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UGC Scholarships and Fellowships – Grants for PhD & Higher Education
Every year, thousands of scholarships are awarded to those who have achieved some specific targets or performed outstandingly in their concerned fields.
To extend a warm felicitation to such extraordinary performers in Academic Field, UGC has started UGC Scholarships & Fellowships.
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Below we are providing a quick list to review all the Scholarships/Fellowships offered by UGC at one place.
Please check below –
Name of Scholarship
Eligible Candidates
Emeritus Fellowship
Dr. S. Radha Krishnan Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences
Young & Unemployed Researchers
Post-Doctoral Fellowship to Women Candidates
PHD Degree Holder Yet Unemployed
Post-Doctoral Fellowship to SC/ST Candidates
PhD awarded unemployed candidates belonging to SC/ST
Swami Vivekananda Single Girl Child Scholarship for Research in Social Sciences
Single Girl Child of her Parents pursuing Ph.D. in Social Sciences
Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for SC Candidate
Post-Graduated SC Candidates and registered for M.Phil./Ph.D programs
National Fellowship for Higher Education of ST Students
Post-Graduated ST Candidates who are desiring to pursue research without NET
National Fellowship for Persons with Disabilities
Any student with disabilities who has been admitted to M.Phil./Ph.D. degree
Maulana Azad National Fellowship for Minority Students
Minority Community Candidates registered to the regular and full time M.Phil./Ph.D. courses
National Fellowship for OBC Candidate
Post Graduated OBC Candidates whose parents are having annual income not more than INR 6 Lakhs.
Post-Graduate Indira Gandhi Scholarship for Single Girl Child
Girl students without having any brother or the girl student who are twin daughters/ fraternal daughter
Post-Graduate Merit Scholarship for University Rank Holders
University Rank Holders
Post Graduate Scholarships for Professional Courses for SC/ST Candidates
Candidates who have taken admission in Professional PG Courses
"Ishan Uday" for North Eastern Region
NER resident candidates who are in their 1st Year of Graduation
Research Awards for the Teachers
Teachers having Doctoral Degree
Raman Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Research for Indian Scholars in USA
Permanent Teacher under UGC having a PHD Degree in a selected field.
Major Research Project (MRP)
Permanent/Regular, Working/Retired Teachers
Special Assistance Program
Teachers & Researchers
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UGC Scholarships for Teachers/Faculty [Working or Retired]
There are numerous UGC Fellowships/Scholarships for teachers, whether they are employed or retired, they can take advantage of the fellowships offered by UGC.
Below we have provided the detailed information for the fellowships from which Teachers can be benefitted –
To provide an opportunity to the Highly qualified, experienced & superannuated Teachers who have been actively engaged in research & teaching programs in the preceding years, UGC has started the "Emeritus Fellowship".
With the help of this fellowship, teachers will be able to undertake research, without any restriction of position or pay scales.
The Emeritus Fellowship allow candidates to pursue research from the following institutes -
Universities/Institutions/Colleges under section 2(f) and 12(b) of UGC Act, 1956.
Deemed to be Universities under section 3 of the UGC Act, 1956 which are eligible to receive grant in aid from UGC.
Universities/Institutions/Colleges funded by Central/ State Govt.
Institutes of National Importance.
The eligibility will be based on the quality of research and published work contributed by the teacher in his/her service career.
The awardee (superannuated) can work under this scheme with a well-defined time bound action plan up to the age of 70 years or up to two years (non-extendable) of the award whichever is earlier.
Transgender candidates are eligible to apply under the scheme.
The reservation shall be followed as per the Govt. of India norms.
Total No. of Seats
The number of slots available under the scheme is 100 for Science streams and 100 for Humanities, Social Sciences and Languages (total 200 slots) at any one given time basis.
Fellowship Amount & Benefits
The assistance available under the scheme is:
Honorarium of 31,000/- pm for two years (non-extendable)
Contingency grant (non-lapsable) of INR 50,000/- p.a. towards secretarial assistance, travel within the country connected with the research project, stationery, postage, consumables, books and journals, and equipment.
*However, books, journals and equipment etc. procured out of the contingency grant will be the property of the university/college/institute.
Foreign visit related to the approved research work of the awardee will be limited to once in a year with the prior approval/no-objection of the Institution/University where the project work is being undertaken along with that of UGC.
The Research award/scholarship is given to only those lectures, senior lecturers, selection-grade lecturers, readers & professors who are having a doctorate degree and have shown their excellence in their concerned fields.
The scheme is designed to provide opportunities to regularly appoint permanent teachers of universities/institutions to pursue research in their area(s) of specialization for a period of two years without undertaking any research guidance.
A provision for extension of tenure of Research Award has been made for one year only on the recommendation of the subject experts in exceptional cases.
The teachers should be regular and placed on the permanent positions.
They should not age more than 45 years. 5 years of relaxation is provided to Women, SC/ST/OBC/(non-creamy layer)/ transgenders/ Physically Handicapped & Minorities.
Regularly appointed permanent teachers who have a doctorate degree and have shown an aptitude for research may apply for the Award.
They must have published papers/ articles in reputed/referred journals, and have made contributions to editorial boards, collaborative research nationally, internationally or with industries/national organizations and universities/institutions recognized under Sections 2(f) and 12(B) of the UGC Act.
A total numbers of 100 slots are available under the scheme every alternate year.
The financial assistance available under the scheme is as follows:
Full salary of the awardee with admissible allowances.
Research grant to meet expenditure on books and journals, chemicals and equipment for the entire period is as under –
1. Humanities and Social Sciences: INR 2.00 lakh
2. Sciences/Natural Sciences/Engineering and Technology: INR 3.00 lakh.
The awardee, being on duty leave, will continue to earn normal increment.
Expenditure towards travel within the country and foreign trips associated with the research work.
Raman Fellowship for Post-Doctoral Research for Indian Scholars in the USA
The Raman Fellowship is designed for the Young Indian Researchers to carry out a clearly defined research project and/or acquire newly emerging research techniques and technologies at a place of their choice in the USA for a period of up to 12 months.
These awards will benefit them with an excellent opportunity to interact with the American academic/scientific community and get firsthand information of the developments taking place at the international level and acquaint themselves with new academic and scientific research methods and to participate in collaborative research projects.
The applicant should be a permanent teacher in a university/institution recognized by UGC.
The applicant should possess at least 60 per cent marks or equivalent in the post-graduate degree.
The applicant should possess a Ph.D. degree in respective academic discipline (Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Science, Engineering, Technology, Agricultural Sciences) or MD/MS/Ph.D. in Medical Sciences.
The Applicant must provide proof of having carried out independent research work published in peer reviewed journals preferably indexed.
The applicant should be of age up to 40 years.
The minimum period of fellowship would be 6 months and maximum period would be 12 months.
The Fellow will be entitled to fellowship amount of US $ 3000 per month.
Fellow will also be entitled to a one-time personal contingency grant of up to a maximum of INR 50,000 to cover for visa, airport transfer, medical insurance etc.
Fellow will also be permitted to travel within USA to attend conferences or visit other institutes of interest with the approval of the advisor at the host institute.
The Fellow will be entitled to avail one of the following grants for this purpose.
1. Grant of $ 600 for fellowship period up to 6 months
2. Grant of $ 1200 for fellowship period beyond 6 months
Air-tickets for all the selected Fellow would be purchased by the respective university/institution.
Major Research Project (MRP) & Major Research Project for Regional Offices
The University Grants Commission strives to promote teaching and research in emerging areas in Humanities, Social Sciences, Languages, Literature, Pure Sciences, Engineering & Technology, Pharmacy, Medical, Agricultural Sciences etc.
The University Grants Commission will provide support to permanent/regular, working/retired teachers in the Universities and Colleges.
The permanent teachers working in self-financing Institutions.
A teacher, working or retired can avail only one project/ scheme of the UGC at any given time.
After completion of one project (date of finalization of accounts of the project), if a teacher desires to undertake another UGC project, a gap of one year will be necessary.
The Principal Investigator should publish two papers in a reputed journal in the form of 3 Books/Article/Presentation in seminar etc. from the said project completed.
Retired teachers can apply under the scheme up to the age of 67 years and must have a Co-Investigator (Permanent Teacher) from the same Department, where the project is likely to be undertaken.
Only the teaching faculty of Library Science, Physical Education, Principals and Vice-Chancellors will also be eligible to participate in the scheme.
The SAP scheme was initiated in 1963 by University Grants Commission. The program is intended to encourage the pursuit of excellence and teamwork in advanced teaching and research to accelerate the realization of international standards in specific fields. The first such program was initially started as the "Centre of Advanced Study (CAS)" in 1963.
The major objectives of the Special Assistance Program (SAP) are as follows-
To identify and support university departments which have the potential to undertake quality teaching and research in various educational disciplines including allied disciplines.
To promulgate research in Universities to be relevant to societal needs and have society and industry interaction.
To make research a catalyst for good teaching and introduction of new courses relating to identified thrust areas.
To have linkages with research organizations and to use their expertise innovatively to support research in the universities.
To enhance infrastructural facilities.
To utilize the output of research for the development of the nation and society.
To train and create quality human resources in identified thrust areas.
To search for newer / generic area(s), of research, its promotion and nurturing.
A University department must have the potential to undertake quality teaching and research and submit its proposal for induction under SAP.
The department should have at least six teachers including one Professor to become eligible for induction under SAP.
Tenure of Fellowship
The tenure of the Special Assistance Program (SAP) will be for a period of FIVE YEARS for a phase.
The maximum limit of financial assistance for a period of five years at various levels of the program will be as under:
Program / Status
Financial Assistance * (Rs. in lakhs)
Maths, Statistics Humanities & Social Sciences
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UGC Scholarship for Young & Unemployed Researchers
Check out the detailed description for the scholarships & fellowships offered to the young & unemployed researchers –
Dr. S. Radharkrishnan Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences
The objective of this award is to provide an opportunity to carry out the advanced studies and research in Humanities and Social Sciences including languages in Indian Universities/Colleges/ Institutions.
To avail the scholarship offered by UGC, the candidates must be applicable on the following guidelines –
The candidate should be unemployed.
He or She should not age more than 35 years. Relaxation of 5 years is provided for SC/ST/OBC/Women/PWD (Persons with Disabilities)/ transgenders candidates.
For General Category candidates, minimum 55% of marks at UG level and minimum 60% of marks at PG level are mandatory.
For Reserved Category (SC/ST/OBC/PWD/Transgenders) candidates, minimum 50% of marks at UG level and minimum 55% of marks at PG level are required.
Scholarship Amount & Benefits
The financial assistance available under the scheme is as follows –
INR 38,800 – 1st year | INR 40,300 – 2nd year | INR 41,900 - 3rd year
Contingency A
INR 50,000 p.a. for three years
Escorts/Reader assistance
INR 2000/- p.m. (fixed) in case of physically disabled candidates
UGC Scholarships & Fellowships for Females
Please check out the detailed description of UGC fellowships and scholarships offered to Female Candidates, given below –
The UGC has initiated a scheme of Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Women, to those candidates, who are unemployed holding Ph. D. degree in their respective subject areas with an aim to accelerate the talented instincts of the women candidates to carry out the advanced studies and research.
The candidates must have been awarded the Ph.D. degree to be eligible to apply
The candidate should be 55 years of age. There shall be age relaxation for SC/ST/OBC/PWD/ Transgenders (Persons with Disabilities for 5 years).
In case of General Category minimum 55% of marks at UG level and minimum 60% of marks at PG level.
For Reserved Categories (SC/ST/OBC/PWD/ Transgenders), minimum 50% of marks at UG level and minimum 55% of marks at PG level.
The main motives of the proposed scheme are -
To support higher education of single girl child in Social Sciences.
To recognize the value of observance of small family norm.
To recognize the norm of single girl child in society.
To propagate the concept of single girl child norm.
Promoting single girls in the society.
Any single girl child of her parents pursuing Ph.D. in Social Sciences in Universities/Colleges/ Institutes is eligible to apply under the scheme.
In a family if one son and one daughter is available then girl child will not be considered for fellowship under the scheme.
Proof of being single girl child has to be submitted on an affidavit of INR 50/- Stamp paper from the fellow/parent duly attested by SDM/First Class Magistrate/Gazetted Officer at the time of filling the online application.
The scheme is applicable to such a single girl child who has registered herself in regular, fulltime Ph. D. program in Social Sciences in any of the Indian Universities/Colleges/Institutes.
Admission to Ph.D. Course in Distance education mode is not covered under the scheme.
Girl students up to the age of 40 years for general category and 45 years for the reserved categories i.e. SC/ST/OBC and PWD (Persons with Disabilities)/ Transgenders can apply.
Transgender candidates are eligible to apply under the scheme as per the norms.
Scholarship Amount
INR 25,000 - For initial two years | INR 25,000 - For remaining tenure
Post-Graduate Indira Gandhi Scholarship for Single Girl Child For PG Programs
To support post graduate education of single girl child in non-professional courses and to recognize the value of observance of small family norm, UGC has initiated this fellowship.
Girl students without having any brother or the girl student who are twin daughters/ fraternal daughter may also apply for scholarship under the aforesaid scheme.
In a family if one son and one daughter is available then girl child will not be considered for scholarship under the scheme.
Girl students up to the age of 30 years at the time of admission in PG courses are eligible.
The scheme is applicable to such single girl child who has taken admission in regular, fulltime first year master's degree course in any designated university or a post graduate college. This scholarship is available to PG-I-year student only.
Admission to PG Course in Distance education mode is not covered under the scheme.
The candidates who apply for the scheme can get a financial assistance of INR 3100 per month.
UGC Scholarship for Reserved & Minority Category Candidates
The objective of the scheme is to provide an opportunity to SC/ST candidates to undertake postdoctoral research in Sciences, Engineering & Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences at any of the Indian Universities/Institutions/Colleges.
The candidate must have a doctorate degree in the relevant subject preferably with published research work to their credit.
Only Ph.D. awarded unemployed candidates will be eligible for the award of Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
The upper age limit for male applicants is 50 years and 55 years in the case of female candidates.
The candidates of SC/ST categories having 50% marks at UG level and 55% marks at PG level are eligible to apply under the Scheme.
Scholarship Prize Money
Rate of Fellowship (Revised)
INR 38,800 pm for first 2 years | INR 46,500 pm from 3rd year onwards
INR 50,000 pa
Escorts/Reader/Assistance
INR 2,000 pm in case of PWD's
The fellowship will be applicable up to 5 years only.
Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for SC Candidates
The main motive of this scholarship is to provide financial assistance to eligible SC Candidates to pursue higher studies such as M.Phil. and Ph.D. from the reputed Indian Universities/Colleges.
The candidate should belong to SC/ST and should have passed the Post Graduate Examination.
The Candidate must be registered for M.Phil./Ph.D.
JRFSRF
INR 10,000 pa for Initial 2 years | INR 20,500 pa for remaining years
Humanities &Social Sciences
Contingency B
Sciences, Engg. & Technology
The fellowship is designed for the ST Candidates who have passed the Post Graduate examination in concerned subject and who desire to pursue research without JRF of UGC-NET or UGC-CSIR NET.
The candidate should be from ST Category. Rest Eligibility Criteria and Fellowship Amount is same as Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for SC Candidates.
To provide the opportunities to students with disabilities for pursuing higher education leading to degrees such as M. Phil. and Ph.D., UGC has started the concerned fellowship.
There are total 200 Fellowships for the PWD Candidates.
Any student with disabilities who has been admitted to M.Phil./Ph.D. degree in a University or academic institution.
The candidate must get himself/herself registered for M.Phil/Ph.D at the first available opportunity but not later than within a period of two years from the receipt of award letter. This period is not extendable.
After two years, if the progress in the research works of the awardee is found satisfactory, his/her tenure will be extended for a further period of three years as Senior Research Fellowship (SRF).
*The research work will be assessed by a three-member committee set up by the University. The committee will consist of the Supervisor, Head of the Department and one outside expert in the subject.
JRF may be terminated in case the progress of the candidate is not found satisfactory by the committe
For all Subjects
Departmental Assistance
INR 3,000 pa per student to the hostinstitution for providing infrastructure
The Maulana Azad National Fellowship for Minority Students is formulated and funded by Ministry of Minority Affairs.
The scheme is open to candidates who belong to one of the Minority Community i.e. Muslim, Sikh, Parsi, Buddhist, Christian & Jain and are pursuing higher studies such as regular and full time M.Phil/Ph.D. degrees in Sciences, Humanities, Social Sciences and Engineering & Technology.
3% fellowships are reserved for Physically Handicapped candidates belonging to Minority Communities as per provision laid down by the Government of India.
University Grant Commission provides an opportunity to minority community aspirants to get the award of 1000 fellowships under the scheme "Maulana Azad National Fellowship" for pursuing full time M.Phil & PhD. The candidates who have qualified UGC NET exam held in Nov 2017 and June 2018 are eligible to apply. They can apply online till 31st December 2018.
Candidate should belong to one of the minority communities – Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Parsi & Jain.
Candidate should be registered for regular and full time M.Phil/Ph.D courses in University/Academic Institution by fulfilling conditions of admission of that University/Institution.
The annual income of the beneficiary/parents or guardian of the beneficiary should not exceed INR 2.5 lakh from all sources. Candidate should submit his/her income or his/her parent's/guardian's income certificate issued by the appropriate Authority.
The candidate should have secured a minimum score of 50% at Post Graduate level.
The Fellowship Prize Money is same as Rajiv Gandhi National Fellowship for SC Candidates.
National Fellowship for OBC Candidates
The Fellowship Scheme has been initiated keeping in view the social other backward classes (OBC) candidates of the society and to provide them the opportunity to undertake advanced studies and research.
The objective of this award is to provide fellowships in the form of financial assistance to unemployed students belonging to OBC to pursue higher studies leading to M.Phil and Ph.D degrees (full-time) in Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences and Engineering & Technology.
The candidate should belong to OBC and should have passed the Post Graduate examination and an annual income of the beneficiary/parents or guardian of the beneficiary should not exceed INR 6.00 lakh per annum from all sources.
The candidate who is already registered for M.Phil./Ph.D. will be eligible for the consideration for award of the fellowship under cited scheme.
The objective of the scheme is to provide financial assistance to 1000 SC/ST candidates to pursue postgraduate level studies in Professional subjects at recognized Indian Universities/Institutions/Colleges.
The candidate must have obtained Graduate degree in the relevant subject and obtained admission at Postgraduate level for regular full time course in any of the Professional subject in a recognized University/Institution/College.
INR 7,800 pm | INR 4,700 pm
M.E./M-TechOther Courses
INR 15,000 pa | INR 10,000 pa
UGC NET Scholarships [Others]
The purposes of this scheme are:
To promote and nurture talent.
To reward meritorious students with the outstanding performance at the Undergraduate level for pursuing postgraduate studies.
To promote study in basic courses at undergraduate level.
To build up academic excellence at postgraduate level across the colleges and universities in the country.
The scholarship is available to the student for first PG Degree only.
Age limit for the students is 30 years at the time of admission in PG course.
Distance mode of education will not be considered under the scheme.
Tenure and Number of Scholarships
There are total 3000 fellowships available for the candidates who are seeking to pursue PG Degree and the fellowship will be valid till 2 years only.
Amount of Fellowship
The candidates who get selected for the concerned fellowship get INR 3,100 pm for a period of two years only (10 months in the year) i.e. full duration of a PG course.
For promoting the higher education and for encouraging children belonging to an economically weaker section of the NE region, the UGC has decided to launch "Ishan Uday" Special Scholarship Scheme for North Eastern Region.
The objectives of the Special Scholarship Scheme for North Eastern Region are -
To provide equal opportunities for higher studies in NE Region.
To increase the Gross Enrolment Ratio (GER) in NE Region.
To focus more on professional education in NE Region.
Optimum utilization of NER Budgetary Allocation.
Number of Fellowships
It is envisaged to provide ten thousand (10,000) fresh scholarships every year beginning from the academic year 2014-15 for general degree courses, technical and professional courses, including medical and para-medical courses.
Students with the domicile of NER who have passed Class XII or equivalent exam from a school situated within NER through any recognized Board of Education.
Only first-year Undergraduate students are eligible to apply for the scholarship.
For integrated degree courses the scholarship will be tenable for the complete duration of the course.
For dual degree courses, the scholarship shall be tenable for the first degree only. The university shall clarify it while recommending a candidate for the scholarship.
For availing scholarship under this scheme, the income of the parents of the student should not exceed INR 4.5 lakh per annum.
The following shall not be eligible under this scheme-
Students pursuing courses/programs through Open Universities.
Students already availing scholarship for pursuing the Undergraduate program under any other scheme.
Students gaining admission through 'management quota'.
Students pursuing courses, such as Diploma Courses, not leading to an award of a Degree.
Students whose parents' income exceeds INR 4.5 lakh per annum.
An amount of INR 5400/- p.m. for General Degree courses and INR 7800/- p.m. for Technical & Professional courses will be given through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) to the beneficiary student.
All the above fellowships are offered by UGC. To avail the higher studies opportunities to the Post Graduated candidates, UGC has also started the National Eligibility Test through which candidates can show off their talent and abilities to outstand for the prestigious positions of Lecturer in any Indian University.
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Detailed List of UGC Scholarships
Scholarship Name
Application Period*
No. of Scholarships
Post Graduate Indira Gandhi Scholarship Scheme for Single Girl Child
Between October and November
Post Graduate Merit Scholarship for University Rank Holder
Special Scholarship Scheme Ishan Uday for NER
Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme
Runs throughout the year
National Fellowship for Scheduled Caste Students
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WRESTLING NOTES: Area teams gear up for KVAC championships
Skowhegan enters this Saturday's tournament as the conference favorite.
By terry devereauxcorrespondent
The Skowhegan wrestling team has won every tournament it's competed in this season and is favored to win the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference championships again this season as well.
Cony High School will host the KVAC championships Saturday, with 17 teams set to compete.
Skowhegan Area High School's Julian Sirois, top, wrestles Messalonskee's Austin Pelletier in the 154-pound bout in Skowhegan earlier this season. Both wrestlers are poised for strong showings at the Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference championships Saturday at Cony. Staff file photo by Michael G. Seamans
The Indians have strength up and down the lineup and will have four undefeated wrestlers — Cody Craig (113 pounds), Julian Sirois (152), Kameron Doucette (160), and Logan Stevens (182) — come to the meet Saturday.
Sirois has been virtually untouchable this season, 33 of his victories coming via pin. Sirois recently wrestled a match at 145 pounds, enough for him to qualify for the regional tournament in that weight class. However, he will opt for competing at the higher weight class Saturday.
"We will be keeping Julian up to 152 allowing us to keep another younger wrestler in the lineup," said coach Brooks Thompson. "You should see him at 145 for regionals and states"
Samson Sirois (126) and Cooper Holland (132) are also likely top seeds for the Indians.
While the exact order of seeds in each weight class won't be determined until a KVAC coaches meeting Thursday evening, many area wrestlers will be included in the top four.
Cony senior Max Storey is undefeated (30-0) at 220 and will likely compete as the top seed Saturday. Fellow senior Devon O'Connor (195) is 22-4, with three of those losses coming at the hands of Nokomis' Christopher Wilson. Cony freshman Noah Dumas (106) holds a 30-3 record.
Nokomis has done well in tournaments this season and is poised for a strong showing Saturday. Wilson (195) is undefeated in 32 matches. Fellow senior Hunter Glidden is 32-2 at 285 pounds while freshman Quinton Richards is 22-2 at 138 pounds.
Winslow also has some strong individuals. Nat Beckwith is 6-0 in the 220-pound class. Ryan Fredette is 25-2 at 170 and Devon Vigue is 20-1 at 120 pounds. However, he will compete at 113 pounds Saturday. Ben Abbott (160) is 30-6, while Patrick Hopkins (182) is 19-6.
Gardiner's Peter Del Gallo is 40-0 and will be the top seed at 120 pounds. Teammate Alexander Thang (285) could garner a top-four seed.
Erskine will be led by seniors Isaac Taylor (27-2) and Justin Studholme (29-3).
Messalonskee's Austin Pelletier is 31-4 overall and 7-1 at 152 pounds. Pelletier competes as an independent since Messalonskee does not field a wrestling team. Pelletier practices with Skowhegan and recently finished in second place to Sirois at the Skowhegan Invitational.
Wrestling is expected to begin at 9:30 a.m.
Oak Hill, Madison and Monmouth will compete at the Mid-States Tournament at Lisbon High School on Saturday.
Madison has several potential medalists, according to Bulldog coach Scot Padelford.
"Freshmen Dawson Senter (113) and Josh Savage (120) have been scoring points for us all season and are in hope of medaling," he said. "If Matt Brown (285) wrestles like he can, I expect him to be in the finals."
Senter has won 30 matches this season, while Savage has 28 wins and Brown has 27.
Monmouth's Calvin Thompson is 23-7 overall while Abram Sirois is 7-1 at 152 pounds.
Oak Hill's Danny Buteau (120) holds a season record of 31-3, with one loss coming while competing at 132 pounds and the other two against Gardiner's Del Gallo. Buteau will get the top seed, according to Oak Hill coach Ric Swett. Swett expects good things from Brendon Tervo at 182. Tervo, a senior, is currently 23-6. Zoe Buteau and Zach Cloutier could also fare well, Swett said. One of Oak Hill's top performers, Sam Woodard (170), will sit out this weekend due to concussion protocols.
Swett predicts his team will finish in the middle of the pack.
"My team has struggled with injuries and illness," he said. "Dirigo is my pick to win. They are strong throughout the lineup despite giving up forfeits at 106 and 285. Mountain Valley will be close with Wells at third."
Host Lisbon, York/Traip and Boothbay round out the rest of the field. Wrestling is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m.
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Veritas University, Abuja Commissions New Senate Building
Is it possible that Veritas University, Abuja could be showing the university system in Nigeria an image of the system's future? This is the question being pondered upon in many minds today in the wake of the burst of activities defining the take-off of the 2020-2021 academic session in the university after six months of closure due to COVID-19 pandemic. Coming at a time many campuses are out of joint across Nigeria, the return to normalcy is compelling observers and critics alike to think aloud along this question. Although activities on the campus must conform to COVID-19 rules, Veritas University is in full swing on all fronts – extra-curricular, academic and social. This suggests rising up to and overcoming the shock and paralysis imposed by the pandemic as from March 2020 in a manner that could not have been expected from a relatively new, private university in Nigeria.
The first sign of this imaginative streak was the quick migration from face – face teaching into online teaching last April, with the result that not even a week was lost to the pandemic even as students were not on the campus. Not only was knowledge delivery not interrupted, salaries were also being paid as and when due. And Senate meetings were held, using the digital facility.
As such, the university was able to conclude the 2019-2020 academic session, compile the results and announce resumption for the 2020-2021 academic session to the surprise of many, a move which is in the third week of that reality now. Not only is the session a reality, none of the old practices that foreground a typical academic session has been affected.
The annual orientation for academic and non-academic staff took place a week ahead of the October 10th, 2020 resumption date. The week long reflective sessions featured high profile appearances of experts from within and without the university who took on crucial themes warranting rethinking by all those directly and indirectly connected with expanding and defending the mandate of knowledge under the ethical, intellectual and work conditions of neoliberal globalization.
The university eventually threw its gates open to students again for the first time since late March, 2020 when the school was shut down in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. That was October 10th, 2020. University officials who handled the clearance exercise at the university gate between Saturday, October 10th and Sunday, October 11th, 2020 describe as amazing, the turnout of both new and returning students.
The students had their own version of the Orientation exercise on Monday, October 12th-13th at the University Chapel, starting with a welcome address by Rev. Fr. (Prof) Hyacinth E. Ichoku, the Vice Chancellor who spoke on "The Philosophy and Vision of the University".
The Vice-Chancellor did not miss the golden opportunity to situate the university in the minds of the students, calling Veritas University a dynamic community of staff and students working together to create knowledge for the advancement of the Nigerian society. Drumming the mission of the university to his listeners, Prof Ichoku put it at evolving a culture of academic excellence that will make the university rank among the best in the world. He implored the students to not only strive to adhere to the rules and regulations of the university but also ensure they did not graduate from Veritas University without certification in computer and other skills available in the university. That, he said, is one of the many attributes that would make them stand out in the country.
It was then the turn of the University Registrar, Dr. (Mrs) Stella Okonkwo to speak on "The Registry at Your Service", using the opportunity to guide the students through the processes involved in their initiation into the academic community, encouraging them to always seek guidance and direction from the Department, especially as it pertains their studies in Veritas University. The Bursar, Mrs. Margret Akoje similarly took the students on "Financial Guidance for Students", explaining what the Department does and encouraging students to always visit the Bursary Department for their clearance and financial transactions and clarifications on transactions with the university. Mr. Enobong Oton who represented the Chief Librarian, Mr. Benjamin Alafiatayo, then spoke on "The Library: Centre of Academic Activities", noting how that hub supports and enhances the vision of the university by providing a desirable learning, teaching and recreation resource centre for the university community and the scholarly world. He emphasized the fact that the Library was created to provide knowledge construct in many formats that will compliment classroom teaching and laboratory experiments while also facilitating access to published and unpublished information through internet access and internal information generation. He charged students to always visit the library as it was the only place they can seek satisfaction for their quest for knowledge.
There were other presentations by Mr. Ofor Obumneme (Digital Opportunities for Learning in Veritas University, Abuja), Rev. Sr. Martha Chia (Etiquette, Good Manners and Dress Code in Veritas University, Abuja), Lady Rose Agbi (Life in the Hostel, Hostel Management, Personal/General Hygiene), Rev. Fr. Dr. Martin Onukwuba (Self Development and Actualization in Veritas University, Abuja), and Dr. Paddy Uju Okoye and Mr. Eugene Itam (Health Service in Veritas University, Abuja (Health Insurance/Covid-19).
The Orientation program responds to what educationists have identified as the shock for most undergraduates who gets lost in the university mostly because many of them are just too young, have never been out of the shadow of parents or never gone outside of their immediate geography. A big welcome during the Orientation could limit the impersonal and much more diverse new environment that a university is.
Enthusiasm and a sense of having overcome a major interruption without a dent have been observable since October 19th, 2020 when lectures commenced. In other words, there is an unspoken inner glow among staff and students similar to sense of accomplishment of the lizard that is still nodding its head in self congratulation when no one congratulated it for safely landing from a tall tree. In short, there is no denying such inner glow with the turn of events in Veritas University, Abuja in a country in which all but just two or so public universities have remained grounded since March 2020, whatever teething problems of water, electricity and more accommodation facilities that Veritas University still encounters.
This is more so that the university is out as well with an academic calendar that enables everyone to know what comes next up to the end of the session next July, including days of Senate meetings. What this means is that, barring a disruption on a national scale, the element of calculability can be taken for granted by all those involved in the Veritas University project, be they students, staff, parents or contractors.
This is more so that the university is out as well with an academic calendar that enables everyone to know what comes next up to the end of the session next July, including days of Senate meetings. What this means is that, barring a disruption on a national scale, the element of calculability can be taken for granted by all those involved in the Veritas University project, be they students, staff, parents or contractors. It is consolidating its postgraduate programmes by putting established scholars with global competitiveness in charge of content development and expansion.
Also on-going is looking back at the experience of online teaching between April and July and how to incorporate elements of that into the much more established 'sage on stage' approach to teaching. It has so far become clear across the world that the 'sage on stage' approach cannot be displaced yet, most likely because of the paraverbal, non-verbal and other communicative practices face-face teaching embody.
The one innovation that will blow the minds of observers, parents and students is what the university is just starting. It is a series of activities that can be called taking university education beyond certification by preparing students to anticipate the post campus world. It is not clear yet what model is being implemented, it seems comparable to Australia's Job – Ready Graduates by which students are pushed through certain transferable skills so that they don't find fitting into life after university such a hassle, be it in terms of employment, self-starting or admission.
An experiment called Veritas University can be said to be unfolding. How the experiment is strengthened, sustained and expanded into irreversible outcomes might be the challenge for all the stakeholders and all honest brokers in the educational industry.
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Le Festival international du film fantastique d'Avoriaz 1978 est le  Festival international du film fantastique d'Avoriaz.

Jury
 William Friedkin (président)
 Karel Appel
 Fernando Arrabal
 Jane Birkin
 Daniel Boulanger
 Michael Cacoyannis
 Didier Decoin
 Alain Delon
 Michel Drach
 Sergio Leone
 Félicien Marceau
 Jeanne Moreau
 Nadine Trintignant
 Henri Verneuil

Sélection

Compétition
 L'Ange et la Femme de Gilles Carle ()
 Le Cercle infernal (Full Circle) de Richard Loncraine ( / )
 Le Crocodile de la mort (Eaten Alive) de Tobe Hooper ()
 La Dernière Vague (The Last Wave) de Peter Weir ()
 Eraserhead de David Lynch ()
 Génération Proteus (Demon Seed) de Donald Cammell ()
 Holocauste 2000 (Holocaust 2000) de Alberto De Martino ( / )
 L'Horrible Invasion (Kingdom of the Spiders) de John Cardos ()
 La Nuit de la métamorphose (Izbavitelj) de Krsto Papić ()
 Photo souvenir de Edmond Séchan ()
 Rhinocéros de Tom O'Horgan ( /  / )
 Ruby de Curtis Harrington ()

Hors compétition
 Cinderella de Michael Pataki ()

Palmarès
 Grand prix : Le Cercle infernal de Richard Loncraine
 Prix spécial du jury : La Dernière Vague de Peter Weir
 Prix de la critique : L'Ange et la Femme de Gilles Carle
 Antenne d'or : Eraserhead de David Lynch

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Festival international du film fantastique d'Avoriaz
Janvier 1978
1978 en France


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Section 7.8.2 Background does not sufficiently describe the issues and questions submitted by the City of Kamloops July 11, 2012 letter to the assessment agencies. Ground stability problems in the Aberdeen area are of foremost concern. The following excerpts from the City letter address this issue.
"The City of Kamloops has existing groundwater and slope stability issues in close proximity to the mine. This groundwater causes concerns with respect to slope stability and is constantly mitigated utilizing a network of more than 100 piezometers controlled through 30 dewatering wells operated by the City. Both the piezometers and the dewatering wells are monitored generally weekly by the City and some critical wells are hard wired to the City's SCADA system allowing for continuous monitoring.
i) Precipitation falling onto waste rock management facilities will penetrate below the evaporative zone more quickly than if it was falling onto native grasslands. Does the proponent have any information pertaining to what kind of increase in groundwater recharge this will result in and what is the impact on the Aberdeen neighbourhood?
ii) What is the peak ground acceleration in the Aberdeen area from blasting? We will have our consultants put this information into their stability model to ensure that blasting will not negatively impact stability.
iii) The air blast tests that were conducted were done during clear sky conditions. What are the results of air blast during adverse weather conditions, specifically conditions that would exacerbate the magnitude of the air blast at the receptors?
iv) We would like to have advanced notification of the exact timing of future limited scale tests or full-scale test blasts so that we can utilize our existing vibrating wire piezometers to determine if impacts are felt in the areas of slope stability. Please provide us with information (exact date and time) for the next round of test blasting and detailed information about the blast size and how and where it will be conducted.
v) We understand that a number of boreholes have been drilled around the proposed mine area. In order to help us determine what impact the proposed de-watering activities will have on our Aberdeen neighbourhood, we ask that the proponent provide borehole drilling data including logs, water levels and other hydro-geological information. Our consultants will utilize this information in our groundwater models to determine whether or not there will be impacts to the southwest sector.
vi) A number of residents in the areas surrounding the proposed mine to the south, west and east rely on groundwater wells for their potable water. As part of the environmental assessment process, the proponent should conduct baseline sampling of those existing wells (including quantity, groundwater level and quality). Please confirm that this will occur.
vii) At the end of the operations (23 years from now), is the open pit going to be filled with water? If so, what is the impact of that on the groundwater regime specifically in the Aberdeen neighbourhood?
1. Economic Diversification (or Economic Concentration and Additional Costs to the Community) There are potentially large negative impacts on the health of the forests and other vegetation surrounding the proposed mine (see Section 6.15) resulting from either acute damage to foliage or soil contamination.
2. What would be the economic costs related to the death of the forest above Aberdeen including factors such as dealing with soil erosion, dealing with surface and subsurface runoff problems, loss of timber value, and changes in property values?
3. Kamloops presents a more arid image due to the loss of forests from the pine beetle attacks only a few years ago. What would the economic impacts be on tourism should the remaining forest in upper Aberdeen be lost as a result of the construction of the mine?
Construction of the proposed mine will bring in vast amounts of water, add huge amounts of aerosols to the boundary layer, significantly change wind patterns in and around the site, and most probably lead to increased fog frequencies on the Coquihalla Highway and more frequent traffic disruptions due to blowing and drifting snow (see Section 8.3).
4. What are the economic costs to the City of Kamloops resulting from increased slowdowns and interruptions to the movement of people and goods into the city from its southern approaches, namely the Coquihalla Highway, Highway 5A and Lac Le Jeune Road?
5. What are the economic costs to the community health care and policing budgets associated with higher traffic accident rates resulting from lower visibilities and poorer traction on the Coquihalla and other highways?


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Sala Monferrato és un municipi al territori de la província d'Alessandria, a la regió del Piemont (Itàlia). Limita amb els municipis de Cella Monte, Cereseto, Ottiglio, Ozzano Monferrato i Treville.

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This landmark site adjacent to the Salamanca precinct is undergoing a redevelopment aimed at revitalising the area and providing a strong link from the city centre to the waterfront. Join this tour of the heritage buildings being redeveloped as part of the project.
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Hoffarth on the media: How Clippers, Bowen came…
Hoffarth on the media: How Clippers, Bowen came to tie the knot on TV deal
Former Cal State Fullerton and NBA standout Bruce Bowen, right, interviews Clippers star Blake Griffin during the team's training camp in Honolulu. (Photo courtesy of Prime Ticket)
By Tom Hoffarth | tomhoffarth1@gmail.com | Daily News
PUBLISHED: September 30, 2017 at 10:04 pm | UPDATED: September 30, 2017 at 10:06 pm
To hear it from those most involved in the decision-making process, Bruce Bowen quickly emerged as the top candidate to land the role as the new Clippers TV analyst that opened up this past offseason. One simple audition, one quarter of calling a game off a monitor, and there was no tie-breaking procedure needed.
But had there been, Bowen's commitment to his trademark bow tie during the telecasts could have put a ribbon on the package deal.
Although the 13-season NBA pro out of Cal State Fullerton has limited live game experience as an analyst – he did some of it on occasion during his run primarily as a studio analyst at ESPN – Bowen's brief run-through with Ralph Lawler less than a month ago more than impressed the team and execs at Fox Sports West, Prime Ticket and Fox Sports San Diego.
Still, the 46-year-old Bowen wasn't so sure of how it was going to be received.
"If you do your best – and I felt I did – you don't know which way it will go, and I wasn't going to try to guesstimate," Bowen said this week from the Clippers' training camp in Honolulu, where he and Lawler will debut together live when the Clippers face Toronto twice on Prime Ticket, Sunday night (7:30 p.m.) and then Tuesday night (10 p.m.).
"Some may have liked it, some may have thought it was corny. It was out of my control."
"It went so well we could hardly believe it," said Lawler, about to start his 39th season as the Clippers' play-by-play man. "It felt as if we'd been working together for 20 years. He's an absolute natural."
AS ONE DOOR OPENS …
Naturally, the job didn't just come open by accident.
Prime Ticket, with the Clippers' input, decided not to renew the contract of longtime Lawler sidekick Michael Smith. They had been paired the past 14 seasons, and Smith logged 19 seasons overall going back to radio. The former Los Altos High of Hacienda Heights star football, basketball and volleyball player who became a two-time WAC player of the year at BYU spent the last of his three-year run in the NBA as a Clippers backup forward in 1994-95.
Smith had something of an uninhibited, sidetracked style that played to mixed reviews off Lawler's straight-man call. It once got them in a bit of trouble for insensitive remarks, leading to an awkward suspension in 2009. Off the court, Smith also went through the accusation of grand theft in a real estate case, which a jury acquitted him of in 2010.
"The Clippers are a dynamic team and made a lot of moves in the off season, and this one just one of them," said Nick Davis, the FSW/Prime Ticket/FSSD executive producer. "I loved working with him and we want to thank him for his contributions."
Lawler, whose previous game analyst partners have included Stu Lantz, Hubie Brown, Mike Fratello, Junior Bridgeman and Bill Walton, said that "Mike had the longest run, and he's a very bright guy who I know will find a new interesting chapter in his life. It may be hard to see that right away but I think things will work out fine for him."
Davis said Bowen's name came up through a search of the Fox's national talent office, understanding his ESPN contract had just expired. On Sept. 8, Bowen flew in from his home in San Antonio, and Lawler flew in from his offseason home in Bend, Ore., to call a quarter of a Clippers-Jazz game from mid-March last regular season, one that had an impact on the team's playoff seeding.
"We put together some names, and were looking for someone who could make a difference on the broadcast, had a great personality and could add to the pre- and postgame conversation, and Bruce checked every box," said Davis, who knew Bowen at ESPN when Davis was a producer on MLB studio shows.
"That 1,000-megawatt personality really came though."
HOW IT ALL FITS
Bowen may have aced the test, but he also had to decide if he could commit to a full season of broadcasts from October through April. He coaches both the basketball teams of his grade-school sons, Ojani (12) and Ozmel (10), in San Antonio. If not, the Clippers were prepared to reach out to others – TNT's Reggie Miller, who lives nearby in Malibu, as well as longtime studio analyst Don MacLean – to help fill some gaps. Bowen says he'll have to take some strange red-eye flights, but he's all in.
When Bowen went back to Fullerton finish a degree in communications in 2004, during a run where he was to be part of three NBA championships with the Spurs in a eight-year stretch, he didn't know how it would work out for his post playing career. He was some 12 units short of graduation when his basketball eligibility expired in 1993, and then went undrafted in the NBA.
Based on how some in the media had sized him up as a "dirty player" because of his tenacious defensive-minded playing style, it's interesting that he has gravitated toward a media gig, one that he makes sure he doesn't fall into any wrong characterization of players that he's talking about.
"I don't blame the media for anything, even with that 'dirty player' stuff, but I just wish they paid attention to more things," Bowen said. "I'll stand by what I say, but you don't have to tear down players to get your point across. I'm always looking to every opportunity to delve into the game on a different level and give people something different to see, a new experience. I'm happy to have this great opportunity to continue the process of having an impact with the game."
And with that, comes his bow tie collection, which he estimates to number in the 70 range at last count.
"Why wouldn't I? It's my staple, man," Bowen said of the ties that tie in to the spelling of his name. "I have plenty in my stash that accommodate Clippers colors."
More Q&A with Bowen at www.insidesocal.com/tomhoffarth.
MEASURING MEDIA MAYHEM
WHAT SMOKES
== ESPN's promotion of Doris Burke to a full-time NBA game analyst comes within a time frame when the Washington Wizards hired Kara Lawson and the Brooklyn Nets brought in Sarah Kustok as part of the main broadcast team for their season-long cable packages. Upon Lawson's hiring, CSN Mid-Atlantic president Rebecca Schulte said: "There was a time when people would expect female announcers to sound like their male counterparts. When they hear Kara, they are going to hear a smart, knowledgeable analyst talking about their team." Burke, who never set out to be a broadcaster but has become one of the network's most versatile talents, agrees with that assessment. "I absolutely feel we're past the point of a women's voice in the analyst chair as being foreign to viewers," said Burke, who will do the Lakers-Sacramento exhibition game from Las Vegas on Oct. 8. "I would say I felt a significant change in that regard for the last five years. I've also noticed that if I see or hear criticism, it has less to do with a women's gender than it does with her style, and we know that in this industry, it can be very subjective."
WHAT CHOKES
== The immediate blowback Sports Illustrated received this week for its decision to Photoshop together an array of sports figures linking arms in protest under the headline "A nation divided; sports united" – and fail to include Colin Kaepernick — was predictable. SI executive editor Stephen Cannella tried to explain in an SI.com video post, saying that "in some ways, even though his picture's not there, Kaepernick is there …" Credit Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry, one of the 10 shown on the cover, for speaking up: "I thought that was terrible. It's kind of capitalizing on the hoopla, the media and all that nonsense … If you don't have Kaepernick front and center on that, something's wrong. It's kind of hard to see how certain narratives take place, being prisoners of the moment."
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Tom Hoffarth is a freelancer. He had been with the Daily News/Southern California News Group since 1992 as a general assignment sports reporter, columnist and specialist in the sports media. He has been honored by the Associated Press for sports columnists and honored by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association for his career work. His favorite sportscaster of all time: Vin Scully, for professional and personal reasons. He considers watching Zenyatta win the Breeders' Cup 2009 Classic to be the most memorable sporting event he has covered in his career. Go figure that.
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The Vivo X21 officially launches in the Philippines. The handset features an in-display fingerprint scanner, dual rear cameras, Snapdragon 660.
The Vivo X21 is now official in the Philippines. The handset initially launched in China last May.
The X21 is headlined by an in-display fingerprint scanner that allows users to unlock the phone through the display. The technology relies on OLED screens that lets the sensor peek in between the pixels to identify unique fingerprints.
As for its specifications, the X21 features a 6.28-inch Super AMOLED display with a 90.3% screen-to-body ratio, an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 chipset, an Adreno 512 graphics unit, 6GB of RAM, and 128GB expandable storage.
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William James, part 7: Agnosticism and the will to believe
James observes that the idea you can will belief in God is 'simply silly', as the nature of real assent consists of many strands
There is an agnostic sensibility that runs through William James – in this sense: he knows that any claim of knowledge based on religious experience could, in principle, be mistaken.
But it may be true, too. He's convinced that the fruits of "spiritual emotions" are morally helpful for humankind, notwithstanding that some fruits become rotten. He's probed mystical experiences – that sense of oneness with the Absolute – to see whether they can decide the case. They can for the individual concerned, he concludes. But, as he observes at the start of lecture 18, mysticism is "too private (and also too various) in its utterances to be able to claim a universal authority". So, in the final sections of the Varieties, the question of whether religious experiences point to objective truth becomes pressing. "Can philosophy stamp a warrant of veracity upon the religious man's sense of the divine?" he asks.
Well, first, you've got to ask what religious philosophy is. It seems obvious to him that it is secondary to religious experience because it is passion, not reason, that fundamentally drives such areas of human inquiry (and quite possibly all areas of human inquiry). Philosophy is necessary, but not sufficient.
In fact, he loathes what he elsewhere calls "vicious intellectualism" – the preference for concepts over reality. It's cultivated by the fantasy of an objective science – and is insidious because it turns you into a spectator of, not a participant in, life. It encourages speculation for speculation's sake, and like the bankers who engage in the financial equivalent, the result is ideological bubbles. They rise high in the intellectual firmament before they burst and crash back to earth. In the sphere of religion, James detects such "vicious intellectualism" most clearly in the attempts to demonstrate the existence of God as an a priori fact. The ontological and cosmological proofs are for those who wish to cleanse themselves of the "muddiness and accidentality" of the world.
Interestingly, he describes the recently beatified John Henry Newman as one such "vexed spirit". He charges the cardinal with a "disdain for sentiment", though I'm not sure that's fair. In fact, Newman seems quite close to James in certain respects, particularly in relation to what Newman called the "grammar of assent".
Newman makes a crucial distinction between "notional assent" and "real assent." To determine a belief using your philosophical head alone is to give notional assent. But when it comes to religious questions, that's an inadequate way to proceed because it engages only the rational part. Real assent requires more, Newman argues. It's a convergence of the full assortment of evidences and experiences we have – rational, emotional, observational, cultural. Each, in themselves, may not be wholly compelling. But added together, they support a belief that powerfully rings true. Newman likens it to a cable: a single strand is easily broken. But wound together, strands form a cable that is strong. So, real assent implies that God is not a hypothesis. Rather, belief in God is "an action more subtle and more comprehensive than the mere appreciation of syllogistic logic", Newman wrote.
This chimes well with the conclusions James draws in his essay, The Will to Believe, published a few years before the Varieties. It's a thoroughly misleading title, as the idea that you can will belief in God is "simply silly", James observes. Rather, the essay seeks to justify the beliefs individuals have "in spite of the fact that our merely logical intellect may not have been coerced". It could be said to be an essay about real assent.
James starts by defining religious beliefs. To count as such, they must be living and genuine options for the individual concerned, which is to say that they appeal to and are real possibilities for him or her. For example, though I'm an agnostic, Christianity is a living, genuine option for me – in a way that belief in the Egyptian sun god Ra could never be.
Religious beliefs are also momentous, which is to say that they'd change your outlook on life.
In The Will to Believe, James references Pascal's wager – the argument that belief in God is rational because, if true, the believer stands to make an infinite gain and, if false, nothing much is lost. James sees the wager for what it is, of course: the logic of "the gaming-table", as he describes it. But he is curious enough to wonder why a brilliant man like Pascal penned such an argument. He concludes that it made sense to the French philosopher and mathematician, in spite of the obvious objections, because Christianity was a living, genuine and momentous option for Pascal.
Seen in that light, the wager works like this. The panoply of Pascal's experiences and convictions were drawing him towards Christianity. But that weight of evidence "ran before" his rational mind, because Christianity demands real not notional assent. Moreover, as "the mere appreciation of syllogistic logic" cannot of itself decide the case, the wager was never meant to stand alone. (It was originally just a note in a private commonplace book.) What the wager represents is Pascal justifying his religious intuitions to his mathematic mind. It's one strand in the cable of his belief.
Understand the wager in this way, James concludes, and "instead of being powerless, [it] seems a regular clincher". It works for Pascal. It might for others. But it's never going to work for everyone. It doesn't work for James. But nonetheless, he respects Pascal's attempt to integrate his whole person into his desire – his will – to believe.
More generally, then, there will never be a universal, objective proof for, or against, God. Instead, there will be multiple, plural strands that work for individuals and groups when incorporated into their real assent.
And yet, James is still after objective truth. He is a pragmatist, in the sense that he aligns truth with what works. But he is not an ironic pragmatist: he holds out the hope that what works, works because it is, in some sense, true. But in what sense? In the final blogpost, we'll ask whether James ever found a clincher that worked for him, or if he was left a perpetual agnostic.
William James, part 1: A religious man for our times
Mark Vernon: Existentially troubled and intellectually brilliant, James is still well worth reading for matters of truth, pluralism and God
William James, part 2: The scientific study of religion
Mark Vernon: James demonstrates how identifying the physiological bases for religious experience explains very little
William James, part 3: On original sin
Mark Vernon: Are humans born happy, able to create their own well-being, or do we need to be born again to overcome a 'sick soul'?
William James, part 4: The psychology of conversion
Mark Vernon: How to believe: Religious conversion, be it sudden or slow, causes a revolution in the personality
William James, part 5: Saintliness
William James, part 6: Mystical states
William James part 8: Agnosticism and pragmatic pluralism


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Ча́рівська Да́ча — зоологічна пам'ятка природи місцевого значення в Україні. Об'єкт природно-заповідного фонду Хмельницької області.

Розташована в межах Старосинявського району Хмельницької області, на схід від смт Стара Синява.

Площа 42 га. Статус надано згідно з рішенням облвиконкому від 26.10.1990 року № 194. Перебуває у віданні ДП «Старокостянтинівський лісгосп» (Старосинявське л-во, кв. 20).

Статус надано для збереження частини лісового масиву, де зростають дуб червоний, дуб звичайний, а також береза, граб, ялина, осика тощо. Водяться типові для Поділля тварини.

Джерела
 Список природоохоронних територій (Хмельницька обл.)

Зоологічні пам'ятки природи Хмельницької області
Природно-заповідний фонд Старосинявського району
Природоохоронні об'єкти, засновані 1990


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La conversione, in linguistica, è un meccanismo di derivazione, che consiste nell'attribuire ad un lessema una diversa categoria grammaticale, senza però modificarne la forma.

Alcuni studiosi si riferiscono a questo meccanismo usando le espressioni derivazione zero o suffissazione zero.

Nel caso di una derivazione per suffissazione in cui il suffisso aggiunto alla parola coincida con la desinenza, alcuni linguisti parlano anche di "derivazione diretta" (rientrerebbe dunque in questo caso la derivazione registrare da registro).

La conversione nel contesto dei meccanismi derivazionali
La derivazione, insieme alla composizione, è uno dei tipici procedimenti tramite cui viene arricchito il lessico di una data lingua. Nelle lingue fusive, la derivazione avviene tipicamente attraverso affissazione e talvolta attraverso alterazione (con l'alterato che viene lessicalizzato). Nelle lingue isolanti si ricorre invece alla conversione, che consente di trascategorizzare un lemma senza modificarne la forma. Così in inglese, lingua tendenzialmente isolante, la categoria di un lessema è intesa in base al contesto. Alcune marche morfologiche dell'inglese indicano univocamente la categoria grammaticale di riferimento. Ad esempio, le parole che terminano con i morfi -dom o -ation sono sostantivi (freedom, information ecc.), fermo restando che anche queste parole possono essere sottoposte al processo di conversione (freedom fighter, letteralmente 'libertà combattente', "combattente per la libertà"). Ma, in generale, le singole parole inglesi non hanno marche morfologiche che indichino la categoria grammaticale. Ad esempio, round può svolgere il ruolo di nome (the next round, "il prossimo round"), di aggettivo (a round house, "una casa circolare"), di verbo (to round, "arrotondare") o di preposizione (round the corner, "dietro l'angolo"). La parola bank può essere un sostantivo (bank, "banca"), un verbo (to bank, "conservare", "depositare in banca") o un aggettivo (bank check, "assegno bancario"). Una lingua fusiva come l'italiano ricorre invece a modificazioni morfologiche: se in inglese stop può essere un nome o un verbo, in italiano è il suffisso -are che impone al termine la categoria di verbo (stoppare).

I tipi morfologici delle lingue non vanno intesi rigidamente: ciò significa che una lingua flessiva può avere aree in cui si comporta come una isolante. Fenomeni di conversione ricorrono dunque anche nelle lingue fusive, anche se assai più raramente che nelle isolanti.

Uso della conversione in lingua italiana
Come accennato, in una lingua fusiva come l'italiano non ricorre tanto spesso il fenomeno della conversione. In questa lingua è sempre possibile attribuire valore di sostantivo ad un verbo di forma indefinita (è il caso del cosiddetto "infinito sostantivato"):

A rigore, però, si può parlare di vera e propria conversione solo quando il verbo indefinito così sostantivato è passibile di flessione completa (sapere → il sapere → i saperi; potere → il potere → i poteri) ed esercita una reggenza nominale (i poteri della mente). Sono oggetto di conversione il participio presente (gli abbaglianti, i concorrenti; talvolta con valore aggettivale: un film avvincente), il participio passato (udito, abitato, veduta, andata e ritorno, oltre alle varie polirematiche costruite su messa, da mettere: messa in opera, messa in moto ecc.) e, assai di rado, il gerundio (crescendo, dividendo, laureando ecc.). Sono poi esempi di conversione anche le lessicalizzazioni di alcune forme verbali finite (credo, distinguo, passi), talvolta inserite in locuzioni con differente grado di univerbazione (nullaosta, fai da te, va e vieni).

La conversione più frequente in italiano è quella da aggettivo a nome (vuoto → il vuoto; pieno → il pieno; comunista, ottimista, romanista, finanziaria, impermeabile) e quella da nome ad aggettivo (è il caso tipico di molti insulti: stronzo, coglione). Esistono poi casi di aggettivi convertiti in avverbi (andare forte, parlare chiaro) o di nomi convertiti in avverbi (andare via). Qualunque parte del discorso può poi essere trasformata in una interiezione: gli avverbi (già!), i verbi (evviva!, abbasso!, basta!), gli aggettivi (bravo!), i nomi (cavolo!), gli ideofoni (bum!).

Note

Bibliografia
 Paolo D'Achille, L'italiano contemporaneo, ed. il Mulino, Bologna, 2010, ISBN 978-88-15-13833-0.
 Raffaele Simone, Fondamenti di linguistica, ed. Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2008, ISBN 978-88-420-3499-5.
 Silvia Micheli, La formazione delle parole. Italiano e altre lingue, ed. Carocci, Roma, 2020, ISBN 978-88-290-0311-2.

Voci correlate
 Base (linguistica)
 Derivazione (linguistica)
 Categoria grammaticale
 Produttività (linguistica)
 Lessicalizzazione
 Sinteticità
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"I cannot walk in my mom's shoes, and thus, no one else can truly walk in mine," Luke Kenworthy wrote.
Luke Kenworthy, 17, was nervous on Ivy Day — the last Thursday in March, when all eight schools drop their admissions decisions.
He had already received a rejection from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was wait-listed by the University of Chicago and Carnegie Mellon University, and was deferred at Harvard University after applying early.
"I legitimately was convinced I wasn't going to get into any Ivy League schools," Kenworthy told Business Insider.
But his incredulity turned to shock and then excitement as he opened his decision letters and saw he'd been accepted nearly all of them — Harvard, Princeton, Brown, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, and the University of Pennsylvania. He also received a wait-list spot from Yale.
The Ivy League is notoriously hard to get into, as the hundreds of thousands of other applicants to the eight elite schools are well aware. At Harvard, 5.2% of the nearly 40,000 applicants — about 2,000 — were accepted this year.
These schools look for the right mix of academic achievement and participation in extracurricular activities. Kenworthy, a senior at Mercer Island High School, near Seattle, has taken all the advanced-placement courses available at his school. (He favors his physics and comparative government AP coursework.) He also is heavily involved in student government and has taken mission trips to Serbia, Turkey, and Guatemala.
For Kenworthy, nailing his admissions essay was also important. After he was deferred from early action at Harvard, he felt compelled to change his essay topic. He worked with a mentor at CollegeVine— a junior at Duke University majoring in biochemical engineering — to improve his essay.
Kenworthy chose to write about a deeply personal childhood experience.
"To write an essay like that was a little bit weird for me, but also was very important to me, too," Kenworthy said. "The events that happened in my life very much shaped who I am."
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