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If an applicant accepted by GEOS cancels for any reason prior to or before starting class on the 1st day, he/she will receive a full refund of all monies.
The term of enrollment varies for each student based on the number of weeks specified on his or her enrollment documents. Refund calculations for students who withdraw after the beginning of their classes is based on the term of enrollment.
If notice of withdrawal is received by GEOS, or a student is dismissed within the first 4 weeks of the program of study's duration, GEOS will retain 4 weeks of tuition and will refund the remaining amount of paid tuition.
If notice of withdrawal is received by GEOS after 4 weeks of the term of study and before the midpoint of the term, GEOS will retain the full price for the number of weeks completed and will refund the remaining amount of paid tuition.
If a student withdraws after 50% of the course completed, no refund will be given.
If an already enrolled student who enrolls up for additional terms of study withdraws before the midpoint of their new term, GEOS will retain the full price for the number of weeks completed and will refund the remaining amount of paid tuition up to the midpoint of the new term. There will be no refund after the midpoint of the new term.
All refunds will be paid within 45 calendar days of the first day of the term for those students that cancel.
All refunds will be paid within 45 calendar days of written notification for those students that withdraw.
Students who enroll at GEOS with an overseas agency must collect their refund from that agency directly. While GEOS will refund the money to the agency within 45 days, the student must talk to the agent directly to understand the agency's policy on returning the money to the student.
All tuition discounts or special offers are dependent upon completion of the total contracted weeks of study. If a student withdraws or shortens their course after the first day of class, but before completing 50% of their contracted number of weeks, the student will be charged the prorated price for the number of weeks completed when calculating a refund.
In the unlikely event the school won't be able to create a group course due to it not having enough students at the same time/level, smaller group or Private Tutorials for a reduced amount of lessons will be provided instead (20 lessons = 12 privates / 30 lessons = 18 privates).
If a program is cancelled by the institution all monies will be refunded to students.
If a student does not appear at the school for their classes, and later asks for a refund, the institution will refund all monies paid by the student, less the registration fee (as shown as not refundable on the enrollment agreement), and all other fees for services rendered.
If a student cancels a contract prior to the class start date, all refunds due will be made within 45 days of the first scheduled day of class or the day of cancellation, whichever is sooner.
For enrolled students, the refund due will be calculated through the last day of attendance and will be paid within 45 days from the documented date the student drops from the program.
If notice of withdrawal is received by GEOS on the first day of class and through the midpoint of the contracted term of study, GEOS will retain the full price for the number of hours completed and will refund the remaining amount of paid tuition. After the student has completed 50% of the contracted term of study no refund is due the student. Charges for extra costs such as books, supplies or equipment, and registration fees are not subject to these refund computations. For students who cancel prior to the class start date, refunds will be made within 45 days of the first scheduled day of class or the date of cancellation, whichever is sooner. Refunds for enrolled students will be paid within 45 days of the documented drop date.
No refunds are made after the student has completed more than 50% of the program of instruction.
Students who are dropped administratively due to violations of school policies are not eligible for refunds.
Classes must be cancelled the day before the scheduled lesson. Same day cancellations will be forfeited. All cancellations and schedule changes must be made through the school office - no exceptions. For semi-private tutoring classes, absences can not be made up or rescheduled.
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In rendering service, the service outlet acts as an independent contractor rather than as an agent of Subaru 360 C.A.R.E. or Subaru Canada, Inc. No responsibility for any loss or damage resulting from the provision of services is assumed by Subaru 360 C.A.R.E. or Subaru Canada, Inc.
Violations which occur in U.S. states that do not accept the Arrest Bond Certificate.Failure to reimburse Subaru 360 C.A.R.E. or Subaru Canada, Inc. for court fines paid on your behalf within 60 days will result in the forfeiture of all coverage under the Subaru 360 C.A.R.E. program.
The accident or mechanical breakdown must occur 360 kilometers (225 miles) or more from the Vehicle owner's or lessee's residence.
The Vehicle must be disabled to the extent that it cannot be safely driven.
In the case of a mechanical breakdown, the Vehicle must be towed to the nearest Subaru dealership or authorized Subaru service centre within 360 km of the location of the mechanical breakdown.
In the case of an accident, the accident must be reported to the nearest police agency and a copy of the police accident report (if applicable) must be submitted with all claims.
Benefits are provided for a period of up to 72 hours from the time of the incident.
Rental vehicles must be obtained from a recognized local vehicle rental agency.
Local meals and lodging must be obtained in the general vicinity of the location at which the vehicle is being repaired. Alcohol is not eligible for reimbursement.
Commercial transportation must be obtained from a common carrier (airline, bus, train, taxi, etc.), licensed to carry passengers for hire.
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Any cost for overnight lodging will be limited to the cost of one room per night for a maximum of three nights.
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Q: How to branch after %ERRORLEVEL% check to IF-ELSE branch in a batch file by checking two separate strings? The batch file with the following code branches depending on %ERRORLEVEL% condition. set result=PASSED is executed if string OK is found in output. The batch file should also search for string ERROR in addition to OK string in output and should execute set result=FAILED if ERROR is found in output.
How can I do this?
rem ...
rem ...
call myCommand.cmd | FIND "OK" > NUL

if %errorlevel% == 0 (
    set result=PASSED
    set /A passedCounter=passedCounter+1
) else (
    set result=FAILED
    set /A failedCounter=failedCounter+1
)
rem ...
rem ...

A: This batch file code could be used for this task.
@echo off
call myCommand.cmd | %SystemRoot%\System32\findstr.exe /I /L "OK ERROR" >"%TEMP%\%~n0.tmp" || goto Failed
%SystemRoot%\System32\findstr.exe /I /L "ERROR" "%TEMP%\%~n0.tmp" >nul && goto Failed

set "result=PASSED"
set /A passedCounter+=1
goto Done

:Failed
set "result=FAILED"
set /A failedCounter+=1

:Done
del "%TEMP%\%~n0.tmp" 2>nul
echo Result is: %result%

FINDSTR searches in standard output of batch file myCommand.cmd

*

*case-insensitive because of option I

*and literally because of option /L

*for string OK OR string ERROR.

The space character inside double quoted search string is interpreted in this case by FINDSTR as OR expression.
The exit code of FINDSTR is 1 if neither OK nor ERROR could be found which should be interpreted as failed operation and so processing of batch file is continued on command line below the line with label Failed.
Otherwise the one or more lines containing OR OR ERROR output by FINDSTR are written into a temporary file in directory for temporary files with name of batch file as file name and file extension .tmp.
This temporary file with output of first executed FINDSTR is searched once again with FINDSTR this time searching case-insensitive and literally only for the string ERROR and suppressing the output by redirecting it to device NUL.
FINDSTR exits with 0 if there is a line with ERROR resulting in processing of batch file is continued on command line below the line with label Failed.
Otherwise the output of batch file myCommand.cmd contains OK, but not ERROR and so the task was accomplished successfully.
Finally the temporary file is deleted on existing at all with suppressing the error message on not existing by redirecting the error message to device NUL and the result is printed into console window.
See also:

*

*Single line with multiple commands using Windows batch file

*Microsoft article about Using command redirection operators
Another solution not using a temporary file:
@echo off
set "result="
for /F delims^=^ eol^= %%I in ('myCommand.cmd ^| %SystemRoot%\System32\findstr.exe /I /L "OK ERROR"') do (
    echo %%I | %SystemRoot%\System32\findstr.exe /I /L "ERROR" >nul && goto Failed
    set "result=PASSED"
)
if defined result set /A "passedCounter+=1" & goto Done

:Failed
set "result=FAILED"
set /A failedCounter+=1

:Done
echo Result is: %result%

FOR with option /F starts a new command process in background with %ComSpec% /c and the command line as specified in the round brackets between the two ' which means with Windows directory on drive C: the execution of the command line:
C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /c myCommand.cmd | %SystemRoot%\System32\findstr.exe /I /L "OK ERROR"

The redirection operator | must be escaped with caret character ^ on FOR command line to be interpreted as literal character when Windows command interpreter processes this command line before executing command FOR which executes the embedded command line with using a separate command process started in background.
FOR captures everything output by FINDSTR to handle STDOUT of background command process and processes the captured text line by line after started cmd.exe terminated itself.
FOR would split up each non-empty line into substrings using normal space and horizontal tab as string delimiters and would assign just first space/tab separated substring to specified loop variable I if not starting with default end of line character ;. This line splitting behavior with ignoring entire line on starting with a semicolon without or with leading spaces/tabs is not wanted here. For that reason delims= eol= is used to define an empty list of delimiters to disable line splitting behavior and define no end of line character. It is necessary to specify these two options without using double quotes which means the equal signs and the space character must be escaped with ^ to be interpreted as literal characters and not as argument separators.
Each line output by FINDSTR in separate command process is searched for string ERROR and if indeed found the loop execution is exited with a jump to command line below line with label Failed. Otherwise this line must contain OK and so the environment variable result is defined now with value PASSED. But there could be one more line with ERROR and so the loop is not exited in this case.
If the environment variable result is defined after execution of FOR there was a line output by batch file myCommand.cmd with OK and none with ERROR which means the task was accomplished successfully.
BTW: It would be much easier if the batch file myCommand.cmd would exit with 0 on success and a value greater 0 on any error. This could be very easily evaluated by the calling batch file.
See also:

*

*Where does GOTO :EOF return to?

*What are the ERRORLEVEL values set by internal cmd.exe commands?

*Which cmd.exe internal commands clear the ERRORLEVEL to 0 upon success?
For understanding the used commands and how they work, open a command prompt window, execute there the following commands, and read entirely all help pages displayed for each command very carefully.

*

*call /?

*del /?

*echo /?

*findstr /?

*for /?

*goto /?

*if /?

*set /?

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If you're hosting a WordPress site, you're likely already aware of the need for security. But you may not know just how complicated it is to set up and maintain a really secure website. It can be even more complex than designing the site itself or developing the content.
This articles covers a number of steps Resources Online routinely takes to make websites secure. It assumes a basic familiarity with WordPress, but not much more. To get technical details on the recommended solutions, do a quick online search.
This is the single most important thing you can do. Because WordPress is so widely used, when vulnerabilities are discovered, attackers know that there are many susceptible websites. There were six WordPress core security updates last year alone, along with many more plugin updates.
It's critical that you continually monitor and patch your site.
The WordPress core application has the ability to automatically update whenever a new version is released. Automatic updates are also available for certain plugins. If your website is not that complex and you're comfortable with code changes to your site without a thorough review, turn on automatic updates. In new installations of WordPress, this is on by default. Follow WordPress instructions to manually turn on automatic updates.
If your website is complex or you're worried that an automatic update may break it, set up a testing environment and manually update WordPress. Modern versions of WordPress actually make this quite simple. The Updates page on your WordPress site shows a list of all available releases. You can install them individually or all at once with just a few mouse clicks.
If you have a lot of plugins, consider updating them a few at a time and, as you go, verify that the website still functions properly. This way, you can isolate the source of any potential problems caused during the update process. After you've made all the updates and verified the site functionality in your testing environment, follow the same process on the production site.
Note for developers: obviously, modifying WordPress core code or plugin code makes it very difficult to update plugins and stay secure. Use care!
Having secure code doesn't help if you leave the front door open. One of the most common causes of WordPress site outages is the brute force login attack. That's where an attacker writes code that repeatedly tries different passwords to log in to your site.
Disable the default admin account (a common target of attacks).
Limit user roles to only specific, required functions. For example, don't make everyone an admin.
Rename the login page to something non-standard, so attackers can't find the page. We have had good success with the Rename wp-login.php plugin.
Install a plugin to limit brute force attacks, force strong passwords, and force password expiration. If you are not installing a more comprehensive security plugin, try this Login Security Solution from WordPress.
Have a large numbers of installs.
Are offered by reliable sources.
Show frequent updates (indicating they are being maintained).
Some plugins have write access to your WordPress files and directories. A malicious or vulnerable plugin with that kind of access has complete control over your site. Be very cautious with these. And, in general, limit your plugins to only those you need, delete any unused plugins, and carefully consider the trade-offs when adding new ones.
BulletProof security, which provides more of a firewall, detecting and blocking malicious traffic before it gets to your WordPress installation. It does this through a series of rules defined in the Apache .htaccess file. Installation is simple: use the setup wizard, and select the options you prefer. The plugin generates and saves the correct .htaccess file to your web server.
Compares all of your core and plugin files against the original versions.
Shows you real-time traffic to your site, which can allow you to detect and troubleshoot attacks.
Protects against brute force attacks.
Logs traffic, allowing you to investigate issues.
We like using BulletProof security and Wordfence together because of their complementary features.
Disasters, such as site corruption or hacker-caused data loss, are a lot easier to deal with if you know that you have a good backup of all of your code and content. Install a plugin to make daily backups of your website, including the code and database. Make sure to back up your server, as well. And test your backup to make certain it that can actually be restored.
Our favorite free backup plugin is UpdraftPlus. It supports automated backups, prunes old backups, does remote storage to Dropbox, and will even automatically back up your site and database at the moment you are installing new plugins, allowing for an easy rollback if something breaks. The paid plugin BackupBuddy is also an alternative to consider.
Your site won't stay secure on its own. You need to monitor your security logs, apply regular updates, look for suspicious or abnormal activity, verify that your backups are still working, and keep an eye on your database size and available disk space.
Your security plugin helps by notifying you of issues via email, but there's no substitute for periodically logging in and checking things out.
Take a look at this great overview of security from WordPress.org.
Get announcements about all WordPress core security releases.
Here's to keeping your site safe and secure!
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What a journalistic challenge: to write a magazine article about a concert on domestic violence. Janina Birtolo, a Naples actor and arts editor for Gulfshore Life, thoughtfully embodies our vision for community awareness and support on this issue. What a wordsmith she is!
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Elements of the Gothic Novel
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The gothic novel was invented almost single-handedly by Horace Walpole, whose The Castle of Otranto (1764) contains essentially all the elements that constitute the genre. Walpole's novel was imitated not only in the eighteenth century and not only in the novel form, but it has influenced writing, poetry, and even film making up to the present day.
Gothic elements include the following:
1. Setting in a castle. The action takes place in and around an old castle, sometimes seemingly abandoned, sometimes occupied. The castle often contains secret passages, trap doors, secret rooms, dark or hidden staircases, and possibly ruined sections. The castle may be near or connected to caves, which lend their own haunting flavor with their branchings, claustrophobia, and mystery. (Translated into modern filmmaking, the setting might be in an old house or mansion--or even a new house--where unusual camera angles, sustained close ups during movement, and darkness or shadows create the same sense of claustrophobia and entrapment.)
2. An atmosphere of mystery and suspense. The work is pervaded by a threatening feeling, a fear enhanced by the unknown. Often the plot itself is built around a mystery, such as unknown parentage, a disappearance, or some other inexplicable event. Elements 3, 4, and 5 below contribute to this atmosphere. (Again, in modern filmmaking, the inexplicable events are often murders.)
3. An ancient prophecy is connected with the castle or its inhabitants (either former or present). The prophecy is usually obscure, partial, or confusing. "What could it mean?" In more watered down modern examples, this may amount to merely a legend: "It's said that the ghost of old man Krebs still wanders these halls."
4. Omens, portents, visions. A character may have a disturbing dream vision, or some phenomenon may be seen as a portent of coming events. For example, if the statue of the lord of the manor falls over, it may portend his death. In modern fiction, a character might see something (a shadowy figure stabbing another shadowy figure) and think that it was a dream. This might be thought of as an "imitation vision."
5. Supernatural or otherwise inexplicable events. Dramatic, amazing events occur, such as ghosts or giants walking, or inanimate objects (such as a suit of armor or painting) coming to life. In some works, the events are ultimately given a natural explanation, while in others the events are truly supernatural.
6. High, even overwrought emotion. The narration may be highly sentimental, and the characters are often overcome by anger, sorrow, surprise, and especially, terror. Characters suffer from raw nerves and a feeling of impending doom. Crying and emotional speeches are frequent. Breathlessness and panic are common. In the filmed gothic, screaming is common.
7. Women in distress. As an appeal to the pathos and sympathy of the reader, the female characters often face events that leave them fainting, terrified, screaming, and/or sobbing. A lonely, pensive, and oppressed heroine is often the central figure of the novel, so her sufferings are even more pronounced and the focus of attention. The women suffer all the more because they are often abandoned, left alone (either on purpose or by accident), and have no protector at times.
8. Women threatened by a powerful, impulsive, tyrannical male. One or more male characters has the power, as king, lord of the manor, father, or guardian, to demand that one or more of the female characters do something intolerable. The woman may be commanded to marry someone she does not love (it may even be the powerful male himself), or commit a crime.
9. The metonymy of gloom and horror. Metonymy is a subtype of metaphor, in which something (like rain) is used to stand for something else (like sorrow). For example, the film industry likes to use metonymy as a quick shorthand, so we often notice that it is raining in funeral scenes. Note that the following metonymies for "doom and gloom" all suggest some element of mystery, danger, or the supernatural.
wind, especially howling rain, especially blowing
doors grating on rusty hinges sighs, moans, howls, eerie sounds
footsteps approaching clanking chains
lights in abandoned rooms gusts of wind blowing out lights
characters trapped in a room doors suddenly slamming shut
ruins of buildings baying of distant dogs (or wolves?)
thunder and lightning crazed laughter
10. The vocabulary of the gothic. The constant use of the appropriate vocabulary set creates the atmosphere of the gothic. Here as an example are some of the words (in several categories) that help make up the vocabulary of the gothic in The Castle of Otranto:
diabolical, enchantment, ghost, goblins, haunted, infernal, magic, magician, miracle, necromancer, omens, ominous, portent, preternatural, prodigy, prophecy, secret, sorcerer, spectre, spirits, strangeness, talisman, vision
Fear, Terror, or Sorrow
afflicted, affliction, agony, anguish, apprehensions, apprehensive, commiseration, concern, despair, dismal, dismay, dread, dreaded, dreading, fearing, frantic, fright, frightened, grief, hopeless, horrid, horror, lamentable, melancholy, miserable, mournfully, panic, sadly, scared, shrieks, sorrow, sympathy, tears, terrible, terrified, terror, unhappy, wretched
alarm, amazement, astonished, astonishment, shocking, staring, surprise, surprised, thunderstruck, wonder
anxious, breathless, flight, frantic, hastened, hastily, impatience, impatient, impatiently, impetuosity, precipitately, running, sudden, suddenly
anger, angrily, choler, enraged, furious, fury, incense, incensed, provoked, rage, raving, resentment, temper, wrath, wrathful, wrathfully
Largeness
enormous, gigantic, giant, large, tremendous, vast
Elements of Romance
In addition to the standard gothic machinery above, many gothic novels contain elements of romance as well. Elements of romance include these:
1. Powerful love. Heart stirring, often sudden, emotions create a life or death commitment. Many times this love is the first the character has felt with this overwhelming power.
2. Uncertainty of reciprocation. What is the beloved thinking? Is the lover's love returned or not?
3. Unreturned love. Someone loves in vain (at least temporarily). Later, the love may be returned.
4. Tension between true love and father's control, disapproval, or choice. Most often, the father of the woman disapproves of the man she loves.
5. Lovers parted. Some obstacle arises and separates the lovers, geographically or in some other way. One of the lovers is banished, arrested, forced to flee, locked in a dungeon, or sometimes, disappears without explanation. Or, an explanation may be given (by the person opposing the lovers' being together) that later turns out to be false.
6. Illicit love or lust threatens the virtuous one. The young woman becomes a target of some evil man's desires and schemes.
7. Rival lovers or multiple suitors. One of the lovers (or even both) can have more than one person vying for affection.
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The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
The Tale of Terror: A Study of the Gothic Romance by Edith Birkhead
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President and CEO of Grand Forks EDC Keith Lund takes the stage Thursday evening to announce a joint venture with UND to place students in experiential learning positions with early-stage companies or companies developing new services and technologies. Photo by Connor Murphy/UND Today.
Over the din of local business leaders rubbing elbows last week, Keith Lund's focus was on UND's students.
That's when Lund, president and CEO of the Grand Forks Region Economic Development Corporation, along with UND President Mark Kennedy and Provost Tom DiLorenzo, announced a new joint initiative aimed at the business innovators of tomorrow.
Aptly named "InternGF," the initiative hopes to offset costs for newer businesses looking to bring on interns. It's also an effort to keep UND students in the Grand Forks region for internships and career opportunities.
The announcement came Thursday, at the Grand Forks Chamber of Commerce's "Business After Hours" event, hosted this month by UND's Center for Innovation. Lund explained that the program is targeted at placing interns in entrepreneurial experiences with area startups, as well as local companies introducing a new product or service.
"We think that students who have a passion for entrepreneurship and startup companies …will find great value in it," Lund said.
Center for Innovation Interim Director Barry Horwitz (left) envisions his revamped center as a development hub of experiential learning for UND students. And as the InternGF program grows, he hopes the Center for Innovation's role grows with it. Photo by Connor Murphy/UND Today.
Lund also pointed out the fact that entrepreneurial students have a difficult time finding internships in the Grand Forks area. With $35,000 in seed funding from the University, the goal is to entice more companies to entertain student-intern opportunities. The program will contribute up to $3,500 — roughly half an intern's salary or payroll costs.
Initiative backers hope to place up to 15-20 interns a year.
"I've already started meeting with employers who might not have understood the true value of an intern," said Becca Cruger, EDC strategic initiatives coordinator.
Cruger's previous experience working within the Pancratz Career Development Center, within the UND College of Business and Public Administration, showed her the impact the new initiative could have on entrepreneurial students in the area. Many programs in the College and at UND require students to complete an internship or experiential-learning opportunity before graduation.
In the past, when students couldn't find suitable opportunities in the Grand Forks area, Cruger was forced to steer them toward the Twin Cities or other metro areas. As someone who personally loves Grand Forks — this was hard for her to do.
"InternGF is a key piece in the workforce pipeline and will help to keep those talented innovators and top students right here, instead of having some other community benefit from their ideas and energy," she said.
Center for Innovation Interim Director Barry Horwitz envisions his revamped center as a development hub of experiential learning for UND students. And as the InternGF program grows, he hopes the Center for Innovation's role grows with it.
UND and EDC officials touted InternGF's potential to connect the local business community to a pool of UND students who have the skills employers demand.
"This will not only provide wonderful learning experiences for UND students and innovative talent for area businesses, but will connect students more closely with Grand Forks in the process," said President Kennedy.
Lund reminded the Business After Hours crowd of Kennedy's enthusiastic message that UND is the chief opportunity engine for the state and the region. Lund then offered a metaphor of his own.
UND President Mark Kennedy and EDC President and CEO Keith Lund teamed up to announce the new InternGF initiative, which aims to keep UND students focused on economic developments happening right here in Grand Forks. Photo by Connor Murphy/UND Today.
The University also recognizes how closely InternGF aligns with UND's new strategic plan and its goal to deliver more high-impact learning opportunities.
Lately, Cruger has noticed a visible shift in millennials experiencing a higher quality of life and exciting career opportunities in and around Grand Forks. The InternGF initiative would only enhance that trend.


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Round::Client::Client() {
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}

Round::Client::~Client() {
  Error error;
  stop(&error);
}

bool Round::Client::start(Error *error) {
  if (finderEnabled()) {
    if (!this->finder.start(error))
      return false;
  }
  return true;
}

bool Round::Client::stop(Error *error) {
  if (finderEnabled()) {
    if (!this->finder.stop(error))
      return false;
  }
  return true;
}

bool Round::Client::search(Error *error) {
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  }
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Tuhina scores career-high 15 points in WSU's loss to No. 9 UCLA
Cougars shoot 57% from three, lose 73-66 without Leger-Walker
WSU guard Astera Tuhina dribbles the ball during an NCAA basketball game against UCLA, Jan. 22.
SAM TAYLOR, Evergreen sports editor
The Cougars were close midway through the third quarter like they have been so many times before. With the UCLA Bruins playing stout defense all afternoon, the game was beginning to get out of hand.
Astera Tuhina surveyed the Bruins' defense and pitched it to Johanna Teder, who pitched it right back to Tuhina for the shot. As it glided through the air and into the net, the small but mighty Beasley Coliseum crowd erupted in celebration.
The Cougs wasted no time keeping the crowd on their feet. Tuhina quickly got the ball back and put it right back where Wazzu wanted it for her second straight 3-pointer.
Despite Tuhina scoring a career-high 15 points, the Cougs could not win in their fourth game of the year without their star point guard Charlisse Leger-Walker, who remained in New Zealand because of a family matter.
Down their star player, Tuhina and company stepped up but it was not enough for WSU women's basketball (13-6, 3-5 Pac-12) as they lost to the No. 9 UCLA Bruins (17-3, 6-2 Pac-12).
UCLA made the shots that Wazzu simply could not and jumped out to a 9-2 lead. The Bruins were proving they were everything their top ten Associated Press ranking implied.
UCLA's Gina Conti sunk shots throughout the game on her way to 12 points as part of a 5-for-12 night that included two 3-pointers.
The Cougs were not about to be punched in the mouth without getting back up. Tara Wallack hit a stand-up 3-point shot. She would later cash in for a layup and an and-one shot as part of her 11-point, 3-for-9 shooting night, which included two 3-pointers. Although only a third of her shots fell in, Wallack added 3 points via her five free throw attempts as she played all 40 minutes.
The difference of the game proved to be the Bruins' clutch approach to the buzzer before the break. UCLA ended both the first and second quarters with buzzer-beating shots in the final seconds of play for a combined five points.
UCLA's ball security resembled La La Land's performance in the Oscars: pretty strong, but no best picture as the Cougs snagged 13 turnovers and turned the ball over 12 times.
Grace Sarver lured a Bruin ball into her hands for a dynamic turnover at the UCLA end of the court. Unfortunately, Bella Murekatete's shot fell flat and the Cougs remained down by 9 points.
WSU guard Grace Sarver looks for a pass during an NCAA basketball game against UCLA, Jan. 22.
The Cougs could not keep UCLA at bay as they held the lead for just over four total minutes.
The Bruins outshot Wazzu 43% to 42%. Although the Cougars held the better 3-point clip (57% to 43%), the Bruins took more shots (10-for-23 compared to Wazzu's 8-for-14).
UCLA had five players score in double digits, but no player shot better than 12 shots as they spread the ball around.
"[UCLA head coach Cori Close is] finding ways to win, they're gritty, they're tough, they can really change the game in how they guard, they guarded us really hard in the second half and I thought that affected us," head coach Kamie Ethridge said.
Wazzu also had five players score in double digits as Murekatete (11 points), Jessica Clarke (11 points) and Teder (10 points) joined Wallack (11 points) and Tuhina (15 points) with double-digit nights.
WSU guard Johanna Teder drives toward the hoop during an NCAA basketball game against UCLA, Jan. 22.
The Bruins took 23 3-point shots because WSU could not find an answer for it.
Toward the end of the game, Ula Motuga fell into foul trouble. The Cougs looked desperate as every scoring opportunity fell flat.
Sophomore Kaia Woods got some Pac-12 playing time because of her hard work in practice and her ideal matchup against UCLA's Londynn Jones.
WSU International students were celebrated during the game and took a picture with the team that includes nine student-athletes.
"We're never going to stop recruiting internationally so if we can make the kids that we're recruiting all across the world see the diversity we have on campus," Ethridge said.
The WSU women's basketball team celebrates a 3-pointer during an NCAA basketball game against UCLA, Jan. 22.
The Cougs are next in action at 5 p.m. Friday at the ASU Wells Fargo Arena in Tempe, Arizona.
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RCAST 119 [Climate and Coordination] Dolphin Disease, Climate Disaster cost, RChain's Concurrency
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0:00:00 Intro
0:01:12 – Mysterious Dolphin Deaths Linked To Climate Change In New Study – https://www.forbes.com/sites/saratabi…
0:06:54 – The climate crisis led to record insurance payouts in 2020 https://fortune.com/2021/01/02/2020-c…
0:09:31 – 2020 Smashed the record for billion dollar weather and climate disasters – https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/top…
0:14:09 – The Green New Deal shouldn't be looked at as something that costs money, it actually quite the opposite – it is part of the market forces that are forging towards the next economy – The 10 Ways Renewable Energy's Boom Year Will Shape 2021 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl…
0:20:18 – RChain's concurrency – thoughts and questions from Raphael, founder of Dappy https://dappy.tech/
0:21:54 – Question about Ethereum 1.0 – What are the causes for the transaction throughput of only 20 transactions per second?
0:23:13 – Is the transition from proof of work to proof of stake gong to resolve this issue? Greg's answer: With the transition from Proof of Work to Proof of Stake, 3 things become possible: 1 – you can now potentially get a compaction in state because you have an opportunity for finality, in that the state doesn't have to grow forever. RChain has released Last Finalized State and is currently demonstrating that possibility live.
0:26:04 – the weakest link will dictate that you will have server farms. Scale up depends on concurrency. Scale out – it is not the case that increasing shards means you have to get slower.
0:27:19 – concurrency allows you to scale up, Proof of Stake and concurrency together allow you to scale out.
0:27:44 – Question – scaling up needs concurrency, With Ethereum is the execution single threaded – is it true to say that? Answer: Each smart contract in a given shard must run to completion. The lifetime of that contract blocks all other contracts.
0:28:22 – Question. Is it possible with Ethereum to build a Solidity code parser that can determine whether or not two transactions are safe to execute in parallel, because this would resolve the issue of having a cue for transactions.? Answer: Yes – this is exactly what the behavioural types offer. An analysis that you can apply to all levels of computing that will tell you whether you have a conflict on resources. It's not a code parser, it's literally the behavioural typing system.
0:29:13 – Question: Is this possible to implement with Solidity or is it Rholang or Pi calculus specific? Answer: It's not Solidity it's the EVM. The EVM would have to change. https://www.bitrates.com/guides/ether… The EVM is going to only have to admit a certain block of code at a time, so it would have to become multi-threaded.
0:29:38 – Greg: It's not about objects. It's really about whether or not you can have multiple execution threads – I am talking about a thread as a smart contract. But the reason why rho calculus or pi calculus becomes super important is that, as it turns out, trying to do a multithreaded virtual machine by the seat of your pants is very difficult. Getting that correct takes decades. It's not like "Oh yeah, we'll just add multithreaded stuff to the EVM and that's only gonna take a little while." No. It turns out to be a very difficult technical problem and it usually takes at least a decade to hammer it out and get it right.
0:31:00 – With the pi calculus or the rho calculus, you don't have to do that thought – it's done for you. The calculus tells you exactly the concurrent semantics…. and it's mathematically correct.
0:31:23 – Once you have a virtual machine, there are other resources that may be shared. The heap, the stack, any I/O channels, all of those are resources that are across the entire virtual machine, and so it's not ok to just analyze whether or not the transactions are going to step on each other, you have to check whether the threads, the behaviours are going to step on each other's toes. That's where things start to get tricky. That's outside of the smart contract's basic behaviour, it has to do with how the smart contracts are realized onto the virtual machine.
0:33:18 – Whatever environmental resources are associated with the virtual machine also have to be accounted for when you do your threading semantics, and the Rholang design handles all of that and says: every resource is behind a channel. If it's a file, it's behind a channel, if it's an object, it's behind a channel, if it's a mailbox, it's behind a channel. Everything is behind a channel. And so you can check for all conflicts just by checking for conflicts on channels.
I think that's it for the questions I prepared for today. So thanks very much.
Greg Meredith 34:10
No, thank you this. These are great questions. I really appreciate it. Darryl, did that make sense to you? Or Nora? I'm kind of curious as to whether whether or not these kinds of things make sense.
Darryl Neudorf 34:19
Okay. Yeah, yeah, I'm trying to kind of understand the context of what a channel is. But
Nora Germain 34:25
I was actually just gonna ask the same thing. Yeah. Okay.
Yeah. Because like, I understand the idea of the overall idea of that one thing that's unique about RChain is that we have namespaces. We have kind of like addresses that apply to all the interactions, and that's something that other blockchain projects don't have. They have a public key and a private key, but there's no kind of address similar to how the web does things. Is that right? That's right. Okay. And so, so it's that kind of what you're talking about here. Without any more technical way with how everything has to be behind a channel?
Yes. So So one way to think about it is when the World Wide Web started up, what they said is all those resources out on the internet, we're going to give you uniform access to all those resources. If it's a printer, if it's a cell phone, if it's a document, if it's a database, all of them are going to you're going to get a universal access. And that access is we're going to give them each an address, which is a URL.
Right? resource locator.
Yeah, yeah. Right. So So basically, it's, it's just a path from, from roughly where you are to where the resources, it's a little more abstract than that. But if you think about it that way, that's okay. Right? So it's, it's a path. And, and the, the reason, the reason it's different is because, you know, like, lots of people can be in different places, but the path is remains the same. So you have to ask yourself, how could that be? And that's essentially the magic of the World Wide Web is, is, you know, you have a uniform path to this resource. Now, now, the other thing that you do is you have two different operations. Can I read this resource? Or can I write this right to this resource? All right. So in the case of a document, you know, you, let's assume that it's like a PDF or some fixed document, which is not not writable, then you can only read. But there are many things like databases, where you can write as well as read. But that's, that's basically a uniform access to the resource. And to operations, read from the resource or write to the resource. Now, that's essentially what the PI calculus and the row calculus give. The PI calculus says, I have no idea what the structure the resource names is, but because because I've I've given up any understanding of the nature of the structure of the the resources, you have to promise me that you can, I can always ask for a fresh one. So that's what that's what the PI calculus does. And the role calculus says, instead of being always able to ask for one that is globally distinct, I'm just going to I'm just going to demand that that the all the resource names are structured in a particular way. And then it turns out that you can always map from that structure to existing structures, like your eyes, or cell phone numbers, or bla bla bla. But that's so so in other words, the row calculus maps, and the row calculus and the PI calculus map directly onto the structure that was envisaged by the World Wide Web. It's a one to one correspondence. every resource has a name. And there are two verbs write and read. Okay, does that make sense?
Yeah. So So does that mean that that our chains platform? is going to work better with the web? Or are we needing to kind of create a whole new web box?
So what it does, what it does is it allows us to work nicely with the existing web. But it also allows us to give things give operational semantics to things that you can't do with the web. So the web never contemplated consistency constraints on reads and writes. So you know, if you've got two parties writing to a resource, there's no transactional semantics on the web. So you can't use the web to implement a blockchain, for example. Right. Right. Right, well, but with the row calculus, there is a transactional semantics. It's well understood.
So is there a way to then by using RChain create transaction transactional semantics for the web?
Yes. And that's what we that's exactly what we're doing. Right. So we take a variant of the blockchain ideas, so we had kind of adjust and adapt the blockchain ideas to be. So instead of chains, we build DAGs. And instead of proof of work, we have a form of proof of stake. And that makes that thing that's interesting about the blockchain scalable, scalable enough to where you can provide a new kind of web. So now we you know, it becomes a global computer, right? You could think of the World Wide Web really was a global index. So there's all this data, and the World Wide Web allowed you to index And read it. So I can I can hand you a URL and you can go look at a resource. Right. But in terms of the update, that was kind of left that and especially transactional update, that was kind of left as a, we'll do this later. Yeah.
I remember Tim berners Lee, like even talking about that kind of stuff a long time ago, like the original term hypertext came from Ted Nelson back in 1969. And Tim berners Lee kind of CO opted the term, but didn't actually apply the intention of what Ted Nelson had in mind.
Yeah, because because because, you know, Tim was really solving a smaller problem that the researchers at CERN wanted to be able to share papers more easily. Right. So that means that the papers already written, yeah. They're not, they're not writing the paper together. Now, people have been able to do things like Google Docs, where people are writing papers together. But that means stepping outside of the web semantics. Yeah, right. Right. And it also in the way Google Docs works, it means that all of the interesting transactional bit is behind Google's firewall. Mm hmm. Right, Google is controlling all the transactional portions. Yeah, I hate that. Okay, so So what with our chain, we give you the transactional bits behind no firewall?
Yeah, I get that. I understand that. That's okay.
So it becomes literally a global computer. Right, not a global index.
So what I'm kind of trying to wrap my head around is that I guess, I guess part of what part of what RChain is can do now or is working on doing is is being able to kind of bring a cheap? How do I say this, like a kind of a simplified version of rholang, that could be kind of parsed over via JavaScript or something. So that so that some of what rholang can do can somehow be kind of used on the web?
Oh, I mean, it can already be used on the web. It's just whether you use it directly in the browser, or you use it on the back end. I mean, if you think about it, right, there are tons and tons and tons of programs that are organized with some Java on the front JavaScript on the front end and Java on the back end. Okay, and JavaScript on the front end and some Haskell on the back end, or, you know, whatever. Okay. Okay. Right. So so that that problem is well understood, right? But but but the issue is that JavaScript itself is incredibly costly, for a number of different reasons. And this is why Google, Facebook and Microsoft have all done their own versions of JavaScript. Right. So if it weren't incredibly costly, they would have just been using JavaScript. Instead, they sunk, you know, combined total of hundreds of millions of dollars into building an infrastructure that wasn't so costly. Right, so So now, it turns out that it's actually terrifically surprising that there hasn't been better language engineering for the browser. It is astonishing. That there hasn't been, and again, it's sort of like there was this big, you know, in the same way that with hardware, there was this big consolidation to the Intel architecture, even though everybody knew that that was a losing battle?
Yeah, right. The old VHS beta thing, it's just like, Why? Why is that sort of? adopted?
Yeah, but there wasn't enough volatility in the video, entertainment market. To me, what we're seeing is that there, it is still worth it to stay in the game, even for 30 or 40 years before you see, you know, a market shift. Because the the gains are so enormous if you stay in the game long enough. So so the same is true with the browser, right? There wasn't this kind of consolidation phase towards JavaScript or JavaScript like things, but there's going to be an expansion phase where people go, you know, what, I don't want to be beholden to JavaScript, it sucks. And it sucks for these reasons. Right. And one of the things that is a very natural thing to do would be to put rolling in the browser. And the reason it's natural is because there's tons of concurrency in UI. Right, you can be popping up ads, while people are filling in forms, you know, and if you have a group edits, right, other people can be making edits, and you want to display display the edits that they're making, while while someone is making other edits. This is just tons and tons of concurrency in a UI. Right? Very much in the same way that there's concurrency when you're driving a car, right? There's all kinds of events that impact you know, your operation of a car if you're driving a stick shift, you know, your your, you know, your eyes are on the road, obviously, but you're also listening to the engine glancing at the tachometer, potentially, also listening to the radio and talking to a friend right. So all of those things are all going On while you're driving the car, right? And you don't you don't process those sequentially? Well, first, I'm going to take 15 seconds to look at the road, and then I'm going to take 15 seconds. That's not how it works. Right? So the same, the same is true with with UI design in a massively distributed and concurrent setting. There are all kinds of events that that need to be managed and, and interface with the users attention. So rolling is a very, very natural thing to put in the browser.
So so what I'm trying to figure out is like, what's halfway for RChains integration with the web, do we is is, you know, if and when our chain starts to get more mass adoption, and we start to kind of get the kinds of transaction, you know, numbers that that you that you envision is the pathway to, to have to go to greater web adoption through browsers that have rholang in the code like slick submit or something like brave or someone like, like Firefox could start to implement rolling as their as part of their browser. And, and
but that's, that's not that. I mean, you have to, first of all, there isn't a pathway. There are many pathways. So one example is the work that Raphael is doing with Dappy.
Yeah, I wanted to because this is kind of what I wanted to ask is that I know that you know, Dappy is working on a browser. Raphael is working on a browser Dappy and I still don't fully understand exactly, Raphael what it is, as far as its is a web browser or, or is it a, RChain browser? I don't actually understand it.
So yes, it's very simple. Just think of it, are they a fork of chromium? So it's kind of like Google Chrome. So it's a web browser. And it works with exactly the same technologies as regular, which means HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Okay. Um, there is just this network layer that is changed, meaning that it does not dealing with the Domain Name System. Everyone is familiar with, for example, google.com amazon.com, and all that stuff. But it deals with a blockchain platform. And in our case, auction platform for the name and IP addresses relations.
Okay, so it's directly using the whole namespace aspect of our chain, like literally utilizing it right now.
Yes, exactly. And there is a, it's very close to origin, because when you deploy something to origin, you get a register ULI, and you can't, you can directly input it in the browser. And it will display the file that is attached to this register UI, which is kind of a rolling address. So it's very tied to the blockchain.
Okay, pardon my ignorance, but I know a URL is a unified registered locator, what's a URL? Um,
it's an abstract URL, just for all intents and purposes, think of it as a URL. Okay? Yes. Your URL requires that you actually have the resource live, where the or II does not.
People also use URI's to look up songs in like Spotify and other places like links to the song within the app.
What is the I stand for?
indicator, I can't remember indicating. Yeah.
You know, just the resource indicator. Okay. So this is the main thing about the P, but the so this is the concept. But the main improvement we have is the depth the concept of, of trust network, and a trust network that is not a blockchain network. And there is a video on YouTube, about the depth network and how it relates and how it is something that is needed, even if we give it another name. But as a browser. Today, when you reach any domain name, you have to query for example, VeriSign Corporation. So depending on the first level, domain name, if it's dot com, or dot tech, you will query a different organization. But the main point is that you'll have to query this organization. And so even if you if you trust VeriSign, they have hundreds of employees and all of those are human targets and can be configured to do some tasks can be hacked, and it happens every year. So this is the main issue with DNS and it costs hundreds of millions of dollars to companies and people Because it's weak. And I'm not even talking about the DNS lookup requests that are mainly not not encrypted when they go across the internet network, but just this trust that you put in VeriSign is very dangerous because it's, it's built. It's made of humans simply and humans fail, and it's normal for humans to fail. So, the approach we have with that is not ever trusting a single endpoint, a single organization, a single company, right, always trusting many at the same time, which means that for example, instead of querying just VeriSign, you will query 10 companies and see the answers you receive from having asked the same question to those 10 companies. And you are instantly able to flag something that is irregular, because you you you have root principles, that is to assume that majority of the network is harnessed. So, if you have one a and nine B's, you will immediately drop the a response and only consider the B responses. And if you want your teammates accuracy levels, you will display an error message and not tolerate even this 10%. Good it. So in depends on the service you are accessing. If you want to send $10,000 to someone, you want to have 100% accuracy, and you will require the 10 responses. The 10 Yes, the 10 responses you received from the deputy network to be the same as those that network members are just nodes of the of the blockchain. But since you're outside the blockchain, so you are a web browser. This is why there is this new concept of the network instead of just a blockchain platform.
Wow. It's like 10 factor authentication.
Yep. For example, if if, if a given network number, if a given blockchain node has one chance out of 100 to fail or to be hacked, then by asking a 10 of them and under requiring the 10 answers to be the same, the probability that you will, as a browser as a client, you will be hacked is is infinitely small in comparison to a web request when you trust a single cooperation.
Wow, amazing. Unfortunately, we're three minutes over time into our staff meeting call. Thanks so much for joining us, Raphael.
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Why the liberty craved by 'me'
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One of the two prayerbooks that I regularly use for prayers and reflections on Friday evenings is the Authorised Prayer Book, edited by the former Chief Rabbi, the late Lord (Jonathan) Sacks.
Jonathan Sacks and Archbishop Rowan Williams stand as the two great, towering, intellectual and philosophical minds in England during the last number of decades.
Lord Sacks died earlier this month (7 November 2020), and is a tribute to his international intellectual standing as a moral philosopher, with more than three dozen acclaimed books to his name, that he received a full-page obituary in last weekend's edition of the Economist.
The obituary recalls how, for Lord Sacks, 'Keeping Sabbath was an ideal way to achieve work-life balance.' The Festivals and High Holy Days are reminders of a shared tradition and history, the 'we' not the 'I'. 'Above all, out of the suffering endured by Jews for centuries, Judaism had distilled hope. Every crisis gave birth to opportunity. The world could be changed not by force, but by ideas.'
In a reworking of the concept of tikkum olam, 'Every man and woman had a duty to care for others, and thus to recreate the bonds that held society together. "I" had to give way to "we". Out of great crises – climate change, coronavirus – that chance might come. Ideally, religion could drive this change.'
In his last book, he called for a shared morality: agreed norms of behaviour, mutual trust, altruism and a sense of 'us-all-together'. The liberty craved by 'me' could be sustained only by 'us'.
The Economist recalls how on a visit to Auschwitz, as Jonathan Sacks wept and asked, like so many others, where God had been in the Holocaust, he seemed to hear the answer: 'I was in the words.' The words were 'You shall not murder.' If human beings refused to listen to God, even He was helpless. But if much of the noise that humans made could be cancelled out, 'they might hear more of what He was saying.'
Labels: Auschwitz, Holocaust, Jewish Spirituality, Judaism, Sabbath, The Economist
The bank in Askeaton
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The Bank of Ireland in Askeaton … stands on the site of the courthouse in the Square (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2020)
In seeking out and searching for the stories of the historical buildings in Askeaton, I have sometimes missed out on some of the more modern, recent buildings, which are of architectural interest and also stand on interesting historical sites.
The Square is the oldest part of this town outside the castle, the abbey or former Franciscan friary, and Saint Mary's Church with the tower of the Knights Templar, dating back to the 13th century.
The Square was once the focus for commercial and social activities in the town that were focussed on the market and the courthouse, while the quays and the police station were nearby.
The Square leads directly into both the west end of Church Street and the built-up part of the Quay. This area includes many two-storey terraced buildings with rendered and painted fronts that date mainly from the mid-19th century.
These buildings have a mixture of commercial and residential use. The majority of them front directly onto the Square and the street and there is an interplay of narrow, enclosed bends in the street with the more open areas of the Square and the northern part of the Quay.
Looking towards the Square from the Quay … with the bank seen to the right (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2020)
The bank building stands on the south side of the square, on the former site of the courthouse, on the west bank of the River Deel, where it flows beneath the ramparts of Askeaton Castle.
This is a four-bay, two-storey building, with the left-hand two bays breaking forward of the main building. The roof is hipped with corbelled eaves. The façade is smooth rendered and painted and has raised stucco quoins. The windows are one-over-one timber sashes.
The front door is flanked by fluted pilasters supporting a tympanum with cornice and blocking course.
This bank has been very well maintained to present an almost intact original aspect. The applied ornamentation reveals high quality craftsmanship that has retained a crisp intricacy and that greatly enhances the façade.
The bank retains important original features and materials, including its slate roof, sash windows and brick chimneystacks.
At the render surround at the entrance, fluted Doric style pilasters support the architrave with a bracketed stepped cornice and pediment detail over a square-headed multiple-pane overlight and a timber panelled door.
The more recent concrete ramp has metal railings leading up to the entrance.
In normal times, when there is no pandemic lockdown, the Square is a lively place on Friday mornings, with an open-air farmers' market, stalls and open vans selling fresh fruit, farm produce, and an occasional bric-a-brac. As I sip a coffee there, the bank and River Deel provide a colourful backdrop and a reminder of busy days when these was once the venue too for court sittings.
The bank stands above the west bank of the River Deel in Askeaton (Photograph: Patrick Comerford, 2020)
Labels: Architecture, Askeaton, Banking, Co Limerick, Local History, River Deel
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Eye On Government
Cops Gone Rogue
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NYPD Officer Sentenced to Prison for $1.6 Million Disability Fraud & Tax Evasion
Gerard Scparta
Keith Palmer
Former New York City police officer Gerard Scparta was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison on August 9 for fraudulently obtaining over $630,000 in disability benefits from the Social Security Administration and under reporting income on his taxes by some $268,000.
At the same time Scparta was fraudulently collecting disability benefits, he earned a total of approximately $1.6 million working as a security guard and host at a strip club located in Manhattan. Scparta previously pled guilty to tax evasion and theft of government property, Mid Hudson News reports.
Between in or about 1986 and in or about 1997, Scparta worked as a police officer with the NYPD. In or about 1997, after reportedly sustaining an injury at the age of 32, Scparta was referred to an individual who helped him fraudulently obtain disability benefits.
Scparta signed disability paper work that falsely stated, among other things, that he suffered from severe depression and anxiety, could not do anything around his house, and was unable to work in any capacity.
In addition, Scparta made the same false statements to physicians who examined him for the purpose of establishing his disability and submitting reports to the Social Security Administration.
For example, in one examination by a physician, Scparta pretended that he did not know where he was, and could not remember the last four vice presidents, and had trouble repeating numbers that were told to him. Based on these false statements and representations by Scparta in documents and reports submitted to the Social Security Administration, he was approved to receive disability benefits from in or about 1997 onward.
In addition to lying about his disability status and inability to work, Scparta falsely claimed on multiple forms submitted to the Social Security Administration that he did not work, and failed to report earnings from employment as required.
In fact, from in or about April 2004 up to and including at least in or about December 2017, Scparta worked as a security guard and host at a Strip Club. From in or about 1997 up to and including in or about 2017, Scparta received a total of over approximately $638,000 in disability benefits for himself, his wife, and his children, while at the same time Scparta earned approximately $1.6 million from his work at the Strip Club.
Scparta engaged in tax evasion by concealing and attempting to conceal from the IRS the nature and extent of his income. Specifically, Scparta utilized a nominee company registered to his wife to report income that Scparta earned from the Strip Club and falsely under reported that income by a total of approximately $268,602 for the tax years 2012 through 2016.
In addition to prison, Scparta was sentenced to three years of post-release supervision, ordered to make restitution of $726,517 and to forfeit the $638,586 in Social Security disability benefits he obtained fraudulently.
Read how a Connecticut cop was arrested for alleged Medicaid fraud.
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Steal a loaf of bread, while black, go to prison for many years. Steal millions and be a white cop. Slap on the wrist. WHAT? Fuck you, America.
Deputies Caught on Camera Entering Home after Cutting Wires to Outside Cameras
West Virginia sheriff's deputies were caught on camera entering a home yet no record exists of them entering the home.
Lawrence J. Smith
WATCH: Maryland Cop Throws 76-year-old Woman to Ground for no Reason
The Baltimore County cops were trying to arrest her granddaughter for cursing at them when they threw her down.
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WATCH: Florida Cop Tasers Teen on Bicycle who had Popped Wheelie
Body cam footage was released last week showing Orlando police officer Peter Meier tasering a teen on a bicycle.
Texas Cops Refuse to say why they Shot Unarmed Man in Head during Traffic Stop
Michael Dean was killed after being shot in the head by Texas police on his daughter's birthday
WATCH: Award-winning Cop Arrests Musician on "Asshole Charge" for Cursing at him
This video is a textbook example of a typical contempt of cop arrest.
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Illinois Cops Taser, then Shoot and Kill Woman Trying to Escape Burning Car
Decynthia Celements was shot twice in the head by an Elgin police officer. Now they say she had cocaine in her system.
Ben Keller
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WATCH: California Cops Shoot Unarmed 16-year-old Boy in Back of Head
The video was released today as part of a civil suit that is preparing to head to trial.
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WATCH: Cop Shoots Dog in Room Full of Kids, hits 9-year-old Girl in the Face
Body cam footage shows a Kansas cop shooting a dog moments after it enters a room full of kids, hitting one in the face.
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Enraged Texas Cop Punches and Breaks Elderly Couple's Windshield for no Reason
The state trooper has been suspended and the department offered to repair the windshield.
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Pennsylvania Cops Arrest Family Twice in 2 Days for Loitering in own Front Yard
Chester Township police said family members cursed at them.
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The honors and awards continue to roll in for junior center Jon Greenberg. Greenberg was named a First-Team All-American Center by the national publication Jewish Sports Review. Greenberg was named in the small college division. This division includes NCAA Division 2, NCAA Division 3 and NAIA Divisions 1 and 2. Greenberg averaged nearly 18 points per game and over 12 rebounds per game this season, as MCLA finished the season 9-16 and made an appearance in the MASCAC playoffs.
Senior guard Jon Scheyer of Duke University was the headliner on the NCAA D1 All-America team.
The Jewish Sports Review's All-American Basketball Teams recognizes Jewish athletes competing at the highest level of collegiate sport.


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Mehari Tsegay (born 12 February 1999) is an Eritrean long-distance runner.
In 2019, he competed in the senior men's race at the 2019 IAAF World Cross Country Championships held in Aarhus, Denmark. He finished in 31st place.

In 2017, he competed in the junior men's race at the 2017 IAAF World Cross Country Championships held in Kampala, Uganda.

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Living people
1999 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Eritrean male long-distance runners
Eritrean male cross country runners
21st-century Eritrean people

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Oil Kings acquire draft pick from Tri-City
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Oil Kings Press Release
Edmonton, AB – The Edmonton Oil Kings have acquired an eighth-round pick in the 2023 WHL Prospects Draft from the Tri-City Americans in exchange for defenceman Chase Friedt-Mohr, the team announced today.
Friedt-Mohr, 18, appeared in eight games with the Oil Kings this season tallying two goals, two penalty minutes and a -1 plus/minus rating after being acquired from the Spokane Chiefs on December 6.
The Oil Kings thank Chase for his time with the organization and wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors.


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When in an out of town tryout, it's important to look over your script and its changes daily with NO distractions. Eric Ulloa
Morning walks are not always my favorite but Chicago is quite a gorgeous city to explore. And Bastian is still intrigued by all the rivers. Eric Ulloa
Cardio is very important in getting ready for a two show day. My face tells you just how much I love cardio… Eric Ulloa
On my way out to brunch, I run into Luis Salgado and his beautiful family. Eric Ulloa
Brunch with a few members of the cast before the matinee. Eric Ulloa
Since most of our day is inside a theatre, any time you can spend at home is tremendously precious. Hence, I do my hair at home…and I know what you're thinking, WHAT a transformation! Eric "The Chameleon" Ulloa. Eric Ulloa
Walking to the theatre. And yes, I'm one of those who wear flip flops in a city. Eric Ulloa
People start to mill outside the theatre. Eric Ulloa
I sign in, making sure I don't sign in as Tanairi Vasquez, which is often… Eric Ulloa
Its world-premiere engagement, starring Ana Villafañe and Josh Segarra, continues through July 5.
On Your Feet! will begin previews on Broadway Oct. 5 at the Marquis Theatre under the direction of two-time Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell. Opening night on Broadway is set for Nov. 5. Villafañe, a Cuban-American singer, dancer and actress from Miami, was chosen through an open audition process and will be making her Broadway debut in the show. A lifelong fan of Gloria Estefan – who even attended the same Miami high school as the pop star – Villafañe learned of the Miami open casting call last fall and, although she was unable to attend, sent the casting office a video audition. Within three days, she was called to audition for Jerry Mitchell and the Estefans, and cast in the show.
Before Broadway, Eric Ulloa Offers an Exclusive Backstage Look at Gloria Estefan's On Your Feet!
On Your Feet!, the new Broadway-bound musical based on the lives of seven-time Grammy winner Gloria Estefan and her husband, producer-musician-entrepreneur Emilio Estefan, plays a limited run at the Oriental Theatre in Chicago.
"Get out of bed! It's a two show day and I'm not gonna walk myself…" –Bastian Eric Ulloa
Segarra appeared Off-Broadway in the original cast of the musical Dogfight as Boland, and made his Broadway debut in Lysistrata Jones in 2011. He also played the role of cop Billy Cepeda on the USA Network comedy "Sirens."
The musical, according to press notes, is "the story of two people who — through an unwavering dedication to one another and their pursuit of the American dream—showcased their talent, their music and their heritage to the world in a remarkable rise to global superstardom." It features such hits as "Rhythm Is Gonna Get You," "1-2-3," "Mi Tierra" and "Conga," in addition to new music penned by the Estefans.
The show is choreographed by four-time Drama Desk nominee and Olivier Award winner Sergio Trujillo with a book by Academy Award winner Alexander Dinelaris.
The cast also features Drama Desk Award winner Andréa Burns (In The Heights) as Gloria Fajardo, Gloria's mother; Alma Cuervo (Beauty and the Beast) as Consuelo, Gloria's grandmother; Alexandria Suarez as Little Gloria; and Eduardo Hernandez as little Emilio.
Rounding out the cast are Karmine Alers, Yassmin Alers, David Baida, Natalie Caruncho, Henry Gainza, Linedy Genao, Carlos E. Gonzalez, Nina Lafarga, Genny Lis Padilla, Omar Lopez-Cepero, Hector Maisonet, Marielys Molina, Felix Monge, Doreen Montalvo, Liz Ramos, Eliseo Roman, Luis Salgado, Marcos Santana, Martín Solá, Brett Sturgis, Eric Ulloa, Tanairi Vasquez and Lee Zarrett.
Read the Playbill.com feature with the Alers sisters of On Your Feet!, whose road to the show included Karmine's battle with brain surgery.
Other members of the creative team include Tony-nominated scenic designer David Rockwell (Kinky Boots, Legally Blonde), Tony-nominated costume designer Emilio Sosa (Porgy & Bess), Tony Award-winning lighting designer Kenneth Posner (Wicked, Hairspray) and Tony Award-winning sound designer Steve Kennedy (Lady Day, Guys and Dolls). Projections are by Darrel Maloney, and hair and wig design is by Chuck LaPointe (Beautiful, Newsies).
With music direction by Lon Hoyt (Hairspray), orchestrations by Gloria Estefan and Emilio Estefan, dance arrangements and dance orchestrations by Oscar Hernandez (The Capeman), the On Your Feet! orchestra includes several members of Miami Sound Machine.
On Your Feet! is produced by James L. Nederlander and Estefan Enterprises, Inc. in partnership with Bernie Yuman.
Visit OnYourFeetMusical.com.
Eric Ulloa
Brett Sturgis
On Your Feet! (Broadway 2015)
In the Heights


Not only chocolate and clocks come from Switzerland as was demonstrated by this project that we received some time ago. A large box was brought into our labs in which we found a USB stick, a power adapter and a nicely constructed contraption consisting of a circuit board with many LEDs looking suspiciously like a scrolling LED marquee. The only document accompanying it was a business card with an email address. After powering on the device we discovered that the marquee displayed a letter to Elektor.
Ideal observing distance 3 m, in full darkness.
Hello Elektor! Thank you for everything you have taught me about electronics!
This project is open source and may be published and improved. 180 LEDs controlled by a single PIC 18F46K22 clocked at 64 MHz, the program is written in C.
How could we not love it? If you too want to send us a nice message in an original form, please do. We love to be surprised.
Here are the project files that we found on the USB stick.


On December 31, 2011, Sipchem Europe BV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Saudi International Petrochemical Co. (Sipchem), acquired Aectra SA, a Swiss petrochemical trading and marketing company, in order to gain immediate access to experienced and proven marketing, logistics and trading expertise in the European market.
Established in December 1999, Sipchem actively develops and invests in petrochemical and chemical industries, both basic and intermediate products used to manufacture a multitude of end-products. Through its five operating affiliates, Sipchem currently produces about 2.2 million of chemicals.
Lenz & Staehelin advised Sipchem. The team was led by Andreas Rötheli (M&A) and included Marie Flegbo-Berney.