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The Graduate School - Administration and Governance
Academic Policies and Requirements for Graduate Students
Index for Academic Policies and Requirements for Graduate Students
Degrees, Majors and Certificate Programs
Majors / Minors, A-Z
Certificates, A-Z
Accelerated Combined Bachelor's/Master's Programs
Distance Education (DE) Programs
Herbert College of Agriculture
Tickle College of Engineering
Philosophy Major, PhD
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Philosophy is an ancient discipline. It pursues systematic rational inquiry into human experience and the broader world. Its main subfields include: ethics, the study of what to do and how to live; metaphysics, the study of the nature of the world; and epistemology, the study of knowledge and understanding of the world. The history of philosophy is also an important subfield. Philosophy pursues its questions with a variety of methods. These have at their core commitment to precise, clear, and careful explanation, argument, and analysis; to the refusal of dogmatism; to ongoing openness to criticism; and to the production of a systematic and accurate view of both ourselves and the world in which we live. The serious study of philosophy broadens intellectual horizons. A PhD in philosophy also prepares students for a career as an academic researcher and teacher.
Campus Code
Knoxville Campus
Admissions Standards/Procedures
Admission to the graduate program is decided on a case-by-case basis. The deadline to apply is January 15.
An application to our program includes
a writing sample of approximately 5000-6000 words,
personal statement,
GRE scores,
transcripts from prior degree programs, and
While some prior experience in philosophy is necessary for admission, we are open to applications both with and without prior degrees (MA or BA) in philosophy.
Credit Hours Required
Minimum of 72 credit hours after the Bachelor's or
Minimum of 48 credit hours after the Master's
PHIL 600 (24 credit hours)
For students with a Master's, 24 credit hours, or for students with only a Bachelor's, 48 credit hours selected in consultation with the major professor and/or dissertation committee. These must include
the proseminar (PHIL 601 ) and
at least one other philosophy course at the 600-level
Additional Course Requirements
There are course distribution requirements, to ensure breadth of knowledge across
ethics and political philosophy,
metaphysics and epistemology, and
Please see the department's graduate student handbook for details of these distribution requirements
Prior graduate-level coursework may be used to fulfill these requirements.
Courses are selected in consultation with the major professor and/or guidance committee.
Non-Course Requirements
Students must normally demonstrate a reading knowledge of one living foreign language in which there exists a significant body of philosophical literature.
In special circumstances relating to the area of dissertation research, the Graduate Committee may (i) approve a language that does not satisfy these conditions or (ii) waive the requirement of a foreign language in favor of another appropriate research skill.
Preparation and defense of a dissertation


Naltrexone has been studied extensively in clinical trials. In these studies, the side effects that occurred in a group of people receiving the drug were carefully documented. As a result, it was possible to see what side effects occurred and how often they appeared.
Feelings of coldness in the feet.


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Why Are We Sexualizing Young Girls?
By Elayne Clift (Page 1 of 2 pages) (View How Many People Read This) 12 comments
It may be true that eighty is the new sixty and one hundred is the new dead. But such innovative formulas aren't funny when looked at from the other end of the lifespan. Why, for example, is six the new sexy and twelve the new twenty?
Walk through any mall in America and I guarantee you'll see some disturbing trends in merchandising. Children's stores now sport infant wear that says things like "Sexy" on their six months' size undershirts while T-shirts for the pre-teen set offer slogans like "Eye Candy" and thong underwear with "Who needs credit cards?" scrawled across the crotch. There are push-up bras and pull-in pants and high-heeled sandals for eight-year olds. Several years ago Tesco (the British version of K-Mart) actually launched a Peekaboo Pole Dancing Kit, a play set meant to help young girls "unleash the sex kitten inside." Concerned parents got the play set removed from the toy section of the megastore, but Tesco kept the product on the market.
Take a look at advertising too. Younger and younger girls are now the target audience for increasingly sexualized sales pitches for everything from fancy footwear to cheesy cosmetics. Messages underscore sexuality and the need to be "hot", thin, scantily clad, overly made-up, and preferably white. All this while avoiding the behavior of a "slut."
Writing in her book The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Co About It, M. Gigi Durham points out that Marilyn Monroe was twenty-seven years old when she starred in "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," making her America's most well-known sex symbol. Sophia Loren was twenty-three in "Desire Under the Elms." In contrast, Brooke Shields was twelve when she played a child prostitute in "Pretty Baby," and Jodie Foster was fourteen when she appeared in "Taxi Driver."
Writing in The Guardian last year, Durham said "increasingly, young girls are seen as valid participants in a public culture of sex. " The highly sexual poses imply they are Lolitas -" knowledgeable, wanton, seductive. It sends a message that little girls should be viewed as sexy."
Lolita, of course, was not a seductress. She was the innocent adolescent victim of prurient pedophilia by her stepfather, Humbert Humbert, in Nabakov's acclaimed novel. "The Lolita Effect" says Tana Ganeva writing in AlterNet "has become the way our culture and our corporate media have constructed little "Lolitas" by sexualizing them and constructing them as legitimate sexual actors when they aren't."
Some analysts see this disturbing trend as a backlash against feminism. At a time of increased economic power and autonomy among educated women, men, they say, feel threatened. Sexy little girls reassure them that the ideal woman is docile, compliant, obedient -" and one-dimensional.
Elayne Clift Social Media Pages:
Elayne Clift is a writer,lecturer, workshop leader and activist. She is senior correspondent for Women's Feature Service, columnist for the Keene (NH) Sentinel and Brattleboro (VT) Commons and a contributor to various publications internationally. (more...)
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What Happens When "Jane" Comes Marching Home Again?
Is America Really as Safe a Place to Live as You Thought?
Orifice Politics; What the War on Women is Really About
Beauty and the Beast: The Ugly Attacks on Activist Women
DSM-5 Could Be Hazardous to Your Mental Health
"Rob Kall has certainly acquired the firsthand experiences and knowledge gained through interviews to deliver some interesting insights about the "bottom-up" information revolution. Whereas the old 'top-down' systems created stove-pipes and excessive secrecy that blocked information sharing and led to the 'failure to connect the dots' before 9-11, the bottom-up approach should be the main fix. Kall's concept would seem to interface equally well with the founding fathers' idealism in setting forth their democratic theory of governance as with the realism that makes the multi-sourced, bottom-up Wikipedia work. As someone who shares my support of both government and corporate whistleblowing -- which is nothing more than encouraging greater horizontal sharing of information, I commend Rob Kall's important work on this topic."
Coleen Rowley, former FBI special agent and named one of TIME Magazine's "Persons of the Year" in 2002)

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COVID Conversation: Lower Cape TV
Our Executive Director recently had the opportunity to sit down with Teresa Martin of Lower Cape TV for an episode of Covid Conversations. Click here to watch: https://vimeo.com/476425426
The S Word Documentary Available on Amazon Prime
The S Word Available on Amazon Prime
Getting the Word Out to the 102nd Intelligence Wing
Samaritans on Cape Cod and the Islands is proud to announce that on September 15th our center will begin a collaboration with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline to assist in answering the large volume of calls the NSPL receives. Don't worry! We'll still be the same Samaritans you've always known with the same phone numbers and wonderful volunteers. But now we'll be able to provide support to more people who are struggling with loneliness, mental health issues, and suicidality. Many thanks to our wonderful staff, volunteers, and countless others for working so tirelessly to make this a reality. Samaritans on Cape Cod and the Islands Crisis Lines: 508-548-8900 and 800-893-9900 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline : 800-273-TALK (8255)
MA Coalition for Suicide Prevention's New Social Justice PSA
Our current systems make being a person of color who suffers from mental illness difficult. The MA Coalition for Suicide Prevention is elevating some voices from our communities to discuss how we can be more culturally responsive. #SuicideDoesntDiscriminate. Click this link to watch the new PSA: /https://www.facebook.com/masspreventssuicide/.
Managing Grief During a Pandemic
by Doreen Marshall, Ph.D. Vice President of Mission Engagement, AFSP
Many of us are grieving right now. We are grieving people we have lost, in many instances not having had the opportunity to say goodbye or to be with them in their final moments. We are grieving not being able to have our in-person presence to support one another right now. We are grieving our rituals, our routines and the familiarity of our day-to-day assumptions. For those of us who have a history with grief (especially the unexpected kind), we may be having grief of those former losses stirred and awakened. This week alone, I had two separate dreams connected to previous losses (a death and a miscarriage). I had to remind myself when I woke that it was not those events reoccurring, but another, entirely distinct set of losses that I was currently experiencing. Grief can be messy. It's not linear, as in, "when I get through this particular feeling, I'm done with that." It is cyclical and lingers around important events, words not said, certain songs, and moments captured like photographs in our minds. It is a place we can choose to visit or ignore, though it resides in the background as if waiting for us to notice. If you are experiencing grief right now, here are some things you might remind yourself:
There are different ways to say goodbye. Unexpected endings tend to bring strong emotions, often anchored in both the present and the past, when we may have felt abandoned or left behind. There are different ways to say goodbye. Write a letter to your loved one, even if you end up being the only one who sees it. If your loved one has died or is in a place you can't visit, hold an intention for them in your mind, and say it aloud as you think of them throughout the day. One of my favorites is, "May you feel my love for you and be surrounded by peace."
"The last sentence of the book doesn't rewrite the entire story." Years ago, following the loss of someone dear to me, a wise person shared these words with me. It reminded me that even though I was unable to be with my loved one when he died, I had a book full of lines to draw upon that were the story of our life together and of our relationship. Many of those lines were expressions of our love, moments we shared together, conversations and memories. Remembering these feelings and these moments is how we get a sense of who the individual was; who we were with them; and what the relationship was—all of which surpasses their final moments. Right now is a good time to reflect on those earlier, better memories as best as you can, to remind yourself of the full picture of their lives and your connection.
Connections can deepen over time, even after loss. My father died 14 years ago this week. In the early days and weeks following his death, all I could remember was the image of him sick, and the trauma I associated with that. As time passed, my memories of him unexpectedly became richer and more accessible than they were in those early days. The images of him being sick began to fade away. I can now more easily remember his laugh and his jokes, and recognize the similarity between my daughter's eyes and his. I also feel more connected to how he must have felt as a parent, now that I am one, myself. These are newer, deeper connections to my father, ones I couldn't have anticipated at the time he died.
You are not alone in your grief. Know that others are also experiencing grief right now, and that there is support available. Online grief support, and grief support provided by mental health professionals, hospice centers and faith groups are all accessible to you, many via telehealth and other virtual platforms. You can learn about options for grief support by connecting to your local mental health providers, faith organizations or hospice, or through one of the following national resources: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1800 273-TALK (8255); Crisis Text Line: text TALK to 741741. If you are struggling with the loss of a loved one to suicide, even one that occurred prior to COVID-19, AFSP has our Healing Conversations program, which provides peer-to-peer phone or video contact and resources for those struggling with suicide loss.
Please know, at this time, that others who have traveled the roads of grief are here for you and can serve as guides. Look to them for hope, healing and comfort during this difficult time, and know that days are ahead of you in which the intensity of your grief will be lessened, and replaced by loving memories.
Taking Care of Your Mental Health in the Face of Uncertainty
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In conversation with Scot Sherman, Soong-Chan Rah will discuss the role of prophetic lament in reforming American Christianity.
– Book signing will follow; copies of book will be available for purchase.
Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah is professor of church growth and evangelism at North Park University and the author of Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times (2015), Many Colors: Cultural Intelligence for a Changing Church (2010), and The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity (2009).
Soong-Chan is formerly the founding senior pastor of the Cambridge Community Fellowship Church (CCFC)—a multiethnic, urban ministry-focused church committed to living out the values of racial reconciliation and social justice in the urban context. He has previously been part of a church planting team in the Washington, D.C. area, worked for a number of years with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in Boston (specifically at MIT), and mobilized CCFC to plant two additional churches. He currently serves on the boards of World Vision, Sojourners, the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA), and the Catalyst Leadership Center.
We are pleased to co-sponsor this event with City Church San Francisco.


Physics in Context - 1st Ed.
After viewing a link, close the browser window to return to this page.
Some links are repeated for use with more than one lesson.
The following links are applicable to the entire chapter.
This page contains links to several topics involving matrices including applications.
This page contains free printable practice worksheets on various matrix topics.
NEW This page presents a simple example to demonstrate matrix addition and subtraction.
This page contains a tutorial on matrix multiplication and an animation on how to use your hand to keep track of the steps.
This page contains an tutorial on matrix multiplication.
This page contains a matrix calculator that shows the steps.
This page contains a tutorial with animation on finding determinants.
This page contains an introduction to identity and inverse matrices as well as guiding questions.
This page contains a shortcut for finding the inverse of a matrix and steps for using a calculator.
This page contains an interactive tutorial on Cramer's Rule.
Contact Kathy Kral kkral@cord.org to report a website problem or ask a question.


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When most people think of San Francisco, they think of the classic Golden Gate Bridge. However, there is truly so much more to this city and the surrounding area as you begin to explore it. Some of the most amazing areas to visit are right under our noses.
On this particular Saturday, a group of 12 eager photographers joined Scott Donschikowski and I for a full day of photography in the Marin Headlands and some of the more secluded areas around the Golden Gate Bridge.
We began class with an orientation, got a gauge of everyone's skill levels with a camera, and let them know the schedule for the day. Today, our group was great and came with a variety of skill levels, which always makes the day fun.
Our first stop was Battery Godfrey with one of the most unique views of the Golden Gate Bridge, commonly known as the alignment… where the two bridge towers perfectly align with each other while framed by a pair of 50ft plus tall cypress trees. Here we really started to touch on the basics of photography (aperture, shutter speeds, ISO, composition, white balance).
While it is fun to work with the class on the basics, the real fun of photography is exploring it on your own. We turned class loose, with a few ideas of cool places to explore along the cliffs that overlook Marshall's Beach. Finding compositions that showed the golden gate bridge from different angles and different foreground subjects as some folks started to shoot the recently blooming flowers.
After working our way around Battery Godfrey, we all jumped back into ApVan and headed down towards the harbor for a stop at Torpedo Wharf for a water level view of Golden Gate Bridge. Some folks took the time to shoot panoramic photos of the Bridge while other shot the classic San Francisco city skyline and others focused on the local birds and harbor seals who were kind enough to showcase their fishing talents.
At this point, it was time to head to Sausalito for an early dinner. While at dinner students asked questions, shared stories and hopefully got to make some new friends.
After our meal break, we headed through the Marin Headlands. The main goal; Rodeo Beach. The tide was out, which meant we were able to head all the way out to the sea stacks and with the recent winter storms there are all sorts of new foreground rocks. Here we brought out the neutral density and graduated filters; showing everyone how to get those long silky exposures and how to use water movement to create long leading lines to the seastacks in their photos.
Even though we had already photographed the Golden Gate Bridge, there is nothing quite like seeing "Goldie" shine in the night. So we left Rodeo Beach and headed back up through the Headlands over to Fort Baker to get a little taste of night shooting. This gave the group a chance to work with longer exposures required of night photography.
At Fort Baker we have the added benefit of being able to shoot from the Moore Rd Pier giving everyone a wonderful view of the Golden Gate Bridge from the water while not having to get into the cold harbor water. As the group grabbed their gear bags and tripods from ApVan, we continued discussing long exposure photography, reminding everyone to make sure their tripods were on stable ground to prevent movement and blurring of their photos and using a balance of shutter speed and iso to set up their compositional shots before shooting their longer higher quality "keeper" photos. As sounds of shutters clicked, they were almost immediately followed with voices of "ohh, that's beautiful."


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21 years, 4 months, 15 days old age. Khaleel Ahmed will turn 22 on 05 December, 2019. Only 7 months, 14 days, 21 hours, 24 minutes has left for his next birthday.
Khaleel Ahmed has celebrated the total number of 21 birthdays till date. See the analysis by days count and bar graph.
Khaleel Ahmed was born on 05-12-1997 in Tonk in the state of Rajasthan, India. He is an Indian Cricket Player.
Khaleel Ahmed left-arm medium pacer and opening bowler for India Under-19s, Khaleel Ahmed has been a dependable performer at the youth level. He came into the Under-19 World Cup in 2016 with 12 wickets in three innings, including 3 for 29 against Sri Lanka in the final of the Tri-Nation Under-19s tournament in Colombo. He couldn't quite extend that wicket-taking form into the World Cup but was a regular presence in the side.
He was born to Khursheed Ahmed.
He is a huge fan of musician Tim McGraw.
To unwind himself, he loves playing the guitar.
He always cleans up his locker room at night.
He enjoys playing hide n seek with his nieces Ma'kiyah and Maayana.


This Package Cannot Be Sell For Less Than $97 But This Is A Special Limited Offer To The First 10 Smart Marketers, After That, The Price Will Increase And No...This Is Not A Joke.
"Click And Drag Your Way To Killer Graphics Just Like The Ones Below!"
If you want to create graphics yourself, this product is for you.
Everything You Get With The Click & Drag Graphics Package.
These "starter templates" are simple blank templates with a few subtle "effects" that spice them up. Even though these templates are simple, they look very professional with their subtle effects. And they are generic enough to be used for ANY kind of website theme. So what ever you're selling or giving away, or what ever your site is about, you can use these templates for your designs.
You can simply add your own text to these templates and you'll have a simple yet professional cover ready to go in minutes.
Or you can take the starter template, and add a few images to it, and make the cover more complicated. It's all up to you how much time and effort you want to put into creating your design.
You get starter templates for headers in 3 different sizes (650, 700, and 750 pixels wide) and each cover shape (ebook, box, cd, report, ezine, member card, etc.). With all these different variations, you'll be getting hundreds of templates to choose from.
*Requirements: Photoshop 6, 7, CS, CS2 or CS3.
This module is what makes this package so easy to use and so unique. No other package offers anything like these Click & Drag objects. With these Click & Drag objects you can literally create a professional and eye catching design for your site in minutes.
Just click and drag these objects into place, it's that easy. It's kind of like those drag and drop dolls for girls that come with different clothing that you can place onto the dolls by dragging them. But here instead of dolls we have website headers, covers, and other graphics.
Text - already preformatted with the proper font, size, and layer style effects. Just drag it over to your header or cover, change the text to your own product or site name, and you're done.
Text Bars, Squares, Circles, Stars, and Corners - these are the little shapes that go behind your text to make it stand out more and give it emphasis.
Horizontal Bars - These go across your whole header or cover to divide them into portions or to give that finishing touch.
All of these objects come on their own layers and are completely customizable. So you can resize them, rotate them, change their colors, change the text to what ever text you want, etc.. You can customize them to your liking.
You'll get dozens and dozens of these click and drag objects, in all kinds of different shapes, styles and colors. There is really a huge variety to choose from, so what ever "style" you're going for, you'll find it here.
Layer styles add an effect to your layers with one click. So if you want your text to look "cool" you can add a spicy effect to it by simply clicking on one of the layer styles. It's really easy. Just type your text, click on the layer style you want to apply, and your text will get an effect.
These layer styles also work on ANY layers, not just text. You can apply them to things like web buttons, headers, footers, banners, logos, etc..
You can go from plain text (or any other graphic), to text with a simple effect, to full blown cool looking text, just like below, all with a few simple clicks.
And don't worry, even if you know nothing about layer styles and how to use them, I have step-by-step easy to follow instructions to guide you all the way. So you'll be able to create cool looking text literally minutes from going over the instructions.
And even if you do know what layer styles are, and already have a set of your own, I'm sure there are a few nice styles here that you don't already have.
These layer styles, patterns and gradients are what give a design that professional look. Now you can add these professional effects to your own designs with just a few clicks of the mouse.
It's a really amazing thing the first time you see these action scripts work. It's almost like magic.
In total you get over 60 high quality eCover action scripts.
Plus, this package is constantly being updated so what you see here is just a start. There is much more stuff inside, and more being added on a regular basis.
All of these additional templates come with fully layered PSD source files, so you can easily customize them all.
This package comes with easy to follow, step-by-step, screen capture video tutorials. Everything is broken down for you in simple terms, so even if you're a complete newbie you'll be able to get started right away.
I've also included some more advanced tutorials for those with more design experience. After doing mini site and eCover graphics for over 3 years now, I've picked up a lot of tricks that even design pro's will find useful.
Ever been stuck for design ideas? Have a hard time coming up with the right "look" or color scheme for your cover? With this graphics swipe file you'll never be stuck for ideas again.
You'll get over a hundred of my own favorite designs that I've done for my clients (covers, headers, order buttons, footers, and backgrounds).
A lot of these designs are not listed in any of my portfolios on my sites. You'd have to spend dozens of hours scouring the internet to find just half of these designs on your own.
This swipe file will save you countless hours of frustration and "being stuck".
Note: The graphics in the swipe file are flat JPEG files, and not PSD source files. They're meant as a source for ideas and inspiration (a swipe file).
* Where I get my stock images from.
*Where I get my fonts.
*Where I get my ideas for designs.
*A cool place to get hundreds more layer styles, patters, brushes, textures, and more.
This resource module will save you hours of trial and error time trying to locate all of these places on your own.
So as you can see, this package has pretty much everything you need to create professional graphics yourself.
All of these modules come together into an integrated "click and drag" system. So you can literally click and drag your way to great looking web graphics.
I've never seen a more complete design package online. There's just nothing else like it.
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Hard as it may seem to believe, there comes a time when your child is going to take that first step, roll, or crawl out of the nest and into an organized program with other children. Whether you are looking for daycare, full-day preschool, half-day preschool, or something in between, the choices can be downright dizzying. The JUF Right Start™ program was designed to lend a helping hand during this process.
JUF Right Start works to create awareness and access to Jewish preschools and day cares for Chicagoland families—including a financial incentive of up to $2,000 for the first child in a family to attend a qualifying Jewish program as well as a $500 voucher for Siblings their first time in a program. For further details and eligibility requirements, click here.
To help you get started on your search, we've rounded up a list of Jewish preschools and early childhood centers in the Chicagoland area.
Ages: 6 wks. – 5 yrs.
Ages: 2 – 5 yrs.
Ages: 18 mos.– 5 yrs.
Hours: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Ages: 20 mos. – 5 yrs.
Hours: 9:15 a.m. – 12:30 a.m.
Ages: 17 mos.– 5 yrs.
Hours: 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Hours: 9:15 a.m. – Noon, S,M,W & F lunch bunch and enrichment available until 1:30 p.m.
Ages: 6 wks. – 6 yrs.
Hours: 9 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Hours: 9:15 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Hours: 8:30 a.m. – 11 a.m. or Noon – 2:30 p.m.
Hours: 8:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m., early drop-off & extended day available until 6 p.m.
Hours: 8:45 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Ages: 15 mos. – 5 yrs.
Please note that this article was compiled with the most current information available. Please confirm hours, days, and format with each individual preschool. If you are a local preschool and would like to update your information, please contact chicago@kveller.com. Thank you!


Key to RTK receiver performance, #1 is performance of the RTK engine, #2 is performance of the antenna. We checked the performance of 9 antenna candidates and chose two with very good performance to go with our RTK kits.
Below we compare performance of our survey grade antenna with another RTK antenna that's priced over $300.
Below we compare performance of our high precision antenna with another that's sold at $96 on Digikey.
Taking great care in selecting antennas to go with our Alpha RTK Receiver Kit, paired with a top-notch RTK receiver for 10Hz dual-constellation real-time precision guidance or 1Hz GIS data collection, we hope to give customers best performance achievable with lower cost single frequency RTK.
The antenna at center of below image is the antenna used inside our High Precision Antenna. It has been used in several portable high precision GIS data collector designs. There is dual-feed structure and special irregular metallic coating pattern on the ceramic. On the left is a antenna module taken from a GIS data collector; except for size of the ceramic patch, the pattern looks similar to the center one. On the right is a very low-cost patch antenna used for 2.5m CEP standard accuracy GPS products; it has single feed point and square pattern on the ceramic. Such kind of single-feed patch antenna is used by some single frequency RTK vendors. Checking performance of such type of antenna taken from another vendor's RTK Kit, it shows below center blue scatter plot when running the same 70hr test in parallel.


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Russian oil sanctions fuel boom for old tankers
Julia Payne and Jonathan Saul
FILE PHOTO: A crude oil tanker and a bulk carrier sail in Nakhodka Bay
By Julia Payne and Jonathan Saul
LONDON (Reuters) - The market for old oil tankers is booming, and it's all down to efforts by Western nations to curb trade in Russian crude.
As Western shipping and maritime services firms steer clear of Russian oil to avoid falling foul of sanctions or harming their reputations, new companies have leapt into the void, and they're snapping up old tankers that might normally be scrapped.
The European Union banned all seaborne Russian crude imports from Dec. 5, with a fuel import ban to follow in February.
It also banned companies and individuals in the bloc from providing financing, brokerage, shipping and insurance services to ship Russian oil elsewhere if the crude was bought above a price cap of $60 a barrel that came into effect on Monday.
In recent months, ageing tankers have been sold by Greek and Norwegian owners for record prices to pop-up Middle Eastern and Asian buyers taking advantage of sky-high charter prices for vessels willing to ship Russian oil to India and China.
Tanker management companies such as Fractal Shipping, run out of Swiss financial hub of Geneva, are reaping the rewards.
In less than a year, Fractal has put together a fleet of 23 oil and fuel tankers bought recently by owners in Dubai. Most are taking Russian crude from Baltic and Black Sea ports to Asia, Refinitiv Eikon ship tracking showed.
Chief Executive Mathieu Philippe said he launched the idea for Fractal a year ago, betting that the global tanker fleet was getting stretched and that both the cost of vessels and freight rates would inevitably rise from pandemic lows.
But, by the middle of this year, new ship owners, known as principals, started asking him to get into the Russian oil business.
"We were given a lot of tankers in August and September. Our principals wanted to come into the business for the Russian opportunity," the shipping industry veteran told Reuters.
PRICE SURGE
Major Western oil companies typically stop using tankers when they are about 15 years old, and many would be scrapped. Fractal's fleet, meanwhile, consists entirely of older vessels ranging from 13 to 19 years, Fractal's website shows.
With new entrants keen to get a slice of the Russian business, second-hand oil tanker prices have surged, especially for Aframax vessels that can carry up to 600,000 barrels, the standard size used for loading crude at Russia's Baltic ports.
The price tag for 20-year-old Aframaxes has jumped 86% from $11.8 million on Jan. 1 to $22 million now, according to valuation company VesselsValue.
So far this year, 148 Aframax sales have been reported, a 5% increase from the same period in 2021, VesselsValue said.
Research by ship broker Clarksons showed that more tankers were sold in the first 11 months of 2022 than any full-year previously and sales in October set a new monthly record of 76.
Up until Dec. 5, there were no Western sanctions on transporting Russian oil to Asian markets, so Fractal and other management companies had not breached any rules.
To avoid potential pitfalls, though, Philippe said Fractal does not deal with any Russian-owned companies. That would also be a no-go for Western banks financing maritime trade, he said.
To prevent the new EU sanctions from halting millions of barrels per day of Russian crude exports and driving up global fuel costs, the Group of Seven (G7) rich nations has mitigated its impact by permitting exports below a cap of $60 a barrel.
The aim of the plan is reduce to Russia's export revenue but keep oil supplies flowing.
The agreement on the price cap means operations such as Fractal's can carry on shipping Russian crude without any issues, as long as the deals are below the cap.
The Kremlin has repeatedly said it will not sell oil below the new price cap while Russia's two biggest buyers, China and India, have not promised to abide by the limit.
SAILING TO RUSSIA
New ship owners willing to transport Russian oil are cashing in. "Ships earning $80,000 a day in the Mediterranean can make $130,000 a day if they carry Russian oil," said one ship broker, who declined to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
Crude tanker rates have jumped to highs not seen since 2008, aside from a brief period in 2020 when oil firms scrambled for tankers to store fuel as demand crashed due to the pandemic.
Tanker owners can make more than $100,000 a day for some journeys, said Omar Nokta, analyst at investment bank Jefferies.
"While it remains to be seen how the price cap on Russian exports will ultimately play out, what is clear is that the tanker fleet is becoming stretched and travelling longer distances," he said.
More tankers are now being used for voyages taking weeks, shipping Russian oil from the Baltic and Black Sea to Asia, whereas Russian oil was mainly sold in Europe previously and the voyages only took a few days.
Shipbuilding also stalled during the pandemic and deliveries of new oil tankers next year are set to be historically low, according to analysis from shipping brokers.
Reuters monitored 18 of Fractal's tankers using Refinitiv Eikon ship tracking data.
Twelve have loaded oil at Russian ports in the last two months either for the first time, for the first time since the Ukraine war started, or at least for the first time in over a year, the data showed. Two have been calling regularly at Russian ports.
For instance, the Fractal-managed Charvi tanker loaded crude at Russia's Baltic port of Primorsk in the middle of September before sailing to discharge its cargo in Sikka, India.
The tanker formerly owned by Norway's Viken Shipping under the name Storviken had never previously called at a Russian port, Refinitiv Eikon data going back to 2010 showed.
Similarly, Daphne V another tanker previously owned by Viken Shipping and now managed by Fractal called at Primorsk on Nov. 11 for the first time since the Ukraine war started and is heading to the Suez Canal en route to Asia.
The tanker was called Kronviken before it changed hands. Viken Shipping said it had not sold ships to Russian owners but declined to identify the buyers.
Ship broker Braemar estimated that about 120 of the 212 tankers sold to likely Russian buyers this year were looking at Russian crude oil trades, while there were virtually no sales last year to buyers involved in shipping Russian crude.
CIRCUMVENTING SANCTIONS
The U.S. Treasury has provided some guidance about how the cap will work, but questions remain over its enforcement.
"The price cap is very confusing," Fractal's Philippe said. "We are definitely one of the companies that want to remain in the Russian trade. As businessmen we have to be opportunistic."
Buyers must provide documents such as invoices to shipping companies or insurers to show they stuck to the cap but it will be essentially down to self-monitoring, with no penalties for providers of shipping services if they operated in good faith.
Deals shown to be outside the price cap would effectively break sanctions, and other vessels that have at some point been involved in circumventing oil export sanctions on Venezuela and Iran may well play a part in that trade, analysts say.
One aim of the G7 price cap plan is to prevent this so-called 'dark fleet' getting bigger by allowing Russian oil exports to take place transparently without breaking sanctions.
This dark fleet, which accounts for about 10% of the world's oil tankers according to Trafigura and other shipping industry sources, has helped Iran circumvent a U.S. embargo for the better part of a decade, and Venezuela since 2019.
At least 21 tankers have switched to shipping Russian oil after previously being used for Iranian shipments, said Claire Jungman, chief of staff at U.S. advocacy group United Against Nuclear Iran (UANI), which monitors Iran-related tanker traffic through ship and satellite tracking.
Of those vessels, at least have four changed ownership in recent months.
Ship broker Braemar also said that some of the vessels involved in shipping Iranian and Venezuelan oil were shifting to transporting Russian oil.
It estimated that the so-called shadow fleet shipping oil from those two countries and some of them also for Russia was made up of 107 Aframaxes, 65 larger Suezmaxes and 82 VLCCs (Very Large Crude Carriers).
"Instead of having one optimised fleet you now have two separate optimised fleets," said Christian M. Ingerslev, chief executive of Denmark's Maersk Tankers.
"If sanctions are continually adjusted, it becomes very difficult for the sanctions compliant companies to take the risk because they don't know what will happen tomorrow," he said.
(Reporting by Julia Payne and Jonathan Saul; Additional reporting by Nerijus Adomaitis in Oslo; Editing by Simon Webb and David Clarke)
Frida Kahlo show extended in Coventry after 13,000 visit
Joel Dommett lands 'dream' first gameshow for ITV
The display charting the artist's life and work was to end this month, but will run into February.
Hungary's January annual inflation is expected to rise above 25% but in February price growth will start slowing which could then allow the central bank to gradually start reducing its interest rates, the minister for economic development said on Sunday. Marton Nagy, a former central bank deputy governor, told state radio that the "very high" interest rates made the government's job difficult and harmed the economy. Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government is trying to avoid economic recession at a time when inflation is still running well above 20%.
The Masked Singer host has been handed another prime time show.
Aryna Sabalenka and Elena Rybakina will look to close the gap to the world number one.
Steve Phillips resigns as WRU chief executive amid claims of 'toxic culture'
Former Olympic hurdler and Wales wing Nigel Walker has taken over as acting boss at the union.
Petr Pavel, a retired army general, has decisively defeated populist billionaire Andrej Babis to become the Czech Republic's new president.View on euronews
Happy Valley's Ryan: Rhys Connah on starring in hit TV drama then and now
Rhys Connah started as a child actor in the show. He talks about how things have changed a decade on.
A bus fell into a ravine in the south-west, while 10 children died when a boat capsized in the north-west.
Nadhim Zahawi sacked as Tory chairman for 'serious breach' of ministerial code
Rishi Sunak has sacked Nadhim Zahawi after his ethics adviser found the Tory chairman had committed a "serious breach" of the ministerial code.
Richarlison has been limited to only three substitute appearances since the World Cup having been struggling with a hamstring problem.
Nadhim Zahawi Sacked From Government By Rishi Sunak Over Tax Row
"It is clear that there has been a serious breach of the ministerial code".
Boy, 16, arrested on suspicion of murder after teenage girl stabbed to death
Northumbria Police was called shortly after 5.10pm on Friday.
Project to dismantle Derbyshire weir sees fish breed
Experts say the project on the River Ecclesbourne is a "really good news story for nature conservation".
Azerbaijan will evacuate embassy staff and family members from Iran on Sunday, the foreign ministry said, two days after a gunman shot dead a security guard and wounded two other people in an attack Baku branded an "act of terrorism". Police in Tehran have said they had arrested a suspect and Iranian authorities condemned Friday's incident, but said the gunman appeared to have had a personal, not a political, motive. The incident came amid increased tensions between the neighbouring countries over Iran's treatment of its large ethnic Azeri minority and over Azerbaijan's decision this month to appoint its first ever ambassador to Israel.


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Q: Referencing a 2nd function in Google Apps Script Still a javascript newbie here. I am in the process of creating a little script that displays the logged in user on the left of a grid and a set of images on the right. I have the HTML all setup as I need and have my logged in user functioning correctly.
My question is..
How do I get the function loggiedinuser to display the result into the Div tag loggedinuser. Below is my code.
Hopefully I have explained this correctly.
Thanks
Jack

function doGet() {
  return HtmlService
    .createTemplateFromFile('grids')
    .evaluate();
}

function loggedinuser() {

  var userEmail = Session.getActiveUser().getEmail();
  var username = userEmail.substring(0, userEmail.indexOf("@"));
  var usernameUppercase = username.toUpperCase();

  var HTMLString = "
 Logged in as " + usernameUppercase + "
";

}
.wrapper {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: 20% 80%;
}

.wrapper>div {
  background: #eee;
  padding: 1em;
}

.wrapper>div:nth-child(odd) {
  background: #ddd;
}

.apps ul {
  vertical-align: middle;
  list-style-type: none;
}

.apps li {
  float: left;
  padding-left: 14%;
}

.apps img {
  overflow: auto;
}

.apps img:hover {
  background-color: blue;
  padding: 30%;
}

.apps a {}

A: Try this :

    <?!= loggedinuser() ?>

function loggedinuser() {
  var userEmail = Session.getActiveUser().getEmail();
  var username = userEmail.substring(0, userEmail.indexOf("@"));
  var usernameUppercase = username.toUpperCase();
  return "
 Logged in as " + usernameUppercase + "
";
}


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Q: cannot convert from method group to object porting WFP => UWP For a project i've been working on i'm porting some custom controls from the WPF platform to UWP.
on the WPF side it is implemented as such:
public static readonly DependencyProperty MaxLengthProperty = DependencyProperty.Register("MaxLength", typeof(int), typeof(HexBox), new PropertyMetadata(MaxLength_PropertyChanged));
public int MaxLength
{
    get { return (int)GetValue(MaxLengthProperty); }
    set { SetValue(MaxLengthProperty, value); }
}
private static void MaxLength_PropertyChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
    HexBox hexControl = (HexBox)d;

    hexControl.txtValue.MaxLength = (int)e.NewValue;
}

with the MaxLength_PropertyChanged being used without arguments.
When i try to do the same in UWP i get greeted by the following message:

Argument 1: cannot convert from 'method group' to 'object'

I know this has to do with not passing the arguments, or calling them as a method with (). but in WPF this behavior was implicit.
anyone have an idea?

A: Try this:
public static readonly DependencyProperty MaxLengthProperty = DependencyProperty.Register(
  "MaxLength",
  typeof(int),
  typeof(HexBox),
  new PropertyMetadata(0, new PropertyChangedCallback(MaxLength_PropertyChanged))
);

private static void MaxLength_PropertyChanged(DependencyObject d, DependencyPropertyChangedEventArgs e)
{
    HexBox hexControl = d as HexBox;
    hexControl.txtValue.MaxLength = (int)e.NewValue;
}


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The End of the Tour – sp
David Foster Wallace was a highly acclaimed author who was cited by Time Magazine as one of the hundred best English language novelists. His life was cut short by depression and suicide at the age of 48 in 2008. Several years prior to this tragic event, David Lipsky, a writer for Rolling Stone Magazine and a novelist himself, of less acclaim, convinced his editor to let him accompany Wallace on the last five days of the book tour for his latest best selling novel, Infinite Jest, in order to write an article for the magazine.. Lipsky, in 2010, wrote a book about his encounter with Wallace on this tour, which subsequently inspired David Margulies to write a screenplay for this movie and bring onboard director James Ponsoldt.
The resultant film is a fascinating study of the chemistry and interaction between these two men as depicted by Jesse Eisenberg, as Lipsky, and Jason Segel, as David Foster Wallace. This famous author is shown to be a paradox of a confident, brilliant writer but yet as someone who consistently is concerned that he will not be found to be authentic. He desperately wants to be successful with women and yet has difficulty in establishing relationships and his best friends at this point appeared to be his two dogs. He cares that Lipsky will find him interesting and relevant. Yet, he was afraid that he, himself, would become addicted to fame and what people thought about him. Lipsky admired the literary giant that he was spending time with and yet we see an evolution of his understanding of the subject of his interview. The reporter began to identify with the struggle of the subject and was drawn to him perhaps as a comrade-in-arms. They become, for a while buddies hanging out, with two women connected with the tour (Mickey Summer and Mamie Gummer). There is also comic relief provided by another woman, their book tour escort, played very well by Joan Cusack.
Most of the movie is set in the snowy Midwest which is shown to be cold, crisp, and beautiful. The director, James Ponsoldt, has blended together this unique story and magnificent acting by Eisenberg and Segel plus a musical score background put together by Danny Elfman, which will cement your interest in what is happening on the screen.
It is interesting that we know very little about the psychological history of Wallace or the nature of his fatal depression. Many of the audience also may not be familiar with his writing. However, the connection between the two main characters sustains the movie and will hold your interest.(2015)
Category: 3 Stars, Documentary, Drama | Tags: 2015, Danny Elfman, David Foster Wallace, David Lipsky, depression, Infinite Jest, James Ponsoldt, Jason Segal, Jesse Eisenberg, Mamie Gummer, Mickey Summer, novelist, Rolling Stone Magazine, suicide, The End of the Tour Comment »


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Cleveland County Prosecutors Charge Grandmother Accused Of Beating 3-Year-Old Granddaughter To Death
Wednesday, June 29th 2022, 5:34 pm
By: Jennifer Pierce
CLEVELAND COUNTY, Oklahoma -
The Cleveland County district attorney has charged a metro grandmother with one count of first-degree murder by child abuse.
Becky Vreeland was accused of beating her 3-year-old granddaughter Riley Nolan to death and dumping the child's body in a trash bin last week.
Vreeland pleaded not guilty at her arraignment Tuesday. A Cleveland County judge set her bond at $5 million for the death of her granddaughter.
The grandmother's southwest Oklahoma City home turned into a crime scene.
The child's body was found in a trash bin. Police said Riley had been there for several days.
"I can't sleep at night," the victim's father, Kyle Nolan, said. "Every time I close my eyes, I just think about her."
Nolan shared his grief and heartbreak with News 9 days after he says he found his daughter.
"I just don't understand what could have provoked anything and then once I found out how it happened, it killed me," Nolan said. "And on top of it, I lose my mom, too."
Three of Nolan's children were in his mother's care making Vreeland the No. 1 suspect in Riley's death. However, she denied killing her granddaughter. She told investigators the child fell into the trash can.
Some neighbors described Vreeland as unusual, but they never suspected her capable of murder.
"As a neighbor, I wish I had paid more attention, and I could have been (of) more assistance for her if she was in trouble," neighbor Marsha Brannum said.
Investigators arrested Vreeland after they found evidence of a struggle and murder inside her home. The state medical examiner told police the little girl had three separate skull fractures not consistent with a fall.
Vreeland's family remained in disbelief that she was in jail accused of murder by child abuse.
"I'll always love my mom," Nolan said. "That's my mom. She raised me. She did everything for me, and that's why I never dreamed something like this could happen."
Court records show Vreeland's next court appearance is set for July 26.
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As an authentic approach to discover the local talent of Calgary high school students, Marlborough Mall is hosting its stylish student soiree known as GownTown, an annual initiative that provides less fortunate students with affordable dresses for prom. This year, Marlborough Mall is raising the bar and will grant young aspiring fashion designers the opportunity to win $5,000 towards funding for post-secondary education.
To enter the contest, students all across Calgary are encouraged to join until February 29, and those who are selected to continue will be attempting to transform a donated gown into a new work of art between March 5 and April 2. As the contest continues, all redesigned dresses are then exhibited in Marlborough Mall for shoppers alike to vote for their preferred gown on a ballot or through the power of the hashtag using #mbmwins at Customer Service. GownTown's official winner of $5,000 will be announced on April 17.
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Do you prefer A La Carte Pricing or All Inclusive?
Would you rather have your Jamaican "all included" vacation where all meals, drinks, even scuba diving, and golf are included in the price? Or, would you prefer to book your hotel, and pay for your meals, drinks, and activities as you used them?
Allegiant airlines recently announced that it will begin charging up to $35 for using the overhead bins. The low price airline already charges for making your reservations online, charges for a coke, and even charges for the privilege of selecting a seat – any seat.
These are two extemes of different pricing models. Which do you prefer? Why? Make your choice in the comments section below. I'll post a scorecard next week.
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1 Response to Do you prefer A La Carte Pricing or All Inclusive?
I don't like package deals as they always include things I don't care about. However, I would find it tough to fly via Allegiant Airlines simnply because their low fare may not be once all the extra fees are added. One can pay from $0 to $60 to select a seat at time of booking.
My preference is to pay as I go because this way I select what I want. However, I don't expect to pay through the nose for things that ought to be included. I'd not buy a car and then expect to pay an extra $100 per wheel to be able to travel across town.


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Thriller of a Movie
Exclusive club does double duty for Austin's charitable music lovers
Austin-based company sends 2 women on worldwide dating adventure
UT Football Royalty
Finn Wittrock in My All American. Photo by Van Redin/Clarius Entertainment
Aaron Eckhart in My All American. Photo by Van Redin/Clarius Entertainment
Finn Wittrock and Sarah Bolger in My All American. Photo by Van Redin/Clarius Entertainment
Writer/director Angelo Pizzo doesn't make very many movies, but when he does, they tend to be memorable. Pizzo is the sole credited screenwriter for both Hoosiers and Rudy, two unquestioned sports movie classics. So when he decides to tackle another sports story with My All American, it's enough to make you sit up and take notice.
And for fans of the University of Texas football team, that goes double, as the film tells the story of Freddie Steinmark (Finn Wittrock), a legendary figure in UT history. An undersized player out of Colorado, he was nonetheless recruited by coach Darrell Royal (Aaron Eckhart) because of his speed and obvious heart for the game.
Steinmark soon proved his worth to the Longhorns, becoming a leader for the defense and helping to make the team great again after a few down years in the mid-1960s. According to the film, he was also renowned for his positive attitude and ability to inspire the same in others.
Pizzo appears to have wanted to make a crowd pleaser of the highest order, as the film contains little nuance. Hokey, on-the-nose dialogue is spoken by virtually every character from minute one, and even though there's not the build up to one big game like in other sports movies, there's no doubt where the film is headed.
The only twist will be for those who are unfamiliar with Steinmark's story, which could be quite a few since his days with the Longhorns were nearly 50 years ago. Despite the corny moments and way-too-obvious storytelling, the film does manage to score its fair share of emotional points along the way, probably because Pizzo is an expert at pushing the right buttons.
One thing the film has in its favor is the quality of its football scenes. Many sports movies like to gloss over such scenes or employ editing trickery to make it seem like the actors are doing more than they actually are. But it's plain to see that there's actual hitting, throwing, and catching going on, so you can't knock Pizzo and his crew in that regard.
Also helping matters is the performance of Wittrock, whose expressiveness and joie de vivre make Steinmark an easy person to root for. Eckhart does a solid job as Royal, although the film requires little more from him than to support everything Steinmark does. Other notable performances come from Sarah Bolger as Steinmark's girlfriend Linda, and Richard Kohnke as teammate Tom Campbell.
There are way too many poorly thought-out sequences for My All American to join Hoosiers and Rudy in the pantheon of great sports movies. But for anyone steeped in the tradition of UT football, it's at least a good trip down memory lane.
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Though many folks are expressing serious concern about football's impact on the brain, opting out of the country's largest fan base isn't easy. For me, who watched up to six hours—a week of pro football in years past, it was like quitting an addiction. You find yourself having relapses, hanging out with other addicts who are still using, making all kinds of rules to excuse a few hits.
Most addicts have an out—a back door that lets them get what they crave without blaming themselves. My out was something I called the "hospitality rule": I'd watch football if it would be rude not to. I had 36 family members coming to my house for Thanksgiving this year. I couldn't deny them their tradition, right? As a result of my "hospitality," I caught a good bit of the Cowboys game and some of the other two games. Of course, plenty of those 36 Hogans never saw a play because they didn't go into the TV room. At another family gathering, this clause let me see one of the Coolest Plays of the Year, when an Indianapolis Colts running back in the playoff game against the Kansas City Chiefs fumbled on the one-yard line, and the ball bounced off a teammate's helmet into the hands of his quarterback, whose name is actually Luck. Luck then leapt into the end zone, helping sustain one of the most remarkable comebacks of the year. Not only did I get that same old high, this play brought me back into the community of fans who retell the same amazing play for the rest of the week, brag to those who missed it, and get to feel like they were part of a special moment.
Sadly, I can't report that I did anything particularly special with my newfound free time. I now cook dinner on Sunday nights, help more around the house, and caught all the Oscar contenders on the big screen. But it's not like I trained for a marathon or re-landscaped the backyard. My tools are still disorganized, and my pile of unread books is just as high.
My scorecard shows obvious room for improvement, but the big questions are: Did my abstention make any sort of difference? And, will I relapse?
If you're old enough, you remember when boxing matches were on regular TV and dominated both the sports and news pages. At some point, watching retired champs slur their words and lose their memories caught up with the sport, and the cultural spotlight and fans turned away, reducing boxing to a small but dedicated group of spectators who pay big bucks per fight. If enough people choose, as I did, not to watch football, is that where the NFL is headed? Doubtful.
The difference is that boxing requires so little upfront investment: All a match takes are two boxers, their small team, and some gear at a gym or small arena. Football, however, requires dozens of men to be flown all over the country weekly, equipped from head to toe, and prepared by a huge coaching and training staff that works nearly 24/7.
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The NFL has promised to take care of its retired players, and the president is right that the league's players are grown men who, now at least, know the risks. But do I have to watch and enjoy them taking those risks? Like any addict, I'll take it one season—maybe even one week—at a time. As for this Sunday, some friends invited us over, and I don't think it was just to watch the commercials.
Fuzz Hogan is the managing editor of the New America Foundation. He wrote this for Zocalo Public Square.


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The pdf, as always, concludes with a well-written section that contextualizes the loremaster tradition in the Xa-Osoro system.
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Continuing the Search for Meaning in Our Lives
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It might seem reasonable that, after we hit 50, our quest for finding meaning in our life would wane.
We've been so busy. We've had a family, a career, perhaps one (or more) marriages, an education. We've been around the block, as they say; felt joy, experienced loss, dodged a quiver of life-threatening arrows over the past 50-something years. Quite frankly, we're exhausted.
Our 50s, and the years beyond, should be a time to slow things down, to coast on the remaining momentum we've created. Why would we need a quest of any kind, past that wherein we seek out our slippers?
And yet: It's there. Underneath everything, we may all feel the nudging, nagging, undeniable pull to find new meaning in this new chapter of life.
Truth bomb: For many of us, the deepest and most profound quest for meaning in our life has just begun.
We are perched somewhere near the peak of life's long tall mountain trail where we can pause to catch our breath, have a look back down to where we've climbed from, and also peek forward at what might be to come.
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The more for which we're searching — that quest for meaning — is rooted in the fundamental need we all have, from birth through death, to feel connected. This desire to feel connected — to give and to receive love, kindness, compassion, and empathy – is at the very core of living a life of meaning.
In our younger years, the connection was effortless and abundant. Most of us were more likely to consider a few moments of solitude a gift rather than a punishment. But, as we get older, the opportunities to feel connected with others can grow infrequent. For many, nearly non-existent.
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Regardless of how we go about it, we do feel compelled to quest for meaning in our lives after 50. Follow your heart, get involved, and challenge yourself.
Where your quest leads is up to you. What are you waiting for?! Get going! Seek, my friends, and ye shall find!
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Machu Picchu | 10 Interesting Facts On The City of the Incas
The Inca dynasty rose from obscurity in Peru's Cusco Valley in thirteenth century. From 1438 to 1533, the Incas charmed, intimidated, bribed or conquered their rivals to create the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. Located in Cusco region of Peru in South America, Machu Picchu is the most familiar icon of Inca civilization. Built around 1450 at the height of the Inca Empire and abandoned less than a century later as a result of Spanish conquest, it is now a very popular tourist destination. Here are 10 interesting facts about this magnificent site known as the 'City of the Incas'.
Hiram Bingham who rediscovered Machu Picchu
#1 Machu Picchu became famous after being discovered by Hiram Bingham
Although several people claimed to have rediscovered Machu Picchu, the site was brought to international attention by Hiram Bingham in 1911. There was no account of Machu Picchu in the chronicles of the Spanish invasion and Bingham believed he had found Vilcabamba, the so-called 'Lost City of the Incas'. Machu Picchu was in fact not known to the Spanish during their conquest and hence was not plundered or destroyed. This makes it highly significant as a relatively intact cultural site.
#2 Peru and Yale Universities fought over possession of its artefacts
After Bingham excavated treasures from Machu Picchu from 1912 – 1915, he took them to Yale University in the United States for further studies. He was supposed to return them in 18 months but Yale retained the artefacts on pretext that Peru didn't have the infrastructure or proper conditions to care for the pieces. Yale was accused of profiting from Peru's cultural heritage and after a long dispute between Peru and Yale University all the artefacts were returned to their original home by November 2012.
#3 Machu Picchu means 'old peak'
Machu Picchu is at a height of 2,430m in the Andes Mountains. The name Machu Picchu means 'old peak' and it refers to one of the two mountains on which the site lies, the other being Huayna Picchu (young peak). There are many theories about why Machu Picchu was built. Most archaeologists are convinced that Machu Picchu was an estate of the Inca emperor Pachacuti. The site was selected because it occupied a special place in the "sacred landscape" of the Inca. Its mountains are alleged to be in alignment with key astronomical events important to the Incas. The mountain on which it is built is surrounded by Urubamba River, which the Inca named the Vilcamayo, or Sacred River.
Urubamba River which surrounds Machu Picchu
#4 Machu Picchu had sophisticated systems to irrigate the field
The city area of Machu Picchu is divided into the upper town and the lower town. All the temples are located in the upper town while the warehouses are part of the lower town. It also has an agriculture area with extensive terraces; and sophisticated channelling systems to irrigate the field.
#5 Temple of the Sun is one of its most visited and significant sites
Among the structures that enhance the spiritual significance of the site is the "Temple of the Sun" or Torreon. It is located near the supposed residence of the Inca emperor. During the summer solstice there is an alignment between one of the temple's windows, rock and the solstice sun. Beneath the temple there is a cave which Bingham referred to as "royal mausoleum".
The 'Royal Mausoleum' below 'The Temple of the Sun'
#6 The famous Intihuatana stone was probably an astronomic clock
The Intihuatana stone is one of the archaeological treasures at Machu Picchu. Inti means 'sun' while wata means 'to tie'. Hence Intihuatana is literally an instrument to tie up the sun. The Inca believed the stone held the sun in its place along its annual path in the sky. At midday on November 11 and January 30 the sun stands almost above the pillar, casting no shadow at all. Some researchers believe that it was built as an astronomic clock or calendar.
The Intihuatana Stone which, according to Incas, held the sun in its place
#7 The Ashlar technique used at the site has given rise to alien conspiracy theories
The style used by Inca in all prominent buildings of Machu Picchu is the classical Inca architectural style of polished dry-stone walls of regular shape. In this technique blocks of stone are cut to fit together tightly without mortar. It is called ashlar and the Incas had mastered it. Ashlar was perhaps used because mortar-free construction is more earthquake resistant and Peru is a highly seismic land. Such is the brilliance of their architecture that many junctions are so perfect that not even a blade of grass fits between the stones. Also the walls built by them can move slightly and resettle without collapsing. Ashlar technique was so forward for the time that it has given rise to conspiracy theories about aliens building the site.
A wall built at Machu Picchu using the Ashlar technique
#8 How the huge stones were moved also remains a mystery
Although the principle of the wheel was known to them, the Incas never applied it in their engineering. It might be due to the lack of strong draft animals or the terrain might have made the wheel impractical. How they moved and placed the enormous blocks of stones remains a mystery. Some have suggested that hundreds of men pushed the stones up inclined planes.
Machu Picchu in the film Motorcycles Diaries
#9 The Inca Trail is the most popular way to reach Machu Picchu
Inca Trail is still the most popular way to approach the site.
The Incas built a road to Machu Picchu region, known today as the Inca Trail. This road is the most popular way to approach the site and tens of thousands of visitors use it every year to reach Machu Picchu. It is a three day journey and compulsory porters are needed in the trekking expedition. At night the porters sleep on the trail with a piece of mirror or metal under them. They do so to prevent being carried away by spirits emerging from the earth. Most of them also recount experiences of being pulled out of their tents by spirits.
#10 Machu Picchu is one of the New Seven Wonders of the World
In 1983, UNESCO declared this magnificent city as a World Heritage Site. In 2007, Machu Picchu was voted as one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. It has featured in a few movies including the 1954 film Secret of the Incas and the 2004 film, The Motorcycles Diaries. A song of 2010 South Indian film Ethiran was filmed at Machu Picchu after direct intervention from the Indian government. The site is one of the most visited tourist attractions in all of Latin America with an average of 1800 visits per day. However this has led to the site being threatened by economic and commercial forces and UNESCO is considering putting it on its List of World Heritage in Danger.
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