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II I WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 2017 OTTAWA CITIZEN A3 wVy i i StAw "We are all about safety. But when something like this happens, we take it as a learning opportunity," says Mane Longtin, co-owner of Commando Pamtball, which is offering a $1,500 reward to anyone who can identify the person who shot marbles during Sunday's event. Longtin called the alleged shooter "one bad apple" out of a field of 1,000 players, daerbn brown person' halts orrible paintball tournamen Organizers say someone loaded their gun with marbles, hitting two players we learneda very valuable lesson." Other tournament participants took to social media to express their support for the event and its organizers. "Wc know you place people's safety as a top priority and wc would never hesitate to participate in one of your events," wrote Bl air Cribb, who said he and his son participated in Sunday's morning event but left before the marbles were fired. According to organizers, 22 Commando staff members were on the field at the time, and "once wc determined the emergency, there were 35 to 40 people who stepped up to try to find the player in question." Grant Young, who participated in the event, said "lots of players" steppedin to help once they understood what had happened "There was full co-operation between staff and players from what I saw, which shows how tight-knit thecommunity is when something happens," he wrote.

George Dunphy praised organizers for the event and said, "this year was no exception. "My only hope is that this doesn't tarnish the entire sport simply because someone that clearly needs mental health support decided that it woul dbc a good idea to ruin a great day for 999 other people and try to hurt someone. We are already counting down the days to the next D-Day." ahelmerpostmcdia.com Twitter, com helmera ing photos and videos taken at Sunday's event for any information th at might identifytheplayer an sai they in ten to fil a poli ce report. Ottawa police were aware of the incident but said that, as of Tuesday, there is no active criminal investigation. The seventh annual event is billed as one of the biggest paintball events in North America.

Two teams, Allied Forces versus Axis, are pitted against each other on the battlefield, with players landingon the beach in a barge, where they must "fight their way up a hill or through a village," accordingto the event description. The field includes "an impressive array of props," including three barges, 15 trucks, barrels, 24 buildings and three towers. "Paintball already struggles with a bad rap," said Longtin, "so when somebody does something like this I mean, it's one bad apple. We had 1,000 players on the field Sunday. All of my staff have been trained.

We have (a defibrillator) on site. We are all about safety. But when something like this happens, we take it as a learning opportunity. "Nobody was seriously hurt and AEDAN HELMER An Ottawa paintball company hopes a cash reward will help it to catch the "horrible person" who, according to organizers, loaded a paintball gun with marbles instead of paint pellets at one of its signature tournaments. Commando Paintball owners Marie Longtin and David Pitts issued a statement Tuesday condemning the prank, saying they will implement "extra precautions" for future events, including hiring an on-site police presence.

They are offering a $1,500 reward to anyone who can identify the guilty player. "Fortunately there wercno injuries said Longtin, who called the alleged shooter "one bad apple" out of a field of 1,000 players who registered for the weekend event. Two players were hit with the projectile marbles Sunday afternoon. One man who was hit in the chest was assessed and released by privately contracted first aid Critic of predatory' publishing returns with scathing article Teenager suffers head injuries A 15-year-old boy was rushed to hospital with serious injuries after he was struck by a vehicle near the intersection of Colonel By Drive and Laurier Avenue on Tuesday afternoon. The teenager was walking near the Laurier Bridge, near City Hall, when he was struck by a vehicle at 3:43 p.m.

Paramedics said the boy suffered serious head injuries. He was stabilized and taken to the trauma centre at The Ottawa Hospital's Civic Campus. OPP identify man found dead home Police have identified a man who was found dead in his Renfrew County home Saturday as Richard Timothy Perry, 51, but are releasing few other details about the investigation. Perry was found at about L40 p.m. Saturday in his home on Mullins Road in Horton Township.

An autopsy was performed Monday. Anyone with information is asked by the OPP's Renfrew County crime unit, which is investigating along with the coroner's office, to call the OPP at 1-888-310-1122. Anonymous tips can be made to Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477. Long guns stolen in two hreak-ins OPP are looking for thieves who took 10 rifles and shotguns, and other items, in two break-ins. The first occurred overnight June 3-4, at a storage facility on Pctawawa Boulevard.

Items stolen include a Remington 700 bolt action rifle, a Mosin Nagant 7.62 54 bolt action rifle and a CIL 12 -gauge break-action shotgun. The second break-in, at a Pctawawa Boulevard residence between June 9-11, saw the theft of two 12-gauge shotguns, a 22 calibre16 Gauge overunder gun, a 22-calibrc Marlin lever action rifle, a 308-calibre Savage lever action rifle and two 30-30 Winchester lever action rifles. workers. Another player was hit in the shoulder. Neither player was seriously hurt.

Organizers later recovered abou a dozen marbles from the playing field. The annual Tippmann D-Day Challenge, held Sunday at the Commando playing field on Dunning Road in rural Navan, was immediately halted with calls of a "ceasefire," and every player was searched before they were allowed off the field. The culprit was not found, though Longtin said they may have some "leads" from their own internal investigation. "Make no mistake, when you use a paintball marker as a weapon with the intent to harm, it is considered a weapon and you will be charged criminally," Longtin wrote in a statement posted to Facebook. "In addition, it makes you an absolutely horrible person with no regard for player safety or the extreme amount of work that goes into an event of this size." Longtin said staff are examin predatory publishers," he writes in a commentary.

"Academic librarians constantly attacked me because I dared to point out the weaknesses of the open-access publishing model. Librarianship slavishly follows political correctness and trendi-ness, so it's no surprise that the profession fell in line with the open-access social movement and attacked those seeking to tell the truth about it. "Many of these librarians were untrue to the faculty at their universities, praising open-access but failing to warn of the traps the predatory publishers were setting. "So, ifs not only the scholarly publishing industry that needs reform and self-regulation. Academic librarianship needs to wake up to the problem of predatory publishers and be true to library patrons seeking help and advice on scholarly communication." Open access means the journal is free online, often because the authors of articles pay a fee to be published.

This is a system intended to Jeffrey Beall is back after he went silent and website disappeared around January science, and by enabling the publication of activist science." "Many of the larger predatory publishers, especially those based in Western Europe, offer a niche business. Their businesses are set up to publishmanuscripts rejected by the top publishers They function somcthinglikcalenderof last resort they provide a publishing opportunity when no other publisher will However, the market is so lopsided now that there are more 'publishers of last resort' than there are authentic ones, and they're all competing with each other for subpar manuscripts." Andhe blames "corporate" university culture. Bcall's List was a blacklist, and as such, was often criticized by universities. "Universities, I learned, don't like the negativity associated with journal blacklists," he now says. "Universities in the United States are far along in the process of corporatizing themselves, and, in doing so, their public relations departments prefer that all university output be positive and aimed at attracting new customers, tuition-paying students.

So if you are afacultymcmber at auni-versity andyou publish ablacklist, you will likely face much opposition and even harassment from the university, despite assurances of academic freedom." His article, 'What I learned from predatory is published in a journal called Bio-chemia Medica. tspearspostmedia.com twitter.comTomSpearsl spread knowledge, but it's also used by predators. Ball adds that predatory journals continue to spread dangerous misinformation: "I think predatory publishers pose the biggest threat to science since the Inquisition. They threaten research by failingto demarcate authentic science from methodologically unsound science, by allowing for counterfeit science, such as complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) to parade as if it were authentic Academic librarians constantly attacked me because I dared to point out the weaknesses of the open-access publishing model TOM SPEARS Jeffrey Beall, who was the first to identify and study "predatory" science publishers, is back after a five-month silence, with criticism for universities as well as fake publishers. Beall, a University of Colorado librarian and researcher, created the widely known Bcall's List of thousands of shady websites that imitate academic journals but publish anything for money.

Then, around New Year, he went silent. His website disappeared and he wouldn't say why, although associates speculated he was fedup with defending himself against other academics who said he was too critical of the publishingindustry. Now he's back, and as blunt as ever. "Over the five years I tracked and listed predatory publishers and journals, those who attacked me the most were other academic librarians. The attacks were often personal and unrelated to the ideas I was sharing or to the discoveries I was making about.