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Guys, I am so excited to announce that WoW Classic is finally here. The game that we've all been waiting years for is finally coming and tomorrow we're going to get our first real taste with the release of the WoW Classic Beta. Now this is going to be a closed beta but anyone with a battle net account can apply to join the beta which I'll explain in this video. My name is S-Fan and we're going to be going over everything related to the release of the official legacy servers from the Classic Beta to the actual release date along with the world's first never-before-seen Classic WoW Beta footage. So here's exactly what you guys want to know. The Classic closed beta is announced for tomorrow May 15th. During the beta you're going to have full access to all the content in the game from level 1 to level 30. This includes full access to questing, world PvP, professions, dungeons, and much much more. WoW Classic is confirmed to release on August 27th, 2019 of this year. There will be phased content release which means that the content will be rolled out in six different patches instead of the entire game being accessible at once and here's the best part. There is no extra cost to play WoW Classic. It's 100% included with any existing WoW subscription. So here's what we know so far. There's going to be some differences between original vanilla WoW and the new WoW Classic. Some of the absolute most important things that you should know about include the fact that the game is based off the final version of vanilla WoW. Throughout the progression of the game there were 11 content patches and throughout these content patches classes had different skills, they had talents that changed, and items even had different stats throughout the course of vanilla WoW's lifespan. Blizzard decided to base WoW Classic off of the final version of vanilla WoW which honestly most people believe to be the most complete version of the game while releasing the raid and the PvP content across six patches as I stated earlier. Molten Core and Enixia are also going to be available on launch but no battlegrounds or honor system is going to be put into place until later patches. The six phases is something that myself and others have fought very very strongly for especially after Blizzard initially announced they wanted just four phases of content but they've been very very active working with the community and considering feedback and the decision-making so far which to be completely honest is pretty surprising for a lot of us in the Classic community who spent a lot of time removed from Blizzard in recent years so that's that's been very very reassuring to see. Also the game is based off the 735 excuse me WoW Legion client and it's been reverse engineered to be as accurate of a representation of vanilla WoW as possible which actually seems to have turned out pretty well as well. You can see some features artifacted in such as you know modern game menus the add-on engine but this is mostly cosmetic. Blizzard's goal was to not leave anything in the game that was going to make a significant impact on the integrity of the game so that's been good to see overall so far it's been pretty successful. Also and this is something else that has been stated before server population caps are likely going to be much much higher than that of the original game however the average player isn't even going to notice this. Blizzard is developing a new server stability technology called layering and that's going to replace the shorting technology from the modern version of the game. One layering is is essentially a system where you have like digital copies of a server placed into one server and each one of these servers work like a glass of water so you take that glass of water you fill up that glass with water and you stop adding players or water in this analogy when that glass is full. When that glass is full you grab a new glass and you start adding more water or players into that new glass. So what this is going to do it's going to prevent players from phasing in and out of friendly and opposing players vision once they've logged into the game and this also allows more players to play on the same realm at any given time. So while there may be some old school vanilla wow queue times this is going to help vastly vastly reduce those queue times and you can get into the action way faster. So rumors have been going around about Blizzard hosting an event in Irvine last week where they invited some content creators and media members out to playtest classics so far and it was entirely true. So last week I went out to Irvine along with the rest of the classic cast crew. You guys should check out classic cast our wow classic podcast and I got a chance to be one of the first people outside of the walls of Blizzard to get to play the wow classic beta. We spent like seven hours doing all kinds of stuff leveling dungeons world pvp and just having the ability to give direct feedback to the developers of the game. You can see here like we were doing a we're doing the Gorobashi arena event we had everybody who was there went and hopped in and we just did free for all world pvp everybody was having a blast and it was a really really really good time. Now I was pretty happy. I was pretty happy with what I saw so far but you can see some little things here and there that don't seem quite right and I think it's because of how they're trying to simulate spellbatching. I am not sure on this yet. I haven't really gotten a chance to play it enough to test. However you're gonna see me this is gonna be one of the many things that I'm constantly gonna be streaming or testing whenever I'm streaming on Twitch but you can see there's a minor delay on some of these instant cast spells. Watch whenever I cast a judgment on somebody the judgment damage doesn't apply immediately it applies maybe like a quarter of a second afterwards and I think again I think this is something with them trying to simulate spellbatching. It's pretty that's pretty nitty gritty and that's the kind of stuff we get into on my streams and whenever it comes to classic wow right there you actually saw the same kind of thing happen with repentance like I clearly repentance the guy before his heel finished going off and his heel still went off so that's that's not something you normally see even with spellbatching. But yeah this is just like I said the the classic wow beta is going to be so incredibly important and that's why Blizzard really held this event is in order to get some direct feedback from people but if you get a chance if you get an opportunity to get into the beta then you need to be giving feedback especially if you're familiar with the game you understand hey this is supposed to do this is supposed to do that. They do have a working reference client a patch 1.12 original vanilla wow reference client that everything is 100% no changes works perfectly so what they're doing is they are going and if they get a report about something they go back and they check to see hey is this writer is it wrong and that's that's the kind of feedback that's going to be most useful to them. There's still some things we're not so sure about you know one of those things is like right-click reporting chat functionality battle net adding friends cross-faction this is stuff that's come up a ton in my streams but it's it's stuff that we brought up in the past for sure. Right-click reporting right now in the retail version of the game it gives you too much power you can right-click somebody you can mass report somebody you can get them muted you can you can you can basically get them in trouble and in a game which is one you're working with much larger numbers of people but also it's so competitive out in the world this is going to open the door for like exploitation basically. So when we were actually there in person we got a chance to talk to Ian Hazekosis we got a chance to talk to Brian Birmingham we've got a chance to talk to Omar Gonzalez and so many other people and we brought this stuff up to them I like we I basically explained like this is one of those things where if at the very least the threshold is an increase there could be a negative impact on the gameplay and you know obviously they don't they don't say one way or another if that's something that they're going to be fixing exactly but they seem to have a positive response to a lot of this stuff. Another one is the chat functionality. If you play well look at jumping under strong wind so yeah if you play retail wow right now you'll notice if you type messages too fast in chat it mutes you for a certain amount of time and that's something that's really really annoying and it's something that honestly I think it deters people from from chatting it's just one of those things that can negatively impact the social and the community aspect of vanilla wow that people love so much this is something that still hasn't been addressed yet and I'm really really hoping that they remove it it's it's very very annoying whenever it hits you and it's like you're just trying to type because you know you're a gamer you move around type of sentence move around type another sentence move around type another sentence boom you're muted and it's something that I don't think is good for the game so hopefully that's something that's going to be getting fixed. Battle.net being able to add friends of cross-faction one thing in vanilla wow that's a pretty big deal is the potential for cross-faction collusion and basically enabling it right it's 2019 everybody's got discord or or some sort of app we're not using vent or team speak or anything like that anymore you're not trying to add people on AOL instant messenger you don't have Winamp playing your music you know maybe you should but it's it's different now I understand that people are able to communicate with people much more easily than they used to in the past but one of the concerns is the fact that Blizzard basically enables this behavior by being able to go up to a player the opposing faction right click their portrait and click add to add the battle tag friends or whatever this isn't it's bad and hopefully this is something else to the address in classic or maybe even in the entire game I don't know but at least in classic I do think this is something that should be addressed so getting a chance to go to this event and talk to guys like Brian Birmingham the lead dev Omar Gonzalez who's the number two Ian Hazakosis who if you're familiar with wow of course you're familiar with Ian Hazakosis getting a chance to talk to these guys and interface with these guys directly and give them direct feedback in person has been something that's really really good and players who get a chance to get into the beta are going to get the same opportunity but the way they're gonna have to do this is through bug reports and stuff like that so if you go to www.wowclassic.com and you opt into the beta that's how you do it www.wowclassic.com it's very important that if you get in that you give good feedback so you can see here one of the other things we did we talked about the pvp that we did in the Gurbash Arena we also got to do an SM library run so what you're watching right here is the first footage of wow classic protection Paladin which is actually dude it's hilarious I rolled a Paladin I'm known for playing rep Paladin they didn't even give Paladins a two-handed weapon I was like what the crap am I supposed to do with this so I ended up going in and I tanked the Scarlet Monastery SM library as a prop Paladin in the demo station so this is what you're seeing right here this full video is gonna be posted on my YouTube channel eventually alongside a 1 to 10 level 1 through 10 first run world's first look at the wow classic beta for a Paladin I my time actually wasn't that great and that's again one of those things I'm gonna be working on in the beta is working on my leveling time and getting that down so you're gonna see a lot of that kind of stuff on my streams as well so overall guys I'm I'm very very very excited about finally getting the wow classic beta we finally have the release date tomorrow May 15th we're getting the beta and August 27th 2019 we are finally getting the chance to go home we're finally getting the chance to play wow classic again it's gonna be an incredible time guys please please please if you enjoyed this video hit it with a like you're gonna see more videos coming non-stop you're gonna see streams coming non-stop follow me on Twitter follow me on Twitch follow me on YouTube Sfan TV Discord.gg Sfan TV join the community the biggest wow classic community discord as far as content creators go and also if you want to grab yourself say make Azeroth great again hat shop.sfan.tv do that all the proceeds to that go to my parents just one way to kind of help continue to support them so again thank you guys so much I'll see you guys next time


NPTEL course on groundwater hydrology and management. This is the last week, week 12 of groundwater hydrology and management. I hope all these lectures have been in a coercive way where we started with understanding what is groundwater. We understood the issues in groundwater management and then we understood all we discussed about the important parameters for groundwater management. And then we looked at finally the data that is needed for groundwater management. So on the data side, we looked in the two weeks, week 11 and week 12, we will be looking at what is the data that needs to be collected to assess groundwater damage and groundwater resilience. It also is needed to understand what data is important for helping farmers in managing groundwater properly. On that note, in week 11, let's do a recap of week 11 and how it's been to week 12. Week 11, we looked at groundwater recharge structures determined by the government and public private data where these structures are present and how are they helping the groundwater recharge. We also looked at groundwater quality as a tool to understand groundwater depletion scenarios and other aspects, but also groundwater quality was very important to understand the usability of water because if water has a lot of arsenic, you cannot use it for crops or use it for industry and drinking. So quantity and quality are both important and have to be managed for sustainable development in rural India. So the groundwater quality standards we looked at using the CPCB board, Central Pollution Control Board data. And following that, we looked at different hydroclimatic data that is needed for understanding the groundwater resources. The hydroclimate data starts with your rainfall and we looked at other data that includes your storage structures, river discharge and other aspects. Now we are coming to week 12, which is the second part of the groundwater data or data needed in the water balance. So in all that mode, we'll be looking at soil moisture data and evapotranspiration data, which form a bulk in the groundwater budget equation and we'll be looking at groundwater reports, data, et cetera. We'll be looking at remote sensing data in this week. Remote sensing is defined as the method in which you collect data from an object without touching the object, okay? So because a lot of times you cannot have the luxury of measuring the parameter physically like using a meter or a measurement device like groundwater, sometimes you will have to depend on remote sensing because of low cost, high spatial and temporal resolution. On that note, we will go through some remote sensing data, especially GRACE data, which is one of the most important satellites across the world, which is monitoring groundwater depletion. And finally, we will look into a conceptual model idea or framework where we pull all the data that we collected into a single model and that model will explain at time zero to time one what has happened. Again, this cannot be done for a real life scenario or even a theoretical scenario fully because every time has to be accounted for your conceptual model will therefore give you a time snap and that could be used in a automated model to run for different time zones. We will look into the conceptual model in detail before we close this week. And the soil motion evapotranspiration are also driven by remote sensing data. It is not physical data always and that is what we will cover in this week lecture also. So without further delay, let us jump into the week 12 groundwater data aspects. As I said, this is the balance equation that we started with. We understood what DELEIS is, which is the chain in storage, either groundwater storage or soil surface water storage, river discharge, et cetera, as Q. ET we will discuss in this week and your soil moisture, which is part of your storage, water storage component, we will look at in detail in this week, soil moisture. So soil moisture we already defined in the previous classes, but let us give us a very small brief introduction. So we have soil and within the soil we have materials and space. The pore space, which is in between the soil material differs by different type of soil types. So for now we can understand that there are soils with high porosity and low porosity and that pore space can be filled by vacuum, air or water. Vacuum is not always that easy, so it doesn't form that widely in nature. So most of the time it is either air or water. When it is fully filled with water, which is the pore space, the volume of void inside the soil, if it is filled with water, we call it 100% saturated or saturation. And when it is only air present or vacuum present, which would mean that there is no soil moisture, it is called unsaturated, totally dry or unsaturated soil. And unsaturated can be anywhere from 0 to 99 point percentage because even if you have some particles it calls any saturated soil. So what soil moisture is, is like a percentage, percentage of the void which has water in it, okay? Not the soil particles, just the void and it can range from 0 to 100, as I mentioned. So which is helpful for plants, let's have a quick diagram on it. We could see that you have time on your x-axis and soil moisture value on your y-axis. So if the soil moisture is high and low, it goes like sinusoidal because of the seasonality, rainfall, plant update, okay? So if the soil moisture is high, 0 to high, then there is no need for the farmer to put water, okay? And when it is low, yes, the soil moisture has to be enhanced by supplying water. So there's water being supplied at this stage and that is why your soil moisture goes up and then down after harvest, okay? But during harvest, you would notice that farmers do not irrigate the feed, which is when they're cutting the paddy, sugar cane, et cetera. Whereas the crop is grown, all they have to do is cut it, take it to the market or mills or sugar cane factories. But in that phase, you don't have to irrigate the feed, but other phases, yes, you do. Okay, so this is what soil moisture variation is very important for. And then the other aspect is at what depth do you take soil moisture? Let's say this is zero soil and then you go down deep. So from zero, you go to 10, 15, 20, 30 centimeters down. They will say 30 centimeters. And we know that most of the plants, okay? Most of the plants have root zone within the 15 centimeters. This is your root zone, the roots spreading down into the soil. So for that reason, mostly soil moisture is measured up to zero to 40 centimeters or 30 centimeters. Let's say here it is 15 centimeters is what the government reports to the NRC. So soil moisture can be taken from data physically like zero, 10, 15 centimeters deep, you put soil probes and take the data. But as I was saying, it is very expensive time consuming. There are a lot of methods that use satellite data for driving soil moisture output. And that is what we'll be looking at today through the government's data portal, okay? So soil moisture data we're going to look at and it is driven by remote sensing data, wherein you're not touching the soil and collecting data, but using satellites or remote sensing objects to collect data. So how it collects data is it sends a pulse, a pulse of energy, electromagnetic wave, which penetrates into the soil and that penetration level is correlated with the soil moisture, okay? So all this we have seen from other research in other works, but since the class is not going to go deep into remote sensing, I will stop here and say that is it about remote sensing. This for you, you can understand that it is a data source that is used to collect soil moisture without touching the soil, okay? And most data satellites. So because of the satellite, it comes under the National Remote Sensing Center, which is an arm of the Indian Space Research Organization. So ISRO is big and within ISRO, you have multiple agencies that work for soil water and other aspects. So basically multiple agencies that work on data and the key is the National Remote Sensing Center, NRSC. Then you have the SAC, which is the Space Application Center and then you have the RRSC, which is the Regional Remote Sensing Center. So the national is at a bigger scale and within the national, there are regional centers. For example, there's one for south, west, east, north and also the central part of India. And these centers work on specific problems for that area using remote sensing data. So where does the NRSC come here? So NRSC, what they do, they collect the remote sensing data and then put it into a model which gives soil moisture as an output. And that model is called the Variable Infiltration Capacity Model, which has been developed by a very well-known team. So that team model is open source. Anyone can use it. And the NRSC, since it is driving it with their own data, it is calling it as an NRSC VIC model or WIC model. So all this data is housed in the WRIS website. So we'll be looking at that website in detail in this upcoming lecture. This is how it looks. The snapshot I'm showing, why I'm showing the snapshot is because it was having some issues to capture it in your class videos. And as a result, I was even thinking of taking some other material for the class, but luckily it is working, so I am recording the session. But please understand that there will always be issues with the website because of the data getting populated often. And it is operated on a lesser budget than compared to the NASI, ESI, et cetera. So you cannot expect as high bandwidths for this website. So there is some slow part, however, it is good data. So please try it often if it doesn't work. And one time you can find it work and then download the data. Don't try to use this to operate with data and et cetera. Download the data, fix your location, download the data and use GIS software like QGIS, open source to run your models and estimates. So let us go to the website. Okay. So now we are at the home website, WRIS. And then I go to water data and then I go to hydro meteorology. In the last lectures, we have looked at rainfall. So now we are looking at soil moisture. As I said, I'll have to click and then wait for some time for the data to populate. The snapshot I showed you was for entire India and similar analysis is running behind now. So you could see that the date is being fixed up to two date ranges, which is 22 year, March 29th and March 30th of the same year. So just two days, this current population is happening, the data population. And it is at an India scale, okay? So you can see slowly the data is coming up and they have taken only till 15 centimeters of depth. So I'm just concentrating on the right hand side now to show you what the data is and how it is being stacked up. We have the India scale and India scale is a spatial scale. Temporal is only two days. You have March 29th and March 30th of 2022 year, which is just a week ago of this recording. And the average volumetric soil moisture of these two dates is 25%, which is pretty low compared to the planned requirements. And then if you look at soil moisture as statewide, only some states are given. You can add more states by going now and then going to the next page, et cetera. And let's come back to zero, let's come back to zero because it's still typically okay, but practically it's not possible. So some issues that we see what issue. But other states are recording a good soil moisture of the best in this lot is Kerala with 45.49. And then you have Manipur, Megalaya region also high. Why is soil moisture high in Kerala region? As I mentioned in my Western Guard rainfall precipitation aspects, the Western Guard is there. So you have a lot of rainfall just pouring in on the Kerala side. And with water and slopey land, there is always degradation of soil, formation of new soil, et cetera. And then decomposition happens at a faster rate. We have thick soil and that thick soil can hold a lot of water. But because water is also available a lot. So you have a good soil moisture profile in Kerala. Moving down, you have to, so you can download this data by just clicking on this and a CSV Excel or an image. If you like the graph, you can just download it as an image for your report. If you want to work on it, you can download it as an Excel or CSV file and then apply other algorithms to it for better graphing. Then now we are down to daily volumetric soil moisture. This is a point data average for the entire country. So you could see that on 29th, it was 25.67. And then on 30th, it was 25.45. And the average of these two dates is given here as 25.56. So what we've seen here is on the right hand side, the data for the entire country and per date as an average. When you come down to see how the states perform, you would see that Andaman has zero. As I was saying, there is no practical zero value. You can have a theoretical zero value. And here it's more likely like theoretical because Andaman Islands for sure would have good rainfall and soil formation. Less industrialization has happened. So there is less groundwater abstraction. So what is happening there is because here, so here is your Andaman. Because your Andaman is smaller in size than the pixel of the satellite, it cannot drive a model. See, your pixel is the size, lens, the image per pixel, per grid of what the satellite can do or higher the resolution of the satellite. And if the resolution is bigger than the actual size of the land, then it cannot capture the data because you'll have more noise coming. That is why Andaman is removed. And the other similar land is your Lakshadeep. You can see Lakshadeep is also zero for those two dates. It's not because of high evaporation, low water availability, there is no water, you can just think on that. So this is the right hand side. Now we will go slowly to the left hand side part. Before that, we just have a look at the coloring that has been used. So this is the legend. The legend says the blue colors are higher in water content regions, whereas red and orange are lower in water content. You see that most of the central India has issues with the soil moisture because there is no blue color in that region. You would see blue only mostly in the western black region and other regions, okay? And we'll click India again so that the India scale comes up in the second. And then we'll move slowly to the left hand side panel where we had data on the tables, what data is, et cetera. Because I clicked India, I think it has refreshed its page. So let it come. While it's coming, I'm going to explain these points. So you can take the unit, the unit of your analysis as state or basin. As I said in my previous classes, the state is more important here because the rules regulations apply at state level, not at basin level, and the state has its own missionaries to supply water, like your state water department, groundwater department, which can supply water for agricultures. That is why we will keep the state as a unit-wise selection. And then the source of the model is always going to be an RSC, VIC model. There's not much we can pick, but you can pick the state. So I'm going to say, because we know that Rajasthan and Gujarat are in the red. So let me select Gujarat. And then one district we can pick later. Gujarat we want, and so yes, Gujarat is selected. And you can see the selection is here. For some reason, it is on the other side of the webpage, which is fine, we can bring it back later. Then you can see which region we'll do. Okay, let's do Maharashtra. There is a reason why we do Maharashtra is because you have sugarcane growing more than a year. So soil moisture properties can vary from between the season, but also because of the data on rainfall and other things. So I'm selected Maharashtra. Let's give it a second. It is populating, there you go. So Maharashtra, it is 24.29, which means it is lower than the national average. Not much you can deal with the national average is because the soil type is different, rainfall is different, and the management is different. So comparing it with a national average might be an over stretch, but let's see. And then we come here to select the district. I'm going to select Jalgaon because Jalgaon and Parbani, there are a lot of agriculture happening using sugarcane. And so we're going to see how this can be captured in this website using remote sensing data. Now you can see that the coloring scheme has come up. And then, as I said, we'll select Jalgaon. So now we're zooming in. So hopefully the other areas populating with data may not be, and then we're going to see this. So here you see what you see is the data for Jalgaon, which is populating here with this 29.49 percentage. And you don't see the line graph of the states because that is irrelevant here. And you have the district-wise two data points which is average to 29.49. And then the next aspect is the time step. Do you want daily, monthly, or yearly? See monthly and yearly is of less use because a farmer wants to see the soil moisture and then apply water. What are they going to do with the monthly estimate or last month soil moisture water is going to be helping? So daily is good, but because of the way the website is slowing down with data, it may take time to run larger time stamps or time period.  So I'm going to do a one-time zone. Let's do one month just to showcase how it is. And you can see that in April, there's no data. It's only five days in April. So let's take March one to March 30th. Okay, there's no summit, it just runs by itself. Okay, so now you could see that while it's still running, the data has already populated. So first of March, end of March and you could see that the soil moisture content was almost stationary and suddenly it went up. Maybe there was some water application in the area or a big rain that can push the percentage up by 5% and then slowly decreasing. So why is it decreasing? It is decreasing because the summer has already kicked in. So by the end of March, the summer is at full swing, which means that this evaporation is happening less water is going into the soil profile and so the soil moisture is less. Overall, on a national average, it might be healthy, but technically at least more than for 50% the soil moisture is needed for all crops to grow. So still there is some need for irrigation. So how do you know that the full potential for that you need the whole time series of soil moisture, right? So what I'm going to do is I'm going to go up to the month where you have rainfall, which is June. And then we'll map it till the end of today date availability, which is March 30. So leave the image, the images of not much use because it's just going to be a color for a district. What we're worried about is this pattern, this up and down pattern which is happening. So we have a soil moisture. When does it go up when water goes into the soil? And as I said, there has been a good rainfall season from June a month till August, September also we had good rainfall. So that actually increases the soil moisture value. You could see that the peak values of 64, 64.91 all were available during the monsoons season. So once the rainfall stopped, the farmer still grows the crop and he or she will use other resources if there's no groundwater or surface water. Here what he is, they've been waiting patiently every time and then rainfall comes saves them and then rainfall comes saves them. But after this period, you don't see that fluctuation much, why? Because there's no recharge into the soil moisture to enhance the soil moisture. It is purely coming down because of your climatic factors especially your weather patterns of summer and spring. So your spring had good water, your water soil moisture levels were up but then after that it slowly comes down. So most of these regions, you won't see much farming in summer season because they cannot afford to pump and put the water into the soil and that is part of the game in understanding these properties. Okay, you can download this data using the same tool as CSV or Excel and then you can make a different analysis using this data and you can come down to CD date per date value. So this is also an Excel sheet which you could download or a table. So most of India has been blue in that time showing that the soil moisture was healthy. However, it doesn't make sense to compare between states because every state has their own different soil and crop. So it is very important to compare within the state within the districts how the soil moisture is changing and then based on that some help from the government can be given to farmers in growing crops sustainably. Otherwise there's just invest in groundwater and keep on pumping these water until it is depleted with no more love for agriculture. Okay, so we have seen all these data aspects and then I will close this and come out a little bit. So it will have the whole India picture and you can see that slowly the other data is popping. It's not like the South or the North doesn't have data measured. It is a satellite data so the whole of India is measured using these products. So with this I will end today's lecture on soil moisture. I will see you in the next class on a different data book. Thank you.


Are you ready to just crush it in 2019 if so guys you are going to love this video or I'm gonna give you tips and strategies Just blow away or are you able to do in 2018? I'm going to also share with you my personal goals So that way you guys can keep me accountable and finally I'm gonna announce a very interesting project at the end of this video To stay tuned, but we're gonna get to all that after this intro Are you guys what is going on Luxier for them to journey helping you succeed on your medical journey with less stress If you're new to this channel welcome I am a fourth-year medical student applying into internal medicine and I've been helping both med students as well as pre-meds How to do better on their medical journey whether that includes studying productivity Motivation so if any of that resonates with you first of all consider giving this video like and subscribe to the channel and join The community but without further ado this video is all about how to just crush it in 2019 Both in medical school pre-meds if you're in college or just in your personal life I'm gonna give you some tips for in particular as well as just transitioning into some of the goals that I have for the empty journey And then finally I'm gonna announce a cool project at the very end for those of you guys that are interested So let's get into the tip. So tip number one is basically a quote and it's actually one of my favorites Which says great things don't come out of comfort Essentially guys if you want to be at a place that you have not been You're going to have to do things that you haven't done if you want to become a better student You want to get better grades You're going to have to study at least differently if not more or more intensively you want to become a better clinician You're going to have to think and practice thinking outside of your comfort zone right now because what you're doing is not gonna be able to Get you the results that you want to get if you want to become a better communicator Which are patients you're going to have to enter that uncomfortable feeling ever so often where you're awkward you make mistakes That's how you get better. You know a great example is last year I started this YouTube channel and Not in my wildest dreams that I imagine being in front of a camera giving tips about med school And am I perfect and you know one year later? Absolutely not but these videos are much better than what they were a year ago I encourage you to watch my very first one because there was a lot going wrong in that one and it makes me cringe But I'm better now and that's the whole point So great things don't come out of comforts But if you want to do great things in 2019, you're going to have to be uncomfortable more than you were in 2018 So tip number two and this works really well for the students and my Viewers and subscribers that are interested in becoming a better student Maybe you have step one or the MCAT or step two later this year and you just want to do better So the tip is to remove the fluff There is so much that we do particularly when we study that doesn't give us results If anything is wasting your time or giving us poor Outcomes so evaluate everything you do whether that's studying how you interact with people You know whatever your goal is and ask yourself what am I doing that's not giving me results But it's causing me to waste time and effort So if that means that you're doing something for example, if you're reading the syllabus But you don't actually get anything out of reading the text Maybe you substitute us for something that does give you results Whatever it may be just be critical on everything you do remove the fluff because at the end of the year If not literally you're going to be figuratively a more lean individual and version of yourself things You're just gonna become much more efficient productive and that is something that I can speak to You know if I'm always evaluating what things I can take out and when I look at myself at the end of the year I know I'm a little bit of a better version of myself because I removed the fluff So tip number three and this is something that I give through a lot of my videos is to have the end in mind You know one of my favorite quotes is how are the person that I want to be do the things that I'm about to do So if you have a goal for the version of yourself You see at the end of 2019 ask yourself what that person would do and then you know basically reverse engineer it how Would they get there? What goals would they try to accomplish how strategically and specifically do they get to that point? And it just becomes a lot more clear if you imagine yourself as that person who's already accomplished it So have the end in mind it really works wonders versus just having a goal and you know blindly trying to get there So tip number four is a specific way to basically achieve all your goals it's called my one for one technique and There's a specific reason that I made this video at the end of January versus at the very start of 2019 because now The New Year's resolution motivational Kind of high is gone and you guys have to be real with yourself on whether you've actually stuck with those Resolutions that you've had the one for one technique is a very specific way Versus you know a New Year's resolution on how to accomplish your goals for the year So basically what it is is that the one for one technique represents an annual goal Quarter goals as well as monthly goals. So you have one big annual goal for whatever you may want to do So when you met school, you may be having a specific Score on step one if that's something you want to do you may have a personal annual goal the four Represents for quarterly goals. So you have one for spring one for summer one for fall and one for winter And it's something you just want to be able to do every three months These are kind of micro goals that you have yourself focus on versus something that takes 12 months Which is a little overwhelming and then finally you have monthly goals You have one thing that you want to be able to accomplish So a great example is when I make my blogs and I'm doing them the journey There is a goal at the end of every single month some of them are number of goals which is trying to get a specific month subscribers for the YouTube channel and some of Them are just outcome goals, you know try to send out X amount of emails Referring to blog posts that I've made and so I have to make those blog posts to send out the emails so one for one technique really works wonders because you are focused at a time a Shorter time frame versus 12 months. So try it out Let me know what you guys think but I really do think it'll help you transform where you're able to accomplish in 2019 So now guys I'm going to quickly transition into some of the goals that I have for the MD journey Kind of want to give a little bit of honesty Transparency on what I want to accomplish because that way you guys keep me accountable at the end of the year when I watch this video Let's see which ones I accomplished on which ones I didn't so the first one Then that's kind of a number of goal Most of these are is I want to be able to get this channel to 25,000 subscribers that goal is kind of arbitrary It's actually much higher than The channel is probably projected to get but I want to get there and so now I need a reverse Engineer how I'm going to arrange the channel what things I need to change to be able to get to those kinds of numbers currently as I'm making this video I'm about 1200 to 1100 subscribers So I'm really gonna have to 25x my outcomes and we'll see how far I get But I do have some plans for the YouTube channel and really just transforming both the quality as well as a frequency of content So hopefully you guys are excited tip number two is I really want to continue the ball of Creating different content and products on helping the specific audience And so last year I wrote three books and made two video courses into today Or at least this year the goal is to write two more books as well as to release at least two more courses And so I have in mind what those are going to be but we'll see if I'm able to accomplish them Especially now that residency is coming quickly down the line and I'm getting married So that's two things that really will kind of take away the amount of time I'm able to spend on an empty journey. Don't worry. I think I'm gonna be able to do it Finally the next thing is working on project X And so I'm not going to be very specific on what project X is But I'm going to give you a chance if you're interested on being a part of the creation of project X So at the comment in the description you can go ahead and see a link It basically adds you to a list of people that are interested and I'm going to just send you out Info about what project X is and then you are going to be able to help me craft kind of the final product So if you're interested on helping up the basically the newest and biggest Change the empty journey is going to make in 2019 that I encourage you to check out the link in the description below I'm gonna need your help and there is going to be a lot of benefits of being part of that group So if you think you have some time to just answer some emails and give me some feedback But I think we are going to work really well as a team So again if you're interested in project X which I plan on creating this year Then go ahead and check out the link in the description But basically guys that is the end of this video on how to just crush it in 2019 Remember the four goals, which is you have to get out of your comfort zone You need to have the end in mind You need to understand Basically to remove the fluff and finally use the one for one technique to arrange your goals in a very specific way And I promise you you're going to become a different version of yourself than you were in 2018 If you did enjoy this video make sure you give a like subscribe to the channel and join the community and To help me get to my 25,000 Subscriber goal if this video helped you and if you have been a subscriber for a while just share This video with one person. Do you think it could help or just share the channel? Help me get to as many med students as possible as pre-med as possible Thanks so much for watching this video as always I want to stop babbling like I always do and I'll see you guys Next one.


So again, a very warm welcome to everyone who's joining us here for our C-mold webinar today. We are going to start with an overview of C-mold accreditation, and I'm going to also share some key tips for completing your portfolio, as well as giving you a lot of links to resources to support you along the way. We're then going to go into Q&A and pick up any individual questions that you might have regarding your portfolio, the journey, or which pathway to choose. So let's jump right in with our overview of our scheme, which was set up to enhance professional recognition for all learning technology professionals across sectors. C-mold is a scheme is informed by the values that we hold as a professional body, which are openness, independence, collaboration and participation, and at the heart of it all are our members. Now I often get asked who C-mold is for, and the simple answer is that you don't have to be called a learning technologist in order for C-mold to make sense for you, and in order for it to be of value, gaining professional recognition for all the important work you do. Whether you have a digital role, a management role, a leadership role, whether you work in FE or vocational education, in schools, in colleges and universities, or you might be in a work-based or industry context, C-mold can help you gain professional recognition for the work you do and reflect on your career development. Now C-mold was set up 10 years ago to provide pathways for peer-assessed accreditation for professionals like you in the UK and internationally, and there are a lot of different benefits for gaining C-mold, including gaining stronger recognition, four-year skills and experience, as well as demonstrating your commitment to and understanding of the importance of the work that you do to critically reflect upon your practice, achievement and expertise, for which very few of us have much time over the last few years, and to receive feedback throughout the accreditation process from your peers. C-mold, as a recruitment criteria, has been used much more on job descriptions as an essential and desirable criteria across different sectors in the past few years. So if you are looking for career development, it is certainly a bonus to be able to evidence that. Now throughout the webinar today, I'm going to talk to you a lot about the core principles of C-mold, which underlie all parts of the portfolio that you are going to be compiling in order to gain your accreditation and really inform what the scheme is about. Upfront is a commitment to communicate and disseminate best practice. Also, the scheme is informed by commitment to unexploring and understanding the interplay between learning and technology, a commitment to keep up to date with new technologies, and an empathy and willingness to learn from colleagues from different backgrounds and specialisms. And one of the things I really enjoy when I see the introductions here is that there are many people from different parts of the UK in a way and further away, but also from different sectors and in very different roles. So one of the things I wanted to ask you all to put in the chat now is how would you describe your role? That might be your job title or it might be your own description, but if you're keen to share it, please do so in the chat now and give us a sense of how you would describe your role. And then we can start thinking about how the work that you do can be related to the C-mold core principles. Fantastic. I can see a few coming in already. That sounds great. Academic technologist, learning technology manager, digital learning designer, senior learning technologist, lead move producer, excellent. So you're getting a sense of who's in the room and what your roles are. Now, if you adjust at the very beginning of setting out on your C-mold journey, you will certainly reflect on which pathway to choose. And there's three to choose from. Associate C-mold, the main pathway, C-mold, and then senior C-mold. And what I'm going to be doing for the next five or 10 minutes is explain to you the different pathways, how to choose them, and what the difference is between them when it comes to the portfolio and the assessment process. There are some core competencies that are relevant for all different pathways. And then there are specialist options and enhanced areas for C-mold and senior C-mold that we build on top for those pathways. So in case you're sitting here thinking, I've got no idea which pathway is the right one for me, hopefully that is one of the questions that we can answer today. Now, Associate C-mold and Senior C-mold joined our accreditation family only a few years ago. And so up to that point, we only had one main pathway, which was the main C-mold pathway. And the reason why the framework was expanded to include three different pathways is simply to reflect how many more people are working in this industry and at how many different levels people are working in this industry. So Associate C-mold as a pathway is designed for early career professionals or professionals who've just moved into a learning technology related role. Typically, candidates have three years experience or less. And many of them only engage with learning technology as a smaller part of their role and have quite a limited range of evidence to draw on. So if you're primarily working as an academic or a lecturer and learning technology is part of your role, but not the main focus, Associate C-mold could be a really good fit. Similarly, if you're just starting out and you're in a role that you haven't been in for very long, again, Senior C-mold would be a very good first step to gain the entry level accreditation. Now, the main C-mold pathway that we're looking at here in the middle is really designed for established learning professionals or educational practitioners. Here, candidates typically have three or more years of experience and engage with learning technology throughout most aspects of their role. Now, we also offer a third pathway, which is Senior C-mold, which is currently the smallest one, because there's the fewest candidates who need all of its requirements. We designed this one for very experienced learning technology professionals or educational practitioners who have a lot of experience and who are really looking for progression from C-mold. This is really for individuals who have management leadership or strategic responsibilities or an equivalent level of impact on others throughout their work. Could also be beneficial for those who have a research focus in a relevant field. So as I said, Senior C-mold is currently the smallest pathway, because we have the fewest candidates who need those requirements. But we are seeing more than 20% of our members now have a focus on management or leadership in their role. And so that is one of the things that we're anticipating will grow significantly over the next 10 years. Now, for all three pathways, there are core requirements that all candidates have to complete. You'll need to write a contextual statement and also address the C-mold core principles. And in order to keep you thinking a little bit about your next steps and how you might want to develop in your professional practice, there's also a future plans section. These are elements of the portfolio that are common to all pathways. Now, there are also some core competencies for all learning technology professionals, and they have four particular sections of the portfolio. Later in the webinar, we're going to talk about how you might explore example portfolios to get a practical sense of what's involved. But each portfolio basically has these four headings. Operational issues, learning, teaching, assessment, the wider context and communicating and working with others. Those four headings as well as the contextual statement and future plans are in all C-mold portfolios regardless of which pathway you undertake. Some of these sections have some subheadings that you need to address. So, for example, for the first one, there are two subheadings. One is to demonstrate an understanding of the constraints and benefits of different technologies and then also to demonstrate technical knowledge and the ability and use of learning technology. While others for all pathways only have one section that you need to address. So, if you think about your portfolio either as a blog or as a document, you would certainly expect to see those headings in that document or on that blog or in that e-portfolio. Now, for those of you who are interested in C-mold and senior C-mold, there are some further experience required. And as you can see, they're built on the core ones that are common to all pathways but they're additional ones. So, for section one operational issues, you would also need to address how you support the deployment of learning technologies. In section two, you need to focus on target learners. In the wider context section, you would need to give a second example of a legislative area policy or standard. And the fourth area remains the same. Also, for C-mold and senior C-mold, give you an opportunity to demonstrate a specialism, something that you're particularly interested in, that is unique to you. But even if it's common across your team, something that you wouldn't expect every person in your role to necessarily be expert in. And this is really an opportunity for you to shine and explore an area that you're most interested and passionate about. You can as a candidate pick your own specialist area. We do in the guidance document also provide a very long list of examples. And as you explore the portfolios in the portfolio bank, you can also search by specialist areas. Now, for those of you who are interested in senior C-mold, it has one additional section, so it's the biggest portfolio. It has the most sections. And that is really where we focus on advanced professional practice that addresses each one of the core principles. There are some indicative examples included here. So, for example, you could have research in blended professional development or leadership focus, maybe promoting equality in learning technology, which could be a wider issue. So those are the sorts of examples that we're looking for. Different to the specialist area that we just talked about, this section of the portfolio senior C-mold candidates need to demonstrate not only the example of their work and its impact, but also how it relates to each of the core principles that we started speaking about at the beginning. So that is one of the most challenging aspects of senior C-mold. Okay, now that was a lot of information in quite a short amount of time. I'm still with me, but I'm just going to summarize the requirements for each portfolio. So, for each section that we've just looked at, you need to provide a description, evidence and reflection. So, let's say you're picking one section, you would describe maybe one or two examples of your work, and then provide the evidence for that, which could be screenshots, links to online resources or certificates, maybe images or even video. And then importantly, you would focus on that example and reflect on it. So those three elements have to be in all sections. I can sound a bit complicated when you look at it from the beginning, but we are going to have quite a few examples for you to have a look at. And I think when you see it in practice, it makes a lot of sense. Different to some other accreditation schemes, this is not sufficient for you to just provide evidence. So, if, for example, you want to show, let's say you have fellowship of advanced HE, and you want to use that as a way to demonstrate your proficiency when it comes to learning teaching assessment, just sending a link to the certificate or linking to that isn't enough. You do need to describe actual practice, you do need to reflect on it, and then you need to provide the evidence to it. So, it is very much based on your professional practice. Even if you've had 20 years or more experience in your role, you will still need to provide evidence and describe examples, saying, I'm overall responsible for X, Y or Z is not sufficient detail for assessors to be able to give you the accreditation, even if it seems implicitly obvious that you have all the experience required. Now, here's a handy table to share you again which sections are required for which pathway, and you can see for those of you who are going for senior C-mold, all boxes are ticked, you're required all sections. Associate C-molds, there's a few that you don't have to complete, but for C-mold itself, there's also a few that you can skip out. But overall, the different pathways are summarized on these two slides. And again, this is included in all the C-mold guidelines that are available online and hopefully have been finding their way to you already. If not, I can share links to that in the chat as well. OK, now I want to give you a quick overview of the submission and assessment process. Let's say you have found the time, you have completed your portfolio, you have submitted it and what's next? Now, first of all, well done you. It is taking a lot of effort to make this portfolio and put it all together. I know I made three full starts over the period of three years. So if you're in the same boat that it's been a while since you had the intention, but you haven't made any progress, I think you're in good company. But let's say you have submitted everything online. There are three deadlines at the end of January, May and September each year, but you can actually submit at any point in time. The submission system is always open, but these are the deadlines for us to start the peer review process. Now, your portfolio will be peer reviewed by two assessors and they undertake the assessment process independently and then confer with each other to agree a joint outcome. They are different outcomes depending on your portfolio. So either you can pass and you also have passed with distinction or your portfolio might be referred for changes to be made, either minor or major corrections required. If your portfolio is referred and you need to make corrections, then you can resubmit it again and generally portfolios pass or you're passed with distinctions on the second try. Very few fail and that is really if a resubmitted portfolio can't be said to be meeting all the requirements. But as I said, that's quite a rare outcome. Great, thanks Steve. You have a question here. Is there a time limit from starting to submitting? That's a good question Steve. So there is a time limit, yes. Once you register for C-mold, you should submit your portfolio within two years. So that is the normal time frame. Obviously in the past two years, life has been quite unusual. So we have been very lenient and given everybody who's asked us an extension of up to a year. But generally because C-mold is about examples of professional practice and we're looking for examples that are relatively recent, generally from the last three to five years of your practice, it doesn't make sense, I think, for that period to be any longer. So I would suggest register and then you've given yourself at least a tentative deadline. Thanks for that question, Steve. I hope that's helpful. Rachel, thanks for your question as well. Right, Rachel, you're absolutely right. Yes, if you submit between the assessment deadlines, let's say you submit on July 1st, we will receive your portfolio immediately and double check it. But the peer review process only then starts on the 30th of September, that's right. So our peer reviewers basically have three assessment cycles a year and that's when they assess portfolios. It is worth noting that due to the disruption caused by the pandemic and there was some severe delays last year, but we are completely back on track and have cleared the entire backlog of assessments so that the current assessment window is running on time and on schedule. And I would expect that to be the same for the rest of the year. And Rachel had a follow-up question. So Rachel, basically the peer assessment takes between one cycle and the next. So if you submit for the 30th of September, you would have your results before the next submission window closes. So basically it's always a three to four month process. We do try and make it faster than three months, but it is dependent on our peer assessors and we have a large volume of submissions. Okay, Kat, you had a question as well. Thank you. Is there a time limit between receiving referral corrections and the required resubmission? Yes, there is, Kat. It is a maximum of one year because of the currency of the work that's being assessed. Generally, people resubmit within the next window so they resubmit after like three to four months. Okay, please feel free to post further questions in the chat as we go along. But I did want to share some tips for completing your portfolio. And this is the last section of the presentation and then we're going to go and look at any other questions that we have. So first of all, if you are getting started or you're at the very beginning, think about the right structure and format that works for you. If you're working in a context where it's gonna take you a lot of time to spend getting ring your evidence if you've worked in lots of different jobs, lots of different platforms, I would suggest choose the structure of a portfolio that is gonna be really easy for you to work in. Some people really spend a lot of time in the design and sort of format of their portfolio which looks beautiful but can be such a time sink. So if you're not sure whether you have a lot of time, use a format that works really well for you. And thank you for the questions that you've posted. I will pick these up in a moment. Also, consider how you want to license your portfolio and what the copyright or other access demands of the portfolio are. The biggest problem people run into when they make their portfolio is that they use an institutionally based system then they might change jobs and then they can't access their portfolio again which can be a real problem. So do think about the structure and the format that works with you and also think about the accessibility of your portfolio. Now, when you start off writing your portfolio consider the tone of it. It needs to be reflective and analytical not solely descriptive. It is personal to you and should be written in the first person. So we're expecting you to literally write I am part of this team and my role in the team is this and I did this and I completed that and this is why I made this decision or this is how I followed these guidance. So you really need to make it very explicit what you've done even if you're part of a team. We did this and we did that should not happen really in your portfolio other than to describe the context in which you work. All the assessors are professionals just like you. So they are completely aware that most of your work will not be happening in isolation but it is very important that you reflect on your individual work and how that went. Many candidates struggle with the reflective part the most particularly if they have very clear institutional measures or failure or success. You could have a very successfully accredited Seamult portfolio just with failures. Seamult is not about sharing just success it is reflecting on your professional practice. If a lot of things went wrong as I'm sure it might have done at times as in learning technology that can always easily be the case you can still include these examples as long as you evidence what the work was describe it accurately and then reflect on it successfully. So you might use some of these prompts to help you with your reflection. You could consider the progress you've made to date think about what you find most difficult and why if you're really stuck go to that part of your portfolio that might be the easiest to complete and really try and use this process as carving out a little bit of time for yourself to think about your professional practice and development. You might surprise yourself and have achieved more than you thought particularly in the past two years. Now if you do get stuck and you're not getting anywhere with your Seamult portfolio we do run Seamult accelerator workshops that are dedicated to help give you a real kickstart into the writing process but also I would recommend the first step would be to take a tour and get inspired by successful portfolios. And in a minute I'm gonna share the links to how to access these and where to go with that. But before we do that I just want to pick up some of the questions that are in the chat. So Steve asked, does Seamult need renewing every few years? And yes, Steve that's completely right. Seamult does need to be kept up to date and there is a light touch review process every three years. Kat had a comment here as well. Excellent, I think we answered your question there. Lisa had a question. Is there a benefit to registering for Seamult at the beginning instead of working on a portfolio and registering when close to completion? Lisa, no, not really. It's up to you. I think many people like to be part of kind of like a distributed cohort particularly if they're the only person in their institution who is doing it. We do have quite a lot of institutional cohorts who go through it together. One thing that would be important to consider is that if anything changes or we have new resources we do email or registered candidates with extra information. So if you're not registered for Seamult then we wouldn't know that you would want to get that information. So I would strongly suggest because we do improve our resources and our guidance all the time that if you aren't registered check frequently on the Seamult website and make sure that you keep up to date with all the guidance. In terms of the question around portfolio renewal so just to say that once your initial portfolio is accredited it is review process every three years. Okay, brilliant. We have quite a few questions regarding the portfolio format which we'll come to in a moment. First I just wanted to give you some answers to frequently asked questions and then we'll go to the Q&A. So we've got maybe two more minutes of this and then we'll go into Q&A. So you can register for any Seamult pathway and you can also progress from associate to Seamult to senior Seamult. And I don't know if many of you have Seamult already and want to progress to senior Seamult but there is certainly guidance for that as well. If you're not sure which pathway to choose have a look on the website for there is more guidance on there and also detailed guidelines for each of the pathways. One question that hasn't come up but we often get asked is whether Seamult is mapped to other frameworks and the answer is yes it is. It is mapped to a number of frameworks including the Blended Learning Essentials curriculum, the UK PSF and a number of the GISC Digital Capability frameworks as well. So if you're already accredited through one of these other frameworks you might well be able to reuse some of the information in order to gain your Seamult portfolio. Okay, as I said there are certainly example portfolios that you can access and I just want to get to the slide with all the different links, perfect. So on our website there is information about Seamult in general as well as all the official guidance. Once you're registered for Seamult you can access the Seamult portfolio register and you can also look at the mappings to other frameworks. So for me, thank you very much for joining this recording part of the webinar. I'm going to stop the recording now and we'll go and pick up all the questions in the chat.


I'm Michael Fully Love of the Lowy Institute and I'm here with a guest of the Lowy Institute, my friend Richard Flanagan, one of Australia's finest novelists. Thank you very much, Richard, for coming to speak to us today. Thank you, Michael. Can I ask you about this magnificent novel that you've written, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, which I found formidable and powerful and compelling and very moving. Why did you write this book and what's it about? My father was a prisoner of war of the Japanese and he worked on the infamous Burma Thai Death Railway and I'd written several novels and at a certain point I realised I'd kept returning to the story trying to write it and failing and my father had grown old and frail and I realised I had to return to it and finish it but it was really the book I had to write if I was ever to write another book. So it tells the story of one man who ends up a leader in one camp of Australian POWs and follows him through his life but it also follows through their various lives, some of the prisoners and also some of their captors, the Japanese officers, the Korean guards and tries to build up a picture of war, love, guilt, memory and all that strange chaos I suppose that haunts us all. And the central character, Dorigo Evans, is a really memorable figure who I guess is based partly on or draws on the life of Leary Dunlop and you and I were talking a minute ago and we were saying that it's interesting that of all the scrapes Australia's been involved in as a country probably the most celebrated war hero was a doctor, Sir Weary Dunlop. Tell us a little bit maybe about Dorigo Evans as a character and then on Weary Dunlop what do you think it might say about Australia that we've plucked him from the ranks? Well that's two very distinct questions and because they're two aptly different people really Dorigo Evans, as for Bear said, Madame Bovery, same war Dorigo Evans, same war, he's an invention composed of many parts and all of them I suppose refracted through the prism of my own soul his early story is very much my father's early story growing up the child of a literate in a remote Tasmanian country town his war story is similar to Weary Dunlop's because my father was one of Dunlop's thousand that now near mythical group but Dunlop was only one of a number of extraordinary doctor leaders of the prisoners of war and they all performed very similarly they were extraordinary, self-sacrificing, courageous and they were revered by their men both at the time and afterwards Dunlop simply became the most famous of them and he was an extraordinary figure but the post-war life I invented for Dorigo Evans is a fiction and I guess really the point that really distinguishes Dorigo Evans from Weary Dunlop is Weary Dunlop is too extraordinary a character for fiction his feats which we were discussing earlier were so remarkable so outlandish that to put them in a novel would invite the criticism of both absurdity, sentimentality over dramatisation but I guess we invented God to explain the miraculous truth of ourselves as human beings but a poor novelist like me has to make do with the plausibility of believable lies and so I invented Dorigo Evans your second question as to why has Weary Dunlop become such a figure I think has a lot to do with who we are as Australians rather than who Weary Dunlop was every society, every history throws up a myriad of characters, achievements but it is interesting that other cultures choose warrior heroes to explain war to them we found a man who was a doctor and whose courage manifested itself in standing up for others in situations of the greatest adversity, distress and misery I think one of his men said that he was a lighthouse of rationality in a world gone entirely mad another said that we knew if Weary would all go under he speaks to something about us as Australians something about our communal instincts which still even to this day seems stronger than perhaps some other societies and yet he also speaks to a non-conformity that masquerades as authority so he's a very strange and paradoxical figure I think he is a story that will continue to grow and it's a good story for us to continue to think about and explore Finally can I ask you about the war in which your novel is set, the Second World War I know when I was growing up the Second World War loomed quite large I think in Australian memories of our history my father also was a Second World War veteran so it was very important to me it seems to me in the last couple of decades that it's been overshadowed somewhat in our official remembrances by the First World War does that balance need to be redressed do you think? Well it's not whether it should be redressed I mean the history of it is that political decisions were made to celebrate the First World War as the great founding myth of Australia it was made first by the Hawke government and later by the Howard government and so these were conscious political decisions about how our history would be divined interestingly Paul Keating took a different position which was the Second World War was really the point at which modern Australia begins Personally I think the idea that the Second World War is when modern Australia comes into being in which its true origins begin it's when it withdraws from the English Imperium and sets up an alliance with a new Imperium, that of America but that's going to be the defining relationship until now even with the new tensions we have with their relationship with China it was when we first engaged with Asia it is when we come to understand whether we wish to or not that we're going to be part of Asia and it's when also the ruling classes here come to recognise that Australia must modernise and must reinvent itself that it couldn't exist as a sort of just an outstation of English commerce and English culture so I do think in every sense the Australia we're in now is a consequence of the Second World War rather than of the first which really is an extraordinarily tragic and the largest tragedy Australia's ever endured since Europeans arrived but it speaks, the First World War speaks to the past the Second World War speaks to our future Richard Flanagan thank you very much for visiting Bly Street for visiting the Lowy Institute congratulations on your book and good luck with it Thank you very much for having me


Step-by-step guide to legally teaching English in China. If you are interested in teaching English abroad, you probably quickly realize that China is one of the largest job markets for TEFL teachers at the moment. Truth is, China has over 300 million English learners and schools are hiring constantly. This large demand for qualified teachers leads to high salaries and great benefits to attract teachers to make the move. China is a great place to work in if you're a new teacher and if you have experience in the field. However it is key to understand the country's current visa regulations and the local preferences of schools to be able to teach English in China. Disclaimer, visa regulations in China change very frequently. Therefore we recommend checking with your local Chinese embassy for the current updates. Step 1, understanding the visa situation. As of the time of writing this article, the Z visa is the only legal visa for TEFL teachers. One of the requirements to obtain a Z visa is a bachelor's degree. Due to the large demand for foreign teachers in the country and the complicated relationship between schools and the government, this bureaucracy often results in a large gray area. This means, there are a lot of schools in China who routinely hire teachers on visas other than the Z visa, most commonly an M or F visa. These types of visas are not legal to teach on, but they do allow the visa holder to live in China for an extended period of time. These visas can also be easier to obtain making this a preferred option for some schools. However, many teachers without a four-year degree also choose to go down this route, despite the fact that this means they will be working in China illegally. China has been combating this issue very strictly in recent years by issuing hefty fines for teachers working illegally, or even sending them back home. Tip 2, get your TEFL certification. In order to obtain a Z visa as an English teacher in China, it is also necessary to have a TEFL certification. There have been many cases of teachers photoshopping a TEFL certificate in the past. Nowadays, China is taking a close look at what kind of TEFL TESOL certificate is presented to them when applying for a visa. All TEFL TESOL certificates from ITTT have a unique identification number, which can be used by embassies and employers to make sure they are authentic. If you want to live and work in China as an English teacher, we recommend that you start your TEFL TESOL course at least one year before your desired start date in China. If you choose an in-class TEFL TESOL course, you will receive your certificate within about four weeks. An online course will take a little more time and can take anywhere between two and six months. This depends on how much time you have and how quickly you work through the units. Keep in mind that even if you complete an in-class course in China, you will still have to apply for your Z visa from outside of the country. You can either return to your home country or visit a neighboring country, such as Hong Kong to apply for your Z visa. However, employers will certainly appreciate your in-class teaching experience in China and your experience with Chinese students. While in-class courses were much preferred in the early days of EFL teaching, online TEFL courses are now just as valued. Keep in mind that employers usually only hire teachers with a TEFL certificate of more than 100 hours of study. Step 3. Do your homework and research. Do as much research about China as you possibly can. The more you know about China as a country and as a job market for teaching English before you head there, the smoother your job search will go. As mentioned, there are more than 300 million people currently learning English in China. This results in a high demand for qualified teachers across the country. Most teachers are employed at private language institutes but some public school positions are also open. The big names in the private English Academy sector include F-Education, New Orient Education Technology Group, Global Educations, and Technology Group, Wall Street English, and Web International English. Step 4. Be patient persistent and flexible. Generally, Beijing and Shanghai are the largest markets for EFL teachers, but competition is fierce. Be flexible and look beyond these two famous cities. Smaller Chinese cities are still huge compared to the West with a population of several million. Other popular cities include Hongzhou, Suzhou, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengcheng and Kunming. Step 5. Apply for jobs. Once you have your TEFL certificate in hand and understand the local job market, you are ready to start your job search. All enrolled ITTT students and alumni have access to our lifetime job assistance including our job boards. We have an extensive network of recruiters and schools in China to allow you to choose the job offer that suits your needs. You can also find a lot of vacant teaching positions in China via a quick Google search. However, not all of them will be legit. We have a couple of tips on how you can spot a China job scam. For example you should never have to pay for job placement. This also includes recruiters. Schools reach out to recruitment agencies looking for a new teacher and then the school pays the recruiter upon hiring a teacher. A teacher never pays a recruiter. We work with a range of renowned recruiters who specialize in the Chinese market and we would love to connect you with them. Are you ready for your China adventure? Thanks so much for watching. We are ITTT the leading provider for Teflon TESOL training courses. If you like this video, please subscribe by clicking that button down here and click on any of the videos here on the left for more interesting teaching tips for getting certified to teach English abroad and online.


What's up everybody, Jason here for JaspysKZRace.com. 2022, flawless collegiate football. One box break, Pikachu is number 12. R&B just sold out with this random number block here for the Jets, Colts, Commanders, Texans, Giants, Cardinals, Browns, Rams, Bears. Get a piece of these nine teams. Of course, if they have any hits in the one box break, they'll be distributed via a random number block right there, so there you go guys. So again, here's the dice, here's the customer names, and then here's the numbers. So good luck guys, here we go. Roll it. One and a four or five times, good luck. One, two, three, four, five. So one and a four, five. Michael L down to Todd. And then we got five times. One, two, three, four, five. Five, five, six, down to seven. And here we go guys, so let's see what you guys got. So Michael L, you got a letter, Subire starting number six. Jason with one and you know, one on one, Steven Kendrick with eight. Jason K with two and zero. Taylor with four, five, Michael with three. Taylor with nine, and then Todd with seven. So there you go folks. So now coming up next in this separate video is the flawless break. Good luck everybody.


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