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What is the difference between a doctoral dissertation and a master's thesis?
The master's thesis is to be a kind of summary of the university studies. Its author is to show that he can apply the acquired knowledge to solve a simple scientific problem, usually formulated by the supervisor, while in the case of a doctoral dissertation, the doctoral student must personally and independently formulate the topic and the research problem. A graduate student must show that he is able to collect relevant literature on a given topic and use it creatively, that he can collect relevant empirical material, give it analysis and interpret its results. On the other hand, the doctoral dissertation undertakes a complex research problem, is based on a broad spectrum of subject literature and extensive empirical research, but the research (doctoral) thesis, which is not expected from the author of the thesis, is of key importance.
These works also differ the intellectual level of the author, which can be noticed during the reading. This is first and foremost a question of the extent of knowledge and how to treat it. While the Master's thesis is rather generally reproductive, with some elements of original thinking, the doctoral thesis is primarily creative and innovative. These works also vary in volume. Master's thesis is generally in the economic sciences, about a hundred pages, and the doctoral thesis usually from two hundred to three hundred. The degree of independence of the authors and the other role of the promoter are also different. While in the case of a thesis the supervisor is rather a teacher, in the case of a doctoral dissertation he should only be a reliable guardian.
With this dissertation doctoral students make an independent scientific contribution to research. The publication is mandatory, no matter whether the work becomes a bestseller or dusty on the shelf of the university library. The master's thesis may also be academically oriented and, for example, review and evaluate the literature on a theory from the lecture. But rarely do the results shake the foundations of science. "The supervising professor specifies in which context the whole thing is moving," explains Weigand. A publication is rather the exception.
The procedure for obtaining the doctoral degree depends in detail on the university or the doctoral faculty.
However, in addition to the Europe-wide standardization of degrees (Bachelor and Master), an adaptation of the doctoral procedures is also sought in connection with the ongoing Bologna Process.
Nevertheless, there are a number of fundamental criteria in relation to the dissertation, which is in principle uniform in all examination regulations.
For example, the doctoral student must be able to present a suitable degree for the enrollment of his dissertation and must have the appropriate qualifications, for example language certificates.
In addition, he / she must find a supervising professor (supervisor or doctoral supervisor) to enroll in the doctoral program at his / her university and finally be accepted by the doctoral committee.
The dissertation usually takes four to five years to complete. However, the duration depends strongly on the discipline and the topic of the work. In particular, in the natural sciences, the doctoral candidate is often employed at the respective institute during this time.
Even in the practically oriented Master thesis, nothing works without theory. However, the focus here is on putting it into practice. Candidates often deal with company affiliation and sign a confidentiality clause. In this case, publication per se is out of the question.
In terms of scope, a master's thesis can not compete with a dissertation. On about 60 pages, plus graphics, tables and bibliography, everything should be said. "It is important that the topic is clearly limited and that the author comes to the point quickly," emphasizes Gomez, who works in addition to his doctorate as Director Assistant in the MBA Office of HHL.
If the master thesis is created in cooperation with a company, the clients expect a presentation of the results at the end of the project. "In such a case, 50 slides and a 15-page summary in an executive summary can be counted as equivalent performance," says Weigand. The Professor of Competitive Strategy attaches great importance to the fact that even with practically oriented topics "an overriding interest is ensured and different analysis methods are used".
Networked thinking and acting is also a central theme at the FOM. At the FO Management, which is represented at 18 locations nationwide, studies and master's theses are all about Integral Total Management (ITM). "The question of the thesis is examined from the perspective of each discipline – from marketing to financial management to soft skills," explains Eric Frère, Dean of International Studies, the concept of General Management. On this basis, approaches can be derived in the sense of the entire company.
The master thesis is therefore not a bureaucratic brake pad, but a profit. Also independent of the science. Javier Gomez says: "The foreign students are pleased that they can stay with us for three months longer."
In contrast to the master's thesis, which is prepared under the supervision of a university teacher, the doctoral student compiles the dissertation in independent work.
In addition, not only knowledge acquired in the course of study should be used, but new insights that enrich the respective subject area must be gained. A dissertation is a research work that depends heavily on the topic and can be between 150 and 500 pages.
Depending on the university, there are different requirements with regard to the external form of the work, but generally the same rules apply as for the preparation of a master's, bachelor's, master's or diploma thesis. The finished work is usually handed in 4- to 5-fold execution and published after evaluation online or in a relevant specialist publisher.
In addition to preparing written work, in some cases he or she has to attend doctoral seminars, publish specialist publications or assist the department in their work, for example by writing scripts or actively helping to develop the curriculum.
Due to the contentual and formal complexity of a dissertation, it is absolutely necessary to have the work read out by several competent persons before submission to the examination board in order to check their argumentative conclusiveness. In addition, external proofreaders should be consulted, which, if necessary, revise the external form and the linguistic expression of the text independently of the thematic content.
What are theses and hypotheses?
Each doctoral dissertation must have a clearly and clearly formulated thesis (doctoral thesis). It is so much an immanent component of the doctoral thesis that the Anglo-Saxon culture is not even about the work or the doctoral thesis, but about the doctoral thesis that one presents and defends.
The doctoral thesis is a certain assumption, assertion, question or conclusion regarding the subject of the research, which should be proved in the doctoral dissertation based on the empirical study of the given issue. It is formulated on the basis of knowledge, contained in the literature of the subject, general knowledge on a given topic and usually concerns a certain fragment of our ignorance of this issue. This is something that we think we know about it, but we need to prove it or something we do not know and want to know.
The development of this thesis are research hypotheses whose formulation consists in changing the grammatical form of the problem question (which is the essence of the research thesis) into a theorem or conjecture. An important hypothesis is basically the formulation of a certain assumption about the coexistence or covariate of the phenomena studied (descriptive hypotheses) or their origins (cause-effect hypotheses.) The number of formulated hypotheses should not be too high, especially that they later need to be proven at work. In general, a solution is practiced where individual analytical chapters of the doctoral dissertation are responsible for particular hypotheses.
The formulation of the research thesis and its development in the form of research hypotheses belongs to the more difficult stages of work on the doctoral dissertation. Therefore, it is worth reaching for methodological publications dealing with related problems. An example of such a study is a book published by Jerzy Apanowicz published in 2005 by Difin publishing house entitled "Methodological determinants of scientific work", devoted to theses related to theses and research hypotheses from page 73 to 79, and the graphical presentation of this is particularly valuable. what is the thesis and the research hypothesis.
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Plastic processors moving ahead on polystyrene recycling plant in Illinois
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Plastics producers INEOS Styrolution and AmSty will use Agilyx's plastic recycling technology at a new polystyrene (PS) recycling plant to be constructed in Channahon, Illinois. This comes within days of announcing a four-way non-disclosure agreement, along with Trineso, to explore and optimize advanced polystyrene recycling technologies, such as depolymerization.
With the capacity to process 100 tons a day — compared with 10 tons per day at Agilyx's Oregon facility — this will be the first large-scale processing system of its kind in the United States and the largest in the world, according to Agilyx CEO Tim Stedman.
Engineering design for the Channahon facility is in the works and construction is expected to follow soon. A target opening date has not been announced.
Stedman recently became the new CEO of Agilyx and is ushering in a new business model he described as "highly scalable" going forward. Instead of opening its own dedicated plastic depolymerization facilities, Agilyx is partnering with other businesses and providing the technology for them to process plastics.
"We recognized the best way of driving this into the market and solving the plastic waste issue... is enabling our partners to create that circular pathway," said Stedman. "We imagine our ongoing involvement to go from supporting the engineering and construction of the physical project itself to one where we support the access to feedstock into the unit and provide ongoing licensing support."
Agilyx's Oregon depolymerization facility unveiled in 2018 is touted as the first PS-to-monomer-oil facility at a commercial scale in the United States. The company continues to seek new partnerships here and abroad, specifically in Europe. The upcoming Illinois facility will become the largest in North America to use Agilyx's technology.
The partners chose Illinois for numerous reasons, including the availability of necessary feedstock to sustain this type of project. Agilyx will be able to build out synergies with AmSty's and INEOS's existing presence there, as well as through its newly formed subsidiary Cyclex, Stedman said. The company will focus on pulling PS feedstock from Chicago, which is about an hour away. An INEOS spokesperson said the partners all share similar sustainability goals of increased PS recycling with this project.
Certain PS products continue to be popular targets for regulatory limits, as seen recently with a New Jersey bill banning certain products. Chemical recycling has received a lot of buzz in the last few years as a potential option for reusing PS material that otherwise might go to disposal. However, critics say it is not always the best or most sustainable option.
This summer the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives released a report saying chemical recycling has limited traction in the United States right now and is too focused on plastic-to-fuel instead of plastic-to-plastic operations. That research, and a recent report by Greenpeace, included questions about whether material from Agilyx was more commonly being used as fuel versus feedstock for new plastic.
Agilyx was founded more than a decade ago to convert plastics to fuel using pyrolysis. The switch toward depolymerization and away from plastics-to-fuel is another business model evolution, Stedman said, and opens the possibility of what he described as upcycling PS versus just recycling it. The material can be highly contaminated and still be broken down to its molecular components so it can be reused in food-grade plastics. The Illinois project would emphasize plastic-to-plastic applications.
"Leading NGOs and government authorities have a strong and clear expert view that recycling is a fundamentally essential part of how we need to manage waste — not just for plastics but also for other materials," Stedman said. "These thought leaders agree that chemical recycling (also known as advanced recycling) is a critical part of the solution, and essential if we are to meet ambitious targets for reducing use of fossil fuels and moving to a circular economy."
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Israel: The 8 acts remaining after the 6th qualifying round of "The Next Star 2018".
After the 6th qualifying round of Israel's national selection, The Next Star 2018 , the list of remaining contestants cut down to the number of 8 competing acts.
In this last 6th qualifying round a total of 9 acts competed to qualify to the next round. After the first episode of the show determing the first 7 acts, the last 8th contestants was chosen between the two left behind on the scoreboard.
The 9 act performed well known songs before the public and a jury that consists of Static & Ben-El Tavori, Keren Peles, Harel Skaat and Assaf Amdursky. The act who was rated with the less positive votes was eliminated and sent home.
Therefore the remaining 8 acts that will continue to battle for the golden ticket to Lisbon are:
Jonathan Mergui (89%)
Riki Ben Ari (88%)
Chen Aharoni (86%)
Eden Meiri (79%)
Ravit Batashvili (79%)
Howie Danao (75%)
Netta Barzilai (70%)
Adva Omer (63%)
The contestant that was eliminated in this last qualifying round was José Steinberg , who got only a 62% share of the positive votes.
You can watch all of the artists' performances of this last qualifying round on the official site of The Next Star
Assaf AmdurskyHarel SkaatIsraeli national selectionKeren PelesStatic & Ben-El TavoriThe Next Star 2018


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Q: How do I highlight a certain city on world Map using jVectorMap plugin I need to have a small identifier to highlight the particular city on Map using jVectorMap. what would be the Ideal way to do so. May be I can put something like image(say 3px wide and high red coloured near San Francisco) on Map. This way users can locate the precise location rather than USA in general.

A: You can do it in the last version of jVectorMap.

A: jVectorMap does just that, draw vectors. I don't see any mention in the API of defining true "points". So you can either draw a tiny polygon around San Fransisco, or you can overlay your own image manually. jsFiddle
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Mario Labate, Gianpiero Rosati (ed.), La costruzione del mito augusteo. Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften, Band 141. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013. Pp. 323. ISBN 9783825361136. €42.00.
Reviewed by Nandini B. Pandey, University of Wisconsin-Madison (nandini.pandey@wisc.edu)
[Authors and titles are listed at the end of the review.]
This worthwhile edited volume stemming from a June 2011 conference at the Università di Udine might as aptly be called Some Constructions of Augustan Myths: it offers a kaleidoscopic array of glimpses into representations of Augustus and his age, largely within the literature of the principate and the century thereafter. The sixteen contributions are of consistently high quality, though they vary widely in their engagement with the theme of 'Augustan myth' and associated questions of agency and reception. This volume's particular strength lies in the analytical depth and chronological range of its papers, with the Neronian and Flavian periods especially well represented.
The editors, Mario Labate and Gianpiero Rosati, discuss the collection's framing and its limitations in a clear-eyed introductory essay. All but one of these papers focus on literary evidence to the near-exclusion of visual culture, and do not attempt systematic or exhaustive treatment of "la costruzione del mito augusteo." The title, in any case, is self-deconstructing. "Costruzione," as the editors envision it, is not a centrally organized act of creation, but rather, an incremental process by which authors re-elaborated Augustan mythology within fresh contexts, explored within constituent papers. This approach is valuable, timely, and congruent with increasingly decentralized conceptions of imperial culture within recent scholarship. It would be interesting to see this idea pursued further: in practice, contributions appreciate authors' creative independence, but sidestep the admittedly difficult question of how, why, and through whose agency this "mito augusteo" arose in the first place. The latter term, as the editors recognize, is also contentious. They point out that the plural 'myths' might be more appropriate, since every age reinvented Augustus for itself. One might add that the public image of the princeps was hardly static, monolithic, or entirely self-determined even in his own day, and relied on the reception of a socio-economically and geographically heterogeneous audience—though such topics fall beyond the purview of this book.
Karl Galinsky's essay, one of the few directly to address the mechanics of Augustus' Überhöhung, offers some recapitulations and afterthoughts to his much fuller discussion in Augustan Culture: An Interpretive Introduction (Princeton, 1996). Rather than treat 'Augustan myth' as a whole, it explores the association of the princeps with specific mythological figures, like Achilles and Romulus, that have received less scholarly attention in recent years than Apollo and Venus.1
Two contributions show how literature conceived even before the first constitutional settlement of 27 BCE begins to situate the princeps beyond history. Tom Geue explores how the later works of Horace and Vergil filter readers' understanding of their earlier poems, with special attention to the belated crystallization within the Aeneid of divine intimations, temporal indications, and identities that the Eclogues leave indeterminate. This process of retrospective reading creates the sense that Augustus was "always already there" as a "hermeneutic anchor" (49) even in works written well before the solidification of his supremacy, thus naturalizing political change. Geue's argument is refreshing and commendable for its attention to the dynamic and historically situated processes of interpretation that, as much as specific texts and authors, helped mythologize Augustus.
Reading forwards rather than backwards, Marco Fucecchi argues that Livy's first decade presents certain figures from archaic Rome, like the paired opposition of T. Quinctius Capitolinus and C. Canuleius in speeches at 3.67-68 and 4.3-5, as "prototipi augustei." He traces a dialectic between conservatism and innovation that culminates in the Augustan concordia ordinum. This argument harmonizes with Jane Chaplin's Livy's Exemplary History (Oxford, 2000) and raises some interesting questions of chronology. If we accept Fucecchi's dating of this decade to the time of Actium (112),2 what might it mean for Livy to be working to "(ri)costruire le premesse del mito augusteo" (123) before Augustus had become Augustus and the new order had emerged in recognizable form? The paper, like Geue's, provokes thought about the ways in which periodization and the idea of 'prefiguration' affect modern understandings of this age.
Stephen Harrison's interpretation of Horace's Odes 1.37 plays similar games with time, complementing Robert Gurval's fuller and more devolved treatment of the myth in Actium and Augustus: The Politics and Emotions of Civil War (Ann Arbor, 1995). Harrison's argument for the politically meaningful "absences" from Horace's poem of figures like Antony, Agrippa, and Apollo, present in later representations of the battle, is interesting in many particulars, as is his comparison of Cleopatra's death to Cato the Younger's in Plutarch. Further discussion of the implications of such transhistorical interpretation would be welcome.
Two papers look beyond the written word. In "Der Sound der Macht," Jürgen Paul Schwindt perceptively asks how the sound of Augustus' name influenced the form of his myth. Others have already explored the name's mythic resonances,3 and retrospective accounts of the naming (e.g. Ovid, Fasti 1.587-616, and Cassius Dio 53.16) need not be taken at face value. However, the paper draws interesting connections between the name and the Res Gestae as well as the Augustan transmutation of real into symbolic capital.
The sole contribution on visual culture is Victoria Györi's study of a rare group of asses featuring Augustus on the obverse and Numa on the reverse, which she dates to 23 BCE. These figures' association certainly merits further inquiry, and Györi's paper usefully revisits and enriches some ground covered by Zanker (1987) et al. While some readers will continue to debate the chronology of the Forum Augustum and the identification of Numa on the west wall of the Ara Pacis,4 they will find plenty of food for thought here. It would be interesting, for instance, to pursue the interpretive implications of Györi's ultimate claim, that these coins parallel Vergil's parade of heroes at Aeneid 6.756-892, particularly given pessimistic readings of Augustus' position there between the kings Romulus and Numa.5
Two strong papers on the Aeneid round out contributions on the principate. Martin Stöckinger argues that Vergil's depictions of the di penates affected their use within Augustan ideology to link Augustus with Aeneas as a restorer of Roman religion. Drawing on anthropological theory, the paper suggests that the dual nature of the penates as material and religious artifacts rendered them "inalienable possessions," and thus an "ideal icon of the Augustan myth and its own paradoxes of continuity and change" (142). While the argument as it stands is concerned more with literary than with political or religious discourse, it raises questions worth pursuing about Vergil's relation with Augustan religious practice and his sources in representing the penates.
Interrelations among Augustan literature and monuments have received increasing and fruitful attention in recent years. Stefano Rebeggiani's paper unfolds some intriguing intertextual and architectural associations of an under-studied scene: the Junonian asylum at Troy where the Greeks guard Trojan plunder and captives (Aen. 2.760-67). This darkest moment for the Trojans resonates with signs of their rising fortune elsewhere in the Aeneid, including Aeneas' dedication of a Greek shield at Actium (3.286-88) and Augustus' triumph on Aeneas' shield (8.720-28). In Rebeggiani's argument, these culminate outside the text, with the temple of Juno Regina in the Porticus Octaviae: Augustus' rebuilding of this structure connected his own Dalmatian campaigns of 33 BCE with the triumph of Q. (not M.) Caecilius Metellus Macedonicus over Macedonia in 146 BCE, giving him symbolic credit for Rome's ultimate conquest of Greece as vengeance for Troy's defeat in Aeneid 2.
After a chronological gap in coverage, three Italian papers turn to (pseudo-)Seneca and Pliny, with many implicit interconnections that make treatment of this period especially coherent. Francesca Romana Berno argues that Seneca's philosophical works frame Augustus as a 'humanized,' de-politicized, and multi-faceted exemplum for Nero in his youthful cruelty, later moderation as a ruler, and good (self-)governance in the face of adversity. Giulio Vannini discusses the caricature of Augustus within the Apokolokyntosis with a focus on the emperor's speech patterns. In his view, the work's comical but ultimately respectful portrayal of the princeps highlights Claudius' relative unworthiness of deification, expressing a veiled nostalgia for the Augustan age around the time of Nero's ascendancy. Sandra Citroni Marchetti contends that Ovid's exile poetry advances a picture of Augustan felicitas that Pliny and Seneca subsequently 'demythologize,' instead portraying Augustus as a sufferer of misfortunes; one wonders how this argument might accommodate more ironic readings of Ovid's exile poetry.
Next, Carole Newlands examines Statius' Silvae 3.1 as a Flavian "recalibration" of Augustan themes of modesty, pietas, and domesticity as expressed in Aeneid 8, Ovid's story of Baucis and Philemon (Met. 8.611-724), and the Augustan Palatine. In Newlands' sensitive analysis, Statius' poem, on the new temple to Hercules that his patron Pollius Felix and his wife Polla have built on their estate on the Bay of Naples, revises the Augustan poets' implicit condemnation of luxury and the region's longstanding association with immortality. Instead, his hosts' wealth and marital harmony allow them to exercise hospitality that in turn constructs Campania as a new center of poetic patronage, marks a shift from public to private spheres, and redefines virtus and the good life for the age of Domitian.
Two papers from Lille explore other retrospective views of the princeps. After an initial theorization of myth, Alain Deremetz argues that Martial's references by name to Augustan personages and representations of dining scenes evince a nostalgic desire to replicate the social and artistic dynamics of the Augustan age. Jacqueline Fabre-Serris examines how the pseudo-Vergilian Culex, dedicated to Octavian but likely written in the reign of Tiberius, positions itself as an Augustan text by playing intertextual games with and via the Augustan poets. Her analyses are ingenious and subtle, sometimes perhaps overly so (e.g., attempts to triangulate echoes of the elegist Gallus through reminiscences of Vergil). Both contributions are rich in ideas and evidence, though some readers may wish for more focused treatment of fewer examples as they relate to the conference theme.
An excellent closing contribution by Philip Hardie analyzes Ben Jonson's re-interrogation of the 'Augustan' issues of literary judgment, interpretive control, and poets' relationship with political power via sustained engagement with Vergil, Horace, and Ovid in his 1601 Poetaster. While it is a shame this volume treats no other postclassical works, Hardie's paper inspires lingering meditation on the roles of envy, anxiety, and (mis)interpretation within both Jonson's play and the classical tradition at large. One hopes that further exploration of Augustus' reception beyond antiquity will emerge from the many international conferences commemorating the bimillennial anniversary of his death this year.
This collection is unusually sophisticated and well-produced for conference proceedings. It is free of major factual error and includes a limited topical index and useful list of passages cited. These merits, and its relatively speedy time to publication, make up for its occasional typographical errors, especially in the references, and some poor-quality reproductions among the figures accompanying Györi's paper. All in all, it is a welcome and worthy addition to the field, and belongs on the shelves not only of research libraries but also of individual scholars concerned with Augustus' literary representation and reception. I hope it will inspire further examination of 'Augustan mythology' across a wider range of media over the centuries, as well as closer inquiry into the questions of production and interpretation that this fascinating and fertile theme raises.
M. Labate and G. Rosati, Tua, Caesar, aetas : un personaggio, un'epoca, un mito : Riflessioni preliminari, p. 1
K. Galinsky, La costruzione del mito augusteo : some construction elements, p. 29
T. Geue, Princeps, avant la lettre' : the Foundations of Augustus in Pre-Augustan Poetry, p. 49
J. P. Schwindt, Der Sound der Macht : zur onomatopoetischen Konstruktion des Mythos im Zeitalter des Augustus, p. 69
V. Györi, Augustus and Numa : the asses of 23 BC, p. 89
M. Fucecchi, Storia di Roma arcaica e presupposti di un mito moderno nella prima decade di Livio, p. 109
M. Stöckinger, Inalienable Possessions : the di penates in the Aeneid and in Augustan Culture, p. 129
S. Rebeggiani, Words of marble : Virgil's temple of Juno in Aeneid 2 and the construction of the Augustan Myth, p. 149
S. Harrison, Horace Odes 1.37 and the mythologising of Actium, p. 169
F. R. Berno, Eccellente ma non troppo : l'exemplum di Augusto in Seneca, p. 181
G. Vannini, Cesare contro Cesare : il divo Augusto nell' Apokolokyntosis, p. 197 S. Citroni Marchetti, Divi Augusti adversa : un anti-mito augusteo nel I secolo del'Impero?, p. 221
C. Newlands, The 'Good Life' in Statius : Baucis and Philemon on the Bay of Naples, p. 241 A. Deremetz, Le mythe augustéen chez Martial, p. 267
J. Fabre-Serris, Le Culex et la construction du mythe augustéen : Pratiques et enjeux d'un poème faussement adressé à Octave, p. 285
P. Hardie, The Augustanism of Ben Jonson's Poetaster, p. 303
Indice delle cose notevoli, p. 315
Indice dei passi discussi, p. 320
1. Notably, by Paul Zanker, Augustus und die Macht der Bilder (München, 1987); John Miller, Apollo, Augustus, and the Poets (Cambridge, 2009); and Galinsky himself (1996).
2. The piece does not cite discussion of this vexed question, summarized by P. G. Walsh, Livy (Oxford, 1974) and revisited by Paul Burton, "The Last Republican Historian: A New Date for the Composition of Livy's First Pentad," Historia 49.4 (2000): 429–46; cf. also Jürgen Deininger, "Livius und der Prinzipat," Klio 67 (1985): 265-72.
3. Inter alios, Galinsky (1996), 10-20.
4. Györi adopts but does not defend Paul Rehak's controversial 2001 suggestion (ABull 83: 196-208) that the southern panel depicts Numa rather than Aeneas sacrificing.
5. Cf. Denis Feeney, "History and Revelation in Vergil's Underworld," PCPhS 32 (1986): 1-24.


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Hello people ain't been on for awhile been quite busy, I've sold a few coins through eBay and today someone has emailed saying if I had send there coin out which I had on the 6th and basically saying they got a package which was empty and after sending picture know it was what I send and now he wants a refund or a other coin which All my items have arrived and 100% feedback after talking he saids it was in a plastic bag with a leaflet from the Royal Mail looks like a survey, and I've told him just to go through eBay to refund it as he seems very sure I've send him a empty package and it haven't been tempted and hasn't been open with which I know 100% I send a silver kurrgerand from a quick google ive seen a few forums saying people try it on and say it was empty hopeing to get refunded or aother coin or item anyone had this before ?
'secondary market' silver a good deal?
Yeah I do wonder what will happen if anything at all 😄 I like to buy silver crowns aswell sometimes can get them pretty much scrap on eBay and they don't spot but most at worn at scrap prices which I don't mind, had a few decent deals but can sell fast the scrap stuff and I guess is a risk of fakes but I'm sure I haven't had one yet I hope,yeah that's a real good deal from a pawn shop, I use goldsilver.be got a order the other day which was all good just got some kruggerrands and was all nice, but some people use them and had problems which you probably know from reading on the forum.
Hi I have brought 4 silver 1oz britiannias from hgm in the past they wasn't scratched but each one was milked but what can you expect with silver can milk anytime even years later, but might be best to try mints that meant to not be as milky as others 😃 have you looked at the European coin shops as they charge a lot less then then coin shops here as little vat ordering them.


As B2B sales managers hear about "Life at 1,000 Dials A Day," they almost always ask this question.
It seems obvious, right? If my list only has 1,000 contacts on it, and we are going at 1,000 dials per day, won't we call everyone on the first day? And then we're done! May as well go home.
Of course, if one takes the view that each contact on a list should be treated as "One and Done," this concern makes perfect sense. But the math says there is no "One and Done" — at least not if you want to get the most out of the list.
The core issue is this: it takes about 20 dials to get 1 conversation. This baseline metric is not the result of a survey or based on what reps self-report: it is measured directly from more than 75 million dials, meticulously navigated by experts and counted by software.
That means your first 1,000 dials will produce about 50 conversations. Leaving your list with 950 people to dial again!
Of those 50 conversations, about 25 of them will need a follow-up — tomorrow, next week, next month, 90 days out, whatever. So, including your most important list of all — your follow-up list — you actually have 975 people to dial again!
If your lists are typical and your reps are well trained, 7 of those conversations will result in referrals. A response of "Not me" becomes "Talk to Mary." So, including your ever-growing list of referrals, you actually have 982 people to dial again.
Oh, and about 10% of your contact data will be found to be faulty by the only reliable way to learn anything about phone data — actual calling. So you will have 100 contacts that need to be replaced. In fact, your list of 1,000 was really only a list of 900, as bad data is exactly the same as no data, except it cost you more.
So you really started with 900 folks to call and ended up with an improved list of 982! And all that in only one day.
Links to Intro, Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10, Part 11, and Part 12 of this blog series.
Part 4: Life at 1,000 Dials a Day — Does Speed Kill Sales Strategy?
Part 6: Life at 1,000 Dials a Day — Too Fast to Coach? Or Just Fast Enough?


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What is Red Scare and Am I Exempt From Caring About It? A Brief Guide to the Podcast World's Laziest Provocateurs
Thursday 12:00pm
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dasha nekrasova
i'm not like other girls
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not like those other girls who are uncool
unwrapping the beef
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It's a truism at this point that each day brings some fresh outrage, ranging from the miserably depressing to the powerfully stupid. We ping-pong from children in disease-ridden concentration camps run by the American government to the president's baffling Fourth of July Big Boy Tank Parade. We barely emerge from one dumb-ass wave before the next one drenches us all.
What I'm saying is, people are also mad about a podcast. In part, they're mad because having something truly no-stakes to feel irritated about right now is kind of refreshing.
But this particular podcast is also emblematic of a certain kind of disaffected, supposedly leftist voice that's casually full of breathtaking cruelty. It's becoming yet another study in how performative irony can be a vehicle for smuggling in some truly hateful ideas. It's a niche group, to be sure, but one that believes themselves to be the nihilist future of politics—and do actually have sway and cachet among a certain subset of white 20- and 30-somethings with influential jobs in media and fashion.
With all that in mind, let's collectively explore why people are mad, and then let us speedily, mercifully, move on.
What podcast, and why are people mad, preferably in as few words as possible?
The pod in question is Red Scare, a purportedly leftist show hosted by two women: Anna Khachiyan, the daughter of a famous mathematician who proudly identifies herself as a dropout from a PhD program, and Dasha Nekrasova, an indie actress and former poet. Before Red Scare was well-known, Nekrasova also went viral last year when an Infowars reporter attempted to ambush interview her for a random liberal-on-the-street interview in Austin, with reasonably disastrous results. (Khachiyan appears to have also done some rookie journalism around 2012 in small New York publications; a few Q&As she did with Bullett live on. Nekrasova still does some acting, but Red Scare appears to be Khachiyan's main gig at this point.)
In the very small, largely Brooklyn-based world of people who care about such things, some people—myself very much included—are annoyed by the pair. Simply put, that's because they say outrageously offensive and bigoted things while draping them in the most gossamer-thin layer of plausible irony. They use "gay" as a synonym for bad, gleefully use the word "retard," and mock the MeToo movement and what they term "liberal" feminism as a whole. It's all delivered in a dueling pair of bored, near-monotones, interspersed with some purposefully provocative but less blazing-hot takes ("The only acceptable hobby is smoking cigarettes," went a recent one.)
There's not a lot of identifiable leftism or political content in the show, minus some approving nods to labor unions, Bernie Sanders, and universal healthcare. Needless to say, Glenn Greenwald is a big fan.
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"I love the Red Scare podcast and the ladies who make it. My primary motivation to go to NYC next…
Red Scare is part of a larger universe of podcasts associated with the so-called "dirtbag left," a group of people who pair supposedly progressive politics with gleefully offensive sentiments. Nekrasova's fiancé is one of the hosts of a podcast called Cum Town, and both women are friends with Amber A'Lee Frost of Chapo Trap House, the granddaddy of all dirtbag left podcasts.
If you would rather not read further, you can simply watch a pretty funny parody someone recently did of them on Twitter and move right along with your day.
Must we?
I know, I don't want to be here either. Life is so short, and death is a gathering tidal wave above us all. But all signs point to the ladies industriously chipping their way into a certain vector of public attention. The Cut profiled Red Scare in October 2018, with writer Noreen Malone memorably tagging them as people who "seem to feel so disenfranchised that they have nothing left to lose, serv[ing] up a vicarious thrill with their willingness to offend, their apparent nihilism." In February of this year, The Cut also documented the pair walking in their first fashion show, for the designer Rachel Comey.
Besides the fact that they make nearly $13,000 a month on Patreon (I know, yes, help), that fashion show appearance seemed to be one of a number of pretty strong indicators that the duo is becoming somewhat famous outside of the claustrophobic universe of leftist podcasts. And as their fame becomes slightly less localized, the bedfellows here are becoming very strange. Audrey Gelman of The Wing tagged herself as a "longtime listener," and her buddy Lena Dunham excitedly shared her fandom in a now-deleted tweet. This is despite the fact that both women have been ruthlessly mocked by Khachiyan and Nekrasova; Dunham announced that she enjoyed the show despite the pair calling her a "human beanbag." (Gelman's husband was also a co-host of a short-lived podcast of men recapping Red Scare, a kind of irony so circular it disappears immediately into its own collective ass.)
This fandom is strange, given that Red Scare is, again, in the business of saying outrageously offensive things. To pick one recent example out of dozens, Khachiyan and Frost of Chapo Trap House recently appeared in a bizarre article in Spiked, a right-leaning British magazine. (Nekrasova's absence was unexplained.) Though Khachiyan has complained on Twitter that the quotes were taken out of context, the quotes themselves are pretty damn weird: she began the interview by telling the writer, "You can tell people I'm trans... I'm not trans, but you can say that just for fun." (She argued later that she was simply making fun of herself, which, sure.) She and Frost went on to complain at length about "uptight, white, overeducated, liberal women," as they put it, with Frost bizarrely claiming, using Lena Dunham as her sole example, that there's a rash of middle-class women "voluntary [sic] removing their reproductive organs."
From there, Khachiyan veered into an even hotter take which managed to dismiss the rise in organized, visible white supremacist groups in the United States:
'You should be able to hate and hatred should be protected, as long as it doesn't spill over into physical violence.' 'There's this idea that we live in a white supremacist country when we fundamentally don't', says Khachiyan. She mentions antifa, the self-styled anti-fascist group that, since our conversation, has hit the headlines for beating up a right-leaning journalist in Portland. 'Antifa have manufactured a threat to have some semblance of an identity', she says. 'All these people who say they are anti-fascist don't know what it means to be persecuted.'
It went on like that, a hash of bizarre claims and obvious attempted provocations ("'All 'race' is, is that some people don't sunburn," Frost claimed at one point, "That's the entirety of racial difference.") It was a real mess.
It's not limited to bad interviews with fringe magazines, though. Khachiyan also recently mocked a comedian named Kath Barbadoro who said on Twitter that she'd rather not work with clubs who host Louis CK. Barbadoro called it a "workplace safety issue," to which Khachiyan responded on her Instagram stories, "Lmao Louis CK isn't gonna jump out of the bushes and rape you, Kath . . . he's a chastened man who also . . . did nothing wrong." (He did.)
OK, I get the point. This all feels very early Vice, the "jokey" offensiveness that really feels like not much of a joke at all.
It does, yes: it's the same kind of fig-leaf of hipster irony and showy apathy hiding a heaving, scabrous mass of genuine cruelty. Which is why it's so surprising that Khachiyan is 33 and Nekrasova is 28; until the moment I began this blog, I'd thought they were far younger and some of this was due to callow youth, etc. But no: presumably they lived through the first round of all this shit, and yet, here we are, doing it again.
It's also worth noting that the use of performative jokey irony to disguise genuinely hateful statements is such a well-recognized trope at this point that it was in the style guide for the Daily Stormer, the neo-Nazi website. Which is positively not to say that the Red Scare women are Nazis. Yet there's also been some toying with truly hateful symbols. A recent anonymous blog criticizing Khachiyan and Nekrasova included photos of the latter hanging up an SS flag in someone's house.
The same blog post featured some now-deleted tweets from Khachiyan featuring sentiments like "A guy like Donald Trump primarily attracts glorified prostitutes so you probably shouldn't feel too bad for anybody whose pussy he grabbed." She also wrote in a 2015 tweet, that she will doubtless also argue was a big joke for fun: "Let's be clear on one thing. I am not and have never been a liberal or a leftist. I'm a cryptofacist, and the 'crypto' is being generous." All very fun and normal!
Oh. That sucks.
That's a statement, not a question, but given that this blog structure is rapidly disintegrating, I'll allow it.
Switching gears somewhat: what's going on with all the eating disorder content?
A weird and largely undiscussed wrinkle in the Red Scare version of hipster shock-jockery is the fact that it also includes some casual valorization of anorexia. One of them maintains a secondary Twitter account devoted entirely to what she's eating, or not eating, plus photos paired with text in which she exults about how thin she looks. (I'm not linking to it because it would be frankly irresponsible to do so. A fair number of people in media follow it, though, which is certainly a choice.)
On a recent episode of the pod, one of the hosts—their voices are impossible for me to tell apart—admitted that she's recently thought that she's thin because God must especially love her. Again, it was a "joke," but, seemingly, not really.
It's maybe not a coincidence that a lot of the Red Scare fandom—besides edgelord men who also enjoy Cum Town and Chapo—seem to reside in the worlds of art, film, and fashion. Those are places that are often similarly aesthetics-obsessed as the Red Scare hosts, and are worlds full of disordered eating and alarming body image stuff. In that fashion show blog from The Cut, Nekrasova told writer Emilia Petrarca that the main thing that excited her was seeing how "desired and frail" the models were:
"I had a moment at the after-party when I was watching these beautiful and perfect models, who were drunk and coked-up out of their minds and everyone was admiring them," Nekrasova recalls. "They were like, partying and dancing and lying down on the floor with their thin legs, and I was like, Wow, my life's okay, but I would literally trade it all — the podcast, Adam, my status as a socialist icon… — I would trade it all to be an extremely hot and relevant model for five seconds. I think that's probably the best feeling a human being can have. It's probably heavenly to be desired and frail."
Isn't this kind of hypocritical? Why aren't you giving Chapo or Cum Town a hard time? Is it because you hate other women?
This is a feminist website. Red Scare's particular take on "feminist issues" is probably of interest to our readers.
Also, and I will be candid with you here, getting through several episodes of theirs was about all I could handle. I still have not scaled the twin Chapo-Cum Town mountains and I likely never will.
Are you, a neoliberal fake feminist stooge at Jezebel, simply jealous and ugly?
That must be it.
Do I really have to care about this?
You positively do not. A lot of things in this current social moment are moral emergencies; bad podcasts aren't.
So why think about these people, however briefly, at all? Mainly, I suppose, for the exhausting and yet useful sense of history repeating itself. Besides being rife with bad takes about the indisputable rising tides of xenophobia and white supremacism in America right now, this particular bad podcast is also demonstrative of the way that a certain kind of anti-feminism masquerading as clever contrarianism reliably appears over and over. The Red Scare women are avowed big fans of Camille Paglia, and in the end, what they're doing is sort of a cut-rate, Xeroxed-to-oblivion version of her work. Maybe, in the end, there are a finite number of ways to be an asshole in this world and we have, at last, mercifully, seen them all.
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I am so excited to share the before pictures of our NEW house today on the blog!
I am slowly transitioning back into blogging, trying to find a new schedule, recovering from and enjoying our new baby, and still trying to tackle a ton of projects that need to tackled around the house. I seriously have probably 10-15 posts worth of projects or before/afters so I hope to slowly work on taking/editing pictures and writing those up to share with you. Lots of before/afters of our old house, what we have accomplished and plan to accomplish at this house and lots of smaller DIY furniture painting and home improvement projects along the way too.
We sold our old home and bought/moved into our new home in May (just 3 weeks before the baby was due!) It was a CRAZY process of packing/moving at 8-9 months pregnant with lots of house complications along the way. I am so thankful I had a healthy pregnancy and felt really good too so that allowed me to accomplish it all. And that nesting phase in those last few week came in especially handy as I frantically unpacked and settled every room I could before baby got here.
So here is our new home! Some of these will be pictures I took and some of them are listing pictures. I tried to take lots of pictures because these are definitely BEFORE pictures and can't wait to look back and compare them once we can do the things we want to do to the house.
I had been referring to our house as a ranch style house but someone told me that they think it is a modified Cape Cod style. The exterior style wasn't exactly what sold on us on the house as we both like more Craftsman style homes but we think we can make some changes to improve the house and make it more our style in the future.
The front porch is long with space like this on both sides! Already imagining rocking chairs and maybe a porch swing out here! Loved the covered front porch for sure.
When you come in the front door there is a dining room to your right. Love the molding that is already on the walls! We probably won't use this as a dining room but you'll have to wait and see how it turns out.
And to the left is french doors leading to what will become MY office!
And a massive closet to store all my crafting, decorating, event decorating type stuff. Can't wait to get to work in here.
Another thing that we loved about the house was the high ceilings and open floor plan. This is leading into the living room.
And here's the fireplace wall! The only bad thing about ceilings this high is having to hire out to get them painted but otherwise I love them.
Then standing in the living room look back at the kitchen. Joanna Gaines would be proud of that open doorframe! Fairly large kitchen (although I am finding it has less cabinet and counter space than my other kitchen had). We aren't sure what our plans are in here yet – definitely new flooring, new countertops and may try to just stain the cabinets darker but we will see.
Standing in kitchen looking back into living room. Arranging furniture in here has been different and a bit harder but a larger living room was on our wish list and we are sure loving this one.
Master bedroom… with another set of french doors leading to the bathroom and closet.
This will eventually be our guest room plus my nephews room when he stays with us. His first request was to please paint that Barney purple wall blue so it has been repainted although not blue right now. I really loved the large closets and double doors in the bedrooms too.
Hall bathroom with some rather bright pink walls. I already knew exactly what I wanted this bathroom to look like the moment I saw it and can't wait to get it finished.
And this yellow room will be the nursery for our sweet little girl! I have done a lot of work in here but it needs finishing touches and decor so that is in process and hopefully will be done soon. Can't wait to show you!
And the bonus room over the garage. This will be a library/playroom/room where my nieces sleep when they stay with us. I just love an attic style girls room and I think this will be such a fun room as I get to work on it. Another one of the features I loved about this house was the attic storage – that door in the wall goes to huge attic space with windows in it! We have to lay floor boards but can't wait to get all the seasonal decor and extra storage things organized in here. We only had pull down stairs in our last house and having a walk in attic space is amazing!
Here's the other side of the bonus room with another smaller attic space – I am organizing and storing all my out of season and yet to grow into clothes for our little girl in here in bins and just loving the organization.
And here's a peak into the backyard. Another smaller covered porch which we love! Being able to grill in the rain and have a covered back porch has been great. Lots of plans on sprucing up this space eventually too.
View of the backyard and back of the house. The acreage at this house is not too much larger than our last one but the difference is this yard is all open and grass where our last house had a lot of wooded area. So keeping up the yard this summer and getting back into shape has been a CHORE for sure. I usually help with a lot of the yard work because I really enjoy it (much more than my husband) but with my pregnancy and now a new baby it has been all on him. I have slowly been able to start doing some things and hope to work on putting in some new landscaping and beds soon.
And if I step back a little further you can see another fun part of this house – a POOL! We did not have this on our wishlist at all and were actually surprised at the number of houses that we looked at that had pools. Our nieces and nephews have loved it and I am sure our little girl will too next summer. It sure has been a fun addition to our outdoor activities especially in the Georgia summer heat. Lots of plans to spruce up this area too in the future.
So there's the house tour! As you can see we definitely have some work to do – painting, updating, lots of yard work, and more – but we are so excited to gradually make this house into our home. I can't wait to share the whole process and what we have accomplished so far with you.
What was your favorite part? I would love to hear too what you would do with some of the rooms – paint, molding, decor? Any ideas for the yard and landscaping?
Such a beautiful home and i love the layout. I cannot wait to move down South.
I really like the living room, and the walk in attic. I also live in Georgia, and having a swimming pool is a great bonus!
Lots of fun projects ahead! Beautiful home.
The new house is beautiful! Congratulations on it! Can't wait to see what you're doing/going to do to make it all your own. Personally, I'd want to rip up the carpet and put down hardwoods in hallways and general common rooms and new carpet in bedrooms. But that's my personal style. Good luck with the improvements.
Congrads! I can relate on so many levels! We just bought a new house too and have put my blogging on hold for a little while. You're very brave for sharing the before pictures. It gave me some courage! Can't wait to see the transformatoin!
I'm going to love watching you frugally transform this diamond-in-the-rough. Thanks for sharing. Oh, and next time throw in a picture of the baby.
Loved seeing these photos and will be fun to see what you do with it. Is this your first baby? If so, PLEASE don't try to do everything you did before you had her! I did that with my first child and drove myself crazy… and neglected him in the process. I now regret so much that I didn't spend more time just holding him, crooning to him, rocking him to sleep and enjoying his "baby-ness". They become toddlers all too fast and then they're off to kindergarten! Please make enjoying her and holding her, fussing with her, etc. your top priority. The house can wait (for the most part).
Loved the house tour – there are so many great things! I loved the front and back porches, the great or living room with the fireplace, the open layout and all of the natural light! The previous owners definitely liked color didn't they!?!?! Wow! I can't wait to see how you transform all of the different spaces with your personal touch! Thanks for sharing your home! Blessings to you and the new baby!
Love the new place!! So much potential. I cannot wait to see what you do with it =) Congrats!!
Congratulations on the birth of your daughter and your new home. The house has so many great qualities. I'm sure that in time you will make it your own. Best wishes to you and your family!
I love this style of house. Wow–it sure is colorful. I am sure there will be much painting in the future and am looking forward to seeing it. The announcement card of your daughter is so precious. Thankful she is here and you were able to move before she was born.
What a beautiful house and yard! I am sure with your talent and some time you will have if up to your standards in no time. That pool area is the best, how fun for family and friends to cool off in!!!! Enjoy your new home and baby!!! Looking forward to seeing more before and after post in the future.
Great house! Looking forward to seeing all the updates you make to it.
Love your new house and can't wait to see all your ideas in the future!!
Congratulations on your baby, and the lovely and large new home!
One landscaping recommendation: Add a gated fence around the pool for safety.
Nice. Looks like a very spacious house and yard..
Your home has so much potential! I'm sure it will be lots of fun. One thing that worried me, though, was no fence around the pool for when your little girl starts toddling–which will come much sooner than you think! Congratulations on your daughter–they are indeed a blessing from the Lord. Enjoy!
Oh my goodness! This house is beautiful! I absolutely love all of the bright colors! Congratulations!


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Opening weekend of regular season for Cobras
Posted on November 25, 2022 by Sunny South News
By Cole Parkinson
Sunny South News
With the Central Alberta Hockey League tiering round complete, Coaldale Cobra teams kicked off the regular season schedule this past weekend.
U11 Tier 3
The U11 Tier 3 Cobras got off to a hot start as they were able to cruise to a pair of wins to start the regular season. On Nov. 19, the Cobras hit the road to Pincher Creek and the Cobras were able to secure a 7-3 win. Boston Constant had four of the Coaldale goals while Ben Wojszel and Armando Sebastian Alvarado Lopez each had a goal and an assist, Max Craven and Ben Souter had two assists each, Lukas Gyorffy had a single goal, and Kaelan Hoffman, Jackson Batkin, and Justin Siemens all had an assist. Mira Anderson got the start in net and the goalie made 19 saves on 22 shots.
The following day saw Chestermere come to Coaldale and the Cobras couldn't be stopped as they won 15-2. Constant continued his scoring streak as he potted six goals and had a single assist, Wojszel had another two goals and three assists, Jake Waggener chipped in with four goals, Souter had a goal and three assists, Hoffman and Batkin had a goal and an assist each, and Gyorffy had a pair of assists, Anderson was back between the pipes making nines saves on 11 shots.
The U11 Tier 3 Cobras see a single game on tap this coming weekend as Cardston comes to town on Saturday for an 11 a.m. puck drop.
With the regular season beginning, the U11 Tier 5 Cobras had a pair of games this past weekend. On Saturday, the team welcomed in Claresholm. No game sheet was available Monday morning.
On Sunday the team was on the road as they took on the Picture Butte Blades. The Blades scored early and often as the home team took an 8-1 win. Avery Gudmundson had the lone Cobra goal while Colton Selk was the starting goalie and made 35 saves on 43 shots.
Another two games come this weekend for the U11 Tier 5 Cobras as they head to Nanton on Saturday for an 11:30 a.m. game before coming home on Sunday to take on Bow Island/Foremost for an 11 a.m. puck drop.
There was tons of offence over the weekend for the U13 Cobras as they had a pair of games. On Saturday afternoon, the team travelled to Claresholm and both teams filled the net. When the final buzzer rang, the game ended in a 7-7 tie. Beckett Hurt and Caleb Burton each had two goals and two assists, William Thompson had a pair of goals, Maliya Wakefield had two assists, Rudy Wojszel had a single goal, and Ace Pezderic, Zack Geres, Makenna Malm, Adam Klassen, Brayden Zasadny, Gracey Palaschak, and Phoenix Weinkauf all had an assist. Brant L'Hirondelle got the start between the pipes and the goalie made 29 saves on 36 shots.
The team returned to home ice on Sunday as the Picture Butte Blades came to town. In a repeat performance, the Cobras once again scored tons of goals and this time they took an 8-5 win. Ryan Scriven Hirsche had a pair of goals and an assist, Thompson had a goal and two assists, Burton had two goals, Wakefield, Hurt, and Wojszel had a goal and an assist each, and Malm, Klassen, and Pezderic all had a single assist. Elliott Hass got the net in the second game of the weekend and the netminder made 23 saves on 28 shots.
The U13 Cobras now prepare for another two games this coming weekend as they take on Raymond on the road on Saturday at 3:45 p.m. and then return home on Sunday to play Pincher Creek at 1:15 p.m.
Two games were on tap for the U15 Cobras as they had an away game and a home game. On Saturday evening, the Cobras hit the road to take on Bow Island/Foremost and Coaldale filled the net as they won 18-4. Jonah Hass had five goals and four assists, Ethan Vervoort had three goals and two assists, Ryder Bousfield had four assists, Lane Broderson had a hat trick, Grady Knoblich and Mason Van Ee had two goals and an assist each, Tucker Newberry had a pair of goals, Ryley Kauenhowen had a goal and an assist, and Marco Burnett and Zoey Caron had an assist each. Dakota Hurst got the start in net and made 45 saves on 49 shots.
On Sunday, the Cobras welcomed in Lethbridge, but no game sheet was available Monday morning. Next up for the U15 Cobras is a game in Picture Butte against the Blades on Saturday at 6 p.m. and then a home game against Brooks on Sunday at 4:45 p.m.
It was a two-game weekend for the U18 Cobras as they welcomed in Taber on Saturday and hit the road to Lethbridge on Sunday. No game sheet was available on Monday morning for Saturday's home game against Taber.
On Sunday, the team was on the road taking on Lethbridge White and both teams were unable to find a game-winning goal as the game ended 5-5. Dalton Damen had a hat trick and an assist, Kade Lyckman and Hector Peralta-Lopez had the other goals while Kevin Erick, Jackson Stone, and Ryker Bruised Head all had an assist. Logan Van Der Leest got the start in net, making 33 saves on 38 shots.
It's another two-game weekend coming for the U18 Cobras as they welcome in Magrath for a 4:45 p.m. game on Saturday before departing to Fort Macleod on Sunday for a 4 p.m. puck drop.


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Companies have one month from the date of the Notice of Assessment (NOA) to pay their tax.
Companies will be informed of the 5% penalty via a late payment penalty letter. Payment must be made by the due date stated on the letter to avoid further enforcement actions.
A late payment penalty letter and a GIRO cancellation letter will be issued to inform companies that the GIRO plan has been cancelled.
In addition to the recovery actions, IRAS may concurrently impose an additional 1% penalty on the overdue tax for each month that the tax remains unpaid.
Company Y received a Notice of Assessment (NOA) dated 18 Oct 2017. The due date for the tax payable of $10,000 is 18 Nov 2017 (one month from the date of NOA). As Company Y did not pay the tax by 18 Nov 2017, a 5% penalty of $500 (i.e. 5% x $10,000) was imposed.
Company Z did not pay the tax payable of $10,000 by the due date on the NOA, and received a late payment penalty letter dated 8 Jun 2017 informing the company of the overdue tax and the 5% late penalty. The due date for payment of tax and penalty (i.e. $10,500) on the letter was 8 Jul 2017 (one month from the date of the late payment penalty letter). Company Z eventually paid the tax and penalties on 15 Sep 2017.
The payment was overdue by more than two months after the late payment penalty letter due date i.e. Aug and Sep. The total penalty imposed was $700 (i.e. 5% penalty x $10,000 plus 1% additional penalty x $10,000 x 2 months).
I have appointed a tax agent. Who is responsible for my company's tax matters?
As the owner of the company, you are still responsible and liable for filing and payment issues, even if your agent fails to settle the filing and payment issues promptly.
Why is my company penalised for not paying the tax when I have objected to the tax?
The tax is still payable pending the outcome of your objection to the tax assessed. If the assessment is subsequently amended, any excess tax paid will be refunded to the company.
Company X received an estimated NOA, with a tax payable of $10,000, dated 23 Aug 2017. The due date for payment 23 Sep 2017 (one month from the date of NOA).
The company filed an objection and did not pay the tax. As no payment was received by the due date, a 5% late payment penalty of $500 was imposed.
The company paid the tax and penalty on 12 Oct 2017. On 9 Nov 2017, the Assessment was amended to $1,300 and the late payment penalty was revised to $65 (5% penalty on $1,300) accordingly. A refund of $9,135 was made to the company.


Q. Where can I find time series of U.S. economic statistics?
Go to FRASER - The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research, available from the St. Louis Fed.
Also, search the BU Libraries Search for "Historical Statistics of the United States" - a few BU libraries carry this title (with various years of coverage).


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Q: since he became manager a. He is growing since he became manager.
b. He is growing since he has become manager.
Are both sentences grammatically correct?
Does 'since' have a temporal meaning in both or could it mean 'because'?
Is there any difference in their meanings?

A: Neither of them rings true to me. I would choose between

He has been growing since he became a manager

to emphasise that it has been happening over a long period

He has grown since he became a manager

when I just want to state that it happened without specifying exactly how or when during the period since his promotion to manager. Note that we need the indefinite article before  manager here. If it was a specific title we could omit it.

He has grown since he became Chief Executive
Jürgen Klopp has grown since he became manager of Liverpool FC

A: I agree 100% with mdewey's answer (and EddieKal's comment supporting the null article).
For completeness, yes "since" has the temporal meaning in both sentences.


Welcome to This Week in Recovery, a weekly recap of the 5 biggest stories and developments in the recovery industry.
The former acting assistant administrator of the DEA, Demetra Ashley is now being paid to advise Purdue Pharma, one of the largest opioid manufacturers in the country and the company behind OxyContin. Demetra left the DEA last spring and started a consulting firm. During her time in the DEA, Ashley spoke about the need to create a "robust regulatory program" to curb the influence of prescription drugs.
A new report done by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine found that only a small percentage of the roughly two million Americans who are addicted to opioids are receiving medications to address the problem. The medicines that can help to treat opioid addiction are rarely being used in the United States.
A new report from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention shows just how devastating the synthetic opioid fentanyl has been in the United States. Fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine and the death rates attributed to the drug are growing exponentially. It's now killing tens of thousands of Americans every year.
A study that examined over 466,000 plastic surgery patients found that almost 55 percent of patients received painkiller prescriptions following their operation, 92 percent of which were opioids. Patients who filled this prescription shortly after surgery were about three times as likely as those who didn't to still be using opioids up to a year later. Similarly, more than 10,000 patients remained on these drugs longer than a year.
President Donald Trump's drug czar Jim Carroll said that the border wall that Trump has promised would help to save American lives by curtailing the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. "So that wall will undoubtedly stop the flow of drugs in those locations, force people to the ports of entry, where there's more law enforcement located," Carroll said.
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Police officers are faced with stressful situations day in and day out which can cause rifts in their daily lives leading to many officers struggling with alcoholism, depression, PTSD, thoughts of suicide, and more.


Any early dissapointment in the opening two rounds of our PS4 NPL Victoria campaign seemed to vanish quickly, following last week's win away to Bentleigh Greens. Now, nothing is more important than ensuring that performance is backed up, when the Knights welcome newly promoted Kingston City to Somers St this Friday night.
With points on offer at home, the 6th placed Knights will be looking to redeem themselves after a poor performance in their first home game against Pascoe Vale a fortnight ago. A change in formation and attacking intent reaped instant rewards for Andrew Marth, who will be looking to ensure momentum does not drop off.
The introduction of Kym Harris and Timmy Purcell into the starting eleven proved to be a key decision last week. As well as shifting Ben Surey into the back four, providing the Knights with an experienced head marshalling the defence.
Nikola Jurkovic may be available for this game after missing last week through injury; however Marth now has a selection headache in whether to change a winning formula. Adding to the issue is the impact Caleb Mikulic and Anthony Dezic had off the bench, while Nicholas Jurcic and Anthony Katiforis were on the scoresheet in the Under 21's as they look to break back into the senior squad.
Visitors Kingston City visit Knights Stadium on the back of three successive draws to begin their season. Having trailed late in each game, the team from The Grange have shown grit and determination to score late goals and rescue a point.
This was highlighted in the opening round, when they found themselves 2 goals and a man down away to Oakleigh Cannons, fighting back against the odds to come away with a point.
It has been a decade since Kingston last featured in the top flight, with the only fixtures between the two clubs coming in the 2006 & 2007 VPL season. The record doesn't paint a nice picture for the Knights, having just picked up 1 draw from 4 games. The last fixture between the teams was in 2007, where the likes of Cameron Watson, Ivan Franjic, Mate Dugandzic and Joe Spiteri featured for the Knights in a 0-0 draw.
Who: MELBOURNE KNIGHTS v Kingston City.


Brock & Kiraz English weevil.
How to cite this entry? Toma Audo, Treasure of the Syriac Language: A Dictionary of Classical Syriac (Mosul: Imprimerie des pères dominicains, 1897-. Reprints: Chicago, 1978; Stockholm, 1979; Glane/Losser, 1985; Piscataway, NJ, 2008) Vol 2, p. 460 [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, tagged by George A. Kiraz, accessed on Apr. 24, 2019].
How to cite this entry? Sebastian P. Brock & George A. Kiraz, Gorgias Concise Syriac-English, English-Syriac Dictionary (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2015) ܩܪܝܬܐ [from sedra.bethmardutho.org, accessed on Apr. 24, 2019].


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'You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown'
How crabby are you? In Act II of "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown," Lucy takes a crabbiness survey. She doesn't like what she learns. Linus, her younger brother, gives her a 95. So Lucy punches...
DATE: June 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Performing Arts
Music in the Mountains kicks off July 8
The 30th annual Music in the Mountains season just around the corner. The festival will officially open its season with the Harpeth Rising at the Bayfield Performing Arts Center. You may be...
DATE: June 23, 2016 | CATEGORY: Music
Hour of the Bees a great summer read for young teens
Hour of the Bees by Linsay Eagar, a debut novel for young teens, is a perfect story for summer readers to keep them entertained indoors during the current heat wave. Hopefully, there will many more...
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Friday Pride@Purg, 9:30 a.m., Purgatory Resort, 247-9000. 40th Annual Juried Exhibit, 10 a.m., Durango Arts Center, 802 East Second Ave., 259-2606. Stop & Smell the Chocolate: A floral...
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Jury: Led Zepplin not guilty
The Associated Press LOS ANGELES – Los Angeles jury finds Led Zeppelin did not steal intro to rock epic 'Stairway to Heaven'
Robert Plant testifies he can't read music or remember the '60s
For music geeks, what has unfolded in a Los Angeles courthouse over the past week has been like some epic Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony – except with everyone wearing suits, and way...
Ticketmaster tries redeeming itself with millions of free tickets but fans aren't happy
Who doesn't like a free concert? Apparently, a whole heck of a lot of people. In 2003, two men purchased tickets to a Wilco show and – like many people who buy tickets from Ticketmaster – were...
How Sigourney Weaver and Ed O'Neill wound up in 'Finding Dory'
"Finding Dory" brings back a lot of familiar faces from "Finding Nemo" – but if you've seen the movie, you know some of the newer characters steal the show. One such character doesn't even have a...
DATE: June 21, 2016 | CATEGORY: Film and TV
To make summer show pop, Rockettes turn to light wizards
NEW YORK – Madonna has turned to them for a little stage magic. So have Muse and Nine Inch Nails. In search of their own visual bang, companies as different as Chevy, Cirque du Soleil, Royal...
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Friday Open mic, 7-11 p.m., Steaming Bean, located downstairs at the Irish Embassy Pub, 900 Main Ave., 403-1200, theirishembassypub.com. Karaoke, 8 p.m., 8th Avenue Tavern, 509 East Eighth Ave.,...
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The seventh annual Durango Pride Festival will be kicking off Wednesday. Formerly called the Four Corners Pride Festival, the event offers five days of fun events for everyone. And, in the wake of...
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After 15 years, Open Shutter Gallery will close its retail space on Nov. 30. The gallery has been a fine-arts photography presence in downtown Durango since 2001. The business will head in a new...
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Mutsvangwa Defiant After Vote Of No Confidence
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The Zanu PF Mashonaland West Provincial Coordinating Committee has passed a vote of no confidence in Chris Mutsvangwa and recommended that he be expelled from the party and be recalled from parliament.
The announcement was made by vice chairman of the province Keith Guzah in Harare.
The charges being levelled against the Norton legislator and War Veterans Minister are undermining the authority of the President and First Secretary of the party by questioning the appointment of the current National Political Commissar and insulting the First Family.
The vote of no confidence by the province comes a few days after President Robert Mugabe told delegates at the 15th annual National People's Conference that votes of no confidence and recommendations for expulsion should only be held after thorough internal consultations.
Guzah could not justify how the act is not against what the President said in Victoria Falls.
Contacted for comment, Mutsvangwa said: "I am aware of what the President said about votes of no confidence, I cannot qualify or subtract what he said. I respect my President and I am a loyal cadre of the party."
At the just ended conference, the President also called for unity in the party and an end to factionalism and divisions in the party.
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Between zero and one, there are an infinite number of decimals. If that's infinite, then between zero and ten, there are 10 infinities.
There is no shortage of little infinities, and we have nearly infinite time in which to explore them. Fun stuff to think about. Here's a video that helps us to think about the very long infinities of time that await us, and maybe a concept even weirder than infinite time at the end.


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Sbohem a šáteček je
 výraz pro úplné ukonční debaty, jinými slovy "tutově konec"
Sbohem a šáteček (sbírka) – sbírka básní Vítězslava Nezvala z roku 1934
Sbohem a šáteček (báseň) – báseň z této sbírky
Sbohem a šáteček (album) – album skupiny Wild Tides
Sbohem a šáteček (Glee) – český název epizody amerického seriálu Glee

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Nestled on an acre of landscaped gardens, Kaday Aung Hotel is ideally located in the walking distance of the ancient city, Bagan and a lot of tourist destinations- sights that are a pleasure to behold, including the historic Aeyarwaddy River. Kaday Aung Hotel is situated at the Kyansittha Quarter of Bagan which is just 3 minutes walking from the Myingabar Village and about 35 minutes drive form Bagan Airport. Opportunities for sightseeing and shopping abound as hotel guests can take in some of the Bagan's famous attractions or bring home local handicrafts available at handicraft centers.


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Kotaku UK has launched
By PCGamer published 14 April 14
There's a new site joining Future's family of games coverage. Kotaku UK launched today, as a new localised version of the gaming and culture site. It'll bring you a curated selection of stuff from Kotaku's main bulk – picked out especially for its relevance – along with a healthy dollop of original content. Even better, it'll spell colour properly and everything.
As to why a UK-specific version of Kotaku is important, editor Keza MacDonald explained all in the site's introductory post :
"For me it's about relevance, access, and community. Relevance is about more than just changing spellings (though we'll be doing that, too) - it's about cultural reference points, and reporting on things that matter to UK readers. English-speaking internet can be very US-centric. I don't know about you, but that sometimes makes me feel either ignored or alienated by the big US games sites.
"Access is the major editorial reason for running a UK-based site. Because we're based in Europe, we can visit studios that are half the world away for our American colleagues. We've not just got a fascinating games scene here in Britain, we've got a whole continent's worth of stories to explore. Having a UK-based team helps flesh out Kotaku's overall editorial capabilities. We also sometimes see things a little differently from a UK perspective, and more perspectives is a valuable thing for any site."
It's only a few hours old, but already there are some interesting features to peruse, including this profile on the most exciting games coming out of the UK. Also some Dark Souls erotic fanfiction . Because Kotaku.
Head here to check out Kotaku UK. Don't worry, we won't mind, as long as you come straight back .
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I just want to take a few moments to wish all retirees and their families a happy holiday season. Being with your family is extremely important during this time of year. As retirees, working the long hours at the post office is behind us but that doesn't mean we should forget the friends we left behind. Make a visit to the PO and visit the people you worked with for so many years. I don't know about you but I don't miss the work, I miss the people. After working 30-40 years or more with the same group of people, they become a second family that you don't see very often.
2014 will bring several important functions. The state convention will be in San Jose May 17-18. There will be a Retirement Seminar as part of the state convention on May 17. The national convention will be July 21-25 with the craft and retiree conferences being July 19 and 20. Exact information regarding hotels, itineraries and classes is not available at this time. That information will be posted when it becomes available.
The list goes on. The book can be a blessing to those who are trying to probate your assets. If you wish a copy, contact Judy Beard, APWU Retiree Director, at (202) 842-854. Make sure someone other than yourself knows the location of this book and the supporting documentation.
You can also download the form at www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/life-insurance. After you complete the form mail both copies to the address listed above. To be valid, your designation must be in writing, signed, witnessed by two persons, and received by the OPM prior to your death. Witnesses to the designation may not be named as beneficiaries (RI 76-12, page 24).
Failure to keep your designation of beneficiary up-to-date could cause problems. For example, when you first were hired by the PO, you listed your spouse as your beneficiary. Later, after getting a divorce, you get married again and have a new spouse but you didn't change your beneficiary to include the new spouse. In the event of your death, the divorced spouse and not your current spouse will receive your insurance. You need to make sure you have the coverage you desire.
Remember, you must request OPM to send your survivors the necessary forms to collect your life insurance and not the Office of Federal Employee's Group Life Insurance (OFEGLI). OFEGLI will make the necessary payments once it receives the paperwork from OPM.
Have a great holiday season and a prosperous 2014!


RAWALPINDI: An appellate election tribunal dismissed on Wednesday former prime minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi's nomination papers submitted for NA-57, Murree.
The tribunal had on Monday reserved its verdict on an appeal against the acceptance of Abbasi's nomination papers by the returning officer (RO) and announced it today.
Announcing the decision today, the tribunal head, Lahore High Court Justice Abdul Rehman Lodhi, accepted all the objections of the petitioner.
Petitioner Masood Ahmed Abbas had challenged Abbasi's candidature, accusing him of extorting money from the national exchequer. The petitioner had alleged that the candidate, during his tenure as the prime minister, had obtained Rs1 billion from the national kitty and given the amount to his son to perform Umrah.
Moreover, Abbas had stated that the former premier had supported a controversial interview that Nawaz Sharif had given, accusing him of purposefully damaging national security.
Among other accusations, the petitioner had alleged that Abbasi did not provide correct details of his assets. He further said that the former prime minister had not given any statement in support of Aafia Siddiqui — a Pakistani scientist imprisoned in the US on terrorism charges.
Abbasi's lawyer informed the tribunal that his client had declared all of his assets in the documents submitted to the Election Commission of Pakistan. "Declared assets in both of my client's nomination papers are the same," he said, adding that Abbasi had listed his shares in an airline in both documents.
The appellate tribunal had earlier also suspended the returning officer for not correctly vetting Abbasi's nomination papers.
The election tribunals have until today to decide on the appeals after which the revised list of the candidates will be shared on June 28.
The last date for withdrawal of candidature will be June 29 whereas the date for allocation of electoral symbols and publication of the final list of contesting candidates will be June 30.
Polling for general election 2018 will be held on July 25.


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Magome (jap. , auch Magome-juku ) war die 43. der 69 Stationen der Nakasendō, einer alten Fernstraße, die Kyōto und Edo in Japan verband. Dieser gut erhaltene Teilabschnitt befindet sich auf dem Gebiet der Stadt Nakatsugawa in der Präfektur Gifu (bis Februar 2005 gehörte Magome zum Dorf Yamaguchi im Landkreis Kiso (, -gun) der Präfektur Nagano).

Geschichte
In der Meiji-Periode war Magome eine der 11 Poststationen an der Nakasendō und als solche eine relativ wohlhabende und kosmopolitische Stadt, die von den Reisenden lebte. Sie fiel jedoch mit der Vollendung der Chūō-Hauptlinie, einer Eisenbahn, die an Magome vorbeiführte, in Armut und Vergessenheit. In den letzten Jahrzehnten wurde sie entsprechend ihrem Erscheinungsbild als Poststation der Meiji-Zeit restauriert und ist nun eine populäre Touristenattraktion.

Die wichtigste Sehenswürdigkeit ist die restaurierte Reihe von Häusern entlang der früheren Poststraße, die einen Hang hinauf zwischen dem unteren und oberen Ende der Stadt verläuft. Die meisten der Häuser wurden für einfache Leute in der Mitte der 1700er Jahre gebaut und enthalten Läden und Unterkünfte für die Reisenden auf der Nakasendō. Ein Teil der ursprünglichen Straße ist zwischen Magome und Tsumago, der nächsten Poststadt (ebenfalls restauriert) erhalten.

Magome war Geburtsort des Schriftstellers Shimazaki Tōson (1872–1943), der über die Gegend um Kiso in seiner berühmtesten Erzählung Vor der Dämmerung (, Yoake mae) erzählt. Er ist auf dem kleinen Friedhof der Stadt begraben.

Die Stadt bietet auch einen schönen Blick auf den 2190 m hohen Berg Ena. Malerische Aussichten auf die umgebenden Gebirge kann man von einem Aussichtspunkt über dem Parkplatz am oberen Ende von Magome genießen.

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