LISTEN to patients in hospitals & stop staring at hospital computers!
Listen to hospital patients & stop staring at hospital computers and putting info into medical systems no one reads. Or rarely reads. Wake up and get hospitals to wake up.
MD’s and nurses now spend heaps of time staring at computers — and little time listening to you. Why? Money they get.
Ever spend a week in a hospital recently? Family and friends visit?
Dominican Hospital, Santa Cruz, CA:  What everyone sees — at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz, CA for example — is nurses sitting in front of computers.l And patients principally see RNs when they come to give medications — with their computer in front of them.
At Dominican Hospital the patient gets asked the same questions in the ER area and again when “admitted” to the hospital.  But later — when leaving the hospital — they do not have an easy way to leave with a copy of their records. Yes there is a way — but not readily available.
Listen. And listen some more. All this is Bad News for patients who do need someone to listen. Patients need someone to touch. them.  And someone to be there with them.
Pnina Peri, visting prof at Univ. of Maryland & wife of well known Yoram Peri [ New Israel Fund]  berates two men performing Jewish prayers at airport in Israel.
You-Tube has removed the video which shows Pnina Peri berating the two men. The above photo is all we can locate.
Pnina Peri’s husband,  Yoram Peri, is director of the  Gildenfhorn Institute which hired his wife Pnina Peri to come to Maryland as a visiting assistant professor.
Pnina Peri’s specialty is diversity training. Sounds like Pnina Peri could try to show some human kindness.
The May 30 cellphone video depicting a woman berating two Jewish men for performing a Jewish prayer at an airport would probably never have made news, let alone “gone viral,†were it not for a confluence of details that make the entire episode so bizarre.
It is peculiar that the location was Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, where Jews might believe they have a right to pray wherever they please. But the revelation that the perpetrator of the attack, Pnina Peri, is a professor of Israel studies made the scene incomprehensible for average viewers. For others it clarified everything. In the many articles about Peri’s bizarre outburst in Ben Gurion airport, she is referred to in virtually every one as “an expert in Multicultural studies.†If so, her behavior casts a pall over her expertise and calls into question the value of her chosen field. The video shows Peri shouting and berating a Chabad rabbi as he helps a fellow traveler put on tefillin (the leather straps and boxes containing scripture used in Jewish morning prayer). As the men perform their unobtrusive prayer ritual, Peri screams at them, “Move because you are bothering me†and bellows “Why are you doing this here? There are people here.â€
If the video had ended there, or if she had walked away, Peri might still be unknown. What she did made her infamous: she laughed for a very long time at the men, up-close and in their faces. It was a chilling performance that has to be seen to be believed. Most accounts say that she “laughs mockingly,†but this is too mild. She derides the men in Hebrew, but her laugh transcends language. It is a taunting and cruel laugh, deliberate and prolonged.
Question: Should those illegal immigrants also be allowed to vote in CA local and state elections? Is it time to control our southern border with Mexico?
Spokespeople for Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon and Senate President Pro Tem Toni Atkins did not respond to questions whether it’s appropriate for lawmakers to get special services at the Capital office. Of course not.
I agree that only U.S. citizens can register to vote in California state or local elections. CA has a border with Mexico and thousands of persons illegally cross the border The statistics are staggering.
These illegals are citizens of other countries and their allegiance is to those countries — not to the U.S. Only people who stand in line and legally are permitted to enter and later go through the process of becoming a U.S. citizen should be permitted to vote in CA elections. Go www.freedomOK.net Monterey Bay Forum for more discussion. All public comments are welcome there. Cameron Jackson DrCameronJackson@gmail.com
Below is the measure that will appear on the November 2018Â ballot:Â Â
INITIATIVE MEASURE TO BE SUBMITTED DIRECTLY TO VOTERS Elections Code section 2001 is added to read: 2001{a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, only persons who are United States citizens may register to vote and vote in an election held within the territory within which he or she resides and the election is held. This section applies to elections held by the state and every subdivision of the state, including cities, counties, charter cities, charter counties, charter city and counties, and districts.
written by Dr.Cameron Jackson, licensed psychologist in CA (PSY14762). Monterey Bay Forum welcomes new authors who know about northern California particularly Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties.  How to contact Dr. Jackson and other authors including Firenze Sage:Â
Someone publishes FAKE news about your business. What can you do?  Get that review removed! Get the FACTS straight.
Use Yelp rules how to get fake, misleading and biased news removed.  IF someone violates the Content Guideline & Terms of Service – those reviews can be removed.
Can you remove a review from Yelp? Yes.
To delete, they can go to ABOUT ME -> REVIEWS and then click on the little garbagecan icon on the bottom right next to the review for your business. Deleting reviews can work on Ripoff Report, Google+, Yelp!, Facebook, Yellow Pages, YMLP and other review and map sites.
Is Cory Booker pro Palestine? Just not understand Israel’s need for a defense Wall? Or just fuzzy thinking? His denial does not hold up.
Senator Cory Booker was photographed holding a sign bearing a pro-Palestinian movement slogan. The image appeared on the Twitter feed of the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, a self-described “coalition of 330+ groups†working “for a US policy toward Palestine/Israel based on    freedom, justice, and equality.â€
“From Palestine to Mexico, all the walls have got to go,†the sign read.
Trump Wall opposed by open borders Booker
Booker, however, claims he wasn’t aware that the sign called for an end to the border wall between Israel and the Palestinian territory, but rather only a U.S. border wall with Mexico. Â
“In one instance, amid the rush, he was posing for a photo and was passed a sign to hold – he didn’t have time to read the sign, and from his cursory glance he thought it was talking about Mexico and didn’t realize it had anything to do with Israel,â€
(Steven Hayward)A little noticed detail in Santa Barbara’s recent drive to criminalize plastic straws, which culminated in the Santa Barbara city council taking testimony from a nine-year-old about the planetary menace, has come to light in recent days. During that council session, councilman Jesse Dominguez said the following in response to citizens who asked “what’s next?â€:
“Unfortunately, common sense is just not common. We have to regulate every aspect of people’s lives.â€
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Firenze Sage opines:Â Â This bozo [Jesse Dominquez]Â got 1100 votes in his district and now wants to control the world based on the bogus “research of a nine year old.
researchers spend your money examining “tweets” about heat and feelings about life
Tweets connect hot weather with suicide?Â
 Based on an analysis of “tweets” ….  Â
Researchers at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley predict that climate change will “likely boost suicide rates worldwide.”
The new study, published last week in the journal Nature Climate Change, “found very strong evidence that abnormally hot weather increases both suicide rates and the use of depressive language on social media,†lead author Marshall Burke told Berkeley News.
“This may be the first decisive evidence that climate change will have a substantial effect on mental health in the United States and Mexico, with tragic human costs.” Â Â Tweet This
This, the researchers say, can be extended to form the conjecture that “unmitigated climate change†could lead to between 9,000 and 40,000 additional suicides in the United States and Mexico combined by 2050. According to the scholars, this difference is comparable to the estimated impact of economic recessions, suicide prevention programmes, or gun restriction laws.
“That’s an increase of several percentage points over rates today, which are actually rising as other causes of death decline,†UC Berkeley points out in its coverage of the study.
According to Stanford News, the team analyzed the language of more than half a billion tweets, finding that words like “lonely,†“trapped,†and “suicidal†are more prevalent when temperatures are higher, even among “rich populations†and those who “are used to warm weather.â€
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Firenze Sage opines:  This is supported by “strong evidence” based on an analysis of tweets.
More likely the study is strong evidence of a waste of other people’s money which flows to pro global warmers.
Check your medications & make sure that no drug ingredients are made in China. Better safe than sorry.  Stay safe from Chinese made “adulterated” drugs based on fake data. The following is based on a Letter in WSJ August 4, 2018.
In 2017, the most warning letters for adulterated drugs issued by the FDA (see fda.gov) went to Chinese drug manufacturers. India was close behind.
One example: the anti-hypertensive drug valsartin — made in China — was recently recalled,  One safe and simple solution, many cardiologists moved their patients to a different medication. But what if you like varsartin and want made in USA medications?
One excellent resource in Aptos, CA is Frank’s Pharmacy.  If you or someone you know  likes varsartin,  you can get USA made valsartin through Frank’s Pharmacy.
China is now one of the biggest producers of drugs and drug products in the world.
Chinese drug products appear to be  not trust worthy because info about them is  based on fake data.  Radio Free Asia reports that an internal review in 2016 by Chinese drugs regulators showed that the Chinese fabricated the test results.
One resource available through Amazon books and on Kindle is  ” China RX : Exposing the Risks of America’s Dependence on China for Medicine”.
Can someone explain why one must pay via Amazon $12 for a Kindle electronic copy of “China RX”  and $14 for a paper copy?  Shame on Jeff Bezos!
written 8/4/2018Â by Cameron Smith Jackson, licensed psychologist PSY14762
OPEN BORDERS for ALL per Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
There’s several upcoming vigils at Richmond CA which support Open Borders for ALL Illegal immigrants — is this what CA needs? What the USA needs?
OPEN BORDERS for ALL is vital according to Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. Really?
How come everyone wants “in” as a refugee to the USA and there’s no rush to leave the USA and be a refugee elsewhere? Why don’t we help people stay where they are and — if they leave — help them get back to their homelands, back to their culture, back to the world they grew up in, know and love?
Are the “welcome the stranger” sermons — frequently preached from many  church pulpits — used by the Open Borders crowd? Maybe the persons preaching “welcome the stranger” sermons are the Open Borders crowd.
Here’s some useful info:  There’s three upcoming vigils for illegal immigrants detained by ICE at Richmond Detention Center CA. Friday June 8, Sat. July 7 and Sat. August 8. Why not go and you decide.
Why not have a vigil that represents more than one opinion?
Mother Deborah Lee is the Executive Director of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity. Per reviews of Interfaith literature, this group mobilizes faith communities for immigrant, racial and economic justice.
This post will update regarding info about the vigils…..
