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Tutorial 29, Appendix B: good, bad, and ugly titles of Matt's papers
February 26, 2015
Last October, Mike posted a tutorial on how to choose a paper title, then followed it up by evaluating the titles of his own papers. He invited me to do the same for my papers. I waited a few days to allow myself to forget Mike's comments on our joint papers – not too hard during my fall anatomy teaching – and then wrote down my thoughts.
And then did nothing with them for three and a half months.
The other day I rediscovered that draft and thought, hey, I don't remember anything I wrote back then, I should redo the experiment and see if my evaluations will be consistent. And this time without looking at Mike's post at all, so the risk of contamination would be even lower.
BUT FIRST I thought I should write down what I admire in paper titles, so I could see whether my titles actually lived up to my ideals. So now we can compare:
- what I say I like in paper titles;
- what I actually titled my papers;
- what I had to say about my titles last October;
- what I have to say about them now;
- and, for some of my papers, what Mike had to say about them.
What I Admire In Paper Titles
Brevity. I first became consciously aware of the value of concise titles when I read Knut Schmidt-Nielsen's autobiography, The Camel's Nose, in 2004 or 2005. (Short-short review: most of the book is a narrative about scientific questions and it's great, the self-congratulatory chapters near the end are much less interesting. Totally worth reading, especially since used copies can be had for next to nothing.) Schmidt-Nielsen said he always preferred short, simple titles. Short titles are usually punchy and hard to misunderstand. And I like titles that people can remember, and a short title is easier to recall than a long one.
Impact. In short, maximum information transfer using the minimum number of words. This is a separate point from sheer brevity; a paper can have a short title that doesn't actually tell you very much. But brevity helps, because it's difficult to compose a long title that really hits hard. Whatever impact a title might have, it will diluted by every extraneous word.
Full sentences as titles. This is taking the information-transfer aspect of the last admirable quality to its logical extreme, although often at the expense of brevity. I was heavily influenced here by two things that happened while I was at Berkeley. First, I taught for a year in an NSF GK-12 program, where graduate students went out into local elementary, middle, and high schools and taught biology enrichment classes. One thing that was drilled into us during that experience is that we were teaching concepts, which ideally would be expressed as complete sentences. Also about that same time I read James Valentine's book On the Origin of Phyla. The table of contents of that book is several pages long, because every chapter title, heading, and subheading is a complete sentence. This has a lovely effect: once you've read the table of contents of the book or any of its parts, you've gotten the TL;DR version of the argument. Sort of like a distributed abstract. I'd like to do that more.
How Did I Do?
Time to see if my actions match my words. Full bibliographic details and PDFs are available on my publications page. I stuck with Mike's red-blue-green color scheme for the verdicts. My October 2014 and February 2015 thoughts are labeled. For joint papers with Mike, I've copied his assessment in as well. Any comments in brackets are my editorializing now, comparing what I said in October to what I said a few days ago before I'd looked back at my old comments or Mike's.
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Sauroposeidon proteles, a new sauropod from the Early Cretaceous of Oklahoma. (11 words)
Oct 2014: Like it. Short, to the point, includes the taxon name.
Feb 2015: Good, gets the job done with a minimum of fuss
Osteology, paleobiology, and relationships of the sauropod dinosaur Sauroposeidon. (9 words)
Oct 2014: This title was inspired by the papers from the early 20th century
Feb 2015: It gets the job done, I suppose. I can't help but wonder if there might have been a more elegant solution. Part of my unease is that this title is an example of the same attitude that produced the next monstrosity.
Osteological correlates of cervical musculature in Aves and Sauropoda (Dinosauria: Saurischia), with comments on the cervical ribs of Apatosaurus. (19 words)
Oct 2014: Ugh. It gets the job done, I suppose, but it's waaaay long and just kind of ugly.
Feb 2015: Ugh. Waaay too wordy. I had a (fortunately brief) fascination with long titles, and especially the phrase, "with comments on". Now I would cut it down to "Bony correlates of neck muscles in birds and sauropod dinosaurs" (10 words)
Vertebral pneumaticity, air sacs, and the physiology of sauropod dinosaurs. (10 words)
Oct 2014: Like it. Would be better made into a sentence, like, "Vertebral pneumaticity is evidence for air sacs in sauropod dinosaurs."
Feb 2015: Fairly clean. Does what it says on the tin. I'm having a hard time seeing how it could be turned into a sentence and still convey so much of what the paper is about in so few words.
[Heh. As we will see again later on, I was evidently smarter last fall than I am now.]
The evolution of vertebral pneumaticity in sauropod dinosaurs. (8 words)
Oct 2014: Like it. It couldn't really be any shorter without losing crucial information. Happy to have a decent title on my second-most-cited paper!
Feb 2015: Short, clean, probably my best title ever.
First occurrence of Brachiosaurus (Dinosauria: Sauropoda) from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Oklahoma. (14 words)
Oct 2014: Yep. once you've read the title, you barely need to read the paper. Even better would have been, "A metacarpal of Brachiosaurus from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of Oklahoma." (12 words)
Feb 2015: Does what it says, but like my other PaleoBios pub, it's a long title for a short paper. Now I would title it, "First record of the sauropod dinosaur Brachiosaurus from Oklahoma" (9 words)
[my October title was better!]
Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in sauropods and its implications for mass estimates. (11 words)
Oct 2014: It's not elegant but it gets the job done. I wanted that paper to be one-stop shopping for sauropod PSP, but of course the real payoff there is the ASP/mass-estimate stuff, so I'm happy to have punched that up in the title.
Feb 2015: Good enough. I like it. It's a little long–I could reasonably have just titled this, "Postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in sauropods", but I wanted to draw attention to the implications for mass estimates.
Sauroposeidon: Oklahoma's native giant (4 words)
Origin of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in dinosaurs. (7 words)
Oct 2014: About all I would change now would be to add the word "early" at the beginning of the title.
Feb 2015: Great. Could not be shortened further without losing information.
What pneumaticity tells us about 'prosauropods', and vice versa. (9 words)
Oct 2014: Love this title. I used it for the abstract of the SVP talk that the paper was derived from, too.
Feb 2015: Kind of a gimmick title, but it's accurate–the SVP abstract this paper was based on was built around a bullet list. And it's still nice and short.
Evidence for bird-like air sacs in saurischian dinosaurs. (9 words)
Oct 2014: Along with Wedel (2003b) and Wedel (2006), this has a short (7-9 words apiece) title that tells you what's in the paper, simply and directly. For once, I'm glad I didn't turn it into a sentence. I think a declarative statement like "Saurischian dinosaurs had air sacs like those of birds" would have been less informative and come off as advertising. I wanted this paper to do what the title said: run down the evidence for air sacs in saurischians.
Feb 2015: I like it and wouldn't change it. The "evidence for" part is key – I didn't want to write a paper primarily about the air sacs themselves. Instead I wanted to lay out the evidence explaining why we think sauropods had air sacs.
Head and neck posture in sauropod dinosaurs inferred from extant animals. (8 words)
Oct 2014: It's not horrible but it would be better as a declarative statement like, "Sauropod dinosaurs held their necks and heads elevated like most other tetrapods." (12 words)
Feb 2015: Good. Reads almost telegraphically brief as it is. Does what it says on the tin.
Mike: RUBBISH
[October Matt wins again!]
A new sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA. (13 words)
Oct 2014: Two things about this one. First, I wish we'd been able to include the taxon name in the title, as we were allowed to do back in the day for Sauroposeidon. Second, I know some people whinge about us using the CMF in the title and in the paper instead of the Burro Canyon Fm, which is what the CMF is technically called east of the Colorado River. But srsly, how many people search for Burro Canyon Fm versus CMF? All of the relevant faunal comparisons are to be made with the CMF, so I don't feel the least bit bad about this.
Feb 2015: Fine. About as short as it could be and still be informative.
Mike: RUBBISH
The long necks of sauropods did not evolve primarily through sexual selection. Journal of Zoology. (12 words)
Oct 2014: Perfect. The abstract and the paper expand on the title, but if all you read is the title, you know what we found. That's a worthy goal.
Feb 2015: My first sentence title. Every word does work, so even though this is one of my longer titles, I like it. The length relative to my other titles is not a knock against this one; rather, it emphasizes how well I did at keeping my early titles short and to the point (with a couple of regrettable exceptions as noted above).
Mike: SWEET
The early evolution of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in sauropodomorph dinosaurs. (10 words)
Oct 2014: Not bad. I wonder if something like, "Widespread vertebral fossae show that pulmonary pneumaticity evolved early in sauropodomorphs" might be better. It's hard, though, to put so many long, polysyllabic words in a title that doesn't sound like a train wreck. At a minimum, this paper does what it says on the tin.
Feb 2015: Short and to the point. Another one that couldn't be any shorter without losing valuable information.
A monument of inefficiency: the presumed course of the recurrent laryngeal nerve in sauropod dinosaurs. (15 words)
Objectively: BAD to OK
Subjectively: GOOD to FREAKIN' AWESOME
Oct 2014: I readily admit that I could have fashioned a more informative title, but I dearly love this one. It's derived from a TV commercial for cheeseburgers (true story), and it warms my heart every time I read it.
Feb 2015: This is definitely a gimmick title that is longer than it has to be (it would be a concise 11 words without the unnecessary intro clause) BUT I love it and I'd do it exactly the same if I could do it again. So there!
Why sauropods had long necks; and why giraffes have short necks. (11 words)
Oct 2014: This is one of those 'draw the reader in' titles. I like it.
Feb 2015: We both liked the even shorter, "Why giraffes have short necks" but we really felt that a paper about sauropod necks needed sauropod necks in the title. I feel about this one like I feel about my 2007 prosauropod paper: it's a gimmick title, but it's short, so no harm done.
Mike: EXCELLENT
Neural spine bifurcation in sauropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation: ontogenetic and phylogenetic implications. (14 words)
Oct 2014: Blah. It's okay, not great. Maybe better as, "No evidence for increasing neural spine bifurcation through ontogeny in diplodocid sauropods of the Morrison Formation", or something along those lines.
Feb 2015: This one is long but I think the length is necessary. It's also kinda boring, but it was addressing a fairly dry point. I think any attempt to shorten it or sexy it up would come off as gratuitous.
Mike: WEAK
The effect of intervertebral cartilage on neutral posture and range of motion in the necks of sauropod dinosaurs. (18 words)
Oct 2014: Probably better along the lines of, "Intervertebral spacing suggests a high neutral posture and broad range of motion in the necks of sauropod dinosaurs" or something like that.
Feb 2015: My second-longest title ever! Looking at it now, I think we could have titled it, "Effects of intervertebral cartilage on neck posture and range of motion in sauropod dinosaurs" and gotten it down to 14 words, but the word 'neutral' is doing real work in the original so maybe that's a bust.
Mike: UGH, rubbish.
[October Matt is up by three points at least]
Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus. (12 words)
Oct 2014: Along the same lines as the previous: "Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses show that pulmonary diverticula in the tails of sauropod dinosaurs were pervasive and complex" or something.
Feb 2015: Good. Long only by comparison with some of my earlier titles. Does what it says.
Mike: NOT GOOD ENOUGH
The neck of Barosaurus was not only longer but also wider than those of Diplodocus and other diplodocines. (18 words)
Feb 2015: My second sentence-as-title, and another entry in the run of mostly long titles from 2012 onward. I like how precise it is, despite the length.
Mike: GOOD
A ceratopsian dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of Western North America, and the biogeography of Neoceratopsia. (16 words)
Feb 2015: I had no say in this one (by choice, I'm sure Andy et al. would have listened if I had had any suggestions about the title, but I didn't). If I could rewrite it, I'd probably make it even longer by adding in the word 'new' between A and ceratopsian
Haplocanthosaurus (Saurischia: Sauropoda) from the lower Morrison Formation (Upper Jurassic) near Snowmass, Colorado. (13 words)
Feb 2015: Feels a lot longer than its 13 words, mostly because so many of the words are polysyllabic. Normally I like pulling the words in parentheses out, but in this case I can't see that doing that would actually improve the title. Sometimes descriptive papers need plain titles. It's okay.
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First, Mike graded harder than I did. In fact, I only rated one of my titles as BAD, which seems a bit feeble. I think we were using different criteria. If a title was boring but serviceable, I gave it an OK, whereas Mike tended to flag any suboptimal title as RUBBISH. But I didn't remember that about his post, and I deliberately avoided looking at it until I'd made my evaluations.
Second, except for the two PaleoBios papers, all of the titles from the first half of my career (2000-2007) are 12 words or fewer, including a substantial bundle from before I'd read either The Camel's Nose or Strunk & White. I'm sure that being a Cifelli student and then a Padian student had something to do with that; Rich and Kevin made me into the word choice and grammar pedant that I am today (my rhetorical excrescences on this site are my fault, not theirs).
Third, much to my surprise and consternation, my titles have gotten longer over time, not shorter. Partly that's because my little corner of the science ecosystem is getting increasingly subdivided, so it's hard for me to write a paper now with a title as broad as, "The evolution of vertebral pneumaticity in sauropod dinosaurs." (Possibly a prod to keep seeking out new, more open horizons?) And I suppose there is some tension between brevity, informativeness, and precision. For example, saying in the title of a descriptive paper than a specimen is "from the Upper Jurassic Morrison Formation of [Location], [State or Country]" adds 11 words, but the title really does need those words. That could be a segue into a whole other discussion about descriptive versus analytical work, but that will be a topic for another time.
Ultimately, this has been a fun exercise and it's made me more aware of how I title may papers. This is useful because I have some manuscripts in the works that deal with really detailed anatomy, and I need to figure out how to give them titles that are precise and informative but still punchy. It's not easy.
Parting thought: after I posted the slides from my photography and illustration talk, Mike and I talked about posting some of our figures and dissecting them to see how they could be improved (it's axiomatic that almost all figures could be improved in one way or another). We should really get started on that.
The most important essay on scholarly publication this week
November 21, 2014
…is not actually about scholarly publication. It's Steve Albini's keynote address at Melbourne's Face the Music conference. It's about the music industry, and how the internet transformed it from a restrictive, top-down oligarchy that mostly benefited middlemen into a more open, level, vibrant ecosystem where artists can get worldwide exposure for free, and yet are often compensated better than they were under the old system. Go read it, and then think about this:
Once the music world met the internet, the problem of getting information from musicians (authors) to listeners (readers) didn't require any central planning to solve. What little building needed to happen was taken care of by people who were just happy to let the internet work the way it was designed to, and the way it works the most naturally: it makes sharing information almost effortless. Publishers (record labels) still exist, because they offer certain conveniences, but few people are under the delusion that they are necessary.
Over here in academia, we've already spent more than a decade wringing our hands over how to manage the shift from a barrier-based publishing world to one based on OA. We've put so much time and effort and thought into the problem of how to "save" or "transform" scholarly publishing. Why do we do that? Why not just walk away? Publishing is a button, and anything that we do to lend it any more importance–anything we feed it, in terms of time, effort, energy, or regard–is wasted. Wasted because we deliberately ignore the new reality in favor of propping up a system that performed a job that no-one needs done anymore. I keep wondering when the hell we're all going to wake up, and start sharing our work the way that musicians and listeners share digital music.
And yet even out here on the crazy-eyed, axe-wielding fringe of the OA movement, we are still conservative. Zen Faulkes published a paper on his blog, and he did it 26 months ago, which is a near eternity in the Shiny Digital Future (it's 13.4% of the lifespan to date of Google). Mike and I have admired that move, and talk about it, but we haven't done it. Why not? We could even solicit peer reviews from people we know to be tough but fair reviewers. We all do unpaid editorial and review work for publishers, why not for each other directly? It's like we're thinking, "Okay, okay, I'll review this paper, but only if there's a publisher somewhere that will benefit from my unpaid labor!"
I suppose that for us, one answer is that PeerJ has given us other options that are just as easy as blogging, like posting preprints. So I am a bit torn: I like PeerJ, I support it, I have several papers in the pipeline that I'm planning on sending there. It offers certain conveniences, like sticking DOIs on everything for us, and tracking all of our metrics. But do we need PeerJ? I wonder if it is just the methadone that will help ease us out of our sad addiction to publishers.
Bonus observation: don't just translate Albini's thoughts on music to scholarly publishing, also try doing the reverse. It becomes pretty clear that the central theme of The Scholarly Kitchen is, "How will poor, helpless music listeners survive without all the middlemen to tell them what to listen to? They'll be so lost." Keep polishing that brass, guys, and thanks for the patronization!
The photos are of the dodo skeleton in the Yorkshire Museum, which I saw at SVPCA back in September. If you're a dodo-phile like me, you should consider supporting Leon Claessens's, Kenneth Rijsdijk's, and Hanneke Meijer's quest to better understand the skull and feeding mechanics of dodos. Their crowdfunding campaign runs through the end of the year–please go check it out.
We need clear policy on tweeting from academic conferences
November 10, 2014
When Susie Maidment presented her in-progress research at SVP in Berlin last week, someone came in late, missed her "no tweeting, please" request, and posted a screenshot of the new work (since deleted).
On the back of that, Susie started an interesting thread in which it became apparent that people have very different assumptions. She, and Marc Jones, and others, were assuming that if you don't tell people not to tweet, then they'll know not to. Meanwhile, I, and Björn Brembs, and others were assuming the opposite: unless someone says not to tweet, you're good to go.
Obviously this state of affairs is a recipe for disaster. We're all going to find ourselves giving presentations where we assume the audience will be doing one thing, but at least some audience members are assuming the other.
So the first thing to say is that we should be explicit about our expectations. My talk at SVPCA this year contained this slide:
I'm going to get into the habit of including something like this every time. Similarly, people who don't want material from their talks appearing on Twitter should say so.
The second thing is that conferences should state their default policies (always of course allowing individual authors to override them). Someone at, say, SVP, should know from the registration material either that it's OK to tweet unless told not to, or that it's not OK to tweet unless told that it is. I think it's reasonable that different conferences would lean in different directions on this.
The third thing is in the absence of other guidance, it's better not to tweet. I feel a bit uncomfortable about this because it goes against my pro-open tendencies, but it's a matter of failing safe. If I want you to tweet my talk but but I forget to say so and there is no conference-wide policy (or the conference policy is No Tweeting), then you won't tweet it, and that is a missed opportunity –but I'll live. But if Susie doesn't want you to tweet but forgets to say so, and you do, then she will be unhappier. (For example, in the present case, Susie is hoping for a media splash, which could be diluted if knowledge of the new finding is already leaking out.
To summarise:
- Individual presenters should say what they want.
- The conference should provide a default policy
- If the absence of both, fail safe by not tweeting.
That's what I think, anyway. What do you think?
Tutorial 29, Appendix A: good, bad and ugly titles of Mike's papers
October 21, 2014
In light of yesterday's tutorial on choosing titles, here are the titles of all my own published papers (including co-authored ones), in chronological order, with my own sense of whether I'm happy with them now I look back. All the full references are on my publications page (along with the PDFs). I'll mark the good ones in green, the bad ones in red and the merely OK in blue.
The Phylogenetic Taxonomy of Diplodocoidea (Dinosauria: Sauropoda).
OK, I suppose. It does at least clearly state what the paper is about. I'll give myself a pass on this since it was my very first paper.
Dinosaur diversity analysed by clade, age, place and year of description.
NOT BAD, since the paper was basically a list of many, many results that could hardly have been summarised in the title. I give myself some points for listing the ways I analysed the data, rather than just saying "An analysis of dinosaur diversity" or something equally uninformative.
Phylogenetic definitions in the pre-PhyloCode era; implications for naming clades under the PhyloCode.
NOT BAD again, I suppose, since it was a discussion paper that couldn't be summarised in a short title. Could I have said what the alluded-to implications are? I think probably not, in a reasonably concise title.
An unusual new neosauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Hastings Beds Group of East Sussex, England.
RUBBISH, since it doesn't name the new dinosaur (which was of course Xenoposeidon). I was young and stupid back then, and just followed convention. In mitigation, it does at least say when and where the specimen is from.
Case 3472: Cetiosaurus Owen, 1841 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda): proposed conservation of usage by designation of Cetiosaurus oxoniensis Phillips, 1871 as the type species.
DOUBLE-PLUS UGLY. But I am going to blame the journal on this one — they have a very firmly defined format for petition titles.
Head and neck posture in sauropod dinosaurs inferred from extant animals.
RUBBISH. What was I thinking, and why did my SV-POW!sketeer co-authors let me choose such an uninformative title? We should of course have gone with a title that says what posture we inferred. The associated blog-post had a much better title: Sauropods held their necks erect … just like rabbits.
A re-evaluation of Brachiosaurus altithorax Riggs 1903 (Dinosauria, Sauropoda) and its generic separation from Giraffatitan brancai (Janensch 1914).
ADEQUATE, since the title strongly implies the conclusion (generic separation) even if doesn't quite come out and say it.
Electronic publication of nomenclatural acts is inevitable, and will be accepted by the taxonomic community with or without the endorsement of the Code.
BRILLIANT. The best title in my CV. You hardly even need to read the paper once you've read the title. The only downside: it's 12 characters too long to tweet.
Sharing: public databases combat mistrust and secrecy.
GOOD, but I can't take the credit for that (A) because I was third author behind Andy Farke and Matt, and (B) because the journal chose the title.
The Open Dinosaur Project.
OK, but we should have done better. Something like "The Open Dinosaur Project recruits volunteer effort to analyse dinosaur evolution". Or, if we were being honest (and prescient), "The Open Dinosaur Project will lie embarrassingly moribund for more than two years".
Sauropod dinosaur research: a historical review.
OK, since it does say what the paper is. But this title is not as good as that of the talk it was based on, "The evolution of sauropod dinosaurs from 1841 to 2008″. (I notice that Mark Witton nicked my title for his talk at TetZooCon.)
Running a question-and-answer website for science education: first hand experiences.
UNOBJECTIONABLE, but not my choice anyway — lead author Dave Hone presumably picked it. Could have done better by stating what at least one of those experiences was.
A new sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA.
RUBBISH. At least this time it wasn't entirely my fault. When we submitted this to Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, it was called "Brontomerus mcintoshi, a new sauropod dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous Cedar Mountain Formation, Utah, USA", but the journal made us take the taxon name out of the title. Why? Why why WHY?
The long necks of sauropods did not evolve primarily through sexual selection.
Why sauropods had long necks; and why giraffes have short necks.
EXCELLENT. Short, appealing and (hopefully) funny. When I give talks based on this paper, I use the even better short version, just "Why giraffes have short necks". But that seemed a bit too cute for an academic setting.
Neural spine bifurcation in sauropod dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation: ontogenetic and phylogenetic implications.
WEAK. We should have stated the conclusion: a title like "Neural spine bifurcation in sauropods of the Morrison Formation is not an ontogenetic feature, but is phylogenetically significant" would have been better.
The neck of Barosaurus was not only longer but also wider than those of Diplodocus and other diplodocines.
GOOD. Not particularly exciting, but explicit.
Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus.
NOT GOOD ENOUGH. We should have stated the main finding: "Caudal pneumaticity and pneumatic hiatuses reveal cryptic diverticula in the sauropod dinosaurs Giraffatitan and Apatosaurus".
The effect of intervertebral cartilage on neutral posture and range of motion in the necks of sauropod dinosaurs.
UGH, rubbish. What the heck was I thinking? I should have written this post a couple of years ago, and used it to make me choose a much better title. As it is, it just leaves the reader assuming intervertebral cartilage probably has some effect, but they have no idea what.
I make that six good titles, seven bad ones and six indifferent. Awarding two points per good title and one per adequate title, I give myself 18 points out of a possible 38 — slightly less than half, at 47%. More worryingly, there's no apparent trend towards choosing better titles.
Must do better.
Tutorial 29: how to choose a title for your paper
October 20, 2014
Over on his (excellent) Better Posters blog, Zen Faulks has been critiquing a poster on affective feedback. The full title of the poster is "Studying the effects of affective feedback in embodied tutors". Among other points, Zen makes this one:
As a browser, I often want a take home message. This isn't helped by the weak title, which represents most of your communication effort. "Studying the effect of" in a title is bland and uninformative. Every academic thing is "studying the effect of" something. A question would be better, and an answer would be better still.
I think that's right on target. Unfortunately, we in palaeo are mired in an ancient tradition of uninformative paper titles. We look at Cope's three indistinguishable 1877 titles "On a dinosaurian from the Trias of Utah", "On a gigantic saurian from the Dakota epoch of Colorado" and "On Amphicoelias, a genus of saurian from the Dakota epoch of Colorado" and assume that's the way to do it. Or his 1878 titles, "On the Vertebrata of the Dakota Epoch of Colorado" and "On the saurians recently discovered in the Dakota Beds of Colorado".
And so we end up with uninformative titles like (to pick one at random from the most recent JVP) "Tilefish (Teleostei, Malacanthidae) remains from the Miocene Calvert Formation, Maryland and Virginia: taxonomical and paleoecological remarks" (what remarks? What did you discover about tilefish?) Or "Latest evidence of Palaeoamasia (Mammalia, Embrithopoda) in Turkish Anatolia" (what evidence? What does it tell you?) Or "On the skull of Radinskya (Mammalia) and its phylogenetic position" (what is its phylogenetic position?). [Apologies to the authors of these papers, whose titles are no worse than many, many others. I needed examples, and they drew the short straws.]
It's in tribute to uninformative titles such as these that I stupidly titled my dissertation "Aspects of the history, anatomy, taxonomy and palaeobiology of sauropod dinosaurs".
So what makes a good title? Here's a rather random list of thoughts. Feel free to chip in with others that I missed.
Give the name of the taxon under study. Stupidly, lots of journals have a rule that says a paper naming a new taxon can't use the new name in the title. I can't begin to imagine why anyone thinks it's a good idea to make sure that the title is missing the Single. Most. Important word, but there it is.
Avoid vague words like "study", "aspects", "observations", etc. Instead, choose a title that tells us what you studied, what aspects were of interest, and what you observed.
Avoid weak puns. Don Henderson's paper on sauropod step sequences got away with being called "Burly Gaits" because it was a clever double pun; but only just, as it had nothing to do with the Pearly Gates. It's best not to attempt this unless you have something really smart.
In fact avoid all jocular references to well-known phrases, because they're lame. Really, how does the introductory phrase improve titles like "Not just a pretty face: anatomical peculiarities in the postcranium of Rebbachisaurids (Sauropoda: Diplodocoidea)" or "The eyes have it: the sizes, shapes, and orientations of theropod orbits as indicators of skull strength and bite force"?
Don't use a nounal phrase as the title. This is a amazingly common — titles like "The nature of Mauisaurus haasti Hector, 1874 (Reptilia: Plesiosauria)". It doesn't tell us what the paper is going to say, only what it's going to say it about. Much better to choose a title that tells us what the nature of Mauisaurus is. (We're guilty, too: the only paper co-written by all three of us SV-POW!er Rangers is called "Head and neck posture in sauropod dinosaurs inferred from extant animals". Yes, sauropods have a head and neck posture, and yes we inferred it from extant animals. But we didn't say what it actually is.)
Ask a question. For example, Roland T. Bird's 1944 paper on the terrestrial/aquatic sauropod controversy was called "Did Brontosaurus ever walk on land?" More recently, Bonnan and Senter asked in 2007, "Were the basal sauropodomorph dinosaurs Plateosaurus and Massospondylus habitual quadrupeds?" A question draws people in.
Better yet, make a statement. Summarise the paper's principal finding, if you can do it in a single short sentence. Bonaparte wrote an abstract in 1999 entitled "Rebbachisaurus tessonei Calvo and Salgado 1996 is not Rebbachisaurus Lavocat 1954." Mitchell et al. (2009) called their paper "Sexual selection is not the origin of long necks in giraffes". (I guess we had that in mind when we named our 2011 paper.)
The underlying principle here is this: for many people, the title will be the only part of your paper that they ever read. For many more, it will be the part that draws them in to read more — something they won't do if the title doesn't draw them in.
So, for the benefit for the first group, you want to write a title that will stand as a not-completely-inadequate surrogate for the whole paper. And you also want that title to provoke the interest of the second group.
UPDATE: Mike and Matt review their own paper titles here and here, respectively.
Give a talk that holds attention!
September 9, 2014
I am just back from SVPCA, where I saw fifty 20-minute talks in three days. (I try to avoid missing any talks at all if I can avoid it, and this year I did.) As always, there was lots of fascinating stuff, and much of it not about the topics that I would necessarily have expected to enjoy. Examples include Tom Fletcher's talk on the evolution of hydrodynamically efficient skin textures in fish, Lionel Hautier's on the homologies of sloth teeth and Liz Martin's on the skeletal-mass:total-mass ratio in birds.
But the brutal truth is that some of the talks were much less engaging. As the fish, sloths and birds prove, it's not necessarily the fault of the taxa being studied — other factors are more important.
In a moment of frustration during one of the less appealing talks, I made a list of four basic points that contribute to a talk being compelling.
Here they are.
1. Love your taxon. It's one of the main generators of enthusiasm, and nothing is more engaging than enthusiasm. I've seen dinosaur talks given by people who clearly don't much care for dinosaurs. It comes through and destroys the appeal of the talk. Conversely, at TetZooCon a couple of months ago, one of the highlights was Helen Meredith's talk "What have amphibians ever done for us?" about a group that doesn't honestly excite me much — but the amphibians excited her so much that I caught that excitement. Ditto for Lionel Hautier's sloth talk at SVPCA.
What to do if you don't love your taxon? Give a talk about something you do love. If you don't love anything, why are you in this field? Really, without enthusiasm, you're lost. If you don't care, neither will we. So care.
2. Show us pictures of your taxon. If you're a particle physicist, pretty much the only thing you can show in your talk is graphs. But one of the great things about vertebrate palaeontology and comparative anatomy is that the field is just bursting with beautiful, photogenic objects. So for heaven's sake show them to us! Yes yes, you may legitimately have to show graphs later on when you get to the hardcore stuff, but your best bet to get us interested in (say) voles is to show us that they're interesting. In palaeo, that means we need to see both bones and life restorations.
3. Engage with the audience. That means you need to know your material well enough that you don't need to be reading notes. Yes, notes are a help if you're nervous, but they absolutely kill any sense of connection between speaker and listeners. Do whatever it takes to avoid a monotone.
There are two ways to do this. The simplest is to learn your talk. Write it out longhand if you find that helpful, but then rehearse it enough times that you don't need the script — so that seeing each slide is enough to send you, Pavlov-like, into the relevant bit of spiel. Then you can be making eye contact and waving your hands around, just like you would if you were explaining something in a pub.
The second way to do it is even better. Don't just learn your talk but learn your subject. If you get sufficiently familiar with (say) sauropod necks, then you can hardly watch one of your slides come up and not start talking about what it shows you. It's better to fly blind (even if you risk a crash) than to crawl. (And of course you're not really blind: preparing the slides burns the narrative of the talk into your mind, so that you know where you're going even without really trying.)
4. Tell a story. People are wired to love stories. It's not coincidence that Aesop and Jesus both did their moral teaching principally through stories; nor that Dawkins' fine explanations of evolution are expressed in pretty much story form. People who are listening to a story want to know what happens next.
"I did a principle component analysis" is not a story. "How separate radiations of anole lizards evolved to fill the same set of ecological niches" is a story. If a principle component analysis is the way you reach the punchline of that story, fine: the point is, you've made us care about the PCA before we get to it, because we want to find out what happens to the cute little lizards (which you showed us lots of nice pictures of early on).
Here is the key point that underlies all this, and which I fear students are not always told as clearly as they should be: talks are not papers. A paper by convention is dry. It's mostly words, equations and (often) graphs. A talk can't afford to be dry, and by nature is about images and speech. It's a much more human thing.
Here's one reason why. We only read papers that we're already interested in. I'll read the sauropod papers in JVP, but skip over the fish, sloth and bird papers. That's because I am already invested in sauropods, and because I know enough about them to make sense of a dry, technical paper. But when we go to conferences, we hear talks on lots of things that we're not pre-interested in. A good speaker makes us interested. She has to. In short, a paper is directed at a specialist audience, while a talk has to win an audience from among non-specialists.
To be even shorter: talks should be fun to watch and listen to!
[See also: Tutorial 16: giving good talks (in four parts)]
I was reading a rant on another site about how pretentious it is for intellectuals and pseudo-intellectuals to tell the world about their "media diets" and it got me thinking–well, angsting–about my scientific media diet.
And then almost immediately I thought, "Hey, what am I afraid of? I should just go tell the truth about this."
And that truth is this: I can't tell you what forms of scientific media I keep up with, because I don't feel like I am actually keeping up with any of them.
Papers – I have no systematic method of finding them. I don't subscribe to any notifications or table of contents updates. Nor, to be honest, am I in the habit of regularly combing the tables of contents of any journals.
Blogs – I don't follow any in a timely fashion, although I do check in with TetZoo, Laelaps, and a couple of others every month or two. Way back when we started SV-POW!, we made a command decision not to list any sites other than our own on the sideboard. At the time, that was because we didn't want to have any hurt feelings or drama over who we did and didn't include. But over time, a strong secondary motive to keep things this way is that we're not forced to keep up with the whole paleo blogosphere, which long ago outstripped my capacity to even competently survey. Fortunately, those overachievers at Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs have a pretty exhaustive-looking set of links on their sidebar, so globally speaking, someone is already on that.
The contraction in my blog reading is a fairly recent thing. When TetZoo was on ScienceBlogs, I was over there all the time, and there were probably half a dozen SciBlogs that I followed pretty regularly and another dozen or so that I at least kept tabs on. But ScienceBlogs burned down the community I was interested in, and the Scientific American Blog Network is sufficiently ugly (in the UI sense) and reader-unfriendly to not be worth my dealing with it. So I am currently between blog networks–or maybe past my last one.
Social Media – I'm not on Twitter, and I tend to only log into Facebook when I get an interesting notice in my Gmail "Social" folder. Sometimes I'm not on FB for a week or two at a time. So I miss a lot of stuff that goes down there, including notices about new papers. I could probably fix that if I just followed Andy Farke more religiously.
What ends up happening – I mainly find papers relevant to specific projects as I execute those projects; each new project is a new front in my n-dimensional invasion of the literature. My concern is that in doing this, I tend to find the papers that I'm looking for, whereas the papers that have had the most transformative effect on me are the ones I was not looking for at the time.
Beyond that, I find out about new papers because the authors take it on themselves to include me when they email the PDF out to a list of potentially interested colleagues (and many thanks to all of you who are doing that!), or Mike, Darren, or Andy send it to me, or it turns up in the updates to my Google Scholar profile.
So far, this combination of ad hoc and half-assed methods seems to be working, although it does mean that I have unfairly outsourced much of my paper discovery to other people without doing much for them in return. When I say that it's working, I mean that I don't get review comments pointing out that I have missed important recent papers. I do get review comments saying that I need to cite more stuff,* but these tend to be papers that I already know of and maybe even cited already, just not in the right ways to satisfy the reviewers.**
* There is a sort of an arrow-of-inevitability thing here, in that reviewers almost always ask you to cite more papers rather than fewer. Only once ever have I been asked to cite fewer sources, and that is when I had submitted my dinosaur nerve paper (Wedel 2012) to a certain nameless anatomy journal that ended up not publishing it. One of the reviewers said that I had cited several textbooks and popular science books and that was poor practice, I should have cited primary literature. Apparently this subgenius did not realize that I was citing all of those popular sources as examples of publications that held up the recurrent laryngeal nerve of giraffes as evidence for evolution, which was part of the point that I was making: giraffe RLNs are overrated.
** My usual sin is that I mentally categorize papers in one or two holes and forget that a given paper also mentioned C and D in addition to saying a lot about A and B. It's something that vexes me about some of my own papers. I put so much stuff into the second Sauroposeidon paper (Wedel et al. 2000b) that some it has never been cited–although that paper has been cited plenty, it often does not come up in discussions where some of the data presented therein is relevant, I think because there's just too much stuff in that paper for anyone (who cares about that paper less than I do) to hold in their heads. But that's a problem to be explored in another post.
The arborization of science
Part of the problem with keeping up with the literature is just that there is so much more of it than there was even a few years ago. When I first got interested in sauropod pneumaticity back in the late 90s, you were pretty much up to speed if you'd read about half a dozen papers:
- Seeley (1870), who first described pneumaticity in sauropods as such, even if he didn't know what sauropods were yet;
- Longman (1933), who first realized that sauropod vertebrae could be sorted into two bins based on their internal structures, which are crudely I-beam-shaped or honeycombed;
- Janensch (1947), who wrote the first ever paper that was primarily about pneumaticity in dinosaurs;
- Britt (1993), who first CTed dinosaur bones looking for pneumaticity, independently rediscovered Longman's two categories, calling them 'camerate' and 'camellate' respectively, and generally put the whole investigation of dinosaur pneumaticity on its modern footing;
- Witmer (1997), who provided what I think is the first compelling explanation of how and why skeletal pneumaticity works the way it does, using a vast amount of evidence culled from both living and fossil systems;
- Wilson (1999), who IIRC was the first to seriously discuss the interplay of pneumaticity and biomechanics in determining the form of sauropod vertebrae.
Yeah, there you go: up until the year 2000, you could learn pretty much everything important that had been published on pneumaticity in dinosaurs by reading five papers and one dissertation. "Dinosaur pneumaticity" wasn't a field yet. It feels like it is becoming one now. To get up to speed today, in addition to the above you'd need to read big swaths of the work of Roger Benson, Richard Butler, Leon Claessens, Pat O'Connor (including a growing body of work by his students), Emma Schachner (not on pneumaticity per se, but too closely related [and too awesome] to ignore), Daniela Schwarz, and Jeff Wilson (and his students), plus important singleton papers like Woodward and Lehman (2009), Cerda et al. (2012), Yates et al. (2012), and Fanti et al. (2013). Not to mention my own work, and some of Mike's and Darren's. And Andy Farke and the rest of Witmer, if you're into cranial pneumaticity. And still others if you care about pneumaticity in pterosaurs, which you should if you want to understand how–and, crucially, when–the anatomical underpinnings of ornithodiran pneumaticity evolved. Plus undoubtedly some I've forgotten–apologies in advance to the slighted, please prod me in the comments.
You see? If I actually listed all of the relevant papers by just the authors I named above, it would probably run to 50 or so papers. So someone trying to really come to grips with dinosaur pneumaticity now faces a task roughly equal to the one I faced in 1996 when I was first trying to grokk sauropods. This is dim memory combined with lots of guesswork and handwaving, but I probably had to read about 50 papers on sauropods before I felt like I really knew the group. Heck, I read about a dozen on blood pressure alone.
(Note to self: this is probably a good argument for writing a review paper on dinosaur pneumaticity, possibly in collaboration with some of the folks mentioned above–sort of a McIntosh [1990] for the next generation.)
When I wrote the first draft of this post, I was casting about for a word to describe what is going on in science, and the first one that came to mind is "fragmentation". But that's not the right word–science isn't getting more fragmented. If anything, it's getting more interconnected. What it's really doing is arborizing–branching fractally, like the blood vessels in the image at the top of this post. I think it's pointless to opine about whether this is a good or bad thing. Like the existence of black holes and fuzzy ornithischians, it's just a fact now, and we'd better get on with trying to make progress in this new reality.
How do I feel about all this, now that my little capillary of science has grown into an arteriole and threatens to become a full-blown artery? It is simultaneously exhilarating and worrying. Exhilarating because lots of people are discovering lots of cool stuff about my favorite system, and I have a lot more people to bounce ideas around with than I did when I started. Worrying because I feel like I am gradually losing my ability to keep tabs on the whole thing. Sound familiar?
Conclusion: Help a brother out
Having admitted all of this, it seems imperative that I get my act together and establish some kind of systematic new-paper-discovery method, beyond just sponging off my friends and hoping that they'll continue to deliver everything I need. But it seems inevitable that I am either going to have to be come more selective about what I consume–which sounds both stupid and depressing–or lose all of my time just trying to keep up with things.
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- Britt, B. B. 1993. Pneumatic postcranial bones in dinosaurs and other archosaurs. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Calgary, Calgary, 383 pp.
- Cerda, I.A., Salgado, L., and Powell, J.E. 2012. Extreme postcranial pneumaticity in sauropod dinosaurs from South America. Palaeontologische Zeitschrift. DOI 10.1007/s12542-012-0140-6
- Fanti, F., Cau, A., Hassine, M., and Contessi, M. 2013. A new sauropod dinosaur from the Early Cretaceous of Tunisia with extreme avian-like pneumatization. Nature Communications 4:2080. doi:10.1038/ncomms3080
- Longman, H. A. 1933. A new dinosaur from the Queensland Creta- ceous. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 10:131–144.
- McIntosh, John S. 1990. Sauropoda. pp. 345-401 in: D. B. Weishampel, P. Dodson and H. Osmólska (eds.), The Dinosauria. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles.
- Seeley, H. G. 1870. On Ornithopsis, a gigantic animal of the pterodactyle kind from the Wealden. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 4, 5 279-283.
- Wilson, J. A. 1999. A nomenclature for vertebral laminae in sauropods and other saurischian dinosaurs. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 19, 639-653.
- Witmer, L.M. 1997. The evolution of the antorbital cavity of archosaurs: a study in soft-tissue reconstruction in the fossil record with an analysis of the function of pneumaticity. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Memoir 3:1-73.
- Woodward, H.N., and Lehman, T.M. 2009. Bone histology and microanatomy of Alamosaurus sanjuanensis (Sauropoda: Titanosauria) from the Maastrichtian of Big Bend National Park, Texas. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(3):807-821.
- Yates, A.M., Wedel, M.J., and Bonnan, M.F. 2012. The early evolution of postcranial skeletal pneumaticity in sauropodomorph dinosaurs. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57(1):85-100. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.4202/app.2010.0075


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Published Friday 25/01/2013 (updated) 26/01/2013 10:22
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Senator John Kerry, nominated to be the next US secretary of state, said on Thursday he hopes for a revival of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
The comment by the Massachusetts Democratic senator, whose Senate confirmation is regarded as a virtual certainty, suggests the United States could consider a new peace initiative despite the failure of President Barack Obama's first-term efforts.
US-brokered peace talks broke down in 2010 amid mutual acrimony. Since then Israel has accelerated construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem - land the Palestinians want for a future state - and the Palestinians have taken steps to gain greater recognition at the United Nations and its agencies.
"My hope is ... my prayer is that perhaps this can be a moment where we can renew some kind of effort to get the parties into a discussion to have a different track than we have been on over the last couple of years," Kerry said at his confirmation hearing, noting it was unclear what government would emerge from Israel's Tuesday election.
Israelis worried about housing, prices and taxes reshaped the Israeli parliament in the election, forcing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to woo the centrist Yesh Atid (There Is a Future) party as his main coalition partner.
Final results were due on Thursday but they are not expected to differ significantly from published projections showing that Netanyahu's alliance of his Likud party and ultra-nationalists secured 31 seats out of the 120-seat assembly.
In a surprise showing, Yesh Atid came in as runner-up with 19 projected seats in a parliament likely to include about a dozen parties in all.
Netanyahu's weaker-than-expected results might limit his room for maneuvering against Iran and put his hard-line stance toward Palestinian statehood under renewed pressure.
Kerry repeated the long-standing US opposition to unilateral actions by either the Israelis or the Palestinians, warning the latter against any effort to take Israel before the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Palestinian officials declared Wednesday they will have no choice but to complain about Israel to the ICC if it proceeds with plans to build housing on land they want for a future state.
"They are getting close to a line that would be very damaging if there were any effort to take Israel for instance, or any other country, to the ICC," Kerry said. "That's the kind of unilateral action that we would feel very, very strongly against and see it as extremely counterproductive."
The Palestinians became eligible to join the ICC after the UN General Assembly upgraded the Palestinians' status at the world body in November from "observer entity" to "non-member state," a move that was widely seen as a de facto recognition of an independent Palestinian state.
After the Nov. 29 vote, Israel announced it would build 3,000 more settler homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The ICC prosecutes charges of genocide, war crimes and other major human rights violations. Palestine must first apply to join the court and once a member they could refer Israel for investigation.
1 ) Daniel / USA
25/01/2013 11:35
Not exactly right: "Palestine must first apply to join the court and once a member they could refer Israel for investigation." Actually, the existing Art. 12(3) declaration gives the Prosecutor the power to open an investigation at her own initiative, subject to the approval of the Pre-Trial Chamber. Whether she would do so is another matter.
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25/01/2013 17:14
a- Actually the ICC has declined to even "hear" previous war crimes charges brought against Israel, because they were without sufficient merit, and
b- since the State of Palestine had neither sovereignty, nor even existed in 1967, when Jordan lost control of the West Bank to Israel,
c- most likely the ICC would decide that Palestine's charges would again be without sufficient merit, and again decline to "hear" them in court !!!
3 ) @ Dan-2 / USA too
27/01/2013 04:11
Using Rep. Wilson's words, @ Dan-1 "you lie." The ICC has NEVER declined to hear war crimes charges against Israel on the basis that they were without sufficient merit. All prior declinations have simply been jurisdictional. Now that the jurisdictional issues are getting squared away, watch Israel squirm as most war criminals do when they realize that justice is coming.
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That's what we found on our easter egg hunt today. Cute, isn't it?
you seem to know only the real big Dudleya in our region (which would be even more than I know about Dudleya). This is Dudleya blochmaniae subsp. brevifolia, which is growing on 10-20 m2 areas in various locations near the coast on sandstone.
BTW did you know that there are 52 species of Dudleya growing in California? Many of them are very small species.
Here is a link that might be useful:
Repeating what I said on TGF :
Aha! I was not being a very good detective this time! The large ones were still VERY tiny...not a match at all to what I named. Sheesh! I was rushing too much.
Yes, I only know some of the the larger Dudleya species. Never heard of this one!! No, I did not know there were 52 species in CA. Wow!
Thanks for my LSNFT item (Learn something new for today)!!


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Dejected Rangers vow to go out swinging
June, 10, 2014
By Katie Strang | ESPNNewYork.com
NEW YORK -- Maybe it was to serve as a reminder of what they are still playing for heading into Game 4. Maybe it was simply an oversight, a function of a bleary-eyed staff misplacing a rug in the aftermath of yet another demoralizing loss.
The New York Rangers' logo was left uncovered Tuesday, spanning a wide swath of their immaculate dressing room floor.
And when people began trampling over the pristine patch of carpet -- a forbidden act among hockey purists -- there wasn't even a forceful, threatening warning to stay off (this is the norm), just one respectful plea.
Is this the way the Rangers will go out? Without putting up a fight?
When players dutifully faced the media Tuesday afternoon in the wake of a 3-0 shutout loss in Game 3 the night before -- a defeat that leaves them trailing 3-0 in their Stanley Cup finals series against the Los Angeles Kings -- optimism was in short supply.
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Sure, players talked about the belief that remains, the adversity already vanquished in what has been an emotional spring. But platitudes and clichés aside, it wasn't hard to discern how the Rangers were feeling.
It was evident on their faces, their measured words, their slightly slumping shoulders. Despondent. Sullen. Defeated.
"I'm not going to lie to you," de facto captain Brad Richards said. "It's pretty much impossible to be upbeat."
Richards was only saying what was abundantly clear. The sense of regret, frustration, anger even, was hanging thick in the air Tuesday. The team is tired, frustrated and staring at a daunting task ahead. They are in no mood for positivity and they will make no apologies about that.
"We're down 3-0. We're all lacking sleep. This is tough," said an agitated coach Alain Vigneault. "Excuse us if today we're not real cheery. But tomorrow, I can tell you we're going to show up."
No griping about puck luck or bad bounces. No excuses, period. Henrik Lundqvist has to play lights-out. Rick Nash has to finish. Richards has to lead, not just off the ice, but on it as well.
The Rangers will have to show up and more Wednesday against a Kings team waiting and willing to pounce, ready to shove their second Stanley Cup championship in three years down the Blueshirts' throats. No doubt the Kings can sense the fragility in the opposing dressing room. They can understand it, too, considering seven weeks ago the Kings were in the same position, trailing the San Jose Sharks 3-0 in their first-round series.
So they will show no mercy to the battered Blueshirts, and the Rangers have to be similarly unwilling to budge.
"We don't want to end our season losing a game at home and give the Stanley Cup to their team," defenseman Marc Staal said. "It's not going to happen that way."
The Rangers will have to remember that logo, what it means and what it represents, when they don the sweater in Game 4 and try to avoid a sweep at the Kings' hands on home ice. No matter how surprising and successful this run has been for the team, a sweep carries both stigma and shame. It would cast a dark shadow over what has otherwise been a sensational, inspiring postseason.
Now, it must come down to nothing more than pride. Pride in the logo, pride in their performance, pride in one another.
"We definitely don't want to get swept in the Stanley Cup finals, and we don't want to lose in front of our home fans, either," said defenseman Dan Girardi. "That's not the way we want to go out."
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I have task where I have to open many files, search for
//@public object pattern, and if it has no matches, remove all JavaScript comments inside that file that do not have
//@public doc before it.
For example, there might be something similar to this:
//@public doc
* @function
* checks for specific conditions
* specific variables
and that remains as is. But every other JavaScript comment needs to be removed.
What would be regular expression for it, and how to achieve that?
Thank you in advance.
In the meanwhile, I came up to do following solution
<fileset id="jsmvcdoc.fileset" dir="${doctempfolder}" includes="**/*.js">
<contains text="//@public object" casesensitive="no"/>
<!-- JS Comments -->
<replaceregexp match="(?!doc. +)/\*.+?\*/" replace="" flags="gs" byline="false">
<fileset refid="jsmvcdoc.fileset"/>
Which filters fileset including only those file that do not contain //@public object, but I dont have idea how to make regexp which will strip all comments except those which are preceeded by line //@public doc
Solved it this way:
<!-- strip out js comments not preceeded by //@public doc -->
<replaceregexp match="(?<!//@public doc\x0D\x0A )/\*.+?\*/" replace="" flags="gs" byline="false">
<fileset refid="jsmvcdoc.fileset"/>


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Explore the personal stories of Syrian refugees in Lebanon
30 Nov 2007 21:08 GMT
General Michel Sulieman
Vote unlikely
The Lebanese parliament was due to meet on Friday to elect a successor to Emile Lahoud, whose term expired last week, but the vote has now been postponed to December 7.
Nabih Berri, who is the parliament speaker and a key member of the March 8 opposition bloc, said the delay had been ordered to allow more "consensus" to be built on a presidential candidate.
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"Hopefully, the Lebanese can do better politically than a president that orders his army to stand down while his country is under attack"
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The March 14 bloc is supported by the West while the opposition draws support from Iran and Syria.
Hezbollah, which leads the opposition, had declared that it would only consider Suleiman to be a consensus candidate if Aoun accepted.
Constitution wrangle
Now that Aoun has declared he would support Suleiman's candidacy, the focus will shift towards whether an agreement can be reached between the rival political factions on constitutional amendments.
Aoun and the rest of the opposition have branded the March 14 government as illegitimate since members of the opposition bloc pulled all their ministers out of the cabinet last year, citing a lack of veto rights in cabinet decisions.
"There are constitutional obstacles that should be removed because the government is illegitimate," Aoun said.
"The parliament, according also to the constitution is only an electoral body now - it cannot change the constitution."
In previous amendments, parliament had to ratify government recommendations by a two-third majority.
Rula Amin, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Beirut, said mistrust remained between the majority and opposition blocs.
"Michel Aoun said he is serious about the candidacy and nomination of Suleiman but he doubts that March 14 are serious," she said.
"[Aoun] believes this may be a ploy to waste time and blame him for the failure to elect a president."
Amin said that March 14 is considering the latest developments to be crucial in the presidential election process.
"We heard from a very senior source in March 14 that this is the moment of truth and that if the opposition is serious about electing a president... all they have to do is endorse Michel Suleiman, go to the parliament and amend the constitution. Then Lebanon will have a new president."
The presidency of Lebanon is reserved for a Maronite Christian under Lebanon's confessional system.
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Majority political bloc says it would support army chief as consensus candidate.
Head of Maronite church calls for compromise as deadlock over presidency continues.
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The West Virginia Racing Commission will soon consider a penalty system for drug violations that dovetails with uniform model rules making their way through the state legislature.
The West Virginia Racing Commission will soon consider a penalty system for drug violations that dovetails with uniform model rules making their way through the state legislature.
The New York Gaming Commission, during a Jan. 21 public hearing, heard the pros and cons of having different medication rules for Thoroughbred and Standardbred racehorses.
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A barn at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course has been placed under quarantine because of suspected equine herpesvirus in one horse.
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William "Bill" Bork Jr., a longtime horse racing executive, died Jan. 14 in Reading, Pa. He was 80.
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Statistically speaking, there's little separating jockeys Victor Carrasco, Manuel Franco, and Edgard Zayas, the three Puerto Rican-born finalists for the 2013 Eclipse Award as outstanding apprentice rider.
An almost two-month quarantine tied to equine herpesvirus at Parx Racing in Pennsylvania has been officially lifted, a track official said Jan. 13.
Veterinarian Tom Bowman has joined his son, Brooke Bowman, D.V.M., and veteran Maryland horseman Louis Merryman as a partner in the newly formed Heritage Stallions.
Due to heavy fog near Aqueduct and bad weather near Laurel Park, live racing has been canceled at those tracks for Saturday, Jan. 11.
Albert Coppola Sr. won the 1982 Travers Stakes (gr. I) and two jewels of the Canadian Triple Crown with Runaway Groom.
Due to the continued low temperatures in the region, Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races has canceled its live racing program scheduled for Wednesday night, Jan 8.
Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races has altered first post time for most its racing programs in 2014.
The Thoroughbred Alliance Show Series Awards Banquet will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Jan. 11 at Laurel Park.
Severe cold and wind led a few racetracks to cancel their live programs for Jan. 6-7.
The Maryland Jockey Club reported average daily pari-mutuel handle on live racing was up 4.1% in 2013 versus 2012 thanks to growth in export wagering. Purses, meanwhile, continued to increase in Maryland.
Penn National has canceled live racing Jan. 2, while Aqueduct will not race Jan. 3 as a winter storm zeroes in on the northeast region.
Trevor McCarthy and Hugh McMahon wrapped up 2013 titles in the jockey and trainer divisions, respectively, at the major Maryland tracks after the Dec. 31 final card of the season at Laurel Park.
Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course posted a record daily average pari-mutuel handle for its 197-night meet in 2013, a track official said Dec. 30.
Mountaineer Casino Racetrack & Resort concluded its 201-day 2013 meet with a 3.2% increase in all-sources wagering and a 9% increase in purses.
Silver Train, a two-time grade I winner including the 2005 Breeders' Cup Sprint (gr. I), died from colic Dec. 29 while shuttling to the United States from Brazil, Northview Stallion Station reported Dec. 30.
Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races concluded its 2013 season the night of Dec. 28 with an average daily all-sources handle of $992,368, less than 1% off its record wagering average set the previous year.
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Parx Racing said live racing was canceled for Dec. 23-24, making the ninth and 10th lost programs in December.
A booklet put together by several individuals at the forefront of equine medication reform has been prepared for Maryland, which will enact the Mid-Atlantic Uniform Medication and Drug-Testing Program Jan. 1, 2014.
MGM Resorts International has won a three-way race for a license to build a resort casino in Prince George's County, Md., just south of Washington, D.C. And the future of a racetrack remains up in the air.
Grade I winner Monba was represented by his first winner as a stallion when Percy Jackson won the the third race at Penn National Race Course Dec. 20.
Due to powerful winter weather, live racing at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course and Charles Town Races has been canceled for Saturday, Dec. 14.
Apprentice jockey Victor Carrasco went over the 200-win mark for the year Dec. 13 when the 21-year-old rode two winners at Laurel Park, including number 200 for the year.
Penn National Race Course has released its 2014 stakes schedule and live racing calendar, following approval by the Pennsylvania State Horse Racing Commission at its Dec. 12 meeting.
The Maryland Jockey Club has increased the purse for the Preakness Stakes (gr. I) from $1 million to $1.5 million, it was announced Dec. 12. This is the first hike for the Triple Crown classic since 1998.
Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races was approved for 220 live racing programs in 2014, but the West Virginia track remains in contract negotiations with horsemen.
Eight stakes were elevated in or to graded status and 11 were downgraded for 2014 during the meeting of the American Graded Stakes Committee Dec. 4 in Lexington.
Parx Racing said Dec. 4 the second of three barns that had been quarantined because of equine herpesvirus was cleared by the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.
The House Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing Dec. 10 at 12:30 p.m. on "The State of Online Gaming.
Our Entourage, a son of champion producing sire Street Cry, will retire to stud duty at Randy Funkhouser's O'Sullivan Farms near Charlestown, W.V.
The first week of Internet gambling in New Jersey went well, according to the state's top casino regulator, who says he finally stopped worrying about it.
Trainer Jamie Ness collected his 2,000th career victory when Caylee's Song won the second race at Laurel Park Nov. 28.
Marvelous veteran Ben's Cat did it again Nov. 27 when he wore down odds-on Ribo's Bobo in the final furlong to score a repeat victory in the $250,000 Fabulous Strike Handicap at Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course.
Though New Jersey Thoroughbred racing has a long way to go from a financial perspective, some racetrack operators and horsemen's representatives appear bullish on the future.
Freshman sire Talent Search and new sire Doubles Partner will join the stallion roster at Glenn and Becky Brok's Diamond B Farm in Mohrsville, Pa.
In anticipation of bad weather, Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course and Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races have canceled live racing for the evening of Nov. 26.


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Who is Tracy Rose? Meet the Other Half of the EPISD Scandal
POSTED: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 - 5:44pm
UPDATED: Monday, October 8, 2012 - 3:38pm
EL PASO- We're learning more about the Houston woman connected with Superintendent Garcia's arrest by the FBI.
The federal indictment charges Garcia and an unnamed person conspired to inflate the actual cost of teaching materials which were sold to the district.
Records obtained by NewsChannel 9 indicate that the other unindicted person is Tracy Rose, also known as Tracy Ledford. Records name her as president of Infinity Resources in Houston.
When the El Paso School District bought nearly $500,000 worth of teaching materials from Infinity Resources in July 2006, the company provided the district with this sole-source affidavit swearing that they were the only company that could provide the materials.
In addition, the company was going to get tens of thousands of dollars for travel expenses. The federal indictment against Garcia states that the actual value of the materials was much less and that Garcia had a personal financial interest in Infinity Resources and a personal relationship with Tracy Rose. Last night after his release on bond, Garcia said he was not guilty and intended to return to work today. That plan went nowhere when the school board president sent word for Garcia to stay away from the district offices.
An employee with the school district who met Rose says this is her picture a picture that is associated with the Twitter account of a Tracy Ledford. NewsChannel 9 has also learned that at one time a Tracy Ledford worked for an educational services company out of Dallas called Cambium Learning Group. The
That was at the same time that a Tracy Rose had set up Infinity Resources at a Post Office box in Houston and got that contract with EPISD.
This is a developing story and we will continue to give you the latest on Garcia and the EPISD as the story continues to unfold.
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Tracy Ledford was employed with the district from 11/2/2009 to 9/1/2010," the district said in an e-mail to Texas Watchdog. She was hired as a curriculum specialist, and her position was eliminated Sept. 1, 2010, the district said.
Is there any way our "Rubber Stamping" school trustees, can get her in town to answer some questions in this investigation? Opps!!! sorry, the board would never want to do this and tarnish their or the past boards behavior. Sweep it under the dusty carpet, and forget about it. sorry, Sorry SOOrry, on the Board.


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Paul Sagan
Paul Sagan (born 1959) is an American businessman and a partner at General Catalyst Partners.[1] He formerly served as the Executive Vice Chairman[2] of Akamai Technologies. Sagan joined the company in October 1998 as Chief Operating Officer, became President the following year, and was elected to the Akamai board of directors in January 2005. He became CEO in April 2005[3] and was succeeded by Akamai co-founder Tom Leighton on January 1, 2013.[4] He is vice chairman of Akamai[5] and a member of the board of directors of EMC Corporation,[6] iRobot,[7] and the not-for-profit ProPublica. He is also a trustee of his alma mater, Northwestern University.[8] Previously, he was a member of the board of directors of Dow Jones & Company,[9] Digitas,[10] Maven Networks,[11] OpenMarket,[12] FutureTense, inc.,[13] and VDONet Corp.[14] before each company was sold. He also served for a period of time on the boards of Experience, Inc.[15] and Medialink Worldwide, Inc.[16]
Upon graduating from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, Sagan began his career at WCBS-TV as a news writer and was named news director in 1987.[17] In 1991, he joined Time Warner to design and launch NY1. In 1995 he was named president and editor of new media at Time Inc.,[18] a position he held until 1997. From 1997 to 1998 Sagan served as senior adviser to the World Economic Forum.
Sagan is married to Ann Burks Sagan and they have three children, Katharine, Michael, and Emma.
Sagan was appointed by President Barack Obama to the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee in 2010.[19] He is a three time Emmy award winner for broadcast journalism in New York.[20] He became a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2008.[21] In 2009 Sagan was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in the technology category.[22] In 2008 he was named as a member of the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy.[23]
- ^ Farrell, Michael (30 January 2014). "Ex-Akamai CEO joins venture firm". Boston Globe. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
- ^ "Akamai Board of Directors". Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ^ Hines, Matt (April 4, 2005). "Paul Sagan Named Akamai Chief". CNET. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ^ "Akamai Announces CEO Succession". December 17, 2012.
- ^ "Akamai Board of Directors". Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ^ Buderi, Robert (December 20, 2007). "Akamai CEO Paul Sagan to Join EMC Board and Help With Mergers and Acquisitions". Xconomy. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ^ Lance, Eigen (February 3, 2010). "iRobot Board of Directors Now Includes Paul Sagan". robot reviews. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ^ "Nine civic, business leaders named to Board of Trustees" (article). Observer. November 3, 2005. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ Kaplan, David (February 22, 2007). "Industry Moves: McPherson To Chair Dow Jones' Board Of Directors; Brock, Sagan Named To Board". paidContent. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ^ "Digitas, Inc. Appoints Microsoft and Akamai Executives to Board of Directors" (press release). July 25, 2006. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ "Maven Networks Names Akamai President & CEO Paul Sagan to Its Board of Directors" (press release). Marketwire. September 12, 2005. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ "Open Market Names Three New Board Members" (press release). PRNewswire. November 8, 1999. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ "FutureTense Adds Online Industry Pioneer to Board of Directors; Paul Sagan Named as New Board Member" (press release). Businesswire. December 2, 1998. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ "Election of Directors" (14A SEC Filing). EdgarOnline. July 15, 1997. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ "Experience, Inc. Appoints Akamai's Paul Sagan and TechTarget's Greg Strakosch to its Board of Directors" (press release). Spirit Enterprise. April 23, 2003. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ "Sagan Joins Medialink Board" (article). AdAge. February 26, 1997. Retrieved 11 July 2012.
- ^ Laurie Bennett (December 31, 2010). "Paul Sagan an exemplar of media transformation". Muckety. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
He began his career as a writer at WCBS-TV in New York.
- ^ Mike Allen (16 September 1996). "Seeing Ad Dollars, C-Net Multiplies Web Sites". The New York Times. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
Paul Sagan, president and editor of new media at Time Inc...
- ^ "President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts, 12/8/10" (Press Release). Whitehouse.gov. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ^ "NY Emmy Awards Winners: 31st, 34th and 35th". National Academy of Arts & Sciences New York. 1986–1987; 1989–1990; 1990–1991. Check date values in:
- ^ "Academy Inducts 230th Class of Members". Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Winter 2011. p. 6. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ^ "Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009: Road to Palm Springs". Ernst & Young (Press Release). 2009. Retrieved 6 July 2012.
- ^ "Knight Commission Announces Full Membership; Gears Up for Initial Meeting" (press release). June 12, 2008. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
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In a Mellow Tone
Aeoniums - not only are they a genus that name of which contains all vowels, not only is the genus name seven letters long (bingo word!), but it's a plant that looks lovely in the winter here, and this particular A. arboreum v. atropurpureum hybrid (?) has been sitting in its shallow pot very prettily these last few weeks, waiting for me to take note of its understated glamour.
In a mellow tone
That's the way to live
If you mope and groan
Something's gotta give
Just go your way
And laugh and play
There's joy unknown
In a mellow tone
What a beautiful sound it makes! i always thought there ought to be a musical instrument named Aeonium. I guess there is ;-)
Ladies and Gents,
In a mellow tone
Feeling fancy free
And I'm not alone
I've got company
Everything's ok
The live long day
With this mellow song
I can't go wrong
And thank you. Greg, that plant's been inside the house all winter - it's not cold-hardy (no Aeonium is).
Cactusmcharris, Ok, I think I got it they are winter growers but do not necessarily like the Cold, cold weather, they just grow durring the winter months, right?
Ok , If thats correct I learned something today and for that I say thank you. I was thinking, Winter grower meant it loved the cold weather.
I love this forum, I really do, and I appreciate everyone's help here also, I've learned alot and continue to everyday. Thanks to All.
Greg, almost no 'winter growing' succulents grow when conditions are below freezing as it is most of the time in winter way up north in the frozen wastelands where Jeff lives. They grow mostly in the fall and spring, but not in the 'dead' of winter. Most succulents can not survive sustained temperatures even a few degrees below freezing. Aeoniums in particular come from the Canary Islands where it almost never freezes. It is better to refer to 'winter growing' plants as summer dormant. That term is much less confusing.
Brad point well taken , here I must grow them in the
Winter months, and put them under my benches in the summer, it has pretty warm here, so the are bolting into flower. Unfortunately they are my variegted var.
I only wish my hair was as wavy as those leaves, and they are splended. The picture is picture perfect, and thank you Jeff and Brad, Norma
Brad , thank you for the break down, yeah I was thinking winter growers meant cold temps.
Not to the extent of freezing, but just southern California cold. Lol...
I appreciate your input, both yours and Jeff explanation was and eye opener, of course if I lived where it freezes over I might have learned quicker for sure just by the plants dead leaves.
Frank, in high school I played a bass Euphonium, also known as a four valve Tuba. Didn't sound anything like an Aeolian harp :-)
Love Chopin!
For those who may not know, In a Mellow Tone is an old jazz standard written by Duke Ellington, and performed by his band, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Coleman Hawkins, and countless others. Jeff posted the first two stanzas, and I posted the second half of the lyrics.
Thanks for this thread Jeff! It has been fun and educational, and from hot to cold.
This thread making you happy is small beer compared with your pics of succulents you've shared with us. Just for you, I've found a full body shot of the plant, just more proof good things grow in shallow containers.
Speaking of hot, I'm hot to have my passport redone - is this a fair representation (thanks for photo to Cactus J!)?
That's me. Somehow no one else had this plant for a number of years. How's it doing?
It is, too, from San Benitos Island, IIRC Cactus Jordi's pictures.
Your plants are getting pulled/plucked today.
That's just my thinking. I'll go sing a Bob Dylan song now...