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Randy and I got the kids a basketball hoop.
The instructions looks like this:
The boys have seriously overestimated our ability to assemble it quickly.
All done. (My husband is amazing.)
Randy and I got the kids a basketball hoop.
The instructions looks like this:
The boys have seriously overestimated our ability to assemble it quickly.
All done. (My husband is amazing.)
I had bright purple streaks added to my hair today. Curious how long it will take the kids to notice ("Mom and her wild ideas…") and then to ask for some of their own.
It's the terrain, the view, the cool dampness of the air. The edge of the trail meeting the edge of the hill. From here, I'm able to look out and around, and clear my mind's eye.
Stress is falling off; being scattered behind me on the trail.
The ground crunches below, as though stomping out my worries and concerns.
The trail behind is long. But, if I let myself, I'm never far from recalling what I've left along it.
The emptiness of the trail evokes a certain sound in my mind… a 'blip', like the sound a machine might make as it turns off to reboot.
Cursor blinking.
Then stopping.
Blank screen.
Stress brings about many things and the image of gray hair from worry, is enough to propel me forward.
It's been a while since I've de-stressed in this way. A while since the "blip" from a reboot has been heard.
That's what running the trail arouses inside of me. Not the ability to eat unlimited amounts of greek yogurt. Not the trim physique that is reflected from the mirror. Not the fit of my jeans.
The sanity. The sanity that is saved when I run hard enough to make all of the worries and stresses fall away.
I crunch them into the ground.
It's not just a figurative thing. It feels quite literal.
"My designs aren't good enough."
"I let people down."
"My thighs are too big."
"I need to be perfect."
The trail. It is so much more than just dirt and gravel.
There is anticipation inside, as I consider what lies ahead along that trail. And what is left behind…
There is nothing like it. And there is no better way to start a Tuesday morning.
Ack! How is it that nearly a month passes and I haven't posted on here? (and even that wasn't a post post — it was a "here's what I posted somewhere else" post…)
Sometimes I get so busy sharing nuggets on Instagram that I neglect to share them here, even though they are such an important part of my days and weeks.
Until I figure out a better way for me to blog on the fly, I do have a widget in my sidebar now, that shows my most recent Instagram posts.
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The body of an Illinois man was found in the pool of a motel in Wisconsin Dells, according to Wisconsin Dells police.
Officers were called to Indian Trail Motel at 1013 Broadway at 8:02 a.m. Friday.
Jose Manuel Robles-Orozco, 34, of Aurora, Ill., was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said there appears to be no foul play and alcohol is believed to be a factor.
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This week's news includes news for the gray wolves of America, a controversial anti-aging pill, a stem cell suggestion for Japanese nuclear workers, bail for an imprisoned Indian doctor, and an interactive map of the brain.
Wolf no longer endangered
For the first time ever, the United States Congress has removed a species from the Fish and Wildlife Service's list of endangered species. The gray wolf was listed as endangered in 1973, when only a few hundred remained in the continental US. Today, total estimates put the population of gray wolves in the continental US at 5,000 or more, prompting the inclusion of the provision by U.S. Senator Jon Tester of Montana in the budget bill passed last week by Congress. "Wolves have recovered in the Northern Rockies," said Tester in a statement. "By untying the hands of the Montana biologists who know how to keep the proper balance, we will restore healthy wildlife populations and we will protect livestock." Federal judges over the last decade had repeatedly blocked attempts to downgrade the legal status, though most biologists agreed the population was thriving, according to the Washington Post.
Reactions to the de-listing are strong and mixed. Officials in Montana and Ohio are already planning public hunts, which are often used to quell wolf attacks on livestock, while environmentalists are up in arms. The provision "is not only a disaster for wolf recovery, it opens the door for every self-interested politician to try to strip protection away from local endangered species," said Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity in a statement. (Hat tip to ScienceInsider.)
Debate over anti-aging pill
Telomere length is considered a marker of aging, with younger organisms having longer telomeres. Now, a new anti-aging compound called TA-65, manufactured in a commercial pill by a New York supplement company, appears to elongate telomeres and lead to health improvements in mice, according to a study published March 22 in Aging Cell. But the findings are not without controversy. "There are a number of questions about the actual claims just in terms of: Is TA-65 really doing what they think it's doing?" Carol Greider, who jointly won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the discovery of telomeres and the enzyme that forms them, told the Daily Beast. "I haven't seen yet that they actually change telomere length, which is the clear real indicator."
Japan to bank nuclear worker stem cells?
In a letter to the Lancet, Japanese scientists are recommending that blood should be collected from workers at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as a future source of their own stem cells. The cells could then be stored and used as a treatment for radiation exposure to restore damaged blood cells by rescuing injured bone marrow, reports Reuters. Using one's own cells prevents risk of rejection of donor cells and the need to take immunosuppressive drugs.
But the Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan has reportedly stated that there is no need to collect and store cells because of the physical and psychological burden for nuclear workers and lack of consensus among international authoritative bodies, the authors of the Lancet letter note.
Indian doctor released
On Friday (April 15), the Indian Supreme Court granted bail to Binayak Sen, a doctor who had been detained in Chhattisgarh, India, since May 2007 and sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of sedition for aiding Maoist rebels by smuggling notes from one of them being held in jail, according to The Hindu and ScienceInsider. In February, 45 Nobel laureates signed a petition for his release, expressing "astonishment and dismay at the unjust life sentence handed down last month in India to a fellow scientist and human rights advocate."
Scientists unveiled a $55 million computerized atlas of the human brain on Tuesday (April 12). The atlas combines several imaging techniques into one three-dimensional interactive archive that maps anatomy, nerve structure, cell features and a comprehensive read-out of gene activity, reports The Wall Street Journal. The freely available resource includes a set of computational tools to help scientists analyze the data.
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Where does the material in Juvederm come from? I heard that it's natural - what is it made from?
Juvederm Ingredients - How is Juvederm Made?
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Juvederm is made from hyaluronic acid
Juvederm is a dermal filler which is made of non-animal stabilized hyaluronic acid. Because hyaluronic acid occurs naturally in the body, no prior allergy test is needed. The product is injected into (or below the dermis) to provide desired augmentation.
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Juvederm is good stuff!
Juvederm is a filler that will soften fine lines and wrinkles. It is made of Hyaluronic acid (HA). HA is a natural occuring component of your skin. 40% of your Dermis (the deep layer) is made from HA and the remainder is made from collagen.
HA can be derived from other animals (roosters, pigs) but these forms of HA have unique proteins that can make them more susceptible to an allergic reaction. Juvederm is made from a synthetic process using bacteria.
The bacteria are completely removed at the end of the process and their is no residual protein to cause the allergic reaction. Juvederm is treated by cross-linking. This process allows it to last longer than competing products.
Overall, I give Juvederm an A!
Juvederm: A natural component of the skin.
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Juvederm is hyaluronic acid
Juvederm is a syntetic hyaluronic acid. Hyaluronic acid is a sugar-water molecule that makes up the normal skin's infrastructure, cushioning the collagen and providing support.
Juvederm is hyaluronic acid
Juvederm Ultra and Ultra Plus are non-animal derived hyaluronic acid (HA) fillers. Juvederm is produced from bacterial fermentation. Hyaluronic acid is identical across species, so no HA filler requires skin testing for allergy. Juvederm results last up to one year, as the filler is gradually broken down by your body. While FDA approved for filling lines around the mouth, it is often used "off-label" for lip enhancement, cheek lifting, and sunken areas under the eyes. Besides being versatile, Juvederm can be dissovled with an enzyme if the patient does not like the result.
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Juvederm comes from strep
Juvederm is derived from a bacterial source, streptococcus equi. Don't worry this is a harmless bacteria species to start off with. It is then broken down so the hyaluronic acid part is extracted out. (Back in 1965, I was extracting lipopolysaccharides from E. Coli a truly dangerous bacteria, but the extract was harmless....though we never thought of injecting it into people!). This bacteria-derived hyaluronic acid is also a polysaccharide, a glorified sugar molecule.
Since hyaluronic acid has no tissue specific or species specific antigens (proteins that can cause a reaction) it is thought to be virtually impossible to develop an allergic reaction to Juvederm, Restylane, Captique or Hylaform. The latter isderived from rooster combs, and while it too has little tendency for an allergic reaction it seems to have fallen out of favor.
Each of the hyaluronic acid fillers have different chemical properties depending not on the molecule itself but on the method used when it was extracted. The difference in qualities include: gel hardness, flow, particle size, concentration of particles in the gel (this say separates Perlane from Restylane and Juvederm Ultra from Juvderm Ultra Plus... Perlane and Juvederm Ultra Plus having more particles), swelling or the resistance to dilution...this accounts for the difference in longevity between the products; solubility, and finally cross-linking. The Allergan people boast about the Hylacross technology of their product, Juvederm, which allows more cross-linking and smoothness.
Hopefully, this answers your excellent question.
From bacterial cultures
Juvederm is just one form of hyaluronic acid filler. Hyaluronic acid is naturally found in your body. Juvederm specifically is derived in the laboratory from bacterial cultures.
Juvederm is marketed in the US by Allergan. It is manufactured in France and is derived from Streptococcus bacteria. It is then highly purified. It is not derived in any way from cadaver or animal sources.
Its main component is cross-linked hyaluronic acid and is molecularly identical to the hyaluronic acid found naturally in the human body. This is the reason why allergic reactions are very rare, and why its effect is so long lived.
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That is not my intention with this post, but I want it to be very clear. Yesterday I hurt my knee and had to hitchhike 31 miles at the end of the day. I cheated. I will still say I biked across the country (assuming I do) as I do not believe that 32 miles is of great consequence in a 4000+ mile trip.
The day started wonderfully with cool weather, a tailwind, and a bowl of Cheerios. My intentions for the day were to make it long, more than 120 miles
On the way out, my clerk was talking to her colleague about these two teenaged girls that had to be removed for suspicion of theft. I went outside to find them standing next to my bike which was knocked over. They were detaching their bikes and rode off, loud and foul mouthed. In the process of them knocking over my bike, they caused the rear derailleur to catch. When I stopped to fix it, I bent over and felt my knee strain, and when I tried to stand up it almost gave out.
I blame my misfortune on those two girls, and if given the opportunity, would love to tell them to get their tubes tied so that the world may never know their offspring, grow up, and stay in school. In that order.
After riding another ten miles or so, I pulled over in the shade, stuck out my thumb, and called it a day. Three different single dudes, big dudes in big trucks passed me by, and traffic was light on the road. I suppose they were intimidated by a skinny white guy in bike shorts, and were too terrified to stop. Eventually, Mary and her daughter stopped. They were on their way home, only 10 miles away, but still insisted on tying my bike to the trunk and drove me the whole way to my campground. We had great conversation, and I thoroughly enjoyed meeting them. Not to mention how grateful I was for the ride.
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With the holidays and the calendar flip now behind us, New Girl finally returns from TV vacation with a new episode, which features Jess facing a moment of career uncertainty.
Check below for the full review…
The Players:
- Director: Eric Appel
- Writers: Berkley Johnson
- Cast: Zooey Deschanel, Jake Johnson, Max Greenfield, Lamorne Morris, Hannah Simone, Merritt Wever, Damon Wayans Jr.
Episode Title: "Stuck in the Bar"
Jess and the gang flash back to their first jobs.
The Good:
- Cold Open: A good scotch tasting to set the stage for the episode. Schmidt sure knows how to describe the delicate intricacies of an expensive glass of scotch.
- Coach: Working the stopwatch on Boogie Nights was funny. As was his scene when Nick and Schmidt decide to call him 'Coach.'
- Schmidt: Busted out the funny NIH line ('Nurse I'd like to Hug') during his flashback to the 'Fat Schmidt' days selling Christmas trees and working as a candy striper.
- Nick: Seeing him in the scarf and nice haircut was almost as great as his quote to the guy (see below) in his law school class.
- Schmidt/End: Schmidt working that old Christmas tree selling charm at the close was fun to see – played nicely to wrap up the episode.
- Brian Posehn: Awesome cameo/scene by the funnyman when he busts out a sweet list of those who are 'anti-future": 'print media, the Amish, railroad industry, karaoke machine owners….'
- The Quote: Nick: "Take it easy, guy to my right."
The Bad:
- Jess: She totally should have taken the new job!
- Cece: Not liking this deal with her now working at the bar.
Feels like forever since we had a new episode. So it's good to rev season 3 back up, but "Stuck in the Bar" was merely a decent return for the TV comedy. Oh, it had some aces moments, but not enough to merit a high rating, since that's how we do things around here with the numbers and all. The plot, which connected to everyone, worked fine, but the episode never shifted into comedy overdrive, just sputtered along with enough charm and funny dialogue to keep us interested.
Rating: 6/10
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Beijing opens tourism office in Taipei
- Publication Date: May 10, 2010
- Source: China Times
The first tourism office to be established by mainland China in Taiwan in more than 60 years officially opened for business May 7, with the occasion marked by a lavish ceremony at the Grand Hotel in Taipei attended by luminaries from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Shao Qiwei, director of mainland China's National Tourism Administration, represented Beijing and served as both main speaker and master of ceremonies for the gala banquet.
Representing Taiwan at the event were Kao Koong-lian, vice chairman of the semi-official Straits Exchange Foundation, and Janice Seh-jen Lai, director-general of the Tourism Bureau under the Ministry of Transportation and Communications. Leaders of Taiwan's main tourism association groups and the airline industry were in attendance as well.
"This office, the first of its kind in 61 years, represents an important milestone in cross-strait exchanges," said Shao. "It will serve as a window for cross-strait tourism exchanges and services."
He added that the main functions of the office, officially known as the Cross-Strait Tourism Exchange Association, will include consulting in tourism-related matters, facilitating communications, handling disputes and promoting cross-strait tourism.
Between July 2008, when Taiwan first opened its doors to mainland tourists, and May 2010, more than 1.7 million tourists from the mainland have visited Taiwan, Shao noted. In 2010 alone, 416,000 mainland visitors came to Taiwan, a 95-percent increase from the same period a year ago.
"Taiwan has become an important tourist destination that many people in the mainland sincerely wish to visit," he said.
Shao noted that all the provinces and cities in the mainland are supportive of bilateral tourism exchanges. These exchanges will allow both Taiwan and the mainland to exploit their respective comparative advantages. If the two sides work hard to jointly promote their tourism industry, a mainland China-Taiwan tour could become an unbeatable world-class package, he said, citing the cruise industry in particular as one with enormous potential. (HZW)


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This post contains spoilers about the 3.3 Raid and Instance content. As such, it is behind a "Read More" tag, as surprising people with spoilers is one of the qualifications for being a dick in TRI. (DBAD!)
It is not, however, complaining about Icecrown. Instead, it's about some of the roleplay implications for what's going on in the Citadel.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health): Weekly courses in meditation, yoga and communication can improve the quality of life for cancer patients years after their diagnosis, according to data presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Society of Breast Surgeons in Washington, D.C.
"It's important for doctors to know that their patients may still experience psychological distress and they need to ask about it and have resources available," Dr. Ruth Lerman, who led the research at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan, told Reuters Health.
"I think that the health value of meditation is remarkable. And it's becoming accepted now in Western medicine," she added.
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General Hospital Cast At Fourth Annual Habitat For Humanity Fan Build.
The cast of "General Hospital" is once again participating in the Fan Build for Habitat For Humanity. The 2013 event will be dedicated to the memory of John Ingle (Edward).
Those confirmed to attend thus far include, Jane Elliot (Tracy Quartermaine), Nancy Lee Grahn (Alexis Davis), Jen Lilley (Maxie Jones), Lisa LoCicero (Olivia Falconeri), Kelly Sullivan (Kate Howard), Jason Thompson (Dr. Patrick Drake) and Dominic Zamprogna (Dante Falconeri). The event will be held on February 9 in Los Angeles. For more information go to Habitat LA.
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From this article, "Free Play is Essential for Normal Emotional Development:"
In play, children practice many skills that are crucial for healthy development. They practice physical and manual skills, intellectual skills, and social skills. I have written about all of this in previous posts. They also practice emotional skills. In play, children learn how to regulate their fear and anger and thereby how to maintain emotional control in threatening real-life situation.
Our children spend much of their day playing with each other. I let them work out their issues or coach them when they need help. They play rough, they take risks, and they role play using their imaginations.
We do spend a lot of time reminding Chandler to use his regular voice. Whining and yelling is not the way to work things out. The boys have a good relationship and I credit the book "Children: The Challenge" by Rudolph Dreikurs for helping me know how to parent siblings, and how to help children manage fear and anger. I love knowing that play is a big help for this too. Play is NOT a waste of time.
Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if we put Hunter is school at 5 years old? Would he sit still in class? Would he lose his spark? Now we have a happy, curious child and I do believe the hours of free play and freedom to learn in his own time has helped him tremendously. He is helpful around the house, caring toward his younger brother, and considerate of others. He learned all this from play and parenting, not from hours at a desk or waiting in lines.
I shudder to think of the long-term effects of medicating children. I realize that some kids do need medical intervention, but most children mature in their own time with patience and practice. Free play, role-playing and storytelling are the best parenting tools. This is not new. These tools have existed for generations. Yet, look at what medication is potentially doing to our children (from the article above):
In one set of experiments some otherwise peer-deprived young rats were allowed to interact for an hour per day with a playful peer while others were allowed to interact for an hour per day with a peer that had been rendered non-playful by injection of the drug amphetamine.[4] Amphetamine—which is essentially the same drug that we use to "treat" ADHD in human children–knocks out the play drive in young rats without knocking out other social behaviors. The results of these experiments were that rats that had experience playing with a peer behaved much more normally in adulthood than did those that had the same amount of exposure to a non-playful peer. Apparently, the crucial interactions between young rats for normal emotional and social development occur in play. In other experiments, play-deprived young rats showed abnormal patterns of brain development. Without play, neural pathways running from frontal areas of the brain—areas known to be crucial for controlling impulses and emotions—failed to develop normally.
I wonder how many children would be helped by the freedom to play, freedom to climb trees, freedom to play outdoors, and freedom use real tools and build real things? It doesn't mean we turn them loose to run with hammers, but we let them discover their abilities and limits. It means modeling how to use the hammer and patient supervision with fewer words of caution (save it for the big stuff).
It also means not boosting them higher in the tree, but letting them learn to climb alone. Generally, if they can climb up they can climb down. Encourage this, please. Instead of saying, "Don't fall!" or "You are going to break your neck!" (which I do want to say sometimes) please say, "Watch where you are stepping so you can find the same spot on the way down," or "Larger branches are stronger than the thin, flexible branches." Give them helpful tips that encourage instead of discourage.
So you might have to ask someone to help you get your child down, or the child might cry in fear from doing too much and need extra coaching. This might be embarrassing but never trying is worse. Reassure them, help them and tell them they can try again when they are ready.
Confident kids are what we want:
Mother Nature has designed our children to play in all these "dangerous" ways because she knows that such play teaches them not just the physical skills they need for dealing with emergencies, but also the emotional skills they need. In such play, children dose themselves with just the level of fear that they can tolerate, a level just below the threshold of what might cause them to freeze up. In this way, they learn how to manage fear, how to prevent it from incapacitating them. They learn that fear is normal and healthy, something they can control and overcome through their own efforts. It is practice such as this that allows them to grow up able to manage fear rather than succumb to it.


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Volume 90, Issue 1, July 1991
The scanning acoustic microprobe: I. Analysis and synthesis of a spherically symmetric point spread function90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401288View Description Hide Description
The scanning acoustic microprobe is a novel system which probes and characterizes, from a limited acoustic window, the fine‐scale structural features of an object, point‐by‐point, using a multiplicity of acoustic pulses all aimed and focused at that point. Spherically symmetric, three‐dimensional Gaussian pulses are synthesized to measure the backscatterdiffraction pattern of the least‐resolvable volume of scatterers centered at the point in question. The size and distribution of the scattering volume is forced to be constant, independent of frequency and angle. This method is analytically simple, compared with other pulse‐echo techniques, and is applicable to scatterers ranging continuously in size from Rayleigh scatterers to specular reflectors. This is the first of a number of papers describing the development and application of systems based on these concepts. The analytical principles will be described herein for examination of one point at a time. In a companion paper appearing in this issue [F. E. Barber, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. ▪▪, ▪▪▪–▪▪▪ (1991)], application to measurement and characterization of a discrete, flat, circular ''piston'' will be presented. Application to human tissueimaging and tissue characterization will be described in a subsequent third paper. The primary features detected experimentally are the strength of nondirective patterns, and the strength, orientation, and directivity of angle‐dependent echo functions associated with planar or layered structures. Fine‐scale structural features of a scattering center are obtained either by pattern recognition in k(data) space or inverse Fourier transformation. It is shown that when the bandwidth criteria are met to produce a spherically symmetric point spread function, scattering phenomena are completely described by only two parameters, namely the center frequency of the pulse‐echo system and the characteristic diameter of the Gaussian point spread function.
The scanning acoustic microprobe: II. Application to the measurement and characterization of a piston reflector90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401305View Description Hide Description
In a pulsed ultrasound beam, echoesdetected from a flat, circular piston of arbitrary size depend on the time‐space characteristics of the entire pulse‐echo measurementsystem, being a function of as many parameters as it takes to accurately define the system. In the limiting case of a target that is small relative to the spatial extent of an interrogating plane wave, an echo pattern is known to be a relatively simple function of the dimensionless product k 0 b, where k 0 is the wave number and b is the radius of the target. In a companion paper preceding this one [F. E. Barber, J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 9 0, 8–17 (1991)], the author has described the scanning acoustic microprobe, a pulse‐echo system in which the time‐space properties of the interrogating waves are specified completely by k 0 and a single additional parameter s 0, which is the characteristic radius of a spherically symmetric, Gaussian‐distributed scattering volume. In this system, the reflection pattern of a flat, circular piston of any arbitrary size is thus a function of two dimensionless parameters, namely k 0 b and b/s 0. In this paper, this functional relationship is derived, a physical system is described, and analytical and experimental results are reported. It is shown that the diameter, orientation, and impedance mismatch properties of this simple target can be measured unambiguously over a range of target sizes from about a wavelength (2π/k 0) to a beam diameter (about 3s 0 ). For a typical ultrasoundsystem, this is about a 5–1 range; i.e., a range extending to target sizes about five times smaller than can be detected in a simple B‐mode imagingsystem. Theoretical and experimental results are described and discussed in detail. The implications of such a system for quantitative analysis of more complex target structures and constituents are explored. The methods lead naturally to a new technique for imaging that will display fine‐scale features not seen by any other method.
Acoustic intensity analysis: Distinguishing energy propagation and wave‐front propagation90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401290View Description Hide Description
Three arguments are presented to demonstrate the distinction between energy propagation and wave‐front propagation in an acoustic field where the reactive intensity is nonzero. This distinction is especially useful for understanding the acoustic near field. Physical interpretations of the active and reactive intensity vectors and their contributions to the energy propagation described by the instantaneous intensity are summarized. Also, two differential equations are developed that show the interdependence of the active and reactive intensity vectors. Other important results show the contribution of the reactive intensity to the wave fronts propagating at speeds other than the speed of sound, and also show that energy associated with the reactive intensity does propagate to the far field.
Designing quantitative echo sounders90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401297View Description Hide Description
A procedure for designing quantitative echosounders, whose main purpose is fisheries resource surveys, is described. The quantitative echosounder must be designed under the specific criteria, such as minimum error, taking into account the purpose, external conditions, and several acoustic characteristics. The acoustic characteristics needed in the design procedure, for example, the scatteringproperties of fish, are reviewed briefly. In the main part, the method to determine the pulse width, bandwidth, operating frequency, transducer diameter, and gain allocation for each stage of the receiver is described. A convenient ''universal diagram'' is introduced for determining the basic parameters. The diagram serves also for users of sounders. Application of the method to two kinds of sounders is demonstrated. The optimum frequency for quantitative echosounders is discussed and the frequency of 38 kHz, being used worldwide, is shown to be a reasonable frequency.
Postprocessing system for echo sounder data90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401261View Description Hide Description
Echo sounding is a powerful and widely used technique for remote sensing of the marine environment. In order to enhance the power of the echo sounder, a postprocessing system has been designed and realized in standard software that is essentially machine independent. This has been done by adhering to the following international standards: UNIX operating system, C programming language, X Window Systems, Structured‐Query Language (SQL) for communication with a relational database, and Transport Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Preprocessed data are transferred from the echo sounder to the postprocessing system by means of a local‐area network (LAN), namely Ethernet. Development of the postprocessing system, for analysis of such diverse scatterers as plankton, pelagic, and bottom fish, and the bottom itself, is documented in the following way. The history of echo integration is summarized. User requirements for the new system are listed. Reasons are given for the choice of the particular computing environment, including both hardware,software, and external communications. The system design, consisting of data flow and graphical user interfaces, is described. Implementation of the system is defined through integration techniques and a discussion of performance issues. Operating procedures and the first field trials of the system are described. Several features characteristic of and perhaps unique to the postprocessing system are, for example: (1) user definition of arbitrarily shaped integration regions, including non‐constant‐depth intervals, by means of interactive graphics; (2) preprocessor error correction, e.g., adjustment of the noise threshold or redefinition of the detected bottom; (3) use of several color map techniques in order to extract such information as signal strength and shape; and (4) the scheme of interconnections of graphical user interfaces,database, and data files. This work does not introduce a set of computer instructions. It does describe a design philosophy and method of realization that may have broader applications in acoustics than that ostensibly concerned only with the quantitative estimation of fish abundance.
Procedure for the i n s i t u calibration of sonar transducers90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401275View Description Hide Description
Sonartransducers are usually calibrated prior to installation on a ship. They are not, however, recalibrated after installation even though their receiving (and transmitting) properties can change significantly. This report presents a procedure for the i n s i t ucalibration of sonartransducers at any desired time after installation when the ship is in open water. The procedure provides an up‐to‐date knowledge of the complex free‐field sensitivity (or response) of each of the array transducers. This knowledge can be used to minimize, perhaps even eliminate, the adverse effects on array performance due to changes in the properties of one or more transducers. The i n s i t ucalibration procedure is based on a form of three‐transducer reciprocity calibration that uses sound propagation factors to account for the influence of the ship's structure. The report describes how to obtain numerical values for the required sound propagation factors. It also describes how to use two‐transducer comparison calibration to simplify the i n s i t ucalibration process, at least for highly reliable sonars.
Helium effects on the click frequency spectrum of the Harbor porpoise, P h o c o e n a p h o c o e n a90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401281View Description Hide Description
In order to determine in which medium, air or tissue, harbor porpoise (P h o c o e n a p h o c o e n a) sounds are produced, the air in the nasal cavities was substituted with heliox (80% helium and 20% oxygen), and the effect on click frequency spectrum was studied. The sound speed is 1.86 times higher in heliox than in air and the resonance frequency of a fixed cavity filled with heliox is increased by this factor as compared to that of the same cavity filled with air. The harbor porpoise emits click sounds restricted in the frequency domain to two relatively narrow bands, one around 2 kHz and one in the 120‐ to 140‐kHz range. The results show that the stronger high‐frequency component was not at all affected by the heliox, suggesting that it was produced and shaped in some tissue structure(s), and not in gas. The low‐frequency component obviously was affected by the heliox, although the frequency rise did not match the expected theoretical factor. This was probably due to simultaneous, uncontrolled changes in cavity volume, interfering with the heliox effect. It is concluded, however, that the low‐frequency component was a gas bound phenomenon, taking place in the nasal pathways. The results also show that the stronger high‐frequency component always occurred together with and in the beginning of the low‐frequency component, indicating that both were the result of the same production event. These results are in line with previous observations of air bound click sounds being heard when porpoises phonated with open blowhole, and of simultaneous vibrations occurring in the upper nasal passways, in the tissues containing the right dorsal bursae.
Investigations in the amplitude of sounded piano tones90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401249View Description Hide Description
The relationship between final hammer velocity and maximum amplitude of radiated pianosound was investigated. Piano tones with varying hammer velocities were produced by a computer‐monitored acoustic piano containing optical sensors and solenoids, and the sounded tones were recorded and digitized for analysis. Maximum amplitudes over the duration of the sounded tones were linearly proportional to piano hammer velocities for a range of frequencies and hammer velocities. Changes in room acoustics did not alter the linear relationship. Measurements of maximum amplitudes of individual tones and combined tones (dyads) also indicated a linear relationship between the sum of the maximum amplitudes of the individual tones and the maximum amplitude of the dyads. These findings indicate that the principle of superposition holds for peak amplitudes of soundedpiano tones. Findings are discussed with regard to production and perception of musical dynamics.
Speaker normalization of static and dynamic vowel spectral features90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.402350View Description Hide Description
Two methods are described for speaker normalizing vowel spectral features: one is a multivariable linear transformation of the features and the other is a polynomial warping of the frequency scale. Both normalization algorithms minimize the mean‐square error between the transformed data of each speaker and vowel target values obtained from a ''typical speaker.'' These normalization techniques were evaluated both for formants and a form of cepstral coefficients (DCTCs) as spectral parameters, for both static and dynamic features, and with and without fundamental frequency (F0) as an additional feature. The normalizations were tested with a series of automatic classification experiments for vowels. For all conditions, automatic vowel classification rates increased for speaker‐normalized data compared to rates obtained for nonnormalized parameters. Typical classification rates for vowel test data for nonnormalized and normalized features respectively are as follows: static formants—69%/79%; formant trajectories—76%/84%; static DCTCs 75%/84%; DCTC trajectories—84%/91%. The linear transformation methods increased the classification rates slightly more than the polynomial frequency warping. The addition of F0 improved the automatic recognition results for nonnormalized vowel spectral features as much as 5.8%. However, the addition of F0 to speaker‐normalized spectral features resulted in much smaller increases in automatic recognition rates.
Statistical analysis of bilingual speaker's speech for cross‐language voice conversion90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.402284View Description Hide Description
The goal of cross‐language voice conversion is to preserve the speechcharacteristics of one speaker when that speaker's speech is translated and used to synthesize speech in another language. In this paper, two preliminary studies, i.e., a statistical analysis of spectrum differences in different languages and the first attempt at a cross‐language voice conversion, are reported. Speech uttered by a bilingual speaker is analyzed to examine spectrum difference between English and Japanese. Experimental results are (1) the codebook size for mixed speech from English and Japanese should be almost twice the codebook size of either English or Japanese; (2) although many code vectors occurred in both English and Japanese, some have a tendency to predominate in one language or the other; (3) code vectors that predominantly occurred in English are contained in the phonemes /r/, /æ/, /f/, /š/, and code vectors that predominantly occurred in Japanese are contained in /i/, /u/, /N/; and (4) judged from listening tests, listeners cannot reliably indicate the distinction between English speech decoded by a Japanese codebook and English speech decoded by an English codebook. A voice conversion algorithm based on codebook mapping was applied to cross‐language voice conversion, and its performance was somewhat less effective than for voice conversion in the same language.
Effects of first formant onset properties on voicing judgments result from processes not specific to humans90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.402285View Description Hide Description
Both first formant (F1) transition duration and F1 onset frequency have been proposed to be perceptually significant in categorization of voiced and voiceless syllable‐initial stops. Transition duration p e r s e may not, however, explain the fact that, for longer transitions, longer F1 cutback is required in order to perceive a stop as voiceless. Longer transitions result in lower F1 onsets at any duration of cutback greater than zero, and it is possible that the major effect of F1 is determined by its frequency at onset. In this study, F1‐transition duration, onset frequency, and slope were varied across four types of F1 transition in which one of the three variables (onset frequency, duration, slope) was held constant while the other two were allowed to vary. Each of the four F1 types was used in syllables with higher formants appropriate for labial, alveolar, and velar places of articulation. By far, the best predictor of identification of these stimuli by human listeners was F1 onset frequency. F1 duration, F1 slope, and place of articulation had little or no effect on labeling boundaries. In a second experiment using Japanese quail (C o t u r n i x c o t u r n i x j a p o n i c a), birds were trained to respond differentially to voiced versus voiceless stops. The differential effects of F1 onset frequency on the ''labeling'' behavior of these birds was strikingly similar to that of humans listening to the same stimuli. These results are taken to provide strong evidence that F1 onset frequency is the primary determinant of shifts in voicing boundaries across place of articulation, and that general mechanisms not unique to humans appear adequate to account for the effects of F1 onset frequency on perception of voicing for syllable‐initial stops.
The frequency scale of speech intonation90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.402397View Description Hide Description
In intonation research, prominence‐lending pitch movements have either been described on a linear or on a logarithmic frequency scale. An experiment has been carried out to check whether pitch movements in speechintonation are perceived on one of these two scales or on a psychoacoustic scale representing the frequency selectivity of the auditory system. This last scale is intermediary between the other two scales. Subjects matched the excursion size of prominence‐lending pitch movements in utterances resynthesized in different pitch registers. Their task was to adjust the excursion size in a comparison stimulus in such a way that it lent equal prominence to the corresponding syllable in a fixed test stimulus. The comparison stimulus and the test stimulus had pitches running parallel on either the logarithmic frequency scale, the psychoacoustic scale, or the linear frequency scale. In one‐half of the experimental sessions, the test stimulus was presented in the low register, while the comparison stimulus was presented in the high register, and, conversely, for the other half of the sessions. The result is that, in all cases, stimuli are matched in such a way that the average excursion sizes in different registers are equal on the psychoacoustic scale.
Assimilation and contrast in the phonetic perception of vowels90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401303View Description Hide Description
The perceptual mechanisms of assimilation and contrast in the phonetic perception of vowels were investigated. In experiment 1, 14 stimulus continua were generated using an /i/–/e/–/a/ vowel continuum. They ranged from a continuum with both ends belonging to the same phonemic category in Japanese, to a continuum with both ends belonging to different phonemic categories. The AXB method was employed and the temporal position of X was changed under three conditions. In each condition ten subjects were required to judge whether X was similar to A or to B. The results demonstrated that assimilation to the temporally closer sound occurs if the phonemic categories of A and B are the same and that contrast to the temporally closer sound occurs if A and B belong to different phonemic categories. It was observed that the transition from assimilation to contrast is continuous except in the /i'/–X–/e/ condition. In experiment 2, the total duration of t1 (between A and X) and t2 (between X and B) was changed under five conditions. One stimulus continuum consisted of the same phonemic category in Japanese and the other consisted of different phonemic categories. Six subjects were required to make similarity judgements of X. The results demonstrated that the occurrence of assimilation and contrast to the temporally closer sound seemed to be constant under each of the five conditions. The present findings suggest that assimilation and contrast are determined by three factors: the temporal position of the three stimuli, the acoustic distance between the three stimuli on the stimulus continuum, and the phonemic categories of the three stimuli.
Anticipatory velar lowering: A coproduction account90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401304View Description Hide Description
Feature spreading and coproduction models make fundamentally different assumptions about the nature and organization of speech motor control, and yet each model is supported by some, but not all, of the existing empirical data. This has led some researchers to conclude that speakers probably use alternative strategies at different times. This study suggests that the identification of coarticulatory influences requires the concurrent identification of intrinsic articulatory characteristics of the segment. Moreover, the evidence for feature spreading or variable coarticulation strategies derives from the misidentification of such intrinsic characteristics as context effects. This velar coarticulation study used a controlled comparison between CV n N and CV n C minimal pairs, where C is an oral consonant, V n is any number of vowels, and N is a nasal consonant. Vocalic string duration was manipulated by varying the number of segments and speech rate, allowing us to alter the time between the onsets of vocalic and subsequent consonantal gestures. Velar lowering occurred in CV n sequences, whether or not a nasal consonant followed, and similar vocalic gestures were observed across minimally contrastive environments with and without the nasal consonant. Moreover, velar lowering for the nasal consonant began in close temporal proximity to the nasal murmur. These results strongly support the coproduction model and provide insight into previously conflicting reports.
The effects of external‐ and middle‐ear filtering on auditory threshold and noise‐induced hearing loss90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401306View Description Hide Description
A model of external‐ and middle‐ear function is described that uses e x i s t i n g data to quantify the flow of sound power from the environment to the cochlea of humans, cats, and chinchillas. This model estimates the sound power produced at the entrance of the cochlea by an environmental sound stimulus, and can be used to predict the shape of the auditory threshold function and the relative potency of various traumatic acoustic stimuli. The shapes of the predicted and measured threshold functions in the three species are similar in best frequency, bandwidth, and low‐frequency slope, and the model accurately predicts the hypersensitivity of the middle‐frequency regions of the cochlea to acoustic trauma. The model assumes that the mechanics of the middle‐ear system are linear even at high stimulus levels and does not include the effects of either middle‐ear or cochlear efferent loops. The effects of these simplifications on the model are discussed as are the implications of the model results for hearing protection and damage risk criteria.
The structural and functional consequences of acoustic injury in the cochlea and peripheral auditory system: A five year update90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401307View Description Hide Description
This presentation considers important developments and new trends related to acoustic injury in the peripheral auditory system reported during the past 5 years. The discussion begins with the effect overstimulation has on the ''active'' cochlear process, and the associated loss in receptive field (tuning curve) selectivity. Exposure to intense sound also changes the structure and function of the tectorial membrane, sensory hair bundles, tip links, and intracellular organelles. All of these injuries may change the way in which energy is delivered to the transduction channels of the hair cell. Important new evidence describing the quantitative relation between hair cell loss and permanent hearing loss is reviewed, and the possibility that specific exposure conditions cause unique lesions to the inner or outer hair cells is explored. Finally, the importance of hair cell regeneration in the chick cochlea, changes in the CNS following acoustic injury, and the cochlear vascular system are considered.
Human temporary threshold shift (TTS) and damage risk90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401308View Description Hide Description
Information regarding the relation of human temporary threshold shift (TTS) to properties of steady‐state and intermittent noise published since the 1966 appearance of the CHABA damage risk contours is reviewed. The review focuses on results from four investigative areas relevant to potential revision of the CHABA contours including effects of long‐duration exposure and asymptotic threshold shifts (ATS); equivalent quiet and /or safe noise levels; effects of intermittency; and use of noise‐induced temporary threshold shift (NITTS) to predict susceptibility to noise‐induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS). These data indicate that two of three major postulates on which the original contours were based are not valid. First, recovery from TTS is not independent of the conditions that produced the TTS as was assumed. Second, the assumption that all exposures that produce equal TTS2 are equally hazardous is not substantiated. The third postulate was that NIPTS produced by 10 years of daily exposure is approximately equal to the TTS2 produced by the same noise after an 8‐h exposure. Based upon several TTS experiments showing that TTS reaches an asymptote after about 8 h of exposure, the third CHABA postulate can be reworded to state the hypothesis that ATS produced by sound of fixed level and spectrum represents an upper bound on PTS produced by that sound regardless of the exposure duration or the number of times exposed. This hypothesis has a strong, logical foundation if ATS represents a true asymptote for TTS, not a temporary plateau, and if threshold shifts do not increase after the noise exposure ceases.
Recent studies of temporary threshold shift (TTS) and permanent threshold shift (PTS) in animals90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401309View Description Hide Description
It is well known that excessive exposure to noise results in temporary and/or permanent changes in hearing sensitivity in both human and animal subjects. The purpose of this review is to describe the major findings from laboratory studies of experimentally induced hearing losses, both temporary and permanent, resulting from exposure to noise in animal subjects which have been published since the report of Kryter e t a l. (1966). The data reviewed support the following general statements: (1) The chinchilla is the most widely used and most appropriate animalmodel for studies of noise‐induced hearing loss; (2) with continuous exposures to moderate‐level noise, thresholds reach asymptotic levels (ATS) within 18–24 h; (3) permanent threshold shifts, however, depend upon the level, frequency, and the duration of exposure; (4) below a ''critical level'' of about 115 dB, permanent threshold shift (PTS) and cell loss are generally related to the total energy in continuous exposures; (5) periodic rest periods inserted in an exposure schedule are protective and result in less hearing loss and cochlear damage than equal energy continuous exposures; and (6) under some schedules of periodic exposure, threshold shifts increase over the first few days of exposure, then recover as much as 30 dB as the exposure continues.
The role of intermittence in PTS90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401310View Description Hide Description
Exposure of chinchillas to noise that is continuous results in auditory damage that is a function of the total energy of the exposure, provided that a critical exposure is not exceeded. Breaking a continuous exposure into 45 exposure periods given once a day Monday through Friday for 9 weeks (an interrupted exposure) is shown to result in a slight reduction in damage, but breaking each of the 45 daily exposures into short noise bursts presented at regular intervals (interrupted and intermittent exposures) reduces the damage more significantly. The shorter the noise bursts, the greater will be the reduction in damage. Too few data are available to establish a principle that will predict correctly the amount of reduction afforded by a particular temporal pattern; while the ''equal energy'' principle predicts no reduction at all, the ''mean level'' principle derived from studies of temporary threshold shifts (e.g., a noise at 80 dB half the time and at 100 dB half the time has a mean level of 90 dB and will have the same effect as a continuous 90‐dB noise) predicts too much reduction.
Field studies: Industrial exposures90(1991); http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.401311View Description Hide Description
The databases and models for the prediction of noise‐induced permanent threshold shift (NIPTS) from industrial noise exposures are reviewed. Models available in 1973, compared with later models and data, are shown still to be reasonable. The effect of hearing conservation procedures on the acquisition of new data is discussed. Because of the impact of hearing conservation, new research focus is recommended in three areas: sex differences, newly hired individuals exposed for the first time in occupational noise, and the contribution of nonoccupational noise through the use of questionnaires and dosimetry.


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Whenever we hear some tired old platitude designed to teach us how to be responsible adults who can be left alone for 10 minutes without selling half our hair for rent money while eating the other half for sustenance, we tend to roll our eyes. After all, how much truth and power can some silly one-liner, useful only for those too lazy to come up with an original idea, actually have?
A lot, as it turns out. People utter these borderline cliches for a reason, one we tend not to realize until we've royally fucked up their intended lessons. Sadly, most of us need to kick our own asses once, twice, or a hundred times before we finally realize ...
4You Get What You Pay For
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If you have only a few bucks available but really need to pick up a few things for the house, it can be extremely tempting to cut corners and buy a $2 pack of generic batteries, or a tiny $20 vacuum, or a $30 "dozens of games already inside" bootleg gaming console.
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Who needs Skyrim anyway? This baby's got FOUR TENNIS GAMES.
Unfortunately, not a single one of these will satisfy your needs longer than maybe a minute. The batteries will die out almost immediately, the vacuum will overheat after an extra gnarly dust bunny gets stuck in the vents, and good luck finding even one decent game on that shitty system. You'll find yourself back in the store far sooner than intended, on the hunt for Duracells, a Dyson, and the coveted Ninsonysoft X-Station One-60 Thrii Box.
This is "you get what you pay for" in its purest form -- you spend a little bit of money on a hunk of dried yak vomit, quickly realize dried yak vomit clashes with the wallpaper, and then have to spend more money on a legitimate product that does actual things.
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"It's a box. You put things inside it. It's a hell of an investment, '50s guy."
It doesn't take much more than a glance at your bank account to realize how bad an idea this is, and that you truly do get what you pay for. While buying top-of-the-line shit is financial torture at first, you'll make that money back soon enough. Once you do, you'll find that, holy sack, the vacuum you bought months ago is still perfectly good. You'll have that same reaction years, decades, maybe even centuries later.
I myself have been slow to learn this lesson, even though I'm the one writing about it. My main bugaboo is how I constantly attempt to improve my life with anything and everything from local yard sales, while forgetting that my friendly neighbors sold me that dirty 10-year-old coffee pot for $1.50 for a very good reason.
With a crack in the pot as an added bonus! I didn't even have to pay extra for it!
Staying away from cheap shit is several universes away from simply getting good deals on good stuff, by the way. A half-price package of General Electric light bulbs is awesome, because the brand name guarantees a proven and reliable product. On the other hand, even if a box of Bob's Bulbs from the Dollar Depot costs less, stay the fuck far away. They'll work just long enough to illuminate your spouse's face as he or she threatens you with murder unless you get some real goddamn bulbs right goddamn now, but that's it.
3Give Yourself Extra Time for Everything
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I do this at-home-writing thing full time. And thank Clapton, because I may be the worst commuter of all time. Ideally, I should be awake, showered, shaved, fed, and ready to go with tons of time to spare. Hey, with enough time, I might even fit a few pushups or squats into my morning routine (yeah, sure I would).
In Reality World, if it takes me 30 minutes to get somewhere, I'll wake up with maybe 35 minutes to go. Five minutes of showering become 20, I do the Superman quick change into the first set of clothes I can find, and, oh yeah, food can go fuck itself. I bolt to the car, start driving, swear repeatedly at all the douchebags who dare obey the speed limit, and am shocked when I arrive 15 minutes late with a rumbly tumbly.
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"Unless those are corn dogs, you need to fuck off."
You don't have to be this shitty with morning routines to understand my point. The concept behind giving yourself a ton of time to get ready for anything is a shockingly tough one to grasp. On the surface, it makes perfect sense and should be easy to implement. Our brains, which don't give a crap about our social evolution and still see us as a bunch of dumbass tree-dwelling apes, often forget to factor in anything beyond "remember pants this time." Preparing for intangibles takes thought and effort, and nuts to that when SportsCenter needs watching.
You plan a road trip, and Google Maps clocks the travel time at seven hours. This almost certainly will not happen. After a dozen traffic jams, endless construction, pee breaks, poop breaks, long lines at the tollbooth, and your inability to decide between a Big Mac and a Double Quarter Pounder at the rest stop McDonald's, you arrive four hours later than you envisioned, and with maybe a quarter of your hair left over.
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The Han Solo "sorry about the mess" line just doesn't sound as badass in this situation.
This shit starts at school, by the way. Have you ever started writing a paper or book report the night before it was due? How often did that rush of panic actually produce anything beyond a rapid pulse and a dozen saunas' worth of sweat?
Ideally, as you tend to figure out after the Fs and groundings commence, a paper should be drafted days beforehand. Then, almost at your leisure, you can refine and revise and make it as paperlicious as possible. You can hand your teacher something like that with pride and without smelling like an NBA locker room.
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As for me, I'm getting better at clock management. So, ladies (particularly, late-'90s pop star Natalie Imbruglia), don't let my tale of woe deter you from messaging me and setting up a romantic dinner for two. I'll get there on time.


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Retooled Brandon Bostick sees an opportunity
Green Bay - Last year, he was an undrafted rookie hoping to hang on. This year, Brandon Bostick has a different set of expectations.
Out with No. 48, in with No. 86.
"It looks better than No. 48," said Bostick, laughing. "Forty-eight is like a fullback or something."
When coach Mike McCarthy said Friday that the Green Bay Packers are "really a draft or undrafted" football team, he was talking about players like Bostick. Last May, Bostick was a needle-in-the-haystack tryout player at rookie camp, a wide receiver from microscopic Division II Newberry College. Green Bay saw tight end potential, signed Bostick and kept him around on the practice squad.
Now, his outlook is much different. About 10 pounds heavier, he's aiming for a roster spot and, eventually, a role in the offense.
"They just kept working with me and kept believing in me," Bostick said. "Each week, I kept doing what I can do to better myself. Luckily, I stuck around and I'm back this year. If I keep doing what I did last year, hopefully I make it."
The position does have some future uncertainty. Starter Jermichael Finley is entering the final year of his two-year contract. Matt Mulligan replaced Tom Crabtree. Andrew Quarless (knee) hasn't played a down since December 2011. And urgency rises a bit with D.J. Williams and Ryan Taylor both entering their third season.
After a full year on the practice squad, the raw Bostick has a chance to blend in.
On the scout team last year, he typically emulated the opposition's top tight end - and Green Bay faced some good ones. Bostick spent about an hour breaking down film of Vernon Davis, Jimmy Graham, KyleRudolph or whomever the Packers faced that week. His job was to give the offense a complete look. But he also tried to re-create himself at a new position.
Bostick said Davis "is very explosive," adding "I tried to model my game after his." Through three weeks of prep, he grew to admire Minnesota's Rudolph because "he can do it all."
"I treated every practice like a game," Bostick said. "That was my game. That was my time to show them what I can do. So I went out there and played as hard as I could every time. And I tried to make a play when it was time to make a play."
At Newberry, Bostick caught 136 passes for 1,935 yards with 19 touchdowns, also playing one year of basketball. He admits he could get away with things in the South Atlantic Conference - the what? - that he can't in the NFL. His blocking needed a lot of work. Instead of taking on D-II cornerbacks, he was now blocking defensive ends. So Bostick added weight.
In college, Bostick played at 240-245 pounds. Last year, he was 250. Today, he says he's up to 260 pounds. Leading the tight end group at rookie camp this weekend, he's working on the finer points of run blocking.
"It's about your technique and footwork, your hand placement and your aiming point," Bostick said, "where you block and knowing how to leverage a guy."
Blocking is Bostick's ticket to the 53-man roster. Stretching the field as a receiver is what would keep him there.
Two weeks ago, he did watch the NFL draft. And through their 11 selections, the Packers never added a tight end, though undrafted pickup Jake Stoneburner stood out at Friday's open practice. With the hybrid tight end in high demand, the green Bostick has a chance to be McCarthy's next undrafted contributor.
Bostick says he "can do it all."
"I played wide receiver in college so I can catch the ball," Bostick said. "And at the tight end spot, I think I'm a good matchup against the safeties and the linebackers."
Datko finally ready
It has taken two surgeries and a lot of rehab for Packers offensive lineman Andrew Datko to overcome the effects of a torn labrum suffered his junior year at Florida State.
But Datko finally feels like the healing process is over, both in the shoulder and in his mind.
One of the last things to come around was Datko's confidence in his left shoulder, which took a major hit when he had to spend most of last off-season continuing his rehab and wasn't as strong as he wanted to be when the season rolled around.
The 2012 seventh-round pick said he began to get his confidence back around Week 4 last year while serving on the practice squad and now he's back where he should have been last year.
"You have to be healthy in mind before you go out there, so when you come back that mind has to be right," Datko said. "You see what people with ACLs, they favor the leg when they come back. It's really another process to come back from an injury."
Because of his practice squad status, Datko is allowed to take part in the rookie camp. The coaches have him working at left guard instead of his natural left tackle position, but it doesn't necessarily mean he'll wind up there. Offensive line coach James Campen likes his linemen to know at least two positions.
"The more versatile you are the better," Datko said. "So they want me to be more versatile, the better for me."
Analyzing Rose
When Nate Palmer was on the freshman basketball team at Chicago Simeon, he scrimmaged against future NBA MVP Derrick Rose. Back then, the sixth-round pick said Rose was "unstoppable." Palmer had a feeling he'd blossom into something great.
Today, Rose has faced some intense scrutiny. With the Chicago Bulls in second-round fisticuffs with the Miami Heat, Rose continues to sit out. More than a year ago, he tore his anterior cruciate ligament.
Palmer said the critics do have a point, but that Rose isn't going to rush it.
"At the end of the day, it's his body, it's how he makes his money," Palmer said. "He's not going to put himself in a position to fail, get reinjured and miss another year. If he was to play yesterday, knock on wood, and reinjure himself and now he has to miss a full year, everybody would be mad. They'd say, 'Why did he come back?'
"So either way it goes, he's going to face criticism.
"I know he's not going to put himself in a position to fail. If he's hurt, he's going to do the best thing for the team."
Palmer has an idea of what may be going through Rose's mind right now, too.
"He's real quiet," Palmer said. "but he has something that burns deep inside of him."
Easy motivation
History shows Ted Thompson and McCarthy give undrafted rookies a chance to stick around as much as any team in the league. And McCarthy uses a little Packers history to motivate those players. When rookie camp began, the coach said all rookies watched a video on the history of the team.
"The way it ends it's so unique," McCarthy said Friday, "and I think if I was one of them I'd jump out of my chair and run - I'd have been like the lion in Wizard of Oz, I'd jump right out of the (expletive) window. It just gets me every time I watch it. I've been doing it for a couple years. I think if you asked any player that's in that locker room, I think they all feel they have a chance regardless if they were drafted or undrafted."
Tom Silverstein of the Journal Sentinel staff contributed to this report.


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The Cat Adoption Team is pleased to announce that Karen Green will be the organization's new Executive Director starting December 3, 2012.
Karen has over 16 years professional experience in animal welfare and brings to CAT expertise in day-to-day organizational management, development, planning, and program administration. She worked for the Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs and Best Friend Animal Society.
She has served on the CAT Board of Directors since January 2012. "As a CAT board member, I have greatly admired and appreciated the lifesaving role CAT plays in our community. I am honored and excited to accept the position as CAT's new executive director. I look forward to working with our staff, board, volunteers, partners, supporters, and others to save even more cats and kittens in our community!" comments Karen, in-coming Executive Director for CAT.
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By Thomas Garcia: QCsun Columnist
Nara Visa's Travis Nelson has passed away.
She was a big part of the community, and one of Quay County's proudest residents. She spent her life working to help 4-Hers and Garden Clubs throughout the county.
I can remember Travis from the age of 6. I always thought of her as the lady that time forgot. She was always there at the enchilada supper, Election Day, bake sales, school board meetings and dances. In fact I was certain she was probably there when Nara Visa was built.
Over the years, my family and I grew close to Travis and came to know her as an extended member of the family. I know many families that felt this way.
She was tough as nails and had a resolve stronger than the northern winds. She spent much of her later years working on the Nara Visa Community Center. She literally poured sweat and blood into that building and without her efforts I do not think we would have such a beautiful facility today.
I witnessed and took part in some of that hard work. It was part of a summer work program. Chris Arnett and I thought it would be an easy-money job. Little did we know that we would be working so hard for every penny we earned that summer.
We must have mowed 60,000 acres, painted 40,000 feet of boards and mopped until the well ran dry. We dusted, moved and rearranged rooms that I had no idea even existed. All the while, Travis was right there, working with us. If anyone knew the value of a hard day's work it was Travis.
Even when she cut her arm and was bleeding, she smiled and went on working.
Now don't get me wrong. Travis had a heart of gold and even she would break down and cry. I remember one time my dad came to me and said he needed my help. We went out to Travis' and she was in the garage, crying.
I did not know what happened, but as I walked up to the garage, I saw a dog wrapped in a blanket. It was her friend "Muggsy." As I covered up the grave she knelt down.
She ran her hand over the grave and I thought she was smoothing it out or leveling the dirt. Then I realized she was petting Muggsy one last time.
One of my favorite Travis stories took place a few years ago, when a rattlesnake crawled out from underneath the trailer behind her house. Most people would have either killed the snake or dropped what they were doing and ran.
Travis picked up a tree branch and began nudging the snake. "Shoo," she said. "Go on now. Shoo."
Moments like these make me grateful I had the pleasure of knowing Travis Nelson.


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Do you remember when you lived down here where we all scrape
To find the faith to ask for daily bread?
Did you forget about us after you had flown away?
Well, I memorized every word you said.
Still I'm so scared I'm holding my breath
While you're up there just playing hard to get.
Last month I wrote about the danger of allowing our disappointments — over not being married, over marriages ending, over the various hurts that beset us in life — to make us bitter. Bitter isn't pretty. It isn't attractive. It doesn't draw people to ourselves. And, more importantly, it doesn't allow God room to work in our lives. I talked about how we have to believe that God meets us where we are, and that He can and will create something beautiful out of our lives — disappointment an all — if we only allow Him in and turn everything over to Him.
I believe that with every fiber of my being. I have seen it play out in my own life.
But it doesn't change the fact that being single can be very difficult and painful sometimes. In my last post I was responding to a letter from "Timed Out," who was clearly struggling coming to grips with the fact that he hadn't married and suspected he never would.
The response was a warning against bitterness. But, in writing it, I was aware that Timed Out was in real pain, and I didn't want to diminish or deny that pain. And so I promised another response to go into more detail about the pain.
The lyrics above are from Rich Mullins' song "Hard to Get." Rich was a Christian songwriter and recording artist who was known for his unblinkingly honest lyrics. "Hard to Get" was the last song he wrote, penned just days before he died in a car accident. It's probably the most frank song he ever wrote — about the experience of praying to God when we feel like He's not listening.
Rich was single, and just shy of his 42nd birthday when he died. He died driving to Wichita, Kansas, where he was planning to enter the Catholic Church that very weekend. I have often thought he is a kind of "patron saints" for those of us single Catholics who are trying to follow God as best we can.
On one hand, Rich frequently joked that being single is okay, "except between 10 at night and two in the morning." But then, he added, "that time is a tragedy for most married people, too." He said that he couldn't imagine life could be happier married than single.
But he also spoke very publicly about the relationship that "broke his heart." And he penned lyrics like this.
He acknowledged the good parts, but he didn't gloss over the hard parts.
This is what we need to do. I have always said that the single life can be very rewarding, very fulfilling — if we turn our hurt over to God and allow him to use it.
But that doesn't mean the hurt doesn't hurt. When I was younger, I was always suspicious of older single people who said, "Yes, I'm single. And I love it!" They seemed a little too defensive, a little too quick with the "not that there's anything wrong with that" response.
Every state of life has its difficulty. For us, that difficulty comes primarily from the fact that we were created to give ourselves to another in love, and we haven't had that opportunity. It is an "unnatural" way to live. Of course, since original sin entered the world, it can feel very "unnatural" to be with someone else day in and day out, as well.
Basically, we struggle with loneliness. And with disappointment. And with wondering where God was — why he hasn't answered our prayers.
It can all be very painful.
The answer is not to wallow in the pain. When we lash out, when we grow bitter, when we define ourselves by our pain, we close in on ourselves and shut God out.
But, on the flip side, if we deny that there is pain, we deny God the opportunity to meet us in that pain. We skate on the surface, never finding Him in the depths of our hearts.
They say that "the quickest way out of a feeling is through it." And I believe that. We have to face what we're feeling. We have to be honest — with ourselves and with God. We need to bring our pain to Him, to spill it all out, to invite Him into it. And we need to do that over and over.
What's the difference between that honesty and "wallowing"? It's our attitude. It's coming to God honestly and saying "I'm hurting." But then "I trust you. Even if I don't feel it, I trust you. I trust you to bring good out of this." It's acknowledging His sovereignty. It's believing that our suffering, even if it continues, can be united to His sacrifice on the cross. It's the sure knowledge that He is there, even if He isn't making his presence felt.
"Hard to Get" ends like this:
I can't see how you're leading me, unless you've led me here
To where I'm lost enough to let myself be led.
And so you've been here all along, I guess.
It's just your ways and You are just plain hard to get.
I know it hurts sometimes. I know it hurts a lot. But He is there, in the midst of it. Trust Him. He will bring good out of it. He will bring joy.
And joy is the enemy of bitter.


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Dedicated Priestly Vocation to Serving African-American Community
Chicago, IL (November 17, 2009) - Father John T. Boyle, a retired priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, died on Monday, November 16, 2009. He was 66 years old.
Most of Fr. Boyles priestly life and ministry was dedicated to serving the African American community and the poor throughout the Chicago area, said Very Rev. John Canary, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Chicago and a Mundelein Seminary classmate of Fr. Boyle.
A native of Chicago, Fr. Boyle was a graduate of St. Mary of the Lake elementary school, Quigley Preparatory Seminary, St. Mary of the Lake College in Niles and the University of St. Mary of the Lake / Mundelein Seminary. He was ordained on May 14, 1969 by John Cardinal Cody.
Fr. Boyles first assignment in 1969 was at St. Eulalia in Maywood, where he served as assistant pastor for six years. From 1975 to 1980, he was associate pastor at St. John de LaSalle Parish on Chicagos south side.
In 1980, he was named assistant pastor of St. Ambrose, where he served for five years. In 1985, Fr. Boyle was appointed pastor of St. Ambrose, where he remained until his next appointment. In 1993, Fr. Boyle was named pastor of St. Felicitas, where he served for nine years.
Visitation for Fr. Boyle will be held on Wednesday, November 18, from 4 to 9 p.m. at St. Mary of the Lake Parish, 4200 North Sheridan Road in Chicago. The Most Rev. Francis Kane, Auxiliary Bishop of Chicago, will be the main celebrant at a funeral Mass that will be held on Thursday, November 19 at 11 a.m. at St. Mary of the Lake Parish. Interment will be at Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside.
He is survived by his sister, Mrs. Judith Reyes and his brother-in-law, Deacon David Reyes.