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This article appeared in an April 2016 issue of the student newsletter.
Many students are in the dark when it comes to understanding our economy. But you don't have to be one of them. If you learn a bit about our economy today, it can help you make wise life choices — from career planning to car buying.
This month's topic: The Minimum Wage.
A minimum wage is the lowest salary or compensation that employers can legally award to their workers. Today, minimum wage laws differ by state; however, the federal minimum wage is $7.25.
The idea of a minimum wage is loved by some and scorned by others. Supporters say having a minimum wage reduces poverty and income inequality. Opponents state the exact opposite, saying a minimum wage increases poverty and unemployment.
Whatever side of the argument you fall on, however, it is easy to see that in the United States, the minimum wage is here to stay. The question then becomes, "what will the minimum wage be?"
The idea of a minimum wage dates back to 1348, when the Black Plague spread across England. At that time King Edward III was in power, watching helplessly as his people died by the millions from the Black Plague. Historians consider this one of the most devastating disease pandemics in human history.
As people died, there was a great shortage of workers, and wages rocketed sky high as employers were desperate to hire help. The king responded by setting a maximum wage — yes, you read that right, a maximum wage — to ensure businesses could stay competitive.
Fast forward a few centuries and skip over to Australia and New Zealand, where sweatshops were popular. In sweatshops, workers were being paid pennies for a day's labor and were unable to cover their basic needs for food and shelter. The government stepped in and set the first modern "minimum wages" to try to protect people from receiving unfair pay.
In the United States, national minimum wage laws were set in 1938.
Today, rates vary across states, with the lowest minimum wage being $7.25 per hour. This pay is set by the federal government.
Some states choose to make their minimum wage higher. In fact, just this month, California and New York decided to do just that — raising their state's minimum wage to $15 per hour, beginning in 2022.
"As economic conditions improve, minimum wage legislation has become a hot topic," explains Robert Daye, chief economist at Comerica Bank. "Recently, both California and New York have enacted legislation that will increase their state minimum wage substantially, joining other states, counties and cities in that effort. I expect more regional governments to follow suit in the near future."
While the minimum wage is a common salary standard in some industries, like food and retail, it is important to remember this is just a base pay. Individual businesses have the option to pay wages above the state's minimum wage. And many do, including Walmart, Gap and Ikea, which recently increased workers' minimum hourly wage.
Texas' minimum wage is unlikely to change anytime soon. The Texas state legislature will re-examine the issue next year, but last session's attempts to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 failed resoundingly.
In the end, the best way to increase your earnings is to increase your learning. Studies confirm this fact again and again. The longer you stay in school, the higher your lifetime earning potential. Or, as one student shared, "more study, more money." Professor Yolanda Romero agrees.
"A person with an associate degree will make $400,000 more in their lifetime than someone who is just a high school graduate," explains Romero. "[And] life happens … if they get an associate degree and have to drop out of college before completing a bachelor's degree, at least they have a degree and not just hours. [It] proves that the student has completed something; it shows commitment."
DCCCD Chancellor Dr. Joe May also believes increasing your wages begins with increasing your knowledge. He says that skills open the door to jobs that pay well — a living wage that is necessary for America's middle class to retool, rebuild and resurrect itself.
"Those new wage-earners then can support their families, broaden the tax base and contribute to the economic success of their communities. It's a win-win situation."
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"Doctors can't prescribe until yogi's describe" is the motto of the newly announced Yoga Genome Project created by the Yoga Care Foundation (YCF). This ambitious research project is designed to help medical professionals decipher the many styles of yoga so they can effectively recommend its use as a therapeutic modality.
The quantity and quality of yoga related research being conducted and published by respected sources has grown exponentially over the last few years. While much of this research points towards the beneficial relationship between yogic practices (including asana, pranayama, and meditation) and health and healing, the results don't always provide health care providers with the information they need to begin integrating these practices into their treatment plans. The Yoga Genome Project will culminate in the creation of a tool that is intended to close this gap.
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For the first phase of the project, the YCF has planned the largest and most extensive survey of yoga practitioners and professionals yet conducted. To participate, lineage founders and studio owners in are encouraged to become Studio Research Affiliates. Subsequently, all those who practice at Affiliate centers will be invited to complete a series of online surveys.
The results of these surveys will help the YCF define the many different characteristics that could describe a yoga class, including: level of physical intensity, amount of social interaction, and time spent in relaxation, meditation, or focusing on the breath. These characteristics will then be used to create a map of current yoga styles that breaks down the make-up of a typical class.
The resulting guide will provide physicians and other health care professionals with a reference to assist them in determining the most appropriate regime for each patient based on their unique needs and health concerns. Rich Goldstein, founder of the Yoga Genome Project, states "although we know yoga to be much more than the sum of its parts, we can make yoga more accessible to other people by describing those parts".
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Net exports increased (after decreasing in the fourth quarter), consumer spending accelerated, and residential housing investment picked up in the first quarter. These positive economic contributions, however, were more than offset by a slowdown in inventory investment.
The slowdown in inventory investment reflected a sharp downturn in the manufacturing and wholesale industries. In contrast, retail inventory investment turned up, especially by motor vehicles dealers.
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ZeusMiner Blizzard X6 is the smallest of all new lower power usage Scrypt ASIC miners from Zeus, it is the successor of the previous Blizzard units, but unlike the bigger models this one actually has more chips running at lower frequency. The end result is higher hashrate of the new unit as compared to the performance of the older miner that also comes with higher power consumption. The old Blizzard units offered 1.3-1.4 MHS with 6 chips at about 50 Watts of power usage, the new Blizzard X6 uses 24 chips at lower operating voltage and frequency and should provide 4 MHS at 100W. This means almost three times the hashrate with just two times the power usage, so it does not sound like a bad improvement. It is interesting to note that the Blizzard X6 was initially announced at 3.6 MHS and now the official specifications state 4 MHS.
Unlike with the older Blizzard that included a PSU and USB cable in the package, the new ZeusMiner Blizzard X6 does not include these anymore. We have received our unit with just the miner, no micro-USB cable in the package or a power adapter, not even a 4-pin Molex or 6-pin PCI-E adapter for powering the device with an ATX power supply. This left us a bit disappointed, but was probably done to save costs and make the price of the miner lower. We could've gone easily without a PSU, but the USB cable and a connector for a computer PSU is something that must be in the package as not everyone will have these already available like we do.
The Blizzard X6 cooling design is not perfect, but apparently it works pretty well delivering enough cooling performance with not so loud level of noise. We have measured the power usage of the new miner to be about 106W with the device running at 235 MHz at the wall and the level of noise from the cooling fans was at just about 45 dBA. Looking at the board with the chips we have noticed that the Blizzard X6 also uses 1.1V voltage and the maximum recommended operating frequency is 248 MHz, though you probably would want to use a lower number to get less HW errors.
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We have tested running the ZeusMiner Blizzard X6 at different frequencies and the one that seemed to provide the best results with our unit was 235 MHz, though you may have varying success with lower or higher frequencies, so we do recommend to try going up to about 250 MHz. At 235 MHz operating frequency the Blizzard X6 was able to provide about 3.8-3.9 MHS with about 4.5% of HW errors. We already know that the Zeus Scrypt ASIC miners do actually have higher number of HW errors compared to most other ASIC miners, however we do not like to push our hardware too much and get like 10% of HW errors – something that is easily achievable if you try to push the new X6 miners to about 250 MHz.
A look at the average poolside reported hashrate from the LTC Rabbit Scrypt mining pool using the new fixed difficulty port with 1024 difficulty for Scrypt ASIC miners and the Blizzard X6 running at 235 MHz operating frequency. We've seen that the actual pool hashrate has varied between 3686 and 4164 MHS for a 24 hour period of time, but the average should be about the advertised 4 MHS rate.
The ZeusMiner Blizzard X6 Scrypt ASIC miner is not the best choice for investment, especially now with the current low LTC price, at least not for people interested mostly in the fast ROI. In fact the Blizzard X6 is intended for the people that are mining as a hobby or just for fun, it is also a good way to get some experience with Scrypt ASIC mining, if it is something new for you, without having to invest too much into hardware and only focus on the profit. The Blizzard X6 is also a great choice for the modding community, just like the previous version of Blizzard – doing experiments with overvolting and modifying the cooling solution. It is a fun little and affordable Scrypt miner to play with and experiment with, but not something that will get you quick return of investment or even make you profit. So think carefully what you are getting this miner for and should you really invest some cash into it or not, though the same applies for the larger ZeusMiner Scrypt ASICs as well with the current market situation.


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Hebron Village President John Jacobson, for years, had been viewing pornographic photos and videos through his work email and forwarding them during work hours, sometimes to colleagues, before he was fired from McHenry County College in February 2013.
The new details regarding the college's investigation came from documents obtained by the Northwest Herald last week after the newspaper challenged MCC's response to a Freedom of Information Act request made in February.
In addition to laying out in 15 bullet points the school's reasons for firing Jacobson, the documents show the origins of the investigation, which began Jan. 17, 2013, in response to Jacobson's arrest for possession of crack cocaine two days earlier.
In February, MCC responded to a Northwest Herald FOIA request for information surrounding investigations of Jacobson by providing the school's termination letter and the agenda and minutes from the meeting he was dismissed. But the school claimed several other materials, including a letter from MCC President Vicky Smith to Jacobson summarizing the school's investigation of him, were exempt.
They also denied the existence of a campus police report specifically referenced by a McHenry County State's Attorney's Office official during an interview with the Northwest Herald.
Smith's 8-page letter, provided by the college's attorney this week along with several other additional documents, gave an exhibit-by-exhibit description of graphic and inappropriate images and videos Jacobson had viewed or forwarded. Some of the inappropriate emails have subject lines containing "XXX," while other subject lines are vague, such as "Pictures – too good to pass up," or misleading, such as "Sunsets, my favorite time of day."
The letter also moved point-by-point through Jacobson's interview with MCC officials. At one point, he admitted a photo containing adolescent boys in the nude was "probably illegal." At several others, he admitted viewing the material during work hours, according to the letter.
The letter said the documents were "sent by or forwarded to individuals you [Jacobson] knew, including family members, friends and other College employees."
Smith also pointed out Jacobson was insubordinate in keeping personal tools at the college when asked repeatedly to remove them. But most of her 15 reasons for recommending Jacobson's firing in the letter dealt with his misuse of the college's email system.
"The e-mails, attachments and videos you received were not isolated incidents," Smith wrote. "You communicated repeatedly with individuals you knew, viewed and saved the images, and forwarded the images sometimes months or years after you initially received them."
Jacobson said Friday that the emails were sent to him, and that he didn't seek out the inappropriate material. He also denied forwarding them.
"I opened them because I did not know what was there," he said.
Jacobson said his focus was on the village of Hebron, which is in talks with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency to rework the loan on its wastewater treatment plant, negotiations that will have much to do with the village's financial health going forward.
"You're digging up old stories," Jacobson said. "We got some real issues going on in our village. That's what I have to focus on."
After an initial request for review of a FOIA response, public bodies get a chance to back their exemptions to the attorney general. Their response gets sent to the individual who requested the review, who typically gets a chance for rebuttal before a ruling from the attorney general.
But after their initial response to the request for review, MCC's attorney sent several additional documents to the Northwest Herald, including the letter from Smith and a short letter from an administrator to Jacobson that placed him on suspension as the investigation launched. The school initially denied again that a police report existed.
A day later, after the Northwest Herald contacted the state's attorney's office, MCC FOIA Officer Laura Brown sent the report to the Northwest Herald.
On Friday, State's Attorney Lou Bianchi said he'd left a message for Smith regarding the report. She responded with a voicemail saying it had been sent to the paper, Bianchi said.
"That was the extent of the message," he said.
MCC spokeswoman Christina Haggerty said Friday that the document was withheld because it was an "information report" that was used during an "internal investigation."
Other documents of the internal investigation the college said are exempt from disclosure were listed in MCC's response to the request for review. The report from campus police wasn't referenced, but the response did reiterate that the school was not in possession of a "police report."
Earlier this year, Brown said the college had consulted with the state's attorney's office but hadn't forwarded the office any documents. The report shows a record that it had been sent twice to the office – once in February 2013 – before Jacobson's firing – and again Feb. 28, 2014, during the Northwest Herald's investigation into Jacobson.
The report provided few unknown details. Some of the pornographic images Jacobson had received and forwarded contained images of children with exposed genitalia. The state's attorney's office determined the images didn't meet the threshold for child porn because they weren't sexual in nature, said Assistant State's Attorney Michael Combs, chief of the criminal division.
The report noted that there was "no criminal intent to justify prosecution."


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1 lb thick cut pork chops
2 tablespoons canola oil
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1/2 pound rice stick noodles
1 cucumber, in thin strips
2 carrots, in long strips
1 head red or green leaf lettuce
fresh mint
pork marinade:
2 tablespoons rice vinegar
2 tablespoons rice wine
2 tablespoons dark soy sauce
1 teaspoon black sesame oil
2 cloves garlic, sliced
dipping sauce:
1 quarter cup roasted peanuts, ground
3 tablespoons hoisin sauce
2 tablespoons dark soy sauce
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1/2 teaspoon grated fresh ginger
1/2 teaspoon grated garlic
First, mix marinade ingredients in a small bowl and marinate pork in refrigerator for at least 30 minutes. Heat the oil in a skillet Add pork and cook until pork is cooked and sauce has thickened, covering if needed. Cut into thin strips. Then, boil rice stick noodles for 5 minutes and blanch in cold water. Cut noodles into bite-sized pieces.
Whisk together all ingredients for the dipping sauce, set aside.
Fill a wide bowl or pot with warm water. Each rice paper wrapper must be soaked individually. For each roll, soak a wrapper until pliable and soft. Remove the wrapper and spread out on a clean surface. Add a small portion of the noodles towards the middle of the wrapper. Add a portion of the lettuce, a portion of the meat, and mint. Fold the rice paper from both sides in towards the middle, then lift the end closest to you and roll away from you, grabbing all of the filling, and roll until the spring roll is closed. Repeat with remaining ingredients. Serve at room temperature.
*Sometimes labeled spring roll wrappers. Not to be confused with refrigerated egg roll wrappers, they are round, brittle, translucent and sold directly off the shelf.
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Solar Kinetic Artist
University of Windsor, Master of Fine Art, 1986
University of Western Ontario, Bachelor of Fine Art, Honors,1984
University of Toronto, Art History Studies, 1984
Rein Triefeldt's environmental kinetic solar sculptures have been exhibited internationally for more than twenty years. Exhibitions of his work have been seen in Asia, Europe, and South America as well as the United States. Cirque du Soleil International, Art Integration Programs hosted a world tour of his prints and bronze kinetic sculptures.
Triefeldt has received many commissions for his work, which make a powerful environmental statement. "Condor del Sol", a solar humanitarian earth art project in Ecuador to supply water and power to a mountain village, " Solar Tree" projects in Hillsborough, CA and Princeton, NJ; "Solar Butterfly" in Sunny Isle, FL and a solar kinetic art project at the Dutch Biennale in the Netherlands are but a few of these projects. One of the founders of the Kinetic Art Organization and Founder of the Solar Tree Foundation, Triefeldt has received several awards for his work.
For more than a decade, Rein has been creating sculptures that produce energy from the sun and are scaled to provide the power for homes, museums, sculpture parks, arboretums, vineyards and public places. His work blends a commitment to traditional sculptural elements and materials with a dedication to 21st century solar technology, allowing every project to reflect its own unique sense of character.
Public Art Commissions
2013 Fossils, Fair Dinkum Construction, Palm Beach Island, FL
2009 Sunny Isles Beach Blue, The City of Sunny Isles Beach, FL
2008-09 Solar Tree, Hillsborough City School District, CA
2006 Stellarator Quark Park, Princeton, NJ (in collaboration with the Department of Energy-Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University)
2005 Chaotic Flyers, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, PA
2005 Variki Arc and Russian Swing, Cirque du Soleil International
2005 Temple, International Schools Services,
(through Contemporary Integrated Arts, Princeton, NJ )
2005 Solar One, The Dutch Biennale, The Netherlands
2003 SeeSaw, Samek & Associates, Boston, MA
1998 Lunicyclisté, Merrill Lynch Building, Windsor, Canada
1997 Flyer, University of Windsor, CAW Student Center
1996 Olympic High Flyer, Centennial Olympic Games, Atlanta, GA
1992 Cathay Pacific Airways, Hong Kong, China
Works in Progress
Solar Tree Projects:
Central Charter School, Lauderdale Lakes, FL.
Highgate International Schools, Cyprus. Drexel Universsity, School of Education, Philadelphia, PA and GKE China
Public Art Master Plan, MainStreetNB.com, N. Brunswick, NJ
Condor del Sol, Ecuador
Public and Private collections through out the world.
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The remains of a dying star look like a puff of cotton candy in this infrared image from Spitzer Space Telescope. Known as NGC 4361, the star is classified as a planetary nebula because of its superficial resemblance to a planet. It has expelled its outer layers of gas, which are expanding into space at thousands of miles per hour. The star's hot core, a white dwarf, illuminates the surrounding nebula. [NASA/JPL]
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A star is both bright and a little dull: It's bright enough to shine across vast cosmic distances, but about as exciting to look at as a bare light bulb.
Until it reaches the final stages of life, that is. Then, like a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, it dazzles the eye with not just its brilliance, but its beauty. It expels its outer layers into space and sculpts them into shapes that resemble soap bubbles, hourglasses, atoms, and strands of DNA, colored in shades of yellow, blue, orange, and red.
An example is in Corvus, the crow, whose brightest stars form a shape like a sail. It's low in the southeast at nightfall and floats across the south later on.
Telescopes reveal a small puff of light near the top of the sail that resembles a cottonball or a sprig of cotton candy. Known as NGC 4361, it's a planetary nebula -- a star that's in its death throes. Its outer layers of gas and dust are flowing out into space. The star's exposed core lights up this material, forming the bright nebula. It may be sculpted in part by the gravity of a smaller companion star, forming a thick disk around the dying star's waist.
In a few tens of thousands of years, the nebula will dissipate and fade from view. But others will take its place. In fact, the stars that outline Corvus's "sail" all face that same future, and some of them in the relatively near future -- astronomically speaking, that is: sometime in the next few million years.
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Sunday, October 31, 2010
10:06 AM | Posted by BellaDaddy | Edit Post
Happy Halloween
See if anyone realizes the Frankenstein reference!
(Insert Evil Laugh Here)
And A Huge Thanks to our Special Guests:
Sarah & Amy!
Friday, October 29, 2010
Halloween Warning!
10:50 AM | Posted by BellaDaddy | Edit Post
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
YO! You Following ME?
11:29 AM | Posted by BellaDaddy | Edit Post
Being back in the blog-o-sphere is cool...loving it. Especially the comments you all leave...some of them leave me in tears, laughing out loud and some, well perhaps, at times, a bit confused. Believe me, it is Me, not You! :-)
I have also noticed, there are many more followers than before. If you wanna see them, look to the right of this post. I see many familiar faces, and allot that are not.
I am honored, and humbled that there are so many whom wish to "follow" our escapades. At the same time, I am a bit bewildered by it as well.
So, with that in mind, let me know who you are.
If you are following, and have never left a comment, please feel free to do so. NOW!
Seriously, I would love to know who you are, if you have a blog of your own.
If you are concerned about leaving personal info in comments, know this, all comments are "approved" by me, before posting. Therefore, when you leave a comment, let me know it is confidential. I will either not post it, or edit the content.
So, with that being said, c'mon, you know you wanna:
Leave A Comment. Allow us that little peek into your lives. If you are planning a family, have a little one already or just following cuz we are silly fun, I wanna know. Okie Dokie?
You'll feel so much better. I promise! HA!
Monday, October 18, 2010
Daddy's Crying!
8:55 AM | Posted by BellaDaddy | Edit Post
I purposely did not post this past weekend, instead, hoping not to jinx it, I waited.
(and, there she goes...)
I did. IN STARBUCKS!
Daddy's a big ole baby.
WOW, whomever said we should question school administrators or teachers, were dead wrong. We were told I would be the emotional one, and boy were they spot on. Bella was like:..."CYA" and was eager (too eager) to join the kids on the playground for before school fun...and because she had chapped lips, and lip balm on, I couldn't even get a kiss. She did, however, blow me an "air kiss!" *SIGH*...
(see my back pack)
It all started on Thursday, the day we got the call...Bella was accepted to Pre-School. Frantic, I called her pediatrician, because I knew she hadn't had her 4 year immunizations just yet. We were lucky, they had a Nurse Practitioner ready on Saturday morning. Whew!!
Spent all day and evening Friday, pumping the little one up: "Bella, you have to be brave." "Bella, you are going to get 4 shots" "Bella, they are gonna hurt, but it will be better soon" "Bella, you will get a lollypop after the shots" Etc...Etc...
(good luck rainbow)
(heading through the school gate)
I did not!
I don't do well with Bella and doctors office visits. I am always so concerned with her temperament, that I am certain, I cause her to be more nervous. So, I don't go anymore. Papa does. THANKFULLY!
As Papa said, Bella was a trooper. It was over in a matter of moments, and she was back to being herself. Very little tears. How does he get so lucky? Dunno, but I suspect, if I had been there, holy terror, there would have been "Drama - Trauma!!"
She has been so excited to head off to school. And no better example than this morning. Woke up. Got dressed. ate Breakfast...and was "ready to go now, Daddy".
Of course, i was the one delaying. Had to take pics. Ready to go, back pack on, at the gates, in the school...I was doing everything in my power not to lose it.
(and, there she goes...)
I did. IN STARBUCKS!
They asked where Bella was, I told them she had started her first day...and headed out to the parking lot. And cried!
Daddy's a big ole baby.
And now? Writing this, I feel better...Sorta!
Think I am gonna go let lose again!
Daddy's Crying!
Friday, October 15, 2010
School Daze
5:00 AM | Posted by BellaDaddy | Edit Post
So, we decided, long before Bella was born, that I would be a stay at home parent. Assuming I would be able to handle taking care of a kid, 24/7 for the first five years of her life. We were pretty adamant, considering we both had started school, then. Kindergarten.
Well, life moves on, things change and well, our outlook did too.
Now, before anyone assumes the worst, yes, I have had my moments, quite a few in the last year actually. I have noticed, and probably conveyed a bit too much: CABIN FEVER! Impatience. Yelling. but, never spanking. Yeah, I can yell. Big surprise , eh? HA!
Honestly though, it is more of a deep voice kinda thing. When I am angry with the little one (or Papa), the voice deepens a few octaves. Not Darth Vader deep, but low enough to get my point across. Normally. Not as often as I would like, but...well..it works. sometimes.
Anyhoo, I have noticed that my deep voice rantings are not working as much anymore. The little one chooses to ignore my warnings of not running in the house, running in flip flops, and in general, not running at all. Although, bribery still works. Probably will till the day I die LOL! She thinks it is funny to disobey these warnings, and Papa? Well, Papa likes to push my buttons and instigate the little one. NO worries, we are truly a happy family, but hell, I seem to be experiencing the good cop/bad cop dilemma.
Which brings me to this: I get a break! FINALLY!!
Albeit only a few hours a day, but YIKES! It has been FOUR YEARS since I had this much time on my hands...what will I do? Probably clean house. Initially. Then? Get back in shape. Yeah, contrary to popular belief, I ain't this pretty under all the clothes. I need work. Not having had that luxury in so many years, now is the time.
Enough of me. The reason for this post?: BELLA IS GOING TO SCHOOL! NOW! Before kindergarten.
We had known for some time, that the public school system in our state sucks. BIG TIME! Therefore, we were seeking alternatives for her schooling. She is a bright, creative and opinionated kid. Therefore, she needs to be stimulated. So, we determined the best bet would be private schools. NOT!
SHEESH, even with the economy in such a state, the tuition for kindergarten and up was a minimum of 12k per year. FOR A 5 YEAR OLD? I remember paying that for college...(almost)!
UH UH...so after careful and extensive research, we decided on Montessori. She can learn at her own pace, and excel. The system is such that it enables students to have a more personal approach to education, rather than the teacher sitting behind a desk, spouting off essays, rules and warnings.
So, we found a school. Learned there was a waiting list, and decided to apply. It is fairly close to our new home and we needed to get her on the list for kindergarten . ASAP!
We did, took the tour and discovered there was ONE opening for pre-school. PRE-SCHOOL!
Such the excellent adventure! Although we had never considered it before, we know this, now, will teach her the importance of socialization. And give her a head start on the learning/schooling processes.
We've already bought her back-pack, thermos and lunch pail. She is thrilled. For now. We all know that can change the moment she walks through that door and realizes Daddy & Papa wont be there...We all went through it at one point or another...life moves...and moves...and moves.
Yesterday, Thursday, Bella met her teacher for the first time. They call this an assessment. Teachers meet with students, one on one.
It went well. We Think. We should find out today if she has been accepted. Fingers crossed!
Perhaps soon...not only will I have time for me, I can do laundry, clean the house, pick up toys, plan dinner, work out and BLOG AGAIN!
*SIGH* (it only took 4 years and several months)
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Halloween Redux
6:48 AM | Posted by BellaDaddy | Edit Post
Who knew our little one was frugal? With all the toys floating around, the cool clothes and perfume! And lest we forget the shoes. Gotta have the shoes that match.
However, this Halloween, Bella surprised us by saving her Daddy & Papa over $100 bucks!
True True!
We were trying to get a head start on Halloween this year, being that it will be her first time heading door to door. We have been pumping her up, teaching her the do's and dont's of trick or treating: "Ring the bell, or knock - say "TRICK OR TREAT"...then run like crazy! KIDDING! We all know the score for Halloween.
Since Bella was 1 , she has thoroughly enjoyed being the one to give out the candy. We have pretty much held back on her experiencing the sweet shops of lore, instead, "treating" her with sugar free ice creams, yogurt, fruits and fun veggies, and the like. She has been cool about it...until now.
She KNOWS what those commercials on TV are all about now...SHE KNOWS!! And she never lets us forget it. Being the Little Miss Chatterley that she is, she constantly, and incessantly, talks. (Another post soon, I promise)
So, this year, we decided, since we are moving soon to a cool new neighborhood, now is the time.
Anyhoo, back to "The Savings!"
We were recently looking through pictures of Halloweens past, Bella and I, when she remembered she had wings in the closet. We had previously chosen a Queen of Hearts costume. (Think Alice in Wonderland, the original) and it was in an online catalog for just about $100. You know the type: Costume Only, crown extra. Etc... So, it would have been approximately $150.00 when all the accoutrement were purchased.
Looking at the pictures, a bell went off in her head!!
"Daddy, where are my wings, I want my wings. The wings make me fly, I want my Wings. Can you find them Daddy? I want to wear them, Daddy. Please, oh please, Daddy, I want my wings!"....OK OK You get the idea.
Daddy found the wings.
And, I recalled storing the rest of the costume as well...close by. (Kudos to Daddy)
So I dug out the personalized matching treat bag, the tutu, the wand, the head band etc... We even had super awesome new pink shoes, with a large pink rhinestone on the toe, that work out perfectly! (not pictured)...Bella was so eager to try it on...and lo and behold, the damn thing fit. PERFECTLY!
To make a long story short, and to confirm the savings, Bella exclaimed: "Daddy, THIS is what I want to wear for Halloween! This one, oh please Daddy, may I wear this one for Halloween. Daddy, I want to be the Butterfly! Please, Please, Please"?
SIGH: who could say no? Especially to a $150 Savings!
Here is the costume, (cell phone pic - sorry) in (almost) all of it's glory. I remembered she outgrew the top that came with it (long gone now), so we will be shopping for just the right one, soon.
SIGH #2: I love this little girl!
Enjoy! - More posts coming soon: BELLA GOES TO SCHOOL! Restoration Pics. Bella's New Bedroom. Bella's new Drama Room...all coming soon....I PROMISE. There has been so much going on, that the blog has suffered. No more...I PROMISE!
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Tell me tomato tales and win!
All hail the home-grown tomato.
They grow in Texas. They grow in Alaska (well, OK, I'm guessin'.) Oh, did they ever grow in the chocolate-cake-crumble soil of my grandfather's central Illinois farm. If you grow vegetables, you're sure to have a few to a zillion, in pots on a porch (my mom) in grow boxes in the back yard (my chiropracter) in 50-plant rows (Virginia locavore extraordinaire Barbara Kingsolver). There's even a song about home-grown tomatoes, written by Guy Clark and covered by Colorado's very own John Denver.
But this year has NOT been nice to nightshades. I'm hearing tell of plentiful blossoms and scarce fruit. Or puny plants and no fruit. Or fruit that won't see red. My chiropracter's plants are producing tomato tonnage from tree-sized specimens in plastic tubs that his Nebraska relatives brought him, already planted and ready to zoom upward. I suspect those tubs kept the soil warm in our cool spring and maybe gave them a head start, or maybe it's just Dr. Guy's squeaky-clean healer karma. My own tomatoes are either of the puny-plant or almost-no-fruit variety. Fellow blogger Kitt brought me in some fruits from the Stupice plant I gave her; they're small, but yummy. Firm, sweet, not too watery, delectably tangy. So it's not the variety's fault.
Anyway, to console, or congratulate, as the case may be, all you tomato growers out there, I'm giving a prize away to the best tomato tale — bonus points for pictures — emailed to me at email@example.com by Friday, Aug. 15. The criteria are simple: verse or prose or recipe or all three; send pix if you got 'em; and oh, my pals from work and my personal life aren't eligible (sorry, buds). Yes, it's a cheesy ploy to bring you blog-lurkers out in the open. I'll publish the best on Digging In. And the criteria are completely subjective. If Features Editor Dana Coffield or foodies Kris Browning or Tucker Shaw come into some garden goodies they want to donate to the cause, there could be additional prizes.
The prize, so far, is a copy of Tim Stark's "Heirloom: Tales from an Accidental Tomato Farmer." Stark's account of his transformation from NYC consultant to market gardener and supplier to top-flight chefs is raucous and rollicking and infused with tomatoes (and chiles and elderflowers and wine, oh my.) If you thought YOU had overplanted tomatoes, Tim's story will comfort and amuse you. If tomatoes vine and burgeon through your waking and sleeping dreams, you're SO not alone.
But wait: for those of you who ARE getting fruit (and I am pausing to hate you now) there's an even bigger prize out there: $2,500. That's a LOT of tomatoes, kids, and all you've got to do is bring them to the Longmont King Soopers on Saturday, Aug. 23, for the NatureSweet Best Homegrown Tomato Challenge. Details and registration stuff here, but the important detail bears repeating: The grand prize is $2,500! And there'll be two of those big fat checks, in both the full-size and small-tomato categories. Two runners-up in each category will win $250 grocery certificates, and even that ain't mulch money. Got no fruit at all? There's a sweepstakes that lets you try for some green without even getting your hands dirty.
Your favorite garden blogger is one of the three judges, and … from the way my plants are looking, it's pretty unlikely that I'll be tired of tomatoes any time soon.
Good luck, and happy harvesting.


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As previously mentioned, I have Asperger's. I am proud of it, god dammit it. I mean, it makes my life more difficult at times, but it's shaped who I am. I am comfortable with it.
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Written by Skylar
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Please, ask congress not to call Autism a disease that needs to be combated. As a hyperlexic, what I want is respect, not to be vilified. I need help getting accommodations instead of help making me act like everyone else. It's a disability, not a curse. We don't need to figure out how to prevent autistics from being born. What we need is help with what to do after birth. Adult autistics ar…e especially ignored, even though we still need assistance with some things. Also, Autism isn't as bad as they crack it up to be. It need not lead to a life of drudgery. With proper family support and, if needed, communication assistance devices a great life is not only possible, but probable.
Autistics can go to school, work, get married, and have families like everyone else. This includes non speaking autistics, by the way. Just because someone sometimes needs to flap their hands to relax or focus doesn't mean that they can't get a job. Not being able to speak shouldn't be a barrier to anything. Nor should being able to speak be considered superior. Someone can be autistic and speak, or autistic and unable to speak.
Someone can be autistic and very social because autism isn't the same as being antisocial. I may have to leave the room for a quick nap, but not because I want to leave, but because things are getting too noisy for me to handle and I need to get rid of a migraine. However, that doesn't stop me from wanting to be there. It's just that I learned to be able to figure out when I need to leave and when I need to stay. There is no shame in having figured out ways to deal with stress.
Now you are probably wondering why I want you to boycott Autism Speaks. I mean, you probably think they are a good organization. However, you have been wronged by them. They are telling people that Autism is an epidemic, not true, there were as many autistics in the past, they just went underdiagnosed or misdiagnosed or were simply murdered. This is like saying there was no ADHD before they came up with the diagnosis. That would be ridiculous. The same is true of Autism.
Autism Speaks also supports the Rotenberg Center, where they use electric shocks to discourage any "non-compliance" as if they were dealing with bad dogs and not human beings. They still defend the idea of shocking a man (while laughing at him, by the way) for three hours for not taking off their coat inside. They have this on video, too. By the time they were done the guy had to be hospitalized because he was non responsive. They haven't apologized for this and Autism Speaks has no problem with this.
Autism Speaks also spends the majority of their money on trying to prevent autism or to cure it. A paltry 3.5 percent of their budget goes towards treatments like the one I just mentioned. On second thought, that's probably a good thing.
They also encourage stopping all autistic behavior to make the person appear normal. This means they have to vilify all autistic behavior, no matter how benign. Say an autistic likes to tap their foot, then that has to be stopped. Or say they don't smile at the right time, that has to be fixed. Perhaps the autistic likes to wear a certain color all the time, that has to be stopped. Or the autistic likes to spin in their chair, oh no, that absolutely has to be stopped.
This is why I don't like Autism Speaks. They hate autistics simply because they don't act like everybody else. And according to them they need to be the same. The world needs to be whitewashed perfection with no color left in it at all. And to be honest, I don't want to ever see a world that bland and that free of disability.
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#StopCombatingMe: Enough. And not Enough.
By Beth Ryan
Image Description: Black Box with white surrender flag.
Text: Surrender is powerful when your war is unjust.
Peace, Love, & Support for Autistic people.
The Combating Atutism Act expires this fall. As written, it is a source of national shame.. It is, therefore, imperative that this legislation be completely overhauled. Or it must not be renewed.
My Autistic child will always be my child. But someday, she will be my adult child. I regularly get grim glimpses of her future through my involvement and friendships with Autistic adults.
The vast majority of Autistic adults that I know, and I do know many, live in crushing poverty–constantly facing lack of suitable employment opportunities, deciding between heating their homes or buying food, denial of access to needed medical treatment, and so much more. They lack the supports and accommodations that they desperately need in order to survive.
Autistic people, particularly Autistic adults, have been forever under-represented and under-served. Our legislators have failed to incorporate input from those that Autism legislation is intended to serve–that is, of course, assuming that Autistic people are the intended beneficiaries. It would be unthinkable to pass legislation which dismissed the advisement of the population of any other minority group that it is intended to serve. Not the parents/caregivers of those minority groups. Not the big name "charities" claiming to represent the interests of Autistic people, all the while, completely excluding them from meaningful participation. But the stakeholders themselves.
My eight year old daughter deserves a future and Autistic adults deserve a present. They are entitled to essential supports across their lifespans. Reallocating funding so that she, and other Autistic people, have access to education, employment opportunities,medical treatment (especially preventative medicine), etc. will serve the interests of both the Autistic community and the country as a whole.
And for the love of all things holy, rename the legislation. Combating Autism Act? That's a disgrace. It underscores the fact that the current legislation is focused on eliminating Autistic people rather than supporting them. Using violent language to describe legislation allegedly designed to enhance the lives of Autistic people and their families is reprehensible. It is, in effect, sanctioning the dehumanization and discrimination that Autistic people, including my child, face every single day.
Enough combating human beings. Not nearly enough support.
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Stop combating me, start helping me make it better for the children of today
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Speaking Out
Speaking Out
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Stop Combating Me:
Written by Eric Warwick
In 2006, then President George W. Bush signed a law–the Combating Autism Act (CAA)–at the behest of Autism Speaks and their allies in congress. The law would appropriate .950 billion dollars of money to the National Institute of Health (NIH) to search for the following things: find the cause of Autism, search for a genetic trace-marker for pre-natal testing and selective abortion, find a way to make Autistic people be non-Autistic–a "cure." There was also an appropriated 2.4% of funding to improve services for Autistics and families with an Autistic child. Those services are largely Applied Behavioral Analysis–a technique once used to "cure" people of homosexuality. The Combating Autism Act passed unanimously in the Senate after it was introduced by the frothy mixture of lube, fecal matter, and semen Senator Santorum and Senator Chris Dodd. In 2009, President Obama signed the Combating Autism Re-Authorization Act (CARA) which appropriated a similar, but higher, amount of money towards research.
The Combating Autism Act is designed to remove Autism from America. It is designed to find ways to suppress Autistic behaviors such as stimming and our unique forms of communication. In function, it has given government legitimacy to the idea that I am a part of a Autism Epidemic. My own government invalidates the possibility of my humanity, since I am Autistic. It lends credence to idea that rather than my being Autistic meaning I simply experience life in a different way, with different access needs, that does not lessen the inherent value of my life or any other Autistic–verbal or not–that, instead, I am diseased, a scourge that must be eliminated. Although there is an understanding that Autistic adults (or teenagers in my case) exist in some vague form–this act is about preventing a new generation of Autistics. In the words of the majority opinion of Buck v. Bell: "three generations of imbeciles is enough." I am not a person; I am a disease. I am not a person; I am part of the apocalyptic Autistic Tsunami that will destroy the lives of my parents and burden society. To my government, that is me, because I am Autism–I am Autistic. Look no further than its name. I need to be combated.
In 2011 with Republican control of the House of Representatives, the United States Federal Government passed legislation that cut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP/Food Stamps) by a comparable amount of money of each CAA and CARA. Countless impoverished Americans grew hungrier and saw their social safety net shrink. The questionable use of money in CARA continued. This is not justice. The pangs of hunger exploded on a nation reeling from an economic catastrophe that is comparable to the Great Depression and Autism is the epidemic. The epidemic isn't stagnating wages or high rates of suicide and murder in transgender communities of color–it's Autism. It's a neurology difference that people find "strange" and therefore must be eliminated. That's the real issueto my government. My government could care less about the rape, exploitation, and murder of indigenous peoples–it cares too much about the systemic elimination of Autism by means of selective abortion and possible "cures." What just government would support this? What government would decide that the denial of a safety net in times of need whilst supporting a program to eliminate a Disability is a good, even preferable idea? Not one that any I know of voted for. Of the choices to spend our country's money, why did CARA get chosen? It's because of special interests.
Autism Speaks (formed in 2005) has a large budget. They are the largest Autism related organization in the world. They spend 44% of their budget on research into the causes, "cures," and genetic signature (for pre-natal testing/selective abortion) of Autism. They spend another 43% on fundraising and advertising. They spend their remaining money as follows: 5% for administrative costs and salaries (there are a few hundred employees); 4% on grants for services; and another 4% on "other" costs. More information here: http://autisticadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Autism_Speaks_Flyer.pdf . Their research money has, in the past, even included research into the already at that time thoroughly debunked link between vaccines and Autism. Why do I mention this? It's because CAA and CARA are, in many respects, a subsidy to Autism Speaks. It allows Autism Speaks to spend more of their money on dinner parties for high-profile celebrities like John Stewart, Steve Carrel, and others than on research–which in it of itself is for questionable aims.
Our government could be feeding the hungry, clothing the needy, and providing for the sick, but instead it has decided at the insistence of a powerful lobby–which has no support of the people they claim to represent–to instead fund hatred in intent and practice. It cannot be allowed any further. I ask the people on the HELP committee to kill this bill. Still, if they do care about the lives of Autistic people, then a bill to secure needed services to Autistic adults would be appreciated. That would be a just use of our country's money.
Dear Senators:
Harkin, Warren, Mikulski, Murry, Sanders, Casey, Hagan, Franken, Bennet, Whitehouse, Baldwin, Murphy, Alexander, Enzi, Burr, Isackson, Paul, Hatch, Roberts, Murkowski, Kirk, and Scott, please stop combating me.
Thank you.
Sincerely, Eric Warwick. (By the way, Senator Murry, I am one of your constituents.)
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Stop Combating People
By Natalia Erenah
Before I had children and early in the parenting journey, I thought it was my job to mold my children into kind, intelligent, and self-sufficient beings. That they would speak properly, have good table manners, be polite, and do well at school was presumed, a baseline. These were my assumptions before autism rocked my world, before one child was diagnosed autistic, before I realized the other two were anything by typical. Diagnosis and confusing-to-me behaviors did not immediately change my perception. I simply resolved to work harder to mold my children into the kind, polite, intelligent, and self-sufficient beings they were supposed to be.
I ALWAYS loved my children. I always strove to be the mother they needed. I did my best to be patient and supportive. But I did believe that it was my job to make them be/act/appear as normal as possible. For me, normal meant following the rules of society, exercising self-control, learning, and growing. I did not believe my goals for them were harmful. I believed it was my mother-duty to raise children who fit in, because that's what my life experiences had taught me was correct.
As time went on, my understanding shifted. I watched my children. I embraced what made them smile and rejected that which caused them pain. I read amazing books that revealed a new way to look beyond the face value of "behaviors" and "traits." I discovered something wonderful where others saw misbehavior and dysfunction.
Finally, c. 2008, I wrote this in my journal:
Last week I had an Ah-ha! moment. I realized I need to stop trying to fix my children. I love them with all of their sometimes challenging traits — but I have, for a long time, been on a mission to minimize those quirks. For now, I need to let them be — as important for me as for them.
A short while later, I picked up a book in which the first chapter was titled "The World Needs Autism." Reading these words was affirmation of my realization.
A later journal entry: I have long known that there is a purpose for autism. I am slowly muddling through what that purpose is. I believe that everything is evolving perfectly and the purpose is being served — even if I don't understand it.
It took me a long time to get here. (I tell the story of my parenting journey, and those of many other mothers, in Swan Mothers.) I still get plenty of opportunity to practice. Many resources that are available today, specifically, blogs written by autistic adults, were not available when I started this journey, so I continue to uncover new layers of understanding. I still want my children to be kind, polite, intelligent, and self-sufficiency beings, but I want them to be these things while being fully themselves.
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Some Days
By Cara Creager
Some days, your patience just runs out.
Some days, you aren't in the mood to educate the twenty-third person who insists you aren't really autistic, that you're doing it for attention. Some days you're over the ignorant person who sees you stimming and suddenly is done with their drink, running as if you'll bite their neck and infect them with the scourge. Some days you give up, sure you'll never find a job because despite your doctoral degree and sterling qualifications, no one wants to deal with your "quirks" and you can't just become a Wal-Mart greeter because that long on your feet having to deal with people would cripple you.
Some days you see that another parent or caregiver has murdered an autistic, maybe killed themselves too. The comment sections on those articles are rough – if you look at the comments when a normal child is murdered, they're united in throwing the parent into Hell (massive trigger warning for violence on that link!). But when an autistic child or adult is killed, you see apologism. They say "walk in the mother's shoes" (massive trigger warning for ableism on that link!). [sarcasm] Cause killing us is a mercy, of course. [/sarcasm]
Some days you might go nonverbal – even us "high functioning" autists have those days. Some days your voice feels too small, so you don't want to use it, or you feel too scared to even think about letting your little words fly against the overwhelming tide. There are other ways to communicate, but chances are, most people don't know about them. There's no money for AAC devices, for letter boards and iPads, for ASL tutors. [sarcasm] That's not real communication anyway. [/sarcasm]
Some days you want to get involved, but can't – because the leading organization in this country that purports to speak for us doesn't want us involved. Autism $peaks has no autistic board members – the last resigned in disgust following Suzanne Wright's Nov. 11 op-ed that described us as "lost". We are not lost.
And then you see Congress "Combating" Autism. "Treating" the "national healthcare crisis."
Has Congress "combated" anything you deal with on a daily basis?
I didn't think so.
Don't combat autism. Combat stigma. Combat fear. Combat prejudice and ignorance.
Combat those who think we need combating.
Because most days, I don't have patience for that crap
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Nattily from Notes on Crazy
My identity is not your enemy. #StopCombatingMe
When I was seven or eight, a friend told me that some people have "photographic memories" and explained what that meant. She dove into the pond. I sat on the dock and thought to myself, "That's what I have. I have a photographic memory."
When I was in high school I read a webcomic mentioning "super-tasters." I looked it up, thought about it for a while, and thought to myself, "That's what I am. I'm a super-taster."
When I was in thirteen, people in my middle school started calling each other "gay" as an insult. I still hadn't had the sex talk, and I spent most of my free time thinking about what exactly sex was, since I knew I was supposed to know about it and it wasn't ok to ask. I didn't know what gay meant, and I decided for myself that it meant "someone who thinks about sex a lot." I sat in my eighth grade honors algebra class solving systems of equations and thought to myself, "That's what I am. I'm gay."
Over the years I have decided that I have red hair, that I have hazel eyes if you look really close, that I have this health issue or that health issue, that I'm agoraphobic, that I am schizophrenic, that I am defined by any number of things that are not only not defining identities, but not necessarily true of me in the slightest.
The summer after I turned twenty-five, I did a lot of research on autism, in particular how it looks in adult women. I sat on my bed, scrolling through blog after blog and clicking link after link, and I thought to myself, "That's what I am. I'm autistic."
The difference is, of course, that I am autistic. Wholly. Completely. It is precisely who I am. I cannot be separated from it.
When I thought, "I'm autistic," I began to cry, and I didn't stop for a few days. Sometimes I think I still haven't stopped.
I cried not because I was sad or frightened or angry that I was autistic, but because I was sad and frightened and angry about putting the pieces together in that moment. I cried in relief, and in grief.
If there is one indisputable fact about who I am, it is not necessarily that I am autistic. It is that I have known my whole life that I was different. Not better, not worse. Different. I have always known, and I have always looked for the solace that would come with putting a word, an image, a lemma to what exactly made me different. The difference that I could see so clearly, and that everyone else ignored because they could not name.
I have been labeling myself since I could speak. I have been searching for the magical word that could fill in the blank – "I'm something" – and would let me rest.
I'm not a hypochondriac. I'm not a pathological liar. I'm not making anything up for attention. And you never know, maybe I am like your child.
I never told anyone that I had a photographic memory. I never told others that if you looked in the right light you could see that my hair is really red and my eyes are really green. I never asked a doctor if maybe I might have schizophrenia. I never acted differently when I considered these options or asked anyone to treat me differently I never asserted to any other person to be any of these things. I just tried them on for size, in my mind, privately, safely. Some I held onto for a while; others I dismissed almost immediately. Some were actually true (I really am a super-taster), but I realized quickly that they were the right answers to the wrong questions.
Now when I ask myself the question "Who am I?" I'm not haunted with isolation, shame, and uncertainty.
I know the right answer. I am autistic.
I am not defined by a disease. I am defined by myself. By the entirety of who I am and how I operate. How I think and sense and speak and behave. It just so happens that there's a word for it. The word is autistic.
The word brings comfort. The word brings peace. The word brings community. The word brings identity. Hope. Love. Future. Past. Present.
Solace. Completeness. Empathy.
I am not interested in being anything other than exactly who I am. I ask you formally, articulately, concisely, and authentically: please…
…stop combating me.
#StopCombatingMe #BoycottAutismSpeaks #ActuallyWeLikeOurselves #SeriouslyWeAreSomeReallyAmazingPeople #TryListening
Please tell Congress to reform the Combating Autism Act. #StopCombatingMe
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Stop Combating Me
Amy Sequenzia for Autism Women's Network:
The enemy
Deadly diseases
We get together, we put on special and reinforced gear, we arm ourselves with weapons we know will, at least, hurt our enemy, or even exterminate the "evil".
That's the mentality, the current picture of a nation and a world so deep in wars, refugee camps full of diseases and despair, and of people without hope.
When I hear the word "combat", I see men and women wearing heavy war gear, armed with machine guns and night vision goggles; I see an army of doctors and scientists, wearing hazmat suits, ready for a battle with the latest outbreak of a dangerous disease that can kill millions.
I am Autistic. I am very disabled and I need supports and accommodations. I am also an activist, with great plans for my future and with a lot to say. I am accomplished and happy. I have friends that I love and they love me back.
I am NOT:
The enemy
A disease
A tragedy
Causing pain
Why do I have to hear my government saying that who I am needs to be exterminated, like the enemy or a disease?
Why are the hateful words of groups like Autism Speaks, which completely ignore the voices of Autistic people, more important than my right to exist?
Why is the complacency of other so-called advocacy groups considered more valid than the outcry of Autistic self-advocates and our families, friends and allies?
The Combating Autism Act spends more than 97% of its budget on research that seeks to find a cure for autism. Since a cure is not possible, the research moves to finding a cause for autism.
After that, comes prevention. Preventing me. Preventing people like me from being born.
Combat autism, prevent autism.
Destroy autism, prevent more Autistics from being born
Why is my government in the business of eugenics?
All this "combating" is an attempt to make the larger public believe that autism is an epidemic, that Autistics never experience joy, that our existence will bankrupt the economy.
This is fallacy.
I am Autistic and autism cannot be separated from me.
Combat autism, you combat me.
I was promised equal rights, which I am still fighting for.
Before that, I was promised the right to life. There were no conditions. I am a person, I have the right to be.
There is a lot we need to combat, exterminate, eradicate.
Autism is not one of those. Autistics aren't either.
Let's combat segregated housing
Let's combat unemployment of Autistics
Let's combat segregated classrooms
Let's combat restraint and seclusion
Let's combat silencing of Autistics
Let's combat therapies that seek to "normalize" us, therapies that hurt us
Let's combat lack of acceptance
Let's combat ignorance
Let's combat hatred
Let's combat stigma
Stop Combating Me
Please sign and share the petition!
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DeAndre Kane drove for the game-winning layup with 1.6 seconds left and No. 3 seed Iowa State beat North Carolina 85-83 on Sunday, advancing to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2000.
The Cyclones (28-7) head to Madison Square Garden next week to face No. 7 seed Connecticut in the East Regional semifinals.
The Tar Heels (24-10) are gone in the NCAA tournament's opening weekend for the first time in consecutive seasons under coach Roy Williams.
North Carolina's Nate Britt raced the ball up court after Kane's basket, but time expired before he could reach halfcourt and call a timeout. Officials huddled for several minutes reviewing clock replays before ruling the game was over.
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For Children
Beavers and their splendid dams
Many organs of which you are unaware work together to keep you alive. We have a wonderful body that functions flawlessly.
Let us now take a short trip and get to know some of the creatures that live in the sea.
In this film you will encounter creatures which survive quite easily in polar conditions that at first sight might seem totally inhospitable to life
You may think that corals are plants, but they are all animals.
The moment the universe was created
You will see some of the interesting techniques that plants use to make other creatures carry their seeds for them.
Let us now have a look at some examples of the blessings that surround us and learn how we must be grateful to God for bestowing these blessings on us.
When God wills something to be, He gives it the order "Be" and it comes into being.
Allah has created all animate beings with features that differ according to the environment in which they live.
Time: One of Allah's great blessings 2011-04-08 A journey in the world of miracles 2010-07-26 The blessings around us - for children 9 2008-11-13 The world of plants 2008-11-06 Our cute friends - for children 2 2008-09-29
Children! This section which is prepared for you provides you with the examples of wonderful living beings which are created by Allah. Our objective in explaining these amazing features and intelligent behaviors of some living beings is to make you once again understand that these living forms can not exist on their own and that it is Allah Who creates them.
Charles Darwin and his Magic Barrel
God has created human beings, plants, animals and everything else in the world. He is the Lord of the worlds, Who has created you, your mother and father, your brothers, sisters, relatives and friends, cats, dogs, sweet-smelling flowers, huge trees, colorful butterflies, birds and fish, and trees bearing delicious fruits. But some do not tell the truth about these good things that God created. These people believe in the so-called theory of evolution, the false idea that all living beings came into being by themselves, through chance. Those who want to deceive others with this idea are known as "evolutionists." So, we will explain to you the truths first and demonstrate how those who adhere to the theory of evolution have deceived people. If someone tries to get you to believe in the theory of evolution, remember the facts that you have read in this book, and you will understand that this person is trying to deceive you. And then, you will be able to tell him that God created everything with His infinite knowledge.
Daily Comments
Dear Children, in this book we will be discussing important issues which you must think hard about…
When you grow up, you will need to earn your living, which means you must have a profession. This is why you go to school. Likewise, to have a happy life in the hereafter, there are certain things you must do. The foremost of these is immediately to start coming to know Allah, the Exalted, and how our Lord wants us to conduct ourselves.
Here, in this book we will talk about the power of Allah Who created your mother, father, friends, all other people, animals, plants, and in short all living things, the earth, the sun, the moon and the entire universe. We will talk about the might and infinite knowledge of our Lord and what He wants us to do and not to do. Do not forget, these are very important matters, which will benefit you greatly!