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Apple Inc. shares extended their decline after China Mobile Ltd. Chief Executive Officer Li Yue said he wouldn't add the iPhone to the world's largest wireless network without a deal that favorable for his company.
"The business model and benefit sharing still need further discussion," Li said at a conference in Guangzhou yesterday. Technical issues related to the carrier's homegrown third- generation network standard would also need to be resolved, Li said.
The iPhone isn't available to most users in China as the Cupertino, California-based company has yet to reach an agreement with China Mobile, which had 703 million subscribers at the end of October, including 79.3 million users of high-speed, third-generation services that give smartphones faster Internet access. Apple's iPhone is available with the nation's two smaller carriers: China Unicom (Hong Kong) Ltd. and China Telecom Corp., both of which sell it with a subsidy. The new iPhone 5 will begin sales with those carriers next week.
"Li's comment suggests that China Mobile has no intention of simply gifting Apple access to its huge subscriber base without extracting a pound of flesh from Apple," said Teck-Zhung Wong, a Singapore-based analyst with market researcher IDC.
Apple fell 2.1 percent to $527.33 at 9:41 a.m. in New York. Yesterday, the shares posted their biggest drop since Dec. 17, 2008, erasing $34.9 billion in market value.
Nokia Lumia
Nokia Oyj will sell a version of its flagship smartphone, the Lumia 920T, a device based on Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone 8 software, the companies said yesterday.
"Nokia announced that they are launching one of their Lumia phones with China Mobile, and there was some hope that Apple would launch their iPhone on that network," Gus Papageorgiou, an analyst with Scotia Capital Inc. in Toronto, said in an interview. "I think they still will, but they'll probably launch closer to Chinese New Year."
China's next lunar year begins Feb. 10.
Apple's slide also may be the result of traders predicting a drop after the stock failed to sustain a recent rally, a "classic technical breakdown," according to Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray Cos.
Munster said new so-called margin rules also may have been put in place by some investors that could limit how many Apple shares a firm can own. Investors may also be disappointed Apple isn't issuing a special dividend like Oracle Corp., Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other U.S. companies, he said.
Tablet Market
In another announcement that may be fueling Apple stock's slide, research firm IDC said in a report yesterday that Apple's share of the tablet market will slip to 53.8 percent this year from 56.3 percent in 2011, while Google's portion will advance to 42.7 percent from 39.8 percent. Apple's tablet share will slip to less than 50 percent by 2016, as total global tablet sales more than double to 282.7 million units in four years as consumers increasingly shun personal computers, according to IDC.
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User-defined blocks in Xcos
By Clément DAVID and Bruno JOFRET, The Scilab Consortium
Xcos now offers new features aiming at creating user blocks and palettes and making them available through ATOMS.
From creating a simple block containing Scilab script to writing an external module containing C-blocks, see the presentation document for more details.
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Nous venons en aide aux personnes touchées par des catastrophes et conflits. A tout moment, nos équipes interviennent sur près de 30 opérations d'urgences à travers le monde.
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Since 2007, Oxfam and our partner Hijra have collaborated to provide support for Somali families in need through cash programming. We recently launched an innovative e-cash program, which saves time and increases efficiency.
In the last two decades, the city of Mogadishu in Somalia has experienced periods of extreme violence. Today however, Mogadishu is enjoying a period of relative calm. No longer do the streets ring with gunshots.
These days the air is filled with the sound of nails being hammered into wooden planks, metal being welded and concrete being poured. Although there is still a long way to go, more than 300,000 people have returned to Mogadishu in the past six months to resurrect this once glorious city.
Isaak Ahmed, a 50 year old fishmonger, resides in Aw-Aweska, a small neighborhood on the shores of the Mogadishu coast. Born in Jilib District, he moved to Mogadishu with his parents over 40 years ago with his wife Hawa. They are parents to eight children; the oldest is 20 years old, and the youngest is five.
"We have been married for about 32 years, the exact number doesn't come to mind," he says with a smile. "Before we got married, we had seven years of serious love." Referring to his wife, he says "She might be 46, but she still looks 20 to me."
Mogadishu was not always a violent town. Isaak speaks of the good old days when life was normal and the young couple were just starting out. They enjoyed life in the pearl of Africa, as Mogadishu was known as at the time. "We met when we were both in high school. I played a lot of sports, especially basketball and football," Isaak said.
"During that time, people were recruited straight out of high school to work in the government ministries. I was eager to start my life and provide for my family, so I did not go to university. It was not necessary at the time. My wife Hawa trained to be a teacher and I joined the ministry of trade. Those were happy times," he says. "Life was good."
Unfortunately for Isaak and his family, war broke out in 1991 and with it came the collapse of the government and the jobs it provided. "Suddenly, my wife and I were out of jobs and had no means to care for our family. We did not have an income. This is when the hard life started," he recalls. "Everything had changed."
Since then, Isaak has been the sole bread winner of the family. To make ends meet, he took up fishing in the hope that the little catch he made would earn enough to provide for the family.
"The family has been surviving on the income I make selling fish at the market. This is usually not enough. My wife and I try and find odd jobs around to help sustain ourselves. This is a very hard life compared to what we had before." he said.
The E-Cash project to provide cash relief for families in need was led by Oxfam and partner Hijra in Mogadishu. The project was the first of its kind in the country, delivering $150 to 2,090 urban households. Nation Link provided free mobile phones to the selected recipients and trained them on how to use them to access the cash relief. Once registered, people received $150, and they could utilize the money as they deemed fit.
When the cash was distributed, Isaak and Hawa used some of the money to buy food for their family. "I feel very lucky," Isaak said. "We received this money during the holy month of Ramadhan. This is a very special time in our faith and it is important to celebrate it with family. I'm very grateful because we had something, I know some had nothing."
Isaak and Hawa decided to invest in something more sustainable for the long run. "In order to ensure that we had something that would bring income when it was needed in the future, we bought five chickens to rear," he said.
Isaak says that he prefers the E-Cash system to the previous method. "It saves a lot time because we don't have to wait in long lines. That time could be spent on the ocean, catching fish. I also prefer it because I can store money on my phone and only my wife and I have access to it. This keeps it safe. It's also very easy to use because you don't have to withdraw it, you can just pay directly from one account to another. I am also happy that I now have a phone," he said.
Since 2007, Oxfam and Hijra have collaborated to provide support for Somali families in need through cash programming. However, this cash relief is not just about increasing family income. For Isaak, it is also about the changes experienced within the family. "My wife and I are still together because we love each other." he said. "We are not rich and we don't own any property. We just have each other to get us through everything. It is reassuring to know that Oxfam and Hijra are willing to support us."
Leaping Heights: Basketball and dreams through E-Cash in Mogadishu
The Weavers Tale: Creating colorful fabrics through E-Cash in Mogadishu
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Law School Admissions / SMU Law Applicant- Chances of Getting in?« on: June 24, 2013, 12:46:45 PM »
So here are my stats. Have a 3.8 in International Business and Energy Commerce, Minor in Spanish from Texas Tech University. Was President of my sorority, was a Business Ambassador of the Rawls College of Business, Congressional intern for Senator Cornyn, on Mortar Board (top 50 student seniors at University). Currently interning with President John F. Kennedy Commemorative Foundation helping plan the 50th Anniversary Event held in Dallas this November. Studied abroad 2 times during undergrad. I am considered a URM with Hispanic on my high school and college transcripts. My practice LSAT's are around a 153-155 but hoping to get it up to at least 160. I'll also have a rec from a prof that is also Hispanic and going to approach that angle. A rec from Senator Cornyn's office, and then also one from this internship (which several on the 50th Foundation are on the board at SMU or founding board). Are my chances looking up? I feel like they are, but am worried. SMU is really the only school I want to go to and am nervous about getting rejected! Any insight would be appreciated!


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of Drydens poems as printed in England, whether in his own time or after his death, has never been in a satisfactory state. There is no edition wholly free from errors, and most editions contain many gross blunders. Only one of the editors has really collated the original editions, and even he seems not always to have compared Drydens translations with the original works.
Badly as Drydens editors have served him, the author himself is not wholly blameless. It was his misfortune that he could not always see his works through the press. Thus he was in Wiltshire while
Annus Mirabilis
was printing, and before his return the book had come out and some copies had been sold. The list of errata, for which he found room on a fly-leaf, was so hurriedly made that itself is full of false references. But errors were more often due to Drydens fault than to his misfortune. That he could be careful in correcting the press he showed in the case of the
Epistle to John Driden,
a work for which he had a special affection, as the child of his old age and the encomium of his ancient race. But the last of his publications, the very volume which contains this epistle, has, in other poems, some glaring errors of the press. Some of these, and others in other works, were silently corrected in subsequent editions. It needed no Bentley to detect the husband of Eurydice in a line which Dryden allowed to appear in this form:
Had Orphans sung it in the neather Sphere.
But there are cases in which the true reading may reasonably be a matter of doubt. Thus in
the original text gives:
And some descending Courtier from above
Had givn her timely warning to remove.
The word Courtier, or, as Dryden would have said, the word of Courtier, was changed by Broughton into Courier, and Todd denounced the original reading as a laughable error of the press. The original reading is defended by Christie and Dr. Saintsbury, and there is something to be said on either side. In
Palamon and Arcite
a line in the original appeared as
Rich Tapstry spread the Streets and Flowers the Pots adorn.
The earlier editors changed Pots into Posts, and, although Dr. Saintsbury prefers the original reading, the passage cited in my note seems to show that they were right.
Many of the poems were republished soon after Drydens death, some in a collection and some in volumes of Miscellanies. Jacob Tonson, who had succeeded Herringman as Drydens publisher, was also the publisher of these early posthumous editions. Whom he employed to see the books through the press does not appear. The work was not well done, and some of the corruptions which were then allowed to defile the text have appeared in every later edition. The first editor with a name was Thomas Broughton, who published two incomplete collections, one in 1741, the other in 1743. Broughton introduced new errors, and some of these have held their ground in the published texts. In 1760 four volumes of the poems appeared under the editorship of Samuel Derrick. Derrick, who in his poetical character is the louse of Johnsons famous epigram, as an editor is styled by Dr. Saintsbury the accursed. What right Dr. Saintsbury had to throw this stone will appear hereafter. That Derrick deserved it is unhappily true. In his edition the game of corruption went merrily on. Not satisfied with accidental errors, Derrick took upon himself to alter Drydens text, and always altered it for the worse. From his volumes other editions were printed, and in spite of the boasts of later editors, some of his abominations are still printed as the genuine work of Dryden.
In 1808 appeared Walter Scotts complete edition of the works of Dryden. It was unfortunate that the great poet and man of letters hardly suspected the existence of corruption in the text. It is astonishing that he should have passed many passages which on the face of them did not make sense. Nor was there much improvement in the Wartons edition of 1811. To one of the poems in it were appended some notes by Todd, a textual critic of some capacity, who corrected a few, but only a few, of Derricks mistakes. Mitfords Aldine edition of 1832 is bad, and was hardly made better by Mr. Richard Hooper, who claims to have revised it in 1866 and again in 1891. Mr. Richard Bells edition, which appeared in 1854, was quite in Derricks manner, and added many fresh errors to a corrupt text. And so the melancholy tale goes on.
The first, and, down to the present century, the only serious attempt to present a correct text was made by William Dougal Christie. His edition, which does not contain the translations from Greek and Latin poets, appeared in 1870. Christie had zeal and industry, and was a man of undoubted ability. He was at the pains to consult and in some cases to collate the original editions. That his collation was not as complete or as accurate as he implies is evident from the errors which he allowed to stand in his text. In fact, some evil spirit seems to have dogged the steps of Drydens editors, and may well raise apprehension in one who ventures to add himself to their number. Some of the blunders in Christies text are so absurd, so ruinous to sense, that it is hard to see how he passed them even without a collation, and inconceivable that he could have left them if once a collation had called his attention to them. As an editor he had two faults: he was not sure in judgement, and he seems to have had no ear. When Dryden wrote
If they, through Sickness, seldom did appear,
Pity the Virgins of each Theatre!
Christie remarks that Theatre was pronounced with the
long. When Dryden wrote
An Universal Metempsuchosis,
Christie gives a stress both to the penultimate and to the antepenultimate of the last word in the line. From a line in
The Wife of Baths Tale,
But, not to hold our Proffer in Scorn,
a syllable has undoubtedly dropt out. Christie filled the gap with a word which gives no sense. This lack of judgement sometimes makes it doubtful whether he carelessly followed an error of his predecessors, or actually misunderstood his text. An example may be found in the line from
Cymon and Iphigenia
which is cited below. Christies want of ear, very manifest in his notes, made him overlook some errors which would certainly have roused Drydens indignation.
Scotts edition was republished in 1883 and the following years as revised and corrected by Dr. George Saintsbury. However well Dr. Saintsbury may have deserved of Dryden in other respects, it must be regretfully declared that his work on the text was worse than useless. It is true that in some of the poems his text is a great improvement on Scotts, but the improvement is due, not to Dr. Saintsbury, but to Christie. Dr. Saintsbury acknowledges to some extent his obligation to his predecessor, but he claims to have made a collation of the original editions. It is unfortunate that he should have used a phrase which well might be, and actually has been, misunderstood. He has been taken to mean that he had throughout collated his text with the original editions. This was not the case. It must be clear to one who really has made the collation that Dr. Saintsbury cannot have meant more than that he had verified the corrections which Christie mentioned in his notes. It follows that, where Scott and Christie agree in an error, that error, however monstrous and palpable, is usually reproduced by Dr. Saintsbury. A few instances will suffice. In Stanza 23 of
Annus Mirabilis,
Dryden wrote and printed:
So reverently Men quit the open air,
When Thunder speaks the angry Gods abroad.
This remained the text in both the editions published in Drydens lifetime. After his death the first word of the second line was corrupted into Where, much to the detriment of the text, and Where it remained for two hundred years. It is Where in Christies text, and consequently it is Where in Dr. Saintsburys. The error was the more unpardonable that Dryden was proud enough of his simile to reproduce it in his contemporary play of
The Maiden Queen:
As, when it thunders,
Men reverently quit the open air
Because the angry gods are then abroad.
Here Dr. Saintsbury prints his text correctly with no corruption of then into there. The same poem presents us with an error infinitely worse. In Stanza 224, Dryden, after picturing the ghosts of traitors as descending from London Bridge and dancing round the Fire of London, goes on thus:
Our Guardian Angel saw them where he sate
Above the Palace of our slumbring King.
In the Miscellany Poems, published after Drydens death, he was turned into they, and this piece of egregious nonsense figures in all subsequent English editions, even in Christies and consequently in Dr. Saintsburys. It appears even where special care should have been taken to secure sense, in Mr. Humphry Wards
English Poets.
The editors did not stay to ask themselves why the ghosts should have mounted to the roof of Whitehall, how they could dance in a place so unfit for the exercise, or by what supernatural duplicity they could at the same moment sit on the ridge of the Palace and dance round the Fire.
Another curious error may be quoted from
Cymon and Iphigenia.
The poet, in describing the effect of Love upon one whom he calls a Man-Beast, a human being
Above, but just above, the Brutal kind,
declares that
Love made an active Progress through his Mind,
The dusky Parts he cleard, the gross refind,
The drowsy wakd; and as he went impressd
The Makers Image on the human Beast.
So the lines appear in the first and only contemporary edition. The last word was afterwards corrupted into Breast. This piece of nonsense with its absurd suggestion of tattooing is printed in Christies text and consequently in Dr. Saintsburys.
Since Christie did not print Drydens translations from the ancient poets, Dr. Saintsbury had here no help from his predecessors. He does indeed remark that liberties have been taken with the text and implies that he has taken pains to note them singly. That he has done so I cannot perceive except in one instance, and even there he leaves the error in his text. Of the errors which he has not corrected some are very unfortunate. Thus Ovid has a passage which Dryden correctly rendered:
Nor coud thy Form, O
Thy Fate; (if Form to Monsters Men allow.)
The regret that qualities, mental or physical, do not save one from death is a commonplace of ancient poetry. Yet here the editors unanimously change foreslow into foreshow. What sense the lines might then have would certainly not have been known to Dryden or to Ovid. In one of the versions from Lucretius there is a line which points the contrast between the brief life of Homer and the eternity of his
As Dryden wrote and printed it, the line ran:
Th immortal Work remains, the mortal authors gone.
Will it be believed that the English editors print immortal instead of mortal?
Since the English editors have ignored Drydens own texts, it can hardly be expected that they should have consulted the originals of his translations. Nor have they. They have so changed the text as to display their ignorance both of their poet and of his authorities. Dryden translated the Twenty-ninth Ode of the Third Book of Horace, and prefixt to it the correct title. His English editors, one and all, change third into first. One only remarks that first ought to be third, and even he leaves the error in his text because he supposed it was Drydens.
When Juvenal wrote
veniet cum signatoribus auspex,
and Dryden wrote and printed
The Publick Notaries and
the English editors print Haruspex, an emendation which makes the scansion harsh in Dryden and impossible in Juvenal. They seem to have desired to display their learning, since at a Roman marriage in Juvenals time the augur did not use birds for divination. But their learning goes astray, for, as often happens, the old name outlived the change.
Occasionally Dr. Saintsbury following Scott, who himself followed a bad text, has printed a reading other than Christies. His variations are sometimes for the worse. Thus in the second part of
Absalom and Achitophel,
when Monmouth suggests that Shaftesburys motives are self-interested, the Earl replies in effect that, if this be so, there is all the more reason why Monmouth should trust him, since his interest lies all in Monmouths advancement.
Royal Youth, fix here,
Let Intrest be the Star by which I Steer.
Hence to repose your Trust in Me was wise,
Whose Intrest most in your Advancement lies.
The lines may be Tates but were at least passed by Dryden. Here it is plain that let is used in the sense of assume. An edition published after the deaths of both authors changed I into you, taking let in a hortative sense. This illogical reading is deliberately preferred by Dr. Saintsbury.
In some forms used by Dryden his editors have made changes without system and without justification. He uses according to the sense and the sound either them or em. The latter has sometimes been allowed to stand, and has sometimes been altered. It may be that Dryden was not always careful in his use, but there are clear cases where his choice was deliberate. He was doubtless not aware that the two words are etymologically different, but his choice must be respected. A line in the
Epistle to John Driden
is thus printed by most editors:
Who, while thou sharst their lustre, lendst them thine.
This is not what Dryden wrote, nor could he have been guilty of such a cacophony. Again, he chose to write evn, but Mr. Hooper invariably prints een.
These restorations of the text are such as Drydens editors might with reasonable industry have succeeded in making. There is, however, one problem of which they never suspected the existence. My friend, Mr. Henry B. Wheatley, discovered that what profess to be copies of the first edition of
Absalom and Achitophel
differ from one another. His discovery led me to the solution of a point which had much puzzled me. In Stanza 105 of
Annus Mirabilis,
the copy of the first edition which I first collated gave a text which has escaped the notice of all editors. An examination of other copies showed me why, for these copies did not give it. Moreover, these copies had a list of errata which the other had not. What must have happened is this. When Dryden came back from Wiltshire after the publication of the poem, he saw for himself, or was told by others, that his lines would give great offence and might even be accused of blasphemy. In those copies which had not been sold he was at the charge of cancelling a sheet in order to give an inoffensive version of the lines. Observing that there was a blank page at the end of the Preface, he printed on it a list of such errors as by mistaken words have corrupted the text. Something of the same kind must have happened in the case of other poems, but it is obviously impossible to collate all existing copies.
After the copy of the present text, together with the first draft of this Introduction, was in the hands of the press, there appeared at Cambridge, Massachusetts, the first scholarly edition of the poems. The editor, Dr. George Noyes, has made a complete collation of the original texts, and has removed by far the larger number of the defacing errors. Most of the cases in which he has overlooked an error are of small importance, as when in the line
What ist to thee if he neglect thy Urn?
he prints neglects for neglect, or when in the line
The Fiend, thy Sire, has sent thee from below,
he prints hath for has. There are, however, cases in which he has followed our predecessors in altering the original text without, as it seems to me, just cause. It may be that this deviation has not been intentional. Thus, when Dryden printed
Not all the Wealth of Eastern Kings, said she,
Have Powr to part my plighted Love and me:
the Cambridge editor prints Has for Have. Here the assumption of a misprint seems highly improbable. The irregular construction, called by Dr. Abbott the confusion of proximity, is common and natural. It is paralleled by the taunt thrown at Antony by Cassius in Shakespeares play:
The posture of your blows are yet unknown.
Another case in which a misprint has been unduly assumed occurs in
Baucis and Philemon:
Heavns Powr is infinite: Earth, Air, and Sea,
The Manufacture Mass, the making Powr obey.
The change of Manufacture into Manufacturd may seem plausible, but before it can be accepted there must be some evidence that the verb or participle was used precisely in this sense. The
New English Dictionary
supplies no such evidence. The verb was new in Drydens time, but the noun had been in use for some time, and sometimes had the sense, now obsolete, of handicraft. Its attributive use in the present passage may be harsh, but it can be justified by analogy, and in all probability the original text is right.
Again, there are instances in the Translations where a reference to the translated work shows that the editors silent alterations of the original text are mistaken. Thus when Dryden printed
More grateful to the sight than goodly Planes,
a reference to Ovids platano conspectior alta shows that the alteration of Planes into plains is a clear error. Nor is it easy to see what sense the Cambridge editor attaches to a passage in Persius when in Drydens
There boast thy Horses Trappings, and thy own:
he substitutes Their for There. This line is, as it happens, given correctly in most of the English editions.
In the matter of spelling the Cambridge editor has occasionally introduced forms for which I find no warrant in the original texts. Thus he prints colord where the original gives colourd. Moreover, he seems to have made insufficient allowance for Drydens love of his own Northamptonshire speech. In some cases his alterations obscure the rhyme. Thus when Dryden printed
A Tuft of Daisies on a flowry Lay
They saw, and thitherward they bent their way:
there can be no justification for changing Lay into lea, though it is only natives who know that the word is still lay, not lea, in Drydens own village. Again, such a form as smootherd should not be ejected in favour of smotherd. Yet again it is not easy to see why such phonetic forms as pact and tane should give way to packd and taen, the latter a bad representative of a monosyllable. I should add that on the other hand in finally revising the text, I have seen reason to abandon some original readings which I once thought capable of defence, and that I have occasionally corrected an error which I had at first overlooked.
The matter of spelling opens a difficult question. It must be admitted that Dryden was neither careful nor consistent. We cannot always tell whether the spelling was his own or his printers. We may fairly ascribe to him certain letters which indicate a pronunciation. Usually he wrote salvage rather than savage, with a sound in the first syllable such as we give to calves. It is not likely that here he was under Italian influence, for this would imply a theory, and of theory he was clearly guiltless. He wrote agen when he wished to pronounce the word as we do, but, if he desired the diphthong, as poets sometimes do, he wrote again. Christie regarded some of Drydens spellings as repulsive, for instance, eugh for yew and ghess for guess, though the form ghess is more phonetic than our own. Dr. Saintsbury modernizes the spelling unless there be strong reason to the contrary, and sometimes when there is. Thus on the line
The Theatres are Berries for the Fair
he complains that Scott has obscured the sense for modern readers by printing berries, which is Drydens word, and himself prints burrows. This is worse than obscuring the sense, it is corrupting it. The word berry does not mean a burrow, but a collection of burrows or warren. It still has that sense in Drydens own county, and in this place is a much more appropriate word. This, at any rate, is not one of those modernizings of which, according to Dr. Saintsbury, Dryden would have approved. That he would have approved of some cannot in face of the Preface to the
lightly be denied. Still, it must be remembered that a pious adherence to Drydens wishes is not always possible. It would, in face of the same Preface, have prevented Dr. Saintsbury from republishing some of the Plays. The reader is entitled to know what Dryden passed in the press. Moreover, with a simplified spelling, some of his forms may return into use. Some of them are more rational and phonetic than our own. We write her sexs arts, thus pretending to have dropt a vowel which we in fact pronounce. Drydens her Sexes Arts is better, but he does not always observe this use. Nor does he always keep such better spellings as woolf, mold, sute, scepter, sheckle. His indewd is nearer to speech than our endued. It is true that some of his spellings leave the sense ambiguous, but here editors have not always improved matters by making a choice. Thus Dryden printed
Old as I am, for Ladies Love unfit.
Here Warton printed Ladies and Christie Ladys. Since Dryden undoubtedly had in mind a line of Horace, it is certain that here Christie is wrong, but there are cases where there well may be a doubt. Again, Dryden sometimes uses the apostrophe not only in the genitive singular but also, where it is etymologically no less correct, in the nominative plural. He writes it especially in words that end in a, whether English or foreign. Thus we have Seas, Epochas, and Ideas, all as nominatives. There seems no valid reason for altering these forms. There is certainly none where the changed spelling obscures a rhyme or a scansion. In the Epilogue to
Tyrannick Love,
the editors make Dryden rhyme slattern with Catherine, though he printed neither of these words in this form. In this edition no spelling has been altered except in the case of undoubted misprints, nor then without a note.
Most editors have taken on themselves to correct Drydens Greek, changing for instance his [Greek] into [Greek]. But with this form the line will not, as we pronounce Greek, scan as Dryden scanned it, The truth is that Drydens master, the great Busby, mistook, like some good people of our own times, the mark of accent for a mark of stress. Like a modern Greek, and unlike an ancient Greek, he made no difference in pronunciation between [Greek] and [Greek]. In proper names Dryden is not consistent in his use, falling sometimes under the influence of Latin. On the line
is the Ladies care
Dr. Saintsbury has a note to express his hope that Dryden did not scan the name as Iphigen
a, and adds that it is not impossible. Clearly the implication is that Dryden was guilty of a false quantity. That he did so scan the name is not only possible but certain, but his fault was no mistake of the quantity, but adherence to a mistaken theory. It is characteristic of the want of thought displayed by Drydens editors that they should either never have noticed that he said Cleom
nes and Hippodam
a, or else not have asked themselves why he did so. And so the poor poet has to answer for his editors errors as well as for his own. Thus he wrote and printed:
Heir, who on the Woody Plain
did in
but Dr. Saintsbury takes on himself to print Ætions, saying in a note that Aetions would be a better form, but that Dryden probably meant to write Ætions. But, if Dryden meant what is wrong, why was he at the pains to print what is right? Why should a false diphthong be foisted on him, when he took trouble to print the mark of diaeresis? It is true that Drydens Greek was not unexceptionable. His
involves no less than three errors. His editors by printing Hypoplacus get rid of one, and seem to show that they have not noticed the other two. One cannot blame an editor who changes Drydens Caledonian into Calydonian, but if in an incorrect text of Ovid Dryden found Alyxothoe, there seems no reason for printing the correct form. Dryden wrote, as he had a right to do, Perithous, a form of as sound Latin as the Pirithous, upon which his editors insist. On his faults in this kind his editors have been severe, but, as they have failed to perceive some of them, they have turned their barbs against themselves. When Dryden erred not from the acceptance of a wrong theory, nor, if that be an error, from the desire to put his Greek names into an English dress, but from sheer ignorance, his editors for the same reason have failed to correct him. There is an ugly and glaring example in his quotation of the first line of the
He wrote [Greek], and [Greek] it is in all the editions. He would not mind much if his errors were pointed out to him, but he would rather his editors corrected him when he was wrong than when he was not.
Again, most editors have robbed Dryden of his italics. His employment of them, apart from the habitual use in proper names, is not perhaps always happy, but the reader should be allowed to know what he printed. His italics are used sometimes for emphasis, sometimes to show, as in the case of
that a word was not fully naturalized. There is an interesting and exceptional case in
Palamon and Arcite,
where he wrote
A Virgin-Widow and a
Mourning Bride.
The English editors print without capitals or italics. It might be thought that they had never heard of Congreve. At any rate, they deprive the dramatist of the compliment which Dryden meant to pay him. It may be that as literature the line is better without the allusion, but, as Dr. Saintsbury, better in his theory than in his practice, once remarks, we are entitled to read what Dryden wrote and not what some forgotten pedant thought that Dryden should have written. Of Drydens poems some few of those which were prefixed to plays or other works were printed in italics. In this case the italicized words, if we may so call them, were printed in the roman type.
Again, Dryden is entitled to his marks of elision. Dr. Saintsbury drops them on the ground that they are a conventional form, now disused, of indicating what Dryden calls synalaepha, and not affecting the actual scansion. But it is pretty clear that, unlike Milton, and probably unlike the ancient Greeks, Dryden actually did in speech drop the elided vowel. Dr. Saintsbury holds that slurring, not elision, is proper to English. That may be so, but, if so, Dryden did what is not proper to English, and the reader is entitled to know what Dryden wrote, and not what Dr. Saintsbury thinks that Dryden should have written.
In the matter of punctuation Dryden was often very careless, though it is clear that he was by no means indifferent. Of the first edition of
Annus Mirabilis,
he complains that false stops confounded the sense. Of another poem he complained that the printer had served him ill, and to the printer he seems often to have left his punctuation, the more that he was often pressed for time in correcting the press. To find his principles of punctuation we must take some work to which he gave special care. Such a work is the
Epistle to John Driden,
of which he was greatly but not unduly proud. A comparison of the text below, with other editions, or with modern usage, will show what Dryden meant his stops to convey. If no poet in the highest sense of the word, he was at least a surpassing rhetorician, and his stops are a guide to reading aloud. They may not mark the logical divisions of a sentence, but they do indicate the places where a skilful reader would choose to pause. Thus in the third line Christie prints:
Who, studying peace and shunning civil rage,
whereas Dryden printed:
Who studying Peace, and shunning Civil Rage,
where the comma, if not logical, is the readers guide. Again, where Christie gives
Even then industrious of the common good;
Dryden has
Evn then, industrious of the Common Good;
where the comma marks an emphasis and a consequent pause. Where there is evidence of careless proof-reading the stops in this edition have been altered, but not without a note.
In any case Drydens English editors are the last people who can quarrel with the punctuation in this volume. Again and again they have so altered Drydens stops as to deprive his lines of all sense. The opening lines of the Prologue to
Tyrannick Love
present us with an admirable contrast, and were printed by Dryden almost as we should print them to-day. The sole difference is the use of two parenthesis marks for two commas. As the editors print them they appear thus:
Self-love, which, never rightly understood,
Makes poets still conclude their plays are good,
And malice in all critics reigns so high,
That for small errors they the whole decry.
In this form the lines have neither construction nor sense. Self-love is a subject without a verb, and understood is a participle without a meaning. Mr. Hooper and Dr. Saintsbury, even Christie no less, have not seen that understood is a verb. The printer, said Dryden on one occasion, is a beast. To what would he have compared the editor? The printer, poor soul, had Drydens handwriting to wrestle with, yet in this and in many other instances the printer was right until the editor came with his ineradicable predilection for absolute nonsense.
The English editors of Dryden, except Christie, who did not cover the whole ground, even of the poems, have always begun at the wrong end. Eager to annotate and criticize their author, they have been at no pains to ascertain what their author wrote. It follows that some of their efforts have been sadly beside the mark. Thus Scott wrote and Dr. Saintsbury repeated a note on a line in one of the translations from Horace, which, being based upon a false reading, is absolutely mistaken. Again, in one of the versions from Ovid, Scott, by accidentally omitting a line, has given cause to some amusing or exasperating futility. Dr. Saintsbury, instead of referring to the original text, assumes that Scotts was right, and finding a line with none to rhyme with it resorts to misplaced and impossible conjectures. He even complains that Drydens version is so free that the original gives no help. This is not the fact, nor near the fact. Ovids lines are
Et secum tenui suspirans murmura dicat,
Ut puto, non poteras ipsa referre vicem.
Tum de te narret, tum persuadentia verba
Addat, et insano iuret amore mori.
In Dr. Saintsburys text this is represented by
And sighing make his mistress understand
She has the means of vengeance in her hand;
And swear thou languishest and diest for her.
It needs little scholarship to see that the English, which is at least as close as is usual in Drydens version, has no representative of the third line in the Latin. The two phrases of that line are well represented by the line which Dr. Saintsbury omits,
Then naming thee thy humble suit prefer.
It would be hard to name a more serious fault in a textual critic than that which Dr. Saintsbury has here committed.
Another case where a misprint has led to misplaced annotation and false emendations occurs in
Mac Flecknoe,
l. 185. Christie prints:
But so transfused as oil on waters flow,
and repeats this as the reading of all the early editions. He defends the false grammer on the strange ground that the verb is made plural following the plural noun. Earlier editors changed the text to oil and water, and some later ones, accepting Christies report, have printed this impossible alteration. But Christies report is not true. The first edition gives
But so transfusd as Oyls on Waters flow,
and this is the only reading that gives any sense.
That the present text should be wholly free from errors is more than can be hoped, but it is at least more correct than any printed in our own country. It does not contain Drydens translations from Virgil, which are long enough for a separate volume. For another reason it excludes one version from Theocritus and one from Lucretius. Nor has room been found for a few poems which have at various times without authority or probability been attributed to Dryden. On the other hand, it has been thought well to reprint such of the songs in the plays as could be detached from their context.
My best thanks are due to my friend, Mr. Henry B. Wheatley, for the loan of first editions and for generous help on the bibliography, and to the Secretaries of the Clarendon Press, the Reader, and the Printers, who have done their best to save me from errors. Such errors as remain must be ascribed to me alone.
The notes are intended to record, with defined exceptions, the cases in which this text differs from the original editions. The exceptions are indisputable misprints, such as pobability for probability, though some of these have been recorded, false stops, where the printer, not the author, was clearly in fault, and false capitals in the same case.
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Your DH is working from 6 am to 10 pm, right? That, right there, is going to really cut down on the amount of time you have to be intimate. But your mom lives with you- that, in a way, could be an opportunity. What if, on one of your DH's days off, your mom took the baby for a looooong walk? Or, what if one night a week your mom went to bed really early and the living room was reserved for you and our DH, so that you could have a "date night" at home? When my parents come to visit, I always feel like the common areas of my house aren't a place where my DH and I can be together as a couple. We're always adjusting our behavior to be considerate of my parents- no swearing, no groping, etc.!Intimacy is a huge issue and a main reason... or even some babyless cuddling once in a while would be nice.
If having baby in your bed is causing issues with being intimate, you might want to get a futon for the floor. That way you could have an alternate place to sleep with baby, or to- ahem- bounce around with your husband.
The large dose of caffeine may be a problem for nursing, since caffeine is a diuretic and that could impact supply (it's also why this supplement would cause rapid fluid weight loss), and some babies react negatively to mom's caffeine intake. I looked at the ingredient list, and there are not actually any thyroid hormones in the supplement- just 2 ingredients which are claimed to increase T3 and T4. That's an important distinction- you absolutely do NOT want to take thyroid replacement hormones without a diagnosed thyroid condition.The supplement I want to take is a thermo supplement called oxy elite pro. A lot of vitamins but good portion of caffeine and thyroid hormones. http://oxyelitepro.com/ingredients.php these are the ingredients.
I would contact the Infant Risk center and ask if the ingredients in the supplement can be combined with nursing.
Why can't they (your docs?) catch a thyroid problem? What tests have they done? A TSH level? T3 and T4 levels? If so, what were the results? The range for subclinical hypothyroidism has been expanded in recent years, so if your TSH is >3 then you might want to see an endocrinologist. Are you taking anything right now, and if so, have your levels been checked during the postpartum period?I also have a thyroid problem they can't catch since the beginning of my pregnancy which doesn't help the weight issue. This supplement also has thyroid hormones in it.
Once your cycle returns, nursing is not standing in the way of you getting pregnant again. But if you feel like there is a thryoid issue in the mix, I urge you not to try to conceive until you have it figured out! Thyroid issues can not only cause lowered fertility, but are also implicated in miscarriages and in developmental issues.Nursing may not affect a new baby, I started my cycle last month, shoot I may even be wasting my time I could just get pregnant LOL.
Another reason to wait to conceive is that it takes about a year for your body to recover from pregnancy and childbirth. Closely spaced pregnancies can be really hard on your body!


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Words to live by as the year winds down
Adages, quotes and sayings to inspire in 2014.
I always get apprehensive at the prospect of a new year stretching out ahead of me, with both opportunities and challenges sure to present themselves, and daunting conundrums of every kind certain to test my character.
I no longer make New Year's resolutions, but I carry a mental and spiritual repair kit wherever I go, a compendium of wisdom containing clichés, aphorisms and truisms to be used as psychic Band-Aids, when needed. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they don't, but I think of this stuff as akin to the medicine bags the Plains Indians used to carry, packed with their personal magic, totems against harm, disorder, confusion and the unexpected. Mountain men who had prolonged exposure to Native Americans took to carrying such bags themselves, filling them with a bright stone, an eagle feather, or maybe a tintype of a woman they knew in St. Louis, far back down the Missouri River.
My personal medicine bag is pretty full now, and some of the things in it have served me well, words against the chaos, and salve to the soul. First among my personal resources is the famous serenity prayer, which goes like this: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."
It's not easy to practice those words; it can be exceedingly difficult to tell the difference between the things you can change and the things you can't, but learning to accept what cannot be changed is the first building block of sanity.
I also find useful truth in the line from Shakespeare's Hamlet that reads: "There is nothing either bad nor good but thinking makes it so." Though there are surely some things so bad that no amount of thinking can make them better, there's also stuff we endure that's really only as bad as we make it out to be. If we rearrange our attitude, we can often reconfigure our own psychic pain.
"Where there's life, there's hope." I read that in a Tarzan comic book when I was maybe 8 years old. Tarzan had been badly mauled by some fierce critter and had climbed up in a tree to recuperate. His chances of survival seemed poor. "Where there's life, there's hope" appeared in a thought bubble above Tarzan's bleeding head. There have been more than a few times in my life when things seemed hopeless and those words returned to offer encouragement. And hope.
Mark Twain provided several nostrums for my medicine bag, but the one that comes up most frequently is his observation that "worry is interest paid on a debt you may never owe." I worry less than I once did, but I'm still pretty good at it, and if I should fail to worry enough, my wife will usually remind me of one or two reasons to keep worrying. It's then I recall Twain's sage advice, which I also share, tirelessly, with my two daughters.
One of my own pearls of wisdom also made it into my medicine bag, a thought that came to me when my eldest daughter complained that her then-boyfriend was giving her "mixed signals." My reply to her was: "Mixed signals are clear signals." It helped her work some things out, and she complimented me on being so smart, but I think I just got lucky when that insight came to mind.
Hardly a day goes by when I'm not reminded of Samuel Johnson's adage that "patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel." Johnson made that observation during the years when this nation was being forged. Since our inception, we've been plagued by far too many scoundrels who use ersatz love of country to mask narrow self-interest. Rush Limbaugh and a horde of others leap to mind whenever I think of Johnson's famous phrase. Limbaugh paid more than a million bucks for Elton John to perform at his fourth wedding, money that the anti-gay-rights scoundrel had originally earned by professing love of country while sowing further division, and doing his country so much harm.
I don't know what the next year will bring. As scientist Niels Bohr once observed, "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future." With all that uncertainty, I'm just glad I've got so many resources in my medicine bag. So, I'll sign off with the immortal words of Porky Pig, who said so memorably: "Th-th-that's all folks."
Jaime O'Neill is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News. He writes in Magalia, California.
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"This is the church I go to, and that is the church I'll never go to."
Praise God that Orthodoxy is the fastest growing Christian "denomination" in America!
How many Episcopalians does it take to change a lightbulb? (a) Three: one to fix the drinks, one to serve the drinks, adn one to call the repairman. (b) Ten: 1 to change the lightbulb and 9 to ask why the old one had to be changed and what it shame it was.
How many Baptists do you take with you on a fishing trip?Two. If you take one, he'll drink all your beer; if you take two, neither will touch it.
The Pastor, smiling benignly, replied, "Son, you're in Texas now . . . it's a local call."
^Oh, and one more possible modification: the angel says that those "exclusivists" are actually in Hell, but they do not know it and we do not want to disappoint them.
I heard the same joke but with Southern Baptists featuring instead of Lutherans. (The Orthodox can also be a good substitute... )
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If you find a dead bird, you should leave it alone or take the following steps to throw it away. If you have to move a dead bird:
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- Tie the plastic bag, and then place it in a second bag.
- Take off your gloves by turning them inside out, and then place each glove in the second bag. Tie the bag and throw it away in a garbage can.
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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — The U.S. Naval Academy is planning to make training to prevent sexual assault part of the regular academic work day, still trying to deter to the problem that plagues the military.
Commandant Capt. Bill Byrne said Wednesday that the change is part of the academy's Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention Education initiative. The training had been done at night, during briefings and in role-playing exercises outside of classroom hours.
Byrne, who has been in Annapolis as commandant for about three months, said academy officials are still working out details about how to make the adjustment, which will start in the spring semester for first-year students and become part of the curriculum.
"The leadership division and the faculty are figuring out exactly what it means to the student in the classroom, and we aren't there yet," said Byrne, whose position resembles a dean of students at a civilian college. "But I feel good that everybody's in agreement that it's the right thing to do."
In 2007, the academy looked to bring a more structured approach to making officer candidates more conscious about sexual misconduct. It provided 30 hours of training over a midshipman's four years. It focuses on explaining what rape is and the psychological effects of the crime.
It also includes discussions about dating, consent, how alcohol can hurt relationships and the legal problems they could face if charged with sexual assault. It also includes how bystanders can stop sexual assault.
The program started after a series of high-profile sexual misconduct cases at the academy. In April 2007, the school expelled former football star Lamar Owens after he was acquitted of raping a fellow midshipman but convicted of conduct unbecoming an officer. Also that month, another former football player, Kenny Ray Morrison, was convicted of sexually assaulting a fellow midshipman.
This year's change comes as a string of sexual assault cases in the military drew the attention of Congress, the Pentagon and the White House. President Barack Obama addressed the problem when he spoke at the academy's commissioning ceremony in May. The president said those who commit sexual assault threaten the trust and discipline that makes the military strong.
Sexual misconduct allegations also have been prominent at Navy this year. A hearing to determine whether three former Navy football players will face a court-martial in a sexual assault case is expected to begin this month. The assault allegedly took place at an off-campus house in Annapolis last year.


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Truth in a Broken World, Part One
Suffering, redemption and another perspective on sin.
On Oct. 5, 2003, I thanked God for allowing me to reach three years without cutting myself. Achieving abstinence from that destructive behavior was immeasurably difficult. It took every ounce of courage, grit, and determination God gave me, and a lot of help, including the professional kind, but I've found true healing and recovery. In the journey from the psych ward of the local hospital to three years of abstinence, I learned a tremendous set of lessons about brokenness, humility, spiritual poverty, and the love of God.
I started cutting myself during the summer I turned 13. I was struggling with self-hatred, and cutting provided a way of making my outsides match my insides — ugly, wounded and scarred. Its precision hooked me: I could suddenly control how I felt. I was clinically depressed and filled with emotions too powerful to understand or process by myself. I didn't cut as deeply as I tried to, but I learned something — the infliction of pain provided relief. The pain in my body was a focal point, something to think about that gave me distance from the emotional anguish of hating myself and, somehow, relieved it at the same time.
If that sounds like childish immaturity combined with almost pathological self-centeredness … well, it is.
My self-injury continued throughout high school and into my time at college, which I began at age 17. Shortly after I turned 18, I got my own place and spent the next 18 months medicating my depression with alcohol, drugs, and cutting. My drinking quickly progressed into alcoholism, but my cutting was worse. Almost anything was enough to trigger an episode — any instance of rejection, any failure or setback, any instance in which I didn't meet my own impossibly high standards of performance — any excuse to hate myself a little more.
Words cannot express how deeply I was hurting.
Though I wouldn't call them enemies, there are people in my life with whom I'd rather not interact, given the choice. I cannot fathom cutting any of them, no matter the provocation, even if the legality of such an act wasn't an issue. I simply respect and care for other people too much to imagine harming them that way — even the few who annoy and anger me with some regularity. Yet, for years, it was a driving urge from deep within me to do such things to myself. My self-loathing was that deep.
In April of 1998, I got drunk and recklessly cut myself with a knife. That was a first for me — my previous cutting episodes had involved X-acto knives when I lived with my parents, and straight razors once I got out on my own. The move from small, precise cutting tools that allowed me a lot of control to a large kitchen knife represented the greased slide into utter chaos my life was traveling. I was becoming more self-destructive by the day, and no longer really cared if I lived or died. That episode landed me in the psych unit, as the counselor I was seeing at the time rightly feared that I might end my life.
Of course, such levels of despair and self-obsession separated me from God. I did not become a Christian until I was 21, despite the fact that I grew up in a Christian school and church. My late grandmother was a devout Christian who prayed for and with me on a regular basis, and my mother, as well as my teachers and pastors (of course) were Christians. Through my own character flaws, or deficiencies in my upbringing (most likely, a combination of both), the only aspects of Christianity that got through to me were the do's and don'ts, the rules and the God-is-gonna-get-yas.
Shortly before my meltdown in the spring of 1998, God brought a Christian mentor into my life who became a father to me. He never preached; he just loved me unconditionally and spent time helping me work through my problems. He gave me my first taste of a father's love and acceptance, and that made me hungry to know my Heavenly Father.
I knew I was broken. I knew that on my own, I was helpless to stop hating myself. I knew that my very best efforts had led only to shame heaped on top of shame. I was a slave to a painful past, and only one thing was clear: Left to my own devices, I would destroy myself.
Like everyone else in this broken world, I needed a Savior.
My biggest breakthrough came after reading the works of Brennan Manning, a former priest now turned evangelist. Manning's books, especially his most well-known, The Ragamuffin Gospel, showed me a different God from the one I was raised to believe in. Rather than a fearsome Master whom I dared not approach in my weakness, who was listening in on every thought and making a list of every transgression, I learned from his books that God wanted to be my Abba, my Daddy, my confidante, my very best friend.
Some Christians, including Jessica Inman, the author of the Boundless article "Human Clay: Thoughts on Spiritual Poverty," feel that leaders like Brennan Manning, with their emphasis on human frailty and weakness, implicitly condone sin.
This has not been my experience.
Sometimes I question whether we, as Christians, really believe what we say. We call ourselves God's children. We refer to Him as our Father. We say we believe the Bible, which states that He is perfect, utterly and inexplicably good beyond measure.
If we really believe that such a Father loves us and claims us as His own, how can that become a license to sin? I know that my best efforts will never approach the holiness of God — my righteousness will always be, compared to His, nothing but filthy rags. Rather than saying "I'm only human," and giving up on overcoming my problems, my knowledge of His love and perfection and my own spiritual poverty just makes me love Him more. His acceptance of me despite my brokenness makes me long to please Him, to make Him proud of me and to be like Him.
I wonder if those who focus on rules over relationship really understand their childhood in God's kingdom. Jesus called His Father "Abba," the Hebrew equivalent of baby talk. As a Father delights in His babies, God delights in us.
This is the message I didn't get until, one on one, I was shown the love of God. This is the Truth that a hurting, broken world is crying out for, and it's a message that many of them are, quite literally, dying to hear.
It's up to us to show them.
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Chris kisses Gwyneth
Some public affection from Chris Martin for his wife? And there's video too!
At the Coldplay show in Miami, Chris found Gwyneth and...actually kissed her. Look at her reaction. She seems surprised too. Like...really rather moved. I mean, she doesn't know what to do with herself. It's like she can't believe it either. (Thanks Donte!)
It would appear then that the Martins are stronger than ever, having weathered a few rough patches through the years. Right now it's a solid season. "This is not life, Will. It is a stolen season." Or, you know, marriage. Gwyneth is in it to endure it. And, as you can see, her tenacity does not go unrewarded from time to time.


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The USDA, NASS, California Field Office recently released the crop production forecast for June. The latest survey, which was conducted during the last week of May and the first week of June, includes the following commodities:
Apricots - The 2006 California apricot crop forecast is 37,000 tons, down 51 percent from the 2005 crop. Bearing acreage is estimated at 13,800 acres, resulting in a yield of 2.68 tons per acre.
An unseasonably warm winter initially threatened chilling requirements, and then freezing temperatures in mid-February damaged some early blooming orchards. In some locales, bloom was extended over a long period as the mild winter temperatures forced some orchards to bud early.
The weak and staggered bloom was further impacted by rain and hail storms. There were a few reports of disease problems, but the primary detrimental factor on the crop was the minimal chilling. The thin crop was sizing out exceptionally well, but this could be the lightest crop ever in California. Harvest began about a week later than normal. Acreage of the Patterson variety continued to be pulled.
Cherries - The 2006 California sweet cherry crop forecast is 45,000 tons, down 15 percent from the 2005 crop. Bearing acreage is estimated at 28,000 acres, resulting in a yield of 1.61 tons per acre. A very wet and early spring during the critical blooming period for California's sweet cherry crop took a toll on the crop before the season had a chance to begin.
During the month of March, cherry blossoms were hit with excessive rains, resulting in ineffective pollination. This, combined with the lack of chilling hours and an extreme freeze in February, created undesirable conditions for setting a crop. The result was delayed crop production and reduced volume in most cherry varieties. Unseasonable rain arrived again in late May, threatening more damage to the already challenged 2006 crop. Harvesting began at the beginning of May with the Brooks variety in Kern County.
Peaches - The 2006 California Freestone peach crop forecast is 380,000 tons, up 3 percent from the May forecast, but down 1 percent from the 2005 crop. Bearing acreage is estimated at 36,000, resulting in a yield of 10.6 tons per acre. Wet and cool weather during spring delayed progression of California's Freestone peach crop. Fruit set in the early varieties was reported to be fairly normal.
However, set in the mid to late season varieties was reported to be lighter and inconsistent. Harvest gained momentum during June with Crimson Lady, Crown Princess, Spring Snow and Spring Treat the major varieties harvested. The 2006 California Clingstone peach crop forecast is 380,000 tons, down 5 percent from the May forecast and down 21 percent from the 2005 crop.
Bearing acreage is estimated at 26,300 acres, resulting in a yield of 14.4 tons per acre. Rain during March and April, along with below average temperatures, has California growers concerned about their 2006 Clingstone peach crop.
Warmer temperatures toward the latter part of April helped fruit growth. Set in Yuba and Sutter counties was reported to be down from last year, while the set in the Modesto area was reported to be normal. The early variety fruit reportedly has the best fruit set, while the late and extra late varieties appear to have the lightest sets. Harvest is expected to begin around June 25.
Pears, Bartlett - The 2006 California Bartlett pear crop forecast is 195,000 tons, up 19 percent from the 2005 crop. The Bartlett bloom period was lengthened particularly in the Sacramento River and Mendocino areas due to rain and cool temperatures. This could cause a decrease in production in these areas.
The Lake County area was reported to have an excellent crop; bloom in this area occurred after the spring rains and cool temperatures. Harvest in the Sacramento River growing area will begin around the middle of July.
Prunes (Dried Plums) - The 2006 California prune crop forecast is 145,000 dried tons, up 61 percent from the 2005 crop. Bearing acreage is estimated at 67,000 acres, resulting in a yield of 2.16 tons per acre. The 2006 prune crop experienced an unseasonably rainy period during bloom.
A small set occurred statewide, as several growers reported loss of fruit due to the rainy weather conditions that disrupted bee pollination. As a result, fruit development is approximately two weeks behind schedule.
Despite the weather-related challenges, the crop is expected to rebound significantly from the small 2005 and 2004 crops. Production during those years was set back by excessive heat during bloom.
Wheat - California's 2006 Durum wheat harvested acreage is estimated at 60,000 acres. The yield is forecast to be 3.00 tons per acre, resulting in total production of 180,000 tons. The Durum wheat harvest is nearly complete.
Yields are reported to be very good. The cooler growing season allowed for good grain fill, but the protein content was reported as slightly low. California's wheat other than Durum harvested acreage is estimated at 220,00 acres for 2006.
The forecast yield is 2.10 tons per acre, bringing the total production to 462,000 tons. Wheat harvesting has begun in some parts of the state. Stripe rust problems were reported, particularly in the Central Valley.
The two main winter wheat varieties, Summit and Blanca Grande, were hit hard by rust infestation. Some wheat blotch was also reported. The harvest was running slightly behind normal due to wet conditions in the spring.
Production forecasts are released on a monthly basis and do not reflect final production estimates.


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Ben 10: Race Against Time (US - DVD R1)
Gabe is graced by the live action appearance of the popular cartoon...
Ben Tenison (Graham Phillips) comes back to his hometown of Bellwood after a summer of adventurous alien fighting. School proves dull, and having a secret identity isn't as much fun when you actually have to keep it a secret. Fortunately for the bored Ben, an evil alien named Eon is on his tail, seeking the powerful Omnitrix for his own evil gains. Ben, his sister Gwen (Haley Ramm), his Grandpa Max (Lee Majors), and a group of anti-alien agents codenamed 'The Plumbers', must defeat Eon before he gets a hold of the Omnitrix and brings about the end of the world.
My interest in Avatar: The Last Airbender and Justice League seems to have put me on some kind made for kids mailing list. I have actually enjoyed the handful of Ben 10 episodes I caught on Cartoon Network over the last couple years, but I wasn't really looking forward to a live-action, made for TV movie adaptation. I was planning on sticking this disc into the 'when Hell freezes over' pile of unsolicited DVDs, when I double-checked the press material. The director's name caught my eye—Alex Winter. That's right, Bill S. Preston, Esq. directed a made for TV, live-action Ben 10 movie (this isn't Winter's directorial debut of course, he's responsible for a rascally cult flick called Freaked).
At its best, Ben 10: Race Against Time is the kind of man-in-suit (though digital suits) creature fighting fun time the two live-action Guyver adaptations were, at its worst it's just a slightly pricy episode of Power Rangers. The plot is a mix of Spider-Man and Men in Black (including specific jokes like an alternate explanation for the Chicago Fire). Ben is a loser in real life and resents the fact that he can only be a superhero in private, and he's introduced to an underground alien intelligence agency. In a way this unoriginality is a blessing given the film's brief runtime because we can fill in the blanks ourselves, and the brief runtime is a blessing because it means we don't have to sit through another superhero origin story (that's so 2005).
The special effects are mostly budget row, like morphing effects and some explosions, but a lot of the digital creature animation is pretty impressive (though Ben only turns into four of his ten alien personalities). But there isn't a lot of action, and that's this fluffy little goof's real problem. The flat acting (even Lee Majors and Robert Picardo don't impress) and unimaginative narrative are hard to handle after a while, and without monsters hitting each other Winter's Barry Sonnenfeld inspired visuals just didn't hold my interest.
Ben 10: Race Against Time is a live-action cartoon adaptation, and Alex Winter gets the best out of his meagre budget visually. This 1.78:1 anamorphically enhanced transfer is very colourful, and the colours pop pleasantly (look out for those reds, oranges, and villainous purples). There's a flatness to the image, but this meshes nicely with the cartoony look, kind of like a moving comic book. Contrast is pretty high, and blacks are nice and inky. Details are about average for a standard definition release, with only a little edge enhancement and compression.
The addition of a 5.1 Dolby Digital track should be a nice surprise for kids with decent sound set-ups. Most of the film is stereo friendly, but the fleeting action scenes are a fun time. Monster sounds are loud enough, and whip around the back speakers with eager ferocity. The soundtrack's production values are lacking, for sure, but canned and over-the-top effects fit nicely into this cartoonish environment.
Are only extras are a collection of three, two minute 'behind the scenes' commercials, which give a tiny bit of insight to the making of process, a ninety second video of Winter introducing the film at the L.A. premiere, and another small series of thirty second quick looks at the making of with some kid host named Fried Dynamite(?). No one ever acknowledges that Winter was in the Bill and Ted movies.
Ben 10: Race Against Time isn't really good enough to enthral most adults, but it has its cute moments, and the special effects are much better the expected. I know that when I was a kid the idea of seeing my favourite cartoon characters in live action was super keen, so I imagine the little ones will have a blast.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Disc Details
Release Date: 1st January 1995
Discs: 10
Disc Type: Single side, single layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: None
Extras: Behind the Scenes Featurettes, Premiere Footage
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Alex Winter
Cast: Graham Phillips, Haley Ramm, Don McManus, Beth Littleford, Andrew John Ferguson
Genre: Adventure and Family
Length: 67 minutes
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WonderCon: Sergio Aragones, Mark Evanier talk new Groo
Now Groo's makers do what Groo's makers do best.
Following up on the recent announcement from publisher Dark Horse that the long-gestating "Groo vs. Conan" four-part miniseries will debut July 23, the fantasy warrior parody character's multiple-Eisner-Award-winning creative team, creator-writer-artist Sergio Aragones and co-writer Mark Evanier had more welcome news for their WonderCon panel crowd.
"For more than a year, you're going to have monthly Groo again," Evanier said.
Following the four-parter with Conan, a new 12-issue series, "Friends and Foes," will catch up with past Groo cast members including Captain Ahax, Granny Groo (no word on whether her grandson is in for another spanking), the witches Arba and Dakarba, and the handsome warrior Arcadio.
"Groo vs. Conan," which Evanier billed as "11 years in the making," brings Aragones' comedic creation with a pronounced proboscis, feared as much for his chaos-causing cluelessness as his formidable skill with a sword, into conflict with Robert E. Howard's legendary barbarian, just the sort of character his stories send up. In the series, Aragones draws Groo, and Tom Yeates draws Conan.
But when Aragones mentioned that "Groo vs. Conan" No. 1 would be out in time for Comic-Con International, Evanier said no one told him the book had been scheduled for release.
So it goes in the land of Groo.
Aragones and Evanier joked about several Groo-ish misdaventures in making their comics, including Aragones delivering pages to letterer Stan Sakai late one night – but forgetting which house was his collaborator's. So the cartoonist wandered up and down the street at midnight shouting "STAN!" from house to house until finding him.
At least with the "Conan" surprise, Evanier has already turned in his scripts. That wasn't the case with the 1998 "Boogeyman" horror humor miniseries the pair did. After hashing out the idea over a lunch at Sizzler, Evanier said he went home figuring it'd be another idea that would take years for them to get to. Then, eight months later, he learned from a reader that "Boogeyman" was on the Dark Horse website, which said it'd be out in eight weeks.
Interjecting, a laughing Aragones shrugged and said, "I forgot."
Frantic, Evanier recalled, he phoned Aragones, who said, "Oh, we will get it done in time."
"And we did," Evanier said.
When Aragones told the story of how they came together to make Groo comics together, Evanier said, "No, that's not what happened," before telling an alternative version.
"And that's how it happened," Aragones said in good-humored magnanimity.
Asked by a fan about who he would want to play Groo in a film version, Aragones said no to the very idea of a screen adaptation.
"I don't want to see what happened to the Flintstones [happen to Groo]," he said to crowd laughs.
Aragones, the Spain-born, Mexico-raised longtime Mad magazine cartoonist with the trademark bushy mustache, created the character in the late 1970s, and he and Evanier, a writer whose animation work includes extensive writing for the 1988-94 "Garfield and Friends," have chronicled Groo's wanderings, notably in a 120-issue run on Marvel' s Epic imprint in the 1980s and early '90s, and more recently with Dark Horse.
WonderCon, which draws nearly 50,000 fans of the popular arts to Anaheim Convention Center, continues through Sunday.
– Blake Hennon | @BlakeHennon | @LATHeroComplex
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When I had my son eight years ago we were living in Davis, California, home of the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). UC Davis is where the pioneering research on teaching babies to sign was done by Drs. Linda Acredolo and Susan Goodwyn.
There had been so much research in the community that baby sign, even in the early 2000's, was deeply ingrained in the parenting culture of the town. So we, along with most other families we knew, taught our son baby sign. We didn't use any particular program; this was before the proliferation of programs and classes. We read Baby Signs by our local authors, and read their series of board books to our son. But mostly we just showed him the signs while saying the words, in context, over and over and over.
And did it work! We participated in one UC Davis baby sign study which required us to check in with a graduate student every week to report on any new signs. I remember the grad student asking, "Really? He learned how many this week?" He learned over 100 signs, and my daughter, now 16 months, appears to be headed toward that milestone, too.
Baby sign taught us so much about how our son felt, what he wanted, how he learned, but most powerfully to me, how he saw the world. I remember vividly taking him to the zoo and showing his the gorilla exhibit. His face lit up, and I was heartened that he was happy to see a real gorilla. Then he started excitedly signing "ball! ball!" I looked around, and sure enough, there was a ball in the gorilla cage. That was the source of his glee. When we got to the peacock cage and the bird spread it's plumage, he signed, "bird, umbrella!"
And most memorably: At a summertime party he ambled over to a woman whose sandals had leather flowers. He loved to smell flowers, so he got down low and smelled her shoes/feet. Then, with a disturbed face, he signed "all done!" That was one time we were glad that other people couldn't understand his signs!
In case you're wondering, our kids' verbal development was consistent what the research has shown: all that signing didn't slow down their spoken language, and it may have actually speeded it up.
One of the best surprises about baby sign was how much it helped us communicate about breastfeeding with both our kids, in a number of ways. One is being able to talk while nursing. Here is a sampling of what my kids have signed while nursing. We call it talking with your mouth full:
"outside" (looking out the window)
"flowers" (also looking out the window)
"light" (looking up at the chandelier)
"all done" (just before coming off the breast)
"more" (obvious, right?)
"up!" (pick me up now!)
"telephone" (as in "the telephone's ringing!")
"train!" and "airplane!" (when hearing the sounds)
"yeah!" (clapping over her head, while nursing at the county fair and hearing everyone clap at the end of a performance)
Being able to sign "nurse," (a sign made up by my son – tapping her chest) has helped my daughter tell me a number of things about how she views breastfeeding:
– She asks to nurse when she gets hurt. I'm not really in the habit of offering to nurse when she gets hurt (this almost always involves her bumping her head on a coffee table or falling over backwards), but since she's been able to sign "nurse," I've found that this is her favorite way of being consoled.
– At times she asks to nurse more often than I thought she would. I guess that this shouldn't be too surprising, but it resulted at times in more nursing than we otherwise would be doing.
– Daily cluster feeding period is even more noticeable. Where before I might have assumed that she wanted to be carried around or something else, the sign makes it crystal clear that she wants to nurse over and over in the hours before bed.
And then, most recently, my daughter and I had this conversation, mostly in sign on her end, about how she felt about nursing while teething:
Baby: [signed while nursing] "Scared."
Me: "You're scared?"
Baby: [signed] "Yes."
Me: "What are you scared of?"
Baby: [signed] "Nursing."
Me: "You're scared of nursing?"
Baby: [signed] "Yes," [un-latches, spoken] "Mama."
Me: "You're scared of nursing mama. Is that because you have a hurt in your mouth?"
Baby: [goes back to nursing, signs] "Yes. Hurt."
She's told me this many times since, but it hasn't slowed her nursing down at all.
If you'd like to learn more about how to teach your baby to sign, there are many programs and classes out there. But when people ask me to recommend a program I usually tell them that I can sum it up in four steps:
- Start as early as you want, just know that they won't sign back for a while. We started when our babies were about 3 months old, but knew that they wouldn't sign back until they were around 9 or 10 months old.
- Learn some signs. Here's a dictionary of common signs, and you can Google for more. The earliest signs our babies learned were objects, especially animals, which babies find so captivating. The most useful signs to us were "more" and "all done," but they came later.
- While with your baby, say the word and do the sign at the same time, at a height which makes it easy for the baby to see. Try to do it in context – in other words, you see a dog or a picture of one, and you sign/say it then. Teaching signs while reading books is fun, and the first ones our babies learned were the ones in the My First Baby Signs board books, but you can use any book. Older siblings can be great teachers.
- Do this over, and over, and over, until you feel like a complete idiot and are sure that they'll never learn a single sign. At some point, they probably will. Then keep going! They'll probably make up their own signs at some point, and that's great.
It's really that simple, and if you want you can do it without spending any money, using any DVDs or flash cards. Obviously, we've loved it, and its enriched our breastfeeding relationship in many ways.


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It seemed that an anchor launch was a good idea and an anchor launch with the kite sitting on the water would be even better.
What I'm finding though is that there is one problem - seaweed.
I'm trying launches at various places at the estuary end of an inlet - usually near high tide and many times there has been a lot of seaweed drifting onto the lines. Often it goes on faster than you can get it off. With single front line flagging, it can be important to get every bit off the flagging front line.
I tried looking up the life cycle of seaweed to find out if it is seasonal and what weeks the seaweed drifts, but its not easy to find an answer on the internet.
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