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“Hands up, don’t shoot” is on TV, on magazine covers, on the internet, in newspapers, on the streets of major cities, and on suburbia playgrounds. Professional sports teams and dozens of congressional staffers have used the gesture. Photographers recently took photos of children on a school bus holding their hands up and chanting “hands up, …
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Some people retire at a much younger age than ever before. Late 50’s and early 60’s is fast becoming the norm, including affording second careers, entrepreneurship, voluntarism, rest, relaxation, social outings, and most recently senior gambling. Casino gaming has become an emerging leisure activity for the retired population. With an increase in legalized casinos, and …
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The holidays are a great time to connect with family and friends around the dinner table, in front of the television for a big game, for a long walk on a warm, west coast evening, or to enlist some help in shoveling east coast snow. Black Friday shopping, catching a movie, or gathering around a …
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Society continually feeds the notion that culture and environment affect the brain and strongly contribute to one’s successes or failures. Culture contributes to functional subsystems in the brain that might not otherwise exist and research shows culture influences brain functioning, however, environment, language, social, economic, and biological factors along with language have a much bigger …
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Have you noticed the latest vitamin craze? Although no vitamin is a miracle drug, Vitamin D is in the news again. Medical journals and the internet are full of well substantiated studies and amazing results. Researchers have discovered vitamin D may play an important role in mental health and in depression. Studies show Vitamin D …
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