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nuClear News No 126 December 21, . New Nuclear Energy Developments In Safe Energy Journal No.92 and nuClear News No.135 we reported on a debate in the House of Commons on the Second Reading of the Nuclear Energy Finance Bill, which took place on 3rd November. (1) Since then, there have been several meetings of the Nuclear Energy Finance Bill Committee, including one session which took evidence from Doug Parr of Greenpeace, Mycle Schneider of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report and Professor Steve Thomas. (2)
The SNP's Energy Spokesperson at Westminster, Alan Brown, asked Mycle Schneider about the argument that the UK needs baseload power and can't meet its net zero targets without nuclear power. Mycle pointed out that we are in a climate emergency, so we need reductions in carbon emissions as quickly as possible. For every pound we spend we need to see large and fast results. It's clear that there are other options beside nuclear which are more climate effective. The cost of renewables is cheaper and nuclear is five times slower. Possible investments in nuclear which might deliver after 2030 are much too slow.
Regarding the need for baseload electricity, the National Grid's scenarios say nothing about the need for reliable baseload. Only one out of their three scenarios needs Sizewell C. Nuclear is not flexible. If the wind isn't blowing nuclear doesn't help. What is required is batteries and demand-side responses to compensate for intermittency.
Analysis of the French nuclear fleet shows that nuclear power is not a reliable source providing power 24/7. For 2019 – the year before Covid – when EDF starts an outage for maintenance and refuelling it has lost control entirely over the date and time it is able to restart its reactors. There were over 40 cases of revised times and dates. EDF was not even able to make reliable predictions 24 hours before the reactors were due to restart.
Labour's Alan Whitehead asked Mycle Schneider about the experience of the United States using the Regulated Asset Base (RAB) funding model for two plants in South Carolina which were abandoned recently. Should there be measures in any Bill which make sure any nuclear plant is finished to avoid consumers being dumped with the cost of a plant that wasn't finished. Construction of VC Summer started in 2013 and it was supposed to come on-line in 2017. By 2017 the cost estimate had increased by 75%. In July 2017 construction was abandoned. This was one of the consequences of the fact that Westinghouse filed for bankruptcy. The affair has cost consumers billions.
Steve Thomas said what marked out the VC Summer project and a similar project in Georgia from other US projects was that they allowed the recovery of costs from consumers before completion of the reactors. The Summer experience shows very clearly the folly of using the RAB model. We would have to be careful with any legislation which prevents nuclear plants under construction being abandoned. Dungeness B took 24 years from the start of construction to commercial operation, and over its 32 years of operation its availability was well below 50%. It should have been abandoned before it was completed.
Matthew Pennycook said there is a lack of clarity around the Chinese company, CGN's investment in Sizewell C and how that interacts with the intentions of this Bill. He asked what is in the 2016 Strategic Investment Agreement and what provisions there are in that agreement that would allow the Government to remove CGN. And related to that there was £1.7 billion in the budget to enable a final investment decision for a large scale nuclear project. Is that money to buyout the CGN stake?
Steve Thomas said in the 2016 Agreement CGN agreed to take up to 20% of the Sizewell C project up to the Final Investment Decision (FID). They have an option to take 20% of the construction and operation of the plant if it goes ahead. EDF and CGN have spent about half a billion pounds so far, It may take another £0.5 billion at the most to get to FID. So £1.7bn seems too much. In terms of how you get CGN out of Sizewell C it probably depends on what happens to Bradwell B. The Chinese really want to get the endorsement of UK nuclear regulators for it HPR1000 reactor. If they are not going to be allowed to build Bradwell B, they are unlikely to be interested in putting money into Sizewell C.
Steve Thomas told MPs there is a lot of missing detail in the RAB proposals. One of the biggest elements is how much the surcharge will be during the construction. The Government has said it will be a maximum of about £10 per year per consumer. That would yield £6bn. In the context of a project that will cost £24-40bn, plus financing costs, £^bn is not much of a game changer.
PMQs On 24th November, during Prime Minister's Questions Matthew Pennycook asked: "The Government's integrated review has concluded that the Chinese state poses a systemic challenge to our national security, and the Prime Minister has made it clear that when it comes to China, we must remain vigilant about our critical national infrastructure. Can he therefore confirm unequivocally today that plans for China General Nuclear to own and operate its own plant at Bradwell in Essex have been abandoned, and explain to the House precisely how and when his Government intend to remove CGN's interest from the Sizewell C nuclear project?"
Boris Johnson replied that "…we do not want to see undue influence by potentially adversarial countries in our critical national infrastructure. That is why we have taken the decisions that we have. On Bradwell, there will be more information forthcoming – What I do not want to do is pitchfork away wantonly all Chinese investment in this country, or minimise the importance to this country of having a trading relationship with China." (3)
The Times pointed to the National Security and Investment Bill, going through parliament at present, which will allow the government to "screen" and potentially block sensitive foreign investments, and concluded that China will be cut out of future involvement in developing new nuclear power stations, but this is still not entirely clear. (4)
Mr Pennycook later responded to the PMs answer via Twitter: "We need certainty on the future of China's involvement in UK nuclear power and clarity about how and when the Government intends to remove China's state-controlled nuclear energy company from involvement in any future UK project."
Subsequently the team behind Bradwell B said China's nuclear group remains committed to the project. (5) https://www.no2nuclearpower.org.uk/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/nuClearNewsNo136.pd
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- (1473–1531)Vedanta philosopherVallabha was one of the great exponents of devo-tional VEDANTA. He was born in 1473 to a Telegu BRAHMIN, Lakshmana Bhatta, and his wife, Yel-lamma Garu, a member of an influential South Indian family. Her father had been a priest at the VIJAYANAGARA court.Vallabha's father is said to have fled BENARES (Varanasi) while his wife was pregnant with Val-labha, because of a rumored Muslim invasion. While he hid in the forest near modern Raipur in Chattisgarh state, Vallabha emerged from his mother stillborn—but miraculously came to life. When the Muslim invasion did not take place, Vallabha's father returned.As were many of the Vedantic ACHARYAS, or scholar-teachers, Vallabha was a precocious child who learned all the VEDAS and all the philosophi-cal systems in four years of study. After his father died when he was just 11, Vallabha spent the next 20 years wandering India's sacred sites, remain-ing unmarried. At a mere 12 years old, he is said to have entered into a debate at the Vijayanagara court. He emerged victorious against the views of SHANKARA's Vedanta (absolute non-dualist) on the one hand and the views of MADHVA'S supporters (dualist) on the other.Vallabha stayed at the Vijanagara court for some three years, learning the BHAGAVATA PURANA and becoming familiar with the Madhva tradition (which he did not accept). By now he had follow-ers of his own, as his debating victory had greatly enhanced his status.At the age of 15 he set out on a long pil-grimage to a great many of India's sacred sites. One story relates that at Kaundiya Ashrama (see ASHRAM), Vallabha had a vision of the rishi (seer) Kaundinya, who preached to him the path of devotion, or BHAKTI; even the Vedas and the gods do not know VISHNU, Kaundinya said; only the one who concentrates his consciousness upon Vishnu and serves him every moment can merit that knowledge.It is said that Vallabha spent time at the impor-tant centers of RAMANUJA's followers and Madhva's followers, learning all the nuances of the different philosophies. Heading north, Vallabha arrived in BRINDAVAN, the center of KRISHNA worship in India. Here he made Krishna his Lord and received the vision to establish a new sect, the Pushti Marga.The last leg of this long pilgrimage took him to the HIMALAYAS. After returning to stay with his mother for one year, he headed to Maha-rashtra and Pandaripura, where he encountered the special form of Krishna, Vitthala. Here he received the divine command to marry, as he had up till now been a celibate, though not a SAN-NYASI (renunciant). When he arrived in Benares in about 1500, he encountered a man who offered him his daughter in marriage.Vallabha's marriage produced two sons, one of whom was central in building his sect. While in the town of Gokula, near Mathura, Vallabha took the vow to establish his new sect. This new tradi-tion was all his own, as he had never accepted anyone as his GURU. The initiatory MANTRA of his sect was Sri Krishna Sharanam Mama, "Shri Krishna is my refuge."An auspicious miracle soon occurred near Gokula. An image of Krishna in his pose lift-ing the mountain Govardhana appeared out of a cave. It was said that Krishna would only accept food from the hand of Vallabha. On this spot Val-labha built a small temple, later supplanted by a large complex. The temple's image later had to be moved to Udaipur in Rajasthan, because of the Muslim invaders. There it is known as SRI SRI NAT H J I.Vallabha now embarked on a journey around the country that might be described as evan-gelical. He would debate the proponents of other systems, sharpen his own principles, and gain fol-lowers. His message resonated particularly in the area of Gujarat, thanks to the support of a famous devotional singer there.There are many stories of Vallabha's meeting with his contemporary SRI CHAITANYA. Both made the BHAGAVATA PURANA the primary authority and both took Krishna as the fullest expression of divinity on Earth. The contrast was between Val-labha the intellectual, who prescribed worship of the child Krishna or the cowherd Krishna, and Chaitanya the ecstatic mystic, who preached "Love Devotion" based on the relationship between Krishna and his lover RADHA.In all Vallabha wrote 17 books in SANSKRIT and five in medieval Hindi (Braj). All but one of his Sanskrit "books" were actually brief manuscripts. His longest book was in Sanskrit, Essays on the Light of Knowledge, a full exposition of his theol-ogy. Others of his books in Sanskrit are Vyasa Sutra Bhashya, Jaimini Sutra Bhasya, Bhagavata Tika Subodhini, Pushti Pravala Maryada, and Sid-dhanta Rahasya.In the last year of his life Vallabha took vows of renunciation from the world. He wan-dered as a mendicant for only one year. The story has it that he plunged into the GANGES at HANUMAN Ghat in Benares and disappeared in 1531.The philosophical system of Sri Vallabhacha-rya (to call him by his honorific) was technically called Shuddhadvaita (pure non-dualism). He did not believe that the world was illusory—all the universe was Krishna alone. The worldly, then, is a lower aspect of the divine, but still an expression of the being of the divinity. In Vallabha's system Krishna, as BRAHMAN, or the ultimate reality, was called Purushottama, the highest personage.In practical terms, the Vedanta of Vallabhacha-rya was similar to that of both RAMANUJA and NIM-BARKA. God is permanently transcendent; souls can reach union with God but remain distinct even in liberation.Distinctive in Vallabha's system is the notion of inherent distinctions among souls. There are privileged souls who are destined for union with the divine, and other souls who are destined for eternal reincarnation without attainment of liberation (this Vallabha has in common with Madhva).His Pushti Marga, or path of grace, is unique. Pushti literally means "nourishment," and later in the sect's history, this word began to be taken more literally, and the eating of vast amounts of PRASADA or sacred food became a sign of the sect. However, Vallabha seemed to intend "spiritual nourishment" or "grace." This effectively means that human efforts to reach the divine are sec-ondary; primary are the will and grace of the divine.Thus, in terms of the YOGAs of the BHAGAVAD GITA, the yoga of action (KARMA YOGA), the yoga of knowledge (JNANA YOGA), and even meditative yoga (raja yoga) are of almost no importance to Vallabha. Devotional yoga (BHAKTI YOGA) alone is enjoined to gain the grace (PUSHTI) of the divine. K 476 VallabhaThis devotion is best developed through total ser-vice to the divinity and his servants.Further reading: Richard Barz, The Bhakti Sect of Vallabhacarya (Faridabad: Thomson Press, 1976); G. H. Bhatt, Sri Vallabhacharya and His Doctrines (Delhi: Butala, 1980); Sharad Goswami, Manual of the Devotional Path of Pusti. Translated by M. R. Paleja (Gujarat: Sri Vallabhacarya Trust, 2002); James D. Redington, The Grace of Lord Krishna: The Sixteen Verse Treatises (Sodasagranthah) of Vallabhacharya. Sri Garib Das Oriental Series, no. 257 (Delhi: Satguru, 2000); Natvar Lal Gokal Das Shah, A Life of Shri Val-labhacharya (Baroda: Shri Vallabha, 1984); Jethlal G. Shah, Shri Vallabhacharya: His Philosophy and Religion (Nadiad: Pushitmargiya Pustakalaya, 1969); Brajnath R. Shastri, Shrimad Vallabhacharya and His Doctrines. Sri Vallabha Studies, no. 5 (Baroda: Shri Vallabha, 1984); G. V. Tagare, Brahma-Vada Doctrine of Sri Vallabhacarya (New Delhi: D. K. Printworld, 1998); Swami Tapasyananda, The Bhakti Schools of Vedanta (Madras: Ramakrishna Mutt, 1990).
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Power lines in Amurskaya province are made safer for birds
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Information provided by WWF Russia to power engineers about the location of Oriental stork nests on power lines helps specialists from the Federal Grid Company (Rosseti FGC UES) to identify which transmission towers should be equipped with special nesting platforms and bird protective devices.
The "housing issue" is vital not only for people, but also for birds, especially for such large ones as the Oriental stork. Over the past 50-70 years, large trees suitable for building massive nests have been in great need in stork breeding sites. Power lines are becoming serious alternative to trees, however they can be dangerous causing a short circuit or a power outage, and result in the death of Red Listed birds. Therefore, this issue is under special control of both environmentalists and power engineers. It means that transmission lines must be safe for both birds and power consumers.
This year, according to the Federal Grid Company of the Energy System of Russia (Rosseti FGC UES), the installation of special nesting platforms for birds is being carried out on one of the most populated by storks power lines, the 220 kV Blagoveshchenskaya-Varvarovka power line in Amurskaya province. This line, 110 km long, passes through Blagoveshchensky, Tambovsky and Oktyabrsky districts – an important natural breeding ground for storks. At present, specialists from Amursky branch of Rosseti FGC UES have already installed 52 nesting platforms and plan to mount 70 more. Moreover, they will set up special bird protective devices in places that cause a threat to birds.
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The London Olympics have been a staggering success from the standpoint of British sport and the national profile. Only a year after the country was wracked by riots and images of cities burning and youths looting were beamed around the world, the Olympics produced a major boost to shake off the mood of negativity that has infected the national psyche as economic gloom continues.
Danny Boyle's opening ceremony successfully managed to encapsulate a variety of ways in which modern British history and culture influenced the world. The eclectic quirkiness of the ceremony ensured that all but the most die-hard naysayers found something to identify with. The concept of the nation was stretched to encompass everything from the Satanic Mills of the birth of industrial capitalism to the punk rock of the Sex Pistols. The Cold War icon of James Bond, in a plot with the Queen, was a display of cheeky silliness that few other countries could pull off. The supreme icon of English stupidity, Mr. Bean, (portrayed by Rowan Atkinson) probably found his way to the centre stage because his international reputation outstrips the more subtle humor of the magnificent Monty Python, but they were represented in the closing ceremony. The performance allowed anyone British to ponder what they might have added, had they had an input in designing the show. The Left could claim that the central focus of the National Health Service made it 'their show', but the Conservatives, as the incumbent government, could claim the entire Olympic organization as theirs, showing 'Britain at its Best'.
Sadly, Kim Gavin's closing ceremony was a rather shoddy affair, a gathering of miming pop stars, but even that was enjoyed by millions, perhaps for no other reason than because it was the final event.
Before the Olympics London's Conservative Mayor Boris Johnson was so worried about the everyday problems of a creaking infrastructure that a huge campaign to "get ahead of the games" warned of massive overcrowding ― this resulted in an unexpected ghost-town effect. Anywhere outside of the immediate vicinity of Games events, was pretty much dead. Whilst the official statistics are not yet in, all anecdotal evidence suggests that the much-prophesied Olympic boost to the economy has been completely absent.
This may due to fact that the idea of the boom commonly associated with improving consumer sentiment is itself flawed. Investment on Olympic infrastructure in London's East End has little correspondence to any long term investment trends that might open up untapped reserves of profitable business. Instead, economic and consumer retrenchment continues to be the main tendency in London and the UK as a whole.
The total impact of the Games on British consumer spending may turn out to be the exact opposite to what was envisaged. Disruptions to normal patterns of behavior, whether considered positive or negative, tend to shake up the general consciousness and exacerbate the pondering of individuals' personal lifestyles, expenditures, purpose and place in the world.
The 2012 Olympic vision for a new London to be created out of a largely disused area of common land brought together a number of diverse large-scale commercial development plans. The Games separated public zones from Olympic zones appropriated for favored commercial giants.
The global partners of the Olympic Games are companies like Coca Cola and McDonalds, which are absurd corporate entities to be sponsoring sporting events in the first place. But the main problem with the reality of Olympic Games "legacy projects" is that the public, who covered much of the cost of the Olympic Games, have been given no leverage in the future planning of these sites.
Local businesses located even only a few meters from the Games area were completely sidelined; shops in the vicinity of the Games remained mostly empty during the two-week event. Only one week into the Games, a vast entertainment facility called the London Pleasure Gardens, located next to the main Olympic site, declared itself bankrupt. Meanwhile, a giant new shopping centre which opened nearby will wipe out small businesses and restructure the local economy around it.
The local governments representing the main Olympic area include some of the most deprived parts of London. These neighborhoods stand to gain very little from this global event which happened on their doorstep; publicly financed Olympic construction and development projects are zones that have already been sold off or are being sold off at a loss to global private conglomerates, which offer only vague promises of a better future for the local people.
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GradCafe, Reddit, Quora – they're full of advice on writing about professors in your SOP. They give you hard and fast rules like: "Don't mention professors you haven't contacted as potential advisors." (I disagree with this). Others tell you to target research groups instead of individuals. One former admissions director advises you to not mention professors at all…because they might not have lab openings. (Really? This is oblivious nonsense.)
Why is it so hard for these accomplished people to give clear, useful advice?
I've just read through a dozen posts across the Internet. In each, a nervous applicant asked experts how to show "fit," how to explain their research interests, or how to reference a professor's prior work. Unbelievably, in the dozens of responses, not a single responder asked the applicant the single most important question:
Are you a Master's or PhD applicant?
No joke. In every case, the responders just assume that the OP is a PhD applicant, as if master's applicants should never worry about this. Yet, if this is the case, why do I know so many master's applicants who were wildly successful after describing specific professors in their SOPs?
More importantly, how can there be a million social media posts giving advice about how to mention professors in PhD SOPs, and still everyone is confused?
Really, Internet. You're not doing a great job of providing helpful, actionable information. This isn't rocket science (even if you're applying to a PhD in aerospace engineering). To know how to write about professors in the all-important "Why This Program" section of your SOP, you first need to determine where you are in the process, and then we can determine exactly what you need to say.
Master's Applicants
First things first, you must determine the nature of the curriculum for your target program. Is this a course-based degree? Or is it lab- or project-based?
If it's course-based, then you need to be careful. You won't have research opportunities, so it would be stupid to wax poetic about a professors' fascinating work in sentiment analysis and opinion mining. What does their research matter if you'll only be taking survey courses in Natural Language Processing? Instead, you should mention one or two courses by interesting professors, but only if you're truly familiar with their work, and only if it specifically aligns with your goals. Think of it as a "study plan."
For example:
"I plan to take Machine Learning 1 & 2 in my first two semesters. This will allow me, in my third semester, to enroll in Advanced Machine Learning for Telepaths with Dr. Charles Xavier. Having written a 40-page honor's thesis inspired by the questions in his famous book, Cerebro For the New Millenium, the opportunity to study under Dr. Xavier will benefit my hopeful career in AI-driven mutant detection in ways that no other graduate program can provide."
But what if I can do an independent study or thesis option?
Are you certain of this opportunity? Are you certain you'll take advantage of it? Not every course-based master's degree has the resources to make this happen. At others, the opportunities are limited and highly competitive. But if you CAN do an independent study or thesis option, then you should absolutely mention this in your SOP.
State clearly and directly that you look forward to taking advantage of the independent study option, and hope to do so under the guidance of Professor So and So, largely due to her research experience in ABC (which aligns with your goals).
For example:
"I fully plan to take advantage of the optional independent study in my fourth semester, hopefully under the guidance of Professor Jean Grey. Her expertise in Psychic Energy Synthesis aligns with my interest in ambient psychic energy, and this alone makes the Neuropseudoscience Department at Xavier University unique among similar programs in the field."
BUT…don't go too far. This is still a course-based program. Classes are still the overriding focus of the degree. Thus, if you spend your entire "Why This Program" section writing about an independent study, it will seem like you aren't fully invested in the program's goals – like you aren't a good fit.
In my experience, master's applicants who write this sort of SOP are often failed PhD applicants making a last-ditch effort at master's programs instead. I can't say that admissions committees have noticed this trend, but I certainly have.
But what if I'm applying to a lab- or research-based master's program?
Great question, friend. If you're applying to a program that requires one or more semesters of lab rotations, then you should absolutely mention target professors in your SOP. Often, these programs transition graduates into PhD programs. Thus, when writing your "Why This Program" section, you should discuss target professors in nearly (but not entirely) as much depth as PhD applicants (see examples below). There is one huge difference, however: you don't need to contact potential advisors in advance.
But what if I'm applying to a course-based program with a required final internship, practicum, or capstone?
Ah yes. I can hear all you MS in Marketing and Masters in Health Administration folks clamoring in the back. All you professionally oriented rock stars. Settle down. This is easy.
Don't mention any professors in your SOP. Thank you, and have a nice day.
(Seriously – just flesh out a study plan, mention the courses that will be most beneficial to you, and give some idea what you want to do in your capstone. That's it. Carry on.)
PhD Applicants
I've said it before and I'll say it again: this is the most important part of your SOP. Now, I could argue that your academic goal (your research proposal) is the most important part. Yet, in my mind, these elements are inextricably intertwined.
At this point, you've done extensive research. You know which professors you want to work with. You've emailed them, and perhaps even done a preliminary Zoom interview. Now, your target professors are basically the entire reason you're applying to the program. The name on your diploma won't matter nearly as much as the name of the professors advising your dissertation.
So, what to say about them in your SOP?
Yes, you must mention their names explicitly. Yes, you must mention their research. Most importantly, however, you must convey an understanding of this research and explain how it's necessarily intertwined with your own uber-specific goals. It's not about what their research specialty "is." It's about the techniques they used, the questions they posed, the questions they uncovered, and how these techniques and questions are essentially related to your own research proposal.
This will take more than one sentence, friend.
Curiously, however, it might not need more than two. Let's look at some examples.
C Example:
"I am interested in working with Professor Charles Xavier because his research in Mutant Cognitive Behavioral Therapy aligns with my own."
B Example:
"I am interested in working with Professor Charles Xavier because his current research in Mutant Cognitive Behavioral Therapy aligns with my goals in Clinical Telepathy."
A+ Example:
"I am interested in working with Professor Charles Xavier because his current research in Mutant Cognitive Behavioral Therapy aligns with my goals in Clinical Telepathy. Specifically, in his recent study of high-functioning autism occurrence in telepaths, he employed the novel Grey Jumpstart technique which I believe will be integral in my own research on Psionic Shields."
The key to the A+ example should be obvious. It shows a deeper understanding of the professor's work. The author doesn't have to SAY that she's read and understands Professor X's research – it's obvious in the way she relates his techniques to her own proposal.
Now, you'll have to write statements like this for every professor you mention in your SOP – at least two, and perhaps even three. But only the first two need to go into such detail. Let's be honest: you're giving second and third choices here. Thus, if you're writing about three professors in your SOP, it may look something like this:
"I am especially interested in working with Professor Charles Xavier because his current research in Mutant Cognitive Behavioral Therapy aligns with my goals in Clinical Telepathy. Specifically, in his recent study of high-functioning autism occurrence in telepaths, he employed the novel Grey Jumpstart technique which I believe will be integral in my own research on Psionic Shields. I am also interested in Dr. Hank McCoy's work on the neurochemistry of psychic mutation, particularly his study of latent telepathic acquisition and the use of ADHD medication in post-puberty telekinetic expression. Additionally, I am interested in Dr. Bruce Banner's robust work on the theory of gamma particle resistance in pre-adolescent mutants and the behavioral implications of early telepathic interventions."
Writing About Professors in Your SOP: Tying It Altogether
If you've downloaded my free SOP Starter Kit (for Master's or PhDs), or read Structure is Magic, then you already understand how easy it is to structure a cogent, whip-smart statement of purpose. The second section of your SOP is the "Why This Program" section. It should require no more than 1-2 paragraphs, in which you provide proof that THIS university is the perfect place for you to achieve your hyper-specific academic goal.
This section explains the courses and concentrations in which you hope to enroll. It explains which professors you want to work with, and why. It might even explain how THIS program is different from similar programs at other universities, and thus, presents a unique opportunity for you. Most importantly, it answers this question:
"How will this graduate program help me reach my goal?"
If you can't answer that question for yourself, then you aren't ready to start writing about professors in your SOP. You need to have mature, thoughtful answers. If you aren't certain you have these answers, then download the free Starter Kit and get cooking. It'll clarify everything faster than you can imagine.
When writing about professors in your SOP, you first need to determine what's appropriate for the type of program to which you're applying. Master's or PhD? Lab-based or course-based curriculum? Your answers to these questions dictate what you should write. Remember that your "Why This Program" section is a study plan – it shows that you've thoroughly researched the degree, and have a very clear idea what you're going to accomplish in the next few years. The way you discuss potential teachers or PIs should reflect this thoroughness and maturity.
And hey, you may disagree with me. That's okay. You may believe the admissions committee honcho who says you shouldn't mention professors at all because they might not have advisory openings. That's fine with me. Bad advice, even the most well-intentioned kind, only makes things easier for the thorough and thoughtful students I hear from every day.
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This thesis is centred upon the development, implementation and evaluation of the Bachelor of Education (Tertiary) BEd T. program at the University of Papua New Guinea, which aims to promote quality teacher educators. The program has its in rationale cognitive development theory, research on approaches to learning and the literature concerning adult and teacher development in the Melanesian context. The theoretical position adopted is that teacher development is a form of adult development and the promotion of quality teacher educators, a function of higher stages of development. Consequently, the intervention curriculum had two major expectations: to improve the level of cognitive development; to improve the quality of potential teacher educators. The following evolved as research questions. • What factors influence the learning of Papua New Guinea teachers undertaking higher education? • Does the experience of the special curriculum promote greater cognitive development than increased general education at the University? • What is the perceived impact of the BEd T. students in the teachers' colleges? • What are the contextual factors that influence college lecturers' teaching and students' learning? No one research methodology was considered appropriate to address these research questions because the theoretical position required a combination of qualitative and quantitative data. The methodology adopted was multi - disciplinary in scope and used structures from the following perspectives: ethnographic; illuminative evaluation; case study; quasi experimental. The research concluded that: The biggest single factor that influenced teachers' learning at university is their own misconceived expectations of learning compared with university expectations. This is exaccrbated by learning through English as a second language, where the main problem is the lack of conceptual equivalence between western and Melanesian epistcmologies. It was also found that the intervention curriculum did promote significantly greater cognitive development in the BEd T. students, as measured by the Student Process Questionnaire who in turn were perceived to be making a strong positive impact in the teachers' colleges. However the fullness of impact appears to be potentially muted by the mechanistic curriculum operating in the colleges, as well as by the conservative bureaucratic administrative practices of Government agencies.
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BUSAN — The Busan International Film Festival's nine Asian Project Market prizes went to big names in the Asian industry on Thursday evening.
South Korean helmer Kim Jee-woon claimed the top Busan Award for Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade, which is expected to be fully backed by CJ Entertainment. Kim is known for the kimchi Western The Good, The Bad, The Weird and noir thriller I Saw the Devil. He recently made his Hollywood debut with Arnold Schwarzenegger's comeback piece The Last Stand.
The rest of the award recipients were mostly Korean, with three of the remaining eight prizes going to local projects. A fourth, the KOCCA Award, went to an English-language remake of a Korean drama, End of Animal, which will be helmed by Australia's Eron Sheean.
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Wayne Wang won the Creative Director Award for the Japan-U.S. joint venture While the Women Are Sleeping, while Wang Wei-ming took home the Technicolor Asia Award for the $2 million Taiwan-Hong Kong collaboration Sex Appeal. The latter, however, is set to shoot next week and observers raised questions about the practical meaning of the project funding award.
Market organizers said the Asian Film Market, which the Asian Project Market is part of, made a 16 percent leap from last year. They claimed an estimated 150 deals were made from some 10,000 meetings that were held Oct. 7-10.
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2013 Winners of Asian Project Market Awards:
Busan Award: Jin Roh: The Wolf Brigade (South Korea) by Kim Jee-woon
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ARTE International Prize: Exotic Pictures (Indonesia, Netherlands, Germany) by Edwin
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Creative Director Award: While the Women Are Sleeping (Japan, U.S.) by Wayne Wang
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Object recognition is an important research subfield in the area of Image analysis. Any algorithm to perform object recognition with near-human accuracy is still a challenging task especially from real life images captured by general purpose camera. i.e; images which are not captured in a very constrained environment as far as lighting and/or pose are concerned. Such images are bound to have some shadow component. This shadow component is to be correctly detected and removed by an image analysis algorithm so that they can be analyzed for the target application. Failure in doing so will lead to many problems. For e.g; It may result in wrong segmentation leading to increase in number of segments obtained. These segments may, in turn,, be treated wrongly as objects in the image and will, in turn, have an incorrect computation of features. So the shadow detection and removal is an inevitable pre-processing step for object recognition. Many approaches have been proposed in the literature for shadow detection and removal. The main contribution of this paper is twofold; first, it performs comparative study of three shadow detection and removal approaches. And second, manifests empirically, the need of shadow detection and removal process, as one of the pre-processing step, on the success and accuracy of object recognition algorithm. For the purpose of experiment fruit images are considered and they are recognized. Results are presented and conclusions are drawn.
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DOHA, Qatar (AP) - Poland coach Czeslaw Michniewicz delved into the worlds of skiing and tennis when assessing the task facing his players in stopping Argentina great Lionel Messi at the World Cup.
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Unexpected requirements are unfortunately pretty common!
The first important thing is inspiration. I usually am the most productive when I work on what inspires me at the moment. It is not possible every time, some tasks are going to be required and not inspiring, but if you have some flexibility on the timeline to deliver them, wait until inspiration comes to work on those. If you work on related tasks, the inspiration for less inspiring tasks can be provoked. Check out this episode of SchiShow, it really describes well my vision on this topic: youtube.com/watch?v=FDPJTo-gNUI
The second important thing I try to force myself to do is to stay lean. I try to lay down the main vision and principles/values of the project. Create a good framework to prioritize the tasks based on that.
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How to you take care of your physical and mental health?
How do you make time for deep work?
How much do you sleep?
That sounds good. I struggle to structure my work week. The freedom that I can do anything at anytime is great but frightening at the same time. Apparently you have found something that works for you. But how did you get there?
A good prioritization system and following my inspiration. If you have some flexibility on your hours, I would highly recommend following your inspiration, works amazing for me! :)
Hey Jean-Michel!
Not knowing how to spend your time can indeed be overwhelming and frightening. A good starting point is making a list of all projects or activities that you'd like to spend your time on and once you have them all start trimming the list until you get about 3 items. What's the hard part about structuring your work week?
That is an accomplishment and will make your businesses go far! I am happy to hear you are getting good rest
Are you actively working on your businesses every day? Or do you have certain evenings/days set aside for the work?
I have assigned days in my calendar. So Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays/Sundays I should work on Speakbox, Tuesdays/Thursdays/Saturdays I should work on Variate. Keeps it organized and avoid having to make the decision on what to work on.
Thanks for the answer. I'm thinking of a similar time split to work on writing and my side hustle. Very insightful!
Both use GCP heavily, with Firebase where it makes sense to save some time on the development process. Both apps are built with JavaScript, Nuxt.js for frontend, Node.js on the backend, which is mostly serverless. Variate has some Python components on the way for our reporting/data processing feature.
How do you balance time between your businesses, work, family, and personal life? Do you feel like you're 100% present in any of those at a given time?
Hi Shannon, great question!
I think balance is subjective. I usually don't try to perfectly balance everything. There are times where I focus more on my personal life/family and other times where I get busier with work or business, although I feel like I am getting pretty focused on each area most of the time.
The main thing I am trying to follow is going with inspiration and intuition. If I wake up and I am not inspired to work on one of my side projects, then I don't work on it or reduce the amount of time spent on it for the day. The tricky one is my day job since I can't really afford not to go!
For family time, I don't have kids yet and my girlfriend and I always have time shared during the day (we share meals as much as we can and have some chill time in the evening as well, before getting productive again). It also helps that she works in tech.
For me time, I also time block time for meditation, exercise, TV-show binging, music or anything (depending on the inspiration). However, coding is also a passion of mine, so my side-projects sometimes feel more like a hobby than work.
The bottom line is, I work/do what inspires me at the moment, with slight guidance in respect to my deadlines or objectives (which I can set to be as aggressive or relaxed as I want for my side projects)
I started the programming work on the second version of Speakbox this summer, it will be ready to launch next month. With Variate, a lot of thought is going in the test engine and reporting infrastructure, but we're likely to go live in the first quarter of 2020.
What are you doing to build a potential user base for your two businesses?
For Speakbox, I don't really take care of that: Aidan, one of my co-founders, is working in the mental health field, directly connected to potential users, and speaking at numeral conferences all around the world, in which he can spread the word about what we are doing.
For Variate, our prototype isn't fully done yet, but we are preparing a ton of documentation, video tutorials and we will most likely give talks at several dev meetups and conferences to try and find devs willing to be our initial free beta users. Then, once the MVP is stable and documented thoroughly, we'll probably do a bigger marketing push using traditional social media/advertisement channels, while still attending meetups etc...
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