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Friday, November 25, 2011
http://www.gizmag.com/insect-cyborgs/20596/
http://www.gizmag.com/insect-cyborgs/20596/picture/148752/
From the article:
Insects have served as the inspiration for a number of Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) that could be deployed to monitor hazardous situations without putting humans in harm’s way. Now researchers at the University of Michigan College of Engineering are proposing using actual live insects enhanced with electronic sensors to achieve the same result. The insect cyborgs would use biological energy harvested from their body heat or movements to potentially power small sensors implanted on their bodies in order to gather vital information from hazardous environments.
Thursday, November 24, 2011
Yepymology: The Book of Yep
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Click to better behold That Yeahmang. Cuz hyeuhz:
Prologue:
Transcribed from an email sent around January of '09 to a fellow Yepper:
Yepenese underwent an evolution between 2003 and 2007 with the introduction of dipthongs. Well, maybe just the one 'ae'. I lobbed out a 'de jep wah paeon' in an email to a friend which was cited as 'iffy' to which I responded 'You're lucky I didn't throw in a boo-daja-jeza-jep-wah-priapism on your ass.'
But the etymology is substantiated:
A Brief and Abridged Excursion into Yepymology and the Fundamental Building Blocks of Yepping
-OR-
You Too Can Yep: A Primer
-OR-
"The ApoloJepics"
-or simply-
"The Book of Yep"
While there may be other conventions that have been omitted from this primer, this is a decent first round up. I have been meaning to create my own reference with audio tracks, but for now, it helps to preserve what has become a somewhat monopolistic oral tradition and for the unindoctrinated to see the actual text.
Rudiments of Yep
Here below, we see how 'doo' is substituted and abbreviated liberally, aggressively, or interchangeably with 'de' or 'duh'. The origin being an impression from Mexico, blended with central and south american, and even some Portuguese - an occasional lingering pause of '...em..used instead of 'um' to represent the hesitation of thought processing. That's what the Brazilians do. Perhaps this use of 'd' in place of 'th' reflects the triangular trade and african roots in the mix. The Latinos are known for switching their j's and y's. And we certainly nod to the nizzle, as with a 'bazza muh dazza muh jezza muh jang'.
1. The Yeah Mang = de jeh mang = duh jay = DJ (also branching to and from de jep MUN)
2. Moody > Moo-dee-zee-A > doo dee zee A = doo dee jay = doo dee jep (muh jang)
3. The Yeah Mang = de jep jang = de jep muh jang (possessive-affectionate, 'my yeah mang') = de jep ahn = de jeppy-ohn = dee jaypeon (a bridging between 'yep', 'yay' and 'mun'). This one can also be spoken with an Irish accent - think about it. Moving forward, this has become Dee Jay Peen which sounds a lot like I'm saying you-know-what and opens up a new door of possibility which could be uncomfortable for the uninitiated. A fun loop is to just fidget repeatedly, like a public schooler in the lower reading level trying to settle on the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word, like so: 'peon, payon, pieon (but we think of it with a dipthong 'paeon') This absurd loop begins in a searching manner and then we go into a rhythm which ultimately becomes a full yallop of 'Rock Around the Clock' by Bill Haley and the Comets. A favorite free verse is 'Yay-O-Peen, Yay-to-myeuh, Yay-indee-ud, ain' (or if repeated again, really emphasize and fully pronounce 'AND' with the ahh sound).
4. Obvious variations on Yes = Yep, Yeah (yay), hence our favorite caucasian iteration of simply 'Yes Man' with a neighborly, nod and shit-eating smile.
5. Use of 'Bubba' as root. Bubba was the placeholder name used prior to the declaration of the name Moody. Variations include Bubba Doo > Bubba Doo Daja, Boo-dajah, Boo daja jeza jep (muh jang) and that crowd pleaser, DI ZI JEP which cannot stop and must become Di zi jep (haaaaa!!!) wah peon. The haaaa!!! or 'hiya' part should sound like a frightened yodel, as though some has been thrown from the roof of a high rise.
Thematic Extensions and Conventions
The recurring themes of Yepmology involve outpourings of enthusiasm without inhibition, sometimes derision of a gullible and even captive consumer, showing that Yep his reflection in a mirror to make him aware of himself (thereby disproving the notion of homo sapien sapien, cuzuthu that Yap certainly knew his own reflection and liked riding in elevators), and general praise. But, Yepping involves other recurring conventions and themes. Here are a few:
1. Use of 'ain' as in 'Oh mun, oh, you, oh mun, oh too, oh mun OH DOO!...ain'...
2. The Evangelist includes circular speak and furvor:
Yeah to you...and to you, YAY-YUH.
I said to muh-say-yulf, to muh-sayulf I said, to-mahhh-sailf I sayud to muhsailf I said...eh...yoo.
3. The monotone (My bubbadoo, that's you. You are Yep Man, oh, too. Duh Jep.) The rhythm is usually '12345...1-12345...1-2.' This was handy once when I had to improvise a metered rhyme and it became 'My bubbadoo dats yoo YepMun youre always having so much fun'.
4. Delay without consequence. Prolonged use of either 'em...' and 'eh...' as though carefully sorting out a thought, only to arrive at the conclusion of either 'You' or 'Mun'.
5. Submission and Dominance: Beotch and Metal God speak. Yepping tips its hat with a 'myeuh' in substitute for frequent reference to 'me' which can be either as wanna-be powerful as James Hedfield meets Mumm-Rah or it can sound like the voice over in a 1950s educational film. The word 'Too' often connotes a general feeling of almost syrupy sympatico and general conformity for the sake of acceptance, and may introduce the character who always insists on coming along much to the dread of the party. However, the Yep may assume the dominant position and represent a transformational force as if to say 'take your medicine'. We temper this with the sympatico 'Teeyoo' but alternate with the commanding 'Tow'. Is it an annoying request or an imposing conviction? Listen to that Yap. Use of 'oh, too' can often be trailed by '3-4'...'5-6'...'7-8', etc. just to generally confuse and create further absurdity.
6. Reference to Mun. Most names are preceded by either 'The' or 'That' as in The Yeahmang or That Yep. Mun is a stand alone utitlity.
7. Use and variations of 'Cuz hyeeuz'. The thought is 'Look...at that Yep. Because that's him. Heeeeeyaz. Heeyazatha. Behold that Yap. Go evangelist and say 'Hyaeyuzutha Yahpahn!' or simply 'YyyyAYYYyyyy'. One should hold out both hands, palms up and slightly to the side, as though it were Vanna White presenting the Lost Ark of the Covenant.
8. Derived from rudiment #2, any word ending in 'y' is appended with 'eee-zee-ay' and variations thereof (ee-zi-jay, ee-zi-jep, ee-zi-jepon, etc.). This can serve to celebrate, decorate, mock, and also to camoflage or make more oblique names and words that deserve special attention. For example, 'Moody' becomes 'Moo-deeeee-zeeay', with the first syllable short and emphasized by a pregnant pause, followed by a long and reactive second syllable, then blend the ending with a flourish. Abbreviation of the second syllable to a normal duration may achieve a degree of masking, but exercise caution. 'Koo-cheezeeay'.
A typical outgrowth of this convention would be to incorporate a rollout, such as 'Hyeuz a bubba doo' before the emphasis on the word itself, then a build up of variations.
Hyeuz. The. Boo. DEE-ZEE-ay.(pause)
'
'Hyeuz a bubba doo DAE ZAE-JAY. (pause)
'Sez um and he SEHHZ UH-YAY. (pause).
...and so on until the energy is lost and the yepper runs out of interest in generating variations.
9. He says um er um and he says uh yay. This notion, again, underscores that the Yep was a thinkin mun, and quite the stoic. He was not anxious or reactionary, rather, he would calmly look you in the eye and let you stew in it.
10. Yep utility: Yepping is a great way to make an impression of someone without using actual words. Politicians, celebrities, friends and foes, all may be exposed independent of their words, and stripped down to their tones, inflections, attitudes, manners and gestures.
11. Cuz he says 'Yeah-wah' or he says-o-yeh-wah...cuz heez that bub (really emphasize yeh-wah and sing out bub).
12. Separation of double vowels e.g. 'dream' = 'dree-um'. Sometimes for delayed emphasis, the word with the double vowel will end a sentence, and then be revisited with emphasis. For example, 'We'll finish our work soon (upward tone). Hiya, sooo-wun! The tone is flat, deliberately separated, and delivered sometimes harshly.
13. Examples of the possessive form mixed in with applications that are a reach to justify with any clear explanation: Hazatha, Cuzutha, Shazatha - (he's, because, she's) and reference to oneself (muhsayulf, myeuh).
Common Fodder: NPR
Everyone on NPR has been Yeppified. The latest target -I mean source of inspiration- has been that marble-mouthed Peter Overbee with his foaming siliva curdle whot sounds like that Yap lickin' his lacka doo dads. Actually, he has NOT been yeppified, he has simply been mocked. Along with my favorite, Pat Duggins, who loves to be really enthusiastic about NAAAAASA. What will become of him now that uh, Buh, uh, rack, ah, O, uh, bam, uh has commercialized that whole venture? And Robert SEEEI-gal who also delivers the new-is. And the locals, we know to thank Rob Holmes for his famous ' that was....An-drew (huhhhhh) Scar....llllloteeeee....coming up...Lahhh-tee-NO...U.S.A. We love to yep in his affected manner.
Starting Yep employs the Socratic Method via a fill-in-the blank, rhythmic rhyme:
Hye-ahz...the...deeh
JEP...wah peen
Cuz hyeah says WHAT...to whom?
(ANSWER: YEP to Myeuh)
the ending goes:
Cuz hyeaz the Bu-bba-doo-dee-jepon...AND the DOO...deezee (02)...
and if you are feeling it, you can throw in 'ain when noone is expecting it.
Yep Parodies
I'm really reluctant to start this because it's truly opening Pandora's box. Any song is Yepable, although certain parts are more fun and lend to greater inspiration than others, examples include The Bonanza Theme, Alouette, certain parts of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and If I only had a Heart, Green-Eyed Lady, Blue Moon, Take Me Home and Don't Lose My Number by Phil Collins and No Reply at All by Genesis, parts of The Barber of Seville, music from Benny Hill, basslines from Jean Luc Ponty, that whistle song from Stripes, a version of 'I pledge allegiance" (to the flag) which starts with the way I used to call The Bub (You Comuthuh Yeah Mang), Pass the Dutchie, Camptown Races, and very often the intro music that starts an episode of the Brady Bunch (not the main theme but after that, when the show has started and they show the exterior of the house and a few producer credits), the Honeycomb Commercial, Turkey in the Straw, and The Heart of Rock and Roll by Huey Lewis maybe from listening to too much Neal Boortz. At some point, I intend to record examples. The first would likely be a multi-yep version, beats included, of "Got More Rhymes" by Young MC which sampled Ben E. King's "Supernatural Thing". Obsession by Animotion, Staying Alive by the BeeGees, Locomotion by Little Eva, and Magical Mystery Tour.
Barry Mann's song becomes 'Who put the Bub in the Yep Muh Yep Muh Yep Who put the doy in the Bubbadoo dejepajanga.
Metal Yeps have included 'Shout At the Yeahmang' and 'For Those About to Yep' (we say Yep to you).
Improvisational Scat Yeps
Circus music, blues riffs, flushing the toilet, things that pass on the side of the road, anything that makes a meter or a rhythm.
The Dickinson - power yeps mixed with falsetta. Try 'It Came Upon a Midnight Clear'.
A few good phrases:
Yepun, dee-jepun, and doooo dee jep un. (or substitute 'un' for 'fun' if you care to break up the monotony). Actually, this is sometimes a way of pointing out three dipshits walking together in a group. Otherwise, it's an incantation of praise-o-mun, and an enumerating of titles. Be sure to roll out the doooo as long and holy as possible in a worshipful way.
Dee Jep Wah Peen Cuz he says yep to me cuz hyeaz the buh ba doo dee jepun and the doo dee zee
(sound familiar? this one is known as what?...The Socratic...what...that's right, the Socratic..Yep)
yehmuyanga
didjamanga
bubbadoo
duhjehmujanga
yep yep muh yanga
daza muh
jep jep muh janga
(slow) and oh mun. and oh you. and oh mun. and oh too.
(faster) and oh mun oh you oh doo oh too oh you AND.
(emphatic) say yep to that jahpun. becuz he haza plan.
be-cuz thats him, he says yep to PEEN! hyeeuztha bubba doo dee jep AND the DOO dee zee. and oh you mun.
Doy DI ZI JEP PEEEEN.
Yep Yang!
He says O YahWah! To da Bub. Cuz Hyeuz. (to da Bub cuz Hyeuz).
Song - (slow) cuz hyeuz dat (fast) bubbadoodeejezzajepmuhjangadidjamanga hiza bubbadoodeejemuhjang yoo... ...manotoo...
this one is done almost like the lone ranger. I may have to add this to the book of Yep
It's a gallop - 123, 123, 123, 1-2, 1-2 - then repeat a few times:
di-ja-mang
duh-jay
yeh-ain'
YepBoxing
Mixing Yep bits with beats. Here's a short starter list:
1. Start with a dopey or 'sploosh' sounding 'Dowey' followed by a beat sequence, then 'Dowaaauh' - beat sequence - repeat with some variation on the dopey 'Dowey' including distortion / wag to the 'weh'. Then, increase energy with 'doo doweh', mix in more Yeps between beats such as 'Mun', 'Dats you', etc.
2. Yeppon (beat) Yeppon (double beat) Yeppon (beat) Yep-mon (triple). (repeat).
3. Yep (highhat-beep) Deejep (highhat-beep beep)Deejemang (highhat-beep: 123456)
4. The Spacelines Yap:
Buh-buhdo-DIZI-jehzamahjep-jang-dehjay
oh-you-mun
sayyehweh
tothebubbadoo
heeza-Moodytoo-Booby-doo
dija-mayang-dehjay-ain...etc.
5. Too da Bub, cuz hyeuz. (tooda bub cuz hyeuz da bub say yehwah tooda bub cuz hyeuz dat buuub.)
6. The rhythm of the old electronic drum kit toy commercial: 1-2,3, 1-2,3, 1.
7. Doy (beats) Dow-aaaah (beats)
8. 123456...cuz yoo duh yeh mang...123456...cuz yoo duh yeh mang...
bub doo dah di zi jape...cuz yoo duh yeh mang
9. And. Variations.
10. It came upon a midnight clear - cuz hyeuz the bub. he sez yawah. too myeuhhh-(go dickinson)
11. Dowee duh dooey dowey do dow dooweuh
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Advanced Yepping
You are not authorized to access this Yep.
Clients yep in here.
Yep o' the Day
As Dusty Rhodes once said:
"...and remember, Boo dazza muh jezza jep janga duh jay.
Bubba doo dazza muh jep janga deh jay, it doesn't matter.
Yep yep muh yanga dazza muh jep jep muh janga.
Muh yep yep yanga duh jay, makes no difference.
Yep Happens.
Have you Yepped your Yang today?
(or better yet, Have you stranged your creach today?)
iYep
Got Yep?
Order in the court muthuh fukuh doo doweh - order in that court fukuhdoo dowehhh
I'm seeing the world through Yep-colored glasses.
You couldn't Yep your way out of a wet paper bag. (to my friend who guesses that anything goes in Yepping as opposed to a living language with structure).
Who led Louis and Clark across the American wilderness? Sack-uh-juh-Wyeuh.
...Nebuchadnezzar
(pronounced Nyeabah Chud Nyea-zzah, as in 'Wussup muh Nyeabah Chud Nyea-zzah')
The tyrant who sent the Jews AWAY and worshiped golden idles,
unlike Sakuh Jaw Wyuhhh, who led Louis & Clark INTO the frontier,
which eventually led to the gold rush.
Say-O-Yay.
What Yep Tomorrow What You Can Yep Today
Carpe Yep
One Giant Yep for Mankind
The People's Yep
One day, I'm convinced that enough yeppers will exist due to the power of the Yep meme. At that point, a Yepcollective could conduct a People's Yep in a public forum. And at least we know that these folks would poop with discretion, just like That Yep. This would be an effective and non-violent way to bring attention to absurdity. The distinguishing characteristic of the People's Yep is that the lead yepper would be loosely echoed and not simply mindlessly repeated because Yeppers would throw in their own variations and it would create a tremendous wash of white noise. In fact, it might be a powerful enough movement to draw a variety of scatters and freestylers and it would become either constitute a very chaotic jazz festival or it would introduce yet another form - a Yeporian chant.
YEPILOGUE: THE RIDDLE OF THE YEAHMANG
Yepping is a gateway into another dimension that anchors to the core of something plunged beneath a deep sea trench, regardless of how many of the catacombs I might have scrawled with notations or strung with miles of yarn in hopes of finding my way back. I am but an unconscious spectator of that Yep, with mere glimpses of hyeuhz' conscious meaning, that whot is stated point blank in his eyes (behold above, cuz hyeaz talking to CHOO mun. LOOK...at That Yep).
The answer to the Riddle of That Yeahmang grants instant access to That whot cannot be repeated or revealed through words. It is That whot can only be Yepped.
* It is possible that the riddle may have to do with strongly suspecting whether or to what degree Moody was in fact self aware. He was commonly put in front of a mirror and told 'My Bub. Dat's Yoo. Yooooo da Yeahmang.' Unfortunately, a true mirror test was never conducted to confirm.
Inspired Additions
CHORUS:
yoo should hear how she yeps about you
yoo should hear her say 'YAY'
(cuzzuh thuh)
SHEA sayuz shy'ud byeuh LIZOST wiffout choo, mun
SHEAZ half out of her hizead
(out of her hizead)
http://youtu.be/W_MZo88gzrA
I picked this version for the intro by Rex Whatshiznutz, the male dancers, and the overall quality.
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Public Outcry
Two doubters have now used the word "iffy" in relation to this blog entry. As mentioned in the Prologue, the original skeptic - or should I say heretic - was an old girlfriend who had learned a good bit of Yepaneze (she could understand it in a pinch but had not yet come to speak or read it). She didn't think 'DeeJepWahPeen' qualified as a legitimate part of the form. Being a living language - and she had been away for several years at grad school while I continued to work on my doctoral dissertation, 'Solving The Riddle of the Yeahmang' - I was understanding that she wasn't yet able to behold That Yap without averting her eyes.
Fortunately or unfortunately as the case may be, there are no if, ands, or buts about it. I actually say or have said all of this on an ongoing basis, and have even been awakened by a good Yep in the night that came to me in a dree-um. I'll just have to record and demonstrate. Though I've not carved any stone tablets yet, truly, the blog entry is a means of catalog primarily for my own reference, so as to keep up with the flood from the muse which is typically not consciously summoned. I guess you could say I'm speaking in Muns. But, you never know, there could be a Second Yepping.
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Uncharted Territory: Yup
If he'd been from Chicago, he would have been Yup Mun. But hipsters say it too, because they love to take on affectations from other places, so maybe hipsters are Yup Mun.
I realized today that I've never used a Yup or variations thereof and I didn't quite know what to do. Yup Pup? He doesn't need a side kick. But Deh Jup Wuh Pup is awfully hard to resist. Maybe that's how to say something is cute. Aw shit.
I do use Yap which I love - Yap Mun -the contrast is great. Try it without the consonants and exaggerate - you'll make a pretty good retard impression.
Or just Dah Jup. Maybe 2 Ps - Duh Jupp.
These idiots who like to say Ya and Yup in email. They really are just deejepwahpeens, but I guess I can call them Yup Mun.
--
Yep mun, Yep Mun, Deh Jep Mun
Yep Yang De Jep Muh Jang Have Fun
Yep mun, Yep Mun, Deh Jep Mun
Yepon Dah Yepon
Another One Bites the Dust (by Kwee-un)
(to the fast part)
Bubba doo dee jezza jeppon yoo say yay-0-wah to me, Yeppon
(muh yep yanga)
Yeppon, Dee Jeppon, and Doo Dee Jep Peen say yay-0-wah to me, have fun
Boo dee jeppon, boo dee jezza muh jang say yay-o-wah to me, yepeen
Bubba Doo de jezza jeppon yoo, yay-o-wah to yoo mun, to me
Aaaaaand...
Yep Yep Yep
Boo dazza Jep Yep Muh Yang
Big Country by Big Country - (Bee-ahhhg)
Say yay-o ah wah
to the dizi my cha pang jay...
Yepmus Songs
Song selections:
Doo-jep, the Yep-Nosed mang, yeuh
Oh Little Doy-deh-Jep-Wah-Peen
Jingle Bell Mun (Boo-deh-Jep Mun) * previously Yepped, fuh ray-yull, indee-ud
Here come Santa Claus (Doy-deh-Jep-Wah-Peen) * previously Yepped, fuh ray-yull, indee-ud
Yay ride togyeuthah with yoo
Carol of the Yayuhs
12 Day-ah-Yuz of Yepmus
On the doy DIZI Yepmon
my bub sed Yeuh to myuh:
Doy DI ZI Jeppon
Bubbeh doo dee jep
AND!
a Par-tree-ahdj in a Pear Tryeuh. INDEEEUD. AND.
(sub in) OH TOO. THREE-UH FOUR. FIVE SIX. SEVEN EIGHT. NIGH-UN, TEE-AH-YUN.
Pat's Yep O the Day:
Another one bites the yep.
To yep, or not to yep. That is the yep.
The only thing we have to yep, is yep itself.
Latest Yep
Thruhhh ti-umzzz a Yeah Mang
And I say "AHHHHAAAAHHHHYAAAAAA" too yooooo.
Yepelation
Why Yep Tomorrow What You Can Yep Today
Carpe Yep
to which Pat sez:
Yep. It's a lifestyle choice.
to which I say:
God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Yep.
Yep Pattern
To Strange the creech. To Say yehwah. To Poop yu paintz. And do a daintz.
Weeuh Waeuh Weeuh Wayuh Weeuh.
Didjerido = Didj Dooey
Deejepwahpecker.
More horse shit
Yay o weuh. Doo dee jeuh. Yoo and Myeuh.
So very very Nah-styeuh to Myeuh...In-dee-ah-yahd.
...to Pyon...
DiziMyJepaJangJay Yep Peen
DiMyZiMyJepJang Duh Jay Indeeyud
Rock a bye and good night
My bubba doo, that's yoo Yepmun
Beecuz yoo say Yep to PeeeYon
Yoo say Yowaaaaaahhhh to the DIZI-Jep
And you say Yaywah to Myeuuuuuh
Yep Standards
Mr. Rogers theme
Green Acres - boodajah sez yeweh too myeuh
Bonanza
Wizard of Oz - If I only had a brain, somewhere over the rainbow
Puttin on the Ritz
Another one bites the dust
Rock a bye and good night
Xmas songs
Bytor & the Snow Jep
Click to better behold That Yeahmang. Cuz hyeuhz:
Prologue:
Transcribed from an email sent around January of '09 to a fellow Yepper:
Yepenese underwent an evolution between 2003 and 2007 with the introduction of dipthongs. Well, maybe just the one 'ae'. I lobbed out a 'de jep wah paeon' in an email to a friend which was cited as 'iffy' to which I responded 'You're lucky I didn't throw in a boo-daja-jeza-jep-wah-priapism on your ass.'
But the etymology is substantiated:
A Brief and Abridged Excursion into Yepymology and the Fundamental Building Blocks of Yepping
-OR-
You Too Can Yep: A Primer
-OR-
"The ApoloJepics"
-or simply-
"The Book of Yep"
While there may be other conventions that have been omitted from this primer, this is a decent first round up. I have been meaning to create my own reference with audio tracks, but for now, it helps to preserve what has become a somewhat monopolistic oral tradition and for the unindoctrinated to see the actual text.
Rudiments of Yep
Here below, we see how 'doo' is substituted and abbreviated liberally, aggressively, or interchangeably with 'de' or 'duh'. The origin being an impression from Mexico, blended with central and south american, and even some Portuguese - an occasional lingering pause of '...em..used instead of 'um' to represent the hesitation of thought processing. That's what the Brazilians do. Perhaps this use of 'd' in place of 'th' reflects the triangular trade and african roots in the mix. The Latinos are known for switching their j's and y's. And we certainly nod to the nizzle, as with a 'bazza muh dazza muh jezza muh jang'.
1. The Yeah Mang = de jeh mang = duh jay = DJ (also branching to and from de jep MUN)
2. Moody > Moo-dee-zee-A > doo dee zee A = doo dee jay = doo dee jep (muh jang)
3. The Yeah Mang = de jep jang = de jep muh jang (possessive-affectionate, 'my yeah mang') = de jep ahn = de jeppy-ohn = dee jaypeon (a bridging between 'yep', 'yay' and 'mun'). This one can also be spoken with an Irish accent - think about it. Moving forward, this has become Dee Jay Peen which sounds a lot like I'm saying you-know-what and opens up a new door of possibility which could be uncomfortable for the uninitiated. A fun loop is to just fidget repeatedly, like a public schooler in the lower reading level trying to settle on the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word, like so: 'peon, payon, pieon (but we think of it with a dipthong 'paeon') This absurd loop begins in a searching manner and then we go into a rhythm which ultimately becomes a full yallop of 'Rock Around the Clock' by Bill Haley and the Comets. A favorite free verse is 'Yay-O-Peen, Yay-to-myeuh, Yay-indee-ud, ain' (or if repeated again, really emphasize and fully pronounce 'AND' with the ahh sound).
4. Obvious variations on Yes = Yep, Yeah (yay), hence our favorite caucasian iteration of simply 'Yes Man' with a neighborly, nod and shit-eating smile.
5. Use of 'Bubba' as root. Bubba was the placeholder name used prior to the declaration of the name Moody. Variations include Bubba Doo > Bubba Doo Daja, Boo-dajah, Boo daja jeza jep (muh jang) and that crowd pleaser, DI ZI JEP which cannot stop and must become Di zi jep (haaaaa!!!) wah peon. The haaaa!!! or 'hiya' part should sound like a frightened yodel, as though some has been thrown from the roof of a high rise.
Thematic Extensions and Conventions
The recurring themes of Yepmology involve outpourings of enthusiasm without inhibition, sometimes derision of a gullible and even captive consumer, showing that Yep his reflection in a mirror to make him aware of himself (thereby disproving the notion of homo sapien sapien, cuzuthu that Yap certainly knew his own reflection and liked riding in elevators), and general praise. But, Yepping involves other recurring conventions and themes. Here are a few:
1. Use of 'ain' as in 'Oh mun, oh, you, oh mun, oh too, oh mun OH DOO!...ain'...
2. The Evangelist includes circular speak and furvor:
Yeah to you...and to you, YAY-YUH.
I said to muh-say-yulf, to muh-sayulf I said, to-mahhh-sailf I sayud to muhsailf I said...eh...yoo.
3. The monotone (My bubbadoo, that's you. You are Yep Man, oh, too. Duh Jep.) The rhythm is usually '12345...1-12345...1-2.' This was handy once when I had to improvise a metered rhyme and it became 'My bubbadoo dats yoo YepMun youre always having so much fun'.
4. Delay without consequence. Prolonged use of either 'em...' and 'eh...' as though carefully sorting out a thought, only to arrive at the conclusion of either 'You' or 'Mun'.
5. Submission and Dominance: Beotch and Metal God speak. Yepping tips its hat with a 'myeuh' in substitute for frequent reference to 'me' which can be either as wanna-be powerful as James Hedfield meets Mumm-Rah or it can sound like the voice over in a 1950s educational film. The word 'Too' often connotes a general feeling of almost syrupy sympatico and general conformity for the sake of acceptance, and may introduce the character who always insists on coming along much to the dread of the party. However, the Yep may assume the dominant position and represent a transformational force as if to say 'take your medicine'. We temper this with the sympatico 'Teeyoo' but alternate with the commanding 'Tow'. Is it an annoying request or an imposing conviction? Listen to that Yap. Use of 'oh, too' can often be trailed by '3-4'...'5-6'...'7-8', etc. just to generally confuse and create further absurdity.
6. Reference to Mun. Most names are preceded by either 'The' or 'That' as in The Yeahmang or That Yep. Mun is a stand alone utitlity.
7. Use and variations of 'Cuz hyeeuz'. The thought is 'Look...at that Yep. Because that's him. Heeeeeyaz. Heeyazatha. Behold that Yap. Go evangelist and say 'Hyaeyuzutha Yahpahn!' or simply 'YyyyAYYYyyyy'. One should hold out both hands, palms up and slightly to the side, as though it were Vanna White presenting the Lost Ark of the Covenant.
8. Derived from rudiment #2, any word ending in 'y' is appended with 'eee-zee-ay' and variations thereof (ee-zi-jay, ee-zi-jep, ee-zi-jepon, etc.). This can serve to celebrate, decorate, mock, and also to camoflage or make more oblique names and words that deserve special attention. For example, 'Moody' becomes 'Moo-deeeee-zeeay', with the first syllable short and emphasized by a pregnant pause, followed by a long and reactive second syllable, then blend the ending with a flourish. Abbreviation of the second syllable to a normal duration may achieve a degree of masking, but exercise caution. 'Koo-cheezeeay'.
A typical outgrowth of this convention would be to incorporate a rollout, such as 'Hyeuz a bubba doo' before the emphasis on the word itself, then a build up of variations.
Hyeuz. The. Boo. DEE-ZEE-ay.(pause)
'
'Hyeuz a bubba doo DAE ZAE-JAY. (pause)
'Sez um and he SEHHZ UH-YAY. (pause).
...and so on until the energy is lost and the yepper runs out of interest in generating variations.
9. He says um er um and he says uh yay. This notion, again, underscores that the Yep was a thinkin mun, and quite the stoic. He was not anxious or reactionary, rather, he would calmly look you in the eye and let you stew in it.
10. Yep utility: Yepping is a great way to make an impression of someone without using actual words. Politicians, celebrities, friends and foes, all may be exposed independent of their words, and stripped down to their tones, inflections, attitudes, manners and gestures.
11. Cuz he says 'Yeah-wah' or he says-o-yeh-wah...cuz heez that bub (really emphasize yeh-wah and sing out bub).
12. Separation of double vowels e.g. 'dream' = 'dree-um'. Sometimes for delayed emphasis, the word with the double vowel will end a sentence, and then be revisited with emphasis. For example, 'We'll finish our work soon (upward tone). Hiya, sooo-wun! The tone is flat, deliberately separated, and delivered sometimes harshly.
13. Examples of the possessive form mixed in with applications that are a reach to justify with any clear explanation: Hazatha, Cuzutha, Shazatha - (he's, because, she's) and reference to oneself (muhsayulf, myeuh).
Common Fodder: NPR
Everyone on NPR has been Yeppified. The latest target -I mean source of inspiration- has been that marble-mouthed Peter Overbee with his foaming siliva curdle whot sounds like that Yap lickin' his lacka doo dads. Actually, he has NOT been yeppified, he has simply been mocked. Along with my favorite, Pat Duggins, who loves to be really enthusiastic about NAAAAASA. What will become of him now that uh, Buh, uh, rack, ah, O, uh, bam, uh has commercialized that whole venture? And Robert SEEEI-gal who also delivers the new-is. And the locals, we know to thank Rob Holmes for his famous ' that was....An-drew (huhhhhh) Scar....llllloteeeee....coming up...Lahhh-tee-NO...U.S.A. We love to yep in his affected manner.
Starting Yep employs the Socratic Method via a fill-in-the blank, rhythmic rhyme:
Hye-ahz...the...deeh
JEP...wah peen
Cuz hyeah says WHAT...to whom?
(ANSWER: YEP to Myeuh)
the ending goes:
Cuz hyeaz the Bu-bba-doo-dee-jepon...AND the DOO...deezee (02)...
and if you are feeling it, you can throw in 'ain when noone is expecting it.
Yep Parodies
I'm really reluctant to start this because it's truly opening Pandora's box. Any song is Yepable, although certain parts are more fun and lend to greater inspiration than others, examples include The Bonanza Theme, Alouette, certain parts of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and If I only had a Heart, Green-Eyed Lady, Blue Moon, Take Me Home and Don't Lose My Number by Phil Collins and No Reply at All by Genesis, parts of The Barber of Seville, music from Benny Hill, basslines from Jean Luc Ponty, that whistle song from Stripes, a version of 'I pledge allegiance" (to the flag) which starts with the way I used to call The Bub (You Comuthuh Yeah Mang), Pass the Dutchie, Camptown Races, and very often the intro music that starts an episode of the Brady Bunch (not the main theme but after that, when the show has started and they show the exterior of the house and a few producer credits), the Honeycomb Commercial, Turkey in the Straw, and The Heart of Rock and Roll by Huey Lewis maybe from listening to too much Neal Boortz. At some point, I intend to record examples. The first would likely be a multi-yep version, beats included, of "Got More Rhymes" by Young MC which sampled Ben E. King's "Supernatural Thing". Obsession by Animotion, Staying Alive by the BeeGees, Locomotion by Little Eva, and Magical Mystery Tour.
Barry Mann's song becomes 'Who put the Bub in the Yep Muh Yep Muh Yep Who put the doy in the Bubbadoo dejepajanga.
Metal Yeps have included 'Shout At the Yeahmang' and 'For Those About to Yep' (we say Yep to you).
Improvisational Scat Yeps
Circus music, blues riffs, flushing the toilet, things that pass on the side of the road, anything that makes a meter or a rhythm.
The Dickinson - power yeps mixed with falsetta. Try 'It Came Upon a Midnight Clear'.
A few good phrases:
Yepun, dee-jepun, and doooo dee jep un. (or substitute 'un' for 'fun' if you care to break up the monotony). Actually, this is sometimes a way of pointing out three dipshits walking together in a group. Otherwise, it's an incantation of praise-o-mun, and an enumerating of titles. Be sure to roll out the doooo as long and holy as possible in a worshipful way.
Dee Jep Wah Peen Cuz he says yep to me cuz hyeaz the buh ba doo dee jepun and the doo dee zee
(sound familiar? this one is known as what?...The Socratic...what...that's right, the Socratic..Yep)
yehmuyanga
didjamanga
bubbadoo
duhjehmujanga
yep yep muh yanga
daza muh
jep jep muh janga
(slow) and oh mun. and oh you. and oh mun. and oh too.
(faster) and oh mun oh you oh doo oh too oh you AND.
(emphatic) say yep to that jahpun. becuz he haza plan.
be-cuz thats him, he says yep to PEEN! hyeeuztha bubba doo dee jep AND the DOO dee zee. and oh you mun.
Doy DI ZI JEP PEEEEN.
Yep Yang!
He says O YahWah! To da Bub. Cuz Hyeuz. (to da Bub cuz Hyeuz).
Song - (slow) cuz hyeuz dat (fast) bubbadoodeejezzajepmuhjangadidjamanga hiza bubbadoodeejemuhjang yoo... ...manotoo...
this one is done almost like the lone ranger. I may have to add this to the book of Yep
It's a gallop - 123, 123, 123, 1-2, 1-2 - then repeat a few times:
dizi-jep
yeh-muh-yangdi-ja-mang
duh-jay
yeh-ain'
YepBoxing
Mixing Yep bits with beats. Here's a short starter list:
1. Start with a dopey or 'sploosh' sounding 'Dowey' followed by a beat sequence, then 'Dowaaauh' - beat sequence - repeat with some variation on the dopey 'Dowey' including distortion / wag to the 'weh'. Then, increase energy with 'doo doweh', mix in more Yeps between beats such as 'Mun', 'Dats you', etc.
2. Yeppon (beat) Yeppon (double beat) Yeppon (beat) Yep-mon (triple). (repeat).
3. Yep (highhat-beep) Deejep (highhat-beep beep)Deejemang (highhat-beep: 123456)
4. The Spacelines Yap:
Buh-buhdo-DIZI-jehzamahjep-jang-dehjay
oh-you-mun
sayyehweh
tothebubbadoo
heeza-Moodytoo-Booby-doo
dija-mayang-dehjay-ain...etc.
5. Too da Bub, cuz hyeuz. (tooda bub cuz hyeuz da bub say yehwah tooda bub cuz hyeuz dat buuub.)
6. The rhythm of the old electronic drum kit toy commercial: 1-2,3, 1-2,3, 1.
7. Doy (beats) Dow-aaaah (beats)
8. 123456...cuz yoo duh yeh mang...123456...cuz yoo duh yeh mang...
bub doo dah di zi jape...cuz yoo duh yeh mang
9. And. Variations.
10. It came upon a midnight clear - cuz hyeuz the bub. he sez yawah. too myeuhhh-(go dickinson)
11. Dowee duh dooey dowey do dow dooweuh
***
Advanced Yepping
You are not authorized to access this Yep.
Clients yep in here.
Yep o' the Day
As Dusty Rhodes once said:
"...and remember, Boo dazza muh jezza jep janga duh jay.
Bubba doo dazza muh jep janga deh jay, it doesn't matter.
Yep yep muh yanga dazza muh jep jep muh janga.
Muh yep yep yanga duh jay, makes no difference.
Yep Happens.
Have you Yepped your Yang today?
(or better yet, Have you stranged your creach today?)
iYep
Got Yep?
Order in the court muthuh fukuh doo doweh - order in that court fukuhdoo dowehhh
I'm seeing the world through Yep-colored glasses.
You couldn't Yep your way out of a wet paper bag. (to my friend who guesses that anything goes in Yepping as opposed to a living language with structure).
Who led Louis and Clark across the American wilderness? Sack-uh-juh-Wyeuh.
...Nebuchadnezzar
(pronounced Nyeabah Chud Nyea-zzah, as in 'Wussup muh Nyeabah Chud Nyea-zzah')
The tyrant who sent the Jews AWAY and worshiped golden idles,
unlike Sakuh Jaw Wyuhhh, who led Louis & Clark INTO the frontier,
which eventually led to the gold rush.
Say-O-Yay.
What Yep Tomorrow What You Can Yep Today
Carpe Yep
One Giant Yep for Mankind
The People's Yep
One day, I'm convinced that enough yeppers will exist due to the power of the Yep meme. At that point, a Yepcollective could conduct a People's Yep in a public forum. And at least we know that these folks would poop with discretion, just like That Yep. This would be an effective and non-violent way to bring attention to absurdity. The distinguishing characteristic of the People's Yep is that the lead yepper would be loosely echoed and not simply mindlessly repeated because Yeppers would throw in their own variations and it would create a tremendous wash of white noise. In fact, it might be a powerful enough movement to draw a variety of scatters and freestylers and it would become either constitute a very chaotic jazz festival or it would introduce yet another form - a Yeporian chant.
YEPILOGUE: THE RIDDLE OF THE YEAHMANG
Yepping is a gateway into another dimension that anchors to the core of something plunged beneath a deep sea trench, regardless of how many of the catacombs I might have scrawled with notations or strung with miles of yarn in hopes of finding my way back. I am but an unconscious spectator of that Yep, with mere glimpses of hyeuhz' conscious meaning, that whot is stated point blank in his eyes (behold above, cuz hyeaz talking to CHOO mun. LOOK...at That Yep).
The answer to the Riddle of That Yeahmang grants instant access to That whot cannot be repeated or revealed through words. It is That whot can only be Yepped.
* It is possible that the riddle may have to do with strongly suspecting whether or to what degree Moody was in fact self aware. He was commonly put in front of a mirror and told 'My Bub. Dat's Yoo. Yooooo da Yeahmang.' Unfortunately, a true mirror test was never conducted to confirm.
Inspired Additions
yoo should hear how she yeps about you
yoo should hear her say 'YAY'
(cuzzuh thuh)
SHEA sayuz shy'ud byeuh LIZOST wiffout choo, mun
SHEAZ half out of her hizead
(out of her hizead)
http://youtu.be/W_MZo88gzrA
I picked this version for the intro by Rex Whatshiznutz, the male dancers, and the overall quality.
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Public Outcry
Two doubters have now used the word "iffy" in relation to this blog entry. As mentioned in the Prologue, the original skeptic - or should I say heretic - was an old girlfriend who had learned a good bit of Yepaneze (she could understand it in a pinch but had not yet come to speak or read it). She didn't think 'DeeJepWahPeen' qualified as a legitimate part of the form. Being a living language - and she had been away for several years at grad school while I continued to work on my doctoral dissertation, 'Solving The Riddle of the Yeahmang' - I was understanding that she wasn't yet able to behold That Yap without averting her eyes.
Fortunately or unfortunately as the case may be, there are no if, ands, or buts about it. I actually say or have said all of this on an ongoing basis, and have even been awakened by a good Yep in the night that came to me in a dree-um. I'll just have to record and demonstrate. Though I've not carved any stone tablets yet, truly, the blog entry is a means of catalog primarily for my own reference, so as to keep up with the flood from the muse which is typically not consciously summoned. I guess you could say I'm speaking in Muns. But, you never know, there could be a Second Yepping.
--
Uncharted Territory: Yup
If he'd been from Chicago, he would have been Yup Mun. But hipsters say it too, because they love to take on affectations from other places, so maybe hipsters are Yup Mun.
I realized today that I've never used a Yup or variations thereof and I didn't quite know what to do. Yup Pup? He doesn't need a side kick. But Deh Jup Wuh Pup is awfully hard to resist. Maybe that's how to say something is cute. Aw shit.
I do use Yap which I love - Yap Mun -the contrast is great. Try it without the consonants and exaggerate - you'll make a pretty good retard impression.
Or just Dah Jup. Maybe 2 Ps - Duh Jupp.
These idiots who like to say Ya and Yup in email. They really are just deejepwahpeens, but I guess I can call them Yup Mun.
--
To the chorus of "Abra Cadabra" by Steve Miller Band
Yep mun, Yep Mun, Deh Jep Mun
Yep mun, Yep Mun, Deh Jep Mun
Yepon Dah Yepon
Another One Bites the Dust (by Kwee-un)
(to the fast part)
Bubba doo dee jezza jeppon yoo say yay-0-wah to me, Yeppon
(muh yep yanga)
Yeppon, Dee Jeppon, and Doo Dee Jep Peen say yay-0-wah to me, have fun
Boo dee jeppon, boo dee jezza muh jang say yay-o-wah to me, yepeen
Bubba Doo de jezza jeppon yoo, yay-o-wah to yoo mun, to me
Aaaaaand...
Yep Yep Yep
Boo dazza Jep Yep Muh Yang
Big Country by Big Country - (Bee-ahhhg)
Say yay-o ah wah
to the dizi my cha pang jay...
Yepmus Songs
Song selections:
The first yeoweh
12 days of yepmus
Yahweh in Yepmanger
little yepper boy (say yay o wah to myuh, doy dizi jep munnnnn)Yay ride togyeuthah with yoo
Carol of the Yayuhs
12 Day-ah-Yuz of Yepmus
On the doy DIZI Yepmon
my bub sed Yeuh to myuh:
Doy DI ZI Jeppon
Hyeuzza Moody Yeppon
Say O Yay O Wyeuh
Bubba doo deh zheuh
Doy dee JEP muh janga
Moody too yep yanga
Jeh muh Janga Jay ain'
Say O Yay O Wyeuh
Bubba doo deh zheuh
Doy dee JEP muh janga
Moody too yep yanga
Jeh muh Janga Jay ain'
DI ZI Yep, HIYA! Wah Peeeee-ah-yonnn!
Bubbeh doo dee jep
Yeppa Yang Yay
Doo Dee Jep Wah PayonAND!
a Par-tree-ahdj in a Pear Tryeuh. INDEEEUD. AND.
(sub in) OH TOO. THREE-UH FOUR. FIVE SIX. SEVEN EIGHT. NIGH-UN, TEE-AH-YUN.
Pat's Yep O the Day:
Yepping for a cause.
Return of the yep.Latest Yep
Yoo are once
Twi-uss-
I'm in the mood for "AHHHHAAAAHHHHYAAAAAA"
Simply because you're "AHHHHAAAAHHHHYAAAAAA"
Funny, but when you're "AHHHHAAAAHHHHYAAAAAA"
I'm in the mood for "AHHHHAAAAHHHHYAAAAAA".
Yepelation
Why Yep Tomorrow What You Can Yep Today
Carpe Yep
to which Pat sez:
Yep. It's a lifestyle choice.
to which I say:
God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Yep.
Yep Pattern
To Strange the creech. To Say yehwah. To Poop yu paintz. And do a daintz.
Weeuh Waeuh Weeuh Wayuh Weeuh.
Didjerido = Didj Dooey
Deejepwahpecker.
More horse shit
Yay o weuh. Doo dee jeuh. Yoo and Myeuh.
So very very Nah-styeuh to Myeuh...In-dee-ah-yahd.
...to Pyon...
DiziMyJepaJangJay Yep Peen
DiMyZiMyJepJang Duh Jay Indeeyud
Rock a bye and good night
My bubba doo, that's yoo Yepmun
Beecuz yoo say Yep to PeeeYon
Yoo say Yowaaaaaahhhh to the DIZI-Jep
And you say Yaywah to Myeuuuuuh
Yep Standards
Mr. Rogers theme
Green Acres - boodajah sez yeweh too myeuh
Bonanza
Wizard of Oz - If I only had a brain, somewhere over the rainbow
Puttin on the Ritz
Another one bites the dust
Rock a bye and good night
Xmas songs
Bytor & the Snow Jep
Boo dae zae jep
Ah yah
Cuz dat iz yowee
Weuh
Duh zae muh jepuh janga didjuh muh yang yep peen
Doo dee jay mang
Yah
Cuz dat iz him
Hiz
Chapang muhyanga didja manga duh jay yep yang
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2024 Update
After a long absence, I have one specific update in mind, something that usually occurs when I'm driving.
After a long absence, I have one specific update in mind, something that usually occurs when I'm driving.
Jape
Choomon (agreeably)
Hiz
Cha-pang (quickly)
Chooman
Hiz
Jape!
Choomon! (Wow-style)
Hiz
Cha-pang! (Loudly)
Jape!
Jape!
Choomon! (Wow-style)
(continue ad infinitum)
-
Indee-deh
Un-duh-deuh
2025
Frère Jacques is an oldy but goody, how can I forget. It just works out so well for Yepping.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Augmented / Blended Reality
http://www.iftf.org/node/4027
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Goggles
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/11/real-life-holodecks-microsoft-kinect-augmented-reality-room-is-the-closest-thing-yet/
Notes:
Combine Kinect, camera-heavy wireless network, real-time rendering, smart glasses.
Contexts: Virtual fashion show, theater/performance, arena-style gaming, fantasy tours, e.g. rollercoaster rides, simulations, reenactments, training simulations - preset linear or dynamic simulation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Goggles
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/11/real-life-holodecks-microsoft-kinect-augmented-reality-room-is-the-closest-thing-yet/
Notes:
Combine Kinect, camera-heavy wireless network, real-time rendering, smart glasses.
Contexts: Virtual fashion show, theater/performance, arena-style gaming, fantasy tours, e.g. rollercoaster rides, simulations, reenactments, training simulations - preset linear or dynamic simulation.
Bionic Implants and Medical Networks
http://www.techworld.com.au/article/408425/spectrum_clash_builds_around_bionic_implants#closeme
The battle over scarce radio spectrum that has embroiled the mobile broadband world even extends to a little-known type of wireless network that promises to reconnect the human nervous system with paralyzed limbs.
At its monthly meeting next week, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will consider whether four sets of frequencies between 413MHz and 457MHz can be used by networks of sensors implanted in patients who suffer from various forms of paralysis. One intended purpose of these MMNS (medical micropower network systems) is to transmit movement commands from a sensor on a patient's spinal cord, through a wearable MCU (master control unit), to implants that electrically stimulate nerves. The same wireless technology might be used in devices to restore sight or hearing.
However, broadcast engineers are fighting the proposed rule that would allow this, saying TV and radio stations already use one of the bands to broadcast live from news events and this might interfere with the body networks. The main proponent of MMNS, the nonprofit Alfred Mann Foundation (AMF), says tests have proved that these systems can cope with interference as long as all four blocks of spectrum are available.
At the Nov. 30 meeting, FCC staff will present its proposed rules for MMNS in the spectrum and turn them over to the commissioners for a vote and possible modifications. If approved, the rules would go into effect as soon as they are published in the Federal Register.
Frequencies are a battleground
As mobile devices drive up demand for wireless data networks, carriers, broadcasters and technology giants are fighting over limited radio spectrum. Access to frequencies is at the center of complex disputes over would-be hybrid network operator LightSquared, AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, and unlicensed "white spaces" between TV stations. Though recent advances have led to networks that use spectrum more efficiently, faster connections do require more spectrum. The FCC's National Broadband Plan calls for allocating 500MHz of additional frequencies to mobile broadband over the next decade.
Whereas most of the spectrum debates have cited demand for mobile video and social networking applications, in the rancor over MMNS, there arguably is much more at stake. The microstimulator implants being developed by AMF could be used to treat neuromuscular disorders including spinal-cord and brain injuries, multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy. The use of wireless networks between implants and MCUs could eliminate the need to implant trouble-prone networks of wires underneath a patient's skin, said AMF CEO David Hankin.
FES (functional electric stimulation) has been used for many years to cause unresponsive muscles to contract, Hankin said. It's one application of the merging of electronics and the human body, called bionics. The new microstimulators are about the size of a small fuse, so they can be implanted right next to a nerve, under local anesthesia, he said. Because of its greater precision, the new technology can gather more accurate input about how the patient wants to move and communicate that to specific nerves. The focused electrical charges hurt less than earlier ones, so patients who have sensation in their disabled limbs feel a tingling sensation at most, he said.
The MCU, which picks up and processes inputs from the spine or another source and passes it on to the microstimulators, can be carried in a backpack now, Hankin said. Eventually, the MCU may be as small as a cellphone, or even be built into the patient's own cellphone. Though the same type of technology can be used in physical therapists' offices, miniaturization and wireless links make it more practical for use as people go about their lives, he said.
Away from wired networks
Today, some patients have networks of microstimulators linked by wires implanted underneath their skin. This requires two or three days of operations and can lead to infections that travel down the wires, leading to another long operation to replace the wires, Hankin said. Wireless networks allow doctors to bypass that technique, he said.
MMNS requires very low frequencies in order to communicate with implants through the patient's skin, Hankin said. AMF looked to the 413-457MHz band, despite the fact that others were already using it, because it had the ideal characteristics for the job and AMF couldn't afford the billions that exclusive spectrum licenses cost at auction, he said.
The three lowest sections of the band are used by the federal government for defense radar and other purposes. The Department of Defense will allow MMNS in those bands, and the NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) is coordinating with the FCC on its own review of them, according to Hankin.
But AMF wanted one more band, 451-457MHz, to make sure that MMNS would have spectrum to use in situations where the other three bands were occupied. It's intended for use mainly in rural areas, according to Hankin. This band is home to many wireless devices, including land mobile radio (also called walkie-talkies) and broadcasting trucks that send live feeds back to their stations.
Broadcast engineers and others say MMNS need to stay out of this band. The Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE), a smaller group called Engineers for the Integrity of Broadcast Auxiliary Services Spectrum (EIBASS), and walkie-talkie pioneer Motorola have all filed statements with the FCC opposing AMF's proposal. They said the foundation hadn't established that MCUs or implants could overcome interference from those nearby devices.
A different kind of interference
Broadcasting trucks using RPU (Remote Pickup) systems can transmit at thousands of times the power of MMNS, from antennas relatively close to the ground, said Dane Ericksen, co-chairman of EIBASS. AMF isn't asking the FCC for any legal protection from interference, saying it will coexist with other uses, but Ericksen thinks the MMNS proposal may be a Trojan horse.
"Neither SBE nor EIBASS have opposed this on the grounds that it will cause interference to RPU operations," Ericksen said. "Our concern is that RPU operations will wipe out MMNS, at which point the FCC will say, 'Oh my goodness, this is a medical application, and we're going to put restrictions on where RPUs can operate.'"
If the FCC were to restrict use of the frequencies around health-care facilities, that might include retirement homes and many other locations, he believes.
"That would be a real burden, to force all RPU licensees to identify every health-care facility in their market and make sure they don't do any remotes within a half-kilometer, maybe, of that," Ericksen said.
AMF said tests by the DOD and defense contractor Aerospace Corp. proved that there are adequate mechanisms in MMNS to avoid interference. The medical devices can shift to another channel where there is less interference, and if there are no free channels, the system can carry out a "graceful shutdown." That would include an audible or vibration alert for the wearer, Hankin said.
Opponents say those tests didn't include a simulation of a radio transmitting continuously at high power for a long period of time, as a remote broadcast would. Hankin said he believed that was included.
In any case, the nightmare scenario of someone falling to the ground because interference caused his MMNS to shut down is not on the horizon, Hankin said. Because of the complexities of human gait, patients won't rely on MMNS to walk for many years, he said.
The battle over scarce radio spectrum that has embroiled the mobile broadband world even extends to a little-known type of wireless network that promises to reconnect the human nervous system with paralyzed limbs.
At its monthly meeting next week, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will consider whether four sets of frequencies between 413MHz and 457MHz can be used by networks of sensors implanted in patients who suffer from various forms of paralysis. One intended purpose of these MMNS (medical micropower network systems) is to transmit movement commands from a sensor on a patient's spinal cord, through a wearable MCU (master control unit), to implants that electrically stimulate nerves. The same wireless technology might be used in devices to restore sight or hearing.
However, broadcast engineers are fighting the proposed rule that would allow this, saying TV and radio stations already use one of the bands to broadcast live from news events and this might interfere with the body networks. The main proponent of MMNS, the nonprofit Alfred Mann Foundation (AMF), says tests have proved that these systems can cope with interference as long as all four blocks of spectrum are available.
At the Nov. 30 meeting, FCC staff will present its proposed rules for MMNS in the spectrum and turn them over to the commissioners for a vote and possible modifications. If approved, the rules would go into effect as soon as they are published in the Federal Register.
Frequencies are a battleground
As mobile devices drive up demand for wireless data networks, carriers, broadcasters and technology giants are fighting over limited radio spectrum. Access to frequencies is at the center of complex disputes over would-be hybrid network operator LightSquared, AT&T's proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA, and unlicensed "white spaces" between TV stations. Though recent advances have led to networks that use spectrum more efficiently, faster connections do require more spectrum. The FCC's National Broadband Plan calls for allocating 500MHz of additional frequencies to mobile broadband over the next decade.
Whereas most of the spectrum debates have cited demand for mobile video and social networking applications, in the rancor over MMNS, there arguably is much more at stake. The microstimulator implants being developed by AMF could be used to treat neuromuscular disorders including spinal-cord and brain injuries, multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy. The use of wireless networks between implants and MCUs could eliminate the need to implant trouble-prone networks of wires underneath a patient's skin, said AMF CEO David Hankin.
FES (functional electric stimulation) has been used for many years to cause unresponsive muscles to contract, Hankin said. It's one application of the merging of electronics and the human body, called bionics. The new microstimulators are about the size of a small fuse, so they can be implanted right next to a nerve, under local anesthesia, he said. Because of its greater precision, the new technology can gather more accurate input about how the patient wants to move and communicate that to specific nerves. The focused electrical charges hurt less than earlier ones, so patients who have sensation in their disabled limbs feel a tingling sensation at most, he said.
The MCU, which picks up and processes inputs from the spine or another source and passes it on to the microstimulators, can be carried in a backpack now, Hankin said. Eventually, the MCU may be as small as a cellphone, or even be built into the patient's own cellphone. Though the same type of technology can be used in physical therapists' offices, miniaturization and wireless links make it more practical for use as people go about their lives, he said.
Away from wired networks
Today, some patients have networks of microstimulators linked by wires implanted underneath their skin. This requires two or three days of operations and can lead to infections that travel down the wires, leading to another long operation to replace the wires, Hankin said. Wireless networks allow doctors to bypass that technique, he said.
MMNS requires very low frequencies in order to communicate with implants through the patient's skin, Hankin said. AMF looked to the 413-457MHz band, despite the fact that others were already using it, because it had the ideal characteristics for the job and AMF couldn't afford the billions that exclusive spectrum licenses cost at auction, he said.
The three lowest sections of the band are used by the federal government for defense radar and other purposes. The Department of Defense will allow MMNS in those bands, and the NTIA (National Telecommunications and Information Administration) is coordinating with the FCC on its own review of them, according to Hankin.
But AMF wanted one more band, 451-457MHz, to make sure that MMNS would have spectrum to use in situations where the other three bands were occupied. It's intended for use mainly in rural areas, according to Hankin. This band is home to many wireless devices, including land mobile radio (also called walkie-talkies) and broadcasting trucks that send live feeds back to their stations.
Broadcast engineers and others say MMNS need to stay out of this band. The Society of Broadcast Engineers (SBE), a smaller group called Engineers for the Integrity of Broadcast Auxiliary Services Spectrum (EIBASS), and walkie-talkie pioneer Motorola have all filed statements with the FCC opposing AMF's proposal. They said the foundation hadn't established that MCUs or implants could overcome interference from those nearby devices.
A different kind of interference
Broadcasting trucks using RPU (Remote Pickup) systems can transmit at thousands of times the power of MMNS, from antennas relatively close to the ground, said Dane Ericksen, co-chairman of EIBASS. AMF isn't asking the FCC for any legal protection from interference, saying it will coexist with other uses, but Ericksen thinks the MMNS proposal may be a Trojan horse.
"Neither SBE nor EIBASS have opposed this on the grounds that it will cause interference to RPU operations," Ericksen said. "Our concern is that RPU operations will wipe out MMNS, at which point the FCC will say, 'Oh my goodness, this is a medical application, and we're going to put restrictions on where RPUs can operate.'"
If the FCC were to restrict use of the frequencies around health-care facilities, that might include retirement homes and many other locations, he believes.
"That would be a real burden, to force all RPU licensees to identify every health-care facility in their market and make sure they don't do any remotes within a half-kilometer, maybe, of that," Ericksen said.
AMF said tests by the DOD and defense contractor Aerospace Corp. proved that there are adequate mechanisms in MMNS to avoid interference. The medical devices can shift to another channel where there is less interference, and if there are no free channels, the system can carry out a "graceful shutdown." That would include an audible or vibration alert for the wearer, Hankin said.
Opponents say those tests didn't include a simulation of a radio transmitting continuously at high power for a long period of time, as a remote broadcast would. Hankin said he believed that was included.
In any case, the nightmare scenario of someone falling to the ground because interference caused his MMNS to shut down is not on the horizon, Hankin said. Because of the complexities of human gait, patients won't rely on MMNS to walk for many years, he said.
Walking through doorways causes forgetting, new research shows
http://newsinfo.nd.edu/news/27476-walking-through-doorways-causes-forgetting-new-research-shows/
by Susan Guibert
We’ve all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find.
New research from University of Notre Dame Psychology Professor Gabriel Radvansky suggests that passing through doorways is the cause of these memory lapses.
“Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away,” Radvansky explains.
“Recalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized.”
The study was published recently in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Conducting three experiments in both real and virtual environments, Radvansky’s subjects – all college students – performed memory tasks while crossing a room and while exiting a doorway.
In the first experiment, subjects used a virtual environment and moved from one room to another, selecting an object on a table and exchanging it for an object at a different table. They did the same thing while simply moving across a room but not crossing through a doorway.
Radvansky found that the subjects forgot more after walking through a doorway compared to moving the same distance across a room, suggesting that the doorway or “event boundary” impedes one’s ability to retrieve thoughts or decisions made in a different room.
The second experiment in a real-world setting required subjects to conceal in boxes the objects chosen from the table and move either across a room or travel the same distance and walk through a doorway. The results in the real-world environment replicated those in the virtual world: walking through a doorway diminished subjects’ memories.
The final experiment was designed to test whether doorways actually served as event boundaries or if one’s ability to remember is linked to the environment in which a decision – in this case, the selection of an object – was created. Previous research has shown that environmental factors affect memory and that information learned in one environment is retrieved better when the retrieval occurs in the same context. Subjects in this leg of the study passed through several doorways, leading back to the room in which they started. The results showed no improvements in memory, suggesting that the act of passing through a doorway serves as a way the mind files away memories.
Contact: Gabriel Radvansky, 574-631-6473, gradvans@nd.edu
by Susan Guibert
We’ve all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find.
New research from University of Notre Dame Psychology Professor Gabriel Radvansky suggests that passing through doorways is the cause of these memory lapses.
“Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away,” Radvansky explains.
“Recalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized.”
The study was published recently in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
Conducting three experiments in both real and virtual environments, Radvansky’s subjects – all college students – performed memory tasks while crossing a room and while exiting a doorway.
In the first experiment, subjects used a virtual environment and moved from one room to another, selecting an object on a table and exchanging it for an object at a different table. They did the same thing while simply moving across a room but not crossing through a doorway.
Radvansky found that the subjects forgot more after walking through a doorway compared to moving the same distance across a room, suggesting that the doorway or “event boundary” impedes one’s ability to retrieve thoughts or decisions made in a different room.
The second experiment in a real-world setting required subjects to conceal in boxes the objects chosen from the table and move either across a room or travel the same distance and walk through a doorway. The results in the real-world environment replicated those in the virtual world: walking through a doorway diminished subjects’ memories.
The final experiment was designed to test whether doorways actually served as event boundaries or if one’s ability to remember is linked to the environment in which a decision – in this case, the selection of an object – was created. Previous research has shown that environmental factors affect memory and that information learned in one environment is retrieved better when the retrieval occurs in the same context. Subjects in this leg of the study passed through several doorways, leading back to the room in which they started. The results showed no improvements in memory, suggesting that the act of passing through a doorway serves as a way the mind files away memories.
Contact: Gabriel Radvansky, 574-631-6473, gradvans@nd.edu
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