There was a doctor interviewed on the news last night who stated he was entering the hospital room soon after she was admitted and overheard the Schindler family asking the husband how much of his share of the money he planned to give them from the lawsuit over her condition (and yes, I do believe that is the world's longest run on sentence). He said he never agreed to give them any of his money from the lawsuit. Then the war began. Other points to consider:
The husband gets the remainder of the lawsuit money now that it is not going towards her care. I don't know how much that is. Maybe it's all gone.
Dying of thirst seems like a hell of a way to go. Have you ever seen survivors of shipwrecks or plain crashes describe almost dying of thirst? The doctors said it would put her in a near-sedated state. And how do they know this, and how near and how painful? If an animal is unable to eat or drink we put it out of its misery, so why can't we do so for humans?
What if she was aware on some level and didn't want to die? What if her last days were spent not only in physical pain from thirst and hunger but in emotional pain because she could not understand why the people she loved and trusted were no longer caring for her? What if, even with lessened capacity to think, she was happy. She always smiled and looked towards family members when they entered the room.
And you all heard about the atheist who was about to be eaten by a bear? He prayed "God, God, please save me." To which He replies: "Save you? You've denied my existence for 40 years, you've ridiculed my followers, now you want my help?"
The man thought about this a moment and said, "Your right. But, hey, if you don't want to save me, how about making the bear a Christian?" God liked this idea. A brief flash of light and viola, the bear calmly dropped to his knees, folded his front paws in prayer, bowed his head and said: "Thank you Lord, for this meal I am about to eat."
XOPHER WROTE: I firmly believe that people with ADHD could get along without drugs if society accommodated us (yeah, us) as much as it does, say, left handed people (which is not too bloody much). As it is, I'm not able to; I take Cylert every day and haven't been fired from a job since (used to happen a lot). /QUOTE
XOPHER. No one needs to accommodate you, you simply need to find a job that's "natural" for you. Maybe our egos insist we be PhDs, but our physical beings may need for us to be wood choppers. You're not "abnormal" you're perfectly normal, you just happen to be trying to fight your own natural physiology.
You know, they give nurses and other shift workers (including airline pilots and military types) drugs, so they can stay awake during the overnight shift (most, but not all of the population, has a real struggle with this). It's simple physiology. You can't do it, cause your body was never built to allow you to do it.
Okay, perhaps there IS some very tiny, small, percentage of people with something that is ADHD or ADD (hey, I worked with these kids for years), but I have to tell you, I doubt it. Children and adults are not suppose to sit on their behinds for 5 - 10 hours a day reading. This is not natural. If these same kids lived even 50 years ago, where they'd be out chopping wood, farming, painting, sewing, cooking, fishing, raking, etc. they'd be fine, believe me. Heck, they'd be walking - instead of driving everywhere. They'd be healthy, sleep well, have no weight issues and no "anxiety attacks". Everyone is not an academic, but our society DEMANDS they become one to succeed. The mind can only take so much torture. Everyone does not have the lack of physical energy required to sit on his or her ass for 5 hour stretches - the body rebels, it wants to burn calories, to exercise muscles, to get the heart pumping blood.....that's also why we're all so damned fat!! Nothing with a heart beat is suppose to "work" under these conditions, then eat fast food, pop a pill to go to sleep, a pill to be able to sit still, a pill to reduce stress. Life just doesn't work like that. Anyway, not sure if this is still the case, but back in the '90s we learned that Eastern Europe, Latin countries and Middle Eastern nations had no ADHD or ADD and they also had no crib death (to speak of). As I said previously, mammals don't usually take their newborns and plunk them in a dark room alone for 8 hour periods, either. Even primates have enough sense not to do that. But heaven forbid we do what nature tells us and not what Dr. Spark suggests. You know, most of these pearls of wisdom for child rearing came out the same decade when it was suggested "difficult teens" get lobotomies. And how many kids got part of their brain disconnected because of being a pain in the ass to their parents?? Too many to count. Now we have a pill to do it, it's so much more civilized that way.
More morning words of wisdom: For kid 1, we went by the rules. Sorry, not quite all the rules, I never laid a baby on its tummy, we used the side rolls method. But, we put him in his own room, didn't run to him every time he cried and our life was hell. He was up every 40 minutes for a feeding until he went to high school. Along came kids #2 and #3. Hey, guess what? By this time I realized we were the only culture that put kids on their tummys, that left babies alone at night and that didn't carry small infants around most of the time. So, these babies slept with us. If they cried, we went. And guess what? They slept through the night from day 1 (had to woke to be fed), voluntarily went into their own "big kid" rooms and beds, and were far better adjusted, calmer, independent, confident little people than the first one. Mother nature has been around a lot longer than the "experts", listen to her. You know, some societies don't even have ADHD and boys are actually allowed to squirm after sitting on a hard wooden chair for 5 hours and no one drugs them for it.
Well, Chez Miscarraige quickly removes any posts that they don't like. I can understand a person being annoyed when someone sticks his nose in where it doesn't belong, but quite often I see parents that need far more than a stern look or rude comment. Here's the scoop: Please tell junior it's not nice to spit on his playmates. I really don't need your germs making my family sick. Please be advised that killing hamsters is not an amusing hobby, no matter how young you are. I'm sure Ted Bundy's parents thought he too was gifted. Please don't moan to me about your hard life because you're a "single mom." No one said the job was easy. That doesn't mean you get to drop your unruly brats on the rest of the world to raise. I didn't get you pregnant. I'm particularly annoyed when I hear the single mom whine coming from a woman who intentionally became a single mom. Hey, if you're that arrogant that you think you can do better than 2 parents and think men are so unimportant they have no real role in a family, then deal with the consequences of that choice. And please, keep those consequences in your own yard because personally, I'm tired of replacing all the broken windows/toys/lights/deck boards that your kid destroys and you can't afford to replace because you're "a single mom." Of course, you couldn't possibly teach him to be civilized because you're too tired, too stressed and what's the point? After all, he's a boy, and you've already told him males are not that important.
I am usually using IE6. It's not that big of a deal, honestly. I can live with it although I might be missing a few things but anyone visiting the site for the first time might not figure out the f11 thing and just leave.
Just a note on that point though, there was a discussion last week on another forum with people would could not read this site. I told them about the f11 trick, but it's not a smooth ride for many of us with IE.
Quote: Worddude, Ray Radlein is indeed a nice guy, but your messed-up browser isn't visible from here. /Quote
Yeah, well I should hope not. I'm typing in the nude.
Well, gosh, thank you Ray. You have no idea how much I appreciate a straight-forward answer to my question. Your mother (or someone) obviously spent some time raising you properly.
Well, "missed" might be correct, but this forum does not appear on my computer as it should. I can see the top, or I can hit f11 and see the posts, but never can I see the whole thing...it's awkward to say the least. I imagine I'm missing a lot.
I am coming in on this whole thing rather late. I have a question,was this "novel" submitted to publish America? If so, was it accepted? If so, why is it now with Lulu?
Part II: Is this the same book Clapper said resulted in some sort of legal or criminal action because it was submitted with some sort of malintent (is malintent a real word?? If not, I declare it one).
Why is the sky blue?
My eighth-grader also insists the poem is Housman's, and it certainly isn't the cheerful, uplifting style I'm used to with a Nash poem, so upon hearing that, I wrote Mr. Rubie, the author. Mr. Rubie wrote me back assuring me everyone is wrong and that the poem was indeed written by Nash.
Re: Simon and Schuster. I believe you'll find their U.K. books are printed in the U.K.
Can't speak for Tor. I can tell you the company I work for prints very American, very traditional publisher, big name, well recognized imprint, books in Canada and ships them back over the border to the U.S.. Thank you NAFTA. We don't deal with books with interior color. I learned about the Asian connection from those wonderful industry seminars and meetings and brain storming sessions we regularly have with publishers and printers.
Again, we're walking the line between elements here so the conversation does go off track it seems: Self-publishing and nonfiction and niche markets on one side and traditional publishing and fiction and mass markets on the other.
I think the problems begin when one of us assumes the other is discussing the same thing. Misunderstands arise from there.
I realize science fiction is what is usually discussed on this site but the spectrum widened a little when the thread about self-publishing began and I finally had a publising topic I knew something about. A lot about. I also have had my own experiences with the company first mentioned.
Yes, cover art is a far more significant in science fiction and romance genres and rather than use symbolism to illustrate the deeper meaning of a book these genres use specific and precise illustrations of a scene and characters in the book. If the characters and scene or setting appeal to you then it would likely work the same as a blurb would, I suspect. Since these characters and settings are all foreign to me a dragon is as a good as a nearly naked woman to me.
I believe you asked what I read personally. I do read some fiction. I have read fantasy and science fiction. I read about 3 books a week so sometimes I'll take anything I can get. Given a choice, I choose nonfiction most of the time although a good, well researched medieval mystery such as "The Name of the Rose" will make me happy.
My job requires that I read a lot of technical and how-to books to keep abreast of the industry.
DaVinci had a slightly more precise marketing plan due to the nature of the book and the times in which we live. It had the potential to feed equally well into the Christian, agnostic and anti-Christian sectors if handled properly. It was handled properly. It's a best seller. Advertising works.
The beauty of that marketing scenario was that the initial campaign needed to be directed at only one of those three groups. The surrounding controversy that was sure to come, did come and the spin from that pretty much guaranteed the other two groups were going to buy it. Link two advertising works.
The publishing industry is world wide. Many American publishing houses and self-publishing authors print in Canada and Asia. Asia mainly for color printing. American printers may not be typical of the way things are run in other areas so uploading charges and the like may not be a universal experience for all.
Since several people believe the cover is a determining factor in some book sales, and quite a significant one it seems, maybe someone could go to the NYT best sellers' list and tell me what books on there have such a great cover that you'd actually take out your wallet? I've been through the nonfiction, fiction, hardcovers and softcovers and saw maybe three I liked.
Ligtning Source is the last place you would want to go directly. They charge to upload a file then charge again to upload any changes you might have made from the galley. Every time you upload a file you get charged. A good printer will not do that. That is not how they make their money. That is how companies that cater to the POD crowd make their money. Booksurge (formerly Digitz) and Lightning Source and Phoenix Color all make their money on the mistakes of novices. One way to spot these companies is that they ask for PDF files only. Most pride-in-work printers want all the native files, that way they can check each element of the cover and book text to ensure it is formatted correctly.
Another reason not to go to Lighting Source directly is that unless you have several titles,I think the magic number is 10, you cannot easily get into Ingram's distribution system. For self-publishing writers that distribution system is important.
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