You use a comma before and at the end of inclusive lists.
"We had bacon, eggs, toast, and tea."
Although I can't find what you're quoting, so it may have been bad comma use regardless.
I was also diagnosed with ADD in the 4th grade (unusual for a girl to be diagnosed so early, or so they tell me)and my brief stint with medication showed me that they aren't the way to go. For me it was the "pay it back later" of my drugs, for me to consentrate durring school ment that I was tired, cranky and incoherent when I came home. I would often curl up into a ball and cry over a few mispoke words becasue I didn't have the mental energy to deal with things. (This was not PMS, I was only 11) So my parrents took me off the meds and put me in a learning enviroment with many other ADD children where they taught us as many coping techniques as they could. Some of which I still use today.
It really makes me angry whern people try to deny the existance of ADD either as "Lazy kidas" or "not fitting in with the norm" it's -neither- Add is the inability to consentrate even when you really want to. I've found myself unable to listen to even the most interesting lectures or watch movies I really wanted to see becasue of my ADD. It's frustrating and difficult and for a child very scary and disheartening. You can't do what everyone tells you should be able to if you just "want" to hard enough and the answer is you can't and people assume that's becasue you just arn'te willing to try even when you really are.
While misdiagnosis -is- common you can't deny the existance of a really and definable problem in some people. And not diagnosing the problem can lead to as many or more problems as a misdiagnosis. (I'm still haunted by my 2nd grade teacher who told the whole class that I was lazy,not good enough to be in her class and shouldn'd take up any more of her time.)
While I can't speak to this treatment personaly it -sounds- like a good idea, I'd like to know more and I am especialy heartened to see a parrent so involved with their daughter's treatment. Kudos!
Um, I don't know about where these guys are but in EVERY hospital I've ever been in it was completely aganst the rules it have your cell phone on at all. The cell phone's signal affects the reading of the telemetry units in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit).
My mom, who works in a hospital is constantly having to remind patients and visitors to tunr off their cell phones. It seems very strange to me that any hospital would rely on cell phone to contact their staff.
I am a university student diagnosed with ADD when I was 10. In my personal experience ADD is when, even when you want to consentrate on a task, you are unable to. ADHD is when you want to sit a be quiet are are also unable to. (these are -personal experience- definitions, not the medical ones) I'm a computer science minor so I do my fair share of programming durring the school year and at first I did the do-it-the-night-before-at-3AM thing then I began reliing on my medication which changes my personality signifigantly and although it allows me to work for a time it also makes me useless when I'm not working. The best solution I found was to break my project into the tiniest pieces possible. I know this sounds like the same advice you'll get anywhere but plan your project to death and break it into tiny little tasks which can be done in under 15 minutes (or whatever you find your attention can stretch to, your best way to find out is. Look at the clock, now start work on somthing you find moderatly interesting, the next time your mind wanders away fro the subject, look a thte clock again, the time inbetween was your attention span, find your average for whatever kind of work you're doing). Then do though throught your time. Do one when you get up or before you go to bed, in the half an hour you have before you go to lunch or class. If you've got a lot of time on your hands do one, then do your laundry or read a chapter in a book (not your school books, or at least a book in a different subject), then do another, preferably in a different section of your work. Mix things up so that you don't feel overwhelmed by just one thing. If you've got a piece that has to be done together but will take longer than your usual block, do it in halves with a short break. Read one (just one) slashdot story that catches your interest, give the parts of your brain you've been using a rest then go back and finish. You'll feel better when you've only got a few loose ends to tie up the night before instead of half the project. Oh and don't leave too many loose ends for the night before, because one little issue can sometimes baloon into another 3am problem. Good luck!
Wow, what a great idea, I looked it up on e-bay and found what looks like it fits youre criteria. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ewItem&item =2059568256
Seems to me that this is all an argument about rights. The people's (hopefully) insert-deity-of-your-choice-here given right to exercise freedom of choice about what we will and won't watch and the broadcasters supposed right to make money. They think, "Hey, we're going to broadcast something that we think will make people watch our channel. Why don't we also put some advertising on in between the parts of the show so we can make some money too. This will give our viewers a chance to see some products and services that they might find helpful. And if they don't find it helpful, it will give them time to go pee or what have you so they can concentrate on the rest of the program and want to watch again next time." Then the people who sell the commercials come in and say "Hey! Great idea. We know most people are too lazy to do anything but sit there when we interrupt their show for a minute." So these lines of thinking go on, pressing the limits of the balance between the viewers drive to want to finish watching his show and annoyance at the commercials which by now don't show anything he's interested in buying. So next week, when our viewer decides to tape his show because he doesn't have time to watch it this week, and he goes to play it and finds "Hey, I could fast-forward though these commercials that I have no interest in." the commercial companies cry foul "No, you can't circumvent us!" Frankly, I think they should be putting pressure on the broadcastings stations to put programs that people are most likely to want to watch but have to tape because of the time slot, into time slots where people could watch them to avoid taping. But again, this is about rights. We as viewers have NO OBLIGATION to the broadcasters to watch the commercials, nor do we have any obligation to web sites to click on banner adds. They are trying to entice is into buying something, if they want us to watch adds, they should damn well make the adds more entertaining!
I own three addresses though Yahoo.
I also host 4 webpages (including my Girl Scout Gold Award Page) page on the Yahoo owned Geocities which has reciently ceased it's ftp access.
I guess I should have started looking for another place to get my mail when I got the Yahoo survey about how much I would pay to continue my POP access.
I'm dropping out of their service all together and sucking it up to finaly get a domain, through someone else.
Frankly I'm really angry about this, I've been letting Yahoo advertise at the bottom of every one of my e-mails for the last three+ years.
But you can't keep getting somthing for nothing I suppose. But Yahoo certinaly won't be getting -my- money for dropping this on us with only a month notice.
I understand that they've been having a lot fo problems with spammers but I really doubt that getting rid of them was their motivation nor do I think that this will in any way hinder spammer who use Yahoo. Afterall, I get plenty of spam from Hotmail and they've never had POP access (not that I've ever seen anyway, don't yell at me if they do). As long as their is personal media, there will be unwanted advertising. Spam is no different from junk mail, or telemarketers.
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Why would you use a comma before the word 'and'?
You use a comma before and at the end of inclusive lists. "We had bacon, eggs, toast, and tea." Although I can't find what you're quoting, so it may have been bad comma use regardless.
Amen.
I was also diagnosed with ADD in the 4th grade (unusual for a girl to be diagnosed so early, or so they tell me)and my brief stint with medication showed me that they aren't the way to go. For me it was the "pay it back later" of my drugs, for me to consentrate durring school ment that I was tired, cranky and incoherent when I came home. I would often curl up into a ball and cry over a few mispoke words becasue I didn't have the mental energy to deal with things. (This was not PMS, I was only 11) So my parrents took me off the meds and put me in a learning enviroment with many other ADD children where they taught us as many coping techniques as they could. Some of which I still use today.
It really makes me angry whern people try to deny the existance of ADD either as "Lazy kidas" or "not fitting in with the norm" it's -neither- Add is the inability to consentrate even when you really want to. I've found myself unable to listen to even the most interesting lectures or watch movies I really wanted to see becasue of my ADD. It's frustrating and difficult and for a child very scary and disheartening. You can't do what everyone tells you should be able to if you just "want" to hard enough and the answer is you can't and people assume that's becasue you just arn'te willing to try even when you really are.
While misdiagnosis -is- common you can't deny the existance of a really and definable problem in some people. And not diagnosing the problem can lead to as many or more problems as a misdiagnosis. (I'm still haunted by my 2nd grade teacher who told the whole class that I was lazy,not good enough to be in her class and shouldn'd take up any more of her time.)
While I can't speak to this treatment personaly it -sounds- like a good idea, I'd like to know more and I am especialy heartened to see a parrent so involved with their daughter's treatment. Kudos!
Um, I don't know about where these guys are but in EVERY hospital I've ever been in it was completely aganst the rules it have your cell phone on at all. The cell phone's signal affects the reading of the telemetry units in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). My mom, who works in a hospital is constantly having to remind patients and visitors to tunr off their cell phones. It seems very strange to me that any hospital would rely on cell phone to contact their staff.
I am a university student diagnosed with ADD when I was 10. In my personal experience ADD is when, even when you want to consentrate on a task, you are unable to. ADHD is when you want to sit a be quiet are are also unable to. (these are -personal experience- definitions, not the medical ones) I'm a computer science minor so I do my fair share of programming durring the school year and at first I did the do-it-the-night-before-at-3AM thing then I began reliing on my medication which changes my personality signifigantly and although it allows me to work for a time it also makes me useless when I'm not working. The best solution I found was to break my project into the tiniest pieces possible. I know this sounds like the same advice you'll get anywhere but plan your project to death and break it into tiny little tasks which can be done in under 15 minutes (or whatever you find your attention can stretch to, your best way to find out is. Look at the clock, now start work on somthing you find moderatly interesting, the next time your mind wanders away fro the subject, look a thte clock again, the time inbetween was your attention span, find your average for whatever kind of work you're doing). Then do though throught your time. Do one when you get up or before you go to bed, in the half an hour you have before you go to lunch or class. If you've got a lot of time on your hands do one, then do your laundry or read a chapter in a book (not your school books, or at least a book in a different subject), then do another, preferably in a different section of your work. Mix things up so that you don't feel overwhelmed by just one thing. If you've got a piece that has to be done together but will take longer than your usual block, do it in halves with a short break. Read one (just one) slashdot story that catches your interest, give the parts of your brain you've been using a rest then go back and finish. You'll feel better when you've only got a few loose ends to tie up the night before instead of half the project. Oh and don't leave too many loose ends for the night before, because one little issue can sometimes baloon into another 3am problem. Good luck!
Wow, what a great idea, I looked it up on e-bay and found what looks like it fits youre criteria.i ewItem&item =2059568256
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?V
Good luck!
Seems to me that this is all an argument about rights. The people's (hopefully) insert-deity-of-your-choice-here given right to exercise freedom of choice about what we will and won't watch and the broadcasters supposed right to make money. They think, "Hey, we're going to broadcast something that we think will make people watch our channel. Why don't we also put some advertising on in between the parts of the show so we can make some money too. This will give our viewers a chance to see some products and services that they might find helpful. And if they don't find it helpful, it will give them time to go pee or what have you so they can concentrate on the rest of the program and want to watch again next time." Then the people who sell the commercials come in and say "Hey! Great idea. We know most people are too lazy to do anything but sit there when we interrupt their show for a minute." So these lines of thinking go on, pressing the limits of the balance between the viewers drive to want to finish watching his show and annoyance at the commercials which by now don't show anything he's interested in buying. So next week, when our viewer decides to tape his show because he doesn't have time to watch it this week, and he goes to play it and finds "Hey, I could fast-forward though these commercials that I have no interest in." the commercial companies cry foul "No, you can't circumvent us!" Frankly, I think they should be putting pressure on the broadcastings stations to put programs that people are most likely to want to watch but have to tape because of the time slot, into time slots where people could watch them to avoid taping. But again, this is about rights. We as viewers have NO OBLIGATION to the broadcasters to watch the commercials, nor do we have any obligation to web sites to click on banner adds. They are trying to entice is into buying something, if they want us to watch adds, they should damn well make the adds more entertaining!
I own three addresses though Yahoo. I also host 4 webpages (including my Girl Scout Gold Award Page) page on the Yahoo owned Geocities which has reciently ceased it's ftp access. I guess I should have started looking for another place to get my mail when I got the Yahoo survey about how much I would pay to continue my POP access. I'm dropping out of their service all together and sucking it up to finaly get a domain, through someone else. Frankly I'm really angry about this, I've been letting Yahoo advertise at the bottom of every one of my e-mails for the last three+ years. But you can't keep getting somthing for nothing I suppose. But Yahoo certinaly won't be getting -my- money for dropping this on us with only a month notice. I understand that they've been having a lot fo problems with spammers but I really doubt that getting rid of them was their motivation nor do I think that this will in any way hinder spammer who use Yahoo. Afterall, I get plenty of spam from Hotmail and they've never had POP access (not that I've ever seen anyway, don't yell at me if they do). As long as their is personal media, there will be unwanted advertising. Spam is no different from junk mail, or telemarketers.