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How can you know? Faith is a gift but PET scans can show you it is so.

Persons who were severely abused early have brains that ‘fire up’ a certain way. Often people who experience severe abuse in utero and early childhood get diagnosed with a variety of disorders including PTSD, ADHD and Depression.

Trauma gets etched into the brain and how it functions. But its not a forever thing and you can change your brain, how it functions and its actual anatomy.

With appropriate cognitive and behavioral therapy — and time — people’s brains learn fresh pathways and literally change how they ‘fire’ And as the brain’s function changes so changes the actual anatomy of your brain.

The brain is a very complex organ and its complexity does not end with its structural and chemical composition.

The brain is a dynamic organ and is in a constant state of change, governed by life’s experiences.

Every time we learn something new, form a memory, experience stress or disease, the biochemical structure of our brain changes at the neuronal level and this affects information flow. (more…)

CA backyards not balconies

Not 3 feet wide condo balconies, kids need backyards and space to run around and kick balls. Because of new regulations in California, if planners have their way all new metropolitan housing will be 20 to an acre rather than the traditional 5 to an acre.

It’s time that CA voters wake up and repeal the 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act and the 2008 Sustainable Communities and Climate protection Act.

Over the last 40 years, median house prices have doubled relative to household incomes in California.

Look around your community. In our area of Aptos, CA for example, all new “affordable” [taxpayer paid for] housing is 20 or more to an acre. And those condos have no back yards.

Planners must think kids can get all the exercise they need at school during recess and lunch. Not so.

The high cost of housing in CA is a major reason why 1.6 million have left California since 2000.

For more info, see The Wall Street Journal, April 7, 2012, California Declares War on Suburbia

hoodie courage

Former Black Panther Rep. Bobby Rush (D-IL) made quite a fuss when he donned a “hoodie” during a speech in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was escorted out. At the time, former Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) “applauded Bobbie’s courage” for doing so.

Meanwhile, back home in Rush’s district, two men wearing hooded sweatshirts, or “hoodies,” were the shooters in an incident that left one dead and five injured. In Chicago, in one night 13 were shot and 2 dead in 6 hours.
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Take Nancy with you. jaj48@aol.com

Put all your kitty’s cat litter in a securely tied bag. Make sure it goes to a land fill and not into Monterey Bay for otters to feed on.

There’s a new Santa Cruz, CA website dedicated to Otter-ly information. Check out seaotters.com based in Santa Cruz, CA.

To get off the Endangered Species List, sea otters must grow from 2,700 to 3,090. Their numbers have stayed steady instead of growing in recent years. Scientists wonder why. Various pollutants may contribute.

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“Southern sea otters have been listed as a threatened species under the federal Endangered Species Act since 1977. While California sea otters have made a substantial recovery, decades of protection haven’t helped their population bounce back as dramatically as hoped. Annual surveys currently peg the California sea otter population at about 2,700 individuals, short of the minimum of 3,090 for 3 years running needed for delisting from the Endangered Species Act. Their numbers have hovered at 2,800 otters in recent years, and the current estimate represents a population dip instead of growth.

“What is behind this population plateau? Scientists have pinned the cause on too many deaths of mature adults, especially females who should be producing pups. However, understanding why otters are dying is far from straightforward. No single factor jumps out as the most important cause of California sea otter deaths. Rather, scientists have discovered that otters encounter a complex and deadly cocktail in contaminated waters, and many are dying from the combined onslaught of diseases, parasites, and toxic compounds.

TSA & pimp

Montgomery County Police have arrested a TSA manager for running a prostitution ring out of a Silver Spring hotel. Bryant Livingston was arrested at his job at Dulles International Airport where he worked as a morning shift manager.

Hotel employees were suspicious of activity and called police.

When Montgomery County Police arrived and knocked on the hotel room door they saw three naked women in a room and four men. One man admitted to police he had arrived with the promise of sex for $100.
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So, which job is the worse crime? JAJ48@aol.com

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