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"There were days I considered shutting the garage door and letting the car run until I was dead," says Colorado mom Erin Griffin, of the time nine years ago when she learned that both her boys—not just her firstborn—suffered from autism. Brendan, her angular, dark-haired older child, was diagnosed in 1996 at age 4. Kyle, her round-faced, hazel-eyed younger son, was diagnosed in 1998 at age 2½.
But Kyle and Brendan's story does not have a tragic ending. After interventions that included occupational and speech therapy, as well as dietary change and nutritional supplements, both boys improved significantly. Their tale of slow, steady recovery reflects the changing landscape of autism today. The condition, traditionally seen as genetic and originating in the brain, is starting to be viewed in a broader and very different light, as a possible immune and neuroinflammatory disorder. As a result, autism is beginning to look like a condition that can, in some and perhaps many cases, be successfully treated.
That is astonishing news about a disorder that usually makes headlines because it seems to be growing rapidly more widespread. In the United States, the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders has increased about tenfold over the past two decades, and a 2003 report by the Centers for Disease Control suggests that as many as one in every 166 children is now on the autism spectrum, while another one in six suffers from a neurodevelopmental delay. This explosion of cases has raised countless questions: Is the increase real, is it the result of increased awareness and expanding diagnostic categories, is it due to environmental changes, or all of the above? There may be no single answer. But the public concern about autism has caught the ear of federal lawmakers. The Combating Autism Act, approved last December, authorized nearly $1 billion over the next four years for autism-related research and intervention.
Meanwhile, on the sidelines of that confusing discussion, a disparate group—immunologists, naturopaths, neuroscientists, and toxicologists—is turning up clues that are yielding novel strategies to help autistic patients. New studies are examining contributing factors ranging from vaccine reactions to atypical growth in the placenta, abnormal tissue in the gut, inflamed tissue in the brain, food allergies, and disturbed brain wave synchrony. Some clinicians are using genetic test results to recommend unconventional nutritional therapies, and others employ drugs to fight viruses and quell inflammation.
Above all, there is a new emphasis on the interaction between vulnerable genes and environmental triggers, along with a growing sense that low-dose, multiple toxic and infectious exposures may be a major contributing factor to autism and its related disorders. A vivid analogy is that genes load the gun, but environment pulls the trigger. "Like cancer, autism is a very complex disease," says Craig Newschaffer, chairman of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the Drexel University School of Public Health, "and it's exciting to start asking questions about the interaction between genes and environment. There's really a very rich array of potential exposure variables."
In one way, the field seems like a free-for-all, staggeringly disordered because it is littered with so many possibilities. But one can distill a few revolutionary insights. First, autism may not be rigidly determined but instead may be related to common gene variants, called polymorphisms, that may be derailed by environmental triggers. Second, affected genes may disturb fundamental pathways in the body and lead to chronic inflammation across the brain, immune system, and digestive system. Third, inflammation is treatable.
"I can't think of it as a coincidence anymore that so many autistic
kids have a history of allergies, eczema, or chronic diarrhea."
"I can't think of it as a coincidence anymore that so many autistic
kids have a history of allergies, eczema, or chronic diarrhea."
"In spite of so many years of assumptions that a brain disorder like this is not treatable, we're helping kids get better. So it can't just be genetic, prenatal, hardwired, and hopeless," says Harvard pediatric neurologist Martha Herbert, author of a 14,000-word paper in the journal Clinical Neuropsychiatry that reconceptualizes the universe of autism, pulling the brain down from its privileged perch as an organ isolated from the rest of the body. Herbert is well suited to this task, a synthetic thinker who wrote her dissertation on the developmental psychologist Jean Piaget and who then went to medical school late, in her early thirties.
"I no longer see autism as a disorder of the brain but as a disorder that affects the brain," Herbert says. "It also affects the immune system and the gut. One very striking piece of evidence many of us have noticed is that when autistic children go in for certain diagnostic tests and are told not to eat or drink anything ahead of time, parents often report their child's symptoms improve—until they start eating again after the procedure. If symptoms can improve in such a short time frame simply by avoiding exposure to foods, then we're looking at some kind of chemically driven 'software'—perhaps immune system signals—that can change fast. This means that at least some of autism probably comes from a kind of metabolic encephalopathy—a systemwide process that affects the brain, just like cirrhosis of the liver affects the brain."
In 1943 Johns Hopkins University psychiatrist Leo Kanner first described autism as a now-famous collection of symptoms: poor social engagement, limited verbal and nonverbal communication, and repetitive behaviors. Back then, autism was considered rare; Kanner first reported on just 11 patients, and Johns Hopkins still has records of about 150 patients he examined in total. Even within this small group of patients, other, less visible symptoms were evident. In his 1943 paper, "Autistic Disturbances of Affective Contact," Kanner noted immune and digestive problems but did not include them in the diagnosis. One reads with a shiver sentences lifted out of various case histories: "large and ragged tonsils . . . she was tube-fed five times daily . . . he vomited all food from birth through the third month . . . he suffered from repeated colds and otitis media. . . ."
Herbert believes that the clues linking the obvious behavioral symptoms to more basic, but less obvious, biological dysfunction were missed early on. "What I believe is happening is that genes and environment interact, either in a fetus or young child, changing cellular function all over the body, which then affects tissue and metabolism in many vulnerable organs. And it's the interaction of this collection of troubles that leads to altered sensory processing and impaired coordination in the brain. A brain with these kinds of problems produces the abnormal behaviors that we call autism."
Herbert's full-body perspective helps make sense of the confusion surrounding the diagnosis of autism and helps justify the increasingly common use of the plural "autisms" to describe the wide variations in this disorder. As Newschaffer points out, "Children with Asperger's syndrome certainly share a lot of the behaviors of those with more severe autism. But is it the same disease, and is it caused by the same thing? A number of significant features of autism are not part of the diagnostic schema right now, but eventually, those features may end up distinguishing one causal pathway from another. How is a child sleeping? Does he or she have gastrointestinal symptoms? By looking at those things we may see risk-factor associations pop out that we've never seen before."
Herbert likens autism to a hologram: "Everything that fascinates me is in it. It's got epidemiology, toxicology, philosophy of science, biochemistry, genetics, systems theory, the collapse of the medical system, and the failure of managed care. Each child that walks through my door is a challenge to everything I ever knew, and each child forces me to think outside the box and between categories."
Each child's path to autism may be distinct, she says, but they may share common inflammatory abnormalities. She has shown through morphometric brain imaging that white matter—which carries impulses between neurons—is larger in children with autism.
"It was the most absolutely outstanding piece of information in all the brain data I looked at," Herbert recalls of the years 2001 and 2002, when she was analyzing this brain imaging data. "People were saying, don't look at the white matter, look at the cerebral cortex, but I knew we had an important finding."
Could white matter become chronically inflamed? It may well be, according to new research from Carlos Pardo, a neurologist at Johns Hopkins. In a 2005 study in the Annals of Neurology, he found inflammation in immune-responsive brain cells of autistic patients. "Patients with autism report lots of immunological problems. We looked for the fingerprints of those problems in the brain," says Pardo. "We had brain tissue from autistic individuals as young as 5 and as old as 45 and we found neuroglial inflammation in all of them. Neuroglia are a group of brain cells that are important in the brain's immune response. This inflammatory reaction appears to happen both early and late in the course of the disorder. If it happens early, it could dramatically influence brain development. We're very excited about this research because one potential treatment approach, then, is to downregulate the brain's immune response." To study that approach, Pardo is collaborating on a pilot study funded by the NIH to test minocycline, an anti-inflammatory antibiotic drug, on autistic children. "Minocycline is a very selective downregulator of microglial inflammation," he says. "Neurologists already use it in multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's."
"What we've got here is a far more comprehensive set of characteristics for autism," says Herbert, "one that can include behavior, cognition, sensorimotor, gut, immune, brain, and endocrine abnormalities. These are ongoing problems, and they're not confined just to the brain. I can't think of it as a coincidence anymore that so many autistic kids have a history of food and airborne allergies, or 20 or 30 ear infections, or eczema, or chronic diarrhea."
All this marks a Copernican-scale shift in our approach to the disorder. I myself was irresistibly drawn to the subject when viewing an online video of a heavily affected 11-year-old who, after a series of chelation treatments to remove mercury, announced to his mother, "Mom, I'm back from the living dead." The statement was heartbreaking in its simple eloquence. Mercury chelation, in this particular child's case, was a near panacea.
Lisa Beck, of Oviedo, Florida, tells a similar story. Her son Joshua was diagnosed with autism in 2004 at about age 2. After 18 intensive months of treatment that involved chelation—a treatment that draws heavy metals out of the body—and dietary changes, among other therapies, Josh appears neurotypical. "We took him to Dr. Leslie Gavin, a specialist at Nemours Children's Clinic, who administers the ADOS test, a diagnostic test to see where on the spectrum a child falls," she says. "After the two-hour evaluation, Gavin said he did not meet the criteria for autism. In her words, he was 'responsive, curious, and active, able to engage in the test without a problem, able to express himself clearly.' "
But, fascinating anecdotes aside, does hard evidence exist of specific vulnerability genes or how they might impair the immune system, brain, and gut—and most important, do we have any rational, reliable approaches to help repair the damage?
The answer is a provisional yes.
"We're beginning to understand that genetics is really about vulnerability," says neuroscientist Pat Levitt, director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center for Research on Human Development. Levitt and his colleagues recently discovered that a common variant of a gene called MET doubles the risk of autism. The finding was widely regarded as a breakthrough because MET modulates the nervous system, gut, and immune system—just the kind of finding that matches up with the emerging new view of autism.
"Everyone was focusing on genes expressed in the brain," says Levitt, "but this gene is important for repair of the intestine and immune function. And that's really intriguing because a subset of autistic children have digestive and immune problems." Equally interesting is that the gene variant occurs in 47 percent of the population—in other words, it is just one contributing factor, and it probably works in concert with other vulnerability genes. And finally, in a twist that intrigues other researchers, the activity of the gene is affected by what is known as oxidative stress—the kind of damage one sees with excessive exposure to toxins. "As we identify other vulnerability genes like this," says Levitt, who hopes to engineer a mouse model of this gene variant for study, "we may be able to develop effective interventions for children."
In other provocative research, Jill James, director of the Autism Metabolic Genomics Laboratory at the Arkansas Children's Hospital Research Institute (and professor of pediatrics at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences) has found that many children with autism do not make as much of a compound called glutathione as neurotypical children do. Glutathione is the cell's most abundant antioxidant, and it is crucial for removing toxins. If cells lack sufficient antioxidants, they experience oxidative stress, which is often found with chronic inflammation.
In her most recent study, published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics in 2006, James found that common gene variants that support the glutathione pathway may be associated with autism risk. Intriguingly, this pathway is linked metabolically to the methylation pathway. Methylation is a fundamental biochemical process that helps regulate which genes are expressed; abnormal methylation can cause disease. Because the pathway provides the precursors to glutathione, impairments in methylation can also lead to oxidative stress. "It's very provocative," James says. "It suggests that some autistic behaviors are a neurologic manifestation of a genetically based systemic, metabolic derangement." Some of the abnormalities James saw in this study have already been associated with gastrointestinal and immunologic dysfunction.
The good news is that oxidative stress in some autistic children may be treatable with targeted nutritional intervention. James and her colleagues have tracked eight autistic children who were taking supplements of key nutrients in the methylation pathway—folinic acid, trimethylglycine, and methyl-B12—and found a significant increase in important markers of methylation and glutathione synthesis. The next step is to see if the symptoms improve as well.
James and her colleagues just received a $2.4 million grant from the NIH, part of which will be devoted to sorting out the relationship between metabolism, genes, and behavior. "What would be incredible is if we could correlate individual differences in behavior with specific abnormal metabolites," James says. They will then look at children between 18 to 24 months old, which is usually before autism is diagnosed. That could help identify the causes of the disease, as well as permit earlier intervention.
"We also plan to look at mitochondrial dysfunction," she says. "Since mitochondria are the energy powerhouses of the cell, they're also the place where the most free radicals (which play a role in oxidative stress) are produced. If the electron transport chain in the mitochondria is faulty and you're not efficiently making ATP, you'll produce more free radicals and deplete your glutathione. If this hypothesis turns out to be correct, we can give nutrients like coenzyme Q10, magnesium, and acetyl-L-carnitine to help stabilize the mitochondria. Now, this is just a hypothesis, but that's the risk you take with science. You make your best guess and you carry out your study and you see."
"It's interesting to see metabolic abnormalities addressed this way," says Isaac Pessah, chairman of Molecular Biosciences and director of the Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention at the University of California at Davis. "I think glutathione balance in the kids is potentially very important in terms of toxic environmental exposures."
There is a growing sense, Pessah adds, that our heavily industrialized, chemical-soaked environment—and the way it acts on vulnerable genes in some individuals—may be a major culprit. In December 2006, Harvard researchers boldly announced in The Lancet that industrial chemicals may be impairing the brain development of children around the entire world. And at a November 2006 conference at the University of California at Davis's M.I.N.D. Institute, Pessah gathered experts to discuss the clinical implications of environmental toxicology in autism. Says Herbert, "We discussed the enormous number of chemicals in our environment and how little we know about chronic, low-dose, multiple exposures and their effect on diseases like autism. Maybe the many autism cases we are now seeing are a new illness of the current generation."
Several large-scale, federally funded epidemiological studies are under way to pinpoint possible environmental triggers, as well as early biomarkers of autism. "We have to build a large enough study to be able to look at both genes and environment together," says Newschaffer, who is a principal investigator on a study by the Centers for Disease Control that will look at 2,700 children over the next five years.
"As far as the impact of chemicals on neurodevelopment, only about 20 to 30 of the 85,000 chemicals have been studied."
"As far as the impact of chemicals on neurodevelopment, only about 20 to 30 of the 85,000 chemicals have been studied."
In another ambitious study, called the Autism Birth Cohort, Columbia University and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health will follow 100,000 pregnant women for 72 months, studying their health and genetics and testing everything from blood to urine samples. The hope is to discover environmental factors that contribute to autism risk, from diet or infection to toxins like heavy metals, pesticides, and the countless synthetic molecules in products today.
Other large NIH- and EPA-funded studies are teasing out immune abnormalities that may contribute to autism. In research on more than 700 families with an autistic as well as a neurotypical child, Pessah and his colleagues have found in the autistic child a significant reduction in immunoglobulins and an abnormal profile of cytokines, which are critical to immune response. "The immune system is involved in important aspects of neurodevelopment," says Pessah. "We've found the presence of immune antibodies that we think may influence brain proteins. In the next five years, as the study continues, we hope to reach about 1,600 families total. We need that many to get real statistical power. We hope to find out what type of skewed immune response the typical autistic child has and to isolate toxic exposures, such as proximity to highways or toxic waste dumps."
Herbert argues that "we can address the disturbed pathways now, before the gene hunters have definitive information. Genes, after all, don't specify behaviors. They make regulatory factors that interact in highly complex ways. And as far as the impact of chemicals on neurodevelopment, only about 20 to 30 of the 85,000 chemicals made have been studied. We can, at the very least, try to modulate autism by treating the tissue inflammation."
In other words, treat now, before the gavel of science strikes a final judgment, which might be decades away. That's what Erin and her husband, Michael, did for Brendan and Kyle: They blended mainstream treatments like speech and occupational therapy with the best biomedical approaches available. "I was told to take my boys home and love them," recalls Erin. "The neurologist said don't waste your time on alternative treatments, nothing about them is proven. My boys could have ended up institutionalized, or my husband and I would have had to take care of them their whole adult lives. When your child gets a diagnosis of autism, you lose the child you were dreaming about, the one who will go to college, get married, become a parent. That just wasn't an option."
The boys first saw an alternative Colorado practitioner who had been trained by a group called Defeat Autism Now! (DAN!). DAN! was cofounded in 1995 by the psychologist Bernard Rimland, whose own son was autistic. DAN! treatments focus on intestinal issues, detoxification, nutrition, and neuroinflammation. Recommendations include dietary restriction, usually eliminating gluten (present in wheat and other grains) and dairy.
"For weeks after Kyle stopped drinking milk, he had welts all over his body," Erin recalls, "as if he were going through a detoxification reaction. At the same time, he had his first formed, regular bowel movements. His sleep improved."
Other DAN!-recommended treatments include detoxification to remove heavy metals and other suspected pollutants, nutritional supplementation, and sometimes off-label use of anti-inflammatories, antivirals, and allergy medications. These so-called biomedical treatments range from relatively inexpensive dietary changes costing a few hundred dollars a month to doses of antifungal drugs that can cost several hundreds of dollars. Many DAN! supplements play critical roles in the pathways studied by scientists like Jill James. DAN! practitioners are, of course, leaping into the deep end of the pool before science has truly proved these treatments effective, but there are many anecdotal cases of improvement.
Not surprisingly, there has been criticism of the biomedical approach, especially when doctors promise too much or parents hope too desperately for recovery. As James notes, one mother killed herself after seeking every possible treatment for her autistic daughter to no avail, causing a furor among parents with autistic children.
Some children just do not get better, no matter what the intervention. Elizabeth Mumper is CEO of a group called Advocates for Children and former director of pediatric education at the Lynchburg Family Practice Program affiliated with the University of Virginia. Of the 2,000 children in her practice, about 400 have autism spectrum disorders. She describes one boy whom "I have not helped despite my best efforts. He is 17 and still nonverbal and has horrible, erosive esophagitis in spite of the fact that he works very closely with a gastroenterologist. He has to sleep standing up and leaning over his dresser because of the pain, and he has very idiosyncratic reactions to medications. And even though he is nonverbal, he can type anything to me. He's alpha-smart. The horror is that he's trapped in a body that doesn't work."
"I hate the term 'full recovery,' " James adds, "because of this false hope. Some children do lose the diagnosis, but that's rare. I don't think that should be out there as a goal. We need to accept [the kids] and love them for who they are—because they are lovable. They're quirky."
Erin's boys benefited from their DAN! doctor, she says, but it was in 2003, when she switched to a highly unconventional molecular biologist and naturopath based in Maine, Amy Yasko, that she began to see more striking changes. Yasko blends the new findings on methylation with a scientist's background in the finer steps of fundamental detoxification pathways in the body. However, she largely favors herbs, dietary change, and nutritional supplements over prescription medications. She monitors biomarkers of detoxification in the urine as often as every week or two and tweaks supplements accordingly. Her program is intensive and steeped in molecular biology; her twice-yearly conferences are extremely dense, scientific, and intended to help parents become at least semiproficient in the biology and chemistry themselves. It is a far cry from the old doctor-patient model—Yasko works primarily on the Internet now, with phone consultations, to interpret test results. She decided to do this when her waiting list for individuals stretched to five years, and, she says, she felt she was not helping enough children. Erin e-mailed me about 40 charts of metal "dumps" for both of her boys—urinalyses Yasko had ordered and charted on a graph to show the excretion of everything from arsenic to aluminum, mercury, and lead over time. "All these little things started clicking after we started with her," says Erin.
"I call this approach biomolecular nutrigenomics, after Bruce Ames, a professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of California at Berkeley," says Yasko. "He said that someday it would become routine to screen individuals for polymorphisms and that nutritional interventions to improve health were likely be a major benefit of the genomics area." Yasko tests for common polymorphisms in the methylation pathway, even though these findings are still preliminary. This has made her controversial among her peers. Yet several doctors and scientists with autistic children admitted privately to using Yasko's services while being unwilling to go on the record to support her.
Yasko, who says she moved her husband and three daughters from Connecticut to a rural area of Maine to "hear the snowflakes fall on the snow and get to that quiet place inside where I can think," seems immune to the controversy. "I was in a research environment for a long time, where you had to publish. Then I was in biotech for a long time, where you had to keep everything quiet. When I began to focus on autistic children, I made a decision that instead of publishing in peer review journals, I was going to go directly to the moms and help them. I knew in making that decision I was going to get flak. That's OK. It was like I was on those cliffs you see in the movies, and you're going to jump. You don't know if there's water below, or enough momentum to get to the other side, but you just jump."
Can we cajole a mysteriously shuttered brain and body back toward
normal? And if so, will autism give us new insight into other disorders?
Can we cajole a mysteriously shuttered brain and body back toward
normal? And if so, will autism give us new insight into other disorders?
Today Erin's boys participate in individualized programs at school and are being monitored in two national studies of families with more than one autistic child—one at the Duke Center for Human Genetics, another at the University of Washington. Kyle has, in addition, been tested three times at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center's toddler development program. Both are still on the autism spectrum—but the incessant tantrums, digestive problems, and infections have vanished. Brendan no longer chews on his shirt, flaps his arms, and grinds his teeth. In fact, he made honor roll in his classes last year. Kelly Swift, the boys' schoolteacher since the autumn of 1996, describes them as "sociable and on the whole very happy, with a great sense of humor. Kyle is probably the most changed of any autistic child I've ever worked with."
Kyle, who stopped speaking entirely at age 2, is now a font of creative language. I know this because Erin and the boys spent a weekend at my house. At lunch, Kyle poured a Vesuvius of ketchup onto his plate and began transforming his french fries into boats that sailed across the ketchup before they were disposed of in his mouth; he then began to entertain us by pretending he was an announcer at a regatta, where he, of course, was winning the race. What had once been autism had erupted into a geyser of quirky creativity.
The boys' blossoming, according to their mom, is one not easily measured on tests. "It's the length of their sentences, their empathy and sense of humor. Last night we went by a house that was all lit up for the holidays and Kyle joked, 'Does that guy want to be seen from space?' When we used to take Kyle to the dentist, he would scream bloody murder and we'd try to papoose him—put him on a board and wrap him in sheets, but even that didn't work, so they put him to sleep just to clean his teeth. Last year we went to the dentist, and he heard a little boy crying, walked over to him, rubbed his back, told him it wouldn't hurt, and not to worry. My heart was melting."
Can we cajole a mysteriously shuttered brain and body back toward normal? And if so, will autism give us new insight into other disorders? Martha Herbert thinks so: "A lot of these metabolic pathways are pretty fundamental to life. If we can crack the puzzle of autism and be clear about how we did it, that may have huge implications for other chronic environmentally triggered systemic illnesses. Autism could be a much-needed wake-up call to us all."
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The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends exclusive breast-feeding for the first six months after birth — and breast-feeding in combination with solid foods until at least age 1. Breast-feeding is recommended as long as you and your baby wish to continue.
The benefits of breast-feeding beyond infancy for a baby include:
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It depends on how much breast milk your baby is drinking.
After age 1, a baby might continue regularly drinking a moderate amount of breast milk. As a result, breast milk will continue to be a major source of nutrients for him or her. Other babies, however, might use solid foods to meet their nutritional needs and only want small amounts of breast milk.
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Not necessarily.
It's often easiest to begin weaning when your baby initiates the process — which might be sooner or later than you expect.
Weaning often begins naturally at about age 6 months, when solid foods are typically introduced. Some babies begin to gradually transition from breast milk and seek other forms of nutrition and comfort closer to age 1. Others might not initiate weaning until their toddler years, when they become less willing to sit still during breast-feeding.
Worldwide, babies are weaned on average between ages 2 and 4. In some cultures, breast-feeding continues until children are age 6 or 7. In other parts of the world, however, this is less common and can sometimes provoke uninformed, negative reactions.
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Breast-feeding beyond infancy can be an intimate way to continue nurturing your baby. If you're considering breast-feeding beyond infancy, think about what's best for both you and your baby — and enjoy this special time together.
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- November 13, 2009 at 9:19 am
My Friends,
Thank you so much for such a lovely invitation.
I do plan on attending, and shall be sitting in the audience, just to the upper east side of the stage. If you do not get the opportunity to come and say hello, just look up…as I shall be there, smiling brightly and bursting with pride!
Gosh I wish I could tell in words how much I miss you 2. Yet, they have not developed such words yet. Please know that you are close to my heart and thought of often.
Please please be safe, smile as if the whole world was yours, for as women IT IS!!!!!!
Love you, Randi
- November 13, 2009 at 2:26 pm
The invite is really beautiful. The images in the invite look very tarot-isk , and the devania logo at the bottom looks simply superb!
- November 14, 2009 at 9:32 am
Hi Jigyasa and Pratibha,
Hope the rehersals are polishing off the little rough edges. May Devaniya be an inspiration to all those who seek Harmony, Grace and Beauty through an expression of Dance. We will miss the show as we are away for a brief holiday at that time. All the very best for the Dance Recital, but will insist on the DVD of the programme.
Do keep in touch and may Mahasaraswati's presence provide elegance and substance to the Programme.
Once again, may the humble beginning be a pointer to things to come.
- November 15, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Morning Sunshine, I have a message to the girls:
"Rock your Socks off with all the grace and beauty you possess within!
Allow your inner beauty shine, and the rest will be easy!!"
If the event is recorded, please forward me a link so that I may view it.
It is snowing again, and I must go feed his majesty. His whinnie has once beckoned his Gourmet Mash of oats, bran and alfalfa, mixed with love sugar, salt, sand clear (to help all pass regularly) and of course the Corta Flex scoop for athritis.
- November 15, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Hi Jigyasa aunty and Pratibha aunty, the website looks too good!
- November 17, 2009 at 10:36 am
Dear Jigyasa
My advance congratulations to you on your launch of Devaniya ! I am sure that under your Gurukulam with you being bestowed as the Guru, Devaniya will reach great heights with your penchant for being strict on Rhythm, Tal and Laya!
Your love for Kathak will be the main soul stay for the continued success of Devaniya in the years to come ! I will certainly pray that this Devaniya initiative gives you continued happiness to your family and yourself.
God bless.
- November 19, 2009 at 6:09 am
Dear Jigyasa,
Many congratulations for Devaniya.You are doing great work in all fields of your life.This is really commendable.
I wish that you open one branch in Pune so that Stuti can learn from you. Wishing you the best of everything in Life.
- November 20, 2009 at 6:15 am
So happy to know and hear about your launch. We would have loved to be there. We know its going to be one fantastic programme (just like always). Loved the card too.
Wish you all the best and a resounding Success. Please do send us pictures!
Our wishes and prayers will always be with you.
Lots of love
Ragini and Prakash
- November 20, 2009 at 6:24 am
Dear Jigyasa, dear Pratibha,
When i discovered your website and the invitation, I jumped, I danced, I laughed of happiness. Yes all of that. I felt very proud and touched.
When my webmaster will make some changes, I will ask him to put Devaniya as link.
So I cross my fingers and send you all my love and support for the show.
Nothing really new for me, things take time…but i am feeling happy and supported.
love love love
- November 22, 2009 at 8:32 pm
Dearest Jigyasa & Pratibha, You really know how to make a show seem so effortless. Though I can imagine the work that must have gone behind the scenes to produce something so stunning as Pratham.
- November 22, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Pratham was simply superb. Happy that you have started the Kathak school – it is a very good strat. Wishing you all the best. God bless.
Sabaretnam, Karthik Fine Arts.
- November 22, 2009 at 8:37 pm
Beautiful programme – Pratham. Dancers did so well and looked gorgeous. All the very best. You are doing a great job.
- November 22, 2009 at 8:40 pm
Pratham – Excellent Choreography. Superbly conducted. Punctuality maintained. And out-of-the-world performance. All in all, a great show. Thrilled to be part of this event.
- December 1, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Hi Jigyasa. Witnessed yet another aspect of your multiple talents in Pratham. The show was superb. Your girls did you proud. Avani was vivacious. Congratulations and god bless.
Thoroughly enjoyed.
- December 14, 2009 at 8:26 pm
The experience of dancing in "Pratham' was just exhilarating. I pay reverence to my mother who has always shown me from my younger years that I should dance for Beloved Lord Krishna and forget my own self , just like Meera bai was so much in love with Krishna that she was oblivious of her surroundings. Hence whenever I dance I always visualize krishna In front of me or sometimes dancing with me too. But this time during my practices for our dance recital , there was something which I learnt and shall always value it too. During our stage rehearsal there was a line said by Pratibhaji when we were on stage. She told all of us that we should focus and see right at the centre of the auditorium in front of us something / someone which / whom we really love while we are dancing. And that was it! I could not forget that till our performance day which made all the difference 'coz I could actually behold Lord Krishna in front of me, while I danced with Him / for Him to my soul's content…
Of course learning never stops! Jigyasa di would always correct me during my classes to look straight because I had a tendency to look down, but by implementing at the opportune moment what Pratibhaji had advised, I experienced immense pleasure.
Thanks Pratibhaji and of course Jigyasa di who has been such a lovely Guru and person. No words can express my joy and even the learning which she has been able to inculcate in me!
- December 18, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Wow…this site is beyond cool and spectacular! I am glad to be a part of Devaniya. Dance class is loads of fun, I wait for mondays and fridays. The dance show was a learning experience…we learned team work and how to be one unit and I personally think it went off amazingly! Thank you Mom and Pratibha Aunty .
- June 28, 2012 at 8:37 am
Dear madam, I had spoken to you over the phone and since Adyar and Santhom are too far for me I would request to kindly take me into your alwarpet classes in your next available session. Kindly keep me posted.
- February 5, 2013 at 9:51 pm
Hi mam,
As discussed over the call I would love to enroll in the Kathak Dance classes.
I am already Bharthnatiyam trained.
I have learnt Kathak for 6 months earlier in 2007) at Mylapore Jathiswaralaya but unfortunately couldn't continue due to work reasons.
However I am looking forward to learn Kathak now and get formally trained in the precious dance form.
Please mail me details for the same.
I am from Madipakam Chennai and would be happy if I can enroll in the Saturday batch due to my work timings.
In case of no options left I will look into other batches.
But I am keen on getting trained at Devaniya!
Thank you very much.
Warm Regards,
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Hong Kong voters went to the polls on September 9 to support liberty-minded candidates after months of growing protests and even hunger strikes against proposed communist "brainwashing" in government schools, which opponents said was an effort to indoctrinate children into supporting the brutal dictatorship ruling over mainland China. Anti-Beijing sentiment is still at an all-time high and continues to grow.
The legislative elections, in which voters selected over half of Hong Kong's lawmakers while mostly pro-Beijing special-interest groups and elites chose the rest, were seen by analysts as a crucial milestone. The vote marked the first time that a majority of lawmakers were chosen by the electorate, and the results will play a key role in determining Hong Kong's future governance.
Citizens opposed to the increasing influence of the communist regime in Beijing over Hong Kong did succeed in maintaining control over at least one third of the legislature — and with it, veto power. The results will allow Hong Kong to block constitutional changes that would further the expansion of power by pro-Chinese Communist Party forces.
Pro-Beijing forces did relatively well considering the surging opposition to mainland communist scheming and their small numbers of supporters in the city. According to the New York Times and various analysts, the Chinese regime-supporting "Democratic Alliance for the Betterment and Progress of Hong Kong" used various gimmicks to garner more seats. Some even accused the mainland dictatorship of unlawfully subsidizing the pro-regime party.
However, among the legislative seats filled directly by voters based on geographic representation, results indicated that a majority went to an alliance of freedom-oriented candidates under the "pan-democrats" banner. It appears that the pan-democrats also managed to secure at least three of the five newly created so-called "superseats," which are voted on by virtually the entire electorate. On top of that, the special-interest groups that select almost half of Hong Kong's lawmakers added an additional five pan-democrats to the liberty-minded coalition — not much, but enough to help block an all-out takeover by Beijing supporters.
"Many people have remarked how this election has been a referendum on the new administration, and a chance to say no to Beijing," explained Chinese University of Hong Kong history Professor Willy Wo-Lap Lam. "Plus Beijing's overt interference in Hong Kong has given rise to concerns among the middle class. Many people have noted Beijing's interference is becoming more overt and aggressive."
The narrow electoral success against the well-funded supporters of the Chinese regime was attributed by analysts to escalating anti-communist sentiment in recent months — especially the scandal surrounding student brainwashing, which sparked a huge backlash. When authorities announced the plan to introduce mandatory "national history" and "patriotism" courses into the school curriculum, tens of thousands of parents, teachers, and students assembled outside the Hong Kong government headquarters.
Estimates placed the number of marchers at between 35,000 and 120,000 at various points throughout the uprising. Some of the demonstrators camped out or even orchestrated a hunger strike in a bid to stop what they viewed as communist Chinese propaganda and indoctrination aimed at ensuring mainland domination over Hong Kong.
According to critics, the proposed curriculum whitewashed the Tiananmen Square massacre, the brutality of mass-murdering communist dictator Mao Zedong, and the millions of Chinese who died of starvation as a result of communist central planning. It was aimed, opponents say, at ensuring that Beijing's influence and control over Hong Kong is preserved into the future.
However, sensing defeat, the appointed Beijing-backed leader of the semi-autonomous island retreated on the mandatory "patriotic education" scheme the day before the legislative vote. "Following this announcement, I hope that education will return to education, campus life will return to normal," Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-ying said at a press conference, adding that the communist education plot would no longer be mandatory for schools.
Analysts said the last-minute announcement may have helped contain the exploding anti-communist outrage from manifesting itself fully at the polls. But it was not enough to secure a full victory for pro-Beijing forces despite overt and potentially unlawful interference in Hong Kong politics by the totalitarian rulers on the mainland.
The proposed brainwashing campaign, meanwhile, is only a symptom of a larger issue: the mainland regime's effort to solidify its grip over one of the few remaining bastions of free markets in the world. "In the short term, national education is an important issue, but in broader terms many people are concerned about the central government's influence in Hong Kong," explained Chinese University of Hong Kong political scientist Ma Ngok.
Despite the apparent retreat on the brainwashing scheme, many analysts and activists are still not convinced that the education battle is over. "We are also worried about whether the education bureau will funnel lots of funding to encourage the schools to teach the curriculum," activist Yip Po Lam with the Justice and Peace Commission of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese was quoted as saying.
The Civil Alliance Against National Education, which strongly opposed the brainwashing scheme, welcomed the decision to drop the mandatory curriculum as well. However, a spokesperson for the organization still expressed numerous concerns about it even after officially becoming "optional."
The election also came amid the highest level of dissatisfaction in almost a decade with the way Hong Kong's government deals with the dictatorship ruling over mainland China, according to the Hong Kong Transition Project. That was partly reflected in the high voter turnout, which was more than eight percent above the participation in the 2008 elections.
Aside from the protests against brainwashing, Hong Kong has seen numerous other mass demonstrations this year. In July, for example, a rally demanding more self-governance attracted nearly half a million marchers according to estimates. Meanwhile, surveys show that some 20 percent of Hong Kong residents admit to having participated in at least one protest this year.
Until 1997, Hong Kong remained under British protection as a colony. Britain handed control over the semi-autonomous territory to China that year and Hong Kong has managed to retain many of its freedoms thus far — a free press, the right to protest, one of the freest markets in the world, and more.
When sovereignty was transferred to China, the autocratic regime firmly promised to safeguard Hong Kong's traditional and long-cherished freedoms. The communist dictatorship even said that one day — though no earlier than 2017 to 2020 — the people would be allowed to largely govern themselves, even selecting their own leader and lawmakers.
Like most communist promises, however, it appears increasingly possible that it could be broken — if not openly, at least in an underhanded manner aimed at quietly perpetuating Beijing's control over Hong Kong's political system. Still, with the pan-democrats having earned veto power in the election, it might be harder as liberty-minded lawmakers have the power to block any bogus "democracy" scams hatched by communist functionaries.
Hong Kong voters quoted in news reports expressed a wide range of sentiments regarding the election, with many saying they were glad that the city was slowly transitioning toward more self-government. There was also, however, serious doubts as to where it may lead. "Of course it's a good start," salesman Jack Wong told the Wall Street Journal. "But even if real democracy actually happens, it will still be monitored by the central government."
Silently and deceptively, the dictatorship in Beijing is flexing its muscles as it seeks tighter control over Hong Kong while giving the impression of increasing self-government, according to analysts. The growing battle between liberty-minded citizens in the city and the brutal communist regime on the mainland, however, may be just getting started.
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"The (drug) problem is getting worse, not better. It's only a matter of time before we have our first adolescent fatality.�The comment was made by Robert Thorn, executive director of the Counseling Service of Addison County. He should know. As head of a county agency on the front lines of drug abuse and the personal crises that inevitably follow, Thorn has been watching the developing drug scene in Addison County from his front-row seat. So have Jim Hulfish, director of adult out-patient services for CSAC, and Ken Schoen, an adolescent substance abuse clinician with CSAC. All three tell a similar story in the lead article of today's second installment in a two-part series on drug abuse published in this newspaper."I'd say in the past couple of years, the number of people coming in with opiate abuse and addiction has easily tripled,� Hulfish said in an interview with Addison Independent reporter John Flowers. "It's really changed. It's much easier to access than it used to be… (and) usually, there are not happy endings.�"I think the community is asleep on this, quite frankly,� Schoen adds. "What I find consistently with parents is that they are oblivious to the problem until their kids are caught, or they're at the emergency room.�- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -Let those words and the eight stories written for this series serve as a wake-up call for county residents. More importantly, let's respond aggressively and responsibly as a community. The goal, as this column suggested last week, is to chase the drug dealers out of the area, help users kick their habits, and establish a community network that makes the dealers realize it's too risky a place to do their dirty business. The first step in that process is to become informed and to realize that Addison County, this bucolic "land of milk and honey� as we're known, has a growing drug problem. The next step is to mobilize a community presence that can help law enforcement officers, school officials, counseling service representatives and other community leaders who are in positions to make a difference. What exactly does that mean? This series of stories has already suggested a few roles community citizens can play: • To help law enforcement officials, citizens are encouraged to be an extension of their eyes and ears, and react responsibly with information that seems suspicious. If you see someone stick a sawed-off shotgun in the trunk of their car late at night, you might want to get the license plate number and mention it to the police dispatcher. If you happen to overhear a conversation of drug dealings and you see them get into a vehicle, call in that license plate number, too. This won't happen every day; maybe never for most of us. But if it does, don't be afraid to report it. What none of us can afford to do is to remain uninvolved and pretend it's none of our business. (At the same time, let's not panic and burden police with tidbits of inconsequential information. We're not suggesting folks spy on neighbors, just be alert to activities that are suspiciously drug-related.)• To help school officials, talk to your school-age children. Be aware of the physical signs of drug use, and be sure your children know that you're not clueless. Talk about your own history; let them know you know the short-term and long-term effects of various drugs. If you're not sure what to say, have them read the two interviews of former drug addicts trying to kick the habit, or any of the eight stories in the Independent's series, and use that as the basis for a family conversation. • Understand that drug abuse is not limited to heroin, crack cocaine or other substances that are typically considered "hard drugs.� Alcohol and marijuana are increasingly seen as a gateway to other drug use. Prescription pain killers, legally obtained, can become addictive when abused.• Finally, tune in to the politics of drug use. In the federal arena, it's disheartening to discover that President Bush has cut funding for school resource officers — preferring, instead, to finance tax cuts. It's discouraging to know that federal programs that have previously helped towns with block grants (sometimes used for teen activities) are falling by the wayside because of a lack of funding. It's sickening to know that federal and state funding of social service agencies like CSAC, and many others, are being cut because of the financial train wreck engineered by Bush and his team. Fight back by understanding that tax cuts are not always in the community's best interests. Realize this is a community battle no individual can win. Know that we must pool resources and fund those who are most effective at combating drug abuse and drug-related crimes. Look favorably on tax increases if that's what it takes to tackle this problem collectively.At the local level, the political realm also includes providing outlets for our youth. That might mean active teen centers, skateboard parks, winter recreation programs, a local bowling alley or more job opportunities for teens. It also means encouraging the state to recruit more doctors willing to treat citizens with drug addictions.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -What county residents can't do, and have a good conscience, is let the problem slide. We can't just read these stories, but fail to act. According to those with front row seats, we've been lucky, so far, that no county adolescent — or, more personally, none of our children — has died of a drug-related incident. Let's not wait for that to happen.Let's call for a community forum. Let's listen to our police, drug-abuse counselors, state's attorney and school officials and hear in person the extent of the problem and possible solutions. Let's hear from the medical community about prescription drug abuse, and what precautions patients should take. If former addicts are willing to talk publicly, let's hear their sobering tales. Let's do what we can to build a community network that will make it tough for drug dealers, help those in need, and prevent others from traveling a road that's hellish on the way down and even worse when — and if — they try to come back. It is not this newspaper's habit to launch community crusades, but on this issue we'll start the process. If you're willing to help, email us at email@example.com, put "willing to help� in the subject line, and include any ideas you may have in the text. We'll be in touch via email, or through this newspaper. In the meantime, read what you can and stay tuned.


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In earlier parts of our interview with Paul Krugman, we discussed the deficit and the economy and the way technology was affecting inequality.
Another popular topic right now is Japan, and whether Shinzo Abe, the new Prime Minister, can make good on his desire to stoke inflation, and get the country out of its decades-long liquidity trap.
In this segment, Krugman explains that one of the problems with modern central banking is that people believe their too credible in their desire to stamp out inflation when it starts to pick up. So in other words, the Central Bank may say it will let growth and inflation run hot for awhile (so that nominal GDP can catch up to trend) but nobody believes that they'll actually do that.
What Japan may be in the process of doing -- by having the Bank of Japan take orders from the Ministry of Finance and the new Prime Minister -- is solve this problem, by having the bank commit to being irresponsible.
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Almost 50 years ago, The Graduate, a 1967 film about Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman), a recent college graduate who is talented, but aimless, premiered. It's a good movie even today, but one of the better scenes is one when Ben is asked and advised about his future plans. Remember this one?
Mr. McGuire: I want to say one word to you. Just one word.
Benjamin: Yes, sir.
Mr. McGuire: Are you listening?
Benjamin: Yes, I am.
Mr. McGuire: Plastics.
Benjamin: Exactly how do you mean?
Mr. McGuire: There's a great future in plastics. Think about it. Will you think about it?
Today, I see a potential parallel to a material beyond plastics – graphene.


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AS you'll no doubt have noticed by now, Nigel Farage had a milkshake thrown on him in Newcastle yesterday.
The incident was the latest in a long line of politicians having things thrown on them.
Few will forget John Prescott being hit with an egg before punching the perpetrator in 2001.
But in 2012 then-Labour leader Ed Miliband was on the campaign trail in Southampton when he was egged in Shirley.
This is how the Echo reported on the incident at the time.
- HE came to celebrate a cracking election win which had left Labour's Tory opponents in Southampton with egg on their faces.
And Ed Miliband was last night insisting the yolk was on the Conservatives, even after being egged after addressing triumphant supporters in Shirley High Street.
The Labour Party leader was in Southampton just hours after his party dramatically swept back into power in the city.
He told assembled supporters the result proved their party is back on track in southern England after years in the local government wilderness.
How the Echo reported on the incident at the time
But as the senior politician was giving media interviews after his public address, he was approached by a man in a black hat who firmly planted his hand on his right shoulder with a telltale splat.
As the man quickly ran off down the road, a bemused Mr Miliband looked down to see bright yellow yolk dripping down his suit.
An aide swiftly intervened to take off the jacket and the Leader of the Opposition laughed it off before continuing his interview in shirt and tie.
Shortly afterwards, he ended his talk and immediately headed to a waiting car.
But the 42-year-old was keen to remain light-hearted about the incident, and last night posted on his Twitter site: "For those wondering about egg's origins, fairly sure it wasn't free range, but nothing can take away from cracking result in Southampton."
Speaking before the egg attack, Mr Miliband had described Cllr Richard Williams as a "fantastic" leader of Southampton's Labour Party. He pledged to repay the voters' trust by working on the issues that matter most to people: jobs, housing and public services.
Mr Miliband said: "The reason why we won in Southampton is because we have been running a campaign about people's priorities.
"A campaign which Richard has led around jobs, around housing, around public services and around the things that matter to people.
"Here in Southampton, it's a rejection of the economic failure of this Government and the unfairness of this Government.
"People are understanding Labour understands the struggles you are going through. Labour is back in the south of England. Labour will keep these promises."
Cllr Williams said he was delighted his party leader had chosen the city to celebrate Labour's local election gains.
He said: "He's been remarkably positive throughout the campaign, and it's not just been his physical presence here. What he wants to do with the party is connect with people, and that's what we're trying to do down here, and that's how we will make a difference."


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One evening, in the fall of 1985, Carolyn and Gary Wells and Rick Welch, a.k.a. Sir Loin, were enjoying some friendly libation and chatting about barbeque. Carolyn was Executive Vice-President of Wicker Barbeque Products company (a great barbeque marinade and baste distributed primarily in the South), and networked extensively in the barbeque market. All competed in the few existing barbeque competitions in the area – The American Royal, The Great Lenexa Barbeque Battle, and the Blue Springs Blaze Off. Members of other cooking teams were always calling wanting to know when the next event would be held. Sadly, there were none.
So, while pondering this dilemma, Carolyn, Gary and Rick decided to form a club for the cookers. The only criteria for membership was that none of it be taken seriously – to do so was grounds for disqualification. What to name the organization? After semi-serious deliberation, The Kansas City Barbeque Society was deemed to fit the bill: it left a lot of room for interpretation, and there was a fair amount of BS! How to reach these other cookers? We decided to put together a barbeque newsletter. Thus was conceived "The Bullsheet." Dues were set at $12 per year to cover printing and mailing. About twenty people joined.
Since the first barbeque contest in the area was in late June, the members decided to have an internal contest. In the tradition of baseball, it was dubbed "KCBS Spring Training." Their buddy, Dan Haake, had a horse farm in the country, and agreed to host the event. Having no funds for prize money or trophies, they bought quarter trophies and typed labels for the category prizes. A paper crown was secured for the grand champion. Invitations went out and entries came back. Twenty-two teams entered the first Spring Training, and membership was up to thirty. A good time was had by all, and it was decided that this club was going to be okay.
After the American Royal, in October, there was nothing going on until the next spring. Being in barbeque withdrawal, members decided that they should have a New Year's party in late January (they didn't want to rush into anything). A potluck dinner and brief program was planned. Invitations were sent and more than hundred people showed up to visit with their barbeque buddies. From the enthusiasm that was building, it was decided that the club be formalized into a real organization. Nine dedicated members were selected for the first Board of Directors. Monthly meetings were held to establish procedures. Periodic newsletters continued to go out, and membership was slightly more than 100.
The Society began receiving calls from organizations wanting to start barbeque competitions. They wanted KCBS to sanction their event. Wait a minute, this is getting serious. Up to this time, each contest had its own set of rules and judging procedures. It was decided to establish a committee to set standard rules and regulations for new contests. A computer literate friend wrote a program for tabulating scores. KCBS was going hi-tech! The contest phenomena was growing rapidly, as was the number of cooking teams and KCBS membership.
The Bullsheet grew from an 8.5 x11″, two-sided newsletter to an official tabloid. News was expanded from just contests to include all types of barbeque information: personalities, recipes, cooking techniques, and events outside the KC area. There was so much news that the volunteer staff decided to hire an editor. It was 1988 and the Society was now up to 800 members!
Calls and letters started coming in from all over the United States. More committees were established to sanction contests, computers were purchased, phone and fax lines added. Membership continued to grow and KCBS became an informal but respected BBQ network of information.
In 1987, Rick Welch, Karen Adler, and Westport Publishers compiled members' recipes into a cookbook called "The Passion of BBQ." The book sold well in Kansas City and points beyond. It had information about KCBS, so more calls and letters rolled in. The Convention and Visitors Bureau learned of the Society's existence and began referring barbeque inquiries to KCBS. The network continued growing.
The tradition of the New Year's Party grew also. Programs were added to award a "Team of the Year" based on cumulative contest scores for the previous year. A "Hall of Flame" was initiated. Ribbies (boners) and Piggie (outstanding service) awards were established. Ph.B. (Doctor of Barbeque Philosophy), M.B. (Master of Barbeque), and B.S. (Barbeque Science) degrees were conferred from Remus Powers' Greasehouse University.
By 1993, the KCBS membership was up to 1,400 folks. The systems were in place and the KCBS ran like a semi-well-oiled machine. The number of contests continued to grow, and KCBS was sanctioning contests in points well beyond the Midwest. Thanks to dedicated members, participation in fund-raising projects allowed the Society to experience further growth. Referral programs increased membership and name recognition.
In January 1995, the Board participated in strategic planning exercises to determine orderly growth into the next century. Goals and objectives were set, and assignments delegated. Big plans are in the works for the Society, with the emphasis being on barbeque education. Further, expanding the awareness of barbeque and having fun, KCBS is the voice of the barbeque world.
Today, our voice is larger than ever. Thanks to media attention and event popularity in all things BBQ, our growth has exploded since the late '90s. Our board is still a volunteer board, but it governs the world's largest society of BBQ enthusiasts. We have more than 14,000 members worldwide, and we sanction over 300 events a year.
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16th February 2010, 11:23 PM
The new board release is finally out today after a minor delay of two weeks, and apparently has fixed lots of little bugs. People will be happy to know the 'go to first unread post' feature is back and will be working in this release! I will upgrade the board when I get a little time -- probably in the next couple of days. I want to see how stable it is first. Just a heads up.


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FAYETTEVILLE — Bret Bielema thinks the world of Charlie Partridge.
The assistant was part of Bielema's coaching staff at Arkansas and Wisconsin for the past five seasons. He watched him recruit South Florida with success and develop defensive linemen over the years at both stops.
But Bielema wouldn't look at his trusted assistant's departure to become the head coach at Florida Atlantic as a blow to Arkansas' efforts to rebuild after a 3-9 season.
"The way I always see it, it's an opportunity to get better," Bielema said. "That's going to be hard. Charlie's really good. I don't mean that as a disrespect (to Partridge). I love him to death and would never have wanted to lose him.
"But that's the way I've got to look at it."
Partridge was officially introduced as FAU's fourth football coach in Boca Raton, Fla., on Tuesday, describing the opportunity to return home to South Florida for his first head coaching job as a "big moment." Bielema said watching Partridge get that chance left him feeling both "happy and sad," but knew the day was coming because of the assistant's outstanding reputation and work ethic over the years.
It's part of the profession and nothing new to Bielema. He watched assistants leave for jobs numerous times while at Wisconsin. But Bielema said he always keeps a list of three coaches at every position handy so he's prepared to hire someone new.
"That list that I keep isn't etched in stone," Bielema said. "I'm not just going to go to those three. I have half a dozen names that have come across my desk in the last 48 hours that are very intriguing that I'm definitely researching. I probably won't bring anybody in until after the first of the year. I might talk to about half a dozen guys by phone, kind of off the record, and see where it's at. It's a fun time for me as well."
Bielema said he believed Partridge would be a candidate for the job as soon as it opened on Oct. 30, when Carl Pelini resigned. He got a call from FAU during its search process and was notified of the program's interest in speaking with Partridge. He soon had a conversation with athletic director Pat Chun.
Partridge played a key role in Arkansas' defensive development and recruiting efforts. He was especially effective in South Florida, where he was so respected that several local high school coaches attended his press conference.
Partridge thanked each one Tuesday.
"To the high school coaches, thank you for your trust," Partridge said Tuesday. "I wouldn't be here without it. Thank you for your support. I'd have no chance if it weren't for you guys that are in this room and the high school coaches at large."
His work played a big role in helping Arkansas sign South Florida natives Alex Collins, Denver Kirkland and De'Andre Coley last year. Losing him won't be easy, but Bielema said the Razorbacks aren't backing out of South Florida.
Bielema and linebackers coach Randy Shannon have long-standing ties there, too, so the Razorbacks will continue to target prospects from the state.
"It doesn't hurt us I don't think that bad," Bielema said. "Now if he was our lone face down there … But I've been down there a long time. I've signed over 60 kids from those three (South Florida) counties and really don't expect it to be much more than a blip on the radar. I think our tradition speaks for itself in the way we handle kids and hopefully that will persevere over everything."
Bielema said he was able to contact some of Arkansas' defensive line prospects and players who were recruited by Partridge when word of his departure began to leak out late last week. He believed there was "no panic" from anyone because of the change, although there's disappointment from Arkansas' current defensive linemen.
"His kids are disappointed, I know, because they love him and that's what I want," Bielema said. "If they weren't disappointed, then I'd be upset."
Partridge's departure comes at a manageable time, considering the recruiting calendar is in a dead period until Jan. 16. Bielema said that is "nice" for the current situation, giving him some time to find the right fit to join a staff that includes Shannon, defensive coordinator Chris Ash and cornerbacks coach Taver Johnson.
Bielema said his goal is to have Partridge's replacement on staff by the time the Razorbacks go back on the road to recruit in mid-January.
"As good as Charlie is, I'll try to find somebody better," Bielema said.


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A Suffolk, Va., mother will spend weekends behind bars after mooning her son's school bus following a confrontation with the driver.
Media outlets report that Lisa Grant, 34, was convicted this week of disorderly conduct. She was accused of mooning the school bus with roughly 45 students aboard last November.
Grant admits she exchanged heated words with the bus driver but claims she did not flash any skin. Her attorney says she only bared her underwear when mooning the bus.
She confronted the driver after she sent a note home that Grant's middle school-aged son was misbehaving. A school spokeswoman says the note was a warning.
Grant was given a six-month jail sentence with five months suspended. She will serve that time on weekends. She also must pay a $250 fine.


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Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture
San Diego Museum of Art 1450 El Prado, San Diego, California 92101
The first retrospective of Louis Kahn's work in two decades, presenting over 200 objects related to Kahn's selected buildings and projects in the form of architectural models, plans, original drawings, photographs, films and more. With complex spatial compositions and a mastery of light, Louis Kahn's architecture is regarded as a touchstone of 20th century modernism. Dignified, beautiful, and imbued with a powerful universal symbolism, Kahn's designs remain a testament to his belief that architecture should be monumental and spiritually inspiring. Among his most famous works are the Salk Institute in La Jolla, CA; the Kimbell Art Museum in Forth Worth, TX; and the National Assembly Building in Dhaka, Bangladesh. At The San Diego Museum of Art, Louis Kahn: The Power of Architecture will be accompanied by Shape, Shadow, Space, an exhibition of architectural photography from students of the Woodbury University School of Architecture. The Museum will also present a symposium on Saturday, November 5, 2016, featuring Ariel Plotek, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, The San Diego Museum of Art; Wendy Lesser, editor of The Threepenny Review and author of the forthcoming biography, You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn (due in spring 2017); William Whitaker, Curator and Collections Manager, Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania School of Design; and Sara Lardinois, Project Specialist, The Getty Conservation Institute. The Museum will also screen the film My Architect, A Son's Journey, presented by the director and Kahn's son, Nathaniel Kahn on January 13.
Price: Free-$15.