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The chance that Jose Iglesias will wind up this season as baseball's first .400 hitter since Ted Williams is remote. Actually, more than remote, sort of like the chance that Congress will decide to tear down the Capitol stone by stone and rebuild it in Lancaster.
Still, what Iglesias has done so far in 2013 is remarkable. As the Red Sox head into a nine-game homestand, he is hitting .426. Iglesias is a long way from being able to qualify for the official league batting race, with 121 plate appearances to his credit. That is about halfway to the threshold, which for him would be 241.
His .426 average is so high, however, that Iglesias could go into an 0-for-45 slump and still be hitting .300.
To bat .400 for a span of at least 100 at-bats, as Iglesias has done so far, is not at all unprecedented. What is unusual is for a player who was an offensive liability before he got hot, to be this hot for this long. Going into this year, Iglesias' career average in limited major league play was .135.
Before Iglesias, the most recent Sox hitters to have a hot stretch during which they hit .400 for 100 or more at-bats were Dustin Pedroia and Adrian Gonzalez — both All-Star players — in 2011. Pedroia hit .403 from July 1 to Aug. 3; Gonzalez hit .402 from May 8 to June 26.
The last Boston batter to seriously flirt with batting .400 for a season was Nomar Garciaparra, another All-Star, in 2000. He was hitting .403 on July 20 and finished the season at .357, winning the American League batting title. Garciaparra's hottest stretch that season was from June 13 to Aug. 4, when he was 63 for 141 (.447).
Kevin Youkilis (2007) and Manny Ramirez (2006) — both All-Stars — have both hit .400 for 100 or more at-bats. When Williams, a Hall of Famer, hit .406 in 1941, his hottest stretch was from May 4 to June 6, when he was 52 for 111 (.468).
Hall of Fame member Wade Boggs had several very hot stretches during his prime years with Boston, but his hottest may have been the longest stretch of red-hot hitting in Red Sox history. In 1987, arguably Boggs' best all-around season with the Sox, he was 56 for 101 (.554) from May 26 to June 30.
Boston could use some more hitting like that now as it heads into this homestand in a bit of disarray. The Red Sox have been fortunate, as winning teams usually are, in that every other team in the division has suffered through periods of equal, or greater, disarray.
The Sox have been in first place every day starting with the night of May 26 even though they are only 15-13 (.536) since then. Most recently, they are 5-8 in their last 13 games, three of those victories coming in five games with the Rays.
In this upcoming homestand, Boston plays five games against National League opponents, something that should work to its advantage. The Red Sox are, since the start of the 2005 season, 52-22 vs. the National League at Fenway Park. Boston plays the Rockies tonight and Wednesday afternoon, then faces the very difficult task of dealing with the Blue Jays — currently the hottest team in the majors — for four games from Thursday night through Sunday afternoon.
The Sox finish the homestand with three games vs. the Padres.
In contrast to the unexpected production Iglesias has provided, first baseman Mike Napoli has done essentially nothing productive for more than a month. Beginning with May 16, Napoli has 28 hits — 23 singles, 3 doubles and 2 home runs. In a week's less time, Iglesias has 37 hits — 28 singles, 6 doubles, 2 triples and a home run.
As June comes to a close, John Farrell faces his toughest challenges yet as Red Sox manager. He has to find somebody to pitch the ninth inning effectively, has to turn Jon Lester's season around, has to compensate for the loss of Clay Buchholz's arm in the rotation and has to figure out what to do with Will Middlebrooks.
One thing Farrell need not worry about, at least for now, is what to do with Iglesias. He just has to put his name on the lineup card and let him swing away. Even if he doesn't get another hit for the next 10 games or so, Iglesias will still be a .300 hitter.
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Stefano Mauri's late equaliser grabbed Lazio a 1-1 draw in their Coppa Italia semi-final first leg clash with Juventus in Turin.
Federico Peluso had put the Old Lady ahead in a game where they outplayed the visitors, but Antonio Conte's men will have to chase a result in the return fixture to survive in the competition.
Chasing a place in the Coppa Italia final to keep the dream of a third domestic double on track, Juventus made an explosive start to the match in front of their own fans. The match was barely a minute old when the home side broke forward, but Claudio Marchisio saw the ball robbed from his grasp by goalkeeper Federico Marchetti after being played in by Alessandro Matri. Leonardo Bonucci also went close early on with a header that went just over the bar, while Paul Pogba also threatened in the air.
Lazio were pinned back for the first 20 minutes, but gradually began to fight in a fixture that became progressively scrappier and more imprecise. Their best chance of the first half fell to Mauri; the forward had the chance to poke home when Bonucci scuffed a clearing header, but hesitated and saw the ball cleared by Luca Marrone with the net wide open.
Both sides had started the first leg with six midfielders, and the result was a messy encounter that frequently became bogged down around the centre circle. Passes were going wayward across the pitch, with Lazio's creative talents Mauri and Hernanes particularly notable for their lack of calm with the ball at feet.
Juventus fans would hold their breath once more in the opening 45 minutes when Emanuele Giaccherini released a stinging effort from deep as the half entered injury time. Marchetti was more than equal to his shot, however, and the teams entered the tunnel still deadlocked.
Despite the rather turgid nature of play neither team made changes during the interval, although Juve had already been forced to bring Martin Caceres into the action following an injury to Bonucci. The Turin side switched the focus of attack, looking to put pressure on their rivals out wide through the exertions of Mauricio Isla, but Lazio were resolute and resisted a host of crosses fired in by the Chilean.
Nine minutes into the second half, Juventus were presented with their best chance of the match. Matri broke the offside trap and did well to latch on to a stunning lofted pass from Marrone, taking his shot first time on the volley. The effort lacked power, however, and Marchetti again did well to palm away and keep his team level with the hosts. Mauri then appeared with a header at the other end, but Marco Storari was also in the right place and saved comfortably.
Pressure on the lacklustre Romans was growing, and it was no surprise that, after 63 minutes, the Old Lady pushed themselves into the lead. A fluid passing move around the box left Giaccherini in space, and his pinpoint cross found Federico Peluso who nodded the ball into the corner of the net. Lazio were furious that a supposed foul in the area had not been called, but it did not matter; the goal stood, and Juve were in the driving seat.
Arturo Vidal had been strong in midfield throughout the clash, and the Chilean went agonisingly close to extending his team's advantage when his well-placed shot beat Marchetti, but struck the post, and from the rebound, the midfielder steered Barzagli's cross inches wide to give Lazio a lifeline. The Aquile took full advantage, as five minutes from the end Mauri stole in at the far post to poke home a corner and hit a shock equaliser.
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Five Years after Their Inception, the Browser-Based Laptops Inch Toward Replacing PCs and Macs
When Google announced the Chromebook five years ago, it seemed like a joke. A computer that's only a browser? Really? What's next, a washing machine just for socks? An oven that only roasts chicken?
But the browser-based laptops are no longer a laughing matter. While we've become more comfortable in the cloud and the Web itself has advanced, Google made improvements to the Chrome OS that are pushing the simple machines toward taking on "real" laptops....


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ABC NO RIO, 156 Rivington St., 638-7039: Sun.Weekly poetry/spoken word readings, all are welcome, no time limit, 3 p.m., $3.
BLUESTOCKINGS BOOKSTORE, 172 Allen St., 777-6028: Womens Poetry Jam w/ Open Mike, last Tue. of every month, 7-9 p.m., 8-min. limit, $2
THE BOWERY POETRY CLUB, 308 Bowery, 334-6414: Mon.Da Bowery Improv. Poets, 9 p.m., free admission; Wed.Supreme Poets, poetry & spoken word, 8:30 p.m., $10; Sat.Poets4Life, monthly performance of poetry on the second Saturday of every month, $12, call 696-6455 for more information.
CARING COMMUNITY, 20 Washington Sq. N., 877-7699: Tue.Poetry writing workshop, sponsored by the Greenwich House Senior Center, 1:30-3:30 p.m., free.
CORNELIA ST. CAFÉ, 29 Cornelia St., 989-9318, www.poetz.com: Fri.Pink Pony West Reading Series, feat. poet and open mike, 6 p.m., $6, includes free drink.
THE PEN & BRUSH, INC., 16 E. Tenth St., 475-3669: Call for current readings & workshops.
THe pink pony, 176 Ludlow St., 212-253-1922: Various readings monthly, call for information.
THE POETRY PROJECT, 131 E. 10th St., 674-0910: Call for current poetry reading information.
POETS HOUSE, 72 Spring St., 2nd fl., 212-431-7920: Call for information about Poetry readings.
RAVEN CAFÉ, 194 Ave. A, 529-4712: Wed.Open Stage, 6:30 p.m., free.
13 BAR LOUNGE, 35 E. 13th St., 662-5560: Mon.A Little Bit Louder, weekly poetry readings/slam, 7 p.m.
ZINC BAR, 90 W. Houston St., 533-9317: Sun.Reading Series, 7 p.m., suggested donation $3.
Greenwich house, 27 Barrow St., 212-877-7699: First & Third Tue. of every month-Living Room Style poetry reading & discussion, 1:30-3 p.m., free.
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pace university, One Pace Plaza, 212-346-1244: Through Aug.-Numerous family workshops as part of the River to River Festival 2004, call for information, $95 & up.
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A Holistic View of Asperger's Syndrome, Autism, & ADHD
Asperger's and Autism are much misunderstood conditions, featuring brain and behavioral patterns that are abnormal but in some ways more interesting and advantageous. The problem for anyone dealing with this condition, is finding the healthiest ways of functioning in this society without dissing one's true nature, gifts and needs. Asperger's has made things difficult for my partner Kiva Rose when it comes to social interaction, but has also helped to make her the unique and admirable person she is. The following is an eye-opening look at this topic from our friend and ally Katja Swift, excerpted from a longer version found in the Winter issue of Plant Healer Magazine. You can learn about the herbal courses being offered in the Boston area by Katja Swift and Ryn Midura, by going to their CommonWealth School of Herbal Medicine website at: www.commonwealthherbs.com
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Towards A More Holistic View of Asperger's Syndrome, Autism, & ADHD
by Katja Swift
Forget everything you think you know about Asperger's and ADHD – let's look at this another way.
First, let's agree on some basic foundations:
Your head-brain isn't your only brain – there is also your heart-brain and your gut-brain. These aren't figurative analogies, as Joseph Chilton Pearce so nicely explains:
The idea that we can think with our hearts is no longer just a metaphor, but is, in fact, a very real phenomenon. We now know this because the combined research of two or three fields is proving that the heart is the major center of intelligence in human beings.
Molecular biologists have discovered that the heart is the body's most important endocrine gland. In response to our experience of the world, it produces and releases a major hormone that profoundly effects every operation in the limbic structure, or what we refer to as the "emotional brain."
Neurocardiologists have found that 60 to 65% of the cells of the heart are actually neural cells, not muscle cells as was previously believed. Quite literally, in other words, there is a "brain" in the heart, whose ganglia are linked to every major organ in the body, to the entire muscle spindle system that uniquely enables humans to express their emotions. About half of the heart's neural cells are involved in translating information sent to it from all over the body so that it can keep the body working as one harmonious whole. And the other half make up a very large, unmediated neural connection with the emotional brain in our head and carry on a twenty-four-hour-a-day dialogue between the heart and the brain that we are not even aware of.
If you google "gut-brain axis", you'll find a very enormous pile of similar statements about the neural plexus in your guts. The digestive system has exponentially more neurotransmitter production and receptors than does the brain, which is part of why St. John's Wort is so effective, but best when taken as tea: your gut-brain needs to taste it.
All three brains are critical, and in order for us to be healthy, they need to be in some sort of balance, which may not be equal! I would argue that we probably need our gut-brains and our heart-brains to be stronger than our head-brains, but for the moment I'll just leave it with "some sort of balance".
While we're here, let's also acknowledge that this balance is not one single point, but instead a range: people who are balanced more in favor of the gut will have particular talents in certain areas – perhaps they will be better at making very quick decisions or handling emergency situations. People who are balanced more in favor of the head may be better at writing software or databases. Those balanced in favor of the heart may have stronger powers of empathy. You might initially be thinking about where you think your balance point is, and perhaps you're wishing it were somewhere else – but it's just like any other constitutional balance. We need fiery people, we need watery people, we need all of us.
Second, let's establish that there is no such thing as "neurotypical". Neurotypical is the word we invented so that we weren't comparing folks identified as Asperger's, ADHD, and other things to people who are "normal" – which was an important step. But it turns out that neurotypical is in fact still too constricting: it still carries an implication that there is something more normal, at least by merit of being more common, than something else.
Let's work instead with the concept of "normative". Normative is defined as: of, relating to, or prescribing a norm or standard; based on what is considered to be the usual or correct way of doing something; conforming to or based on norms.
For example, "children should eat vegetables", and "those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither" are normative claims. On the other hand, "vegetables contain a relatively high proportion of vitamins" and "a common consequence of sacrificing liberty for security is a loss of both" are positive claims. Whether or not a statement is normative is logically independent of whether it is verified, verifiable, or popularly held.
Relevant to our discussion, we can consider neuro-normative, or socio-normative, or culturally normative – each of these describes a state that is considered normal or appropriate by society in this moment in this location, but that norm is volatile. It is "trendy". The norm itself does not imply absolute value, only that in this moment and in this time, a certain this is valued by a certain segment of society.
The word normative is, again, a range. Think about your friends – they come in many flavors. Even the ones who are normative to whatever scale you are using – even they fall into a range. Let's use, for example, the normative range of people who are herbalists. Within that norm, you might find an RN at a family practice who often suggests herbal supplements to her patients and educates parents that it's ok for a child to run a fever. You might find a pharmacist who has studied herbalism and stocks cranberry extract tablets for UTIs and turmeric capsules for inflammation, and drinks tea instead of coffee from his travel mug. You might also find people who have no room in their cubbards for plates and bowls because there are too many jars of herbs in them. You might find some people who grow long hair and move out to the country to grow herbs and raise goats and sheep and don't even have a cell phone. Some will be vegetarian, some will be paleo, some will eat gluten and some will not. All of these people would fall into the spectrum of Herbalists, and could be identified in the broader scale as herbalist-normative. But within herbalist-normative, you see, there's still quite a broad range.
Why is the shift in language so important? Because with our current standards of "normal" vs. ADD, or even "neurotypical" vs Asperger's, we are making a statement that something is wrong with one of the people in this equation. But if we establish the idea of three brains (who knows, maybe there are more!), and we look at them the same way we would look at someone's constitution, we realize that there isn't anything wrong with someone who is "normal" or not, ADD or not. There is no disease or condition or diagnosis, there is just a person. There is nothing "wrong" with the person; there is simply an imbalance, just like any other imbalance. If you consider your friends, is there anything wrong with the one who has a fiery temper? It might not always be convenient, but there's nothing wrong. In fact, sometimes it can be quite handy to be fiery. If you consider your friend with the watery emotions, is there anything wrong? Perhaps that person doesn't like violent movies, but there is nothing wrong. What if we consider someone with dry skin? Here we can still say, there is nothing wrong with the person, they are still a person, just one who has an imbalance in the direction of dryness.
People who can be grouped as "Asperger's", which is itself a normative scale, may have very strongly developed head-brains, and may have damaged or compromised gut-brains. We know from observation that people diagnosed as Asperger's and ADD tend to fall abnormally into the high end of gut dysbiosis, and that they fall into the high end of gluten/casein sensitivity. But is there anything wrong with the person here? I contend that instead what we really have is a person who's head-brain is full speed ahead but that they don't have the grounding balance of their gut-brain due to damage and impaired development in the gut. To take that further, this person's heart-brain might also be suffering, because, due to the permeability in the guts, the heart may be simultaneously too open – because of the heart's inability to build healthy walls due to underdevelopment tied to the gut issues, or simply because the heart is too busy trying to compensate for the damage in the gut-brain. This may result in either the person feeling emotions too intensely, or, for protection, shutting them down altogether. I suppose we could identify the damage to the gut as something "wrong", and if we're looking for something diagnosable, then that would be the thing. We can diagnose a fever, too, but each person will respond to that fever according to their constitution: our firey person will sweat it out fast, one who runs cold may need help to get it hot enough. This isn't enough to say there's something wrong with a particular person, it only identifies them constitutionally.
Another factor in this puzzle is zonulin, a hormone that is responsible for tight junctions in the body. These are present in the intestinal lining, but also in the skin and the brain – the blood-brain barrier. An upregulation of the hormone zonulin (caused by the ingestion of milk proteins, gluten, or other factors we haven't figured out yet) causes the holes in these permeable membranes to become larger. We have identified that folks with Asperger's and ADD have higher rates of gut permeability than folks not diagnosed, and we can recognize that the permeability of the gut is tied to the permeability of the brain. Which gives us our tie-in: where there is leaky gut syndrome, there is "leaky brain syndrome" – a brain with a filter whose holes are too big. Too much can get in or out, too easily. We acknowledge this even in our speech – "he has no filters" is something we often say about people on this spectrum. But to me, this also looks a lot like anxiety – too much is able to leak into the brain, and a person is unable to hold it out because the filters aren't working. And so this damage to the gut-brain ends up affecting even the way that our head-brains develop.
Regardless, there is nothing about this person that needs to be cured. There is simply an imbalance that, if restored, can make it more comfortable for this person to get through a day. Much like our person with dry skin – when we restore moisture to the person, they feel less itchy.
It's also worth noting that Aspies and folks with ADD are not the only ones who have imbalances in this way – it is simply that they have imbalances that follow a reasonably identifiable pattern which has been labeled as outside the current norms. Folks with Asperger's, for example, typically have their imbalance inclusive of a very strong head-brain development – which means that the imbalance shows up in a certain more obvious way. Someone else might have similar imbalances in their gut-brain and heart-brain but without the over development of the head-brain, and that person is not necessarily going to fit into the norm of Asperger's or ADD. They might get by as "neuro-normative", because so much of society today has compromised guts and hearts: this person wouldn't stand out. It doesn't mean this person isn't experiencing discomfort because of their imbalance, but they are not diagnosed with a problem because they fit in with the general trend towards imbalance in our society.
Which is a very important point: this type of imbalance is uncomfortable for everyone! Perhaps, if we were all in perfect balance with our brains, if everything was functioning appropriately, it wouldn't be the case, but as it is, interpersonal relationships are difficult for everyone! Just look at the whole series of commercials centered around men's inability to express emotions – "I love you, man!". That inability is a reflection of this imbalance, and how we got there is of course another whole discussion. But that imbalance is socially acceptable enough that it will sell beer. Just think about the last week in your own life: little misunderstandings, little annoyances, little grudges – getting along with each other is hard for everyone. If we can identify a particular group of people who have this difficulty in a roughly similar way, we can have a few reactions to that. We can label that group as flawed and try to cure them, which is what is currently happening. We could also identify that this group of people is more highly sensitized to a problem endemic in society right now, just like a person who lives in a highly polluted area might have more sensitive skin or more sensitive lungs – we can put them on steroids, or we can change the imbalances that are causing the problem: change their environment, improve their sleep and nutrition, give them supporting herbs to rebuild and strengthen compromised tissues… The latter takes longer, but in exchange, the person doesn't have to worry about not being able to get their steroids when the zombies come!
Our current cultural obsession with normativity itself is also a problem. Everyone is not actually supposed to be the same. We're SUPPOSED to have different skills and different talents. A person who can be identified as ADD – maybe that person would feel comfortable and happy as a forest ranger, but because we live in a society where only certain types of jobs are respected, that person is raised to try to fit into a place that is uncomfortable and poorly suited to his nature. We can consider two developments that are socially acceptable: one a NFL football player, one a lawyer. Each of these people, during their maturation and training, will choose parts of their nature to develop, even to over-develop. The result is socially acceptable, and so they are considered "normal". These imbalances are considered acceptable, those are not – there's a very arbitrary factor in what is considered "normative".
Stimming falls into this category as well. The definition of a stim is simply a repetitive habit, often a body movement, for the purpose of self-calming. Socio-normative society says that rocking or flapping the hands isn't an acceptable method of self-calming – but smoking is. Going to a bar is. Playing Grand Theft Auto is. The reality is, everyone self-calms. Let's consider rocking chairs – it used to be every house had one! Rocking as a form of relaxing or feeling calm was acceptable for most of American history, but today it's either a quaint antique or a stigma.
In my case, and for others I know, I like to press my nails into my palms. I've done it ever since childhood, but recently a friend who is an acupuncturist noticed. It turns out that the place where your fingernails meet your palm is actually an acupuncture point used in cases of adrenal depletion! All along, my self-calming behavior was actually acupressure. Perhaps instead of telling people their stims are not socially acceptable, we should learn about them – our stims might be telling us something.
By this point, I hope you're with me on a foundation here: what we currently identify as Asperger's or as ADD/ADHD are just imbalances, like any other constitutional imbalance, and not a disease that must be cured. Like any other imbalance, this imbalance can have some advantages, but may also cause discomfort.
Lots of times people will call or write asking for my "protocol for Asperger's" or my "treatment plan for Asperger's". I don't have one! No one who can be grouped in the spectrum of Asperger's is the same – each is an individual, and each feels the advantages and discomforts of their personal situation differently. This is true for anyone – take two people who were raised poor. One perhaps grew up with a chip on the shoulder, and strove to earn lots of money and buy fancy things. Another maybe didn't mind much and goes around with the attitude "we make our own fun". In my family both of these are represented, and the nature of each one is drastically different, despite that the initial situation was the same. In the same way, two people with Asperger's or two people with ADD will have different priorities. One may feel great discomfort in a situation where another does not, and it is those discomforts that must drive the way I work with each person. It's not up to me to say, "oh, we better fix this about you, so that everyone will think you're normal". Instead, I simply ask about what would make a person feel more comfortable in their world.
I go about this the same way that I would for any other client – we use the same "compass" that we do for any imbalance. What can we do in a person's diet, sleep habits, and lifestyle to create more comfort, and what herbs can we use to support those changes? And at this point, we're back to being "boring herbalists", as Paul Bergner teaches. There's nothing new here. Once we realize that everything is just a matter of getting closer to constitutional balance, we realize that all the answers are the same – north is still north. How each client gets there will be different, and how we can be creative in our encouragement and motivation of each client will be different, but moving towards balance itself will continue to be the same old "boring" work (yes, please!).
Earth: nourishment
In our practice, we always start with food – there is always some improvement we can make there. Folks with Asperger's and ADD have been identified as having more gut dysbiosis, higher levels of gluten sensitivity. And we know that we're looking at imbalances in the three brains, so we're of course going to try to strengthen the gut-brain. We will almost always suggest going gluten-free and dairy-free very first, along with any other allergens that the individual may have. Also we're going to suggest removing stimulants – when we know there's imbalance, we don't want to be pushing it further along by stimulating one or more parts of the axis. Stimulants aren't just caffeine – we'd also look at sugar, sodas, additives, other foods with engineered supersaturated flavors…
In each of these cases, there is always a negotiation. The goal here is not to build a new norm to convince this person to adhere to! The goal is to bring a person to their own balance, to bring a person to a place where they can get comfortably through their day. They may occasionally still eat some cheese, and recognize that for a couple days afterward they feel a lot of discomfort – that's part of the journey. Someday that might convince them it's worth cutting it out entirely, or maybe they decide that sometimes they can live with the discomfort.
We're also going to emphasize full-spectrum nutrition (protein, fats, minerals, vitamins) required for all the body's systems to function optimally, and boosted for the repair of tissues that are damaged. We'll encourage a person to eat lots of colors, to eat consciously, to focus on as high quality as is attainable. In this case, we're also going to stress a couple of supplements, most notably D3, which, among many other things, functions as the counterpoint to zonulin: once zonulin has opened the tight junctions in the permeable membranes, D3 closes them back down again. Magnesium is another that we regularly recommend, as even with an organic diet high in green leafies, our soils are so depleted of magnesium that it's difficult to achieve the levels the body needs with food alone.
Herbs can be food, and we include many in this category! Specifically green ones – nettle, dandelion, red clover, horsetail – all very high in minerals. Horsetail in particular is interesting as I have been studying lately about its ability to impact connective tissue – I have been making it a point to include in all my mineral formulas for folks with impaired gut function.
Burdock root, dandelion root, codonopsis root, and small amounts of solomon's seal root are another base blend great for building nourishment. We like folks to put these roots in a bone broth soup, preferably with seaweeds added. Solomon's Seal root in the broth is a new trick I've been playing with since hearing Karyn Sanders speak about it: previously I only used Solomon's Seal as tincture because it is not an abundant plant. However, in some recent workshops she's given, Karyn has talked about using small amounts in broth, and specifically for people who don't know how to be true to themselves. To me that phrase really sounds like Asperger's and ADD – you could be true to yourself, but society says that's not ok. Even if you can drop into yourself, the brains aren't in balance, there's some internal turmoil. What is myself? In my notes from that workshop, I wrote "equalizes the balance of power – even within yourself!" – all of which boils down to lately, I've been adding a little Solomon's to the mix, and both I and my clients really like it.
One other blend that falls into this category is not here for its own nutritive merit, but for its vulnerary merit: that is the standard Gut Heal blend we learned from Paul: Calendula, Plantain, Chamomile, Catnip, and Mint. We change this up quite a bit depending on the situation, and for my folks with Asperger's and ADD, Self Heal and Violet often make it into the mix – these are two that I feel reach out from the gut-brain up to the heart-brain and start to stitch the whole back together. Sure, both have some vulnerary and lymphatic action as well, so physiologically they're great, but it's their sweetness in the delicate repair of the threads between gut and heart that I love most. St. John's Wort is another we love to add here – such a supreme digestive system healer!
Water: relationship & recovery
Relationships are our deepest sources of psychological nourishment. At this year's Herbal Resurgence conference, teacher James Snow was talking about studies that have been done recently that show that feeling alone, out of relationship with our pack, causes biologically measurable inflammation and stress. But it's not just relationships with other humans that affect us. Our relationships, or lack thereof, with our environment – with the plants and animals and rocks and waters around us, with all the non-human intelligences of the world – these relationships make it possible for us to understand who and what we are. Cross-reference ideas like Nature Deficit Disorder and the new phenomenon of Forest Bathing, and the fact that a majority of children today grow up more in the virtual world than they do in the world of nature, and we see a very fundamental causes of the imbalance in our brain axis. Many of us as herbalists see this – in our friends and clients on the spectrum who "self-medicate" by spending time outdoors, with animals, and in nature, and who feel calmer and more comfortable in their lives because of it. (Again and again we see that Asperger's and ADD are just the very noticeable part of a larger trend in society.)
In general, we want to help folks (not just folks with Asperger's and ADD!) build relationships that are nurturing and sustaining. Once they meet that criterion, there are no other criteria for "rightness" – the relationships can be with horses or horsemint, adults or children, whatever is comfortable. We can start with relationships that are the most comforting, and slowly work through to relationships that are desirable but difficult. Recognizing that interpersonal relationships are difficult for everyone, we don't blame this difficulty on the Asperger's or the ADD. We just acknowledge that they are difficult and find creative ways to cope. Some tricks I have used here are emulating a role model (what would someone I respect do?) and good old fashioned scout work: if you have to go into an uncomfortable situation, learn as much about it ahead of time as possible. Figure out where the bathrooms are from someone who has been there before, or figure out the guest list ahead of time from the host. Plan a place that feels safe to start out in, so that you can get comfortable before you have to be in the middle of things. This works great at a party, for example: I feel comfortable in a kitchen, so I always take guacamole to a party. It has to be made fresh, so I have a "socially acceptable" excuse to spend time in the kitchen with my hands busy, getting comfortable in a new place before I really have to talk to anyone.
There are lots of herbs we can use to help out here – one of my very favorites is Wood Betony (Stachys, though we recently got some Pedicularis for the first time, and that seems to also have beneficial effect, although differently). Wood Betony, more than any other plant, gives me a sense of being in my body – in other words, that my gut-brain and my heart-brain are in control. Some other allies here are Hawthorn, Linden, Violet, Tulsi, and Mondarda, especially when you feel like everything is buzzing like a swarm of bees. Sage can be excellent too for overwhelming situations. Ryn would say I should add Kava to the list, and though I don't love it most of the time, Kava is tremendously useful for lots of folks.
Flower essences are so useful here, too. There are so many, but one in particular that stands out is Indian Pipe. It's calming, anchoring, and helps feelings of disconnectedness. Indian Pipe flower essence is also fantastic for anxiety, and feeling overwhelmed.
Sleep falls into this arena as well. I don't know anyone who handles situations well when they're tired. It's just a normal fact of life! If we have a person with a known imbalance that is causing discomfort, and part of the discomfort is coping with interpersonal situations, then it's only logical that we should make sure this person gets good sleep! Again, this may call for creativity on the part of the herbalist – for some people simply explaining that adults need 9-12 hours of sleep per night (and children even more!) is enough. For others, various sleep hygiene routines will need to be put in place to ensure that sleep comes more easily.
Fire: movement & expression
In our current sedentism-normative, productivity-normative culture, finding time for movement and expression can be difficult even for people who fit in to that culture. For many kids (and adults) diagnosed with ADD, a lifestyle that focuses on movement and eschews the sedentary can be enough to find a balance point. Asperger's has been linked in some research with Neanderthal DNA – if this is true, then perhaps those of us who fall into that category are simply suffering from the lack of our evolutionary norm of walking 6-9 miles a day. We could in that case consider ADD and Asperger's not diagnoses, but simply evolutionarily-normative, as opposed to sedentarily-normative!
Not only that, but expression is important! Society accepts expression in an extremely limited form right now, which is a problem not just for folks labeled ADD and Asperger's – we talk about this problem as it affects men and women individually, as it affects our national levels of education now that arts are more and more widely cut from public education, as it affects anyone with a heart. Art is what it is to be human: there is no group of humans anywhere who did not make art. Music, dance, painting, drawing, ritual and ceremony, weaving, sculpting – even their work was art. This was still true even up until some relatively recent point – just look at the architecture. At some point, buildings stopped being ornamented: that ornamentation was the art of the workers.
In these areas, we can encourage movement according to individual nature: one might prefer walking, another dancing, another climbing trees (or playground equipment, or rock gym walls, if no trees are available). We can encourage expression according to nature too – it doesn't matter if it's poetry or pottery, and it doesn't even matter if it's "good", but humans must make art and we must be expressive. As herbalists we can help our clients (Asperger's, ADD, or otherwise!) to make room in their lives for these things, and sometimes act as an advocate with schools and employers to make appropriate space for these things.
Adaptogens can be very helpful for motivating movement, and when expression is difficult, herbs that protect the heart – expression is a risk! – are so useful. Flower essences are useful here too, one in particular being Fleabane, which is excellent for expressive blocks. Sometimes though, the best support is simply someone who appreciates the expression, and the risk it took.
Air: stress regulation
Writing about stress would be another entire article, but a foundational factor at play here would be the impact of stress on the physiological function of the three brains: stress, and prolonged exposure to cortisol, impairs gut function, constricts heart function, and degrades hippocampus function, among other things. (The hippocampus being particularly important, as this is where we convert short term memories to long term memories – in other words, this is where we "get over it". Prolonged exposure to cortisol makes that process extremely difficult.)
In the case of folks with ADHD and Asperger's, where there is already a shift in the balance in favor of the head-brain, often the response to stress is going to be falling further into the direction of "airiness". Some may meet stress by pushing harder with cerebral productivity, for example, or by engaging in cerebral stimulation as a self-calming exercise – using television or a movie, for example, to tune out the other noises. Neither one of these things is inherently bad, but they can be done to discomfort, and that can cause trouble.
Also, it turns out that humans respond better to stress with their gut-brain and their heart-brains. Head-brains are useful for some types of work, but they're not ideal for dealing with stress. So in stressful situations, a person who is out of balance in favor of their head-brain is likely to experience more than average discomfort.
In many ways, the work done in the first three elements will help here drastically: getting better sleep helps us deal with stress better. Having relationships we can lean on in times of stress help us cope. Eating nourishing foods and working to heal gut permeability help us to restore our gut-brains and also the heart-brains. Most any nervine will help here too, used appropriately for the person in question. However, there are also some habits that, if we develop them, will help us bring our head-brain back into its rightful place, as well.
Change how you think: meditation, affirmation, forgiveness, compassion practices – these practices start in the head-brain, but their purpose is to weave our head-brains back into balance with our heart-brains and gut-brains. Healing the gut will allow the gut-brain to pull our head-brains back towards balance, but exercises like compassion meditations turn our head-brains into willing participants in the journey towards balance.
Similarly, think less and live more – attain presence; practice intuitive living skills. Oh, dear, even if you're not entirely sure what that means, to anyone who is head-brain centric, those words are can initially be quite uncomfortable. How on earth is it even possible, in our current culture, to think less and live more? We're all tied to computing devices most of the day! That's a good place to start – reign in your computer and let your body run free a little more often. Going outside more will help – and if that's difficult, adopting a dog will help! Lots of dogs need loving homes, and a dog provides a relationship with a non-human intelligence that will help you get outside and moving more often!
As practitioners, we must recognize that people can't do this by fiat: making these choices starts not with self-control, but with self-care. As we learn to care for the self, we are building relationship with our bodies – something many folks with ADD and Asperger's have never done before. Draw on the other elements to help this: nourishing, flavorful food engages our attention; fulfilling emotional entwinings hold us in the now; artful movement practices teach us to fully inhabit our bodies.
All of the grounding herbs will help here – pulling us down from the air and into the body. But this is a place where some of the more decadent preparations are quite useful! I find that when I encourage people to take time to drink tea as self-care, compliance is spotty. But when I teach people how to put herbs in wine and enjoy an appropriate glass of herbed wine as self-care, suddenly this is an easy task! Elixirs are another lovely way, as well as mixing herbs with chocolate. These are ways that we can feel pleasure in our bodies, which makes them more inviting to the mind who is only lightly tethered.
And that's it. That's all there is. The secret is, that's all there is for anyone. Recently I learned that Asperger's is being taken out of the DSM, in favor of a return to "high functioning autism" – proof of how arbitrary all this stuff really is. Getting through a day in our current society is difficult for everyone. If it's hard for you in a particular way that you have in common with others, that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with you. It just means you have friends on the journey.
(Please share this important article on this important topic… thank you)
14 Responses to "A Holistic View of Asperger's Syndrome, Autism, & ADHD"
wow… that was an amazing read.. and I was going quick.. SO many things to consider but every one coming back to the main point of coming back to balance…. I will be rereading this!! Thanks for sharing =)
Wow great read . I was so glad to recieve this on my news feed . Thanks .
Thank you for your insightful interesting and loving words.
Totally blown away by this. Makes soooooooooooo much sense.
Thank you!
Wonderful article! Thank you for sharing!
Thank you for sharing your wisdom, Katja.
Excellent- thank you! A long read and a well-researched on. Can't wait to re-read it.
Thank you for this. Its such a refreshing viewpoint, worth reading and sharing!
This is such an amazing read and of course, timely too.
I feel that I have turned a corner in my life and the pieces of the puzzle that I can really use are starting to turn up.
Thank you for sharing this wisdom!
I am working on a book on healing trauma and emotions and recently learned that the gut-brain is a mass of neurons and white matter that is essentially the size of a cat's brain. I appreciate finding an article that emphasizes that we have more than one brain – in fact, I don't know how to separate the mind from the body on any level. I believe the mind is a process that engages and stimulates the entire being.
I also appreciate the de-emphasis on what is normal. I feel that the range of what is normal has become so narrow in the process of pathologizing behavior as a way of creating a market for pharmaceutical drugs – which seem to help some people, and at the same time damage others.
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this insight. I work with teen and "tween" boys that struggle with Aspergers, Autism and ADD, and this information is so valuable!
Wonderful article. As a psychologist specialising in neurodiversity and long term lover of herbal holistic approaches for my own leaky gut and fiery energetic brain it's great to hear a harmonising tune from afar. I love that you used Mary's Venn diagram (I worked with her in London) and I think you would live my update to it, showing the positive attributes associated with each condition. more power to you and your wonderful work. http://www.geniuswithin.co.uk/category/infographics/
My mind (and gut!) are going a mile-a-minute after reading this. So much to think about and process. Thank you!
I really appreciate this article. I am a young woman with autism and I want to be an herbalist someday. To me it feels like everything in the natural health community says autism can be cured, that it is horrible, very antithetical to the neurodiversity movement. At the same time the autism community seems to aggressively promote vaccines and bash biomedical treatments for autism, which, of course, some are terrible, like chelation, but healing the gut seems very sensible to me. This article really helped me and I reread it often.


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OK Moms, here I go asking a possibly dumb question. How do YOU build your readership? Get more readers? Find followers? Really appreciate your feedback. Thank you in advance.
Hi! Sorry I'm so late in replying!
I did vacuum first, but my carpets were in a state of ... well, a state. And my vacuum is not as high powered as I'd like!
Don't ever feel you have to vote for me, but if you're ever moved to, it's much easier than what you tried to do (which was to nominate me, sounds like.) You just scroll down the list to #15, and click the thumbs up!
I'm really enjoying your blog, and advice! <3
Hello all. I see that most of you are pitching your website and blog. Here is mine. http://www.kidsclean.biz and my blog is http://www.kidsclean.biz/blog.
I am currently running a beta test for my KidsClean workshop. If you are interested in getting your kids to clean their rooms, let me know. I have a few openings left.
Hello, I am new here. Just wanted to say "Thank you" to all of you who sent a welcome. I am still trying to figure out where I find you all, how I talk to you all, and how I get messages out to the group.
I see I am one of the only ones who blogs about kids behavior and what moms can do to take care of themselves. Am I outdated?
See you around campus.
Welcome to the group. If you would like to follow my blog I will do the same as well. Please check it out at http://thecryptocapersseries.blogspot.com
Good luck to you!
I just checked out your blog and subscribed! I love what you are doing, so far, and, honestly, sometimes moms need help learning how to clean their rooms, too! I just posted today about the wonder of steam cleaning in fact. LOL. I hope to get some words of encouragement from your page. It's well done!


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Contemporary artist Kate Newby, who put together her winning $50,000 installation with the help of abseilers, was reduced to shouting directions from a distance because of the Auckland Art Gallery's heritage status.
At the weekend, the 33-year-old was awarded the Walters Prize, which is named for the late New Zealand artist Gordon Walters and aims to make contemporary art more widely recognised and debated.
Visitors walking their way through Newby's Crawl out your window move up a concrete ramp, which functions as the entrance and is pitted with bottle caps and potholes, then on through a yellow corridor lined with a cotton sheet.
The piece continues around a corner, where a carpet is scrawled with a chalk message, before it travels outside, with two spraypainted rocks sitting on the shingled roof of the Grey Gallery, which are viewed through a window.
The building's heritage status meant Newby, whose work has been shown in Europe, Australia, central and north America, wasn't allowed to set a foot on the roof.
"There were these two burly guys [placing the rocks] and I'm shouting at them and I'm thinking, 'I feel stupid ... Don't apologise.' It was hilarious."
She said she understands that contemporary art isn't everyone's cup of tea but said art is what you make it.
"I always encourage audiences to research and engage. When I started learning about the Renaissance I had no idea and I thought it was so boring and the more I learnt about it I thought, 'This is so crucial and so important', but I had to do some work to get to that point ... I couldn't just look at it and think, 'Well, that's well done'."
Newby, who was catching up with family in Auckland yesterday, flies back today to a residency programme on Canada's Fogo Island in the North Atlantic.
The Walters Prize 2012 exhibition, with free entry, runs until November 11.


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About James Stevens
Simple. There's really no other viable alternative. Everyone is on Facebook - if you're one of those who aren't, you miss out. Some people are okay with that. I wish there was an open alternative but there isn't right now due to the user base.
I have two choices - be in the know on facebook with everyone else or be left out.
With all the knowledge we have at this point in human progress, it's pretty sad that our education system and our ways of measuring people are both archaic and inefficient, stifling even.
With all the tools we have available with programmers we should be able to develop a better education system that is more fun to study in and better adjusted to each person individually. IMHO, customization is the name of the game... it's going to be all about how well you can customize your child's education in a way that works best for them. You set your child on a path to end up at a point that is most beneficial to their future as a contributing member of society. That's all you can really do as a good parent, is give your child the best shot. I think there's some way to apply a learning apparatus with these goals to public education.
As you point out, Michael, it's hard to tell where the solutions will come from. But I can assure you, the solutions (as I expect there will be more than one way) won't come from Washington; it'll come from the minds of great visionaries like 19-year-old, Stanford PhD dropout Andrew Hsu, the dude who had 3 B.S.degrees at 16.
I saw The Dear Hunter in concert a few weeks back. They put on an excellent live show.
She's got a real shot at this tho, there were problems with the constitutionality as the EFF pointed out a while back.
Step 1: Get smarter lawyers.
Step 2: Make sure not to lie about things this time and make sure not to destroy any more evidence.
Step 3: Eat lunch.
Step 4: Enlist Larry Lessig to the team. Congress hates him and he needs a big show so everyone can see that changes need to be be made with our oh-so-corrupt US Congress.
Step 5: Toke on a nice, fat J because it's been a long day.
Step 6: Download a couple Willie Nelson tracks on her cousin's computer and relax.


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No Trial for Cops Who Made a Bad Arrest Call
CHICAGO (CN) – Indiana police officers do not have to stand trial for Macing and beating a man they thought was a drunken driver, but was actually diabetic and having a hypoglycemic episode, the 7th Circuit ruled.
On Aug. 24, 2006, Jerome Clement, an insulin-dependent, Type 1 Diabetic, experienced a sharp drop in blood sugar while driving to work. He turned off the road, drove into a recycling plant's parking lot and came to rest on a truck scale. Clement was incoherent when a plant employee asked him to move his car.
East Chicago police were dispatched to the scene. Officers Jesus Arceo and Timothy Leimbach, who were told that Clement was potentially intoxicated, found him slouched over in his car, which they said smelled like stale beer. Clement was not wearing a diabetic necklace or bracelet.
Unable to rouse Clement, the officers physically removed him from the vehicle. Clement then kicked, flailed his arms, and jerked his head up and down, striking himself against the pavement. A bystander later said Clement had moved "like he was having … a seizure of some sort maybe." He also reported that Clement's eyes were rolled back and he was foaming at the mouth.
The officers Maced Clement twice and struck him with a baton in the arm and legs while trying to handcuff him. Since Clement was bleeding from his head, the officers then called for medical assistance.
When paramedics arrived 20 minutes later, they found Clement's diabetes card and administered an injection of dextrose. Clement stopped breathing, but was revived on his way to the hospital.
Doctors diagnosed the man with acute cardiac and respiratory failure, severe hypoglycemia, and severe metabolic and respiratory acidosis. Testing revealed marijuana and a low presence of alcohol in his system. Clement died of natural causes two weeks after the arrest.
William Padula, the administrator of Clement's estate, sued the officers, the city of East Chicago, and the East Chicago Police Department. He alleged wrongful arrest and excessive force, failure to train officers, and condoning and ratifying the use of excessive force.
But U.S. District Judge Joseph S. Van Bokkelen found the officers' actions were justified, ruling that they had probable cause to believe Clement had been driving while intoxicated.
"In light of the circumstances and their reasonable belief that Clement was intoxicated, Officers Leimbach and Arceo were entitled to forcibly remove him from his car when he did not comply with their command to get out on his own," Judge Joel Flaum wrote for a three-member panel.
The court's hesitation to second-guess the snap judgments made by law enforcement, and the lack of evidence indicating the use of excessive force, led the three-judge panel to affirm the grant of summary judgment to the defendants.
"Since Padula's underlying claims for wrongful arrest and excessive force failed, his claims for failure to train and for condoning and ratifying excessive force must also fail," the decision states.
No officers were disciplined in connection with the incident.


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Weekly Standard online editor Jonathan Last takes a look back at the decline of the British empire through the turn of the British elite from support of King and country to pacifism and the Oxford oath: "Rule America?" (I respectfully disagree with Jonathan's shot at President Bush in the column.) Professor David Gelernter complements Last's column with a scorching "History lesson."
Professor Gelernter's column follows up on Secretary Rice's response to Barbara Boxer's obnoxious questions and comments on her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee earlier this week. Professor Gelernter seems to be of the view that Secretary Rice might have appropriately borrowed Samuel Johnson's retort to the lady (I can't find the exact quote this morning; surely it must be here somewhere) that he could answer her question, but he couldn't give her the brains to understand the answer.
UPDATE: It only took reader John Cooper a few minutes to find the correct Johnson quote for me from Boswell's Life of Johnson: "I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding."


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Baby blue never looked so good! Constructed on a traditional 33" strand, these 7mm light blue global beads are excellent for guest favors at your next baby shower, gender reveal party, Mardi Gras party, birthday, company party, parade, holiday, Easter event or any other event. They're perfect for all kinds of crafts from wreaths to centerpieces, or anything else you can imagine. Available in bags of of 12 dozen or cases of 60 dozen.
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Ah, the Thief series. How we cult fans adore its open-ended stealth gameplay and steampunk aesthetic. Wouldn't it be nice if Eidos finally revealed the fourth entry in the series that they've been supposedly but troublesomely working on? According to some pretty taffing interesting info that's recently been dug up, they may do just that tomorrow.
I hope its based around stealth like Thief is supposed to be and not mainstream action


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U.S. prosecutors are considering possible criminal charges against SAC Capital Advisors LP as a result of the government's insider-trading investigation of the hedge-fund firm, according to people familiar with the matter.
The move came before the company told clients Friday that it will no longer provide "unconditional" cooperation with the multiyear probe of SAC and billionaire founder Steven A. Cohen. The firm didn't tell clients the reason for the reversal....


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Treyarch has revealed details about the Call of Duty: World at War Limited Collector's Edition, due to ship alongside the game when it launches on November 14th.
The Limited Collector's Edition comes packaged in a metal storage tin big enough to store multiple games in. So if you were ever looking for a solution to transporting all of your Call of Duty's together, here it is.
The only other physical item included with the limited edition is a branded steel canteen. The other bonuses are all digital items to use in game, including the powerful FG 42 Machine Gun being unlocked from day one, a VIP status tag for use in the online multiplayer modes, and an exclusive double experience week.
So far we've only seen shots of the Xbox 360 and PC Limited Collector's Editions, so it's unclear as to whether it'll be available on other platforms.
I hope there is a Wii version CE.If not it wouldn't surprise me.
what!!! wheres the POS3 CE???? Whats a Sony fanboy to do??? Oh I forgot casual gamers dont play FPS games.


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While two unions are vehemently opposed to the new teacher evaluations, a third teachers' group is embracing the overhaul and instructing educators on how it works.
"Not all teachers are opposed to this," said Polly Broussard, interim executive director of the Associated Professional Educators of Louisiana, which goes by the acronym A+PEL.
Broussard and others call their group a professional organization, not a teachers' union like the Louisiana Federation of Teachers and the Louisiana Association of Educators.
"We don't use the techniques that they do," said Kelli Bottger, director of government relations and communications for the group.
Months of training sessions for teachers on what the changes mean is just one of the issues that separate A+PEL from the two teacher unions.
A+PEL backed the 2010 evaluation law, which is being used for the first time to rate teachers in the current school year.
The LFT and LAE opposed the measure.
Some union leaders argue that it is part of a push by Gov. Bobby Jindal, state Superintendent of Education John White and their allies to destroy public education in Louisiana.
Leaders of both groups blasted changes to the reviews that White recommended, and which the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education approved on Jan. 16.
A+PEL leaders praised the modifications, some of which stemmed from suggestions offered by the group after surveys of what it says is a roughly 7,000-member organization.
Teacher union officials say the reviews are flawed. Some have hinted at a legal challenge.
A+PEL officials estimate that they have led training sessions for about 2,000 teachers in the past year in a bid to shed light on the new job reviews.
Part of the aim, officials said, is to quell fears among some of the state's 55,000 teachers that the new job reviews will lead to their dismissal.
"Teachers are concerned because they don't have enough information," said Keith Courville, director of professional development and university programs for the group.
The state used to rely on classroom observations, mostly by principals every one to three years to rate teacher performance.
But critics said that, since more than 98 percent of educators got satisfactory marks, the reviews meant little and student achievement suffered.
"It wasn't much," Courville said of the earlier reviews.
The new system requires teachers to undergo annual reviews.
Half of the job check will be linked to the growth of student achievement. The other half will be based on classroom observations.
In the past much of that focused on whether the teacher was meeting expectations, sometimes with the help of a checklist. "The new observations are all focused on the students," Courville said.
A+PEL officials said they have held about 30 training sessions for teachers in the past 12 months. Audiences ranged from five to 180 teachers.
Officials of the group say the meetings are not limited to A+PEL members, which means that some of the questions and comments come from critics of the overhaul.
A+PEL donated $25,000 to train teachers in Tensas and Concordia parishes, where 30 percent of teachers were rated as ineffective — the lowest ranking possible — in trial runs.
The aid is meant to help prepare teachers for new, nationwide classroom standards set to take effect next year. By doing so teachers will have a better chance of getting high marks on their evaluations, Bottger said.
State education leaders initially said that, once all the evaluations are in, about 10 percent would get the top ranking, 10 percent at the bottom and 80 percent in the middle.
The changes approved by BESE earlier this month will allow teachers in the 80th percentile to land the top rating, or "highly effective."
Those expected at the bottom end — possibly about 5,000 teachers — remain the same. In addition, teachers that fall between the 21st and 79th percentile — they would all be rated as "effective" — will be able to get additional feedback from principals on their strengths and weaknesses.


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Someone streamed the first four episodes a while ago and my impressions are:
Japanese dub: 10/10 (after all episodes)
Italian dub: 8.5/10 (after one episode)
English dub: 5/10 (after four episodes)
The problems regarding the English dub mostly are:
- Mami: Sounds a little bit too old, fails to subtly deliver Mami's weak side and her emotions.
- Homura: Sounds too much like the villain and dramatizing.
- Kyubey: Sounds much more emotional than his jap. counter part.
I like:
- Sayaka's voice and the acting
- Kyousuke is not bad
- Hitomi's voice actor
- Madoka's dad
Not sure at the moment:
- Kyouko
- Madoka
I have no major complaints about the Italian dub, but if I have to name some, then they are:
- Madoka's voice acting (or is it the voice?) is a little bit underwhelming
- Kyubey like in the English version sounds more dramatic than his Japanese counter part. But this problem is reduced by the fact that Italian is a very "emotional" language, hence it's more fitting.
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The saddest time in my life XD
Washington State Convention and Trade Center April 6-8.
The Producer of the hit anime series "Puella Magi Madoka Magica," Atsuhiro Iwakami travels from Japan to present his latest works at Sakura-con 2012. In addition to "Madoka Magica," Iwakami has worked on many hit Aniplex titles including "the Garden of Sinners", "Bakemonogatari", "Oreimo", "Kannagi" just to name a few. He is currently working on the new series "Fate/Zero" which premiered this past October in Japan.
Gen Urobuchi is a Japanese writer for visual novels, light novels, and anime. He joined Nitroplus as a writer and made his debut in 2001 by writing the scenario of the visual novel Phantom of Inferno, which was later adapted into a TV series and OVA series. Afterward Gen Urobuchi wrote the light novel Fate/Zero in 2006, the prequel to Fate/Stay Night, which was a collaboration between Type-Moon and fellow developer Nitroplus. Gen is also the screenplay writer for Puella Magi Madoka Magica (2011), a production of Aniplex (under Atsuhiro Iwakami as main producer) and studio SHAFT.
Who's coming to Sakuracon? I'll pay him/her anything to have my box autographed a second time XD
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More to do with Madoka Magica than K-On...
Couldn't bear to throw this in either image thread. It's a random short I put together regarding voice actress references.
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I have to say I really, really adore Hitomi's voice. It shows her Yamato Nadeshiko character even better than the original Jap version (surprise surprise) due to how crisp and echoey it is as compared to Madoka/Sayaka's. I was pretty good with Sayaka's voice too. Didn't like much of Madoka's or Mami's, though.
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Comparison of other places: Taiwan, Korea, Australia, Germany, Italy, USA
I'd peg it at $300 XD (only guessing how much it would be). $500 if I get every one (Iwakami, Urobochi, Shinbo, the 5 voice actresses, Inu Curry, and the current ones on the picture I posted).
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I love holiday craft fairs. I'm disappointed to miss Vancouver's amazing Got Craft and Make It events this year. I'm hoping Saskatoon's Flock & Gather Winter Wonders Handmade Market and Artisan Fine Craft Market can help fill this void in my DIY, local shopping, holiday heart.
I am really loving Flock & Gather's Winter Wonders poster! How charming is this mustached reindeer?!
Flock & Gather Winter Wonders Handmade Market.
December 7 & 8.
St. Joseph's Parish Hall.
Admission: free!
2012 Artisan Fine Craft Market
November 23, 24 & 25
TCU Place, Saskatoon
Admission: $5.00
To readers nearby and readers far away, I encourage you to shop local this holiday season! Over the past five years my parents' favourite Christmas presents were handmade, purchased at a local shop, or bought at a holiday market. Holiday craft fairs are the perfect opportunity to shop for one of a kind goods in a casual environment where you will have the opportunity to meet the makers in person, talk about their handmade goods, and learn about their creative processes.
Doesn't it feel amazing to support artisans and crafters like Mabel Pike!?
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Chris Masterson came to the rescue at Drumbar (201 E. Delaware Place) Thursday.
The speakeasy-style bar located on the 18th floor of the Raffaello hotel in the Gold Coast was left without a DJ for its highly-anticipated grand opening when Paul Sevigny (brother of actress Chloe Sevigny) canceled Wednesday after his Los Angeles club was abruptly closed.
Masterson, best known for his role on Fox's "Malcolm in the Middle" and in the film "Scary Movie 2," was asked if he could step in and spin at the bar. He obliged and jumped on a flight from Los Angeles to Chicago the next day.
Was he any good? I thought so -- especially when he played "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance with You" by Black Kids -- but I'm clueless when it comes to DJs. I haven't figured out what makes one better than the other. I'm also the same guy who says bars and clubs should just play Drake and Lil Wayne albums an entire night and save themselves a couple grand.
Speaking of performing, The Chicago Bucket Boys were decked out in suits by Sebastien Grey when they performed a song for guests during the party. Also in attendance was "Boss" actor Troy Garity, "Castle" co-stars and real life couple Seamus and Juliana Dever, who had lunch at 25 Degrees earlier that day, and "Underemployed" cast members Jared Kusnitz, Sarah Habel, Michelle Ang and Inbar Lavi, who are filming their MTV series in Chicago.
Unlike the "Underemployed" cast, I went alone. There are some people who go to parties by themselves regularly and still have fun. I'm not one of them. I need someone with me in case I don't know anybody or don't feel like talking to the people I do know there. I didn't have much of a choice, however, when my friend canceled at the last minute. I was worried I would spend part of the night having those conversations that go on 15 minutes too long because there's nobody else to talk to and figured I'd spend the rest of the time pretending to text so that it looked like I was busy.
Fortunately for me, I didn't have to use that trick or the one where you go to the bathroom multiple times and just wash your hands.
There were plenty of people to talk to there. You could even say I had fun. Of course, the booze outdoor terrace also helped. It includes two fire pits and a great view of Lake Michigan and the John Hancock building. Hell, I sort felt like Stringer Bell and Avon Barksdale out there when they were looking out onto the Baltimore skyline reminiscing.
Expect a rotating cocktails menu (the focus is on scotch, whiskey and bourbon) and the occasional celeb appearance (some of the people who helped make The Underground a popular celeb hangout are behind Drumbar).
Drumbar opens to the public Friday.
Heads up: "Mob Wives Chicago" cast member Renee Fecarotta will host a private screening party for the VH1 reality show's season premiere Sunday at her store, Eye Candy Optics. "Mob Wives" creator Jennifer Graziano and other castmates are expected to attend. ... Singer Havana Brown will perform at Chicago Sport & Social Club's Vollywood Beach Bash and Tournament at North Avenue Beach July 7th. ... "Dancing with the Stars" alum Maksim Chmerkovskiy will promote the Timex Intelligent Quartz Collection June 16 at The Shops at North Bridge.
On the record: "I met him at this Andy Garcia movie I did, The Lost City. (Bruce) Willis is there and he'd had a couple drinks. We've all had a few drinks. And he says, 'I just want you to know ...' I'm like, 'Oh, (expletive).' He says, 'I used to work as a page at NBC, and my job was to refill the M&M bowls and the peanut bowls in the actors' dressing room. And only you and Gilda ever treated me like a human being. You were nice to me.' And I thought, Whew, that's good. I felt like, (crap), I did somethin' right, you know?" – Billy Murray talks to Esquire about Bruce Willis.
Sightings: Singer-songwriter Ben Harper dined Thursday at Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse. ... Michael Jordan sat at the bar at Michael Jordan's Steak House Thursday and ordered the bone-in filet and red wine. … The Bears' Jay Cutler and fiancee Kristin Cavallari stopped by Harry Caray's Tavern at Navy Pier Friday. ... Fashion designer Donna Karan had dinner at Japonais Thursday. … "Grey's Anatomy" actor Jesse Williams had dinner Thursday at Sunda.
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