Aw Mouthy!
Hope you can communicate with us again soon on a computer or if they let you use your own.
So sorry to hear about your move.
We all love you, Mouthy!
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Mouthy Says "Hi"!
by ziddina ineveryone knows our dear mouthy.
she's modified her living arrangements lately... has moved to an "assisted living" facility... on monday, and is still going thru a period of adjustment... .
if there are any of you who live near mouthy.
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The Teen Brain: It's Just Not Grown Up Yet (A Must Read For Teenagers and Young Adults)
by Yizuman inend id="res124188677" class="bucketwrap primary" end id="storyspan02" class="storylocation" enlargerichard knox/nprneurologist francis jensen examining a teenage patient.
jensen decided to study the teenage brain when her own sons became teenagers.
now jensen lectures to teens and parents about how teenagers' brains are different.. end class="captionwrap enlarge" .
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Yep, my step son needs to read this, if I can figure out how to get it to him.
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The Teen Brain: It's Just Not Grown Up Yet (A Must Read For Teenagers and Young Adults)
by Yizuman inend id="res124188677" class="bucketwrap primary" end id="storyspan02" class="storylocation" enlargerichard knox/nprneurologist francis jensen examining a teenage patient.
jensen decided to study the teenage brain when her own sons became teenagers.
now jensen lectures to teens and parents about how teenagers' brains are different.. end class="captionwrap enlarge" .
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Enlarge Richard Knox / NPR Neurologist Francis Jensen examining a teenage patient. Jensen decided to study the teenage brain when her own sons became teenagers. Now Jensen lectures to teens and parents about how teenagers' brains are different.
Richard Knox / NPR
Neurologist Francis Jensen examining a teenage patient. Jensen decided to study the teenage brain when her own sons became teenagers. Now Jensen lectures to teens and parents about how teenagers' brains are different.
When adolescence hit Frances Jensen's sons, she often found herself wondering, like all parents of teenagers, "What were you thinking?"
"It's a resounding mantra of parents and teachers," says Jensen, who's a pediatric neurologist at Children's Hospital in Boston.
Like when son number one, Andrew, turned 16, dyed his hair black with red stripes and went off to school wearing studded leather and platform shoes. And his grades went south.
"I watched my child morph into another being, and yet I knew deep down inside it was the same Andrew," Jensen says. Suddenly her own children seemed like an alien species.
Jensen is a Harvard expert on epilepsy, not adolescent brain development. As she coped with her boys' sour moods and their exasperating assumption that somebody else will pick up their dirty clothes, she decided to investigate what neuroscientists are discovering about teenagers' brains that makes them behave that way.
Enlarge Richard Knox / NPR Jensen's older son Andrew Murphy, now a physics major at Wesleyan, is the reason his mother first started studying the teenage brain. She wanted to find out what was causing his maddening teenage behavior.
Richard Knox / NPR
Jensen's older son Andrew Murphy, now a physics major at Wesleyan, is the reason his mother first started studying the teenage brain. She wanted to find out what was causing his maddening teenage behavior.
Teenage Brains Are Different
She learned that that it's not so much what teens are thinking — it's how.
Jensen says scientists used to think human brain development was pretty complete by age 10. Or as she puts it, that "a teenage brain is just an adult brain with fewer miles on it."
But it's not. To begin with, she says, a crucial part of the brain — the frontal lobes — are not fully connected. Really.
"It's the part of the brain that says: 'Is this a good idea? What is the consequence of this action?' " Jensen says. "It's not that they don't have a frontal lobe. And they can use it. But they're going to access it more slowly."
That's because the nerve cells that connect teenagers' frontal lobes with the rest of their brains are sluggish. Teenagers don't have as much of the fatty coating called myelin, or "white matter," that adults have in this area.
Think of it as insulation on an electrical wire. Nerves need myelin for nerve signals to flow freely. Spotty or thin myelin leads to inefficient communication between one part of the brain and another.
Enlarge Kathryn C Reed Jensen's younger son Will Murphy is now a Harvard student. He says he learned a lot about his teenage brain from his mother.
Kathryn C Reed
Jensen's younger son Will Murphy is now a Harvard student. He says he learned a lot about his teenage brain from his mother.
A Partially Connected Frontal Lobe
Jensen thinks this explains what was going on inside the brain of her younger son, Will, when he turned 16. Like Andrew, he'd been a good student, a straight arrow, with good grades and high SAT scores. But one morning on the way to school, he turned left in front of an oncoming vehicle. He and the other driver were OK, but there was serious damage to the car.
"It was, uh, totaled," Will says. "Down and out. And it was about 10 minutes before morning assembly. So most of the school passed by my wrecked car with me standing next to it."
"And lo and behold," his mother adds, "who was the other driver? It was a 21-year-old — also probably not with a completely connected frontal lobe." Recent studies show that neural insulation isn't complete until the mid-20s.
This also may explain why teenagers often seem so maddeningly self-centered. "You think of them as these surly, rude, selfish people," Jensen says. "Well, actually, that's the developmental stage they're at. They aren't yet at that place where they're thinking about — or capable, necessarily, of thinking about the effects of their behavior on other people. That requires insight."
And insight requires — that's right — a fully connected frontal lobe.
Teen Brains Are Not Fully Connected
The brain's "white matter" enables nerve signals to flow freely between different parts of the brain. In teenagers, the part that governs judgment is the last to be fully connected.
Source: Nature Neuroscience 2003
Credit: Elizabeth Sowell
More Vulnerable To Addiction
But that's not the only big difference in teenagers' brains. Nature made the brains of children and adolescents excitable. Their brain chemistry is tuned to be responsive to everything in their environment. After all, that's what makes kids learn so easily.
But this can work in ways that are not so good. Take alcohol, for example. Or nicotine, cannabis, cocaine, ecstasy ...
"Addiction has been shown to be essentially a form of 'learning,' " Jensen says. After all, if the brain is wired to form new connections in response to the environment, and potent psychoactive drugs suddenly enter that environment, those substances are "tapping into a much more robust habit-forming ability that adolescents have, compared to adults."
So studies have shown that a teenager who smokes pot will still show cognitive deficits days later. An adult who smokes the same dose will return to cognitive baseline much faster.
This bit of knowledge came in handy in Jensen's own household.
"Most parents, they'll say, 'Don't drink, don't do drugs,'" says Will, son number two. "And I'm the type of kid who'd say 'why?' "
When Will asked why, his mom could give him chapter and verse on drugs and teen brains. So they would know, she says, "that if I smoke pot tonight and I have an exam in two days' time, I'm going to do worse. It's a fact."
There were other advantages to having a neuroscientist mom, Will says. Like when he was tempted to pull an all-nighter.
"She would say, 'read it tonight and then go to sleep,'" he says. "And what she explained to me is that it will take [what you've been reading] from your short-term memory and while you sleep you will consolidate it. And actually you will know it better in the morning than right before you went to sleep."
It worked every time, he says.
It also worked for Andrew, the former Goth. He's now a senior at Wesleyan University, majoring in physics.
"I think she's great! I would not be where I am without her in my life!" Andrew says of his mom.
For any parent who has survived teenagers, there are no sweeter words.
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Boy Scouts "Perversion" Files to be Released?
by blondie inboy scouts accused of sex abuse cover-up .
perversion files kept secret by scouts due to confidential information the associated pressupdated 4:12 a.m.
ct,fri., march.
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Yizuman
It's like this - in my country, the age of conscent is still sixteen. That means that a fifty year old man can still go out and have sex with a sixteen year old girl. Now that is abuse, but leave common-sense at the door! My laws tell me it ain't
Here's the beauty of Federal Law. Congress passed a law a few years ago making oversea trips to sexually abuse children illegal. Now only KNOWN RSOs that is flagged when they're making oversea trips. The Feds will monitor them and if they're found to be sexually abusing children, even if it is legal of age in that country, it's still illegal here in the US.
Once they make the trip back and if the Feds have evidence of sexual abuse of children while overseas, they will be arrested once they arrive at the gate.
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The Watchtower Society killed my website
by Elsewhere inyou can thank the watchtower society for this.. here is an email from my hosting company:.
unfortunately it appears your site/account was involved in violation of using copyrighted material involved with watch tower bible and tract society of pennsylvania.".
as a result of this abuse and activity, we will be unable to reinstate this account for any reason.. in addition, due to the nature of this abuse and the risk of transferring sensitive or illegal content if we were to provide you your files, we will be unable to provide with backups.. it is unfortunate that this has occurred, and we are aware that more than likely this was not your intent to host, however the fact remains it did exist and complaints were made.
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Who was the hosting company? Just out of curiosity.
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Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16
by Yizuman inhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011367936_walgreens18m.html.
effective april 16, walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition the latest development in an ongoing dispute over medicaid reimbursement.. the company, which operates 121 stores in the state, will continue filling medicaid prescriptions for current patients.. in a news release, walgreens said its decision to not take new medicaid patients stemmed from a "continued reduction in reimbursement" under the state's medicaid program, which reimburses it at less than the break-even point for 95 percent of brand-name medications dispensed to medicaid patents.. walgreens follows bartell drugs, which stopped taking new medicaid patients last month at all 57 of its stores in washington, though it still fills medicaid prescriptions for existing customers at all but 15 of those stores.. doug porter, the state's director of medicaid, said medicaid recipients should be able to readily find another pharmacy because "we have many more pharmacy providers in our network than we need" for the state's 1 million medicaid clients.. he said those who can't can contact the state's medical assistance customer service center at 1-800-562-3022 for help in locating one.. along with walgreens and bartell, the ritzville drug company in adams county announced in november that it would stop participating in medicaid.. fred meyer and safeway said their pharmacies would continue to serve existing medicaid patients and to take new ones, though both expressed concern that the reimbursement rate is too low for pharmacies to make a profit.. the amount private insurers and medicaid pay pharmacies for prescriptions isn't the actual cost of those drugs but rather is based on what's called the drug's estimated average wholesale price.
but that figure is more like the sticker price on a car than its actual wholesale cost.. washington was reimbursing pharmacies 86 percent of a drug's average wholesale price until july, when it began paying them just 84 percent.
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Sounds like a wonderful idea if you hold to Republican ideals.
Wait, what? Obama is a Republican?
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Walgreens: no new Medicaid patients as of April 16
by Yizuman inhttp://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011367936_walgreens18m.html.
effective april 16, walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition the latest development in an ongoing dispute over medicaid reimbursement.. the company, which operates 121 stores in the state, will continue filling medicaid prescriptions for current patients.. in a news release, walgreens said its decision to not take new medicaid patients stemmed from a "continued reduction in reimbursement" under the state's medicaid program, which reimburses it at less than the break-even point for 95 percent of brand-name medications dispensed to medicaid patents.. walgreens follows bartell drugs, which stopped taking new medicaid patients last month at all 57 of its stores in washington, though it still fills medicaid prescriptions for existing customers at all but 15 of those stores.. doug porter, the state's director of medicaid, said medicaid recipients should be able to readily find another pharmacy because "we have many more pharmacy providers in our network than we need" for the state's 1 million medicaid clients.. he said those who can't can contact the state's medical assistance customer service center at 1-800-562-3022 for help in locating one.. along with walgreens and bartell, the ritzville drug company in adams county announced in november that it would stop participating in medicaid.. fred meyer and safeway said their pharmacies would continue to serve existing medicaid patients and to take new ones, though both expressed concern that the reimbursement rate is too low for pharmacies to make a profit.. the amount private insurers and medicaid pay pharmacies for prescriptions isn't the actual cost of those drugs but rather is based on what's called the drug's estimated average wholesale price.
but that figure is more like the sticker price on a car than its actual wholesale cost.. washington was reimbursing pharmacies 86 percent of a drug's average wholesale price until july, when it began paying them just 84 percent.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011367936_walgreens18m.html
Effective April 16, Walgreens drugstores across the state won't take any new Medicaid patients, saying that filling their prescriptions is a money-losing proposition — the latest development in an ongoing dispute over Medicaid reimbursement.
The company, which operates 121 stores in the state, will continue filling Medicaid prescriptions for current patients.
In a news release, Walgreens said its decision to not take new Medicaid patients stemmed from a "continued reduction in reimbursement" under the state's Medicaid program, which reimburses it at less than the break-even point for 95 percent of brand-name medications dispensed to Medicaid patents.
Walgreens follows Bartell Drugs, which stopped taking new Medicaid patients last month at all 57 of its stores in Washington, though it still fills Medicaid prescriptions for existing customers at all but 15 of those stores.
Doug Porter, the state's director of Medicaid, said Medicaid recipients should be able to readily find another pharmacy because "we have many more pharmacy providers in our network than we need" for the state's 1 million Medicaid clients.
He said those who can't can contact the state's Medical Assistance Customer Service Center at 1-800-562-3022 for help in locating one.
Along with Walgreens and Bartell, the Ritzville Drug Company in Adams County announced in November that it would stop participating in Medicaid.
Fred Meyer and Safeway said their pharmacies would continue to serve existing Medicaid patients and to take new ones, though both expressed concern that the reimbursement rate is too low for pharmacies to make a profit.
The amount private insurers and Medicaid pay pharmacies for prescriptions isn't the actual cost of those drugs but rather is based on what's called the drug's estimated average wholesale price. But that figure is more like the sticker price on a car than its actual wholesale cost.
Washington was reimbursing pharmacies 86 percent of a drug's average wholesale price until July, when it began paying them just 84 percent. While pharmacies weren't happy about the reimbursement reduction, the Department of Social and Health Services said that move was expected to save the state about $10 million.
Then in September came another blow. The average wholesale price is calculated by a private company, which was accused in a Massachusetts lawsuit of fraudulently inflating its figures. The company did not admit wrongdoing but agreed in a court settlement to ratchet its figures down by about 4 percent.
That agreement took effect in September — and prompted a lawsuit by a group of pharmacies and trade associations that said Washington state didn't follow federal law in setting its reimbursement rate, and that that rate is too low. The lawsuit is pending.
"Washington state Medicaid is now reimbursing pharmacies less than their cost of participation," said Jeff Rochon, CEO of the Washington State Pharmacy Association.
Pharmacies that continue to fill Medicaid prescriptions at the current state reimbursement rate are "at risk of putting themselves out of business altogether," he said.
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Here's the CHANGE you can believe in.
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Caprica
by Yizuman inanyone watch that show?.
it starts back to the beginning as to how the cylon race was created, enslaved, rebelled and then eventual war.. http://www.syfy.com/caprica/.
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Yeah, owned by none other than NBC and they're notoriously known to be very hostile towards Sci Fi. Take Star Trek for example. They axed Star Trek after the 3rd season. Then Paramount buys the rights to it, runs the reruns and then turned around to make a multi-billion dollar franchise when Star Trek returned as The Motion Picture, then Wrath of Kahn and others. Then Star Trek: The Next Generation, DS9 and others.
NBC got stupid and threw away the potentiality of making a buttload of money by selling off the rights to another media company who made all the money instead of NBC who thought Star Trek was a bust.
Guess who's the idiot now, huh?
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Caprica
by Yizuman inanyone watch that show?.
it starts back to the beginning as to how the cylon race was created, enslaved, rebelled and then eventual war.. http://www.syfy.com/caprica/.
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Anyone watch that show?
It starts back to the beginning as to how the Cylon race was created, enslaved, rebelled and then eventual war.
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Watchtower blaspheming the holy spirit
by sacolton in"spawn of satan!".
"apostate!".
those are just a few from jehovah's witnesses towards those who have left the watchtower organization to become a follower of jesus christ.. do they know they are blaspheming against the holy spirit?
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Yizuman
Is beleif in the TRINITY something that is needed for salvation?
No, but here's what is required to believe in for salvation.
John 8:24 Jesus said, "I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am the one I claim to be, you will indeed die in your sins."
What is Jesus claiming to be?
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