Good morning,

Everyone has been delivered to their locations and should now be working hard.  At the OMNI Center we started the day with a press conference.  A television news camera and reporter and three reporters from other news sources – newspapers and some kind of Internet news thing.  Dianne was interviewed on camera about the conference this week and then Lyubov talked about what USNOF has done in the past for conferences and training.   We then all sat at a conference table, (not standing in front of a camera answering question, thank you Lord)   and the head of the medical facility (OMNI-NET) introduced himself and talked about both the conference and our ongoing partnership.  I introduced USNOF and tried to talk some about our goals being for the education of all children in Ukraine, including those with Autism, Down Syndrome and those with other special needs.  (someone needs to teach me how to end that sentence!)  The reporters asked good questions (how old does a child need to be for you to diagnose Autism, if you diagnose it early what is the prognosis, can it be cured, how bad is the problem in our country, where are the children with this condition)  Lyubov answered the “where” question and then somehow passed the question to me, no clue why or how.  I told the lady that was a good question and that I was entirely satisfied with the answer, that one day the answer to the question should be they are in the public school system, because they are children of Ukraine and that is their right.  I had invited Victor in hopes of letting him talk instead of me, but he couldn’t be here early enough.  I did my best to give them his ideas, if not in exactly his words.  If they write about what I said and he reads it, I pray that he is satisfied with what I said.

off to change back into shorts and find my daughter,

Jason