I've never tried it with sesame paste before. I don't think I've ever used sesame paste before. I like it sauteed or boiled with fresh sliced ginger! Hmm...I like romaine lettuce but I don't think it makes the top of my list. I actually like parsnip chips and I've had the best turnips in Scotland. I've had great turnip cake too. Otherwise, I'm not the hugest fan of those or radish. I don't like potatoes all that much either. I know what a kohlrabi looks like but I don't think I've tried it. Meh about squash and sweet potato? All squashes?? Or just some? I can understand about the sweet potato - I've only recently started to like it but it's really sweet. I prefer yams. I don't like bitter melon. Yuck!
What do you mean what's a MacBook? I would ask if you live in the woods but you do. But really Phae! I thought you knew everything! A MacBook is a line of Apple laptops.
I just mean Google's general philosophy of "Do no evil." They revolutionalized the idea of what a business should and needs to do - how a business should treat its employees, its consumers, its shareholders, everyone. They are sort of becoming more traditional but still, Apple is such a huge contrast to the Silicon Valley mindset. Steve Jobs breaks the rules without looking back and while there's something to say for that, the way he treats it is very off-putting.
The sesame paste I was thinking of is a black sesame paste mixed with tamari. My friend Tak likes to serve it with buckwheat soba, and it's very tasty!
Kohlrabi is the strangest vegetable I've ever eaten. It has a very strong, distinctive taste, and no matter how long you steam it, it never seems to stop being hard and crunchy. And it's just ... *shudder*
Oh, that MacBook! *feels sheepish* I thought you were talking about something new and unorthodox. I can never remember the foolish names they give these things. Every couple of years, there's a new one, and if not, I end up forgetting anyway because I'm so conditioned to thinking there will be. I'm not that familiar with Silicon Valley mindsets, but telling the Amoco bosses something about oil must've been the adventure of a lifetime.
Yeah, that Amoco thing didn't go so well. It wasn't terrible but I got nervous and I "um" a lot and we were out of time and I didn't get into downsides. Well, I can't let it get me down. I have a bunch of other stuff to do.
Oh, I just thought of you today because obviously, you work with editors and submit your work for publication and all that, right? What do you think of an author that has you read his 115 page article though he has already accepted an offer to publish in another journal? Yeah - loaded question I know. But when we asked him why he didn't withdraw his article, he says he normally doesn't do that.
Oh, multi-subbing. I don't do it because I like to stay on good terms with editors and it's a small world and your reputation gets out there. But it's a pretty common practice. It isn't fair to the editors, because by the time they fit it into their budget and make plans for how it will work with the art team and other articles, that's quite an investment. That said, some editors never respond to queries, even if they have no intention of publishing them, and will just leave writers hanging. So I put a sentence in toward the end of the query letter, "If I have not heard from you within x-time I will assume you are not interested and will submit the article elsewhere."
In my experience, if a writer gets caught multisubbing, their name is mud.
Common practice? Really? Well, we know articles are submitted elsewhere. We compete between journals all the time and *that's* fine. It's even fine for authors to come to us and ask for an expediate review because another journal has given them an offer but they might want to publish with us instead. What I found irritating is that his article was in the queue and was going to be read (we send out rejections and acceptances to ALL the articles submitted to us) and if he had accepted an offer - not just been given an offer - he should have withdrawn his article. I feel like this was a bit of battle for power which I'll have to go into later. Class time. Whee - how exciting...
I guess it depends on what type of publication you're working for. Peer-reviewed journals are a different kettle of fish than culture and lifestyle magazines. There tends to be a higher standard of professionalism with the editorial staff for one thing. Of course, at a national and international level, most magazines have tough standards. I don't bother sending out SASEs for magazine pitches because it's easier and more efficient to reach me by email, so perhaps I shouldn't really complain about not hearing back from editorial staff about rejected queries. Still, a lot of them couldn't be arsed to let me know even when I did include the extra postage. *shrugs*
What sort of articles do you publish?
I absolutely agree with you that your cowardly writer should've withdrawn his submission. It's fairly common to withdraw subs for circumstances which have nothing to do with who is publishing the article; I just had to kill a story, for example, that was lined up for this June(!) because it centered around an event that suddenly wasn't going to happen this year. That was awful and I will be lucky if that editor hires me to write another story again, because an entire issue is usually developed around a central theme and, now, one of the main structural supports has disappeared. Things like that happen.
I'm sorry to hear about your article. That's a shame but surely the editor will understand? It's not your fault that extenuating circumstances have killed your story! I would understand that! If you ever want to publish something about the environment...hehe... (I don't think we pay though! It's that abstract prestige thing...useless!)
I could write you a hell of an article on the history of the Columbia River Treaty (starting with the Ktunaxa and Sinixt Nations) and the issue of fresh water ownership in the age of global warming. The Sinixt, for example, were declared extinct by the Canadian Department of Indian Affairs back in the 1960s because their original land claim encompasses Canadian and American lands. I could cite the MLA for Kootenay West, Corky Evans, an expat American and one of the initial founders of the Kootenay-Columbia Basin Trust Fund, but I don't know enough about US jurisprudence to publish it in an American Law review. Know anyone with that expertise who might be interested in a partnership?
Global warming and water ownership and Indian affairs? I think that sounds like a terribly interesting topic! If you're serious, I may know a few people I can ask...
I'm caught in a bit of a dilemna with it, frankly. Very interesting subject, yes! Very topical and potentially volatile. But since it encompasses topics which have a tendency to spra-a-awl, it will need to be reined in: I wouldn't want to have to validate the existence of global warming, for one thing; I am not a scientist. So the article would address that aspect of the subject as though the community at large generally accepts the reality of global warming, and the scientific community is measuring its impact upon the environment with several aims: to determine and allocate existing resources, to lessen harm, and if possible, to ameliorate negative effects. The article would deal with the first of these three aspect.
Whether or not one accepts the veracity of global warming, there are photographs which document the shrinkage of glaciers, a major water source, since 1950. It is in secondary resources, watersheds, annual precipitation, absorption, snowpack and meltwater that the water management issue becomes muddied.
The Columbia Treaty itself was hammered out between "Wacky" Bill Bennett, then-premier of the Social Credit government and agents of the Roosevelt government during the 1930's. In Canada, natural resources come under provincial jurisdiction. The entire system of dams in Columbia-Kootenay Basin was part of Roosevelt's New Deal. The treaty comes up for renegotiation in 3 years.
The tie-ins with First Nations settlements is another matter. I will skim over it in the next post.
Marilyn James is the official Canadian spokesperson of the Sinixt tribe whose traditional lands encompassed the Slocan Valley in southcentral British Columbia, the conjunction of the Columbia-Kootenay Rivers at Castlegar, over the Blueberry-Paulsen range and into the States. I'm not sure where their lands extend in Idaho/Washington, although I believe they were centered around Colville down to the Pend Oreille region.
David Thompson's journals establish that the Columbia River region which loops south of Tobacco Plains, which horseshoes around to Bonner's Ferry in the US, and the entire east shore of Kootenay Lake, the Purcell range, the Kootenay National Park, Windermere Lake and so on was traditionally Ktunaxa and Flathead country, although there were Peigan and Siksika (spelling?) incursions.
The Crowsnest Pass area was Peigan/Blackfoot territory.
The Department of Indian and Northern Affairs is administrated by the national government in Canada, not provincial, and many land claims settlements are in dispute.
The gist of the Sinixt claim is thus: Back in the 1950s, the last Canadian Sinixt recorded in the Dept. of Indian Affairs census died. The nation was declared extinct. A group of American Sinixt immigrated into the Slocan Valley and protested the designation. They claim that their tribe had migrated over traditional lands for centuries and they saw the international border as an arbitrary designation that had nothing to do with them. The Canadian government had no business to declare them extinct when they were simply living in the American portion of their traditional lands. To date, the Canadian government has dismissed the validity of their claim.
The Slocan Valley, which is the area they claim, is a major river/lake system in the heart of the Columbia Basin of Canada.
*laughs* I don't think you need to validate the existence of global warming anymore - at least, in certain circles you don't. If I got an article on that, I would send it straight into the reject pile if it doesn't have more to say for itself. Having said that, if there's contentious scientific issues happening at the core of the matter, there needs to be some discussion of the science. Most of our authors are professors and practioners - and no, that doesn't mean they always get the science and to a certain degree you don't need to but it certainly helps. If there's some material you need to go over, I can see if I can help. A university once gave me a paper that said I've accumulated enough knowledge in physical science to have a degree. But if it's biology stuff, I may understand it as much as you do.
As far as what our board is interested in, we alway always check (and I hate doing this, I'm awful at it and it takes forever) make sure that no one has ever made the same argument before. We look at things people in the field would cite and find useful and we look for something that is innovative and pushes legal scholarship forward. Not even seasoned law professors submit articles like this. Of course there needs to be a tie with US law for it to be in a US law journal. *scratches head* This would likely require collaboration with some US practioner or academic for practical and "ivory tower" reasons. I wonder if what you have would fit for our online publication...
I'm going to send you the link. *laughs* I should've done it before.
What do you mean what's a MacBook? I would ask if you live in the woods but you do. But really Phae! I thought you knew everything! A MacBook is a line of Apple laptops.
I just mean Google's general philosophy of "Do no evil." They revolutionalized the idea of what a business should and needs to do - how a business should treat its employees, its consumers, its shareholders, everyone. They are sort of becoming more traditional but still, Apple is such a huge contrast to the Silicon Valley mindset. Steve Jobs breaks the rules without looking back and while there's something to say for that, the way he treats it is very off-putting.
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Kohlrabi is the strangest vegetable I've ever eaten. It has a very strong, distinctive taste, and no matter how long you steam it, it never seems to stop being hard and crunchy. And it's just ... *shudder*
Oh, that MacBook! *feels sheepish* I thought you were talking about something new and unorthodox. I can never remember the foolish names they give these things. Every couple of years, there's a new one, and if not, I end up forgetting anyway because I'm so conditioned to thinking there will be. I'm not that familiar with Silicon Valley mindsets, but telling the Amoco bosses something about oil must've been the adventure of a lifetime.
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Oh, I just thought of you today because obviously, you work with editors and submit your work for publication and all that, right? What do you think of an author that has you read his 115 page article though he has already accepted an offer to publish in another journal? Yeah - loaded question I know. But when we asked him why he didn't withdraw his article, he says he normally doesn't do that.
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In my experience, if a writer gets caught multisubbing, their name is mud.
Does that answer your question?
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What sort of articles do you publish?
I absolutely agree with you that your cowardly writer should've withdrawn his submission. It's fairly common to withdraw subs for circumstances which have nothing to do with who is publishing the article; I just had to kill a story, for example, that was lined up for this June(!) because it centered around an event that suddenly wasn't going to happen this year. That was awful and I will be lucky if that editor hires me to write another story again, because an entire issue is usually developed around a central theme and, now, one of the main structural supports has disappeared. Things like that happen.
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Whether or not one accepts the veracity of global warming, there are photographs which document the shrinkage of glaciers, a major water source, since 1950. It is in secondary resources, watersheds, annual precipitation, absorption, snowpack and meltwater that the water management issue becomes muddied.
The Columbia Treaty itself was hammered out between "Wacky" Bill Bennett, then-premier of the Social Credit government and agents of the Roosevelt government during the 1930's. In Canada, natural resources come under provincial jurisdiction. The entire system of dams in Columbia-Kootenay Basin was part of Roosevelt's New Deal. The treaty comes up for renegotiation in 3 years.
The tie-ins with First Nations settlements is another matter. I will skim over it in the next post.
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David Thompson's journals establish that the Columbia River region which loops south of Tobacco Plains, which horseshoes around to Bonner's Ferry in the US, and the entire east shore of Kootenay Lake, the Purcell range, the Kootenay National Park, Windermere Lake and so on was traditionally Ktunaxa and Flathead country, although there were Peigan and Siksika (spelling?) incursions.
The Crowsnest Pass area was Peigan/Blackfoot territory.
The Department of Indian and Northern Affairs is administrated by the national government in Canada, not provincial, and many land claims settlements are in dispute.
The gist of the Sinixt claim is thus: Back in the 1950s, the last Canadian Sinixt recorded in the Dept. of Indian Affairs census died. The nation was declared extinct. A group of American Sinixt immigrated into the Slocan Valley and protested the designation. They claim that their tribe had migrated over traditional lands for centuries and they saw the international border as an arbitrary designation that had nothing to do with them. The Canadian government had no business to declare them extinct when they were simply living in the American portion of their traditional lands. To date, the Canadian government has dismissed the validity of their claim.
The Slocan Valley, which is the area they claim, is a major river/lake system in the heart of the Columbia Basin of Canada.
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As far as what our board is interested in, we alway always check (and I hate doing this, I'm awful at it and it takes forever) make sure that no one has ever made the same argument before. We look at things people in the field would cite and find useful and we look for something that is innovative and pushes legal scholarship forward. Not even seasoned law professors submit articles like this. Of course there needs to be a tie with US law for it to be in a US law journal. *scratches head* This would likely require collaboration with some US practioner or academic for practical and "ivory tower" reasons. I wonder if what you have would fit for our online publication...
I'm going to send you the link. *laughs* I should've done it before.
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