Actually , we have gotten about the right amount of rain; unfortunately it all came in one week--hence River rose 3 cm since Friday

That would explain my wet feet after cycling the high level bridge this morning.

To be honest, I wouldn't have thought of conference presentations as skirting close to plagiarism, though I suppose I could see how the argument could be made for it. But it does seem like research evolves and changes even when the same material is presented - going back and forth with you on my paper, for example, has resulted in some pretty major revisions being made. Do I need to reference that? I don't think so, but...?

Interesting that simultaneous submissions in the academic world are discouraged so strongly. In the fiction world, sim-subs are similarly discouraged, but it's an accepted practice among writers. Most of us - I won't say if I do or not, and most writers would follow the same practice - do submit to multiple markets even when guidelines state that you can't, and the rationale writers give each other is that editorial decisions can take months (sometimes several years). If you do it, you have to keep very careful records and pull pieces from consideration as soon as an acceptance is received. Some markets allow sim-subs but with the stipulation that you'll notify them if the material is accepted elsewhere. I'm a slush reader for a literary magazine, and though very few of the submissions are marked as a sim-sub, I'd be willing to lay good money on virtually all of them being out at other markets.

The academic market must be different, I imagine - peer-review probably takes longer and more resources and there are probably more fiction slush readers than there are for, say, Wiley's. But if it takes just as long to get a decision, it wouldn't surprise me if articles start to 'accidentally' be sent out to more than one market.

Far out! Footage from a 1994 TVO spot on raves, reaching back to when I was just starting to figure out the scene (though I never saw this at the time).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEmO2qpBTog

Friending TRIP on Facebook has been nothing but a plus.