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Stefan Verstappen and James Corbett
As more and more studies demonstrating the corrosive effect of psychopathy on government, finance, and business emerge, researchers have begun to explore how our society itself has been molded in the psychopaths' image.GRTV 2013-05-06 02:40:00 Now, one of those researchers, Stefan Verstappen, shares his insights on psychopathy in modern culture. This is the GRTV Feature interview on Global Research TV.
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Comment: Stefan Verstappen has also published an excellent video called 'Defense Against the Psychopath':
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Tracy Kitten
Bank Info Security 2013-05-02 17:16:00
Security experts say that OperationUSA, a coordinated online attack against banking and government websites slated for May 7, is a serious threat. As a result, organizations should be upping their distributed-denial-of-service attackmitigation strategies to guard against the attacks, which are being coordinated by the hacktivist group Anonymous. Experts advise that call-center staff should be educated about DDoS attacks, in case customers call in about online outages or experience difficulty accessing accounts. And network and security teams should actively monitor Internet traffic on May 7 and take steps to block specific IP addresses. Anonymous has said the attacks are being waged because of perceived social and political injustices. In an April 21 Pastebin post, it states: "Anonymous will make sure that this May 7th will be a day to remember. On that day Anonymous will start phase one of operation USA. America, you have committed multiple war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and recently you have committed war crimes in your own country." | |
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Ryan Murphy
Carbon Black 2013-05-07 17:04:00
Below is the profane-ridden #OpUSA press release from anonymous hackers N4m3le55 cr3w, posted to Pastebin on April 21: #OpUsa "Greetings Obama and USA citizens. We are the N4m3le55 Cr3w. Anonymous will make sure that's this May 7th will be a day to remember. On that day anonymous will start phase one of operation USA. America you have committed multiple war crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and recently you have committed war crimes in your own country. You have killed hundreds of innocent children and families with drones, guns, and now bombs. America you have hit thousands of people where it hurts them, now it is our time for our Lulz. For this you shall pay. | |
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Shaun Waterman
The Washington Times 2013-05-06 16:15:00
Middle East- and North Africa-based criminal hackers are preparing cyberattacks this week against the websites of high-profile U.S. government agencies, banks and other companies, according to the Department of Homeland Security. The attacks, dubbed #OpUSA, for Operation USA, will begin Tuesday, the department said in a warning bulletin circulated to the private sector last week. The bulletin was first obtained and posted online by blogger and cybercrime expert Brian Krebs. The attacks are called for in the name of Anonymous, the leaderless coalition of hackers whose trademark Guy Fawkes mask has become a global symbol for their anarchistic spirit. | |
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Fars News Agency
2013-05-07 07:34:00
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, while in Shanghai, was given a sharp dressing-down by Russian President Vladimir Putin, a warning that Russia would not tolerate further Israeli attacks on Damascus and would respond. Putin did not say how, but he did announce he had ordered the acceleration of highly advanced Russian weapons supplies to Syria. Israeli Debkafile's military sources disclosed that the Russian leader was referring to S-300 anti-air systems and the nuclear-capable 9K720 Iskander (NATO named SS-26 Stone) surface missiles, which are precise enough to hit a target within a 5-7 meter radius at a distance of 280 kilometers. In his phone call to Netanyahu, the Russian leader advised the prime minister to make sure to keep this in mind. | |
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Glenn Greenwald
Guardian 2013-05-06 11:45:00
No universally applied principle justifies the Israeli attack on Damascus. Only self-flattering tribalism does that On Sunday, Israel dropped massive bombs near Damascus, ones which the New York Times, quoting residents, originally reported (then evidently deleted) resulted in explosions "more massive than anything the residents of the city. . . have witnessed during more than two years of war." The Jerusalem Post this morning quoted "a senior Syrian military source" as claiming that "Israel used depleted uranium shells", though that is not confirmed. The NYT cited a "high-ranking Syrian military official" who said the bombs "struck several critical military facilities in some of the country's most tightly secured and strategic areas" and killed "dozens of elite troops stationed near the presidential palace", while the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that "at least 42 soldiers were killed in the strikes, and another 100 who would usually be at the targeted sites remain unaccounted for." Israeli defenders claim that its air attack targeted weapons provided by Iran that would have ended up in the hands of Hezbollah. Obama officials quickly toldmedia outlets that "the administration is fully supportive of Israel's airstrikes". Indeed, Democratic Sen. Pat Leahy noted: "Keep in mind the Israelis are using weapons supplied by us." There is, needless to say, virtually no condemnation of the Israeli assault in US media or political circles. At this point, the only question is how many minutes will elapse before Congress reflexively adopts a near-unanimous or unanimous resolution effusively praising Israel for the attack and unqualifiedly endorsing all past and future attacks as well. Because people who cheer for military action by their side like to pretend that they're something more than primitive "might-makes-right" tribalists, the claim is being hauled out that Israel's actions are justified by the "principle" that it has the right to defend itself from foreign weapons in the hands of hostile forces. But is that really a "principle" that anyone would apply consistently, as opposed to a typically concocted ad hoc claim to justify whatever the US and Israel do? Let's apply this "principle" to other cases, as several commentators on Twitter have done over the last 24 hours, beginning with this: | |
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Adrian Chen
Gawker 2013-05-06 18:04:00
Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden revenge-porn flick Zero Dark Thirty was the biggest publicity coup for the CIA this century outside of the actual killing of Osama bin Laden. But the extent to which the CIA shaped the film has remained unclear. Now, a memo obtained by Gawker shows that the CIA actively, and apparently successfully, pressured Mark Boal to remove scenes that made them look bad from the Zero Dark Thirty script. The CIA's whitewashing effort is revealed in a cache of documents newly released under a Freedom of Information Act request about the CIA's cooperation with Bigelow and Boal. The documents include a 2012 memo - initially classified "SECRET" - summarizing five conference calls between Boal and the CIA's Office of Public Affairs in late 2011. "The purpose for these discussions was for OPA officers to help promote an appropriate portrayal of the Agency and the Bin Ladin operation," according to the memo. (Hundreds of pages of CIA documents about the film were released last year; the memo obtained by Gawker was approved for release late last month.) During these calls, Boal "verbally shared the screenplay" for Zero Dark Thirty in order to get the CIA's feedback, and the CIA's public affairs department verbally asked Boal to take out parts that they objected to. According to the memo, he did. | |
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Fars News Agency
2013-05-07 03:17:00
The Syrian Army killed a large number of foreign terrorists, including Jordanian and Saudi nationals, in the suburb of the coastal city of Latakia in the Western parts of the country on Tuesday. According to FNA dispatches, the Syrian army destroyed several terrorist bases in Reef (outskirts of) Latakia, including Salma, Tartiah and Kafar Delbeh villages, killing two Jordanian terrorists and several Saudi snipers. During the army operations in al-Dareh and Borj al-Ahrash, a number of foreign terrorists, including the notorious Saudi terrorist, Masha'al al-Saleh, were killed. Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011 with organized attacks by well-armed gangs against Syrian police forces and border guards being reported across the country. | |
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As a gay man living in Brooklyn, 27-year-old Nick Porto constantly looked over his shoulder on his nightly walks home, but he never felt a twinge of fear while spending time in Manhattan. All that changed on Sunday when Porto and his partner, enjoying the warm weather along with the rest of the city, were knocked to the ground and beaten by a crowd of rowdy New York Knicksfans shouting homophobic slurs - in broad daylight, just steps from Madison Square Garden, the victims said. The pair were assaulted by four men on Eighth Avenue, between West 34th and West 35th Street about 5 p.m., cops said - as the Indiana Pacers played the Knicks on Sunday. | |
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A six-year-old Florida girl was in critical condition Sunday after being shot by her 13-year-old brother Saturday night in a city just north of Fort Lauderdale. Neighbors said the two children were playing a game when the shooting occurred shortly before 7 p.m. Saturday in Oakland Park, a city in Broward Country. "They were playing hide and go seek. I don't know how it went down but he shot his sister," said neighbor Peter Milano, who saw a frantic woman he thought was the children's aunt running down the block. | |
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| Secret History |
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Hilda Scott
iTechPost 2013-05-07 15:36:00
Linguists have found a group of words consisting of nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs that date back 15,000 years. The words have remained unchanged and have the same meaning and also sound almost the same as they did at the end of the Ice Age. Words have an expiration date and can't survive more than 8,000 to 9,000 years, according to traditional views. Just as the dinosaurs were driven into extinction, so do words evolve and the adoption of replacements from other languages is introduced. A new study shows that this is not always the case, however, as a team of researchers discovered that there are about two dozen words that have lived 15,000 years. Some of the words, referred to as "ultraconserved words," are predictable, such as "mother," "not," "what," "to hear" and "man." It's suggested that there was a "proto-Eurasiastic" language that was the common ancestor of the native tongues of over half of the people in the world. This "mother language" gave birth to approximately 700 contemporary languages. "We've never heard this language, and it's not written down anywhere. But this ancestral language was spoken and heard. People sitting around campfires used it to talk to each other," evolutionary theorist at the University of Reading in England, Mark Pagel, said. | |
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Brett Smith
RedOrbit 2013-05-07 16:44:00
As concerns over cyber security grow with each newly publicized attack, computer scientists have been pursuing quantum technology as a silver bullet against would-be hackers. According to a groundbreaking announcement, scientists at Los Alamos National Labs in New Mexico have been utilizing a small-scale "quantum internet" for the past two years. Quantum cryptography is possible because of the phenomenon known as quantum entanglement. When two photons become 'entangled,' changing the spin of one of the photons will alter the spin of the other photon almost instantaneously. These entangled photons can be used to create an encryption key that cannot be secretly deciphered, as the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle dictates that simply trying to measure the characteristics of a photon will alter it. For all its promise, computer scientists have only been able to use secure quantum communications with point-to-point communications. This means that messages can only be sent between two parties that each have one of the two entangled photons. Even this type of communication has only been demonstrated over relatively short distances of less than 70 miles. | |
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Charles Q. Choi
OurAmazingPlanet 2013-05-07 15:02:00
All lightning on Earth may have its roots in space, new research suggests. Lightning flashes on Earth about 100 times per second, but what triggerslightning in thunderstorms remains mostly unknown. Especially odd is the fact that decades of analysis suggest electrical fields within thunderclouds have only a tenth or so of the strength needed to spark a lightning bolt. More than 20 years ago, physicist Alex Gurevich at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow suggested lightning might be initiated by cosmic rays from outer space. These particles strike Earth with gargantuan amounts of energy surpassing anything the most powerful atom smashers on the planet are capable of. When cosmic rays slam into air molecules, they can make them spit out huge numbers of electrons. This shower of electrons would collide into still more air molecules, generating more electrons. All in all, cosmic rays could each set off an avalanche of electrons, a chain reaction Gurevich calls a runaway breakdown. | |
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Tia Ghose
LiveScience 2013-05-07 12:02:00
Are you prepared to meet your robot overlords? The idea of superintelligent machines may sound like the plot of The Terminatoror The Matrix, but many experts say the idea isn't far-fetched. Some even thinkthe singularity - the point at which artificial intelligence can match, and then overtake, human smarts - might happen in just 16 years. But nearly every computer scientist will have a different prediction for when and how the singularity will happen. Some believe in a utopian future, in which humans can transcend their physical limitations with the aid of machines. But others think humans will eventually relinquish most of their abilities and gradually become absorbed into artificial intelligence (AI)-based organisms, much like the energy making machinery in our own cells. | |
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eNCA
2013-05-07 00:03:00
Rio de Janeiro - Brazilian geologists on Monday announced the discovery of what could be part of the continent submerged when the Atlantic Ocean was formed as Africa and South America drifted apart 100 million years ago. Roberto Ventura Santos, a top official at Brazil's Geology Service (CPRM), said granite samples were found two years ago during dredging operations in an area known as "Rio Grande Elevation", a mountain range in Brazilian and international waters. Granite is seen as a continental rock. "This could be the Brazilian Atlantis. We are almost certain but we must bolster our hypothesis," said Ventura. "We will have final (scientific) recognition this year when we conduct drilling in the area to retrieve more samples of these rocks." Initially, the scientists thought they were mistaken, Ventura noted. But last month, their case was bolstered when team of Brazilian and Japanese scientists aboard Japan's manned research submersible, Shinkai 6500, observed the underwater geological formation located opposite the Brazilian coast. "From an analysis we began to see that the area could be a piece of the continent that disappeared into the sea millions of years ago," Ventura said. Source: AFP | |
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Steff Gaulter
Al Jazeera 2013-05-03 17:45:00
The country endures the extremes of weather from record breaking snowfall to raging wildfires. The start of May has been a strange one for the USA. It seems that nature can't decide if it's winter or summer. Heavy rain has flooded parts of Key West in southern Florida. Two days of torrential downpours have led to flooding and in the last 24 hours, 109mm more rain fell across the island. The rain has flooded homes and businesses and forced the closure of a number of roads. Whilst rain is the problem in Florida, elsewhere winter is still winning. Heavy snow has smothered parts of the Plains and the Midwest. Some of the worst weather was in the state of Minnesota, where the snow set new records. | |
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IBN Live
2013-05-07 17:31:00
India Meteorological Department (IMD) has said that Rajasthan has been the hottest this season, with Churu recording a maximum of 45 degrees Celsius. Meanwhile, Delhi also hit 44 degrees on May 5. It is not going to get much cooler either, the Met department said that this is normal for summer with temperatures in Delhi to hover between 41 and 42 degrees Celsius. Uttar Pradesh is also facing the heat with the likelihood of a heat wave in the coming five to six days. Allahabad recorded temperatures of 44 degrees Celsius which is the maximum. The Met department said that this is slightly above normal but not yet a heat wave. | |
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Bottlenose body count since Jan. 1 hits 30 Monday Biologists removed three more dead bottlenose dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon Monday, bringing this year's total lagoon bottlenose body count to at least 30. Staff from Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute performed onsite examinations of the three dolphins: two of them in Merritt Island and one in Rockledge. At least 30 dolphins have died in the lagoon since Jan. 1, all but a few in Brevard, most near Merritt Island. That's more than twice what would be expected, based on the death rate during the past decade. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration already has declared the100 or so manatee deaths in the lagoon since mid-2012 an Marine Mammal Unusual Mortality Event. The declaration triggers NOAA's own formal investigation. The federal agency is examining whether the dolphin and manatee deaths might be connected. While the manatees die quickly, the dolphins show signs of a drawn-out syndrome. Most are found very thin, with enlarged spleens. As many as 300 brown pelicans also have died in the lagoon region since February, maybe more. Those tested were negative for botulism and other common causes of bird death. They come in with heavy parasite counts. About half the dolphins studied in the lagoon in the past decade suffer from some form of chronic infectious disease, suggesting compromised immune systems. Researchers find levels of mercury - a potent neurotoxin - in the skin and blood of lagoon dolphins that are higher than in any other dolphins that have been studied. They also find high incidence of tumors, heart problems, cancer, stomach ulcers, skin lesions, genital herpes and other emerging ailments previously thought rare in dolphins. Dolphins captured near Merritt Island, especially, test in poor health. Researchers have pointed to water tainted by treated sewage and runoff as the possible cause. |
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The Telegraph UK
Britain's coast was shrouded in mist for the Bank Holiday weekend due to warm air clashing with an unusually cool sea because of the cold spring.2013-05-06 13:36:00
Temperatures up to 22C meant thousands flocked to beaches around the South and South West Coasts. But they were greeted with a strange sea mist. The "haar" or "sea fret", as it is known, is caused by warm air condensing over the cold sea and creating a fog. It is typical for this time of year but more pronounced than usual as the air is so warm and the sea is so cold following the coolest April for 24 years and the coldest March for 100 years. The sea fog was worse over the south coast and south west as the wind was blowing the fog onto land. Today (Tues) the hear is more likely to settle over the north and east, where it is more common, as the wind changes direction. Calum Maccoll, forecaster at the Met Office, said the sea was unusually cold. "The sea temperature is 9C, it should be in the double figures but the cold March has brought it right down. "As it takes a long time to warm up it is colder than it normally would be at this time of year, and as mild air is passing over the surface, mist is being created." | |
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cbslocal.com
St. Paul, Minn. (WCCO) - The spring weather brought with it something pretty unsightly near St. Paul. Hundreds of fish recently died in Beaver Lake, and many of them ended up all along the shoreline.2013-05-06 13:18:00 Fish kills are not unusual this time of year, but this one has Ramsey County officials worried. The fish died even though there is an aeration system in Beaver Lake. Ruth Klabunde walks her dogs around the lake about three times a week. The first thing she noticed was the smell. "This is a really fun little lake to walk around," Klabunde said. "And the stench was kind of bad." And then Klabunde says she saw the source. "This whole little bay area here was thick with dead fish," she said. When the ice finally went out on Beaver Lake a week and a half ago, it left behind schools upon schools of dead fish. It's estimated that more than 7,000 pounds of dead fish - mostly catfish, sunfish and bass - have been taken out of Beaver Lake. But what caused this unusually large fish kill is still a mystery. Beaver Lake has an aeration pump that can be turned on when oxygen levels get low. Ramsey County turned the pump on in February, but it only reaches a small part of the lake. |
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University of Utah Seismograph Stations
Update time = Tue May 7 9:00:02 MDT 20132013-05-07 10:01:00 Magnitude 2.9 2013/05/07 07:22:33 44.583N 110.976W 9.5 14 km ( 8 mi) SE of West Yellowstone, MT
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The Extinction Protocol
One of the Philippines' most active volcanoes spewed huge rocks and ash after daybreak Tuesday, killing at least five climbers and trapping more than a dozen others near the crater in its first eruption in three years, officials said. Rescue teams and helicopters were sent to Mayon volcano in the central Philippines to bring out the dead. At least seven were injured from a group of about 20 mountaineers who were caught by surprise by the sudden eruption, Albay provincial Gov. Joey Salceda said. Clouds have cleared over the volcano, which was quiet later in the morning. The climbers who died were struck by huge rocks, guide Kenneth Jesalva told ABS-CBN TV network by cell phone from a camp near the crater. They included a German, an Austrian and a Filipino.2013-05-07 09:34:00
The injured included foreigners and Filipino guides. Some were in critical condition, said the chief of the national disaster agency, Eduardo del Rosario. Jesalva said he was in the group that spent the night on the picturesque mountain, known for its almost-perfect cone, when the volcano rumbled back to life early in the morning and rocks "as big as a living room" came raining down on them. He rushed back to the base camp to call for help. | |
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| Fire in the Sky |
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Laura Hancock
Star-Tribune 2013-05-06 20:00:00
A large meteor exploded in the sky above southern Wyoming on Sunday night and was observed from as far as 400 miles away. Jordan Dowers of Olympia, Wash., was driving along Interstate 80 near Laramie with his father when they spotted it about 10:45 p.m. "The first thing we noticed is the sky lit up really bright," said Dowers, 23. "At first it was, 'Where did that lightning strike come from?' Then it was much, much brighter than lightning. From the south, it was neon blue. It looked like it was going to hit the ground. Then it just disappeared." Eight witnesses reported the event to the American Meteor Society, including people as far away as Idaho and Colorado. Technically, the meteor is called a bolide, said society volunteer Mike Hankey, who lives in Baltimore. | |
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Agnes Wold
Swedish researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, report that a simple habit may give significant protection against allergy development, namely, the parental sucking on the baby's pacifier.University of Gothenburg 2013-05-07 16:50:00 Allergies are very common in industrialized countries. It has been suggested that exposure to harmless bacteria during infancy may be protective against the development of allergy. However, it has been difficult to pinpoint which bacteria a baby should be exposed to, and at what time and by which route this exposure should ideally occur. Swedish researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, now report that a simple habit may give significant protection against allergy development, namely, the parental sucking on the baby's pacifier. In a group of 184 children, who were followed from birth, the researchers registered how many infants used a pacifier in the first 6 months of life and how the parents cleaned the pacifier. Most parents rinsed the pacifier in tap water before giving it to the baby, e.g., after it had fallen on the floor. However, some parents also boiled the pacifier to clean it. Yet other parents had the habit of putting the baby's pacifier into their mouth and cleaning it by sucking, before returning it to the baby. |
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The Inquisitr
Richland Springs, TX - Pearl Cantrell is 105 years young, and her secret to her long life might surprise you: bacon. Cantrell said, "I love bacon, I eat it everyday. I don't feel as old as I am, that's all I can say." The central Texas resident celebrated her most recent birthday over three days with more than 200 guests. And when Oscar Mayer found out how much Cantrell loves bacon, the company sent one of its Wienermobiles to her home.2013-05-07 15:49:00
"We've seen a lot of stories on the road, but nothing quite like this one. So we're excited to be here," said Abraham Luna, a "hotdogger" for Oscar Mayer. "We know she's an inspiration. Pearl is an inspiration for the community and her friends and family." Not only did Cantrell get to ride in the Wienermobile, but Oscar Mayer gave her more bacon, and local news station KRBC said the company is planning to send her even more bacon in the future. If Cantrell's secret sounds too good to be true, you might be even more surprised to learn that there is research that supports her claim about the health benefits of bacon. In March, a study conducted by the University of Zurich found that eating little to no red meat can be a risk factor for early death. | |
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Barbara Bagan, PhD, ATR-BC
Creative art pursuits provide older adults with multiple benefits, not the least of which is enhanced cognitive function. Todaysgeriatricmedicine.com 2013-05-07 07:28:00
Throughout history, artists have known that art provides benefits for both the creator and viewer. Current studies in the fields of art therapy, music therapy, and other creative modalities confirm that art can affect individuals in positive ways by inducing both psychological and physiological healing. We know that, in general, exercising our creative selves enhances quality of life and nurtures overall well-being. We all are creative - not just a select few. Less well known is the effectiveness of incorporating expressive arts into programs for older adults and patients who are diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and other chronic degenerative diseases. Recent clinical research validates what some professionals and others who work with older adults have known for years - that making art is an essential, vital component of activities that offer a wide range of health benefits. Several studies show that art can reduce the depression and anxiety that are often symptomatic of chronic diseases. Other research demonstrates that the imagination and creativity of older adults can flourish in later life, helping them to realize unique, unlived potentials, even when suffering from Alzheimer's or Parkinson's disease. Erik Erickson's eighth and last stage of psychological development culminates in an integration of the individual's past, present, and future to confront the conflict between integrity and despair. The result can be either despair or wisdom. When older adults pursue activities that are based in meaning, purpose, and honesty, they can attain the wisdom and integrity about which Erickson writes rather than experiencing longing and despair. Therapeutic art experiences can supply meaning and purpose to the lives of older adults in supportive, nonthreatening ways. | |
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| Science of the Spirit |
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Harriet Brown
NY Times 2013-03-25 11:32:00
Mental-health care has come a long way since the remedy of choice was trepanation - drilling holes into the skull to release "evil spirits." Over the last 30 years, treatments like cognitive-behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy and family-based treatment have been shown effective for ailments ranging from anxiety and depression to post-traumatic stress disorder and eating disorders. The trouble is, surprisingly few patients actually get these kinds of evidence-based treatments once they land on the couch - especially not cognitive behavioral therapy. In 2009, a meta-analysis conducted by leading mental-health researchers found that psychiatric patients in the United States and Britain rarely receive C.B.T., despite numerous trials demonstrating its effectiveness in treating common disorders. One survey of nearly 2,300 psychologists in the United States found that 69 percent used C.B.T. only part time or in combination with other therapies to treat depression and anxiety. C.B.T. refers to a number of structured, directive types of psychotherapy that focus on the thoughts behind a patient's feelings and that often include exposure therapy and other activities. Instead, many patients are subjected to a kind of dim-sum approach - a little of this, a little of that, much of it derived more from the therapist's biases and training than from the latest research findings. And even professionals who claim to use evidence-based treatments rarely do. The problem is called "therapist drift." | |
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| High Strangeness |
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Nadia Al-Fawaz
Abha - A sorcerer notorious for "making wolves kill jinn" has been arrested in Al-Kara village in Al-Habil, which comes under Rijal Alma governorate.Saudi Gazette 2013-05-05 18:40:00 Al-Habil Police, together with members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Hai'a), made the arrest at 9 a.m. Saturday. The sorcerer was apprehended at his home, where the police and Hai'a seized many copies of a book on witchcraft and sorcery as well as related paraphernalia. Two wild wolves were found in his possession. According to some sources, he used to make the wolves eat the jinn. Another source said the sorcerer was well known for treating diseases. |
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Greg Newkirk
WhoForted? 2013-05-06 18:31:00
Looking for a side job with decent pay, odd hours, and a possible brush with the unexplained? Being paranormal bait might just be the job for you, and there's at least one group hiring. The 42 member strong ACAM, or Association of Haunt Mariana, in Belo Horizonte, Portugal has been dealing with all manner of terror inflicted by their own version of the Chupacabra: the menacing Caboclo D'Água, a bizarre monster seen as responsible for the mass deaths of livestock, and has even been blamed for the death of at least four humans. ACAM says the creature resembles the monstrous amalgamation of several animals, with the body of a monkey, legs like a chicken, and head and scales resembling a lizard. It's believed the creature lives underwater, only coming onto the dry land in order to prey upon helpless victims. Two years ago, the Caboclo D'Água allegedly killed a young boy, pulling his testicles out as he was swimming in one of the region's rivers. Since then, ACAM has been working on a plan to capture the beast once and for all, and settled on a scheme involving a river, a huge metal cage, and a piece of bait. Human bait. How do you get a person to offer themselves up to a monster? You offer them a thousand bucks a day. Source: UOL Notícias | |
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