RTBTCKI the Right before New York ComicCon Edition
Posted By Kathleen David on April 16, 2008
A year ago today on the Virginia Tech campus, a gunman killed people for no apparent rhyme or reason. One of those people who died that day was Jamie Bishop son of the author Michael Bishop. Today I remember Jamie and the others who lost their lives or who had their lived affected by this senseless act.
I may be at the Jeff Smith shindig for the CBLDF tonight if my allergies improve. Right now I feel like I have a bowling ball behind my eyes pressing on them and the front of my skull.
I am taking Caroline to the Library today. She wants to go to the children’s section and get some books. We have a good library and good weather and I think we could both do with a walk.
I finally figure out what bothers me the most about the lexicon and it has to do with my academic upraising and everyone who keeps saying that this will screw us on academic study for years if Rowling wins.
This is case does not impact Cliff notes or academic musings on the size of Harry’s wand or anything of that nature. This is PLAGIARISM plain and simple. If he handed this into any academic institution, they would not publish it and if this was his master’s thesis he would fail and get kicked out of the university with a letter of Reprimand attached to his transcript. This is not a derivative work.
I give you from the US Copyright Office what a derivative work is(bold is my add)
A typical example of a derivative work received for registration in the Copyright Office is one that is primarily a new work but incorporates some previously published material. This previously published material makes the work a derivative work under the copyright law. To be copyrightable, a derivative work must be different enough from the original to be regarded as a “new work” or must contain a substantial amount of new material. Making minor changes or additions of little substance to a preexisting work will not qualify the work as a new version for copyright purposes. The new material must be original and copyrightable in itself. Titles, short phrases, and format, for example, are not copyrightable.
Now moving a few words around and changing an adjective doth not a new work make. A few entries that are expansions upon ideas doth not make up for the mammoth amount of material that is plagiarized.
I have this nagging pain in my shoulder which seems to not be getting worse but it is not getting any better. I think it is adding to my cranky level today. I am at yellow heading for orange. But I will suck it up and just do what I need to do for home, hearth and harmony.
I am grateful for all the people I am going to see over the next week.
not a word about any books here…just something that might help your sinuses and headaches.
have you ever heard of something called a Neti pot? (Dr Oz on Orpah is the person most people heard it from…he showed a very good demo of it..one that made me decide to try it).
The Neti pot looks like a little watering can, but they also make a plastic bottle that does the same thing. You fill it with warm water (lukewarm…very lukewarm)and either some noniodized salt or some fancier stuff you can get in little packets.
The whole idea is to rinse out your sinuses. It doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t cost a lot (if you decide you don’t want to use it after a day or two) and it can’t interact with any medication or whatever cuz its just water (distilled or filtered)and a tiny bit of salt.
Check the video out on Orpah’s website..it explains it better than i can.it really does help if you’ve had allergy and sinus problems. (i’ve had ’em most of my life,this isn’t a miracle in a bottle…but it does clear up (or clean out?) a lot of ‘stuff’!
Feel better…only two days til NYCC!
not a word about any books here…just something that might help your sinuses and headaches.
have you ever heard of something called a Neti pot? (Dr Oz on Orpah is the person most people heard it from…he showed a very good demo of it..one that made me decide to try it).
The Neti pot looks like a little watering can, but they also make a plastic bottle that does the same thing. You fill it with warm water (lukewarm…very lukewarm)and either some noniodized salt or some fancier stuff you can get in little packets.
The whole idea is to rinse out your sinuses. It doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t cost a lot (if you decide you don’t want to use it after a day or two) and it can’t interact with any medication or whatever cuz its just water (distilled or filtered)and a tiny bit of salt.
Check the video out on Orpah’s website..it explains it better than i can.it really does help if you’ve had allergy and sinus problems. (i’ve had ’em most of my life,this isn’t a miracle in a bottle…but it does clear up (or clean out?) a lot of ‘stuff’!
Feel better…only two days til NYCC!
I had never heard of a Neti pot until just now, but I had heard of the salt water nasal flushing. Just make sure the water is warm enough to not give you an ice cream brain freeze and cool enough not to burn.
I’ve been using a sinus rinse regularly for several years now. It’s really cut down on my recurrent sinus infections. Just remember that the saline solution has to be the right ratio of salt to water. (That’s where the fancy pre-measured packets come in.)
Oh..i’m sure if you work around you can figure out the balance of noniodized salt to water. I don’t really want to keep handing over my hard earned bucks for little packets of salt (come to think of it…if those packets from McD’s etc didn’t have iodine in ’em they’d be the same amount as the packets). But if ya don’t like to experiment i’m sure they’re fine.
(that’s how i think of it..and what got me started trying it…i’m a little old be to be doing science experiments but geeez, you’d be amazed what can come out your nose;) I think i washed a kitten out the first time….can anybody tell me HOW a person can get cat hairs UP their nose if they haven’t been sniffing a cat?)
PS sorry for the double post at the start of this guys!
The formula (ratio of salt:water) is pretty easy to come by. I was mixing it myself for a while, but it was too much trouble. I’d rather pay for the packets (still cheaper than antibiotics for all the sinus infections I used to get), but that’s me.