the end of the photoperiod. In contrast, the mRNA level of psbA (encoding the reaction centre II subunit D1), the monocistronic transcript of psbD (encoding D2) and the dicistronic transcript of psbDC were all tightly correlated with light irradiance, with a minimum at night and a maximum at noon. The occurrence of a second peak during the dark period for the monocistronic transcript of psbC (encoding one of the PS II core Chl a antenna proteins) suggested the involvement of post-transcriptional regulation. Differential expression of the external antenna and core genes may constitute a mechanism of regulation of the antenna size to cope with the excess photon fluxes that Prochlorococcus cells experience in the upper layer of oceans around midday. The 5' ends of all transcripts were mapped, and a conserved motif, 5'-TTGATGA-3', was identified within the putative psbA and pcbA promoters.
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I can imagine the sighs of relief that I have found a new topic. And this is a really (to me, anyway) interesting one. What is the right balance of experience vs data driven science? As medicine increasingly moves towards guidelines and clinical pathways (meaning a map of how to do things), there is less wiggle room for clinicians. One reason that many of us, myself included, like doctors with a little gray in their hair and a few wrinkles on their faces is that they have gained experience and, hopefully, wisdom.
Some people, I know, prefer young doctors, feeling that they are up to date on everything new and more likely to be open to breaking ideas. I don't think that is wrong, but I suspect that the best doctors, whatever their ages, share that willingness. As a parallel, one excellent thing about my own profession is that it helps to have gray in my hair and wrinkles. People are generally reassured that an older clinician has some life experience and balance--as opposed to a really smart 25 year old who just can't have lived enough to truly "get it".
That is background musing to this essay from The Breast about recent experiences at the St Gallen Conference on Early Stage Breast Cancer. This takes place in St Gallen, Switzerland every two years and is a chance for scientists and physicians from all over the world to come together and talk about breast cancer research and care. I suspect that both the dialogue and the surroundings are pretty terrific.
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There are strengths to the focus on clinical expertise and
consensus. St. Gallen has always been a decidedly international
– all the major European countries are represented, along
with Americans, Canadians, and a growing number of Australasian
nations. The simple truth is that there are substantial regional variations
in approaches and access to breast cancer treatments, even
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multigene diagnostic assays vs traditional pathology, it was
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in this case, traditional pathology
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Dunno 'bout the Husky but the LC4 is good for about 120,000km before major maintenance. Top end likes a freshen up at half that, but it's still double the 20,000 mile mark.
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I would totally rather ride a bike that will finish the ride instead of grenade 1/2 way through and have to be towed home by a KLR....now if your ride consists of riding in your back yard..then by all means ride your crackhead. I will take the kawi products and make it back after a LONG day in the saddle.
If you've got enough engine oil to stop it seizing after burning it all, or enough spare shocks because they keep blowing, or the doohickey stays put, or...
To the OP; the KLR engine as has been pointed out doesn't suck that bad compared to similar Jap machinery. But the reason they all suck in HP compared to the KTM LC4 is that the LC4 has all of the previously suggested mods and more - except big-bore kit - done ex-factory. Big valves, ported head, high compression ratio (11.5:1), high rev ceiling, cam profiles/timing, and smaller alternator and one less balance shaft to reduce parasitic losses. I'm "reserving my judgement" on which style is better.
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How Jane Ashley pioneered the image of Laura Ashley in the 1970′s and 80′s
The irrefutably feminine and Victoriana inspired image of Laura Ashley in the 1970′s and 80′s was largely defined by Jane Ashley, Laura Ashley's oldest daughter. Her role as company photographer and art director, shooting everything from the advertising campaigns to instore graphics, brought us the soft distinctive aesthetic that we first fell for in the 70′s and still hold in our memories today.
Jane's pictures captured the rural romantiscm of the brand at the time when our iconic floral frocks and country inspired styles were entirely en vogue.
Photograph by Jane Ashley circa 1973.
Last week we took to the Fashion & Textile Museum in London to celebrate her work and enjoy an insightful talk from Martin Wood (author of the Laura Ashley book) on the history behind Jane's images, from her early work when she not only took the pictures but also styled and modelled the clothes on her very own circle of friends. Bernard Ashley bought Jane her very first camera when she was 19 years old, and after taking photography classes asked her to create some publicity photographs for their expanding number of shops. Jane set off with her best friend, Oriana, as her model to the nearby river Thames where she posed her in a Twenties style dress and shoes. Her creativity later led to a place at Chelsea School of Art where she met punk band The Clash (of whom she is still friends) and Viv Albertine from the Slits, who were later photographed for Laura Ashley and feature in her collection of images on display at The Fashion & Textile Museum today. The images of The Clash and Viv Albertine can be seen in our popular Pimlico range …
Jane Ashley photograph featuring Mick Jones and Paul Simonon from 70's punk band The Clash
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Spicer and Paul at the Southbank 1976. Photograph by Jane Ashley.
After the talk we had a chance to browse her beautiful mainly black and white photographs. Each image in the display is taken from a Laura Ashley campaign and conveys a particular narrative whether set in a Victorian farmhouse, Parisian cafe, Edwardian park or rural 'dustbowl' America…
Photograph by Jane Ashley circa 1973.
We also got to chat to Martin Wood and meet Jane herself, who was accompanied by Laura Ashley's youngest daughter Emma. Tripping over ourselves to get pictures of the guests that turned up wearing vintage Laura Ashley, we were delighted to meet blogger Bree Croon (who blogs about her vintage Laura Ashley dresses on her blog Cabinet of Wonder) and Lily Ashley (Jane's niece) looking a picture of elegance in her Laura Ashley floor length black label dress, which we can only assume has been passed down to her through the Ashley generations.
Jane Ashley smiling at the camera after the talk
Blogger Bree from blog Cabinet Of Wonder
Lily Ashley dressed in vintage Laura Ashley.
Jane Ashley is now showing 'Looking Forward, Looking Back Photographing Laura Ashley' as part of the 'Catwalk to Cover' exhibition at the Fashion & Textile Museum (until the 26th February).
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Some lovely dresses on this blog that I haven't seen before.
Martin Woods rocks…quietly – such a lovely guy and worked so hard on the Laura Ashley Autobiography – love his work. Mortified I missed the exhibition!! Great post by the way.