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Being an internal (viva) examiner with Professor Michelle Bolduc
In this episode, guest host Dr. Edward Mills talks to Professor Michelle Bolduc, Professor in Translation Studies and Edward's internal examiner, about preparing for your viva.
In the podcast, Michelle mentions the TQA manual where Univeristy of Exeter PGRs can find the criteria for assessment for research degrees. These are taken directly from the Quality Assurance Agency's crtieria for assessment of research degrees. Please do check how these are applied at your instition.
This is the last in a new series of podcasts on the viva, being developed as part of a suite of online resources by Edward for the University of Exeter Doctoral College.
Music credit: Happy Boy Theme Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Podcast transcript
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Hello and welcome to R, D and the In Betweens.
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I'm your host, Kelly Preece, and every fortnight I talk to a different guest about researchers, development and everything in between.
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Hello and welcome to the latest episode of R, D in the In Betweens. This is our final episode in the series on The viva.
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And in this final episode, Dr. Edward Mills is going to be talking to his own internal examiner, Dr. Michelle Bolduc about.
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The similar things that we've talked about in the previous two episodes, viva Prep, how examiners approach the thesis,
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but also with a little bit of a twist and a perspective from his own viva experience.
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So over to you, Edward.
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I was very fortunate to speak with Michelle about all things relating to the PhD Viva, including My Own PhD viva, which she was the internal examiner.
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First up, I was wondering if you could just introduce yourself and what your kind of experience is with vivas,
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whether as a student or as somebody who's administered them.
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So I'm Michelle Bolduc, the director and professor of translation studies, obviously at Exeter.
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And in terms of experience and Vivas, I would say that I've had both an American and a UK experience,
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so I'll be really limiting myself and my remarks to the latter.
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I think it's probably more pertinent. So obviously you have done yourfair share of vivas in your time, including mine.
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But I was wondering if if you could start just by explaining what you as an examiner do when you when you get a thesis ahead of the viva
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presumably the first thing you do is read it. But I mean, how do you how do you go about doing this?
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Well, you know,
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it's a it's a really interesting question given given now that all of the Covid regulations require the that we don't have paper copies,
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I really need a paper copy in order to be able to read.
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So I don't know whether you know this but, but I requested paper copies of your dissertation.
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And I did so because the way that I'm going to be just very practical about it,
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the way that I read is both by taking notes with a pen really old fashioned on the thesis itself,
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on the pages and also on a notepad that I keep next to me.
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So I go through, I read, I take notes on the thesis.
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I read it a second time. I take notes on the notepad.
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I read it a third time. I take further notes on my notepad. And and then usually my fourth reading is where I start to try to pull things
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onto some kind of a word document so I can organise the comments thematically,
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whether it's based on argument or language use or some of the kinds of ideas
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that are linked across the the thesis and the questions that I might have.
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So could I ask what when you're reading a thesis for whether it's the first time or the fourth time, what do you like to see?
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And is there anything that sort of really frustrates you?
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Is there anything you look at and are good or anything you look at and go, oh, hang on a minute, this is going to irritate me me?
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Well, I would say that I really like signposting.
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I really like when I see what the argument is, I see clearly how the argument is progressing,
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the way in which the student has chosen to or the candidate has chosen to mark out.
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This is what I'm doing and this is why I'm doing it.
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I pay really close attention actually to those features of argument that I don't think we teach quite enough, frankly.
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But but I think that having a sense of what your argument is, why it's important,
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how you're going to improve it makes for a much easier reading experience for the for the evaluator, for the examiner.
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But I think it's also important for you as a candidate to know.
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Can you can you identify what it is that you're arguing and why you're arguing it, what's important about it?
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It sounds really simplistic, but oftentimes that's lacking.
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And so oftentimes, by the time you get to the the the Viva,
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hopefully all of that is is quite clear is this is this sort of lack of structure or lack of signposting,
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something you you would you would hope to sort of signal the upgrade stage if it's not if it's not immediately clear.
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We do always signal it at the upgrade,
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but especially now what we're reading in terms of the upgrade tends to be a very small number of pages compared to what the the thesis ends up being.
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There can sometimes be a little bit of an issue of if students go through the upgrade,
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but they're still not able to mark out their argument and in a very clear way.
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It's it's really easy to get lost when you're writing your thesis.
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And Edward, I have your thesis sitting in front of me.
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And without the appendix, I seem to recall it was like three hundred and twenty nine pages, something like that.
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I think that's right. Yes. You know, it's it's it's really hard over many, many pages like that to remember.
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Well, how does how does page two hundred and twenty nine fit with what I said back on page seven.
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You've got to be able to to focus in on specific places in your argument, specific ideas,
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and yet still have an overarching idea of what it is that you're doing and how each specific idea responds to that overarching idea.
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And could I ask just for anyone who's not familiar with the term signposting, obviously how ideas relate to each other is one thing.
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But how would you describe signposting? Is that to do with how you signal all of that?
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Well, it's about how you signal the way that a very specific idea is important to your argument on
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a local level and important to your argument on a on a general universal overarching level.
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And signposting doesn't mean anything really complicated.
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It can just mean explaining. I am looking at this particular idea because it relates to my argument in this way
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in relation to something is the idea of connective tissue signposting gives the.
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the idea that you you know what this particular idea is doing for your argument and in your argument and your and you're telling that to the reader,
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connective tissue is making the connections between the idea.
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Why is it that one idea follows another idea that you do just simply with transitions
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And and I can be that it's important in terms of the paragraph structure.
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But typically speaking, by the time you're getting to writing your thesis, you don't have a problem with how you link paragraphs.
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It's more how you move from one idea to another.
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There's some really interesting and useful thoughts I think, that a lot of PGRs will find very helpful.
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Thanks. A lot of those were based around the sort of preparing for submission stage, if you like, what you do before you submit your thesis.
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So I was wondering if I could talk a little bit about the preparation for the Viva itself.
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You mentioned that you will have been reading the thesis through two, three, four times,
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that you yourself have a hard copy and that you go from notes on the thesis to notes on a notepad, to notes on word document.
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Could I ask what you might suggest the students to be doing at that point?
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How would you how would you advise a student to prepare for the viva if you were the examiner, for example?
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It's hard to do, but I think that as much as you can move away,
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step away from your thesis and come back to it as if you weren't the person who wrote it and try to work out for yourself,
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how would someone who is external to the process see this?
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I think you can't do it on the computer. I really think you need to have a hard copy in front of you.
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I have vague memories of doing exactly that, actually, of going in sitting places with a hard copy deliberately.
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No screens in front of me going through and asking myself, so what with every few pages of the thesis?
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Yeah, it's not it's not easy to do. I think that first, when you're reading on a screen, you're not actually reading.
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Oftentimes you kind of your eyes just skip over words because they've become very familiar.
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So you really need to have, I think, the hard copy in front of you.
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And it's really hard to to read your own work as if you're not an interested party if if you know what I mean.
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What you can do is think to yourself, what kinds of questions?
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Do I want to be asked what kinds of questions scare me, what kind of questions am I really afraid of being asked?
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So if you can come up with a list, a list of potential questions that you might imagine the examiners asking,
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and how would you respond to those questions? What are the questions that are really scary for me that I really don't want my examiners to ask?
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Those are the ones that you probably need to pay the most attention to. I think that's that's that's a really useful piece of advice.
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Thank you. I remember actually that's something that happened in in my experience coming out of my upgrade.
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viva your questions were fair, but also in many ways quite nightmarish,
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which provided me with a really good opportunity going into the final viva several years later to imagine you because you were the examiner.
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I knew at that point I'd met at least once imagining really difficult questions.
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And this led to me creating what I call the nightmare sheet,
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where I had some notes on the worst possible questions I could be asked and how I might how am I answer them?
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I asked my supervisor on the morning of my Viva to put me on the spot and make me really uncomfortable for a few minutes.
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And did he? Oh, he did, yes. It was awkward because we know each other quite well.
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But now he did. He put me on the spot and he he helped me think through some of the some of the nightmare questions, if that makes sense.
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And what about during the Viva itself then?
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Obviously it's a. A nerve wracking experience for the candidate, could I ask?
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You've mostly worked as an internal examiner, is that correct? That's right.
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So in the UK system at least, what contact is there between the the internal and the external examiner before the vivaitself?
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There is quite a bit of contact. Typically, we each have to fill out a preliminary report form.
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And in that report form, we give a sense of whether or not imagine that the dissertation fulfils the criteria for the award of the Ph.D.
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So we have to be in agreement about that. So I'm sure many of us will already be familiar with what these criteria that you mention are.
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But can I ask if you'd be willing to just run through them again for anybody who's come across these for the first time?
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Of course, there are five different criteria. And actually you can find this in the TQA manual.
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Basically, you're you need to have shown that you've created and interpreted some kind of new knowledge.
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It needs to be original research, some advanced scholarship, something that peer review quality,
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extending the forefront of the discipline and it merits publication.
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That's that's the first criterion. The second is a showing a systematic acquisition and understanding of a substantial body of knowledge,
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again, at the forefront of an academic discipline. You need to show the general ability to conceptualise,
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design and implement a project for the generation of new knowledge and the ability to adjust the project design in light of unforeseen problems.
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The fourth is a detailed understanding of applicable techniques and advanced
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academic enquiry and finally a satisfactory level of literary presentation.
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So basically candidates, when they submit their thesis, the preliminary reports, look at whether or not the thesis.
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Meets these criteria. So is there something original about it?
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Is does it advance our knowledge in the discipline?
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Is it is it written in a high form of academic discourse or not?
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I think the Vivais really important because it gives the candidate a chance to expose.
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What he or she has been working on for many, many years and for examiners to talk about the strengths and weaknesses of that approach,
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to give feedback, to give ideas for how this might be shaped into a book, that kind of thing.
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Believe it or not, for me, the Viva is meant to be much more of a friendly process.
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I know that it probably didn't feel like that to you, but by the time you are at the level of submitting a PhD thesis,
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it means that you're entering into a different circle, if you will.
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You're becoming a peer as opposed to a student. So I was wondering if we could just sort of fast forward a bit.
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You've the candidate has just walked into the viva or logged on.
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If we're doing things in the covid format, you have produced a preliminary report that you have discussed with the the external examiner.
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You've come to a sort of preliminary conclusion. Is that right?
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That's right, the preliminary report really just says something like this, this thesis meets the criteria for these reasons,
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there may be these issues or I anticipate the viva dealing with particular maybe problems.
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So it's kind of a brief evaluation. So obviously that brings us quite neatly onto the Viva itself.
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It's clearly a very stressful experience for the candidate when they're sitting there or logged on
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there with two experts in the field being being grilled or at least being asked challenging questions.
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What? Do you hope to see from candidates during during that viva process?
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I think one of the hardest things for. Candidates is listening.
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I think there's so much stress that sometimes candidates find it very difficult to properly listen to to what the examiner is asking,
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and if you can remove yourself slightly from the fact that this is your work and think about as you're being asked questions.
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What's useful about that question? I mean, I think examiners are not trying to, again, trap you or trick you or anything.
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We're really there to improve the work.
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And so sometimes I've found that candidates are really, really stressed and not always paying attention to what's going on.
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This isn't always the case. It certainly wasn't the case when you were doing your viva
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But I think you need to be open to the conversation going in directions that you may not have anticipated.
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What I like to see as a student or a candidate who is responsive to what's being said and
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what's being asked instead of kind of turning your wheels on and rehearsing arguments.
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And I mean, in other words, if we're asking a question and you give the same answer that you gave in your thesis,
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you probably want to elaborate a little bit more, because if you're asking the question, it means that you haven't done quite enough in writing.
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And we want a little bit more in in your oral expression.
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And this presumably comes back to what you can do to do prepare for the viva as well.
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You can go through and you can annotate these points that you thought might be
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asked about in the viva and develop them further than in preparation for.
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That's right. You it's good to think about. Well, what kinds of ideas could I have elaborated on that maybe I didn't as as thoroughly as I might have.
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And obviously the viva itself can go on for quite a length of time.
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Our one was was four hours, which I think is the maximum that allows.
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It's often said that the length of the Viva does not necessarily correspond to how well the candidate does.
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So a 90 minute Viva doesn't mean an excellent candidate necessarily and a four hour viva
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Doesn't necessarily mean, you know, a candidate nearly failed.
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Would you say a little bit more about the sort of the length of time?
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Because I know that from my experience, your vivas tend to be quite long ones, don't they?
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I guess I'm always really interested in what I'm reading and I always have a lot of questions.
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I would agree that the length of the Viva doesn't reflect at all the quality of the thesis or the quality of the Viva
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Again, I wouldn't assume that if you're Vivir is over in an hour and a half that you've completely done a terrible job.
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Typically we give you some sense at the end of the viva of how we thought it went.
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So you get immediate feedback, at least informal feedback.
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I remember you telling me at the end of my viva I was quite a fighter, if I remember correctly, which was an interesting term to use.
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I think you were sort of I think that was a compliment or it was.
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Yeah, in the sense that I was kind of I was able to defend my points,
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but it was and that's I think that's the kind of feedback that you're referring to, that when you say informal feedback, is that is that fair to say?
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Yeah, that's right. And actually, that kind of you have to be really careful because what you did in your viva in your Viva and the
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way that you were a fighter was that you answered the questions in in such a way as to be persuasive.
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You didn't rehash your thesis where there might have been weak points.
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You were actually you actually really broadened the perspective in a way that was effective.
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Thank you for saying so. Saying that someone was a fighter could be one of two.
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It could be complementary, but it could also be you haven't really been listening to what we're asking in our case.
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In your case, that that wasn't what was going on.
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I was I thought I thought you might want to clarify that, because I can see It could definitely be argued one way or the other.
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So that brings us rather neatly to the possible outcomes.
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I think of the viva. I mean, in my view, you know, I got minor corrections.
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That's one of four possible outcomes that you can have. You mentioned that you have had experience of examining candidates who got major corrections,
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which is something that I know a lot of people are afraid of.
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It's unlikely that you'll end up with major corrections.
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But I was wondering if you could say a bit more about your experience with that and whether it was the the end of the world
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as as some candidates seem to think definitely for this particular individual was not it was not the end of the world.
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I think it was it was shattering at the moment for the student
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I think the student was was really not anticipating this as a as a potential outcome in hindsight.
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And this is where hindsight is always so.
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Great, the work was significantly improved, so much so that I'm really hoping it's going to come out as a book.
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I think, again, the purpose of viva is to allow you to elaborate on areas that you may not have done
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so well for you to get feedback on your thesis and try to work out how to make it better,
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how to make it into something that will actually be read by other people and not just by your examiners.
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So it might feel like a kind of a violent process.
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But if if you can sort of de-stress and think this is only for my thesis to be better,
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stronger, more persuasive, publishable, you'll be a lot more at ease.
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And I think you you'll have a different experience of the Viva
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I know that from my experience, you were kind enough. I know this may not happen in every case.
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You and Jocelyn my external, were kind enough to provide me with sort of two levels of corrections.
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So while I got minor corrections at the thesis level,
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you made some more sort of substantial points that I'll need to consider as and when I look to publish this in book form.
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And I think that's a really, really interesting point to end on, actually, is that the thesis you mentioned this earlier is a living document,
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and the Viva aims to look at it not just as a thesis, but also is it fair to say to give you advice going forward with it?
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Absolutely. It might be that your thesis will be divided up into articles that you'll send out.
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It might be that you you will have just a couple of chapters.
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You'll add a couple more and that will be a book.
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And what you didn't include in your thesis will be an article where really we're think we're training you to be academics.
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When you get a Ph.D., we're assuming that you're going to be entering into this academic world.
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What do you need to do in order to be be a part of this academic world?
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You need to publish.
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And so part of the purpose of the Viva is to give you feedback not just on what you've produced, but on what you might do with what you've produced.
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I mean, obviously, not everyone will go into academia after a Ph.D., but of course,
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it's it's very useful to know that that's what the the the the beauty viva is at least that
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of preparing you for and training you for that is part of a part of a massive pipeline.
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You know,
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it may be that there are parts of your of your PhD thesis that you decide you want to put onto a blog or to send to a newspaper publication.
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Again, thinking about who your audience is and how you might need to disseminate that information for more of a lay reader.
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And, you know, even if even if you don't go on in academia, if you decide that, you know,
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teaching in a university is not your dream job after all, think about the kinds of transferable skills that you've learnt in writing your thesis.
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You've you've learnt how to research. You've learnt how to evaluate other scholarship.
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You you know how to situate your ideas. You know how to express your ideas in a persuasive way.
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These are important skills for any any field.
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Is the process of submitting your thesis of going through the Viva is admittedly an inherently stressful, but it really is designed to.
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Make sure that your work is the best that it can be, and that's what we're aiming for.
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I certainly found in my experience with you as my internal that that was that was what I got out of.
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It was very stressful beforehand. I was I was incredibly nervous going into it.
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May have may have walked the entire circumference of the small room I was in about 50 times beforehand.
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But coming out of it, I definitely felt like the comments that I got had the potential to make the thesis better.
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And the list of comments that I got, which I then went away and put into an Excel spreadsheet,
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really were a crucial tool when it came to revising the thesis and making it better, I think, to to come back to a term that you've used the you know,
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the other thing about viva that's really, really lovely and amazing is that you're having a discussion about your work
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with two experts and you might have a four hour conversation about your work.
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Very well. Yes. And how how how rare is that?
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I mean, how it's so unusual that you're able to get so much feedback and have to be engaged in this really intellectually stimulating conversation,
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not just for half an hour, but for four hours on a subject that means so much to you.
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So I think I think there is something really special about the viva, because it really is all about you and all about your work.
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And that kind of attention is and isn't always so common.
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And I think that's a really positive note to end on, actually, given all of the concerns that many of us have about the viva
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it's great to hear a bit more there about how it can actually be a really rewarding and positive experience.
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Thank you so much to Edward and Michelle, but also to John and Bice for what I think has been a really,
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really rich trio of episodes about the process of the Viva
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It's something that causes a huge amount of anxiety to PGRs.
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And I really, really hope that the insights of these three academics and the level of reflection and compassion
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with which they spoke will really reassure you in the supportiveness and integrity of this process.
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MSLL is hosting the 2023 BC Provincials Tournament for the Majors Division from July 15-23, 2023 at our own Myrtle Park! See our Tournament Page for more info 2023 Majors Provincial Tournamentread more
Virtual First Aid Course – April 2nd, 2022 @7:30pm
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Virtual First Aid Course
MSLL is offering a virtual First Aid course (via Zoom) to teach basic level first aid. This course is open to anyone - and is strongly recommended for coaches and managers. MSLL aims to have at least one parent on every team who is comfortable offering basic first...read more
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President's Update Feb 2021
Despite the frigid weather this week, baseball season is less than two months away! Here is a quick update for you on what is happening behind the scenes. PHO and Baseball With the existing PHO order being extended, MSLL is preparing dual plans for each division for...read more
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Mount Seymour Little League AGM Monday, October 26 at 7pm via Zoom Please join us at the 2020 Mount Seymour AGM where we will be presenting information about league operations, financial data, and a review of our Little League year. This is an opportunity to...read more
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Stop & Shop said the robot's new features will enable it to expedite restocking and price corrections.
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At CES 2021, LG introduces the Cloi UVC robot. The new bot roams around a room and destroys germs with ultraviolet light.
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New Era AI Robotic's shelf scanning autonomous mobile robot comes with a cobot arm and scanner on top.
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March 28, 2019 Boston Dynamics demonstrated their new robot "Handle" in a youtube video released today. is a mobile manipulation robot designed for logistics. Handle autonomously performs mixed SKU pallet building and depalletizing after initialization and localizing against the pallets. Using on-board vision, Handle tracks the marked pallets for navigation and finds individual boxes for…
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Badger Technologies provides retail inventory management solutions. The Marty autonomous mobile robot continually scans retail shelves to monitor inventory and deliver planogram compliance.
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This must-have kit gives you the versatility you need to attack a wide array of everyday tasks. The 21 double-ended steel bits come in a range of sizes and shapes including variations of Hex, Phillips, Robertson, Pozi, Torx, and the slotted screwdriver. A Phillips and flat tip eyeglass screwdriver is also included. Each of the bits is designed to work with Leatherman multi-tools and knives using the Leatherman bit driver. This durable and convenient holder clips easily onto a belt for hassle-free transportation and long-lasting protection from wear and tear. The kit features classic Leatherman engineering, which means all bits are built with the highest standards in mind; in fact, forged from solid steel and coated with zinc, they are 35 percent stronger than average stainless steel bits. Bits fit: Removable Bit Driver, Skeletool, Skeletool CX, Charge AL, Charge ALX, Charge TTi, Surge, Wave, Charge Ti, and Charge XTi. The assortment of bits include (each bit is double ended): Hex 1.5mm and 2mm, Hex 2.5mm and 3mm, Hex 4mm and 5mm, Hex 6mm and 1/4-inch, Hex 7/32-inch and 3/16-inch, Hex 5/32-inch and 9/64-inch, Hex 1/8-inch and 7/64-inch, Hex 3/32-inch and 5/64-inch, Hex 1/16-inch and .050-inch, Square Drive #3 and #2, Square Drive #1 and Pozi , Pozi #2 and #1, Torx #10 and #15 and Torx #20 and #25, Torx #27 and #30, Phillips #0 and #3, Phillips #1 and #2, Slotted 3/32-inch and 1/8-inch, Slotted 5/32-inch and 3/16-inch, Slotted 7/32-inch and 1/4-inch, Phillips and flat tip eyeglasses screwdriver.
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Dilettante 047: Early Kirby Exposures
This August will be the 100th anniversary of the birth of Jack Kirby. My main exposure to Kirby's work was through a small pile of comics and reprint books I acquired as a child. Most of them were torn, coverless and incomplete, and I read them over and over until they were as fragile as moth wings.
With the exception of a few stories reprinted in Stan Lee's Origins of Marvel Comics collection, I rarely had any sort of context for the Kirby stories I encountered. I could only buy comics at thrift stores and flea markets, so I almost never read two issues in a row of anything. If a story was "to be continued," I'd just have to guess what happened next. If the comic featured "part two," I only had a bit of recap to tell me what had happened in part one. Not a fair way to encounter an artist's work when they're often telling serialized stories.
Nevertheless, I was always drawn into the slices of Kirby's stories I could get my hands on. I was fascinated by the action, the imagery, the mythic feel of larger-than-life conflicts. I was also a little scared by some of it. Most of the comics I read were friendly and inviting, full of pictures composed to convey a sense of sports-hero athleticism and television glamour. Kirby's work served up a different menu: his characters didn't look or behave like those in other comics. They seemed like they were formed out of granite, or hard rubber, or cooling lava. They stomped and leapt with wild, explosive movements and contorted themselves into agonizing shapes. They paused to pose like roman statues and deliver soliloquies, then relaxed and kidded around with each other like my friends at school did.
I thought it might be worthwhile to take a close look at some panels I remember from back then, analyze them with what an eye for what I've learned about comics storytelling, and try to recall the impact they had on me when I first saw them as a pre-teen.
This one is from a Hulk comic. I obsessed over it for a while. It felt like one of the biggest punches I'd ever seen in a comic, but we never actually see it. The key action in the sequence (Hulk punching the guy flying at him) happens between the panels. I might've seen something like it before in a Peanuts cartoon, but this was the first time I found myself aware of how powerful it can be to make the reader fill in the blanks.
Looking at it now, I can see just how much Kirby did to make that sequence work. In the first panel, the guy with the sledgehammer is large in the foreground, and brandishing a heavy-looking weapon. (It's not Thor's hammer, though the design is similar.) This is necessary to make him a credible threat to a big monster like the Hulk. He's hurtling through the air at Hulk like a cannonball, so it's clear that Hulk only has a moment to act. Hulk's gesture communicates that he is off-balance, but still ready for what's coming at him, and that big green left fist is low to the ground, so we know he'll be swinging it upward. That's the kind of blow that might knock his attacker into a new trajectory.
In the next panel, that POW is there both for clarity, and for rhythm. Clarity: the sequence doesn't quite work without the sound effect. In a world full of superheroes, the reader couldn't be sure whether the guy with the hammer was punched, or if he just changed his mind and decided to fly through the top of the circus tent rather than face an angry Hulk. Rhythm: that POW is the beat that feels like an impact between two moments of movement.
Another favorite Kirby image was this one, from an issue #4 of Fantastic Four, in which Stan Lee and Jack Kirby reintroduced Bill Everrett's character the Sub-Mariner.
We'd been introduced to a mysterious bearded hobo who was winning a skid row brawl against impossible odds. Then Johnny Storm gave him a shave.
This was a fascinating sequence. I liked Johnny use of a fantastic power to do something as ordinary as giving a guy a shave. And I knew who the Sub-Mariner was because he was in the very first comic I'd ever read, but even if I hadn't, I'd have known this was an important revelation. Prior to this moment, the comic was full of wild action and dramatic camera angle changes. That Kirby suddenly stopped and devoted three panels in a row to a static shot of a guy getting his beard shaved off made it perfectly clear that this was a crucial moment to witness.
As a very young reader in the mid 1970s, I found that the reprints I read of Jack Kirby's work from the '60s to be mostly friendly, funny and inviting. His new work in the '70s was mind-blowing and scary. I didn't always know how to process his images. The monsters and machines were wild and unlike anything I'd seen in any medium. The stakes seemed life-or-death at every moment. This splash from Kamandi has huge terrible monsters at the center. They outnumber the heroes, who are separated from each other, pushed to the very margins of the page. The good guys seem entirely ill equipped to handle this onslaught, and nothing that they are doing is helping the situation at all. The bat creatures' movements on the page are explosive and thrust violently in multiple directions, creating a sense of chaos. Nothing about this image was comforting to me as a young reader, and there was no indication that anything would turn out all right. This is as it should be in a Kamandi story, of course; it's set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where humanity has been all but wiped out. But I was seven years old and new to the genre. I doubt I'd ever seen an image in any medium where things seemed so dire for the heroes.
This final image was also from the 1970s. It's the opening splash of a story from Kirby's series The New Gods, and while the rest of the story is every bit as much chaotic and violent as that Kamandi panel, this picture struck a note I didn't expect. Despite Kirby's monumental figures, it's more like a drawing from a romance comic than the intro to a story about the war between two cities of Gods. Izaya and Avia sit back-to-back, sharing flirtatious sideways glances in an impossibly idyllic garden. There's a waterfall and garlands of flowers and a passing dove. The two warriors look comfortable and utterly at ease, her body curling into his as she strokes him with a feather. Their bodies together form a shape like the base of a pyramid, accentuated by the angles of Izaya's staff and Avia's lower leg. But within that pyramid the shapes all flow in uncharacteristically gentle curves. This was probably the first time I'd seen an indication of what these warriors were fighting for.
I didn't know at the time that Kirby was one of the inventors of the romance comics genre. He had the tools to communicate connection every bit as well as conflict, and he knew when to use them. That's what I see in Kirby now, remarkable craft in the service of an unfettered, world-class imagination.
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Here's Why You're Failing on Social Media, and What You Can Do About It
We interviewed our #NinjaExpert to find out the most common social media mistakes so that you don't make them.
Being present on social media is no longer just a wishlist for brands and businesses.
It is THE channel to bring your brand and products closer to your target audience, and if done right, bring you the sales, too!
Despite its importance, businesses often get on the wrong foot when they go on social media.
We've seen several brand pages on Facebook, Instagram, and even Twitter that are just idly sitting there, gathering cyber dust by the day.
What you're doing wrong on social media
The problem lies with how most businesses see social media platforms, says digital expert Ash Mandhyan, CEO of Quanta Digital Agency and Former Head of Client Solutions for Facebook Philippines.
"The biggest (problem) one that I constantly see, and this is usually for non-digital natives, is that businesses treat it as a solution from a different planet."
1. Likes ≠ sales
From having a clear set of objectives—as most entrepreneurs do when they enter into anything — it all gets muddled with fluff metrics when they go on social media.
"These business-minded people start chasing fluff metrics — 'I want a million people to like my post'. And they switch into becoming a celebrity of sorts — they want followers, they want likes. But at the end of the day, that does not convert into sales," says Mandhyan.
2. Different platforms, different faces
Another common trap that many businesses fall into is the lack of consistency across different social media platforms.
While Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have different audiences, your brand must remain focused and consistent to your audience.
Navigating social media
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Persuasion via Weak Institutions
63 Pages Posted: 10 May 2018 Last revised: 27 Dec 2021
Date Written: December 23, 2021
A sender commissions a study to persuade a receiver, but influences the report with some probability. We show that increasing this probability can benefit the receiver and can lead to a discontinuous drop in the sender's payoffs. To derive our results, we geometrically characterize the sender's highest equilibrium payoff, which is based on the concavification of a capped value function.
Keywords: persuasion, weak institutions, cheap talk, belief-based approach, information design
JEL Classification: D82, D83, D73, D02
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Lipnowski, Elliot and Ravid, Doron and Shishkin, Denis, Persuasion via Weak Institutions (December 23, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3168103 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3168103
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Which Midfield Mix Will Work For Arsenal?
The acquisition of the Swiss international Granit Xhaka will change the mix in the Arsenal midfield. That's an indisputable and welcome development.
It's easy to see Xhaka as a Mikel Arteta 2.0, a cultured distributor of the ball, an adept transition figure between defense and attack. The new boy also carries physical aggressiveness, as his disciplinary record in the Bundesliga shows.
But the Xhaka effect will be decisive only in the relationships he develops with teammates. These aren't necessarily duos; the 4-2-3-1 formation recently preferred by manager Arsène Wenger favors the two-player combination, but Xhaka's abilities might just encourage Wenger to experiment with other setups.
This piece looks at some of the potential combinations and tactical structures involving Xhaka.
Granit Xhaka-Santi Cazorla
If the choice of midfielders to ground the 4-2-3-1 relied on demonstrated skill levels alone, the strongest case probably lies with Xhaka and Spaniard Santi Cazorla. This pair would offer several advantages, especially two effective styles of transition play, Xhaka's long ball accuracy and Cazorla's dribbling. Opponents would find it difficult to press this midfield because the close control and speed of ball movement would leave pressing midfielders chasing the play rather than influencing it.
The "Cazaka" combination would also be savvy and strong defensively. Although he arrived at Arsenal as a more forward-minded player, Cazorla has shown a knack for positioning himself to defend and for joining forces with teammates to limit opponents' danger. His work with left back Nacho Monreal on Leicester City's dynamic Riyad Mahrez in the 5-2 destruction of the eventual champions stood out in this respect.
Where this pairing might struggle is in offensive production. Yes, Cazorla was one of the team's most prolific providers of key passes before his knee injury in early November 2015. So there's little question the offense has flowed better with him than without.
The issue is actually putting the ball into the back of the net, a vital component of the game that Arsenal largely lacked in comparison with its competition last season. Cazorla scored no goals from 23 non-penalty shots in the 2015-16 Premier League, after having taken 87 shots to score one goal that wasn't a penalty the season before. Xhaka's goal output wasn't much better: two goals from 32 shots, excluding one penalty, in the 2015-16 Bundesliga and two goals from 61 shots the season before. (Stats from whoscored.com)
Granit Xhaka-Aaron Ramsey
Can Xhaka, in his similarities to Arteta, help Aaron Ramsey regain the form of his breakout year of 2013-14? That's the compelling prospect many Arsenal supporters have been entertaining since the club secured Xhaka's services. The theory is that Xhaka can serve as both anchor and distributor, allowing Ramsey to take a freer role, whether in a 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-3 formation.
In a 4-2-3-1 with Arteta three seasons ago, the Welshman scored 10 league goals and provided eight assists. He also succeeded in 3.3 tackles per game of 5.0 attempted, both career league highs. Ramsey's energetic defending has been on display at Euro 2016, where he and Xhaka were the top two players through four matches in regaining possession in the final third. On that evidence, the potential of a "Xhaksey" midfield combination looks enticing.
One wonders whether it could unlock deep-lying defenses in the way a grouping with Cazorla might, because the Spaniard's creativity is impossible to duplicate and nearly impossible to repress for a full 90 minutes. Xhaka and Ramsey might also be less adept against a midfield press.
Those risks aren't likely to prevent Wenger from experimenting with Xhaka and Ramsey together, possibly even with Cazorla ("Cazakasey"?) or Jack Wilshere ("Cazakashire") as a midfield three. Either alignment would depend on the traits additional acquisitions bring to Arsenal's forward line.
Granit Xhaka-Jack Wilshere
Wilshere could join with Xhaka in ways that neither Ramsey nor Cazorla could by themselves.
Like Ramsey, Wilshere can be a dynamic presence in midfield. He propels Arsenal forward by running at defenders and unsettling them. Wilshere also possesses vision, particularly in attack, and the ability to orchestrate intricate passing moves in the manner of Cazorla.
This partnership would be a particularly spiky one: Both Xhaka and Wilshere have displayed a tendency to mix it up with opponents and a willingness to voice displeasure with teammates. Their collaboration would definitely revise Arsenal's "too nice" image.
Francis Coquelin-Granit Xhaka
In a similar way, aesthetic and interpersonal nicety would not characterize a pairing of Xhaka and Francis Coquelin. Together, they'd form a physical, combative midfield.
We know what we have with Coquelin—a player quick into the tackle, disciplined in his positioning, and underrated in his passing. His qualities have shone in away matches against top opposition, when Arsenal needed to absorb pressure and thwart creativity; his outstanding performance at Manchester City in January 2014 is a prime example.
Similar scenarios might call for his inclusion alongside Xhaka. In addition to their defensive tenacity, Coquelin and Xhaka can find target man Olivier Giroud with long passes to relieve the pressure. But they wouldn't bring much attacking dynamism.
Granit Xhaka-Mohammed Elneny
Fluidity would be the watchword of Arsenal's two newest (as of this writing) midfielders in a tandem. Both are clever in the use of space, frequently moving to provide a passing option to teammates.
Depending on the match or season scenario, playing with Xhaka might encourage Elneny to take a few more risks with his own passes. He seemed restrained after he joined Arsenal during the January transfer window, which is understandable for someone in a new league and a new team itself struggling for consistency. Perhaps the stability of Xhaka would make Elneny into a more dynamic passer; we already know he's a dynamic runner without the ball.
Other possibilities
Midfield lineups featuring existing Arsenal players have varied styles and track records, and we'll not delve into those here. The most successful was the duo of Coquelin and Cazorla, which established the platform for the Gunners' strong 2015.
The intrigue now surrounds Xhaka. In particular, will he and any other arrivals enable a change in formation? On the surface, he seems the type of midfielder who doesn't need a close partner, at least against some opponents. If that's the case, we may well see a midfield three featuring him with two of Ramsey, Cazorla, and Wilshere or a 4-1-4-1 with different personnel.
These are all exciting prospects, even without the arrival of attacking talent, as Arsenal's 2016-17 season approaches.


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Early childhood education and care (ECEC) can bring a wide range of benefits – for children, parents and society at large. However, these benefits are conditional on "quality". Expanding access to services without attention to quality will not deliver good outcomes for children or long-term productivity benefits for society.
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View all stories included in Volume 2: Issue 10. Published on November 1, 2018.
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It's a good and proper STF so it does abide by the rules – it is just three words, where the first and second words form a known expression, and the second and third words form a known expression, and all three words together make a credible expression. And this wonderful picture by Teresa Burritt depicts that credible expression.
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So you lined up and took the jab. And you took the second dose.
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On top of that, your viral load could be as high as the unvaccinated.
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And voila, boosters would be necessary.
How many boosters? Unknown. Maybe one a year, or one every eight months.
If you take the boosters, would you still need to wear a mask and distance? Apparently, yes.
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Kapil Sharma, host of Comedy Nights with Kapil recently suffered a serious back injury and had to leave the country for treatment. Fans were worried that the show will be pulled off air but it has been reported that Karan Johar and three other celebrities will be seen hosting the show in place of Kapil.
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Friday 5th December 2014 – 9.30am – Steve Parry.
West Midlands Ambulance Service (WMAS) is one of the top three NHS Twitter accounts in the country according to analysis undertaken of the use of social media in the NHS.
The Trust has been recognised in a new report: "On the brink of SoMething Special", the result of 9 months research and analysis of NHS social media undertaken by leading consultancy JB McCrea, supported by NHS Providers.
The Report identifies the top 50 NHS organisational Twitter accounts. WMAS was placed third overall but was singled out as the leading NHS Twitter account outside London.
WMAS communications director Murray MacGregor said: "This is excellent news and very rewarding for the Trust. We are relatively new to social networking having started in January 2011. Since then the team has become very enthusiastic about embracing all forms of social media to promote WMAS, provide information and engage with followers and the media."
The Trust currently has a Facebook and WordPress page as part of its social network initiative. The Twitter account is also supported by over 40 official staff accounts providing additional tweets from various specialist departments in the Service. The Trust has almost 18,000 followers and has tweeted over 12,000 times since going live in 2011.
You can join our top Twitter account by following WMAS: @officialwmas.
A free copy of the full report can be downloaded from: http://jbmccrea.com/download-report/


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WoW Shadowlands players want Sylvanas killed after Sanctum of Domination trailer
World of Warcraft's newest expansion, WoW Shadowlands: Chains of Domination, is in full swing, but things are going from bad to worse after the Sanctum of Domination trailer left fans reeling over Sylvanas' fate.
World of Warcraft fans have been delving into the heart of the ever expanding Maw to traverse the ruined streets of the once proud Korthia, as well as the bustling halls of the newest mega-dungeon, Tazavesh.
For a lot of WoW Shadowlands fans, though, the Chains of Domination expansion has been a bit of a miss. Plagued by lags and overall feeling a little bit too small, it's dividing players across Azeroth.
The newest raid, the Sanctum of Domination, was the thing that fans believed could inject a bit more fun into the expansion, but Blizzard's recent trailer has fallen short of expectations.
WoW Shadowlands Sanctum of Domination Sylvanas trailer
Heralded as the saving grace for a seemingly underwhelming expansion, thousands of fans flocked to Blizzard's new cinematic in hope of something fresh. If you haven't seen it, be aware that there's spoilers ahead.
With the ominous Jailer finally claiming the Arbiter's sigil, his plans for world domination are almost complete. As he prepares to destroy our heroes, his former trusty sidekick, Sylvanas Windrunner, has a dramatic change of heart and shoots a blighted arrow at his heart.
Catching it with ease, it appears that he returns the immortal Banshee Queen to her mortal self before vanishing into the bowels of what presumably becomes the Sanctum of Domination.
Clinging to consciousness, the Forsaken villainess' ruby red eyes dye an angelic blue before she collapses to the floor.
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Fans slam new cinematic
While this clip was supposed to build the hype, instead it's fallen flat for a lot of fans. The trailer's dedicated forum thread proves that some fans are excited to dive into the Sanctum, but the vast majority of comments aren't particularly positive.
One respondent notes "I think we're all interested with what's going to happen next… but guess what… we've been waiting to see what happens next for 8 MONTHS since 9.0. The endless cliff hangers have to stop."
Another echoes this, noting that "I wish we'd get more story AND content at a faster pace, but it is what it is."
Finally, commenters are slamming the writers for turning Sylvanas into an "utter moron," with one even confessing that "I, for one, wouldn't mind Sylvanas getting killed off at this point no matter how comically bad it is."
As fans finally get to dive deep into the bowels of the terrifying Sanctum of Domination, we'll have to see if the gameplay makes up for this seemingly lackluster cinematic.
Either way, Sylvanas is alive for the first time in a long time, and she's likely out for sweet, sweet revenge.