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Spring is the busiest time of year for my photography. The weather turns warm and beautiful and the night sky clears and reveals its, almost forgotten, beauty. It's also the time when my commercial / real estate work really kicks off. And I have been pulled hard by this amazing spring weather with stunning sunrises & sunsets, the Aurora Borealis, and more. But this time of year my paying clients come first. So this month's morning light work amounted to only one morning. One very early morning, okay, night. And one stunning night it was.
It was a clear, moonless sky. Which is often difficult to come by in early May in the Pacific Northwest. I had a shot in mind for this early morning. One I have been planning for months that I'd already missed out on a couple of times. But first I decided to run my "milky way circuit".
Sony A7Rii + Samyang 24mm f/1.4 20s @ f/1.4 iso 5000
My first stop was Hummel Lake. I like to stop here because of its simple beauty and because it gives me my first indication of what kind of sky I'm dealing with. And I wasn't the least bit disappointed. I've shot this composition many, many times but over the last year or so I've been dragging a portion of my real estate lighting kit with me for my night shots. It lets me add a touch of light to the foreground bringing out some detail in places that would otherwise be dark or pretty noisy.
You can see another example of nighttime off camera flash use in my Richards Dock image from my March Morning Light Post.
From Hummel Lake I headed south to one of my favorite milky way spots, the old Richardson Fuel Docks.
Sony A7Rii + Samyang 24mm f/1.4 20s @ f/1.4 iso 4000
I've got hundreds of shots at the great location. And many of those have been grand landscape shots that included a large portion of the milky way arch. Those are cool images but I wanted to tighten up my composition and focus on the galactic core of the milky way. I spent probably an hour setting up lighting and shooting different compositions to get this shot but there are a number of technical issues that I think I can clean up. So it's definitely going on my list to revisit next May when the conditions are similar.
It would unfair to say that I was killing time since it was such a glorious night, but my planned shot was at the old Center Church. I have been thinking about and planning for a shot of the milky way rising over this great old church for probably a year and this was my third attempt to shoot it.
The key to this shot was trust. Trust in folks goodness. Which means that this church is usually/always? left unlocked. And that includes 3:53am on this Saturday May 7th.
Sony A7Rii + Samyang 24mm f/1.4 20s @ f/1.4 iso 6400
Having the church open allowed me to place a light inside the church which was crucial for the look I was after. Here is the lighting set up.
- Cactus RF60 Flash with a 1/4 cto gel inside the church
- Cactus RF60 on light stand with shoot thru umbrella camera left.
- Cactus RF60 with snoot camera right aimed at church steeple.
What I hadn't planned on, and had no control of was the light on a barn in the valley below. It's responsible for the tree shadows on the front of the church. I go back and forth between liking it and wishing it away. But I'll likely revisit this idea as well. Cause there's always room for some improvement.


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Anglo American has advised Highlands Pacific that it intends to withdraw from the Star Mountains exploration joint venture in Papua New Guinea.
Following a review of its global exploration portfolio, Anglo American has given notice that it will withdraw from the project in 30 days, and in accordance with the terms of the joint venture, will relinquish its vested 15% holding in the project, leaving Highlands with a 100% interest.
Highlands Managing Director Craig Lennon said that, while he was disappointed that Anglo American would not be continuing with the joint venture, its involvement over the past three years had greatly enhanced the understanding of the geology of the tenements and substantially increased the value of the project.
"We will now be free to introduce a new partner to continue exploration efforts," he said. "Drilling to date has confirmed extensive mineralisation through the various prospects that have been tested to date, and we remain confident that further exploration will identify the source and structure of the mineralisation sufficiently to support a significant development project."
Anglo American and Highlands established the joint venture in February 2015 and since then Anglo American has funded an extensive exploration program including two diamond drilling campaigns.
Anglo American has spent a total of US$38 million on the project including a US$10 million payment to Highlands Pacific for its initial entry into the project. This comes on top of significant funding by various project participants since the initial discovery by Kennecott in the late 1960s when they found Ok Tedi's Mt Fubilan deposit.
The Star Mountains exploration tenements, which include Nong River EL1312, Tifalmin EL1392, Mt Scorpion EL1781, Benstead EL2001, Mt Abemh EL2467, Ilam River EL2478 and Lake Louise EL2517 cover 1049 sq kms and are located approximately 20km north east of the Ok Tedi mine and 25kms from the support town of Tabubil, in the West Sepik Province of PNG.
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Gourmet. Food & Wine. Cooks Illustrated. Savour. All of the November back issues were flipped open and spread out on the dining room table. A feast for the eyes and imagination -- a glimmer of what was to come on Thanksgiving. But, of course, it was a vision of unattainable perfection.
It was Wednesday, just shy of a week from Thanksgiving, and I was planning the annual feast. My goals were lofty: a completely planned meal and accompanying grocery list by morning's end. However, I had a looming deadline teasing me in the back of my brain. One cranberry apple pie promised to Jenny for her party on Friday and I had yet to make the dough. So this really wasn't the morning to be lingering over coffee and my dreamy magazines.
As I was flipping through Gourmet, something caught my eye. It was a recipe for cranberry ice cream. I was planning on picking up a half-gallon of vanilla to go with the pie at the grocery store, but how good would it be to have homemade ice cream? And the cranberry in the pie would be a perfect match to the sweet creamy confection. I could taste it already....
Now where was I again? Thanksgiving dinner, right. That would have to wait. My ice cream maker was calling to me from the depths, and I mean depths, of my cupboard.
After a lot of finagling with various canning equipment, the cast iron dutch oven, and all of the lids for my pots and pans I found it. The ice cream maker. It needed to be dusted. Actually it was my ice cream making skills that needed to have the cobwebs blown off. But I was sure the ice cream would be ready for its debut with my yet-to-be-made pie. Quite sure.
After re-reading the recipe I realized maybe I had been a bit too sure. This was going to take some work. Cranberry ice cream doesn't come easy. The first challenge? Equipment. I was able to overcome the biggest hurdle, the ice cream maker, by randomly receiving Nana's this summer. If you don't have an ice cream maker I would say that this recipe will be nigh impossible, unless you subscribe to the coffee can method.
The other equipment needed (or highly recommended) that I didn't have? For one, a blender. Secondly? A stand mixer. I called Heather. She is my blender girl and I was desperate.
Me: "Heather?"
Heather: "Yea??"
Me: "Can I borrow your blender?"
Heather: "Sure. When do you need it?"
Me: "Weeeellll, actually... now?"
This is why carefully reading through a recipe is critical. So when the cream and sugar are heating to a very specific temperature on the stove and the cranberries are almost done you don't read the next line of the recipe and see "transfer cranberry mixture to a blender and puree until smooth." Huh? How did I not see that before? Back to the desperate call to Heather.
Heather: "Well I was just going to leave for class, I'm running a little late and it is almost finals week..."
Me: "I'll just come over real quick."
Heather: "Alright..."
Now I could have sucked it up and not used a blender. I could have used the food mill, but I can assure you it wouldn't have been as pretty or as easy as using something electric. And the other major equipment hurdle I mentioned earlier? The stand mixer? That wasn't to be easily remedied by a quick phone call. So I plugged in my hand-held mixer and hoped that the motor wouldn't start on fire.
Equipment aside, the trickiest thing about this recipe, which can be overcome with attention and a sieve, is the fact that eggs, when heated, like to congeal. Sugary scrambled eggs in a sauce pot is no laughing matter, especially when you are expecting a creamy custard.
There are two steps in the recipe that have the potential to turn the egg mixture not into the luscious custard you want but rather into a breakfast dish. The first is step number 3. When you add the hot cream to the eggs, add a little cream at first, then stir. Add a little more cream. Stir. Add the rest of the cream in a steady and self-confident stream. Stir. By doing this, tempering the eggs, you are slowly heating them instead of shocking them with a blast of hot cream. The other step with a high potential of congealed eggs? The second part of step 3. When you heat the eggs and the cream in the saucepan, follow the instructions and don't heat the eggs over 170 degrees (if you don't have a thermometer just don't let the mixture boil). After the second part of step 3 pour the custard through a sieve. Any evidence of congealing that happened in the past two steps will be erased with a quick spin through a fine-mesh sieve.
Cranberry Ice Cream
Adapted from Gourmet Nov. 2005
-- 2 C heavy cream
-- 1 and 1/2 C plus 3 Tbs Sugar
-- 6 egg yolks
-- 1/8 t. salt
-- 4 C (24 oz) fresh / frozen cranberries
1) In a medium saucepan, bring cream and 1/2 cup of the sugar to a boil. Stir from time to time to dissolve the sugar. Take off of the heat and cover.
2) With a mixer (preferably a stand mixer) beat together the yolks, salt, and 3 Tbs of sugar. The goal is to triple the volume of the yolk mixture and make sure it is thick enough that it forms "The Ribbon"* that can hold for 2 seconds. This will not take long with a stand mixer. If you have a hand-held mixer I hope that you have a good book to read because this is going to take awhile-about 10 minutes.
3) Begin mixing at a low speed and begin to slooooooowly pour in the hot cream mixture. Once it has all been added, pour it all back into the saucepan and begin to heat, stirring (I suggest flat-bottomed wooden spoon, but use whatever suits your fancy), until the custard reaches 170 degrees and becomes thickened. Remember, you don't want scrambled eggs.
4) Strain the custard through a fine-mesh sieve and let it cool to room temperature.
5) In a heavy saucepan, combine the cranberries and the remaining sugar. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium high heat, stirring. Once it reaches a boil, reduce the heat to low and simmer, covered. Stir occasionally. Simmer until the cranberries burst.
(The original recipe called for a cinnamon stick. I found that I didn't even notice a hint of the spice in the ice cream.)
6)Puree the cranberries in a blender until they are smooth. Press the cranberry mix through a fine sieve. Mix with the custard. Chill the mixture in the fridge. This will take about an hour.
7) Pour the chilled custard into your ice cream maker. Once your ice cream maker has done its work, freeze the ice cream for at least 5 hours, overnight is best.
Quick Tips
- The recipe calls for 1 1/2 Cups + 3 Tbs sugar. Just remember that in the first step, not all of the sugar is used. Mix only 1/2 cup of the sugar with the cream. The rest of the sugar will be used later.
- A standard 1 -1 1/2 quart ice cream maker is the perfect size for this recipe.
- Remember, there is a lot of heating, then cooling, then heating, then cooling, and then freezing involved. This all takes time. I would highly suggest making this the day before you would like to eat it.
*Julia Child in Mastering the Art of French Cooking has a perfect description of how to form The Ribbon when beating egg yolks and sugar. I won't try to reinvent the wheel. Here are Julia's instructions: "To accomplish it [the ribbon], add the sugar gradually to the egg yolks in a mixing bowl while beating with a wire whip or an electric beater; continue beating for 2 to 3 minutes. The mixture will turn a pale, creamy yellow, and thicken enough so that when a bit is lifted in the beater, it will fall back into the bowl forming a slowly dissolving ribbon on the surface of the mixture. Do not beat beyond this point or the egg yolks may become granular."


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Fourteenth Ordinary Sunday Year C
The readings for the last two consecutive Sunday have been a potent reminder of the radical demands made of those who wish to follow Christ. We've been hearing the constant refrain that Christians must carry their cross, burn the bridges behind them and follow Jesus unto death; such is our fate. Perhaps, by modern standards, this would be the worst marketing campaign imaginable if you are planning to recruit new members. Today, we continue with the same theme. Some may protest that this is overkill, but the closing of today's gospel provides the necessary incentive. There is the glorious promise of success, seventy of the disciples sent out have now returned to joyfully report their triumphant achievements. So, indeed it was worth all the sweat, pain, hardship and toil. However, I'm quite sure that the disciples didn't see it that way from the beginning. We are no different.
The pain threshold of our present generation has dropped to abysmal levels. We are facing a society and culture that cannot tolerate pain, or even suffer inconvenience, hardship, disappointment, and setbacks. It's a generation that constantly longs for all forms of panacea: constant affirmations, repeated motivations, and entertaining distractions. It's no wonder why marriages break up so easily; people find the smallest excuse to leave their faith or church; this explains the high rate of unemployment among Malaysians who will not settle for anything less than a 9-5 white collar undemanding job with a fat salary. I guess one can say that we are generally conforming to the laws of physics – taking the path of least resistance.
What has happened with modern living is that we have substituted pleasure for the 'good'. For many people, 'good' is really about "feelings" as in "it feels good". Thus, love is not as much a matter of willing to sacrifice and give oneself to the other as it is a feeling of well-being, 'feeling good'. It is a narcissistic answer because "I feel good" and "I am good" are worlds apart. Prayer is no longer a matter of worshipping and communing with God as it is a feeling that I felt moved and was touched by the experience. No wonder, testimonies at the end of children's catechetical camps and youth rallies often sound like the assessment you would give after a day's outing at Disneyland – 'It was fun.' Thus 'fun' or 'feeling good' often becomes the real benchmark and not only just any benchmark, but the goal and purpose of every activity, including that of life itself. So, ultimately, we are a generation that have grown weary of our lives, a generation that has a low pain threshold, a generation that cannot accept disappointment and setbacks, a generation that wants quick and easy results, precisely because the very purpose of our lives is no longer just the good, it is simply pleasure.
If hedonism is pandemic and generally descriptive of our generation and culture, then many would wish to see the Christian life as the gateway to all sorts of pleasures and rewards. The Christian life to them spells popularity, success, prosperity, fun and the absence of suffering. Following Christ is the way to the "good life" or rather the "feel good" life. If you expect that Christian discipleship is like an exciting adventure in a theme park, if you expect everything to be served to you on a platter, if you are expecting an easy life free from troubles, if you have a weak stomach for hardship and opposition, if you are the sort who takes off the moment you get the hint of adversity or smell the sour stench of difficulty, then you are bound to be disappointed by the warnings and travel advisory given by Jesus to his disciples in today's gospel. This instead would the lot of his disciples:
- "The harvest is rich but he labourers are few", in other words, the task ahead will be enormous but your fellow workers will be few – it's going to be a demanding job, a heavy job, an unpopular job!
- You will be sent out like "lambs among wolves" – there will be danger, there will be risk. In fact, your life too may be at risk. St John Chrysostom reminds us that "as long as we remain sheep, we overcome. Even though we are surrounded by a thousand wolves, we overcome and are victorious. But as soon as we are wolves, we are beaten; for then we lose the support of the Shepherd, who feeds not wolves but only sheep."
- You are ask to take no extra provisions, discipleship means travelling light. A heavy baggage implies a lack of trust in God's providence. You are asked to depend on God's providential care rather than rely on your own devices, efforts and resources.
- You can't fuss about the conditions you would be working under, you have to accept whatever hospitality you receive, "taking what food and drink they have to offer", whatever conditions that you may encounter – beggars can't be choosy.
- And finally, you will be facing rejection and even opposition. Even if your message is one of peace, be prepared to face violence at the hands of the enemies of peace, and there will be many because peace comes with a cost. But then, just "wipe off dust under your feet" and move on. There will be no room for self-pity, complain or dwelling on the setbacks you'll encounter.
I believe that the apprehensions which the seventy must have had have much to do with the enthusiasm they reveal on their return. They come back jubilant. Their experience far surpassed their expectations. They acclaimed, "Even the devils submit to us when we use your name." For them, this was the epitome of success. For this moment, they were invincible, indestructible. This was the ultimate trophy as a disciple, or at least they thought so. Jesus' response to the enthusiasm and joy of the seventy is most interesting. Jesus seeks to re-focus their joy, He first informed them that their ability to cast out demons was evidence of even greater issues than they had imagined. They saw their success only in terms of their having authority over the demons, but Jesus saw Satan as being defeated, and his power and authority as being overthrown. Jesus told His disciples that rather than to rejoice in their power over the demons, they should rejoice in their salvation. They should rejoice in that their names were written in heaven. Joy at the prospect of the termination of Satan's opposition is nothing when compared to the certainty of an eternal relationship with God.
Thus we finally come to realise the 'good', in fact the 'greatest good' which man can hope to attain; the purpose for which he was created is his salvation. The old penny catechism reminds us that this is the reason for which God chose to create us: "to know Him, to love Him, to serve Him and be with Him in paradise forever." St Ignatius provides a similar opening meditation to his Spiritual Exercises, "Man is created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord, and by this means to save his soul." So far as men are concerned, there is nothing more important than this. Salvation is an urgent matter, a matter of the highest priority, a matter of the greatest import and value that far exceeds any other 'goods', which includes the alleviation of suffering, hardship and even poverty. In Christ, freedom does not mean escape from these conditions. Christians cannot be insulated from the troubles of the world. We have to wade in deep, into the muck and dirt that comes with following Christ. It means standing deep in faith. In Christ, freedom means having a purpose, a goal, a direction – it is Jesus himself who alone can restore us to this eternal relationship with God.
A Jesuit friend of mine once shared with me this piece of timeless wisdom, "The saints laugh not because life is good or pleasurable. Despite life being grim, they laugh because they know that whatever the outcome of this life, they have found their purpose, they have a direction, they have a destination: Jesus Christ." They rejoice because they know that their "names are written in heaven"!


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Leading Edge Forum Report Reveals Top 10 Digital Transformation Challenges for Business Leaders
14 May, 2019, 12:00 BST
LONDON, May 14, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- A new report released today by global research and thought leadership organization, Leading Edge Forum (LEF), examines the myths and realities of digital transformation through interviews with over 30 large organizations. The report, entitled 'A Tale of Two Missions: From IT Modernization to Business Transformation', provides a solid steer to executive teams through today's two main digital transformation missions – near-term IT modernization and long-term business transformation.
Key findings of the interviews included all highlighting how difficult both IT modernization and, especially, business transformation can be. It is clear in the report that, although most companies can easily imagine a highly transformed digital future, day-to-day priorities, politics and norms tend to get in the way. The most common reasons for making digital transformation hard were given as:
- Usually not the most pressing short-term business issue
- Mission and goals are often vague, high-level and futuristic
- Payoff is often uncertain, and often hard to measure
- Organizational and customer inertia can be hard to overcome
- Initiatives tend to cut across existing organizational silos
- Motivation and commitment can be hard to sustain
- Legacy/ERP – technologies can be hard to modernize
- Service provider mentality in enterprise IT
- Real and imagined regulatory concerns
- Transformational leadership, ownership and politics are complex
Looking at the definition of Digital Transformation, the report found organizations held a wide range of divisive opinions. For some, it's a useful way to describe their major change initiatives. Yet, others see it as either vendor-driven hype that distracts them from the real challenges they face, or even as a potentially demeaning way to portray how things are currently done. Digital transformation is a very broad area, so to make it more tangible, LEF segments it into three more tangible areas in the report:
- IT modernization is far and away the most prominent form of change observed, as just about every firm wants to build a more agile and efficient digital foundation, or core.
- Business transformation (BT) is considerably less common, as it occurs when an incumbent organization successfully makes a major shift in strategy, business model, organization or culture. BT is how existing firms successfully adapt to major marketplace shifts.
- Industry disruption is often described as the displacement of incumbent industry leaders by new technology-led rival. While we typically think of disruption as being led by start-ups with new business models, but it can also come from sources such as China, various political/economic shocks and/or natural disasters.
"Information technology has already transformed or disrupted huge parts of the global economy," said David Reid, programme director at Leading Edge Forum. "The technology community anticipates a powerful wave of change based upon various combinations of smart products, machine learning, industry-specific business platforms, algorithmic processes, robotics, and more self-service, data-driven operations. We also know that the current wave of automation and intelligence technologies holds at least as much – and we think even more – potential than anything we have seen thus far. Taken together, these capabilities provide a vision for transformed, 21st century organizations that look much more like today's digital giants than the traditional global firm. While there are many uncertainties regarding timing, it's hard to bet against these developments over the long course of the 2020s."
The report outlines the skills and techniques being used by organizations to overcome the inertia challenges of delivering on digital transformation initiatives, such as embracing markets that are more inherently digital as a test bed for digital transformation across the legacy organisation.
The full report offers executives strategic approaches, support and action plans designed to give practical advice, giving digital transformation projects the best chance of successful delivery.
You can download "A Tale of Two Missions: From IT Modernization to Business Transformation" at https://leadingedgeforum.com/research/from-it-modernization-to-business-transformation/.
About LEF
Leading Edge Forum is one of the world's leading cross-industry think-tanks and is dedicated to helping clients reimagine their organisations and leadership for a tech-driven future. It has been evaluating major digital technology developments and shifts for over 30 years – and delivering insights on how these will redefine industries, organisations and the individuals that work within them. Learn more at https://www.leadingedgeforum.com
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Somatic embryogenesis and in vitro shoot propagation of Gentiana utriculosa
Authors:Vinterhalter, Branka
Mitić, Nevena
Vinterhalter, Dragan
Uzelac, Branka
Krstić-Milošević, Dijana
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© 2016 Institute of Botany, Slovak Academy of Sciences
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Study describes protocols for in vitro propagation of Gentiana utriculosa L. via axillary shoot multiplication and indirect somatic embryogenesis. Shoot cultures were established from seedling epicotyl explants cultured on MS medium supplemented with 0.25 mg L-1 BA and 0.1 mg L-1 IAA. Medium containing 2% sucrose and 0.2 mg L-1 BA improved multiple shoot production, providing 2.3 shoots per explant. The highest rooting (29.6%) was obtained on medium with 1/2 MS mineral salts and 0.5 mg L-1 NAA. Somatic embryogenesis was induced using different explants, including immature seeds as well as leaves and roots from shoot cultures. Following auxin treatment with either 1.0 mg L-1 2,4-D (immature seeds and leaves) or 0.1 mg L-1 NAA (roots), explants produced embryogenic calli which upon transfer to plant growth regulator-free medium allowed embryo conversion into plantlets. The best embryogenic response (82%) was obtained in calli derived from leaves cultured with their abaxial surface in contact with medium, whereas the highest embryo conversion rate (68%) was recorded for calli induced on immature seed explants. Histological analysis in all explant types revealed development of proembryogenic cell complexes at callus periphery, giving rise to somatic embryos. The presence of embryos at various stages of development indicated asynchronous somatic embryogenesis in G. utriculosa. Derooted embryo-derived plantlets placed on medium with 0.2 mg L-1 BA multiplied further as shoot cultures.


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Background Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
If You're promoting Or thinking about selling classes, you do not need to do much searching to come up with a Thinkific review. There are plenty of Thinkific reviews on the market. The main difference this one offers is that it is written by someone with: Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
- More than 20 years expertise in the e-learning Business, with a Particular focus on businesses that sell education (as opposed to, by Way of Example, corporate training departments, that do not have to convince their learners to buy)
- Extensive experience designing, developing, and executing online class platforms (I was the founder and CEO of an e-learning platform and course development firm.)
- Over a decade of experience monitoring and exploring online class platforms and helping individuals and organizations pick the right platform for selling classes
I've been closely Monitoring Thinkific and other suppliers that have emerged in the previous years as a new class of course platforms. These are programs that are less costly and more user-friendly or LMSes. They are a real blessing for solo edupreneurs and companies that want to enter the course enterprise. Over time, I believe they have real potential to disrupt the conventional learning management system market.
Having said That, let us get started.
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Building and Branding Your Online Course Web Site
Any courses you Market need to"live" somewhere, and that someplace provides an attractive, user friendly to your students and prospective students. Since the introduction of its Site Builder capabilities this season, Thinkific is up to the project. Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
Using Site Builder — which is simply a part of the admin panel for the platform — you now have the capacity to prepare an appealing home page for your course site and create as many custom pages as you desire (e.g., to provide information about you and your other services). While you don't have total control — you can't, for instance, set up your own style sheets (CSS) — you can get very excellent capabilities for changing branding elements like font and colors styles and you may upload pretty much any type of images or media you'd want to use.
Site Builder Currently comes with three topics and there are numerous variants for each one of those themes. (The company says more topics are part of the future development plan.) There are also a range of pre-fab"segments" that you are able to add and modify on any webpage to provide for matters like social evidence (e.g. customer quotes or"as seen on" logos), calls for action, count down timer, and pricing choices — essentially, all the essential tools you require for running a successful path or membership site. There's also a blank slate"media & Text" section that can be utilised to make pretty much anything you want.
As is the case With just about any content management system, it took a while to figure out the way to do some basic things like delete segments (the themes offer a house page pre-populated with sections) and add custom pages to the website menu. However support was readily available for them. Thinkific includes a solid support site on which you are able to search for aid, but I often just use a Google search together with the word"Thinkific" to find whatever I need (e.g.,"create custom site pages Thinkific"). I have yet to not find decent support using this method, whether on the Thinkific website or from another user.
Some added Features to notice:
- Custom URL (under Settings > Site) — By default, you're assigned a thinkific.com speech — e.g., learningrvolution.thinkific.com. Having a paid plan (beginning at $49 a month for Basic) you can get a custom URL
- SSL (Under Settings > Website ) — With any plan you have the choice to turn on SSL (secure socket layer), a best practice for any Web site nowadays. (Google smiles on this.)
- White tagging (under Settings > Website )– By leaping up to a Pro Plan ($99 a month) using the Development Add-on ($.10 per active student/per month) you can easily remove the"Powered by Thinkific" speech on your website and courses.
- Text Changes (below Settings > Learning Content and various different areas) — You can change a great deal of the default language which is used in navigation and other regions. By way of example, Thinkific utilizes"Chapters" as the tag for parts of a program. You might like to change this to"Lessons." Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
Thus, you might be asking,"Can I use Thinkific for the main Web site?"
For edupreneurs Who are just starting off and do not have an Internet presence the response is an emphatic"yes." Utilizing Thinkific is a great way to take a big item from your"to do" list (i.e.,"figure out how to find a decent Web site set up") and focus on creating and launch your courses. It is possible to be concerned about a more sophisticated Web site after.
If you already Have a Web site, however — particularly on a fuller-featured content management system like WordPress — I wouldn't suggest relying on Thinkific (or any other route platform) to your primary Internet site. Website Builder is fantastic for what it does — and may create a great course site to match your primary site — but finally it's relatively limited. A few of the key current constraints include:
- All themes are single pillar. Therefore, for example, you can't put e-mail signup types, promotions for class, or other things down the left or right side of your site.
- As noted, you can't use your own CSS (cascading style sheets), largely a limit in the event that you truly wish to reflect the branding of an existing Web site.
- There's absolutely no control on search engine optimization configurations on Internet pages — e.g., you can't specify the name tags or meta descriptions. You , however, do so on course landing pages, which is possibly more important for the typical edupreneur.
- Thinkific lacks the wealth of plug-ins along with the extensive network of experienced contractors who are available to support platforms like WordPress.
In spite of those Limitations, Site Builder is likely to do the work well for many edupreneurs and is a little better than what many online class platforms supply.
Creating Online Courses with Thinkific
While you Definitely want to have an attractive, user-friendly website to house your courses, the classes themselves are the primary attraction. As you may expect, this is a place where Thinkific really shines.
To Begin with, the Platform provides a variety of pre-configured templates that can be quite beneficial to track builders searching for assistance with how to arrange their content. The templates cover the range of standard scenarios you would be likely to think about for supplying an educational product. These are:
- Blank — Start fresh and build your own course to match your specific program requirements.
- Mini-course — Use a low-cost or free mini-course to create leads for a complete flagship course or service.
- Flagship Course — Construct a full online course employing a strong curriculum outline created using best practices in mind.
- Pre-sell — Produce a pre-sell landing page and start constructing a waitlist to gauge interest on your program.
- Digital Download — Host downloadable documents in an online course to create revenue or collect email addresses.
- Membership Resource Library — Host downloadable resources to be included in a membership package with this template.
- Webinar Replay — Host your webinar replay video to permit registrants to review your presentation and offer.
All of these can Be modified broadly — you can change the content in the segments which are supplied, delete sections, or insert new sections to arrive at the strategy that's right for your content. All throughout the process, Thinkific supplies"smart coach course construction tips" to assist you. (I found these useful, but they may be easily switched off, if you prefer.) Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
In Case You Have zero Experience working with Web content, there will inevitably be a small learning curve, but my view is that Thinkific has done a fantastic job making that curve as manageable as possible. Invest in making your way up it, and you'll reap the rewards.
And You're Already comfortable with other Internet content systems — like, for a different course platform, WordPress or example — I think you will find working in Thinkific to be a breeze.
Overall Of putting together a class in Thinkific makes complete sense. After choosing"New Course," picking your course type, naming it (which you may change at any stage ), and saving it, you include"Chapters" (or change ones in the template) to create the structure of the program. As mentioned above, if you don't like the term"Chapters," you can change it to anything you would like.
You fill the Chapters with content in a way. There are 11 options:
- Video lessons — Upload a file. (This has saved in a movie library for re-use in other classes. Videos stored in this library are protected from access by anyone who is not a registered user of your site.)
- Quiz lessons — Create a quiz for your students. (More info on quizzes below)
- Multimedia classes — This is a means to link out to content not hosted on Thinkific and also make it an integrated part of your course. A Few of the possibilities include:
- Webinar tools (supply the URL to a live Zoom session, for example)
- Surveys (e.g. Typeform)
- Appointment booking tools (e.g. Calendly)
- Presentations (e.g. Prezi)
- Google Docs
- Articulate Storyline and Adobe Captivate files (Requires Pro or Enterprise license. More on this below)
- Text classes — Combine text, images, videos, etc. into a single lesson. This is basically the equivalent to"Text & Media" Site Builder option mentioned above.
- Survey lessons — Gather by building a brief poll in Thinkific.
- PDF classes.
- Disqus classes Disqus discussion boards into your program. (Note: there's also a discussion option built into Thinkific that you may turn on or off under Support Your Students > Discussions.)
- Audio classes — Upload a sound file.
- Downloads resources to be available for downloading from inside the course participant.
- Presentation lessons — Upload a demonstration as a PDF file and record audio for each slide.
- Lessons — Include a Brillium exam in your program. (A Brillium permit is separate from Thinkific and starts at $49 a month. More on this below.)
The aforementioned Choices Will find the work completed for all but the edupreneurs. The primary areas they fall short is in
- Supplying for branching scenarios — i.e., allowing learners to go down different paths depending on their performances in the course or information you gather about them — and
- Like learning games Adding elements.
If those are Choices you truly want, you'd be better off with a full size course authoring tool such as iSpring or even Articulate Storyline (see more about these kinds of programs here). Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
Use of Articulate and Captivate in Thinkific
Many course Founders will be content with using the tools in Thinkific to make classes, but some may prefer the option of creating their courses with third-party e-learning course creation software like Articulate Storyline or Adobe Captivate.
Fundamentally, using a Third party tool is an alternative to seriously consider if you (a) already have a significant number of courses built out in these tools (in which you probably don't need to need to re-create them using Thinkific course production tools), and/or (b) you expect developing a significant catalogue of lessons with a relatively long"shelf life" — in which case you might not want to have your classes locked to a particular delivery platform.
These can be used by you Types of tools with Thinkific — Articulate Storyline and Captivate are supported — however there are some limitations you should be aware of if you go this path.
First, Thinkific (like the rest of the platforms in its own course ) hasn't implemented SCORM, which stands to the Shareable Content Object Reference Model. There is a lot to SCORM, but the principal thing for edupreneurs to know is that it provides standards for how an online course can communicate with a learning platform to send it information like how long a student has invested in a course, or whether specific areas of the course have been finished successfully. Thinkific monitors this kind of data with its own procedures. (More about SCORM here.)
You cannot Import an Captivate or Articulate route into Thinkific all on your own. These classes are made up of more than one file (such as, as an example, a video file), and to get them inside the platform, you need to zip the files up and send them into Thinkific customer support.
The Features and How They Benefit You
An excellent Course building platform offers you. This includes the training course building, the marketing, the selling, and also the management.
Systems such as Thinkific don't host classes on your own site. Your articles is actually hosted with Thinkific (so you don't need to go outside and find your own hosting,) but it still gives you complete control over what your site looks like.
In comparison to Systems such as Udemy, Thinkific certainly provides branding control and more liberty. Let's explore a few of the other standout attributes.
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Excellent Student Management and Communication Modules
Within my Thinkific review, I noticed the smoothness of the pupil communication tools. It is a visual pupil management area, with pictures of your pupils, titles, contact information, and information for how far they are in your program.
You have the Option to send emails that are customized to every one of those pupils or create a dialogue with the community. Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
Incentives are Also part of the learning environment since Thinkific offers conclusion certificates, report cards, and needless to say, the emails for sending out just about anything you want throughout courses.
Along with Infinite replays of language controls, course content, students, and optimisation working together with the Thinkific platform ought to feel.
A Mostly Drag and Drop Editor for Quick Course Design
Part of the Motive Thinkific seems so great in contrast to the competition is that of its class designer. If you don't want to you do not have to mess with any code.
In Reality Your content is organized using a drag and drop editor, in which you move it around vertically and pile the course content.
Speaking of Content, Thinkific supports uploads of all media types. From PDFs to audio files, and polls to quizzes, the stage is great for offering up a wide assortment of learning resources for the students.
As we mentioned Every one these documents are hosted on the Thinkific servers. For this reason, you should not have to worry about a file being too big or running in your own servers.
When you customize Your course site it features some handy editing tools to the beginners on the market. As an example, you can adjust items such as colour schemes banners, and logos, all without touching any code.
However, the more Advanced developers have complete control over the HTML and CSS. Consequently, if you would like to make your website unique, the alternative is there for you.
Promotions on Autopilot
Some online course Platforms fail from the promotions arena. This is unfortunate since there's no way unless people know that your course exists to begin making money.
Thinkific does The app was built into by it the right way, with promotional and marketing tools. Much of this is automatic. Consequently, if you want to trickle content to your students–in which certain courses would be released over the years –Thinkific has this functionality. Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
Furthermore, you Have the ability to target the right people and send out automated emails based on a schedule. Pricing is done through Thinkific, along with the choice to become paid immediately when somebody signs up on your program.
In Terms of becoming It is tried by people outside of your website out, Thinkific includes an affiliate marketing program to reward bloggers and people who recommend your course. Coupons are supplied through Thinkific, giving you a opportunity to create advertisements and convince novices that your class is well worth investing in.
Everything from Vouchers to affiliates is tracked in the dashboard, and you can also join your Adwords, Facebook, and other accounts to see where students are coming from.
Managing, Engaging, and Supporting Students
Aside from Allowing you to produce your classes, one of the reasons for utilizing a online class platform is that it creates handling and tracking your users and their information a lot more easy.
Communication with Learners
Along with Helping you arrange your students, Thinkific also enables several ways that you communicate with your learners and also for them to provide feedback. Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
As previously noted, By way of example, you can empower discussion to your courses and then manage your students gifts under Service Your Students > Discussions, where it is possible to sort talks by course, react to pupils, and — if needed –"Disapprove" gifts that you don't wish to show up in the course. (Note: Enabling talks is now a nothing choice in Thinkific — i.e., either all courses have it or no classes have it. The workaround for this is to utilize the Disqus alternative on a course-by-course foundation )
You can also Allow your student. You then have the capability to approve these testimonials (they aren't printed automatically) and use them as social evidence on your sales page to the program. Unlike talks, this attribute can be enabled on a course-by-course basis.
Finally, there are A number of notifications that could be disabled or enabled at the Thinkific platform, a few of which can be personalized. You can send students a message when they register for your website, enroll in a course, or finish a course. You can also send out weekly reminder messages. (Note: Reminders are site-wide, not course-specific.)
Managing and Organizing Learners
To start with, When an individual signs up at your site, Thinkific captures all their key contact data (e.g., first name, last name, email ) and utilizing custom log-in fields (under Settings > Orders & accounts) you can easily add fields to capture whatever special information you want from your users. (Note that, unlike platforms such as Udemy, you get complete access to the user information you accumulate.)
You can also Organize users. This simple feature may have a large effect on your business model by making it possible for you to market classes in bulk to associations — among the greatest ways for course vendors to induce revenue growth that is significant , in my experience.
You, classes May also easily organize your students by organization, or cohort, time, enrollment, job-type, or other variables, which makes it possible to refine your marketing and to track the efficacy of your own offerings with every group. (Note: Use of the Groups feature requires a Pro plan license with the Development Add-on.) Discover More about the Thinkific Groups performance Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
Tracking and Reporting
A Vital motive to Have a specialized course platform — as opposed, by way of instance, to simply posting articles supporting a password on a Web site — is it is going to monitor things like path progress and completion in addition to quiz and survey data.
Thinkific's Progress tracking (under Support Your Students > Progress) enables you to pick a particular student and monitor a number of factors for every class in which the pupil is enrolled. For each course you will see:
- Percentage of Course of Viewed
- Percentage of Course Completed
- Student Name
- Student Email
- Course Completed in (date)
- Course Launched at (date)
- Course Activated at (date)
- Last sign (date)
- Business
I enjoy this you If you are adding new classes to an course May choose to reset a student's completion percentage at any moment.
Overall, the Course reporting is fairly basic, but I suspect it will serve the demands of the majority of course entrepreneurs.
Contrary to the course Reporting, the quiz and survey reporting is exported to a .CSV document (rather than displayed on display ) and e-mailed to you. The .csv file contains the responses from all students who've taken a survey a quiz together with their title and when they shot it. For quizzes, in addition, it provides percent and the amount .
Overall, reporting For quizzes/surveys and courses is among the regions in which the Thinkific system might be more powerful. In fairness, this tends to be true for much of most of the platforms in this category of platforms. Ideally, over time, it might be possible to get course completion and quiz/survey data via a single Web interface. Even better, it would be good to have the ability to see a student transcript that shows hours related to a course, any credit earned (not now captured in any way in Thinkific), and a link to obtain the certificate associated with the program. Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
What Thinkific is currently Missing
Anyone who has Been operating in the e-learning sector for the past couple of years (as I have) will understand that Thinkific provides a remarkable range of features at a very affordable price. It wasn't that long ago a system with those capabilities may have cost tens of thousands of dollars.
With that in mind, It's hard to assert that Thinkific is"missing" much. There are openings that will rule out it for a few class vendors — and all of these tend to be gaps that are characteristic of this category of platforms. The main ones that I find are:
No support for SCORM or xAPI/TinCan
As noted above, While Thinkific may host and deliver classes created in shared authoring tools such as Articulate and Captivate, it does not actually take advantage of the SCORM (or xAPI/TInCan) packaging capacities of these programs. In case you have a strong and legitimate reason for using one of the significant criteria, then Thinkific might not be the way to go.
Like I said, these Are areas that, for the most part, are not served well by programs that are in Thinkific's course. To acquire a platform that supports all three generally means a beginning price point three to four times higher than Thinkific — and it can go far from that point up. Thus, be sure these are gaps for you before judgment out Thinkific.
No continuing education credit capabilities
While you can Indicate the estimated number of hours for completing a class in Thinkific, you cannot specify the total amount of continuing education. While There Might Be work-arounds, for many course suppliers that focus on providing continuing education credit, this will be a Substantial barrier to using Thinkific, Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
No multi-tenancy alternative
Multi-tenancy Means that you can create and handle a number of instances of a platform. This can be really handy if, as an example, you are a training company with many corporate clients and those customers want their own branded example of the platform for handling and serving their own users. While the Group performance in Thinkific gets you a part of the way there, it isn't the exact same thing as multi-tenancy.
Although I To find an internet course platform which has many hidden charges, Thinkific advertises it also has no hidden charges or contracts. That's good to know, but nothing special.
However, Thinkific Does provide a free program for those who want to try the stage but not get bogged down by constraints. In theory, it makes it possible to start your store and start building a pupil base. There is also a free trial if you give a whirl to one of those plans.
The pricing is Broken up into four easy strategies:
Starter — $0 for all core Thinkific capabilities. This strategy has a high transaction fee, all you want to make, market, and market infinite courses your classes, class upsells, content hosting, fundamental integrations support, and access to all funds.
Basics — For $49 per month you receive all core and newcomer features, together with a 5% transaction fee, promotions and coupons, monthly subscriptions, course bundles, intermediate integrations, fundamental Zapier, drip content, affiliate reporting, a majority student emailer, customized domainname, along with extra course rates. Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
Business — For $99 a month you receive the attributes from all prior programs, no transaction fees, completion certificates, personal and hidden classes, website white tagging, a host storyline, intermediate Zapier, webhooks, three-course admin accounts, advanced HTML/CSS editing, priority service, instructor payout reporting, an onboarding call, payment strategies, along with an immediate Infusionsoft integration.
Advanced — For $279 per month you receive all attributes from previous plans, no transaction fees, one sign-on (SSO), three website admin accounts, 10-course admin accounts, an onboarding specialist, onboarding package, public API, innovative integrations, and innovative Zapier.
Thinkific has some Fantastic advantages to its pricing design. Not only can you begin your course for free (something that's not offered with competitions such as Teachable,) but the additional three programs are broken down in a logical manner.
After all Most likely do not need API accessibility until you start getting advanced with your path selling.
I wouldn't mind Seeing the completion certificates as well as the HTML editing but $99 a month still isn't that bad.
As you can see, The transaction prices are 10% to the free program. That's large, however, it creates an atmosphere for individuals who don't have the funds to launch a professional online store or anyone who have low volume. Once you start making money you can cut down that transaction fee.
You can By paying on an yearly basis Save money. The snowball strategy goes to $39 per month if you cover it all upfront. The Business program is $79 per month and also the Advanced plan is $219. That makes the pricing programs similar to Teachable.
I will finish this Thinkific review at which I started: this really is. Hopefully it's evident by now that it offers a full range of the features to encourage your edupreneur in selling classes that are online.
I Believe it is Important to replicate as I wrap up that Thinkific is a company with a lot of momentum. This is definitely not a point: the market for online class platforms such as Thinkific is crowded and noisy. You can be sure that a lot of the programs which are here today will be gone. I'm confident Thinkific will be around, and the company is clearly growing and continually investing to improve its platform. Teachable Vs Thinkific Blog Feature
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Before getting onto the practical applications, let's first clarify what a Google Doc actually is. This isn't meant to be patronising for those who already know, rather an acknowledgement that not everyone has had the chance to use them before. A Google Doc is very similar to a Microsoft Word document, the main difference being that the Google Doc is not stored on your computer but instead on the internet. This means that it can be shared and viewed with more than one person at the same time. BERAUK sur Twitter : "How researchers continue to put one over teachers in the HE promotion stakes - a new Blog from James Derounian.
The Cultures of EAP: Celebrating and Exploring Diversity - Events - ELTC - The University of Sheffield. Master in English for Specific Purposes (60/120 credits) - Linnaeus University, Sweden - Lnu.se. There is a great need for language experts in different professional areas.
The Master in English for Specific Purposes is aimed at people who want to work with the English language in practice. Students develop skills that can be used in areas such as advanced language teaching, language counselling, communication, and text production; the course focuses on current research as well as on practical applications within these areas. In addition to practising their own language skills, students also learn to analyse characteristics of English for specific purposes in different kinds of text; discuss the significance of efficient communication; problematize the role of English as a lingua franca; carry out linguistic needs analyses; and give constructive feedback on texts written by others. 4EN400 English for Specific Purposes I; 30 credits.
Using English for Academic Purposes. I have spent most of my life teaching ESP & EAP and in talks that I have given and courses that I have run, I've always given two strong reasons for teaching ESP or ESAP as opposed to general English or EGAP.
The first is linguistic – different subjects use different language. Innovation in EAP. It's already a week now since the in EAP Conference – Innovation: The Key to the Future that took place at the University of St Andrews.
I had the privilege to attend the event with two other members of staff from the English Language Teaching Unit at the University of Leicester and the other lucky delegates who came from all over the country, and even from as far as Japan, to gorgeous St Andrews, in Scotland. I was there mainly to present on TEAP, the distance learning postgraduate degree programme to train teachers of general English to become tutors of English for Academic Purposes. 10 point guide to dodging publishing pitfalls. Sue Kay and Karen Spiller: ELTC at the University of Sheffield: Teacher Development Down (in?) the Toilet. In a previous post, I talked about how our school has developed these scholarship circles on a variety of topics to give teachers time to develop both themselves and the centre.
Now, the Teacher Development circle (of which I'm a part) recently discussed the issue of how we can constantly provide teachers with new ideas and activities to take in their classrooms. In the past various things had been tried. Interesting journal or website articles were sent round via email, or they were stuck to various notice boards around the staffroom and teacher offices. Useful ideas and activities were also posted on our internal website. English-Language Learners and Academic Language. Editor's Note: This blog was co-authored by Katie Hull Sypnieski.
Portions of this post are excerpted from their book, The ESL/ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-to-Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English-Language Learners of All Levels. Helping English-language learners develop proficiency in academic language has always been a priority for K-12 educators, and its importance has only been heightened with the advent of the Common Core. To better understand academic language, let's examine the distinction between two terms introduced by Jim Cummins, basic interpersonal communicative skills (BICS) and cognitive academic language proficiency (CALP), that have impacted both policy and practices in second-language education:
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Marc SchwartzProfessor of Education at the University of Texas at ArlingtonDirector of the Southwest Center for Mind, Brain, and Education This post is based on an article by the same name published in the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks. Good academic writing – it's about revision not editing. Creative writers are accustomed to the idea that their writing must go through several drafts.
However, much of the advice on offer to academic writers proceeds as if all they have to do is produce a draft which is then edited, tidied up, everything made neat and clean. I have seen many a thesis completion timetable come unstuck because doctoral researchers have not grasped the fact that by and large this is not what happens. Most of us have to do more than one draft of a piece of academic writing. In reality, very few of us write the scintillating introduction, the elegant conclusion, the persuasive argument right from the start. It takes several iterations.
Twitter journal: would you share your original research on social media? Last week, I received a tweet from @janremm who was midway through a conversation – on Twitter – about how to cite tweets within academic research.
She was talking with @jotaigna, who asked in what way a tweet could be a valuable source to support a (scientific) argument. I think it's fair to say he was sceptical. But why couldn't this be possible? How to shine in an academic interview. Many dread going to job interviews.
Yet it is a fact not often acknowledged that interviews are pretty predictable. You can prepare for them without feeling as if you are submitting to a dark ritual in the face of which passive acceptance is the only option. My aim is to point out some of the thinking behind interview questions, and a few ideas for practical ways that you can prepare. Talk to others about their interview experiences. UK universities – it's time to go to India. UK universities must go to India if they are to benefit from a shake up to international higher education which will see India enrolling the largest number of students into tertiary education in the world by 2020, warns a British Council report.
Universities are being urged to move away from focusing on recruiting Indian students to forming partnerships in India, creating new opportunities for UK students and academics to study and teach there, as well as encouraging collaboration through research. "By 2020, India and China will produce 40% of the world's graduate talent pipeline," says Lynne Heslop, British Council's senior education advisor in India and author of the report. "We can't sit back and rely on this talent to continue coming to the UK. "Other countries are also looking to capitalise on these new opportunities, and the UK will miss out unless our sector can increasingly engage with India, in India.
" Yet collaboration in India won't come without its challenges. Our 14.28% Time. Famously, Google have a system within their company called 20% time which gives their employees space to develop their own ideas and projects, many of which - e.g. Gmail - actually became full-blown services. There have been rumours that this is disappearing, but regardless, it's a principle that's been picked up in education and now many teachers give their students free time during the week to allow them to develop their own creative projects. There are even communities on social networks that teachers can join to share their experiences and ideas for how to implement it in the classroom.
But what about us teachers? Let's stop the 'hero worship' when it comes to big name academics. PhD students and professors sometimes betray a certain infatuation with the "big names" of academia. It goes beyond admiration into the realm of hero worship, and it's a bit silly. We're getting too old for it. Especially by the time the dissertation has been written. Shouldn't we expect a measured nonchalance toward the whole notion of big names and so-called great ideas? Plus.google. EAP Teacher Survey. Britain wants you! Why the UK should commit to increasing international student numbers. How can cutting net migration be squared with strengthening the UK's position as a leading destination for international students?
This report reviews the effects of the Coalition government's policies on the international student visa regime and their wider impact on the education sector, sets out the best available data and evidence on student migration to the UK, and recommends more effective approaches to growing and overseeing our international education sector. Google Scholar Library. International students: how to teach them alongside native speakers.
As I stood with a professorial colleague outside a coffee shop on our London campus one November morning, a group of Chinese students spotted me and ran in our direction. Each took off one glove and threw it at my feet.
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In making a sourdough quickbread or other pastry, if I use a ripe levain rather than discard, but then do not do a long ferment once everything is mixed, do I still get the benefit (nutritional, digestive, etc.) of fermented sourdough? (I am assuming that when using discard and baking without a fermentation period, the quickbread does not have those benefits.)
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Monash Arts students learn about one of Italy's greatest Renaissance men.
What happens when a town becomes your classroom for the day?
On a beautiful November day, students from the Arts Faculty explored the Leonardiano museum, learning about Leonardo da Vinci (b.1452) and his innovative work and studies in a number of different fields during the Renaissance in Italy. The field trip also included a visit to his birthplace, the Casa di Anchiano, surrounded by 100-year-old olive groves. The group later travelled on to nearby Lucca to work on projects for their Prato units, Inscribing Italy: Travels and Imaginings and Intensive Introductory Italian 2.
For a full description of the Arts units you can study in Prato, take a look at the Arts Semester in Prato website.


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Working in the nonprofit or social-impact sector offers an opportunity to build a meaningful and rewarding career. The concept of being part of something bigger than oneself, or working for the greater good appeals to our sense of community, shared humanity, and global citizenship.
But sometimes the repetitive outreach can drain our reserves. We forget that our bodies, minds, and souls require nourishment. For those of us in the helping professions, a path to sustenance is the practice of self-care (this doesn't mean simply taking a warm bath at night; although those are nice too).
The helping professions, defined
Helping professionals include fields such as medicine, nursing, psychotherapy, psychological counseling, social work, education, and other direct-service roles.
These types of jobs often involve intense, interpersonal interactions that occur repeatedly throughout the work day. Individuals in these settings are nurturers, caregivers, sounding boards, and listeners. They are constantly extending themselves outward in the service of assisting others.
Sometimes the repetitive outreach can drain our reserves.
In the repetitive setting of caring for others, it is common to lose sight of one's own feelings and needs. When a patient has been diagnosed with cancer, it is easy to get lost in our empathy. And when your client, along with her three children, is evicted from her home, it is instinctually human to be swept away by her despair.
But when we become engulfed and so deeply affected by the trauma we encounter at work, we put ourselves at risk of developing compassion fatigue.
What is compassion fatigue?
Compassion Fatigue is, "...the sheer exhaustion experienced in clinical work as we do our very best to meet the needs of others day after day, year after year." It sounds intense, because it is. And, it can swallow us whole, if we let it.
This is where boundaries become useful.
Strategies for self-care
We all have our reasons for choosing the career path (or paths) we take. I remember changing my course at the age of 23. In the aftermath of a life-altering event, I was left yearning to do something more purpose-driven.
I decided to make the transition from the corporate communications world to the field of social work. More specifically, I returned to graduate school to earn my MSW in clinical social work.
Little was I prepared for the depth, breadth, and scope of my role and how working with vulnerable populations could so fundamentally impact me.
Fortunately, throughout my graduate program, I encountered responsible professors, clinicians, and mentors. They insisted I pay attention to the process involved when walking with others through their challenges (social workers process everything; in school this drove me a little nutty, in life I am forever grateful for the disciplined guidance).
Do not come in early, and do not stay late.
I was constantly reminded to maintain my sense of otherness. I learned it was possible to help my clients without joining them in whatever the situation was that brought us together.
Boundaries are our buffers, our barriers of self-protection. But they don't just magically happen. They require cultivation and maintenance.
How you "do" boundaries
- Stick to your schedule. Do not come in early, and do not stay late. This one is hard because there will always be a compelling reason to stay, or another story to hear. Ignore the urge. You will thank me for this later.
- Learn how to say no without feeling guilty. Steps one and two comprise Boundary Setting 101. Know them and embrace them, for they will be the reason your work remains meaningful.
- Process everything. If you are a social worker, you already know what this means because you wrote process recordings in your sleep throughout graduate school. For those of you who aren't as familiar with this term, it means: Pay attention to yourself and the feelings that come up for you while at work; write your feelings down in a journal or on your smartphone or on a gum wrapper; Share these feelings with a supervisor, mentor, or someone other than your dog.
- Exercise, meditate, or find external pursuits that make you feel good; this is Self-Care 101. Figure out what it means to take care of yourself and stick to it. You can take a bath as part of this step, but do something to get sweaty beforehand. Your endorphins will pay you back with elevated moods and better quality sleep.
- Get sweaty at the office. Yes, you read that correctly. Recently, organizations have begun promoting work-life balance for their employees by offering programs such as in-office yoga, meditation, and massage.
- Re-evaluate every now and then. Are you still finding fulfillment through your work? If not, process (see #3) why. Perhaps your boundaries need an adjustment? Maybe you forgot to use your vacation days?
Reap the benefits
So, here is the essential takeaway: If you love what you do, take care of yourself, because if you take care of yourself, it's likely you'll continue to love what you do.
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About the Author | Jennifer Abcug, LCSW, is a licensed psychotherapist in New York City, where she specializes in women's life transitions. Prior to this, she counseled patients and families at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Convinced the earth moved after reading Mary Oliver's poem, "The Summer Day," the question: "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" has become a focal point of Jennifer's practice.


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In 2014-15 the Protection of Rights without Borders NGO carried out a survey on peculiarities of mental health and relevant limitations of freedom of people with mental illnesses.
The survey revealed four main problems – mainly referring to legislative gaps – which hinder the recognition and enforcement of rights of dysfunctional people.
Hasmik Harutyunyan, legal expert at the Protection of Rights without Borders NGO, said the RA Civil Code regulates the deprivation of capacity be full and it is a problem.
"The institution of full deprivation of capacity requires reviewing since not in all cases of mental disorder a person should be fully deprived of capacity. Unlike Armenia, several European states are legally obliged to apply such mechanisms that will allow partially depriving a person of capacity," Harutyunyan said.
Harutyunyan added in the majority of cases people who apply to them complain that they were not invited to the hearings when the court issued a decision on their incapacity.
"Yet, one of the cornerstones of justice, in this regard, is that the person whose capacity is disputed has the possibility to attend the hearings. Another serious problem in Armenia is the lack of a mechanism which will allow restoring capacity whereas presently a person may be deprived of capacity permanently. And due to this legislative gap people with mental disorder are not granted certain rights."
The current law provides people with mental illnesses may restore their capacity only upon the request of a psychiatric institution, guardian or family member. The experts consider it risky since the deprivation of capacity may possibly be demanded to seize the person's property.
Samvel Torosyan, chief psychiatrist at the Ministry of Health, spoke for amending the Civil Code. "Since the new generation medicine allows treating people with chronic mental disorder, legislation should regulate the deprivation of capacity, specific period should be defined and our patients should have a possibility to apply to the court," Torosyan said.
Anahit Navoyan, senior specialist at the Legal Department at Kentron District, Yerevan, contradicted saying in certain cases people deprived of capacity take part in hearings: "I myself attended such hearings and usually family members have to persuade them to come to the court. And those people, on seeing unknown faces, behave unbalanced. Actually, in cases judges have doubts they insist on the person's presence at hearings." The speaker noted the Guardianship Agency of the Kentron District did not have cases of capacity deprivation to alienate property.
According to Anahit Gevorgyan, deputy head at the Department for Disablement Affairs at the Labor and Social Affairs Ministry, the Ministry has developed a concept note for alternative care and services. "We have initiated ever first need assessment at institutions for people with mental disorder. Not all of them are seriously ill. Twenty-six patients out of 450 at Vardenis psychiatric care home may live at home, daily attending day care centers or live in a care apartment. This year a pilot project will be carried out: we will allocate a flat to eight patients and see how they manage to arrange their day," Gevorgyan said.
The project is ongoing and it is planned to open another care home which will house sixteen individuals, Gevorgyan emphasized.
"There are no alternative services in Armenia, and we have attempted to introduce a series of services and are determined to add and advance them every year," Gevorgyan said.
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Despite a lot of pushback about her decision to perform, singer Jackie Evancho sang the national anthem at President Donald Trump's inauguration on Friday afternoon.
The performance was met with celebratory messages, as well as criticisms.
Also contentious, Evancho signing on to perform created an uprising in the transgender community. Six individuals joined forces to create a video entitled, "Dear Jackie...," with the aim of getting her to reconsider her decision to sing on behalf of Trump.
This is particularly notable because Evancho's sister, Juliet, identifies as transgender and is one of three trans students suing a Pennsylvania school district over their right to use restrooms that best correspond with their gender identity.
Perhaps with President Trump taking office, Jackie Evancho will become more politically inclined. Time will tell.