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Genetic conditions like
arthrogryposis, ataxia, autism, cerebral palsy and
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Down syndrome have a wide
variety of symptoms and no treatments. What |
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they have in common is
sufferers in pain; with food and chemical allergies; |
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communication challenges;
cognitive difficulties; use of
powerful
drugs; |
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multiple physical health
problems like early onsets of diabetes, stroke, heart |
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disease and dementia; and, importantly, no hope. It is
estimated there are |
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one million people with
these disabilities in California,
ten
million in America; |
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fifty-five million in China and two hundred and fifty million
– the population |
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Indonesia or Brazil – on our
Planet Earth.
Humans
have about 24,000
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protein-coding genes - if any one
of 1400 of those malfunctions the impact on |
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families, schools, medical
infrastructure and government services is profound. |
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Teaching the venerable Chinese martial art Tai Chi Chuan will improve
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physical health, increase balance, provide an inclusive social environment |
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and encourage life-long goals. Most martial arts have canonical sequences of |
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of movements known variously as kata, forms or sets,
so an achievement- |
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based curriculum that awards collegiate bachelor's and master's degrees has |
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been defined. The recommended minimum two hour per day classes
make |
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use of mirrors, projectors and cameras so that a student is
surrounded by |
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images of a grandmaster performing. Using international
competition |
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standards and smart garments - sensors embedded in clothing -
we will |
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provide daily grades at the individual movement level. These
are useful to the |
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student and his or her teacher, but are most valuable as a
statistical anchor- |
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point for physicians, social workers and families. Our
experience has made it |
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clear that it is useless to describe someone as 'autistic' or
even to note that |
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they have Van der Aa-Helmsmoortel syndrome due to a
malfunctioning |
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ADNP gene. Instead, it is necessary to determine exactly which
deletion, |
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mutation, translocation or nucleotide repetition someone
has, and then |
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to measure and compare velocities of learning in order to
offer a basis for |
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quantitative assessment of changes in diet, medications, sleep
and behaviors. |
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Our HERON application software is about 40,000 lines of code
and functions |
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as an electronic diary for the hours students are not in
class. Our SAITO |
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application software is about 200,000 lines of code and
handles the back- |
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office aspects of school and student management. Detailed
demographic and |
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economic calculations from SAITO include a first-order
build-out of 100 |
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schools in 75 cities in California; 500 schools in 400 cities
in the United States; |
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and 8,000 schools in 240 countries world-wide. |
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Funds on the order of tens of thousands of dollars are being
sought to build |
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out a pilot school with the intention of teaching three
two-hour long classes |
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with 16 students and charging the relevant government
organization $200 per |
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student per month for a gross income of $9600. This would NOT
include |
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revenues from any evening or internet-based classes. The
largest expenses |
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would be rent for 2500 square feet, any loan repayments and,
eventually, |
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staff salaries. |
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On our elevator, a device that lifts people up, there are
three buttons |
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