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\O/ I've finished my exams! :< not very happy with my last paper argh, that ... that bleaccccccchhhh, hate her. Anyways, hopefully I can graduate this semester, I do not want to sit for ANY supplementary papers lol. Ah yes, I'm not sure why I'm still up at this ungodly hour but I'm here to bring you maor news =D about the 5 ecchi titles Ichijinsha released on November 18th 2009 ; 極上ドロップス [Gokujou Drops] by Mikuni Hazime, 湯けむりサンクチュアリ by 天野しゅにんた [Amano Shuninta], 空色ガールフレンド by リカチ [Rikachi], ハニー★カルテット by 所ケメコ [Tokoro Kemeko] and 乙女戦士ラブリー5! by 城之内寧々 [Jounouchi Nene].
I've mentioned about them in my previous Candy Boy post and do you know that you can browse Chapter 1 [20+ pages!] of each title for FREE like NAO? Go ahead and squeal I know you are doing it now lol ; I'm not sure when this free previewing ends but just hurry I guess. Firstly, click this Ichijinsha link. Secondly, click continue to read more below to well ... READ MORE lol.
I've screenshot the steps if you guys can't read moon, well I can't as well but then it's better to save you guys the trouble of going ... HOW DO I GO TO THAT PAGE? -inserts raging anon- Even though it's quite easy to do it. I can't link that page directly, it doesn't load when I click on the link from yuri amagasa. Oh yeah, enable your pop-up cos yeah it's opens another window when you click on it.
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Yeah I know the pictures looks blurish and I'm lazy to open PS to resize it so I used paint. By here I don't think anyone will be reading this anymore and I don't blame you xD. Run along, go read all the Chapters and come back to me ;D
Anyways if you're still reading ... SPOILERS ALERT!!!!! SQUEALS lol Gokujou Drops~~~ I'm sure I'll grin wolfishly whenever I see someone squirt mayonnaise on something or someone lol. Guess this volume finally touches on the childhood flashback of Komari eh? Some reckon it's Yukio's sickish brother ... and she sure does look angsty at that last page when she saw that necklace =O Omg, I want to buy it now but ... I want to wait for Yurihime Wildrose Volume 4 coming out on December 18th \O/
湯けむりサンクチュア looks interesting ... heh it's only Chapter 1 and someone got some already xD. I might add this in my shopping cart. Hmmm, 空色ガールフレンド looks interesting as well, a love triangle, nuthing much in C1 except some cute 'No! She's mine!' grabbing and passing of notes. Next, ハニー★カルテット, ohh it's weird, felt like deja vu lol, art looks very similar to 空色ガールフレンド anyways but better since it has a finger cut licking scene lol. But this is short, just 18 pages. Lastly, 乙女戦士ラブリー5, omg, this HAS to be read last lol, S&M, cosplay, lacy costumes ... right in the first few pages xD. I see a few recurring characters, that oneshot S&M teacher etc from Yurihime Wildrose hmm.
That's all for this post! Enjoy =D
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PS: Just realised that it's Chapter 18 for Gokujou Drops ... oh well but it's 'Chapter 1' in Volume 3 lol.


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The church:
First Presbyterian
, Peoria, Arizona, USA.
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Presbytery of Grand Canyon.
The building:
A traditional red brick church. Dedicated in 1900, it is the oldest Presbyterian church in continual use in Arizona. The inside is L-shaped, with pews in each arm of the L and a raised platform at a 45-degree angle at the junction. A table with communion vessels sat in front of the platform. To the right was an Advent wreath with candles; to the left a Nativity crèche.
The church:
They offer Bible study, childrens ministry, and an assortment of groups for men and women.
The neighborhood:
The church is located in the historic downtown district of Peoria, a suburb of Phoenix. Originally little more than a collection of wooden shacks with tin roofs, the downtown area was almost completely destroyed by fire in 1917. But tragedy was turned to advantage as property owners were prompted to rebuild in a more permanent and aesthetically appealing style. Over the years the city of Peoria annexed thousands of acres of surrounding land, but the historic core remains a little worse for wear nowadays, but with some interesting structures such as First Presbyterian Church and an agricultural museum that includes a blacksmith shop as well as tractors, plows, and other farm implements from days gone by.
The cast:
The service was conducted by Elder Ken Johnson. The Revd Patricia Young, pastor, preached and presided over communion. Susan Cooper played the organ, and Helen Cook conducted the childrens choir. A woman whose name was not given played a digital piano.
The date & time:
December 24, 2011, 5.00pm.
What was the name of the service?
Celebration of Carols, Communion and Candles.
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The church holds about 300 and was completely full, with chairs set up in the aisles to accommodate the overflow.
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A lady at the door said, "Hello. How are you?" and gave me a service sheet.
Was your pew comfortable?
Yes cushioned wooden pew.
How would you describe the pre-service atmosphere?
Lots of visiting and talking. The organist played a quiet medley of Christmas carols. The church bell was rung.
What were the exact opening words of the service?
"OK, its my turn to talk." This by Elder Johnson.
What books did the congregation use during the service?
The Presbyterian Hymnal
The Holy Bible, New International Version
; and a service leaflet.
What musical instruments were played?
Electric organ and digital piano. There was a childrens choir of about 12 first and second graders, plus one young adult.
Did anything distract you?
A lady entered with a seeing eye dog, which proceeded to snuggle in at her feet. I think the dog enjoyed the feel of the carpet against its hind quarters, as it wiggled its rump around every so often. A teenage boy sitting next to me played video games on his cell phone throughout the service. I was not surprised that his mother didnt correct him, as she chugged water from a plastic bottle at regular intervals. He did, however, seem interested in my note-taking, so I let him have a glimpse of the Mystery Worship calling card before I sealed it in the offering envelope.
Was the worship stiff-upper-lip, happy clappy, or what?
It started out homey and folksy. Elder Johnson seemed rather befuddled, much to the amusement of the congregation. The Advent candles were lit as passages from Isaiah were read. There were carols, confession and assurance of pardon, and a gospel reading. Things took a more serious turn after the sermon, when the pastor began the communion service. We received the bread cubes and thimbles of grape juice pew-style.
Exactly how long was the sermon?
5 minutes (childrens talk); 5 minutes (adult sermon).
On a scale of 1-10, how good was the preacher?
5 Pastor Young spoke very fast, as if she had a deadline to meet. She made many good points but didn't pause to let them sink in before moving on to the next. I could barely keep up with my note-taking!
In a nutshell, what was the sermon about?
(Childrens) God sent the baby Jesus as a sign of love. This is Jesus birthday. And what is a birthday without presents? (Here the pastor passed out small gifts to all the children.) (Adults) Christmas is a celebration of the gift of life and what a gift Jesus gave us: hope, peace, love, forgiveness and guidance. Some are afraid of God and cannot accept his love. Thats why God came as a baby almost everybody loves a baby. But the baby grew up and became intimately involved in our lives. Christmas is an opportunity for God to touch us in a special way.
Which part of the service was like being in heaven?
I was pleasantly surprised by communion at a candlelight Christmas eve service. It was a pleasure to sing carols to the organist, Susan Cooper's, skilled accompaniment, even if she was a little heavy on the vibrato. And the way the service ended was especially heavenly (see below).
And which part was like being in... er... the other place?
The childrens choir sounded about how you would expect a group of first and second graders to sound.
What happened when you hung around after the service looking lost?
After communion, we were invited to take candles and proceed outside, where we sang "Silent Night" and received a blessing.
How would you describe the after-service coffee?
There was none.
How would you feel about making this church your regular (where 10 = ecstatic, 0 = terminal)?
3 This homey, folksy sort of service is not to my taste, although things did settle down by communion time.
Did the service make you feel glad to be a Christian?
Yes, especially the singing of "Silent Night."
What one thing will you remember about all this in seven days' time?
"Silent Night" by candlelight.
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Shareholders' suit filed vs. Cooper
WILMINGTON, Del. (Jan. 20, 2014) — Two law firms have filed a securities class-action lawsuit against Cooper Tire & Rubber Co. on behalf of stockholders over the failed merger deal with India's Apollo Tyres Ltd.
The suit claims Cooper and some of its senior executives violated federal securities laws by allegedly issuing misleading statements and omissions during its failed buyout by Apollo last year.
New York-based Law firms Entwistle & Cappucci L.L.P. and Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann L.L.P. announced they have filed the lawsuit against Findlay, Ohio-based Cooper Tire, CEO Roy Armes and CFO Bradley Hughes in the U.S. District Court for the District of Delaware. The plaintiffs include all purchasers of Cooper's publicly traded stock from June 12, 2013, through Nov. 8, 2013, inclusive, and all Cooper shareholders who held shares as of the record date of Aug. 30, 2013, and were entitled to vote with respect to the proposed merger between Cooper and Apollo, the firms said.
The lawsuit alleges Cooper falsely represented the significant risks associated with the merger by concealing the fact that the company lacked control over its joint venture manufacturing facility in China, Cooper Chengshan Tire Co. Ltd. (CCT) The plant was a major stumbling block in the merger negotiations after striking workers at the plant and the minority owner, Chengshan Group, reportedly blocked the tire companies from entering the plant or accessing financial information.
The lawsuit alleges Cooper concealed the fact that Chengshan Group — which holds a 35-percent interest in CCT — opposed the merger, and had in fact sought to acquire Cooper for itself.
Cooper recently announced that the CCT facility would begin ramping up for production and that the joint venture operation would soon resume financial reporting.
That action followed the tire maker, in mid-November, telling the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it would be unable to resume regular financial reporting at the troubled plant because of a worker strike and other factors.
The suit also alleges Cooper misrepresented its financial condition, financial prospects and the effectiveness of the company's internal controls.
Cooper shareholders voted to approve the merger Sept. 30, 2013, but then a series of disputes and lawsuits between Cooper and Apollo ended with Cooper formally terminating the agreement Dec. 30.
In October Cooper filed a Form 8-K with the SEC, disclosing that the merger was in jeopardy and that Cooper had filed a lawsuit against Apollo in an attempt to force Apollo to close the deal, according to the plaintiffs.
On Nov. 8 the Delaware Chancery Court denied Cooper's request for an order requiring Apollo to close on the merger, holding that Apollo had not breached the merger agreement. In response to these disclosures, Cooper stock fell from $31.27 per share on Oct. 3 to close at $23.82 per share on Nov. 8, according to the complaint.
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Advisors and Publications
I tried to do a little reading on the subject, and found some food for thought on my searches of the web. (References are very welcome in the comments; here's one and another and another and another, three articles and a guideline for students, that seem pretty good.) Most schools seem to have a basic official policy or guidelines in place. Some examples include this bit from the Harvard medical school, this from Duke, and this from Berkeley. The best I've found is this statement from Penn, which is amusing first because it seems to blatantly plagiarize directly from the (earlier dated) Berkeley one, but also because it links to the specific policies of individual departments. Indeed, one issue here is that is clear is that different fields seem to have different interpretations of what constitutes authorship, as well as different protocols for author ordering. The Berkeley/Penn statement go so far as to say, "In some fields, the Principal Investigator of the lab is first author of all publications." (Take that, graduate students!) So perhaps one issue is that computer science, as a relatively new field, hasn't set up its tradition for authorship and author ordering; as we've discussed, even within computer science, theorists default to alphabetical order while systems defaults to students first/ordered by contribution.
As far as official policies go, though, in general the authorship bar seems to be set intentionally low -- clearly tilted in the direction of advisors. While there is often a statement that each author should have contributed intellectually to the work -- which would not include just funding the project -- conception and design of the project is considered sufficient for that. (This seems to match "the PI rules the lab" mentality of some fields -- you may have done all the work, but the PI has set up the entire framework for what the lab works on, so that counts.) Similarly, while its generally understood that all authors should be involved in the writing, that can be limited to reviewing (and revising) the work. (PIs are, after all, too busy writing grant proposals to spend too much time on papers.)
As for my own opinion, I must admit, I'm on the side of the advisor. That's not surprising; after all, I am currently one. As a graduate student, I may have had my complaints about my advisor, but when I switched sides, I became a lot more understanding and sympathetic. In my experience, many graduate students do undervalue the contributions of their advisors, and the work they put into the students in general (and specific papers in particular). I'm not saying there aren't bad advisors out there, and that there aren't cases where advisors put names on papers they shouldn't, but my benefit of the doubt will tend to fall to the advisor.
Also, independent of the underlying ethical questions, my personal take is also that graduate students may not realize the "cost" of having your advisor on the paper is small. Whether using alphabetical order or by contribution, I think the default assumption is that the student was the "primary" author on a work unless other information is available (even when this assumption is unwarranted, which I think is a non-trivial fraction of the time). (Others may certainly disagree.) Here, again, recommendation letters and direct word-of-mouth, as well as longer established histories, are extremely important, moreso in my experience than who has their name on what papers.
We can, certainly, get back to arguing about what is the "right" answer, where the line should be drawn for an advisor to put their name on the paper. Or perhaps we should go to the extreme of having (as suggested in the HMS guidelines or the authors' guide for Nature) a small writeup for each paper where a description of each authors' contributions are provided. (Sarcasm note: as I'm sure I've previously stated, I would hate such a system.) More realistically, as these many guidelines all seem to state, authors need to talk about this and set expectations earlier in the process.
Where does this leave the unhappy graduate students? Ideally, entering graduate students should try to find out potential advisors' authorship policies before signing up -- ask the current students for an off-the-record honest appraisal. Or, ideally, graduate students should talk to their advisors if they have an issue -- let them know early on if you think you're writing a solo paper. If you've waited until the paper is being written, and then tell your advisor you don't think they've done enough, I don't think you've set up the situation appropriately.
And what should you do when your advisor says, "No, I'm the PI, my name goes on the paper."? As a practical matter, keeping in mind the strong advisor-oriented tilt of the authorship policies I've seen, realistically, I'd suggest finding a way to live with that, or find a different advisor who has expectations more in line with your own.
28 comments:
- JeffE said...
I think the only reasonable stance is to be generous — offer coauthorship to students and other colleagues who contribute x%, but only accept coauthorship yourself if you've contributed y%, for some x<y.
And then don't work with jerks.
Whether using alphabetical order or by contribution, I think the default assumption is that the student was the "primary" author on a work unless other information is available.
That's the exact opposite of my experience, both as a student and as an advisor. - April 20, 2010 at 1:46 PM
Agree with JeffE: I have NEVER been aware of such an assumption nor do I assume it myself.
I think my default assumption is that the "advisor" person came up with most of the main ideas and insights and the "student" person did most of the grunt work (e.g. any experiments, writing up the proofs etc.). (Obviously this changes if you are talking post-docs or very senior students...)
I have no particular justification for this assumption as I have seen cases where it was valid and cases where it wasn't.
Some advisors won't co-author with students unless it was a truly genuine collaboration (or at least they contributed a significant breakthrough). Some advisors expect a co-authorship even if they don't understand the problem or solution. - April 20, 2010 at 2:03 PM
- Andrew Eckford said...
It can benefit the student to have the advisor's name on the paper, regardless of contribution. For instance, the average researcher is more likely to read the latest paper by someone famous than by someone unknown. Also, a famous name tends to result in a smoother review process, which I've certainly noticed since I graduated and started writing my own single-author papers.
- April 20, 2010 at 2:18 PM
- D. Eppstein said...
In contrast to your claim that student-advisor papers are typically credited to the student, J.E. Hirsch (inventor of the h-index) writes in PNAS that junior co-authors "are likely to have made a lesser contribution to the paper" and claims that one advantage of the h-index as a bibliometric is that it appropriately gives them lesser credit than their senior co-authors. So it seems that (in Hirsch's mind, at least) having one's advisor as co-author can hurt the amount of credit one gets.
- April 20, 2010 at 2:55 PM
As a graduate student, I'm surprised this is even an issue. I have become convinced, through experience, that there are always more pros than cons to being generous. The amount that you learn from, and the strengthening of the relationship with, an additional quality collaborator (advisor or otherwise) far outweighs the dilution of credit in all but the most extreme of cases. If the advisor/additional collaborator even teaches you one thing you didn't know, this will pay dividends for a lifetime -- whereas the additional credit from having one less author on the paper will likely become less important with time.
- April 20, 2010 at 4:01 PM
"If the advisor/additional collaborator even teaches you one thing you didn't know, this will pay dividends for a lifetime -- whereas the additional credit from having one less author on the paper will likely become less important with time."
That is true, if you manage to get a job. When you are looking for a job, the extra author will likely hurt you. These days, when 90-95% of graduates don't get research jobs, every marginal advantage is important. - April 20, 2010 at 4:07 PM
- Stefan Savage said...
When you are looking for a job, the extra author will likely hurt you. These days, when 90-95% of graduates don't get research jobs, every marginal advantage is important.
Marginal advantages can potentially help in tight labor markets (especially if there are many similar candidates in the same area), but I think author count is not a particularly useful quantity to optimize here. This just isn't how recruiting works. If a candidate looks strong, but we're concerned what their contribution was to joint papers, we look to letters to resolve it or we call their co-authors to find out.
If you want to optimize for marginal advantages work on networking, interships, etc. since being known in your community dominates these other things. Yet another reason to blog non-anonymously. - April 20, 2010 at 5:11 PM
- David Andersen said...
Jeffe: I like that. One can summarize the rule by reference to Postel's Law: Be conservative in where you demand credit; be liberal in where you grant it to others.
I'm with Stefan on the unimportance of the marginal benefit of reduced author count. Position matters somewhat, but total count matters little. And the nuances tend to come out through the whole application package, not just the listing on the C.V. - April 20, 2010 at 5:57 PM
"Position matters somewhat, but total count matters little."
In theoretical CS, position is alphabetical, so total count matters more. It is more subtle than that, though, since it depends on who the coauthors are and on what the letters say. - April 20, 2010 at 9:32 PM
- Fahad Dogar said...
This blog attracts people from both theory and systems communities, which is probably the main reason why there is a fair bit of difference in opinion. This is compounded by anonymous comments -- as a result people may not be able to fully appreciate the views of others. For example, someone made a comment that there are scenarios where the advisor makes all the contribution and the student's contribution is very little. This is probably more likely in the theory community, but in systems such cases are very rare, simply because of the nature of the work.
I think it will be a good idea if people reveal their background (theory vs. systems) when they post anonymously :-) - April 20, 2010 at 10:41 PM
- Shirish said...
Does the author order, or the number of authors really matter so much. From my experience, Industry in general seems to care more about your core skills, while in academia only the obvious stars get the jobs.
I or anybody I know has never had a problem with including their advisors name on a article. It almost seems strange to me that an advisor and student could have disagreements of this nature.
Typically such problems are likely to occur between people of equal stature. Maybe two students, or CoPIs......ummm maybe between a postdoc and PI too (seen such cases). Nevertheless, really think that if you are young researcher, it is best to be generous and stay clear of creating conflicts. - April 21, 2010 at 2:36 AM
- Paul said...
The solution is simple. Just work with different coauthors on dozens of papers, each more beautiful and earth-shattering than the last, until the sheer quantity of masterful work overwhelms any skeptics of your unprecedented genius.
Everyone always makes things so much harder than they have to be. :) - April 21, 2010 at 11:21 AM
- Unknown said...
I actually would have loved to have my advisor's name on my papers, but he insisted that our discussions didn't warrant adding his name when I'd done the actual work myself. On the other hand, if he'd insisted on being first author, I might have been irked. My roommate's advisor insisted on being on his papers, which he thought of as kind of a joke, since that advisor had limited knowledge of, let alone contribution to, what he was doing. To me, it's not fair to have someone on the paper who hasn't understood or in some cases even read it. Remember Hwang Woo-Suk? Could he have gotten away with years of fraud had all his coauthors actually been true collaborators?
- April 21, 2010 at 1:20 PM
There's been a bit of talk of recommendation letters clearing up things for hiring committees. Note that this is irrelevant for students who mostly publish with other students, which sometimes happens.
- April 21, 2010 at 3:24 PM
- Stefan Savage said...
There's been a bit of talk of recommendation letters clearing up things for hiring committees. Note that this is irrelevant for students who mostly publish with other students, which sometimes happens.
In general this is a plus because it shows initiative. That said, an important lesson is that it is your responsibility to let your advisor, mentors, supporters, etc. know what you're doing and how you are progressing in your research. If you are brilliant but invisible then you will suffer for it. This is also true at conferences, internships, etc. You cannot safely depend on others to just read your papers and infer that you are really good. - April 21, 2010 at 3:54 PM
"As a practical matter, keeping in mind the strong advisor-oriented tilt of the authorship policies I've seen, realistically, I'd suggest finding a way to live with that, or find a different advisor who has expectations more in line with your own."
I guess I agree with the advice, but it is somewhat circular: the policies themselves were most likely written by professors (or administrators kowtowing to professors). So in some sense this advice comes down to: "If a professor wants authorship on a paper, give it to them because they have more power than you (the lowly graduate student)." - April 21, 2010 at 4:55 PM
- Michael Mitzenmacher said...
I'd first point out that I think Stefan's comments are spot on. (No surprise.) Thanks Stefan.
Anon 16: Your interpretation of what I said was: "If a professor wants authorship on a paper, give it to them because they have more power than you (the lowly graduate student)." Just to be clear, that's not my interpretation. One clear graduate student power is to walk away, and/or find a different advisor. That's what I emphasized.
I admit I'm a bit surprised that people don't default to the student doing the work. I agree that there's a theory/systems difference here -- although, arguably, in both there's some expectation that the advisor did the "high-level thinking" and the student more of the "grunt work". (Perhaps it's that theorists just think more highly of the high-level thinking.) But isn't the right first cut in evaluating a student (for a postdoc, job, etc.) to assume that they did a significant part of the work for the papers they're listed on? If that's not the case, do you completely dismiss the CVs when you're hiring? Why even ask for them? Yes, you check it with letters, phone calls to their advisors and co-authors, etc. But really your default assumption, say when you meet a student who is giving a talk, presenting a poster, etc., is that they're just an extension of their advisor?
I admit that multiple papers, with different co-authors, does help cement the impression that the student was a significant contributor. - April 21, 2010 at 5:11 PM
My assumption, unless explicitly contradicted, is usually that on early papers co-authored with an advisor, the advisor chose the problem and probably a large chunk of the approach to its solution so that the balance skews towards the advisor but that as the student matures the student has much more of a leadership role in the papers and the advisor less.
- April 22, 2010 at 2:41 AM
my multi-year experience as an advisor is the opposite of what Michael says. My students always contributed essentially nothing to their papers with me, but because they were beginning students I could not bring myself to tell them that they shouldn't be coauthors. In situations like this I let the students do the writing, as an opportunity to learn how to write publishable work. Often this creates even more work for me later. I believe that a large part of student-advisor publications in theory happen because of the differences in seniority: the advisor feels that it is too cruel to remove the students name, wants to give them a research experiences, wants to give them a second chance, etc. Good students should not be publishing their first papers with their advisors before they are established as independent researchers.
- April 22, 2010 at 8:28 AM
As a graduate student in theory, I think its hard to overestimate the importance of adviser's contribution or as such any co-author's contribution. And contrary to many other students' experience, at times, my adviser has been reluctant to put himself as a co-author even though I felt he contributed a lot to the development of the overall idea.
In general about co-authorship, I look at collaboration as a long term thing. Sure in some paper, you may have done 80% of the work while someone else did only 20%. But a) it is plausible that without that 20%,
your single-authored paper might have been a far less impressive result b) May be you contributed more, but may be on some other result, your co-author will do more and then it is really amortized. - April 22, 2010 at 11:36 AM
How come in Economics you almost don't see an advisor on the paper and they do advise...? These are two different equilibria
- April 22, 2010 at 2:24 PM
Here is a different point to this discussion. I think if one has a famous advisor, he would prefer to have her name on a paper submitted to one of top conferences, specially when the papers is not a clear accept paper. I have seen this many fellow students in theory. The reason for this is the feeling that PCs are biased toward famous names about papers which are not clear accept or clear reject. Having a student get a good job is also a plus for the advisors, so a senior advisor who has established her name in the field may be biased toward giving more credit to her students. On the other hand senior theory professors seem to be very conservative about having their name on a paper that they have not contributed significantly.
I am happy about the situation in theory about whose name should be on a paper, liberal in putting other peoples names even when they have not contributed significantly, and conservative about when my name should be on a paper, and alphabetical listing of the names of authors, which is similar to math culture.
From comments on this and the previous post, it seems that situation in systems is completely different. It would be nice if future anonymous comments state if they are working in theory or in systems, if they are students or professors, and and if there is a difference between senior and junior professors. - April 22, 2010 at 8:45 PM
- Stefan Savage said...
Good students should not be publishing their first papers with their advisors before they are established as independent researchers.
With all respect, and with the understanding that theory is not a field in which I contribute, I think this is backwards. The purpose of advising is precisely to help new students learn how to become independent researchers and there are few experiences as educational as those leading up to writing a paper. Its the rare student who suddenly emerges, like Botticelli's Venus, as a fully formed research colleague. Were this the norm presumably we wouldn't bother with graduate school, no?
As Paul writes, one expects a greater contribution over time as your students mature but those earlier papers are part of how they get there. Its not clear what value would be gained by removing student names during that initial period. - April 23, 2010 at 10:26 AM
As Paul writes, one expects a greater contribution over time as your students mature but those earlier papers are part of how they get there. Its not clear what value would be gained by removing student names during that initial period.
I agree. There is an important point here, however: the student/advisor publication relationship is often in the favor of the student. Especially in theory, I don't think that it is the case that advisors get an advantage by adding their names to the student papers. More often it is the other way around. Good students will learn from this experience, but all students are by nature of their position taking advantage of their advisor when it comes to joint publications. The relationship is more exploitive to the disadvantage of the advisor. Most advisors are clearly happy to perform this service. - April 23, 2010 at 10:55 AM
These comments are getting quite one-sided. It probably really depends on the quality of school that we are talking about.
Of course advisors are doing their advisees a favor, but they get a huge benefit. Good researchers have more ideas than they know what to do with. If they didn't have a student to work with and to work out the non-trivial details, they likely wouldn't get so many papers! If a student is really "to the disadvantage of the advisor", then there is something wrong, and I don't think this situation is common at top schools, which is why it is so beneficial to one's career to get a job at a good school! - April 23, 2010 at 10:12 PM
What if the advisor tells you that they don't have time to even read the manuscript before submission but still expect co-authorship?
- July 31, 2010 at 3:35 PM
Most of the comments here seem to be from faculty who have been on a tight leash when they were students and now are tightly leashing their own students.
If this is the dominant culture then there is no way I, who has been rogue from day one, will get a job without doing a postdoc so that I ``prove myself'' once again. All my papers are with my advisor, and all of my advisor's papers are with her students.
Aren't there any more faculty who are biased in favor of students? Or am I doomed under an advisor with an unusual co-authorship policy? - February 20, 2012 at 1:26 AM
I am wary of the self-serving bias in favor of advisors and even more wary of someone who promotes such a bias so blithely. I have an advisor of great reputation who has contributed very little to my papers, and absolutely zero to my most recent one. He has not provided funding, he has not provided problems, and he has not provided any original ideas whatsoever. All he has done is read and review a final draft, which, while useful, is no more than a referee's work. Yet he insists on being a coauthor for his mysterious contribution to my work, which doubtless the author of this post believes I have "underestimated". Unfortunately, some advisors have some kind of egotistical lens that distorts their self-importance far out of proportion, and to counteract this there should be concrete standards of contribution that everyone is ethically required to follow.
- January 22, 2013 at 9:30 PM


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Comic-Con: The Publisher Booths [SDCC 2013]
When it comes to San Diego Comic-Con, every publisher approaches the show a little bit differently. Whether they house cosplay contests, interactive displays, photo ops with talent, creator signings and/or a whole lot of purchasable product, SDCC booths are an opportunity for the publishers that can attend to make a big impression on one of the most attended pop culture gatherings of the year. You can get a sampling of what publishers like Marvel, DC, Archie, Boom!, IDW, 2000 AD, Dark Horse, Image, Fantagraphics, Oni and others were up to on the show floor of this year's SDCC after the cut.


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Dreaming of Living in a New Place? Here's How to Make It a Reality
(Elizabeth Renter, NerdWallet)Even if you love your home, there's a chance it isn't in your ideal place to live. But the space between fantasizing about your dream location and actually moving there is potentially miles and thousands of dollars apart.
Just over a quarter (26%) of Americans aren't living in their ideal location type — whether that's a city, suburb, small town or rural area — according to a new survey from NerdWallet. There are many reasons people live where they do — better school districts, proximity to work, bigger yards, and nearby friends and family, for example. And, according to the survey, financial obstacles are among the most common reasons why people don't leave.
"Moving and getting a new place are major financial events," says Holden Lewis, NerdWallet mortgage expert. "But long before you cross those big items off your list, you'll tackle a lot of smaller tasks. Some are enjoyable, like browsing real estate listings for homes you like, and others are merely necessary."
Here's how to bring your dream move closer to reality in the coming months and years:
Get real
Moving to a new home, let alone moving to a completely different location, is a big, expensive step. And sometimes the idea of new surroundings is more appealing than the real thing. You want to live in the city, but are you really ready for the steep cost of living, the noise and the little-to-no backyard? If you dream of small town or country living, are you ready to leave the excitement of the city and its amenities behind?
Weigh your options carefully before committing to a major move, and understand such a big step could take significant effort.
Move-proof your credit
Approval on a rental or mortgage application will depend, at least in part, on your credit. And if your credit needs work, making it approval-worthy could take some time.
Start by reviewing your credit report and looking for errors. Then, make sure you're paying your bills on time — your payment history accounts for as much as 35% of your credit score. Also, try to use no more than 30% of your available credit — higher credit utilization can weigh down your score significantly.
Attack debt
In the survey, 1 in 5 (20%) Americans not living in their ideal location say they have too much debt to afford moving and still have enough left for housing costs. Paying down debt not only boosts your credit, it also frees up your money for other things, like moving expenses.
But tackling debt can mean major sacrifices. Cutting excess spending or taking on a part-time job could speed up the process. Of the folks not living where they would like, 38% say they would take on a job to make the move possible, while 28% would give up travel. More than 1 in 5 (21%) say they would stop or reduce their retirement savings — a concerning approach because it could do more harm than good.
Take a critical look at your budget — how much money is coming in and where it's going. Then, make paying down debt a priority, but not to the detriment of your future financial security; try to leave your retirement fund alone.
Start a moving fund
The cost of moving depends on a number of factors, such as the distance, the amount of stuff you have, whether you opt for professional movers and whether you'll be temporarily without an income. It's not unrealistic to plan for expenses starting at a few thousand dollars, if not more.
Start saving for these expenses as soon as you've squared away your debt. A high-yield online savings account is one option to earn some interest while keeping your money easily accessible. Automate your savings by setting up a direct deposit for a small portion of each paycheck or simply figure it into your list of monthly bills.
Zero in on the specifics
As your moving fund gets bigger, it's time to start nailing down the specifics. Research the locations you're most interested in to see how much you'd pay for housing and things like child care and other regular expenses. Identify neighborhoods that best fit your needs and contact a local real estate agent to discuss housing options in the area. If a new job is in order, ready your resume and begin scouting out the local job market.
Be flexible
If you're not already in a financial position to make a big move, preparing to change living locations is a long-term project. And, as with all future goals, it's vulnerable to the swings in life, such as job losses or promotions, marriage or divorce, or any number of things that could change your financial situation or life priorities.
Also, you may need to compromise. If you dream of one day living in a big city, you may have to look at several cities before you find one that fits your lifestyle and your financial situation. Or you might have to abandon your ideal neighborhood for a similar one in a more affordable town.
Removing the financial barriers between where you live now and where you would like to live is good for your financial health. Even if your goals change and you decide to delay (or abandon) any plans to relocate, tidying up your credit, paying down debt and starting an additional savings fund won't be for naught. No matter where you make your home, these steps can make it more comfortable.


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Set in the Roman Empire during the reign of the notorious persecutor of Christians, Emperor Diocletian (a.d. 303), THE PURPLE MANTLE is a moving story of faith and heroism amidst a society plagued by confusion and fear. Greek Orthodox author Aliki Kafetzopoulou (reposed on February 24, 2005) has skillfully woven a rich historical tapestry full of spiritual depth, presenting a vivid picture of the intense circumstances in which the ancient Christians lived, and a close-up, immediate view of the exploits and contests of the early martyrs, through which the Faith of Christ triumphed.
This story brings to life in vivid clarity the choices faced by people very much like ourselves—between the ephemeral comforts and grandeur of this world and the eternal joy and glory of the world to come. In a certain respect we make these choices daily even now—for example, when we choose television over spiritual reading and prayer, and when we choose the ease of material possessions and the accumulation of wealth over charity and acts of mercy. Yet, in a very literal sense, we may someday be forced to make the same choices as did many of the characters of the story, at the risk of our very lives.
"…His strength was leaving him. His life was ebbing away. This fresh flower was closing its petals before it had even had a chance to open them all the way; but it was closing them now in order to be able to open them again, refreshed, unfading and eternal, in the garden of everlasting heavenly joy….
"Then he leaned his head on the coals of fire and let his last look fall on Helianos. And his gaze stayed fixed there, until the fire went out in ashes and smoke….
"With his eyes full of tears, Helianos stared with shock. He held the young martyr's last look inside himself with a sacred passion, indelible in the depths of his memory and heart. He felt like running toward him, putting his arms into the fire to hug and kiss him, and asking him secretly: 'Tell me … tell me … what secrets does this faith of yours hold that you love it so much? Tell me, so I can love it too!'"
—excerpt from THE PURPLE MANTLE
Although written especially for young adults, this historical novel has enthralled people of all ages with its riveting narrative. Carefully tracing the spiritual awakening and growth of a young man and woman, it places in striking relief the essence of all Christian life.
This book is now in its new, second edition, and includes a brief biography of the author.
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Galactic Republic Fleet Expansion Pack
War! The ancient Jedi Order has taken to the stars to defend the Galactic Republic. As the threat of the Separatist Alliance spreads, leaving plundered worlds and petty tyrants in its wake, the Republic fleet is often outnumbered, but never outmatched. Guided by the ideals of the Republic, commanding legions of dedicated Clone Troopers, and equipped with versatile warships and elite starfighters, champions such as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Bail Organa fight to bring a swift end to the chaos of the Clone Wars and restore peace to the galaxy.
This Fleet Starter lays the foundation for your Galactic Republic fleets by putting you in command of a mighty Acclamator-class Assault ship and two powerful Consular-class Cruiser miniatures. These ships are joined by four squadrons of V-19 Torrent Starfighters flown by crack clone pilots ready to defend the fleet. Additionally, 20 upgrade cards invite you to customize every aspect of your ships with iconic officers and powerful weapons.
No matter how you decide to outfit your fleet, the Galactic Republic Fleet Starter is an excellent place to begin building your Star Wars: Armada collection. You'll find all the components necessary to begin playing within this set, including nine attack dice, 10 command dials, eight speed dials, 12 objective cards, six obstacle tokens, a range ruler, and a maneuver tool. Assemble your fleet and destroy the enemy!


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Theodore Havemeyer returned to his summer home in Newport, Rhode Island in 1889, after playing golf in southern France, determined to play the game again somewhere closer to home. Havemeyer, and others like him, had a limited number of options for a round of golf in the Newport area or in the United States at that time. While the game of golf had sprung deep roots in Scotland and England, it had inspired limited interest in the United States. Those who played generally came from wealthy backgrounds and belonged to the smattering of private golf clubs around the country. The undeterred Havemeyer persuaded some of the area's upper crust–John Jacob Astor IV, Perry Belmont, and Cornelius Vanderbilt II–to buy a 140-acre farm property in 1893 with the intent to establish a golf club. That club would become the Newport Country Club. Not satisfied with a venue for his golfing buddies, Havemeyer wanted to host national championships at his new course. In 1894, he held a tournament for some of the best amateurs in the United States at the new club. That tournament would be one of two National Amateur Championships that year, the other held at the Chicago Golf Club.
Hoping for a single amateur championship every year, Havemeyer prompted a meeting in December at New York City's Calumet Club with representatives of four other golf clubs: St. Andrews Golf Club in Yonkers, New York; Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on Long Island; The Country Club of Brookline, Massachusetts; and the Chicago Golf Club. The representatives agreed that the Newport Country Club would host the first U. S. Amateur Championship, confined strictly to amateurs, and the first U. S. Open Championship, for professionals and amateurs, in 1895. In addition, the representatives formed the Amateur Golf Association to administer the national amateur championship and the Rules of Golf for the United States. Soon afterwards the name changed to the United States Golf Association (USGA) to order to include both amateurs and professionals, and Havemeyer became the USGA's first president. The U. S. Amateur trophy is named in his honor.
The U. S. Open started as almost an afterthought. It took place the day after the U. S. Amateur at the Newport Golf Club in 1895. Both tournaments were originally scheduled for September but were pushed back to October so as not to interfere with the America's Cup yacht races, a more established Newport competition. The first U. S. Open unfolded over a nine-hole course at the Club in a single day. Ten professionals and one amateur competed in the 36-hole competition for an overall purse of $335 and a $50 gold medal. Englishman Horace Rawlins won the first tournament and the grand sum of $150, plus the gold medal. By contrast, 2016 winner Dustin Johnson took home $1.8 million.
Because Rawlins was an assistant golf pro at the Newport Golf Club, the Club received the USGA-sponsored Open Championship Cup trophy. Winners of the U. S. Open today take possession of the trophy until the next Open when it must be returned to USGA officials.
For a decade and a half British professionals won the U. S. Open Championship, but in 1911 John J. McDermott became the first American winner. McDermott accomplished the feat again the next year before American amateur Francis Ouimet pulled off one of the greatest upsets in sports history. At the Country Club of Brookline in 1913, Ouimet defeated in a playoff arguably the world's best professional golfers of the day–Britain's Harry Vardon and Ted Ray. Considered one of the great upsets in sports history, Ouimet's victory spurred an interest in golf in the United States that eventually would lead to the obsession that it is today. After Ouimet's triumph, the sport moved from that of the ultra-rich to a game shared by people from many different socio-economic levels. According to USGA historian Michael Trostel, Ouimet's conquest prompted the addition of about two million Americans to the list of golf participants over the next decade. Also, more golf courses, both public and private, emerged in the United States to meet the demand.
The prestige of the U. S. Open grew rapidly and players from around the world competed for one of its coveted spots. The USGA began sectional qualifying in 1924 to meet the demand. The tournament 's and the sport's popularity skyrocketed again in the 1920s as amateur Bobby Jones won three U. S. Open titles and then a fourth in 1930 on his way to winning the Grand Slam–U. S. Open, British Open, U. S. Amateur and British Amateur. Only five amateurs have ever won the U. S. Open: Jones, Ouimet, Jerome D. Travers (1915), Charles Evans, Jr. ( 1916), and John Goodman (1933).
The design of the U. S. Open courses over time has allowed only the best to win the tournament, and amateurs now have very little chance. The courses today generally are very long with narrow fairways and high primary rough around those fairways. They also generally include undulating greens. An example of such greens can be found at Pinehurst No. 2, of which NBC analyst Johnny Miller compares trying to land a shot on the greens to "trying to hit a ball on top of a VW Beetle." The vast majority of U. S. Open courses play at par 70. All of these elements normally lead to a winning score somewhere close to par. Because of this the U. S. Open has the reputation as the most difficult of the four majors–U. S. Open, British Open, the Masters, and PGA Championship–to play.
The U. S. Open format has changed several times since the inaugural tournament in 1895. In 1896, the championship became a 72-hole contest with 36 holes played each day for two successive days. The format changed again in 1926 with participants playing 18 holes for two successive days, then 36 holes the next day. The current format took hold in 1965 as the contestants began to play 18 holes over four successive days.
Ties after 72 holes are decided by the players involved playing an additional 18 holes the next day. If after 18 holes a champion has not been crowned then sudden death ensues. The first player to win a hole outright is declared the winner. The U. S. Open is the only major that uses this playoff format.
While the U. S. Open's four-day format provided more exposure for the tournament, television helped launch it to new levels of popularity beginning with ABC's live coverage of the final two rounds in 1977, then ESPN's live coverage of the first two rounds in 1982. NBC became the first network to provide live television coverage of all four rounds. Currently, Fox Sports televises the four-day spectacle.
Four men who have won the U. S. Open four times: Willie Anderson (1901, 1903, 1904, and 1905), Bobby Jones (1923, 1926, 1929, and 1930), Ben Hogan (1948, 1950, 1951, and 1953), and Jack Nicklaus (1962, 1967, 1972, and 1980). The United States has produced 82 U. S. Open champions with the rest of the 34 winners divided among England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, and Argentina.
Fifty-one private and public courses have hosted the 116 U. S. Opens—Oakmont Country Club in Oakmont, Pennsylvania has hosted 9; Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield, New Jersey boasts 7; Oakland Hills Country Club in Bloomfield Township, Michigan can claim 6; while Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York; Merion Golf Club in Haverford Township, Pennsylvania; The Olympic Club in San Francisco, California; and Pebble Beach Golf Links in Pebble Beach, California have all hosted 5 U. S. Opens. The 117th edition will be played at Erin Hills, in Erin, Wisconsin, a public course.
Today, more than 9,000 golfers participate in sectional qualifiers across the world hoping to claim one of the available spots in the 156 player field. Qualifiers are open to men and women, both professional and amateurs. However, an amateur must have a USGA Handicap Index no higher than 1.4 to participate in one of the sectionals.
After its meager beginnings in Newport in 1895 as a secondary sporting event, the U. S. Open now plays on some of the most majestic courses in America and holds the attention of the sporting world for four days in June every year. Theodore Havemeyer would certainly be amazed at how the acorn he planted over 100 years ago has grown into the mighty oak that it is today.


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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Cheryl Simpson was supposed to be celebrating her 60th birthday over lunch with friends but instead found herself confined to her Auckland home.
The discovery of a single local COVID-19 case in New Zealand was enough for the government to put the entire country into strict lockdown this past week. While others might see that as draconian, New Zealanders generally support such measures because they worked so well in the past.
"I'm happy to go into lockdown, even though I don't like it," said Simpson, owner of a day care center for dogs that is now closed because of the precautions. She said she wants the country to crush the latest outbreak: "I'd like to knock the bloody thing on the head."
Elsewhere around the Pacific, though, Japan is resisting such measures in the face of a record-breaking surge, instead emphasizing its accelerating vaccine program. And Australia has fallen somewhere in the middle.
All three countries got through the first year of the pandemic in relatively good shape but are now taking diverging paths in dealing with outbreaks of the delta variant, the highly contagious form that has contributed to a growing sense that the coronavirus cannot be stamped out, just managed.
Professor Michael Baker, an epidemiologist at New Zealand's University of Otago, said countries around the world are struggling to adapt to the latest threat: "With the delta variant, the old rules just don't work."
The differing emphasis on lockdowns versus vaccines — and how effective such strategies prove to be in beating back the delta variant — could have far-reaching consequences for the three countries' economies and the health of their citizens.
Japan has never imposed lockdowns against the coronavirus. The public is wary of government overreach after the country's fascist period before and during World War II, and Japan's postwar constitution lays out strict protections for civil liberties.
Before the delta variant, the country managed to keep a lid on coronavirus outbreaks in part because many people in Japan were already used to wearing surgical masks for protection from spring allergies or when they caught colds.
Now, almost everyone on public transportation wears a mask during commuting hours. But late at night, people tend to uncover in restaurants and bars, which has allowed the variant to spread. Hosting the Tokyo Olympic Games didn't help either.
While strict protocols kept infections inside the games to a minimum, experts such as Dr. Shigeru Omi, a key medical adviser to the government, say the Olympics created a festive air that led people in Japan to lower their guard.
New cases in Japan have this month leaped to 25,000 each day, more than triple the highest previous peak. Omi considers that a disaster.
Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga on Friday expanded and extended a state of emergency covering Tokyo and other areas until at least mid-September, though most of the restrictions aren't legally enforceable.
Many governors are urging the prime minister to consider much tougher restrictions. But Suga said lockdowns have been flouted around the world, and vaccines are "the way to go."
Daily vaccinations in Japan increased tenfold from May to June as thousands of worksites and colleges began offering shots, but a slow start has left the nation playing catch-up. Only about 40% of people are fully vaccinated.
In Australia, a delta outbreak hit Sydney in June, after an unvaccinated limousine driver became infected while transporting a U.S. cargo air crew from the Sydney Airport. State authorities hesitated for 10 days before imposing lockdown measures across Sydney that have now dragged on for two months.
Early in the pandemic, Australia's federal government imposed just one nationwide lockdown. Now, amid the delta outbreak, it is pursuing a strategy it calls aggressive suppression — including strict controls on Australians leaving the country and foreigners entering — but is essentially letting state leaders call the shots.
New infections in Sydney have climbed from just a few each week before the latest outbreak to more than 800 a day.
"It's not possible to eliminate it completely. We have to learn to live with it," Gladys Berejiklian, premier of Sydney's New South Wales state, said in what many interpreted as a significant retreat from the determination state leaders have previously shown to crush outbreaks entirely.
"That is why we have a dual strategy in New South Wales," Berejiklian said. "Get those case numbers down, vaccination rates up. We have to achieve both in order for us to live freely into the future."
The outbreak in Sydney has spilled over into the capital, Canberra, which has also gone into lockdown. Government worker Matina Carbone wore a mask while shopping on Friday.
"I don't know that anyone's ever going to really beat delta," she said. "I think we just have to try and increase our rates of vaccinations and slowly open things up when we think it's safe to do so."
But Australia lags far behind even Japan in getting people inoculated, with just 23% of people fully vaccinated.
Last year, soon after the pandemic first hit, neighboring New Zealand imposed a strict, nationwide lockdown and closed its border to non-residents. That wiped out the virus completely. The country of 5 million has been able to vanquish each outbreak since, recording just 26 virus deaths.
It went six months without a single locally spread case, allowing people to go about their daily lives much as they had before the pandemic.
But this month, the Sydney outbreak spread to New Zealand, carried by a returning traveler.
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern promptly imposed the strictest form of lockdown.
By Sunday, the number of locally spread cases in New Zealand had grown to 72, and the virus had reached the capital, Wellington. Officials raced to track 10,000 more people who might have been exposed.
Ardern has been steadfast.
"We have been here before. We know the elimination strategy works. Cases rise, and then they fall, until we have none," she said. "It's tried and true. We just need to stick it out."
Baker, the epidemiologist, said he believes it is still possible for New Zealand to wipe out the virus again by pursuing the "burning ember" approach of taking drastic measures to stamp out the first sign of an outbreak.
That remains to be seen.
New Zealand doesn't have much of a Plan B. A recent report by expert advisers to the government noted the nation has comparatively few intensive care hospital beds and said an outbreak could quickly overwhelm the health system.
And New Zealand has been the slowest developed nation to put shots in arms, with just 20% of people fully vaccinated.
Yamaguchi reported from Tokyo and McGuirk from Canberra, Australia.
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The certified school nurses in Delran Township Schools have a multitude of roles within the scope of their professional practice. It is our mission to ensure students remain healthy and ready to learn.
As school nurses we practice in a specialized area of nursing. Our roles have become increasingly complex. There are unique needs which each nurse must address in her own building. Yet, our primary goal remains the same. We seek to provide the necessary services to promote good health for our students. We want to ensure that a student's health concerns do not become obstacles for learning. Therefore, we monitor individual student's development. We intervene when actual potential health problems develop. We actively collaborate with our faculty, the child's family, the medical community, and community resources. We seek to provide a safe, caring and healthy environment. Through one on one teaching we strive to enable the student to make intelligent choices about his/her health.
While in school, basic nursing services provided to all students consists of taking part in a comprehensive health program which offers the following services: scoliosis screening, periodic vision, hearing, height, weight and blood pressure screenings by the school nurse. For any results that fall outside the range of set parameters, the student's parent/guardian is contacted. Medications are dispensed to students as per their physician's orders. First Aid is given to students who have minor injuries. Of course, parents are always contacted for emergencies or for any illnesses occurring in school.
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University of Adelaide researchers have invented a world-first tiny fibre-optic probe that can simultaneously measure temperature and see deep inside the body.
The probe may help researchers find better treatments to prevent drug-induced overheating of the brain, and potentially refine thermal treatment for cancers.
"With an outer diameter of only 130 microns, the probe is as thin as a single strand of human hair," says Dr Jiawen Li, a researcher with the Adelaide Medical School, ARC Centre of Excellence for Nanoscale Biophotonics (CNBP) and the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing (IPAS) at the University of Adelaide.
"This means it can be delivered deep inside the body in a minimally invasive way. It also allows us to see and record physiological data in real time that we weren't able to access before."
The miniaturised imaging and sensing probe has been developed to help study drug-induced hyperthermia.
"Using some drugs such as ecstasy can make certain brain regions overheat and then become damaged," Dr Li says.
"Using the probe's imaging function during experiments, our medical collaborators would be able to see deep inside the brain of a living organism and guide the placement of the probe to the right brain region."
"Then, they can use the probe's built-in thermometer to monitor any changes to the local temperature of that region."
This will allow researchers to: better understand how hyperthermia develops; test new medical treatments; or investigate the toxicology impacts of drug-taking.
The probe also has potential to provide insights into other diseases and treatments in other parts of the body, such as optimising thermal treatment of cancers.
While the first generation of the probe can both take images and measure temperature, Dr Li hopes future generations will take other measurements as well – such as pH values, oxygen saturation and accumulation of fat in arteries.
"This research is an example of the inspiring transdisciplinary culture nurtured at IPAS and CNBP to enable new tools not possible within a single discipline," says Professor Heike Ebendorff-Heidepriem, the Deputy Director of IPAS.
"IPAS and CNBP has world-class expertise in photonics, and Adelaide has a large number of medical researchers that allows us to explore new ways to use light-based technologies," says Professor Robert McLaughlin, Chair of Biophotonics at the University of Adelaide.
"It makes South Australia an exciting place to explore the overlap of technology and medicine."
Dr Li's research has been published in the journal Optics Letters. Dr Li was a South Australian finalist in Fresh Science, a national program that helps early-career researchers find and share their stories of discovery.


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Isa Burke, Mali Obomsawin and Eleanor Buckland all work together. And like many people, they pivoted to remote work last year when the pandemic arrived.
ELEANOR BUCKLAND: It was a lot of sending files back and forth and FaceTime calls.
MALI OBOMSAWIN: We all had to sort of relocate and move out of the cities that we lived in during the pandemic. And I had just moved out of New York City.
ISA BURKE: I'm no longer in Nashville, for the record (laughter). We would send each other, like, our thoughts on what the others had written. But we also had some kind of regularly scheduled calls to, like, check in and talk about different songs that we were working on.
KELLY: That's right. The work that Isa, Mali and Eleanor happened to do together is a band, a folk trio called Lula Wiles.
LULA WILES: (Singing) And we could talk on the phone all night. Maybe we could get it right.
KELLY: Eventually, they did form a quarantine pod. And for a few weeks last summer, they moved into a farmhouse-turned-studio in rural Maine. That's where they all grew up. They brought their Google Docs and their voice memos, and they made an album.
BURKE: It was a strange way to make a record, but I think it yielded some really cool stuff that we might not have thought of.
KELLY: The record is called "Shame And Sedition." Like all their work, it draws from a long tradition of folk music as protest. And as it turned out when they gathered at that farmhouse last June, there was a lot for them to sing about.
BURKE: I think a lot of this record was made from a confrontational, uncomfortable space in which transformation was happening. There's so many elements of that that, I think, you have to kind of really do some excavating within yourself before you can try to create change out in the world.
LULA WILES: (Singing) Everybody wants to be connected to something bigger. All in all they want their paradise to grow to such a figure. It's improbable.
BURKE: Do you want to jump in, Mali?
OBOMSAWIN: Yeah, I was just going to say also in the particular time period when we were recording, we recorded, you know, over the weekend of Juneteenth and, you know, the week surrounding that. And obviously, at that point, George Floyd had been murdered, and the Black Lives Matter uprisings and protests were, like, in full swing throughout the summer. You know, even before, I guess, the actions of the summer and the spring, we were really in that space of trying to confront within ourselves what our blind spots are and what privileges we all hold, respectively.
KELLY: So point me toward a song where we hear this playing out.
BUCKLAND: Could we talk about "Television" for a moment?
KELLY: Yeah.
LULA WILES: (Singing) Everybody's buying when they're selling division, and it's all waiting for you on your television.
BUCKLAND: This is Eleanor speaking. And I had a very chaotic document of some scrambled lyrics. And so we wrote the song over the weekend, and it was recorded by Wednesday. And it was this really intense experience of creating that.
LULA WILES: (Singing) The riveting show.
KELLY: I'm struck by a couple of things, one very specific line and very not scrambled lyric, who points the camera? Who points the gun?
LULA WILES: (Singing) Who points the camera? Who points the gun?
OBOMSAWIN: I think that often, the media does a lot of curating of what exactly is seen and how things are presented, and I really wanted to talk about that in an explicit way. You know, during those - the BLM uprisings and everything, we saw the phone recordings - right? - of people taking it into their own hands to try to document injustices that are happening. And then the media came back a lot of times with, you know, explicit footage of cops kneeling and, you know, cops hugging protesters and all this stuff. And I think it's the marriage of the media and law enforcement.
KELLY: The very first song on this album, "In Dreams" - I read that it was inspired by James Baldwin.
LULA WILES: (Singing) How am I supposed to know what to do with it, what to say, what to play up or play down? Ooh (ph), freedom.
OBOMSAWIN: So this is Mali speaking. I wrote that song. The song was really inspired by actually going down the YouTube rabbit hole of watching a lot of James Baldwin speeches. I think I said this in a quote. So I don't mean to quote myself.
BUCKLAND: (Laughter).
OBOMSAWIN: But I think I just said it the right way that time that he had such an incredible way of expressing profane realities, right? And I feel as an Indigenous woman, an Abenaki woman, I experience a lot of profane realities and cognitive dissonances.
KELLY: Mali, you are Native American. The other two of you are white. And I raise that because your writing and singing about, you know, race and protest to do with race and this whole national reckoning that's been underway. And I wonder how each of you thought about your road to engaging in that national conversation. Like, how do you find a toehold in?
BUCKLAND: This is Eleanor speaking, and I'm so glad you asked that question. And I think definitely a big part of this record - this idea of being in the space of discomfort, of growing and really looking at oneself. And, yeah, as you say, I'm white, and Isa is white, and we both have really wanted to not take up the microphone and space of telling stories that aren't our own but trying to support and uplift those stories. And, you know, as a band, that's really important to us.
LULA WILES: (Singing) I would take you there. I would make you care about people like me and my friends. Do you really want the world to end? Do you...
BURKE: This is Isa speaking. I think that for me and I think for Eleanor, too, like, one thing that I come back to a lot is that, like, I'm really - you know, I'm really grateful to Mali for how gracious she has been in, like, educating her white bandmates. There's so much that I didn't know. In the way that I present myself publicly, I don't ever want to act like I'm an expert on anything really (laughter).
BUCKLAND: Yeah. If I can jump in - this is Eleanor. I agree with everything Isa said. And I think it's not just as well, like, publicly but also in our interpersonal lives, it's really trying to take accountability for those things I've done in the past and might continue to do and that it's not about never being wrong. It's always about learning and acknowledging that harm potentially.
KELLY: Well, this was a pleasure. Thank you, all three of you, for taking the time and talking to us.
BURKE: Thank you so much for having us.
OBOMSAWIN: I really appreciate.
BUCKLAND: Thank you.
KELLY: Eleanor Buckland, Isa Burke and Mali Obomsawin - they make up the band Lula Wiles. Their new album is called "Shame And Sedition." It's out tomorrow on Smithsonian Folkways.
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Woman drove around for days in Alaska with husband's body in casket
KETCHIKAN, Alaska (AP) - A woman who drove her husband's body on a days-long traveling wake in Alaska and used ice from canneries to keep him cold is not accused of breaking any laws.
Officers responded to a call last week to find the body of a 78-year-old man inside an aluminum transport casket.
Ketchikan Police Chief Alan Bengaard told the Ketchikan Daily News that the woman stopped at canneries for ice to put in the truck bed during the "rolling wake."
The man had died of natural causes.
A mortuary took custody of the body after the authorities were called.
The family can make further arrangements.
Bengaard said hopefully the woman won't take her husband back out on the road, but that he wasn't aware of any laws she had broken.


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There's something to be said for Euros Childs' bloody-minded determination to foist his music on the world. To the casual listener he may appear laid back, in-thrall to the easy life, happy to let his unorthodox words and somber pop tunes land in the laps of a small band of devotees. The reality is quite different. This is Childs' fifth album in three years, released for free on his website after various dalliances with major record companies and high profile indie labels came to an end. A lack of commercial success and dwindling resources have been swept aside, with the former Gorky's Zygotic Mynci frontman picking up keyboards from car boot sales to get the job done.
Like his other solo ventures, a direct lineage can be traced from Childs' earliest musical excursions to Son of Euro Child. He continues to dabble in multi-part Beach Boys harmonies (the mid section of 'How Do You Do') and lyrics that accommodate crackpot conceits and touchingly affectionate observations on life and love. His jokey lyrical abstractions sometimes inspire and occasionally irritate, but he lays them over a pleasingly diverse expanse of music, which is principally drawn from his now-familiar love of folk, krautrock, and the tab-of-acid-and-a-cup-of-tea eccentricity of the fabled Canterbury scene.
The coiling keyboard riffs of the opening 'Carrboro' and the later 'Rat-Clock' could easily have been pulled from Stereolab's Mars Audiac Quintet, and are escorted by precise Klaus Dinger drums from guest player Pete Richardson. The album is divided between compositions that lean heavily on the keyboards Childs extracted from his rummaging and pieces that are more guitar-oriented. It sounds like he turned to the second side of Bowie's Low for inspiration on a couple of tracks, notably 'The Dog', which is an anesthetized one-note hymn, and 'The Fairy Feller's Masterstroke', which borrows its title from an old Queen song.
The latter is among the most seductive pieces here, demonstrating Childs' lightness of touch as he combines heartsick piano with a looped sample that sounds like a distant warning signal from a vessel lost at sea. Its disconsolate beauty makes Son of Euro Child worth the (free) price of admission. But Childs loves to temper the balmy with the barmy, and so it goes as he asks, "Do you like mayonnaise? I like mayonnaise," on the Frank Sidebottom-eque Bontempi pop of 'Like This Then Try This'. Sadly, Timperley doesn't get a mention, but the song does demonstrate his propensity for matching sanguine melodies with bleak lyrical notions, only to swing in a drastically different direction as the song progresses. Childs only announces his love for his favourite salad condiment after he declares "life is detritus" earlier in the track.
Much of Son of Euro Child sticks to this path of oddball melancholia, occasionally spilling over into outright silliness ("Don't you wish your fridge was as cool as me?" he asks on 'Look at my Boots') but with enough musical digression to keep it palatable. 'Harp i a ii AR #1' is a satisfying departure into Kurt Weill influenced oom-pah, which ends with a recorder solo ripped straight from the dusty surroundings of a high school music class, while 'Shithausen' and 'Son of Shithausen' are led by whooshing ghost train vocals and bloopy synth noise. His work on sequencing the album, a skill rapidly decelerating as the iTunes store exerts a vice-like grip on the music industry, is impeccable.
Anyone looking for Mynci-esque pop thrills will find them scattered throughout, particularly in 'How Do You Do', with its escalating ooh-ooh backing vocals and lyrics about Childs' desire to have a monkey shit in someone's shoes. The jumble of words he tries to squeeze into 'My Baby Joy' makes him sound like a male counterpart to the Fiery Furnaces' Eleanor Friedberger — a band on a similar career arc to Childs, with both making impeccably crafted idiosyncratic pop for ever-dwindling audiences. And, like the Furnaces' recent work, Son of Euro Child is a small wonder, a chance to experience an off-kilter slant on the world for 40 minutes, which bustles with musical invention, is full of irregular observations and peculiar characters, but seems destined to fall just out of reach of the wider audience it truly deserves.
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I'm in love with Good Old Games. They distribute classic PC titles, getting them running on modern operating systems, bundled with extras, and all without DRM.
What I like most about it, though, is that GOG is up there with Valve in its efforts to make Mac gaming less of a wasteland. When it comes to retro computer games, DOS isn't too much of a hurdle because the hardware requirements are trivial and apps like Boxer make emulation simple, but the Windows ultra-dominance of the late 90s through late 2000s are a dark spot. If you have fond memories of a PC game of that era and it's not from Blizzard or id, odds are it didn't get a Mac release.
I recently noticed that GOG was offering Mac versions of PC-only Black Isle RPGs like Planescape: Torment. My curiosity over what witchcraft was enabling this led me to Wineskin, which now has me running stuff like RollerCoaster Tycoon natively in OS X. And it works with basically anything short of the latest and greatest. Here's how it's done.
You will need…
- Your PC game
- Wineskin Winery (download)
- Enough hard drive space for the install plus about 150MB
A little background
I'm going to be doing this with the GOG version of RollerCoaster Tycoon. GOG makes it easier because the games are mostly a single installer and have no DRM to worry about, but disc-based games can be done too by copying the contents of the disc to a folder on your computer, so do that first. As long as the game doesn't require anything newer than DirectX 9.0 or host particularly invasive DRM (e.g. StarForce), chances are it'll work.
This all works using Wine, with Wineskin bundling the installed game and a Wine compatibility layer in one Mac app. It's not emulation, strictly speaking, so what you're getting is a Windows game running at native speed on OS X.
Getting started
Fire up Wineskin Winery. You'll first need to download an appropriate engine for the game you're running, but thankfully people will have done the legwork for you. The Wine Application Database is where users document their experiences of running software with different Wine engines, and its entry on Rollercoaster Tycoon notes that the GOG version runs with platinum compatibility ("flawlessly") on 1.6.2. Therefore that's the version I'm going to download.
With that downloaded and the latest wrapper downloaded, hit the 'Create New Blank Wrapper' button and give your new app a name. In this case, I creatively opt for 'Rollercoaster Tycoon'.
Let the process run. It may ask you to download a version of Mono and/or the Gecko engine. Old games will almost certainly not need Mono but may use Gecko; use your own judgement, or just go ahead and install them since it'll ensure a trouble-free conversion.
When it's finished, click 'Show Wrapper in Finder' and you'll be presented with a generic Wineskin app, ready to be turned into your chosen game.
Run this new app to be presented with the following window.
Click 'Install Software', then 'Choose Setup Executable', and point it at the installer from GOG. This is where things start to look interesting.
That looks suspiciously like a Windows installer on a Mac, doesn't it?
Once the installation process is complete, resist the temptation to play the game for now and click 'Exit'. You'll see the following window, which lets you tell your Wineskin which executable it should run on launch. In this case it's correct and I've never seen it need changing, so go ahead and click OK.
The Advanced menu that you can see mentioned can be accessed by right-clicking the newly created app in the Finder, clicking 'Show Package Contents', and then double-clicking the Wineskin icon in the resulting folder. Among other things, this allows you to change the app icon; find an appropriate ICNS file from a site like VeryIcon and select it in there to get things looking more official (see right).
Isn't that a beautiful sight? You end up with a self-contained OS X app (by default located at ~/Applications/Wineskin), created through a process that works on basically any game. No fiddling with Boot Camp or Parallels to run an old favourite that hasn't been ported, and none of the performance penalty that comes from emulation. Lovely.


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7 Fitness Promotional Products to Help You Stay in Shape
Exercise is an important part of our overall wellness and many companies are using wellness initiatives to promote healthy choices like regular exercise. Whether your company is encouraging physical fitness or you're looking for giveaways for a fitness center, charity run, or for a school program there are plenty of promotional products that will fit your needs! Here are 7 of our favorite fitness products for an active and healthy lifestyle.
Biking Jersey
This cycling jersey is perfect for those who want to promote their brand in a high-quality way without sacrificing the comfort and performance. Your customers will be able to stay cool and show off your logo on even their longest rides thanks to these breathable jerseys.
Stretching Band
Create a streamlined branding experience with logoed exercise equipment, like these stretching bands, scattered throughout your gym! These useful products are small enough for customers to take them home and the resistance will help them achieve total body workouts.
Fitness Tracker
Branded pedometers are a popular promotional product for all types of companies, but are especially perfect for the fitness industry! More than just a stylish watch, the personalized fitness trackers will help athletes track their progress by counting steps, miles, kilometers, and calories burned.
Gym Backpack
Give customers something stylish they can use to carry their exercise equipment to and from the gym. You'll also have plenty of room on the backpack to promote your branding. The drawstrings make this bag easy to carry and adjust to any type of gym-goer.
Water Bottle
Custom water bottles are one of the most cost-effective giveaways you can purchase, and you'll be helping your customers stay hydrated while exercising. These reusable water bottles can replace disposable cups and bottles, saving your business money and helping the environment!
Protein Shaker Bottle
These protein shaker bottles include a ball to break up and disperse powders and other additives to keep shakes well-blended while your customers are on the go! Imprint your logo on the bottle, and connect with customers at health events, gyms, fitness clubs, sports leagues, and more.
Yoga Mat
Your customers will say "om" and stretch in style with these yoga mats. A branded yoga mat is the perfect promotional item for any gym, fitness class, wellness center, or yoga studio. Not to mention your customers will always remember your brand when they are in the downward facing dog pose.
Are you ready to get started with custom fitness products like these? We've got tons of ideas for your next campaign! Contact us today to get started.


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The key is to understand how behavior change happens. You've got to have the motivation, the ability to do the behavior and a prompt, says Fogg. "And the prompt is anything that reminds you to do this behavior now. And when those three things come together at the same moment, a behavior happens."
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