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What Is a Strength?

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:18:54 GMT

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Clip Source: personaldevelopment.suite101.com

scientists point out that the pre-existing nature of strengths can be seen in an evolutionary sense as part of the natural selection process of human survival.

Though humans no longer are faced with the same survival challenges, the special abilities that allowed early humans to thrive and develop translate to strengths promoting high performance today.

Linley summarizes this evolutionary perspective this way, "...modern strengths can be understood as reconfigurations and re-combinations of the many thousands of adaptive solutions that came about through human evolution, and that exist across all human beings." Adaptive solutions to the obstacles of early human survival therefore form the basis for modern-day strengths.

Random Events provide a person with circumstances and situations requiring solutions. Addressing these situations allows a person to grow latent strengths and extend existing strengths to previously untouched areas of accomplishment.

Army survival Guide

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 22:02:35 GMT

clipped by: ChaosSyren
clipper's remarks: little things all should know. You never know when you may need it.

Clip Source: www.doverpublications.com

From: Survival Handbook: The Official U.S. Army Guide

Learning How Not To Be Afraid

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:35:41 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: When Kandel's team used radiation to blunt the birth of new cells in the dentate gyrus, they discovered that their interventions both slowed safety learning and stunted the antidepressant effects of learned safety.

Another study that points to the origin of fear as a biological entity. the glitch is it turning into anxiety.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Learning How Not To Be Afraid

experiments in which they conditioned mice to feel safe in stressful situations

The behavioral changes observed in the mice squelched anxiety as effectively as antidepressant drugs

The new study is noteworthy because it reveals in elegant detail how behavioral conditioning can affect the brain.

Two types of fear, instinctive and learned, have deep evolutionary roots and are essential for survival.

But in some people, pathological forms of learned fear can lead to debilitating anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress syndrome, or depression

"The ability to identify, develop, and exploit conditions of safety and security is central to survival and mental health

taught mice to associate a specific audible tone with protection from an impending averse event

We found that the mice trained for safety could overcome their sense of hopelessness in the swim test

conditioned for safety had a greater number of newborn cells in the dentate gyrus

Tags: fear, neuroscience

Squirrels for Obama

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:31:20 GMT

clipped by: Eaglewings

Clip Source: eagleviews.org

Other than voting for Obama what else do squirrels and Obama have in common?

The both like nuts-Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Father Fleager, Saul Alinski
The gathering of nuts are for use at a later time- When Obama finally gets into office he can repay all these nuts with political favors or give them staff positions in his administration.
He gathers for his own purposes and use not to be shared with others
The gathering of these nuts are for survival and self preservation- the squirrel eats them Obama uses them to promote his political aspirations
Attacks when cornered by clawing and biting- Whenever Obama is asked about his nut gathering he goes on the attack
Runs away from confrontation- When you attempt to catch a squirrel he quickly runs away and hides.

And the number one thing squirrels and Obama have in common:

7. THEY BOTH ADORE ACORNs- Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now which isÂ Â Â Â currently under federal investigation for voter fraud

Tags: obama, squirrel, nuts

Oct 5-14, 2008: Global Partnership on Cities and Biodiversity

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:08:47 GMT

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Clip Source: www.countdown2010.net

IUCN World Conservation Congress witnesses launch of the Global Partnership on Cities and Biodiversity

7 October 2008, Barcelona (Spain) Last year was a special year in human history. For the first time, the world became essentially an urban planet with a majority of its population living in cities, a proportion deemed to increase by 2/3 within 50 years. Urban areas cover only 2% of the land surface, cities and their residents consume up to 75% of the Earth resources.

Urbanization is proceeding at high speed in different parts of the world and is affecting the environment at all scales.

Tags: biodiversity, environment, sustainability, survival

Blest Be the Tie That Binds

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:40:02 GMT

clipped by: revtj
clipper's remarks: A testimony of the experience of National Gathering of UCC Coalition for LGBT Concerns in Dallas June 2008. We met alongside The Fellowship and MCC sisters & brothers.

Clip Source: www.ucccoalition.org

Seafarers and fishermen of old knew the pragmatic use of a knot. It was tied a certain way to steer the boat, to weather the storm and meet the resistance of the wind and waves. In a storm in the night a properly tied knot can mean survival on board. There are dozens of knots in ancient lore, each having its own spiritual, pragmatic significance. I believe our knots symbolized a covenant of survival.

Tags: mcc, fellowship, mcgiffert., ucc coalition, lgbt christian unity

Female Fighters: We Won't Stand for Male Dominance

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 06:13:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks:

Back in 1998, the fighters say, their now-jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan declared the group "a women's party." It was initially difficult to accept, says Karim, a 42-year-old male member of the PKK.

Today, the PKK's ideology revolves around a belief that global crises and injustice are a result of millennia of male-dominated rule. Here, the women run their own assaults and have their own command structure. All tasks are shared, both on and off the battlefield. Discipline is paramount to survival, they say, and weapons are always clean and never out of reach.

Clip Source: www.cnn.com

Female fighters: We won't stand for male dominance

QANDIL MOUNTAINS, Iraq (CNN) -- The women line the mountainside, locked hand in hand in their green battle fatigues, and begin dancing. It's a victory dance, they say, that is routine after raids across the border on Turkish troops.

"We want a natural life, a society that revolves around women -- one where women and men are equal, a society without pressure, without inequality, where all differences between people are eliminated," says Rengin, the head of a female battalion of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK.

"Women grow up enslaved by society. The minute you are born as a girl, society inhibits you," she says. "We've gone to war with that. If I am a woman, I need to be known by the strength of my womanhood, to get respect. Those are my rights. And it was hard for the men to accept this." See photos of women with guns in mountain enclave »

Tags: women, war, pkk, turkey, ocalan

Lung cancer funding lags

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:58:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Just another example of how the government wastes money where it is not needed. Breast cancer, in which there is already a ~90% 5 year survival rate, gets way more funding than lung cancer, for which the 5 year survival rate is 15%.

Clip Source: well.blogs.nytimes.com

Cancer (Deaths)	N.C.I. Funding per Death
Lung (162,460)	$1,630
Colon (55,170)	$4,566
Breast (41,430)	$13,452
Pancreas (32,300 )	$2,297
Prostate (27,350)	$11,298

Cancer (New cases)	N.C.I. Funding per New Case
Prostate (234,460)	$1,318
Breast (214,640)	$2,596
Lung (174,470)	$1,518
Colon (106,680)	$2,361
Pancreas (33,730)	$2,200

Breast Cancer Cells Recycle To Escape Death By Hormonal Therapy

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:51:34 GMT

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Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

ScienceDaily (Oct. 5, 2008) — Many breast cancer cells facing potentially lethal antiestrogen therapy recycle to survive, researchers say.

About 70 percent of breast cancer cells have receptors for the hormone estrogen, which acts as a nutrient and stimulates their growth. Patients typically get an antiestrogen such as tamoxifen for five years to try to starve them to death, says Dr. Patricia V. Schoenlein, cancer researcher in the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies.

"About 50 to 60 percent of these women really benefit from hormonal therapy," says Dr. Schoenlein. Why others don't has been asked for at least two decades.

One reason may be breast cancer cells switch into a survival mode that normal cells also use when faced with starvation, according to research published in the September issue of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics.

It's called macroautophagy – autophagy means "self eating"

– and within a week, breast cancer cells can reorganize component parts,

Tags: medicine

Don't Stress! Bacterial Cell's 'Crisis Command Center' Revealed

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:17:22 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver
clipper's remarks: If a bacteria cell finds itself in a dangerous situation - for example, if the temperature or saltiness of the bacteria's environment reach dangerous levels which threaten the survival of the bacteria -a warning signal from the cell's surface is transmitted into the cell.

Using cutting edge electron microscopy imaging techniques the authors of the new research observed that the stressosomes receive this warning signal, and in response several proteins called RSBT break away from the large stressosome. This breakaway triggers a cascade of signals within the cell which results in over 150 proteins being produced - proteins which enable the cell to adapt, react and survive in its new environment.

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

A bacteria cell's 'crisis command centre' has been observed for the first time swinging into action to protect the cell from external stress and danger, according to new research published in Science.

The research team behind today's study says that finding out exactly how bacteria respond and adapt to stresses and dangers is important because it will further their understanding of the basic survival mechanisms of some of the most resilient, hardy organisms on Earth.

The crisis command centre in certain bacteria cells is a large molecule, dubbed a 'stressosome' by the scientists behind today's research. These cells have around 20 stressosomes floating around inside them, and although scientists knew they played an important role in the cell's response to stressful situations, the complexities of this process had not been fully understood until now.

Tags: molecular biology, bacteriology

Breast Cancer Cells Recycle To Escape Death By Hormonal Therapy

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:20:27 GMT

clipped by: Kelika
clipper's remarks: "She'll now look for ways to block macroautophagy in an animal model, including using chloroquine, a drug used to treat malaria. "We know patients can take it with few side effects," she says. If it works in animals, the drug, in combination with an antiestrogen, could move relatively quickly into human testing."

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

"About 50 to 60 percent of these women really benefit from hormonal therapy," says Dr. Schoenlein. Why others don't has been asked for at least two decades.

One reason may be breast cancer cells switch into a survival mode that normal cells also use when faced with starvation,

It's called macroautophagy – autophagy means "self eating" – and within a week, breast cancer cells can reorganize component parts, degrade non-essentials and live in this state until antiestrogen therapy is stopped or the cells mutate and resume proliferation in the presence of tamoxifen.

Tags: cancer

Has Sarah Palin Been Picked as the Titular Head of the Coming Police State?

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:51:40 GMT

clipped by: LoPhatt

Clip Source: www.globalresearch.ca

What's the plan? It is this. McCain doesn't matter. Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and life-threatening form of skin cancer. It is the elephant in the room, but we must discuss the health of the candidates: doctors put survival rates for someone his age at two to four years. I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be the talk show hostess for the end of elections as we know them. If McCain-Palin get in, this will be the last true American election. She will be working for Halliburton, KBR, Rove and Cheney into the foreseeable future -- for a decade perhaps -- a puppet "president" for the same people who have plundered our treasure, are now holding the US economy hostage and who murdered four thousand brave young men and women in a way of choice and lies.

"People have found other ways to be cooperative – without God."

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:39:27 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: The study also points out that in today's world religion has no monopoly on kind and generous behaviour. In many findings, non-believers acted as prosocially as believers. The last several hundred years has seen the rise of non-religious institutional mechanisms that include effective policing, courts and social surveillance.

Very interesting read, on the social function of god.
maybe we can say that JC, Moses and the like are history social workers

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Religion Makes People Helpful And Generous -- Under Certain Conditions

"The Origin and Evolution of Religious Prosociality" appears in the October 3, 2008 issue of the journal Science.

explore how religion, by encouraging cooperation, became a factor in making possible the rise of large and stable societies made of genetically unrelated individuals.

The investigators found complementary results across the disciplines:

Empirical data within anthropology suggests there is more cooperation among religious societies than the non-religious, especially when group survival is under threat

Economic experiments indicate that religiosity increases levels of trust among participants

Psychology experiments show that thoughts of an omniscient, morally concerned God reduce levels of cheating and selfish behaviour

notion of an all-powerful, morally concerned "Big God" usually begat "Big groups" –large-scale, stable societies that successfully passed on their cultural beliefs.

Tags: religion, society, cooperation

The dog's masters

Sat, 04 Oct 2008 14:15:09 GMT

clipped by: rhianna

Clip Source: www.pieterhugo.com

In Abuja we found them living on the periphery of the city in a shantytown - a group of men, a little girl, three hyenas, four monkeys and a few rock pythons. It turned out that they were a group of itinerant minstrels, performers who used the animals to entertain crowds and sell traditional medicines.

Europeans invariably only ask about the welfare of the animals but this question misses the point. Instead, perhaps, we could ask why these performers need to catch wild animals to make a living. Or why they are economically marginalised. Or why Nigeria, the world's sixth largest exporter of oil, is in such a state of disarray.

Clip Source: www.pieterhugo.com

When I asked Nigerians, "How do you feel about the way they treat animals", the question confused people. Their responses always involved issues of economic survival. Seldom did anyone express strong concern for the well-being of the creatures.

Man struck by lightning while pumping gas

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:08:26 GMT

clipped by: rmowery

Clip Source: www.wivb.com

Man struck by lightning while pumping gas

VILLAGE OF BARKER, N.Y. (WIVB) - A man survived being struck by lightning while pumping gas.

Survivor William Hall said, "Everybody tells me I'm lucky, and I feel that way. I really do."

What started as a routine stop for gas, ended in a near death experience for William Hall Wednesday.

"Started pumping the gas, and I seen a very bright orange light, followed by a very bright white light, and then total darkness. I went out," said Hall.

Tags: lightening, strike, survival, lightening strike, luck, high voltage