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I Can't see the orders from here, but I trust you guys There you go So again guys It fills up it'll break after this and same thing You guys fill up maybe another mosaic choice Like the filler break We can do that tonight as well And then I was called Jacob Easton autograph Baker made for them. Wow. Look at that another gold coming out It's three golds in a whole massive. That's pretty strong Chris Conley Three out of ten for the Jacksonville Jaguars going to Jeremy in it to win it We got Joe burrow AJ Brown Rob Brown Kowski AJ Brown Russell Wilson Devon Singletary Chase young NFL debut silver Rajas for the Green Bay Packers going to Travis Men of mastery pain manning for the Colts and Gilbert Brown for the Green Bay Packers second to last fall module Travis got the Packers Jeff Ocuda Mike Evans red Matt's funny you say that I was actually watching D2 yesterday. It's funny Very nice. I mean my I like D2 and D3 not that I don't like the original my ducks It's just not that I'm older.  It's just like a rivalry.  I love hockey If I wasn't a Kingsman embedded already like in my brain that I love the Kings and not the ducks probably Probably uh What it became a duck But I just love the movies though for sure bash brothers Dean Portman. That's right We'll bust them Julie the cat gaff me Julie the cat Yeah, I was just it's just so funny just man. I feel sad though for the actor that played uh Goldberg obviously you know some photos of him recently not so good, but He's so funny in the second one when they're like a rodeo driving And They're buzzing all these stores So can I get three cheeseburgers some fries and what do you guys want to drink? How's he okay? That's good I remember those photo surfers when they were doing like the reunion They're like the 25th anniversary of however long it was And the the ducks were doing all these promos with the anaheim ducks and I know he wasn't there, you know But yeah, no that was funny and Pretends to be like this rich nephew of like some rich guy Jordy Nelson for the Packers I know it. He's like he's a Aaron Spelling's nephew That's right No Hank Aaron, of course Aaron Spelling So Quan Bargley overdrive Yeah, some points My phone or points being given away Do you know the Brighorn sap? I did I remember all those lines though. It's just that one just sticks to my head. I'm tired. I used to watch I love those movies that I was a kid That the sandlot is embedded in my brain All those like 90s All those 90s movies sports little movies were really embedded in my brain But I did just say yesterday though Kevin Green T Higgins silver What is uh How about on fending man? What is what's three ninjas? Hey, man. Yeah, banny actually was who's in d2. He was a Is the speedster to a Monsters I that sounds familiar williams. What is it about refresh my memory? Maybe I have I mean, I don't watch like every 90s like kids movie like what we're not kids movie, but like If it's we're talking about sports, you know, not all of them, but Still ones that stuck into my head Marquis brown The danian tomlinson Also guys if you guys haven't already You guys need to watch cobra kai it's already on it's already on netflix I've seen it when it first came out a couple years ago on youtube Such a good show agent peterson Cobra kai is a great show It's awesome, right? Oh season two is awesome too, man. It's really funny actually I actually started binging it again because when I came back on netflix. I was like, oh cool I I legit just get the youtube tv just to binge it and then I'll cancel the subscription after Such a great show Yeah, he definitely is Oh, that sounds interesting. I don't think I have Who raised draculina a bunch of bags for the No, yeah, the wi-fi part was so funny Jordan brooks for the seahawks D. Will Samuel I gotta check it out with him that kind of Sounds interesting Well, hey manning silver and we got karson wendz 59 out of 99 from my eagles Rowena dargon And it's a win at rodykman Dino times. I don't remember that one Goonies is a good one too. I I remember that one very well, too It's it's always on like cable as well like tbs or you know, all those other shows all those other channels So goonies definitely is a really good one It's definitely a good one to watch It's just so funny seeing josh brolin there like isn't like he's so young there And I started thinking that he's he's straight up danos now Oh lost boys That's a good one. I remember seeing that my uh One of my english teachers actually back in uh High school like my freshman year. She was like obsessed with that movie one time when we had like a Like a free day or something. She put it off for us I was like, whoa That was a good one Honestly, I like him as lou ellen Lou Ellen in a no country for old man. That's a great flick I can watch that movie like a lot And ton just cracks me over that was a straight-up serial killer Cobra Kai all right. I'm telling you man. I would be some spoilers right now But matt says he's on season two, so I don't want to say anything, but I love season one, but season two was definitely so good and Just left you like wowed at the end and Kind of hoping certain things happen in season three So I'm so happy that netflix actually picked it up And should be coming out what it came out this year actually, but with covid of course everything got pushed back so Definitely a good one for next year to look forward to Yeah, well, yeah, it was on youtube tv for the first two seasons and then it got picked up by netflix, so Definitely give definitely season three's coming. I don't know how many seasons after that I hope it like never stops, but I'm sure it's gonna end at some point But I'm hoping at least two more seasons season three. Maybe season four It'd be nice, but if I can get at least season three that's good enough for me And that's another tv show that I can definitely just binge Like randomly throughout the years If it's still obviously on netflix It's really good Chase Claypool red Jeff O'Cuda I know that williams that could yeah He's he's you just learned to like him though. You know the cool thing about Cobra Kai that I loved is that they kind of flipped it, right?  I mean obviously He did have a much better than other kids growing up, but Obviously there's a lot of things you didn't know about what was happening with his life In the back end stuff, so it's pretty cool Man, you gotta see like Daniel Russel now just big time Great life it's like flipped around Actually that guy comes out and that guy actually comes out in season two spoiler Yeah, the old reference says it's pretty good too. Yeah, you know what I love though is that uh What I what I love is when uh, I'm sure you guys see it already, but Soon he's making his infomercial Can't say this over there right now, but it's like don't be a pee Like he's saying all these things and then he just that's what he ends it off with Yeah, wet t-shirt contest and like He's looking up. He's he's clicking all these ads Antonia Gannon for the uh, Washington football team. He's looking up all these ads. He's like, oh, wow He goes no way and then he's just like I knew it.  He's like, I'm not a nerd Yeah, I know that's a good one. This is a punch. I'm not a keeks quad good one drew lock Blue chips durwin james john riggins chris godwin henry rugs All right, we got deandre swift. Oh If you would have caught that pass right guys Be winning right now Jerry rice Honestly, man, I would I want to say but this year in 2020 there's just been so many releases Honestly, if something like that happens to you, what do you do?  Do you just wipe it out of your memory? I just feel like it's it's it's so hard to like predict what you what are you doing like I feel like I'd you just be just kicking myself But then again, like that's not what you need to do You know, you need to shake it off rub it off and just get better But I just feel like something like that's just in the back of your head so much Yeah, so I guess we'll find out what what he does Marv leaving Hall of Fame oh one for the bills Oh, so he had done that already Travis. See that's the one thing so you kind of um, you kind of like You hate that because you know, they're just so excited, right?  He's going to score a touchdown And he just forgets that he needs to catch it first You know get in Which that's kind of the frustrating thing as a fan It's like dude, I get it you want to push it up field But make the catch first secure it and then start pulling up Oh, I was frustrated for me today Travis My Eagles did pretty good first half.  They weren't allowing as many sacks Maybe just one in the first half if any The line held up pretty strong with all the injuries. They already have You know, but second half was just something else It's like they walked out of the locker room either just dead tired or just didn't want to play football anymore which force Carson Wentz to try to extend plays He got sacked like eight times, you know, it's it's That's not gonna help and obviously the defense led up some points, too.  It's like what's 17 of seven, but What are you gonna do? everybody obviously had their Ups and downs today, but that was just kind of hurt one that hurt a lot But I think you know, it's also with no preseason These linemen are going up against each other and not that I'm not saying they're not going 100 percent, but totally different from a preseason game to practice So I think the preseason really at least hurt the Eagles a little bit Yeah, exactly Travis. So it's gonna take Like let's say my Eagles gonna take him a couple weeks to Get in sync with all the D line or the all the O line And you know some receivers and stuff, but if it was one positive though for me Is that I think the Eagles can definitely put up some points this year Uh in the NFL and Jaylen Rigor is I think he's gonna be good I got assigned someone earlier. He went just missed him on like a 75-year-old bond He got him on a 55-year-old hopefully They got a move on I was a good for the Washington football team though, honestly You know, they hadn't beaten us in like three years We're six of them the last three years against him. So I guess it was about time I'm more happy for Ron Rivera, too. Just because what he's going through And still being out there and coaching us pretty strong. All right, next one guys Yeah, definitely. I mean Acres didn't get as many carries as uh brown did today, which brown looked good but When acres did touch the ball, he looked he looked very good Which it's just gonna be hard for him to get reps with the depth that You have with the Rams and hopefully he just kind of just Just starts separating himself from from the running backs a little bit You know draw Henderson him and brown kind of more by committee, but Hey in the beginning guys, I was I mean, I didn't watch the Bears game, but In the beginning everybody was talking time to put Nick's foals in but I guess played well enough to get the Bears back into the back into the w column, right and now Kind of changed a little bit Van Jefferson looked good too for the Rams, but you know It's just with the Rams too. Like they have kind of a lot of weapons, you know The running back step up. You have the running backs, right? You have a nice tight end You have still Robert Woods. You have Cooper cup and Van Jefferson AP looked good too. I'm glad I'm happy for him too I just think AP is just such on a mission that anywhere he goes is going to be productive Like he still has so much left in the tank and he's so motivated It don't matter what locker room he's going to he's gonna just produce if he gets the chance So good for the Lions to get that to get that guy. I think a good veteran presence like him is a good thing Having him in the locker room and I just the MVP's prison silver Brian Tannehill and yes dealers play tomorrow again Who do they play? Is it the do they play the Titans tomorrow? I don't think I've seen the Titans play today John Alway center stage. Oh, they play the Giants. That's right Giants did the Titans play today? Are they the next game? No, because that'd be Denver and who? 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It'll probably go tomorrow We still have to fill up like about six or seven spots straight up and probably do a couple fillers actually Rothesburger Um, I think it'll go tomorrow though Probably most likely not tonight Brady What the hell George Blanda played with the Raiders at 48 years old All right two more boxes guys All right next box guys second to last will fuller March on Lynch Tewa and Clyde Edward Haller LT Redemption rookie autographs mosaic card number nine Justin Jefferson there you go Minnesota Vikings Rob Gronkowski Ricky Wanted some Justin Jefferson There you go Blue chips Sony Wait, so did we sell a mosaic choice seven already? Oh wait. No, we have the Steelers left last spot mojo Come on guys. You guys gotta sell it out. Remember I told you guys don't sell it. I'm leaving Come on one left Steelers 89 99 No fillers just straight up seven You can sell out by itself Come on. 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My favorite module I use a lot. Let me just type it out. CSV. I do a lot of B2B stuff. And guess what? I deal a lot with Excel files. And an easy way to deal with Excel files is to dump the CSV and process them with Python. Let's just create, I don't know, a simple CSV file. Let's just, I don't know, maybe all my module a month talks like. So I had one February and June and October and November. Let's print that out. So I have the module a month and the date I gave it, right? Simple table. We've all dealt with this. Let me try splitting that by hand, right? So this is a big string. I want to split that into a list of lists, right? This is a table. So if I split by hand, I create an empty list. And for, let me split that by a return line. And so for each row, I'm going to split by hand by commas, because it's comma separated values, right? So let me run that. And let me import pprints to make it nice to print. Let's try that. And all the dates are cut up. And there's like double quotes. And it's kind of really awkward. And let me try. There's a standard library in Django. Let me try the CSV module, what it does for me. So import CSV. Get myself what they call a reader. So the reader will take any iterable. So it'll take a file, for example. In this case, I'm kind of lazy. I'm going to get a list of strings. But the classic example, you just punt in an open file or sys.standardin. And that will give you an iterator, right? And that iterator is of each row. And so I can get the first row, which is my header. Or I can get all the other rows. So let me pprint the list, spitting out all the lists, all the elements of that iterator. And they come out fine. The dates, the double quotes are stripped. The commas in sign are kept. It's a table of two elements. It's a list of each list itself as two elements. It did exactly what I wanted to do. You can go a bit fancier. I really like the dict reader. So again, taking my iterable of rows. And what the dict reader does is it turns every row into a dictionary, taking the column headers and dumping those in the dictionary of each. So if you want to process a big file and don't want to always remember, all right, this row is an offset five.  And also, go figure if your users give you a CSV file while the columns aren't the same order, it doesn't matter as long as the headers make sense. This will complain bitterly if the number of columns don't match the header and all. It'll be a nice error. You'll know right away where it failed. You'll be right at reading it, not five lines later when you're trying to process it. Writing CSV files. So you want to write something. You want something you can give to an end user they can open in Excel and play with. Well, go figure. Let me just write out some data. Let me give a rating to all my talks. That one was great. That one was OK. This one, let's say meh. And final one, it was bad. And let me give some details on our turn line just to make it a bit fancier, right? Now, this is the writer we'll write to a file. The CSV module is built around processing a long file and dumping out a long file. So a very unix sort of file in, file out. So they all kind of need files. Or in my case, I'm going to fake with a string IO package which creates a file like object, but it's basically just in memory and you can deal with as a string. So let me call my out file. And let me create a writer, add a reader, now I have a writer. I tie it to my out file and I write my rows, data. And from my string IO thing, let me get my value and I get the CSV file with the double quotes. The return line appears, but because it's within double quotes Excel will consider part of the same column. It's all beautiful. You can send that around. Everybody's happy. And finally, you can do the same thing with dictionaries. So go figure, let me try another file. Let me get a header. You got the Dick writer. This time you have to specify the header because you need to specify the order of the columns that you want to spit out in the CSV file. So your header is just this list. And you just dumped. So I'm going to create my dictionary data as a dictionary really quick. Let me print that out, just prove to you I'm not cheating. So this is all the data in Python dictionaries and I can punt that into my writer. And if I print out my writer, I got a beautiful CSV file. I can put it into a file, give to all normals that don't use Python. And that's interoperability in one second left. Any questions? There's plenty more in that module by figuring out like there's tabs. It'll work on tabs that are created files, comma separated files, and there's plenty of stuff in there that'll try to sniff out what type of file you're dealing with to make things easier. All right, any questions?


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In this lively acoustical environment it is sometimes difficult for people in attendance to hear therefore we remind you of our child Haven back in that corner hello folks back there and our comments behind the auditorium which are excellent places to go if a child wants to talk or move around sing dance normal child things the service can still be seen and heard very well from those areas also we have hearing assistance devices available please see one of our ushers if that would be helpful for you. I'd now like to acknowledge those individuals who help our services run smoothly for this service we have Mark Schultz managing sound and Smiley as our lay minister our greeters our Joan Hightman and Jeannie Neusbaum our ushers are and Smiley Karen Jagger and Sam Bates hospitality coffee and tea service is being prepared by Jeannie Hills and Sharon scratch and now I would draw your attention to the many many announcements which appear in the red floors insert to your order of service there are lots and lots of interesting things in there today about today's service and upcoming activities I'm flying this around sorry I have some things that we'd like to call your attention to particularly the first one is Black Lives Matter weekend which is next weekend Saturday October 14th and Sunday October 15th on October 14th 9 a.m you may help hang prayer flags and again at 4 30 in the afternoon you may hear poet and performer Christopher Sims speak about at our Saturday service with a potluck that follows on Sunday we welcome UW's first wave back to our services and we cap off the weekend with Dr. Christie Clark Punjara's lecture why history matters in the landmark auditorium right here snacks and light refreshments will be served and child care will be available so please register on the website so we'll know how many people to expect regarding today our f.u.s opportunity fair is this weekend wondering how you can become more involved here at f.u.s group members representing those open to you will be in the commons after this service right out there you've seen all the tables probably grab a cup of coffee or tea and find out about social justice groups spiritual practice groups chalice groups exploration groups book discussion groups and more walk around the atrium commons to see the ways you might want to become more deeply engaged here at f.u.s at the opportunity fair you can also find out more about becoming a greeter usher sound operator or part of the after service hospitality team so please sign up and be matched with an experienced team member to keep the services running smoothly that's very important and we really appreciate your participation I also want to call your special attention to a particular announcement title lights camera at f.u.s we're so excited to welcome Michael Doyle Olson to Sunday services this weekend he'll be gathering some background shots no audio for a promotional video being made for f.u.s Michael has a special connection to our community as he's also the brother of Matthew our capital campaign chairman if you see him wandering around or one of his assistants he'll be or they will be the ones with the cameras please extend a warm welcome and a hearty thank you in advance for his time and energy in efforts showing us or helping us to show off f.u.s in our wonderful community I saw one of those guys on a skateboard during the interim he was flying down through the middle I'm not kidding the middle of the commons with a camera so you don't know where they'll turn up watch out for them if you're out there they won't want to run over you again welcome we hope today's service will stimulate your mind touch your heart and stir your spirit thank you very much our opening words are from the Kiowa novelist and poet M. Scott Mamaday best known for his Pulitzer Prize winning novel House Made of Dawn I am a feather on the bright sky I am the blue horse that runs in the plane I am the fish that rolls shining in the water and I am the shadow that follows the child I am the evening light the luster of meadows I am the eagle playing with the wind and I am a cluster of bright beads I am the farthest star the cold of dawn the roaring of the rain I am the glitter on the crust of the snow and the long track of the moon in a lake I am the flame of four colors a deer standing in the dusk a field of sumac and palm blanche I am the angle of geese in the winter sky I am the hunger of the young wolf I am the whole dream of all of these things you see I am alive I am alive I stand in good relation to the earth I stand in good relation to the gods I stand in good relation to all that is beautiful I stand in good relation to the daughter of sentan you see I am alive I am alive I invite you to rise in body or in spirit for the lighting of our chalice please join your voices in repeating with me the words of affirmation that accompany the lighting of the flame our father the sky hear us and make us strong our mother the earth hear us and give us support spirit of the east send us your wisdom spirit of the sound may we tread your path of life spirit of the west may we always be ready for the long journey spirit of the north purify us with your cleansing winds and now I invite you to turn to your neighbor in exchange with him or her a warm greeting please be seated and if any children who are with us this morning would like to come down at this point for the message for all ages gotta be a couple of you out there other than in the children's choirs so have any of you ever sat by a stream that was kind of running over the rocks and it was kind of making a sound like kind of burbling and if you kind of listen closely to it you might say hmm that stream seems to be kind of talking to me I don't exactly know what that language is but kind of sounds like it's talking right and then sometimes if you're walking in the woods and there's tall pine trees and the breeze is blowing what does that sound like if you stop and listen like whispering kind of something like that again you kind of think hmm that's some kind of language that the trees have but I'm not exactly sure what what the trees are saying so you know a long time ago people used to listen to those things and think that they really could hear some voices that they were actually the natural order was talking but those people didn't have TVs and smartphones so they listen to the earth a lot more than we do today so this is a story about people who listen to the earth a long time ago there were seven wise men and they belong to an Indian tribe called the lanapi and these men were wise in all things about the world about matters here on the world below and things that were going on up in heaven as well but because of their great wisdom people in the tribe were pestering them all the time for answers from dawn until deep into the night people would come to them and ask questions and the old men were getting old and they were getting kind of tired and at last they couldn't even find time to eat a meal by themselves or or to go fishing or to sit around the campfire at night and just kind of chat among themselves because the people were giving them no rest whatsoever and people wanted all these answers from them and so at last the seven wise men got really tired of not having any time for themselves and so they they crept out of the village and they met in secret one night on a hillside and they thought to themselves what are we going to do how are we going to find some peace and eventually one of them came up with an idea and all the others thought it was a pretty good idea you see these wise men were so wise that they actually knew some magic and so they turned themselves into seven big stones boulders and they sat there on the side of that hill and they didn't come back and they didn't come back and people of the village wondered where they'd gone they really missed their wise men but then one day there was this young man who was very clever and curious and he was just out walking along the hillside he sees these seven odd shaped stones and he says oh i haven't seen these before i wonder where they came from because he was kind of leaning down to get a better look at him and he reached out and touched one ah said the rock who woke me up oh said the young man a stone that talks he began looking and he counted the stones one two three four five six seven i think i found our seven missing wise men he said to himself shh the stone said don't tell anybody but it's the only way we could get any rest and so the young man said he wouldn't but he went in the inside of the circle of stones and he began talking to them and the wise men who were stones began giving him answers to all of his questions like why the northern lights you know just kind of are up in the sky and they dance around and why why why dear have short white tails and all kinds of questions that this young man was curious about and the wise men would answer them but they made him promise he wouldn't tell anybody else where they were when the young man promised he wouldn't so he went back to his village but every day he would come back to the hillside to have conversations with the stones but then the people of the village began wondering where does this young guy go every day he always goes off in the same direction so one other person in the village decided he was going to follow him and so he follows him in a distance so he wouldn't be detected and he sees the young man go up the hillside and sit down among the stones and he hears he hears them talking but he can't make out what they're saying and this other man he begins counting the stones and he says I think I found our missing wise man so he goes back to the village and tells all the villagers and the villagers all get together and they march up to the hillside and the wise men see them coming and say oh no but then they had to answer all the people's questions and by the end of the night they were completely exhausted well this isn't working they said to themselves so we better figure out another plan we're gonna have to go even further away from the village where we won't be found so they become human beings again and they march into the woods deep into the woods and they turn themselves into seven tall cedar treats and for a long time nobody finds them except the birds that go up and are roosting in their branches they're feeling really content at this point but then there is a hunting party that comes oh I might get chopped down that would be bad wouldn't it yeah but they didn't but eventually what did happen is that a hunting party came out of the village they went deep into the woods looking for game and one of the people in the hunting party said I've never seen such tall magnificent cedar trees in my life I wonder where they came from and he counts them seven cedar trees I think that I have found our wise man and so he goes back to the village with the hunting party and everybody comes out into the forest and once again they start clamoring for the wise men to answer all of their questions and by the time night comes around once again those poor wise men are so tired and they haven't gotten any peace at all and for a third time they hold counsel with each other what are we going to do well we're just going to have to leave our country entirely but then the great spirit who's been kind of watching all this happen feels sorry for the wise men and so he lifts up his arm and a great wind comes up and carries the seven wise men way up into the heavens and they become seven bright stars and you know those stars are still up there and as stars human beings can't get anywhere near them to help them with questions right and today we know those seven stars that group of stars as the Pleiades and they're part of a constellation called Taurus and today we human beings are still trying to recapture all the secrets about the natural world that these seven old men took with them up into the sky oh no stars don't fall down yeah they're going to be up there they're going to be up there for billions of years I have a budding astronomer up here well thank you those are very good points yeah a gravity gun that would help too well thank you for listening my story but now we have to listen to our choir sing another beautiful piece of music before you get up and leave say everybody sit down let's let's listen to our our youngsters your peers time for our children to go to their classes have a good time first of two readings comes from steve nukem's essay 500 years of injustice when christopher columbus first set foot on the white sands of guanahani island he performed a ceremony to take possession of the land for the king and the queen of spain acting under the international laws of western christendom although the story of columbus's discovery has taken on mythological proportions in most of the western world few people are aware that this act of possession was based on a religious doctrine now known as the doctrine of discovery 40 years before columbus's historic journey pope nicolas the fifth issued to king alfonso the fifth of portugal a bull and titled romanus pontificus it declared war against all non-christians throughout the world and specifically sanctioned the promotion and promoted the conquest the colonization and the exploitation of non-christian nations and territories and in this same bull the pope directed the king to capture vanquish and subdue the saracens pagans and other enemies of christ and to put them into perpetual slavery to take all of their possessions and all of their property acting on this papal privilege portugal continued to traffic in african slaves and expanded its royal dominions by making discoveries along the western coast of africa claiming those lands as portuguese territories and thus when columbus sailed west across the sea of darkness in 1492 he and the spanish sovereigns of aragon and castile were following an already well-established tradition of discovery and conquest and indeed after columbus returned to europe pope alexander the sixth issued another papal document granting to spain the right to conquer the lands which columbus had already found as well as any lands that spain might discover in the future and thus it is important to recognize that the grim facts of genocide and conquest committed by columbus his men and their successors of all the peaceful people in the caribbean these were fully sanctioned by the roman catholic church and by virtue of these two papal bulls a christian law of nations developed a law which asserted that christian nations had the divine right based on the bible to claim absolute title to an ultimate authority over any newly discovered non-christian inhabitants and their territory over the next several centuries these beliefs gave rise to the doctrine of discovery that was used by england holland france as well as by spain and portugal and then in 1823 this doctrine was quietly adopted into us law by the supreme court in the celebrated case johnson versus macintosh according to chief justice john marshal the united states upon winning independence became a successor nation to the right to discovery and acquired the power of dominion from great britain in other words the u.s supreme court affirmed that u.s law was based on a fundamental law of nations which made it permissible to virtually ignore the most basic rights of indigenous heathens and to claim that the unoccupied lands of america rightfully belonged to discovering christian nations for john marshal unoccupied referred to the lands in america which when discovered were occupied by indians but were unoccupied by christians and thus the doctrine of discovery was not only written into us law but also became the cornerstone of u.s indian policy over the next century and then the second reading from kenton nerburn's book the wolf at twilight kenton nerburn lives in northern minnesota and he has been an active presence both among the ajibe way and the sue people he became fast friends with a sue elder by the name of dan and this particular selection comes from a conversation the two of them were having as they took a road trip together through sue territories in the dakotas americans feel guilty about slavery dan told me but they never had to give back anything to black people that was hard for them to give what they'd stolen from black people was their freedom so they just said hey we'll give it back to you that was easy let them go to the front of the line now and let them do everything that white people do and we can all stop feeling guilty wasn't that easy with us indians look at what you stole from us you took our land our houses everywhere that we lived and the only way you can make that right is to give the land back to us and you can't do that because all of america was our land that's something you can't face and so you have to say those were different people that was a different time and instead you tell us well here you can have some chunks of land that we don't want and here's some casinos for you to make money and maybe then you'll shut up and then you just go your merry way just doing what you want there's no way that you can feel it's okay to take folks from another country in chains that's wrong and you know it but with the indians you can say hey we beat you in a fair fight get over it or you can say you signed all those treaties you made a deal what you don't say is that there was never any fair fight because you were beating us with smallpox and all sorts of other diseases and we made all those deals with cannons pointed at us or with some interpreter lying to us or with someone that you called a chief who wasn't a chief being bribed with money or big houses to sign those treaties but none of that really matters what matters is that you've got a way to lie to yourselves about what you did to us while you don't have a way to lie to yourselves about what you did to black people you follow me cat i'm not telling you to feel guilty about this i'm saying you need to take responsibility for it guilt is just an inside out way of feeling good about yourself by saying how bad you feel i don't have any time for that taking responsibility that's something different it's saying that some of the good you got is because some of the bad you did and that you are going to do something to try to make up for the bad that was done and i'm not saying that any of this is your fault or even that your grandparents did any of it i'm just saying that it did happen and it happened on your people's watch you are the one that's benefited from it and it doesn't matter whether you're way downstream from the actual events because you're still drinking the water now i would invite you to remain seated as we sing together from the teal hymnal number 1069 and we will sing it through twice as we gather today images and sound bites from the mass killing that took place in las vegas a week ago may still be haunting us and while we mourn the many deaths and the traumatic injuries caused by a lone affluent white male gunman we might also be echoing what one of that night's country and western performers exclaimed afterwards he said something has changed in this country and it's very scary to see yes it is scary to see but what if anything has changed ever since two teenagers shot up their columbine high school in 1999 incidents like these have been happening with alarming frequency and before that we had american soldiers in vietnam slaughtering the residents of entire villages one of the most notable perpetrators of this gratuitous violence was lieutenant william cali he spent just three years under house arrest and was ultimately pardoned by president jimmy carter some commentators called this latest spasm of violence the deadliest mass killing of the modern era but when does modernity begin european settlement in north america commenced some 500 years ago but as recently as 1921 300 african americans living in tulsa oklahoma were killed when white mobs torched their neighborhoods mary j perish later recounted how she fled with her infant daughter amidst showers of bullets from machine guns a half century before that during the reconstruction period 150 african americans were gunned down by white vigilantes in colfax louisiana the historical record is sad to say replete with such stories so perhaps the only thing that has really changed is our increasingly permissive gun laws and our ability to produce cheap weapons of mass destruction that do make it possible for virtually anyone acting alone to go on such a killing spree and still our forebears didn't need bump stocks they didn't need large capacity magazine clips you can buy one that holds 40 bullets for just 1999 at cabela's they didn't need these to engage in mass slaughter to give just one example shortly before the revolutionary war an entire village of delaware indians living in pennsylvania all christian converts by the way were beaten to death with clubs they had been falsely charged with stealing goods and household items that their attackers claimed should only belong to white people but the root of the matter really lies much further back even than this from the very beginning violence has been woven into the warp and the weft of the american experiment now tomorrow monday much of the nation will observe the federal holiday instituted in 1937 known as columbus day parades and other civic celebrations will be held in communities across the country and particularly in those communities where citizens of italian descent reside in large numbers but this is not going to happen here in madison wisconsin because our common council voted in 2005 to replace columbus day with indigenous people's day a decision that they then reaffirmed just last year and thus madison joined a number of cities and states in an initiative that began in berkeley california in 1992 which was the 500th anniversary of columbus's first voyage to the so-called new world and with this shift communities have been taking an important step toward rejecting the pernicious doctrine of discovery and acknowledging the grievous harm that it has caused the proper focus the proponents of this new holiday argue should be the long neglected rights and interests of our continent's native peoples it should also be pointed out that in most of the americas columbus enjoys far less celebrity than he does here there there are no celebrations of columbus day in most of the americas why because many of the citizens of mexico and bolivia are of indian heritage and as a george p horse capture observed no sensible indian person could ever celebrate the arrival of columbus or as the historian james lohan put it cherishing columbus is a characteristic of white history not american history our own faith tradition unitary universalism reached much the same conclusion and in 2012 delegates to our annual general assembly approved a resolution quote repudiating the doctrine of discovery as a relic of colonialism feudalism and religious cultural and racial biases and that particular resolution also called upon our congress to implement within our territorial boundaries the standards outlined in the un declaration of the rights of indigenous peoples something congress has yet to do by the way the episcopal church the disciples of christ the society of friends the united methodist church have all approved similar resolutions but the roman catholic church has not nicholas the fifth 1452 papal bull which gave a handful of christian nations the license to exploit indigenous peoples in perpetuity that bull still remains on the books now to be sure pope frances did recently address this issue and pope frances did declare that native peoples have the right to prior informed consent in any matter affecting their land or their resources but frances was not speaking ex cathedra and thus his statement did not have the effect of overturning established church doctrine now although symbolic gestures like the substitution of one holiday for another although these are important they really aren't a substitute for deeper investigations into the ideological underpinnings of this relentless campaign to subjugate our native peoples and to destroy their traditional way of life the doctrine of discovery represented just one piece of a larger set of arguments that were used to dispossess tens of millions of american indians that particular doctrine focused on their lack of christian faith their alien culture but what also made the indians dispensable was their perceived racial inferiority because in conjunction with the doctrine of discovery the roman catholic church developed another concept known as limpieza desangre which is spanish for blood purity that doctrine was used originally by spanish and portuguese christians to discriminate against and to persecute jews and muslims but eventually limpieza desangre became a useful tool in the hands of colonialists now before this time rocks and dunbar artis writes before this time the concept of biological race based on blood is not known to have existed in law or in taboo in christian europe or even elsewhere in the world the ideology of white supremacy was paramount in confiscating the lands and the properties of morris and jews in iberia of the irish in ulster and ultimately of native and african peoples one can readily see how convenient this concept proved to be in the enslavement of africans but it was equally valuable as a rationale for subjugating and exterminating indians and thus when communicable diseases were introduced by european explorers and settlers and those diseases decimated the population of new england a puritan leader's reaction was not to lament the loss of thousands of indian lives but rather to praise god for miraculously creating this open space for his own people's farms and settlements his indian lives just did not matter and so deeply embedded was this sentiment in european consciousness that whites who questioned it were routinely ostracized sometimes driven from their communities roger williams the founder of the state of road island was one of the very few among early colonists who made an effort to understand and to connect with his indian neighbors he studied and learned their languages he visited their villages he he invited indians into his own home and in the end roger williams was forced to revisit many of his prejudices about native americans he rejected the racism of his pure and brethren's and wrote nature knows no difference between europeans and americans in blood birth bodies god having of one blood made all humankind from close observation roger williams also gained an appreciation for indian agricultural practices they farmed the forest he wrote in amazement they used the land in a very exact and sustainable fashion and what was clear to roger williams was opaque to more casual colonial observers who for their part charged the indians with failure to improve the land failure to subdue the land in accordance with god's commandment in the book of genesis as william cronen writes european perceptions of what constituted a proper use of the environment thus reinforced what became a european ideology of conquest and all of these ideological factors the doctrine of discovery white supremacy a eurocentric concept of land and its and its use all of these contributed to the suppression of native peoples and although many of us were taught at least i was in my american history class that the west was one in a fair fight between hostile indians and intrepid settlers numerous well documented studies have rendered that narrative completely false no fair fight would produce such chilling statistics as this a reduction of the native population in the continental united states from an estimated 20 million in the 1500s to 250 thousand at the dawn of the 20th century the loss by indians of 97.7 percent of their original land holdings during andrew jackson's eight-year presidency alone the government entered into 86 treaties with 26 native tribes east of the mississippi and every one of those treaties required land concessions or the removal of the tribe from their homeland and in the case of the forced resettlement of the cherries the muscogies and the seminals a removal known as the trail of tears indian consent was not asked for and it was not given half of the 16 000 men women children and elders who embarked on the trail of tears died before they reached oklahoma the volunteer from georgia who later served as a colonel in the confederate army lamented he said i fought through the civil war i saw men shot to pieces and slaughtered by the thousands but the cherokee removal was the cruelest work i ever knew this sort of thing happened all across the country wherever white and indian interests clashed it happened here in wisconsin it happened in the badger state i'm sure some of you are familiar with how we acquired that nickname but perhaps you did not know how it relates to the fortunes of our indian tribes you see beginning in the early 19th century miners from the east began entering southwestern wisconsin lured by rich deposits of galena or lead ore and by 1825 as many as 10 000 outsiders had descended on mineral rich sites like pandarovits and platvul and galena and these were men who were so intent on their mining tasks that they had no time to build themselves homes and so they lived in abandoned mineshafts or they dug makeshift burrows into the cliff sides just like badgers would do but as it as it happened these fortune seekers were horning in on an enterprise that the hochunk and mesquaki tribes had claimed as their own for hundreds of years indians patty low rights had long mined lead for personal cosmetic use or to trade with other tribes and for the hochunk lead possessed sacred qualities and particularly attractive pieces of lead nuggets were buried with their dead and although the 1814 treaty of gents supposedly protected tribal land claims the invasion continued like wolves in the plains to the dead buffalo one hochunk leader observed they spread out in every direction to dig and to find and to carry off lead from our lands and ignoring appeals by the hochunks appeals to the treaty of gent the government did what it could do to encourage these miners providing them with generous leases in exchange for a 10 percent royalty well the problem was finally resolved by the removal of most of the hochunk tribe to areas west of the mississippi and to this day the wisconsin state flag depicts a miner holding a pickaxe while his aboriginal predecessors have been rendered invisible expropriation of indian lands continued well into the 20th century because in the late 1800s the government instituted a new policy called allotment and under this policy reservations were converted to private property and small parcels of land were were handed over to individual indian residents but through a variety of stratagems and loopholes non-indians were eventually able to gain title to many of these private holdings fragmenting the reservations and creating even greater impoverishment and before allotment ended in 1934 wisconsin's a jibway tribe to name just one had lost an additional 40 percent of its territory including many sites that they regarded as sacred land grabs continue last wednesday at the ywca's racial justice summit i listened to a man named jossy ross he is a columbia university trained attorney and a member of montana's blackfoot tribe he explained the politics behind the dakota access oil pipeline now as we know this project has been routed just north of the standing rock reservation the home to 10 000 sue indians a portion of that pipeline will travel underneath the upper missouri river from which that reservation draws most of its water this has been a cause of grave concern as we know because since 2010 there have been over 3300 instances of leaks and ruptures in oil and gas pipelines in the us and should such a leak occur under the upper missouri it would be catastrophic for the sue indian tribe but here's the thing ross told us that the original preferred route for the dakota access oil pipeline would have taken it through bismarck a predominantly white community that option he told us was considered too risky by the government and its builders but apparently not too risky for the well-being of 10 000 sue indians who lived downstream well apart from the tangible losses that i have touched on here perhaps equally or even more devastating for native peoples have been the spiritual losses that they have sustained over the centuries the uw historian patty lowe she belongs to the red cliff ojibway band and in her book on wisconsin's indian tribes she describes how the boarding school system that the government had put in place affected her own people because for many years she writes parents indian parents were forced to send their children to these boarding schools and as in other states these schools were used to drill the culture the religion and the language right out of these youngsters often through the use of corporal punishment and or shaming and moreover what education these schools did provide was wholly inadequate as one person said when an indian is 14 and enters of a white school he is only as far advanced as a child who would be still in nickerbockers this was back in 1910 and as a result young adult indians often had difficulty finding employment they were often reduced to apathy indifference and idleness the loss of sacred sites that also produced hardship native writers have argued that the sundering of a tribe's relationship to a place like the black hills that does more to explain the malaise and the alcoholism that's found on a reservation than any number of purely economic factors and so for example the pine ridge reservation contains one of the most impoverished communities in the us but its members steadfastly refuse to claim the 1.5 billion dollars that are sitting in a federal account for their exclusive use won't touch it why is that well in 1980 the us supreme court ordered that the sue nation be given monetary compensation for the loss of the black hills way back in the middle of the 19th century but the tribes declined the award because if they had accepted it it would have suggested that what they regard as sacred the center of their spiritual universe that it can be commodified that it can simply be sold off only a return of the black hills would be satisfactory to the suit and this rejection rocks and dunbar or teas rights demonstrates the relevance and the significance of the land to the sue not as an economic resource but as a relationship between people and place an indesolable relationship well it's still hard for non-indian americans to be honest about this history even president obama former president obama has repeated a trope that leaders in the us have been trotting out even as we were annexing half of mexico even as we were conquering cuba and the philippines even as we were driving hundreds of driving indian nations into the ground during a 2009 interview obama sought to explain why the united states could serve as an honest broker in the israeli palestinian conflict and during his comments he said yeah sometimes we make mistakes we've not been perfect but he said and here's the trope if you look at the track record america was not born as a colonial power really as a highly educated man of color i have to believe the barack obama knew better than this what does colonialism being a colonial power look like according to another keynote speaker at last wednesday's summit senali banjita balaji this is what it involves conquering land obviously eliminating difference oa owning and perpetuating the production of knowledge and the ways of proper being eradicating collective spirituality and liberating and prioritizing capital-based systems sounds pretty much like tried and true us policy to me and so as indigenous people's day draws near but let us perhaps agree that a trope like this is long overdue for permanent retirement ketner burns old indian friend dan would say that that might be the first step toward taking responsibility because it doesn't matter that we who are here today are innocent of the wrongs that have been done we belong to the dominant culture and we are as dan so aptly put it we're still drinking the water blessed be and on that justified anger alex g's initiative is the recipient of our outreach offering today and i encourage you to contribute as generously as you are able there were no new entries in our cares of the congregation book that lives outside the middle doors so we will proceed to our closing hymn it's already been sung in part by our children's choir so you will recognize the tune and given the lateness of the hour and the fact that we have the opportunity fair we will just sing the first three verses our closing words come from the creek nation from the poet harjo remember the sky that you were born under know each of the stars stories remember the moon know who she is i met her in a bar once in iowa city remember the sun's birth at dawn that is the strongest point in time remember sundown and the giving away tonight remember your birth and how your mother struggled to give you form and breath you are evidence of her life and of her mother's and hers remember your father he is your life also and remember the earth who skin you are red earth black earth yellow earth white earth brown earth we are earth remember the plants the trees animal life who all have their own tribes their own families their histories too talk to them listen to them they are alive poems remember the wind remember her voice she knows the origin of the universe i heard her singing kaiowa war dance songs at the corner of fourth and central ones remember you are all one people all people are you remember that you are this universe and the universe is you remember that everything is in motion is growing is you remember


Thank you very much for tuning in. I'm here with Ken Yabusaki and Ann Yabusaki. These guys are super amazing in working with people that are dealing with fetal alcohol syndrome disorders so there's a whole lot of stuff that needs to be unpacked and all that. But first if you wouldn't mind would you guys give us how about you Ann first. Give us a little bit of history about who you are and how you got involved in this. Sure, sure. I'm a psychologist and family therapist and I had I've been I worked a lot of years on the mainland but I am from Hawaii and I returned from Hawaii about 15 years ago, 15-20 years. 20 years. We returned together to take care of my parents and so but in coming back I was asked to create a clinical program and the clinical program had a the first contract was to work with juvenile drug court here in Oahu. So this this was a challenge and this was something that I'm passionately interested about anyway so we did take the contract and that back in early 2000 as the contract progressed and as I saw families from that program there were things that were not happening that were they were not I'm not used to having families not respond but this was challenging and I felt really pulled to find out well what what was I not doing wrong what was I missing and these families were great families so I began I heard about fetal alcohol spectrum disorder alcohol syndrome and I began to study it more so over the last maybe 15-20 years I've been looking at this phenomenon what is it how does it work what do we do about it and how can we give these families some hope that's always the key right to help people get further down the road and I understand you are a biochemical engineer is that right biochemical biochemists biochemists excuse me okay so tell us a little bit more about you Ken if you would please yeah I'm a retired biochemist and I became interested in FASD through Ann's involvement in her work with the juvenile drug court in which she kind of shared with me some of the problems she was have not problems but her observations of children even adults with FASD and so I said wow I'm wondering why she was having these the issues these people are having so I did my own research and tried to understand the biochemistry of what was going on in terms of FASD and to this day all the research that has been done with it with FASD is really no known mechanism but the one thing that is very prevalent is there is permanent brain damage permanent not you can't fix it it's done right so if you are damaged as a baby then it's for life you've got these issues in your brain for life correct when as the brain develops though you know you might be able to grasp more and do more things and so it there's always development along that line but but they will always be challenging you know and and we call it a spectrum disorder because those with the more severe disabilities are on one end you know alcohol syndrome all the way to those who are less impaired so each individual is different and that's the way it is with everything right yeah we react to trauma differently we react to chemicals differently that everybody's body is just a little bit different I think our first slide talks about the program that you guys have which is the Hawaii FASD action group and now tell us a little bit about that and how that got started well I got frustrated I'm sure this is I'm not alone in this and so I looked for other people who are dealing with this and I just sent out an email to friends and say hey and then parents that I knew that I was working with their children can we get together and let's look for resources let's the problem is there weren't any resources and I didn't know where to find resources for my family and so I said we got to create it let's let's let's work together and do this so now we have about 150 people who have joined and we have a listserv and we we're trying to do our best as volunteers we're all volunteers on how to get the word out how to create services and that's what the action group is about and I'm so glad you guys have come on the show today to sort of help get that word out thank you because it is such an important thing and it's something that can change I mean you can make a difference right when you I agree when you try to intervene in the early stages of these things is it possible to make a difference like if say someone drinks all the time and they find out they're pregnant and they quit would that make a difference in how much the baby would be affected you want to talk a little on that one well I don't think that any woman intentionally wants to harm a child in any way and unfortunately the stigma that's placed on women who drink and then end up with a baby with FAS or FAS there's a tremendous amount of guilt there so yeah we're trying to reach out to those who have this particular issue that it's really not their fault because they didn't know and these kids can function right yes of the if we make accommodations for them so so like you know if someone is blind we help them with a blind dog or a dog assisted living if they're if they can't walk we give them a wheelchair or cane or a crutches that's what we're talking about is making accommodations for these children and these adults they can function yeah what a difference that must make to them for them and for the guilt levels from the parent yes right yeah yeah that's huge difference when you did your research did you do like chemical research on how the brain is affected by alcohol or how can you give us a few more details on that sure when you think about what's happening with prenatal exposure to alcohol the developing fetus very is very vulnerable and and therefore you have to understand that when alcohol is broken down when when a woman say that is pregnant and just alcohol the alcohol is broken down into two chemicals the first chemical is very poisonous and then that poisonous chemical is cleared or detoxified further into a harmless chemical but the problem is is that that clearing or detoxification process is genetically determined so if you don't have a particular clearing mechanism and these are enzymes that do this in the liver that you're going to build up this toxic substance and then that is the one that will have the effects on the developing brain of the fetus so it's a kind of a thing in the liver then that determines how much you're going to be affected or not yes yes okay and so the child let's say a fetus that's developing brain is developing is exposed to this particular poison that I mentioned and that's converted from the first enzyme it actually involves inhibition of making whole tracks within the brain in other words the brain is made up of billions of neurons or nerve cells connected to each other and this particular sub toxic substance called acetalhyde actually interferes with the development of intact tracks big words wait see that I'm sorry my brain's all slow maybe we can go to that slide yeah I think we could but I don't know we have to go down to slide three or four if we can I don't even know if we can get there the next order once we start here we go the effects of pre prenatal alcohol exposure this is perfect this is exactly what we were just talking about anyway so it affects the entire body not just the brain yes because the brain is attached to the whole body yes when it says mostly invisible so it's not something you would see like you could talk to somebody you go to school with them you wouldn't even know right so it's not something that people need to be ashamed of right it's not like there's not everybody's gonna know about that that's kind I would think shame is is always a big thing isn't it kind of destroys people's ability to be resilient right shame just sort of inhibits all of that and so we can kind of maybe get rid of some of that shame to that help absolutely and only about 10% there are some facial features that can occur for women drinks between they found out day 19 and 21 of their pregnancy that some of the facial features when it's the facial features of the fetuses development and be affected and it's very specific in his time in that in I was read I was reading about that and I thought oh my goodness and so what happens that if it's only 10% then 90% of people have no facial features they interact like we do their IQs are more for the most part are okay it's the functioning level they have difficulty with a well we can talk about more about that later but they have difficulty that our masks that are invisible it's like having brain damage and you were perfectly functioning one day and the next day you know you're not you're not and you and you can't see it right and you know I've had a couple of severe head concussions in my life and same thing I had so I had concussive syndrome for almost a whole year after our accident that I was there nobody can see you right even the doctors while I was living in the south for one thing and the doctors aren't so swift down there but um these like there's nothing wrong there's nothing wrong with you I'm like there's something wrong with me I can't think straight I'm tired all the time I go dizzy and fuzzy headed and I'm not like this usually so what and finally I got to a doctor that said no what this is concussive syndrome that's exactly you have a classic case of it and I thought I saw five doctors and not one of them knew that oh my so it's like yeah you but you don't know you could look at like the doctors looked at me and said you're fine right like no there's something going on right and the kids they were born this way so sometimes it takes them it takes a knowledgeable person say have you had these symptoms do I notice you have difficulty with memory what's it like for you and and talks more slowly because it's harder to process information so I speak more slowly to them and and it's very much like that but they don't know it because they didn't know what it would be like oh right and think about that yeah that makes total sense to wow okay we've got another slide that we can show okay one last slide that we're just talking about this a little bit yeah and then we'll go to break right after we talk about this this is what you were just talking about how the brain it's off the track I like to say maybe that the brain is involved with all behavior all human behavior begins the brain all our senses executive functioning thinking reasoning all our feelings end up with specific behaviors now the behaviors are either ones that you can change and then some behavior you can't change so in the situation of FASD we're talking about a situation where as I mentioned the formation of these tracks through the nerve cells are either intact or either disrupted in some way or not incomplete or not complete and so you end up with a few specific behaviors a train that can go smoothly on the track to reach this destination or one in which it gets derailed because the tracks are incomplete and therefore you end up with behaviors that cannot be changed so that makes sense okay listen we got to take a break okay we'll be right back I hope you guys will stay with us don't go anywhere aloha my name is Victoria and I'm a host at the adventures in small business this is a collaboration between us small business administration Hawaii district office and its partners where we showcase the stories of local entrepreneurs and small businesses talk about how to start a business talk about great tips for small business owners please join us every Thursday 11 a.m. at think tech Hawaii you said my hello hey hello everyone and welcome to the think tech Hawaii studio my name is Andrew landing I'm the host of pretty matters Hawaii we air here every Tuesday at 10 a.m. Hawaii time trying to bring you issues about security that you may not know issues that can protect your family take yourself take our community protect our our companies the folks we work with please join us and I hope you can maybe get a little different perspective on how to live a little safer aloha hi welcome back to finding respect in the chaos I'm Cynthia Lee Sinclair and I am here with Ann Yabuzaki and Ken Yabuzaki from the fetal alcohol syndrome disorders no it's the Hawaii FASD group right action group action group sorry I think even more all that names in my head sorry we've got another slide I'd like to show um that talks about how they the FASD is underestimated yes could you talk to us a little bit more about how and what happens with that when it's underestimated like that okay well first of all we talked a little bit about how you know you had a concussive syndrome you look fine and yet you knew that the brain was not quite functioning and you knew something was wrong well that's how it's presented often so they might take a symptom a diagnostician a doctor or psychologist might take some of that symptoms oh you must have ADHD meaning that attention deficit disorder that's why you're so impulsive okay so we'll treat you with a little bit of you know we'll send you to a psychiatrist and see if maybe some medication might help or someone might say I think you have autism because those symptoms are like autism so many of the symptoms of FASD embrace these other symptoms learning disabilities and if the clinician is not queued in to FASD I'm gonna miss the whole diagnosis many kids and many clinicians are not aware of this right and and it's not taught in graduate schools and it's not no oh dear you would think it would be that's kind of a common thing I mean it's not common but it's it's common enough to know you're gonna hit it at some point in your year your professional career yeah sure yeah so is there any link between and I know I was reading something this week about this is there a link between autism and FASD do they yes yes in fact studies have shown that FASD can produce symptoms or characteristics of autism just from the alcohol exposure prenatally so it's all about the developing brain exactly so they could treat autism and get it wrong and one thing I should mention is that in the developing fetus when the pregnant woman is drinking metabolized alcohol as I said creates a poison affects the developing brain in terms of making intact neurons connections the other thing is that baby is as it develops is gonna develop its own liver and the same alcohol is gonna be metabolized we're talking about the bulk blood volume of an adult is quite large and so the amount of alcohol in there or the toxin is quite dilute but baby and being a very small entity at the time as a fetus is going to be have a larger concentration effect oh I didn't even think about that and then we talk a little bit about binge drinking and and you know just drinking maybe two or three glasses of wine or whatever week what's the difference between the two binge drinking would be at least four drinks at a time and many women are beginning have some women have reported it gets the concentration during a binge drink is different from a concentration to just one glass of wine when we think about it yeah that's what Ken and I were thinking about is oh you know this is different well I can remember when I was pregnant with my kids yeah that I mean I went and this is you know 35 years ago now so um but you know and the doctor said to me as I said you know I drink wine I like to drink my wine with dinner and stuff should I stop drinking this you know before all these this research had come out and stuff right he's oh yeah no it's fine oh yeah and I'm like I didn't seem right to me somehow but you know and I okay because that's how that's how far though the mentality has changed yes 30 years ago to today yeah we really know the specific effects on that developing brain yes that's wild to think about between 1921 isn't it interesting day just those three days or two days time yeah making that huge difference in their lives a lot of the and I wanted to point out that you know a lot of the kids from foster care come from substance abusing families and so when you see foster care adopted children you wonder about their past and so 85% in one small sample was misdiagnosed 85% that's huge yeah and that's you know and and that's why we're hoping that CWS you know child welfare services and protective services will take a look at their population and try to educate their foster parents because it's going to be tough on foster parents sure it will and adoptive parents and you want to know what exactly your child's past so that you can understand how best to help them and exactly how best to you know give them a lot of normal sort of life then in in just last year it was a study across the United States with 6500 first 6500 first graders were assessed clinically assessed for FASB and one in 21st graders came out with that's one in every class yeah that's at least one in every yeah yeah yeah so we were we were startled by the assist districts and this was just done in 2018 so the United States is a little bit behind in getting their research out so we're we're behind it sorry to interrupt you we are you think we'd be ahead of everybody but no okay shoots that's crazy I don't like the idea that in America we are behind these things yeah when we have the best researchers the best biochemists the best all of this and yet we still are behind wow yeah Canada for example has made progression in their programming and policies and we're trying to copy them a little bit you know that can when I was on my trip around the world we were talking about yeah yeah right when I was studying the way different cultures do with domestic violence and all that Canada has that the lowest incidence of domestic violence and child abuse of any country in the world and so I went there to see why you know what are you guys doing and I was really surprised what it is is they don't have laws and it is my opinion anyways to why maybe but they don't have specific laws against domestic violence and child abuse it's just assault they have progressive things that are embedded into the law to help people that are child abuse victims or domestic violence victims so that the you know the outcome is different for them to be more protected but it's still assault it's just assault there's no I mean it and I thought that was pretty cool I thought well maybe that's the that's just it's not something separate you know yeah it's not a different thing it is assault it's abuse right yeah so so how does this how does this compare with say like I know there's a lot of ice and methamphetamine that happens here in Hawaii well actually everywhere in the whole country nowadays right right but so how does what's the difference because I know I've worked with a few girls that have lost their babies because their babies were born addicted and so they take the babies away yes what what kind of affects are in with all of that too is that the same is it different is it I mean I know it affects the brain and yes how it's different yeah and has been looking at that a little bit more drugs like methamphetamine cocaine heroin affect the brain differently when as fetus is developing what happens in that case is the actual brain is receptors on the brain that receptive to those drugs but the tracks that as I mentioned that are formed like train tracks are normally developed the neuronal connections are there but the receptors on the brain through those drugs don't affect that particular making of the track so you're gonna have a baby who you've heard of crack babies come out right they're wired okay and that's because the the drug has affected the brain on the receptor but the tracks are there so therefore in terms of reasoning you can still reason but in the case where a baby that's been affected by prenatal exposure alcohol as I mentioned the tracks are derailed or not formed and therefore that's why you have the behaviors that can't be changed you can help a person that has been exposed baby that has been exposed to you know where some of the specific things that you can do I know there's a slide we've got about how it takes a village and stuff and some of the things that we can specifically do to try to help these kids and stuff so what as our medicines and well they come in from different different ways they could come in from mental health agency they could come in through substance abuse agencies they come through the criminal justice system you know the thing that that and they could be and they're largely at school so one of the things is to understand the disorder what what they're struggling with and try to accommodate I have for example one child that was having difficulty going from one classroom to another she would be bumping into people as everybody rushed through high school you know from one class to another what it was because sensitive to her she couldn't gauge her her people around her she had impaired ability to do that so what the teachers did was before the class changed to another class they would tell her to go to your next class she didn't have to go through the crowded hallways exactly exactly and then people didn't think she was trying to pick a fight because she was bumping into you right you know some we have little ones that might need more rest it might need their brain is being so stressed and so what I've seen some teachers do in the classroom you should just take those kids aside I said would you like to just lie down and and do your work in a prone position rather than at a desk making those accommodations if you want to teaching them distance and so one teacher did a straight line teaching them distant first graders and she would put sit now you stand on that line and then she'd put cross lines like a train track and this is where you stand just so that the children get a sense of distance and proportions right and then in juvenile drug court for example we would say okay you didn't do this or that come home at curfew you're gonna be we're gonna put you back in jail so to speak you know it's a detention right you know and it's a safe place but you didn't belong there you know and so what we did was to say maybe we don't need that what we need is to give them a time out but then they would come back and we we make accommodations that they wouldn't have to be at a certain place at a certain time but at least communicate with teach them communication right I think we've got one last slide and I know we're almost out of time yeah I'm like oh there's so much more to say you guys are gonna have to come back again another time and give us updates and stuff on how your program is going and what's going on with it and let's go back to that last slide though before we take it away too far so I'd like you to kind of point out some of the things that are out here this was some we have a monitoring system that is across the nation and what we found was pulling out the data that pregnancy and alcohol trends are high and they're increasing over 2000 and 2000 it was 4.8 in 2015 it's now 8.7% of the women who endorse that they have been drinking during pregnancy or during the third part of their pregnancy it doesn't mean that every pregnancy that everybody endorsed it so this might be an underestimated what we call a conservative right because people are always gonna want to admit it exactly I know what they did wrong and yeah yeah wow oh my gosh I'm so grateful that you guys came in I really am and I think this is such an important thing because we can make differences like these kids that are you know getting stamped with delinquent titles yeah they really aren't there's no they've got good hearts they just that's right I'm misunderstood yes and you know and so for the the parents out there for the kids out there reach out there is help for you the Hawaii FASD action group thank you I was gonna forget action again I'm like wait wait but definitely look them up find out get the information that you need to really make a difference for your life I'm Cynthia Sinclair and I'm really glad that you guys joined us today this is finding respect in the chaos on thinktecHawaii.com please come back next time thank you thank you