Aptos Psychologist: Bigger is not better [Safeway to double in size in Aptos, CA]

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

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Safeway in Aptos, CA plans to double in size


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why Safeway to double?


Big box Safeway plans to double in size from 30,000 to 60,000 square feet at their Aptos, CA store located in Rancho del Mar shopping center just off #1 at State Park Drive.

Why? Bigger is not better for the existing Aptos, CA community.

Safeway recently bought the entire Rancho del Mar shopping center.

There’s plenty of parking now and no need for a double decker parking garage. The Rancho del Mar center has the only movie theater and the only ACE hardware store between Watsonville [9 miles south] and 41st Avenue in Capitola [3 miles north] Both the theater and ACE hardware will be eliminated if Safeway expands as planned. As local Aptos users know, ACE is the place for excellent services from the time you enter the door.

It’s likely that many small businesses [a movie theater, a jewelery store, a pharmacy, several restaurants, Ace hardware] will be eliminated if and when Safeway expands from 30,000 to 60,000 square feet.

Susan Houghton is a contact person for Safeway. Per Houghton, it will take about 2 years to get permits and 2 years to build. Several letters to the editor of the Santa Cruz Sentinel express concern about the pending changes.

Where and how to speak up: Aptos, CA has a supervisor on the County of Santa Cruz Board of Supervisors. And there’s of course the Planning Department. Is there a disgruntled citizens department? You can subscribe to the RSS feed to get updates to this post.

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Aptos Psychologist: Wow! CA churches in Santa Cruz & Monterey pay big buck franchise fees to COPA — to teach socialist Alinsky methods to organize communities. Mmmmm?

Sunday, March 18th, 2012

GOLDEN ARCHES Aptos Psychologist: Wow! CA churches in Santa Cruz & Monterey pay big buck franchise fees to COPA to teach socialist Alinsky methods to organize communities. Mmmmm?

COPA franchise fees

Religious ‘franchise’ fees? Yes.

You want to start a McDonald? You pay a franchise fee.

You want to spread the ‘food’ of Saul Alinsky, progressive who wrote Rules for Radicals?

You will pay a ‘franchise’ fee to spread the progressive ‘gospel’ of Saul Alinsky via COPA and other similar organizations with different names and same philosophy. The money paid to COPA goes out of state to Chicago, Illinois. Home of community organizer Obama. Mmmm.

Why cough up big bucks to founders of COPA, an out of state organization, for franchise costs? This does not make sense.

Why pay Illinois for how to do community organizing in a California community? Do we really need more of Obama type organizers here in Santa Cruz and Monterey? What say you.

Time for church & other religious organization members to ask why….

Ask why. Time for local church and other religious organizations to ask why their local Santa Cruz & Monterey Bay area religious organization pay up to $10,000 a year in COPA ‘franchise’ costs to out of state Illinois & no buy-in by church members?

If you want the ‘real answers’ why the franchise costs paid to an out of CA community organization ( in Chicago, Illinois) then ask the original founders of COPA.

Wonder who? There were three persons who started COPA: the driving force was a Catholic sister/nun who runs a Watsonville, CA women/ children care facility, an Aptos, CA Lutheran minister who has since died.. and …

1) What COPA did many years ago was to get ‘buy in’ from the local leaders of local churches & other religious organizations.

2) Then COPA said to the general Santa Cruz/ Monterey CA community that all the members of these organization supported COPA views.

3) Now COPA uses those churches to hand out material and tell members how to vote.

COPA is smart. People who go to a local church or other religious organization may not want to ‘argue’ about COPA with those who provide spiritual assistance. More info follows below.

DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
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Political Community Organizing through Places of Worship

By Freedom Advocates
Monday, 02 November 2009

Question: “I have just learned that my Monterey Bay Area church has given large sums of money to a political Interfaith Network organization called COPA. COPA stands for Communities Organized for Relational Power in Action. What is COPA?

Answer: COPA is a member of Industrial Areas Foundation (IAF) which was founded by Saul Alinsky in the 1940’s. Alinsky authored two books that are used as manuals by socialist and communist change agents – Reveille for Radicals in 1946 and Rules for Radicals in 1971.

It is a serious concern that the money I’ve been giving to my church is being used for political and radical ideological purposes without my knowledge or authorization. There are many Interfaith Networks operating under different names throughout the country and most of them like COPA, are members of IAF.

Answer: In their own words, Industrial Areas Foundation helps build broad-based, non-partisan organizations of dues-paying member congregations, schools, unions, business associations, and non-profits committed to building power for sustainable social and economic change.

Alinsky in his book writings puts it like this,

You do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments. Make the enemy live up to his/her own book of rules. You can kill them with this. They can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.

Believing that the ends justify the means, Alinksy stated that,

In action, one does not always enjoy the luxury of a decision that is consistent both with one’s individual conscience and the good of mankind.

So churches are being used for political purposes rather than for spiritual reasons. COPA affiliated churches use congregational capital to influence local politicians and intensely advocate for so-called “affordable housing” developments built by well paid so-called, “non-profit” developers.

The reality is that our money is funding an undisclosed massive subsidy for building projects benefiting individuals who are very ineffective at cost containment. This should give pause to anyone thinking that COPA and IAF are organizations out to help the downtrodden. Those downtrodden are the means, the pawns, in COPA’s game plan.

Where was I when these political shenanigans were being discussed? Was it part of a sermon or simply handled as a financial transaction behind closed doors? It’s alarming that I and my fellow congregants missed the discussion about morphing my church into an instrument of socialist/fascist economic change. This is antithetical to what I believe in.

Your church may be doing this too. Go to the IAF Industrial Areas Foundation “affiliates” page. Click on your region on the left side of the page. In our area, COPA was formerly known as CCIS – Central Coast Interfaith Sponsors.

Congregations across the country find themselves attached to COPA-like organizations with names like Washington Interfaith Network (WIN), Communities Helping All Neighbors Gain Empowerment (CHANGE), Tying Nashville Together (TNT) or Southeastern Wisconsin Common Ground.

Most of us never saw this happening. We trust our places of worship and attend in order to honor God and invigorate our spiritual beliefs. Now we discover that an outside political action group is working insidiously to infiltrate our church and undermine our ethical and spiritual structure.

COPA/IAF is clear that their mission is to train parishioners in community organizing tactics in order to achieve a political result through lobbying. Sound familiar? ACORN has been in the news recently for exploiting poor neighborhoods through the use of misleading promises used in community organizing and lobbying. ACORN targets neighborhoods. COPA and IAF target places of worship and unsuspecting parishioners.

COPA/IAF are coming into our churches and synagogues, misleading many of our ministers and other leaders by having them support COPAand IAF politics.

Is your church or temple involved with an interfaith congregation network and IAF? If so, you need to ask:

Is my church a member of a network or organization that supports IAF? What is the organization called?

If yes, why did our church leadership decide to join?

What was the commitment made to the organization?

Has the pastor, minister, rabbi or other spiritual leader been informed about the true nature of Interfaith Networks and Congregation Based Community Organizations?

Has the congregation been informed?

Call to action – Let your church know how you feel about affiliations with political and ideological groups such as IAF and COPA.

Political Community Organizing through Places of Worship by Freedom Advocates

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Aptos Psychologist: Why crucial & how parents can reduce hearing loss in babies & young children

Wednesday, February 29th, 2012

BABY SIX Aptos Psychologist: Why crucial & how parents can reduce hearing loss in babies & young children

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Hearing loss in babies has huge effects on their general development: hearing loss impacts language acquisition, speech, psycho-social well being and overall learning.

Research shows that the critical time to stimulate the auditory and brain pathways is during the first six (6) months of your child’s life. So pay particular attention during your child’s first six months that he or she continues to hear normally.

The good news is that children with all degrees of hearing loss — who receive appropriate interventions prior to 6 months of age– can obtain speech and language skills comparable to their normal hearing peers when age 3 years.

What parents can do:
Check and re-check that your baby’s hearing remains normal. Visit your pediatrician for screenings as your doctor recommends. Research recommends hearing screening every 2 months until age one year — and every three months until age two.

Keep this in mind:
Even mild hearing loss can significantly interfere with the reception of spoken language and educational performance. Research shows that children with one ear hearing loss are ten (10) times as likely to be held back at least one year compared to children with normal hearing.

Many children are affected with ear infections: Chronic otis media (ear infections) affects 5 – 30% of children age 6 to 11 years and can persist 4 – 5 months with or without medical interventions.

Watch for possible symptoms of hearing and ear problems. Does your child: Tug at his/her ear; turn side of head towards parent; appear inattentive; strain when listening; make frequent mistakes following directions; day dreams; tend to isolate; tire easily; talk too loudly or too softly; have a speech problem; appear passive.

Does your child appear to have pain in their ear? Do you see redness or drainage from the ear?

Methods to assess for hearing loss in young children:

Otoacoustic Emissions Technology (OAE)

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OAE


Otoacoustic Emissions is a hearing test that uses a small probe inserted into the external ear to introduce a sound stimulus (series of beeps) and measures the response sound, like an echo, emitted by the inner ear (cochlea) of a normal hearing person. The cochlea of a person with a hearing loss greater than 25-30 dB does not emit a sound in response to a sound stimulus.

Many studies have shown that screening children 0 – 3 years of age may be beneficial with OAEs. The OAE technology is very good for children who are unable to respond to a sound by raising their hand or dropping a toy in a bucket to indicate a response to the stimulus.

Children with developmental delays [possible autistic spectrum issues, possible intellectual disability] may not understand or often refuse to follow simple directions. OAE may be a useful screening for children with developmental delays.

Note that OAE may not detect mild hearing loss (20 dB to 40 dB) which may affect performance in school. The gold standard for screening children over age three is with a pure tone audiometer conducted by properly trained personnel.

To summarize: Parents can greatly reduce possible hearing loss in babies and young children with appropriate interventions. Know why its so important that children hear normally. Get medical attention immediately when young children appear to have difficulties with hearing normally.

Take children for routine screenings every 2 months during first year or as your pediatrician recommends. Watch for signs of possible ear infection and behaviors that indicate difficulties with hearing. Knowledge, parent involvement and appropriate medical interventions to improve hearing are particularly crucial during your child’s first six months. Parents can do a lot to reduce hearing loss in babies and young children.

In CA, children with developmental delays are typically referred for Early Start services. Early Start services are provided through the government from birth until the child turns three years old.

Roughly 70% of the children referred for Early Start services in CA are due to speech delays.

And, a very important medical questions is: Can this child hear normally? If a child applying for Early Start services cannot hear normally different medical interventions are needed to address hearing loss.

In Santa Cruz County assessment for Early Start services is done via various vendors. These vendors provide assessment reports concerning the overall development of the child/ applicant for Early Start services.

Whether or not the applicant for Early Start services can hear normally is vital to determining the appropriate kind of services to provide to the child.

Any parent who applies for Early Start services in Santa Cruz County should check with the vendor and whoever receives the assessment report and inquire about their child’s hearing abilities. Was the child’s hearing abilities screened? Can the child hear normally? And if the child does not hear normally, what appropriate medical services are recommended?

Remember the first sentences of this post: Hearing loss in young babies has profound effects on the general development of a child. And, parents can help in many ways so that their child hears and develops normally.

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Re-elect Bob Lee as District Attorney, Santa Cruz County, CA?

Friday, February 26th, 2010

Bob Lee2 104x150 Re elect Bob Lee as District Attorney, Santa Cruz County, CA? Bob Lee was elected 8 years ago as District Attorney. So, why re-elect Bob Lee?

At that time, Bob Lee ran against D.A. incumbent Kate Canalis.

Lots of people told Bob Lee that he could not win against the incumbent. Well, he did. With lots of support from all sorts of sources.

So how has Bob Lee done as District Attorney? In the last 5 years he has won every major criminal case Wow!

How involved is he? Bob Lee gets up in the middle of the night and goes to the crime scene. He is a “hands-on” D.A. Great!

Who gets hired? The Santa Cruz District Attorney office seeks — and gets — excellent beginning attorneys. Let’s hope that “those beginners” stay around whether as Assistant D.A. or in private practice. Great!!

What kind of training do the D.A.’s get? Bob Lee’s office trains continually so that experienced attorneys pass on what they know. That makes sense. Great!

How are cases assigned? The attorney assigned takes the case from start to finish. No more who has my case this week. Great!

What is morale like in the office? Bob Lee’s enthusiasm permeates the office. Every government office needs this!

How are victims of crimes treated? There are criminals and there are VICTIMS of crimes. Victims of crime are treated with sensitivity. The physical environment where they are interviewed is attractive and supportive. Good Job!

Bob Lee is a “hands on attorney” who is fair, honest and cares about all of the citizens in Santa Cruz County.

Thank you, Bob Lee! Good job! Let’s RE-ELECT Bob Lee as D.A.

A political ad paid for by Dr. Jackson, Monterey Bay Forum
DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
P.O.Box 1972, Aptos, CA 95001-1972

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