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Home#SPFBO6 Interview – Suzannah Rowntree
Welcome to Lavender Lass Books, Suzannah. Thank you for agreeing to this interview and best of luck in the competition!
A Wind from the Wilderness is the first book in the Watchers of Outremer series. Here's the blurb:
Hunted by demons. Lost in time.
Welcome to the First Crusade.
Syria, 636: As heretic invaders circle Jerusalem, young Lukas Bessarion vows to defend his people. Instead, disaster strikes.
His family is ripped apart. His allies are slaughtered. And Lukas is hurled across the centuries to a future where his worst nightmares have come true…
Constantinople, 1097: Ayla may be a heretic beggar, but she knows one thing for sure: six months from now, she will die. Before then, she must avenge her father's murder—or risk losing her soul.
Desperate to find their way home, Lukas and Ayla join the seven armies marching east to liberate Jerusalem. If Lukas succeeds in his quest, he'll undo the invasion and change the course of history.
But only if he survives the war.
Only if his enemies from the past don't catch him.
And only as long as Ayla never finds out who he really is.
A Wind from the Wilderness is Book 1 in the new Watchers of Outremer series. If you love stories full of dark magic, bloody warfare, and star-crossed love, then you'll be spellbound by this sweeping historical fantasy!
Yes, this is my first SPFBO! I entered A Wind from the Wilderness because, well, it's a bit of an odd duck in the indie book market. In addition to being fantasy, it also doubles as a thoroughly-researched historical fiction, one that has some real moments of darkness and sorrow in it. It's epic in scope and was very much a passion project done for the art, rather than a commercial project done for the money. As I was following SPFBO last year, I noticed that the books doing well—such as The Sword of Kaigen and Fortune's Fool—were similarly artistic projects, written more for passion than for the market. I know it's pretty presumptuous of me to mention my book on the same level, but I did think that if my book appeals to readers and judges, it might be for some of the same reasons those books did. I feel A Wind from the Wilderness hasn't quite found its niche yet, and I'm hoping SPFBO might help it do so.
Well, specifically, I write historical fantasy—that is, historical fiction with more or less fantastical trappings. I have always had a deep love of history, and the older I get the more my love of history and my love of fantasy fiction look like the same thing. Palace intrigue, high-stakes battles, heroic or villainous deeds, deeply flawed characters, mind-boggling plot twists—all are things I love when they crop up in fantasy but get really excited about when they turn up in history, because how cool is it that this sort of thing really happened?
On the other hand, I can never resist adding fantasy elements into whatever historical period I'm writing. It feels like a very natural thing to do, because throughout history people have imagined myths and legends happening in their own world. As a very theme-driven writer, I think I'm particularly drawn to the way speculative fiction lends itself to deep thematic richness. In historical fantasy, I can use symbol and metaphor to talk about historical events in ways that straight historical fiction can't. And finally, as a person of faith, I have always believed that there's a deep supernatural reality lurking beneath the quantifiable elements of this world. I find I always end up asking my readers: imagine, just for a moment, that all the stories are true. Imagine there's something so much wilder and stranger and more wonderful lurking behind what we can see. I can't help seeing the world that way, and writing historical fantasy allows me to reflect that in what I write.
Deciding to self-publish was a pretty long process, which I won't bore you with. In the end, I figured I'd rather own my own work and not hand it over for caretaking to anyone else. Traditional publishing can be a cutthroat business, with a lot of editing and marketing attention being given to bestsellers, and underperforming series being ruthlessly jettisoned. I decided that if my books were going to sink or swim, I wanted to be the one responsible for that. They feel too precious to me to entrust to anyone else, you know?
Well, of course I feel there are a ton of advantages – it's so much easier to make a full-time income indie publishing, you aren't dependent on the somewhat nepotistic world of agents and publishers, you never have to try to win back the rights to an out of print work so that you can keep selling it under your own care. For me, specifically, there have been a lot of challenges as well. It can be hard to build up a decent following when you are writing in a niche like historical fantasy, where most of the bestselling authors and comp titles (Powers, Chakraborty, Novik, Moreno-Garcia, Miller, etc) are traditionally published authors. By and large, readers of indie books don't care if every tiny historical detail is in place. They'll love the book anyway, so you sometimes feel like you're wasting your time reading all those academic texts. On the other hand, you might be writing gorgeously evocative tales that bring a lost era to life in vivid detail, and as an indie author, you won't get much serious artistic recognition from established literary gatekeepers. That's why I was so thrilled to discover SPFBO – it's one of the very few ways that an indie author can win that kind of artistic recognition.
I have to admit that there's a bit of a gap in my fantasy education – I've read a lot of the foundational classics (eg medieval epics, Narnia, LOTR) and a lot of more recent books in the last five to ten years, so if it was written anywhere between the 60s and about 2010, I probably missed it. At a guess, however, we see a lot more diversity in both authors and protagonists than there used to be. As just one example, there are a ton more fantasies that are inspired by cultures other than medieval Latin Europe, which is a thing I love – please give me all the Asian and African and Latin American-inspired fantasy worlds! These days female authors often still get pigeonholed in YA, especially if they're writing stuff that's not super explicit in terms of content, but they're making a determined effort to break out. Classic quest narratives are still going strong, but I find there's a lot more court intrigue and political machinations these days, as well as more character-driven tales.
As for ways that fantasy has remained the same, well, in a lot of ways we're still definitely and recognisably the genre Tolkien founded, which is fine by me. Intricate worldbuilding, stirring adventure, and complex ethical dilemmas that speak in a veiled way to real-world issues were all things I fell in love with in LOTR, and I think the fantasy genre is still running on the same engine today.
Not at present. I've mostly been sticking to historical fantasy as I try to connect with my target audience there, but I have to admit that the genre I'm most drawn to apart from that would be space fantasy of the Star Wars and Red Rising type, which is medieval knightly romance in space, which obviously I love. I don't have any plans to actually write space fantasy, but if I wrote anything else it might be that.
The stories I most gravitate towards tend to be character-driven, with worldbuilding obviously inspired by real-world history and with fairly rich themes that find their expression in agonising ethical dilemmas. Give me deep characters having to make terrible choices and then facing the devastating consequences of their choices, and I'll love you forever.
Other things I gravitate towards: I generally stay away from explicit content – yes, it's realistic, but personally I prefer to achieve realism without putting all the details on the page. I've also found that in recent years I gravitate towards female authors. I definitely want to expand my reading horizons on this front, it's just that so far the people writing the kinds of stories I prefer right now tend to be women. Maybe I'm just jaded from reading a few too many fantasy novels where the female characters' breast size is the most important thing about them!
Ha, I'm always working on new books! This year I'm finishing up Book 3 of the Watchers of Outremer series, A Day of Darkness, which will hopefully publish late this year. Meanwhile, I've been hard at work drafting an unrelated series, a shamelessly irresponsible gaslamp romp titled Miss Sharp's Monsters, inspired by the glamorous yet bloody history of 1890s Europe in the lead-up to World War I. I just finished writing Book 2 which is titled Vampire on the Orient Express, to give you an idea of the flavour.
There are dozens of things I could say here, but I think the most important thing of all is this: get online and get connected with the indie fantasy community. There are dozens if not hundreds of groups on Facebook dedicated to authors helping each other and promoting each others' books. It's a wonderful, generous, creative, friendly community, where you can get help on any aspect of the self-publishing process from writing tips to release strategies to newsletters to advertising. I couldn't be doing any of this without them.
You can find Suzannah Rowntree's book on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/Wind-Wilderness-Watchers-Outremer-Book-ebook/dp/B07HRL1RKM


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Q: Radio button is not checked by default angular 2 Here is the code in html file :

Some Question about Email and Phone Details?

                <input type="radio" value="1" [formControl]="signUpDetailsForm.controls['details']" name="details" (click)="EmailClicked()"
                ng-model="selectedOption"> Email

 Text

                 Both
in the component.ts class, I am setting the selectedOption to 1. Like this :
export class TestComponent implements OnInit{
  signUpDetailsForm: FormGroup;
  public submitted : boolean;

  public selectedOption : string ='1';

I can see the selectedOption value is set properly as in ngOnInit the value is printed as 1 :
ngOnInit() {

 console.log('selectedOption='+this.selectedOption);

}

I also tried another way of solving this by setting selectedOption in ng-init but still doesn't work .

                    <input type="radio" value="1" [formControl]="signUpDetailsForm.controls['details']" name="details" (click)="EmailClicked()"
                    ng-model="selectedOption"> Email

                    <input type="radio" value="2" ng-model="selectedOption" [formControl]="signUpDetailsForm.controls['details']" name="details" (click)="PhoneClicked()"> Text

                    <input type="radio" value="3" ng-model="selectedOption" [formControl]="signUpDetailsForm.controls['details']" name="details" (click)="BothClicked()"> Both

UPDATE
my updated code looks like this and it still doesn't select radio by default:

Some Question about Email and Phone Details?

                <input type="radio" value="1" [formControl]="signUpDetailsForm.controls['details']" name="details" (click)="EmailClicked()"
                [(ngModel)]="selectedOption"> Email

                <input type="radio" value="2" ng-model="selectedOption" [formControl]="signUpDetailsForm.controls['details']" name="details" (click)="PhoneClicked()"> Text

                <input type="radio" value="3" ng-model="selectedOption" [formControl]="signUpDetailsForm.controls['details']" name="details" (click)="BothClicked()"> Both

//This is in component.ts class:
public selectedOption :string;
ngOnInit() {

this.selectedOption="1";

}

A: got hint from William's comment. answer posted here:
@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: `

<form>

Some Question about Email and Phone Details?

                    <input type="radio" [value]="1"  name="details" [(ngModel)]="selectedOption">
                    Email

                    <input type="radio" [value]="2"  name="details" [(ngModel)]="selectedOption"> Text

                    <input type="radio" [value]="3"  name="details" [(ngModel)]="selectedOption"> Both

</form>
  `,
})
export class App {
   public selectedOption :number =3;
  constructor() {

  }
}

A: I had a similar problem but using angular mat-radio-group and binding of the data to the form-group. Instead of two-way binding to your model, bind the result of the selection to the model and another value to the form-group.
On the other hand, I think you don't need to bind the values in the radio-buttons, just specify the value that the radio button will emit to your model if it is selected.
@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  template: `

<form>

Some Question about Email and Phone
Details?

                <input type="radio" value=1  name="details"
(ngModel)="selectedOption">
                Email

                <input type="radio" value=2  name="details"
(ngModel)="selectedOption"> Text

                <input type="radio" value=3  name="details"
(ngModel)="selectedOption"> Both

</form>
  `,
})
export class App {
  public selectedOption :number =3;
  constructor() {

  }
}

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Copyright [2016-2022] EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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package EnsEMBL::Web::ExtIndex::ENSEMBL_RETRIEVE;

### Class to retrieve sequences for given Ensembl ids

use strict;
use warnings;

use Bio::EnsEMBL::Registry;
use EnsEMBL::Web::Exceptions;

use parent qw(EnsEMBL::Web::ExtIndex);

sub get_sequence {
  ## @param Hashref with following keys:
  ##  - id          Id of the object
  ##  - translation Flag if on, will only return the linked translation sequences
  ##  - multi       Flag if on, will return all possible sequences (defaults to returning the longest sequence only)
  ## @exception If id is invalid or sequence could not be found.
  my ($self, $params) = @_;

  my $hub         = $self->hub;
  my $sd          = $hub->species_defs;
  my $sitetype    = $sd->ENSEMBL_SITETYPE;

  # invalid id
  throw exception('WebException', "No valid $sitetype ID provided.")              unless $params->{'id'};
  throw exception('WebException', "$params->{'id'} is not a valid $sitetype ID.") unless $params->{'id'} =~ /^[a-z0-9_\.\-]+$/i;

  my $registry    = 'Bio::EnsEMBL::Registry';
  my $stable_id   = sprintf '%s%011d', split(/(?=[0-9])/, $params->{'id'}, 2); # prefix '0's before the number part if it's less than 11 digits
  my $trans_only  = $params->{'translation'};

  # get species name etc from stable id
  my ($species, $object_type, $db_type) = $registry->get_species_and_object_type($stable_id);

  my @seqs;

  if ($species) { # current release stable id

    if (my $object = $registry->get_adaptor($species, $db_type, $object_type)->fetch_by_stable_id($stable_id)) {

      my @trans;

      if ($object->isa('Bio::EnsEMBL::Gene')) {

        if ($trans_only) {
          @trans = map { $_->translation || () } @{$object->get_all_Transcripts};
        } else {
          @seqs = {
            'id'          => $object->stable_id,
            'sequence'    => $object->seq,
            'description' => sprintf('%s %s Gene %s', $object->display_id, $sitetype, $object->seqname),
            'length'      => $object->length
          };
        }

      } elsif ($object->isa('Bio::EnsEMBL::Transcript')) {

        if ($trans_only) {
          @trans = $object->translation || ();
        } else {
          @seqs = {
            'id'          => $object->stable_id,
            'sequence'    => $object->seq->seq,
            'description' => sprintf('%s %s Transcript %s', $object->version ? $object->display_id . "." . $object->version : $object->display_id, $sitetype, $object->seqname),
            'length'      => $object->length
          };
        }

      } elsif ($object->isa('Bio::EnsEMBL::Translation')) {
        @trans = $object;
      }

      @seqs = map {
        'id'          => $_->stable_id,
        'sequence'    => $_->seq,
        'description' => sprintf('%s %s Translation', $_->display_id, $sitetype),
        'length'      => $_->length
      }, @trans if @trans;

    }

    # throw error if no sequence found for the given stable id
    throw exception('WebException', sprintf 'No sequence found for %s with stable id %s', lc $object_type, $stable_id) unless @seqs;

  } else { # not a current release stable id? try for archive stable id for each species

    my %checked_species;

    for ($hub->species, @{$hub->get_favourite_species}, $sd->ENSEMBL_PRIMARY_SPECIES || (), $sd->ENSEMBL_SECONDARY_SPECIES || (), $sd->valid_species) { # try important species first

      if (!$checked_species{$_} && (my $object = $registry->get_adaptor($_, 'Core', 'ArchiveStableId')->fetch_by_stable_id($stable_id))) {

        # get translations from recent release
        my $recent_release = 0;
        for (@{$object->get_all_translation_archive_ids}) {
          my $release = $_->release;
          if ($release >= $recent_release) {
            if ($release > $recent_release) {
              $recent_release = $release;
              @seqs = ();
            }
            my $seq = $_->get_peptide;
            my $id  = $_->stable_id;
            push @seqs, {
              'id'          => $id,
              'sequence'    => $seq,
              'length'      => length($seq),
              'description' => sprintf('%s %s Archive Translation', $id, $sitetype),
            };
          }
        }

        # if no seq found for this valid archive stable id
        throw exception('WebException', sprintf 'No sequence found for %s with archive stable id %s', lc $object->type, $stable_id) unless @seqs;

        last;
      }
      $checked_species{$_} = 1;
    }
  }

  # throw error if no sequence retrieved
  throw exception('WebException', sprintf 'Could not find any sequence corresponding to id %s', $params->{'id'}) unless @seqs;

  @seqs = sort { $b->{'length'} <=> $a->{'length'} } @seqs;
  @seqs = ($seqs[0]) unless $params->{'mutli'};

  # create fasta format sequence
  for (@seqs) {
    my $fasta = [ sprintf '>%s', delete $_->{'description'} ];
    push @$fasta, $1 while $_->{'sequence'} =~ m/(.{1,60})/g;
    $_->{'sequence'} = join "\n", @$fasta;
  }

  return wantarray ? @seqs : $seqs[0];
}

1;

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This Hong Kong Heiress Became an Accidental LGBT Champion
Her father offered $127 million to any man who could make her straight.
By Beh Lih Yi
HONG KONG, March 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Hong Kong property tycoon Cecil Chao offered $65 million to any man who could win over his lesbian daughter and make her straight, he inadvertently laid the ground for her to become one of Asia's most prominent gay rights campaigners.
The bizarre reward in 2012 grabbed international headlines and his daughter, Gigi Chao, was bombarded with thousands of marriage proposals from across the world – from war veterans to a body double of George Clooney in a sports movie.
It was the first time the issue of acceptance of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community had played out in such high-profile way in Hong Kong – a city modern in many ways but where social attitudes remain conservative.
"I am glad it happened," Gigi Chao told the Thomson Reuters Foundation at the office of her property firm is housed in Hong Kong's third-tallest skyscraper overlooking the city's harbour.
"It has been able to put a comic spin on a topic that is often marred by a lot of tragedies and taboos," said the 38-year-old, wearing a sparkly rainbow-coloured jacket.
The elder Chao - whose property empire invests in Hong Kong, China and Malaysia - put the $65 million "marriage bounty" on his daughter's head after she entered into a civil partnership with her girlfriend in France in early 2012.
After failing to find any suitors, the 81-year-old billionaire doubled the offer to HK$1 billion ($127 million) in 2014.
This prompted Chao to pen an open letter published in Hong Kong newspapers which said: "Dear daddy, you must accept I'm a lesbian" and urged him to treat her partner like a "normal, dignified human being".
Such a public feud in a well-known family would have been remarkable anywhere but was particularly unusual in Asia when no country in the region at that time recognised same-sex marriage.
It was only last year that the Taiwan's constitutional court paved the way for the island to become the first place in Asia with gay marriage after it ruled in favour of same-sex unions.
Today Chao is not only the heir to her father's property business and one of Hong Kong's richest women, she is also the most recognisable face campaigning for LGBT rights in the city.
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Homosexuality has been decriminalised since 1991 in Hong Kong, a former British colony which returned to Chinese rule in 1997. The city has an annual pride parade and lively gay scene.
But despite the city enjoying freedom of speech and assembly, it does not recognise same-sex marriage and campaigners say LGBT people still face widespread discrimination and often come under family pressure to marry and have children.
Transgender people are recognised if they have undergone sex reassignment surgery but activists have been lobbying to remove this requirement.
A proposal to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation has been under discussion in the city's legislature, the Legislative Council (LegCo), but there is no clear indication whether it will be adopted.
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"It is disappointing in that LegCo doesn't have the forward vision or the courage to put something forward like this in fear of offending the traditional groups," Chao said.
But where the government has failed, is where Chao believes businesses can step in to take the lead.
The businesswoman has been using her influence in high society to forge a coalition of allies to mobilise support.
"What we found to be most effective is to engage top executives and allow them to see how inclusion, diversity and equality is something they should, and they shall, stand for and let it cascade down the organisation," she said.
"There are a lot of notable organisations which have been doing that. Engaging the government is more difficult."
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There have been other signs of growing acceptance.
Hong Kong is set to become the host of the 2022 Gay Games, a sports and cultural event dubbed the "Gay Olympics", after fighting off bids from cities in the United States and Mexico.
In a rare victory, a Hong Kong court last year ruled that a British lesbian whose partner worked in the city should receive a spousal visa.
The charity Big Love Alliance - of which Chao is a founding member - organises an annual Pink Dot gathering to campaign for LGBT rights and it has attracted sponsorship from embassies and investment banks.
Chao also works with the United Nations on LGBT rights and became the first Asian to be named as the top LGBT executive on an annual OUTstanding list compiled by the Financial Times which ranks LGBT role models in business.
A qualified helicopter pilot, Chao said the marriage bounty episode did not tarnish her ties with her father - who like her also shares a passion of flying.
"You build a much stronger bond in these relationships after you have been able to live your full self, be a full person and live as an honest person in front of your mum and dad," she said.
"It is an important process to go through although in the short term it does jolt them into a bit of shock."
But in a signal that there is still a long way to go for same-sex marriage in Hong Kong, Chao said she and her partner have had to temporarily put aside the idea of having children.
"Even for people like me - who many perceive as having all the resources in the world to do whatever I want in some ways - it is very difficult," she said.
"It is not easy because you can't do it in Hong Kong or anywhere else in Asia."
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($1 = 7.8490 Hong Kong dollars) (Reporting by Beh Lih Yi @behlihyi, Editing by Belinda Goldsmith)
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Commodification, the Academic Journal Racket and the Digital Commons
September 14, 2011 November 17, 2012 / Pablo K
David, my erstwhile 'parasitic overlord' from when I was co-editing Millennium, points me to some posts by Kent Anderson of the Society for Scholarly Publishing, who defends the industry on a number of grounds from Monbiot's polemic against the journal racket. The comments threads on both pieces are populated by academics who agree with Monbiot and by publishing industry colleagues who agree with Anderson (and who alternate between dismissing and being personally offended by the original Monbiot column). The core counter-argument is that this anti-corporate, out of touch, 'wannabe-academic' day dreaming is old hat, and stands up no better now than it did when it was demolished at some unspecified point in the past.
Most crucially, Monbiot's central exhibit (that companies consistently make 30-40% margins on the distribution of work already paid for by the public purse) is almost entirely passed over. Anderson coyly suggests that maybe publisher margins are that high, but maybe they're not. Despite working rather closer to the heart of matters financial than do the rest of us, he provides no settling of accounts either way. In any case, however much it costs, and however much publishers make, it's good value, apparently by definitional fiat. Since libraries keep paying the money, and since academics keep submitting papers, it is 'idealism' (remember that?) to complain about the current balance of power.
This is the familiar circular logic of neoliberal reason: privatised arrangements are beneficial because they will make the system more efficient and less costly. But if the rate of profit does not fall in line with the expectations of open competition, then it must mean that the rates charged are true equilibrium prices. Nevertheless, complainants citing high margins are referred to the benefits of privatised arrangements and assured that competition will bring prices down. Even though £200 million each year, or 10% of all research funding distributed by HEFCE (the academic funding council for England), ends up being spent on journal and database access by academic libraries. [1]
Yet Anderson also argues that access isn't a real problem. Ignoring the double bind this puts him in (if anyone can access the content, but only a few institutions pay for it, how is it that the system is able to maintain such profits in the face of ample opportunities for free riding?), he says that "more than 97% of journal articles are easily or very easily accessible to people in the Western world". This is disingenuous. Luckily, you won't have to pay £25 to discover what the research actually says. The paper cited does not show that journal content is de facto accessible to everyone. Instead, it states that of those academic researchers surveyed who work in universities or colleges, 94% reported that accessing journal articles was fairly or very easy (increasingly to closer to 97% for Europe and North America). In other words, if you have a research job in a university, you find it easy to read academic articles. This is obvious, and has no bearing at all on the actual argument for dismantling barriers. The problem for university libraries is cost, not access. For independent researchers and the general public the issue is cost and access and the potential detriment to free and open debate.
But on Anderson's account this cannot be a problem because he does not recognise academic products as commodities at all, and hence denies that one can have a monopoly of them. Perhaps he has a similar attitude to ownership as Joe Pasquale does. The points appears to be that: a) papers are non-substitutable, and therefore academic publishers are not really selling them like they would do gold or oil or whatever generic stand-in you prefer; and b) authors yield power over where to send their work and so cannot be under the thumb of publishers. I guess this makes academic publishing a mere distribution mechanism, since Anderson also denies that it is some kind of service.
But the products of academia are clearly economic goods in the relevant sense. The non-substitutability of papers does not mean that they are differentially priced, since access costs depend on publisher pricing across their range. Moreover, they are not entirely exclusive goods. All academic papers are beautiful and unique snowflakes, to be sure, but there are also numerous texts available on any given topic, and the whole point of the paywall is that readers don't really know what content they're going to get beyond the abstract. The existence of multiple publishing houses and high margins might indicate oligopoly (as some have suggested), but the terminology is rather secondary. The critique – that publishers extract excessive profits based on the power they enjoy within the market place – stands. And the wider complaint – that the current ways of funding research and paying for content are part of a damaging trend of the commodification of the academy – is also unaffected by such tactical misrepresentation.
Throughout these discussions, there's a reliance on the idea that academics are in some sense compensated, either in prestige terms or in deferred income, for the effort involved in research and peer-review, and therefore that the absence of any direct returns to them from the publishers is justifiable. This is a trope that has become increasingly widely adopted, particularly in discussions of precarious work, where voluntary labour today is thought of as compensation retrospectively awarded via hypothetical future income. I don't deny that academics get things out of journal publication, but this mode of accounting is rather suspect.
Leaving aside the implausibility of the idea that you get meaningful promotions in proportion with your willingness to contribute to peer-review, the point is that none of the putative financial returns on journal publishing come from the coffers of those who profit from publishing academic work. It is this disjuncture which presumably accounts for the returns on investment, since it in effect means that the content of academic journals is provided to publishers for free, a situation not found in other forms of publishing (books, magazines, newspapers) in which the authors and journalists are paid by the same entities which sell their product and reap the rewards of those sales.
Of course there is 'added value' provided by journal publishing, but it's still not at all clear that the costs of editing, type-setting, printing and marketing involved should be more than those in other print media, even if we accept that it should be possible to make private profit from the results of publicly-funded research, which is a very big 'if' indeed. Instead, it's plausible that the costs are much lower, since significant parts of the editing work (initial selection, assessment of contribution, structural changes, any checking of references and facts, promotion by citation or inclusion in course readers) is also carried out almost entirely for free by voluntary academic labour (I say almost 'only' to cover the honorariums that some Editors do receive). The question is whether the value added is in proportion to the value extracted.
In sum, the response of publishers leaves the underlying charges unanswered, and instead raises subsidiary points, occasionally relevant, which do not refute them. It is true, for example, that the sheer volume of academic literature now accessible creates new problems, but then the increase in journal titles is itself not unrelated to the profitability of such ventures. It is true that academic expertise is a kind of filter between niche publications and public discussion, but this doesn't mean that wanting to read a peer-reviewed paper on American foreign policy is like wanting to treat your own cancer on the basis of an introductory medical text you've found. [2]
And it is true that these dynamics are essentially driven by the system of reward created by government and enforced by universities through prestige measures like the REF, which is why the question of academic publishing has to be considered not merely as a question of corporate practice, but as of a piece with the entire political economy of the contemporary academy.
[1] At one point Anderson resorts to the hilariously bad argument that massive profits for academic publishers are in fact a form of wealth redistribution, since the profits go to shareholders, and these shareholders are themselves taxpayers, constituting a return to taxpayers of the investment they initially put in to funding the research in the first place. Credit that if you can.
[2] Speaking of medicine, I'm particularly taken by the fact that so many academic open access activists work in the sciences (although there are, of course, exceptions). Not only are they more militant and persistent in their critiques of academic publishing, they also do so against a background of many more open access resources than is the case for the social sciences. I am not aware, for example, of any IR resource even vaguely comparable to arXiv, BioMed or PLoS One. The Social Science Research Network doesn't seem to host journal-quality papers in anything like the same numbers, and I've never come across it in conversation (and yes, that's an anecdote easily dismissed on grounds of my unprofessional ignorance). Moreover, scientists seem more willing to work outside the formal journal system even though the potential problems of misunderstanding specialist language are greater. Why is this?
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David Duriesmith
Pablo, considering the inherent conservatism created by the publish or perish system surely there is not a lot of hope for a meaningful change in the system. By the time aspiring academics have become established in the academy they have a vested interest in protecting the privilege they have obtained through prestigious, commodified journals?
Pablo K
Thanks David,
There are certainly interests, but I think they are more multiple: a) a mechanism for paying academics to research; b) a means of evaluating quality and collecting original contributions; c) a way to get your work read widely; d) a form of prestige; and e) a way of balancing a) through d) with teaching, being part of a research community and generally not being a douche.
Academics become conservative, but I tend to see this as a consequence of accumulated pressures, cynicism and simply not thinking beyond the process of writing itself. I think many academic interests can be met without paywalls, and that they may instead be furthered by a more open system.
Of course, this does not deny that there are also wider questions about research funding and the purpose of the academy at stake.
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Pablo, great article.
Would you say there is also a hesitancy in publishing for 'academic' journals rather than other publication sources because it forces the writer to materialize their content [in a way that the content is molded to satisfy an audience rather than the pure interests and objectives of the writer him/her self]? Are we just writing for an audience? Also, do you think the more 'legitimate' publications are limited to the arm-chair intellectual types, where as others may not have the means, resources, or time to write in the same style that those publications require?
Thanks Akta,
I wouldn't say there's a hesitancy, mainly because publishing in highly-regarded journals is so central to career progress. I agree that the 'audience criteria' does something particular to academic writing which isn't always helpful and that some pieces would be much clearer and persuasive without it. That said, I also think there's a lot to be said for situating yourself within the framework of what others have written, and that's fairly unavoidable if you want to convince a knowledgeable readership that your approach or contribution is worthwhile.
On 'armchair intellectuals', I would definitely expect that serious and engaged pieces will be more likely to come from such figures, merely because they have more time to read existing literature and evaluate it. I don't have any major issue with that. In fact, I see the problem as more about extending the circle of people who can do that, and making it less tied to the hierarchies of the academy that journals encourage.


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New botnet targets nationals of Georgia.
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Malicious software that gets updates from a domain belonging to the Eurasian state of Georgia? This unusual behavior caught the attention of an analyst in ESET's virus laboratory earlier this year, leading to further analysis which revealed an information stealing trojan being used to target Georgian nationals in particular. After further investigation, ESET researchers were able to gain access to the control panel of the botnet created with this malware, revealing the extent and the intent of this operation.
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Head coach Chuck Pagano celebrates with defensive end Cory Redding #90 of the Indianapolis Colts after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 45-44 in a Wild Card Playoff game at Lucas Oil Stadium on January 4, 2014 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)Head coach Chuck Pagano celebrates with defensive end Cory Redding #90 of the Indianapolis Colts after defeating the Kansas City Chiefs 45-44 in a Wild Card Playoff game at Lucas Oil Stadium on January 4, 2014 in Indianapolis, Indiana. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
INDIANAPOLIS (CBSNewYork/AP) — When coach Chuck Pagano arrived home after Saturday's playoff victory, he tried to settle down.
Instead, he settled in for the reality that the Colts aren't finished yet.
"You're able to go home and sit on the couch, turn the TV on and find out that it did happen. It is real. It wasn't surreal," Pagano said Sunday, less than 24 hours after his team pulled off the second-greatest comeback in playoff history.
"Those guys, our players, they lay it on the line week in and week out. They truly left nothing, nothing, out there."
The shocking turnaround, from a 38-10 second-half deficit to 45-44 victory over the Chiefs, left Indianapolis spent both physically and mentally, linebacker Jerrell Freeman said.
Indianapolis (12-5) will next play at New England next weekend in the divisional round.
Those are the results of this monumental victory.
But a rare non-game day Sunday also gave the Colts a brief chance to reflect on what had been accomplished.
— They won their first postseason game without Peyton Manning since January 1996.
— They won their first postseason game without Manning or Jim Harbaugh behind center since John Unitas was the starter in 1971.
— They became the first NFL team in playoff history to win despite giving up 40 points and losing four turnovers.
— And they did it all with Andrew Luck leading the way on a less than stellar day.
How? By following Pagano's long-standing mantra of playing hard until the final whistle and never losing faith in their aptly-named quarterback.
"Hey, he does it all. As long as we continue to get the ball to him, we know some kind of way he's going to put points on the board, that offense is going to get rolling," Freeman said, referring to Luck.
"(Offensive coordinator) Pep (Hamilton) has a lot of different schemes. I'm sure y'all see it, they can do it in the passing game and the run game. It's great to have a quarterback like that."
It's not just Luck, though.
These Colts thrive on debunking conventional wisdom.
When they started the rebuilding process after the 2011 season with a first-time general manager, a first-time head coach, a rookie quarterback and no Manning, they were considered one of the worst teams in football.
They wound up winning 11 games and making the playoffs even with Pagano missing 12 games to battle leukemia.
This summer, when some said Indy would regress in terms of wins against a tougher schedule, the Colts still wound up winning 11 and captured their first AFC South title without Manning.
And on Saturday, after trailing by 28 with 28½ minutes remaining and everybody else giving up on them, the Colts still believed.
NFL sacks champ Robert Mathis walked to the bench and slammed his helmet, then stewed stoically on the bench waiting for his next chance as Luck took the field one more time.
Saturday marked the 11th time he led the Colts to a winning score in the fourth quarter or overtime over the past two seasons — more than any other quarterback in the NFL.
And after Saturday, even the outsiders are beginning to wonder if there's anything Luck can't do.
Pagano and his players already know the answer.
"I don't know what level it is, but he sure went to another one (Saturday)," Pagano said. "He's a guy that is able to put things behind him in a hurry.
"I've seen a lot of guys on either side of the ball have some poor plays here and there whether it's a quarterback and you throw three interceptions, you come right out of the half and you're gunned up and ready to go play good football and boom, you start the second half the way we started the second half. The guy is just strong-minded that way."
The Colts know he's not going to change his style now with another big game coming up, and Luck's teammates aren't about to change their philosophies either.
"That was a crazy one to say the least. It took a lot out of us," Freeman said. "That's what we always preach, go play from the first play to the last play. It was definitely exhausting, but it was a great win."
NOTES: Pagano said he had no immediate updates on the three players who left Saturday's game early. Cornerback Greg Toler re-injured his groin in the first half, safety LaRon Landry left in the fourth quarter with a concussion and receiver Darrius Heyward-Bey left during the second half with a leg injury. Pagano said Toler and Heyward-Bey were being evaluated and that Landry would have to go through the NFL's concussion protocol.
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September Mailbag: Does Warner Brothers Have an Actual Plan for DC Films?
It's the end of September so it's time for another Mailbag episode. Kriss and Dpalm go through listener emails, hot topics and discuss their Pull-List for the month. This month we're doing something special. Because the Super Tuesday shows (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Black Lightning, etc) are coming back next month, we're doing a big preview show this upcoming Sunday. So send in emails for those. This month, we're focusing mostly on news and the big question is: What is the plan over at Warner Brothers/DC?
Okay we lied, the first question really is how much did the Bumblebee trailer get Dpalm? It's an extra long Mailbag episode that you're not gonna want to miss.
It's the end of September so it's time for another Mailbag episode. Kriss and Dpalm go through listener emails, hot topics and discuss their Pull-List for the month. This month we're doing something special. Because the Super Tuesday shows (Arrow, The Flash, Supergirl, Black Lightning, etc) are coming back next month, we're doing a big preview show this upcoming Sunday.
Did the Bumblebee trailer get Dpalm?
What the hell is DC doing?
Superman – Cavill is he in or is he out?


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Sport and leisure time activities in Turin
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Sports in Turin
Turin's great location, close to mountains, countryside, rivers and lakes, provides an excellent environment for a wide range of sports and outdoor activities.
Ski slopes and mountain walking trails are only an hour's drive away.
Rowing, rafting and kayaking are very accessible: many of the city's rowing clubs, on the banks of the Po River, were founded over a century ago.
Rowing in Turin has very ancient traditions and is still widely practiced today. Many rowing clubs have been active for over a century, such as the Canottieri Armida Society, which was formed in 1869, and the Eridano Club which started its activities as far back as 1863, after the renovation of Valentino Park in Turin.
The "Amici del Fiume" (Friends of the River) Association was founded more recently, in 1979. It offers boat rides (rowing and canoeing) in springtime and organises beginners' courses for those with less experience.
Hiking and mountain biking
For those who are less energetic, but wish to relax and keep in shape in the fresh air, the "Collina di Torino" (Turin Hill) is recommended, a green area close to the city. The "Grande Traversata della Collina torinese" (Great Trek across the Turin Hill), about 65 km in length, starts from the Le Vallere Recreation Area. The route runs mainly along paths, and can be enjoyed on foot or by mountain bike. It provides fascinating views across the river area from the hill crests.
Those who enjoy horse riding can also find interesting opportunities in the Turin area, such as the International Horse Centre, which is based in the Venaria Reale Savoy residence in La Mandria Regional Park, about 16 km from Turin. The centre organises training activities, cultural presentations and important scientific events.
It is recommended the Po bridle path in the province of Turin, which passes by the town of Racconigi and runs along the walls of its Castle Park. The routes are described on the Turin Po River Park website. Some of the stretches are quite long: Racconigi – Moncalieri and San Raffaele - Crescentino is a distance of 40 km.
University Sports Centre
The University Sports Centre (CUS Torino) aims at promoting competitive and non-competitive sports among students, teachers and employees at Turin University. It offers more than 100 different sports at all levels.
CUS Torino sports facilities are located in a number of sites in the city and in surroundings areas.
The CUS CARD is free for Turin University students, Erasmus students, teachers and employees. In addition, thanks to CUS Progetto Disabili, disabled students can enjoy all activities offered for free, using specially adapted equipment, under the presence of a qualified instructor.
SUISM - University Sport Service Centre
The SUISM Centre promotes the application of scientific research to sport; its services are intended for students and staff who wish to pursue careers in the field of sport.
The Centre manages the sports facilities associated with all sport-related courses in various Departments.
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Can a child refuse medical care?
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In the article "Heaven over hospital: Parents honor dying child's request" Elizabeth Cohen from CNN raises an unusual situation concerning medical care; can a five-year-old child decide on her own to refuse medical care.
Should We Hold the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro Despite Badly Polluted Waters?
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Holding the Olympic Games in an underdeveloped country may not be such a good idea because of the many controversies looming over Rio de Janeiro for the last 20 years. "They said everything to win the Olympic Games, but they said one thing and did another thing," proclaimed the biologist Mario Moscatelli ("This is a shame" 1). More importantly, water pollution reigns over the Games and the country itself. Rio residents and athletes from all around the world are concerned about those filthy waters.
How should we program autonomous cars in order for them to be morally correct?
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With our rapidly evolving technology, the world will soon see automobiles that drive themselves. Indeed, companies such as Google, Mercedes and Volkswagen are already testing these driverless machines (Pedwell). These cars promise to increase safety, provide mobility solutions for disabled people, ease traffic congestion and increase time for doing other activities while the vehicle drives itself. Yet, as convenient as this invention might be, it also opens the door to some ethical issues. During a test drive in February 14th 2016, Google's Autonomous Vehicle (AV) was partly blamed for causing an accident with a bus. This incident let the government to declare that strong regulations needed to be established in matters of ethical issues with the new driverless vehicles (Pedwell). In other words, a moral code should be created and programmed into these AVs before they can be presented to the public.
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Editor's Note: This is excerpted from one of many books not included in the first compilations of the Bible. It can now be found in certain editions of the Apocrypha.
1 AND now I command you, my children, hearken to Judah your father, and keep my sayings to perform all the ordinances of the Lord, and to obey the commands of God.
38 For these things withdraw all from the law of God, and blind the inclination of the soul, and teach arrogance, and suffer not a man to have compassion upon his neighbour.
48 And the works of truth and the works of deceit are written upon the hearts of men, and each one of them the Lord knoweth.


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Galban seized the opportunity to bring his talents as agent provocateur into the field.
I was looking about to find the German agent provocateur, but I failed to find him.
Was Reese merely a "stool pigeon" or was he an "agent provocateur?"
The seditious placards posted up at Norwich may have been the work of some fanatic or of an agent provocateur.
They seem to find some pleasure in admiring him in the part of Agent provocateur.
The reason you brought this agent provocateur, this Trotskyite wrecker, to this position of ridiculous power.
My answer was that a study of many labor cases had taught me the methods of the agent provocateur.
The spy, the paid informer, the agent provocateur, play the same part now as in the sixteenth century.
He found discrepancies in the accounts, and intimated that the Government had adopted the odious rôle of the agent provocateur.


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Tags: Al-Jazerra Journalists, retrial
EGYPT: ' COURT AGREES RETRIAL OVER UNSAFE CONVICTIONS OF AL-JAZEERA JOURNALISTS '
#AceNewsServices – Editors Update: Jan.03: British-Lebanese lawyer Amal Alamuddin, who married Hollywood actor George Clooney in September, was threatened with arrest in Egypt over her criticism of the country's justice system for flaws that led to the jailing and trial of three al-Jazeera journalists.
' Al-Jazeera Journalists get their Retrial '
She represents Mohamed Fahmy, one the three journalists convicted of terrorism in December 2013 and on Thursday, an Egyptian court ordered the retrial of the three journalists, acknowledging major problems with their initial conviction.
Back in 2013 the lengthy trial, which followed a melodramatic raid on the bureau at Cairo's Marriott Hotel on Dec.29, 2013, filmed and subsequently set to music by state television stations, featured a random selection of evidence, much obtained from seized laptops.
It featured safari footage from Kenya, where Mr Greste was usually based, and other images shot by the men before they worked for Al-Jazeera.
Human rights groups and many national governments condemned or expressed concern at the convictions in June.
Prosecutors had accused the men of helping a "terrorist organisation" – the Muslim Brotherhood – by publishing lies that harmed the national interest and supplying money, equipment and information to 16 Egyptians.
The journalists themselves say they were targeted as pawns in a wider political game. The Al-Jazeera network is owned by Qatar, and the arrests took place at the height of a poisonous argument between Egypt and the Gulf nation over the latter's support for the Brotherhood.
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VIRGINIA: ' FEDERAL JUDGE REJECTS RETRIAL FOR GOV.MC DONNELL & WIFE '
#AceNewsServices – UNITED STATES – Dec.01 – A federal judge on Monday rejected a bid from former Virginia governor Robert F. McDonnell and his wife, Maureen, for a new trial or outright acquittal on public corruption charges, though he threw out the first lady's conviction on an obstruction of justice charge Washington Post reported.
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The outcome was mostly an expected one; U.S. District Judge James R. Spencer had rejected similar arguments from the former first couple several times before.
The couple can — and very likely will — raise the same issues on appeal, but that won't come until after they are sentenced early next year.
Spencer's dismissal of the obstruction of justice charge against Maureen McDonnell was the only surprise, and its rationale is deep in the legal weeds of the case against the former first couple.
The judge ruled, essentially, that prosecutors did not prove sufficiently that Maureen McDonnell intended to obstruct the grand jury's investigation into her and her husband's public corruption — even though she took steps to throw off the investigation.
The McDonnells were convicted in September of public corruption after a jury decided unanimously that they lent the prestige of the governor's office to Richmond businessman Jonnie R. Williams Sr. in exchange for $177,000 in loans, vacations and luxury goods.
The McDonnells argued soon after that the guilty verdicts stemmed from "insufficient evidence" and "numerous legal errors during the proceedings" and asked Spencer to throw out their convictions — or at least order they be given a new trial.
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#corruption, #justice, #retrial
(READING, U.K.) Crown Court Report: A 58 year-old man from Berkshire has been jailed for more than three ye ars on Thurs.14: Jan: 2021: after paying almost £220 to live-stream the sexual abuse of children in the Philippines and pleading guilty in Nov.2020: #AceNewsDesk report 16/01/2021 Ace Worldwide News Group


WifiMETRIX is a new diagnostic tool used to analyze and test Wi-Fi networks. It is a new type of diagnostic tool that uses a dual-band 802.11 (i.e. Wi-Fi) chip to monitor and troubleshoot Wi-Fi networks.
WifiMETRIX is a handheld device that operates in stand-alone mode -- that is, it does not associate or connect with an AP. It implements two important features AirHORN and WifiPROBE. The built-in Wi-Fi chip can perform both signal generation/packet injection (AirHORN) and throughput diagnostics (WifiPROBE) on each channel.
The AirHORN function is an RF signal/channel generator that transmits stable and accurate RF signals for each of the Wi-Fi channels, and aids in testing Wi-Fi antennas, RF shields and wireless networks.
The AirHORN feature aids in testing WiFi antennas, RF shields and wireless networks. It is an RF channel/signal generator that covers both the 2.4x and 5.x GHz ISM bands and was designed for microwave and RF applications. Using 802.11 packet injection, AirHORN transmits stable and accurate RF signals for each of the 802.11 (Wi-Fi) channels and is ideal for stress-testing existing wireless networks and for use in research and development of antenna design. A signal generation system is key to any test system – as such, AirHORN can also be used for rapid evaluation of receiver performance and detecting"dead spots".
Click here to see Network World's review of the previous version of AirHORN that used a dual-band, 802.11 USB dongle.
TheWifiPROBE function traverses each channel and measures the available transmit time. When the goal is to choose the best channel -- the one with the highest available throughput -- thenWifiPROBE is the tool of choice.
The WifiPROBE feature provides unprecedented visibility into the performance of a wireless network. The information collected and displayed helps to simplify troubleshooting of interference-related problems and predicts the throughput performance of each 802.11 channel. WifiPROBE employs IMMI technology with 802.11 hardware to perform data acquisition — hence, the results truly reflect how packet congestion and RF interference in the local environment affects your Wi-Fi network. This is not possible using an RF spectrum analyzer or other tools currently on the market.
The most common tools for troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks are Wi-Fi scanners (i.e. 802.11 network discovery software) and RF spectrum analyzers. Both have their limitations -- e.g. a Wi-Fi scanner only reports the strength of a beacon signal and an RF spectrum analyzer only measures raw RF energy. Neither are capable of providing any clues about network performance or available channel throughput. Only a Wi-Fi chip is capable of ranking the quality of each Wi-Fi channel, so WifiMETRIX is a better diagnostic tool than spectrum analyzers.