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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Cwejman S1 MK2: DJ Puzzle Examines A Semi-Modular Monophonic
"DJ Puzzle, known to his parents as Jason Donnelly, starts this video off by pronouncing one of the most awkward looking brand names in synthesis before showing us how to make a sine wave bassline with the Cwejman S1 MK2.
I made a sine wave bassline in second grade art class out of glue, macaroni, and glitter, but if you prefer to make them with semi-modular, monophonic, analog synths, you should probably stop reading this and watch the video.
Seriously, you have no choice because this is the last sentence." - thanks to DjPuzzle73
The Cwejman link is to a SoundOnSound review by Gordon Reid...
Hang Drum
Hang means "hand" in the Bernese language, and is pronounced "hung or hong". The Hang was developed in Switzerland. It was the result of many years of research on the steelpan and the study of the diverse collection of instruments from around the world, such as Gongs, Gamelan, Ghatam, drums, bells, etc. The instrument is played with the hands. Udu-like sounds are produced with the air resonance, the sounds of the clamped shallow shells sound like bells or harmonically tuned steelpans. The inner note on the bottom dome is the bass note, and when played in a dampened way allows change in pitch like a talking drum. Seven to nine notes are tuned harmonically around a central deep note.
Apparently there's a massive waiting list for these things...and you have to visit the lads in Spain to get it! I still want one....
Video Clip from Oddmusic
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Ed Devanes Instrument
Irish electro producer (and apparently experimental luthier) has some pix up of his home made instrument....apparently called "Ed Devanes Home Made Instrument" (got to think of a catchy/corny name or ya'll never make it to NIME!)
He describes it as "a baritone (30.5 inch/ 774 mm scale length), tabletop, flat-wound-stringed, fretless, 3 humbucker pick-up'd, in line headstocked instrument with an adjustable tailpiece for quick tuning changes"
If that sounds like your kinda thing there's:
More Pix
and his site.
Friday, January 25, 2008
Electronic Musician have published this years music tech awards. Worth a look. In there was their choice for free download of the year. It was one I'd missed called Analog Box 2 from Andyware. It looked interesting so I downloaded it and gave it a whirl and very good it is.
It's a fairly low level modular synth environment based on simple circuits like oscillators, filters etc. With it you can download over 50 jambots among which you'll find subtractive synths, fm synths and a good few algorithmic music patches - expect bleeps, beeps, robotic sounds and little grooves... All in all a very cool bit of free software.
You'll find a few tutorials on the website detailing construction for a FM synth and how to use MIDI but the library of jambots is really where the action is. A bit of poking and rewiring and should be up and running.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
James Morrison's Digital Trumpet
"An Electronic Digital Trumpet that is more expressive than keyboard. Created by Stephen Marshall." - thanks to cplai
Pretty cool and very expressive.... although all the suspect GM MIDI patches make it sound like cheescore electronic jazz from 1986... "and welcome to Saturday night liiiiiive"
Percussive Maintenance
"What seems to be wrong with it?"
"It's fkin Behringer mate..."
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
Mobb Deep's Prodigy uses Software Translation
You can read more at confessions of a DJ.
Monday, January 21, 2008
Audio Spotlight misbehaviour
Mad Labs from the National Geographic Channel presents the Audio Spotlight, focused loudspeaker technology.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Modem Berlin
OK a bit off-topic but I like Berlin and I like cool spaces for music n art...this ticks both those boxes (plus added shots of big ol knobs n dials!)
And here's a _serious_ implementation of emotional state sensing technology!
Electric Chairs
n overview of a system comprising 4 sensor enhanced chairs, detecting biosignal information about their occupants and tracking their emotional state.
Final project to become Master of Sonic Arts! Hi-YA!
MIDI Speak n Spell
A MIDIfied speak and spell and an Oxigen 8 MIDI controller,no effects of any kind are used. Demonstrates MIDI to analogue conversion using a kit from Highly Liquid
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Liquid Mixer
Quick overview of a water based control interface. Uses the flow of water to control flow of audio signal. Created as part of my Masters degree at the Sonic Art Research Centre, Belfast.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Triwave Picogenerator TB303 TB-303 TR-606 BOSTICH NORTEC
" Ramon Bostich (NORTEC) working with the Triwave Picogenerator , TB-303 and a Roland TR-606.
Triwave Picogenerator
Roland TB-303 the BORG MOD
Roland TR606 MODIFICATION ROUND UP
- thanks bostich1
Roland System 100 Part 1 by Assistive Listening
" just tweakin the knobs of my Roland System 100" - thanks to AssistiveListening
Sunday, January 13, 2008
DJ Colz - The Full Irish Dubstep Mix
If you missed DJ Colz's all Irish Dubstep special on Raidió Na Life last night then here's you chance to download it. Listen on the player above or download the full 90 minute set from HERE... very tasty :)
Dubstep Special (Tracklist)
1) Oh Yes I - Prof. Ruff Chuff
2) Unknown Souljah - Radikal Guru
3) Spanik Sabotage(Budstep Remix) - 2Bit vs SEBP
4) Menace - Arus Na Dub
5) Catalogue C - Jonny Oakley
6) 48 Hours - Grizzle
7) Come Together - Major Grave
8) Concrete Rumble - Madd Axxe
9) Moonstomp - Colz
10) A Tone - Fono One
11) Believe - T-woc
12) Stale Cheese and onion - Colz
13) Rainfall - Grizzle
14) Wiser - Arus Na Dub
15) Bass Is A Canyon - Jonny Oakley
16) Ancient Archive - 2Bit
17) The Evacuation - Major Grave
18) The Warning(Remix) - Colz
19) Warriors Dub - Radikal Guru
20) Language - Fono One
Friday, January 11, 2008
I always love listening to music in bed...this seems like a logical next step. :)
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Wednesday, January 09, 2008
Well, apparently DRM (digital rights management) is dead for music....but now they want to put it on video. Argh!
Story here
Wii Head Tracking
Not exactly to do with music but as a software user I find any kind of improvements to the interfaces we use interesting. And this is VERY cool :)
Tuesday, January 08, 2008
Daft Punk Acapella
The Carleton Singing Knights cover Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger...
Deconstructing Sgt Pepper
Sgt Pepper stripped into it's component parts for your (remixing?) pleasure!
Duracell plays Space Harrier
Check how he's driving playback using MIDI trigger drums. INCREDIBLE!
Here's his page
Rhythm Ace circuitbent
Vintage drum machine circuit bent/modified...there's one of these in a shop near me :>
DJ Hero
Hacked portable turntable/Guitar Hero controller...how long before 'Scratch Hero'?
Sherman Filterbank 2 demo in Hi-Fi
" a simple patch from a Supernova synth is processed using various modules in the Sherman Filterbank signal processor." - thanks to shaft9000
Friday, January 04, 2008
EM&M spectral synthesizer
" analogue kit built synthesizer from the 80s" - thanks to massonix
That's almost exactly how I play keyboards :)
Thursday, January 03, 2008
Tenori-on as a controller for Analog Drums and Synthesizers
"Here is a jam with the tenori-on as Midi-CV-Gate controller for Analogue Solutions tr-808 and tr-909 drums, the EML modular synth, Drumulator and Oberheim Xpander.
it is just live improvisation, out of tune riffs and offbeats included
http://www.myspace.com/latinsizer" - thanks to pepemogt
Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Best Of Bootie 2007 (Even More Mashups)
(Right click individual tracks to download)
2. Party Ben - Galvanize The Empire (Chemical Brothers vs. John Williams) - San Francisco
3. A plus D - Pour Some Hot Sugar (Mims vs. Def Leppard) - San Francisco
4. Party Ben - Tender Umbrella (Rihanna vs. General Public) - San Francisco
5. Go Home Productions - Passenger Fever (Peggy Lee vs. Iggy Pop) - Watford, UK
6. DJ Moule - Sympathy For Teen Spirit (Rolling Stones vs. Queen vs. Nirvana) - Bordeaux, France
7. Copycat - Fade To Pretty Vacant (Visage vs. Sex Pistols vs. The Charlatans vs. Fun Lovin' Criminals vs. Nouvelle Vague) - Sweden
8. Matt Hite - Me & Yoo & Yazoo (Cassie vs. Yazoo) - San Francisco
9. Earworm - Funky Goes To Hollywood (Wild Cherry vs. Frankie Goes To Hollywood) - San Francisco
10. A plus D - Standing In The Way Of Connection (The Gossip vs. Elastica) - San Francisco
11. The Illuminoids with Donita Sparks - Pretend We're Alala (L7 vs. CSS) - Los Angeles
12. DJ Paul V. - Phantom On The Bottom (The Lady Tigra vs. Justice) - San Francisco
13. Earworm - Say It Right Away (Nelly Furtado vs. The Egg vs. Madonna) - San Francisco
14. team9 - Britney - Dead Or Alive? (Britney Spears vs. Dead Or Alive vs. Daft Punk) - Perth, Australia
15. King Of Pants - Detox (Amy Winehouse vs. Britney Spears) - Seattle
16. DJ Paul V. - Tequila Lip Gloss (Lil Mama vs. The Champs) - Los Angeles
17. Lobsterdust - Walkin' Out Yo Girlfriend (Unk vs. Avril Lavigne vs. Toni Basil) - New York City
18. A plus D - Don't Stop Believin' In Planet Rock (Journey vs. Afrika Bambaataa) - San Francisco
19. DJ Topcat - More Than On Point (House of Pain vs. Boston) - Seattle
20. Divide & Kreate - Illiterate City (Jackson 5 vs. Guns N' Roses) - Sweden
21. DJ Magnet - Love Comes Running Up That Hill Gently (Placebo vs. Pet Shop Boys vs. Kate Bush) - DenverYou can download the entire mix from BootieUSA.
Mashups Of The Year 2007
A list of the best mashups of 2007 compiled by Simon Iddol. It's pretty cool, completely free to download. The compilation features 19 bootlegs from some of the worlds best mashup producers.
The Tracklist is:
01 Go Home Productions // Pink Wedding
Billy Idol VS Pink
02 Dunproofin' // Standing In The Way Of Felix
Felix VS Gossip VS Simian
[from the sin fin album, MOTW #39]
03 Aggro1 // Strange Love Cocaine
Eric Clapton VS Depeche Mode
04 ComaR // Billy Jean My Love
Justin Timberlake VS Michael Jackson
05 Divide & Kreate // Ein radioaktiver Schatz
Kraftwerk VS Gabriel & Dresden
[from the Bootwerk album, MOTW #25]
06 Copycat // Fade To Pretty Vacant
Sex Pistols vs Visage vs Charlatans vs Nouvelle Vague vs Fun Lovin' Criminals
07 Lobsterdust // Marley Maiden
Bob Marley VS Iron Maiden
[from the Number of da Boots album, MOTW #27]
08 DJ Zebra // Break Through Love
Doors VS Led Zeppelin
09 El Barto & Liam B // Don't Dance
Genesis VS David Bowie
10 ToToM // Cosmic Hey Ya
T. Rex vs. Outkast
[from the Bootwards album, MOTW #8]
11 team9 // back in zdarlight (radio edit)
Digitalism VS the Beatles
12 DJ Earworm: Believe Somebody
Madonna VS Cher VS Whitney Houston VS George Kranz
13 DJ Matt Hite / Me & You & Yazoo (short)
Cassie VS Yazoo VS Matt Hite
14 DJ Mei - Lwun // Smack It Right
Nelly Furtado VS Akon feat. Eminem
15 Voicedude // Four Twenty (one hit edit)
Luniz VS Tom Petty VS Cam Farrar VS Afroman
16 DJ Earlybird // This Love Gets Lost
Kai Winding VS Maroon5
[from the Forgotten Hits album, MOTW #29]
17 Apollo Zero // lost without careless whisper
Robin Thick VS George Michael
18 LeeDM101 // Reign in my Awakening Eyes
Depeche Mode vs UNKLE vs Dead Can Dance
19 Bobby Martini // Easily Hurt
Christina Aguilera VS Lionel Ritchie and the Commodores
You can download it HERE.
French Connection on RadioHead Special
This is Current Television's exclusive airing of Radiohead's "Scotch Mist." In this hour long private taping, Radiohead performs all of the tracks from its newest album, In Rainbows. Other elements include poetry readings and diverse imagery created or selected by the band..
For the gearheads you get to see in-close footage of a french connection and the sliding ring in action. Abouthalf way through a very clean 909 and lots of other techy goodness.


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I don't have a strong allegiance to any one yogurt brand. I enjoy yogurt and eat it fairly often, but I usually bounce between brands. Recently, though, Stonyfield Farm had a unique opportunity to convert me into a full-time customer.
Right there on the lid was this note:
"Profits for the Planet — You can't have healthy food or healthy people without a healthy planet. That's why we give 10% of our profits to efforts that help protect and restore the Earth."
Wow, what great messaging! It was right there, front-and-center on the top of my yogurt. There was no way I could miss it.
But they missed a real opportunity. I'd like to know more about what they're doing to help protect and restore the planet. Why not have a link to the website? Alas, it was a dead-end message.
How much more powerful might this have been had Stonyfield Farm considered the tops of their yogurt container to be a driving point. What if they included a call to action to visit their website to find out what they're doing to protect the Earth?
If I weren't in marketer-Holly mode, I'd have likely never thought to go to Stonyfield Farm's website, but there's lots of great stuff there that could engage consumer-Holly.
Are you missing opportunities to drive customers to your website?
[Editor's note: Join "copywriter-Holly" at our Persuasive Online Copywriting seminar on March 28th in San Francisco.]
Even better: "Help us decide where to direct the 10%! Vote online at http://www.stonyfield.com/vote"
I think one thing you're neglecting to mention is that the Stonyfield Yogurt container is designed/written in such a way that the environmental sustainability story is told, without having to direct consumers to a website. Yes, the website could be in a more prominent location (many times it's on the underside of the lid), but my guess is that Stonyfield's number one concern is converting customers while they're standing in front of the dairy case. And as a side note – a previous lid campaign did covert me into a loyal customer. The campaign encouraged me to save my lids and use them to steer a donation from Stonyfield to one of three potential organizations. And their current campaign for a free book offer "Stirring it Up: How to Make Money and Save the World" keeps me coming back for more, not that I stopped eating their yogurt in between campaigns. That and the fact that Stonyfiled is local to me, practices what they preach as far as sustainability, is organic and the particular Stonyfield yogurt I consume has twice the calcium of other brands.
Great point Valerie,
You want your "point of action" to deliver the key message. In the case of the yogurt lid – Stonyfield does a great job of that.
For people like me – I'd like a little more information.
Also, I talk with many brand sites who are constantly asking, "how can we get more traffic to our site?" So I encourage them to look for opportunities to send customers to their site for specific information.
Thanks Valerie for sharing your thoughts. I think this shows how can get repeated customers.

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Causes of Psychological Disorders
June 4, 2012
I am working in a Autism lab this summer. I've been wondering whether it is a problem that so many psychological disorders are defined by symptoms and focused on treating symptoms. I think, and this isn't a particularly controversial opinion, that it is also important to investigate their causes. Are there any instances of really effective investigations of the cause/causes of psychological disorders (discussion open to any disorder)?
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Lee Shore
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I used to hang out on alternative med sites and I have 2 ASD sons. I have been told that 75% to 80% of ASD kids improve if treated for metal poisoning, which typically involves a multipronged approach to also give supplements, treat yeast, and typically also treat infction. My sons improved with treatment of underlying health issues, not metal poisoning per se but many of the other issues (nutrient deficiencies, yeast, etc). I think a lot of mental health issues have an underlying physical health component.
posted by
Michele in California
on June 4, 2012
You're on the side of the angels. Everyone would really love to treat causes -- but no one knows what they are.
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Chocolate Pickle
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First off, autism is not a psychological disorder. It's a neurological disorder and the reason its symptoms are treated is because no one knows definititively what the root cause of autism and other spectrum disorders is. Empirical evidence in this area is, if I'm not mistaken, subsequently highly debated and still in constant flux.
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These Birds of a Feather
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"Cause/causes of psychological disorders" is highly vague and varied (do you mean neurotransmitter imbalances? do you mean emotional trauma? do you mean physical trauma to the brain? do you mean naturally-occurring physical brain structure differences? do you mean poor coping skills? do you mean chronic life stress? do you mean general medical conditions? do you mean substance use? do you mean breakups? do you mean loss and grief? ... see what I mean?).
Some of the research on trauma might be interesting to you, because the symptoms of trauma are pretty complex but the effect of emotional trauma is pretty direct. Other than that, you need to be a little more specific in your question.
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True, Autism is a neurological disorder. What I'm asking about is the neurological causes of disorders that I'm putting under the umbrella of "psychological disorders". (I mean disorders in the DSM.) I realize that "causes" aren't always only neurological; and my question is really broad, I'm interested in a variety of responses. These things being said, are there any particularly interesting studies or methods used to dig deeper than symptoms?
posted by
Lee Shore
on June 4, 2012
There's a hell of a lot of that going on, but right now it's almost all highly preliminary. There isn't much in the way of results that is even suggestive, let alone definitive.
One of the few areas where there are answers now is in cause and treatment of Parkinson's disease, and a lot of progress is being made there. But those lessons don't map to the other kinds of disorders you're talking about.
posted by
Chocolate Pickle
on June 4, 2012
Yes. For example this very
paper and
somewhat older one on rat anxiety that I just happen to remember. My understanding is that lots of people similarly are working / have worked on the genetic, neuron-structural, and developmental pathways of ASD. I understand a hot thing right now in autism research is using induced iPS to neurons to experiment with developmental parameters from autistic individuals.
Get ahold of the lit review sections of theses coming out of the lab you're working with (or grant applications) for background on the disease you're studying. If you work with a clinical lab, find a bench lab that studies the same thing.
posted by
a robot made out of meat
on June 4, 2012
Another disorder where there's been a lot of progress is epilepsy. It's pretty well understood now, and clinical treatment is straightforward and effective. (I don't think anyone yet knows why any given individual is prone to epilepsy, but they know what's going on in the brain of an epileptic, and they know how to prevent seizures.)
posted by
Chocolate Pickle
on June 4, 2012
I subscribe to email alerts for Nature's journal 'Molecular Psychiatry.' The kind of research in this journal is exactly what you're looking for. I'd link but I'm on my phone and lazy ATM.
posted by
on June 4, 2012
Of course there is research into the causes of autism. You might want to start by following the
Autism Science Foundation blog
and the
Simons Foundation
posted by
on June 4, 2012
Here's some food for thought (from last month's Nature Reviews Neuroscience).
Impaired mitochondrial function in psychiatric disorders
Also, regarding ASD, here's a link to an overview of some recent papers that just came out about ASD genetics.
Neurogenetics: Unravelling the genetics of autism
Pubmed some review papers on the underlying genetics and physiology on any psychiatric disorder and you will find lots to read...
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whether it is a problem that so many psychological disorders are defined by symptoms
This is a HUGE problem in actually discovering a "cause" of a psychological disease. Moreover, the problem is that so many psychological disorders are defined by SUBJECTIVE symptoms. It is hard enough to know how some traits with objective symptoms (e.g. seizures, tumors) are caused. 70% of the people with a certain tumor type might have a mutation in gene A, but 30% don't....but 90% of THAT group had a mutation in gene B and also live near a radioactive treatment facility, or SOMETHING.... but when it comes to psychiatric disorders (not to be confused with neurological disorders like epilepsy) you need to now hunt for potential causes without even having an OBJECTIVE standard.
What "causes" anxiety may be difficult to find when some people with anxiety disorder just consider themselves experiencing normal worries and don't bother seeking treatment/testing, while others who are just worried about normal day to day things believe it's anxiety and seek treatment for that.
Autism is similar, especially when it comes to socialization. Autism is a severe disorder....however people with poor social skills often label themselves as having ASD, sometimes because it gives them an excuse to continue with bad behavior, or not feel guilty about not being as extroverted as everyone else (again, I'm saying SOME people....including me - a friend of mine has maintained for years that I've ASD.... but I believe it's more simple introversion).
....ANYWAY, my point is, if these people and their friends are mislabeling themselves as "autistic" (or anxious, or depressed), scientists include them in the groups that they are studying with people with the REAL disorder, and it obviously becomes that much harder to find a common "cause" of the disorder (since some people don't actually have the disorder!).
People are definitely looking for "causes", but subjective symptoms makes its very difficult to find them in an effective manner.
I do believe I read recently that some "autistic" babies/toddlers have brains almost twice the size of non-autistic peers, so it could be a matter of improper cell division.... but, as one posted mentions above, some individuals with metal poisoning are misclassified as autistic - if these individuals have "normal" sized brains but are labeled as autistic, the research of brain size might be shelved.
posted by
Lt. Bunny Wigglesworth
on June 4, 2012
As others have linked above, there are lots of studies being done to try to determine the proximate and ultimate causes of neurological disorders, but it's difficult for ethical and practical reasons.
Part of the trouble with looking for "causes" of disorders is that you can't ethically test a hypothesis of "X causes autism" for any X or any other disorder. You can look for correlations, like "80% of people exposed to X have the disorder, while only 3% of the general population has the disorder," but that still doesn't prove that X causes the disorder. To prove causation, you'd have to take 2 groups of normal people, randomly choose half of them, and expose them to X to see if they develop the disorder. Not ethical.
So people can study things like MRIs or fMRIs to look for changes in structure or blood flow in the brain, or autopsy reports to see firsthand what structural changes might be present. These can provide clues to the anatomical and physiological basis for some kinds of disorders, but they have their own limitations. MRI requires that you remain quite still in a very loud, very confined space for a lot longer than any 5-year-old (or honestly a lot of 40-year-olds) can handle without being drugged up, which is not something people generally want to do to kids. Autopsy obviously requires that someone be dead already.
Animal testing seems to be the way to go, but this requires the development of useful animal models of the disorders, i.e. you have to have autistic mice if you want to use mice to test your theories about autism. And even if you can do those tests, they may or may not apply to humans.
posted by
on June 4, 2012
There's also the question of definition - what was manic depression is now bipolar I and II and NOS and cyclothymia, and you can have bipolar I without ever being depressed, and so forth.
We're still back at "well, we're pretty sure that this disease has something to do with neurotransmitters, and umm, electric current... oh, or we could block a receptor... that doesn't explain why so many of them are also anxious though..." Until you've properly defined what's actually happening, figuring out the root causes and fixing them is like shooting in the dark with earplugs in.
(We've come a really long way in the last 40 years in this area, though, so yay.)
posted by
on June 4, 2012
This is the driving force behind a lot of the research in mental health and developmental disability. The responses above touch on a lot of the issues we have, but I swear we're working on it (biased as an ASD/developmental disability researcher myself).
As a lot of people pointed out there are a myriad of reasons that this is complicated:
1) The disorders you are talking about are often characterized based on behavior. There are not blood tests, x-rays, etc. available to make these diagnoses, so we do the best we can by carefully observing behavior, characterizing what we see and developing categories to capture what we see in the ways that make the most sense. I think you would probably agree that autism is a real phenomenon that you can recognize when you see it. At the same time, each person with an autism spectrum disorder presents with very individualized characteristics. This leaves us with some diagnostic question in some places. Does someone with Aspergers syndrome have the same characteristics in a meaningful way as someone with Autism? This is open to a huge amount of debate. If we're not capturing the same things with our diagnostic categories, it can be nearly impossible to be sure that we're studying the same things, let alone are likely to find a unifying underlying cause.
2) There are very few diagnosable conditions that have a single "cause." Think about something that is a purely medical diagnosis, like heart disease or cancer. There are genetic factors that make an individual more susceptible to developing the condition, but don't guarantee that you will. There are environmental factors like diet, smoking, exposure to toxins in the environment that make it more likely that you will develop the condition. Even for these medical disorders, we don't know exactly all the genetic factors, how different genes interact with each other, how much of each environmental factor you need to develop the condition. So say you were to have all this information available about a given individual. You would still not be able to say for sure if that person will develop that condition. Now multiply that complexity by a factor of thousands to account for the extremely indirect relationship between genes and behavior, and you start to get an idea of why we don't yet know causes for these things. There are some really impressive studies working on this. Google "Baby Sibs" or the ERLI project for autism and you'll get a sample of some pretty ambitious work looking at these things.
3) The technology we have to study this is still developing. Think of early telescopes. What could Galaleo really see and know about heavenly bodies. Not a lot in comparison to what we can see now, right? A similar thing is happening with methods to study the brain. A lot of what we are talking about as signs/symptoms of these conditions happen on a microscopic or even smaller scale. We can't detect these kinds of changes with MRIs and similar technologies. A lot of what we talk about as "causes" (like an over development of local neural connections with fewer longer distance, integrating connections in the brain) is something that we've seen at autopsy. We can observe it more directly with animal models, but mice and rats are nowhere near as complex as humans are, so we're limited in what we can extrapolate from there.
4) Whether or not we know the cause, we do know of interventions that are helpful and have a huge benefit right now. Things like providing early intervention, developing language, providing social skills support, etc. are all effective. There is not really a need to wait to intervene while we look for causes. We can work on both simultaneously.
I'd also like to just leave you with a word of caution. A lot of folks on the spectrum, and a lot of folks who care about them don't necessarily want a "cure" or to find a cause that would lead to one. There is a huge neurodiversity movement that argues that to an extent this is simply a different way of experiencing and relating to the world that is no more or less valid than "neurotypical." It's similar to earlier movements in the Deaf community that very correctly pointed out that Deafness is a culture, and is not necessarily in need of a cure. This isn't to say that there are not challenges that individuals on the spectrum face, and that intervention is not beneficial. It is. I just want you to know that others may feel offended by discussion of "cure" for this particular population.
So that is an extremely long-winded answer to your question, but I hope it's helpful. I'd be happy to talk more by meMail if you have other questions. I think you're going to enjoy your experience. You're already asking the big questions. You are also working with a community of great people (ASD individuals and their families). Best of luck to you and I hope you are a driving force in answering some of these questions in the future.
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I have no expertise on autism or medical research, but I would like to point out that there are a number of strictly physical disorders that are diagnosed by symptoms and treated entirely by managing symptoms. Genetic disorders in particular are diagnosed because the patient has symptoms that resemble the symptoms of other patients. It's very imprecise and depends on finding a doctor that recognizes a symptom. Even then, a neurologist might call it one thing, a dermatologist might have a different name, and a geneticist might call it yet something else. There are diagnostic tests for some of the more common disorders (although not always very reliable at this point), but there's no testing for much of the really rare stuff and isn't likely to be for a good long time. There certainly is research happening, but since understanding mutations that happened in utero isn't likely to help existing patients much, research focusing on the management of the symptoms is by far the best way to help patients currently suffering from these syndromes.
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There are a ton of papers addressing the relationship of genetics and autism. I don't have any papers handy at the moment but these are a few from the top of my head that you might find interesting.
Kjelgaard, M. and Tager-Flusberg, H. (2001). An investigation of language impairment in autism: implications for genetic subgroups.
Lang Cogn Process
. 16(2-3): 287–308.
Muhle, R., Trentacoste, S., and Rapin, I. The genetics of autism.
113(5): 472-486.
Rice, M., Smith, S., and Gayan, J. (2009). Convergent genetic linkage and associations to language, speech and reading measures in families of probands with Specific Language Impairment.
J Neurodevelop Disord
. 1:264–282.
Bishop, DVM (2010). Overlaps between autism and language impairment: phenomimicry or shared etiology?
Behav Genet
. 40(5): 618-629.
Trouton et al. have a paper [Trouton, A., Spinath, F., and Plomin, R. Twins Early Development Study (TEDS): a multivariate, longitudinal genetic investigation of language, cognition and behavioral problems in childhood.
Twin Research
. 5: 444-448.] about the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) which has been used to examine familial inheritance of autism and language delay among other neurodevelopmental disorders. There are many other papers that discuss the TEDS.
Bishop, DVM (2009). Genes, cognition, and communication: insights from neurodevelopmental disorders.
Ann N Y Acad Sci
. 1156(1): 1–18.
I'm pretty sure there's been some discussion about the role chromosome 7 plays in the development of neuropsychological disorders like ASD and SLI. [See Folstein, S. and Mankoski, R. (2000). Chromosome 7q: where autism meets language disorder?
Am J Hum Genet
. 67(2): 278–281.]
KE family
research is pretty interesting, but I believe that their inherited FOXP2 mutation is thought to be specific to their family and not implicated in language disorders in the broader population.
Gopnik, Tager-Flusberg, Folstein, Bishop, and Rice are all good authors to browse if you're interested in autism/ASD specifically. If you want more recommendations, I can pass some along when I get to work tomorrow.
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Also, the reason ASD in particular is described by symptoms rather than causes is that currently the diagnostic tests look for particular behaviors associated with ASD, not for a specific mutation or anything like that. The ADOS, for example, is widely used and is based solely on an examiner's observations of a child's social interaction. The ADI-R is sort of the same idea, but the parent is the one making the behavioral observations.
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Here's the journal:
Molecular Psychiatry
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Perhaps the most important thing we can do is ensure that everyone has access to healthy, affordable food. In our country alone, it is estimated that roughly 13.5 million people live in a "food desert," which means that they do not have easy access to healthy, affordable food in biking or walking distance from their home. for more information about the problems of food desserts, check out the Fast Com. Design Blog post: The "Food Deserts" That Keep Americans Fat.
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Do you feed your pets coconut oil? If so, awesome! If not, you should! If coconut oil is good for us, then it's good for our pets too!
You all know about my love affair with coconut oil. I can't get enough of the stuff! Read my post called "Coconut Oil – Why Is It So Wonderful?" and you'll see why I love it.
Also, many of you have probably seen my posts called "52 Uses for Coconut Oil – The Simple, The Strange, and The Downright Odd!" and "122 Uses for Coconut Oil – Even More of the Simple, the Strange, and the Downright Odd". Who knew there were so many ways to use one, single product?!
But, back to our furry friends.
We have two pooches (see the picture above). Burton is a cattle dog / corgi mix, and Willow is a cattle dog / who-knows-what mix. They both get coconut oil daily with their dinner and they think coconut oil is the best thing since sliced bread!
In addition to adding coconut oil to their food, we also use it on my dogs in other ways. I massage coconut oil into the pads of their feet, since we live in the city and walk many miles a week on concrete and asphalt. Willow, who is a tomboy of a dog, loves to rough and tumble with my brother's dogs up in the mountains, so she gets all sorts of cuts and scraps on her stomach. I'll treat those areas with some coconut oil after gently cleaning them with mild soap and water. On a side note, the soap from Tropical Traditions (affiliate link) is a great way to clean your pet's scrapes and cuts. It only has one ingredient and is gentle on the skin.
The coconut oil that I use is from my affiliate partner, Tropical Traditions. Depending on what I have on hand, they either get TT's Pure Coconut Oil, which is a high-quality, expeller-pressed (EP) coconut oil, or they get TT's Gold Label Virgin Coconut Oil.
Why Is Coconut Oil Good For Your Pets?
Just like humans, dogs can also glean benefit from regular consumption of coconut oil. Now, due to the FTC and FDA laws governing what you can and can't say about the health benefits of coconut oil, I'm not going to list any specific benefits here. Traditionally, those laws govern humans, but since many of us consider our pets "humans", and I am referring to human-grade coconut oil products, I'm going to err on the side of caution and not list anything specific.
For a list on how dogs can benefit from coconut oil, check out this post from Dogs Naturally Magazine. We can personally attest that since we started feeding our dogs coconut oil, we have noticed less of that stinky doggie breath and they both seem to have more energy. Also, one of our dogs has a bad back leg and he seems to be a lot less stiff since incorporating coconut oil into his diet. Is it the coconut oil that's helping? Who knows, but it's certainly not hurting!
If you want to hear more about what benefits our pets can get from coconut oil, check out what this veterinarian, Dr. Karen Becker, has to say about the subject. The information about the gall bladder and pancreas is very interesting! I'm assuming that if that is true for pets, it would be true for humans too?
If you're looking for even more reason to feed your pets coconut oil, check out this video from a professional groomer who uses coconut oil on her pets and 4-legged customers.
The Proper Way to Feed Your Pets Coconut Oil
Now, you don't want just start dumping a big glob of coconut oil into your pets food, especially if they're new to it. There is a proper way to feed your pets, as explained in this article from CoconutOil.com. You want to start small and increase the dose slowly. Introducing too much, too fast, can lead to loose bowels and we all know that's no fun!
So, start small, by giving small pets, puppies, or kittens about a 1/4 of a teaspoon and then increasing over time. With larger pets, you can start them with a teaspoon and gradually work your way up. Some pets will love it right off the bat, others need a little coaxing. Dr. Becker recommends 1 teaspoon for each 10-20 pounds of body weight of your pet. Burton is 26 pounds and gets around a tablespoon with each meal, while Willow is 53 pounds and gets around 1.5 – 2 tablespoons. Our dogs loved it from the start, but I have had people tell me that their pets didn't like it at first, so you might have to get them used to eating it.
Also, dogs and cats aren't the only pets who can eat coconut oil. I've had people tell me that they feed it to their horses, cows, goats, and other animals!
So, tell me, do you feed your pets coconut oil? Have you noticed any differences in their health since introducing it? I would love to hear from you, so leave me a comment below!
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I spent a little while this morning looking around for a rails fragment caching solution which used a file store and had simple expirations built in. No luck. I could just use a memory based cache store, but for this particular problem it was too much overhead to setup and manage.
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- Very lightweight
- Behaves like the regular file store caching
- Can expire caches automatically
Timed file store code
# lib/timed_file_store.rb class TimedFileStore < ActiveSupport::Cache::FileStore def exist?(name, options = {}) delete_if_expired(name, options[:time_to_live]) unless options.blank? or options[:time_to_live].blank? super end def read(name, options = {}) delete_if_expired(name, options[:time_to_live]) unless options.blank? or options[:time_to_live].blank? super end protected def delete_if_expired(name, time_to_live = 0) delete(name) if expired?(name, time_to_live) rescue nil end def expired?(name, time_to_live = 0) return false unless time_to_live > 0 (Time.now - File.mtime(real_file_path(name))) >= time_to_live end end
Setup & Usage
# environment.rb # same as :file_store -- just add timed_ config.cache_store = :timed_file_store, File.join(RAILS_ROOT, 'tmp', 'cache')
Time based expiration from the controller
Having the controller control the expiration of the cache is good if you are passing along any objects to the views since it will not re-run the code if it is already cached. I'm using this for a long running report currently.
# YourController.rb # don't run the report if we are cached @report = Report.find(params[:id]) unless fragment_exists?("email@example.com}", :time_to_live => 1.week) @report.run! end # views/reports/show.html.erb -- or whatever view file <% cache("email@example.com}") do -%> <!-- output the report HTML and such --> <% end -%>
This will expire the fragment and re-run the report after the cache's File.mtime is older than a week. The view doesn't have anything to do with it so it acts like the normal FileStore.
Time based expiration in the view
If you aren't running any intense code in the controller and just want to keep a certain view fragment cached for a while, this should work. (** I didn't test this since I only needed the previous method, but it should work — maybe with some slight tweaks?
# views/wherever/whatever.html.erb <% cache("whatever", :time_to_live => 1.hour) do -%> <!-- This is my HTML content and all that jazz --> <!-- After 1 hour this cache should be re-freshed --> <% end -%>
Not sure how useful that would be when considering action and page caching… but its possible. The only thing I noticed is that in the log when the cache deletes itself it shows a "Cached fragment hit:" then a "Cached fragment miss:" — probably needs some attention if I ever get around to it.
Let me know if this works out, and/or any issues, bugs, etc.
Thank you for this! I wanted to ensure that our site's twitter feed would only query the twitter API a few times per hour, and this technique is ideal.
We've made this work in views; the syntax is different for fragment caching, however. To work with a fragment, it needs to be cache({:fragment => "whatever"}, :time_to_live => 1.hour) do . (If it's a site-wide fragment, your syntax works fine.)


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125cc, 8.5bhp, 60mph, Insurance group
The Vity 125 is not a cutting edge scooter. It's not fast. It doesn't look good unless you've got a thing for the 80s. But it does the job and has one big saving grace – a £1,799 price tag which, for a trustworthy 125cc Yamaha, is very cheap.
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Image is everything when you're 16 – the Piaggio NRG has it with race bike styling and graphics. But it's still a 50cc moped restricted to 30mph by law, so unless you're old enough to derestrict, progress is painfully slow.
125cc, 22bhp, 82mph, Insurance group 7
Apart from the tinny two-stroke noise coming out the back of the SX125 and RX125 the new learner strokers could pass for a bigger supermoto. But get on board and you'll find that the power and handling simply doesn't match up to the looks.
124cc, 12bhp, 60mph, Insurance group 5
The Suzuki RV125 VanVan is an enigmatic motorcycle, that's for sure. Farm hands, gamekeepers, race teams and surf dudes would be the ideal customers: it's perfect for whizzing around country estates, race paddocks and beaches. Fashion-conscious, retro fans must love Suzuki RV125 VanVans. Teenagers, probably, don't. Who knows? But it's still pretty cute: better than a quad or a scooter, ...
124cc, 12bhp, 65mph, Insurance group 4
Mid price cruiser style Suzuki GZ125 Marauder works well and makes a decent learner steed. It's got more presence than the budget custom style 125s like Yamaha's SR125 but it's usefully cheaper than the twin cylinder alternatives which cost about a grand more when new. The Suzuki GZ125 Marauder makes a decent, frugal urban commuter too.
123cc, 12bhp, 65mph, Insurance group 2
Something of a bus dodger are we, Sir? Then try the Kawasaki KH125 for your daily commute. Kawasaki KH125 costs buttons to buy and run, reliable and has just enough power to stick with urban traffic. The Kawasaki KH125 looks a bit dated now and it's a low tech two-stroke, but still a fun way to get to work.
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Ducati-esque styling and the promise of almost 30bhp in (easily) from a de-restricted motorcycle make the Cagiva Mito 125 a real object of desire for anyone on a learner motorcycle licence. The Cagiva Mito 125 only just loses out to Aprilia's RS125 in the sex stakes.
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$1.3 Million does not mean justice for Oscar Grant
By Lori | Published: June 29, 2011
TweetAs reported by the Grio, yesterday the San Francisco transit agency (known as BART) agreed to pay $1.3 million to the mother of Oscar Grant. You'll remember Grant was the 22-year-old unarmed black man who was fatally shot by a white transit officer in 2009. The officer was found guilty only of involuntary manslaughter, and [...]
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The end of gender?
TweetThe media has been aflutter lately with gender panic. News of genderless children, boys with pink toenails and now genderless preschools have had the press questioning whether we might be at the end of gender. I can only dream. Gender, if we look past the headlines, is alive and well. And to be honest, I [...]
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Slutwalk in Mexico City: We have many reasons to march
TweetThere has been much discussion around the feminist blogosphere about the resonance of Slutwalks among women of color. Andrea Plaid recently weighed in on the debate at Alternet. Ileana Jimenez of Feminist Teacher interviewed Gabriela Amancaya, one of the organizers of Mexico's first Slutwalk in the capitol city, adding more vibrancy to the conversation about [...]
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Scandal turns into opportunity for first female IMF chief
TweetIt was announced yesterday that French finance minister Christine Lagarde has been chosen to lead the International Monetary Fund after Dominique Strauss-Kahn was forced to resign after his arrest for sexual assault. Until the US announced it's support for Lagarde yesterday morning, it was unclear whether she or Mexican central bank governor Agustin Carstens would [...]
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What We Missed
By Courtney | Published: June 28, 2011
TweetGreat coverage of the NYPD/rape protest this morning. How the anti-bullying movement is hurting itself. Alternatives, and I mean alternatives, to juvenile incarceration. The International Monetary Fund just selected French finance minister Christine Lagarde to be its next managing director. Tweet
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Dr. Fran Austin
Dr. Austin has most recently served as the acting Deputy Director of CIA since September 2013, supervising and monitoring all DDESS Area Pre-Kindergarten-Grade 12 programs. Prior to that she had served as the Assistant Deputy Director for CIA since January 2012. She came to the ASC as an Instructional Systems Specialist (ISS) in support of leadership, mathematics, social studies and early childhood education. Dr. Austin's career includes three Department of Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS) overseas assignments in England, Turkey and Sicily with service as a gifted education teacher and an administrator. Before joining the Department of Defense Schools, she taught in the public school systems in North and South Carolina.
Dr. Frances Austin is a native of North Carolina. She earned a Bachelor's of Art Degree in Elementary Education from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She graduated from Winthrop University with a Master's Degree in Educational Administration and Instruction, and earned a Doctorate Degree in Educational Administration from Oklahoma State University.
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Zack is one credit short of graduating. He dances in Swan Pond to get the credit. Screech lets Jessie be the valedictorian, even though he earned it all before the gang finally graduates.
Mr. Belding shows a tape of the highlights of the life of the class of 1993 to five students in the class of 2003; a flashback episode set in the future.
The kids want to leave their mark on Bayside and decide to have a contest to come up with a new school song.
After Slater's pet lizard dies while the kids are watching it, they try to replace it with another without Slater noticing.
This compilation features clips from the Malibu Sands episodes.
The kids can't afford a regular senior prom so they have a Western dance.
Zack and Slater egg on a teachers' strike, until they find out their academic championship will be canceled as a result.
After his friends and parents forget his birthday, Screech takes out his revenge by becoming a tyrannical hall monitor.
A.C. and Maj. Slater fight over where A.C. should attend college. Jessie becomes a cheerleader.
Zack and Lisa fall for each other. Screech is upset and almost ruins Lisa's fashion show.
Slater's sister J.B. comes to town to visit and Zack wants to date her.
Kids and teachers switch places.
An alumni of Bayside leaves money to the school via a will.
The gang spends the weekend at a murder mystery mansion. Zack winds up as the accused murderer and must get himself off the hook.
Zack thinks he's negotiated a great deal with slimy ring salesman Gem Diamond for class rings.
Jessie becomes alarmed at the presence of Slater's old flame, Jennifer, who moves to Bayside from Germany, especially when Screech's love machine shows the flames are still hot.
Austin and Santino talk about the healing powers of new age energy sources.
The third season of the hilarious hit series Saved By the Bell features the gang staging a rap version of Snow White and celebrating Lisa's Sweet Sixteen. Zack, Kelly, Slater, Screech, Jessie, and Lisa also face grown-up situations when they take their S.A.T's and film an anti-drug public service announcement with Brandon Tartikoff.
"Saved by the Bell" finds our favorite teens causing more trouble and continuing their inventive schemes during their senior and final year at Bayside High School.
Meet young Zack Morris, perhaps the most enterprising student at the Bayside School in Palisades, California. By Zack's own admission, he loves school?too bad that classes get in the way. Zack sees himself as a heartthrob, and vies with new student A.C. Slater for the attentions of Kelly, the prettiest girl in the school.
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There's only one hero who can save Lisa, and he goes by Robo Screech.
Lisa's dream turns into a nightmare when she can't escape Screech's face.
Screech and Lisa have the crowd eating right out of their hands.
Oil has the gang dreaming of what it would be like to be rich.
Lisa's overspending has her mind playing tricks on her.
Anybody can dance like that if they pretend they're dancing with Kelly.
You know Zack was cool when Bayside retires his locker after he dies.
Slater's got the moves, but Zack's got the jokes. Who will Kelly choose?
Zack pulls Screech in on his timeout, but maybe that wasn't the best idea.
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So I've been making my own kimchi for awhile...and while it tastes great, there isn't much juice produced. (Even when it gets old and fizzy.) I put it in the fridge after making it because we don't eat it that quickly. Am I doing something wrong? Or keep doing what I'm doing if it tastes great? (That is, if it ain't broke, don't fix it?)
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My Place of Serenity
Have you ever come across a place that you like so much, it gives you the serenity you're craving for?
I found a place that does that to me. A park. A lake garden. Funny part is, it is very near to where I live, and I've been living here for several years. I came to this place to jog when I have the time, yet it never strikes me as a serene place. Just a place to get out some sweat, that is.
But for the past few weeks, I started to come to this park more often. Sometimes to read a book, or to have a stroll among the trees, or just for killing time.
I came here just so that I can hear the birds singing, the sound of the leaves against the wind, and surely the sound of the water flowing. I like the sound of flowing water very much.
Whenever I'm coming back from somewhere, and I still have time before I get home, I'll make a quick stop, even for just several minutes sitting on the bench, with the lake in front of me and the trees behind. Or just few hundred metres of strolling around. I'd do that for no obvious reason.
And now here I am again. With a book, a small bottle of white tea, and my phones. All alone... And alone I want to be in moments like this. A moment I know won't last forever.
I hope it's not going to rain again today, while I'm here. Yesterday it rained ten minutes after I reached here, and I left my umbrella in my car. I didn't stop at all, didn't even procrastinate to go back to the car and get my umbrella. I just continue walking in the rain, getting wet by the quite many drops of water managed to find their way through the trees' canopy. Yet I enjoyed that moment.
But not today, because today I don't feel that well. And tomorrow is a workday. So I can't risk catching a cold today.
Today is weird. Since morning I feel like something is off, something's not right. Like something bad is going to happen. Yet my day went as usual. A normal Sunday. I woke up, played some computer games, went for breakfast, surfed the 'Net, tidied up my room, play more games, went for lunch, and then came to this park. A normal Sunday.
Yet I can't shake this uneasy feeling. It's like my soul is trying to warn me of something bad ahead. I don't know what it is, I hope I can get through this day fine.
Oops! A dragonfly came and landed on my left shoulder! Let me try to get a picture of it...
There you go, a red dragonfly. Looks like it stops to enjoy its meal of a small butterfly. I hope I'm not disturbing its lunch-on-the-shoulder with me typing this blog post. So, how does the butterfly taste, mate? Is it any good? Hmm okay, enjoy your meal!
Nature... Serenity... Got to continue reading my book. See ya!
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Sixty-six years ago, the town of Irish Channel, Louisiana was the site of a horrible massacre on St. Patrick's Day. While some blame a terrible storm that blew through the town, there are those that know the truth but will not talk about what happened. Since the incident, St. Patrick's Day festivities have been banned, but now that the mayor believes it is time to bring celebrations back, will this quiet town become the site of a second attack? Well, yeah...DUH!
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This petition is still going? QI has still not been shown in America then? Not even old series on BBC America or something? That's a shame.
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Posted Mon Oct 25th, 2010 2:22am Post subject: The "QI in America" Petition!
I just discovered the show existed yesterday, and I've signed the petition. Even dvds in region 1 format would be nice. I can't get enough of this, I've spent a good part of the day watching all the clips on youtube
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Posted Mon Jan 10th, 2011 3:58am Post subject: The "QI in America" Petition!
I also just discovered this wonderful show! I would absolutely buy the dvd's if they were available in region 1 format. Would love to see it on tv here in Canada!
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Posted Wed May 11th, 2011 10:28am Post subject: The "QI in America" Petition!
I would have thought that QI as it is would work in America, there are very few references to people they wouldn't know. I do know that some American friends off FBook love to watch it when they can.
Only a northerner knows the true joys of yorkshire puddings, it is all to do with crispy bottoms.
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Posted Fri Nov 18th, 2011 5:00pm Post subject: The "QI in America" Petition!
Where the hell has this show been hiding? I am a huge fan of British television. Show by show I've been discovering treasures via Hulu and other on-line means. Green Wing, Doc Martin, Kingdom, Black Books, Peep Show and Whites are the favorites I can name off the top of my head. I found QI by linking through a Rich Hall Youtube clip that was going around the office (a piano is like a woman) and I've been hooked ever since. Intelligent, entertaining and legitmately informative banter presented in a manner that (by its factual nature) doesn't force poeple to choose sides is, to say the very least, refreshing. I hope it (also to say the very least) finds its way onto BBC America. Marvelous! Thank you!
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Posted Fri Jan 13th, 2012 7:12pm Post subject: The "QI in America" Petition!
We'll never get QI in America. It has too many British references. BBC America seems to think we will only watch Top Gear, Gordon Ramsay, and Doctor Who. I love the first and third of those programs, but do not expect the people at BBCA to fulfill any of my other British TV needs. They haven't the brains or balls to put anything else on the air. So its Youtube or Hulu if you want QI, or Hugh and Laurie, or Mitchell and Webb, or Spaced. I just wish the goddamn BBC would stop enforcing its copyright over programs in countries where it will not broadcast its programs. I would gladly stay up until 3AM if I had to in order to watch QI on BBCA. But if they are not going to even give me that opportunity, then they need to accept that people are going to work their way around it.
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Lord Jagannatha Blesses Bud Billiken Parade
Dear Devotees,
Pamho! Agtsp!
Never underestimate the determination of the sincere servants of the Lord. For quite a number of years Gauramani Prabhu and his wife Syama Priya Devi (co-founders of South side Hare Krishna Temple of the Heart) have made urgent requests for help to participate in the annual "Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic" in south Chicago. Listed as the 2ND largest parade in the country, with 1.2 million local observers and 25 million national viewers, in 2005, a handful of devotees performed a 5 hour long Harinama in the park where the parade ends. After that, it was clear what the next step would be. By now you have probably heard, maybe even seen photos on dandavat.com or the video clip from NBC5.com along with various other photos floating around on emails. We tried to describe the Harinama from last year but you just had to be there. This year even the photos and clips of Lord Jagannath and the over 150 kirtaniyas only remind us of what we experienced in person on Martin Luther KIng Blvd, August 12Th.
I personally with fully prostrated obeisances thank Gauramani das and Syama Priya dasi for bringing the Lord and His devotees to the 77Th annual Bud Billiken parade. Thanks to the all the Chicago Temple devotees and Kalki Prabhu and Vrsab Prabhu for their assistance. And much thanks to all the devotees that came from New Rochelle and New York City, Dallas, Detroit, Cleveland, Washington D.C., Alachua, Gita Nagari, New Vrndavan, St. Louis, Columbus OH, Towaco N.J., forgive me if I left out anyplace.
Also personally I have to offer thanks. I have always been the runt of the litter so to speak but my godbrothers and sisters have been extra kind to let me tag along with them. Vaisnavananda Prabhu, Shastivara Prabhu, Bhumipati Prabhu, Sankara Pandit Prabhu, Mother Krsnanandini Devi, Mother Kamagiri Devi, Vakresvara Pandit Prabhu who has been a great inspiration to us all and Bhaktivinode Prabhu who delivered Lord Jagannath, stayed up 2 nights cooking and still lead drummers during the parade.
Indeed an overwhelming assurance was created seeing you all together. Can I speak for everyone that a whole year is too long to wait for this to happen again? We are truly sorry for circumstances that prevented others that really wanted to come. So we implore everyone to please keep close watch for any events in your areas. This should be a continued nationwide effort. And please keep in close touch by all means available so we can hear every ones ideas. How can we improve our strategies? How can we continue to make these festivals undeniably sweet? We are fulfilling Lord Chaitanya's statement,
prthivite ache yata nagaradi grama
sarvatra pracara haibe mora nama
"In every town and village the chanting of My name will be heard." This is awesome! This is Bhakti-yoga! This is love of God! This is how we can try to repay the debt to Srila Prabhupada! Hare Krsna!
Please forgive my offenses.
Ys, Kulasekhara das
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1. Compare and contrast the causes of World War I and World War II?
2. Compare and contrast the resolutions of World War I and World War II. Consider the following:
Peace agreements – major players, ideology, geographic boundaries
Economic/political effects
Role in creating future confrontation
3. Analyze the impact of war on civilians. Choose either World War I or World War II and compare it with one of the following conflicts:
Korean War Vietnam War
Biafra War Angola War
Nicaragua War Bosnia/Kosovo War
4. Compare and contrast European nationalism during the Interwar Period with that of the independence movements in those nations that decolonized following World War II.
5. Analyze the changing role of the United States in the twentieth century. Consider its role economically, diplomatically and militarily.
6. Compare and contrast the impact of globalization in the 21st century with that of European colonialism in the 19th century.
7. Compare and contrast the patterns and results of decolonization in Africa and South Asia.
8. Compare and contrast two of the following revolutions' effects on the roles of women:
Russian Revolution 1917
Chinese Revolution 1949
Cuban Revolution 1959
Iranian Revolution 1979
9. Compare the effects of the World Wars on two of the following regions:
Latin America
10. Compare and contrast why developing nations chose to align with either the USSR or the United States during the Cold War.
11. Compare the legacies of colonialism and the patterns of economic development in two of the three areas below:
Latin America
12. Compare and contrast the independence struggles of Africa. Why were some nations more successful than others in diversifying their economies, developing a stable political system, and social equality?
13. Compare and contrast the methods and effectiveness of guerilla warfare with that of high-tech warfare. Use specific examples from two of the following military conflicts of the 20th century.
Vietnam War
The Iraq War
14. Compare and contrast the methods and results of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and the Cuban Revolution of Fidel Castro.
15. Analyze the demographic changes of 20th century considering three of the following:
Birth rates
Death rates
16. Analyze the changes and continuities in threats to the environment and resulting environmental movements in the 20th century.
17. Is cultural convergence or diversity the best model for understanding increased intercultural contact in the 20th century?
18. Analyze the impact of economic philosophy on both the Cold War and on the decolonization movement.
19. Analyze the political and social changes and continuities in one of the following nations during the twentieth century:
South Africa
20. Analyze the role of religious belief and secular ideologies in the contemporary world.


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Plus looking at his face, he seems almost surprised...
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