Most pre-made supermarket yogurts have additives like sugar and the cultures used in them tend to deteriorate over time, so often you don't even receive the full benefits of the probiotics contained within these yogurts due to the processing and handling along the way. If you do opt for a pre-made yogurt, look for one that only contains milk and probiotic cultures, nothing more, nothing less, as this means it's as natural as can be. Plus, you want to keep an eye out for the packaging labels that say active and love cultures, not just live, as this may mean they may not be able to provide all the benefits to your gut that healthy cultures can bring. In today's video, I'll show you step by step how to make this awesome sunflower seed yogurt or kaffir recipe. It's a great source of probiotics plus contains a good hit of protein and can be used for drinking, making smoothies, incorporated into recipes or culturing. So to begin with, you want to start by soaking the sunflower seeds, just make sure that they are shelled beforehand. You want to soak them for 8 hours in filtered water with a bit of salt. This will help to reduce levels of anti-nutrients such as phytic acid and enzyme inhibitors, which are naturally found in these seeds and can interfere with the body's ability to absorb nutrients. I do talk about this more in my soaking and sprouting seeds video, which I'll share in the link above. Now the sunflower seeds that I did sprout in my last video, I wasn't able to use in this one because I'd already dehydrated them, so I thought probably best not to go through another round of soaking, I didn't know how they'd turn out after that. So I just used a fresh batch of sunflower seeds that I had in my cupboard and soaked them. Whenever I'm finished with the plastic packaging on the nuts and seeds that I use, I always recycle it in my soft plastics recycling to then take to red cycle, which is a drop-off point for soft plastic recycling, where that gets recycled into new items. While the seeds were soaking, it was over the long Easter weekend, so I just went over to the Blue Mountains and did a few hikes over there, which was just absolutely incredible as you can see some of the hikes were just stunning. Having some waterfalls that incredible views looking out onto the mountains, it was just my place. I absolutely love it there, so beautiful. And it's a great way to kill time while you're waiting for the sunflower seeds to soak. So after the 8 hours of soaking, you can drain and rinse the sunflower seeds and then pop them into a blender. Add just enough water to cover them, again you want to use filtered water and blend until creamy. You can add more water if necessary to achieve the desired consistency that you're looking for. Then once it's finished blending, pour the sunflower seed milk into a glass jar and if you want to make it more of a thinner consistency, you can opt to strain it out using a nut milk bag. I like my yogurt like kefir thick, so I just left the pulp in with the milk. Then you want to cover the jar with a clean towel or cheesecloth. Let it sit in a warm place, not hot though, and leave for 24 hours or until it becomes thick and bubbly. If you don't have a warm place to keep it, wrap a towel around the container. Now it will ferment quicker if you live in a more warmer climate. You can leave it to ferment for longer than 24 hours if you desire a more tart tasting yogurt. So if you live in a more cooler climate, you may need to leave it for longer anyway. However, if you live somewhere quite warm, it may take less than 24 hours to ferment. So, the yogurt is finally ready. It's looking more like kefir rather than yogurt. You can tell me because all the liquid is at the bottom, whereas yogurt is sort of mixed throughout. But it is really thick. It's kind of like a cottage cheese consistency at the top. But yeah, it's finished. I'm so happy with it. So what I'm going to do now is add the rest of the ingredients in. So if you left it, you can leave it just like it is now, but it is very bland. Like I tried a little bit before, and it's not the most tastiest of things. It just tastes like blended up sunflower seeds. Like it's a very bland taste. So I'm going to add some things to it to make it taste just a little bit nicer. But if you do want to just skip this step and just feel free to just pop it in your fridge and you can store it there. And that would be pretty much how you make it. I'm going to add in the last few ingredients just to give it a bit more taste. So yeah, 20 hours later, still haven't found the cardamom. I don't know where it's gone in the cupboard. I think we've used it up. Sorry, don't mind any. So I'm just going to use some nutmeg today. But you want to opt for cardamom if you have some. I really don't know where ours is gone. So nutmeg's just going to have to do today. But all you want to do is grab a teaspoon of cardamom. Or you can stop in nutmeg or cinnamon. Or you can use a teaspoon of ground vanilla bean. But I'm just going to use some pure vanilla extract today. I don't have any vanilla bean with me. And then you want to grab some maple syrup or more honey. Now I'm out of more honey as well. So I'm going to use some maple syrup. So you want to use one tablespoon of that.  Oh, thanks. I'm just going to be here holding this bit too loud in the video. You can come join me. Happy now. We've got a favourite weapon. Now we shall have no more twisting in the video. So I'm going to add these in to my yogurt. We'll just mix it round. And then it's all ready to go. Then you can either store it in your fridge. Or you can just store it in the fridge. I don't think you can do anything other or to that. You want to store it in an airtight container in the fridge. So I'm going to cap it with a lid. That will stop the fermenting process. Otherwise it will keep fermenting. And it will become more sour and sour and sour.  So once you've capped it in your fridge, that kind of stops the fermenting process. Or you can just start serving it up. Then you can put it in a little parfait topped with some fruit. Freeze it into some popsicles for like a summer treat. You can put it into like a salad dressing. Mix with like tahini, lemon juice. Avoid all of that. To make it a nice delicious creamy salad dressing. You can also put it into smoothies, into smoothie bowls. Just make sure you add some sweet ingredients with it. Because it can be, again, like more on the plain side. It's a very probiotic hit. And good for protein as well, which I think I mentioned. So I'll get to adding the ingredients. And then I'll store it in my fridge ready to use for later on. For the last part of this recipe, you're just going to add in one tablespoon of maple syrup or raw honey, like I said. And as an optional, you can add in one ground vanilla bean or one teaspoon of vanilla extract, which is what I did. I added about half to one teaspoon of ground cardamom. But because I didn't have any cardamom today, I just used one teaspoon of nutmeg and a little bit of cinnamon. I think I used one teaspoon of cinnamon as well. And then you just mix that together and it's all ready to go. Then to store it, just cap it with a lid. Just make sure that it's airtight and it can be stored in the fridge ready to use when you're ready. That is how you turn some sunflower seeds into some probiotic yogurt. That's it for today's video. If you guys have other cool recipes you'd like to share, please do in the comments below. I'd love to try them out. But yeah, thank you so much for watching. I don't know how to wrap today's video up. So yeah, don't mind the attire of today's video. I think yesterday was the same, just me and my gym clothes. I should have just been at the gym and both days was cardio. So that's why I look like a total mess. My hair is so sweaty. I admire the effort that people go for looking nice. I'm not one of those people. I feel like I always drop down for these videos. So sorry about that. But I sweated it out so much. So it has the sweat look. But yeah, thank you guys so much for watching today. I hope you enjoyed today's video. For the rest of the day, I'm actually going to go to the Blue Mountains because it's Easter weekend. So it means I have the whole weekend up from work. So I'm just making the most of it by going to the Blue Mountains the best news of all, side note. I know this is like not in relation to today's video, but I would have to share it with you guys. It's so exciting. I got this Blue Mountains guidebook. And if you know me, I love the Blue Mountains. So I'm so excited to try this out. They have waterfall hikes, waterhole hikes, like all these different hikes that maybe you'll know about in the Blue Mountains. So I'm so excited to try it out. If you guys want to find it, you can find it on the Blue Mountains page. I'll link it below for you guys. This is how I'm going to be spending this year. Hiking. I'm so keen. But yeah, that's pretty much my news. And so I'm going to be trying out some of the new trails today in the mountains. So that's how I'll be spending my Easter weekend. So do share where you guys are up to this Easter. I love to hear. Otherwise, thank you again so much for watching. I love you guys so much. You're honestly so supportive and it really means so much when I read your comments. It's so, just so lovely. And I'm so grateful. Thank you so much.  So thank you. Thank you so much for watching. And I hope to see you again in my next video. Bye.


Welcome to The Crimson Engine. My name is Rubidium. Today we are looking at hard drives. This is the Leci 2 Big Raid. Hard drives are not the most exciting part of filmmaking hardware. They're not as sexy as the lens or the camera or lights. Most people just want their hard drives to work not to crash and to be fast enough to access their data. If you have a drawer full of old hard drives at home and you get frustrated plugging them in trying to find your data, that file that you lost years ago, it might be time to move to a more resilient storage solution. The Leci 2 Big Raid is two drives bundled together as a Raid. Now you can have it as a J-Bob or just a bunch of disks. You can have it as Raid 0 which just means that it serves as one giant disc with the capacity of both of the drives. Or you can have Raid 1 which is all your data is mirrored on both drives. You get a little bit increase in access speed, no real increase in write speed, but it means that should one of the drives fail, all your data is still there on the other drive. You can just pull out the failed drive, put in a brand new drive. The little computer inside the 2 Big Raid will copy all your data from the safe to the new one and you'll have a backup again. The only port on the back is Thunderbolt 3, so you get very fast access speeds. I have to point out though that SATA, which is what these spinning drives are, tops out about 300 megabytes per second. So you're not going to get the 500 or 1000 megabytes per second that you would get from a solid state disk with this arrangement. But for Canon C200, raw 4K in 12-bit, you're only looking at about 150 megabytes per second. So this hard drive could potentially through Thunderbolt 3 handle double feet of that at the same time. It's really nicely made. It looks really nice on your desk.  Maybe it even goes with the iMac Pro. You can get it in four terabyte, eight terabyte and 16 terabyte capacities. I'll put the links in the description so you can see how much they are, but they're actually pretty competitively priced. But if you want to use these as a RAID 1, meaning that your drives are mirrored, you'll only get half that capacity. So if you get a four terabyte 2 Big Raid, you want to put it as RAID 1, it'll appear on your computer as one two terabyte drive. The drives inside the enclosure are enterprise class, which means that they're more tolerant of heat, more tolerant of vibration, and they come with a longer warranty. So this hard drive, because it has enterprise class drives inside it comes with a five-year data recovery warranty. So should both drives fail, or if you have this as RAID 0 and one drive fail and you can't get the data, you can send it away and they'll recover the data for you, send it back to you on a new drive. I think just the peace of mind of that is alone worth paying the extra cost. It comes with Lacy's own software that sits on your desktop and monitors the health of both of the drives and can let you know if you want to change one out. In the couple weeks I've been using this, I haven't had a problem. What I'm moving towards is a smaller drive like this, and I say small, it's eight terabytes, a smaller drive like this right next to my computer, and then a larger NAS or network attached storage that's connected via 10 gigabit ethernet off somewhere else in the office that sort of access deep storage. So this is your day-to-day working drive and then once a project is finished you transfer it off to a second drive that maybe not be as fast, but at least you can access it and everything's there. You don't have to plug in multiple drives looking for that file that got away. That's my look at the Lacy Two Big Raid, very cool little unit. I sold them at NAB. They let me have this as part of a promotion. I gave one away. So thank you to Lacy. Leave your questions in the comments. Like I said, the links are in the description and I will see you next time.


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of them hopefully. And there he is. How about that? Big shout out to one of my friends here, Grant B, one of our longtime students, my dear friend, I should say. And he's been out all week. Been missing him. Great to have him back. How about that? So big, big shout out to Grant. Great to see him in particular. Great to have all his back on social, though. Facebook live, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, the works. So with that said, let's hop right to it here. So Spy has been kind of holding here near the highs. It's been grinding on up across the afternoon. I've been a pessimist here across the day. I thought the markets were going to get smashed once again. I was expecting the lower high or a head fake and then a huge drop. Well, hey, still not ruling that out just yet, but at this stage, even I got to kind of yank, yank my own leash here and say, all right, let's follow the trend. Look at the lows, follow the trend off the lows there.  But yeah, we'll follow the SMP, the Spy, into the afternoon. SI Silvergate made a huge pop earlier. I want to go over this trade at least to begin. You know, we do have our phase two class. I just said a moment ago, coming up at 305 Eastern Time. Ritual posts a link for that coming up here in just a bit. But this SI trade before class started, Fausto had called it out really quickly off the resistance at first off 125. It broke above that, held it as support. From there, it took off. It was a great trade and just kept on giving really. I mean, heading into like class time, it ended up kind of going sideways, but then broke higher. So it gave us a lot more for what we were expecting. And then now at this point here, it looks like it's definitely kind of flattened out a lot further lower highs and heading into the close. You know, it's possible it makes one more little push. It definitely trades good liquidity. We're familiar with this stock. It's just the direction now is definitely sideways with the lower highs here. So, you know, if it breaks below the VWAP right off that 188, 187 area, it could definitely lead to that bigger pullback.  I'll come back to it just at the end. All right. So with that, let's just continue. We'll go from top to bottom. This was on our list. This was on the screen to begin at least to start, but we'll just keep it going here. N-A-A-S NAS technology. I'm not familiar with this stock, but actually here, it's actually holding near the highs, trying to push back up towards six. Let's check the daily chart here pretty quickly. The order book's a little skimpy, so I'd be careful, you know, with that. Let's double check news for right now. I don't know if this buyout or not. Yeah, there's no like headline on the stock, if anything. All right. You know what? I'm a little wary of it if anything for right now. I'll kind of put it on our side list with the SI. I like the SI a little bit more, even though that looks a little bit more flat. Just that one we're more familiar with at least.  I'm still kind of hesitant of the move up actually across the market. So, you know, if you get a pullback, it would be a better data short then. RBOT trying to make a recovery from yesterday's move. Even this is, you know, it's not really moving that well right now. R&W, same deal. And keep it going here, folks, for a Friday afternoon. You got to be picky and choosy, just like a Monday morning pretty much, right? Now, this IBRX, don't get me wrong. It's slow, but looking at the 5-minute chart, it's definitely been on a pretty nice tear across the lead morning into right now. It took a huge hit from the end of last year when it was at 7-7-50 or right around that area all the way down to sub 1. You know, so in that sense, I don't mind it. I mean, it's a little slow for my personal liking, but I rather this compared to the other two be kind of put on her side list so far. BRDS, that's a cheapie there. I should have even seen that there. What else we got across the gainer side? Really, not a whole lot. That looks great. I mean, you got the Boyle ETF here. So, this ended up making a pretty nice move earlier across the day and now trying to break a new high once again. Big level off of 417. So, if it holds above that, then this is in play. You know, it's been trying to hold above it across the afternoon. It's been choppy. It's been wishy-washy off of it. And, you know, just before ended up re-breaking right over that level, led to a pretty good run. It's an ETF. So, if you have book map, then it definitely makes it a lot easier for you to try and figure out your footing on this and get your levels right. So, that's why I have the line here at 417. I had a trader that was catching this right place wrong time and it's just a matter of trying to get it over the level. So, right here prior to 2 o'clock or rather shortly after ended up breaking above it led to a better push at the time. Let's hope that that could finally become support now. You got the FUB, FUBO trade FUBO. I'm not going anywhere. FFWM. This one's actually at the highs. Water book checks out actually on this one. It looks like a tight spread. You know what? There's no real big iceberg water on it. It took a huge hit though from really just a few days ago or like a week and a half ago with that. So, there could be some good recovery room on this, right? I'll kind of go through all the sideless stocks at the end here, add this to them. Got to be picky and choosy. I got a couple of us saying VORB made 50% there, Tim. You made 50%? That's excellent. Nice run so far. I mean hey, cheapy stock but it's pushing up towards 80 cents. There's a chance maybe it can make the full complete gap fill up towards a dollar. That would be a home run for that type of trade. So, you know, I'll come back to this even. Normally, we don't really tend to trade the stocks below a dollar unless if they're like pushing up kind of like this, if not even sharper. So, you know what? I'll add this to our side list there. SOXS, not doing much right there, either ETF. Not much is looking too great all together. That's the thing. That's where you can see me add that VORB to our list at the end of it here. All right. Really, that's it. So, let's hop over to the loser's side right now. I mean, really, that's all I got so far on the gainer's side. So, if there's anything else looking good on the way up, type it in the chat board. We'll look at AI but I know that totally dumped off. You know, the note trade from yesterday, what goes up comes back down twice as fast. I mean, if it's not twice as fast, it's coming back down. So, you know, ended up pulling back a lot here. So, I'm going to pass on that. Probably pass on all of these others. I mean, they're hard to borrow and they're really cheap, most of them, like below a dollar, most of these. It's easy for me to kind of like just glance over that and fish through. NEO, not doing much there. Got MARRA. You know, if you could short MARRA, maybe. I mean, it dropped off pretty nicely from before. You know, Rite Aid, not doing much there. SOXS, semiconductor ETF. So, if the markets do pull back, then this could be a pretty good opportunity is down over 6%. Very liquid, might I say. It's kind of like me focused on UVXY and BOIL from earlier this morning. That's what I was kind of looking at in pre-market. Then certainly after the open, I was looking at the UVXY at first. Now BOIL, of course, is on our main list. You know what? I mean, it's flat. So, it might look pretty ugly, but in anticipation of a move up or down either way across the board within like the S&P and the NASDAQ, you know, this should make some sort of decisive move for the final hour, right? It's kind of like one of those situations, if not now, when, right? So, you know, it looks dead, but it is shortable. If it ends up holding lower highs and snapping lower, that could be a good short, and especially if the markets pull back there or, you know, otherwise, maybe you can kind of just make a nice dead cap balance pushing over 1650. So, SOXS, semiconductor ETF, like when AMD, the video trades, it moves in similarity with this. So, I'm not going to put those two on our main list, especially when they're as flat as could be. So, I'd rather trade that. All right, I got Array, ARRY. It's been a pretty volatile stock this week, right? I mean, it's been on our side lists here and there. Been on our main list, you know, a couple of times. Kind of flat right now. So, you know, again, nothing really too special right home about a whole lot of these different trades here this afternoon. It's kind of a thought behind it. All right. So, this is where I need your help for all of a sudden LinkedIn, Facebook Live, YouTube, and for all of us inside the live trading room, Tim Franny, Michael Grant, John Leder. Great to have Grant back once again. Let me know if there's anything else that you'd want me to check out, anything that you'd want me to look at. Actually, in honor of Grant, Gold's been pretty strong, or at least it was earlier this week. And looking at NUGT, you know, just kind of meddling around there. I mean, it's having a positive day at least and closing out the week hopefully pretty nicely. We've been following AG Grant. We've been following the Silver Stock, AG.  And then here we are today. It's like kind of meddling around, same type of move right off 650 there. So, nothing really too particular about it. All right. Checking the chat board right now here from Franny from earlier, GBNH. My dyslexia is tripping me up today. Wow. Yeah. This thing ended up just making a sudden pop out of nowhere. And when I talked to you about, hey, we normally don't trade a stock below a dollar unless it's like really popping. Well, this was below a dollar before it got halted. And then since the open, you know, it's been holding over a dollar thankfully. And hey, if there's nothing else that really looks that attractive, should this at least hold and not make lower highs, lower lows, then there's a chance for more eyeballs to catch on to this and for this to be an even better trade actually. So it's already up 114%. And yes, for right now, I would look for a break under, then back over a dollar. In fact, this could be actually a pretty good opportunity for us to focus on in class coming up ahead here, folks. At 305 Eastern time, we're going to be talking all about time and sales again, in relation to going along and buying a stock, live market-based class. So we're going to go over a couple of different levels here, namely why it's holding over a dollar so well here. And even if it dips below a dollar, probably otherwise, this would be your landing spot. But yeah, good call for any. I like this one, GBNH, just for the meantime here. If it totally tanks, then obviously we'll kind of write it off. But yeah, good call. I like it. Check out AI really quickly. AI, it's not going much of anywhere right now.  I wasn't able to get the shares to short it. So if anyone was able to short that, it was actually a better short than it was long, it seems today. But yeah, definitely flat here for right now. You got ONCS. What happened here? Out of nowhere, a sudden pop. I just caught this rate from my own scanner on Benzinga. So trading over 500,000 shares right now. I mean, the more time goes on, I'll trade more. So good start, especially off the pop here. Good order book, good liquidity so far, hopefully more joins coming up and hopefully tiers get thicker on level 2. But yeah, for right now, I'll add this. All right, what else we got here on the loser side, maybe from Benzinga. I don't really see much that looks familiar. Like a plug or like an upstart or BBIO. Nah, nope. I think that we're at the bottom of the barrel here, folks. So not much else really looking too great for right now. Last call for all of us inside live trading room. Anything I missed? Nah, I think I'm good. All right, let me just check out the side list stocks I wrote down. We'll kind of just wrap up from here. So there goes SI, ended up pulling back and broke below the VWAP right there, right off 187, 186. Definitely not looking as good right now. If it ends up popping up by like three o'clock in 15, 20 minutes, then at that point, put more of a focus on it, but follow the direction. I'd say that first. Same with NAS here. It's not going anywhere. Kind of just wants to look back on that one. FFWM. It's holding. It's holding right now. Not really trading a whole lot of volume per minute though. That's kind of my grape on it, hopefully more joins. I don't mind putting this on our main list in hopes of it, but yeah, if it doesn't make that big move that you're looking for, then don't try and force it. And then finally the VORB trade. You know what? I'll add it to. Why not? A bit of a funky list here of putting out here folks heading into the close. I mean, hey, that's where I'd say it's as good of a day, if anything, to be a gold student. Hey, if you're a gold or platinum or even diamond student here at CTU, of course, you folks know that you have access to the phase two stock course coming up at 305 Eastern time. So with that said, I look forward to seeing all of us just coming up in class for all of a sudden social media. Enjoy the weekend. Any questions that you got for me? Feel free to shoot me a quick email. Always like to post my email here at the end of the streams. Josh at CTU Trading, but otherwise, if you're interested in joining us just coming up for next week inside our live trading room for commentary, just go right down to the link on the green banner below the stream right there. You'll see it coming up very shortly. Look to sign up. Just get started right there on a week long trial. We look forward to having you there with us. But otherwise, just for all of us just coming up in class, I look forward to seeing you there just coming up in a bit. Take care.


Thank you everybody. I'm really looking forward to spending some days with you as some of you might remember. Susan and I were here last year and it's really thanks to John that we're here and really pleased to be on the program as well. So about 18 months ago I guess John reached out with the concept of the International Alliance of Research Library Associations and it's great to get together at this international level and I have to say that I think it really has influenced the thinking in Canada and what we're going to be talking about today with the Canadian Roadmap for advancing scholarly communications and John's talk earlier today too where he was mentioning the research library commons is certainly a theme throughout all of this where really I think what we're thinking of is we've called it a global knowledge commons. So I'll talk about the context and rationale for all of this and tell you a little bit about the roadmap objectives and then Susan is going to run through three of our areas that we're focusing on. We're next for repositories this morning when there was a comment about no fire alarms are planned. We actually had a fire alarm at our event for repository so I'm hoping that this doesn't evoke that here. Okay so first of all just a little bit about Carl as you might know we are Canada's 31 largest research libraries 29 of those are in academic libraries in our research intensive universities and we have two federal institutions the Library and Archives Canada and the National Research Council's National Science Library. So we are not really a service organization in the sense of doing licensing for example we have the Canadian Research Knowledge Network that does that aspect of our work. What we are is really a leadership organization that's trying to think of ways that we can really enhance our members capacity and leadership in this environment and to promote a public policy environment in which libraries research and open scholarship will thrive. So it's really that open scholarship theme that we're talking about here today and a little bit about Canada. I'm sure many of you recognize our Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. We had a change in government in 2015 and it really made a huge difference in our research library landscape. We went from feeling that really science and research were not high on the agenda to feeling that they really are and we've seen an increased investment in research. We have a national science advisor which is great. Open government was actually a concept that did begin with an earlier government but it really has teeth now and we've seen things like the reinstatement of the long form census which we all applauded and there's multiple consultations underway we're waiting for the results of the fundamental science review there's an innovation agenda that we've been able to feed into with our thoughts about digital infrastructure. Canadian heritage is looking at Canadian content in a digital age and John mentioned the leadership council on digital infrastructure that I'm a member of as the president of CARL. It's a really interesting group in thinking about the difference between Canada and the UK. We haven't had something like JISC. We haven't had at a national level a group that brings us together to think about things like our high-speed networks or our compute capacity or how we manage research data so we've been working in the last while with this group to try and map that landscape and to think about ways that really we need to speak with one voice I think is the theme that the minister of science has certainly asked us to do to really affect change in this environment so it's a useful landscape and I should say too that really it is the sense of openness I think that gives us a lot of optimism so this is Trudeau's cabinet and we were all very pleased when he announced it about the gender equity diversity and very well qualified which was nice so just a couple of examples here you have the minister of innovation science and economic development in the red turban there you have in the green dress our environment and climate change minister who is a lawyer so we have a very well qualified cabinet and a sense of people who really care about what is going to happen in our landscape at the so that's the national level and then at the level of our own institutions we have very encouraging commentary one of my favorite administrators is the president at McMaster University he used to be at Queens which is why he's one of my favorites but he he wrote in the media last week is this headline parochialism and protectionism are the enemies of enlightenment and he just went on with a very nice thought piece saying our universities like our society are only enriched and strengthened by diversity of opinions academic disciplines and people we commit ourselves to protecting the free flow of ideas and to opposing hatred and intolerance in all its forms so this is the landscape that we're in we're feeling optimistic about Canada being open and about Canada having a real pride in that openness so getting now down to this scholarly communications roadmap about a year ago Karl put out a white paper called Canadian universities and sustainable publishing and I was thinking about this in the Libra presentation about just that word sustainable and how we were actually pretty deliberate in using that we certainly are envisioning an open environment but we wanted to emphasize that we understand that our role is truly make that sustainable we also just wanted to think about this sort of transformative moment that we felt we were in where a lot has happened with various converging factors with digital technology with libraries playing a greater role in that technology things like hosting open journal systems the move towards policies for open access we had just seen that happen in Canada and then this pressure I think when when John was talking about Ross Atkinson this struck me that this growing pressure of the oligopoly of international academic publishers and the financial constraints of university budgets so I gave a lot of talks about this paper over the last year and to people in my own university various groups and also to a couple of national groups of vice-principals research and provosts and what I always found interesting was that it was this slide that impressed them the most and this is because it's all about the money and you can all do this slide in your institutions I'm sure where this is my own institution saying that almost half of our acquisitions budget is spent on the big five so Elsevier Wiley Taylor and Francis Springer and Sage are in the small pie graph on the right and this was just to say that this is not in our control we actually are in this big deal environment where those costs continue to rise and to eat up our flexibility so this seemed to resonate to certainly resonated with our senate and others and I'm I'm hoping that it resonates as we enter plan B which I actually like to call a plan A I think so following the white paper as I said we engage with a number of different groups there was some interest in developing a statement of principles we're still optimistic that that will come out of our provost group each of our institutions I think is doing the same kind of thing that I'm doing where we're raising awareness interesting was the Canadian publishers reaction of a fear of being painted with the same brush as as the big five and what you know our reaction to that was don't worry what we're trying to do is actually build a sustainable environment for Canadian publishing we want Canadian publishers to survive so all of that encouragement led to the idea of the roadmap and this was something we started in July last year just with a small working group to really try to tie together these ideas in a way that's felt very systematic so basically we want to have this vision of open sustainable effective and innovative scholarly communication system very importantly governed and managed by the scholarly community and it reflects a substantial role for Canadian academic libraries so yes what value do libraries add to this so really essentially our thinking here is that we want to collaborate with other stakeholders in Canada identify support and support and promote ideas with other regions like you working to change cultures and local practices and then launching pilot projects and Susan's going to talk about a few of those as a way to really do something very concrete in this landscape so I won't of course have time to talk about each of the objectives but just wanted to put them up on the screen and say this is only a five page document very easy and accessible to read I'll give you one example of how we drill down so the number three lower the economic barriers to the creation and dissemination of academic publications we also have an action plan that we're working on that has for that item three things we're going to develop a rationale for why this is important and share that with our car members we're going to develop a framework for sharing licensing costs in the Canadian context so we have two members who have done this routinely and we want to learn from that and encourage others to do that and then create and publish a joint statement about transparency and licensing perhaps as part of the IRLA so I think I'm going to leave it there but just to say that we realize that none of these elements is in itself groundbreaking but we feel that deep systemic challenges need to be addressed in a methodical manner from these multiple angles and through incremental steps and we were encouraged in the IRLA meetings yesterday to think about how we might use this to compare what each of our associations is doing basically what are we doing in these five areas and how could we work together to affect some disruptive change yes so I speak to a few example activities that advance the roadmap objectives so as Martha mentioned in the area of sustainable affordable and preferably open access there are activities on the IR's front on the licensing part and on this notion of supporting home growth publishing so in terms of what would be roadmap item 3.4 the wording is there on the screen we held a national forum late last fall and it was held in association with a manager's repository manager's meeting as well so one day was repository manager's meeting and the and the next day was a director's plus one so it was all the car directors and the managers together a really good meeting actually and it was done in conjunction with core and and so in terms of outcomes there were certainly two major areas identified for repository development they're not particularly surprising improve the functionality of repositories with a focus on interoperability and interconnectedness and support and encourage the development of value added services so services on top of repositories such as peer review and usage master measures and tools so some specific ideas that we will now be pursuing we will certainly be doing something with metrics and I learned a little bit about that this morning at the research library's partnership meeting so that was good and we're going to start a small group that will will consider that we're going to look at best practices for collection development so see you know whether they're all on the same page whether they're sort of there are anything to be learned in terms of strengthening the content that's in the repositories we will look at the notion of a national aggregation service we don't have that at the moment we do have a comprehensive landscape of repositories but but nothing bringing them together for access and discovery and we're going to look to strengthen the community of practice and one of the things that I would say this day did achieve was this sort of reinvigoration of a institutional repository's managers community that was maybe feeling a little tired with open access it's hard working and and so I think it was really good for that so and certainly core sort of felt that this was a model day and and and the documentation for the report and so on are available on our website in terms of scholarly communications working groups so this is the second initiative that we thought we should mention in terms of it because it has a collaboration aspect to it so this is working the notion is to work with Canadian journals to develop and assess and adopt sustainable open access funding models so here we convened a multi-stakeholder group and and sort of asked them to establish a shared vision principles and goals that will act as a framework for advanced robust sustainable collaborative models in the in the dissemination of the Canadian scholarly record so I should say that in Canada we have some solid support for especially journal publishing in our at the moment we host Simon Fraser University pkp open journal systems and have a long experience there with John Alinsky and that approach to open access um we have out of Quebec a platform called Erudy which is providing um it's a long-standing platform for for Quebec mainly French language journals in the social science humanities but with a growing a a growing a list of journals and the federal government has recently invested quite heavily in in Erudy to to a value of 3.5 million pounds so um and we have a we have a science publisher Canadian science publishing that that is sort of fairly innovative and looking towards um some open access we have 15 university presses two of them now being fully open access another sort of experiment so we we we've brought everybody together and and and what we see I think is that the key accomplishment really at this point and it's only in process it's issued a an interim report is is that simply this sort of re-establishment of of trust and dialogue and getting to know each other again because open access is kind of tricky on both sides and the the conversation got a little bit fraught and um and so it's been really good for for information sharing and and what they're trying to do they've looked carefully at some of the initiatives and trying to assess whether there are initiatives that could sort of accelerate and the transition to open access so we've looked at whether a scholarly publishing cooperative would make sense perhaps as an evolution of Erudy and PKP working together whether extending the license we have a licensing approach to Erudy through CRKN at the moment whether scope three is a model they look carefully at all of these things uh so the group has issued an interim report outlining principles at this point they they might not seem like much but but they are progress in point of fact so they've outlined six principles uh non-profit so the notion everybody agrees on pretty much is to reinvest you know revenues back into the system uh high quality so very much supporting the notion of peer review and so on made in Canada in so far as nurturing official languages and trying again to to draw on the strengths that we have uh building on strength is another one um and maximizing openness so we have a little trouble with the notion of away as a term to carry forward the publishers don't necessarily see that entirely but we keep sort of saying well we're really aiming that way and this is sustainable publishing in an open access context so we don't know really whether the discussions will coalesce around something you know new and bold but but it's a sort of case of nothing ventured nothing gained and we do see that there is there's been value in bringing bringing together the communities in a collaborative sense uh the last initiative we thought to mention um is is a big one for us uh let me just change my slide here we go uh Quartage which is our initiative related to research data management so in this in the roadmap it's it's relatively small thing in our lives it's actually a relatively big thing and we have a director we have attracted new funding from our members specifically for Quartage to sustain it for a couple of more years as we try to um position it in in the landscape and and attract the funding that it it requires uh so Quartage generally it was meant to build capacity and build some infrastructure uh that is uh well positioning libraries for their role in research data management in our country so we are working with a whole bunch of stakeholders and it's kind of neat to so we have it in our in our um in our steering committee and advisory committee and also just you know a whole bunch of in fact it's the same members who are at the leadership council that Martha mentioned earlier so high capacity at the high capacity network organization the high performance computing organization national associations of research administrators and ethics boards uh our four regional library consortia our grantee councils and in fact even the DCC is there because we we released a tool um called DMP assistant and that was based on the the DCC uh data management planning tool um so the at the top left on the corner is the leadership council Martha's talked about that so I won't but uh but one of the things that's really interesting is that whilst the government is going to invest in research infrastructure we're almost positive and uh and what's interesting is that what you've seen is because of Quartage because it's well articulated um the library uh voice at the table is a very respected one and and we're beginning to feel that there's you know there's really is hope that the that we as a as a community will get some money and that we'll sort of sort of watch organization and what's it called and and and how does the government's governance play out and so on so okay so Quartage goals I foster a community of practice um you know build a do some development of RDM infrastructure and engage an advocate for RDM with stakeholder communities those are the goals and I'm just going to say a little bit about developments in each of those so in terms of community of practice uh we have expert groups active at the moment on on planning on training on curation on discovery on preservation and what we're calling research intelligence which is more or less just understanding the research community and what it needs um we have uh we have a training program in development we've hired a half-time training officer um and we have about 60 professionals that deployed and playing playing different roles in these in these groups and we're involved with Compute Canada they brought 1.3 million dollar no 1.3 million pound investment to the table to develop a kind of preservation pipeline and the first big part of infrastructure that we need for the country and uh so our experts are more sort of contributing expertise to this process and preservation curation and discovery groups are all contributing so that um is uh is making quite good progress in terms of infrastructure that's really the second thing on this list that I mentioned so that is the Federated Research Data Repository it's joint software development as I mentioned and it will have some some really good core features uh um it's sort of already at alpha state alpha uh stage for testing a federated storage model a federated support model it will be nationally integrated it will be scalable it will have a good discovery layer it will provide a preservation workflow um it will be suitable for a broad range of data types it will be available to for researchers to use directly or through the libraries it will have uh both data and metadata ingestion and access control mechanisms so that is the the the big infrastructure undertaking that we have right now we have got quite a lot of mileage out of the DMP assistance assistant already and that is like I mentioned a lot of thanks to the DCC for that um and we have a project now um for what we're calling Data Board Dataverse North and thirdly on the community engagement side of things um it's been really interesting that Chuck Humphrey our Director of Portage he's a well-known expert in uh in in data management in our country and and he we've ended up having um contracts with the funding agencies to test um piloting uh piloting the use of of of the data management planning tool within the context of funded research and and also you know getting getting uh uh some training modules in as well so it's been really good for um for the respect between the the government officials that are funding research and their their respect for libraries has been really useful that way uh there is a working group just starting on the ethical treatment of data and um and there's some work being done to look to uh tie DMP through the administrative the research application process um we have some work as well going on that we're participating into a whole a whole bunch of organizations are collaborating now as well to start up at our consortium so um and then I mentioned the uh the the leadership council again so there there's a portage website it has some of our key documents and some of the guidance and the access to the assessment assistant and it will eventually have access to the the federated research data repository as well so um in conclusion I I think what we would say is that we're we're seeing the roadmap as a way of framing structuring prioritizing and hopefully accelerating or driving our activities uh as we try to shape the broad complex and multifaceted challenge of scholarly communication but it has a big dependency on how well we can collaborate


The chimera, according to dictionary definition, is a, hopefully, mythical beast in Greek mythology. It had the body of a line, pardon me, the head of a line, the body of a goat, I get mixed up, you know, and the tail of an alligator. A formidable beast indeed, one would suspect. And the main feature of this animal was that the closer you got to it, the further away it was from you. Now that's not my idea, it's their idea, so don't look at me blankly like that. The closer you got to it as you pursued it, the further away it was from you in actuality. So it was very difficult to hunt it down, you see. And that is very much what parapsychology is all about, folks. Parapsychology is a study of things that go bump in the night. Parapsychology, alongside psychology. And it encompasses all phenomena that actually do occur, but have no explanation in science. Sophia Loren would qualify in my estimation. How does she look that good at that age? I mean, come on, let's get real here. This is not oil of ole, it must be witchcraft. But seriously, on the subject of parapsychology, it is the only science admitted to the AAAS the only one that has not had one uno eins in one replicable experiment in all the 120 years that it's been around. Now to me, that would seem to be like an MD, a doctor, a medical doctor who has been in practice for 120 years and as a result of his interference, every one of his patients has died. Wouldn't you think you'd get into a different profession? Take something easier like space probes or something like that, you know? But at least you'd have some success there. Come on, friends. Isn't this strange? And yet I have to tell you this small anecdote. I get set back on my heels every now and then and this is one occasion where I really was set back on my heels by two formidable gentlemen, both parapsychologists, very leading parapsychologists. As a matter of fact, leaders in the field. One Stanley Kripner from the Saber Institute in San Francisco and a fellow from Scotland, from the University of Edinburgh, John Beloff, very respected scientist in his own right and both parapsychologists and former presidents of the Parapsychological Association. So not people to be trifled with. And I had them out to my home in New Jersey when I lived there, if you call that living, for lunch one day and we had a wonderful lunch. We enjoyed a bit of banter back where they respect me. They disagree with me completely, but we respect one another and that's all for the good, of course. And I finally hit them up with the big question. I looked at two of them straight in the eye and I said, guys, one of you has been 30 years in this business, the other 35 years in the business of parapsychology and you have never yet had a replicable experiment. Why do you stay with it? Beloff didn't hesitate at all. He said, I think I can speak for Stanley here. He said, it's because we both believe deep down that there is something here to be found. That really set me back on my heels. And I reached across the table and shook their hands in turn and said, gentlemen, you have my total respect and always will. That is what science is all about. You stick with it. When some petri dish with agar jelly in it on the windowsill shows that the culture that I had in there is not growing in little spots, I wonder why. Oh, throw it out. It's only an old petri dish and away. And no, Fleming decided he wouldn't do that and so we have penicillin. If you think there's something there, go after it. No question of it. For more of James Randy and the Educational Foundation, make sure you visit randy.org.