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Dr. John and The Blind Boys of Alabama @ The Palace Theatre, 11/1/12
by Michael Eck ALBANY – Dr. John is New Orleans. He was producing records in the Crescent City at the age of 16 and has been exporting the city's wild amalgam of Creole, Cajun and kitchen sink sounds ever since. Thursday night he came to the Palace Theatre on a double bill with the Blind […]
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Verdict @ Classic Theatre Guild, 10/26/12
by Michael Eck Agatha Christie's "Verdict" is a strange play. First of all, it's not a murder mystery. Someone gets offed, but it happens in plain view. And, while it has aspects of a thriller, it's as much a melodrama as it is anything else. It's being given a rare production by Classic Theatre Guild, […]
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Opus @ Curtain Call Theatre, 10/20/12
by Michael Eck LATHAM – The world of classical music is notoriously cut-throat. Playwright Michael Hollinger takes advantage of that curious juxtaposition of ego serving beauty in "Opus," which is currently on view at Curtain Call Theatre. The piece concerns the Lazara Quartet, a tempestuous group of self-governed musicians who work strictly as a democracy, […]
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Mike Watt @ Valentine's, 10/18/12
by Michael Eck ALBANY – Mike Watt is a hyphenated man. Bass player. Songwriter. Punk rocker. Icon. Hero. As co-founder of the Minutemen and fIREHOSE, Watt moved hardcore out of its straitjacket and punk rock out of its confines. Jazz was the language as much as Blue Oyster Cult. In his solo career (as well […]
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Chick Corea & Gary Burton @ Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, 10/17/12
by Michael Eck TROY – The frustration was visible on Chick Corea's face from the first note. Something was wrong, perhaps dreadfully wrong, with the piano. But he soldiered on. Still, his almost constant peering and poking inside the frame was a distraction, as much for the audience as the player. But the crowd at […]
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Next to Normal @ Schenectady Light Opera Company, 10/14/12
by Michael Eck SCHENECTADY – In 1927, "Showboat" changed the way America thought about musicals, creating a new model where the songs moved the story along and real emotions and events were intertwined with tunes and dances. 40 years later, rock musicals like "Hair" put a bigger beat behind the stories, with both trends eventually […]
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9 to 5: The Musical @ Home Made Theater, 10/12/12
by Michael Eck SARATOGA SPRINGS – Nashville's Music Row and New York's Broadway are two different very different avenues of expression. Singer/songwriter Dolly Parton has proven herself time and again on the former road, racking up all kinds of hits over the course of many decades. With "9 to 5: The Musical," however, she is […]
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Lord of the Flies @ Barrington Stage Company, 10/6/12
by Michael Eck PITTSFIELD, MASS. – Kill the pig! Spill its blood! When the young boys in William Golding's "The Lord of the Flies" throw off the bonds of culture and return to their primal roots, the effect is chilling and transfixing. When young men onstage, their faces clad in warpaint, lean muscles glistening, do […]
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Robert Glasper Experiment @ The Egg, 10/7/12
by Michael Eck ALBANY – Exhilarating. Sometimes a performance so far passes any expectations as to be ridiculous, in a very good way. The Robert Glasper Experience's concert at The Egg Sunday night was such a case. Exhilarating. There I've said it again. Ostensibly, Glasper's Experiment is a fusion of hip-hop innovation with jazz classicism, […]
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The Rivalry @ Stageworks/Hudson, 10/5/12
by Michael Eck HUDSON – There's a hot political debate going on in Hudson right now. It's not for the presidency, or even a local race. It's for the post of Senator from the great state of Illinois, and history hangs in the balance. Norman Corwin's "The Rivalry" which bowed on Broadway in 1959, is […]
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SUNSET BEACH — The proposed Sunset Beach West development was the top topic reaping questions and answers at a Jan. 14 community meeting attended by more than 20 residents.
Residents also asked about island parking and the possibility of a shuttle service, an island eyesore, beach canopies, dredging and speed hazards along the residential stretch of Old Georgetown Road at the informal session.
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It's cold and chilly outside. Winter is in full swing, or as I like to think about it, we're sliding quickly toward spring. But in the meantime, what could sound better than a warming bowl of soup? Plus, many people made health resolutions earlier this month: soup is the perfect resolution food.
Hospitals have limited access for visitors. Both print and televised media announce the increasing presence of a dire enemy. Bags of cough drops and boxes of tissues leave grocery and pharmacy shelves. Henny Penny's false alarm has come true. Menacing flu with its myriad aches and pains, weakness and fever has struck.
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I hope that you are as proud of your compost pile as I am of mine. What's that? You don't have a compost pile?
Beer is not just for drinking at football games and happy hour; it can be a great addition to many recipes and accentuates the flavors of meat, breads, stews and even desserts.
The following cases were adjudicated over four days of District Criminal Court on Jan. 5, 6, 7, and 8 in Bolivia.
Codes: PG, pleaded guilty; PNG/NG, pleaded not guilty, found not guilty; PNG/G, pleaded not guilty, found guilty; BCDF, Brunswick County Detention Facility; NCDOC, North Carolina Department of Correction.
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Judge Scott L. Ussery presided over the following cases with prosecutor Quintin McGee and courtroom clerk Courtney Graham:
The Brunswick County Superior Court under the direction of the Judge Ola M. Lewis with prosecutor Jon David and courtroom clerk Amanda Kidd adjudicated the following cases Jan. 5 during a grand jury session:
Timothy Michael Brennick, two counts of obtain property by false pretense.
Sherri Maria Brooks, 10 counts of larceny by employee.
Peter Stuart Brown, two counts of failure to register as sex offender.
A 15-year-old girl who was last seen between 8 and 9 a.m. Friday, Jan. 16, on Babson Road in Ash has been found safe.
Sarah Alexis Evans of Ash was located Monday night, Jan. 19, according to a Brunswick County Sheriff's Office news release.
A 26-year-old Ash man accused of shooting a Supply man at a Shallotte nightclub in November 2014 has been arrested.
Deontray Tremel Bryant, of Plainview Drive, was wanted on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon inflicting serious injury, Brunswick County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Emily Flax said in a previous news release.
Bryant is accused of shooting 26-year-old Nikko Hankins at Remedy's Lounge, a nightclub off N.C. 130/Holden Beach Road, about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 30.


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Many people seem to be having trouble with embedding a YouTube on Open Salon. When I have attempted to send over the exact coding through email or the internal Open Salon mail system, the HTML coding is stripped out. Then it becomes necessary to create an attachment and hope that the person is using a computer on which the attachment is readable.
In short, it becomes somewhat of a nightmare to assist in having a YouTube video embedded in an Open Salon article. Therefore, this is a step-by-step, highly detailed 'how-to' about placing a YouTube video within an Open Salon article. The video that I will use, as an illustration, is this classic from Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. I believe that this video was from a 1967 appearance in Monterey:
* Open a New Post page and place a title for the article. The title is limited to 60 characters.
* Go to the YouTube page where the video you want to embed is located. In the case of this Simon and Garfunkel video, the URL address is: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6K8wfyzAJQ]. Right below the video, there is an "Embed" button. Click on that "Embed" button.
* Directly below the "Embed" button, a small box will appear. It will contain lines of code. For the moment, ignore the code. Directly below the code box are four options. Place a check mark opposite "Use old embed code". All the other boxes should not have check marks. You may notice that the lines in the box containing the code have changed. That is good.
* With the check mark placed opposite "Use old embed code", highlight the lines of code in the box and copy that to your computer's clipboard. In the example that I am using, the code begins in the following manner: < object width= "480" ( I had to put spaces so that it would show up in this post) and goes on. It is necessary to copy every bit of that code and it is not necessary to make any changes.
* Now, go back to the Open Salon New Post page and click the HTML button. That is found in the line directly under where tags are placed for an article. Once the HTML button is clicked, a new window will open. You will see the HTML Source Editor.
* In the HTML Source Editor, find where you want the video to be placed in the article. Once you have found where you want the video placed, move the cursor to that location, in the HTLM Source Editor window. Paste the code that was copied from the YouTube embed box.
* Once the code has been pasted in the specific location in the article, click "Update". This is a button in the lower left hand corner of the HTML Source Editor.
* When you return to your New Post page, you may not see the video. It will depend on the browser that you are using. Take a deep breath and do not panic. Your video will be there. Click "Save Draft and Preview". This is near the bottom right hand corner, below where the text content for an article is entered.
* On the Preview page, the YouTube video should appear. Now there is the option of publishing from that Preview page or returning to do some edits on the article, prior to publishing. The video does not need to be sized. When the article is published, the Open Salon parameters will size the video properly and automatically. The changes may take a few minutes but the video will be sized without any user input. In other words, please leave it alone.
These instructions should be valid no matter what operating system is used or which browser has been used.
Good luck; ... and as Captain James T. Kirk might say, "Standard obit, Mr Sulu - ahead warp one".
Catherine Forsythe
Great Post. I have been asked many times and I can now just give them your link. You are a Godsend to OS!
Man this is so slow... but so many people ask me too Catherine.. now it is out in laymans terms..
I have this figured out, but I wanted to read it anyway. I just think that you are really a great teacher when it comes to this stuff and after reading it, I see how wonderful you really are! Good work, and I am sure many people appreciated these instructions. My You Tube defaults now to the old code everytime I use it, in other words the box comes checked! It remembers!
Thanks. I had figured it out but it took me a while to figure out I wanted the old fashioned code. Not the default.
Going onto my home page left hand column in my collection of 'How To Rock OS' posts ~ for posterity and newbies!
I'd like to ad that on occasion, when you hit "Publish" and go over to your page, that video (and sometimes a photo too) doesn't show up. If that happens to you, before you have a heart attack or send out a search party for Catherine, look up at your URL bar at the top of your screen. If you see a wee tiny curved arrow there, click on it and wait a few seconds. That is the "refresh" symbol and clicking on it refreshes the whole page. Your video or photo should now show up.
It didn't?
It didn't?
Yay Catherine, it's so frustrating when things stop working. I could embed videos and suddenly one day I couldn't. I have no idea what goes on, I just started clicking different things on youtube and reading their FAQ pages trying to get it to embed in HTML, sure enough when I checked the old embed code it put in the video. Maybe they updated something and it changed the default selection on youtube.
I'm giggling at the Kirk quote, is that a Freudian slip? Perhaps a warning to me not to mess with the link for a few more days, lest the brain gets loopy again and I take a hammer to my computer.
I'm giggling at the Kirk quote, is that a Freudian slip? Perhaps a warning to me not to mess with the link for a few more days, lest the brain gets loopy again and I take a hammer to my computer.
Thank you for taking the time to write this post. It may not have been your favorite one to write, but it was needed by many of us here on OpenSalon! I will mark this as a favorite so I'll have it to use in the future.
Thanks so much for this! For the technologically challenged among us (me!), this is really helpful. Just this weekend, I struggled with this, but now I've got it fixed. Much better. Thanks again.


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You can submit a nonsense paper for publication to a scholarly journal and have it accepted? Are you surprised? Have you ever read any of the routinely nonsensical garbage printed in scholarly journals--stuff that pretends to be revealing some great insight about some niggling tendril on the tree of knowledge, but is instead just so much dense and meaningless jargon until it is indecipherable?
The problem of intellectual elites living in a solipsistic world, basically talking only to themselves, and not even to each other, afflicts every cohort of people who seek status through their intellectual and/or artistic endeavors.
I guarantee you that I could submit my two year old daughter's "paintings" to a high brow art gallery, and given a clever enough and hip enough back story, get them shown and sold. She's very post-modern--her with her paint brushes making a big mess on the canvas--so much so that you can read any meaning you like into any painting she renders, indulging the instincts of the self-annointed intellectual elite.
I admittedly did not see all the shortcomings of this article, so thank you to my fellow readers for having pointed out those things that I missed. I think I was genuinely too excited about the content of this article overall to be at the top of my critical form.
My excitement is due to how this validates so much of what I feel as a phd student in an ivy league institution. (And I only say this last part about my status/location in order to bolster my "argument," to be taken more seriously. "Doctoral candidate" and possibly "Harvard, Princeton or Yale" tend to elicit in listeners and readers immediate respect while at the same time eliminating any self-respect. [Forgive this disguised insult readers]. And yet, dear readers, as you shall see, I shall immediately undermine this status of mine by my hopefully humourous tirade in the next paragraphs).
The amount of trash that I am obliged to read and/or the amount of trash that I am obliged to put up with by way of conversations with high falluting peers is an exhausting daily endeavour, to say the least. Please do not get me wrong - I believe in the importance of rigour in research; I believe in the significance of findings from rigorous research, their implications and their potential benefits; I have faith in the intentions of the system of capital A Academia. However, the manner in which research is presented orally - fancy intonations, dramatic sighs, deeply contemplative head-nodding and Rodin's penseur poses - often has me wondering if the scenes I am in are being secretly filmed just for laughs for the bored-of-life producers and camera men and women. In fact, I do often look around to see if there is anybody I can make eye-contact with in an expression of "Is this for real?" (Luckily, skype allows me to share such sentiments with my best friend: the only other individual I know looking for people to make eye contact with in order to ask that important question of "what the...?"). And after hearing all this drivel from my peers, senior and junior alike, I have to read it too. While it is more difficult to hear these sounds of high intellectuality, if you will, in text, they are right there, hidden in 39-line sentences and strings of 8 to 13 syllable words, along with the sound bites of "juxtaposition," "dichotomy," "heuristics," "ontological" and other versions of, if you will excuse the expression, "insert expletive."
While at first - and by at first I mean when I began this esteemed journey toward doctorhood, nay, sainthood - I felt cheated (understatement) and doubted my own intellectual abilities as I constantly thought that I was missing something, I have now adopted a more amused perspective on the whole thing. I finally feel that I am the one "in the know." I can never be entirely sure that my research and findings are as wonderful as I hope them to be since it is these peers of whom I speak so lovingly giving me said feedback; fortunately I am resting arrogantly assured that at the very least, I am doing rigorous and honest work that has already begun having tangible results, hopefully for the better.
N.B. I happily welcome any and all feedback.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdHK_r9RXTc Reggie Watts put it best when he explained, in shocking detail, the pitfalls encountered when one examines the conversation not in terms of fields, but in topological understanding of trans-field topological conversation metrics. There are classically better systems available to analyze these structures, and yet few have been shown to be both complete and rigorous in the data and feedback-applied meta-data it generates.
To show that the bogus-standards effect is specific to Open Access (OA) journals would of course require submitting also to subscription journals (perhaps equated for age and impact factor) to see what happens.
But it is likely that the outcome would still be a higher proportion of acceptances by the OA journals. The reason is simple: Fee-based OA publishing (fee-based "Gold OA") is premature, as are plans by universities and research funders to pay its costs:
Funds are short and 80% of journals (including virtually all the top, "must-have" journals) are still subscription-based, thereby tying up the potential funds to pay for fee-based Gold OA. The asking price for Gold OA is still arbitrary and high. And there is very, very legitimate concern that paying to publish may inflate acceptance rates and lower quality standards (as the Science sting shows).
What is needed now is for universities and funders to mandate OA self-archiving (of authors' final peer-reviewed drafts, immediately upon acceptance for publication) in their institutional OA repositories, free for all online ("Green OA").
That will provide immediate OA. And if and when universal Green OA should go on to make subscriptions unsustainable (because users are satisfied with just the Green OA versions), that will in turn induce journals to cut costs (print edition, online edition), offload access-provision and archiving onto the global network of Green OA repositories, downsize to just providing the service of peer review alone (on a no-fault basis: Harnad 2010), and convert to the Gold OA cost-recovery model. Meanwhile, the subscription cancellations will have released the funds to pay these residual service costs.
The natural way to charge for the service of peer review then will be on a "no-fault basis," with the author's institution or funder paying for each round of refereeing, regardless of outcome (acceptance, revision/re-refereeing, or rejection). This will minimize cost while protecting against inflated acceptance rates and decline in quality standards.
That post-Green, no-fault Gold will be Fair Gold. Today's pre-Green (fee-based) Gold is Fool's Gold.
None of this applies to no-fee Gold.
Obviously, as Peter Suber and others have correctly pointed out, none of this applies to the many Gold OA journals that are not fee-based (i.e., do not charge the author for publication, but continue to rely instead on subscriptions, subsidies, or voluntarism). Hence it is not fair to tar all Gold OA with that brush. Nor is it fair to assume -- without testing it -- that non-OA journals would have come out unscathed, if they had been included in the sting.
But the basic outcome is probably still solid: Fee-based Gold OA has provided an irresistible opportunity to create junk journals and dupe authors into feeding their publish-or-perish needs via pay-to-publish under the guise of fulfilling the growing clamour for OA:
Publishing in a reputable, established journal and self-archiving the refereed draft would have accomplished the very same purpose, while continuing to meet the peer-review quality standards for which the journal has a track record -- and without paying an extra penny.
But the most important message is that OA is not identical with Gold OA (fee-based or not), and hence conclusions about peer-review standards of fee-based Gold OA journals are not conclusions about the peer-review standards of OA -- which, with Green OA, are identical to those of non-OA.
For some peer-review stings of non-OA journals, see below:
Peters, D. P., & Ceci, S. J. (1982). Peer-review practices of psychological journals: The fate of published articles, submitted again. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 5(2), 187-195.
Harnad, S. R. (Ed.). (1982). Peer commentary on peer review: A case study in scientific quality control (Vol. 5, No. 2). Cambridge University Press
Harnad, S. (1998/2000/2004) The invisible hand of peer review. Nature [online] (5 Nov. 1998), Exploit Interactive 5 (2000): and in Shatz, B. (2004) (ed.) Peer Review: A Critical Inquiry. Rowland & Littlefield. Pp. 235-242.
Harnad, S. (2010) No-Fault Peer Review Charges: The Price of Selectivity Need Not Be Access Denied or Delayed. D-Lib Magazine 16 (7/8).
Sir- (or whomever),
I enjoyed your article on academic hoaxing in the hard sciences. However, I think two important clarifications need to be made.
First, calling the editors of Social Text in 1996 "peer-reviewers" is misleading. The editors alone were the gatekeepers: they did not send articles off for independent review. The editors saw Sokal's paper and took it on good faith that it was an interesting if not accurate contribution to debate. The more fool them. However, it is not like Sokal's paper went through a rigorous, double-blind process that nonetheless duped established humanities scholars.
Second, not all journals that aspire to the moniker "Open Access" charge their authors. Like you say, sponsorship of academic research, in many cases, comes from the government. If the taxpayer fully pays for the journal, there is no need to charge the author, let alone the reader. The practice of charging authors is condemnable and this hoax proves that. But charging authors is only one way of taking the financial burden off readers and libraries.
I work in academia, and I get requests to review papers every other week (and I consider myself far from being too significant in my field). Reviewing properly takes 2-3 days, and you don't get paid doing that (actually it takes away time doing other things).
In the opposite side of the story, too many are stuck in the publish-or-perish game. So too many folks are chasing for volume instead of quality. That isn't exactly the authors' fault, but faulty performance evaluations play a large role as well.
Too many paper submitted + hard to review properly = !?!?!
I'd love to see some more laxness and oversights in economic publishing. At the moment there seems to be a culture of referees trying to find ways of dismissing perfectly good papers just to impress the editor and journals overly reluctant to accept a paper just to retain their perceived value of being more elite/exclusive. This isn't just my complaint but the subject of a talk I recently attended by Hamermesh.
*It seems dangerously easy to get scientific nonsense published*. - subtitle of article.
This is very true. An example is what passes as "science" in a field known as Social Psychology. In a typical study in social psychology, enough uncontrolled variables remain unaccounted for or poorly identified to make you question the validity of its precept. Then reading on, a miniscule N is used to make generalizations to a population sometimes as large as the entire universe of humans. Upon further scrutiny, the sloppy precept was "tested" with a methodology ridden with flaws and statistical insuffiencies. One resultant danger is an average critical reader develops mistrust and sometimes distain for all the rest of Psychology, giving the much larger field with other subspecialties a very bad name.
There is a glaring error the first sentence. Social Text was not a peer reviewed journal when Sokal got published.
There was also a project at MIT with computer generated academic resembling gibberish. They have apparently had some success at entering this to a conference.
This is hilarious and sad at the same time. But more hilarious.
Talking about nonsencical science,
Professor Lars Pålsson Syll in Sweden predict that -"The Sveriges Riksbank Nobel Prize in Freshwater Economics for 2013 goes to Eugene Fama"
-"This year I'm sure the prize committee will show how in tune with the times it is and award the prize to Eugene Fama.
1) Well, he's a Chicago economist and a champion of rational expectations and efficient markets.
2) Nowadays freshwater economists seem to be the only ones eligible for the prize.
3) An economist who has described the notion that finance theory was at fault as "a fantasy" and argued that "financial markets and financial institutions were casualties rather than causes of the recession" has to appeal to a prize committee with a history of awarding theories and economists totally lacking any real world relevance."
What will be interesting will be to compare how the sciences react to this with how the humanities reacted to Sokal.
The scientific vanity press serves an important function, much like PR Newswire. Public relations agents working for industrial clients need a place to publish their phony science. They can't get past real peer review into real journals, but they need a stack of published articles to fool "mainstream" journalists. You can find these "anti-science" publications by following the links from fossil fuel industry public relations sites like Watts Up. The vanity press is where these "scientific skeptic" public relations agents need to publish their nonsense so they have something to link to in their talking point articles.
One of the things anybody reading the literature ought to remember, is that a certain amount of what is published is and always has been "lacking". If we make sure only stuff that is solid and non-controversial is published, it is difficult to make sure simultaneously that new and surprising results that demand a fresh look also make it to print. So we should live with a certain amount of questionable material being published, but we should learn, as readers of scientific literature, to make our own independent evaluation of the articles we read. Even with our current model for publishing, too much has been kept under wraps because it "couldn't be right", and therefore must have mistakes. On the lighter side, between academic literature and the internet, I can come up with an argument for anything, no matter how absurd.
The first thing that comes to my mind is AGW---and all the continuous indignation and primness about things being "peer reviewed". What a laugh.
Anthropogenic global warming is the greatest pseudo-scientific hoax ever perpetrated by the scientific community.
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Investigations into the locations of the editorial offices of some open access journals have revealed that some of them are run out of a house (residential address), and that there is no staff save the "editor". Although some open access journals are up to snuff (PLoS One, for example), many are not.
This is not a defense of the peer-review process in closed access journals, which has plenty of deficiencies. It is simply a comment on the rapid proliferation of new open access journals. As a physician-scientist, I receive at least 3 solicitations a week from different open access journals in which they "invite" me to submit my manuscript to them for rapid publication. A concerning trend...
The following is the text from one such solicitation, received yesterday (journal title deleted to reduce risk of libel claims):
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If monkeys were banned from type writers or more quaintly Gutenberg Style printing presses: Hamlet could not have been published: EVER! The noise to signal ratio in the chatter of civilization has ALWAYS GREATLY favored mere noise. Not much we can do and Government intervention will favor the DUMMEST Monkey.
Now we have real and proven data and result of the quality of SOME OA journals (neglecting the fact that it was not compared with similar subscription based journals and other weakness of this study). Even though this experiment is 'not perfect', but I am so happy to see that it throwing light on the quality of 'screening and peer review service' of OA journals. I strongly believe that the scholarly publishers should work like 'strict gate keeper' by arranging honest and sincere peer review service. This is the main difference between a 'scholarly publisher' and a 'generic publisher' (who publishes anything). Other works like typesetting, proofing, printing, web hosting, marketing, etc are important but not unique for a scholarly publisher. (My personal opinion is that we should not waste time by debating--Good OA, --bad OA--good CA--bad CA, etc. It is the time to work. We must jump to more effectively analyses and use these huge precious data)
I know and strongly believe that Beall, being an academician-librarian, also gives the highest importance to this particular criteria than any other thing. I congratulate Beall that his theory has been experimentally proven by the Sting Operation of Science.
I know this sting operation is going to generate a huge debate and one group will try to find out the positive points and other group will try to prove it as bogus experiment. A simple endless and useless fight and wastage of time. It will be more important to find out some way to use this huge data more effectively.
Now I have some suggestions and questions
1. How are we going to use these huge data generated by this year long experiment?
2. I request DOAJ, OASPA to do some constructive works by using this huge data.
3. Can we develop some useful criteria of screening OA publishers from the learning of this experiment?
4. Is there any way of rewarding the publishers, who properly and effectively passed this experiment (rejecting the article by proper peer review. I noticed some journals rejected due to 'scope-mismatch'. It is definitely a criterion of rejection. But it does not answer, if scope was matched, what would happen).
5. I saw the criticism of Beall that 'he is ..trigger-happy'. It is now time for Beall to prove that he not only knows to punish the bad OA, but he knows to reward also somebody, if it intends to improve from the previous situation. Is there any possibility that this data can be used for the 'appeal' section of Beall's famous blog. Sometimes judge can free somebody depending on the circumstantial proof, even if he/she does not formally appeal. (Think about posthumous award/ judgment.) I always believe that 'reward and inspiration of good' is more powerful than 'punishment for doing bad'. But I also believe that both should exist.
If anybody tells that "The results show that Beall is good at spotting publishers with poor quality control." Then it tells one part of the story. It is only highlighting who failed in this experiment. It is not telling or highlighting about those publishers who passed this experiment but still occupy the seat in Beall's famous list. I really hate this trend. My cultural belief and traditional learning tells me that "if we see only one lamp in the ocean of darkness, then we must highlight it, as it is the only hope. We must protect and showcase that lamp to defeat the darkness". I don't know whether my traditional belief is wrong or right, but will protect this faith till my death.
I really want to see that Beall officially publishes a white-list of 'transformed predatory OA publishers', where he will clearly write the reasons of its removal from the 'bad list'. So, that from that discussion other lower quality predatory OA publishers will learn how to improve (if they really want to do so) and will learn how to get out of Beall's 'bad list'. This will step will essentially complete the circle, Beall started.
Ideally I STRONGLY BELIEVE that Beall will be the happiest person on earth if in one fine morning Beall's list of 'bad OA publishers' contains 'zero name', by transferring them to Beall's list of "Good OA publishers" by transforming them with the help of effective peer review process initiated by Beall.
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It is important to note that is a demonstration of problems in peer-review and academic publishing, and not on the specifically the merits of the open-access publishing model.
Bohannon points out that he did not submit any papers into traditional journals as a control, and therefore cannot conclude that the same effect would not have occurred in traditional subscription based journals.
Pretending that this is somehow showing a problem with 'open access' and not just fake journals and poor peer review in science overall, is a dangerously flawed conclusion.
In occasional moments of mischief I have often thought that publishing = prostitution... Seems to get nearer every day.
Interesting screen name. And, mero bicharma, you're right about the publishing trade.
This would not be half so funny if Science Magazine itself had not published many papers over the years that range from (in the worst) case outright fraud to (in the best) shoddy science.
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Friday, May 08
Dodger Stadium
Attendance: None
Los Angeles, CA (Sports Network) - Barry Zito continued a string of superb outings with six innings of one-run ball, and the Giants handed the rival Dodgers a 3-1 defeat and a second straight loss at home in the wake of Manny Ramirez's bombshell 50-game suspension handed down Thursday.
Zito (1-2), despite picking up his first win of 2009 on Friday, has allowed four earned runs over his last four starts (26 1/3 innings). In that stretch he has a pair of seven-inning shutout performances in which he received a no- decision. The veteran lefty allowed eight hits and two walks with five strikeouts.
"He's pitching with a lot of confidence. He has that bulldog attitude," Giants manager Bruce Bochy said of Zito. "Even when I went out there (in the sixth), he said 'I'm great, I'm fine' and threw well after that."
Edgar Renteria, Aaron Rowand and Pablo Sandoval drove in San Francisco's three runs, helping the club earn a third win over the last four contests. Brian Wilson logged a four-out save, his seventh of the season in this opener to a three-game weekend set at Chavez Ravine.
Casey Blake knocked in the lone run for Los Angeles, which had a host of streaks snapped Thursday amid the distraction of Ramirez. The 36-year-old outfielder was suspended for testing positive for a banned substance.
Ramirez waived his right to appeal and began serving the penalty Thursday, the same day the Dodgers' seven-game overall and 13-game home winning streaks came to an end with an 11-9 setback to Washington.
Chad Billingsley (5-1) saw another pair of streaks end Friday as the hard- throwing right-hander had won his last 11 regular-season decisions and had a nine-game win streak at Dodger Stadium snapped with the loss. He tossed seven innings and gave up all three runs on eight hits and four walks with five strikeouts.
"Barry pitched a great game and got out of jams. We have to come back tommorow and get backon track," said Billingsley.
Both clubs were kept off the board until the sixth, when Renteria and Randy Winn opened the top half with singles. Renteria advanced to third on a fly ball to center and Rowand followed with a sac fly to right.
Matt Kemp and Russell Martin started the home half with base hits and Blake laced a two-out double to center, scoring Kemp to tie the game.
The Giants scored twice in the seventh to take the lead for good. Juan Uribe and Emmanuel Burriss opened the inning with back-to-back singles. Both runners moved up on a sac bunt before Renteria plated one with a one-out sac fly and Sandoval managed a run-scoring infield single with two outs.
"Regardless of Manny Ramirez, they have a great lineup. Manny adds a lot to it but this team is in first place for a reason. I just steadied my approach every pitch, every inning and held them down," said Zito.
Jeremy Affeldt worked around a leadoff walk in the bottom half and started the eighth by recording the first out. Merkin Valdez entered and put two on with walks to Martin and Mark Loretta with two outs but Blake went down swinging to end the threat.
James Loney singled to start the ninth but Wilson got Juan Pierre on a fielder's choice ground out. Rafael Furcal hit into a game-ending double play.
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Battle of Kruty
Battle of Kruty | |||||||
Part of Ukrainian-Soviet War (1917-1921) | |||||||
Scheme of the Battle of Kruty. |
Belligerents | |||||||
The Kiev Cadet auxiliary kurin and the company size element of Free Cossacks of the Ukrainian People's Republic | Group of forces in fight with counter revolution in the South Russia | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Averkiy Honcharenko | Mikhail Muravyov | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
~300 students armored train ~100 cossacks |
4,000 men armored train artillery battery |
Casualties and losses | |||||||
less than 150 prisoners 29 |
~300[citation needed] |
The Battle of Kruty (Ukrainian: Бій під Крутами, Biy pid Krutamy) took place on January 29, 1918, near Kruty railway station (today the village of Pamiatne, Borzna Raion, Chernihiv Oblast), about 130 kilometres (81 mi) northeast of Kiev, Ukraine, which at the time was part of Nezhinsky Uyezd of Chernigov Governorate.
Order of battle[edit]
- Ukrainian forces
- Sich Riflemen auxiliary student battalion (kurin) - Vasyl Svaryka
- 1st Company (sotnia) - Petro Omelchenko (116 soldiers) was split into four platoons
- Cadet Corps of the 1st Ukrainian military school of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi - Averkiy Honcharenko (~200 soldiers)
- A company size element of Free Cossacks (80 soldiers)
- Russian forces
- Baltic sea sailors of Remnyov
- 1st Petrograd unit
Brief description[edit]
As Bolshevik forces of about 4,000 men, commanded by Mikhail Muravyov, advanced toward Kiev, a small Ukrainian unit of 400 soldiers (about 300[1][2] of which were students), commanded by Captain Averkiy Honcharenko, was hastily organized and sent to the front. The small unit consisted mainly of the Student Battalion (Kurin) of Sich Riflemen, a unit of the Khmelnytsky Cadet School, and a Free Cossacks company. About half of the 400 men were killed during the battle, which lasted up to five hours. The Haidamaka Kish of Symon Petlyura that stayed in close vicinity turned to Kiev due to the Bolshevik's Arsenal Uprising that occurred on the same day.
Eleven of the students were re-buried at Askold's Grave in the centre of Kiev after the return of the Tsentralna Rada to the capital in March 1918. At the funeral the then President of the Ukrainian People's Republic, Mykhailo Hrushevsky, called every one of the 400 students who fought in the battle, heroes. In addition, poet Pavlo Tychyna wrote about the heroic death of the students.
After the fall of the Ukrainian People's Republic the bodies of the students were moved to the Lukyanivske Cemetery in Kiev.
Ukrainian legacy[edit]
The true story of the battle was hidden by the Soviet Government. Only recently, a monument was set up to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of Kruty at Askold's Grave, and a commemorative hryvnia coin was minted. In 2006, the Kruty Heroes Monument was erected on the site of the historic battle and is remembered each year on or around January 29.
" | Ukrainian youngsters lost their lives to stop the Bolshevist army of Russian Lieutenant General Nikolai Muravyov from advancing on Kyiv. | " |
—Ex-President Viktor Yuschenko at the 91st anniversary of the battle describing the students[3] |
" | Young people, like Spartan soldiers, died for the sake of their motherland in a struggle against foreign aggressors, and it was an example of their sacrifice and selfless love for their native land.
Every anniversary of the Heroes of Kruty is not only a day to honor those people who loved our motherland more than their lives. This is also another reminder to our contemporary politicians regarding their responsibility for the fate of their country and people. |
" |
—Ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko describing the battle[4] |
" | Near Kruty the Kiev military cadets and students became the forerunners of the Ukrainian political nation. Having different ethnic roots, they as one fought for our Ukrainian State. As the founding of the Ukrainian People's Republic became the base of the Ukrainian statehood, so the heroism of the Kruty's warriors became the beginning and the symbol of liberating struggles of Ukrainians for the liberty in the past 20th century. | " |
—Ex-President of Ukraine Viktor Yuschenko at the 91st anniversary of the battle[5] |
Important personalities[edit]
- Leonid Butkevych, the youngest soldier who was in the sixth grade
- Yakiv Ryabokin-Rohoza-Rozanov
- Volodymyr Shulhyn, a brother of the Ukrainian statesman Oleksander Shulhyn
- Ivano Hrushetsky, later an Orthodox priest who eventually died in a Soviet prison in August 1940
- Mytrofan Shvydun, later continued to fight on the "Shooter" and "Free Ukraine" armored trains and in 1941 organized the Lutsk Battalion of OUN (Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists)
- Mykhailo Mykhailyk, later wrote a detailed memoir about the battle
- Numerous former students of Kruty became the base of the officer corps of the legendary Black Zaporizhians Cavalry Regiment
- Mykola Kryvopusk and Hnat Martynyuk in 1920-1921 served as personal bodyguards of Symon Petlyura, Martynyuk, after becoming a priest, perished in Volyn in 1943 under unknown circumstances
- Serhiy Zakhvalsky, eventually became an officer in the Polish Army, however, he was renowned for imprisoning a whole company of the Red Army in 1920, while heading one of the cavalry squads of the Zaliznyak Cavalry Regiment
- Averkiy Honcharenko, in 1943 became one of the organizers of the SS Halychyna of which he was appointed a commander in 1945
- Petro Franchuk, one of the members of SS Halychyna
To the memory of the thirties[edit]
A hryvnia coin commemorating the Battle of Kruty
See also[edit]
- Niños Héroes
- Kiev Arsenal January Uprising
- Group of forces in fight with counter revolution in the South Russia
- ^ Subtelny, Orest (2000). Ukraine: A History. University of Toronto Press. p. 352. ISBN 0-8020-8390-0.
- ^ "History of Ukraine". History of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved September 12, 2006.
- ^ Events by themes: 91st anniversary of battle near Kruty, UNIAN (29 January 2009)
- ^ Yuschenko, Tymoshenko address their compatriots on occasion of Battle of Kruty, Interfax-Ukraine, (29 January 2009)
- ^ History of the Battle of Kruty - English, YouTube
- ^ Lavrinenko, Yu. Shot Renaissance: Anthology 1917-1933: Poetry-prose-drama-essay. "Prosvita". Kiev, 2001. 794 p.
- Montage about the Battle of Kruty
- "Kruty, Battle of". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved August 15, 2006.
- Soldatenko, Valeriy. «І справжні, не фальшиві фарби»? Kruty: an attempt of the historic interpretation" in Zerkalo Nedeli, January 28 - February 3, 2006. Available in
- "The president opened a memorial to the Heroes of Kruty". Korrespondent (in Russian). Retrieved August 25, 2006.
- Крути. Sketch of the history of Ukraine (in Ukrainian). Retrieved February 16, 2007.
- Життя після Крут. Як склалася доля учасників січневого бою
- www.kruty.org.ua/
- Чому «вороженьки» бояться пам'яті героїв Крут?
- The Battle of Kruty : the free world's first resistance to communism