doidge: when we walk our brains are very very actively involved in processing us and orienting us. older people will often be watching their feet as they're walking down the stairs and because it's a use it or lose it brain, that may not be the best way to go about things. because as you start to rely more on your vision for balance, you're not using your actual balance system. coyote: as we've seen, plasticity can be used for powerful changes or positive plasticity. sometimes, in the older brain the exact opposite can occur, and we witness the ravages of negative plasticity. merzenich: if i fall when i'm older, and i realize i couldn't stop myself from falling, i'm really worried about that. so what do i do? the first thing i do is i turn my head down, i start watching my feet. that's a very negative step. the first thing that's bad is that, i've used my organ of balance from the beginning of time in my life, in this position, and i get pretty good information with this. this is where i'm an expert. now, i'm watching the ground and somebody bumps me. because i'm looking in near vis

their substance use but all the life health areas that are meaningful to them and that would be their relationship with family, their emotional health, their school and vocational orientation and what kind of legal issues or problems they might be involved with as kind of a function of their substance use. so a broad spectrum assessment is critical so that you can work up a good comprehensive treatment plan. so that's the first thing. then you have to have treatments available to deal with those things and that's really kind of the second thing. so if there are some issues such as depression going on and we see with, particularly with females, girls in treatment that oftentimes there are these internalizing disorders that are more common such as depression or generalized anxiety disorder, that type of thing. so that's important that you then have gender-specific treatment available as well and sometimes you want to do that in gender-specific groups. so that would be good and matching female counselors with girls in treatment. [overtalking]...some of the problems they may experience would have to do with sexual abuse, emotional abuse by... yes, victimization is one of the l

from the beginning, they offered various community oriented events, including farmer's market. they offered us opportunities as residents to clean the neighborhood, through neighborhood project. and management has made a significant difference in our community. the vision called for a smart new community, protection of residents in the rent-controlled housing, and to make this the model of sustainability. the new owners have accomplished what they promised, living in a tower apartment. we have a new fitness center, office lobby. the building is a safer, cleaner, greener more efficient home than i moved into in 1997 under the then owner leona helmsly. they have acted on these to create a better eek owe responsibility. what are they expected? approved transportation, a shuttle to bart, better transit, improved transit circulation in and around our community. retail shopping, coffee shops, restaurants. playgrounds. we want sustainable sveltement. open spaces, recreational facilities, efficient use of water and energy t -- energy. solar power. i would suggest that the board listen to the plans for

us. well, that's a family-oriented therapy that's usually done in about a 90-day period. then there's another called the adolescent community reinforcement approach that i'm associated with and this is a model that involves the family as well where we meet individually with a care-giver and we meet individually with the adolescent. we teach skills. as i mentioned earlier, we talk about the lack of positive communication; that things have sort of flipped maybe from the time they were children to when they became an adolescent, things have flipped from positive communication to being characterized by negative communication. and how do you get that back? and greg, how did you get help? what type of treatment program were you exposed to? you know, after i was involved in a crisis, a car accident, you know, hospitalization, my family enrolled me into a chemical dependency residential program in pennsylvania and, you know, i spent 3 or 4 weeks there with a group of peers. so that was really an important part of my treatment was connecting with the 20 or 30 other young people th

know they use their religion argument someone is jewish there may be persecuted if they return to their country anything having to do with religion nationality political opinion sexual orientation these are the claims that they use in order to try to seek asylum here so when people do use these claims clearly i mean they have this david lean case i'm assuming that it's not the only one of the government is aware that there are people that try to take advantage of it try to you know play their own game with the system so what are the effects that do they do you think they start you know letting fewer people in because of it or do they finally you know wise up as. start actually checking these people out well the press officer for the u.s. citizenship and immigration services did point out that there is a division that to tax fraud a national security division within that system but you know these things still you know there are still loopholes in there and people still get away with this the problem is that what you have now or what you had is over three hundred fraudulent applications that were literally clogging up the system i mean from philadelphia to chicago and so people w

use e-mail so we can communicate with them more effectively. we host community meetings and public events. every month, we do some sort of networking and community event. we do orientations by appointments. all they need to do is call us and make an appointment. we give them a tour of the facility and tell them how they can begin to produce programs. we provide training at a very low cost. each is about $20 to $60. we implemented a low-income membership program for $10 a year. people have access to everything i described. my staff members are working really, really hard to get all of that done. i really want to increase the membership, increase access, and gradually build these programs over time. we are working with the city pretty extensively on broadband adoption and trying to make use of the comcast fiber network that exists. we used a lot of our capital money to equip cultural centers so we can do training there, bring more access into the community, put field here there, and help them produce live shows from their theaters. chairperson campos: thank you, but we do have a question. supervisor mar: with the shoestring budget you are trying to operate -- tracy rosenfe

use e-mail so we can communicate with them more effectively. we host community meetings and public events. every month, we do some sort of networking and community event. we do orientations by appointments. all they need to do is call us and make an appointment. we give them a tour of the facility and tell them how they can begin to produce programs. we provide training at a very low cost. each is about $20 to $60. we implemented a low-income membership program for $10 a year. people have access to everything i described. my staff members are working really, really hard to get all of that done. i really want to increase the membership, increase access, and gradually build these pam

to get the families to come in and actually participate in a family-oriented type of therapy is extremely hard. it's very hard for us. we've talked about "any door, the right door." increasingly we see more programs similar to the recovery community services program, similar to community and faith based programs. how do - what do they bring to the mix in terms of co-occurring issues, dr. clark? well, the recovery community services program is designed to involve people in recovery, or organizations facilitating venues for people in recovery to help provide services. most kinds of services are what some people label "wraparound services" - emotional support, transportation, literacy training. sometimes they just offer opportunities for job placement or job readiness. the key issue is giving the individual who has a problem an opportunity to see that he or she can improve, as josh was pointing out. and the consumer in recovery represents a model. it doesn't represent the individual who has the co-occurring problem, per se, but it's a model of hope. and by reaching out and involving that individual, we offer hope to th

public interest so that if i get you how to use it it's breaking down certain stereotypes you might have about. gender or ethnicity about sexual orientation and things like that i mean if you mean example what you mean by that we're in example where these reality programs can actually help what i would use is a progressive agenda. yes i mean i think you know if you look at the big brother in the u.k. which has just just been launched launched last week you know you've got such a huge range of people in there and there's very little space elsewhere on television where you get that diversity so i think there are there are sort of really important developments and that's not to say that reality t.v. has the power to eliminate all stereotypes because because of course in many ways it's quite a conservative schoener in many ways it does hold certain definitions of what citizens are and those who belong and those who do not but i think what's important to look at just not what we are to t.v. kind of doing to society but also how society is reflected in reality television and so i think it's a two way process and there is a dialogue going on ste

use of time. tenant improvement was not our special. we talked with a number of interior oriented firms. we are very ambitious and what we're offering. we wanted to hire an interior design firm that could bring that kind of specialness to this space. we are very are happy with what they brought to us >> did you learn anything about working with architects >> i remember when they put their proposal, they were more concerned about having a client that was an architect. we had a lot of ideas ourselves and had done a lot of the preliminary work. we haven't really shown that. may be we did a lot. but these work areas and how the project manager gathers around. we had our own ideas. i think we were probably a good client because we were able to articulate and able to collaborate. that idea of having the move manager, the builder, designer, us all together was what facilitated us doing it so quickly. >> i really want to reenforce that you guys were a fantastic client. there was a lot of collaboration . we would develop a conceptual sketch and pass it off and it was a very collaborative process.

like a press release and maybe you learn about it on day one of orientation and then it becomes this meaningless plaque on the wall and for us we wanted to have committable core values and we wanted to hire and fire people based on the individual job performance. when you use the criteria it's a tough list to come up with and that made the company that much stronger and it drove employee engagement and passion and employee productivity has gone up and it's really driven a lot of our growth over the years. >> what a great and refreshing culture. great to have you on the program. >> thank you. >> tony shea, zappos.com. >>> up next on "the wall street journal report," the best places to live and work in the next decade and they might not include the usual suspects. see the list that calls topeka tops. and become a fan on facebook. you'll findous facebook at wsjr with maria. any vacation we want? with our chase ultimate rewards, we can go anywhere. how about snorkeling? how about camping? welcome to ultimate rewards. maybe skiing? the rewards program that lets you go anywhere... let's go there. anyt no black outs. no restriction

so using community coalitions, outreach in the faith community regardless of your religious orientation makes it clear that alcohol and drugs are a problem and that recovery from them can occur and that prevention is an important message. because we find silence- when we look at our household survey data, when people stop viewing a particular drug as a potential threat to the community, that drug becomes a threat to the community. that's bizarre, but that's what happens. we stop thinking of it as a potential threat and it becomes a threat. so we need to make sure that the whole community embraces that ecosystem that marco was talking about. that's the issue. we have a recovery-oriented environment which starts with community coalitions recognizing that alcohol and drugs are a problem and then move toward the treatment community and then to the recovery environment. and i just wanted to add something real quick. within the native american communities, in order for recovery to really take hold, because alcohol as an addiction is real prevalent among our people, the community has to heal f

a lot of the effort to reach orients here in terms of the use of resources within the defense departmentudget is to ensure that the men and women in uniform are adequately provided for. and that is a growing cost. we all recognize it. but it is an important one that has to be met. host: marion blakey has had a long career in the public sector before moving on to her position at the aerospace industry association. she has held six presidential appointments, four that required senate confirmation. from 1992-1993 as the head of the national highway traffic safety administration. and also five-year term as the administrator of the federal aviation administration, faa. we are talking about defense spending and priorities. the next telephone call is from missouri. judy is on the republican line. you are on the air. caller: thank you for being here. i appreciate the topic this morning. i am a veteran. i served in the 1980's, in the cold war. this was when bric was going on, and, boy, political fights. i am a republican and i am madder than heck at these republicans out here. it does not hurt to

federation of teachers which is one of the two big unions, probably the more reform oriented of the unions. between us, what will you say to them? [applause] -- [laughter] the union has reached out and gotten involved in a number of these reform efforts. our foundation has four districts with both the district and the union has agreed to really measure the teachers and give them feedback and where they are short in terms of keeping the classroom for helping the student who is behind or helping the one that is ahead. there are ways you pick the dimension that somebody is better at it and give them the way of transferring that knowledge. in the four districts, two of those are ast districts. i praise the union leader who took the part of the contract that said you have to notify somebody weeks in advance if you are coming into the classroom and you can only be in the classroom for a period of time, they're changing that to say there is a web came in there that is taking video and if you have a part were don't think you did a good job, remember what time it was cannot show it to someone else and get advi

us out, it makes all the difference in the world. >> when you want to come in and volunteer, you go through a general orientation, about two hours.lot of flexibility. and the various programs available, are baseline dog walking. you can work with the cats. you can work with tony's kitty rescue, with the small animals and guinea pigs and birds and chickens. >> you always have an appreciative audience. >> do you feel that what you have learned here helped you with your own dogs? >> the training they don't have? yes. and it's things that you learn, we usually outlive our dogs and every time you get a new one, you have skills to teach them. >> one of the programs is training program and it's staffed by a member of the community and one of the programs she has is dog socialization. >> we started this program for canine socialization. and all the dogs available for adoption get to play for two hours. and it's a time for them to get incredible exercise and play with other dogs and we have remedial socialization. and it's incredible the dogs and they get exercise and run and tumble and when most adopters come to look in the afternoon, th

federation of teachers which is one of the two big unions, probably the more reform oriented of the unions. between us, what will you say to them? [applause] -- [laughter] the union has reached out and gotten involved in a number of these reform efforts. our foundation has four districts with both the district and the union has agreed to really measure the teachers and give them feedback and where they are short in terms of keeping the classroom for helping the student who is behind or helping the one that is ahead. there are ways you pick the dimension that somebody is better at it and give them the way of transferring that knowledge. in the four districts, two of those are ast districts. i praise the union leader who took the part of the contract that said you have to notify somebody weeks in advance if you are coming into the classroom and you can only be in the classroom for a period of time, they're changing that to say there is a web came in there that is taking video and if you have a part were don't think you did a good job, remember what time it was cannot show it to someone else and get advi