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Chris -- 2018-04-11
I had written:
Not to start another long discussion, but – er has a lot in common with the sound-symbolic quasi-morphemic whatchamacallems
kem replied:
That wouldn't be me you are referring to, would it? ¶ Nuttin' wrong with morphemic "-er" and "-el/le." Any diachronic understanding of English grammar would recognize the morphological independence of these suffixes. ¶ For frequentative "-er" the OED cites batter, chatter, clamber, flicker, glitter, mutter, patter, quaver, shimmer, shudder, slumber. Your list adds a few more ("Fritter" probably does not belong in the list. Too bad. "Frit" would make such a good Teutonic root. I can imagine it meaning "to carve into thin slices, especially roasted boars and captured Romans."). ¶ For frequentative/diminutive "-el/le" the OED has nestle, twinkle, wrestle, crackle, crumple, dazzle, hobble, niggle, paddle, sparkle, topple, wriggle, babble, cackle, gabble, giggle, guggle, mumble.
No examples in the OED list where it's spelt -el? Grovel, pummel, snivel what else? Anyway, I've had fun making up longish lists of these since 30 years and more ago, along with oddities that may well be related [e.g. nouns like handle, pestle, sickle, shovel, nipple that denote instruments for often repetitive tasks, or for things naturally occurring in groups like freckle, thunder, rubble, gaggle .]
You accept these as full-fledged morphemes but deny that status to things like the fl- of flutter, flicker, flip, flop, flap, flash, fling etc. You're in good company of course—there are lots of linguists eager to exclude these things from their morphology because they wreak havoc with their nice morphemic principles if for no other reason. We have agreed that if they are morphemes they are a peripheral kind.
I think – le and especially – er 'repetitive/frequentative' edge towards the same part of the periphery. The following are some important similarities between fl- and – er:
(1) Speakers are not highly aware of them as separable morphemes. Few would spontaneously divide batter into bat + er , for instance.
(2) If they are morphemes they are certainly not stems: they cannot occur by themselves. In this respect they are affixal.
(3) However, if they are removed from a word what remains is typically not an independently established stem. (In the case of fl it may never be, and this may be the defining characteristic of the sound-symbolic thingies.) E.g. mut (cf. mutter ) doesn't mean anything by itself. This is not true of more typical affixes (e.g. – s '3rd person sg subj present tense'.)
(4) Some aspects of them and the words they form approach some kind of onomatopoeia or other iconicity. (E.g. the fluttering of the tongue in pronouncing flutter or the muttering in pronouncing mutter, mumble .)
(5) The sound that constitutes their phonological pole doesn't in all cases bear the meaning. (E.g. laser, finger, mother, Easter, under, and all the thousands of cases with the multi-polysemous nominalizer – er as in rocker, drawer, trailer, ruler, computer, Britisher, nor'easter, grounder, beaker don't seem to include a salient repetitive or frequentative meaning.) In other words, the sound meaning association is far from absolute . (This absence is what you first commented on, Ken, as somehow indicating that the sound-symbolic thingies weren't real morphology.)
(6) The meanings are quite schematic (=vague, easily applicable in varying degrees to different concepts). (This is typical of affixes, for fairly obvious reasons.)
(7) The results of applying them are likely to be surprising/unpredictable in some degree. In this (and other) ways they are derivational rather than inflectional affixes.
(8) They are far from freely productive: new forms using them are not commonly formed and not necessarily readily understood. (E.g. why don't we say drobble, slizzle, chobble , or other reasonable forms of that sort?)
(9) There's some interesting phonology associated with them that is not general in English. (E.g. )
I'm sure I'm leaving a few things out, but it's late, and I'm shambling/staggering off to flop/fling myself into bed.
*If the human mind were simple enough for us to understand,
we would be too simple-minded to understand it* .
I think we agreed before that the substance of our discussion revolved around the meaning we attached to "morpheme."
I see morphemic status lying along a spectrum. On the one end is the claim that every sound contributes to meaning. Some sounds contribute more, some less, of course. Even if we could locate that rare bird, the sound that had no meaning, it would quickly gain a meaning-as soon as a language community began to employ the sound, someone would use it to make differences in meaning. Call this position the left end of the spectrum.
The other end of the spectrum is the dictionary end. On this end we let the modern dictionary, as the lexigraphical art is currently practiced, determine the morphemes of our language. Only words in the dictionary have meanings. Call this the right end.
I find myself more or less in the middle of this spectrum. I agree with those on the left that there are adfixes and even a few infixes that have definable semantic components. There are multiword units that act as unitary morphemes. Even some onomatopoetic sounds function as morphemes. But I also agree with those on the right that there are sounds that are not morphemes. To be a morpheme a sound has to play some role, historical or contemporary, in syntax and/or grammatical inflections in a language. The sound has to carry its meaning consistently across the range of its use in ways that can be statistically analyzed. In short, there has to be some semi-scientific way of defining what is and is not a morpheme.
As for frequentative "-er," I would let it stand as an English morpheme simply because it did strong morphemic stuff at one point in the history of the language. Whether or not it is still a morpheme for a significant group of speakers, however, is an open question. English has become a lake into which many "-er" morphemes flow. The OED, for example, has six separate entries for "-er, suffix," each with a different etymological source. Every new "-er" stream dilutes the English lake a little, making it harder for speakers using an "-er" suffix to get listeners to focus on the right one. I suspect that it is no longer possible to coin a new verb with a frequentative "-er" and have a listener divine your intention. Keeping it as an English morpheme helps me to understand the spelling and history of some English words that are still in use, however, so I'm not ready to let it slip into the fuzz on the left side of the spectrum.
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I probably shouldn't say anything because I'm about to go out of internet range for most of a week, but sound symbolism is a topic that's long interested me so I've got to say a little here.
Kem—Your last paragraph seems to imply that only productive morphemes are morphemes—which may not be what you actually intended to say. Lots of legitimate, card-carrying morphemes are no longer productive.
Also, many linguists who write on sound symbolism acknowledge that phonemic clusters like "fl-" may not fulfill all the usual criteria of "morphemes," but that doesn't seem to constitute for them a major stumbling-block to belief in the larger concept; such clusters are sometimes referred to as "submorphemic" elements (or even "phonesthemes") by people writing on sound symbolism/phonesthesia.
In Steven Pinker's recent book The Stuff of Thought, he lumps together "le for aggregates of small objects" (pebble, stubble, etc.) with "gl- for emission of light" (glare, glitter, etc.), "j- for sudden motion" (jump, jab, etc.), and "cl- for a cohesive aggregate or a pair of surfaces in contact" (clam, clamp, etc.). He calls these clusters a part of the phenomenon of phonesthesia, in which ""families of words share a teeny snatch of sound and a teeny shred of meaning" (p. 301). I couldn't help but wonder whether he wasn't avoiding the word "morpheme" (discussed much earlier in the book) in that sentence precisely because of the problem of defining these things within the terms of traditional morphology. Nevertheless, that doesn't prevent him from implicitly endorsing the idea.
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Thanks, Pat, for giving us a handle. "Phonesthesia," it turns out, is a convenient term for looking up some of the discussion and debate on the topic of sound symbolism. By using it as a search term, I located a helpful paper by Benjamin Shisler at http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/9 … npap1.html .
Critical studies in phonesthetics often lack a sense of what constitutes meaningful argument. In order to make useful claims, we need more than a grab bag of words that share a sound and meaning. If I argue (just to make up an example) that the initial /t/ sound indicates a combination of science and mechanical skill because it occurs in the words "technology," "train," "television," "typewriter" and "tool," and I write a paper about it and get ten people to agree with me, have I really said anything meaningful? The arguments advanced in some phonesthetics papers remind me of the sentence that W. H. Auden (Foreword to Owen Barfield's History in English Words) puts in the mouth of a hypothetical Frenchman: "The great advantage of the French language is that in it the words occur in the order in which one thinks them." If we presuppose that everyone thinks in French, the French language is obviously the best one to use. If we presuppose that correlations between English symbols and sounds are morphemes a-borning, we can find morphemes and protomorphemes everywhere we look. I am more comfortable with an arbitrary relationship between sound and symbol as the gold standard. Non-accidental connections are allowed only in special cases, ones for which we have some hard evidence that sounds and symbols are linked, such as such as onomatopoeic words and historical morphemes.
Plato stands as a negative example of where phonesthetic thoughts can lead. Several sections of his dialogue Cratylus anticipate some ideas of sound symbols. Here, from Benjamin Jowett's translation (http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/1/161 … 1616-h.htm) is Socrates at his most absurd:
SOCRATES: My first notions of original names are truly wild and ridiculous, though I have no objection to impart them to you if you desire, and I hope that you will communicate to me in return anything better which you may have.
HERMOGENES: Fear not; I will do my best.
SOCRATES: In the first place, the letter rho appears to me to be the general instrument expressing all motion (kinesis)..... Now the letter rho, as I was saying, appeared to the imposer of names an excellent instrument for the expression of motion; and he frequently uses the letter for this purpose: for example, in the actual words rein and roe he represents motion by rho; also in the words tromos (trembling), trachus (rugged); and again, in words such as krouein (strike), thrauein (crush), ereikein (bruise), thruptein (break), kermatixein (crumble), rumbein (whirl): of all these sorts of movements he generally finds an expression in the letter R, because, as I imagine, he had observed that the tongue was most agitated and least at rest in the pronunciation of this letter, which he therefore used in order to express motion, just as by the letter iota he expresses the subtle elements which pass through all things. This is why he uses the letter iota as imitative of motion, ienai, iesthai. And there is another class of letters, phi, psi, sigma, and xi, of which the pronunciation is accompanied by great expenditure of breath; these are used in the imitation of such notions as psuchron (shivering), xeon (seething), seiesthai, (to be shaken), seismos (shock), and are always introduced by the giver of names when he wants to imitate what is phusodes (windy). He seems to have thought that the closing and pressure of the tongue in the utterance of delta and tau was expressive of binding and rest in a place: he further observed the liquid movement of lambda, in the pronunciation of which the tongue slips, and in this he found the expression of smoothness, as in leios (level), and in the word oliothanein (to slip) itself, liparon (sleek), in the word kollodes (gluey), and the like: the heavier sound of gamma detained the slipping tongue, and the union of the two gave the notion of a glutinous clammy nature, as in glischros, glukus, gloiodes. The nu he observed to be sounded from within, and therefore to have a notion of inwardness; hence he introduced the sound in endos and entos: alpha he assigned to the expression of size, and nu of length, because they are great letters: omicron was the sign of roundness, and therefore there is plenty of omicron mixed up in the word goggulon (round). Thus did the legislator, reducing all things into letters and syllables, and impressing on them names and signs, and out of them by imitation compounding other signs. That is my view, Hermogenes, of the truth of names….
The claims of the phonethesiasts don't take this train as far as Socrates did. But the train is heading in the direction that Socrates is going, and it is not clear to me where the stations are that let us get off this "wild and ridiculous" line of thought.
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I like "phonesthesiasts"—a googlenope so far, but this thread probably guarantees that that will change.
Kem wrote:
Critical studies in phonesthetics often lack a sense of what constitutes meaningful argument.
Kem, whose work in particular are you objecting to?
I wasn't reading the studies so much as I was reading about them.
But if you want a sample author, take a look at the work of Margaret Magnus, who did a Ph.D. in sound symbolism. Her pages are at http://www.trismegistos.com/MagicalLetterPage/ The perspectives on English sound and meaning on these pages reproduce Socrates' take on Attic Greek.
The methodological problems with the studies on the Magnus pages boil down to two problems: sampling bias (semantic categories are selected with the data set in mind) and correlation/causality. Conceptual problems add to the confusion-chiefly, the use of "meaning" and "morpheme" in senses so broad that they lose almost all their historical moorings.
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I don't feel Margaret Magnus is a very good example of work being done on sound symbolism in linguistics. As far as I know, she doesn't hold a PhD—she did doctoral work in linguistics at MIT in the early 80s, but left without filing a thesis. Though I couldn't find a reference just now, I've read before that she's worked at universities—but as a computational analyst (I think) rather than as someone with a teaching position in linguistics. And she's had a successful career with consulting firms that create names and brand-names for high-powered companies.
I've only seen her book referenced once in a recent article on sound symbolism, and it was included in a list of methodologically problematic approaches to the concept. (I don't want to make it sound like I've read widely in the discipline of sound symbolism—probably fewer than a dozen articles in the last 2-3 years, so I'm not intending to claim here a very well-informed sense of what's out there.) I flipped through her book, and, yes, I didn't bother to read more or check it out of the library because it looked sketchy to me, too. However, I do think she offers a useful challenge to mainstream linguists to incorporate computational approaches more regularly into the study of sound symbolism.
But I think any branch of modern linguistics needs to be judged by the work of degreed linguists publishing in refereed journals well regarded in the field. And these days there appear to be plenty of such people. The volume that really changed a lot of minds about sound symbolism was the 1994 collection Sound Symbolism that came out on Cambridge UP. It was edited by Leanne Hinton, John J. Ohala and Johanna Nichols. I'm unfamiliar with Nichols, but Hinton and Ohala are well-known names in linguistics (as are a number of other contributors—though one of the striking features of the book is the range of disciplines from which the contributors are drawn). The book has been widely cited, and is probably the main reason for the gradual "mainstreaming" of studies of sound symbolism in the last 10-15 years. I doubt Stephen Pinker, for instance, would be casually discussing phonesthesia, etc. in his popularizing treatments if this work had never existed. And one quick way to find more recent work by professional linguists working in the discipline is to go to scholar.google.com, put in the Hinton volume, and then start following links among the 114 listed works that cite it. I've seen plenty I've found unconvincing in the little I've read in the Hinton book or in linguistics journals (as well as plenty that was interesting and stimulating), but I haven't yet read a study that could be reduced to "a grab bag of words that share a sound and meaning."
[Edit: After posting this, I wondered whether I could find a resume for Magnus online. Yes—it's here: http://www.trismegistos.com/MagicalLett … sume.html. And she does indeed have a PhD—a couple of years after the publication of her book, she completed the degree at the University of Trondheim in Norway.]
Last edited by patschwieterman (2009-06-30 15:26:40)
Thanks for the reference. Our local university library has the Hinton volume. I'll take a look at it.
I suspect that I'll agree with much of what's in the Sound Symbolism book. I don't have any large, programmatic disagreement with sound symbolism-as I said earlier, I'd put myself in the middle of the spectrum. Here, for example, is an academic study of sound symbolism in nicknames that seems to me to do a lot of its investigation in the right way (Nicknames, when you think about it, are a good place to look for sound symbolism-the peculiar semantics of names opens the door for phonetic influences on meaning.). But when I look at approaches to sound symbolism like that in the Magnus books, the little troll inside me, the one that I nursed all those years that I did philosophy and logic, starts yammering away, and I can't seem to make it shut up.
Disagreements over the extent and significance of sound symbolistic phenomena, as I'm sure you're aware, go back a long way in linguistics. We're probably recapitulating discussions that have happened many times over the last century. See, for examples, the disagreements between Firth and Jespersen in Robin Allott's 1995 article on "Sound Symbolism."
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I just read Jean Aitchison's book Words in the Mind (2nd ed). She weighs in on sound symbolism issues in her last chapter:
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all the thousands of cases with the multi-polysemous nominalizer – er as in rocker, drawer, trailer, ruler, computer, Britisher, nor'easter, grounder, beaker don't seem to include a salient repetitive or frequentative meaning.
I'm not so sure. I have been known to rock, but I'm a long way from being a rocker. I am a teacher though.
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One of the most common complaints about our project Jeep has to do with the limitations of cargo space. Like a double-edged sword, this lack of storage allows the Wrangler unrivaled maneuverability both on and off the pavement. However, it comes at a significant price. The interior of a Jeep TJ has less than 46 cubic feet of space for amenities such as camping equipment, tools, pets, and people. Perhaps that's why the aftermarket has so many storage solutions for Jeep Wrangler owners. From theft-deterrent interior lockers to exterior-mounted rack systems, bolting on additional space in a Wrangler is super easy-especially if you know what additional gear you want to bring along. Our recent list included a cooler big enough to hold a weekend's worth of food and drinks for two people, two 5-gallon jerrycans of fuel, and camping gear. So follow along as we update Teal-J with two very multifunctional rack systems that add valuable area for additional equipment, while keeping in tune with the adventurous look we were after.
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Our first upgrade comes from Hanson Enterprise. Hanson has a long-standing reputation for premium quality bolt-on bumpers and cargo racks for Jeeps and early Broncos. We fit Teal-J with one of Hanson's tried-and-true 60-inch-wide rear bumpers. Aside from durable double-welded construction, and a attractive black powdercoat finish, this bumper features a robust swing-out style spare-tire carrier that serves as the foundation for a variety of well-thought-out cargo-carrying options. The bumper also comes with all the options we'd expect to see on a trail rig, and then some. From inch-thick shackle tabs to an integrated 2-inch receiver hitch, the Hanson unit delivers. This picture shows the rack setup we chose for Teal-J (PN JC5-B). It was designed to accommodate one 5-gallon gas can on each side of the tire, and up to a 50-quart cooler on the platform above the tire. We liked this arrangement because it doesn't protrude out past the spare tire, and when fully loaded, the tire carrier still functions properly to allow easy access to the Jeep's rear storage compartment. This rack removes easily when a less adventurous look is preferred. Two bolts secure the rack positively to the swing-out tire.
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text: Well, on this laptop (D900t Eurocom) BIOS modification is very limited, and it is not possible to modify or switch codecs, so as I think it is enabled it is not possible to disable it ... Takashi Iwai a écrit : > At Sat, 19 May 2007 02:08:14 -0500 (CDT), > Andrew Callan wrote: > >> I have been without sound using Fedora Core ever since the 2.6.16 or >> 2.6.17 kernel update (2.6.16 crashed during initialization, so I could not >> tell whether sound worked or not). It had worked well through the 2.6.15 >> Fedora kernels. I finally sat down tonight to work the problem as hard as >> I could and happened upon Eric and Tobin's timely exchange. >> >> First, simply adding probe_mask=1 to the snd-hda-intel options worked for >> me as well; I did not end up having to specify a specific model. >> >> Second, I too was seeing a LONG hang when trying to do: >> cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#0 >> but now with the probe_mask=1, I do not see this. >> >> If it helps, the alsa-info.sh output for my system is at >> http://pastebin.ca/496293 >> If it makes any difference, I'm not sure which model I had specified on >> the modprobe line at the time I captured this output. >> >> One thing I do notice is that after adding probe_mask=1, aplay -l does not >> show the Si3054 Modem which shows up in the alsa-info output. >> >> Thanks for the help you gave in the thread with Eric. >> >> Andrew >> > > Interesting. I've seen similar reports that probe_mask helps. > Do you disable the modem codec on BIOS or is it enabled? > > If this happens even though it's enabled on BIOS, we'd need a > blacklist of non-working devices, or a more robust probing routine... > > > Takashi > _______________________________________________ > Alsa-devel mailing list > Alsa-devel at alsa-project.org > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel >


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Birds' Bullpen Holds Off Winnipeg
SIOUX FALLS, SD -- The Sioux Falls Canaries took advantage of fielding miscues by the Winnipeg Goldeyes, while the Birds' bullpen tossed four shutout innings to preserve a 6-5 win on Tuesday night at Sioux Falls Stadium.
The Canaries (7-12) evened the four-game series at one game apiece and pulled back to 4 ½ games behind the first-place Goldeyes in the North Division.
Tim Pahuta's sacrifice fly broke a 5-5 tie in the bottom of the sixth inning, scoring Jared Clark, who reached on the Goldeyes' third error of the night. Winnipeg had rallied from a 5-2 deficit in top of the sixth to tie the game, started by Josh Mazzola's RBI double. Canaries starter Mitchell Clegg exited the game for reliever Kyle Vazquez (2-2), but an error by Jake Taylor allowed a second run home, and Nate Samson's RBI single tied the game.
Vazquez retired the next four batters in the sixth and seventh, and Matt Daly pitched a perfect eighth inning. In the ninth, Alan DeRatt retired the first two batters on a strikeout and a groundout. He then induced Nick Liles into an infield fly ball. It fell off of first baseman John Alonso near the mound, but DeRatt picked it up and got Liles in an unusual 3-1-6-2 rundown in between first and second base to end the game.
Vazquez earned his second relief win, while DeRatt notched his fourth save and has not allowed an earned run in six appearances.
Sioux Falls bats jumped on the Winnipeg and former Canaries/Pheasants starter Pete Gehle in the first inning. Nick Van Stratten reached on an error and came home on Taylor's RBI double. A bases-loaded walk to Morales came later in the inning for a 2-0 lead.
Taylor added a solo home run in the second inning, his second of the year, for a 3-0 margin. Winnipeg scratched in two runs in the third inning on back-to-back groundouts, but Clark and Pahuta each added solo home runs in the fourth inning. Taylor finished 2-for-5 with two runs and two RBI, while Pahuta was 1-for-3 with two RBI.
Clark leads the league with eight home runs, and both and Pahuta homered for the second time in three games. The Canaries also lead the league as a team with 28 home runs.
Gehle went 5 1/3 innings in his return to the Birdcage, allowing five runs, three earned, on nine hits. He walked four and struck out one. Clegg finished with five innings pitched, allowing five runs, three earned, on six hits. He walked three and fanned two.
Winnipeg reliever Kaohi Downing (0-1) suffered his first loss.
Game three of the four-game series is 7:05 p.m. on Wednesday at Sioux Falls Stadium.
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IDEXX Laboratories Announces Federal Trade Commission Final Approval of Consent Agreement
Feb 12, 2013, 11:19 ET
WESTBROOK, Maine, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. (NASDAQ, IDXX) announced today that the Commissioners of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission ("FTC" or "Commission") have granted final approval of the consent agreement previously reached between the Company and the staff of the FTC Bureau of Competition. The Commission had preliminarily approved the consent agreement in December 2012 and placed the agreement and a proposed draft complaint on public record for comment.
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"We are pleased that the Commission has announced final approval of the consent agreement that we reached with the Bureau of Competition staff," said Jonathan Ayers, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "While we admit no wrongdoing and continue to believe that our distribution practices did not violate the antitrust laws, this marks final resolution of the multi-year FTC investigation."
About IDEXX Laboratories
IDEXX Laboratories, Inc. is a leader in pet healthcare innovation, serving practicing veterinarians around the world with a broad range of diagnostic and information technology-based products and services. IDEXX products enhance the ability of veterinarians to provide advanced medical care, improve staff efficiency and build more economically successful practices. IDEXX is also a worldwide leader in providing diagnostic tests and information for livestock and poultry and tests for the quality and safety of water and milk. Headquartered in Maine, IDEXX Laboratories employs more than 5,000 people and offers products to customers in over 100 countries.
Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains statements about the final approval by the Commissioners of the Consent Agreement the Company entered into with the FTC staff, and the impact of the Consent Agreement and such approval on the FTC's investigation of the Company's distribution arrangements that are forward-looking statements as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements can be identified by the use of words such as "expects," "may," "anticipates," "intends," "would," "will," "plans," "believes," "estimates," "should," and similar words and expressions. These statements are based on management's expectations of future events as of the date of this press release, and the Company assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events or developments. Actual results could differ materially from management's expectations. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include factors relating to our business and prospects that are discussed in the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2012, in the section captioned "Risk Factors."
Contact: Merilee Raines, Chief Financial Officer, 1-207-556-8155
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It all started with an idea, a simple concept that grew to become an icon of global style. We're talking about 10 Corso Como. A meeting place of art, design, fashion and food; a lifestyle informed by culture unfolds out of the gallery, through the boutique, out into the courtyard and onto the cover of the Moleskine notebook. The black and white line drawings synonymous with the brand take over its blank space, accenting its contours with the trademark concentric circles, swirls and stripes.
Available in five different designs, in large, pocket and Cahier Journal sizes.
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CLEVELAND – March 1, 2013– Behavioral health organizations aim to provide excellent patient care and need the right technology to do so. As Burrell Behavioral Health continued to grow, so did the amount of paper in the organization. The health provider sought an enterprise-wide solution that had the capability to improve both its departmental and clinical processes and patient care practices throughout its more than 30 healthcare facilities. Burrell chose Hyland Software because of its understanding of behavioral health practices and enterprise content management (ECM) knowledge to enhance workflows that aid in providing superior patient care.
"We chose OnBase because we see the ongoing value the solution will deliver to automate processes and improve the sharing of information across all our facilities, helping us deliver extraordinary patient care," said Greg Sellers, director of IT at Burrell. By implementing Hyland Software's ECM solution, OnBase, Burrell will connect all information, including unstructured data, to its Anasazi electronic medical record (EMR), to create a complete patient record. By having behavioral health records incorporated with other health records and medication lists, physicians and clinicians are able to provide better care because all of this patient information becomes securely managed while also being seamlessly accessible from within the EMR.
Jeff Sorenson, Hyland's global director of healthcare sales and solutions, said "OnBase is highly configurable and has been adapted to fit the specific needs of our behavioral health customers. We are proud to partner with Burrell and are excited about their long-term ECM deployment roadmap. Burrell will leverage a broad range of OnBase capabilities to achieve new levels of productivity, patient engagement and privacy."
OnBase helps provide clinicians with a holistic view of their patients' medical history to stay ahead of patient issues while never leaving their EMR. "With OnBase, we will have all information readily available for those who are involved in patient care," said Brenda Fuller, vice president of medical records and support services at Burrell. "Having the ability to scan in referral information will allow our providers access to the information when they see the patient, improving the quality of care to those we serve."
Burrell is also implementing OnBase in its back office operations. Using e-signatures functionality in its purchasing processes, Burrell has created a workflow solution that will enable staff to sign off on all levels of the purchasing process, creating a completely paperless process. The health provider will also automate processes in its accounts payable (AP) and accounts receivable (AR) departments by creating workflows to streamline its purchasing and revenue cycle management.
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For more than 20 years, Hyland Software has been dedicated to meeting organizations' needs for document and process management with OnBase, an enterprise content management (ECM) software suite. As OnBase has evolved through consistent product innovation, it remains focused on automating business processes that depend on documents, content and people to operate more effectively.
OnBase enables healthcare organizations to provide better patient care by providing instant access to clinical and financial content normally outside of core IT applications. Every day, more than 1,600 healthcare organizations use OnBase to complete patient records, eliminate reimbursement delays and enhance business processes. Tailored for departments and comprehensive for the enterprise, OnBase is designed to grow with an organization, whether it chooses an on-premise or software as a service (SaaS) model. For more information about Hyland Software's ECM solutions for healthcare, please visit Hyland.com/Healthcare.


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EDU318 Integrated Curriculum II
Teaching methods, strategies, resources and practices in teaching art, music, physical education, science and social studies at the elementary and middle school levels are emphasized. A thematic unit will be developed to demonstrate competency in curriculum planning, development and teaching.
Credit Hours: 3
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If I don't clip, a FF2 (assumed 9kN) goes onto the anchor, or 3kN per piece.If I clip only one piece and the leader falls, then that piece sees 15kN, and when it fails, the remaining two see 4.5kN each.If I clip the powerpoint, each piece sees 5kN.
But I think folks forget one of the best reasons TO do it. .... You'll get turned around as they fall past, braking is either improved or reduced to useless as the strands diverge or come together out of the belay device.
My understanding of your post is that you don't think you'll get turned around in a FF2 scenario. You will, & it may hurt ... ... So lets keep it real. The climber is just 15' above you. If they come off without warning they'll be by you in a flash. Their full weight will come on your belay device, then harness, then your hips, the rest of you will follow naturally & you can't do a damn thing about it.
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With a simple scoop neckline, hot geometric pattern and the body-defining design of a bodycon, this bebe dress is sure to bold up your fall closet. Try it with a pair of black boots and statement necklace.
- 61% nylon, 31% lurex, 8% spandex.
- Center back to hem: 24" (61 cm).
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- Made in USA with imported materials
- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S.
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ATLANTA, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- People prefer to put wearable tech devices on the arm or wrist, rather than on the collar, torso, waste or pants, a U.S. study found.
Georgia Tech researchers surveyed people in both the United States and South Korea to gain cultural insights into perceptions of the use of e-textiles, or electronic devices, stitched into everyday clothing.
Participants in the survey overwhelmingly said they would prefer the wrist and forearm as locations for e-textiles, feeling other locations might cause awkwardness, embarrassment or strange looks, a university release said.
"This may be due to the fact that these locations are already being used for wearable technology," said Halley Profita, a former Georgia Tech industrial design graduate student who led the study. "People strap smartphones or MP3 players to their arms while exercising. Runners wear GPS watches."
Among their findings, the researcher said, was that Americans are uncomfortable when men used a device located at the front pant pocket region or when women reached for their torsos or collarbones.
South Koreans reported exceptionally low acceptance of women using the devices anywhere except for their arms.
"South Koreans also said they wanted an easy-to-use system, but the technology should not make them look awkward or weird," Profita said. "This isn't surprising because their culture emphasizes modesty, politeness and avoidance of embarrassing situations."


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Maul of the Titans: This mallet is 8 feet long. If used as a weapon, it is the equivalent of a +3 greatclub and deals triple damage against inanimate objects. However, the wielder must have a Strength of at least 18 to wield it properly. Otherwise, she takes a –4 penalty on attack rolls.
Strong evocation; CL 15th; Craft Wondrous Item, Craft Magic Arms and Armor, clenched fist; Price 25,305 gp; Cost 12,305 gp + 480 XP; Weight 160 lb.
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Consensus Report
An Assessment of Potential Health Effects from Exposure to PAVE PAWS Low-Level Phased-Array Radiofrequency Energy (2005)Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
PAVE PAWS is a phased-array warning system designed to detect and track sea-launched and intercontinental ballistic missiles operated on Cape Cod since 1979 by the U.S. Air Force Space Command. In 1979, the National Research Council issued two reports to address concerns from Cape Cod residents about the safety and possible health effects of the radiofrequency energy from the radar. Following up on the1979 report, the new report finds no evidence of adverse health effects to Cape Cod residents from long-term exposure to the PAVE PAWS radar. The report specifically investigated whether the PAVE PAWS radar might be responsible in part for the reported higher rates of certain cancers in the area, but concludes there is no increase in the total number of cancers or in specific cancers of the prostate, breast, lung, or colon due to radiation exposure from PAVE PAWS. The report did find in the scientific literature a few biological responses to radiofrequency exposures that were statistically significant. Such responses do not necessarily result in adverse health effects, but the report recommends additional studies to better discern the significance, if any, of those findings.
About this Report
Primary Board:Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board
Other Report(s) in this series:Letter Report to Review the International Epidemiology Public Health Institute's Evaluation of Radiofrequency Energy from the PAVE PAWS Radar (2006)
Letter Report to the Department of the Air Force from the Committee to Assess Potential Health Effects from Exposure to PAVE PAWS Low-level Phased-array Radiofrequency Energy (2002)


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Alzheimer's Disease
What is Alzheimer's disease?
Alzheimer's disease is a progressive, neurodegenerative disease that occurs when nerve cells in the brain die and often results in the following:
- impaired memory, thinking, and behavior
- confusion
- restlessness
- personality and behavior changes
- impaired judgment
- impaired communication
- inability to follow directions
- language deterioration
- impaired thought processes that involve visual and spatial awareness
- emotional apathy
With Alzheimer's disease, motor function is often preserved.
When Alzheimer's was first identified by German physician, Alois Alzheimer, in 1906, it was considered a rare disorder. Today Alzheimer's disease is recognized as the most common cause of dementia (a disorder in which mental functions deteriorate and break down). An estimated 5.3 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease. According to the Alzheimer's Association, this number includes 5.1 million people over the age of 65, as well as 200,000 to 500,000 people younger than 65 who have early-onset Alzheimer's and other types of dementias.
How is Alzheimer's different from other forms of dementia?
Alzheimer's disease is distinguished from other forms of dementia by characteristic changes in the brain that are visible only upon microscopic examination during autopsy. Brains affected by Alzheimer's disease often show presence of the following:
- fiber tangles within nerve cells (neurofibrillary tangles)
- clusters of degenerating nerve endings (neuritic plaques)
Another characteristic of Alzheimer's disease is the reduced production of certain brain chemicals necessary for communication between nerve cells, especially acetylcholine, as well as norepinephrine, serotonin, and somatostatin.
What causes Alzheimer's disease?
Although intense investigation has been underway for many years, the causes of Alzheimer's disease are not entirely known. Suspected causes often include the following:
- age and family history
- certain genes
- abnormal protein deposits in the brain
- other risk and environmental factors
- immune system problems
What are the warning signs or symptoms of Alzheimer's disease?
According to the Alzheimer's Association, the following are the most common symptoms of Alzheimer's disease. However, each individual may experience symptoms differently. Symptoms may include:
- memory loss that affects job skills
- difficulty performing familiar tasks
- problems with language
- disorientation to time and place
- poor or decreased judgment
- problems with abstract thinking
- misplacing things
- changes in mood or behavior
- changes in personality
- loss of initiative
The symptoms of Alzheimer's disease may resemble other medical conditions or problems. Always consult your physician for a diagnosis.
How is Alzheimer's diagnosed?
There is not a single, comprehensive test for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. By ruling out other conditions through a process of elimination, physicians, or other specialists, can obtain a diagnosis of probable Alzheimer's disease with approximately 90 percent accuracy. However, the only way to confirm a diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease is through autopsy.
Examination and evaluation are essential in determining whether the dementia is the result of a treatable illness. In addition to a complete medical history and extensive neurological motor and sensory exam, diagnostic procedures for Alzheimer's disease may include the following:
- mental status test
- neuropsychological testing
- blood tests
- lumbar puncture (spinal tap) - a procedure performed by inserting a hollow needle into the lower back (lumbar spine).
- urinalysis - laboratory examination of urine for various cells and chemicals, such as red blood cells, white blood cells, infection, or excessive protein.
- chest x-ray - a diagnostic test which uses invisible electromagnetic energy beams to produce images of internal tissues, bones, and organs onto film.
- electroencephalogram (EEG) - a procedure that records the brain's continuous, electrical activity by means of electrodes attached to the scalp.
- computed tomography scan (Also called a CT or CAT scan.) - a diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a combination of x-rays and computer technology to produce cross-sectional images (often called slices), both horizontally and vertically, of the body. A CT scan shows detailed images of any part of the body, including the bones, muscles, fat, and organs. CT scans are more detailed than general x-rays.
- electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG) - a test that records the electrical activity of the heart, shows abnormal rhythms (arrhythmias or dysrhythmias), and detects heart muscle stress.
Prevention of Alzheimer's:
Because the cause of the disease is unknown, there are no prevention protocols to follow at this time. And, because the controllable risk factors for Alzheimer's disease are unknown, it is not yet possible to reduce the chances of developing the disease.
Treatment for Alzheimer's:
Specific treatment for Alzheimer's disease will be determined by your physician based on:
- your age, overall health, and medical history
- extent of the disease
- your tolerance for specific medications, procedures, or therapies
- expectations for the course of the disease
- your opinion or preference
At this time, there is no cure for Alzheimer's, no way of slowing down the progression of this disease, and no treatment available to reverse the deterioration of Alzheimer's disease. New research findings give reason for hope, and several drugs are being studied in clinical trials to determine if they can slow the progress of the disease or improve memory for a period of time.
There are some medications available to assist in managing some of the most troubling symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, including the following:
- depression
- behavioral disturbance
- sleeplessness
In managing the disease, physical exercise and social activity are important, as are proper nutrition, health maintenance, and a calm and well-structured environment.
Alzheimer's rehabilitation:
The rehabilitation program for persons with Alzheimer's differs depending upon the symptoms, expression, and progression of the disease, and the fact that making a diagnosis of Alzheimer's is so difficult. These variables determine the amount and type of assistance needed for the Alzheimer's individual and family.
With Alzheimer's rehabilitation, it is important to remember that, although any skills lost will not be regained, the caregiving team must keep in mind the following considerations:
- In managing the disease, physical exercise and social activity are important, as are proper nutrition and health maintenance.
- Plan daily activities that help to provide structure, meaning, and accomplishment for the individual.
- As functions are lost, adapt activities and routines to allow the individual to participate as much as possible.
- Keep activities familiar and satisfying.
- Allow the individual to complete as many things by himself/herself as possible. The caregiver may need to initiate an activity, but allow the individual to complete it as much as he/she can.
- Provide "cues" for desired behavior (i.e., label drawers/cabinets/closets according to their contents).
- Keep the individual out of harm's way by removing all safety risks (i.e., car keys, matches).
- As a caregiver (full-time or part-time), it is important to understand your own physical and emotional limitations.
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Today T-Mobile announced several bold moves in an attempt to become America's "Un-carrier." As expected, they are ending contracts and device subsidies, offering simple unlimited plans, rolling out their new 4G LTE network, and offering the iPhone 5.
"These bold moves serve notice that T-Mobile is canceling its membership in the out-of-touch wireless club," said John Legere, president and CEO of T-Mobile USA, Inc. "This is an industry filled with ridiculously confusing contracts, limits on how much data you can use or when you can upgrade, and monthly bills that make little sense. As America's Un-carrier, we are changing all of that and bringing common sense to wireless."
We are huge fans of pre-paid wireless plans and unlocked devices, and I have a lot more to say on this topic, but we wanted to bring you the highlights of today's announcements first.
- Simple Choice: A break from wireless industry norms, the Simple Choice plan eliminates restrictive annual service contracts and seeks to take the pain and confusion out of the wireless experience, by moving to one simple rate plan with unlimited text, talk and web — allowing customers to upgrade their devices anytime they want.
- 4G LTE Network: T-Mobile launched its state-of-the art 4G LTE network in seven major metropolitan areas, including: Baltimore, Houston, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Jose, and Washington, D.C. The 4G LTE network will be delivering breakneck speeds to 100 million Americans by mid-year and 200 million by the end of 2013.
- New Lineup of 4G LTE Devices: T-Mobile announced today that it will have several 4G LTE capable devices, including the upcoming availability of iPhone 5, as well as the Samsung Galaxy S 4, BlackBerry Z10, T-Mobile Sonic 2.0 Mobile HotSpot LTE, Samsung Galaxy Note II and HTC One.
- "T-Mobile un-leash" Ad Campaign: T-Mobile tomorrow will kick off a new nationwide advertising campaign that plays off the "Western" film genre.
Check out T-Mobile's new ad below and let us know what you think. Do you like the attitude of America's Un-carrier?


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When I was expecting my first son, everything was going well in my life and I was totally into being pregnant," says Jane Brown*, an artist in New York City. But during her third trimester, her mood suddenly started to plummet.
"It felt as if something inside me were snapping," Brown recalls. "It was like my life was spinning out of control and no one around me could see it."
The more her friends and family tried to reassure her, the more isolated she felt. And when she gave birth to a healthy son, Brown felt anything but relief. "Eli was small, and I became obsessed with getting him to gain weight. I wasn't eating, sleeping, or returning calls, and I was losing too much weight. My husband didn't get it, and we began to fight a lot. I adored Eli but felt no joy."
Motherhood and joy: Given the images we see in ads and movies and on TV, why should we believe that a "good mother" feels anything other than joyful and whole? Yet two-thirds of the 20 million Americans who each year experience a major depressive episode are women -- most of whom are of childbearing age.
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Defining Depression
While depression is a chronic illness, diagnosing it can be tricky because its individual symptoms vary. Most psychiatrists agree that someone who's clinically depressed has experienced ó over a period of at least several months ó a gloomy outlook on life, a lack of pleasure in most activities, and a general feeling of worthlessness. Other symptoms range from inertia, indecisiveness, guilt, and fatigue to anxiety, irritability, and tearfulness.
A depressed person may sleep too much or too little, eat too much or too little, and gain weight or lose it. She may lose command of her vocabulary or her ability to concentrate. She may lie in bed all day or compulsively do housework. She may pick fights with a spouse or clam up entirely. Over time, if left untreated, depression not only warps a person's way of seeing herself but also alters neural functioning so that depressive behavior actually becomes biochemically ingrained.
There's little consensus on just what causes depression, although it can be precipitated by traumatic life events. It's clear, however, that for some people depression comes out of the blue, the way any serious illness can. Even those whose depression appears to have an underlying cause are probably predisposed to it either genetically or chemically. It can occur at any point during a person's life, even in childhood; for largely unknown reasons, women are particularly vulnerable soon after childbirth.
At its most virulent, depression progresses from sadness to despair to suicide. Even a mother's profound love for her child may be no match for her desire to end such relentless pain; she may believe that ending her life will spare others -- including her kids -- from the hardship of living with her.
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How Children Feel the Pain
How a woman's depression may influence her child -- even a newborn -- is unpleasant to consider. In fact, some researchers think that the degree of a depressed woman's stress may influence the hormone levels in utero.
The effects continue after birth. "Some women who are depressed are less apt to make eye contact with their children or engage in the typical excited cooing and baby talk that other mothers do," says Jeffrey Kelsey, M.D., director of the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Clinical Trials Program at Emory University School of Medicine. Depressed mothers are also less likely to be physically affectionate and more likely to be irritated by typical baby behavior.
For the mothers of toddlers and pre-schoolers, this irritability can pose a big problem. "When I became depressed about ten months after my first daughter, Brittany, was born, I became increasingly dissatisfied with both of us," says Susan Cappetta, a mother of two in Concord, Massachusetts. "Then, when she was a toddler, I expected her to behave like a little adult. I'd yell at her and then feel guilty. I thought I had a strong-willed child, but, looking back, I realize she was a totally normal two-year-old."
Lack of energy is another symptom that makes caring for a young child difficult. Elizabeth Novitz, of Canoga Park, California, had struggled for years with depression, trying both medication and therapy, but in 1996 she was truly happy after giving birth to the daughter of her dreams. For the first three months, Novitz immersed herself contentedly in Lianna's care, "but the happiness didn't last," she recalls. "Gradually, I began to think about death. I couldn't help it. It felt as if Lianna were the only reason I had not to kill myself." Though recent treatment has helped Novitz overcome the worst of her depression, some lethargy and sadness linger ó and Lianna is now old enough to notice. "Sometimes, she'll bring me a blanket and say, 'Mommy, what's the matter?' I'll tell her I'm tired or a little sad, and she'll give me a kiss and go back to playing. She's sweet, but I worry about the long-term effect on her."
Equally worrisome is what children may think but not vocalize. "By age three, kids are extremely perceptive," says Dr. Kelsey, "and they have active imaginations. If Mom isn't looking at them, playing with them, or hugging them as much as she used to, they may think that she doesn't love them anymore."
Mary Duffy, a mother of two in Middlebury, Vermont, had been clinically depressed on and off for much of her life. But when she saw that a recurrence of her illness was clearly apparent even to her youngest child, it alarmed her enough to seek new treatment.
"By that time, I'd explained to Mimi, who was seven, that I was sick and that there were certain things I didn't have the energy to do. She'd help out in practical ways, such as carrying things to the car, and was always trying to do funny things to make me smile. But one day Davey, who was only three, handed me a toy and said, 'Here, Mommy, take this to work; it'll make you happy.'"
Some toddlers may act out rather than express their worries in words, says Martha Eidmann-Hicks, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Colts Neck, New Jersey. "Fighting with other kids or misbehaving is a way of forcing a withdrawn mother to be more involved," she says.
For this reason, parents should talk simply and directly about what's going on to children who are old enough to understand (see "How to Talk About a Parent's Depression"). But most important for a child's long-term happiness is that his mother gets help.
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Obstacles to Seeking Help
Guilt can be overpowering for depressed mothers because they haven't attained the mythic ideal of the woman made instantly happy by giving birth. This guilt can exacerbate the depression, leading a mother to hide her true feelings not only from close friends but also from doctors.
In a perfect world, every doctor would recognize depression the minute it walked in the door. But physicians are usually so busy looking for tangible ills that they fail to address an intangible one that stares them in the face. This was Brown's experience when she visited the pediatrician right after her son Eli (now 11) was born: "The doctor and my husband were asking me all these questions, and I couldn't cope. I remember wishing that I could just 'return' the baby. I handed Eli to the doctor and said, 'Here, take him. I can't do it.' He looked at me like 'What's wrong with you?'" But even then he didn't suggest that Brown might require medical attention.
Another myth that may prevent some women from seeking help is that depression is simply a character weakness -- that with a little gumption, anyone who is feeling down should be able to "get her act together." Failing to see that a lack of will is an effect, not a cause, of the problem, a sufferer may berate herself: "If I weren't so lazy, I'd snap out of it."
And a depressed mother may be in no position to rationally assess her mental health. For instance, a mom whose depression makes her unable to meet the demands of an infant may see her unhappiness as a well-deserved consequence of joyless mothering, not the other way around.
Lacking objectivity, depressed people may see themselves as unworthy of the very support they need and feel that they'll fail in any course of treatment. Or they may not even know they're depressed to begin with: "Depression can be so isolating that a mother may be unable to see the destructive effects it has on her and on her loved ones," says Eidmann-Hicks.
Duffy experienced this for herself: "When I had my first baby, I was constantly terrified that I'd hurt her," she recalls. "If I took her out, would I leave her behind in a store? If I bathed her, would she freeze? I would look at Mimi and think, 'How could I have been so selfish as to bring you into the world? How can I make life worth living for you when it's hardly worth living for me?'"
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Finding the Right Treatment
"The sooner a woman gets help, the better her prognosis, whether her treatment is based upon psychotherapy, medication, or both," says Lee Cohen, M.D., director of the Perinatal and Reproductive Psychiatry Clinical Research Program at Massachusetts General Hospital, in Boston. "Too often, women come to us with severe depression because of a delay in seeking help."
Even among those who do make it to his office, Dr. Cohen sees resistance ó sometimes not from the patient but from her husband or another family member. "It's important in these cases that loved ones realize depression is a true illness, like anemia or hypertension. Would they refuse or delay treatment for one of those conditions?"
Thanks to a variety of antidepressant medications, doctors now speak confidently about the treatability of the illness. Though the picture is far from complete, it appears that many depressed people have either a deficiency or a surplus of certain neurotransmitters in the brain. Most modern antidepressants, such as Prozac and Zoloft, work by altering such imbalances in brain chemistry; they're not "happy pills" that impose a false sense of well-being. As for whether it's safe to take antidepressants while nursing, the issue can't be resolved with controlled studies; it isn't considered ethical to include pregnant or nursing mothers in such research. But accumulated data (based on doctors' observations in their own practices) suggest that modern antidepressant medications have no ill effects on a fetus or a breastfed infant. An increasing number of physicians, therefore, allow women to remain on or start medication if their depression is serious enough to pose a significant risk to them and their babies. Doctors have yet to determine whether these drugs affect a child's later years. Research has shown that for mild to moderate depression, psychotherapy is sometimes helpful, with or without medication.
The growing consensus is that depression is treatable and that treatment is successful 85 to 95 percent of the time. Because of insurance restrictions, however, diagnosis has fallen largely into the hands of primary care physicians, who now dispense most prescriptions for antidepressants; many patients are leery of mentioning mood problems to a doctor they assume treats only their body.
Women who see only an ob-gyn on a regular basis may be even more reluctant to bring up psychological problems. But Frank W. Ling, M.D., chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Tennessee, in Memphis, says that ob-gyns are becoming better equipped to treat depression: "A generation back, mental health issues were rarely discussed in my field, but now we're teaching residents to focus on total health."
How can you tell if your own doctor knows enough about depression to help you? First, says Ann Dunnewold, a psychologist in Dallas, be sure the reaction to your concerns is balanced. "If you go to him with a serious problem and he says, 'Oh, you're just stressed out; what you need is a night out with your husband,' he's minimizing the problem. Nor do you want someone who's just going to hand you a prescription on the spot." A quick way to figure out if your doctor is listening to you and giving correct information is to ask what diagnosis he's exploring, suggests Dr. Kelsey. "You want to hear something specific, such as 'depression' or 'dysthymia,' not an ambiguous term like 'stress' or 'nerves.'" If he doesn't think you're suffering from depression, he should be able to give reasons for his conclusion.
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The Search for a Way Out
Because depression robs its victims of objectivity more drastically than most other illnesses do, it's often up to family members or friends to take action ó though sometimes those people too lose objectivity and fail to recognize depression's gravity.
For Cappetta, who manages technical support for a private school, intervention came from her colleagues. "My husband was too busy taking care of our daughters to see how bad things had gotten," she explains. "My coworkers were the ones who saw I was sick, talked to my parents and friends, and got me into treatment."
A network beyond the family circle can also be a potent antidepressant. Cappetta, while expecting her second child, found a support group for pregnant women with depression (see "Help and Information"). And Novitz cherishes a group of acquaintances that she met online while pregnant.
Different people respond differently to psychotherapy and medication, and the ideal treatment plan would allow the patient to see which worked best, says Dr. Kelsey. (While it can take anywhere from a few days to two months ó four weeks is typical ó for someone to feel some effects of medication, psychotherapy takes longer. That's why medication is usually recommended up front for severe depression: It is currently the fastest form of intervention.) A patient's beliefs are also important. Brown thinks therapy was the key to her recovery ó though she was also on medication for a year. "The therapist listened and took my fears and guilt seriously."
Novitz tried several antidepressants, but none were a "magic bullet." She thinks that therapy is what pulled her out of the danger zone and helped her gain strength.
For Duffy and Cappetta, however, antidepressants had miraculous effects after only a few weeks. Duffy, who has had a long history of psychotherapy, marvels at how resistant her therapists were the few times she asked them about medication. (Her physician wrote her first prescription.) "The drug took a while to work, but gradually I felt myself rising through the layers of my depression," she says. "I'd never been able to really play with Mimi and Davey because I was too sad to do anything as spontaneous as impersonate a teddy bear. But now I can let go and be silly."
It was amazing, Duffy says, to find herself "in a place I'd never been before. It suddenly struck me as I was crossing the road one bright winter day: 'So this is what people enjoy about being alive.'"
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By: Mark McGrouther, Category: Science, Date: 19 Nov 2010
This week, we feature images of a cod swimming more than 1 km below the surface. From one extreme to the other, we have added images of juvenile Common Galaxias schooling in a shallow pool. Other additions include common fishes from coastal waters of south-eastern Australia. Thank you as always to all our contributors!
Cod at a depth of 1215 m
Cod on the North West Shelf
Cod, Lepidion sp.
Common Galaxias, Galaxias maculatus
Juvenile Common Galaxias
Juvenile Common Galaxias schooling
Eastern Frogfish at Fly Point
Goldspotted Rockcod, Epinephelus coioides
Halfbanded Seaperch, Hypoplectrodes maccullochi
Silverside Weedfish, Cristiceps argyropleura
Smooth Stingray, Dasyatis brevicaudata
Tarwhine, Rhabdosargus sarba
Widebody Pipefish at Camp Cove
Tags fishes, ichthyology, cod, Galaxias, Cristiceps,


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NO! not the duck you eat at the table on Christmas. How dare you! It is the magic rubber duck that brings duck related messages and gifts to you, but only if you believe in her (the christmas duck is a girl.) She doesn't only bring gifts on the 25th like Santa. She comes whenever she is called about to bring ducky cheer!
The Christmas Duck will come and leave notes and gifts for a certain duck fan in my dorm all throughout the week.
by Friend of the Christmas Duck! December 06, 2010
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Built around the shore of one of the world's most beautiful harbors, Sydney is the capital of New South Wales and the oldest and largest city in Australia. Sydney is now home to almost 3.9 million people, 34.5 percent of which were born overseas. Nearly a third of those overseas-born residents come from Europe (16.5% from Britain and Ireland).
Sydney lies at approximately 34 degrees south latitude, roughly equivalent to Buenos Aires, Argentina or in the Northern Hemisphere, Los Angeles, California or Wilmington, North Carolina.
The harbor view is dominated by the magnificent Opera House and the beautiful Harbor Bridge. Though there is much to see and do in Sydney, adventurous travelers can also drive to the Blue Mountains or the scenic Southern Highlands or try wine tasting in the Hunter Valley.
Australian seasons are opposite to the seasons experienced in the Northern Hemisphere. The locals consider the seasons as follows:
Spring - August to October
Summer - November to January
Autumn - February to April
Winter - May to July
Its mid-latitude position puts Sydney in a temperate climate. It is a warm temperate climate with no real harsh winter weather, thanks to the large expanse of ocean between Australia and the Antarctic cold air source region. Sydney's position on the ocean also usually keeps temperatures from becoming too hot. The average high temperatures in mid-summer is just 78°F (26°C). Occasionally however, winds blow from the hot interior and produce prolonged heat waves and droughts. It has reached 114F (46C) in January.
Rainfall is greater than many other Australian cities with nearly 50 inches in an average year. The peak rainfall is in the November to May period (summer and fall). The average frequency of measurable rainfall ranges from one rainfall event every 3 days in August to 1 event every 2 days in the summer and fall.
A word of warning, the sun can be very fierce in Australia on clear days so travelers are advised to wear hats and high factor sunscreens. This is true in part because the sun is closest to the earth in the Southern Hemisphere summer (closest in early January) and in part because of the thinned-out ozone layer in the high latitudes of the Southern Hemisphere.
Sydney plays host to the 2000 Summer Olympics this year. Olympic goers are likely to find pleasant conditions. September is springtime in Sydney and temperatures on average range from the low 50s (°F) in the morning to the upper 60s(°F) in the afternoon. It has been as high as 92°F in September and as cool as 41°F.
September is the sunniest and driest time of year in Sydney but occasional showery days do occur, so bring an umbrella.


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Yes, I know most of these are all from the same game but I could not locate any other fantasy relevant injuries which is wonderful... unless you own Westbrook.
Ben Roethlisberger (PIT) - Hand injury
Brian Westbrook (PHI) - Ankle Injury
Donovan McNabb (PHI) - Chest injury
Jon Kitna (DET) - Sprained knee
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are hardly noted for passing much or well so it was not expected that a trip to Chicago would result in much passing yardage. However, Brian "remember me?" Griese was traded by the Bears to the Bucs in the offseason and his little gift to his ex-employer was to throw 67 passes in the game - a Tampa Bay franchise record and only three passes short of the NFL record. Griese passed for 407 yards without his best receiver Joey Galloway and he led the overtime drive to secure the win.
So it's bad enough that Tom Brady owners are doing "without" and Peyton Manning owners are making do with "a little". But week three was further proof why 2007 was oddly "the year of the quarterback" and that burning an early pick doesn't make a lot of sense in most leagues. The top five passers on Sunday included Brian Griese, Drew Brees, Kyle Orton (seriously), Aaron Rodgers and J. T. O'Sullivan. Of that group, only Brees would have been making payments on an early draft pick.
After just three weeks, there are only six undefeated teams. In the NFC, the only two are both in the NFC East - Dallas and the Giants. In the AFC, each division is solely owned by teams that have only felt the thrill of victory - Buffalo, Baltimore, Tennessee and Denver.
Here's an early heads up on some free agents to consider:
QB Brian Griese - throwing for 407 yards and two scores guarantees that Griese comes off the waiver wire in every league and he did do that in Chicago which made it all the more remarkable. In case you wondered why you did not see that coming, it is because he only had 160 yards and one score against the Falcons last week. But he had a couple of 300 yard games in 2007 for the Bears, so it isn't like he has never had a big game before. But he had to have a little something extra for the team that traded him away in the offseason.
RB Steve Slaton - He is probably taken in most leagues but he may have solidified a job in Houston with his 116 yard effort against the Titans. That doesn't mean he won't disappear again or that HC Kubiak doesn't jack around with the starters in the future, but Slaton looked like the second coming of Domanick Davis (before he got hurt and changed his name).
RB Rudi Johnson - The Lions went with Johnson instead of the rookie Kevin Smith against the 49ers and he ran for 83 yards on 14 carries and added three catches for 48 yards and a score. Smith only had three runs for 14 yards and no catches. If you want a piece of the Detroit running game, now Johnson is the guy.
RB Correll Buckhalter - Poor Westbrook, oh poor, poor... oh... forget it. When Westy left the game Buckhalter stepped right in and had 43 yards on ten carries and six catches for 44 yards and a score. And that against the Steelers defense. If he is on your waiver wire, grab him and then at least extort something from the Westbrook owner.
WR Antonio Bryant - Yeah, he has been the second coming of David Boston but he just posted a career best ten catches for 138 yards as a part of the head scratching Buccaneer passing game. If Griese can be this good on the road in Chicago then Bryant as a starter needs to be on a fantasy team at least as a back-up.
Ronnie Brown - When I do the P-O-t-W, it is usually some great player that happened to have a really big game. This time around, I did not see this one coming. In the first two weeks, Brown had a total of 17 rushes for 48 yards and Ricky Williams was the primary back. But on Sunday, and potentially every single fantasy bench, All Ronnie Brown did was run 17 times for 113 yards and FOUR TOUCHDOWNS. He kept on scoring on the old High School direct snap to the running back that the Patriots had absolutely no answer for. Just when it appeared the Pats had him stopped on a direct snap play, Brown rolled to the left and then threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to Anthony Fasano. Yep - major points on a whole lot of benches.
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1. The Chiefs and the Rams are in a dead heat battle to be the worst team in the league. Now personally I would lean towards the Rams since they have yet to allow less than 37 points and yet have never scored more than 13 points in any game. The Chiefs are plenty bad - make no mistake - but they have been in games sort of. They have only allowed more than 23 points once so in NFL terms it means the Rams are the worst.. But in fantasy football terms, we all have to love the Rams. And have opposing players to start every week.
2. This was like a market correction week of sorts with the Raiders, Buccaneers, Bengals and Jaguars either winning or at least making their opponents work really hard at it. For the want of a few points, the Raiders, Saints and Bengals could have won road games. it usually takes about four or five weeks to get a good feel for what teams are going to be like for the season. That may take a little longer this year.
3. So the respective coaching staffs of the Chiefs, Bengals, Lions, Rams and Browns have got go be polishing their resumes up and preparing to answer the 2008 question "so what were you doing in 2007?" to which they can explain the apparent gap in employment by saying "I was in a jail in Tijuana for stealing a car" which would probably sound better than "I ran the defense for the Rams" or "I was in total control of the Lions". Wonder who is the first to go? Bet more than one by the end of the year.
4. I feel badly for the Texans since they opened against the Steelers and Titans and had a hurricane make them skip a visit by the Ravens. Their next opponents are @ JAX and IND before finally facing MIA and DET. Brutal opening so look for people dumping Schaub, Owens or even Andre Johnson by week five before their schedule gets a lot easier.
5. One week of Gus Frerotte and Bernard Berrian had three catches for 79 yards. The Vikings won their game against the previously-surprising Panthers. And did it without Peterson going nuts. I think Tarvaris can just get comfortable for a while and I say this for more reasons than just owning Berrian in a few leagues. Of course none of those other reasons matter to me.
6. The committee nature of backfields is really getting out of hand. There are hardly any teams that do not rely on multiple players in their backfield and while there are still obviously good backs to use, there are not as many and they are not as good as they once were. Case in point - Baltimore Ravens. This week Ray Rice only had five carries while Willis McGahee returned and had 15 runs for 64 yards and a score. And converted full-back Le'Ron McClain had 17 runs for 66 yards and two scores.
7. Does diabetes medicine contain steroids? The Denver Broncos have long been known for being a big rushing team but currently Jay Cutler has passed for 914 yards this year and is second only to Drew Brees in the NFL. Brandon Marshall has 321 receiving yards and he is second only to Greg Jennings. But Marshall has only played two games. When he did not play, the rookie Eddie Royal went nuts. The Broncos suddenly are one of the elite passing teams. And I guess what bothers me most is that every time I see Cutler I think he looks like Chandler Bing from "Friends". So I expect him to go to the press conference and say "could I throw it any better? I don't think so!"
8. Michael Turner already has five rushing touchdowns in three games. The Falcons as a team only rushed for seven touchdowns in 2007 and only Warrick Dunn had more than one. If nothing else, Turner has been a blessing for those who buy season tickets for the Falcons and I'm not even mentioning Matt Ryan's deep ball every week.
9. Ben Roethlisberger was sacked eight times on Sunday. That gives him 13 on the year which is on a pace for 69. He had 47 last year and 49 the previous season to rank the Steelers in the bottom five in the league for allowing sacks. Big Ben has a great arm, can make the accurate throw and gets the crap beaten out of him every week. Gotta make for a long, noisy season inside Big Ben's helmet. As someone who tracks player performances very carefully, I was dismayed to see Willie Parker back to his old track of look great at home and against bad teams but disappear on the road, He only ran for 20 yards on 13 carries in Philly. The Steelers do not look like a juggernaut when Parkers is always stuffed and Roethlisberger is always crushed.
10. I still contend there is some sort of bad mojo going on this year. The Colts had the Jags beaten but had a penalty on fourth down that kept the Jags alive long enough to kick a game winning field goal even after Manning drove down for his traditional game winning drive. The Jags couldn't run at all the first two weeks and then 'boom' - they get 228 yards on 45 carries by Jones-Drew and Taylor at Indianapolis. My contention is that the Patriots, Colts and Chargers all have the bad mojo this year. So far... so true...
Man, what a screwy weekend. Only four road teams won and three of them were upsets. There are seven NFL teams that still have not won a game and in the AFC there is exactly one team per division that is undefeated and not one of them won their division last year. The wide receivers were mostly duds this week except Brandon Marshall, Larry Fitzgerald and Houshmandzadeh who finally made a showing. We had two overtime games but the Game of the Week had to be something special, something that said "this is not going to be a season that makes you feel comfortable". The most jaw-dropping game of the day was expected to be little more than a boring game enjoyed only by the fans of the home team. How wrong that was.
Miami 38, New England 13
Wow. And not just they got beat "wow". It was a "wow" in every sense of the word. This wasn't a close nail-biting game, it was a blowout. But the wrong team was doing the whooping. The Patriots had not lost in their last 21 regular season games. It was the first time in 13 home games they lost. Season ticket holders had to think back to 2006 to remember what it was like to lose a game there. "You know, we really miss Taaam. We need Braaadee baack.". The funny part was that the last team to win there was the Dolphins.
But it wasn't just an offensive implosion that was certainly there as well. It was that the Patriots defense was back on their heels for the entire game. The Patriots allowed Ronnie Brown to rush 17 times for 113 yards and four touchdowns. Ricky Williams added 16 runs for 98 more yards. That's 33 rushes for 211 yards and four scores. And Brown did most his damage while taking snaps directly from center. He even threw for a touchdown. Ronnie Brown set a Dolphin's franchise record with five touchdowns in a game and his four rushing scores were also a team record. All this must mean that somehow next year Brown becomes a Patriot.
This was such a bad beat that the Dolphins went with Chad Henne and Patrick Cobb late in the fourth quarter. Even the Patriots turned to Kevin O'Connell for quarterback because why not? This was a major beat down.
But what is the reality for both these teams? The Fins had lost to the Jets and Cardinals and were 0-2 before this game. And the Patriots were 2-0 including a win in New York over the Jets without Brady. But therein lies the reason to me. Last week the Pats remained fired up to play well because they hate the Jets and they needed to show the NFL that they could still play without Brady. They were up for the game and they won it. This week they were facing a team that they had beaten by 21 points or more twice last year and they let down. Too far obviously. This was their emotional let down day when the air came whooshing out of the tires.
Kudos to the Dolphins for inventive play calling and to Brown who has certainly had a shocking return to being a starter. This season is a turning of the soil of the top teams and Miami laying the wood to the Patriots in a road game only proves it. And therein lies the beauty of the NFL and in that fantasy football.
Never get comfortable. Always expect change. And know that the Fins win in New England won't hardly be the most shocking thing when the season wraps up.
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