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Q: Missing Item number in enumerate You would think that I would know better than to mess with an egreg solution, but in my defense I used a DavidCarlisle solution from \setbox vs. \sbox and \savebox - What are the differences I need to know about? to adapt egreg's solution to Proper way to detect empty/blank text.
This has worked fine for me up until now, but when I attempt to use it within an enumerate environment it results in it gobbling up the item number:

Note that the item number is not gobbled for the case where there is no title to be used  (Third Item).
If I replace the \sbox0{\begingroup\vbox{#1}\endgroup} as per the original solution:
\sbox0{#1}

this particular MWE work, but causes problems elsewhere (not shown here).
Question:
So, what is the minimal change I could make to the existing \sbox0 solution so that the item numbers is not gobbledr?
I am disabling some macros within the \begingroup so as to eliminate any side effects so do need the grouping.
Code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}

\makeatletter
\newcommand{\DoIfNonEmptyText}[1]{% Actually takes two parameters
    %\sbox0{#1}%
    \sbox0{\begingroup\vbox{#1}\endgroup}%
    \ifdim\wd0=\z@\relax%
        \expandafter\@gobble%
    \else%
        \expandafter\@firstofone%
    \fi%
}%
\makeatother

\newcommand{\QuotableText}[3][]{%
    % [#1] = optional title
    % #2   = name for this (not relevant for this example)
    % #3   = the content
    \DoIfNonEmptyText{#1}{\textit{#1}:~}%
    #3%
}%

\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
    \item First Item
    \item \QuotableText[Sub title]{Text One}{Second Item}
    \item \QuotableText{Text Two}{Third Item}
    \item Fourth Item
\end{enumerate}
\end{document}

Update:
Based on Frank Mittelbach's answer, I attempted to use my own \savebox, but it still exhibits the same output as above:
\makeatletter
\newsavebox{\@DoIfNonEmptyTextBox}%
\newcommand{\DoIfNonEmptyText}[1]{% Actually takes two parameters
    \begingroup
    \savebox{\@DoIfNonEmptyTextBox}{\vbox{#1}}% -- This still gobbles the item number!
    %\savebox{\@DoIfNonEmptyTextBox}{#1}%        -- This works
    \ifdim\wd\@DoIfNonEmptyTextBox=\z@\relax%
        \endgroup\expandafter\@gobble%
    \else%
        \endgroup\expandafter\@firstofone%
    \fi%
}%
\makeatother

but if I remove the \vbox{}, then this works just fine. So, how is the use of the \vbox (note: no use of \sbox0 here), causing the enumerate item to disappear?

A: A good rule of thumb when an item label disappears is to add \leavevmode; but in this case (thanks to Frank for pointing it out) setting \everypar to empty should solve the issue.
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\DoIfNonEmptyText}[1]{% Actually takes two parameters
  \begingroup\sbox0{\vbox{\everypar{}#1}}%
  \ifdim\wd0=\z@\relax
    \endgroup
    \expandafter\@gobble
  \else
    \endgroup
    \expandafter\@firstofone
  \fi
}
\makeatother

The \everypar content will be restored at the end of the \vbox and this will keep enumerate happy.

A: The wrong answer (though by chance it solved the issue)
The answer is simply do not use box 0 or ensure that your use of it does no harm. This is a scratch box, but the \item command of LaTeX also uses that one to store its item for a tiny while (between encountering the \item command and typesetting the label once the paragraph started) and your \QuotableText is executed during this time.
Now your change to box0 is not local thus you overwrite the content.
Solution 1: use \newbox to get your private box register for your test
Solution 2: make your change to box0 local. You start a group and close it directly after making the measurement (which means close it in both branches):
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\DoIfNonEmptyText}[1]{% Actually takes two parameters
\begingroup
    \sbox0{#1}%
    \ifdim\wd0=\z@\relax%
\endgroup
        \expandafter\@gobble%
    \else%
\endgroup
        \expandafter\@firstofone%
    \fi%
}%
\makeatother

You had
\sbox0{\begingroup\vbox{#1}\endgroup}%

but there the group is done at the wrong place. The setting of box 0 ist still outside the group. Inside your group there is only stuff that is being typeset and so the group has no effect whatsoever.
Update (why is the \vbox making the item label disappear)
This is a tricky one. One has to look carefully at how the list environment attaches the item label to the item paragraph.
Basically, what happens inside is that the label is constructed and stored in a box (and it is not as I claimed earlier box 0 but actually a private box (\@labels) so thanks for the vote of confidence, but my answer was simply wrong.
Now that box is attached to the by the use of \everypar, the actual definition used is
\everypar={\@minipagefalse \global \@newlistfalse \if@inlabel \global \@inlabel
false {\setbox \z@ \lastbox \ifvoid \z@ \kern -\itemindent \fi }\box \@labels
\penalty \z@ \fi \if@nobreak \@nobreakfalse \clubpenalty \@M \else \clubpenalty
\@clubpenalty \everypar {}\fi }

So the above  gets executed when a switch from vertical mode to horizontal mode happens.
Now if we just test using \sbox  then this is building an h-box and so \everyparis not executed. However, if we use a \vbox inside then any text in #1 will trigger that \everypar. And if you look carefully, the label will only be set if @inlabel is true and this switch is globally set to false in the true case.
So basically the label is put into this \vbox for testing and afterwards is not being typeset again.
So in summary the above initial argument was wrong (I didn't look carefully, the list environment does use box 0 but that is harmless) and my redefinition only worked because I took out the \vbox at the same time.

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A referendum on the Bush agenda
March 31, 2006	7:11 AM CST
On the color-coded 2004 election maps, New York was blue — not a big surprise. Yet many "red" areas dot the state's political maps, including nine Republican congressional districts, the Statehouse (held by three-term Republican Gov. George Pataki) and the Republican-controlled state Senate.
But, as Bob Dylan sang, "The times, they are a-changing."
New Yorkers have every reason to expect a big sweep for the Democrats in November, starting with the governor's and U.S. Senate races, on down to the state Senate.
Extremely important for the national picture are the congressional races. It looks like New York voters will contribute at least one and maybe more seats to the 15-seat change necessary to end Republican control of Congress.
Die-hard Republican Tom Reynolds in western New York will again face Jack Davis, who got 44 percent of the vote in 2004 in this 2-to-1 Republican district. On the other end of the state, Kirsten Gillebrand, an attorney, is running for the 2006 party nomination to challenge GOP incumbent John Sweeney.
In New York City, Vito Fossella may face a challenge from City Councilman Bill deBlasio. If this happens — and it's safe to say that labor and the city's many liberal and progressive forces would love such an opportunity — Fossella will be in trouble.
In a district that includes southern and central parts of the state, "Band of Brothers" candidate Eric Massa is challenging Republican Randy Kuhl. Massa writes about the area, "It is hard to drive more than a few miles and not see a vacant factory or abandoned farm."
Last week, incumbent Sherwood Boehlert announced he would not run for re-election. What had been considered a safe Republican seat may not be so safe — in 2000, Bush won this district by only 1 percentage point, and in 2004, by only 6 points. As one observer commented, "Assuming a decent candidate, any open congressional House race in New York is winnable for the Dems."
Why? Across the state, there is growing opposition to the Republican agenda and anger at its local impact. From tax cuts for the rich, to the attack on Social Security and disastrous Medicare policy, to the deep cuts in social program spending, to the war in Iraq, New Yorkers are not happy with the direction of the country.
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It has roots in those poorer, rural parts of the state that some have compared to Appalachia, but it also has roots in the suburbs, including Long Island, no longer the Republican stronghold it once was. A very important victory was the election last year to the Suffolk County Legislature of a bus driver and transit union member who ran on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines.
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by Zalman Nelson - Gedera, Israel
(lubavitch.com) A three-month-old girl was injured by shattered glass and several people were treated for shock Tuesday morning when a grad rocket struck the city of Gedera. Miraculously falling in between two homes full of people, it represents the longest-range attack to strike southern Israel in the Gaza war.
"It was a miracle – no one was on the street and it didn't directly hit the house," said Chabad of Gedera director Rabbi Binyomin Karniel "From warning siren to the loud boom, it all happened very fast and shocked people."
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Rabbi Baitch delivered ready made food and provided constant support to the family with which he had recently celebrated Chanukah in his home and six months earlier tutored their son for his bar mitzvah.
Rabbi Karniel told Lubavitch.com that the rocket landed a few minutes' walk from his daughter's home and that his kids at home are still fearful from this morning's explosion. Despite the Gedera Chabad center being in the city's southern most point, closest to Gaza's rockets, Rabbi Karniel looks to faith and trust for security.
"You don't need to be a statistician to see how disproportionate it is to have over 10,000 rockets fall in the region with so few casualties and direct hits. Call it what it is, these are miracles and we need to be grateful all the time."
On Monday, Defense Minister Ehud Barak told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that sixty percent of the missiles have fallen in open areas while 40 percent exploded in built-up areas. However, only 10 percent partially struck buildings while two percent slammed directly into buildings.
Dozens of eyewitnesses have reported that rockets landed several feet from where they were standing or from where they had been several minutes before the time of impact.
A city of 18,000 located between Rehovot to the north, Ashdod to the west, Gedera has embraced Chabad's activities which include two thriving synagogues, several well attended weekly classes, a preschool for children, extensive programming for the city's many elderly housing units and holiday events for the 5000 children in the local school district. For Chanukah, three large menorahs lit up the city and were featured in several grand lighting events.
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Loved is a browser-based platform video game developed by Alexander Ocias, an Australian graphic designer and artist. Written in Adobe Flash, the game was built over the course of about half a year in Ocias' spare time. Released online on 14 June 2010 onto various game hosting websites, it has garnered sizeable praise and scrutiny since its release, with critics finding the game to be thought-provoking while having poor controls.

Gameplay

A narrator first asks players, "are you a man, or a woman?" Players who select "man" are instead told they are a "girl". Similarly, players who select "woman" are called a "boy". Navigation is by arrow keys, which also control the ability to jump and duck. The narrator instructs players intermittently, sometimes to achieve goals but often to suggest actions that will kill the player character (such as falling into a pit full of spikes). Players are sometimes, but not always, congratulated when following these instructions, while disobeying the narrator results in a barrage of insults. Both the player character and environment are in stark black and white, with a colourful motif appearing if the character disobeys the narrator's instructions, or the visuals becoming more detailed but still in monochrome if the character decides to be compliant.

Development
Loved was built over the course of about half a year, transforming from the exploration genre to a mining- and building-based adventure game before settling on the platform genre. Ocias worked on the game intermittently in his spare time, using his "bit of self-taught programming knowledge" to code it. Although no libraries were used during development, Ocias expressed that he wished that he had during the end of production. Research was taken into achieving "certain little fiddly things," Ocias explained, such as generating the text elements and instructing Flash to read his tile maps.

According to Ocias, the main themes of Loved were of dominance and power, since to provide a fuller answer would "defy the point of the game". His intentions in making the game were to get people to think about the games they were playing—a direction he found much of the video game industry shying away from. The confrontational aspect of the game was motivated by two aspects: primarily to use "the resource of emotions" invoked by its risk and reward mechanic; and secondly to absorb the awareness of people online. Expanding upon his inspirations, Ocias cited individual games such as The Last Guardian and Deus Ex: Human Revolution, along with companies such as Thatgamecompany and Eidos Montréal, as showing "greater depth" to video games as well as experimentation and research. Ocias ultimately stated that while he dislikes "force-feeding" players, he would try to take a different approach both mechanically and thematically for his next game.

Release and reception

Loved was published as freeware onto Newgrounds and Kongregate, as well as Ocias's official website, on 14 June 2010. Since its release, the game has received sizeable praise and scrutiny from players, with some responding reminiscently over it. Duncan Geere of Wired dubbed it "great high-brow lunchtime gaming" that exploits the paradox of video games being supposedly a better medium than music and films, despite most gamers being compliant by design. Writing for Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Kieron Gillen called the atmosphere "genuinely oppressive" and the game's cogitation between free will and control "really quite excellent". A review in the Italian magazine Dude named it one of their top 16 favourite independent games.

In interviewing Ocias, Justin Kranzl of Gamasutra called the experience of playing the game challenging of the "assumptions people may hold about the respective weight of narrative and play mechanics". Kris Ligman of PopMatters called the controls frustrating and "only just playable", but disregarded this as "all it needs in order to work". Chris Priestman of Kill Screen found the game provoking of "gut reactions" and noted a sexual undercurrent throughout it. Referred to by Gillen, Michael Rose of IndieGames.com called the controls "a little wonky", but concluded that it was "definitely worth giving a go". Tim W. of the same website ranked the game second place of the top 10 browser platformers of 2010. Rose later published in his book 250 Indie Games You Must Play that the game is worth playing twice to see the alternative endings based on the player's decisions. Writing for the official website of G4, Brittany Vincent called the game "especially curious" in its depiction of a dominant and submissive relationship and a "fantastic case" of the medium "pushing the margins of human emotion".

References

External links

 Loved on Kongregate
 Loved on Newgrounds

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Platform games
Single-player video games
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What was most interesting was that by the end of the day Ferrari was still fastest through all the speed traps and Felipe Massa had set the fastest lap of the race, although this was only a tiny margin faster than Alonso's best. The two were nearly three-tenths ahead of Michael and there was then a tenth or so to Fisichella. There was a gap of three-tenths back to Raikkonen, Button and Barrichello and then half a second before a Williams.
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"We weren't quick enough here," said Mark Webber.
Given Michael Schumacher's assured attitudes on Saturday, this was a bit of a surprise.
The obvious explanation was that the temperature was very different and, sure enough, when one checked the temperatures there it was: Saturday had been cool but pleasant enough after early rains cleared away. Sunday was much warmer. At the start of the year the theory was that the Bridgestone tyres were better when the temperatures rose but in Spain that seemed to have been turned on its head, a sign that F1 these days is about constant development.
And the thing that the engineers will be working day and night on from now until Monaco is the science of flexible composite structures as there is clearly advantage to be gained working within the current interpretation of the rules. Ferrari has been adept at understanding the FIA's attitudes while other teams appear to have been reluctant to step into what they appear to think is a minefield of interpretation that might explode beneath them.
Tyres and drivers are clearly an important element in the 2006 World Championship but it is also clear that other teams have noted Ferrari's bravery and feel that they should now tiptoe into the danger zone. When that starts to happen we could well see further changes that may well throw up new winners. This will do the sport no harm at all at a time when TV viewing figures are what really matter. The danger is that having races like Barcelona will send the casual TV viewers rushing headlong to beach volleyball where the sponsor logos are located on rather more flexible surfaces.
The only thing that kept this race alive was the possibility that Alonso was on a three-stop strategy and that Michael was going for two stops. The Renault team said afterwards that Fernando could have swung either way. Thirteen fastest laps in the first 16 laps was evidence that Alonso was running light and clearly Michael could not handle the pace because Fisichella was not getting in his way. Michael went six laps further than Fernando and the windows for the various strategies seemed to suggest that Alonso would be coming in again around lap 35 and then in the fifties but in the second stint Alonso did not pull away from Michael and nor did Michael close the gap and when they got to lap 40, it was pretty clear that Fernando was going for a two-stopper. Michael knew he was beaten and settled for points. Fisichella was third. Massa followed him home and then half a minute in arrears came Kimi Raikkonen. His dramatic start had been spectacular but "that was all the progress I was able to make".
Juan Pablo Montoya started with a lot of fuel after his ghastly qualifying and was aiming to do a one-stop race but he spun out and got himself stuck on a kerb, pondering his future.
Right behind Raikkonen at the finish was Jenson Button, who managed to avoid the humiliation of going a lap behind (which befell Rubens Barrichello). The Honda F1 cars need about a second a lap in race trim and they will be fine.
Nick Heidfeld was eighth for Sauber BMW, 1.3secs ahead of Mark Webber's Williams while Jarno Trulli's Toyota followed its usual career path from seventh on the grid to 10th in the race. Still, this was better than Ralf Schumacher's efforts as the well-remunerated German made a rather feeble lunge down the inside of Trulli and took his front wing off on his team-mates rear wheel. A visit to the pits meant that Ralf was down the back and so no-one really noticed when the car stopped with electronic failure.


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The Day We Mourn Their Lost & Start To Cherish What We Have
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Today we mourned for the 298 innocent people (43 Malaysians) who were killed in the tragic 17th of July incident. My deepest condolence to everyone who are directly or indirectly affected by this dreadful calamity. Flight MH17 which was bound for Kuala Lumpur mistakenly was shot down over eastern Ukraine by some idiotic fools, killing everyone on board-298 lives. Nobody expected this to happen, not when you were happily on your way home or eagerly waiting to touch down for your vacation. It's a saddening day all of us...
Our national flag at half mast...
We Malaysians observed this solemn occasion today (just now at around 10:50a.m.) by wearing black attires and flying our national flag-Jalur Gemilang at half mast. My bosses and colleagues stood outside of our office just now to mark a minute of silence for the poor victims of flight MH17. It is the least that we could do for those whose lives had been wrongfully snatched away from them; It is the least that we could do to ease the excruciating pain of the distraught families and friends who will painfully mourn for a lifetime.
Don't wait until it is too late...
What about us? What about us who are still lucky enough have our family and beloved ones ALIVE? Are we doing enough to show that we are really grateful to have our spouses, parents, siblings and children by our side? Their demise should serve as a wake up call for us to cherish and treasure our family members; Their lost should be a reminder to all of us that we should never ever take our loved ones for granted; Their mourning should be a lesson to the rest of us that we might not always get a second chance in life...So start loving your loved ones before it is too late...
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The President's Desk »Remembering Edgar Bronfman
Remembering Edgar Bronfman
by Andrés Spokoiny
It is easy to admire Edgar Bronfman for his work going back more than four decades to win greater rights for Jews in the Soviet Union, not to mention his tireless stewardship of the World Jewish Congress, where he served as president for 26 years. He was a dogged campaigner for restitution for Holocaust victims and was a relentless fighter against anti-Semitism wherever it flared up.
Edgar Bronfman will also be warmly remembered for his unstinting devotion to Jewish philanthropic causes. The Bronfman Youth Fellowship in 1987, which brings together Jewish high school students from Israel and North America, the launch of MyJewishLearning.com and the revitalization of Hillel are but a few of the many accomplishments that help comprise a legacy few others in Jewish life can ever hope to match.
But for me, when I think of Edgar Bronfman, I will most remember a man who was the best example of the philanthropic principles we strive to uphold at JFN both as an organization and among our membership. We take on difficult issues and make hard choices, but always when guided by such principles as tikkun olam, equality and respect. Those were among the guideposts for his philanthropy.
Edgar Bronfman once told The New York Times "I would like every Jew to be as comfortable in his skin as I am in mine." No doubt, his passion, drive and outsized generosity helped make that possible.
May his memory be a blessing.


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Medline Settles False Claims Act Allegations for $85 Million In Spite of Government's Failure to Intervene
Medline Industries, Inc. and its affiliated charitable foundation, The Medline Foundation, have just settled a whistleblower action brought by Sean Mason, a former employee, for $85 million. Mason alleged that Medline violated the False Claims Act by giving kickbacks to hospitals and other healthcare providers that purchase medical products under Medicare and Medicaid. Medline Industries is a major producer of medical products and equipment. Mason alleged that Medline gave kickbacks to companies such as HCA Inc. and HealthSouth Corporation in the form of improper discounts, rebates, loans, impermissible charitable donations and other forms of unlawful remuneration.
What makes this case somewhat unusual is that the federal government had declined to intervene in the lawsuit prior to the settlement. By filing this as a qui tam action, Mason stood in the shoes of the U.S. government, which failed to exercise its right to intervene and take control of the litigation. This is one of the largest settlements of a False Claims Act case where the government did not intervene.
Under the terms of the settlement agreement (which is available here), Medline agreed to pay $85 million to the federal government and $6 million in legal fees to the whistleblower's attorneys. For his part, Mason, the whistleblower, will receive $23,375,000.
In the settlement agreement, Medline made no admission of wrongdoing. Indeed, Medline has since issued a press release denying Mason's allegations and pointing out that "[t]here were no allegations that Medline caused financial harm to [its] customers or that any government programs paid more for [its] products." Medline justified its decision to settle based on its desire "to avoid the costs and burden of prolonged civil litigation."
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"Little Al" Sharpton is the Master of Race-Baiting. Official title: Master Baiter.
Michael Brown Family Heading To New York To March In Al Sharpton's Latest Race Baiting Event…
Payback for Sharpton's help stoking racial strife in Ferguson.
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The family of Michael Brown will attend a march Saturday led by the Rev. Al Sharpton on Staten Island on behalf of Eric Garner, who died last month in the borough's Tompkinsville neighborhood.
Last Saturday, Sharpton had suggested that Brown's family would attend, but shortly thereafter, a spokeswoman for the National Action Network said the family wasn't yet sure because it hadn't yet planned a funeral for Brown.
Benjamin Crump, the attorney for the family, has since announced that Brown's funeral and memorial service would be held on Monday.
NY1 reported that the Brown family confirmed attendance for the rally on Wednesday.
Sharpton has visited Ferguson at the invitation of Brown's parents, whose 18-year-old son Michael was shot and killed while unarmed by white police officer Darren Wilson on Aug. 9. Sharpton and other civil rights leaders have linked Brown's death to that of Garner, the 43-year-old black man who was killed after a New York Police Department officer put him in a chokehold on July 17. A medical examiner has since ruled his death a homicide.


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Spudnik Press Call for 2020 Exhibition Proposals
Deadline to Apply: Sunday, December 1, 2019
Download the 2020 Call for Exhibition Proposals
The Spudnik Press Exhibitions Program invites artists and curators to submit proposals to be considered for the 2020 cycle of exhibitions. This is an opportunity for artists to spotlight their work in a solo show, a group to build a collaborative exhibition, or a curator to make their vision a reality. Proposals may be for existing or new work. Any and all are welcome to apply.
Exhibition proposals are reviewed by a committee of Spudnik Press members and guest jurors. Final selections are made using the organizations's curatorial statement as a guidepost.
Please note that while installations and performances may be included in proposals, 2-D or wall-mounted artwork is typically best suited for our gallery, which functions as a multi-purpose space. Additionally, while we welcome proposals from beyond Chicago, applicants should be aware that there is a limited budget for each exhibition and final selections may need to partially cover shipping and travel fees.
Proposals due: Sunday, December 1, 2019.
Applicants will be notified by Wednesday, January 1, 2020.
Exhibitions will occur between February 2020 and February 2021. Exact dates TBD.
Exhibitions typically run for 9 weeks with two weeks in between shows for gallery preparation.
Spudnik Press Cooperative Curatorial Statement:
Spudnik Press exhibitions amplify the impact of our resources by providing opportunities for artists and audiences to move through a variety of creative roles: from making to experiencing, and learning to teaching.
Spudnik Press showcases work that has ongoing relevance to our mission and vision, while also encouraging a breadth of community participation. Exhibitions create an active platform to expand and diversify our cooperative.
To achieve these goals, Spudnik Press exhibitions:
Are selected by a curatorial committee that includes active members.
Emphasize printmaking and print-based projects within contemporary art practices.
Showcase the creative, analytical and/or technical process of art making.
Feature exceptional projects, whether produced at Spudnik Press or beyond.
Engage diverse levels of professional experience.
Spudnik Press exhibitions offer participating artists opportunities to:
Produce new fine art prints.
Present corresponding educational programming.
Present Artist Talks.
First review the entire Call for 2020 Exhibition Proposals. E-mail the following to angee@spudnikpress.org with "2020 Exhibition Proposal" in the subject line:
1) PDF including the documents listed below in the following order:
Applicant(s) contact information. Please include your address, phone number, and email address.
Working title of the exhibition.
Exhibition/Curatorial Statement. Description of the exhibition, both conceptually and visually. (500 words max)
Artist Statement(s) and Bio(s). Brief statement for each artist and bio for each artist. Include websites, blogs, notable artistic achievements, other relevant material.
Resume or CV. Please only submit a resume or CV for the applicant(s), not each individual artist.
Image List. Including artist name, title, year of completion, medium, dimensions, and name of file.
Public Program (optional). Applicants are welcome to submit a brief description for a public program related to the exhibitions, i.e. an artist talk, workshop, etc.
2) Images:
For both solo exhibitions and small group exhibitions, include up to 10 images of artworks that will be included in the exhibition, or are representative of the artwork that will be in the exhibition.
Sketches may be included for forthcoming work. Please clarify in the written materials if the artwork is not yet complete.
Images need not exceed 1 MB each.
Work samples files should be labeled as follows: LASTNAME_01.jpg, LASTNAME_02.jpg, etc.


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UK health system faces biggest day of strikes next month
The UK's crisis-hit National Health Service (NHS) is set for its biggest ever day of industrial action next month after thousands of ambulance workers announced on Friday a series of new strikes.
The state-funded healthcare system will see nurses and ambulance workers from three different unions walk out on February 6 in an ongoing pay dispute with the government.
Collectively, they amount to what British media describe as the biggest day of strike action that the NHS, founded in 1948, has ever experienced.
The country has been hit by months of stoppages across the public and private sectors, as decades-high inflation fuels the worst cost-of-living crisis in a generation.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been resisting demands from a host of state workers for hefty salary hikes to counter rising prices.
The firm stance has set up a stand-off with various NHS staff, who argue they helped the country through the pandemic but have faced real-terms pay cuts over the last decade.
Sunak has also infuriated unions by introducing controversial legislation requiring some frontline workers to maintain a minimum level of service during walkouts.
"Rather than act to protect the NHS and negotiate an end to the dispute, the government has disgracefully chosen to demonise ambulance workers," said Unite general secretary Sharon Graham.
Teachers threaten strike
"Our members faithfully provide life and limb cover on strike days… it's this government's disastrous handling of the NHS that has brought it to breaking point."
Around 3,000 ambulance workers who are members of Unite will stage 10 further days of strikes across the UK in the coming weeks, including on February 6 in Wales and much of England.
They will coincide with four more stoppages by over 10,000 ambulance workers from the GMB union, which also include February 20, March 6 and 20.
They are just the latest walkouts by ambulance workers, who held their first strikes last month.
Also in December, tens of thousands of nurses from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) staged the first industrial action in its 106-year history over pay.
They walked out again for two days this week and are scheduled to strike again on February 6 and 7.
Meanwhile, teachers in England are threatening to join the mass walkouts, with education unions set to meet again with senior officials from the government on Friday in a bid to avert that.
Schools minister Nick Gibb insisted they understood the pressures facing teachers and other public sector staff but warned against "inflation-busting pay settlements".
"There is an independent pay review body in place to determine pay levels for teachers," he told the BBC, referring to bodies of experts set up to recommend pay levels for various state employees.
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Q: Java match counter and Pseudo match counter I'm trying to make two methods, the other methods are running fine. The trouble is a pseudo match counter where an input should be the random number eg 5 4 3 2 and the user guess input eg 5 3 6 1 and the output would be: Pseudo match: 1 and matches: 2. I'm not understanding where I'm going wrong in my Pseudo Match method.
public int match(int[] guess) //Counts the number of matches
{
    int count = 0;

    for(int i = 0; i<3; i++)
    {
        if (lotteryNumbers[i] == guess[i])
        {
            count++;
        }

    }
    return count;
}
//First add psuedo counter for current program
//Then modify for multiple variables.

//Single slot to Single slot.
public int psuedoMatch(int[] guess)
{
    boolean arraysEqual = true;
    int psuedoCount = 0;

    //Determine same size:
    if (lotteryNumbers.length != guess.length)
    {
        arraysEqual = false;
    }

    //Determine if elements contain same data:

    while (arraysEqual && psuedoCount < 3) // guess.length
    {
        if (lotteryNumbers[psuedoCount] != guess[psuedoCount] )
        {
            arraysEqual = false;
        }
        psuedoCount++;
    }

    return psuedoCount;
}

A: I think the following is what you are trying to do:
public int psuedoMatch(int[] guess) {
    int psuedoCount = 0;

    //Determine same size:
    if (lotteryNumbers.length != guess.length) {
        return psuedoCount;
    }

    //Determine if elements contain same data:

    for(int i=0; i<lotteryNumbers.length || psuedoCount < 3; i++) {

        //I think you want to count all the matches till you have 3 matches
        if (lotteryNumbers[psuedoCount] == guess[psuedoCount]) {
            psuedoCount++;
        }
    }

    return psuedoCount;
}

A: I guess you are trying to find the number of matches of these 2 arrays,
but the relative index of the equal elements should be different so that we can add them to the pseudo counter mechanism. So take a look at this method and try it:
public int psuedoMatch(int[] guess)
{
    int psuedoCount = 0;

    if (lotteryNumbers.length != guess.length)
        return 0;

    int size = lotteryNumbers.length;

    // Determine if elements contain same data, but at different indexes!

    for (int i = 0; i < size; i++) {
        for (int j = 0; j < size; j++) {
            // Denote the inequality check i != j
            if (lotteryNumbers[i] == guess[j] && i != j)
                psuedoCount++;
        }
    }

    return psuedoCount;
}


The Chinese authorities achieved a giant feat in cracking down unlawful activities ranging from illegal publications, faking press credentials, piracy, and copyright infringement in 2018.
According to data released by China's national office against illegal publications, 2,670 people among a total of more than 12,000 cases handled by the office faced criminal penalties for violations of law and regulations regarding pornographic and illegal publications.
In order to enhance supervision over obscene and illegal publications in local communities, over 510,000 workstations were established across the country as of December 2018.
The government raised the maximum reward for valuable information to 600,000 yuan in December in a bid to solicit more help from the public as the citizens has been very helpful with useful information and contributed more than 130,000 leads.
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Both SRK and Gauri Khan are Shocked
Shah Rukh Khan and Gauri Khan have been going through a difficult period with their son Aryan Khan still imprisoned in the cruise drug raid case.
It's been over a week since his arrest, and the star youngster, along with the other accused, was transferred to Arthur Road Jail last week.
Shah Rukh Khan has been having restless nights about his son Aryan's bail, according to a news story in India Today.
Both SRK and Gauri Khan are devastated, as they had not expected their kid to be detained for such a lengthy period of time. India Today said, claiming a close family acquaintance, that the family will decide on Aryan Khan's future course of action after he returns and things have calmed down.
The source revealed, "It didn't dawn on them that this will go on for such a long time. While the news of the arrest sent shock waves through the industry, SRK immediately sought legal advice on the matter dialling up some of the best experts in the country."
Satish Maneshinde was approached, and he gave SRK the confidence that Aryan would be out sooner than expected. However, that wasn't the case as the court rejected his bail plea on the grounds that it was 'unmaintainable' and that news really shook the family."
The source further added that, despite being unable to contact Aryan Khan, Gauri and SRK have been following up with authorities. "Gauri and SRK make multiple calls through the day to check on his health. Even though there is no direct access to Aryan, information on his well-being is conveyed to the family. There even was a request made to send home-cooked meals and his personal belongings to Aryan."
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In the second River Road Mystery from USA Today bestselling author Susan McBride, Helen Evans must find a killer before her granddaughter is arrested for murder! When tiny River Bend, Illinois, is hit by a string of burglaries even Sheriff Frank Biddle can't solve, the clients of LaVyrle's Cut 'n' Curl can hardly talk of anything but. There are no signs of forced entry and no fingerprints, and valuables are missing from secret hiding places, as if the thief knew what he wanted and just where to look. Helen Evans wonders what the world has come to if even their once-quiet town isn't safe anymore. Then Grace Simpson, a big-city psychotherapist who had opened up shop in River Bend, is found dead on her bedroom floor, and Helen's granddaughter is caught with the murder weapon in hand. Sure of the girl's innocence, Helen embarks on a little investigation of her own and turns up plenty of folks who aren't grieving a bit now that Grace is dead ..


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Leading Animal Law Scholar Delcianna Winders to Join Vermont Law School Faculty
Professor Delcianna (Delci) Winders, a renowned animal law expert and advocate, will join the Vermont Law School (VLS) faculty this fall as a visiting associate professor of law and Animal Law Program director. Winders joins VLS from Lewis & Clark Law School, where she directed the world's first law school clinic dedicated to farmed animal advocacy. She brings to VLS a wealth of experience in animal law on a range of high-profile cases and issues.
Winders' new appointment comes as VLS—home to one of the country's top environmental law programs—expands its focus on animal law. The school's Environmental Law Center recently secured funding to launch an animal law program that, among other things, will increase animal law litigation and other advocacy work in four of its existing clinical training and research programs. The new program, made possible with generous support from the Brooks McCormick Jr. Trust for Animal Rights Law and Policy, Animal Welfare Trust, the Greenbaum Foundation, and the GRACE Communications Foundation, aims to promote the humane and compassionate treatment of animals through legal education, scholarship, and policy development, as well as engagement with communities, advocates, and the legal profession.
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07.10.15, 04:15 PM #46
CaboChris
So the answer is to legally, let MORE than 10,000 a year come here?
Ok...how much more?
Can we be selective?
Give me a number.
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Atomic Punk
The overall problem is that we are limiting supply somewhat arbitrarily when there is great demand.
Take drugs. We have completely prohibited them, but there is great demand, so people have found a way around it (and it has destroyed parts of Mexico). I mean, are you more than two people separated from someone that can get you any drug you want? I mean, I'm not in that world, but I have a friend who smokes pot, and he buys from a guy, and I guarantee you he knows people that can get you more than pot. So I am two degrees from it.
Well, how can this possibly be? We've prohibited it. Well, you can't do that with great demand or you get a black market. Illegal immigration is simply another black market.
We also know that walls won't stop them. We have walls up. It doesn't stop them. The endure much worse to get here than walls.
So if capping it at 10,000 doesn't work and walls don't work, and extortion, rape, death, imprisonment, deportation, being a drug mule, the list goes on--impediments that we don't put there but are there anyway--then what will it take?
Annexing Mexico. Of course, we'd have to do that by force, and good luck convincing Americans to go to war with the ally to the south. Otherwise, we're stuck with the status quo, spending a ton of money to not stop it, or make the process easier.
What is the right number? I don't know. I don't think anyone knows. That's why central planning doesn't work. But I do know that making it impossible to get here doesn't work.
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TRUMP MEETS WITH FAMILIES OF AMERICANS KILLED BY ILLEGAL ALIENS
Donald Trump is meeting Friday afternoon with several family members of Americans killed due to the actions of foreign nationals illegally present in the United States.
Trump is meeting, as of this writing, with the family of Jamiel Shaw Jr., Sabine Durden, Don Rosenberg, Lupe Moreno, Brenda Sparks, Robin Hvidston and their spouses in Los Angeles, according to representatives for Trump.
Each of these individuals participated in a national day of remembrance for Americans killed by illegal aliens last November. Breitbart exclusively covered the Temecula, California event onsite.
Jamiel Shaw Jr. was shot and killed in 2008 when illegal alien gang member Pedro Espinoza was released from prison and within hours set out with the intent to kill, choosing Shaw due to his red Spiderman backpack. Shaw's father, Jamiel Shaw, Sr., heard the shot from the family home and knew something was wrong. He walked outside to find his son slain.
The Shaw family has pushed for legislation entitled "Jamiel's Law."
"Law-abiding citizens of all colors are uniting against the targeting of innocent black residents of Los Angeles by illegal alien gangs," Michelle Malkin wrote of Jamiel's Law back in 2008.
Legal German immigrant Sabine Durden lost her only son Dominic in 2012 when a Guatemalan national illegally in the country struck and killed her son in a traffic collision. The driver had two prior drunk driving convictions and had requested amnesty from a judge. It was through the diligent efforts of Ms. Durden that he was eventually deported.
Brenda Sparks lost her son Eric Haydu Zepeda when an illegally present alien struck Zepeda and his passenger while they were riding on his motorcycle.
Lupe Moreno recounted at the Temecula event, her nephew telling intoxicated illegal aliens "I'm an American" before being shot in the head.
Don Rosenberg lost his son in a motorcycle collision with an illegal alien. The offender served half of a six-month sentence before being deported. The Rosenberg family fought for the deportation.
Trump came under fire for comments on illegal immigration made during the announcement of his presidential campaign. Since the initial brash remarks, he has offered clarifying comments and has expressed his love for the Mexican people, while at the same time stressing the importance of securing the U.S. southern border. Several business partners have severed ties with Trump over the comments, while the issue of illegal immigration has emerged in the national debate.
Pro-amnesty protesters are expected outside a Republican event also scheduled for Friday in Los Angeles.
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"He has a swaggering retro machismo that will give hives to the Steinem cabal" -Camille Paglia on Donald Trump
"But, fucking with Brook is like fucking with hot shit on and ax handle. You just don't get a grip"-track5
"Make way for the bad guy"- Tony Montana
'This hamburger don't need no helper"- David Lee Roth
"I wish Bon Jovi would've given me a call before he recorded all of his hits, because the lyrics would've been smarter, the melodies would've been much more smashing, and they would've sold a lot fewer records." -David Lee Roth
"My beef is people thinking Bon Jovi is good cuz they sold lots of records to housewives." -tango
"But being number one doesn't really mean jack fuck all. We sold twice as many records as other records that year (1984) that landed in the Number One position." ~Eddie Van Halen
07.11.15, 09:56 AM #49
rocknblues81
Trump and Clinton.... Man, the political scene is a big fucking circus.
Michael Caine on Jaws: The Revenge:
"I have never seen it, but by all accounts it is terrible. However, I have seen the house that it built and it is terrific."
Samuel Johnson 1775 : "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel"
"McDonalds is The Antichrist" - Bill Hicks
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"See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel." - Economist Milton Friedman (1991)
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'The Silent Majority Is Back!': Donald Trump Criticizes Border Policy in Fiery Speech
PHOENIX (TheBlaze/AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump criticized U.S. immigration and trade policies on Saturday in speeches that veered from accusing Mexico of deliberately sending criminals across the border to professing respect for the Mexican government and love for its people.
Speaking to a gathering of Libertarians in Las Vegas before headlining an event in Phoenix, Trump repeated his charge that Mexico was sending violent offenders to the U.S. to harm Americans and that U.S. officials were being "dumb" in dealing with immigrants in the country illegally.
"These people wreak havoc on our population," he told a few thousand people attending the Libertarian gathering FreedomFest inside a Planet Hollywood ballroom on the Las Vegas Strip.
In the 4,200-capacity Phoenix convention center packed with flag-waving supporters, Trump took a different view — for a moment — and said: "I love the Mexican people. I love 'em. Many, many people from Mexico are legal. They came in the old-fashioned way. Legally."
He quickly returned to the sharp tone that has brought him scorn as well as praise. "I respect Mexico greatly as a country. But the problem we have is their leaders are much sharper than ours, and they're killing us at the border and they're killing us on trade."
His speeches in both venues were long on insults aimed at critics and short on solutions to the problems he cited. When he called for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the audience in Las Vegas groaned.
In a break from the immigration rhetoric that has garnered him condemnation and praise, Trump asserted that he would have more positive results in dealing with China and Russia if he were president and said he could be pals with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Asked by an audience member in Las Vegas about U.S.-Russia relations, Trump said the problem is that Putin doesn't respect Obama.
"I think we would get along very, very well," he said.
Trump has turned to victims of crime to bolster his argument that immigrants in the U.S. illegally have killed and raped. In Las Vegas and Phoenix, he brought on stage Jamiel Shaw Sr., a Southern California man whose 17-year-old son was shot and killed in 2008 by a man in the country illegally.
Shaw vividly described how his son was shot — in the head, stomach and hands while trying to block his face — and how he heard the gunshots as he talked to his son on the phone.
Shaw said he trusted Trump, and encouraged the crowds in both cities to do the same.
Trump's speeches were filled with tangents and insults leveled at business partners such as Univision and NBC that have dropped him in the wake of his comments that Mexican immigrants bring drugs and crime to the U.S. and are rapists. He also directed familiar barbs at other presidential contenders, including Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton ("the worst secretary of state in the history of the country"), news media figures ("lyin' Brian Williams") and President Barack Obama ("such a divisive person"). He called journalists "terrible people."
As Trump lambasted Univision for canceling its broadcast of the Miss USA pageant, one of his many business enterprises, a group of young Latinos unfurled a banner pointed toward the stage and began chanting insults. They were quickly drowned out by the crowd, and nearby Trump supporters began to grab at them, tearing at the banner and pulling and pushing at the protesters. Security staff managed to get to the group and escorted them out as Trump resumed speaking.
"I wonder if the Mexican government sent them over here," he said. "I think so."
Arizona's tough-on-immigration Sheriff Joe Arpaio introduced Trump in Phoenix after outlining the things he and the candidate have in common, including skepticism that Obama was born in the United States. He went on to criticize the federal government for what he called a revolving door for immigrants, saying many of them end up in his jails.
"He's been getting a lot of heat, but you know, there's a silent majority out here," Arpaio said, borrowing from a phrase Richard Nixon popularized during his presidency in a speech about the Vietnam War.
A single protester standing outside the room where Trump spoke in Las Vegas was more concerned about the businessman being tied to the Libertarian Party.
"I've been a Libertarian for 43 years and Trump ain't no Libertarian," said Linda Rawles, who asserted that including Trump in FreedomFest set back the party's movement.
"We have to secure our borders," Trump said in Phoenix. "We have to do something to protect our country."
Toward the end of his speech, Trump suggested charging the Mexican government $100,000 for every illegal immigrant it "sends over."
"The silent majority is back, and we're going to take the country back!" he said in closing.
Here's Trump's entire Phoenix speech:
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He spends too much time defending himself. Trade deals with China and India.....specifics??? How are you going to stop illegals coming from Mexico...specifics????
You don't like Obamacare neither do I but tell me what your going to replace it with.....specifics?? Dude needs policy statements and I'm not going to buy The Art of The Deal or any other of his books to find out.
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Originally Posted by edwardv
A guy like Trump doesn't need to be specific imo.
He's simply in to shake things up and make it interesting. Bush, Clinton, and the like have the "details" but look at what that has gotten us over the years.
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The American people have been sold to the highest bidder for years, by career politicians. I hope Trump keeps them shaking in their boots.
He can worry about details once he's in office.
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It is interesting that a politician who's main platform piece is to be against illegal immigration is considered an "outsider". You would think that would be just be the default position of all Americans.
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Originally Posted by It's Mike
The left wants to just allow anyone to come in freely. So does Gary Johnson (he has lost my support).
'I'm going to make you eat your words': Mexico's billion-dollar drugs lord THREATENS Donald Trump on Twitter account 'run by his son' and taunts the world after his dramatic escape from prison
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman, head of powerful Sinaloa Cartel, is on the run
He fled a prison in Mexico City through an elaborate tunnel network
El Chapo has now reportedly taken to Twitter to gloat about escape online
Posted threats about Donald Trump who had criticised Guzman's escape
Mexico's billion dollar drugs lord known as 'El Chapo' has gloated on Twitter about his escape from a maximum security jail by taunting authorities and threatening US-presidential hopeful Donald Trump. Joaquin Guzman, billionaire head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel, made his jail break on Saturday morning and is on the run from Altiplano jail, 50 miles outside of Mexico City, security officials said. His audacious escape saw him dash through the mile-long tunnel system, which led to a building under construction next to the prison - from where he collected clothes left for him by his conspirators.
But following his escape he has took to Twitter and used it to hit back at Trump, who has said that the Guzman embodies 'everything that is wrong with Mexico' and added he would 'kick his ass'.
On the account, administered by Guzman's son Ivan, the escapee reportedly wrote: 'If you keep p****** me off I'm going to make you eat your words you f****** blonde milk-s*****'.
He also took aim at the Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto saying: ''And you @EPN, don't call me a delinquent because I give people work unlike you you cowardly politician.'
The drugs lord's account became particularly active yesterday, when many believe it was Guzman himself sending messages of victory and threatening his enemies with gruesome death.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...ck-tunnel.html
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1,423 CONVICTED CRIMINAL IMMIGRANTS WENT ON TO COMMIT ADDITIONAL CRIMES AFTER THEIR FY 2014 RELEASES
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...2014-releases/
The convictions of those criminal immigrants released in FY 2014 included included:
86 homicide convictions
186 kidnapping convictions
373 sexual assault convictions
449 commercialized sexual offenses
1,194 battery convictions
1,346 domestic violence convictions
13,636 DUIs
Speaking if DUIs, I'm always curious, when a deadly DUI collision occurs, if the perpetrators were illegal aliens. But the fucking so-called local news outlets are very hesitant to come forth with that information. Also, any major 18-wheeler fuck-ups... I really want to know if illegal aliens are behind those disasters, as well.
But.... let a white school teacher have sex with a student... and suddenly the local news organizations are eager to tell you all about the teacher...
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People do realize that there is a difference between immigrants and illegal aliens ?
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Originally Posted by cabomiro
wouldn't want that to get in the way of a good story.
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Trump has a plan. Build a wall. In fact, he said he would build a "real wall," since he has built some of the best buildings in the world. Of course, like Cruz's plan, it is totally ill-conceived.
One, Cruz at least realizes that a wall means nothing if it is not patrolled, so he wants to not only build a double-layer fence along all 2,000 miles of the border, but triple the size of the border patrol and quadruple the amount of helicopters, cameras, and presumably drones.
Of course, even the Berlin wall was successfully breached over 1,000 times a year, and that was on terrain much easier to patrol than our southern border. Our border has rugged terrain, valleys, mountains, national parks, etc., that would be impractical to build on, so the wall will have to zig zag around it, if not skip it all together. The wall would have to skip the Rio Grande in order to avoid damming it. In other words, it won't work at a huge, huge cost.
Putting up a wall on the rest of the border would cost about $6 billion, several hundred million each year in maintenance, and tripling the border patrol would cost $7 billion a year.
All of that money, and it only addresses half the problem. 45% of illegal immigrants simply overstay their visas.
But that's not all. Over half of the current 700 miles of fencing is on private property that was taken by the federal government. They offered families, some of whom the property had been in the family for over 200 years, nowhere near the actual property value, but the families couldn't afford to fight them off with expensive legal action without selling the property. I don't know how much private property would have to be taken for the rest of the 1,300 miles, but I am guessing some. In one egregious case, a federal lawyer tallied up a family's assets in order to dissuade a free legal clinic from representing him in order to get the fair value of his property. In other words, the federal government made sure the free clinic knew how much the family was worth so they wouldn't represent them. Those assets weren't liquid, though, so in order to get fair value in eminent domain, they'd have had to sell other assets. Not really fair, I'd say.
Trump's idea, which is also Cruz's is just plain bad.
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Q: Parallel STXXL Vector Initialization The following minimal example illustrates the behaviour of stxxl when initializing containers in parallel (using openMP):
#include <omp.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stxxl.h>

typedef stxxl::VECTOR_GENERATOR<float>::result VEC_T;

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    const unsigned long NUM = 8;
    #pragma omp parallel num_threads(NUM)
    {
            VEC_T v;
            printf("%d\t%p\n", omp_get_thread_num(), &v);
    }
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}

running into either
[STXXL-ERROR] File too large

or
[SYSTEM-ERROR]Segmentation fault

How can I allocate  stxxl containers in multiple threads ?

A: The initialization of stxxl containers isn't thread-safe, therefore a mutual exclusion for a thread initializing a container is needed. Using openMP, this will read as follows:
#include <omp.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stxxl.h>

typedef stxxl::VECTOR_GENERATOR<float>::result VEC_T;

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    const unsigned long NUM = 8;
    #pragma omp parallel num_threads(NUM)
    {
            VEC_T* v;
            #pragma omp critical
            {
                    v = new VEC_T();
            }
            printf("%d\t%p\n", omp_get_thread_num(), &v);
            delete v;
    }
    return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}