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US Antibiotic Use Rose Between 2009-201208 October 2014
US - The total quantity of medically important antimicrobials sold or distributed for use in food-producing animals increased by 16 per cent over the period 2009-2012, according to the US Food and Drug Administration's fourth annual report summarising the sales and distribution data of these drugs.
Additional data tables have been added to this latest 2012 report to provide more detailed information and to improve transparency, and the same tables have also been added to the summary reports for the previous years (2009-2011).
Section 105 of the Animal Drug User Fee Amendments of 2008 (ADUFA 105) requires antimicrobial drug sponsors to report to FDA on an annual basis the amount of antimicrobial drugs they sell or distribute for use in food-producing animals. ADUFA 105 also requires the FDA to prepare summary reports of sales and distribution information received from drug sponsors each year, by antimicrobial class for classes with three or more distinct sponsors, and to provide those summaries to the public.
Trends from 2009 through 2012 reflected in this year's summary report include:
- The total quantity of medically important antimicrobials sold or distributed for use in food-producing animals increased by 16 per cent over the period 2009-2012. The reason for the increase is unclear but many factors (such as disease outbreaks and fluctuations in animal populations) could lead to transient increases or decreases of sales of certain drugs in given years.
- The percentage of domestic sales and distribution of medically important antimicrobials that are approved for production use decreased from 72 per cent to 68 per cent. This number does not represent sales and distribution of drugs solely used for production because most of these products are approved for therapeutic (disease treatment, control or prevention) uses as well.
- The percentage of domestic sales and distribution of medically important antimicrobials approved for use in food-producing animals that are sold over-the-counter (OTC) did not change appreciably, decreasing from 98 per cent to 97 per cent.
In December 2013, the FDA published Guidance #213, which calls for animal drug sponsors of medically important antimicrobials to remove from their product labels indications for use related to growth promotion, and bring the remaining therapeutic uses of these products under the oversight of a veterinarian by December 2016.
Once these changes are made, it will become illegal to use these products for production purposes or for therapeutic purposes without veterinary oversight. As announced in June 2014, all 26 drug sponsors affected by Guidance #213 have agreed to fully engage in the FDA's strategy.
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Duke freshman and Chicago native Jabari Parker and four Big Ten players were named Thursday as being among the final 30 candidates for the Naismith Trophy, which annually is presented to college basketball's best player.
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FRISCO, Texas — The Stephen F. Austin Ladyjack softball team will try to build on its first Southland Conference championship in program history next week when it competes in the Southland Conference Tournament in San Marcos, Texas. League officials released the tournament seeding and brackets Sunday night.
SFA earned the No. 1 overall seed by virtue of its tie-breaker edge over Texas State, and the Ladyjacks will have a first-round bye in the tournament, which starts Thursday. SFA will meet the winner of the tournament's first game, which pits No. 4 McNeese State against No. 5 Texas A&M-Corpus Christi. The opening game is set for an 11 a.m. start with the Ladyjacks meeting the winner at 4 p.m.
The other first-round game will match No. 3 UT Arlington with No. 6 Nicholls at 1:30 p.m. No. 2 Texas State will meet the winner of that contest in the late game Thursday, scheduled to start at 6:30 p.m.
The winners of the two second-round games will meet on Friday at 4 p.m. with the winner of that contest advancing to the championship game on Saturday at 2 p.m. The championship game will be televised on the Southland Conference Network.
The tournament is a double-elimination format with the champion earning the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Championships. SFA won the tournament as the No. 4 seed in 2008, the last time San Marcos hosted the event.
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Create Your Own Utopia (Day 2 of 2)
Lesson 2 of 13
Objective: SWBAT demonstrate their ability to use valid reasoning and sufficient evidence by supporting their proposals for the creation of a utopian society.
Big Idea: One man's utopia is another man's dystopia. How can you tell the difference between each? Better yet, how can you sell your ideas to that other man?
We will begin class with ten minutes of reading time. I will read with the students during this time.
To honor my students' request for more time to complete their brainstorming and posters, I will allow the students to reconvene with their groups from Friday and complete their brainstorming using the categories and question sheet provided (modified from this pdf/activity).
I will also ask them to make sure they have a poster that represents the key selling points of their utopian society ready to present at the end of this 20 minute work time. I will remind them that these posters need to present compelling arguments and evidence to support their claims (W.9-10.1) about why their peers should want to join their "perfect" society.
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The next and final step in this activity is for students to spend time reviewing their peers' ideas/sales posters. I will ask students to travel with their groups to at least three of the posters presented and write feedback for each group on the whiteboards surrounding each poster.
In their feedback, I will ask them to evaluate the claims/ideas that are being presented and consider the unintended consequences that may result from fallacious logic/reasoning presented by the proposed utopian society (SL.9-10.3).
I will give the students ten minutes to walk the room and write their feedback on the boards. I will then ask students to return to their own poster, read the feedback that was provided and return to their seats for our wrap up conversation.
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I am setting aside a little bit of extra time at the end of class today to review a few reminders for the rest of the week as we will be completing our state testing and will be on a funny schedule.
Before I review these test tips, though, I will ask students to share their observations/ideas from the gallery walk in the form of an exit slip.
I will specifically ask them to reflect on the similarities/differences they saw in the various societies presented. I will also invite them to reflect on the criticism they saw from their peers and give them to chance to justify their ideas or offer revisions. Finally, I will ask them to respond to our big idea, that one man's utopia is another man's dystopia. I will ask them to think about this statement and to tell me if they think it is true or not. This will hopefully allow us to look at the novels in more depth next week and think about the "utopian" societies that the author is criticizing through his or her dystopian storyline/imager.


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If you are looking for a great opportunity in a fast growing industry, Teddy's Burger Joint may be just what you are seeking. We provide a much needed alternative to fast- food burgers–our high quality burgers can be customized to the individual tastes of each customer. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and you believe that hard work can create great rewards, then we encourage you to learn more about Teddy's.
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We started Teddy's Burger Joint with a tight budget and a plan. We do not believe that doing things the right way necessarily means doing things the expensive way. This is the same philosophy that we have for our franchisees. We allow you to open your restaurant for a fraction of what it would cost to open a comparable business. How do we do this?
It all begins with selecting the right location—preferably the location of a previous restaurant that already has many of the items you will need for your Teddy's Burger Joint. In addition we will work to help you offset $50,000 to $100,000 or more in opening costs through lease negotiations for tenant improvement money from the landlord. We will also help you negotiate your lease rate, including reduced rent during your opening period. We are happy to provide our assistance and expertise to our franchise partners. You will be amazed how much you can save when you know what to ask for.
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One man guitar orchestra Guy Buttery is set to wow audiences in this once-off, not-to-be missed performance!
Straight in from a world tour with stops in the UK, Canada and USA, renowned guitar legend Guy Buttery returns to SA in support of the release of his first live album.
Why go?
Enjoy a modern and sophisticated African atmosphere with a delicious a la carte menu and world class music sounds like a perfect night out!
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Meg Cabot Quotes About EyesQuotes about: Eyes
Chaz looks me dead in the eye and says, 'Why yes, Lizzie. I'm manically depressed because the girl I've finally realized I've always been in love with, and who I was beginning to think just might love me back, turned around and got herself engaged to my best friend, who, frankly, doesn't deserve her. Does that answer your question?
It wasn't until Hope fluttered over and landed at Alex's feet, peering questioningly up at him, that he finally tore his hands away from his eyes.Oh, my God, he said, sounding disgusted. Why is there a bird looking at me?That's Miss Oliviera's bird, Henry volunteered cheerfully. The captain gave it to her as a present.Kayla punched me in the arm. John's got his captain's license? she whispered. You are so lucky. Frank says he just loads cargo.I glanced at Frank. I wondered if Kayla would like him as much if she knew the cargo he loaded was human souls.
Inside the envelope with the letter was a little Princess Leia action figure USB flash drive. For me to store my novel on, since he was right - I never back up my computer's hard drive. The sight of it - it's Princess Leia in her Hoth outfit, my favorite of her costumes (how had he remembered?) brought tears to my eyes.
It was only when they'd rounded the corner toward the Penguin that we finally sat up, Laughing semi-hysterically. "Oh my God, did you see her face?" Becca asked between guffaws. "'There's something in my hair!'" "That was fantastic, Crazytop," Jason said, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes. "Best master plan yet.
Sorry, Bex," Jason said "You don't have the recognizable facial characteristics - such as a huge chin, or a large amount of real estate between the eyes - that would merit the bestowing of a criminal mastermind nickname such as Lockjaw or Walleye. Whereas Crazytop here...well, just look at her." "Atleast I can blow-dry my hair straight," I pointed out. "Which is more than what I can say for your nose, Hawkface.
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Pressly, 26, was attacked early Oct. 20, 2008, at her home in Little Rock. Her mother, after she did not answer her phone, went to her house and found her daughter lying in blood, she had been hit so hard, blood was on the ceiling. She heard her daughter whimpering while she was trying to stop the bleeding.
A doctor discovered that her face shattered "like an egg" during the attack. "I could feel crunchiness" while examining Pressly's face, he said. A photo he used showed her nose pushed to one side.
Pressly, the co-host of a morning TV show was hit so hard that a tooth — root intact — flew to her bedroom floor. Another blow crushed bones in the middle of her face. Another shoved her jaw backward, leaving her brain starved for blood.
The examiner also said Pressly's left forearm had an abrasion, consistent with being held tightly, and that her left hand was swollen, blue and broken in five places.
A nurse testified that during the examination she couldn't tell that Pressly was a woman.
"Her jaw was over to the side. It [her face] was not symmetrical," Pressly entered the hospital bleeding from the sides of her head.
A doctor testified that Pressly's face was "not recognizable as human." And her "nose was so badly crushed it didn't look like a nose," and her jaw was so far dislocated that it appeared to be part of her neck, doctors spent 2 ½ hours stabilizing her.
She suffered five skull fractures.
CT scans taken after the attack showed that her swollen brain gradually died. By Oct. 25, 2008, the day Pressly died, her brain was so swollen that no blood could enter.
Jacqueline Vance Burnett, 46, his mother said that his behavior was due in part to her addiction to crack cocaine, and abuse he suffered by her. She was a crack-addicted whore who didn't take care of her children, and this was supposed to be an 'excuse' for this animal. Vance's lawyer, had urged jurors — who had convicted Vance a day earlier of capital murder, rape, burglary and theft of property — to have the "courage" to not impose the death penalty. She seems to agree that it's ok to do this to someone as long as you had a "hard childhood"
This is a piss-poor excuse for justice. The only person who came out golden here was the defendant, Vance. He will be fine in prison, We all know the real reason he got off was because he was a poor, poverty-stricken, un-educated, piece of crap who had a bad childhood. He should be locked in a cell with no light, no bed, no mattress, no television, no books, no internet, no window, no clothes, no visitors, no mail privileges. He should not be allowed to have any hot meals for the duration of his life, only cold sandwiches. He should not be allowed any medical treatment for any reason. If he's sick, let him die.
By the way: when these lawyers were selecting jurors, they were asked if they would be able to give the death penalty, and all of them answered yes. I guess some of them lied.
Dont think you understand, this guy DID all of these things to her, and life was all he got. If you look at the trial cases for other people on Death Row in Arkansas, they didn't do a fraction of what this POS did. Anyone in AR knows the real reason he got off.


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Hitchcock's droll irony crafts one of the better pitches I've seen.
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How to Open a Milk Carton in Sweden
A few weeks ago I was in the kitchen sawing through a milk carton with a knife, which was actually my go-to method for opening them. The Swedish milk carton has beguiled us for months now, it's looks simple and it tells you where to tear, but it's doesn't tell say that you need to first squeeze the carton in a certain is-this-milk-going-to-explode-if-I-do-this kind of way. The cartons are small, so we go through them quickly, which has afforded me many an opportunity to ponder ideas like If Swedes are known for considered functional design, how can this be a Swedish product? Is it possible that this package design predates that school of thought? The cartons are also slippery, so when a particularly big splash of milk hit me after a fairly aggressive saw, I took a moment to stop and officially resign myself to the fact that I might never know how to correctly open one of these cartons, and should instead start asking myself how I might learn to saw it open more gracefully the next time.
It was only recently, at a Swedish friend's apartment, that I finally learned how these cartons are best opened. The solution feels neither elegant nor "Swedish" in my 2-month-old view of what "Swedishness" is, but it is certainly better than "the saw", and it's with some shame that I admit it was unlikely I was going to put it together on my own. So, in the spirit of everyone who has ever contributed to a forum, written a blog post, or answered a Yahoo answer about how to deal with the little things as an American in a Sweden (there are many and I reference them quite often), I submit my own minor contribution, a guide to opening the Swedish milk carton.
Light & Dark
The lamps above by Daniel Rybakken are designed to mimic the effect of sunlight shining through windows and reflecting off surfaces. That's key for the depths of Swedish winter, where the sun is out for a mere 5 hours a day. (Also, for those who don't know, Sweden's long dark winter days are countered by equally long summer days, when it's dark for only 6 of the day's 24 hours.) As someone who knows a thing or two about Seasonal Affective Disorder, welcome to the first of what will probably be many posts tagged "Light Therapy". Via Inhabitat.
O' Pioneers
Wieden + Kennedy's "Go Forth" campaign for Levi's is an ethnography of America's unyielding, evergreen optimism, or, a youthful charge declared in the words of Walt Whitman. (Only this year have I truly read Whitman, thanks to a proseful 15-hour documentary about New York. He brandished a big beard and grew up in the woods of Brooklyn, which might explain today's hipster.)
"America" incorporates the only known recorded sound by Walt Whitman. What splendor! All this energy could have been spent on something more meaningful than jeans. Nonetheless, art is art, is art.
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The Linux-based Sailfish OS will arrive on the Jolla smartphone by the end of 2013, and it now has some official specs.
The Finnish company has taken the brilliant MeeGo OS, that Nokia created but never pushed after Microsoft paid for Windows Phone to be on its handsets, and has developed it into Sailfish OS. This is great because it's totally open to the developer community with the plan to let it grow and change to suit users' needs. And the best bit? It will be compatible with current Android apps.
The Jolla smartphone will come standing 4.5-inches tall with a display pumping out a 960 x 540 resolution. It will also feature a dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 1.4GHz processor, 1GB RAM, and 16GB storage with mircoSD expansion slot. There will be an 8MP auto-focus camera with LED flash on the back and 2MP snapper on the front.
So nothing to write home about on the spec front but then this will be a bare-bones OS that shouldn't need more power than that. Pick one up near the end of 2013 for €400 (£337).


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You will not learn how to eat a tree, ' but rather how you and your loved ones can live comfortably during the terrible disasters that are surely to come. This book is not all inclusive, as there is no such thing. You WILL learn of those items that have been thoroughly tested for preparedness and survival. Each topic goes right to the point. There is no flowery rhetoric or page fillers to make this a thick book. The only goal of this book is to KEEP YOU ALIVE; to prepare you mentally and physically to get you ready for any bad times BEFORE they arrive. All treatise in this book are interchangeable to meet any disaster. Only a very few of these items listed have but one use. Most everything can be used for camping or outdoor/indoor activities and absolutely none are a waste of money. Knowledge is power, the more the better. This book attempts to show items valuable in any emergency, however small or large, and everything in this book is defensive. You will find synopses of various scenarios that could devastate this great country, so you will have some cursory knowledge of the evil that men can do, and the power of an angry Mother Nature.RADIO. During a major storm, you would not stay outdoors to be pelted by debris. This is true with any disaster. ... A short wave radio is one of those tools; to gather data in the privacy of your own home, rather than roaming around ... Others have a manual display, like the radios of old. ... There are other side bands on many of these radios and an important one to look for is the National Weather Serviceanbsp;...
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As the years pass, we inherit many valuable items from friends and relatives – some of course we make like more than others!
Whether we like them or not, assuming we keep them, as we add items to our inheritance, it's all to easy to forget to insure them.
It's equally easy to forget to update our home insurance to cover them properly.
Many of our most valued possessions are handed down to us through our families.
Of course, not all of them are worth a lot of money.
Family photographs, autograph books, amateur watercolours and other treasures may have great sentimental value, but probably wouldn't fetch a high price if you put them up for sale.
On the other hand, some may not be as valuable as you may think, or not quite what your family has told you they are.
Are your possessions as valuable as you think?
One of our team has an inkwell which was passed down through the generations, along with a story that it was given to an ancestor by Bonnie Prince Charlie.
That myth was shattered when the inkwell was dated to the 1790s – the decade after Charles Edward Stuart's death (although it still fetched a respectable valuation).
The inherited possessions you really want to look out for are the ones that you might not think valuable, but are actually worth a surprising amount money.
Toys, old children's books and items like these can be worth hundreds of pounds and be very difficult to replace.
Many people are actively collecting toys, looking to make money through investing in the likes of Lego, toy figurines, modern first edition books.
Of course it is possible that in time you may be the benefactor of these shrewd investments in collections!
Remember the true value of your possesions will change over time.
And if you're like most people, your collection of inherited possessions doesn't remain static.
Over the years, you can be left antiques, jewellery, fine art and other collections and heirlooms – and it's easy to forget to get these covered by your home and contents insurance.
Indeed, even if you have specialist or high value home insurance, it's crucial that you review your cover on a regular basis – because if the worst does happen, you can not only lose a valuable part of your inheritance but your insurance payout won't reflect its true value.
So, if you want to make sure your inheritance is covered, these are some of the things you need to address.
Get your possessions valued – regularly
Many people with high net worth home insurance get their possessions valued – but then make the mistake of not reviewing those valuations for some years.
It's much more difficult to track the value of your belongings than it is your savings.
While it's easy to keep an eye on interest rates, the markets for jewellery, art, wine, antiques and other valuable items fluctuate up and down on a regular basis.
For example, jewellery prices have risen hugely in recent years as gold prices have trebled since 2004.
In addition, many items that you had valued at relatively modest amounts can suddenly become worth a lot more if they become fashionable or highly sought after.
Be sure to get your inherited and other belongings valued on a regular basis – or your insurance won't cover their real worth.
Don't forget to insure newly-inherited items
As time goes by, our collections of inherited items tends to grow.
Sadly, friends and relatives do pass away and may leave you quite an array of items.
When you inherit a large number of possessions, it's relatively easy to remember to revisit your insurance cover.
Perhaps not quite so at the forefront of your mind if you simply inherit a single, albeit special, item from a loved one.
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Caleb Edmonds led a 1-2-3 Liberty sweep in the men's 5K final at the 2013 Big South Outdoor Track & Field Championships, followed by fellow Flames returnees Josh MacDonald and Jeremie Bourget.
The 2014 Liberty men's outdoor track & field team was picked to win its eighth consecutive Big South title, as voted upon by the conference's head coaches. Meanwhile, the Lady Flames were tabbed second behind Coastal Carolina. Head coach Brant Tolsma's men's squad has won seven straight Big South outdoor team titles and 18 championships in the meet's 20-year history. The Flames return 2013 Big South champions Cody Bingham (pole vault) and Caleb Edmonds (5K), while Kyle Wheeler has won four of a possible five Big South high jump titles thus far in his career. Liberty received nine of the 10 first-place votes and 99 of a possible 100 points in the poll. That put the Flames well in front of 2013 runner-up Coastal Carolina, which took the remaining first-place vote and totaled 86 points. Campbell, the 2014 Big South indoor runner-up, was a close third with 85 points. High Point received 69 points for fourth place, with Charleston Southern and Gardner-Webb sharing the fifth spot with 49 points apiece. VMI came in seventh with 47 points, followed by fellow Commonwealth school Radford (eighth place, 35 points). Championship host Winthrop was ninth with 21 points, with UNC Asheville rounding out the field in 10th place with 10 points. The Lady Flames, who captured their 13th Big South outdoor team championship in 2013, were a unanimous pick for second place this time around. Four-time Big South 800-meter champion Meghan Burggraf is back from a redshirt season. However, two-time defending Big South shot put and discus champion Mychelle Cumings is expected to redshirt the 2014 campaign. The Coastal Carolina women's team was a unanimous selection for first place in the preseason poll, gathering all 10 first-place votes and 100 points. The Chanticleers will be aiming for their third Big South outdoor crown in four years. Liberty finished with 90 points, while Campbell (75 points) edged Charleston Southern (73 points) for third place. High Point was voted fifth on the women's side with 57 points, followed by Radford (sixth place, 49 points) and Gardner-Webb (seventh place, 40 points). Rounding out the poll were the trio of Winthrop (eighth place, 31 points), UNC Asheville (ninth place, 19 points) and VMI (10th place 17 points). Liberty is preparing for its second meet of the 2014 outdoor season, Saturday at Virginia. The Flames and Lady Flames will compete at the team-scored Virginia Cup for the second straight season, beginning at 9:30 a.m. at Lannigan Field in Charlottesville, Va. The 2014 Big South Outdoor Track & Field Championships are just four weeks away. This year's meet will be contested on April 17-19 at Winthrop's Irwin Belk Track in Rock Hill, S.C.
2014 Big South Conference Men's Outdoor Track & Field Preseason Poll 1) Liberty (9 first-place votes) – 99 points 2) Coastal Carolina (1) – 86 3) Campbell – 85 4) High Point – 69 5T) Charleston Southern – 49 5T) Gardner-Webb – 49 7) VMI – 47 8) Radford – 35 9) Winthrop – 21 10) UNC Asheville – 10
2014 Big South Conference Women's Outdoor Track & Field Preseason Poll 1) Coastal Carolina (10 first-place votes) – 100 points 2) Liberty – 90 3) Campbell – 75 4) Charleston Southern – 73 5) High Point – 57 6) Radford – 49 7) Gardner-Webb – 40 8) Winthrop – 31 9) UNC Asheville – 19 10) VMI – 17
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You know those early black and white cartoons where the contents of a store or kitchen or museum come alive at night and perform musical numbers? bd594 on YouTube has made a video that's just like that, only it's a bunch of old electronic gear doing Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody", and they're actually playing it.
The lineup of performers is:
HP ScanJet 3C, vocalsIn my distant youth, working late nights at Orange Julius, I used to sing harmony with the hot dog cooker (it could sing anything that had an unvarying ground note), but this is lightyears better.
Atari 800XL, piano/organ
Texas Instruments TI-99/4a, lead guitar
8-inch Floppy Disk Drive, bass
3.5-inch Hard Drive, gong
MRI's have a lovely hummm, too :)
Everyone remembers The Wizard of Speed and Time -- but this is my personal favorite Mike Jittlov short, with contradancing animated clothing at the Witching Hour in a department store. (Sorry about the crappy audio quality; this was the only version I could find.)
This has such a lovely atmosphere that I'm not quite sure I can put into words. It almost feels a little bleak and lonely, but there's more to it than that. It's a pity the guy's hand makes an appearance toward the end to kind of spoil it.
Lee @ 2:
That was quite impressive. I expect it took a while to make, too. I tried to find a better version of that, but Google's video search only turned up that one and the same version on myspace.
When you start up an old Mac Plus, the floppy drive spins at several different speeds to play (almost) the first four notes of "joy to the world"
The ability to play music is actually built-in to older HP scanners as an Easter egg.
Thanks for pointing this out. Watching the video, I found myself reflecting upon the recent Kanye West album where he made extensive use of pitch-correction software to enable him to "sing" melodies his voice couldn't otherwise handle. An intentional side effects was the "robotizing" of West's voice. In contrast, the imperfections of this performance of "Bohemian Rhapsody"--resulting from the struggle with limitations of devices never intended to produce music--make it sound more human, for definitions of "human" that include fallibility.
Teresa, your harmonizing with the hot dog cooker reminded me of a passage I'd read on the early musical impressions of the pioneering minimalist composer La Monte Young, which included "summers of listening to the droning of lathes and drill presses at a machine shop" and "the humming sounds produced by the transformers at the power plant."
The original TRS-80 used audio cassettes to store data and programs. Both recording and loading used off/off sequences done in software. There might have been a little analogue filtering, but nothing selective. You could produce music, if you could somehow get a signal to a speaker.
There was a concrete saw performing in the street a couple of days ago, putting out some great notes.
And lets not forget the old 1403 chain printer music.
Rob T.
I found this article to be a useful introduction to the Autotune, a phase vocodor "Photoshop for the human voice."
I'm getting all nostalgic. My first computer was a TI-99/4A.
It had _way_ better sound capabilities than my second, a Sinclair Spectrum.
I've always thought the sort of car alarm that sets off the horn in long blasts has a nice reggae feel.
Some Apple II games used the floppy drive to produce sound effects.
George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" was famously inspired by the sounds of a train rolling down the tracks. I'm hoping for a modern composer to produce an equally stirring melody inspired by computer sounds.
Or has this already been done?
The brakes on the newer NYC subway cars very distinctly play the first three notes of "There's a Place for Us."
My favorite old machine-music was my dial-up modem accessing GEnie via the local New York number, which played the first eleven notes of the "Merry Melodies" theme song. Mike Ford was the only person I know of who noticed that about it the first time he heard it.
This puts me in mind of the photocopier/laser printer dance - get one of those office machines going on a couple hundred sheet job and it inevitably falls into a sort of boom-shucka-boom-shucka rhythm that's very danceable.
I don't get caught often these days, I've learned to keep an eye on the workroom door.
Here's a road playing the "William Tell" overture. Took some work, I imagine.
You used to work at the O.J.? Where the frothy happiness comes from? Another reason to love you!
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Jimcat Kasprzak @ 13:
Rob T @6: I missed your reference to LaMonte Young. That might be just what I was looking for in my post above.
Also, you mentioned for definitions of "human" that include fallibility. Truly, what definition of human doesn't?
KeithS @18: that put a huge grin on my face. Maybe not quite what I was looking for but awesomely cool nonetheless.
It figures that one day someone would make a singing road. I did a comic strip about it back in an 80s issue of New Pals. In my version, the sound was wobbling all over the place. "I liked the stereo effect," says one character, just before the road starts reciting Moby-Dick.
What I was going to say before I read Theophylact's comment is that there was a photocopier in the library at Rice, where I used to work, that continually made a tuneless, somewhat rhythmic whistling noise, like a big dope with no sense of pitch working on something. Luckily, it was in one of the farthest corners of the place. I was always amazed that people could sit near there and study.
Thena @15: I find myself tapping my feet to the dishwasher or the laundry machines all the time. So catchy!
At my work, when we run a particular set of foiled linen paper through the copier, it makes the doo-do-do-doo-doot! from the Austin Powers theme. Over and over and over.
That video makes me think of Bjork's "Cvalda" from Dancer in the Dark. Industrial rather than electronic, but I still love it.
TNH, 14: The brakes on the newer NYC subway cars very distinctly play the first three notes of "There's a Place for Us."
Only on the IRT cars, the IND/BMT have a different model of rolling stock. And the last note is an octave up from the original song, whose real title is "Somewhere." But you're right otherwise!
I have a recording of a wind quintet (No. 1?) by the composer David Maslanka, who used to live in NYC, the second movement of which was inspired by the sound of air compressors in (I think) the 200 St/Dyckman station on the A train. They play only the instrument mouthpieces for part of it. It's very strange and yet pleasing.
There's a J.G. Ballard short story where "singing" roads are used for social control; if you don't drive at exactly the right speed, you get out of phase with the road, and your car shakes violently.
Teresa, thanks for the video link. That was cool.
Tim @ 25, have you seen the Honda commercial where they've modified a road to play The William Tell Overture?
Chris @ 24: Only on the IRT cars, the IND/BMT have a different model of rolling stock....
Ahh, I beg to differ. As I was waiting (and waiting) for a train in the 7th & 53rd St. IND station just a couple of hours ago, I heard those very notes coming from several IND trains.
Tim @ 25: Yeah, I had a car like that once. The speedometer never worked right, but you could always tell if you were going too fast.
At the construction site where I've been working, one of the big cranes was lifting about five long steel beams thru the air at one time. I looked up at that and said, "Ooh, wind chimes!"
I also noticed that in the storage yard where the waiting beams are stacked up, if you had a hammer (and really, really long arms), you might be able to play the various sized beams like a xylophone.
Wyman Cooke #26: have you seen the Honda commercial where they've modified a road to play The William Tell Overture?
"The Roads Must Rock and Roll" by Robert Heinlein and Howard Waldrop: that could work.
Following a recent tire rotation my car was behaving rather like that. The deep drone would only have appealed to fans of severe minimalism, however. I now have fresh tires in front as well as back and can drive without being roared at.
At a service bureau I worked at years ago, the dye-sub printer made sounds that reminded everyone of the Monty Python mouse organ (with a little less thumping).
OT and not directed at anyone in particular: I despise "throwies" and those who indulge in them.
It's high-tech toxic littering for the affluent, bored hipster.
They're not even any kind of artistic or technological achievement, the parts just got cheap enough to use decadently. It was bad enough when people made their own, but now you can buy them online at places like ThinkGeek.
Ooh. LEDs. Wow. How very edgy and hip. Gag.
I think I've made mention before of the four-position digital timer whose #2 beep went beep-beep in the exact cadence of the intro to New Order's "Love Vigilantes." Also the Lightning Seeds' "Pure," which drove me crazy when it first hit the radio because I knew it sounded like "Love Vigilantes" but I couldn't remember that title, OR the group, just a little snippet of the lyrics. And this was before I had the Web at home. Luckily, the DJ at the radio station playing the Lightning Seeds was able to identify "I want to see/My family/My wife and child/Waiting for me" and end my perplexity.
Chris, Arwen, could we possibly be having a more NYC-ish conversation?
Moshe would know.
Elizabeth # 23 --
that video dance tune cries out for Gene Kelly
When machines are working right, they sing. Hum, mutter, growl, scat, even. You know when they're unhappy, they go out of tune. I suspect it's the out-of-tune that prompts maintenance, rather than slight changes in work output.
Rikibeth, #35: I spent a few weeks temping at a company whose telephone-system ring was two notes on a rising fifth. It was months before I could get the earworm of Dukas' L'Apprenti Sorcier out of my brain!
In the waiting room of the therapist who spent a couple of years teaching me how deal with ADD there was an electric heater/fan that had a syncopated beat. No matter what I tried to do while waiting, whether it was read, write on my laptop, or play interactive fiction games, that beat would sneak into my head, and I'd find myself repeating it, or tapping my foot to it.
So much for the natural, now for news of the artificial. A long, long time ago some colleagues of mine were working on a contract at a large aerospace lab, having promised to create a 16-node hypercube out of hobbyist microcomputers, something never before seen by civilized people. For storage they had half a dozen 500 Megabyte hard disks the size of washing machines (I said this was a long time ago). While writing the disk I/O routines, they discovered that they could play tunes with them, by making the heads seek back and forth continuously; the head-seek time in each direction was the half-cycle of an audio tone. Not only that, but down at the full-disk seek frequency, so much mass moved moved so quickly that they could make the drives move back and forth across the floor. So not only could they sing, they could also dance.
Incidentally, they never did finish the contract.
Jon H @34, or anyone who knows what he's talking about: what are "throwies"?
An LED, a tiny battery, and some adhesive or a magnet. So you can stick or throw them high onto walls, lightposts, etc.
Jimcat @42, according to this site throwies are "a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together". Some kind of removable graffiti.
So far we've had singing peripherals, singing roads, singing trains and singing telephones, but not singing tesla coils.
re 41: A quarter-century ago I was working for the Navy on a project which in part involved an assembly language program which I had to edit on a PDP-11 running RT-11. It was (by the standards of the day's hardware) an enormous program, one single source file, which editing in vi was a deep pain-in-the-neck. More to the point for our current discussion, however, was that the file was big enough to where RT-11's need to allocate the thing contiguously was eventually thwarted. That was when I had to squeeze the disk. So here we have this drive, sitting in a rack mount, and when I set this process off, the drive would start to bang a little bit. Then after a bit of this, it would start to really bang. HARD. The whole rack would start to shake visibly. It seemed to be held in place sufficiently on NOL's then-thirty-year-old linoleum-covered steel floors, but it did make me wonder (a) whether it might fall over, and (b) how on earth it didn't have a head crash every other week.
re 45: If you poke around YouTube enough you'll find examples that actually have good sound reproduction. The "problem" is that to get that they have to run in a corona-producing mode instead of ripping big showy jagged holes in the air.
The latest model of those new trains -- not the one on the 2/3 but the newer one running elsewhere -- is excellent, even if you ignore the West Side Story music. That big LED sign that tells you where on the line you are, and updates as you go? Love it.
Radiohead - "Big Ideas: Don't get any"
Andrew, 48: They're great when they work, but I've recently seen more than one which was off by several stations. (And they need to get the voiceover for DeKalb Avenue redone, 'cause no one pronounces it that way.)
Nathaniel @ 11#:
I drew this cartoon last week.
caffeine @44: "Jimcat @42, according to this site throwies are "a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together". Some kind of removable graffiti."
In theory removable, if they get stuck someplace that can be reached.
The name 'throwie' is suggestive to me of throwing them onto bridges and overpasses and pipes and signage.
Something I saw in Berlin this weekend; at the Haus Tacheles artists' collective, on the ground floor I saw a first-generation iMac as part of an installation, switched off, dead to the world.
Up on the fourth floor, someone was using the exact same model for some server application (network storage? print server? quagga/zebra software router? asterisk pbx? I didn't quiz the guy as I was there to appreciate his pictures rather than his IT setup). I thought that was a far better contemporary comment than anything on the walls or in the yard.
Via Jonathan Coulton's Twitter feed today: A router sings "Still Alive." It is -- how you say? -- teh awesome.
Sarah @51, Nathaniel @11: I recall reading a 1950's Popular Science article about rejected proposals for new car features. One was a car horn that instead of honking would shout the car model (Impala!). It was rejected because the feeling was that people would freeze in surprise rather than jump out of the way.
Andrew Willett #54:
What does it say about me that I felt more than a faint frisson of disappointment when I discovered that the router in question was *not* a Cisco 4500-series or near offer?
Don't get a girl's hopes up like that!
joann: me too! I was wondering if the router had a piezo that a tone could be played on, or if you could rev the fans up and down or something like that.
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I just finished reading a fascinating book by a fascinating and courageous person: Mosab Hassan Yousef. Mr. Yousef gave up so much that he held dear to follow the beliefs of his new religion, Christianity. His devotion to Christ led him to helping people, all people: Muslims, Christians, Jews, etc. His father, Sheikh Hassan Yousef, was one of seven Palestinians that created Hamas in 1986, but Mr. Yousef was a principled and honorable man, unlike many of the other Hamas leaders, and led me to conclude that he is mostly responsible for his son also being a principled and honorable young man.
Christianity opened young Mosab's mind to compassion and forgiveness and enabled him to take a second look at the Israelis, whom he was taught to hate by the culture he was raised in. At some point he thought that he could save many lives on all sides of the Palistinian-Israeli conflict by working with Israel's Intelligence service, the Shin Bet. In fact, he did save many innocent lives, including his father's.
In the epilogue, postscript and afterwards, Mosab ends the book by telling about his encounters in America, which I found to be very interesting, because by the end of the book I cared about what happened to him.
The book forced me to rethink Hamas and its true intentions: political power or a genuine concern for Palistinians? It also gave me a better appreciation on how being raised in a culture where hatred is celebrated, and also think about how fortunate I am for being born and raised in America. If you are interested in the Middle East, care about the people who live there, and want to understand what is happening there, this book should help.
IRAN: good deal or bad deal?
The U.S. has negotiated a deal with Iran in an attempt to slow it down in developing a nuclear bomb. The proposed deal, among other things, reduces the number of Iran's centrifuges to over 6,000, curtails its "breakout time" to less than one year, and basically expires in 10 years. In addition, it returns to Iran about $140 billion in assets that are currently frozen by the United States. Moreover, inspections of nuclear sites in Iran would require prior authorization from Iran and could be delayed as long as 24 days (which, of course, would enable Iran time to move any facilities it did not want United Nation inspectors to see (U.S. inspectors…which are the best in the world…would be banned from inspecting Iranian facilities). Moreover, in 5 years the U.N. embargo on the purchase and sale of conventional weapons is lifted and in 8 years the U.N. embargo on ballistic missiles is lifted. Is this a good deal for the U.S., Israel, and the world? In addition, under the deal, the United States is obligated to protect Iran's nuclear facilities from sabatage.
Question: Many countries have nuclear weapons so why is the world against Iran getting the bomb? Is everyone simply discriminating against this Muslim country? The US has the bomb, as does Israel, Russia, China, France, England, India, Pakistan, etc.
Short answer: Iran has threatened to "wipe Israel off the face of the map." It has also made implied threats to the United States. Moreover, the Iranian Mullahs have said that they are awaiting the return of the Twelth Iman, whom they believe will return when the world is in conflagration (from nuclear bombs). In other words, they are looking forward to blowing up Israel, destroying the United States' power grid, and hurting the rest of the world, while it is looking forward to Iran itself being blown up so that the Twelth Iman will come.
Since Israel is such a small country, it would only take a few nuclear bombs for Iran to make good its promise to "wipe Israel off the face of the map." And just a few nuclear bombs over the US would create enough Electro-Magnetic Pulse (EMP) to destroy all electrical devices in America and send us back to the Stone Age, resulting in a die-off of 9/10's of the U.S. population within one year.
Time to get out the Bunker-Busting bombs? The US now has nuclear-tipped Bunker-Busters which would be needed to destroy Iran's deep-underground nuclear facilities. The President, however, would never authorize their use and Israel does not have them. Entire underground nuclear facilities would not have to be destroyed; just the entrances and exits to those facilities. and this could be done with conventional Bunker-Busters… Israel is militarily capable of doing that. The President and Iraq would most likely not allow Israel to fly its jets, carrying the Bunker-Busters, over Iraqi air space in order to reach Iran (but it looks like other Arab countries would allow Israeli jets to fly over).
The world probably has less than a year before Iran gets the bomb. Congressional-forced sanctions, but Obama-weakened sanctions aren't strong enough to persuade Iran to stop developing nuclear weapons. What might work is to stop all shipments of refined gasoline to Iran since Iran cannot refine most of the gasolene it uses domestically.
When the Iranian people stood up to its government in 2009 and were slaughtered in the streets, the US did nothing to support them. Worse, the Iranian people even appealed to President Obama. It would have been far easier to simply help the Iranians do its own regime-change back in 2009. Now we're talking about the necessity of a country possibly bombing Iran's underground nuclear facilities to destroy its nuclear capability, a much more serious option.
The deal between the U.S. and Iran simply guarantees that, at the latest, Iran would have the bomb in 10 years (if Iran does,nt cheat…which it has done on every agreement). When this happens Israel would probably be immediately destroyed. Iran is developing Inter-Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM) and will be able to reach the U.S. with them. ICBMs are not even part of the deal being negotiated with Iran. Iran is by far the largest sponsor on terrorism around the world. It's naive to believe it would keep its word even for a deal in its favor. I think it's in the best interests of the U.S., Israel, and the world for the U.S. to walk away from this bad deal. Many middle-eastern countries will buy/develop nuclear weapons if President Obama makes a deal with Iran; in other words an "arms race" in the most dangerous part of the world.
Without this deal, if Iran gets close to getting the bomb (as it already has), the U.S. should increase the sanctions against it and if this does not work, it and Israel should destroy their underground facilities (but not go to war!). Israel has done this to nuclear reactors in Syria and in Iraq.
ISRAEL AND PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST (audio interview)
I decided to interview Daniel Mariaschin on my radio program (25-minute audio of interview at the bottom of this introduction…click on red "play" button) because Israel and the Middle East are in a conflict with no end in sight and Mr. Mariaschin has the position, skills and experiences that enable him to have good insight and perception into the issues surrounding the conflict.
While I interviewed Mr. Mariaschin a few years ago, almost everything we discussed is relevant to the situation today and therefore is still of value. At the time of my interview of Mr. Mariaschin, he had been working for B'nai B'rith for 24 years but had worked in the Jewish community in Jewish organizations for an additional 15 years, for a total of 39 years. He holds an undergraduate degree in history from Columbia University and a graduate degree in Jewish studies from Brandeis University. Mr. Mariaschin was born in the New York-New Jersey area and grew up in New Hampshire. At the time of my interview, Mr. Mariaschin was the Executive Vice President and was the Director of B'nai B'rith's Center for Human Rights and Public Policy.
The interview focuses on Israel and peace in the Middle East. Because of his experience in foreign affairs, national defense, Israel, and articles he's written for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and others, he has demonstrated that he knows what he's talking about.
In the interview, Mr. Mariaschin discusses many aspects of:
- Israel and the Middle East
- Going into the prospects for peace
- The growing Iranian threat including its nuclear reactor in Bushere
- The "ground zero" mosque, life in Israel
- The book on Israel, Start-up Nation,
- The origins and mission of B'nai B'rith, and more.
To listen to Mr. Daniel Mariaschin's interview, please click on the red Link below.
MR. Daniel Mariaschin-Israel Audio
Interview by Mike Russo
Talk around town is that Israel is going to bomb Iran's underground nuclear facilities this summer. Henry Kissinger has said that if Iran gets the bomb it will use it. The United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reported that Iran is getting very close to getting the bomb. Given all of these facts, as well as the fact that Israel's very survival is at stake, it seems likely that Israel will strike.
Of course, if the Unites States, with its formidable military arsenal, helps Israel, there would be a greater likelihood that significant damage would be done to Iran's nuclear facilities to set it back perhaps 3 years.
As bad as this scenario is, if sanctions don't deter Iran, whose leader (Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad) promised to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, it's obviously a better option than allowing the lunatic fringe (Iran's leaders) to get the bomb. So the big question is, will President Obama allow the U.S. to assist Israel or will Israel have to go it alone. He has said that he "has Israel's back," but was he sincere is saying this?
This is important not only because of the increased likelihood of success if the U.S. helps Israel, but also because Israel's actions would initiate a much greater worldwide political firestorm if it bombs Iran's nuclear facilities without U.S. participation. The United Nations would go bonkers. Arab countries would threaten retaliation, even though most of them would be secretly relieved that the Region's Crazy (Iran) was de-fanged.
U.S. involvement depends on the President. Obama must be mindful of his diminished popularity among America's Jewish population because he has become much nicer to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. However, the President's childhood includes time being raised as a Muslim. Like all Muslims, he must have been taught to hate Israel and all Jewish people. So given his politics versus his early training, what would he do? We'll soon find out. Let's hope he makes the right decision and that the "Great Satan" (radical Islam's name for the U.S.) helps the "Little Satan" (radical Islam's name for Israel) in destroying Iran's underground nuclear facilities so that not only Israel, but the entire world, would be much safer.
The upcoming presidential election will play a major role in what the President does. He's already done a minor betrayal of Israel by naming the country that Israel would use as a staging area for an attack on Iran. ..this to discourage Israel from bombing Iran before the election. The far-left would strongly disapprove of the U.S. helping Israel but would it vote for Mitt Romney or simply not vote? Personally, I think that this might be Obama's only chance for re-election…assisting or even taking the lead, using its nuclear-tipped bunker-buster bombs in destroying all entrances and exits to Iran's underground nuclear facilities. Some of the underground facilities are as deep as a thousand feet, which is even beyond the range of the bunker-busters, but destroying their access would do the job. National defense hawks would love it and this, combined with Obama's liberal use of drones, would convince some of them that Obama should be re-elected. Or it could be a political wash, both losing and gaining similar amounts of votes (the political calculation I believe is most important to the President this year).
I believe the President should just do the right thing for Israel, the United States and the world: destroy Iran's underground nuclear facilities. Once Iran gets the bomb, it will be too late and Israel might be annihilated.


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All this jingoistic bombast, however, was directed toward defending, not so much the national vernacular as the national
belles lettres.
True enough, an English attack upon a definite American locution always brought out certain critical minute-men, but in the main they were anything but hospitable to the racy neologisms that kept crowding up from below, and most of them were eager to be accepted as masters of orthodox English and very sensitive to the charge that their writing was bestrewn with Americanisms. A glance through the native criticism of the time will show how ardently even the most uncompromising patriots imitated the Johnsonian jargon then fashionable in England. Fowler and Griswold followed pantingly in the footsteps of Macaulay; their prose is extraordinarily self-conscious, and one searches it in vain for any concession to colloquialism. Poe, the master of them all, achieved a style so ornate that many an English leader-writer must have studied it with envy. A few bolder spirits, as we have seen, spoke out for national freedom in language as well as in lettersamong them, Channingbut in the main the Brahmins of the time were conservatives in this department and it is difficult to imagine Emerson or Irving or Bryant sanctioning the innovations later adopted so easily by Howells. Lowell and Walt Whitman, in fact, were the first men of letters, properly so called, to give specific assent to the great changes that were firmly fixed in the national speech during the half century between the War of 1812 and the Civil War. Lowell did so in his preface to the second series of The Biglow Papers. Whitman made his declaration in An American Primer. In discussing Leaves of Grass, he said: I sometimes think that the entire book is only a language experimentthat it is an attempt to give the spirit, the body and the man, new words, new potentialities of speechan American, a cosmopolitan (for the best of America is the best cosmopolitanism) range of self-expression. And then: The Americans are going to be the most fluent and melodious-voiced people in the worldand the most perfect users of words. The new world, the new times, the new people, the new vistas need a new tongue accordingyes, what is more, they will have such a new tonguewill not be satisfied until it is evolved.
According to Louis Untermeyer, a diligent and enthusiastic Whitmanista, old Walt deserves to be called the father of the American language.
He goes on:
This, in spite of its grandiloquent sound, is what he truly was. When the rest of literary America was still indulging in the polite language of pulpits and the lifeless rhetoric of its libraries, Whitman not only sensed the richness and vigor of the casual word, the colloquial phrasehe championed the vitality of slang, the freshness of our quickly assimilated jargons, the indigenous beauty of vulgarisms. He even predicted that no future native literature could exist that neglected this racy speech, that the vernacular of people as opposed to the language of literati would form the living accents of the best poets to come. One has only to observe the contemporary works of Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, James Oppenheim, Edgar Lee Masters, John Hall Wheelock, Vachel Lindsay and a dozen others to see how Whitmans prophecy has been fulfilled.
Words, especially the neglected words regarded as too crude and literal for literature, fascinated Whitman. The idea of an enriched language was scarcely ever out of his mind. This interest grew to great proportions; it became almost an obsession.
Whitman himself spoke of An American Primer as an attempt to describe the growth of an American English enjoying a distinct identity. He proposed an American dictionary containing the actual everyday vocabulary of the people. To quote him again:
The Real Dictionary will give all words that exist in use, the bad words as well as any. The Real Grammar will be that which declares itself a nucleus of the spirit of the laws, with liberty to all to carry out the spirit of the laws; even by violating them, if necessary.
Many of the slang words are our best; slang words among fighting men, gamblers, thieves, are powerful words. Much of America is shown in these and in newspaper names, and in names of characteristic amusements and games.
Our tongue is full of strong words, native or adopted, to express the blood-born passion of the race for rudeness and resistance, as against mere polish. These words are alive and sinewythey walk, look, step with an air of command.
Ten thousand native idiomatic words are growing, or are already grown, out of which vast numbers could be used by American writers, with meaning and effectwords that would give that taste of identity and locality which is so dear in literaturewords that would be welcomed by the nation, being of the national blood.
As everyone knows, Whitman delighted in filling his poetry and prose with such new words, among them, the verbs
to promulge, to eclaircise, to diminute, to imperturbe, to effuse
to inure,
the adjectives
the adverb
and the nouns
camerado, romanza, deliveress, literatus, acceptress
Many of his coinages were in Spanish metal; he believed that American should not be restricted to the materials of English. I have heard it argued that he introduced
into everyday American; the evidence is dubious, but certainly the word is much oftener used in the United States than in England. Most of his coinages, alas, died with him, just as
died with its inventor, Charles Sumner, who announced its invention to the Senate with great formality, and argued that it would be justified by the analogy of
These States
has survived.
Meanwhile, though conservatism lingered on the planes above Whitman, there was a wild and lawless development of the language on the planes below him, among the unfettered democrats of his adoration, and in the end the words and phrases thus brought to birth forced themselves into recognition, and profited by the literary declaration of independence of their very opponents. The
jus et norma loquendi,
says W. R. Morfill, the English philologist, do not depend upon scholars. Particularly in a country where scholarship is still new and wholly cloistered, and the overwhelming majority of the people are engaged upon novel and highly exhilarating tasks, far away from schools and with a gigantic cockiness in their hearts. The remnants of the Puritan civilization had been wiped out by the rise of the proletariat under Jackson, and whatever was fine and sensitive in it had died with it. What remained of an urbane habit of mind and utterance began to be confined to the narrowing feudal areas of the south and to the still narrower refuge of the Boston Brahmins, now, for the first time, a definitely recognized caste of
self-charged with carrying the torch of culture through a new Dark Age. The typical American, in Pauldings satirical phrase, became a bundling, gouging, impious fellow, without either morals, literature, religion or refinement. Next to the savage struggle for land and dollars, party politics was the chief concern of the people, and with the disappearance of the old leaders and the entrance of pushing upstarts from the backwoods, political controversy sank to an incredibly low level. Bartlett, in the introduction to the second edition of his Glossary, described the effect upon the language. First the enfranchised mob, whether in the city wards or along the western rivers, invented fantastic slang-words and turns of phrase; then they were seized upon by stump-speakers at political meetings; then they were heard in Congress; then they got into the newspapers; and finally they came into more or less good usage. Much contemporary evidence is to the same effect. Fowler, in listing low expressions in 1850, described them as chiefly political. The vernacular tongue of the country, said Daniel Webster, has become greatly vitiated, depraved and corrupted by the style of the congressional debates. Thornton, in the appendix to his Glossary, gives some astounding specimens of congressional oratory between the 20s and 60s, and many more will reward the explorer who braves the files of the
Congressional Globe.
This flood of racy and unprecedented words and phrases beat upon and finally penetrated the retreat of the
but the purity of speech cultivated there had little compensatory influence upon the vulgate. The newspaper was enthroned, and
belles lettres
were cultivated almost in private, and as a mystery. It is probable, indeed, that Uncle Toms Cabin and Ten Nights in a Bar-room, both published in the early 50s, were the first contemporary native books, after Coopers day, that the American people, as a people, ever read. Nor did the pulpit, now fast falling from its old high estate, lift a corrective voice. On the contrary, it joined the crowd, and Bartlett denounced it specifically for its bad example, and cited, among its crimes against the language, such inventions as
to doxologize
to funeralize.
To these novelties, apparently without any thought of their uncouthness, Fowler added
to missionate
As I say, the pressure from below broke down the defenses of the purists, and literally forced a new national idiom upon them. Pen in hand, they might still achieve laborious imitations of Johnson and Macaulay, but their mouths began to betray them. When it comes to talking, wrote Charles Astor Bristed for Englishmen in 1855, the most refined and best educated American, who has habitually resided in his own country, the very man who would write, on some serious topic, volumes in which no peculiarity could be detected, will, in half a dozen sentences, use at least as many words that cannot fail to strike the inexperienced Englishman who hears them for the first time. Bristed gave a specimen of the American of that time, calculated to flabbergast his inexperienced Englishman; you will find it in the volume of Cambridge Essays, already cited. His aim was to explain and defend Americanisms, and so shut off the storm of English reviling, and he succeeded in producing one of the most thoughtful and persuasive essays on the subject ever written. But his purpose failed and the attack kept up, and eight years afterward the Very Rev. Henry Alford, D.D., dean of Canterbury, led a famous assault. Look at those phrases, he said, which so amuse us in their speech and books; at their reckless exaggeration and contempt for congruity; and then compare the character and history of the nationits blunted sense of moral obligation and duty to man; its open disregard of conventional right where aggrandisement is to be obtained; and I may now say, its reckless and fruitless maintenance of the most cruel and unprincipled war in the history of the world.
In his American edition of 1866 Dr. Alford withdrew this reference to the Civil War and somewhat ameliorated his indignation otherwise, but he clung to the main counts in his indictment, and most Englishmen, I daresay, still give them a certain support. The American is no longer a vain, egotistical, insolent, rodomontade sort of fellow; America is no longer the brigand confederation of the
Foreign Quarterly
or the loathsome creature, maimed and lame, full of sores and ulcers of Dickens; but the Americanism is yet regarded with a bilious eye, and pounced upon viciously when found. Even the friendliest English critics seem to be daunted by the gargantuan copiousness of American inventions in speech. Their position, perhaps, was well stated by Capt. Basil Hall, author of the celebrated Travels in North America, in 1827. When he argued that surely such innovations are to be deprecated, an American asked him this question: If a word becomes universally current in America, why should it not take its station in the language? Because, replied Hall in all seriousness, there are words enough in our language already.
Note 15.
An American Primer was not printed until 1904, long after Whitmans death. As originally written in the 50s and 60s, it consisted of notes for a lecture. Among Whitmans papers, Horace Traubel found this alternative title: The Primer of Words: For American Young Men and Women, For Literati, Orators, Teachers, Judges, Presidents, etc. [
Note 16.
Whitman and the American Language, New York
Evening Post,
May 31, 1919. [
Note 17.
A Plea for the Queens English; London, 1863; 2nd ed., 1864; American ed., New York, 1866. [
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Henry Ford believed in reincarnation. He was right to do so, for Mark St. Germain's highly promising "Camping with Henry & Tom" and John Cunningham's dominant portrayal of Ford in it offer strong evidence that he has been reborn as Ross Perot. The play's suggestion of parallels between Ford and Perot and between 1921 and 1993 is just two of its many slyly provocative elements as it presents a monstrously hubristic Ford planning to become the next president of the U.S. Given the portrait of him painted by St. Germain and Cunningham, let's be profoundly thankful he was never elected.
The idea for the play sprang from the fact that in July 1921, Ford, Thomas Edison and Warren G. Harding did go camping in Maryland. Dialogue and characterizations are based on historical fact and reportage. The fictional element introduced by St. Germain is for Ford to cut the battery wires of Harding's Secret Service colonel's car so Ford, Edison and Harding can be alone.
Ford intends to force Harding to make the U.S. government hand over to him for a pittance the Muscle Shoals rapids of the Tennessee River and its adjacent multimillion-dollar nitrate plant by threatening to reveal that Harding has a teenage mistress and an illegitimate child.
Harding turns the tables on Ford by embracing the threat, stating he never wanted to be president or married to his overbearing wife; being rid of both White House and spouse would be pure joy.
Edison, at first behaving with cold Swiss neutrality, finally steps in to threaten Ford with revelations of his mistresses to prevent him from running for the presidency.
At its best the play is almost Shavian in its moral debating and dry wit. But it does have problems. Its comedic and serious elements need to be better balanced and its three central characters, along with their performances, need more shading between black and white. Yet there's no doubt that this play has something to say and says it in a mostly engrossing thought- and laughter-provoking manner.
Because of its basic situation, woodsy setting (designed with painstaking realism by James Leonard Joy), and the presence of Robert Prosky, "Camping with Henry & Tom" can't help but bring to mind Lee Blessing's "A Walk in the Woods"– which is not necessarily a drawback. It has a tremendous opening: A Model T Ford enters, knocking down a small tree. Ford is driving; his passengers are Edison and Harding. Offstage throughout the play is an injured deer, the car's victim. In turn, the deer has cracked the T's block and the odd trio are effectively stranded in the woods.
Much comedy and philosophizing follow, the best of both inextricably entwined. Hyperactive and affecting is Cunningham's dry Perot-like bark; his Ford reveals himself as anti-Semitic, anti-union and fascistic, thoughtlessly despising son Edsel along the way.
Edison is mostly a grousing old curmudgeon who, at74, believes he already has one foot in the grave. Harding, who, along with Ford is still in his 50s (the three central actors are perhaps too similar-looking in age) is clearly way out of his depth as president.
The play is most sympathetic to Harding, suggesting that the one virtue he has that the two geniuses camping with him lack is humanity.
Halfway through its two-week run at the Berkshire Theater Festival, the play and production were still works in progress. Actors were sometimes searching for lines and not always given sufficient direction by helmer Paul Lazarus, and the physical fighting and dancing to music from one of Edison's cylinder phonographs needed much stronger staging. The playwright himself has work to do, too, fleshing out his characters and balancing the cut and thrust of their verbal battles.
But there's already much to ponder and enjoy in "Camping with Henry & Tom." More will certainly be heard of it.


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I read a description of this book that described it as a young adult swashbuckler about a girl who disguises herself as a boy in order to have adventure. Great! I'm a fan of Tamora Pierce's Alanna books (about a girl who disguises herself as a boy in order to be a knight), so this sounded like it would be right up my alley. Then I read the first couple of pages, and my heart sank.
A girl's appearance was very important to Celeste, but then she was truly lovely. Her skin was translucent and glowing, like a pearl. Her eyes were large, and her little mouth was red and round. Her body was rounded too, and already quite feminine.
"They'll never think I'm a boy with these beautiful flowing tresses," I said firmly. I raised my hand to snip some more, but she floated across the room to stop me. I can't describe Celeste's walk any other way. The huge folds of silk and lace cover any sign of legs.
Translucent, glowing skin? Floating across the floor? There are certain things I can't handle in my books, and flowery descriptions like that are one of those things (unless part of a parody and meant to be funny). Fortunately, I stuck with it and kept reading, and the flowery descriptions were confined to the description of Anna's cousin, Celeste, at the beginning of the story.
Although described as YA, I'd consider this story as middle grade (MG), appealing more to an 8-12 year-old audience rather than a YA/12+ one. It's just the kind of story I would have loved to get my hands on in 4th and 5th grades. By the time I was in 6th grade, I preferred my books to have some romance, which this book doesn't have, but that was just a personal preference on my part.
The author sucked me in with the story's mystery, and I didn't even realize how unrealistic much of the story was until I had finished; I was consumed with learning what the mysterious Mrs. MacGuffin had to tell the queen and why Hugo and Tybalt kidnapped her. It was just a fun adventure story.
After finishing, I was left with some questions and wishing I had gotten to see more of Anna's back story before she left on this grand adventure. These aren't complaints exactly, just questions I was left with, and I guess it's because I was interested in Anna that I want to know more. For example, did she practice riding a horse astride (sorry...I don't know if that's correct horse terminology)? She had bought a regular saddle saying it was a gift for her brother, but did she ever have a chance to practice riding that way before running away? She seemed to ride awfully well, so I assume she did, but when? How?
Second, she mentions men who taught her to fence, but, again, I was left wondering how she convinced them to teach her? Who taught her and why?
Last, I wish the author had let us into Anna's head a little more about her desire to disguise herself as a boy. At times I felt like it was purely for the adventure and freedom that dressing as a boy would allow her. At other times, when she thought things like, "With the closing of that door I became a boy," I wondered if she really felt trapped in the wrong body, if inside she really was a boy.
Even though not a perfect book, I'd certainly be interested in reading a prequel that details her life before this adventure to get answers for some of my questions, and I'm interested to know what happens to Anna as she grows up if there are sequels. Heck, I'd love to read the love story of Johan and the queen too (so long as it ends happily)!
(reviewed 21 days after purchase)