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1. How does the U.S. manage the environmental legacy and human health impacts of its nuclear weapons?
Government Programs
The U.S. nuclear weapons program has had a wide range of detrimental effects to both human health and the environment. Early weapons tests were conducted above ground and below the surface of the sea, spreading radioactive fallout over large areas. Significant radioactive waste has been produced as a byproduct of weapons production. All phases of the nuclear weapons fuel cycle, from mining and milling facilities through waste disposal, have contributed to the need for long-term remediation, and solutions for containment and storage challenges. There are three basic objectives for programs concerned with the environmental legacy of U.S. nuclear weapons, all of which rely on ongoing Congressional funding for their implementation.
The three program objectives are:
- To maintain retired or unused facilities in a safe and secure fashion, and to prevent further harm to the environment, workers, and anyone living nearby;
- To undertake detailed studies that identify and characterize the waste and hazards associated with managing and removing it, a task often complicated by poor-to-nonexistent Cold War recordkeeping;
- To prepare a waste management and cleanup plan that identifies objectives and timetables, sometimes prepared in consultation with state governments.
Cleanup: A Vast Operation
Managing the environmental legacy of U.S. nuclear weapons is a monumental and unprecedented effort because of the tremendous amount of waste produced.
According to the 1995 Galvin Report, [1] weapons-related activities during the Cold War resulted in:
- About 77 million gallons of very dangerous high-level radioactive waste left over from the production of plutonium;
- Approximately 2.5 million cubic meters of low-level radioactive waste;
- Over one million storage drums of hazardous waste, plus an additional three million cubic meters of buried waste, much of which leaked into soil and groundwater.
Cleanup Activities
Tasks include:
- Packaging and disposal of toxic and radioactive wastes;
- Decontamination and destruction of old buildings and equipment;
- Remediation of contaminated land and water.
The Health Costs of Fallout
Programs also compensate people who were harmed by nuclear weapons production and testing (e.g., civilians living in certain congressionally-approved counties downwind of the Nevada Test Site or workers at nuclear weapons production facilities). The Department of Justice and the Department of Labor are responsible for overseeing efforts to review claims and award payments.
2. What are the costs of managing the environmental and human health legacies of the nuclear arms race, and which departments and agencies are involved?
Total environmental restoration and waste management costs are currently about $5-6 billion a year and are primarily borne by the Department of Energy ($5.74 billion in fiscal year 2015 alone). [2]
Programs to compensate persons harmed by past nuclear weapons production and testing also carry significant costs. To date, more than 31,000 people, including "downwinders," workers at the Nevada Test Site, and workers involved in mining and milling uranium, have been awarded nearly $2.1 billion under the 1990 Radiation Exposure and Compensation Act. [3] A separate program managed by the Department of Labor, the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program, which began in 2001, has paid out nearly $13 billion to more than 112,000 former nuclear weapons workers and their surviving family members. [4]
DoD's Defense Threat Reduction Agency manages an independent program to identify and calculate the dosages received by some 415,000 soldiers and sailors, contractors, and civilian personnel who occupied Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II or participated in aboveground nuclear weapon tests from the 1940s to the early 1960s. The Department of Veterans Affairs offers limited compensation to veterans who took part in nuclear tests in Nevada between 1951 and 1962. The total and current costs of such compensation are unknown because the department's accounting system does not allow for tracking of aggregated claims.
Very large-scale, long-term decontamination and cleanup efforts are now underway at the Hanford Site in Washington State (where plutonium was once manufactured); the Savannah River Site in South Carolina (where plutonium and tritium were once produced); and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee (where highly enriched uranium was once produced). Important but smaller efforts are underway at other sites, some of which are still involved in the maintenance of the nuclear stockpile.
U.S. nuclear weapons production left a legacy of deadly contamination. The Hanford Nuclear Site in Washington State produced most of the plutonium for the nuclear weapons program.
DoD performs waste management and environmental restoration activities at former nuclear weapons bases. Because this work is not separated from the overall cleanup program for non-nuclear installations, its costs can only be roughly estimated.
The Environmental Protection Agency helps to set cleanup standards, and monitors ongoing activities at DOE and DoD sites.
The Department of Justice, Department of Labor, and Department of Veterans Affairs administer three separate congressionally-authorized programs to compensate individuals harmed by the production and testing of nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
3. How do nuclear weapons clean-up costs compare with nuclear weapons material production costs?
From 1948 to 1996 the United States spent approximately $268 billion (in 2015 dollars) producing nuclear weapons materials at facilities across the country. [5] The cleanup bill is expected to dwarf that amount; in 2015, the DOE estimated the total legacy costs of managing the environmental consequences of nuclear weapons at over $347 billion, of which less than $120 billion has been spent to date. [6]
The high cost to clean up former nuclear weapons production and testing sites is a direct consequence of:
- the largely unconstrained production of nuclear materials (plutonium and highly enriched uranium) during the Cold War; and
- the failure of the DOE and its predecessors to devote sufficient resources to cleanup activities at the time the wastes were being generated.
4. How long are these costs expected to continue, and how can they be managed?
Environmental restoration activities will continue until all existing and planned projects have been completed. The schedule depends on adequate annual funding. Insufficient funding and technical problems with disposing of the most dangerous wastes could increase the overall costs.
The largest and most complex effort—at the Hanford Site—is now expected to last until 2060 or 2070, with some post-cleanup monitoring activities continuing until 2090. Funding shortfalls would extend that timeframe.
Compensation programs for individuals harmed by nuclear weapons production and testing activities—either civilians living downwind of facilities or former workers at production sites—will continue as long as funding is available and people who qualify apply. These programs could continue for several more decades.
[1] Secretary of Energy Advisory Board, Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy National Laboratories, Galvin, Robert, et al., February, 1995.
[2] Department of Energy, FY 2017 Congressional Budget Request: Environmental Management, DOE/CF-0123, Volume 5, February 2016. http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2016/02/f29/FY2017BudgetVolume5_3.pdf Stephen I. Schwartz with Deepti Choubey, Nuclear Security Spending: Assessing Costs, Examining Priorities, (Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2009), pp. 24-26.
[3] "Radiation Exposure Compensation Act," U.S. Department of Justice. http://www.justice.gov/civil/common/reca
[4] Office of Workers' Compensation Programs, "EEOICP Program Statistics," U.S. Department of Labor, November 9, 2014. http://www.dol.gov/owcp/energy/regs/compliance/weeklystats.htm
[5] Stephen I. Schwartz, ed., Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 (Brookings, 1998), p 561. Nuclear materials production was reclassified as part of the stockpile stewardship program starting in 1996.
[6] Department of Energy, FY 2016 Congressional Budget Request: Environmental Management, DOE/CF-0111, Volume 5, February 2015, p 89. http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/02/f19/FY16EM_Budget_Request_to_Congress.pdf
Chart Sources
[1] Source for "Manhattan" Nuclear Waste Graphic: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, A Short History of Hanford Waste Generation, Storage, and Release, by Gephart, R.E., PNNL-13605 Rev. 4, October 2003. Calculation based on area of Manhattan, NY, approximately 22.8 square miles, http://www.pnl.gov/main/publications/external/technical_reports/PNNL-13605rev4.pdf. Cleanup estimate from: Department of Energy, FY2016 Congressional Budget Request: Environmental Management, DOE/CF-0111, Volume 5, February 2015, 90. – See more at: /us-nuclear-budget/legacy-costs-of-nuclear-weapons/#sthash.tJvB23Ys.dpuf
[2] "Nuclear Materials Production vs. Estimated Cleanup Costs for the Nuclear Stockpile," Stephen I. Schwartz, ed., Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 (Brookings, 1998), p 561. Nuclear materials production was reclassified as part of the Stockpile Stewardship program starting in 1996.
Department of Energy, FY 2016 Congressional Budget Request: Environmental Management, DOE/CF-0111, Volume 5, February 2015, p 89. http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/02/f19/FY16EM_Budget_Request_to_Congress.pdf
Photo Credit
Header Image: Hanford nuclear facility site, Source: Department of Energy (DOE) via WikiMedia Commons.


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Chapter One
The spring edition of Agrisearch came out with a picture on the front page of Roger standing in the middle of a field holding a peanut plant in each hand. In the distance you could see the irrigation rig behind him, and then the uneven line of trees at the back of the field. The caption said, "U. of Ga. plant pathologist Roger Meadows compares a peanut plant stunted and damaged by the tomato spotted wilt virus (left) with a healthy plant."
For some reason the picture had come out amazingly good in every respect. The frail, sickly plant on the left looked almost weightless, as if it were just hovering between life and death in Roger's tender grasp, while the robust plant on the right seemed aggressively healthy, its dark leaves outlined sharply against Roger's white shirt. The hand holding this plant was slightly lower, as if it were all a strong man could do to support the weight of such vigor.
Roger's friends were all so taken with the picture that they cut it out of their April Agrisearch and propped it up on windowsills or stuck it with magnets to the fronts of refrigerators.
At the Pastime Restaurant the waitresses taped the picture up on the wall beside the "In Case of Choking" poster. Betty, the cashier, wrote "This is Roger, in Albert Bateman's peanut field" on a takeout menu and taped it up under the picture.
Roger's old friend Meade made a mat for the picture out of faded red construction paper left over from her school teaching days. In her enthusiasm for accuracy and information, she penned in down at the bottom the date the photograph was taken; Arachis hypogaea, the scientific name for peanut; and then 'Florunner,' the name of the cultivar.
Meade's friend and neighbor Hilma snipped Roger out of the peanut field with a pair of tiny scissors and transposed him onto two color photographs, so that he seemed to hover, artistically stark in Agrisearch black and white, between two lush springtimes--on the left, the bracken fern and longleaf pine woods on the hillside where his family house had once stood, and on the right, the 'Old Blush' in full bloom in his backyard rose garden.
Out in the country Roger's ex-wife's aunt Eula stuck the picture up on the refrigerator beside a crayon drawing of the Titanic her grandson had sent her from California. On the white of Roger's shirt Eula printed R-O-G-E-R in proud capital letters, with the final R dipping down out of consideration for the roots of the healthy peanut plant.
"As if anybody in this house doesn't know who that is," said her son Tom.
"Roger has such a kind face," said Hilma.
"And that well-bred nose," said Meade. "Men's noses become so important when they lose their hair."
"They say you should always label your family pictures," Eula told Tom. "In a hundred years people will forget even Roger."
"Look a there, there's Roger on the icebox!" said Eula's sister Louise.
"Roger ain't family, Mama," said Tom. "Just because he picks the banjo with five fingers and married Ethel before he was old enough to know better, that don't make him family."
"R-O-G-E-R," said Louise. "They like a word like that, begins and ends with the same letter. But you got that last R so low, Eula, you got to be careful with your spacing, that can throw them off." For several years Louise had had the idea that spacemen were attracted to certain combinations of letters of the alphabet and certain arrangements of shapes and shiny objects, and this made her difficult to reason with at times.
"It's Roger, in Agrisearch, Louise, with his spotted wilt work," said Eula in a loud voice.
"Everywhere I go, there I am, me and those two peanut plants," said Roger. "Fools' names and fools' faces." He and his nematologist friend Lucy were picking his first roses.
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Those who are new to the world of online auctions can learn a lot from reading these ten tips for selling on Ebay. There have been many changes at Ebay over the past few years, and most of those changes do not favor the seller. If you are new to selling on Ebay or have not been active for a while, use these then tip to help you get started.
Tip #1 for Selling on Ebay
Get Your Feedback Score Up
Every buyer and seller on Ebay has a feedback score. This number tells other buyers and sellers how active you have been, as well as how the transaction turned out. While some people have separate IDs-one for buying and another for selling-if you have no feedback at all, you do not want to do this.
You want to have at least ten positive feedbacks under your ID name. Active buyers and sellers on Ebay can be skittish about dealing with someone who is a newbie. It can be a very frustrating experience from a buyer's point of view, as well as a seller, to know more about Ebay than the person who created the auction.
One way to build your feedback score is to buy from other sellers on Ebay. This Ebay tip will increase your score and leave you with the feedback you need to get started selling.
Tip #2 for Selling on Ebay
Open Up a Paypal Account
Longtime Ebay buyers and sellers remember when personal checks and money orders were acceptable forms of payment on Ebay. This is no longer the case. The only accepted form of payment is Paypal. If you do not have an account, then you will need to follow this Ebay selling tip and open an account.
Tip #3 for Selling on Ebay
Clean Out Your Closets and Sell Your Own Stuff
It is amazing what other people will consider treasure, and you consider it to be trash. If you are new to selling on Ebay, it is best to start auctions with the items you no longer use. You will be decluttering your house and earning some cash at the same time.
Tip #4 for Selling on Ebay
Do Your Research Before You List an Item
Tip #4 ties in directly to tip #3 for selling stuff on Ebay. Everyone seems to think that their stuff is worth more than it really is. Even if it is new with tags or unopened and still in the shrink-wrap, it is only worth what people are willing to pay. If no one wants it, then it really doesn't matter if it is new and in mint condition.
Now that does not mean no one will ever want it. If you have room, put it aside and relist it at another time.
You will need an Ebay account to research "completed listings". Write in the item you are searching for and the list from the last two weeks will appear. On the top of the page, you can select how you want the items listed. Go from highest to lowest, and then see how many of them sold (these will appear in green).
Go to each item and see what the starting bid is. This can give you a clue as to why there is a twenty dollar price differential between identical items that have sold on the same day or a day apart.
If it has sold many times, then you have a winner. If it has sold only a few times, again, check out the starting bids as well as how it was described and how the pictures look. See if free shipping was offered. These factors determine whether or not an item sells and for how much.
While it is certainly wonderful to donate to the worthwhile organizations, before you do, do your research. You may be surprised to find that Grandma's 1950's mah jongg set with the bakelite holders is worth a lot of money.
Tip #5 for Selling on Ebay
Read Books and Articles About Selling on Ebay
There are a lot of books about how to make money on Ebay. Which one to choose? Look for ones that have the most recent copyright, which means it should reflect the changes (it may not-it can be reissued with a new cover). Go to your local bookstore and peruse the business section. Invest in a guide that you can understand and you can keep beside your computer.
If you know someone who is an active Ebay seller, recruit her to help you get started. It is nice to have a guide at your side who knows what she is doing and can also give you her person Ebay selling tips.
Tip #6 For Selling on Ebay
Create an Auction Policy for Your Listings
This Ebay selling tip is necessary to protect yourself from crazy buyers. An auction policy clearly spells out your rules for all potential bidders. Your guidelines should include:
- How many days after the close of the auction you expect payment
- What days you go to the post office to mail packages
- If an item can be returned or is being sold "As Is".
- If you ship worldwide or only the United States
- If you give a "multiple auction wins" discount
Make this your template and have it with every auction you list. Buyers cannot claim "they did not know" something if it is clearly stated under the listing.
#7 Tip for Selling on Ebay
Download Ebay's Turbo Lister Program
Turbo Lister is an Ebay program that permits you to list and upload your auctions whenever you want. Listing your items all at once makes keeping track of your sales easier. You can list when you have the time, and then all at once, upload every auction. They will end at the same time, and hopefully buyers will submit their payment promptly so you can make one or two trips to the post office.
#8 Tip for Selling on Ebay
Be Accurate in Your Descriptions
When you are ready to begin listing your household treasures, you must be as accurate as possible. Not following this Ebay selling tip can lead to problems after an item has been bought and shipped. An unhappy buyer can give you negative feedback, which harms your ability to sell. If you have a plate with a minor scratch, write about it. If a shirt has a tiny mark on the sleeve, describe it. If a game is missing a piece, tell which one it is.
People need to know exactly what they are getting. Less is not more.
#9 Tip for Selling on Ebay
Take Good Pictures
While many Ebay selling guides will tell you how to take a great pictures using items you need to purchase, this is not necessary. Lay a white or light colored sheet down for background. Use adequate light. Take more than one picture if an item warrants it.
#10 Tip for Selling on Ebay
Consider the Time of Day and Year When Uploading Your Auctions
There are many opinions on what is "the best time" to sell your stuff on Ebay to get the best prices. You will sell Halloween costumes for less in spring than in fall, when it closer to the holiday. Vintage board game will more than likely sell for a higher price around Christmas, when people are looking for unique gifts.
Few people will be bidding during the Super Bowl or the season finale of a popular show. Even if you don't watch these programs, others do. When you start an auction, consider what will be happening the following week. This also includes holidays. You do not want to end an auction on the night of July 4th, when people will be out looking at fireworks displays!
Following these ten tips for selling on Ebay will get you on your way to starting your own online business or just raising some extra cash.


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–by Dr. Jeff Whitworth and Dr. Holly Schwarting
Termite and ant colonies have been very active over the past week or so and are producing reproductives or 'swarmers'. We have seen flying/fluttering individuals every place we have stopped throughout north central Kansas, as long as it was between about 10am and 4pm. Thus, we have received many calls regarding the differences between reproductive ants versus reproductive termites, in both cases often just referred to as 'swarmers'. This swarming behavior seems to be initiated about the same time each year for both ants and termites as the same type of warm, wet weather evidently triggers both. Thus, it is imperative to be able to distinguish the two as they do very different kinds of damage and consequently require different management plans.
Termite reproductives, or swarmers, are dark brown to black, with transparent or translucent wings of equal size, and the dark body is cigar shaped, having no noticeable body divisions or waist. Termite antennae are straight and lack a club on the end. Ant reproductives, or swarmers, are also dark brown to black with transparent or translucent wings, but the fore or front wings are a little longer than the bottom or back wings. Ant antennae are elbowed, coming out perpendicular to the head then bending forward at a 90 degree angle.
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I honestly can't sleep. I really should have gone to bed after my husband hung up from our phone call at 11 pm. But I just can't sleep. I have this energy inside of me that I can't seem to settle down . . . even with a mouse scurrying across my living room floor, I can't move from my laptop. (Pause for a silent – EEEEEEK!!!! We already caught one this week. How many more are there?)
Regardless, I am feeling compelled to write down my feelings and put it in a place that not only I can recall them but hopefully my children, family and friends can as well. For you see, today was a day that was FILLED with miracles, and I would like to share them with you.
Did you read my post from a couple days ago, about being a non-Spanish speaking woman living in Costa Rica, listing all of the things that my heart so desired but felt I was not being given here. Well, I can be bold enough to say that Heaven heard my tender prayer and answered it . . . TODAY! Seriously. I wasn't even expecting anything.
Now, let me preface that I had witnesses. 2 to be exact. My second and third daughters – K and L. They not only witnessed today's miracles but they have seen how I "normally" go about my days, living in Costa Rica. They have seen people push past me, cut me off, yell at me or just glare. Sadly, they have both heard people say rude remarks about me, so they were just as blown away as I was today. So let me share what happened.
The day started out just like any other, except my hubby was out of town and not able to take our oldest son to early morning (5 a.m.) seminary and drive carpool. That task landed on me and I thankfully had gotten a pretty great sleep. So I felt rested and ready to start the day, once I returned from picking the kids up from seminary. As I entered the house, I found my youngest son, G, sitting on the couch, still in his pajamas. Normally the ENTIRE family is to be dressed and ready, reading their personal scriptures as we walk through the door, but only G could be found. (I didn't blame them. We had a late night the night before and with Dad out of town, why not catch a few more ZZZZ's?)
But I had heard G get up before I had left to pick up the kids, so I wondered why he was still in his pajamas. He explained that he woke up to a dry mouth and had gotten the shakes, not to be confused with the shivers. After a few cups of water, he found himself in the bathroom, throwing everything up, multiple times. The sweet kid. He handled it all with such maturity and decorum. I was very proud of him.
He wasn't running a fever and since he had a dry mouth, I wondered if he had dehydration. Dehydration seems to be something that our family can easily get here in Costa Rica. It has happened to K multiple times, so I felt confident that this is what G had as well. Not to mention that L gave her diagnosis and it concurred with mine. (We wonder if she will be a doctor or nurse one day?)
I was almost relieved that G wasn't feeling well and preferred to sit on the couch all morning because I wasn't feeling so great about leaving E home alone that day. I knew he needed company and this seemed to be the happiest solution. After our Family Devotional, me completing our shopping list while the girls completed their Family Chores, we said good-bye to the boys and headed off for a day of shopping, hoping to be home in time for an afternoon nap/rest.
Well, our day quickly changed when our car stopped working. It didn't completely come to a stop but it slowed to such a crawl that we were barely moving. We had traveled up into Heredia Central (pretty far from our home – near our Stake Center) and were almost planted in the middle of an intersection. I told the girls we needed to say a prayer but I don't know that I actually said one out loud, but I know that I asked for Divine help and guidance as to what was best for us to do. (Remember my hubby was out of town)
Thankfully I got the car to slowly turn into a tiny strip mall but the entrance was an incline to the parking lot. As the car approached the entrance, it almost started to roll backward. I had my K hop into the driver's seat and help steer and control the pedals. I saw that a man in a black shirt and black pants was walking on the sidewalk behind us, so I ran out and apologized that I didn't speak Spanish but could he help me. He said, "Don't worry. I speak English."
My first thought was, "What?!?! No one EVER speaks English with me! What a blessing!"
So he helped us change the gear from neutral (my mistake for a Diesel) to drive and he and I pushed the car up the incline. The car was difficult to push and I prayed that we could do it and no sooner had I pushed, it rolled right into a parking place. Again, I was astonished. Our vehicle is HUGE and HEAVY and a diesel. That should not have been that easy to do, but we did it.
I assumed that the man would dust his hands off from my dirty vehicle and just walk away, but he didn't. He asked me what had happened, immediately looked in the car to see what the temperature gauge read and popped the hood of the car. He then took a look and immediately saw the problem. He simply explained it to me and what the solution needed to be and then went about solving my problem.
First he told the security guard, who was anxiously overlooking what was going on, what my problem was and that I needed time to let my car rest and cool down. He came back and told me that the security guard would leave me alone now. Wow! That was super thoughtful of him. Then he went in search for some water. He had told me that "I" needed to gather water but he never gave me the chance to, he just went around asking the different businesses for a jug until he was finally given one and then he filled it himself with water.
After he filled up my "recycle tank" for the radiator and showed me the "max line," he then explained each and every step of what I needed to do next and WHY. Seriously! He just so happened to be a master mechanic and knew all about vehicles, especially mine, because he worked for a rental car agency for many years. After he made sure I understood what I needed to do, he offered his cell number and explained that he was going to the bank (which takes hours to get things done here, so he was obviously in a hurry but stopped anyway to help me – WOW!) and said I could call if I had any issues.
I thanked him profusely and even offered to pay him something. He did pause to think for a moment but then this look came all over his face, as if that was a stupid idea to take money from me and said, "No. Nothing. It's okay." And he shook my hand and simply walked away. It was such a sweet experience.
Well, the maintenance man was watching and didn't like seeing me left alone with a steamy hot car. He walked over and asked if I needed help but K said, "Esta bien." I laughed because it wasn't okay yet but she didn't want any more attention. Thankfully when it came to take the other cap off the radiator and fill it with water, he was right there to offer help and filled up the jug 2 more times for me, filling the radiator until it was completely full of water. He wouldn't leave us until everything was the way it should be. I felt truly taken care of at this point.
Just as I shut the hood of the car and put the spare water in our trunk, another man walked up and asked, IN ENGLISH, if I needed help with my car. I said that I thought it was okay now and he offered his suggestion of what it could be that went wrong (the thermostate). I was so happy with this third attempt at helping me that I thanked him and told him I would check it out. He had a huge smile on his face and left. I did too!
I was a bit hesitate to drive but I trusted that things were cooled down and ready to go, and the car did perfectly well! As we left the strip mall, I told the girls that we needed to say a prayer of thanks, as well as thank the nice man who initially helped us, by sending him a text. L asked if she could say the prayer. I told her that she needed to specifically thank the 4 men who helped us (I included the security guard leaving us alone) and she did. She also asked Heavenly Father that we might be able to help someone that day.
Well, no sooner had we pulled into our first store, but we met a nice woman who SPOKE ENGLISH (this RARELY happens) and she approached us because we were speaking English. We got talking, as only Wendi can do, and I found out that she had moved to Costa Rica 2 years ago as well and was also "from" Utah (originally Maryland but she had been working in Utah for years as a Drama/English teacher in the Ogden area). I laughed and just relished the conversation.
When I found out that she was headed to Pricesmart next (our Sam's/Costco) I offered her a ride, feeling comfortable to do so with a complete stranger. She was so grateful and accepted. I heard a lot about her life, her new marriage and expecting baby and also learned that her parents had both passed away. Immediately I felt like the richest person on this earth, for I still have both my parents alive and well and within calling range. I treasured that moment.
At Pricesmart we parted ways, only I felt there was still a bit more I could do for her. I had purchased some diapers at the first store and had given them to her as a beginning Baby Shower gift, but it didn't seem enough. I pondered as we shopped through the store, wanting to be wise but not foolish. At checkout, we decided to grab some pizza and found her there, just having received her lunch. Her hands were full, so I had Lexi pull my shopping cart, as I pulled her shopping cart to a clean, empty table.
She commented, "Oh, is this where you want us to sit?" I thought, "Why not?!?"
So, K and I went to order our food, while L and this woman visited. I could feel that there was still something more to do but I didn't know what? Do I offer to drive her home? Is this is scam? But as I looked back at my day, I saw so MANY wonderful blessings occur. Not only did E have someone to stay with him, as well as someone to stay with G, but we had help with our car and literally EVERYONE was super respectful and courteous at Pricesmart (and that NEVER happens . . . ask Paul).
Then, to top it all off, as K and I were waiting in line for our food, another "pick up order here" line opened up. Everyone usually rushes to this line, so I normally stay in place and wait patiently. But when I didn't move to the new line, the man standing behind me (a quite attractive man, well dressed, fit and seemed to speak English as well but Latin) motioned for me to get in this new line . . . IN FRONT OF HIM! WHAT WAS GOING ON HERE!?!?! THAT was the ONE THING I had wanted on Wednesday and it happened. And I didn't feel it was happening to me because of how I looked or that he found me attractive. I felt it happened out of pure respect and courtesy. What a gift that was to me!
So, as we sat and ate our lunch of bottled water and french fries dipped in nacho cheese sauce, I offered this nice woman a ride home. I told her that I felt I should and she got tears in her eyes. She said that I didn't know how much this meant to her.
She's right. I don't. But I DO KNOW what it feels like to be served and I loved it, so she deserved to love it too.
So we ate lunch and packed up our car and drove her home, which was not that far away at all. We ended up visiting with her for quite some time and the girls didn't seem to mind too much. Thankfully I agreed to them buying a foam bead stuffed soccer ball that they were able to play with while we talked. It felt like home. It felt like all the days I spent in Utah, talking, helping, uplifting and encouraging the women I met there. Oh how I missed that feeling . . .
But as I was driving away from her home, I realized that I have traded those wonder "Sister in Zion" days for a more important and shorter calling . . . homeschooling and raising my young children. This time will pass and I won't ever get it again. I saw that Heavenly Father can FILL our desires with worthy service and acts of love. I saw that Heavenly Father heard his daughter's heartbreaking prayer and wanted her to know that she WAS loved, respected and no, not unattractive but His daughter. Just not everyone sees that.
I also saw that in time, I will find my place in this world and it will get busy quick, so enjoy this time I have with my littles because it won't come again. I would like grandchildren but that is an entirely different ball game.
I want to bear testimony that only when we are in the service of our fellow beings, we ARE in the service of our God, which makes us truly happy. I also want to bear testimony that children are so close to the Spirit. Let them be part of your decision making and journey, so they can learn and experience these things too. I had a FANTASTIC day and it was started with a WONDERFUL talk by President Uchtdorf and ended with a beautiful song that ALWAYS reminds me of my sweet and wonderful oldest child and daughter, Kayleigh. This song was sung in the very movie that we found Kayleigh's name and later our youngest son's name, "A Quest for Camelot." I LOVE the messages in this movie and highly recommend it. (It is a bit scary for the littles, but 10+ might enjoy it.)
Again. Heaven hears and answers your prayers . . . if you wait patiently on the Lord and look for Him in your life. This is my testimony of the matchless power of God. May you feel this is true in your own life too, I pray, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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Skip to 0 minutes and 11 seconds Human beings are the quintessential dwellers, they have always had the need to organise the 24-hour solar cycle to find spaces for eating, sleeping, living, working, and so on, and all of this is part of what an architect does; so, habitation is perhaps the architect's main function, in the sense that other activities - leisure, theatre, museums, worshipping- are all important but only part-time; habitation instead conveys the idea of the 24 hour cycle, thus entailing a notion of territorial possession, of geographical ownership, and above all
Skip to 1 minute and 22 seconds inhabiting entails, even if it is never said, the notion of community: one cannot live alone; one dwells because of the indirect experience of the rituals and the myths of the community, one lives first of all because of the need to adapt oneself to a 24-hour working rhythm, but mostly because one has off-duty days, holidays, celebrations, etc. and therefore habitation is a way of living the community. No one can truly live alone, not even the most extreme hermit can escape this condition, but indirectly he partecipates in the community through his ponderings, his prayers, his isolation, which indeed are a measure of the life of the community. Therefore dwelling always entails a collective behaviour.
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Interviewer's question: "How would you define dwelling? What is a habitation?"
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Fireworks at Estherville Council meeting
In addition to updating the city fireworks ordinance, crackling discussion about a local historic property
By Amy H. Peterson
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At Monday's meeting of the Estherville City Council, local realtor and property owner Mike Clarken responded to a series of dangerous building abatement letters Clarken has received from the City since last August.
The property in question is the orange Golden Sun Elevator building west of Ace Hardware on Central Avenue. The property is in the original plat of Estherville, and Clarken said it has historic value.
"It's the oldest building still standing in Estherville," Clarken said. Clarken indicated he had put in many years of voluntarism and community service in Estherville, and was disappointed in the city's attitude.
"The whole building has historic value and uniqueness. It's a sign of a dying town when we start tearing down all its history. When these things get away from the town, the town starts dying," Clarken said.
The first notice from the city is dated Aug. 4, 2016. Community Development Director Barb Mack's letter gave the Clarkens until Aug. 29 to submit a repair or demolition plan. The repairs would include removing damaged signage, replacing broken windows, closing all openings that allow entry by birds and animals, and replacing damaged roof sections.
Aug. 26, 2016, Mike Clarken visited City Hall and spoke with city administrator Penny Clayton, as Mack was not in. A memo from Clayton reported Clarken said it would take five years to get the building rehabbed. Clayton said five years was not a reasonable time. Clarken offered to sell the building to the city for $50,000.
Aug. 30, 2016, Mike and Edith Clarken sent a letter to Mack indicating they would remove all signage and close all building openings by the end of 2016, and address the roof at a later date, when funds were available.
"We are offering the city this property for the price of $100,000. At this time we do have an interested party," the letter concluded.
Mack responded Sept. 13, 2016, indicating, "the City is not interested" in purchasing the building. Mack asked for a repair plan for the roof by Oct. 3.
The Clarkens wrote a letter Sept. 30 indicating the signage was down and the openings on vertical walls would be closed by the end of the year. They indicated they would get the roof done as funding allowed and asked for help identifying grants to help.
"With enough time, we can make the building something people would want to see. The original elevator building is something the community can relate to. The west side is something different from any other building," Clarken said.
Clarken added, "It could run as an elevator."
The websites Flickr and Pinterest feature a few dozen photographs taken by Iowans and out of town visitors of the oddly-shaped, orange structure. Jerry Mennenga, a photography blogger from Sioux City, photographed the building on a 2014 visit for his series, "Siouxland's Lost Little Gems."
Clarken said he had an idea of billboards on various sides of the building.
"One side can be a portrait of Esther Ridley, another side the meteorite, maybe something with Sweet Corn Days," Clarken said.
Clarken said an alternative would be tearing the building down and offering it as a site for the new VA clinic.
Clayton said, "We do not have control over where the federal government decides to locate a VA clinic."
In a discussion that became at times somewhat heated, city attorney Chris Fuhrman intervened to suggest representatives from the city meet with the Clarkens to come to a decision.
"Sometimes people get confrontational, and unfortunately sometimes that's the way things finally get done," Fuhrman said.
The city council also changed city code for fireworks sales to conform to the new state code. Fireworks sales are now permitted in Iowa, and as in other communities, Fareway in Estherville will be selling fireworks.
But before eager citizens get visions of Roman candles, chasers, and aerial spinners in their heads, city ordinance prohibits the use and explosion of any consumer or display fireworks in the city. For an exception, the city may grant a permit for the use of consumer or display fireworks by an agency or organization when the display will be handled by a competent operator. Violation of the ordinance is not less than $250.
Fireworks known as novelties are allowed. These include snappers, snakes, glow worms, wire sparklers, and party poppers.
The definition of first and second class consumer fireworks and display fireworks is available in the ordinance.
The council also held a public hearing on the 2016-17 budget amendment, approved liquor licenses pending dram shop for the VFW, Estherville Chamber for Sweet Corn Days, Emmet Co. Fair Board, and Top Hat Lounge, and set public hearings for the renewal of the natural gas franchise with Black Hills Energy, and for a general obligation loan agreement, both for the next council meeting June 5 at 5 p.m.


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Ashburn, Virginia – 20 March 2018 – Infovista, the leading provider of network and application performance orchestration solutions for a better connected and collaborative world, today announced the signing of a collaborative agreement with SoTel Systems to offer new application performance and SD-WAN solutions delivered from the cloud to SoTel's service provider and small and mid-size enterprise customers in the U.S., Canada and Latin America.
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Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific 2001: Financing for development
Following the impressive recovery in 1999, the economic performance of the ESCAP region strengthened in 2000 in an environment of low inflation. The developing economies of the region increased GDP growth form 6.1 percent in 1999 to 7.2 per cent in 2000, with the majority of them exceeding 1999 growth rates. Growth was generally driven by buoyant world trade, declining domestic interest rates and continuing fiscal stimuli.
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EDITORIAL It's rare to see a fairly conservative city agency, created in part to make it harder for progressives to push measures that might affect business, come down in favor of a new business tax. But the San Francisco Office of Economic Analysis has concluded that the proposal by Board of Supervisors President David Chiu to change the local payroll tax and impose a new tax on commercial rents would actually help local businesses, particularly small businesses. The proposal presents a crucial opportunity for progressives to make the case that the Chamber of Commerce and big downtown corporations are not advancing the interests of small businesses and local merchant groups need to pay attention.
Chiu has taken on a problem that has lingered in San Francisco for decades. The city's business tax is terribly regressive: Only 10 percent of the companies in town even pay the payroll tax, in part because banks, insurance companies, and financial services firms are exempt under state law. That means the burden falls the heaviest on small and medium-sized companies the ones that provide most of the net job growth in the city.
The new proposal would make the flat payroll tax more progressive and would exempt more small businesses. It would also raise $28 million more a year for the cash-strapped municipal coffers by taxing commercial rents of more than $60,000 a year.
The commercial rent levy would force the big outfits that now pay no city taxes whatsoever to take on at least some of the burden of financing San Francisco government. Smaller companies with modest leases, and small commercial landlords, wouldn't pay the new tax at all.
Chiu originally had proposed an even broader tax, which would have raised more than $35 million. But after the Small Business Commission expressed concerns, he changed the measure, reducing the burden on small business even further. And at this point, Ted Egan, the city's chief economist at the Office of Economic Analysis, reports that the tax would lead to greater job creation in the private sector (because of the reduction in the payroll tax) as well as greater job creation in the public sector (because of the additional revenue to the city).
It's the kind of idea that ought to have broad-based support progressives looking to fund crucial services see it as a way to bring in money, and small businesses ought to see it as a way to cut taxes and create jobs in the sector of the city that most needs economic stimulus.
Unfortunately, the response from small business leaders hasn't been encouraging. The commission hasn't taken a stand on the measure; on July 12th, the panel deadlocked 2-2, with one member absent and two slots still vacant (the mayor hasn't filled them). That lets the big downtown players the Chamber, the Building Owners and Managers Association, the Committee on JOBS, etc. in a position to claim that the Chiu proposal is anti-business.
We've seen this pattern far to often. Small business groups allow big corporations, which have no interest in the real issues that impact local merchants, stick the little folks out front on political issues. We've seen it over the years with public power, commercial rent control, downtown development, and taxes and it needs to stop.
The Small Business Commission, the Council of District Merchants, all the local community merchant groups, and anyone else who really cares about the interests of small business in San Francisco should support the Chiu measure. It's a tax plan that's good for small business. And if the advocates don't realize that, they're hurting themselves, the customers, and the city.


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Growing out of autism?(49 Posts)
I just wondered what people thought of this:
"saying that they grew out of it, is a red herring, it is more likely that they were not affected badly in the first place.......or due to years of therapy they have managed to be "normal""
And they get very good at imitating "normal" behaviour to fit in - pleasantly smiling and chit-chatting at a social function (although bored within an inch of their lives) and avoiding subjects they know will cause upset to others and expose them as "weirdos", like religion or obscure properties of quantum particles.
According to the DSM autism is a lifelong condition. Ergo, children do NOT grow out of it.
SOME people absolutely have the ability to cover the difficulties somewhat as they grow older, and some people are misdiagnosed (have never met anyone mind you, although there was some discussion at University- studying for an MA in Autism alongside having 2 children with ASD, one in assessment and being assessed myself so reckon I know a little- about very early diagnosis being accompanied by a slight risk of misdiagnosis but being worth it in the long run as the children will still need help.
But you either have autism or you don't.
DS1 was diagnosed as having boderline AD years ago, he actually at age 13 has to attend a specialist school unit for people with Aspergers / HFA, he has grown INTO it if anything: and whilst ds3 has always been clearly disabled, the autism has become more obvious as the root of his issues as he ages.
Research is important but nobody is doing research into the great many services that autistic people miss out on (alongside other disabled people, I know)- actually considered doing something similar for my MA Dissertation and was gently warned off (doing parental reports of empathic ability instead).
Also- there is a lot of apparent links between people with very high functioning autism /AS who receive no long term support and other conditions such as depression, anorexia etc that we CAN help people avoid- articles like this have to be very carefully produced as they can support cuts to provision, yet cause lives that held promise to be destroyed long term and cost just as much in terms of long term psych support, unemployment support, marital breakdown.
Nuclear- he seems to have made great progress. I wouldn't expect he has grown out of it- you may find if he hits bumps in the road that he shows up again IYSWIM- but it does sound like he has developed along a great pathway that minimises his needs and learned to find socially acceptable ways of handling his needs (such as the plane websites). Puberty from all accounts can go either way- either a spurt in coping skills or a regression. Or indeed, a mix.
Personally, my own AS isn't a constant in terms of presentation: the level of support I need from my DH and friends (online ones whoa re wonderful and I can ask for opinions about situations- FANJOs I mean you!)- varies, sometimes I am very confident and able to access some situations, other times I need talking out of the house. But the key stuff- organisational diffciulty, inability to understand when people are sniping at me approach people without an appointment (eg in the playground)- all that stuff that seems so minor but affects every single day- that is constant. Indeed I actually realised I needed a proper dx when I had to speak to a parent in the playground and could not as she was with someone else and I realised I had absolutely no script to allow me to make that social move outside my repertoire. Added in the rest and spoke to a few experts and we realised.
'As above - 2 Aspies - oldest now 14 and can, as he calls it pass 90% of the time but he still recognises the differences in his thought processes from a socially acceptable norm.'
Same here raspberryroop, my DS calls it PFN Passing for normal.
He's 18 and his veneer is very thick now, but put him in a stressful situation and it is stripped away in an instant.
It's why he carries a mobile too, I'm his hotline for WTF is going on here and what should I do? when faced with weird NT-driven situations. I don't think he's grown out of being an Aspie, I think reasonable accommodations by others and by him have enabled him to cope.
Like a diabetic on insulin, they PFN too but take away the props and they're fucked.
Pile of balls.
As a child, I displayed a lot of the signs of Aspergers (obsessive behaviour, hating being touched, tics, etc.) but was refered with suspected Tourettes. My mother panicked about me being labelled and cancelled the referal.
As an adult I don't think I've changed at all, but I've changed my behaviour so that I seem 'normal'; most people think just think I'm quirky and perhaps a little unpredictable. I still have tics but they are hidden and I detest being hugged. And I look just a bit past people's eyes, which has the bad effect that I make too much eye-contact and men often read this to mean that I'm attracted to them.
Agree with everyone here. My DS (15) was first tentatively dx'd age 9 and the paediatrician said then that he was AS, high-functioning, bright, and would probably be able to learn the behaviours that did not come to him instinctively. And he has, but it is hard work, it is tiring for him, and it means he is always on a slight time-lag compared to his contemporaries. He has to do it all more consciously and be aware all the time of how things are different. And that's just social behaviour; then there's all the organisational stuff - what Attwood calls 'Impaired Executive Function'. To many people, I'm sure he appears 'normal' but that is maturity and practice - what's that thing about practising for 10,000 hours to be an expert? Well, he's had years of practise at appearing to be NT! Doesn't mean he's not instinctively still AS in there!
This reminds me of a visitor we had in June 2012. She knew the family well and was convinced ds1's AS was non existent. She had never met him in a home environment, only one where he felt (rightly) he had to - and I like the term above and will steal it- 'PFN'.
Of course, within the half hour she was sat on the sofa that looks onto the corridor and jumper- ds1 had gone past riding (age 12) on the back of a fire engine toy, propelled by socked feet on tippy toes, hands in shoes flapping and screeching like a bird. He went up and down for some considerable time.
After that, she believed.
DS1 is often like that; but you need only to glance at him for the second he has his tourettes-like facial tic to know it's not reality.
There's a really good grsphic here that shows how learning disabilities over lap each other. This is the reason that often there is so much confussion over the type of learning disability and why they can also be easily missed. https://www.facebook.com/letmelearn/posts/414718298605584?ref=notif¬if_t=like# hope that helps.
I HATE 'scientific journalism' headlines, because they're so misleading. The headline is totally inaccurate. Here is what the woman REALLY said...
Dr Judith Gould, director of the National Autistic Society's Lorna Wing Centre for Autism, said: "Autism is a lifelong disability affecting the way that people communicate and interact with others.
"This study is looking at a small sample of high functioning people with autism and we would urge people not to jump to conclusions about the nature and complexity of autism, as well its longevity.
"With intensive therapy and support, it's possible for a small sub-group of high functioning individuals with autism to learn coping behaviours and strategies which would 'mask' their underlying condition and change their scoring in the diagnostic tests used to determine their condition in this research.
"This research acknowledges that a diagnosis of autism is not usually lost over time and it is important to recognise the support that people with autism need in order to live the lives of their choosing."
This clearly fits more closely to what threesocks said than it does to the 'grow out of autism' headline. (I was HFA as a kid but identify as NT now: the only things that remain from my autistic behaviours in childhood are a tendency to disappear into my bedroom/headphones for hours when overstimulated, and vocal tics which got a Tourette's Syndrome diagnosis a few years ago).
Saw this & immediately thought 'no, learn to cope & adapt'
My DS doesn't have a diagnosis yet, but even I can see that he is brilliant at finding ways to cope.
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It's best not to Tough
My mil told me I was just being anxious.....now she looks after my DC after school for 1 night a week & apparently she has always known he had something funny, probably Aspergers
But the good news is - it won't be a problem! Phew! All that worry for nothing!
"Because autism is caused by differences within structures of the brain, unless the brain restructures itself massively then you're still autistic."
The brain can literally restructure itself with intensive theraphy. Every time we learn something new our brain restructures itself with a new neuron connection. However the brains of some people with learning difficulites find it harder to create or retain new connections.
For example someone with brain damage can develop new neuro connections or reassign different parts of the brain to do different jobs after intensive theraphy. (Ie. the child with cerbral palsy who learns to walk after intensive physio.)
Similarly children with autism can develop social skills, speech and a tolerance of changes of routine. However life still remains a struggle. Relieving the symptoms of autism by education is not a cure.
It is not yet possible to diagnose autism by a brain scan, yet alone tell if we have "cured it".
Yes, brain restructures itself all the time. I think the point there was that autism is a hardware problem and not a software problem. It is about the way the brain functions, and it will remain the same even after a stroke or a brain trauma where different parts of the brain take over functions of dead brain cells.
" I think the point there was that autism is a hardware problem and not a software problem."
I completely agree. However the brains of most autistic people function reasonably well except for major glitch somewhere. It is similar to someone with biopolar disorder. Other parts of the brain can learn to compensate for the faulty circuitary, but the fault is still there. The autistic person can learn a theory of mind, but it does not come naturally. It is a bit like the fact that an adult learning a new lanaguage uses a different part of the brain to a child learning a new language.
This research shows that early intervention is worthwhile and that autistic people can be helped. It is actually very positive news for people with autism and their families.
I 'grew out' of my autism in my mid 20s. I was just like any other young woman. Except that is only the outsiders perspective. Inside the difficulties, anxieties, lack of understanding was exactly the same. But only I could see it. As others said, I learnt to cope. I did this by mimicking others. I could hold down a fairly normal, small talk type conversation and appear just like anyone else. To do this though I was constantly playing 'recordings' of other peoples' conversations which I had witnessed and stored up over the years. It was never a natural state of affairs. It was the same as a normal person deciding they were going to be Kermit the Frog and constantly impersonating his speech, mannerisms, dress etc to keep up the pretense.
Lots of autistic adults do this. It's how they get by. But it can't be maintained and eventually 'autistic burnout' will occur. For me, this massive crash happened in my late 30s. I regressed to being more autistic than I'd ever been before. I had exhausted myself and couldn't keep up any of the pretending anymore. Now I am much more selective in my coping techniques. They are all about making my daily life better. They are not and will never be about being someone I'm not ever again. Down that path madness lurks.
What a load of bollocks
Obviously the story ( as that's what it is) not what other posters have said
Pandas story could be mine, except my crash happened in my mid-twenties.
Whilst I appear to be outwardly normal with good conversational skills, all those skills have had to be learned by rote and I am constantly checking off what I'm saying against my mental "script for this sort of conversation." It never flows naturally, ever, and doing all this double-thinking and cross referencing is exhausting.
Whilst I don't doubt that some children may be delayed in their development to the extent that they display autistic behaviours, and that those children may 'catch up' with their NT peers to an extent, I do doubt that they can be 'cured' of autism. They may learn skills which mask their condition to a great degree, as Panda and I have done, but they will never have a neurologically 'normal' brain.
My father has grand mal epilepsy, my sister has petit mal: their neurological wiring is different from the norm, as is the case in autism (scans of autistic peoples brains show that the electrical activity in an AS brain is very different from that of an NT one.)
No-one would suggest you can learn your way out of epilespy!
I understand that the point the article is making is that autistics can learn coping skills, but to present that as a sort of complete cure is disingenuous to say the least.
90% of autism is autistic spectrum disorder; the other 10% is classical autism.
All cases of autism are of neurological origin and have not been considered to be psychiatric problems for many years now. This means that each case of autism is individual and although there are common symptoms/behaviours that is largely due to the neuropathology affected similar parts of the brain.
The most important matters for anyone with autism is their environment and the ability of carers to be fully aware of the needs of the person so affected. If a sufferer manages to find a better environment as he/she grows older they will have less behavioural problems and this may seen to be an improvement which of course it is; but that is the nature of the condition.
Another important issue is again to do with the fact that autism is a neurological condition rather than a psychiatric one. There is the frequently experienced bad effects of psychotropic medication on someone who already has a damaged brain. These drugs have not been clinically tested on those with brain damage and they are given in a suck-it-and-see state of hopefulness as these days that is all many psychiatrists are able to do.
If there is a development of psychological problems in someone with autism their specialist should be a neuropsychologist not a psychiatrist. It is unfortunate that GPs still take the latter course.
If anyone would like to understand the dynamics of the neurological problem in autism then have a look at my papers at: www.scribd.com/oakwoodbank
Zombie thread, but interested. Where did you get the 90 vs 10% ASD versus classic figure from oakwood? And how are you defining each? Curious. Ds1 is severely autistic (simplex case) after a regression - very different from various other cases I know.
I will look at your papers when I'm not on my phone
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BEREA, Ohio – The Baldwin Wallace University baseball team was defeated by Allegheny (Pa.) College by a score of 6-4 in a non-conference game on Fisher Field.
BW (13-8) scored four runs on five hits as it scored one run in the sixth and freshman second baseman Jacob Bonner (Akron/Archbishop Hoban) closed out the scoring with a three-run homer in the seventh. Allegheny (13-6) scored one run in the sixth and five in the seventh.
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By jayc · PostedYeah, it's unfortunate fishmosy isn't active anymore. He has a lot of knowledge that would have been useful. However, I would suggest you give it a go. Build a tank specifically for the shrimp you manage to catch. When you do succeed in catching some, make a note of the location and date. If you are ever successful enough to release any, you have a record of the location. Also bring your test kit to check on the water parameters where the shrimps were caught. Test pH, temperature, GH, KH, TDS. Those are the key ones. Make sure your tank parameters match this water exactly, as wild caught shrimps will adapt better if the parameters match. Start collecting rain water in plastic rain water tanks. You're going to need it for water changes. Don't even consider using tap water.
By jayc · PostedTell us what is wrong with your shrimp and give us as much details about your water parameters as possible.
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That is just north America. Idle no More is now world wide. Indigenous people all over the planet are connected and working together. Mainstream media is ignoring them and that is why most people think they are idle, but they sure as hell ain't.
Remember Petros... Cliffy promised big changes this summer. I have the page book marked so we can follow it through and perhaps have a discussion in September.
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Quebec Superior Court has struck down part of a controversial membership law in Kahnawake, Que., saying it violates Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Justice Thomas Davis determined the rule — which requires residents of the Mohawk reserve to move away if they marry a non-Indigenous person, as well as suspending their other membership entitlements — discriminatory based on social status.
"It's basically an attack on the basic dignity of everybody," said lawyer Julius Grey, who represented the 16 plaintiffs.
In the 48-page judgment, Davis said the policy was based on "stereotypical beliefs" about mixed marriage, that "non-native spouses will use the resources and land of the band in a way that is detrimental to it and that will have a negative impact on the ability of the band to protect its culture and its land."
But, Grey pointed out, the judge was not unsympathetic to the other side and acknowledged the challenges faced in the community just south of Montreal. He invited the two parties to reconcile and try to come to an agreement.
Out in the OpenThe struggle to belong under Kahnawake community's 'Marry Out, Get Out' rule
In a statement, the Mohawk Council of Kahnawake (MCK) said its legal team is reviewing the judgment, which came down Monday, and will present a report to the chief and council on Thursday.
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Joe Delaronde, spokesperson for the MCK, said many people in the community are also upset the issue went to an outside court, when they have voiced their opinion "loud and clear" on the policy for almost 40 years.
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The so-called "marry out, get out" policy began as a moratorium, first passed in 1981. It has officially been on the band council's books since 1984, but has rarely been enforced.
The membership law sets criteria for who is considered to be a member of the First Nation and determines which non-members can become residents. The current version was enacted in 2003.
In 2010, the band council began sending out eviction letters. Some plaintiffs in the lawsuit claim they were cut off from access to services in Kahnawake because their partner is not Indigenous.
Others say they were the targets of violent protests or shaming on social media, and that mixed-race children were referred to as "half breeds" and were denied funding to go to school.
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Listening to a CTV interview with Kevin Hart - AFN Manitoba Regional Chief as he tells the host that FN languages should be recognized as official languages. Earlier, Percy Bellegarde told his audience at the FN conference on whatever that every single FN language needs to be funded, promoted and accepted as official.


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