By most of the public, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder is a wildly misunderstood disability. Often, children who don't have it get labeled. As ADHD children who have it are misdiagnosed as something else. Many adults don't know they even have it. A blind person has a cane. A wheel chair is visible. ADHD is hidden disability. You won't know they have it, unless you know what your looking for. It's affects are very subtle, but have devastating effects have on their lives. ADHD persons can't take abilities that most people can take for granted. ADHD persons have no noise filters. In a crowded room, you can focus on one voice. Anyone with ADHD hears every voice and every noise all at once. It make it nearly impossible to focus. In city environment, sensory overload happens often. Heavy-bass music is toxic to anyone with ADHD. It makes you physically sick. You hands start to shake and your stress level is sky high. You can't take anymore and have leave to an area with dead silence. You stay away until that area is cleared of too much and too loud noise. There is no choice, but to flee the area as soon as possible. Get ear plugs or noise canceling head phones? Useless, they have no effect at this high a noise sensitivity perception level, specificly bass noise polution. Any excess noise prevents going to sleep. Any excess noise during sleep will disrupt it, make you tired in the morning. Ear plugs during sleep have very limited effects. Wearing headphones and ear plugs all the time is impractical. Having a sound proof living environment is required, not optional. Apartments don't work, feeling every vibration of every movement in the area. Family friendly environments with screaming kids is torture. Loud music is hell. Apartments can work, but are impractical. Sound proof houses are the only practical option. For that matter, entire community of houses dedicated to 24/7 quiet living is the ideal living environment. No heavy-bass music or loud music is allowed ever. Apartments or house owners must make accommodations by law, such as wheel chair accessible. This are paid for by the owner. ADHD required sound proofing is considered a modification, not an accommodation. So, anyone with ADHD has to come up with the funding on their own. The owner can still say no. All sound proofing added temporally is not of the quality needed. ADHD is not taken seriously as a disability. It's outrageous that something required for my basic functioning is not required by law. I request your support to get the changes to the law to fix this issue.

If you're homeless in Kansas City, Missouri, you're always welcome at the City Union Mission shelter -- unless you're gay. City Union's executive director says that because they are a "Christian, faith-based organization," they don't allow same-sex couples or families to stay together, and they require transgender people to dress according to the sex they were assigned at birth, regardless of how they identify today. The shelter claims to be adhering to "biblical standards," but Jesus' words about welcoming the stranger didn't include any asterisks excluding LGBT people. That's probably why other Christian organizations in Kansas City, like the Salvation Army and Catholic Charities, welcome same-sex families. City Union is rejecting people who badly need a warm welcome -- studies show that up to 30% of the homeless are LGBT.

This concerns the physical, mental and emotional well-being of the inmates. For example, unsanitary living conditions, lack of and improper medical care, safety issues because of understaffing and improper training. Family rights are being violated, and there are inconsistent policies regarding visitation. For example, former employees are prohibited from visiting inmates or marrying inmates, post employment. If you have not violated policy or disrupted the order of the facilities you should be allowed to visit and marry. Families should have longer visits. Women should be able to bring in feminine products and family members shouldn't have problems using the restroom. Also families should have the privileges of having family portraits for memories. Some children and loved ones will never be able to have family portraits.

Before I started exercising, I was taking $300 dollar/month memory pills and $300 dollar breathing pills. After about 6 weeks of Silver Sneakers, I no longer have to take those pills. That is money saved by Medicare and all the people who use the system. As we sign the petition, please be aware that my first reaction to Medicare not covering exercise was to plan a class action suit to force Medicare to pay for the best evidence treatment, and in the case of Alzheimer's, the only effective method of delaying onset of symptoms. Why is Medicare ignoring the obvious? Dwight Hine

I have seen my patients not being able to afford their medications because their generic medicines went from 6 pennies a tablet to $6 a tablet brand drugs. Same drug for the same use 100X price increase.

On Thursday, the President announced a long-awaited executive action that will take steps towards fixing our broken immigration system. Eligibility for the executive action is limited to immigrants with roots in and family ties to the United States—specifically, undocumented immigrants who have been in the U.S. for at least the past five years and also are parents of U.S. citizens or green card holders. This action is a step in the right direction, and it's critical that the media takes a fair and balanced approach in their coverage. Showing inflammatory footage that perpetuates harmful stereotypes will do nothing to advance the current story, and will only feed right-wing fear-mongering on the issue. President Obama's action is about hard working people who having been living and working in the United States for years. To portray them in simple stereo types is dishonest. Its critical that the major television networks take a fair and balanced approach to covering this issue by featuring real stories of those most impacted.

On Thursday, the president announced a long-awaited executive action that will take steps towards fixing our broken immigration system. Eligibility for the executive action is limited to immigrants with roots and family ties to the United States -- specifically, undocumented immigrants who have been in the U.S. for at least the past five years and also are parents or spouses of U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. This action is a step in the right direction, and it's critical that the media takes a fair and balanced approach in their coverage. Showing inflammatory footage that perpetuates harmful stereotypes and portrays immigrants as criminals will do nothing to advance the current story, and will only feed right-wing fear-mongering on the issue. That's why it's critical that the major television networks take a fair and balanced approach to covering this issue by featuring real stories of those most impacted.

My husband, Cesar Chavez, and I decided to move back to Delano to begin organizing the United Farm Workers in 1962. Thousands came to work with our movement once the Delano Grape Strike started in 1965, 50 years ago in 2015. Millions of good people in North America supported us by boycotting grapes and other products. All these years, I chose to stay in the background. I walked picket lines, managed our credit union and cared for our eight children. Cesar respected my privacy. I never spoke in public or talked with reporters. Unlike my husband, I never got very involved in politics until October 2012, when President Obama came to dedicate the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument at the Tehachapi Mountain town of Keene, CA. That’s where Cesar lived and worked his last quarter century, and where he is buried. As we walked away from paying respects at my husband’s gravesite, with the President holding my arm, I asked, “Mr. President, will you promise you will do something on immigration reform?” “Yes, Mrs. Chavez, I promise I will,” he said. Today, President Obama kept his promise to me and to the American people by using his power to help many of the immigrants who toil in our fields, make beds, clean rooms, cook meals, work in construction and manufacturing, and care for our young and elderly. They serve our country in the military. I’ve known the farm workers all my life. Like other immigrants, they take jobs most other Americans won’t take for pay most other Americans won’t accept and under conditions most other Americans won’t tolerate. Big parts of our economy can’t survive without immigrants. All President Obama did is what President Reagan and President George H.W. Bush did, letting some immigrants stay and work here. Most of the immigrants who qualify have been in this country for some time. They have clean records. What the President did is just temporary and it is only after the Republicans in the House of Representatives repeatedly refused to pass a bipartisan bill that already passed the U.S. Senate. President Obama did the right thing on immigration. Please join me in thanking him for his leadership. At the same time, we should urge Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform that will solve this problem once and for all.

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The Gallery of Clean Energy Inventions includes 41 generators, 16 advanced self-powered electric vehicle innovations, 25 radioactivity neutralization methods, 22 space travel innovations, 10 technical solutions to water shortages, and torsion field school network. See https://app.box.com/CLEANENERGYEXHIBIT. $1 billion would establish a comprehensive proactive clean energy inventions evaluation and development organization headquartered in Nevada. Clean energy inventions would be much cheaper, healthier and better for our environment than obsolete energy sources like solar, wind, uranium, and fossil fuels. For example the $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar thermal generator near Las Vegas is inefficient and kills 28,000 birds a year!

California is one of the largest economies in the world, yet our public education system had been radically defunded over the last two decades. We are at the point where the UC system, once the jewel of California's public education system, is reliant on out-of-state tuition. California ranks 47th out of 50 in national per pupil funding of K-12 students. Prop. 13 has severely decreased funding for public education. Corporate entities use artificially low tax rates to increase their profits. That was not the intention of Prop. 13. The costs of goods and services rise over time. Corporate landlords should pay market rate property taxes so they can contribute their fair share to public education. We all rely on public education to produce the next generation of entrepreneurs, doctors, nurses and engineers. Let's educate the next generation. Reform Prop. 13.

Elder financial abuse/exploitation is becoming the crime of the 21st century as the growing senior population is increasingly targeted. Elder financial abuse/exploitation by use of "undue influence" must be criminalized in the District of Columbia. DC Councilmember Marion Barry introduced Bill 20-107, "Charles and Hilda Mason Elder Abuse Clarification and Expansion Act of 2013." The Bill was referred to the Judiciary Committee chaired by DC Councilmember Tommy Wells in February 2013. Councilmember Wells is letting Bill 20-107 die in the Judiciary Committee instead of marking it up to criminalize elder financial exploitation by use of "undue influence," as 14 other states do, and reporting the Bill mark-up out of the Judiciary Committee to the Committee of the Whole for an up or down vote before the CY '2014 legislative year ends on 12/23/14. "It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped." Hubert H. Humphrey