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Barry O'Speedwagon said: ↑
I reckon after he signs, their leading playmaker will flee to England and one of their rep forwards will get be the subject of unsavoury allegations, and at some point during the season James Graham will lock Corey in a cupboard. You heard it here first.
Thanks for the insight, Hindy O'Speedwagon.
Barry O'Speedwagon Coach
Mate, don't doubt my sources. They're f**king hot.
Barry O'Speedwagon, Dec 13, 2018
I'll bear that in mind in the future. Do you think the Dragons will notice him missing on game day or are they happy for him to come out of the cupboard when he thinks it's most appropriate?
Well, it'll be at least round 8 by the time Graham loses patience with him. I reckon they'll let him out of the cupboard on game days, but put him back there within 60 minutes of full time.
Hmmm, we need a grub in our team. We should sign Norman up now that we have some dollars to spare.
yeah i heard a story about james graham losing it with dufty .... good luck cory
I'd say more like Chiefy O'Speedwagon
TheParraboy Moderator Staff Member
Not looking good for Jack if the alleged is proven,
a bit weird they needed to go and get changed to go to the pub after already being out late, happens I guess
The cabi will be interviewed no doubt
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/aust...lowing-a-night-out/ar-BBQVnZd?ocid=spartanntp
Jack De Belin relaxes with teammates and a high-alcohol vodka pre-mix drink just hours after allegedly sexually assaulting a woman, 19, with another footy player following a night out
Footy star Jack De Belin was enjoying a drink with teammates just hours after he allegedly sexually assaulted a 19-year-old woman on a night out.
The 27-year-old rugby league player voluntarily handed himself to Wollongong Police Station, south of Sydney, at about 3.40pm on Thursday.
Police allege De Belin sexually assaulted the teenager at a Wollongong unit on Sunday at about 1.30am.
Just hours after the alleged assault, De Belin caught up with several Dragons teammates at North Wollongong Hotel including Kurt Mann, Euan Aitken, Jai Field, Lachlan Timm, Blake Lawrie, and Tristan Sailor, the son of former Queensland great Wendell Sailor.
Sporting a black hat, sunglasses and ripped black jeans while holding a drink, a relaxed De Belin grinned as he posed in a group photo which Sailor posted on Instagram on Sunday.
De Belin can be seen holding a can of Smirnoff Ice Double Black - a vodka drink with a tangy citrus flavoured soda.
'Here is a few presents from Santa,' Sailor captioned the photo.
Field could be a witness in the case, having spent time with the woman and De Belin earlier in the night, The Daily Telegraph reported
There's no suggestion of any wrongdoing by Field and he's not being investigated by police.
The woman, who has given a statement to police, claims she was sexually assaulted by two football players after leaving an establishment on Crown Street, Wollongong, according to Nine News.
She claims she left the venue with a large group of people and hopped into a pedicab with De Belin and a lower grade player- thinking they were going to another venue.
The woman alleges the trio arrived at an apartment block because the two men said they needed to get changed.
She followed them upstairs as she needed to use the toilet.
The 19-year-old claimed when she came out of the toilet the two men were naked and allegedly sexually assaulted her.
Following the alleged assault, the woman told a friend and attended hospital for treatment.
De Belin has told the Dragons he denies the allegations, according to Nine News, and has also told his partner that he is innocent.
De Belin's long-term partner Alyce Taylor, who is 20 weeks pregnant with their first child, has since deleted her social media accounts.
The alleged assault has been reported to the NRL Integrity Unit.
The St George Illawarra Dragons said they had been advised De Belin was charged with sexual assault in a statement released on Thursday evening.
'The club is taking the matter very seriously and have been working with Jack and all relevant authorities, including the police and the NRL Integrity Unit, since this time,' the statement said.
Jack has been provided with welfare support to enable him the time and opportunity to deal with the matter.
'As this is a police matter to be considered by the court, the club is not in a position to make any further comment at this time.'
De Belin was named in a 32-man squad due to take part in a training session on Friday under NSW coach Brad Fittler.
It's unknown whether he'll now take part in the training session.
TheParraboy, Dec 14, 2018
tried to modify my 2nd sentence remove "going to the pub" to adding "going to another venue"
got this, tried a few times, will try later again
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I'm a loser baby... Referee
The focus on the drink is a bit odd.
I'm a loser baby..., Dec 14, 2018
we know about the server error and doing our best to get it sorted
the merkin from Dan Murphy's said: ↑
After that he enjoyed the cool taste of Laramie.
Gary Gutful likes this.
Twizzle said: ↑
Just you wait til Cupboard-Gate makes the news.
The NRL will hand down their decisions on the Flanagan (who was involved with the club whilst banned) and the West Tigers (who promised Farrah a post career ambassadorship) today.
We also have the investigation into the Sharks who got caught making fake invoices dtill outstanding.
84 Baby Coach
I wonder what his fate could be? That first sentence is too ambiguous to tell
84 Baby, Dec 19, 2018
84 Baby said: ↑
If you were under instructions from a court in any jurisdiction to refrain from going somewhere, contacting certain people or doing certain things and found to have breached those conditions - the court would not take kindly and come down on you hard.
Is this what f**ken passes for a rugby league player these days?
FFS, no wonder the game has gone to shit....and don't get me started on the f**ken scrums!
Ping @TheRam


Sunday's Pre-Grading course will now be held at the Woodlane Dojo, Becontree Leisure Centre, Althorne Way, Dagenham, RM10 7FH.
We will be using the large Sports Hall on the ground floor.
This is because Barking Abbey school have cancelled all event bookings until further notice due to the adverse weather conditions.
Start time is now 30 minutes later at 12.30, but otherwise the day's schedule will remain the same, with two 90-minute sessions and a break. Finish time will be 4 p.m.
Please plan to arrive at Woodlane for 12.00 midday so that everyone can be booked in and ready to train by 12.30.


Trained as a biologist in the United States and then a Germanic language specialist and translator in the US and Germany, Jeff Clovis has been working in the field of Information Sciences for the past thirty-eight years at Clarivate Analytics (formerly ISI and Thomson Reuters). He held a variety of positions for this period, mainly in Editorial Development, Product Production, Business and Technology Planning, Product Development, Business Development and finally Head of Global Solutions Support & Customer Education.
He is currently Senior Director, Customer Success & Education and in this position is responsible for supporting Research & Discovery and Research Analytics platforms and custom analytics projects in Europe and North America.
With research data increasingly being acknowledged as a first-class research output, it's important for repositories to think about persistent identification of datasets. DataCite is a global non-profit organization working with repositories arond the world. Through our portfolio of services, we provide the means to create, find, cite, connect, and use research and thereybe creating downstream value. This presentation will provide an overview of these services to explain how they can make the most of the existing services for datasets and other non-traditional research outputs.
Bertil F. Dorch is the three times elected President of the Danish Research Library Association, and Library Director at the University Library of Southern Denmark. Dorch has a background as a researcher in computational physics and astronomy. Currently, Dorch teaches responsible conduct of research, while also serving as a board member of e.g. LIBER and of Denmark's Electronic Research Library. Dorch's main research interests include scholarly communication, research analysis, responsible conduct of research and scholarly publishing, especially within natural sciences.
Scholarly metrics and rewards are both part of the Open Science agenda, and next generation and open metrics are perceived as necessary for supporting transparency in research: E.g. the EC Expert Group on Altmetrics conclude that 'next generation metrics should be underpinned by an open, transparent and liked data infrastructure', and similarly LIBER has formed an Innovative Metrics Working Group to discuss the role and actions of libraries in this respect. In the context of Open Science metrics is often addressed as being related to rewarding a particular Open scholarly practise based on sophisticated evaluation and new metrics. However, experience shows that great care needs to be taken in order for new metrics not to introduce unwanted and unethical behaviour or to infringe freedom of research. To illustrate the potential danger of metrics actually working against the ideals of Open Science, I present the results of recent studies into the gaming incentives of metrics, and discuss possible pitfalls faced by libraries venturing into the business of developing and supplying metrics to research institutions.
Mgr. Tomas Foltyn is the graduate of the Faculty of Arts of the University of Pardubice, where he completed his master studies in the field of cultural history in 2008. From 2007 he worked in the Digitization Department of the National Library of Czech Republic, first as Project Manager, then as the Head of the Metadata Creation and Management Department. From February 2012 he held the position of the Head of the Strategic Planning Department for the Digitization of Library Collections. In January 2013, he was appointed as Collections´ Management Division Director.
Mgr. Tomas Foltyn is involved in various national and international research projects, is an expert guarantor of the VISK 7 Funding Program and the member of the Central Library Council of the Czech Republic. More detailed information about his professional activities are available on his LinkedIn profile.
The area of the Digital Humanities belongs to the one of the most important tasks for all the Czech culture heritage institutions. Many various activities has been launched since 2016, e. g. LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ (based on the formal preparation phase of DARIAH-cz), Czech Association for Digital Humanities, DH programme of the Czech Academy of Sciences Strategy AV 21 or finally the big research project called "INDIHU – development of tools and infrastructure for digital humanities". This project is realized in the cooperation of the Academy of Sciences Library, National Library of the Czech Republic and seven institutes of the Czech Academy of Sciences – e. g. Institute for Archaeology, Institute of Philosophy, Institute of Art History and others. The main aim of the project is to create highly professional tools and specialized infrastructure for scientific work in the humanities (such as history, philosophy, history of literature, etc.) that enables the usage of the resources available in electronic form – digitized documents, electronic databases or various collections of e-born data. The project outcomes will cover also the development of the specific tools that will promote the outputs of the research via virtual exhibitions, let the users process their datasets via OCR open source mechanism or create their own virtual file database, where they can store all the permanent links, standardized quotations, RSS feeds, individual datasets or modern trends tracking tools. Such an innovative approach to the research opens also the discussion about the reform of the grounds of the higher education in humanities. At the Czech universities, the classical "static" methodology of the research in literature and archival resources is still promoted. New ways of thinking describing the influence of new technologies and electronic sources are side lined. This opens a new possibilities for broad discussion about the digital humanities. The presentation will aim to provide the general information about the "INDIHU – development of tools and infrastructure for digital humanities" project, its results and describe the heavy and challenging journey to strengthen the cooperation among the Czech culture heritage institutions, professional researchers and university students.
Rachel L. Frick is the Executive Director of the OCLC Research Library Partnership – a transnational collaboration of library professionals who work together to develop network-level solutions. For more than 20 years, Rachel has worked with libraries on a wide array of systemic and strategic initiatives.
Her expertise includes improving digital library workflows, leading organizational change, building community, and creatively solving current challenges of the library field with a special interest in how libraries position themselves for the future. She honed her expertise in these and other areas throughout her career, including at notable leadership positions at the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), the Digital Library Federation (DLF), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). She is a strong believer in the power of librarians to influence change and build stronger, knowledgeable, empowered communities, and is a passionate advocate for open culture and its potential transformative impact on the creative marketplace. Rachel earned her MSLS from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Effectively positioning the research library as a valuable partner in the knowledge creation enterprise requires an understanding of the research library environment as well as the trends impacting the higher education and scholarly communications ecosystems is key. It is critical to see library needs in the context of its networks, current reach and potential influence. But seeing the "big picture" needed to effectively strategize and lead is extremely difficult when managing the operational day to day. Ms. Frick will walk through key concepts that help to frame what libraries should be focusing their energies and expertise, based on the OCLC reports "The Evolving Scholarly Record" and "Stewardship of the Evolving Scholary Record". Reviewing survey work conducted with EuroCRIS on RIM, as well as other related research efforts, Ms. Frick will provide an overview of the current library ecosystem and identify rich areas of opportunity for the research library.
Mark Hahnel is a former academic researcher himself, with a PhD from Imperial College London, where his work focused on both the basic science of, and therapeutic applications of stem cells. Originally designed as a personal store of digital research outputs, the figshare technology has grown to include both a repository and data management solution for institutions as well as a data publishing and visualization solution for academic publishers.
With Plan S and Horizon 2020, the need for universities to upgrade existing repository infrastructure, to more or an 'Academic Reuse Platform' is becoming more urgent. Whether universities are looking to publish datasets, control access rights or measure the impact of their outputs, the technological requirements to comply with policy are coming faster than most can keep up with.
As well as needing to focus attention and resources into compliance issues around open access and the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI), library resources are needed to protect the University and their academics, so that content is not inappropriately made public. Compliance with PII and copyright means that someone needs to be curating the growing amount of content being published through the university.
This talk looks to suggest simple workflows and reflect on experience to review the human and technological requirements to move the space forward in a FAIR way for all.
Josef Jilek is Solution Specialist for Central European region, responsible for customer's training and customer support mainly in Slovakia and Czech Republic. He joined the team of Web of Science Group a division of Clarivate Analytics in June 2016.
For prior 9 years worked as a librarian in university library where changed various customer-facing same as technical roles. He is educated in the field of Information Sciences and Librarianship (graduated at Charles University Prague).
Web of science Group solutions are currently going through tremendous development period. Our Workshop describes the most important functionalities which were developed to improve Web of Science user experience. Discover Kopernio for easier access to full text and Publons -the unique research platform. Get to know full potential of Web of Science Citation Connection, a unique set of citation databases aggregating both published and non-published scientific resources (including patents and data). Understand the added value of Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) for Slovak and Central European research community.
Learn how to use the analytic platform InCites to support your publishing strategy using new journal profiles in Journal Citation Reports. Define your strengths and uncover new opportunities.
Kamila Kokot is a digital media librarian at Gdańsk University of Technology Library. She works in Digital Archive and Multimedia Creation Department and her main areas of interests include early printed books, digital libraries, Open Access and Open Science. Previously, Kamila worked as a librarian in the Historical Institute of the University of Wrocław. Kamila received her MA in History from University of Wrocław and then she completed post-graduade studies in Librarianship at the University of Wrocław.
Although the idea of Open Access is emerging dynamically in Poland, we have noticed a lack of knowledge in terms of copyright policies among Polish scientific journals and publishers. According to this fact, we have started to create first Polish database for copyright policies that will index journals from all scientific disciplines based on the current scientific evaluation system. This Project will fill the gap for different stakeholders such as publishers, editors, librarians or researchers. This presentation will outline the background and our first experiences (aims, difficulties, and solutions) in the process of setting up our service.
Ákos Lencsés is Head of Institutional Coordination at the Hungarian Electronic Information Service National Programme. The Hungarian National Consortium provides access to more than 50 scientific journal collections and databases for more than 220 member institutions.
Ákos was trained as librarian and mathematician, and has been working actively as a librarian since 2002 at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences (Corvinus University of Budapest), the Hungarian Central Statistical Office and the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Péter Sütő is a librarian at the Hungarian National Consortium EISZ and has been working on institutional coordination and service development for 1 year. His main tasks are to maintain and develop the Hungarian unit catalogue of e-resources which was launched at the end of 2017 as well as to develop new admin dashboard for consortium member institutions.
Péter is graduated as a librarian and collected international experiences as a trainee by working on the reorganisation of the library at the Irish Peace Centre. He worked as an e-resources manager of the University of Debrecen for several years and now he works for the EISZ Programme at the Library and Information Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Hungarian university- and research libraries procure most of their electronic scientific content in the framework of consortium-level agreements via the Hungarian Electronic Information Service National Programme (EISZ). At the same time, it could be a challenge for researchers and librarians to be familiar with more than 50 databases.
COMPASS was developed to collect, organise and make available the scientific databases and electronic documents licensed by the consortium or institutions individually. In addition, COMPASS offers direct access to the databases for eligible users as well as the full text of Open Access articles.
Martin Lhoták works from 1997 at the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences. For nearly 10 years, he was responsible for library automation as the head of the IT Department. In 2003, he established the Library's Digitization Center, which is still one of the largest and most productive digitization library workplaces in the Czech Republic. From 2007 he was for two 5 year terms appointed as the director of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences and currently he is in the position of the Library deputy director responsible for research, development and technologies.
At the research level Martin Lhotak focuses on the development of open source solutions supporting digitization processes and dissemination of digital documents. He is the leader of the development team of the Kramerius digital library open source system and currently he is also responsible for two national projects "The Czech Digital Library" and "The Central Portal of Czech Libraries". He has been involved in the open access movement and he initiated the Open Access Policy of the Czech Academy of Sciences adopted by the Academic Council and the start-up of the institutional repository of the Academy.
Martin Lhotak is also engaged in digital humanities projects concerning mainly on development of new tools and building of information infrastructures. He represents the Czech Republic in the European project DESIR with goal to establish full membership of the Czech Republic in the European digital humanities infrastructure DARIAH-EU.
The presentation will introduce the European reserach infrastructure for digital humanities DARIAH ERIC as well as newly formed consortium DARIAH-CZ, its partners, goals and its accession process to DARIAH ERIC which is currently under way.
Jeff Love's research focuses primarily on medieval literature and culture and how these can be made more accessible and enriched through digital means. Since September 2018 he has been serving as the Data Steward of the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at TU Delft. Prior to this, he has worked as a data librarian at Stockholm University Library, as a primary contributor to the forthcoming digital Lexicon of Medieval Nordic Law and as a postdoc creating web-based bibliographies and textual editions for the 'Stories for All Time' project.
Multiple factors within the current academic landscape – the ever-increasing availability of digital tools and more rigorous requirements from funders on sharing and transparency, to name but two – are changing the nature of how academic investigations can be undertaken. To best meet these novel opportunities and challenges, universities and other institutions have been establishing several new 'research infrastructures', community spaces and hubs for exchange of practice, but how connected are their activities to research practitioners? To help navigate the gap between policy and practice, tools and implementation, TU Delft is investing in human infrastructure: the Data Stewards. Our goal is the gradual advancement of research practices, incremental movements in working culture through constant engagement with upcoming and active projects. The group is experimental and ongoing, and this presentation will showcase some of the distinctive qualities of the Data Stewards programme as well as a selection of examples of work in practice, drawn primarily from the realms of the humanities and design.
Günter Mühlberger is coordinator of the eInfrastructure H2020 project READ (Recognition and Enrichment of Archival Documents). He also heads the Digital Humanities Research Centre at the University of Innsbruck. Günter worked for more than 20 years in the domains of digitization, digital preservation, digital libraries and Digital Humanities. He initiated and managed a large number of national and international research and digitization projects. His current focus is on managing the transformation of a publicly funded research infrastructure into a spin-off company in order to sustain the research infrastructure independently from public funding.
Presentation: Handwritten Text Recognition and Keyword Spotting. Two powerful technologies for archives and libraries.
In the last few years we have seen a technical revolution in processing digital images. Nowadays it is not only possible to detect faces, animals or labels in images, but also to automatically transcribe historical writings with impressive results. In addition to text recognition also the field of keyword spotting showed great progress so that users are able to search in historical collections with extremely high success rates. The talk will introduce both techniques based on the Transkribus platform. Transkribus is open to everyone, users can train their own text recognition models and apply them to their documents. Transkribus was developed as part of the H2020 Project READ.
Fiona Murphy, Murphy Mitchell Consulting Ltd.
An experienced Open Science and scholarly communications specialist, Fiona Murphy works with fellow stakeholders, including learned societies, publishers, large- and small-scale projects and tech start-ups, in their navigation of the disruptive publishing and scholarly communications environment with research, product and policy development, outreach and communications.
Meanwhile, she is an Associate Fellow at the University of Reading, a member of the FORCE11 Steering Committee for the Scholarly Commons Working Group and Secretary for the Dryad Data Repository Board of Directors. Among other activities, she regularly writes and presents on data and scholarly communications, serves on a number of research working groups, and is a member of the Advisory Board for the Researcher to Reader Conference.
Since their codification in 2016, the FAIR Data Principles have provided a framework and a banner around which those involved in scholarly communications have rallied to improve the state and status of non-article based research outputs. Yet, although this has led to new investments, products and services around FAIR, many stakeholders – both organisational and individual – are uncertain how to navigate effectively through the new requirements. This is especially critical for the ongoing tension between research outputs and the evaluation of both outputs and researchers themselves.
This presentation clarifies key FAIR requirements as evidenced by work done to date. It also highlights ongoing challenges and posits next steps for reflection, implementation and further discussion.
Pekka Olsbo works as the head of services at the Oulu University Library. Before joining the University of Oulu, he worked as the head of publishing at the Jyväskylä University Library. He has been an active member of open science community since late 90´s and has worked in several national open access projects. At the moment, he is involved with two working groups of the Finnish Open Science action plan.
Finland has been internationally recognized as one of the pioneers in Open Science. After the Open Science and Research project (ATT) in 2014–2017 funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture, Finland has now taken a new perspective to the development of Open Science. In the spring of 2018, UNIFI: the Finnish universities' council of rectors published a new Open Science and Data action plan for the Finnish scholarly community. The key element of this plan is coordination. The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies (TSV) coordinates the national debate on Open Science and has assumed responsibility for the establishment of an Open Science coordination body. The coordinating body is responsible for identifying and addressing with the current issues of Open Science including all stakeholders in the scholarly community. The coordinating body does not implement reforms and development measures directly, but rather it contributes to and enables the sharing of roles and responsibilities within the scholarly community. This means that the operational programme requires mutual understanding and cooperation between the whole scholarly community. However, at the same time a major national research funder, The Finnish Academy, has joined the Plan S initiative by cOAlition S. How do these two approaches towards Open Science work together or do they collide?
Igor Osipov has been founder and Chair of UArctic Science & Research Analytics Institute since its establishment in 2015, as an international academic research working group, uniting scientists from Canada, Russia, US, Norway, Finland, Sweden and UK. Concurrently, he has played an active role in development of Dimensions platform – first as a research leader and later as an academic consultant and vice-president of Digital Science. Having spent nearly 10 years in the Alaskan, Canadian and Russian Arctic, Igor also held executive positions at Elsevier, leading research strategy projects with libraries, universities and governments, served in various Boards and working groups including FEFU Endowment, BMJ and UArctic.
Igor has applied social sciences research background and holds a B.A. from U. of Alaska (US), an M.A. from U. of Sussex (UK) and a Doctorate from University of Alberta (Canada), with scholarly interests in climate change, decision-making, large-scale resource development projects, arctic anthropology, and international research publication assessments.
Recent decade has seen a fundamental shift from publication-centered, publisher-driven paradigm to multi-type information, community- and government/funder-driven open science. Looking at further digitization of science information, we see that funding, patents, and other equally important indicators play an increasing role in how research information landscape has been shaped and strategies developed. In several recent collaborative research analysis studies, we looked at how research policy, funding trends and innovation datasets unleash the new, previously unknown dimensions of research in climate change, global arctic research and other important societal issues. Serving as an example, this innovative way of looking at research information is equally applicable to multitude of other research fields and subject matters.
Funders are the life-blood of research and innovation; they are uniquely positioned to influence and fundamentally shift publishing practices. September 2018 saw the launch of the 10 Plan S principles published by Science Europe bringing a number of national funding organisations together in the guise of coalition S, with the support of the ERC and the European Commission. Plan S critically focuses on making access to public research results fully open as quickly as possible rather than extending the current system under an indefinite period of transition. A funder-driven mandate of this scope and scale is a first. This move by funders is a recognition of their responsibility to not only fund the research itself, but to also ensure that it has the greatest possible impact; this involves a duty of care to the academic research system as a whole – and encompasses the details of research dissemination as well as the need to ensure the smart and fair use of public funds. Plan S speaks out in no uncertain terms saying enough is enough — to make the full transition to OA, bold decisions need to be made.
Plan S has the potential to greatly accelerate the migration to a more fully Open Access environment. However, for the principles to be meaningful and impactful, we need an implementation framework that enables and supports this change. SPARC Europe already brought the needs of the scholarly communications community to the cOAlition task force at an early stage whilst they were developing their implementation guidance. Many of our calls were addressed, however, a number of challenges remain if we are to see the 2020 goal met. The first version of cOAlition S's Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S was published some months ago, and an open consultation has seen hundreds of responses to this proposal. SPARC Europe has spoken on behalf of the interests of academic libraries in Europe for a more open scholarly communications system.
This presentation will outline the motivations behind Plan S, what it aims to achieve, and how. Although the final Plan S implementation guidance has yet to be published, SPARC Europe will above all discuss a range of ways as to how libraries can potentially influence and above all support the implementation of the 10 Plan S principles whilst also highlighting some of the challenges in doing so.
Klaus Rechert is a researcher, leading the digital preservation research group at the University of Freiburg and since 2018 CEO of the OpenSLX GmbH. Klaus was the principle investigator of bwFLA and is the main architect behind Emulation as a Service. As project manager, he oversees multiple national and international projects related to digital preservation, reproducible science and research data management. He studied computer science and economics at the University of Freiburg and received a diploma from the University of Freiburg in 2005. Since 2013, he holds a doctoral degree (Dr rer. nat.) from the University of Freiburg.
Emulation as a preservation strategy has technically matured during the last years, e.g. due to the development of Emulation as a Service framework. The Scaling Emulation and Software Preservation Infrastructure (EaaSI) program is expanding capabilities of the Emulation-as-a-Service (EaaS) model to enable broader access and use of preserved software and digital objects. Led by the Digital Preservation services team at Yale University Library, the EaaSI program of work is focused on the development of technology and services that support distributed management, documentation, sharing, and use of emulated software across a broad range of disciplines.
This talk gives a brief overview on the technical foundations of EaaSI project, in particular how a distributed emulation service is build and how it can be used by participating network members. It further, provides some insight into current challenges and recent technical developments.
In 2017, COAR published the behaviours and technologies underpinning their vision for the next generation of repositories. The vision is to position repositories as the foundation for a distributed, globally networked infrastructure for scholarly communication, on top of which layers of value added services will be deployed, thereby transforming the system, making it more research-centric, open to and supportive of innovation, while also collectively managed by the scholarly community. This presentation will provide an overview of the functionalities of next generation repositories, and discuss progress to date in terms of implementing this vision around the world.
Management like numbers, especially numbers that gradually (or quickly!) increase over time. It is very easy to explain to more senior management that a 20 is bigger than a 10. However, when it comes to metrics in relation to research, numbers fluctuate over time, bigger is not always better and numbers don't reveal the whole picture – things that are clear to those working with research outputs, but not necessarily understood at a strategic development level. A management culture that rewards increasing measures over quality, innovation and collaborative interdisciplinary research can lead to many unintended consequences, but often the effect of a change in policy to value research culture over metrics can lead to the measures decreasing for a period. This presentation will cover why responsible research indicators are important and the role that institutional managers have in their adoption. We will briefly cover the various approaches that are being adopted by institutions, including DORA, the Leiden Manifesto and the Metric Tide, and then discuss some of the key information that institutional managers need to consider in using research metrics to inform institutional policy.
Robert Szczodruch is Head of Digital Archive and Multimedia Creation Section at the Gdansk University of Technology Library. He is an employee of the GUT Library since 2006. He is an IT specialist, and he is responsible for Integrated Library System and other systems which support library services. He carries out digitization projects in the library and is responsible for the coordination of the Pomeranian Digital Library Project. Robert is also a member of the Competency Center at Bridge of Knowledge Project team.
Magdalena Szuflita-Żurawska is Head of the Scientific Information Section at the Gdansk University of Technology Library. Her main areas of research and interests include Open Access, Open Research Data, information literacy, scholarly communication, and bibliometrics.
Previously, she served as Library Assistant in Health Sciences Library at University College Dublin, Ireland. In this role, she for example provided information skills training for students. She holds her BA in Librarianship from Warsaw University, Poland and earned her Master of Science in Digital Library Management from Boras University, Sweden.
Magda has participated in numerous conferences and workshops, both national and international. She is a member of IATUL Special Interest Group for Library Services related to Research Data Management, SIG-DATA, engaged in CESAER's activities, substantive coordinator of training programme POWER 3.4, leader of Competency Center at Bridge of Knowledge Project.
Presentation: The Bridge of Data – building a bridge in a "vacuum" – challenges and opportunities.
The next big challenges for different stakeholders advocating for Open Science are issues regarding open research data. The Bridge of Data project was launched at Gdansk University of Technology (GUT) in October 2018. GUT is the leader of the project and the project partners are the University of Gdansk and Gdansk Medical University. The project has been set up to support data curation and sharing for scientists, especially from Northern Poland. The Bridge of Data project is the continuum and built upon the previous project called the Bridge of Knowledge that was foremost concentrated on Open Access.
The Bridge of Data is designed as Open Science Hub that will contain both the data repository and the Competency Center that will provide support and on-site tailoring training among researchers from all scientific disciplines. The Competency Center will be situated in the GUT Library.
In my talk, I would like to present the first stage of the Bridge of Data project that has focused on supporting researchers' team with an inventory of datasets, training facilities and delivering project promotion activities.
David Jiří Šlosar studied Information studies and librarianship (bachelor's degree) at Charles University in Prague and currently studies Information studies and librarianship: Information science (master 's degree) at this same university.
Since 2017 he works at the Bibliometric & Scientometric department of the Library of the Czech Academy of Sciences. Here he works with systems as CRIS, WoS, Scopus and ASEP Analytika.
The institutional evaluation of the Czech Academy of Sciences in years 2010-2014 was considered by the stakeholders as a high quality one. Important part of this evaluation were a bibliometric reports, which were used as background for evaluators. This study briefly shows the indicators which were used and the data preparation. Presentation might be an inspiration for other research libraries and may introduce the opportunities that the institutional evaluation can offer for them.
Dominic Tate is the Head of Library Research Support at Edinburgh University Library. Dominic and his teams provide help and support for staff and students in all matters relating to scholarly communications and research publication (including open access, bibliometrics and copyright), research data management, and management of the University's research information systems . Dominic was previously the University's Scholarly Communications Manager and has previously held similar roles at Royal Holloway, University of London and at the University of Nottingham. Dominic started his career working for open access publisher, BioMed Central.
The move towards Open Science is gaining momentum, with groupings such as LERU adopting policies to encourage openness, and research funder policies increasingly requiring open access and open data. How can researchers change their practices to foster a culture of openness in the research endeavour? How can universities facilitate a programme of cultural change to transition to Open Science? The University of Edinburgh has started to implement some changes to encourage its researchers to become more open in their activities, and this presentation will look at the progress that has been made, in the hope of sharing best practice, what has worked, and what has not.
Charlotte Wien is a full professor of Scholarly Communication at the University Library of Southern Denmark – the second largest research library in Denmark. She is head of and research manager for the library's research and analysis department and responsible for its researcher services. She holds a Pd.D.- degree in information retrieval. On top of this she is chair of the LIBER WG on Innovative metrics.
Since the mid-2000s 'The Para-Academic industry' has gained momentum and become 'big business'. The industry is led by private companies like the scientific publishers and assisted by many different stakeholders providing various services to researchers like storage and retrieval of scientific papers, OA repositories, SoMe for researchers and so on. The starting point of my presentation will be a discussion of how the introduction of 'New Public Management' has created the momentum for the Para-Academic industry and has made academic life easier in some ways, but it has also (mis-)lead (some) researchers to increasingly focusing on optimizing and gaming the regime. Researchers share authorships like never, paying little or no attention to ethical guidelines like the Vancouver Protocol. They create citation cartels. They set up artificial profiles on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn creating SoMe echo chambers to boost their 'societal impact measures'. All of which takes time away from what they should be doing: Building, rearranging and extending the house of human knowledge.
Researchers: Establish compelling reasons and methods for researchers to use ORCID to share verified information about themselves.
Infrastructure: Establish ORCID's role as a trusted and neutral stakeholder in sharing metadata.
Trusted assertions: Establish ORCID as a credible hub for asserting and re-using researcher information.
Strategic relationships: Increase engagement with our global community.
Ulrike Wuttke is a medievalist and textual scholar by training with a specialisation in Medieval Dutch Literature (Doctor of Literature, Universiteit Gent). She works in the context of Digital (Humanities) Research Infrastructures and contributes to projects and networks in digital preservation and digital arts and humanities via groups such as the Working Group Data Centres of the Verband Digital Humanities im deutschsprachigen Raum (deputy convenor), the metablog OpenMethods (Deputy Chief Editor), the DARIAH Working Group DiMPO (Digital Methods and Practices Observatory) and the FOSTER Open Science Trainer Network.
Due to the paradigm shift to reusable, machine-readable data as one pillar of Open Science or Open Scholarship (the latter being a more inclusive term for the Arts and Humanities), for Humanities and Heritage researchers, activities and issues around planning, organizing, storing, and sharing data and other research results and products play an increasing role. Currently huge efforts are being undertaken to increase the general awareness for these topics and to teach relevant knowledge and skills in order to enable the broad uptake of Good Research Data Management Practices in Arts and Humanities researcher's practical workflows. In my presentation, I will address key challenges and perspectives of Humanities Research Data Management with a focus on educational aspects and available tools, especially the Research Data Management Organizer (RDMO) tool.


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Côte d'Ivoire and the Soro Saga: Ignoring History and the Consequences.
The world-acclaimed Nigerian prolific author Chinua Achebe wrote in his memoir There was a country that "a man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot say where he dried his body." This simple, yet powerful proverb carefully summarizes the problem facing many African countries, in particular, Côte d'Ivoire (also called Ivory Coast), as the country's court on Tuesday sentenced exiled former prime minister Guillaume Soro to 20 years in jail on charges of embezzlement and money laundering.
Interestingly, the 47- year- old Mr Soro, a former rebel leader helped President Alassane Ouattara to come to power in 2010 following the political violence that claimed 3 000 lives after former President Koudou Laurent Gbagborefused to leave the political arena following his Presidential election defeat in the hands of Alassane Ouattara. To regain his political mandate, Alassane Ouattara needed the military help from Guillaume Soro to defeat Gbagbo, who was later arrested and handed over to the International Criminal court (ICC). Guillaume Soro became an ally to Ouattara and served as prime minister and then parliamentary speaker under him until last year. Their political bromance suddenly soured immediately Mr Soro revealed his presidential ambitions in the up-coming election scheduled in October 2020, which will see the end of President Alassane Ouattara's term. Ouattara is barred by the constitution to sit for the third term after his second term expires.
In what many have called a political witch hunt, the Abidjan court on Tuesday sentenced Mr Soro to 20 years in jail, which effectively banned him from contesting in the October Presidential elections. That is not all. The court barred him from civic duties for five years and fined him almost seven million euros (4.5 billion FCFA), for money laundering and embezzlement. Furthermore, the court ordered Soro to pay 3 million euros (2 billion FCFA) in damages to the state of Côte d'Ivoire and authorised the authority to confiscate Soro's Abidjan home, allegedly purchased with public money.
The court also issued a new arrest warrant against Soro, whose February warrant was declared "null and void."
Guillaume Soro's conviction has been greeted with an outcry in some quarters. Mr Soro, who is currently living in France has labelled the court verdict a "parody" and an attempt to ban him from challenging the candidate of the ruling party, whom many analysts believe might lose against Mr Solo.
Soro had since taken his case to the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights.
"I am still running for the presidency and I will win," Soro responded on social networks.
The Tanzania-based African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights had recently ordered Ivory Coast to immediately suspend the arrest warrant issued against Soro. Instead of obeying the court orders, the government of Ivory Coast withdrew from the African Human Rights and Peoples Court, a week after the court orders. Defending the government's decision to withdraw its membership of the court, government spokesman Sidi Toure said:
"We respect our international commitments, but we also appreciate our sovereignty."
Those claims bring one back to the famous Achebe's warning that "a man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot say where he dried his body."
There was a country called Côte d'Ivoire, which used to be one of the most stable and economically powerful countries in Africa. Today, although Côte d'Ivoire is the world's biggest exporter of cocoa, accounting for 1,448,992 tonnes of cocoa export yearly, its stability and economy have been severely damaged due to the refusal or Ivorian leaders to learn from history. Former President Koudou Laurent Gbagbo's refusal to vacate the political arena after he lost the Presidential election to incumbent President Alassane Ouattara led to the civil war that resulted in the loss of thousands of innocent lives. The political and economic fallout of the senseless war has put a permanent scar in the history of the country. The social fabric that had held the country together since its independence from France started disentangling and disintegrating, causing ethnic consciousness and rebellion amongst Ivorians. Presently, the blister left in the economic, social and political life of Ivory Coast due to the refusal of its leaders heed to the history is too obvious and dangerous to ignore.
Ironically, following the death of thousands of Ivorians during the civil war, it took the then opposition leader Alassane Ouattara and Guillaume Soro to restore normalcy in Ivory Coast and prevented the country from descending into perpetual anarchy, simply because President Laurent Gbagbo had refused to listen to the history. Now, as the President, Alassane Ouattara has ignored the Gbagbo experience and history and has systematically pulled the trigger that could exterminate all the political, economic, social gains Ivory Coast has made, following the end of the civil war. Will the Alassane Ouattara and Guillaume Soro, who brought peace to Ivory Coast be the catalyst that will destabilise the country?
"He quickly forgot that the justice system he is manipulating today is the same one that decreed him ineligible a few years ago … The rest we all know: he became president," Guillaume Soro reminded President Alassane Ouattara.
A man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot say where he dried his body.
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I'm an administrator IT and also repair desktop computers & servers for many years.
According to Hp QuickSpecs for this particular ProLiant server, E7-4800 series are only supported in DL580 G7 CTO (643086-B2x) & Preconfigured models (6430xx-xx1/6967xx-xx1). From what I know, the main difference with a entry-level are E7 cartridges. Motherboard, CPU board and I/O board are the same part numbers.
To resume, it seems that server doesn't post when socket PROC3 is mounted with a E7-4870 (test all four 4870 on it, same result). I suspect a electrical/power issue on this socket because TDP is higher than E7530.
I plan to replace CPU board first, any advices are welcome.
Do any of you have already met such a problem ?
We have just upgraded three DL580 G7's that are model 584084-001 to Xeon E7-4870 processors. We found that what mattered in our environment was the revision of the main system board (not the CPU board/tray or SPI riser). After reading that last response, I checked iLO to verify all of our PAL versions. We do have one server that is running 4 E7-4870 processors with 1TB of memory on a CPU board with PAL version 0x10.
We found that as long as the system MainIO board (hp part 512843-001) is revision 0B or later, it works. Two of the three servers had revision 0A of the MainIO board and they would not post with the new processors. On those systems, all we replaced was the mainboard and the result was a working server.
Everything just worked on the server with the newer MainIO board revision, so we initially tried moving its CPU/Memory tray to the servers that were not working. When they still failed to work we decided that the issue lied outside of the CPU/Memory tray. The revision on the MainIO board was the only difference between the non-working servers and the working one.
We ordered the mainboards from our usual supplier, but had no way to specify revision. We just ordered and then verified the revision before installing.
This is a "call HP support" situation.
Regardless of your warranty status, you're trying to make something work that requires specialized knowledge. I'll assume you've upgraded all of the firmware, but it also seems like you've recognized, but ignored a serious compatibility issue.
Like ewwhite notified it, I just ignored a serious compatibility issue.
I finally got my hands on a 643086-B21 CTO model, fitted with two E7-8837 on PROC1 & PROC2.
As you can see, everything works fine (4xE7-4870 & 4xE7530 cpus).
Comparing to 584057-421 model, hardware, p/n boards are exactly the same.
So where is the difference ?
In this kind of server, each board (SPI, MainIO, CPU) have is own chip ROM (Lattice EEPROM/Flash), named CPLD for Complex Programmable Logic Device and PAL for Programmable Array Logic. It can explain why some Hp ProLiant servers take so much time to boot.
Note: 4xE7-4870 with CPU Board PAL v0x10 won't boot on a DL580 G7 p/n 584087-421. So replace/update CPU Board is not sufficient, you have to replace/update MainIO/SPI boards too (not separatly tested).
As has been said before, E7-4800 series are only supported in DL580 G7 CTO (643086-B2x) & Preconfigured models (6430xx-xx1/6967xx-xx1). But if you get failed board, especially for second market, you have to replace it with the right part number and take care to get the right compatible CPLD chip version !
- A Expansion board can't be added as you have to populate PROC3.
You have main IO board 591196-001 rev 0A. That's the board with the PCI slots. The label over near the connectors to the CPU board says rev 0A. You need rev 0B.
The server will not post and boot if you have an E7 processor in slot 3 and the rev 0A main board installed. As soon as you remove processor 3 or install a rev 0B board, everything will work.
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Public sector organisations focus more on employee health and safety and buying from small or local companies than on "green" sourcing.
This is according to an international study of sustainable procurement priorities by researchers at the University of Bath. Helen Walker and Stephen Brammer from the Centre for Research in Strategic Purchasing and Supply (CRiSPS) described the revelation as "surprising": "Our data suggests parts of sustainable procurement concerned with purchasing from small or local companies and those focused on employee health and safety, rather than environmental practices, are those most commonly embedded."
They also concluded the UK "may indeed meet its target of being among the leaders [in sustainable procurement] in Europe by 2009".
The study received more than 100 responses from buyers in the UK, 52 from the US and Canada, 49 from Western European countries, 36 from Eastern European countries, 29 from Scandinavia, and 15 responses from other countries.


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Pancreatic leiomyosarcoma: a diagnostic challenge and literature review
Neesa Fadaee1,
Tasmea Sefa1,
Amitabah Das1,2 and
Kheman Rajkomar2
1General Surgery, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
2General Surgery, Bankstown Hospital, Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia
Correspondence to Dr Neesa Fadaee; neesafadaee{at}gmail.com
A 71-year-old woman was referred with abdominal pain and weight loss. An abdominal CT showed a 5-cm heterogeneous mass in the head of the pancreas with involvement of the superior mesenteric vein and artery. Her carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and CA 19-9 were normal. Two endoscopic ultrasound/fine needle aspirates (EUS/FNAs) of the mass diagnosed her with a mesenchymal tumour of myogenic origin but did not show features of malignancy. Frozen section analysis of laparoscopic core biopsies also failed to show malignant features, hence requiring an open biopsy which confirmed the diagnosis of pancreatic leiomyosarcoma (PLMS). She was eventually treated with radiotherapy. To our knowledge this is the only case in recent English literature of inoperable locally advanced PLMS that has required an open biopsy to formalise the diagnosis despite prior EUS FNAs. We include a review of the literature, highlighting the deficiencies of various biopsy techniques.
pancreas and biliary tract
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2019-231529
Contributors NF: conception of the work including the design, acquisition and analysis of data. Drafting and revision of the manuscript. Final approval of the submitted version. Accountable for all aspects of the work. TS: conception of the work including the design, acquisition and analysis of data. Final approval of the submitted version. Accountable for all aspects of the work. AD: Final approval of the submitted version. Accountable for all aspects of the work. KR: conception of the work including the design, acquisition and analysis of data. Final approval of the submitted version. Accountable for all aspects of the work.
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Wisconsin Protests, Saturday, March 5, 2011
MICHAEL MOORE SPEAKS IN MADISON, WISCONSIN: "AMERICA IS NOT BROKE"
"What are the 3 biggest lies of the decade? 1) Wisconsin is broke, 2) there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq 3) the Packers need Farve to win the Super Bowl."
CAUTION! EXTREME VIOLENCE AND PALM TREES.
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Wisconsin Protests, Friday, March 4, 2011
LAURA FLANDERS INTERVIEWS MICHAEL MOORE ON MADISON PROTESTS
NEW REPORT DEBUNKS "LEAGUE OF AMERICAN VOTERS" ROBO-CALLS FOR WALKER
The Center has issued a new report debunking the misleading robo-calls unleashed in Wisconsin this week and providing readers with information to get off LAV's call list and other actions they can take. CMD/PRWatch has also issued a detailed report on who the DC-based group is and what their connections are to the moneyed interests, including to a FOX "analyst." Click here to read the full report.
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New York Times Retracts Information on Front Page Story Implying Union Support for Walker
On February 21, the New York Times created a stir in Wisconsin by printing a front page article giving the impression that union families supported Governor Scott Walker's attempt to remove collective bargaining rights from workers. On February 26, The Times retracted information related to this article.
The lead of the story, entitled "Union Bonds in Wisconsin Begin to Fray", featured a former Janesville General Motors employee Rich Hahn, who was characterized as "...a man who has worked at unionized factories, [and] a supporter of Gov. Scott Walker's sweeping proposal to cut the benefits and collective-bargaining rights of public workers." In the story reporters A.G. Sulzberger — said to be the son of New York Times Co. Chairman of the Board Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr.— and Monica Davey spend very little time quoting Hahn but a lot of time characterizing him. "He says he still believes in unions, but thinks those in the public sector lead to wasteful spending because of what he sees as lavish benefits and endless negotiations," the story says of Hahn.
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Fox News' "Madison Protest" Footage Aims to Deceive
Submitted by Anne Landman on March 3, 2011 - 10:38am
On February 28, the O'Reilly Factor aired a video news segment by Fox Channel reporter Mike Tobin, who was shown reporting from inside the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin. "News" footage aired during his broadcast of goings-on outside the capitol depicts an angry, out-of-control, crowd of pro-union protesters yelling and pushing people around. But the protesters in the video are wearing shirtsleeves and standing on a street lined with tall palm trees and other green, leafy foliage -- and that is absolutely not February in Madison, where no palm trees live outside of greenhouses and where temperatures have been well below freezing for most of the winter. Fox clearly used out-of-town footage to depict the "violence" it is hyping as happening in Madison. The segment is two minutes, nine seconds long, and the palm tree footage occurs at the 1:42 mark, as wording on the screen says "Union Protests."
Milwaukee, Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel, March 2, 2011
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National Right-Wing Spin Machine Gears Up In Wisconsin
National Republican donors, apparatchiks and strategists are coming to the defense of embattled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker.
Shadowy "issue ad" groups that do not disclose their funders as well as heavy hitter political action committees are rushing to the aid of embattled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, whose poll number are dropping like a rock. The list of outside big money attacking Wisconsin state workers and teachers read like a "who's who" of the Republican donor and special interest group apparatus.
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Wisconsin Protests, Thursday, March 3, 2011
JUDGE ALBERT'S INTERIM ORDER, ISSUED THURSDAY NIGHT:
"Based on the hearings before the court on March 1, 2011, through March 3, 2011, and the court having concluded that the current Department of Administration policy regarding access to the State Capitol violates the State Constitution and that unauthorized materials and people remaining in the State Capitol beyond closing each day are in violation of state law, now therefore, is it ordered that the defendant DOA shall do the following:
1. DOA shall immediately enforce its inherent authority pursuant to Admin. Chapter 2, including, but not limited to, taking such action as allowed under law to remove unauthorized materials and people remaining in the State Capitol after 6 p.m. today.
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A CMD Special Report: Who Is the League of American Voters?
MADISON--A Special Report from the Center for Media Democracy, part one of a new series. A gaggle of secretly funded DC groups has launched an expensive PR blitz in Wisconsin in support of Scott Walker's controversial efforts to undermine union rights, part of a national assault on worker rights. A few unions have also begun running public education ads, but their sources are not kept hidden from public view; union dues are used for collective bargaining and union members can choose to make a separate donation to a Committee on Public Education fund for advertising. The total amount of anti-union spending in the works by groups funded by corporations or corporate CEOs or their foundations is unknown. What is known is that many such groups hide behind tax provisions that allow them to keep the identities of their major funders secret, insulating from public scrutiny the wealthy financial interests they are fronting and that are largely bankrolling their general operations.
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New Rules in "Walker's Wisconsin"
Republican Senate Leader Cracks the Whip on Missing Democrats, While Dem. Assembly Reps. Set Up Offices on the Capitol Lawn
As the Wisconsin Senate remained in almost complete lockdown today, Wisconsin Republican leadership turned up the heat on the missing Wisconsin democratic legislators with an unprecedented series of new rules.
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Officials Seek More Than Spin From Walker About "Troublemakers" Statements
Submitted by Anne Landman on March 2, 2011 - 12:16pm
Embattled Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's confession that he talked with political allies about potentially hiring "troublemakers" to disrupt the peaceful protests in Madison have drawn more questions from lawyers, police, Wisconsin state legislators and the mayor of Madison -- and a lot of spin by Walker. Through a spokesman, Walker has said that throughout the prank call he accepted with a fake "David Koch" that he "maintained his appreciation for and commitment to civil discourse." He continues to insist that the budget repair bill is about the budget, and that people other than him suggested using troublemakers to disrupt the crowd. Walker also maintains that he says the same thing in private as he does in public. But despite these responses, questions continue. Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz sent a letter to Walker asking him who made the suggestion to disrupt the protests, what was the nature of the suggestion, and asking what was Walker's immediate response to the proposal. The mayor also asked Walker why he rejected the "troublemakers" proposal due to political considerations rather than on legal and moral grounds. Walker has so far failed to publicly answer the growing number of questions about his statements, and public interest groups have been forced to file Freedom of Information Act requests to obtain the details of Walker's conversations about stirring up violence.
The Cap Times (editorial), March 2, 2011
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Wisconsin Protests, Wednesday, March 2, 2011
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Touted as 'the new Andy Warhol' by The Independent, contemporary British artist Dave White draws inspiration from popular culture and wildlife to create large and colourful oil paintings and limited edition prints. Interested in the struggle of survival, White is best known for his animal series in which endangered species are painted with expressive and dynamic brushstrokes in a style reminiscent of 1950s Abstract Expressionism. Pioneer of the 'Sneaker Art' movement, since 2002 White created pop art inspired sneaker oil portraits that have lead to fruitful collaborations with Nike. White was born in Liverpool in 1971, and went on to study Fine Art Painting at Liverpool John Moores University. He has exhibited his work internationally throughout the USA, Europe and Asia and alongside acclaimed artists such as David Hockney, Picasso (Sotheby's Blue Cross Centenary, 1997) and Chuck Close (New York Museum of Contemporary Art, 2010). This year White has created a hand painted Rhino for Tusk which will be displayed in London and auctioned at Christies in October 2018 alongside works by Marc Quinn, Gavin Turk and The Chapman Brothers. Visit Dave White's Artist Page >
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I titled this piece, "Floral Blow," and loved being able to capture this while the wind was blowing. My original intent was to create this photograph in to a black and white but felt the color version popped more.
I titled this piece, "Minimal Pop," due to the minimal and abstract styles of art inspired by this floral photograph. With the use of natural light and post editing techniques I was able to convey the softness of this poppy. Check out my color version photograph of poppies.
I created this image to share with you my new adventure on Pinterest and streamlining my social media accounts. I decided to no longer use Instagram and Facebook in order to have more time creating art and doing life. I felt a desire to have more focus and managing multiple social media accounts was a bit distracting and required time I wasn't able to give. Therefore, I hope my Pinterest journey will be one that will help showcase my art and TpT endeavors. Have a great week folks!
When I took this photograph, I wanted to play with perspective and I got really low to the ground to capture my son being carried by his gracious cousin during a day at the river. In looking at this image, I am reminded of how it is important for us to help carry one another's burdens or, simply, to lend a helping hand.
The light on this day was so beautiful and I wanted to capture a minimal image of the leaf.
I was very excited to see the lighting through the door in these images and wanted to capture my son playing with his toy figurines that he got today. His battle noises were priceless as well.
It is always fun having cousins visit and exploring new places. My sweet girl M had a great time getting her feet wet in this river near our home. She is definitely a get-your-hands-and-feet-dirty kind of gal. The more muddy her hands and feet are, the happier she becomes. I sure love childhood play; blessed to be able to capture it.
I love this photograph and plan on printing this one and hanging it up on my kitchen wall. The lines, shadows and light give this image movement.
The minimal and abstract styles of art inspired this floral photograph, using shadows to capture the subtleness of its beauty and soft quality.
When I'm able to find time to photograph, I've been on this black and white kick of playing with landscape and light. I absolutely adore the sun illuminating on water and light glistening on land. Such joy to my heart in being able to capture such beauty. This print is available at my shop.
One of my most favorite subject to photograph are my children playing. There is so much joy and freedom expressed when I observe them play. If I'm not behind the camera, I try to jump right in to playing with them.
I loved the reflection of the trees in the puddle and knew I wanted a photo of this while on a stroll with my little ones. There is a beautiful contrast to the water, hard road and trees.
The fog this day was so beautiful as it surrounded the almond orchard trees. I wanted to take a photograph of my little ones with their silhouette but they weren't too keen on being photographed in the cold. Either way the image tone came out beautifully. An instant download print is available at my shop for purchase.
This photo was taken with my camera phone and I wanted to continue with an old personal project with no deadline. It has been a challenging few months in which I haven't been able to commit to photography or art as much as I hope but grateful for the times that I am able to do something creative.


Just wondering if there are drive-thru or drive-through establishments in Peru? I haven't really seen any up here in the province of Trujillo, and wondering if not, why not? Is there any additional red tape hurdle and are there any in Lima?
Re: Drive-Thru or Drive-Through in Peru?
I don't have a car, so no interest. Having said that tip top in Miraflores used to have a drive thru and many of the fast food chains along Benavides or 28th of Julio seem to have them. I imagine it is strictly a land issue.
Lima had a drive-in cinema in the fifties !
A drive thru liquor store would be popular.
And safer than walking out of a store with booze and risk getting mugged.
Yes, but that requires special license/fees and more red tape, unlike a sandwich shop, for example.
McDonalds has one at Avenida La Marina.
Cactus fan wrote: McDonalds has one at Avenida La Marina.
I may nip over in a bit. Big Daddy is jonesing for some fries dipped in a milkshake.


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Today someone bought one of my paintings for Mothers Day and although we had it on special for 20% and then I have to give my boss 20%, well I actually made enough money to cover the cost of canvas, paint and time it took to make the thing. That kind of bummed me out, but the fact that someone got it for mother's Day, well kind of cheered me up. So here is the painting I now call "Mothers Day Beach".


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WHO'S THE FOOL?
Panorama was the world's longest-running current-affairs TV programme.
In 1957 it had a regular weekly audience of ten million.
That year Panorama ran a story on Switzerland's spaghetti harvest.
It featured shots of the orchards where the spaghetti is grown.
There were close ups of the spaghetti hanging from the trees.
The workers carefully picking the strands and laying them in their baskets.
Then spreading them on the ground in rows to dry in the sun.
Even in black and white the spaghetti looked appetising.
There was just one flaw, spaghetti doesn't grow on trees.
Spaghetti is made from flour and water.
So why did Panorama run the story?
The clue was in the date: April 1st.
It was just the BBC having a bit of fun on April Fools day.
But not everyone got the joke.
Lots of people phoned or wrote to the BBC to find out where they could get their own spaghetti bush and how to grow spaghetti.
They didn't know spaghetti didn't grow on trees.
This shocked the BBC executives.
They couldn't believe that everyone didn't know it was a joke.
In the restaurants the BBC executives ate in, spaghetti was commonplace.
But ordinary people didn't eat in restaurants.
And the only time they saw spaghetti was in cans, made by Heinz and swimming in tomato sauce, like baked beans.
In fact spaghetti on toast was an alternative to beans on toast.
But of course the people that ran the BBC never saw Heinz spaghetti.
So to them the joke was obvious.
But that's the thing about jokes.
You can't just assume everyone knows exactly what you know and lives exactly the way you live.
Those of us who work in the media are incredibly spoilt.
We eat food from every corner of the planet whenever we want.
We can drink wine with every meal if we want.
We know about lots of things and assume everyone else does too.
But they don't, not necessarily.
The fad for April fool jokes apparently began hundreds of years back.
According to the Julian calendar, the new year started in spring when the world began coming back to life.
This was usually around the vernal equinox, March 20th, so new year traditionally began on April 1st.
In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII changed to the Gregorian calendar, and new year started on January 1st.
Apparently it was lots of fun for educated townsfolk to wish country folk a happy new year on April 1st.
When the bumpkins answered 'Happy New Year' that meant they didn't know about the new calendar.
They were uneducated and so 'April fools'.
The old-fashioned country folk didn't find it funny, but the modern, hip townsfolk did.
Nothing much has changed.
We still care about our own amusement before our audience's.
As long as we or our peers like it, or it wins an award, that's all that counts.
But remember, half the country doesn't live like we live or know what we know.
But they buy the products we're trying to sell.
"We know about lots of things and assume everyone else does too." Interesting point, Dave.
But sometimes, the ignorance is within the agency, the department even. And it can be very annoying when your own people are ignorant.
Because then the focus becomes proving that not everyone's as ignorant as your team.
Once worked for an IT client at a Direct Marketing place. The brief was if you buy the wrong software, you became a prisoner. We didn't agree with the global brief. But we had to work with prisoner.
So we came up with the idea of sending people yellow ribbons.
The CD didn't see the connection between yellow ribbons and prisoners. We told him about the Tony Orlando song. And the history of the yellow ribbon.
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tie_a_Yellow_Ribbon_Round_the_Ole_Oak_Tree)
CD insisted he didn't know about it. And in his book, if he didn't know, then nobody else did.
Robin. on February 15, 2021 at 11:53 am