In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful, and all praise is due to Allah, the Lord of the worlds, and may peace and blessings be upon Muhammad and his family, the good, the pious. And may Allah bless all of them together from now on to the servants of the servants of Allah. Sincerity being one of the pleasant acts that Allah SWT encourages Muslims specifically and mankind as a whole to take as a code of conduct for themselves once they are living on the face of this earth. Sincerity being very important as it attracts one man to another. Because it proves that this person carries the appropriate emotions and trust towards me. Rasulullah SAW once sitting amongst his companions narrated the story. And the story says that one day three individuals from Bani Israel were travelling when there was a huge thunderstorm. And they started looking for a refuge until they found a cave and they entered the cave. As a result of that thunderstorm a huge rock came down and blocked the entrance to that cave. Which meant that these three individuals from Bani Israel had been trapped inside the cave. They turned towards Allah SWT in supplicating and calling from Allah SWT and asking Allah SWT to help them to escape. One of them said to the other two, let's face Allah SWT and ask Allah for the sake of one sincere action that we had committed in our lives to have mercy upon us and to open the entrance to this cave. So each person, each one of these individuals started thinking of one sincere action they had committed in their lives. So they can ask Allah SWT for the sake of that action to help them and have mercy on them. The first person faced Allah SWT and said to Allah, oh Allah you know that one day I had a very beautiful cousin. A female cousin that I was attracted towards too. And one day I saw her being alone at home. I advanced towards her and I wanted to feed my lust and my desires. But seeing this action from me she faced me and said fear Allah SWT and protect my chastity. Then I remembered Allah SWT and how the wrath of Allah SWT could come down upon me. I left that action and I departed from that location. Oh Allah, if I had done this as a result of sincerity towards you, I ask you to save us from this cave. Then they noticed that the entrance of that cave opened up a little bit and the rock moved towards the left. The second one came and started speaking to Allah SWT and said to Allah, oh Allah you know that I have two elderly parents, my father and my mother, and they have grown old so much that they cannot move. And I one day came to bring them the food and I noticed them asleep and I did not disturb them. I did not want to wake them up. I sat there all night with the food in my hand waiting for the time that they would wake up. Oh Allah, I done that as a result of my sincerity towards you. If that sincerity had pleased you, I ask you Allah to help us and save us from this cave. Again the rock moved a little bit more. The third person came and stood before Allah SWT and said to Allah, oh Allah you know that I had a person working for me. And once this person's work for me had come to an end, I came to pay his wages but he was not happy for the amount that I was paying him. He left unhappy, he did not take the money.  After weeks and months this man came back to me inquiring about the wages that I had allocated for him. Once I told him that this herd of sheep is for you, he thought that I was making fun of him. Once he noticed that I was serious, he was very pleased and he thanked me and he took that herd of sheep with him. Oh Allah, I done that as a result of my sincerity to you. If that pleased you oh Allah, I ask you to save us from this cave. And they noticed that upon completing his sentence the whole of this huge rock had moved aside and that they were able to escape. Sincerity brothers and sisters is very important in our lives. There is no use committing an act if there was no sincerity amongst that act. Because Allah SWT wants us to do our actions and with those actions, with those behaviors, he wants sincerity. Because sincerity is the most important art that we as human beings can practice towards one another and towards Allah SWT. Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.


Hey everybody welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy my name is David and this is a deck review. Hey today we're going to look at the Chameleons playing cards from Aussie Wind and Laura Alexander. Well this was originally designed to be the ultimate deck of cards and it's the first, it's actually the first release for a brand new signature series that Expert put out a while ago and so it was opposed to improve performances and just kind of make a better card all around. It was supposed to be the ultimate deck for magicians. Of course they've done the signature series long since then but this was the first one. This was the prototype that they used to test both the synthetic tuck and the paper stock. This stock case is all done in kind of like a deep red and silver foil. It says committing across the top and then it has Aussie Wind's logo there. It says playing cards underneath that. One side says expert signature series number one. The other side says expert playing card company and the bottom has an ad copy about expert playing cards and Aussie Wind. The top simply says classic finish and it has Aussie Wind's logo there and the back design of course is the back design of the cards and then you have that beautiful really thick tongue flap that I love from these tucks. That is pretty much it for the tuck case. Let's take a look at these cards. These cards are printed from the expert playing card company and they are done on their classic stock. Now it's called classic stock because this feels most like what many card handlers are now used to. Very soft stock, very easy to handle. The deck is going to feel familiar. It's going to be I think superior to other standard decks. This classic stock ensures that these decks don't even vary from deck to deck. They're also traditionally cut which means they're perfect for pharaoh shuffling which that would be a bottom up table shuffle. This deck should come in the Wontemery Mamanica stack which is great for magicians who know that stack already. They can open the deck, cut to the ace of spades and they're good to go. The back design of the cards you'll notice that one of the experts other claim to fame is a perfect registration. Now what is registration? Registration is the cut so that when you look at the border the border looks even from one card to the next. So the registration on these cards are perfect. They are beautiful and the borders won't like shift back and forth. They won't flutter when you riffle them. Just a beautiful ornate back design all done in a single color. Of course you do have chameleons there in the corners along with some all-seeing eyes and then Aussie Wins logo in the center.  There's a J in the corner for joker and then underneath that it says expert playing card company New York, New York. Your ace of spades is very similar to the Zen ace of spades although instead of being the Zen logo it has Aussie Wins logo there in the center and underneath that it says expert playing card company in New York City. The pips and indice cards in this deck are chunky and I think the color is faded. I think it's supposed to look like a classic older deck and so that's why I think the ink color looks faded and then the pip sizes are a little bit larger. The court cards also have a very classic, very vintage feel. They're going to look like older court cards long before they were modernized. A lot of the images are a bit bigger, a bit chunkier, a bit more loosely drawn so it really kind of fits the overarching theme of the deck. Alright so that's my review of the chameleons playing cards from Aussie Wind, Laura Alexander and the expert playing card company. As always be asked that you like this video just so other people can find it faster. We also recommend that you subscribe to this channel just so that you can stay up to date on the latest in cards and card magic. If you want to follow me on social media you can. I'm at facebook.com slash magic orthodoxy, twitter.com slash magic orthodoxy, instagram.com slash magic underscore orthodoxy and if you need more content you can always find it at magic orthodoxy.com. Thanks, bye.


Hi, welcome back in the last class we understood about some of the microbial pathogen employed in a pest management. In this class let us look at another important the microbial pathogen or the bio agent which we can use it for the pest management system and also look at some of the advantages and the limitations of the bio control program. Entomopathogenic nematodes or the EPNs are also comes under this group of causing the diseases in the insect. You know that there are many groups of nematodes which are also considered as the plant parasitic which causes the diseases in the plant. Similarly, there are certain groups in the nematodes which cause diseases in the insects and taking some of those groups. So there is a lot of commercial exploitation made in managing the various insect pests. Those what are the EPNs? If you define the EPNs they are those nematodes which are capable of killing or sterilizing or seriously hampering the development of the insect and completing at least one stage of the life cycle in the host. So there are several groups are there but I am just concentrating on three important groups. So one is the family under mermithidae which comes under the order inopleda and this has got a bio control potential against the dipterans and that has been developed. But we are looking at these two families. This family is tiner nematidae and the heterorabdytidae which comes under the order rabdytidae are globally well exploited for managing the pest. Why these two nematode groups? Because these have got a very tremendous potential of causing the host mortality very quickly within 24 to 48 hours. As you know that the bacteria, the fungi and the viruses will take around 4 to 7 days in killing the host whereas these nematodes as soon as they enter into the body they quickly they bring the mortality and also they have got a very wide host range so nearly more than 200 insect species of 10 orders of insects they are susceptible to the entomopathogenic nematode and they have got a wide distribution they are found in all parts of the world except the cold region and most important one is that they have gotten a symbiotic association with the bacteria that is Xenorabdytidae species in case of tiner nematidae and heterorabdytidae species in case of heterorabdytidae. In fact it is the bacteria which they carry are going to cause the death of the insect and these nematodes are simply the carriers of the bacteria and they have a third infective stage which we call it as the infective stage is juvenile which is a non-feeding, free living and durable and capable of withstanding the adverse climatic changes. This is a great advantage as this stage can freely live in the soil without food for several months and also withstand the adverse condition only when get a suitable host then it can enter and then actually kill the insect. Then another great advantage is it can be mass produced both under the natural host and as well as the artificial diet. It also has got a good shelf life and it is an easy to apply which can be used with very conventional sprayers we can apply it and it is safer to the non-target organism. In fact the entomopathogenic nematodes have been exempted from environmental protection act because of their safety to non-target organisms. Now let us look at the mode of action of this entomopathogenic nematode. As I was telling you earlier the infective stage or the third juvenile stage is the one which is free living and which will be always seeking the host. So once it actually seeks the host then it enters into the host body either through the natural openings such as the mouth part or the anal part or sometimes they also go through these pyricles which are the tiny openings for respiration. And once they enter into it then they penetrate into the hemosyl and then they release the bacteria the symbiotic bacteria is released by the nematode and this bacteria produces lot of toxins and these toxins are going to kill the host cells by septicemia. And once the host is dead then the nematode will start multiplying instead either they will complete the first or the second generation depending upon the size of the host and then they will continue to mass multiply and once the host food is over then the infective juniors are going to be remained and they take this bacteria in their gut and then leave the host. So from a few nematodes which actually kill the host the millions of these infective juniors will come out from the host in search of the new insect. Now there are some commercially available entomopathic nematodes they found in the US and the European in India also the efforts are being made in mass multiplying them and using agonist the several insect pest. Now let us look at the advantages of using these biocontrol agents what are the advantages of microbial agent as a component in IPM. So exploitation of the pest control is environmentally safe because of the host specificity you know because they are quite host specific so environmentally it is quite viable and microorganisms have a natural capability of causing episodic levels due to their persistence in soil and their efficient transmission. Once you actually release them in the field if the environment is quite congenial then they cause an episodics and results into a depth of large population of the insect pest. They are quite capable with chemical insecticide some of these can be safely mixed or they can be applied even when the chemicals are also sprayed so in that way they are quite safe. And the cost of development and registration of microbial insect is much less than that of the chemical insecticide and there is a large scale culture and application is possible and it is relatively easy and inexpensive and no resistance has been developed in this case or reported in this case. But factors which are affecting the biocontrol program or the tolerant limit of the crop to the insect injury it is successful in crops with a high tolerance limit and crop value it is quite good like where it has got a successful crop with a high economic value and crop duration if the crop has got a longer duration there it is quite successful and indigenous or the exotic pest. Again these microbials or the biocontrol agents works well when they are actually against the exotic pest in fact. If alternative hosts are available for natural enemies then the control of target pest will be less. As a result they should actually be quite species specific and in case of unfavorable season occurs then the reintroduction of the natural enemy is required and presence of hyper parasitide sometimes reduces the effectiveness of the biocontrol and the tritrophic interaction of the plant, pest and natural enemy sometimes affect the success of biocontrol agent. So for example like if the trichogramma which is released as an egg parasitoid against helicoarpa will work very well in case of tomato ecosystem than in the corn ecosystem. Then use of pesticide sometimes will affect the natural enemies and suppress their multiplication since we need to go for quite selective insecticides and identical situation for the successful control does not occur. That means to say that if the biocontrol program has successful in one region we cannot expect that it is going to be successful in all the regions. So it mainly depends upon so the many other factors abiotic and biotic factors for their successfulness. Then what are the limitations of this biocontrol? The biocontrol program usually what happens is in spite of a classic control that we get the pest population will continue to exist at a level which is determined by the properties of the host. So as a result so we cannot expect that so it will be completely below an economic injury level. The effectiveness of the natural enemies must be considered related to the man's economic threshold level. So that is way so we have to make an balance between see the economic returns of the crop and while using this biocontrol agent. And attainment of biocontrol of one of the major pest on a crop necessitates an elaboration of a system of integrated control of other pest of a crop in the sense because we are going to concentrate on a particular species of insect for managing. So we need to look for the other methods also for managing the other pest. So that is why a biocontrol can act as one of the important component in IPM so rather than as a major or a major component in managing the pest. So in this class we learnt about the important biocontrol agent as endopathogenic nematode and certain advantages and the limitations of biocontrol program. Thank you.


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If you don't enjoy it in 30 days, bottom line, you get your money back. So check it out. Front page of TFNN. You go into newsletters to the opening call right on the left hand side. Basil Chapman, what's going on? Nothing new here. Just a very quiet market until the end of the year. Nothing happening. I'm telling you. It's pretty wild. There's no doubt, man. So when we spoke last, we were looking at 900-point moves in the Dow with the futures intraday. I mean, that was big. You can see on this side, the left side here with the daily chart, look at those big red candles. And then what happened is I use a couple of techniques and I use them over and over again because what I believe very strongly is that it doesn't matter what particular techniques anybody uses, as long as you're consistent and you use them the same way over and over. You don't modulate them to form, fit whatever it is. That's the way it is and that's the way you use it. So I like to talk about little candles, sometimes little doji. I have just three or four candles that are really important to me in the candlestick charting method. But I also have some moving averages. And you can see we spoke about this, that little doji candle all-time high on the Dow on the 8th of November at 36,565. That's when we actually started a short position that very day within 40 points. We didn't keep it for too long, unfortunately, but they're the patterns. We look at that H pattern, the Dow broke down, started to move down. And then it accelerated and where did it stop? And that to me is really the most important thing. Right on the 200-period moving average. And I'll show you right now this orange line right here. Well, in different programs, it comes out different colors. But it's orange, this thick line right here. And I'd say, and when I spoke to you last week, we still had a couple of days to go. And as the market tumbled down, the length of the Dow moves. In other words, the length of the red candles accelerated, got bigger and bigger. And then we closed. Remember that Friday, it looked like it was going to be a great day. The market was moving up. And then all of a sudden it turned around and closed at the low. And what happened is I like to use that 200-period moving average, but I use it with many other things. So that to me was when I did my homework on Friday. I said, you know what, Friday night, I said, this is going to be very interesting. And as I went over the market on the Saturday, I did my overview of the video for my subscribers, I said, this is going to be very interesting because it's held very nicely. And there's a chance on Monday that we're going to actually, we're already holding a core long position from the low, starting at the lows of last March, March 2020. And we've been trading up and down. We're using the diamonds and the DOG, which is the inverse of the Dow. But at this particular point, I said, we might go long. So we did actually go long. Unfortunately, we got just stopped out. And the very next day, the market moved even higher. So we wanted to add to our long position. That one just worked very briefly. Unfortunately, it was taken out. However, looking at the candle, I've got a pattern that I call, it's, I'll do it right here. It's got, it's like a declining cone formation. In other words, as the price is, where did that go? Whoops, I've done something wrong. I can't show it right now. Oh, there it is. As the price is coming down from a particular high, it makes lower highs and much lower lows. And the most important thing about this is I'm doing some funny things over here. I'm changing all the rules. Okay, there it is. So this particular pattern has, you can see it. Yes, this leg to the upside, just call it one big leg. Like I call it, this is the axe handle. I call it the falling axe. It's like a trend line that goes up and then you make lower highs and much lower lows. There are lower highs and much lower lows. Then all of a sudden it tries to form a base of support. And if it takes out the declining upper trend line, that can be very positive and it can take you sometimes all the way to the top. Most importantly, what you want to, at that particular point, what I want to look for is does the MACD turned around and cross positive? It hasn't yet. It's close, but it hasn't yet. It's made a fantastic turn because of the strength of the doubt. Number two is the stochastic, which I usually like to see go under 15% preferably. Single digits, turning sharply higher, but it's nice. It's up at 34%. That's not great, but it's nice. But the on-balance volumes of the leg and the little blue line is lagging a little bit. And if you can see in the weekly chart, we did very nicely here. We went right to what I call the Chapman Wave inside track, pro-palant zone, this green and pink rising, it was narrow, a channel. And then it went to the top. So a lot of things here are really perfect for a take-off pattern, but we don't have synchronicity with the QQQs. That's the index 100. And at this particular point, we're actually still short, we're still short in actually making money via the instrument we've got. It's kind of stalled right here. And I suspect that what I've been speaking to you about is a rotational correction. I suspect that that's going to go on for quite a bit over the December month. And one of the reasons why I say that is the tech sector had just a spectacular run to the upside and it deserves some kind of a breather. And that's all it is so far. I mean, going from four or eight down to 378, that's not much of a correction, but it is the start of a correction. So unless something really fantastic happens between now and this coming Friday for the weekly candle to change, I suspect that what we're looking at is there are a lot. I'm sure if you've gone through charts, you've looked and said, I can't believe it. And you can name your NDX 100 stock, NASDAQ 100. Some of them have dropped 20, 30, 40, even 50% that doc you signed. So this is not really telling you everything that's going on. And that's the reason why I think that there's still enough sectors within the NASDAQ 100 that can kind of put a cap on the upside. That's what I'm saying. And the roll over into the Dow type stocks, I think it's very important. And that's really, since I think the summer of 2010, I've been saying to you, it's very interesting that we've had rotational corrections because it allows one sector that's overbought to take a breather while another sector that's kind of oversold to take its place. And I think that's kind of what we're looking at right now. And so what we've done for my subscribers is we've gone back to individual stocks to see if we can get the stocks that are acting the best and just try to hold on to those. So this is a very important moment that we're looking at. And I'll just say a Dow above 36,000 would be very impressive, I must say. But at this point, we're going to watch it really close. And folks, very easy guys, newsletters, just come over to TFNN. But as we have a great one, safe one, we look forward to showing them all. Thank you, Tom, you too. Thank you. Yeah, folks, come right back.


Soldiers from the 1100 Theatre Aviation Sustainment Maintenance Group provided logistical support to the aviation support battalion of the 28th Combat Aviation Brigade while they prepare aircraft to leave the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility at the Port of Shweba, Kuwait. The aircraft are broken down by either the ASB or the 1100 personnel. The first thing we do is take off all the components that need to be removed such as electrical harnesses, blade pins. We fold the blades by color, rotate back around so they're on top of each other but not touching each other. Then we pad them to protect them from the severity of the boat or aircraft going up and down. The transport of these aircraft from the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility back to the U.S. ensures they receive proper maintenance and increases overall mission readiness. Specialist Zorn Raduka, Port of Shweba, Kuwait.


The shoe game is down bad right now. Everything is plummeting in price. Now see, those are some things that you might hear from resellers, but for collectors like me, I think this is a perfect time to be a sneakerhead. So in today's video, I'm gonna be going over all the different things that are going on in the sneaker game when it comes to releases, retail prices, stuff sitting on shelves, things that are still selling out, collaborations, you name it. We're gonna talk about all those different things, and I'm gonna make sure that I raise a lot of questions for you guys as well, so that way you can answer them down below in the comments section. And if you didn't know by now, my name is DJ, and this is The DNA Show. On this channel, I love talking about sneakers, and especially giving you guys updates like this. I've been in the sneaker game for over 15 years now, heavily collecting, and I've seen many of things over the years in different trends like this in the past. And if you haven't already, consider subscribing and joining the fam. We're on the road to a million subscribers, and you could be the next one to get us there. So I never really write scripts when I make my videos. I kinda just go off the dome, but for this one in particular, it's gonna be a very interesting one, and I wanna make sure that I answer and ask a lot of questions at the same time to see where everybody's thinking, and hopefully I can represent the different perspectives of different sneakerheads and how I feel as myself being a sneakerhead as well. So when it comes to it right now, we're seeing a lot of sneakers that are sitting on shelves, especially Air Jordan 1.  So I can understand why naturally, it makes it a little bit harder for people to connect with the sneaker on a consumer standpoint to actually think, hey, I can make this an everyday rocker and add it to my rotation.  So with that, yes, I wanna have all these different colors and variations and styles and storytelling and all the different things you name it, right? For those colorways in particular, we've seen different OG samples from in the past and different things being brought to life and different storytelling, different aspects like that. And I've seen so many things retro over and over and over again. But at the same time, I still wanted to add the Brotherhoods, the heritage and the stuff, great Air Jordan 1s into my collection. And I completely understand I'm on a different tier when it comes to becoming a sneakerhead because I'm not a beginner level and I've understood my identity through the sneakers that I love to purchase and all those different things. And that does play a factor when it comes to being a consumer, right? Because everybody always gets the label being a hypebeast, following trends, different things like that. That always falls into that category. And that is another thing where we see people talking about different things. Well, nothing is selling out anymore and things aren't gonna go for those prices and that and that, whoop, whoop, whoop. It's still sitting on shelves. And I'm like, if you like the shoe at the end of the day, buy what you like. Like that's what it's all about. No matter if the shoe is going for more or less, buy what you like. Now, yes, you wanna be strategic about it at the same time, at least that's how I feel. You wanna be strategic about it at the same time. You don't wanna buy nothing but quote unquote bricks because at the end of the day, those might be assets for you to then roll it into using it for a down payment for a property or something like that. So yes, there are gonna be sneakers that you like that are hyped, they're going for money and you're able to get for retail or a little bit over retail and then you happen to be able to double or triple your money. Sometimes even five or six or 10 extra money depending on what the shoe is. And those are a lot of different factors as well. But at the same time, you gotta buy what you like and you gotta understand that the shoe game is down, the prices are down, it doesn't matter. You're buying shoes for your collection.  You are very happy right now because you're saying, hey, I don't have to go out and pay the resell. I can get the shoe, I can easily walk into the store with no stress. I can buy it from the website with no stress. I don't have to worry about every single item selling out all the time, every single release. Two, three, four releases, every single week. All these things, like it got to the point where last year where everything was at all time high. You got everything with the Jordan 1s in particular and then the Jordan 4 buzz coming in at the beginning of this year and then collaborations going crazy. Well Travis Scott, off what you name it, J Balvin got some stuff coming out and we saw a huge influx of people come into the sneaker game over the past couple years because people were looking for different hustles. People were looking for ways to make money and I completely understand that. And people were like, oh, after resellers, da-da-da, whoop-doop. And they're hating on the resellers. And I'm like, bro, honestly, this is all the part of the game. No matter what industry you are in, there is always this type of level of business and economics and you name it. It just happens to be in our industry so you look at it and perceive it in a different way so you want to be mad at somebody else and blame everybody else because you didn't network good enough and you couldn't find somebody to go find the shoes for you and get the deal that you wanted and all this stuff. Like at the end of the day, if you really want a pair of shoes and you mad at the resellers and stuff, go network more, go meet more people, go get into communities, go do those things to take the next step to get your collection to that next level if that's what you want to do.  That would be great. But at the same time, would that even make collecting sneakers fun? I feel like the hunt of sneakers is fun at the same time. Yeah, when the reseller's high and you're like, oh man, I got that good deal on it, I was able to hit it for retail. That feeling is really good. And then you're going to have the other people's like, well, I never hit, I'll always take L's. Yeah, but also again, you need to be networking and doing other things and trying other avenues and entering more raffles. And all the other things that we talk about on the channel, you know we talk about all this stuff on the channel.  Like everybody can play devil's advocate and we can all do the whoop-do-whoop and go back and forth and blame somebody else and point the figures and everything out. And everybody can hate on both sides and everything. I see both sides. And I understand both sides is very interesting, especially from my perspective, because I used to resell a lot of sneakers to help build my collection. Don't worry about it, I was selling shoes was so I could buy more shoes. I was have shoes, I clean them up, I'd wear them, I make a profit off of them, I resell those, buy another shoe, get that one out of it and then save up and trade them for a grill and you know, be in a sneaker head. Like that's what I was doing. So for me over the years, I've seen those things and speaking of the current times now, you got shoes sitting on shelves right now and I think it's completely fine. We remember this happened about five or seven years ago, 2015, 2014, some time around then. Jordan Brand was making a lot of terrible releases and people just didn't really want the stuff. We remember those times, the 2015 through 2017 era of things just sitting on shelves and people looking at those old images and saying, oh the good old days are back and da-da-da. And that's the prime example right there, right? So even from a reseller standpoint, I'm sure a lot of people have invested money into this stuff and they're down bad and I completely feel for you. At the same time, we gotta know, like are we overspending on shoes or are we just buying because we're happy to do it and all these different things? Like we need to be aware of those things. So if you are a reseller in the game and you are doing those things, you gotta treat this like a business and make wise business decisions and not just buy into the hype and buy all the things because you think you know it's gonna work. Like you need to find out that this is proven going to work. I'm going to have success with this item. You don't have to always be selling the same thing that everybody else is selling to make money. People always think about that and they're like, ah, bro, I gotta be flipping this because someone's so flipping that and he's a bigger reseller. But they forget. They're connected with more people and built that network and done those things to be able to get shoes at a better price, to be able to sell it, make a bigger profit to then go out and buy more shoes. Again, see what I'm saying? There's a lot of levels and tiers to it. A lot of people want to blame each other and all this different stuff. I'm just kind of all over the place with this. I'm just again, speaking my mind, it's just crazy to see this game. People have been asking me to make a video about this topic and I was gonna like ride it all out and do stuff. And I was like, you know, we're just gonna talk kicks and just experiences and everything that's happened over the years and different stuff like that. So before, about five, seven years ago, we saw this happen. It's happening again now. And I remember it happened again, it happened before that. And honestly, the game was nowhere near as big as it is now, you know, 10 or 15 years ago. So that alone, but you know, it's just like the stock market.  Oh, you can't compare this to real estate. Well, I have a stock portfolio and I have a real estate portfolio and I have a sneaker portfolio. So for me, I think it's all in, again, same. Economics is economics and business is business and money is money and people make money when it comes to the shoe game. So for me, I think they're all great comparisons. The stock market is taking a dip. The shoe game is taking a dip. Everything's taking a dip right now. You gotta understand, everything is happening right now to everybody. Everybody's feeling it in some type of way. So one thing that is great for right now in this current time is buy the shoes that you like. Yes, but shoes like the Fire Red Threes and classic OG colorways, the Playoff 12s came out. Different stuff like that, the carbines are sitting for the low. Different shoes like that, when you start thinking about those sneakers, those are classic iconic models. And what does that mean? They're never gonna go out of style. They have so much history and nostalgia behind Jordan himself. Yes, there's other Jordans and other colorways and different things, but if you always look at the history of the OG colorways, for each and every model, they are always successful over time. When they retro, they go up. Next thing you know, it's a $400 shoe, $300 something shoe, and the prices continue to rise. As inflation goes up over time, da-da-da, whoop-doop, next thing you know, the new threshold is a $600 shoe. Who knows what it may be on the next rise of sneaker wizardry and all the things that are going on in the shoe game right now. But to get what I'm saying is, if you are right now and you wanna invest into shoes and all that stuff, why is decision, which I would recommend, in something that I have done in the past, I don't really need to do it now because I'm not really into reselling shoes. I'll just be collecting stuff. Now I really, yeah, that, I'm past, it's just too much work. But either way, when it comes to that, get the classics, get the Fire Red Threes, pile up on the ones that you love because you can rock them. They're gonna be aware of something later. You can't go wrong with it. They got nice materials. They have a lot of nostalgia. And there's a lot more backing that type of sneaker than an alternate colorway of that same model. So there's a lot of different things to think about like that. I don't know, hopefully this was just kinda helpful for you guys to just go ham in the comment section. And I'm sure there's something in here that I said that is gonna trigger somebody.  And they're gonna all, well, no, I do have, I get it, I understand. Like everybody is up on end right now. And then there's a lot of other people that are very happy right now because they're able to go find sneakers for good deals. And you know, there's just, it's a very interesting time. I've seen this time before a couple of different times. Yeezy, there's a lot of stuff going on with his brand right now and his shoes. And is that the end of it? And what are we gonna see from there next? And all his shoes are going down in value. There's a lot of different stuff going on, not only with Nike's and Jordan's. Y'all know I love talking about Nike's and Jordan's the most, but the shoe game itself is very interesting. Oh, and that's one other thing. For the people that did still make it to the end of this video, because you know, people don't make it all the way to the end. We get some people that click out at some point. But I always talk to people about this. I say, people say the shoe game is dead right now. They say the shoe game is over. They say the prices are down. Everything is terrible. Then why is it that the reverse Mocha Travis Scots are still hitting for $1,500 and they just came out? Why is it that the green off-white Air Force ones are still going for two bands right now and they just came out today? You know what I'm saying? You gotta think about all those things. I understand, oh yeah, they're limited and all the other stuff. Well, if the shoe game was dead and everything was down and everything was plummeted, wouldn't those be at least like maybe like a five or $600 shoe?  And at the end of the day, a grill is a grill. You're gonna like what you like and it's gonna continue to rise in value. A classic PE is a classic PE.  No matter if you like it or not, it's just what it's gonna be. So if you wanna be in the shoe game and it's a part of it and you understand, this is an expensive game and if you wanna collect cars and you wanna collect watches, you wanna collect anything that has a monetary value, any material item in life, typically, vast majority of things, this is what it is. It's an expensive hobby, it's an expensive lifestyle but if you're strategic about it and turn your hobby into a hustle, then you can understand and know the game and then you know what to purchase and then if you sit on the right items, now you can take those sneakers and you can use those as assets to then use to leverage, to purchase properties and different things like that.  You know what I'm saying? That's just, I mean, we can talk about that stuff. If you guys wanna follow my other YouTube channel, DJ Willingham, I talk more about real estate on that channel but that's how I got into real estate. I got a few properties under my belt. I know a couple of things when it comes to that stuff, short-term rentals, you name it, all the different stuff as well. So again, that's a whole other topic but yes, the shoe game is very interesting right now. I'm happy because as a collector who spends a bunch of money on all the different stuff on sneakers, it's a great time. I can get a lot of shoes for a really good price.   You know, they got the Air Jordan 2 agenda right now and they're pushing energy behind it. So Jordan brand Nike, like they're always gonna have that agenda for us in the future and for the people that are wise and see what the year is like Air Jordan 7 is gonna be, you know, that transition of this year and next year and then we see the Travis Scott announcement and stuff. So they put energy behind certain models and that kind of drives the prices. So as you learn the trends and understand the game when it comes to that aspect, that's where you know, hey, I can still make money in this downtime. Just like same thing, stock market is going down. People are still making money every single day when stocks are going down in price.   Like stocks go down, people make money. So you can make money at any point in the game whether it's up or down, but just be careful. And at the end of the day, most importantly, just buy what you like. Like just buy what you like, bro. That's it. Like because you won't be worried about it. You will not be worried about it. You'll be happy with what you got. Even if you overpaid 50 bucks or 100 bucks or 200 bucks right now and then the price goes back up later, it don't matter. Cause the shoe was gonna be in your collection either way. If I've been collecting for 15 years, I got shoes that I've been have from high school. They're still in my collection. I don't care if the value is high or not because they're for my collection. Now if I wanna use them as an asset, yes, that's great. Again, another strategy thing, but at the same time, they're for the collection. So I feel like I've repeated myself a couple of times. I don't know. I'm just talking again, like I said before, there's no script, there's no rhythm, there's no rhyme. I appreciate you guys as always. Let me know what you guys think about the shoe game right now and how you guys are feeling with what you're purchasing and what you're holding off on. If you plan on spending money or not, all those different things, I'd love to hear it down below in the comment section. See you guys in the other one. All right, y'all, I'm out. 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Hi, and welcome to me on five with Derry Relic today's inaugural show is Mrs. Maine and Miss Maine for America at the my house in the backyard with two people and another dear friend that I am so proud to have on my show we have Mrs. Maine for 2020 and Miss Maine for America 2020 and the woman who made it all possible Debra Ponevost I'm gonna start off with you Deb this is like the third or fourth time we've been together pleasure a pleasure's mind because you asked me to judge this pageant last year one of the bucket list moments of life I also judge the Miss Maine USA pageant 20 years ago I called all my best friends in high school I go you're not gonna believe what I'm doing now and I feel the same way to have you back on the show congratulations Debra first of all tell us the difficulty of doing this show with a COVID thing going on how difficult was it so COVID-19 definitely created a few hurdles for us this past year we moved our pageant twice because you know the first one was just simply because it was just so new we didn't know what we were dealing with in April and then we moved it to June and in June it was when Governor Mills allowed us to go back in with 50 an audience of 50 or less however when I spoke with the hotel even though they were trying to do the best they could do I just felt they also didn't have the sort of precautions ready and it just was so new that I was afraid to risk certainly the contestants our volunteers and I didn't want to be someone who was responsible to you know we do so many things to raise great things for the community that I was certainly didn't want to be a hypocrite and then bring back something to the community that potentially was you know definitely was deadly so we you know I moved it again to September so I partnered with the CDC and through them and coming up with some safety protocols we really had a pretty safe pageant and Debra as we know from reading the papers those who held large events that ended up in massive outbreaks you definitely wouldn't want the Mrs. Main pageant cause so I want to start off with Mrs. Main if you don't mind and talk to you you where do you work so I work for Colby College in Waterville Maine so I've been fortunate because we are taking an aggressive approach towards COVID-19 and as our students are all back on campus but since the second week in August we are tested either two to three times a week all staff all faculty all students so I am being tested for COVID-19 two times a week two times a week two times a week every Tuesday and Thursday and that is because I am on campus two days a week if I was on campus any more than that it would be three times a week I also have an app that I have to go to daily and report any symptoms so I feel very fortunate where I'm employed because they are doing an excellent job and making sure that we're containing it but providing a safe place for our students to actually experience a liberal arts education and Megan what is your what is your your capacity at Colby so I am an associate director of alumni relations and director of 25th reunion now I need to share this two moments two friends first of all my grandson is a freshman at Colby just entered from Scarborough after hitting the state champion home run I'm always going to put that in he was going to go to Bowdoin but ended up at Colby and another dear friend Richard Whitmore a well-known name at Colby perhaps the winningest coach in basketball history in Maine he's called his coach Dick Whitmore was a fraternity brother of mine at Bowdoin he has a nice store in Scarborough and so I have a lot of Colby connections and the Bowdoin Colby rivalry was one of the most fun to deal with and now we're going to go to Miss Maine for America Nicole and Nicole this was the second time you've done this pageant yes it is and the first time was when I judged I remembered you when you showed up and where do you work Nicole so I work as a dean of students in Minot so it's an elementary school Minot consolidated school and you're the what the dean of students so first of all I got the dean of students I got Colby college I didn't have to and so one of the things I want to talk to you folks about is two musical icons passed away this week one was Mac Davis who I had the pleasure of meeting with Priscilla Presley five years ago lovely man wonderful man and also the icon Helen Reddy who did the song I am woman and I saw her sing that the other night on the news and can we agree I'll start off with you first Megan can we agree that that song became the forerunner for the women's movement when she says I am strong I am invincible isn't that pretty much what this pageant's all about absolutely could not agree more so like Nicole this was not my first year competing in the pageant I competed in previous years and the reason why I came back is because of what we're able to do with the community and the strength that you feel when you're around other women I think strong empowered women lift each other up they don't tear each other down and that is what this program is about and I just feel extremely honored to be able to now represent it as Mrs. Maine America 2020 well I want to say congratulations to you because I have to say I've been a pageant person all my life my cousin was Mrs. Maine quite a few years before Deb was and my niece was the first one up in the Miss American pageant I have loved these ever since I was a boy and it was a dream come true to have relatives in the family and to watch my niece on the Miss America stage so uh Nicole you're going to Vegas I am going to Vegas when's that going to be so it's going to be in January at the end of January the end of January yeah and so they think Vegas has opened up enough so you folks can go up there we're hoping so yeah yeah we'll get more details as it gets closer of course but right now we're crossing our fingers and hoping it all works out so did you go to Vegas to Deb when I won Mrs. Maine we actually went to Palm Springs oh it went to Palm Springs yes my cousin Jill went to Vegas and appeared at the same hotel that Elvis Presley had appeared at and and I'll tell you something when you go to Vegas and you're going in an official capacity and you're walking around with your pageant stuff and your your sashes you are going to be so popular they're going to have so many foil opportunities I mean first you know you're going to get hit on right you know that's going to happen her husband's like six nine so they might not want to so let me think your husband is a body guy my husband's a hockey player so my husband's a hockey player oh my god where did he play hockey so he went he graduated from St. Donne's High School sure hockey school and then he went to college he got a full scholarship for hockey and then he was actually signed out of college and played in the EJHL I am not a hockey person prior to meeting my husband so I could be giving you completely incorrect information and it was prior to me meeting him but he played in Pensacola Florida he played in Salt Lake City Utah he also played in Charleston South Carolina but he and eventually decided he wanted to come back to Maine settle down in Maine and raise his family in Maine and now he owns two hockey organizations yeah so he owns Maine Moose Hockey which has kids all the way from age eight all the way up to 18 and then he also has a junior hockey team which plays out of Auburn called Twin City Thunder I have a three-year-old daughter and a 16-month-old son I think the three-year-old girl is in a really hard way so my three-year-old daughter definitely we just bought her her first pair of skates no way for Christmas I still be a hockey player when hockey season was over to give her some ice time but obviously COVID hit and they decided to remove the ice from the rink for safety precaution so I'm sure this winter she will be making her way on the ice some of my very best friends from Bowdoin and hockey players Doug Brown who was actually from Waterville of orthopedic associates he was a hockey captain dear friend of mine and I've always been impressed with hockey players my friends at Bowdoin said do you want to play I went out and played one fraternity game and said you guys are going to be crazy and Nicole athletics and your family at all absolutely so my family is a big athlete so my uncle actually originally thought he was going to be an Olympic skier and then went into acting so it didn't work out for him but um and then I played I was an athlete my whole life I actually field hockey it's not quite ice but I did feel I never I never understood like being able to hit the ball on both sides because I'm field hockey it's just one so her basketball her uncle's a pretty small time actor though and who would that be Patrick Dempsey get that stop the interview oh my your uncle was Patrick Dempsey with Dr. Dreamy's yeah you have gotta be so oh my goodness yeah you know Nicole yeah I gotta tell you something I'm very impressed with yeah you definitely didn't drop that name on me in the interview last year thank you so much for mentioning it he is a wonderful person he is it's a wonderful family yes his her mom Mary Mary Dempsey has done a tremendous amount of things certainly for that and so he related to how he's your he's my mother's brother your mother's brother yeah and and originally from where they're from Buckfield actually they are yes yep and they created the Patrick Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope and Healing and of course yes so the bike around me you got it yeah the Dempsey challenge we just had it last weekend but it was virtual due to COVID oh did you do it did you participate I did not participate this year but typically I run and sometimes I cycle it just depends but typically I do the 5k well you know I'm gonna be interested in bringing you in my house and showing the autographs of the famous people but I know what I gotta tell you Patrick Dempsey is pretty much the top of the food chain in terms of TV acting is he I don't know no no without without question a wonderful man Deb getting back to the pageant uh when they go to Vegas how many days will that be so they're going to be there the 22nd to the 29th really they'll fly out a day earlier just because it's in January a little nervous about the weather so I figured it would be safer to get them out a day early and then they'll come back you know the day after the show so okay and they'll stay at one hotel the Westgate okay the Westgate oh my nice hotel because there's no back and they actually will visit the Elvis Presley suite that he he had the whole time when he was right by the way my last dairy runlet show two of them which Josh did for me was all about Elvis and my knowing Priscilla Presley and my knowing I interviewed Sandy Martindale Elvis's ex-girlfriend who was in several movies with him I did a live interview with Josh taping it I call I actually called her in California she answered the phone and we chatted for about 10 minutes so Elvis Presley by the way is still in Vegas but he's still there yeah it's amazing when people say well they people forgot about Elvis not in Vegas so when you're out there tell him I said hi because you'll see him about 50 times before we close I just want to say to each of you how proud I am to be associated with this show and how proud I am to have you be the first guest on my new show on channel five which is called me period on five me on five and I want to thank you so much for coming and so now we're going to head to the park for our lobster roll segment and I'm going to tell you this is going to be over the top no one has ever talked more about a lobster roll than I'm about to do today so we'll head over to the park yeah me too okay well folks that concludes the first segment of this show with my two queens and Deborah Pronevost and then we're going to go over to the park and I want to teach you folks how to do the perfect main lobster roll so we'll be back after when we go to the park okay so we're at Fort Williams which is where my father was stationed about 60 years ago and in the 40s and we're going to do the preparation of a lobster roll now the first thing you have to remember is cooking the lobster itself when you cook the lobster make sure you take the rubber bands off when you go to restaurants these days you'll notice they don't take the bands off because it takes them too much time but I want to tell you that if you don't take the bands off the taste of the rubber gets into the claw meat especially on soft shell lobsters now somebody might debate me on that but my daughter who was a chemical engineer told me what happens in the breakdown of the chemicals so first thing is take the bands off before you cook the lobsters also make sure you get fresh lobsters the fresher the lobster the better and make sure you cook them the right amount of time not too long not too short and when you get done with the lobsters let them sit and when you pick out the lobster meat make sure you dry it with a paper towel you don't want slimy lobster meat going into your lobster roll so ladies we're going to start off with we've picked the lobster and you got your gloves on and so the first thing we're going to do is is to chop the lobster now most of this has already been chopped but you want to chop it in pieces that are bite-sized for example these right here these this is a little too large right here so you want to make sure that they're in bite-sized pieces why do you want to do that because when you buy a lobster roll at some places and you take a piece of the lobster and you eat the lobster and you pull out you pull out some big giant piece and all you've got is a half a lobster roll left with no lobster in it just a bread so the pieces want to be bite-sized then we mix in the special mayonnaise ingredients and I use a an ingredient of two-thirds mayonnaise one-third miracle whip yes two-thirds mayonnaise one-third miracle whip and nothing else now there's something else that I put in the lobster roll which you can deny or say you'd rather not have it and this would be tamale this is the liver of the lobster I put in just a tiny bit of tamale which enhances the flavor of the lobsters okay okay and I also put in where you can either have lettuce on your lobster roll it's going to be crisp lettuce I'm going to tell you folks when you go to a restaurant and they serve you a lobster roll with some stringy piece of lettuce in there a wilted piece of lettuce what good is it it's no good you have to put fresh lettuce and crisp lettuce in your lobster roll but what I prefer instead of lettuce is celery which we have brought here today and the reason why we use celery is because as you know when you go to a pizza place they have celery salt you get a hot dog celery salt so we use a celery when you bite those celery chunks the celery bursts upon your palate and explodes both the lobster taste the lobster taste and and the celery into your lobster roll I had to do the palate thing and last but not least a few scallions in the sauce makes for the perfect lobster roll now this one I'm going to touch this one because you folks will not be touching it one of the things you have to know about a lobster roll is number one this tamale here but there is a lot of wonderful meat in the lobster in this area here in between here these these places right here where the legs out there is there is a lot of meat especially on big lobsters and this meat is very sweet and it goes very well in lobster roll it takes a lot of time to pick it out but it's worth it trust me restaurants do not pick out this part of the lobster and these are also pretty good if you can split them up so the meat actually comes out didn't in this one they actually go well in these things because it's very sweet meat that will go inside this particular lobster roll okay so with that folks I'm going to instruct these young ladies on how to prepare this lobster roll and cut the things up and so we'll we'll take a break and and get into that part of it one other thing about lobsters folks and that is these things right here these things you find on the end of every every lobster and I'm going to tell you something folks there's not much flavor in these and they have a rubber consistency therefore when I have these I cut these in very very small pieces you can still use them but don't put them in the lobster like this because it's like eating a piece of rubber and if you go in and order a lobster roll from somebody and they serve you a lobster roll with a lot of these well you're going to know that's a problem the other thing is this it's different about my lobster rolls most of the lobster rolls that are sold around the portland area do not have tail meat they do mostly claw and knuckle but I'm going to tell you something the tail meat is very flavorful and if you cut it in small pieces as Deb's doing then you you'll find that the tail meat is excellent meat to have in a lobster okay okay last but not least folks we've got a little bit of these scallions in here there are a few of these scallions and they'll separate the flavor there and the celery little celery pieces oh perfect oh who did the celery here oh so well it's it's so well it's so well done i'm gonna add it to my resume yeah okay when you mix this all around there you go delicious and for those of you that want lettuce uh Deb I'll let you take the lettuce and cut it in little pieces if you want put it on a plate uh lobster roll uh feast has to end with whoopie pies and we have whoopie pies for you folks here take off a label and we have these delicious whoopie pies available for all of you what do you think I thought they'd be a little bigger and maybe dipped in chocolate but they look not bad well okay Deb but you could have one anyway if you don't mind I take that one out so folks that we end the meal with this little gadget that I bought in Grand Junction Colorado and you need this at the end of every lobster roll lunch this little character is a toothpick dispenser okay so I'll have you all you don't have to do this on camera okay but you will need these toothpicks of course because the lobster chunks end up someplace where they shouldn't be so this little character here I love this little guy bought him in Grand Junction and you can use him after we close this segment but I want to say to both of you Megan I have this gift certificate I'm going to give you to take to Vegas and I think you'll enjoy it and I just want to ask you so how'd you like the lobster roll I thought it was all right it was pretty good I'm a tough critic I grew up in Down East Maine so I've had a lot of lobster rolls in my life well I mean like do you have any like specific criticisms of it or just a you just I mean I'm not really a celery person so I think the celery might have just taken it down a notch oh really well thanks for that tepid review so Nicole I also have this gift certificate for you for Vegas and hope you'll enjoy it and and how did you like the lobster roll well first how much is the gift card for oh well it's enough to have a nice lunch in Vegas not dinner maybe but a nice nice lunch okay so maybe like 30 dollars 40 dollars no no Nicole it's like three figures it's three figures oh okay so like a hundred dollars well yeah it's a hundred dollars yeah I mean it's not six ninety nine but it's a hundred okay okay all right perfect that's great thanks dairy and how about the lobster roll what was that it was it was good it was okay yeah right okay well just let me tell you folks something okay if you don't mind sure there are not thousands but millions millions of people all around the world love my lobster rolls I'm telling you something I have people writing to me from Zimbabwe from France from Norway asking for my lobster roll recipe and when people walk around this park they come up to me they go I chew the guy that does those famous lobster rolls and I say yes I am that's right folks a little tribute to Donald Trump who by the way we found out has caught the virus and I want to close this show by sending my prayers my best wishes to the president to the first lady and his staff and I want to thank you folks so much for coming on me on five my inaugural show thank you so much thank you for having us


Welcome everybody, we're going to obviously talk about data management plans today and well I best introduce myself first, Katherine Unsworth, data librarian at ANS out of Melbourne. Okay so the next slide is the three circles that ANS has in relation to research data assets, making research data assets more valuable for researchers, research institutions in the nation and we do that through our trusted partnerships with various communities related to research also in terms of our reliable services such as research data Australia, the research vocab services as well, the DIY minting services and also in terms of enhancing capability, so building capability within the research base around data management and as part of this webinar is part of that building data management capability for our Australian institutions and obviously research data management plans are a key element in this. So we've got three presenters today, oh well yes we do, myself in Melbourne, Natasha in Brisbane and we've also got a mixed mail from the University of Melbourne who is going to redo his talk that he did at the e-research DMP BOF. Now I'm not able to show the slide of the DMP ANS web page and on that page there are a number of tiles with various topics that fall within that data management plans and you can click out to those and get a lot more information on that there. So moving on obviously today's topic is about research data management and I'd sort of spoken initially about how we've sort of organised it previously but due to the numbers which is quite exciting that there's so many people really interested in this topic we've decided to break it up into three parts. So we'll have talks for one from Natasha on giving us an overview of DMPs and an intro to second generation DMPs, DMP birds of a feather recap that we did at e-research Australasia and Nick will sort of slot into that particular talk as well and he'll talk about DMPs at University of Melbourne and also sort of highlight some case studies that we've put together or used cases actually not case studies. And then it'll be open mic time and that's when we'll be expecting all of you guys to come in and provide some comment and talk about the issues that you are having in your own institutions, what you're doing in your institutions in terms of DMPs and the challenges and any exciting news around that space as well would be really welcome and then from there we'll do, we want to talk about the possibility and the interest of actually initiating a DMP community of practice so we'll get to that at the end of our talk. But again, just a reminder, tweet, hashtag and starter questions to put in the question pod so I'll just throw over to Natasha for her talk. Okay, yeah so we are really delighted to have a lot of people attending this webinar and I just wanted to say a special welcome to the people attending from Aaliyah Information Online in Sydney and special thanks to Liz Stokes, ETS Library and also to the Aaliyah Executive for helping to make that happen. They've got a special room there where they're tuning in so that's really exciting. But I think when Catherine and I looked at the registration list we realised that there's a really large variety of backgrounds represented in the people attending this webinar so I'm just going to do a very short overview of DMPs and DMP tools and then look at some of the characteristics of DMP version 2.0. So what's a research data management plan? Well it's a formal document that describes how data will be collected, organised, described, shared and preserved through the course of a research project and beyond. Data management plans are structured to provide needed information about the kinds of data collected, the formats, descriptions, how long the data will be retained, in what manner the data will be disseminated and how data will be preserved over the long term. If you want to learn more about data management plans I've put in the website sorry, the link to the ANN's website which includes a guide on data management plans. And also if you haven't already you can actually undertake more of a look at data management planning tools and so forth through thing 15 of the ANN's 23 Research Data Things Program and I've put the link in there. So thing 15 actually has sparked quite a lot of interesting reflections and discussions both in person and on the online meetup boards and I'm hoping that some of the people who contributed to that discussion will share their thoughts at this webinar today. Why do we have data management plans or why do we need them? There's a carrot and the carrot is that well organised and structured data and that's what you have to do when you write a data management plan. It's easier to access, analyse, store securely, describe fully and share publicly at the end of a project or even during a project. The stick is that data management planning is actually required by the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research and some founders, particularly international funders such as National Science Foundation, mandate the completion of data management plans. There are also institutional reasons for data management plans. One of them is so that institutions can keep a registry of who at their institution has got funds for collecting data and therefore that will help them if people fill out a data management plan on how they can actually plan their resources at their institution to match the needs as reflected in the DMPs. Also to reduce risk associated with unorganised data collection so basically if someone at an institution is asked to verify the results of their findings they need to be able to produce the data and having a data management plan does help researchers to think about that process and to plan for that eventuality. There are also institutions are thinking of ways to have added incentives to researchers for filling out data management plans and the University of Colorado at Boulder had a DMP competition in 2015 and they put up the winners on the website there and they've actually got a variety of disciplines represented in the winners of that DMP competition so it's worth having a look at that. Also at Curtin University data management plans are mandated for researchers if you're an HDR student if you required human or animal research ethics approval and if you want access to data storage at Curtin. There's a range of DMP tools available but probably DMP online by the Digital Curation Centre in the UK is probably the most popular and the most used by institutions worldwide but there are others and I'm not attempting to make any sort of list here but I'm just mentioning QSEF which is the Queensland Cyber Infrastructure Foundation has a platform called Redbox which is used by a number of Australian universities and includes a DMP module. So at International Data Week in the USA in September last year there was some interesting discussions about moving to the next generation of DMP tools just nicknamed DMP version 2.0 and this picture shows them an afternoon tea that was put on at one of the IDW events and basically you take your apples and you dip them in the peanut butter and it's surprisingly delicious and by the way this is the only time you will see apples and peanut butter on an end slide but for me there's an allergy here to make and that is that apples represent the first version of data management planning tools and when you dip them in the peanut butter you get version 2.0. So explaining in a little bit more detail, the apples or first version of DMP tools are basically just a PDF or Word document, something that's not connected to any other system at the university. They're sort of just stand alone fill out this form type things. You complete them at the start of a research project and then that's it. You walk away, you've done your DMP now. The outcome of is not measured so we don't know if a researcher did what they said they were going to do in their data management plan. The DMPs are not machine readable mainly because they're just in that PDF or Word document and they're also private so it's only researchers and the institutions who can actually see the data and the DMPs they're not shared. So there's some questions around the effectiveness of that. Do they just prove that researchers can fill out a form or do they prove that researchers are actually thinking about what to do with their data? Is it a way of prompting them to consider things that they wouldn't have considered if they didn't fill out the data management plan and there's no follow-up again on whether you did what you said you would do. Okay so you get the apples and you add the peanut butter and you get DMP version 2.0 and the idea of this is some work being done for a project called EAGA, E-A-G-E-R which is led by Victoria Stodden and funded by the National Science Foundation and I've put a link to her talk at the bottom of the slide there and in that date she is looking at the next generation of data management planning tools and some of the characteristics of the 2.0 versions are that they are public documents. Now there's actually some debate around whether DMP should be public or not and it's sort of well they should be public the arguments for being public are so that people are accountable with what they say they're going to do, the arguments against them are along the lines of all that then people can simply copy one of the public ones and make that their own. DMP's version 2.0 are also something that's measurable so did you do what you said you were going to do in your data management plan. They're ones which are connected to at least one system plans which are also machine readable and the richness in that is that you can mine information from them so institutions will be able to get some information by using the machine readable access to find out what their researchers are going to do with their data and therefore put resources into supporting that end basically. Also that the data that's described in the DMP's is consistent with the fair principles, findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable and also the concept that DMP's are a flexible living document. You don't just create them once at the start, you're going to through the course of your research project and actually re-fix some of the things that you thought at the start and therefore you go back to the data management planning tools, they all have decided to store my data here and not there. So this idea of machine readable DMP's and the EGAR project was actually something raised by Chris Erdman from North Carolina State Universities at the eResearch Australasia Birds of the Feather session. So I'm going to hand over now to Catherine who's going to talk to you a bit more about that. We called the BOF, DMP's Aligning Use to Motivations and Intended Outcomes and part of the abstract was to sort of look at what the mechanisms for research is to state their intentions on how they would manage their data across the life cycle were and we looked at, well we were hoping to have a look at the agents and motivations and how they are different and there was a number of use cases that we came up with to examine in the area which Nick will talk about a little later on. But we were looking at the multiple agents of funding bodies and to encourage data sharing. But the main thing here is to look at the questions here in terms of why implement a DMP tool, does DMP use align with an agent's motivations and more importantly with intended outcomes, what are the expected outcomes and enterprise level DMP tools, one size fits all, what is their place in the landscape and is best practice for research as an aim or a hope for byproduct. The first speaker that we had up was as Natasha mentioned, Chris Erdman who's the Chief Strategist for Research Collaboration at North Carolina State University and he first of all talked about the services at North Carolina and there's an article that this DMP service written by Cross and Davis around what they're doing at North Carolina State University and at the moment it's probably a really useful article to read but they're offering a DMP review service so their librarians actually help researchers review their DMPs. He also went on to talk about the future around machine readable DMPs which Natasha has already talked about and the EGAR project which is basically you know this is really allowing funders to identify trends in data and software submission repository use patterns and carry out other analyses that consist in understanding community use patterns and needs and that's also you know if you take it from an institutional perspective something that's quite interesting for institutions to have that kind of information too. He also as Natasha has also spoke about actually publishing DMPs so that they are more transparent and accountable and he gives an example here of the DMP for more data-driven discovery in its data discovery grant and also part of his talk was about public access plans as not opposed to DMP plans but just a different approach to how we would accumulate the sort of information that we need from what researchers are doing within their projects and the creation of data. So our second specter was Sue Cook from Syro and I've just put up her goals slide helping the research group to reach, document and communicate data management decisions and so obviously whenever we're talking to researchers we talk about it being a live document we're also very interested in the interoperability between systems so being able to push metadata from existing, well pull metadata from existing systems and then pull that metadata to other systems as well and Sue talked about guided questions which you know is basically sort of scaffolding the process of filling out a research data management plan for researchers providing them with some guidance as they go. Also minimum mandatory questions and also conditional questions where if you answer this question then you need to answer the next five questions or you don't have to answer the next five questions and she also spoke about researcher driven and so their engagement with researchers was quite strong in the work that they're doing with implementing and developing their DMPs and she was talking about future aspirations so they're not there yet with the full integration into organisation project proposal and planning systems and also about metadata cascade which is a term that came up at UQ evidently through all data management ecosystems and so metadata being reused for the data repository, metadata reused for storage, provisioning requests and so on and also she spoke about machine actionable which is obviously a pretty hot topic around DMPs and persistent URLs and then we had Libby Blanchard from Central Queensland University who, the central tenant I think of her talk was around the working party and the fact that the working party had representatives from the library, from IT, from the research office e-research and also risk management and ethics as well so it was quite a broad working party and they're basically looking through all of the issues around in terms of implementation which tool do they choose to start with and how they actually then link that to policy and procedures so they have a policy in place at the moment that actually mandates the completion of DMPs and then in terms of policy and procedures socializing that across the university the complexity that that involves and the work that that involves as well then looking at the actual way they would present the DMP in terms of user experience and all of that sort of stuff and then of course the big ticket item is the systems integration which is still a ways off for them obviously and they're very much at the beginnings of this process. So now I'll pass over to Nick to talk about what's happening at the university of Melbourne. Fantastic, great to be here. I was just going to talk a little bit about the University of Melbourne DMP and the process we went through in making the new DMP. I should just start off by saying that Peter Neesha is really leading this effort at the university but I'm just here putting my own views to get forward. So the University of Melbourne developed DMP in 2011 and briefly it contained two forms, two separate forms that researchers had to look at. About 90 separate questions that researchers had to fill in. The DMP template alone had three and a half thousand words in it that you had to read. There was a 12,000 word 40 page guidance document called Procedures and Guidelines for the management of research data and records that you were supposed to read to complete this document. It was also according to policy mandatory although there's very little evidence of any researchers actually doing it of their own free will. And it's also had no definite stated purpose. Just vague words data management. Nothing really very all that specific. So I sort of think of this and it's a word that's been used a little bit as being a monster DMP. It's just huge and it made no inroads into the research community at all. Wasn't actually used. Why is it there? Why do we have why are we spending bandwidth on it? So 2016 there was the idea let's make a new DMP. I'm not going to tell you too much about that new DMP. Still sort of in development. I'm going to tell you two things and firstly all of those numbers in the left hand columns they're much smaller in the right hand columns now. We certainly are asking researchers to complete 90 separate questions or read two separate forms. And the other thing I'm going to say is that when we first started working on this we really thought about what are the reasons why you'd want a DMP. What is the purpose of this DMP? And all these different reasons why you might want researchers to do DMPs should theoretically produce DMP templates that actually look quite different. So we thought well we want to make a good DMP template. What is a good DMP template versus a bad DMP template? But there's just very little researchers gone into this. No one's really said this is what a good DMP template should look like. This is what a bad DMP template looks like. And in fact the problems are a little bit worse than that. And I'll put it this way and I made the same offer at a research some of you might remember. I'll give $50 to anyone who can show me any non anecdotal and systematic evidence that DMPs have any benefits for anybody. And that's a pretty, I think someone, there must be some evidence out there somewhere but I haven't been able to find it. I know Catherine's not been able to find it. So if anyone has that evidence please come forward and I'll happily give you $50. It's a one day only offer though. So don't go out and get on our and start doing all sorts of stats right now because that doesn't count. So there are many different reasons why you might want to have a DMP. And I guess we really sort of drilled down and we thought what's the reason why the University of Melbourne wants to have a DMP for researchers. And I guess the reason we came up with is that we want to help them with their own project management to do a good job. There are also some secondary benefits around collecting that data and using it to help plan out how much space we need to procure for our systems and all that sort of thing. There are other benefits but the real main driver is that we want to benefit individual researchers who are doing it. So Catherine and I have sort of thought through what are the different use cases of why we would want to have DMPs mandated. And secondly how do you and you should, how do you measure the outcomes of whether those use cases are actually working for you. And so we've sort of got four together here to add your own or help us or refine these but the first one I'll just briefly go through these. We think that one of the reasons is that funding bodies in particular really want researchers to complete DMPs because they think that that will encourage researchers to share their managed, share their data and that increases the return on that public investment in that research data. And if that's the case then we should be measuring that. We should be saying researchers who do DMPs are sharing more data. Someone should have done that analysis and as far as I can tell no one's really done that and maybe one person has and they really found that actually researchers aren't more likely to share their data and that was a US study and it was quite small. Another one is institutions might require researchers to complete DMPs to create changes in research behavior and culture and use it as an educative tool. So the measure there would be researchers who do DMPs are more efficient and productive, produce more papers in a set period of time. That should be a pretty simple analysis to do, still hasn't been done all that much. Another one is institutions require researchers to complete DMPs to basically use it as a business intelligence tool. Use it to plan out the acquisition of data and other resources and look at what data sharing platforms should be invested in and the measurable outcome there would be actual the use of that information in decision making by the institution. And I know there are a few institutions that have sort of started to do that and it would be really great to see how that's going. And the final major use case is that and this is perhaps the original use case that really that DMPs were invented for in the 1970s and that some researchers using DMPs as part of their routine project management design and planning. So it's researchers going out creating a DMP and using that to share with fellow researchers and share with others to help them understand what everyone's roles and responsibilities in collection and management of data are. So that would really be our projects that use those DMPs would be more efficient and better capitalized. So I think that whenever talking about DMPs and the DMP with the apple and the peanut butter together I think what's really important and an extra idea to add there in my opinion is to really think about why do we want to make DMPs perhaps mandatory or why do we want researchers to use them and really think about what should that DMP look like depending on what that use case is. So that's all I have to say. Back to you Catherine. Thanks Nick. So during the BoF we did a live poll as well and asked a number of questions of our audience and it was probably only a small sample really in the end if we really thought about it but the first question was in the Australian context what do you see as the main motivations for institutions implementing DMPs and so we asked people to rank those and the first one not surprising and I think if you bear in mind the sorts of people that were in the audience would probably mostly be librarians, data managers e-research folk and not too many researchers that the funders and institutions demonstrating to government return on investment through requiring best practice in data management was going to be the top of the list and then in second came that the institutions can capture information about the generation of research data so the business intelligence tool use case and then of course coming in third not too far behind the institutions capturing information was the educative tool so you know funders and institutions wanting researchers behaviours to align better with best practice and using DMPs in that way and of course the fourth one was actually recognising the benefit researchers themselves recognising the benefit utilising DMPs as just a routine part of project management. Catherine I just have a question related to this from Gareth Denier who's asked how many participants in that survey I think it was around about 28 Gareth but some of the actual questions not everyone answered each of the polls but it was around about that size sample so not a lot and the next question was are we seeing changed RDI and behaviours in researchers as a result of DMPs and this is kind of a good one I think because 11% of that sample said yes, 17% no but as Nick was saying we just don't have any evidence to support whether DMPs are in fact translating into changed behaviours by researchers so 72% said basically not sure and I think really if we're going to get serious about DMPs and the benefits that they have for researchers in terms of efficiency and that translation into best practice then we really need to do some research in this area and find out just what's happening and then the next question was should Australian funders follow the lead of international agencies and mandate a requirement for DMPs as pointed with the result of this poll I have to say because 82% said yes to compliance and mandating DMPs by funders and institutions and I actually from a personal perspective believe that compliance actually changes a person's mindset and with researchers they will then just do the barest minimum that they have to because that's what they have to do and rather than looking at it in terms of a benefit to themselves and their own workflows and practices so I was and again but you need to bear in mind that the audience here basically from that administration point of view so it would make it easier for them as administrators if funders did follow the lead of international agencies and then the final question we didn't get to actually ask but would you be interested in your local DMP interest group that could fit into and connect with international initiatives we did ask it verbally that we didn't get a chance to actually poll people because we ran out of time and a few people came up and said that they would be interested in joining such a group and so that's one of the questions that we're going to have for you guys a little later on so just bear that in mind so I will wind up. Thank you Natasha for moving me along. Thanks everyone.


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