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Tax Senior, Corporate Tax
In EY Tax, you'll have the opportunity to help the world's leading multinational organizations meet complex tax obligations around the world. You'll get a unique glimpse deep inside a company's business and become a trusted advisor, working collaboratively on a team that influences major business decisions. Demand has made this a rapidly growing area, and the relationships we build here translate into big business in other areas, making this a true priority.
As a Tax Staff/Senior Tax Staff, you will be a part of our Diversified Staff Group. Our Diversified Staff Group model is all about providing our people with the skills, information and knowledge to take on some of the biggest challenges in taxation. The vision of EY's Diversified Staff Group (DSG) is to grow today's tax professionals to be tomorrow's leaders. You can expect a unique insight into our business, where you'll build a network of relationships in an area that influences major business decisions every day. As the team continues to grow, so will you, and over time, you will become a well-rounded tax professional with broad experience in multiple areas of tax.
Your role as a Tax Staff or Senior Tax Staff will give you the opportunity to combine corporate tax work with structured and virtual learning. Our curriculum will build your career in Canadian Corporate tax; includes work experience in tax compliance, tax accrual reviews, tax provisions and tax planning. Our people work on key client issues in domestic corporate income taxation, with a focus on implementing tax strategies that align with the client's business objectives.
• Contribute to client satisfaction by providing clients with quality, timely and responsive services and work products. • Demonstrate an understanding of increasingly complex tax concepts. • Discuss moderately complex tax issues with the engagement team and client management. • Keep informed of current tax developments and effectively apply tax knowledge to client situations. Thoroughly and accurately analyze information. • Prepare practical and effective approaches to the client's tax situation and arrive at appropriate conclusions. • Preparing corporate tax returns • Auditing tax provisions • Share tax planning ideas with others. • Participate in and contribute to achieving team goals. • Assist in the development of recommendations and implementation plans and assist in making quality decisions in complex areas.
To qualify for the role you must have
• a bachelor's degree, preferably with an emphasis in accounting, finance, or a related field • a diploma in accounting with a minimum of 2 years of relevant tax/ accounting experience or equivalent experience in business or industry • excellent managerial, organizational, and verbal/written communication skills • strong written and verbal communication skills • Ideally, you'll also have • broad exposure to corporate income taxation
We're interested in strong team players who support their colleagues in reaching their goals while also considering their own workload and development. We're looking for people with a genuine passion for tax, and the future of tax, and are inspired to help the world's leading multinational organizations meet complex tax obligations around the world. If you have the confidence to speak up and influence a team that affects big businesses worldwide, this role is for you.
At EY, our Total Rewards package supports our commitment to creating a leading people culture - built on high-performance teaming - where everyone can achieve their potential and contribute to building a better working world for our people, our clients and our communities. It's one of the many reasons we repeatedly win awards for being a great place to work.
We offer a competitive compensation package where you'll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package allows you decide which benefits are right for you and which ones help you create a solid foundation for your future. Our Total Rewards package includes a comprehensive medical, prescription drug and dental coverage, a defined contribution pension plan, a great vacation policy plus firm paid days that allow you to enjoy longer long weekends throughout the year, statutory holidays and paid personal days (based on province of residence), and a range of exciting programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being. Plus, we offer:
• Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues in the industry • Learning opportunities to develop new skills and progress your career • The freedom and flexibility to handle your role in a way that's right for you
As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we're using the finance products, expertise and systems we've developed to build a better working world. That starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. Whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
Make your mark. Apply today.
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The most crucial phase of a research study is the acquisition of a reliable sample: one comprised of a population who satisfies the research criteria and who are likely to participate in the research planned.
qSample combines years of professional experience with the latest achievements in research and sampling technology. We provide quality sample through a network of specialty panels developed and managed by qSample. Our panels consist of a community of respondents who are pre-screened and double-opted in for participation in a wide range of research studies (online surveys, focus groups, mystery shopping, etc). Nimble technology empowers clients to create a custom sample satisfying research criterion of any degree of specificity. For firms that are in need of quality sample, qSample completes the circle, by providing access to a strong sample of the intended target. We cover general consumers, business to business professionals, IT Decision makers, physicians, generation Y and access to other population in various regions.


Caring for a garden is almost the same as caring for a beautiful home. I believe the garden is an extension of the house, so the effort you might put into planting a garden is equal to the effort you might take when decorating a home. In the same way, I like combining colors as much in a garden as I do in a room.
And nowhere is that truer than in Palm Beach, where blooming plants are a joy year-round.
In the years that I have had a home on the island, I have gotten to know the Lawn Ranger, a gentleman named Jerry Barber. One can't miss his big truck with words "The Lawn Ranger" splashed across the side.
Jerry is one of the most reliable gardeners I know, and it is he who I call each season when I want my impatiens planted. I've chosen them in a rich cerise color this season. I've also replaced plants that suffered when the outer bands of Hurricane Irma struck the island in September.
Jerry has so much knowledge about the tropical plants that thrive here. He has taught me which perennials will handle the weather in Palm Beach, and he is a wealth of information about growing palm trees and their idiosyncrasies. And he understands how important color can be to an outdoor room. Whether it's a question about planting a garden or maintaining a landscape, he is ready with an answer.
The Lawn Ranger's wife, Beth, also is a horticulturalist, and her Palm Beach business is, appropriately named Tonto's Orchid Shop, 340 Royal Poinciana Way. Where would the Lawn Ranger ever be without his sidekick?
For sure, Beth knows how to showcase orchids out of doors. One of her recent projects involved creating a tree with 300 orchids plants.
You can reach The Lawn Ranger at 685-9468 and Tonto's Orchid Shop at 659-1840.


How can I get an appointment with Jeremy?
You can contact Jeremy directly using the Contact Us page or ask your GP for a referral.
You may find it helpful to bring a list of questions to your consultation as it can be difficult to remember everything. Jeremy will ask questions and carry out any necessary examinations. After diagnosis he will explain the next steps.
Of course, our clinic is child-friendly.
An outpatient requires a short consultation and does not stay overnight. A day case tends to be a longer procedure, but the patient should be able to go home on the same day. An inpatient will stay one or more nights in hospital.
There are various methods; you may be able to claim for your treatment on your private medical insurance or you can pay for it yourself.
Do I have to do anything differently before my procedure?
Wear loose fitting and comfortable clothing. Do not wear jewellery, make-up or contact lenses.
Items that will enhance your comfort, for example photographs of family, magazines and books, and your favourite music etc.


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Vol. 55, Issue No. 48, 05 Dec, 2020
Updated on 24 December 2020
COVID and Macroeconomics
COVID and Economy
Bank ownership
Crumbling Firewalls
Ownership of banks by industrial houses will cost the economy dearly.
The recommendation of an internal working group of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to allow industrial houses to promote commercial banks has stirred up stiff opposition all around. This is not surprising as even the working group acknowledges that almost all experts they consulted, except one, were against it. But the opening up of the banking sector to the corporate sector has been a work in progress for almost a decade now. The late Pranab Mukherjee, in his budget speech, spoke about the need for giving additional banking licences to more aspirants, including non-banking financial companies. The RBI followed this up with a discussion paper listing out, among various other matters, the pros and cons of allowing industrial houses to promote banks either on their own or by allowing some major financial sector players to promote banks, or even by facilitating their takeover of regional rural banks as an intermediate step before letting them set up banks.
However, the final licencing guidelines issued in 2013 effectively stymied this move by clearly stating that private and public sector entities and non-banking financial companies will be eligible to set up a bank only if they pass the fit and proper test of the central bank, have a past record of sound credentials and integrity and are financially sound with a successful track record of running their business for at least 10 years. This felled the licence aspirations of many large industrial groups. Now, the internal working group has, hurriedly, in less than five months, gone a step further and recommended the entry of industrial groups, as in the pre-bank-nationalisation era, after making necessary amendments to the Banking Regulations Act, 1949.
Read more about Crumbling Firewalls
Updated On : 24th Dec, 2020

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Mancify
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SSH with a Manc flair! Coded by team Pynamo (@waveform80, @frimkron, @safehammad)
at `Hack Manchester`_, October 2013.

Don't have internet? Need to SSH into your server? Have your phone handy? Proud
to be `Mancunian <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancunian>`_? This app enables you
to SSH into a server and communicate with it via SMS messaging. As an added bonus,
you get to see your output in pure Mancunian dialect!

Setup
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* Install the package with ``python setup.py install``.

* Sign up for an SMS package with `Clockwork`_ including an inbound SMS number.
  You'll be given an API Key.

* Via the `Clockwork`_ website, configure your inbound SMS number to perform a
  GET request to the URL to which you will bind the application with "/ssh"
  appended to it. For example, if you bind the application to
  http://www.myserver.com/mancify, then point the inbound SMS number to
  http://www.myserver.com/mancify/ssh. Note that the Clockwork API requires
  your web-server to be running on port 80 (or port 443 with a valid certificate).

* Place your `Clockwork`_ API Key in ``~/.mancify.ini`` like so::

    [mancify]
    clockwork_api_key=abcde12345

Now you are ready to run the server. The simple way of doing this is to run
``sudo mancify-serve -v`` which will run the server on port 80 (Clockwork
requires this). This assumes you don't already have a web-server (like Apache)
running on port 80.

If you wish to integrate the application with an existing web-server, visit
http://wsgi.readthedocs.org/ for information on integrating WSGI applications
with your web-server (e.g. using mod_wsgi with Apache). The WSGI application
script that you want to serve is found under ``scripts/mancify.wsgi``.

Give it a go!
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Connect to an SSH server by texting the following to your inbound SMS number::

    ssh username@hostname password [dialect]

Where dialect is optional and can be "manc", the Mancunian dialect (default),
or "normal".

Now that you're connected, try out a command! Try texting some of the following
(assuming your server recognises these commands):

* ``ls``

* ``echo This is my house on the beach!``

* ``fortune``

Bear in mind that this isn't like a normal SSH session. There's no
pseudo-terminal so full-screen applications like vim won't function.
Furthermore, because there's no pseudo-terminal there's no persistent shell
attached to the session so things that rely on shell state (like the current
directory) won't work as expected (try changing directory with ``cd`` and
you'll find you stay put).

Testing the server
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If you'd like to try this without having to set up a server on the internet,
you can run a server locally. You'll be able to receive text messages but you
won't be able to send them (instead you can simulate sending a text message via
your web browser).

Simply run ``mancify-serve -v`` which will bind the server to localhost:8000. Now
simulate sending a text message by visiting the following URL in your web
browser::

    http://localhost:8000/ssh?to=<inbound_sms_no>&from=<your_mobile_no>&content=<text_message>&msg_id=AB_1

Note that "msg_id" represents the message id which can be any string but must
be unique with each invocation.

So to open an SSH connection to your server, use the following URL::

    http://localhost:8000/ssh?to=<inbound_sms_no>&from=<your_mobile_no>&content=ssh+username@hostname+password+dialect&msg_id=AB_1

And run the "ls" command with the following URL::

    http://localhost:8000/ssh?to=<inbound_sms_no>&from=<your_mobile_no>&content=ls&msg_id=AB_2

Try the translator
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You might have noticed that by setting the dialect to "manc" you get pure Mancuian
output! You can use the standalone translator by running ``mancify-translate`` on a
file or by piping stdin.

For example::

    $ cat myfile
    Hello, friend! Will you come back to my house?
    $ mancify-translate myfile
    Arrite, pal! Wil youse kuhm bak tuh me gaff or wot?
    $ echo This is really bad! | mancify-translate
    This iz well pear-shaped!

Testing
-------

To run the tests in Python 2.7+::

    python -m unittest discover

.. _Clockwork: http://www.clockworksms.com/

.. _`Hack Manchester`: http://www.hackmanchester.com/

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Home / Projects / The Frankford Proposed for Fishtown Development
The Frankford Proposed for Fishtown Development
Mar 18, 2022 /
Inside U.S.
A game changing, mixed-use development has been proposed for construction in Fishtown. The building will feature 150 apartments and 6,500 square feet of retail space along with a substantial amount of open area space for co-working and recreation. Designed by BLT Architects, this is a shared project involving U.S. Construction Inc., City Living Philly and Roland's Kassis' Domani Developers and is sure to be a game changer for the Philadelphia neighborhood.
Proposed Fishtown project could push more development south of Girard
By Natalie Kostelni – March 15, 2022
BLT ARCHITECTS–The Frankford will be developed at 1120 Frankford Ave. in Philadelphia
A partnership involving three Philadelphia real estate firms is planning to develop a $37 million mixed-use project in Fishtown that will serve as the first new development on Frankford Ave south of Girard Avenue.
U.S. Construction Inc., City Living Philly and Roland's Kassis' Domani Developers are proposing a project called the Frankford at 1120 Frankford Ave., which is next to Barcade. The five-store building will have 150 apartments and 6,500 square feet of retail space fronting Frankford Avenue. The plans have been submitted to the Philadelphia Planning Commission.
"We believe it is going to be a defining project in this area," said John Farina, CEO of U.S. Construction. "This is going to be a game-changing project that stimulates the rest of the area."
While the Frankford may help push new development and other investment South of Girard, the project joins several in the pipeline for that part of Philadelphia. For example, a developer is proposing a $72 million, 412,703 square-foot project at 2621 Frankford Ave. that will have 453 units.
The design of the Frankford borrows from the industrial past of Fishtown and surrounding neighborhoods. Red brick — standard size not thin — along with metal paneling and large, loft-style windows for the residential as well as commercial spaces that hark back to manufacturing are elements incorporated into the design, which also evokes a modern aestetic.
"It was easy to draw inspiration from the surrounding buildings and be respectful of the neighborhood," said Rob Lubas, an architect with BLT Architects, which designed the project. "We were also cognizant of the fact that we were going to be one of the larger buildings on the block so we designed something that was handsome and timeless."
As with most projects, the pandemic and people working more from home influenced parts of the design. A roofdeck will provide area for group gatherings or individuals to sit and work. Along the ground floor, a small garden and flexible outdoor space are available for those who want to work individually or collectively, Lubas said. There is also a coworking area and private booths on the interior.
In spite of all the additional apartments in the pipeline for in Fishtown and nearby neighborhoods, Farina is confident the Frankford will find its place in the market. "We think there is a great demand by GenZ for smaller units and a mix of amenities such as a roof deck and coworking spaces. This is the epicenter of the Fishtown, Northern Liberties, Kensington market."
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70 Hudson St. Suite 5A
Ocean Delray Design and Sales Center
1053 E. Atlantic Ave.
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Megyn Kelly: Out at NBC, Being Replaced by Kelly Clarkson?
By Author Simon Delott at Oct 26, 2018 • Category Kelly Clarkson
This week, Megyn Kelly finally realized that blackface is not okay.
NBC finally realized that Megyn Kelly isn't okay, either. But who will replace her?
A stunning report says that NBC has already approached Kelly Clarkson to take on the role.
According to numerous reports, Megyn Kelly met with NBC higher ups on Friday morning to negotiate her departure from the network.
RadarOnline reports that NBC is eyeing a familiar, less controversial face to replace her: Kelly Clarkson.
According to an insider, executives "think it might be perfect time to give her Today time slot to Kelly [Clarkson]."
The source explains that she is a star "who has a huge fan base and is extremely well-liked and relatable."
And as an added bonus, they're both blonde women with Kelly in their names, so maybe some viewers won't even notice.
Photo via NBC
One of Megyn's reported troubles at the network wasn't about bad ratings or a flagrant, tone-deaf defense of racism.
It's been said that she just hasn't been getting along with the other big names at the network or really fitting in.
In contrast, an insider says, the NBC crew "love" Kelly Clarkson.
Kelly already "is a huge part of the NBC family," a source says, because of her role as a judge on The Voice.
This could mean that everything, from contract negotiations to her interactions with colleagues, could go more smoothly.
Whether you think this is a good idea or a step in the wrong direction, it sounds like things are already in motion.
An insider shares that NBC has already "approached" Kelly Clarkson about taking on this new role.
(We should note that it's possible that this person is misinformed, because of another upcoming project of hers, but we'll get to that)
She, an insider notes, is "willing to take on any job thrown her way."
Hey, we're all out getting this bread. The stars are the same.
There's an obvious perk of hiring Kelly Clarkson.
"Kelly is the most non-biased person on the planet," an insider points out.
Or, at the very least, she's a nice person, the source notes, "and does not have an ounce of racism in her."
It's true that Kelly is not really the type of person to slam people or drag their names through the mud.
Off of the top of our heads, the only person we can think of whom she's ever spoken ill of is disgraced music producer Dr. Luke.
And, honestly, who hasn't spoken ill of that creep?
We cannot confirm that NBC is looking at Kelly Clarkson for this role.
For one thing, she's … not a news anchor. She can clearly do more than sing, though.
And The Kelly Clarkson Show is already a thing that begins airing on NBC next year.
After this debacle, we imagine that NBC wants to let Kelly Clarkson do her own show before the give her one of the biggest platforms on network television.
We're sure that she'll be an amazing host, but NBC will probably want the ratings to prove it before they boost her to Today, right?
At the end of the day, despite her long and controversial history, Megyn Kelly isn't really being given the boot over being racist.
Her defense of blackface was the straw that broke the camel's back at most. More like, it was just an excuse.
She was the highest paid anchor on television, but her ratings didn't reflect that at all.
Many have taken to social media to point out that NBC is probably just seizing this opportunity to give her the boot because she's bad at her job.
In case you are, for some reason, feeling sorry for her, don't.
She's already made a lot of money, she'll probably get more when she leaves, and she'll almost certainly get yet another chance at some other network.
11 Times Megyn Kelly Was Really Very Racist
Kris Jenner to Kanye West: STFU About the Trump Stuff!
Tyga Jealous of Travis Scott & Kylie Jenner: That Should Be ME!


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Q: HTML Frame problem Hi got a simple frame problem. I have 2 frames a top and a bottom frame. A html file opens in the top frame(final.html) and a php file in the bottom frame(final.php)
When i enter data it the top frame it should post to the bottom frame but it doesnt. It just loads final.php in the top frame with the search results.
The frame html code follows:

<TITLE>A simple frameset document</TITLE>

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      <FRAME src="final.html">
      <Frame src="final.php">
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<title>Search</title>

Database search

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A: You need to give the frame a name and then target it in your form.

A: To illustrate David's answer, use this code for your frameset :

<TITLE>A simple frameset document</TITLE>

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For many if not most Americans Memorial Day weekend marks the beginning of summer. For service members, veterans and families of the fallen, it means so much more. Army officer, Jaimie Leonard, wrote the following article for her local paper in 2010. Three years later she would tragically become one of the reasons we celebrate Memorial Day.
When I was a young girl growing up in Warwick, I'm not really sure I really ever truly understood what Memorial Day meant. In my young mind, it marked a day where my mother would have us officially in white shoes for church. There would be neighborhood picnic barbecues, softball games and parades with the American Legion marching down main street. For me, a veteran was my grandpa who fought in WW II and all those older men who wore military-style hats with a bunch of pins in them. As I grew older, I appreciated it as a three-day weekend with time off from school or work. Even later, when I joined what was then a peacetime Army, I failed to truly appreciate the emotional significance of this holiday. Memorial Day felt the same as Veterans Day. It was a day to thank soldiers. Being one at the time I appreciated the thanks, but I still failed to correctly realize what it meant.
It was not until I actually went to war in Iraq and when fellow soldiers in my unit failed to make it back from patrol did I truly internalize the distinction. It wasn't until then that I truly valued how these brave men and women who died serving our country deserved their own day memorializing their sacrifice. Furthermore, realizing it is not only their sacrifice that requires recognition, but also their family left behind. My best friend lost her husband in Iraq and I think a piece of her also died that day.
As I've gained more perspective, I've also regarded other concepts such as citizenship in a different light. Every day we hear about court cases trying to establish or expand the boundaries as to what our rights as citizens are. As citizens, we have the right to free speech, to freedom of religion, to work where we want if we are qualified, and to own guns. It is a rare day that I hear a conversation turn to what the duties of citizenship are for those who enjoy the rights protected by it. For those who have died for their country, they took measure of this duty and sacrificed their lives for it.
It is my wish this Memorial Day that you consider your duties as citizens. The duty goes beyond serving in the Armed Forces, jury duty, taxes or voting. Your duties are to each other, not some esoteric concept. Remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice for their country in war, but also honor those others who sacrifice in other ways to make this country great – law enforcement, firefighters, teachers, volunteers, etc. Please honor them in deed and not just giving thanks, parades, or planting flowers or flags on graves. Take measure of what have you done for your country and ask yourself if you could do more.
Lieutenant Colonel Jaimie Leonard was killed in action in Afghanistan June 8, 2013.
Jaimie Leonard was a 1992 graduate of Warwick Valley H.S. in New York, a 1997 graduate of the United States Military Academy, and a 2007 graduate of the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. Jaimie Leonard has a special connection to faculty members and students in our Warriors at Ease community.
Please consider donating to the Lieutenant Colonel Jaimie Leonard Scholarship Fund for Heroes. This is a scholarship fund that provides financial aid for women veterans and Gold Star family members (families of the fallen) to attend Warriors at Ease teacher training, wellness workshops and retreats.


We're at the point America, where we can no longer sit back and allow our nation to crumble.
We're being flooded by Federal Criminal Illegal Aliens inside of our great nation. Despite election President Trump, who is the toughest American President on Immigration in our history; the GOP fails to accomplish anything at all in the way of passing legislation to fund his campaign promises to build a wall and deport them all.
We the people, want them, the hell out of our country.
We are consistently proven right, with each and every day that passes, based upon the failures of our leadership in Congress to protect Americans.
Now we have another female socialite in New York City, Lois Colley, who has been brutally beaten to death at the hands of a Federal Criminal Illegal Alien.
A tragedy that should have and could have been prevented if the greedy Republican Party who controls Congress would get off their asses and do something to make America safe again.
In this case 32-year-old Esdras Marroquin Gomez, who was a Federal Criminal Illegal Alien fugitive from Guatemala, should never have been in New York in the first place.
He should have been in Guatemala or on a plane back to Guatemala if not in a jail cell waiting on a plane back to Guatemala.
Westchester District Attorney Anthony Scarpino, however, says that he was doing none of the above and that Gomez was freely roaming the streets of Westchester as of he belonged, despite the fact he did not.
Lois Colley owned a 300-acre farm in Westchester, New York, in which she properly titled <i>"Windswept Farm"<i>.
On November the 9th, Gomez arrived at Windswept Farm where he threatened Colley, demanding cash from her.
Apparently, after her refusal, he then chased her into the home where used a fire extinguisher and a wine bottle to brutally smash in her skull in a room to the left wing of the estate, just past the kitchen.
After he savagely beat Colley to death, Gomez then wrapped her body in plastic and dumped her into the pond located in the rear of the estate.
A caretaker later discovered her corpse, prompting her frantic husband Eugene Colley to call emergency 911, who could do nothing for the dead women.
After the attack Federal Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrived at the scene to examine the evidence captured on CCTV footage surrounding the crime, only to find that the suspect was an illegal alien who occasionally did landscaping work in nearby neighborhoods.
Gomez, however, had already fled the United States of America after the murder, knowing that in such a wealthy neighborhood he would have been on camera.
Gomez, however, was captured by Border Patrol when he was attempting to sneak into Mexico, who was in the process of deporting him to Guatemala when the FBI placed a detainer on him.
He was stopped in Miami just before the flight and charged with first-degree murder.
New York continues to this day to promote a "Sanctuary State" policy, even if off the record in some regions, which allow these savages to roam free.
The people of America will continue to demand that the GOP and all of DC do their jobs to support President Trump, and enforce Federal Immigration Laws all across the United States of America.
Sadly for Lois Colley, she is now another statistic, based upon the failures of Congress to do anything at all.


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Why do I need to write? Because the author is the invisible hero of the narration, who moves through the pages and, silent and invisible, whispers to the reader the souls of the characters and the unfolding of the plot.
Someone said that writing is one of the most complex activities of the human brain.
As for me, the facets, the contradictions, the colors crowding and pushing inside the tip of my pen are coming from dreams. The most difficult part is to transform into words, line after line, the sensations, smells, images of those dreams. There, people often live in paradoxical scenarios, not bound by the real world's laws. If I could share with you even a glimpse of my dreamed worlds it would be much simpler, but, unfortunately, there is no such thing as a neural chip for that...yet. So far, only a few of my many dreams have found their way to a written page.
My first published work is "Amber's World", two books about a not so distant future and a hypothetical destiny for mankind: "The missing piece of the puzzle" and "The other face of God". I dreamed the plot of the first one in a single night. When I woke up, it was still so vivid and detailed in my mind that, for fear of losing it, I kept my two sons home from school and told it to them, which took the best part of the day. That is how my son Flavio became my co-writer. The second one, a sequel, but also a stand alone story, was the result of a series of surprising coincidences.
I started the journey of writing with joy, then I learned about the growing commitment of effort and discovery, at the same time proof of limits, and ability, of horizons and dimensions.
The three books of the "La Trilogia di Amber" (i.e. "Amber Trilogy"), translated into English become the two books of "Amber's World".
I collected the images and whispers of my other dreams in the short stories of "Paradigm Imperfect - Stories of Bordering Universes".
I took up the handwritten folders years and years before, and I repeated in the pages of "The land of others" the freshness, dreams and adventures thought when my life flowed in a world that I still felt mine.
Other awakenings of mine have followed the indications that come to me from "my city", in which I go only when I dream; the traces of complex thoughts and feelings, that my pen unravel in the pages of my "Black Star".
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Amber's World
The Earth of Others
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Singapore Interested In Health Collaboration
by admin | Mar 10, 2015 | Top Stories
Singapore???s Ambassador to Barbados, Kemal Siddique, is interested in helping this country tackle communicable and non-communicable diseases.
He expressed this recently during a courtesy call on Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Steven Blackett.
The Ambassador said Singapore???s School of Public Health could provide technical assistance to Barbados and the Caribbean in the areas of HIV/AIDS and diabetes.
Pointing out that his country saw non-communicable diseases in a holistic manner, and that the most important element in health management was data, Ambassador Siddique said: ???We want to know what we can do to get public health in the Caribbean working together in a digitalised way. That is the key to everything. The international community is already digitalised.???
Assistance was also offered in areas such as diplomacy and oceanographics.??The Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade welcomed the offers, and acknowledged that Barbados had benefited from various scholarships and training through the Singaporean Small Island Developing States Technical Programme (SIDSTECH).
He said: ???That is an aspect we have pushed for. We have profited from areas of e-governance, investment and trade facilitation, as well as natural disaster management and mitigation. We look forward very much to our students and employees benefiting from your programmes.?????
Barbados and Singapore established diplomatic relations on December 19, 1996.
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Pilocka Krach, the eclectic Rockstar from Berlin.
There's nobody in the whole Techno circus who sounds and performes like this brilliant dancefloorfiller.
Her infinitely new and raw stage presence coupled by her infectious and unusual sound, always demands the crowds full dancing attention.
Pilocka Krach has the rare gift of inextricably linking both music and fun, and her fans fall at her feet for it.
Extroverted to the brink, extravagant, but approachable, this woman unleashes a kind of techno from a different angle: funky, demanding, dirty, funny, live and direct.
She initially emerged from the Noise Avant-Garde scene in Vienna, then the techno-hippy post-rave scene of a good-humored Berlin that gladly considers Monday afternoon to be peak time.
From there, Pilocka won over hearts and rode on to victory.
On top of it she founds the 7inch collectors label "Greatest Hits International" as an imprint for her music.
In 2015 she finally releases her first album "Best Of" on Monika Enterprise. Her second longplayer, the double album "Sugar Cane & The Lost Amigos" came out in 2017.
Anyone who has ever seen her live can attest to her generous nature – she gives and doesn't take.
Frau Krach delivers: boundless passion and enthusiasm, genuine music for racing hearts.
It's meant to rock – more Freddy Mercury than Robert Hood.
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Ty Tessmann is the Top Qualifier at this year's 1:8 Offroad World Championships in Perth, Australia. The former champion took qualifying's top prize with the second fastest time in the final round of qualifying behind Davide Ongaro to deny defending Champion David Ronnefalk by a single point. While Ongaro took Q6 by a considerable margin of almost 8-seconds, as the only one who could knock Tessmann off the top of the qualification ranking, Ronnefalk didn't have the best of runs and needing only a Top 4 for the round to take the overall TQ ended up with a P5 leaving with 8 points compared to Tessmann's 7. With four of the six rounds of qualifying to count Ongaro's second TQ run allowed him to drop a 16th from Q3 to end up 3rd overall. Concluding qualifying with a P4 behind Spencer Rivkin, Ryan Maifield would move up to fourth in the final ranking ahead of Mugen team's Robert Batlle with onroad star Naoto Matsukura completing the Top 6.


Everyone can look forward to an exciting DKM season in 2015 again. A couple of top-class drivers have confirmed their participation already.
The DKM is among the biggest racing series in Europe and has continued to successfully develop over the past few years. This trend is continuing in 2015. The organizational team is still working on the concept of the Championship and is providing a good platform once again. The drivers can count on a permanent organizational team, a so far unique race-control as well as an extensive video-stream including up to 16 hours of live footage on racing weekends.
The first participants signed up for the three grade series early on and are making for a top-class field of participants. The closing date for registration for the DKM is March 20th. "All drivers who haven't sent their official registration to the DMSB yet should do so until March 20th. This way they can save a raised fee of 200 Euros. This also applies for the drivers who are already on the list of participants, but haven't sent their official registration yet", series coordinator Stefan Wagner explains.
The DKM is going to start at the first weekend in May at the Prokart Raceland Wackersdorf. All in all the highest German kart racing series includes five races on tracks in Germany and Belgium.


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Atlantis, the Lost Continent
USA • 1961 • 90m • • Directed by: George Pal. • Starring: Sal Ponti, Joyce Taylor, John Dall, William Smith, Edward Platt, Frank DeKova, Berry Kroeger, Edgar Stehli, Wolfe Barzell, Jay Novello, Paul Frees, Alan Callow, Phyllis Douglas. • Music by: Russell Garcia.
A Greek Fisherman brings an Atlantean Princess back to her homeland which is the mythical city of Atlantis. He is enslaved for his trouble. The King is being manipulated by an evil sorcerer who is bent on using a natural resource of Atlantis to take over the world. The Atlanteans, or rather the slaves of Atlantis, are forced to mine a crystalline material which absorbs the suns rays. These crystals can then be used for warmth. The misuse of science has created weapons out of the crystals that can fire a heat ray to destroy whatever it touches.
Leonard Maltin's Movies on TV lists this as George Pal's worst film. This is overly harsh and will steer you away from a fun film. While "Atlantis" is far from Pal's best, it's definitely better than "Conquest of Space," or "Doc Savage," both of which have embarrassing scripts, bad acting and heavy-handed direction.
Anyone who knows anything about Pal knows MGM rushed "Atlantis" into production before the script was refined, and it shows. Still, the major problem is not so much the script but the casting. The two leads, Sal Ponti as Demetrius and Joyce Taylor as Princess Antillia are terrible, particularly Taylor. She is beyond unlikable when she allows Zaren (John Dall) to make a slave of Demetrius after having been rescued and returned to Atlantis by him. If her performance suggested she suspected Zaren responsible for having Demetrius placed in irons, it would have softened her, making her later reunion with Demetrius believable. Unfortunately, she displays so much venom towards him when he verbalizes his suspicions of her betrayal, believability never recovers. Yet, Ponti is equally at fault. If, through a look or gesture we could see that perhaps he didn't truly believe she would have made a slave of him, the film would have been improved immensely.
Other actors fare better, but John Dall hams it up about as much as anyone could, making his also hammy performance in "Spartacus" appear to be Oscar bait by comparison. And Edward Platt as Azor is a bit too holier than thou, though he is quite restrained. That he became the Chief on TV's Get Smart later, doesn't help sell his believability in a serious role, but his performance can't be held accountable for interesting career decisions.
The actor who runs away with the picture is Jay Novello, as Xandros a Greek who Demetrius saves in the slave camp. After having thrown mud at the princess, who he assumes is responsible for making him a slave, Demetrius is sent to an evil scientist to be transformed into an animal to be used as a beast of burden (shades of H. G. Wells of course). Demetrius escapes this fate, but Xandros does not. Though we see the signs of an ox reveal themselves on his ears and nose, Xandros struggles to maintain his humanity as the animal instinct grows. Novello, who gave a campy but fun performance in Irwin Allen's "The Lost World" (1960), actually evokes some reasonable compassion in "Atlantis" as we watch him struggle to hold on to his humanity. His ox makeup is effectively creepy without being overdone, and his facial features lend themselves to that look. I don't know why more people haven't recognized this actor.
Where the film shines is in its atmospheric sense of place. Prior to Pal's "Atlantis" the only other version of the Atlantis myth to be seen on screen were the various versions of Atlantide, with Queen Antinea and the remnants of the empire of Atlantis discovered beneath the Sahara desert. A very dry prospect. Pal's "Atlantis" is a place that has to be reached by sea and ultimately, by submarine, one in the shape of a fish. Even King Neptune is shown in a dream sequence. The film feels aquatic and very Greek somehow, particularly the look of the city, the costumes and war machines. This definitely gives the film a mythological quality the Atlantide films don't possess.
And of course, Pal's attention to color and production design, in spite of the fact that much was stolen from earlier productions, pluses the less than adequate budget. In general, what the film is, is a very good American version of Italian peplum (sword and sandal epics shot at Cinecitta). It's a much better film than Steve Reeves' "Hercules" or any number of peplum from the late 50s and early 60s, and it's not dubbed either ( aside from the use of Paul Frees, who dubbed Demetrius' father's voice, and a few others).
Yes, Pal swipes footage from "Quo Vadis" for the destruction of Atlantis, and for some wide arena shots. The mattes of the Colosseum are up to Pal's usual standards. It's just that he didn't shoot the original footage. But the visual effects that Pal's team did create are for the most part, well done. In fact, "Atlantis" probably boasts one scene that stands with the finest work Pal ever did, the submarine fish's approach to Demetrius' boat and its arrival at Atlantis. First we hear the whirring sound and we see the metallic vessel surface in the distance behind Demetrius, unaware of its approach towards his boat. Though the sub's arrival at Atlantis uses earlier footage too, the combined result of seeing Atlantis from the circular window as the sub rises then cutting to the vessel pulling into harbor with people in togas cheering is one of the most memorable scenes in just about any fantasy film from that era. Though some of the miniatures used for the sinking of Atlantis look like what they are, the designs themselves and the lighting make the shots highly atmospheric.
Along with Miklos Rozsa's score to Pal's "The Power," Russell Garcia's scores to "The Time Machine" and "Atlantis the Lost Continent" are the best of Pal's long career. Garcia did the two films back to back and are both perfectly suited to their subjects. With "Atlantis" Garcia created a mini-epic. Regal and majestic, swirling with magical and diabolical moments, the music elevates the film beyond the peplum it really is.
The film totally depends on what you expect going in. If you expect peplum, you'll be nicely surprised. If you expect "The Time Machine," it couldn't possibly stack up.
Review by kirksworks from the Internet Movie Database.
May 2 2017, 22:28
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Cover Stories: Not That Kind of Girl by Siobhan Vivian
September 06, 2010 in Cover Stories
Siobhan Vivian's Not That Kind of Girl is full of heart and hurt and love and kissing and feminism and awesome relationships. It's the perfect, perfect fall read. You will cheer and swoon. I can't say enough good stuff. Now, here's Siobhan with the story behind that hot cover:
"I started out pitching my editor, David Levithan, the idea of two girls standing next to each other, each wearing a private school uniform. One girl would be very buttoned-up and proper, while the other would trick out her uniform to make it look as sexy as possible. But David said that Girl-In-Uniform covers hadn't worked so well for them in the past, so he wanted to go in another direction.
"Then, when I was riding the subway, I saw the poster for the Neil LaBute play, REASONS TO BE PRETTY (right). I loved the vulnerability of that girl, and felt it very much in sync with my main character, Natalie. But I knew I couldn't have a naked girl on the cover, and I wasn't sure if the image would work as well with her in her underwear. Also, it maybe gave off the sense of someone being violated, which was not something I wanted my cover to convey.
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"Finally, I came up with the idea of a boy and a girl running into the woods together, as Natalie and Connor spend their nights fooling around on his family's Christmas Tree Farm. Something like this stock photo (left). That idea was shot down, too. I forget why. But I think it did lead us to the cover we have now, a photo that featured the love story of Natalie and Connor, rather than the story of Natalie and her friends.
"I really really appreciated their asking for my input. I got to pick Natalie and Connor from several beautiful girls and very adorable boys. Hardest part of the job. ; )
"I was definitely happy with the cover, but I did worry that it maybe looked a little too romantic. My book certainly has that element to it, but it is also very much about the relationship between three friends. That said, I was really impressed with the emotion captured by the photo. There was tangible heat behind that almost kiss!
"Here's a funny side note: David told me that both of my models were in relationships with other people, and that they REFUSED to actually make out for the shoot, even when the photographer told them to. Hello! What would Tyra say about that?!? I'm actually glad though. I think the second-before-a-make-out is way hotter than seeing actual tongue wrestling.
"The original concept for the photo shoot had been that we'd get a picture of a boy and a girl kissing, and then have the design department put a black censorship bar over their mouths. That was supposed to represent how Natalie fears how people might judge what she does with Connor.
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"But when the design department mocked the cover up that way (right), it became clear that the bar covered up all that emotion and longing and tentativeness and romance. It had to go! Nothing could get in the way of that kiss!"
Thanks, Siobhan! I totally agree that the black bar blocks the heat of the cover. So glad it went away. I love the just-before-kiss moment!
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Joanna Biggar's new book has just gone to galley, but what does that mean?
A galley, put simply, is a proofing copy. Doggy-eared, coffee-stained, and scribbled on with bright red pen, the galley is the penultimate stage before publication where all the smallest details of a manuscript, disregarded during the writing and organizing process, are scrutinized by fastidious copy-editors and a team of eager-to-help friends of the author. Because it is designed to facilitate the proof-reading and editing process, the galley often looks quite different from the version which goes to print. For example: so the copy-editor has space to curate with her pen, the margins of a galley proof are quite large. The design flare is also cut down, the book taking on a minimalist aspect, much like how a screen play might look, prioritizing white-space and simple font sets.
Historically, the "galley" referred to a part of the European printing press championed by goldsmith Johannes Guttenberg. "Galleys" were metal trays where the type molds were laid in preparation for printing. Several proofing copies would be pressed for early copy-editors to check, and the type would be rearranged accordingly, re-pressed, and re-proofed. When we refer to galleys now, we reference this double-checking of the typeset on the early, manual machines of publishing.
The galley proof may be the first tangible sign of collaboration in publishing. If the author had not yet worked with her editor, the galley may even mark the first instance of compromise and comradeship in the editing and artistic processes. For, an author relinquishing control of the red pen in an official capacity marks a commitment to the publishing process, something we believe fosters creativity. ASP prides itself on the care with which we edit, such care being the product of the work and love of our entire team. Nita Congress is our main copy-editor, though many many eyes pass over the galley and many many different shades of red ramify through the pages before all is said and done.
Galley editing is a tedious task for sure, but so is publishing. And it is precisely the type of tedium from which we fashion and foster excellence in the process and the design. The same sedulity in copy-editing can be seen in formatting, in aesthetic considerations, in the weight of the paper, and, of course, in the writing. The publishing process is not just the kiln which solidifies an idea between hard covers but that which shapes, economizes, and embellishes.
After the galleys are assayed and corrected, the next step is the "bound galley" or ARC which stands for "Advanced Reader Copy." The book at this stage is nearly complete, but the ARC is still not the finished product with all its flare and feel as it, like the proofing galley, opts for a more minimalist presentation. Though, the minimalism of the ARC is utilized to highlight the writing as it is, rather than for corrective purposes. ARC copies are for early reviewers who are concerned with the substance of the art in words. That is, ARCs do not have to worry about catching the attention of a casual browser and so can afford to serve the story a la carte.
Galley Cover for "Melonie's Song"
Generally, ARC copies are given out for free at either the request of a reviewer (a reviewer can be anyone from a blogger, to a social media personality, to one who writes bi-weekly for the Post) or sent by a publisher singling out a reviewer whom they think might take to the book.
ARCs are a great way to generate buzz about an upcoming title, especially for smaller presses who, if they were to simply release the book without any advanced reviews, would find themselves without the capital for major ad campaigns and entirely subjugated by the first couple of reactions to appear in the wake of the release no matter if they are from Amazon reviewers or the editors of The New Yorker.
Now that we have a set date for the release of the book (OCT 1st, 2019) the next step after sending out the ARCs is a final bit of collaboration and last minute beautifying. As much as a book is the writing, often times the experience of reading is guided by the look and feel of what you have in your hands. This is the focus leading up to the release of Melanie's Song, Navigating the Divide, Scattered Clouds, and any other book ASP ever puts out. We want it to feel like an ASP book.
More updates to come on all our titles very soon.


I found it hard going if I'm honest. Listening at 1.25x speed helped.
…Ho hum. But you have to trust the dice.
Recent work in computer science has shown that there are cases where randomized algorithms can produce good approximate answers to difficult questions faster than all known deterministic algorithms.
One problem they help with is 'Hill climbing' and local maxima.
At any point in life – however much you've perfected it, the risk is it could still be better. Like a climber in the mist, you know you're in a good place – but there might be an even better one you can't see for the fog.
And randomness is the way to find out.
Try something a bit different and you can find out whether you're at the top of a small hill of possibilities – or surveying the entire range from the highest vantage point.
The truth of life is: you never can know if you're stuck in a local maximum. But the odd throw of the dice now has the full weight of computer science behind it!


Brian Edwards has a lot of demons. Unable to control his addiction and his attraction to a much younger man, his career, home life, and reputation are ripped apart as he surrenders to destructive urges. The consequences of his decisions prove devastating to everyone involved.
Eric is published in 3 different genres; inspirational fiction as E.L. Ayala, women's fiction as Erica Lewis, and street lit as Lewis Ericson.Screenwriter for Sunday Morning Rapture, if i should die before i wake, and Cancer.


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After receiving much attention for her solo shows in Stockholm and The Hague, and for her participation in the Hammer Museum exhibition entitled THING, Lara Schnitger returns to New York with two solo shows next month. Schnitger's new body of highly eroticized sculptures premieres at Anton Kern Gallery on September 8, while a large-scale installation called "Blacks on Blondes" opens September 11 at Triple Candie, a contemporary art space in Harlem.
In her fourth solo show at Anton Kern Gallery, Schnitger presents a group of erotically charged sculptures carefully crafted out of fabric and wood and stenciled with block lettering. As in all her work the artist applies one basic system, stretching fabric over joined sticks of wood. The tensile force of the textile keeps the wooden armature firmly in place, creating large, free-standing volumetric forms. The push-and pull of the materials creates an organic tension between structure and skin, endowing the forms with human characteristics. In her new work, however, Schnitger's self-actualized costumes have been altered and qualified through the application of text fragments, often pornographic in nature or expressing other supposed female desires but always over-the-top and humorous.
The exhibition is accompanied by a catalog book entitled "It Ain't Gonna Lick Itself" featuring illustrations of Schnitger's new works as well as an essay by Lisa Mark, Director of Publications at L.A. MoCA.


As Joe's older brother nears his execution date, Joe journeys to visit him before the end. He struggles to understand what happened from the night Ed's accused of murder through the twists and turns in the justice system. Now, barely able to provide for himself, Joe tries his best to support his brother and hold onto the hope that his brother will have justice before he dies.
Moonrise shines a light on some cracks in the criminal justice system. I feel like cracks isn't the right word. Holes? Canyons? I'm not sure. Nevertheless, reading a story about someone who seems to have been wrongfully convicted can't be easy.
Joe's whole life is a struggle, but his brother Ed was one of the brightest spots in it as he grew up, fatherless, and with a drug-addicted mother. That changes when Ed goes to prison for murder, even though there isn't much evidence to support the conviction. Now he tries to be a support to his brother in what may be his final days, even though he has no idea what to say or how to say it. Even though he can barely afford to survive on his own in the small Texas town where Ed's imprisoned.
The story has a lot of grim moments, but it's not without hope. Joe befriends a young woman who teaches him about forgiveness and love. He meets a Chaplin who challenges him to be strong. His sister and aunt find ways to love one another despite the difficult circumstances they find themselves in.
Did I like the story? For some reason, I find it tough to answer that. It's an uncomfortable read in some ways. I found I couldn't read it without examining my own thoughts on issues like the death penalty and police procedures surrounding suspects and pressure to elicit a confession. I think this was the author's point, so in that way, the story must be a success. Was it a comfortable read? No. Not at all. But there are a lot of books worth reading that aren't comfortable. I have to call this one of them.
Extreme profanity used moderately frequently.
Joe and his brother meet with a Chaplin who brings them comfort.
Joe's brother has been accused and convicted of shooting a police officer. No descriptions of the officer's death.
Joe and a girl smoke pot together in one scene. In another, they drink alcohol.
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Prep and Cook Time: about 1 1/2 hours, plus at least 4 hours to chill. Notes: To grind the almonds, whirl in a blender or food processor. You can store these cookies airtight for up to 2 days.
In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat butter, shortening, and sugar until smooth; beat in molasses and lemon peel until well blended.
In another bowl, mix flour, baking soda, ground ginger, cinnamon, and cloves; stir into butter mixture until completely incorporated. Stir in almonds and candied ginger.
Divide dough into thirds. Shape each third into a roll about 1 1/2 inches in diameter; wrap rolls in waxed paper and chill until firm, at least 4 hours, or up to 1 week.
Unwrap dough. Using a sharp knife, cut into 1/4-inch-thick slices; place slices about 1 inch apart on buttered or cooking parchment-lined 12- by 15-inch baking sheets. If desired, gently press a slivered almond into the middle of each cookie.
Bake cookies in a 350° oven until edges are lightly browned, 7 to 10 minutes. With a wide spatula, transfer cookies to racks to cool completely.


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Oklahoma Republicans respond to president's immigration plan
Updated: 9:47 PM CST Nov 20, 2014
Republicans in Oklahoma responded to President Barack Obama's immigration remarks on Thursday.Gov. Mary Fallin:"The United States is a nation of immigrants, and I am proud that people from all across the world want to come here to enjoy our freedoms and our prosperity. We are also a nation of laws. Like all nations, the U.S. has borders. Those laws and those borders must be respected, for reasons ranging from national security to economics to health."President Obama's decision to circumvent a newly elected Congress and grant amnesty to 5 million illegal immigrants undermines the rule of law. It rewards people who have illegally crossed our borders and broken our laws. His decision is an insult to the millions of people around the world trying to come to the U.S. through legal means. It's also an affront to the American people, who elected a Congress to work with the president on matters of national importance, not to be circumvented through a legally questionable power-grab."Finally, I have grave concerns about the president's amnesty plan as it relates to the fiscal stability of both our federal and state governments. The president has now unilaterally granted legal status to millions of individuals who may require state-funded medical and educational services as well as other benefits enjoyed by American citizens. All of this comes with a price tag, which the president has not addressed. This decision can be added to long list of policies supported by President Obama that are driving this nation further into debt."Sen. Jim Inhofe:"President Obama's amnesty plan flies in the face of the American people and their vote this last election cycle when the President put his policies on the ballot, including immigration. Instead of coming to the table to discuss Republicans' concerns with the immigration crisis at our southern border, the President stated tonight that he plans to take action without Congressional oversight. If the President finds a law problematic, he must work with Congress to change the law. He does not have the constitutional authority to unilaterally declare that a law should not apply to millions in America. But that is what he did tonight when he announced plans to give roughly 5 million illegal immigrants amnesty. What does this say to the millions more who are going through the proper channels, studying English and using their precious resources to become a U.S. citizen the right way? I have long supported and fought for those who dreamed about making a better life in the United States for themselves and their families through the proper, legal process, but I will continue to oppose and join efforts to prevent the President's executive amnesty. I will also be looking to work with my colleagues in the new Congress for ways we can better to secure the border and ensure current laws are being enforced."Incoming Sen. James Lankford:"Many times over the past six years, the President has stated immigration must be resolved in law, not in Executive Action. He was right," observed Lankford. "Now, because the political negotiations are growing more difficult, the President has punted his previous stand on the law and has invented a new Executive ability to act when Congress does not pass a bill on his time-table."The Constitution is clear and the courts have affirmed that the President cannot invent new policy for millions of people. We are a nation of laws. A police officer cannot invent new laws on the street; that would be chaos. The President cannot invent new law from his office; that is chaos. The Department of Homeland Security is not prepared to manage millions of people flooding their offices or the flood of people that will now rush across our border."It is apparent that the President is acting now because it was politically toxic to act before the election, and the new Congress will pass immigration reform that focuses on border security first. Obviously the President does not want to do the hard work of negotiating an actual reform, so he has acted in a manner that only a few years ago he called, 'unwise and unfair.' The President has a pen and a phone; he should use them to negotiate law, not invent ways to avoid the law."The Senate has passed comprehensive immigration reform, and the House has passed a significant border security bill and high-skill work visa reform. The President's action makes reform harder to negotiate in the next Congress because it is obvious that whichever law is passed, he will only enforce the areas he chooses, instead of faithfully executing the laws of the United States.""The American people believe in the rule of law. Our nation does not have a problem with immigration; we have a problem with illegal immigration. Oklahomans understand that when we're talking about immigration, we're talking about people and families. Our strong values direct us not to flippantly make federal policies or laws that impact people's lives, their families or their futures. The President's Executive Action gives temporary recognition to millions of people and certain uncertainty two years from now for the same people."Rep. Frank Lucas:"Rather than working with Congress on the issue of immigration, President Obama has declared amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. The president's brazen use of executive action to bypass our nation's immigration laws threatens the sanctity of our border, does nothing to stem the growing tide of illegal immigration and delays the prospect of fixing our legal immigration system."The president's single-minded approach on immigration will not work, and he must remember that it is his constitutional duty to implement, not write, the law. If he is serious about immigration reform, President Obama must first work with Congress to secure the border and enforce, rather than ignore, our nation's laws."Rep. Tom Cole:"I am amazed that the president insists on going ahead with action that he has said, on multiple occasions, he would not and could not constitutionally take," said Cole. "I am deeply disappointed that the president refuses to work with lawmakers who represent the beliefs of the American people. Without question, decisions on such controversial issues as immigration should be carried out by working together in a bipartisan manner, including the president seeking congressional oversight and approval. Instead, the president is unfortunately taking the go-it-alone approach and complicating the future of real immigration reform in the process."The president should always seek to unite, rather than divide the American people. Especially with such a highly charged issue, the president is yet again missing the opportunity to work with lawmakers and show the country that government can function and find solutions to the challenges facing our country. By choosing not to work with Congress to actually solve the issue, the president has chosen to pit lawmakers and the Americans they represent against each other by taking this rash action."In the days and months ahead, I hope that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle will engage in discussion on the immigration issue, restore order to the legislative process and rein in White House overreach. When dealing with such complex and controversial issues, Americans should be able to rest assured that all branches of government are working together."Rep. Jim Bridenstine:"Tonight, President Obama announced a series of executive orders regarding immigration. His executive amnesty is illegal, unfair, costly, and dangerous because it will spur a wave of further illegal immigration.· It's illegal and unconstitutional for the President to usurp legislative power clearly delegated to Congress. The President has no statutory authority or inherent power to apply prosecutorial discretion to millions of people.· It's unfair to millions of legal immigrants that have played by the rules, and it's unfair to the American workforce as labor rates will decline.· It's costly because most amnestied illegals will have immediate access to taxpayer funded benefits such as Medicaid, Obamacare, Social Security, and Unemployment Insurance.· It's dangerous because amnesty encourages further illegal immigration facilitated by our unsecure border.Last month, I visited with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and National Guard personnel manning the Rio Grande Valley sector of the southern border – the area most trafficked by cartels smuggling people, drugs, and weapons into the United States. The border is not secure. CBP is undermanned, underfunded, and hampered by ridiculous environmental protection laws that limit patrol and surveillance access across much of the border.I also learned that the cartels – and the foreign governments that abet smuggling operations – are deeply sensitive to changes in U.S. immigration policy. During the Unaccompanied Children surge crisis, House Republicans passed a bill to suspend foreign aid to Central American countries until they acted to stop the flow of illegal immigrants. Though President Obama ignored our bill, the mere threat of congressional action prompted consular officials from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras to instruct detained illegals to stay home once deported.How should Congress respond to Obama's illegal executive amnesty? Congress should exercise the power of the purse to withhold funding necessary to implement the President's amnesty. I hope the President does not choose to shut down the government to enact an executive action that American does not want, that Congress did not vote for, and that is unconstitutional."
Republicans in Oklahoma responded to President Barack Obama's immigration remarks on Thursday.
Gov. Mary Fallin:
"The United States is a nation of immigrants, and I am proud that people from all across the world want to come here to enjoy our freedoms and our prosperity. We are also a nation of laws. Like all nations, the U.S. has borders. Those laws and those borders must be respected, for reasons ranging from national security to economics to health.
"President Obama's decision to circumvent a newly elected Congress and grant amnesty to 5 million illegal immigrants undermines the rule of law. It rewards people who have illegally crossed our borders and broken our laws. His decision is an insult to the millions of people around the world trying to come to the U.S. through legal means. It's also an affront to the American people, who elected a Congress to work with the president on matters of national importance, not to be circumvented through a legally questionable power-grab.
"Finally, I have grave concerns about the president's amnesty plan as it relates to the fiscal stability of both our federal and state governments. The president has now unilaterally granted legal status to millions of individuals who may require state-funded medical and educational services as well as other benefits enjoyed by American citizens. All of this comes with a price tag, which the president has not addressed. This decision can be added to long list of policies supported by President Obama that are driving this nation further into debt."
Sen. Jim Inhofe:
"President Obama's amnesty plan flies in the face of the American people and their vote this last election cycle when the President put his policies on the ballot, including immigration. Instead of coming to the table to discuss Republicans' concerns with the immigration crisis at our southern border, the President stated tonight that he plans to take action without Congressional oversight. If the President finds a law problematic, he must work with Congress to change the law. He does not have the constitutional authority to unilaterally declare that a law should not apply to millions in America. But that is what he did tonight when he announced plans to give roughly 5 million illegal immigrants amnesty. What does this say to the millions more who are going through the proper channels, studying English and using their precious resources to become a U.S. citizen the right way? I have long supported and fought for those who dreamed about making a better life in the United States for themselves and their families through the proper, legal process, but I will continue to oppose and join efforts to prevent the President's executive amnesty. I will also be looking to work with my colleagues in the new Congress for ways we can better to secure the border and ensure current laws are being enforced."
Incoming Sen. James Lankford:
"Many times over the past six years, the President has stated immigration must be resolved in law, not in Executive Action. He was right," observed Lankford. "Now, because the political negotiations are growing more difficult, the President has punted his previous stand on the law and has invented a new Executive ability to act when Congress does not pass a bill on his time-table.
"The Constitution is clear and the courts have affirmed that the President cannot invent new policy for millions of people. We are a nation of laws. A police officer cannot invent new laws on the street; that would be chaos. The President cannot invent new law from his office; that is chaos. The Department of Homeland Security is not prepared to manage millions of people flooding their offices or the flood of people that will now rush across our border.
"It is apparent that the President is acting now because it was politically toxic to act before the election, and the new Congress will pass immigration reform that focuses on border security first. Obviously the President does not want to do the hard work of negotiating an actual reform, so he has acted in a manner that only a few years ago he called, 'unwise and unfair.' The President has a pen and a phone; he should use them to negotiate law, not invent ways to avoid the law.
"The Senate has passed comprehensive immigration reform, and the House has passed a significant border security bill and high-skill work visa reform. The President's action makes reform harder to negotiate in the next Congress because it is obvious that whichever law is passed, he will only enforce the areas he chooses, instead of faithfully executing the laws of the United States."
"The American people believe in the rule of law. Our nation does not have a problem with immigration; we have a problem with illegal immigration. Oklahomans understand that when we're talking about immigration, we're talking about people and families. Our strong values direct us not to flippantly make federal policies or laws that impact people's lives, their families or their futures. The President's Executive Action gives temporary recognition to millions of people and certain uncertainty two years from now for the same people."
Rep. Frank Lucas:
"Rather than working with Congress on the issue of immigration, President Obama has declared amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. The president's brazen use of executive action to bypass our nation's immigration laws threatens the sanctity of our border, does nothing to stem the growing tide of illegal immigration and delays the prospect of fixing our legal immigration system.
"The president's single-minded approach on immigration will not work, and he must remember that it is his constitutional duty to implement, not write, the law. If he is serious about immigration reform, President Obama must first work with Congress to secure the border and enforce, rather than ignore, our nation's laws."
Rep. Tom Cole:
"I am amazed that the president insists on going ahead with action that he has said, on multiple occasions, he would not and could not constitutionally take," said Cole. "I am deeply disappointed that the president refuses to work with lawmakers who represent the beliefs of the American people. Without question, decisions on such controversial issues as immigration should be carried out by working together in a bipartisan manner, including the president seeking congressional oversight and approval. Instead, the president is unfortunately taking the go-it-alone approach and complicating the future of real immigration reform in the process.
"The president should always seek to unite, rather than divide the American people. Especially with such a highly charged issue, the president is yet again missing the opportunity to work with lawmakers and show the country that government can function and find solutions to the challenges facing our country. By choosing not to work with Congress to actually solve the issue, the president has chosen to pit lawmakers and the Americans they represent against each other by taking this rash action.
"In the days and months ahead, I hope that lawmakers on both sides of the aisle will engage in discussion on the immigration issue, restore order to the legislative process and rein in White House overreach. When dealing with such complex and controversial issues, Americans should be able to rest assured that all branches of government are working together."
Rep. Jim Bridenstine:
"Tonight, President Obama announced a series of executive orders regarding immigration. His executive amnesty is illegal, unfair, costly, and dangerous because it will spur a wave of further illegal immigration.
· It's illegal and unconstitutional for the President to usurp legislative power clearly delegated to Congress. The President has no statutory authority or inherent power to apply prosecutorial discretion to millions of people.
· It's unfair to millions of legal immigrants that have played by the rules, and it's unfair to the American workforce as labor rates will decline.
· It's costly because most amnestied illegals will have immediate access to taxpayer funded benefits such as Medicaid, Obamacare, Social Security, and Unemployment Insurance.
· It's dangerous because amnesty encourages further illegal immigration facilitated by our unsecure border.
Last month, I visited with Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and National Guard personnel manning the Rio Grande Valley sector of the southern border – the area most trafficked by cartels smuggling people, drugs, and weapons into the United States. The border is not secure. CBP is undermanned, underfunded, and hampered by ridiculous environmental protection laws that limit patrol and surveillance access across much of the border.
I also learned that the cartels – and the foreign governments that abet smuggling operations – are deeply sensitive to changes in U.S. immigration policy. During the Unaccompanied Children surge crisis, House Republicans passed a bill to suspend foreign aid to Central American countries until they acted to stop the flow of illegal immigrants. Though President Obama ignored our bill, the mere threat of congressional action prompted consular officials from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras to instruct detained illegals to stay home once deported.
How should Congress respond to Obama's illegal executive amnesty? Congress should exercise the power of the purse to withhold funding necessary to implement the President's amnesty. I hope the President does not choose to shut down the government to enact an executive action that American does not want, that Congress did not vote for, and that is unconstitutional."


Arriba Ski & Snowboard Club – Southern California's Lesbian and Gay Ski and Snowboarding Club » Celebrate Pride in Palm Springs!
Join Arriba for Happy Hour to celebrate Gay Pride in the desert, Saturday, November 3 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Location is at Myra and Barb's place. Just bring yourself and Arriba will provide the rest. Check your inbox for your Evite. If you are a member, you should have already received it. Otherwise contact our Social Chair, Rhonda.


The people of Malasag, Cagayan de Oro are astounded at how millennials celebrate the Holy week. A sacred Christian celebration before Easter, signifying the end of the Lenten season and the sacrifice and death of Jesus Christ, the Holy week was supposedly seen as a week of reflection and penitence on the sins that one has committed, but millennials of Cagayan de Oro are proving themselves to be extraordinarily ignorant of such a sacred time.
Panaad is the practice that locals of Malasag, Cagayan de Oro uphold annually. It is the commemoration and reenactment of the suffering of Jesus Christ by walking and praying for kilometers through the Stations of the Cross. With the expectations that people would feel sorrowful and regretful for their sins, the locals were disappointed for the millennials were instead shouting, cussing and extensively displaying public affection, inconsiderate and uncivilized acts during a holy time for all Christians.
A huge influx of people visited Malasag, but it seems like majority of the people who were supposedly commemorating the sacrifices of Jesus were here as tourists. Some devotees were disappointed for they were unable to visit to Chapel at the last station due to the huge number of misplaced millennials.
Looking for a place was increasingly frustrating, there was barely a spot for devotees where there were a small amount of people. There was people everywhere, some even opted to rest on card board.
At night, the camping grounds around the Stations of the Cross were filled with groups of hyper active individuals who were purposely shouting at each other for attention, screaming disgusting, lewd or disrespectful phrases to gather recognition by their own group. It may seem like these millennials were under the influence of alcohol for the inconsiderate acts that they've committed through out the night.
If you thought that the night was horrible, imagine waking up to a Holy land of trash. The entire camping ground was covered in plastics, tetra packs, tin foils and other garbage that millennials most probably just irresponsibly left. Not even the road was safe from such a horrible mess!
Panaad was completely desecrated, the Holy week of the locals of Malasag was completely ruined. What the locals could only hope now is that the Government of Malasag would actually take measures in maintaining the sanctity of the practice and the upholding of discipline and cleanliness of the devotees and most especially the millennials. Teenagers who clearly have no respect or consideration whatsoever for those around them.


Anyone know how to do any of these things? A) Write a short program that when executed lists all Win32 functions. B) Same but lists all OpenGL functions. C) Same but with functions from stdio.h etc. D) A program that calls a given Win32 function by typing in the name of it. Is there a simple way of doing any of these?
Anyone know how to do any of these things?
A) Write a short program that when executed lists all Win32 functions.
B) Same but lists all OpenGL functions.
C) Same but with functions from stdio.h etc.
D) A program that calls a given Win32 function by typing in the name of it.
Is there a simple way of doing any of these?
For C maybe too unless they are inline, or try to disable inlining and optimisation.
For D you can use rundll32.exe.
Have you got any examples of code that shows how to do this? It would be interesting.
A) Define a "win32" function. What qualifies a function as being "win32" ? Do you want to enumerate every DLL in the System32\ folder and list all its functions? There is code to do this and it is possible, however, it is impossible to determine what parameters and return values those functions take. The list would be several megabytes.
B) It's easy to list all the exported functions from a DLL, including OpenGL. Same technique as A, except limited to the various OpenGL libraries.
C) Huh? stdio.h is a header file. It has no functions, only declarations.
D) Yes and no. Yes, the function can be called by name. No, you can't determine the return value, parameters or calling conventions therefore the function would at BEST return garbage, and LIKELY cause an application GP fault.
Afraid not. RunDLL32 calls any exported function from any DLL, this is true. However, in order for it to work that function must be __stdcall and must be declared using a specific set of parameters and return value. Calling any function not so declared will result in a GP fault.
I suppose knowing how to list the functions from a DLL would be a good start.
My idea of a win32 function is a function written about in the win32 help files from the win32 SDK.
DUMPBIN /EXPORTS <dllname> will dump all the exported functions in a given DLL. It will not tell you anything other than the function name -- so its near to useless becuase you can't determine parameters or return values from the name.
Furthermore, many MANY exported functions are exported by ordinal -- meaning they have no name, only a number. You would have to consult the .lib file and somehow dissect it to determine the function name from the ordinal.
Finally, the Microsoft Platform SDK lists hundreds of thousands of API calls across hundreds of DLL's in the System32\ and other folders. The SDK Help file will tell you what .lib and .dll the function can be found in. Furthermore, as MS moved from flat API's to COM, you'll find a lot of DLL's that have only a few COM-based exports but in reality expose hundreds of COM objects, interfaces and functions.
So, are you saying that if I wanted to write a program that lists the names of functions in DLLs such as the common ones in the system folder this is not really possible?
Not at all ... such a program is easily written. What I'm telling you is that the information you get will not be very useful as many of the functions in those DLL's have no names. Even if they DID have names, you couldn't actually CALL those functions armed only with their names. You'd just end up crashing your program.