Garcia - Decker Mr. and Mrs. Victor Manuel Garcia of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Lisa Maria Garcia, to Randal Lee Decker, Jr., the son of Mr. and Mrs. Randal Lee Decker, Sr. of Midland, Texas. The bride-elect is the granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Kojin Kinjo of Okinawa, Japan and Mr. Joe Soto and Ms. Ninfa Martinez of Killeen and Brownsville, Texas. Miss Garcia graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 2010 with a B.S. in Health and Exercise Science and also graduated from the University of Central Oklahoma in 2013 with a B.S. in Nursing. She is employed by University Health Systems in San Antonio, Texas as an OB/GYN registered nurse. The future bridegroom is the grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Isabel Lozano of Midland and the late Mr. and Mrs. James Decker, formerly of Effingham, Illinois. Mr. Decker earned his B.S. in Finance in 2013 from the University of Central Oklahoma. He currently resides in the Hill Country as an entrepreneur. The couple will be wed May 25,, 2014 in Center Point, Texas.


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With 97% of petty theft in the UK committed by non professional thieves, chances are that someone in your close friendship circle has swiped something from the shelves. Often an early act of rebellion among teenagers striving to escape from their everyday lives with a sneaky six pack, shoplifters have no typical profile, making everyone a suspect. But this is a crime that doesn't only tempt the cash-strapped; being seemingly irresistible even to celebrities who can easily afford to splash the cash.
Whether it's designer goods like Winona, booze like Richard Madeley or packets of cheese like Antony Worrall Thompson, it seems the lure to stuff something in your pockets is too good to pass up even if getting caught may jeopardises a lucrative career. Statistics show that retail crime is on the increase, with the annual cost soaring to £613m in the UK last year – the biggest since records began – driven by criminal gangs stealing luxury goods to order.
So to those of you who have stuffed packets of ham or even an iPhone 7 down your trousers – or even just thought about doing it – you're not alone. Shoplifting exists to prove that this is even more common than most people imagine. So put on a massive coat and make sure you've got some strong thighs, shoplifting has never been as bright, colourful and enticing as this. Remember, thieves will not be prosecuted.


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41st Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
January 10, 1977 – July 31, 1981
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Politician, pharmacist and businessman
David C. O'Neal (born January 24, 1937) was the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, serving from 1977 to 1981. For six years he served as Saint Clair County Sheriff, the first Republican to hold that office in twenty years.
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O'Neal was born January 24, 1937 in Belleville, Illinois. He graduated from St. Louis College of Pharmacy and is a former ministerial student and United States Marine. Prior to entering politics O'Neal was a pharmacist and businessman. He served as a member of the executive and economic development committees of the National Conference of Lieutenant Governors and the governing boards of McKendree University in Lebanon, and the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy. He is the recipient of the Illinois Wisconsin States Association of Elks Humanitarian of the Year and East Saint Louis Model Cities Program Meritorious Services Award and was named Outstanding Young Republican of the United States in 1975 and Outstanding Young Republican of Illinois in 1971.
In 1977, he received the Distinguished Pharmacist Award from the Illinois Pharmacists' Association. An athlete, his hobbies include sports such as tennis, golf, bowling and motorcycling.
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MURDER USA: Barroom Beef Ended with Triple Slice & Dice Charges Against Ex-Con David Lee Sanders
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September 27, 2018 September 27, 2018 City Desk0
KINGSVILLE, MD. – All it takes to turn a folksy bar into a den of mayhem and murder is four rednecks – enthused with booze and hot debate over wine, women and football – and one of them, a habitual offender and ex-convict, armed with a knife.
When a fight broke out in the parking lot of El's County Line Bar & Grill, one man allegedly pulled a knife and proceeded to slice his dice his way to victory over three men during their extra-curricular activities in the bar parking lot.
Baltimore County Police report that detectives have charged David Lee Sanders, 24, of 674 Yorkshire Drive, Edgewood, Md., with multiple counts of Attempted First Degree Murder, and First and Second-Degree Assault in the stabbing of three victims at El's County Line Bar & Grill (Formerly the Dew Drop Inn) located at 12301 Philadelphia Road in Kingsville at about 12:17 am on Sept. 23, 2018.
Three adult men suffered stab wounds during a physical altercation involving Sanders on the parking lot shortly after midnight. All three men were taken to area hospitals for treatment and are expected to recover from their wounds. Weighing in at 155 pounds and 5'10" tall, it may be that Sanders was attempting to even the odds with the use of a blade.
Sanders fled the scene before police arrived but was quickly identified by detectives. A warrant was obtained for his arrest on Sunday. He was located and arrested early this morning.
Sanders is currently being held without bail at the Baltimore County Jail pending a bail review hearing and a preliminary hearing on Oct. 26, 2018, in District Court for Baltimore County, Md.
An assault charge against Sanders filed in Harford County on Jan. 3, 2018, ended in the case put on the Stet Docket by the Harford States Attorney on Feb. 9, 2018.
Sanders entered in a plea deal with the Harford County States Attorney on June 3, 2015, to a charge of First-Degree Burglary in Harford County Circuit Court following indictment by the Grand Jury. THE DEAL: 20 years in prison with all but 2 years suspended. Related charges of burglary and malicious property destruction were dropped as part of the plea deal. The defense attorney for Sanders was listed in court records as John William Janowich, of Bel Air – a free attorney provided by the taxpayers.
Sanders pleaded guilty to car theft in Harford County Circuit Court in a plea deal with the Harford States Attorney on Sept. 26, 2014. THE DEAL: 10 months and 15 days in jail with all of the jail time suspended. He was given credit for 68 days served in jail awaiting trial.
Sanders was found guilty in Harford County District Court of malicious property destruction on Oct. 28, 2013, and various burglary charges were put on the Stet Docket. A free attorney, Kelly A. Casper, represented Sanders. He was fined $500 and sent to jail for 60 days. The fine was suspended.
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H.Con.Res. 104 (115th)
H.Con.Res. 104 (115th): Providing for a correction in the enrollment of H.R. 1892.
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One Hundred Fifteenth Congress of the United States of America
At the Second Session
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Wednesday, the third day of January, two thousand and eighteen
H. CON. RES. 104
Agreed to
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
Providing for a correction in the enrollment of H.R. 1892.
That in the enrollment of the bill H.R. 1892, the Clerk of the House of Representatives shall make the following corrections:
Strike the first section 1 and section 2 immediately following the enacting clause and insert the following:
This Act may be cited as the ''Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018''.
Honoring Hometown Heroes Act
This division may be cited as the Honoring Hometown Heroes Act .
Permitting the flag to be flown at half-staff in the event of the death of a first responder serving in the line of duty
The sixth sentence of section 7(m) of title 4, United States Code, is amended—
by striking or after possession of the United States and inserting a comma;
by inserting or the death of a first responder working in any State, territory, or possession who dies while serving in the line of duty, after while serving on active duty, ;
by striking and after former officials of the District of Columbia and inserting a comma; and
by inserting before the period the following: , and first responders working in the District of Columbia .
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in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and inserting ; and ; and
the term first responder means a public safety officer as defined in section 1204 of title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 (34 U.S.C. 10284).
The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to deaths of first responders occurring on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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In section 30422(b)(4), strike subparagraphs (A) and (B) and insert the following:
For purposes of enabling the joint committee to exercise its powers, functions, and duties under this subtitle, and consistent with the Standing Rules of the Senate, there is authorized from the date of enactment of this Act through February 28, 2019, $500,000 to be allocated—
in total during the period October 1, 2017 through September 30, 2018; and
any remaining amounts shall be carried forward for the period October 1, 2018 through February 28, 2019.
Expenses of the joint committee shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the co-chairs, subject to the rules and regulations of the Senate.
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Industry Picks up, Inflation on Target
It seems that the worst days for Hungarian industry are over, analysts commenting on the September industrial output data say. However, it is still hard to predict what the yearend will bring given the latest government restrictions announced to slow down the spread of COVID-19. In the meantime, inflation dropped back to the central bank's 3% target in October.
In September 2020, the volume of industrial production grew by 2.2% year-on-year. Based on working-day adjusted data, production declined by 1%. The growth was 2.3% compared to the previous month according to seasonally and working-day adjusted data.
The increase comes after a decline in August, when the volume of industrial production fell back by 2.1% year-on-year; the largest drop, however, had been registered in April, when industrial production declined by 36.8% on a year-on-year basis.
According to the latest data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH), in September the volume of production grew in the subsections representing the largest weight. The manufacture of transport equipment, as well as the manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products, rose to a greater extent, while the manufacture of food products, beverages and tobacco products increased to a lesser degree. However, production dropped in the majority of the other manufacturing subsections.
In the first nine months of the year production was 9.2 % lower than in the same period of the previous year. Industrial output in September, according to seasonally and working-day adjusted indices, was 2.3% above the level of the previous month, and it grew by 61% compared to April.
External Demand
Production in September exceeded pre-virus levels, Gábor Regős, head of the macroeconomics unit at research institute Századvég emphasized when commenting on the data. It shows that external demand was higher in September; however, he added that there might have been significant differences among individual industries. For vehicle manufacturing, for example, THE effects of delayed purchases from spring might have occurred, thus increasing demand.
Regős thinks it is encouraging that the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic has had no effect on industrial production thus far, meaning output in the third quarter could have moderated the rate of decline of the annual GDP. However, it is still a question whether it remains like this in the coming months, he added.
Industrial production has fully recovered from the crisis caused by the pandemic, Gergely Suppan, head analyst at Takarékbank said. He noted that output grew by 31% from the previous quarter in Q3, this might have contributed greatly to the rebound of the economy. If so, the decline in GDP might have fallen to 4.7% in the third quarter, down from the 13.6% in the second quarter.
It is a good sign, he added, that new orders in the automotive industry exceeded last year's level by 33% in August, while the overall order stock was 18.2% higher than in the same period of last year.
According to him, stabilization of industry might continue in the coming months. This year, the annual decline of industry might remain in the single-digit zone, coming to 6.5-7%, while there could be 13-14% growth in 2021; as for April, the annual growth might be as high as 60%, due to the low base effect.
Inflation Surprise
It was not only industrial production data that was pleasing; the latest inflation figures also came as positive surprise. The annual rate of increase of consumer prices slowed down to 3% in October, which is right on the mid-term target of the National Bank of Hungary (MNB).
The lower price dynamics were mostly due to more moderate annual price rises for food, alcoholic beverages and tobacco than in September as well as to the price decrease of motor fuels, KSH said.
Consumer prices rose by 0.2% on average in the month, compared to September. Food prices rose by 6.5% and prices of spirits and tobacco, lifted by tax changes, were up 6.1%. Prices for both groups of products climbed at a slower pace than in the previous month. Clothing prices were 0.5% lower, consumer durable prices rose by 2.9% and household energy prices grew by 0.2%. Service prices were up 2.4%.
According to analysts, while annual inflation is back at the 3% mid-term goal of the MNB, thus easing the push for tightening, the 3.8% core inflation, which excludes volatile fuel and food prices, is still pretty high.
"The latest data is not surprising, as we expected a slowdown after the 3.9% peak in August," said Dávid Németh, head analyst at K&H Bank. October inflation was influenced by uneven factors: while food and tobacco prices grew above the average, fuel prices dropped in the tenth month of the year. According to Németh, inflation might further ease in the coming months. He expects annual average inflation of 3.4%, which might slow to 3.1% in 2021.
Numbers to Watch in the Coming Weeks
The KSH will publish September construction data the day after this issue of the Budapest Business Journal goes to print. It will also release an important figure on Friday, November 13: Hungary's GDP data for the third quarter of the year.
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Guide spots rare snake near Yellowstone National Park
Rare snake sighting outside Yellowstone
By: Phil Van Pelt
LIVINGSTON — Wildlife like bears, wolves and elk are the typical creatures visitors to Montana and Yellowstone National Park expect to see. Snakes, on the other hand, aren't very common, especially not a member of the boa family.
"I was so stoked when I saw it. I was like, oh my god. A rubber boa," said Frank Hessler, owner of Livingston-based Mountain Men Guiding LLC.
The rubber boa is one of two boa species found in North America, and the most northerly found in a handful of western states. Hessler spotted the 6-8 inch snake while hiking just outside Yellowstone and at first he thought it was an earthworm.
"I ducked down to look at it and I'm like wait, wait, no, MY GOSH! THAT'S, THAT'S A RUBBER BOA!" added Hessler.
There's 10 species of snake native to Montana but a rubber boa sighting is the rarest, largely because they're nocturnal. This was the second sighting for Hessler in his life. His first was over a decade ago.
"I saw one in like 2008 right by the boiling river in Yellowstone and I had no idea what it was then, so you do a little research and look it up," said Hessler.
They get their name from their rubbery feel and appearance. And although the one Hessler spotted was small, they can grow to a little over two feet long.
Hessler is used to seeing tons of various wildlife in his line of work, but this was an experience that will be hard to top.
"It was a really cool experience, super random just sitting in the middle of the trail just sunning himself as it was getting cooler out," said Hessler.


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The car was hit on the passenger wheel while parked in the winter and needed an alignment. The hit caused the headlight mount to break a tab (inside) so the passenger side headlights are loose. The body did not get touched somehow. It was parked after that.
During the time it was parked, a control unit (I forgot what it is called) failed so the car cannot be started. The control unit interrupts the circuit so nothing happens when you turn the key. I was in the process of removing the control unit (in the pics you can see the dash panels removed).
The storage area flooded so the car has water damage. It is unclear how deep the water got in the storage facility. Some people said a few inches of water, others said it was deeper. We left the doors slightly ajar but there is still a slight smell of dirt. There is a lot of dust/dirt inside the car now.
The wheels do not want to roll now. Most likely from sitting and getting wet from a flood. When pulling the car to re-position it, it appeared the tires are not rolling. The car just slid. Loose millings (like gravel) did not provide enough friction like pavement to see if they would start rolling again.
The car ran fine until it was hit on the tire causing an alignment issue. It would shake the steering at highway speeds. It was parked and has not ran since then.
The white confetti looking stuff on the rear seats is from plastic bags that had clothes in them. The sun deteriorated the plastic and it crumbled all over when removing the sacks.
The Jag has a clear title. We have misplaced it so it requires a duplicate title to be issued. We are holding off getting a replacement title as some people have asked about the car as a parts car and they would not need a title. The treasurer said it takes 2 weeks for a replacement title to be sent. If a buyer wants the title, we can apply for the replacement at no additional cost and show the paperwork the treasurer gives showing it would be in process.
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There is no denying that Twitter is one of the most influential social media sites in the world nowadays. This is particularly obvious as many famous Hollywood celebrities make use of Twitter to make updates and to let their fans glimpse a little bit of their personal life. The popularity of Twitter has even escalated to the top as business enthusiasts somehow find a way to make use of Twitter as a platform to market their business thus, the birth of Twitter marketing.
Twitter also sees this as a chance to encourage more users and increase its popularity. They even responded in support to these businesses by adding relevant features that are useful for them to promote their business items. Some these business features include engagement, customers, and sales which are essential factors when doing a business. Through a special app, twitter users can now use this platform to check and monitor their business progress using their phones.
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Every single thing that can be found on your Twitter profile should be relevant and connected to your business. From the photos and bio to the header image and pinned tweets, all of these things should reflect your business' vision and goals. If your business is about car accessories, it would not make sense if your header image shows a picturesque view of a beach. No matter how tempting it is to post summer-related photo if you cannot find any connection to your product, then please avoid posting it. Your followers might question the credibility of your page which can cost you your potential clients. Your twitter profile is more than just a page to post something about your business; it is an annex to your business' identity.
No matter how polished and articulate your Tweets are, if your followers cannot relate to them, then they are good as nothing. Twitter conversations are like face-to-face dialogues to your followers, you have to keep them interesting to encourage your followers to interact.
Take advantage of the search.twitter.com to search for relevant content that your competitors used to engage their customers. You can find out what sort of conversations that most customers like to interact. Strategize your content carefully; every tweet counts. When people see that all your tweets are word of the mouth by many, they will likely take interest on your account and start following you. This way, you actually build twitter followers who are potential clients to your business.
The fact that Twitter is considered to be a popular platform to promote one's business; you should maximize every available Twitter marketing strategy that could help you market your business to a much wider audience. You should not only focus on building your followers, you also need to find ways to keep them. The real challenge is not convincing people to follow your business' Twitter but more on keeping them interested to stay. Now, that is one tough job to do, but given the right conversations and interesting photos to pair with, it should not be that big of a problem. You can make use of fun and interesting hashtags, high quality and timely photos as well as promoted tweets and Call to actions (CTAs).
Knowledge is power indeed. The more facts you know about your business as well as your followers, the more strategies you can make to boost your account. Make time to study your Twitter activities. Take note of those conversations that your followers are most engaged in. You can also track the exact time that most of your followers are online and when is the best time to tweet. These pieces of information are useful to help you plan your next move.
Also, use the Twitter list in your advantage. Categorize your followers in a way which would make it easier for you to interact and tweet.
Some people take interest in a tweet that emits positivity so make sure to show some to your followers. It would also do your business good if your followers feel valued and appreciated so be grateful and do not forget to thank them for following your business. After all, one way to secure loyal followers is through building a more personal connection.


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As QIP's videographer, Matthew Frazier is responsible for designing storyboards, shooting videos, and creating motion graphics for our clients.
Matthew first learned about storytelling through video while editing videos. He found that he had a talent and passion for it, and he eventually got his own camera. His first major production was a documentary about skateboarding. He entered the film into a competition in which it won second place. He then started making travel videos, which he still makes when he travels.
"I'm always trying to find ways to better tell a story or get a message across, whether that's visuals or audio or sound design," Matthew said.
Working closely with subject matter experts, Matthew executes storyboards based on clients' creative briefs. Then, he researches the best programs to use to execute the video. He primarily uses Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere, and Adobe Illustrator, although he is constantly learning about new software and staying on top of the latest trends and technology in videography.
Among his recent work, Matthew completed a video for the IEEE IC Industry Consortium on Learning Engineering (ICICLE) as part of QIP's sponsorship of the event.
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An eight-episode story charting seven days from the life of a cocaine dealer whose perfectly organized life begins to sink into chaos while he is forced to make the most important choices in his life.
Niespotykanie spokojny czlowiek
Ziarno prawdy
A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to "start a new life" in picturesque town in southeast Poland  Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. Alienated in provincial reality he struggles to find a killer, when he stumbles upon more victims. While the investigation continues he realizes that all murders are connected to alleged historical Jewish ritual killings. Those murders prompt a wave of antiSemitic hysteria in the town. In his investigation Szacki must wrestle with the painful tangle of PolishJewish relations and real findings of his work  that roots of some legends arefantasy, not a grain of truth…
A few years back tragic events tied the fate of three Catholic priests. From then on they meet on every anniversary of the disaster to celebrate their survival. On an everyday basis they have their ups and downs. Lisowski works at the curia in a big city, has a career and is dreaming of the Vatican. Problem is, archbishop Mordowicz, an opulent church official who uses his political influence to build the largest sanctuary in Poland, gets in his way. The second priest, Trybus, is a village parson. He ministers to a poor community and gives in to human weaknesses more and more often. Kukuła is not faring well either. Despite his fervent faith, he loses the trust of his parishioners actually overnight. Soon the stories of the three clergymen are going to join once again.
Imagine that you have the power to decide on people's lives. Who would you condemned, and whom he saved? In the center of Europe suddenly, without a trace, people begin to disappear. The investigation goes into the hands of Vulture (Michal Zebrowski) – a police officer who appears to be devoid of feelings. Tough, incorruptible, no obligations and favors to others. Until he meets Natasha (Anna Przybylska) – a woman other than those that he met so far. Vulture begins a dangerous game with the enemy ahead of him is still a step. Discovers a world in which people are leading a double life. For the first time, logical thinking will drive him into a trap with no way out. Suddenly, the hunter turned into animals. Balancing on the border between passion and reason, the world of logic and clever manipulation, you will have to answer the question: is there anything more important than life?
W ukryciu
In the spring of 1944 in Poland, near the end of WWII, Janina faces a huge change in her life when her father decides to offer a shelter to his Jewish friend's daughter Ester. One day, her father is arrested and Janina starts to take care of Ester by herself and in doing so secret emotions rise between them.
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Chce sie zyc
Mateusz is an intelligent, romantic young man tragically trapped inside his own body, suffering from severe cerebral palsy that makes speech and controlled movement nearly impossible. Born into a loving family, Mateusz's protected world is shattered when circumstances place him in an institution where he is misunderstood and mistreated. Featuring an astonishing, virtuoso lead performance, Life Feels Good beautifully recounts the true story of one man's extraordinary efforts to endure in the face of impossible odds.
Twenty years after a devastating terrorist attack in 1983 that halted the course of Poland's liberation and the subsequent downfall of the Soviet Union, an idealistic law student Kajetan and a disgraced police investigator Anatol stumble upon a conspiracy that has kept the Iron Curtain standing and Poland living under a repressive police state.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Oszukane
7 uczuc
Fear, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, envy, shame. Adaś Miauczyński goes back to his childhood days when, like most of us, he used to find it problematic to name the emotions that accompanied him. To improve the quality of his adult life, he decides to return to that time – which proves not so carefree after all – to learn how to experience the seven basic emotions. This extremely unpredictable journey into the past features an abundance of hilarious, even comical, situations but is also filled with lots of touching moments and food for thought.
Jak pies z kotem
A vision of an unconventional family together with their conflicts and rivalry, a vision full of ironic sense of humour but also emotional moments and true closeness. When the elder brother, Andrzej, suddenly falls ill, despite their differences and a wall of misunderstandings that has grown between them, his younger brother is taking it upon himself to care for his brother in need.
Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit.
Konwój
A murder of a convict held in custody seems to be connected with dark and mysterious events from two years back.
Down, But Not Out!
The twenty four hours of four amateur women boxers as they step for the first time into the ring.
The pain of losing an unborn child destroyed balance in marriage and leads to tragedy.
Set in communist Poland of the 80s the movie depicts early career of cardio surgeon Zbigniew Religa.
A 40-year old actress (single and strong, yet lonely), her sister (an emotionally unstable schoolteacher whose married-with-kids life appears more orderly) and their domineering father, who gradually loses control over his family due to his wife's sudden illness and his own health troubles; these are the three individuals at the heart of this film, a touching story about the strength of family ties in a situation of imminent danger.
Jack, an unappreciated American writer in his sixties, comes to the off-season peninsula of Hel in the north of Poland and isolates himself to write a script. He meets Kail, a local who earns money by making lie-detector tests. Jack doesn't find any inspiration until some tourists mysteriously disappear – one of them found dead with his tongue cut off. Kail, persuaded by his friend Mila that Jack is the murderer, begins an investigation. The truth turns out to be more twisted when he discovers that Jack is writing about him.
Pitbull. Niebezpieczne kobiety
Two new female police officers struggle to survive a force filled with corrupt superiors and the brutal world of the criminal mafia.
Prosta historia o morderstwie
Empsillnes
A man is alone in space within a reality where artificial intelligence has taken control over the world.
An American in Texas
Country: Norway, Poland, USA
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
The story of the Polish fliers who found themselves fighting for the freedom of their own country in foreign skies. Seen through the eyes of Jan Zumbach, fighter ace and adventurer, it tells how the Poles, driven across Europe by the German war machine, finally made their last stand. Flying Hurricanes for the RAF over Britain, they became a key component in the legend of 'The Few'. Up against the might of the Luftwaffe they hoped that, by saving Great Britain from Nazi invasion, they were keeping the dream of a free Poland alive.
Country: Poland, UK, United Kingdom
Pitbull: Last Dog
A policeman gets killed and the short-staffed police chief sends for a few experienced officers to support him in his fight with organized crime. Meanwhile, a conflict between local gangster groups escalates.
Dark Crimes
A hard-boiled detective becomes suspicious of an author when the incidents described in his hit novel resemble the inner-workings of an unsolved murder.
Country: Poland, UK, United Kingdom, United States of America, USA
Women of Mafia
Atak paniki
Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.
Podatek od milosci
In a pagan Estonian village where werewolves, the plague, and spirits roam, the villagers' main problem is how to survive the cold, dark winter. And, to that aim, nothing is taboo. People steal from each other, from their German manor lords, and from spirits, the devil, and Christ. Amongst the disorder, a young farm girl hopelessly and forlornly in love with a village boy.
Country: Estonia, Netherlands, Poland
The Last Witness
An ambitious young journalist uncovers the horrific slaughter of 22,000 Polish officers during World War II, a secret kept hidden for far too many years.
Genre: History, Thriller
Breaking the Limits
Based on true events. In 1980s Poland, Jerzy Górski is a young man who finds the determination to struggle against his drug addiction through athletic training, with the aim of competing in the US Ironman Triathlon.
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
All About My Parents
The story about the friendship between two women, family problems and difficult childhood.
Spellbinder is a fantasy teen drama/science fiction television series, produced by Film Australia & Telewizja Polska in association with the Australian Children's Television Foundation.
The series is a 1995 serial of 26 episodes, co-produced between Australia and Poland. It was also novelized by the creators, Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson.
The shots were taken both in Australia which represented the "modern" world and in Poland where most pictures that featured the parallel world were shot.
Spellbinder was followed by, Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord, in which Heather Mitchell reprises her role as Ashka.
Country: Australia, Poland
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Spellbinder: Land of the Dragon Lord is a teen, preteen and children's television series, and a sequel to Spellbinder. Both series deal with children travelling between parallel universes, although the only common characters between the two series are Ashka, and her sidekick Gryvon. It was also novelized by the creators, Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson.
The series was filmed on location in Australia, China and Poland. The show was a joint production between studios in the three countries, although the script and concept came from Australia, and the spoken language is English.
The series is fast-paced and there are usually new challenges for the characters in each episode, which are solved through cleverness and wits. As with most children's shows, most of the adventure is headed by children, although Ashka, Kathy's parents, and the scientist Mek are adults.
Country: Australia, China, Poland
A military attaché at the French embassy is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of Warsaw. A classic tale of spying, intrigue, and romance, based on the novels of Alan Furst and adapted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.
Country: France, Poland, UK, USA
The Passing Bells
At the outbreak of World War I, two teenage boys – one German and one British – defy their parents to sign up. An epic historical drama spanning the five years of the First World War, as seen through the eyes of two ordinary young soldiers.
Country: Poland, UK
Genre: Drama, War, War & Politics
Forgive Us Our Debts
Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs.
Country: Albania, Italy, Poland, Switzerland
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Country: Poland, Switzerland, UK, United Kingdom, United States of America, USA
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, Robin Wright decides to take her final job: preserving her likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her digital doppelganger will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want, with no restrictions. In return, she receives healthy compensation so she can care for her ailing son. Twenty years later, under the creative vision of the studio's head animator, Wright's double rises to immortal stardom. With her contract expiring, she is invited to speak at Miramount's "Futurological Congress". However, a group of terrorists plot an attack on the convention.
Country: Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Poland
Genre: Animation, Drama, Sci-Fi


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Janardhan Chikkanna is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works in Kannada cinema. He rose to fame following the success of his directorial debut Gultoo. Gultoo — produced by Prashanth Reddy and Devaraj Ramanna under the Vivid Films banner.

Career
Janardhan took to films after completing his graduation in engineering and says that his course influenced the subject of Gultoo. He went on to do a course at the MGR Government Film and Television Institute. When he passed out of there in 2015, Janardhan was sure that he didn't want to assist any director or knock on producers' doors with a script in hand. He made his directorial debut in 2018 with Gultoo, that throws light on individual privacy and our vulnerability online, a cyber crime thriller. The movie stars Naveen Shankar, Sonu Gowda, Rangayana Raghu and Avinash.

Filmography

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Indian film directors
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Indian screenwriters


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As the year draws to a close, I wanted to take a moment to reflect on some of the key moments. It's been quite the year for us.
We've grown Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) by 403% in the last 12 months and have reached 50 customers. The Propel platform is now used by many leading agencies and brands across the globe, including the likes of The Daily Mail, Google, W20, Textron, Markettiers, Antenna and many more.
We are investing in developing the most advanced machine learning capabilities in the industry. We are collaborating with leading universities, think tanks, professors and data experts to develop something truly unique and extraordinary for communications pros.
Forbes named us one of the three leading PR software companies and predicted we will become "King of PR software."
Our rapid growth comes on the heels of several product launches this year, which have significantly advanced the product and positioned Propel as the top innovator in the space, ahead of leading competitors.
We launched our media database – which contains over a million journalists, 50 million influencers and three billion articles – in January, followed by online and broadcast monitoring over the summer. In October, we launched PitchPreferTM, which offers users AI-powered insights on each journalist or influencer's individual preferences on story topics, pitch timing, style, etc. These products complement Propel's core PRM product, which includes a CRM for PR, full Gmail and Outlook integrations, Business Outcomes from PR, pitch and relationship tracking, and deep analytics on campaign performance and team productivity.
Our exceptional engineering team led by our CTO David Cohen has executed superbly on new build after new build.
We have become the first PR software to offer a SaaS pricing model that is flexible, transparent, modular and doesn't require fixed long-term contracts.
We appointed PR industry leader Andrew Bloch, who joined our Advisory Board. Andrew is one of the most talented and disruptive thinkers in PR. His super network and reputation has helped Propel to grow and achieve our ambitions.
We hired Dave McGrath as Chief Growth Officer, to oversee global sales. Dave is a sales master who brings over 10 years experience in senior sales leadership roles at various leading PR software companies.
We established the Propel Media Barometer, which is quickly becoming a report of record for the industry on media engagement and comms best practices. As part of this effort, we brought on Chris Parker Ph.D., a published professor of analytics and data expert. Chris has taught at Georgetown University and Penn State University, and is currently the David Kronrad Faculty Fellow at American University.
We hired Julia Francis as Customer Success Manager. Julia's previous role was at PRweek, where she published articles on a variety of topics related to the PR industry.
We also brought on Hard Numbers to handle our SEO/digital and help us with our growth. Under the guidance of Darryl Sparey and his team we have already seen some phenomenal results.
Propel is growing at breakneck speed and we are continuing to scale our team to keep up with the demand. My dream, when I worked in communications and ran my agency, was to make the profession data-driven and full of innovation. We are actualizing that vision even faster than I could have anticipated.
Bring on 2021!


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Q: The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document. I'm trying to debug an application but I'm constantly getting the following error message: "The breakpoint will not currently be hit. No symbols have been loaded for this document." when I attach it to the desired process.
After digging in a bit, I realized that many pdb files are not getting created when I build the solution although the dll's are available.

A: I had a similar problem from a web api code I got from another developer. Turned out Just My Code was set to true. You should see in your output window a line that says symbols were not loaded. To turn Just My Code off go to tools then options, debugging, general and untick Enable Just My Code

A: I don't know why the .pdb's aren't being created when you build the solution, but a couple of places to check.
Go into the Projects properties, Compile settings. Under Advanced Compile Options make sure that Generate debug info isn't set to None.
Check for both Debug and Release configurations as well as any configurations you might have created.
Also verify that the build output path is pointing to where you want it to be.
You also could try searching your drive to see if the .pdb's are being created in another location (unlikely but worth a try?)

A: I had the same problem.
Unchecking "Native Code" (in Project --> Properties --> tab Web --> section Debuggers --> Native Code) works for me.

A: Another gotcha, I've run into this issue when projects in my solution were set to release configuration (I'd set it that way previously to diagnose a publish issue). Setting back to debug brings back the breakpoints.

A: I had the same problem and I solved this by disable "Export at background".

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Just bought a D56SW Washburn acoustic. Great Guitar, sounds just as good as any Martin or Gibson I've played. If you ever get a chance to play one, you'll like it.
Washburn knows what there doing... I like almost every guitar they made/make..... Did you get her on line? Good deal???
Although I am still very much a beginner, just got a D52SW - my 3rd Washburn acoustic. It too has a great sound. Only difference between it and D56SW is the wood on sides and back (mahogany vs. rosewood).


With a surface of 45 m2, this lovely apartment is perfect for your next stay in Barcelona!
It is located on the second floor with an elevator and a private terrace. Nicely decorated, it has a capacity of 4 persons and is very functional with a fully equipped kitchen (microwave, fridge, coffee machine, toaster, cooking utensils, washing machine, etc.). It is open to the living room where two people can sleep on the sofa bed (190x135). It has a double bedroom with two single beds joint together. From the living room, you can enjoy a private terrace that lets the light go into all the apartment. With double glass windows, the apartment is very well soundproofed. The bathroom is composed of a shower, a WC and a cabinet with a mirror. We give our guests towels (one per person) and sheets.
There is also free Wi-Fi connection and air conditioning in the apartment.
The building has a video surveillance camera 24 hours a day and the apartment also has its own intercom with video camera.
Located near the Ramblas, the most popular street in Barcelona, it is very well connected by metro (L1 Plaza Catalunya L3 Liceu) and buses. You will find supermarkets, restaurants, bars, pharmacy, and anything you need around the corner. It is a very cosmopolitan, trendy and lively area, at 5 minutes' walk only from Plaza Catalunya and Paseo de Gracia, the main shopping avenue of Barcelona!
Nice spacious apartment in a very central convenient location.
The location is perfect, about a 3 minutes walk from Las Ramblas and the Liceu metro station. Sant Pau street is very cool and even has some shops and restaurants that are definitly not touristic. The configuration of the appartment itself is also very appropriate. Everything is sparkling clean (brand new?). We had some friends who also rented an appartment come over and they were pretty jealous. It might be a problem if you have a light sleep since there s people partying in the street and screaming pretty much all night long, but since you will probably be partying yourself and falling like a rock when you get to sleep, that shouldn t be a problem. It is very manageable.
Great apartment, good location. Very comfortable.
Very central location of the appartment. Fortunately I get room with view of the backyard, very quiet. Nice appartment and good services.
Location was good and apartment was nice.
Very nice apartment & perfect location! Wonderful holidays!
The Apartment is just great and clean and the beds and the sofa is very comfortable and the bathroom is very clean,and the location is very good but at night its not very safe but as long as you avoid people its safe! i recommend it to everyone!


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You are at:Home»Features»VW Motorsport reveals how they broke the Pikes Peak hillclimb record
VW Motorsport reveals how they broke the Pikes Peak hillclimb record
By Illya Verpraet on	 2nd August 2018 Features
Just over a month after VW set a new record at the Pikes Peak Hill Climb with its purpose-built ID R electric racer, the team reveals how simulation and computer-aided engineering played a key part in achieving the blistering 7:57 mins time.
One challenge is that the event doesn't allow extensive testing beforehand like race series such as Formula 1; driver Romain Dumas had not driven the ID R at Pikes Peak before setting the record.
"Especially in the early stages of the development of the ID R Pikes Peak, we focused heavily on computer simulations," explains Dr Benjamin Ahrenholz, head of calculation and simulation, Volkswagen Motorsport. "We calculated the structurally heavily loaded components of the ID R Pikes Peak, such as chassis, monocoque, rear subframe and rear wing, with simulation programs."
One of the goals of computer-aided engineering (CAE) is to make components as lightweight as possible while keeping it strong enough to cope easily with the stresses encountered in the race. VW carried out simulations with the finite element method (FEM), in which the complex structure of the components of the racing vehicle is divided into a large number of small components with calculable behavior – the finite elements.
"In this way, we were able to simulate which components of the ID R Pikes Peak may need to be reinforced, where we can save material and thus weight, or even possibly change the design," Ahrenholz explains. When possible, the computer programs made topology optimization proposals for improved design.
Fortunately, the 19.99km route was already largely available as a computer model. The upper section in particular presented challenges, says Ahrenholz: "There, the road surface is so wavy that the load on the chassis is significantly higher than on the very flat runway in the lower part of the race track. We did not know exactly what the ID R Pikes Peak would expect in the upper range, so we calculated a certain amount of safety margin."
The aerodynamics were developed using computational fluid dynamics, which calculates how even the smallest changes to the body and spoilers of a vehicle affect the drag coefficient and the performance of the coolers.
"That's how we simulated hundreds of different configurations before testing for the first time with a 1:2 model in the wind tunnel," says Ahrenholz.
Illya Verpraet
Illya joined UKi Media & Events in 2018 having completed an Automotive Journalism MA course at Coventry University. As expo news editor, he writes about the new products and technologies that can be found at UKi Media & Events' many exhibitions, as well as contributing to UKi's various magazines and websites.
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I have a 2008 4.0 ranger fx4. Starting issue started about last summer but wasn't a problem rarely did it. Around September it was becoming more often and more of an issue. in November truck completely stopped running. SO this is what it was doing. It would crank twice and the starter would spin and run but not engage the fly wheel. At first I thought it was the fuel pump so I would turn key a few times and boom start up. they eventually stopped working and truck wouldn't start. so the process of fixing. Replaced fuel pump, nothing so went to starter, replaced it and now I'm not getting anything when trying to start it. I get dash lights and radio and all the jazz but it dosent turn over. not even a click. has new spark plugs, oil changed, fuel pump, starter. No on I know can figure it out and I have no idea. ive tried moving the ground on the starter, ive looked at just about everything that I can. Please help me!
Re: stumped on starting issue.
So it's not even turning over now? Or is it turning over and just not starting?
I wouldn't have gone to the fuel pump without a fuel pressure test. The first issue you described, 'It would crank twice and the starter would spin and run but not engage the fly wheel.' is a starter bendix failure. A brand new starter and now it won't click even? What is the status of your battery? Are you sure the starter is good? You can test it yourself. Take it out, hook your jumper cable up, positive to the terminal, and when you touch the case where it bolts on with the ground, it should spin, AND kick the gear out as if to engage the flywheel. Be warned it will twist, so hold it.
I think you will be better served by following some diagnostics before tossing parts at it.
If the first position at the key has power to the dash lights and everything and the second position(starting position) is dead silence take a look at the ignition switch. Might be time for a new one.


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ASUS new Eee PC now available with Ubuntu operating system
on 2 June 2011
LONDON, June 2nd, 2011: Canonical, the sponsor of the Ubuntu project, today announces that Ubuntu is now available pre-loaded on the new ASUS Eee PC series. The Eee PC, has a slim, lightweight, compact design with stunning graphics and sound quality. With up to nine hours' battery life it is it suitable for work, play or study. The Eee PC now ships with Ubuntu operating system, making it one of the most user-friendly PCs on the market.
The Eee PC with Ubuntu is ideal for consumers and businesses; the hardware is sleek and lightweight and energy efficient while Ubuntu is safe, intuitive and stable. Ubuntu includes a complete office suite making it easy to create documents, spreadsheets and presentations and share them with Microsoft Windows users. A full, rich Internet experience is available with Mozilla Firefox and Adobe Flash pre-installed.
Chris Kenyon, VP OEM Services at Canonical comments, "Many businesses are turning to Ubuntu as they look for a cost-effective, proven, and easy to use and manage operating system that can be delivered on business-quality laptops. We expect the slim form factor and great design of Eee PC, combined with the great performance delivered with Ubuntu, to produce a real performer in the marketplace."
Stanley Chang, Product Director at ASUS said, "Since its creation, the ASUS Eee PC has provided, and continues to provide the best cloud computing experience to users, while Ubuntu is an open source OS renowned for its customizability and stability. To fulfil the various needs of a diverse market and user base, the strategic alliance with Ubuntu is absolutely a win-win cooperation."
The three ASUS Eee PC models, 1001PXD, 1011PX and 1015PX, is available with Ubuntu 10.10 pre-installed from June 1st 2011 through ASUS sales channels. Many more models will be made available throughout the year.
Canonical provides engineering, online and professional services to Ubuntu partners and customers worldwide. As the company behind the Ubuntu project, Canonical is committed to the production and support of Ubuntu — an ever-popular and fast-growing open-source operating system. It aims to ensure Ubuntu is available to every organisation and individual on servers, desktops, laptops and netbooks.
Canonical partners with computer hardware manufacturers to certify Ubuntu, provides migration, deployment, support and training services to businesses, and offers online services direct to end users. Canonical also builds and maintains collaborative, open source development tools to ensure that organisations and individuals can participate fully in innovations within the open-source community. For more information, please visit www.canonical.com and www.ubuntu.com.
ASUS, the world's top 3 consumer notebook vendor and the maker of the world's best-selling and most award winning motherboards, is a leading enterprise in the new digital era. ASUS designs and manufactures products that perfectly meet the needs of today's digital home, office and person, with a broad portfolio that includes motherboards, graphics cards, optical drives, displays, desktops, Eee Box and all-in-one PCs, notebooks, netbooks, tablet devices, servers, multimedia and wireless solutions, networking devices, and mobile phones. Driven by innovation and committed to quality, ASUS won 3,398 awards in 2010, and is widely credited with revolutionizing the PC industry with the Eee PC™. With a global staff of more than 10,000 and a world-class R&D team of 3,000 engineers, the company's revenue for 2010 was around US$10.1 billion.
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Jack is principal, Innovation-TRIZ Associates, which provides training and consulting in breakthrough problem solving and organizational innovation. He is a chemical engineering graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with 30 years of industrial experience with Dow Chemical, Ansell Edmont and Cabot Corporation. At Dow he was responsible for both the corporate chemical engineering laboratory and was its Discovery Research director.
His clients include BP/Amoco, S.C. Johnson, Dow Chemical, GAF Roofing, National Starch, Mobil Chemical, Air Products, Bank of Montreal, Siemens (both in the U.S. and in Mexico), the U.S. Navy, Lockheed Marti and M&M Mars. He has taught TRIZ courses for the Altshuller TRIZ Institute, the European TRIZ Association, the American Creativity Association and the World Future Society.
He is a certified TRIZ specialist and is also a certified DeBono (Six Hats™ and Lateral Thinking™) user and certified MBTI™ and Kirton KAI™ trainer.


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Q: A generalization of the anti-automorphisms of a group Recently, there was a question about anti-automorphisms of a group $G$.  In this case, the inversion map $\iota : G \rightarrow G : x \mapsto x^{-1}$ is an anti-automorphism and $\iota \mathrm{Aut}(G)$ is the coset of all anti-automorphisms.
Let $K$ be a permutation group of degree $n$ and let $\pi \in K$.  A natural generalization is a $\pi$-automorphism of the group $G$, where we say that a bijection $\phi : G \rightarrow G$ is a $\pi$-automorphism if for all $x_1, \ldots, x_n \in G$,
$$\phi(x_1 \cdots x_n) = \phi(x_{\pi(1)}) \cdots \phi(x_{\pi(n)})$$
We'll say that $\phi$ is a $K$-automorphism if it is a $\pi$-automorphism for some $\pi \in K$.
Now it's clear that the $K$-automorphisms of $G$ form a group and it's not hard to tell what the cosets of $\mathrm{Aut}(G)$ are in this group.
What I'm wondering if there are examples of groups that have interesting $K$-automorphisms or if the structure of the $K$-automorphisms is understood.

A: An example of a $\langle (1\,2\,3)\rangle$-automorphism is $f(x)=ex$, where $e$ is some central involution.


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Q: Read cell value & replace Alt+Enter with a , I am using Apache POI api to get data from a cell which is of type string but the value is separated by Alt+Enter.

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The highlighted text is one cell containing value with Alt+Enter(shown as \n). I want to read this data replace "\n" or Alt+Enter with , and then use the value
i.e. output I want after replacing \n is: is,this,A,test
The code used by me is given below:
String data = cell.getStringCellValue();
                            System.out.println("output:"+data);
                            if(data.contains("\n")){
                                sb.append(data.replace("\n", ","));
                            }else{
                                sb.append(data);
                            }
                            //sb.append(myValue);
                            sb.append('|');

Here sb is the stringbuffer in which I append the data.
The data in StringBuffer object sb is then written to a csv file with pipe as delimiter.
Please help me with this issue.

A: You did almost everything right.

*

*If the comma still would be a field separator too, you must place the data between double quotes (which is the general convention). Or better exclude the usage of comma as separator.

*If instead of the \n (LF) there is a CR+LF \r\n then \r might have been recognized as record terminator.

I cannot entirely read from your description what is the case.
The following does both things. And checks.
       if (data.contains("\r")) {
           System.out.println("CR found");
       }

       sb.append('\"')
           .append(data.replace("\r?\n", ","));
           .append('\"');
           .append('|');

An if is not necessary, and StringBuilder is a bit faster than the older StringBuffer.


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Q: Java Method that checks for objects diagonally in 2D array I am doing an N Queens Program in Java. I was able to print all the solutions where each Queen is on a different row and column. Now I need to keep track of the diagonals for collisions. So there are 2n-1 diagonal lines on a 2D array. The algorithm wants us to there are 2n-1 negative diagonal lines and 2n - 1 positive diagonal lines on the chessboard. There is an array of size 2n-1, called d1, that keeps track of the number of queens, i.e., the number of collisions, on each of the 2n-1 negative diagonal lines. If there are k queens on the mth negative diagonal line, there are k-1 collisions on this diagonal line. The
number k is written into the mth element of the d1 array. Similarly, we choose another array with size 2n-1, called d2, for 2n-1 positive diagonal lines.
Here is my method for D2, but I am completely lost. I know that all the up diagonals are row + col, but that is it.
      public void D2(){
          int[] upDiag = new int[2*board.length - 1];
          int numberOfCollisions = 0;
             for(int row = 0; row < board.length; row++){
                 for(int col = 0; col < board.length; col++){
                    if(isQueen(row, col)){
                    upDiag[numberOfCollisions++];
                  }
                }
               }
             }

A: I've written a three-part series on the Eight-Queens/N-Queens Problem.
Here's a general outline of the problem, and a recursive solution.
Here's a genetic algorithm solution.
Here's a simulated annealing solution.
For the collision checking itself, something like this works very well:
double assessFitness(Integer[] candidate) {
    int collisions = 0;
    final int MAXIMUM_COLLISIONS = calculateMaxCollisions();
    for (int i = 0; i < GRID_SIZE - 1; i++) {
        for (int j = i + 1; j < GRID_SIZE; j++) {
            if ((candidate[i].equals(candidate[j])) || j - i == Math.abs(candidate[i] - candidate[j]))
                collisions++;
        }
    }
    return (MAXIMUM_COLLISIONS - collisions) / (double) MAXIMUM_COLLISIONS;
}

Note that this is adapted from my genetic algorithm solution. I do explain why I return a value that scales from 0 to 1 in the blog article, but in your case a slight modification would yield the result you're looking for:
int countCollisions(Integer[] candidate) {
    int collisions = 0;
    final int MAXIMUM_COLLISIONS = calculateMaxCollisions();
    for (int i = 0; i < GRID_SIZE - 1; i++) {
        for (int j = i + 1; j < GRID_SIZE; j++) {
            if ((candidate[i].equals(candidate[j])) || j - i == Math.abs(candidate[i] - candidate[j]))
                collisions++;
        }
    }
    return collisions;
}

In order for this to work, you do need to calculate the maximum allowable number of collisions for your N-Queens problem.
private int calculateMaxCollisions() {
    int sum = 0;
    for (int i = GRID_SIZE - 1; i > 0; i--) {
        sum += i;
    }
    return sum;
}


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A bird's eye view of Coronado, San Diego Bay, and the city of San Diego in the 1880's. View looks east from the Pacific Ocean. Includes index to points of interest.
A bird's-eye view of the city in 1876. View looks west, with the city of San Diego in the foreground, and San Diego Bay, Coronado, and Point Loma in the background. Includes index to points of interest.
Based in Morro Bay, this chapter of the Audubon Society concerns itself with birds and other wildlife throughout San Luis Obispo County.
Breeding and sales of pure and partbred andalusion horses and exotic birds including Eclectus, Macaws, and Grays. Includes photos, breeding and sales information, and contact details.
Watercolors of birds and wildlife. Online gallery, biography.
A bird's-eye view of the city circa 1887, with a border showing major buildings. Includes text and an index to points of interest.
Breeders of hunting dogs, bird dogs and providers of shooting dog training.
A bird's-eye view showing the city in 1901, with a border showing major buildings.
A bird's-eye view of the city circa 1909.
Sells brand-name bird seed online.


The House of Logan has been a fixture in Boothbay Harbor all my life and for the lives of almost everyone now in town. For decades Logan's has been a destinaton for classic clothing. After my family moved here in 1952, it was high on the list of places for my parent's house guests, old friends and relatives, to visit since it rivaled clothing stores in their metropolitan areas. It was and is a popular place among townspeople and visitors alike.
Its beginnings date to June of 1928 when Ethel Drew Logan and her mother, Catherine Drew, bought the building on Townsend Avenue and the south corner of McClintock Street. It formerly was Owen Hodgdon's blacksmith shop among other things. The Drew family had been summer residents for some time, renting a house on Townsend Gut for years from the Reed family that ran the Oake Grove Hotel. Ethel and Catherine started their store soon after buying it in 1928, calling it the Old Curiosity Shop. They kept two tenants initially, Page's Marble & Granite Works in a tiny adjunct on the south side and Horace Hildreth's carpenter shop in the second story.
The Old Curiosity Shop offered accessories for the home: boxes, cushions, pottery, fabrics such as chintz, wallpaper, trays, and glasses featuring dogs and horses. The store's location was not described by street address in Register ads, but described as "en route to p.o." This was at a time when the post office was across the street (now Slick's) and pivotal in peope's live, with mail arriving four times a day and two daily deliveries on foot to local customers.
The nature of the contents inside the store was hinted at by the building being decorated with painted hollyhocks. According to Ethel's grandson, Bill Logan, she had an artistic and creative bent, decoating the outside of the shop and decorating some of the items in the shop. Her involvement with the Monhegan and Boothbay Harbor artists and art schools may have greatly influenced her inventory choices and her decorating. As long as the Logans were a summer family, the children, Ward "Bud" and Drew Logan, would start school here in September, transfer to Bayside, New York later in the fall, and return to school here in May. Bill explained that many summer families followed that schedule. That ended in 1935 for the Logan family when they became Harbor residents.
Within a few years, Ethel added a clothing line which occasioned a name change. The Old Curiosity Shop could imply eccentric used clothing, so her store became simply Ethel Logan. The next change came in 1938 when Ethel's teenage son Bud opened a men's clothing shop in a small ell on the north side of the shop; that enterprise ended when he enlisted in the Navy in 1942 during World War II.
Wartime brought restrictions on seemingly every conceivable commodity, including a freeze on new construction. According to a 1958 article, Ethel had hoped to build a new building, but only the plans could be drawn because of the restriction. Charles Reed pencilled the plan on a cedar shingle, and "no other plans or specifications were needed by Charles who started building with his son Ed as soon as the restriction was lifted in 1945." The new store, which opened in May 1946, follows a classic cape design and has not been materially altered in appearance so far.
After Bud's wartime service ended, he and his brother Drew joined the business in 1947. Their partnership with their mother precipitated a final name change to House of Logan since the business was now not Ethel's alone. But changes continued with the 1948 purchase of the McClintock house north across McClintock Street from the House of Logan; it became The Village Store. Eventually Drew Logan left the business, moving to New York City. Bud and Ethel brought more innovations, adding an interior decorating section and a separate women's sportswear arm, The Clothes Horse. Some time after Bud's 1952 marriage, his wife Ann joined the business as a buyer and merchandiser, returning the partnership to three family members.
In 1957 the business expanded up the coast with a site in Camden. Two years later in 1959 Bud bought the business from his mother, ending the involvement of the first Logan generation. She, with her sons' help, had accomplished the creation of a thriving business in an era when women weren't normally welcomed in the business world. One ad mockup in the family's archive showed no fewer than 12 different categories of sales items: gourmet foods, children's clothes, gifts, bargains, fabrics, rugs, wallpaper, women's sportswear, men's shop, women's shop, china, glass, and antiques.
Bud and Ann Logan carried on the retail business, consisting of the House of Logan, the Village Store, and the Camden store with no changes until the 1980s. Then in 1983 their daughter Sarah joined them in the business. Their son Alex joined the three of them in 1987, the same year Bud sold the business to the next generation. Sarah eventually devoted her time to advertising, publicity, and as a buyer of women's and children's clothes and accessories. Alex focused on the financial side of the business and as the buyer for men's clothes. The last change to the business locations was the addition of a store in Bath in 2001.
The family members who have owned the business for 90 years hit on a winning formula that's worked to keep generations of patrons coming to their locations.


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package com.example.texttospeech;

// Imports the Google Cloud client library
import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.AudioConfig;
import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.AudioEncoding;
import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.SsmlVoiceGender;
import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.SynthesisInput;
import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.SynthesizeSpeechResponse;
import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.TextToSpeechClient;
import com.google.cloud.texttospeech.v1.VoiceSelectionParams;
import com.google.protobuf.ByteString;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;

/**
 * Google Cloud TextToSpeech API sample application. Example usage: mvn package exec:java
 * -Dexec.mainClass='com.example.texttospeech.SynthesizeFile' -Dexec.args='--text
 * resources/hello.txt'
 */
public class SynthesizeFile {

  // [START tts_synthesize_text_file]
  /**
   * Demonstrates using the Text to Speech client to synthesize a text file or ssml file.
   *
   * @param textFile the text file to be synthesized. (e.g., hello.txt)
   * @throws Exception on TextToSpeechClient Errors.
   */
  public static ByteString synthesizeTextFile(String textFile) throws Exception {
    // Instantiates a client
    try (TextToSpeechClient textToSpeechClient = TextToSpeechClient.create()) {
      // Read the file's contents
      String contents = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(textFile)));
      // Set the text input to be synthesized
      SynthesisInput input = SynthesisInput.newBuilder().setText(contents).build();

      // Build the voice request
      VoiceSelectionParams voice =
          VoiceSelectionParams.newBuilder()
              .setLanguageCode("en-US") // languageCode = "en_us"
              .setSsmlGender(SsmlVoiceGender.FEMALE) // ssmlVoiceGender = SsmlVoiceGender.FEMALE
              .build();

      // Select the type of audio file you want returned
      AudioConfig audioConfig =
          AudioConfig.newBuilder()
              .setAudioEncoding(AudioEncoding.MP3) // MP3 audio.
              .build();

      // Perform the text-to-speech request
      SynthesizeSpeechResponse response =
          textToSpeechClient.synthesizeSpeech(input, voice, audioConfig);

      // Get the audio contents from the response
      ByteString audioContents = response.getAudioContent();

      // Write the response to the output file.
      try (OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("output.mp3")) {
        out.write(audioContents.toByteArray());
        System.out.println("Audio content written to file \"output.mp3\"");
        return audioContents;
      }
    }
  }
  // [END tts_synthesize_text_file]

  // [START tts_synthesize_ssml_file]
  /**
   * Demonstrates using the Text to Speech client to synthesize a text file or ssml file.
   *
   * @param ssmlFile the ssml document to be synthesized. (e.g., hello.ssml)
   * @throws Exception on TextToSpeechClient Errors.
   */
  public static ByteString synthesizeSsmlFile(String ssmlFile) throws Exception {
    // Instantiates a client
    try (TextToSpeechClient textToSpeechClient = TextToSpeechClient.create()) {
      // Read the file's contents
      String contents = new String(Files.readAllBytes(Paths.get(ssmlFile)));
      // Set the ssml input to be synthesized
      SynthesisInput input = SynthesisInput.newBuilder().setSsml(contents).build();

      // Build the voice request
      VoiceSelectionParams voice =
          VoiceSelectionParams.newBuilder()
              .setLanguageCode("en-US") // languageCode = "en_us"
              .setSsmlGender(SsmlVoiceGender.FEMALE) // ssmlVoiceGender = SsmlVoiceGender.FEMALE
              .build();

      // Select the type of audio file you want returned
      AudioConfig audioConfig =
          AudioConfig.newBuilder()
              .setAudioEncoding(AudioEncoding.MP3) // MP3 audio.
              .build();

      // Perform the text-to-speech request
      SynthesizeSpeechResponse response =
          textToSpeechClient.synthesizeSpeech(input, voice, audioConfig);

      // Get the audio contents from the response
      ByteString audioContents = response.getAudioContent();

      // Write the response to the output file.
      try (OutputStream out = new FileOutputStream("output.mp3")) {
        out.write(audioContents.toByteArray());
        System.out.println("Audio content written to file \"output.mp3\"");
        return audioContents;
      }
    }
  }
  // [END tts_synthesize_ssml_file]
}


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You are here: Home / Front feature / MPs debate lessons from Afghanistan
MPs debate lessons from Afghanistan
The Norwegian government and Members of Parliament (MPs) finally took time in the New Year to study and debate Norway's lengthy participation in the war in Afghanistan. Most agree, at least, on one conclusion from a critical report by experts last year: Norway proved itself to be a good and reliable ally of the US, which led the war effort.
Norway has spent more than 14 years and NOK 20 billion on its involvement in Afghanistan. Parliament is now assessing a critical report about how goals for creating stability and democracy were not met. PHOTO: Forsvaret
The report itself otherwise mostly blasted Norway's participation in Afghanistan, which was officially aimed at fighting terrorism and the Taliban in the area. The Norwegian government spent 14 years and NOK 20 billion on military operations and foreign aid in Afghanistan, where 10 Norwegian soldiers were also killed and many others badly wounded. The report claimed that proving itself as a good US ally was the only goal that Norway actually met.
Other goals, like routing out the Taliban and generating peace, stability, democracy and economic development were not met, according to the report that was handed to the government last summer. Afghanistan remains plagued by major social problems and frequent terrorist attacks, with the first-half of 2016 one of the most difficult until now, according to Liv Kjølseth, secretary general of Afghanistankomitteen, a Norwegian humanitarian organization running long-term projects and emergency assistance in the country.
'Crushing' assessment
Kjølseth and her colleague Helen Aall Henriksen call last year's report on Norway's involvement in Afghanistan a "crushing" assessment that most Norwegian politicians have tried to ignore or simply set aside. The Labour Party, which held government power for eight years during the height of Norway's involvement in Afghanistan, is now in opposition but unlikely to criticize how it handled Afghan issues from 2005 until 2013, when the current Conservatives-led government took over. The Conservatives, meanwhile, seem reluctant to criticize Labour since they granted the US' requests for participation in Afghanistan when they held power before Labour took over in 2005. They now hold power again and have claimed that the situation in Afghanistan has improved enough that the government can justify sending rejected refugees back to the war-torn country, no matter how controversial that practice is.
Kjølseth, Henriksen and Lt Col Tormod Heier, a researcher at Norway's defense college (Forsvarets høyskole), have all complained that Norwegian politicians have been much too secretive about their participation in military operations overseas and reluctant to address and assess the shortcomings of the Afghanistan effort. Kjølseth told newspaper Dagsavisen this week that "it's never been more difficult to work in Afghanistan than it is today." She claims the lack of self-criticism has "been almost total" among Norwegian politicians, "and we're especially calling for more open debate before Norway involves itself (again) in war areas."
Arne Strand, a senior researcher at Christian Michelsens Institute, agreed. "I had hoped for more evaluation and public debate," he told Dagsavisen. He stressed that "very much" in the report is highly relevant today, given Norway's current involvement in Middle East wars and conflicts.
Norwegian Foreign Minister Børge Brende, shown here on a trip to Afghanistan in 2014, has promised more aid to help push through new democratic reforms. They have yet to succeed. PHOTO: Utenriksdepartementet
"The most important lessons from the engagement in Afghanistan, both for (Norway's) political and military leadership, is that they must present a clear framework for what the Norwegian forces are supposed to do and not do," Heier told Dagsavisen. He also called for much more openness and public debate over intervention abroad, and over how Norway's dependence on its alliance with the US influences its military participation.
Ministers in Parliament
On Tuesday, Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide and Foreign Minister Børge Brende of the Conservatives appeared in Parliament to finally address Norway's involvement in Afghanistan. Brende admitted that Norway's ambitions have been too high, and largely agreed that Norway has only partially succeeded in hindering terror and helping to build a stable and democratic Afghan state.
Brende claimed it was nonetheless correct for Norway to participate in the efforts to do so, and he stressed that Norway's alliance with the US remains of critical importance. "It's easy to forget the shockwaves that the attack on the US on September 11, 2001 sent through the whole world," Brende said. "Norway had a formal obligation in accordance with the NATO pact and a moral obligation to stand by the US' side after the terrorist attacks in 2001."
Defense Minister Ine Eriksen Søreide (center), eating waffels with Norwegian troops in Afghanistan right after taking over her post in late 2013. At right, Defense Chief Haakon Bruun-Hanssen. PHOTO: Forsvaret/Stephen Olsen
Søreide also pointed to the attacks on the US as the catalyst for Norway's involvement in Afghanistan. She noted that a majority in the Norwegian Parliament "believed it was right to stand together with our ally in that situation." She stressed that the initial goal was to make sure that Afghanistan would no longer become a haven for terrorism. Leaving Afghanistan without also contributing to its rebuilding and stabilization "would have been irresponsible," Søreide said.
Both Brende and Søreide claimed that it thus was "correct" for Norway to go into Afghanistan, and stay there for so long. "It was correct that we engaged us in 2001 and it is correct that we still engage ourselves today," Søreide told Parliament.
Søreide and Brende also claimed it was "important and correct that we take the lessons from Afghanistan further." Søreide thanked the government-appointed commission that prepared the critical report, and which will now be debated in Parliament. She promised that Norwegian veterans of the war in Afghanistan will be "followed up," that more efforts will be made to attend to their needs and that more attention will be paid to civilian and military cooperation in international operations. She claimed there already was better cooperation between Norway's defense and foreign ministries and agreed that every overseas operation should have an exit strategy. She hailed Norway's special forces and intelligence-gathering services as "the two success stories" in last year's otherwise critical report. Søreide claimed that Norway's defense department "itself sees the need for more efficient learning from experience, and is continually improving its procedures."
Skeptics abound
Others weren't so sure. Leaders of Norway's smaller parties in Parliament were especially skeptical, with Liv Signe Navarsete of the Center Party (which ruled with Labour from 2005-2013) remarking after Brende's and Søreide's briefings that "there was a lot of defense over what they had done and little about what they'd learned." Bård Vegar Solhjell of the Socialist Left (SV), which also ruled with Labour, said it took much too long to start a peace process in Afghanistan and complained that neither Brende nor Søreide addressed whether it's possible to stabilize Afghanistan. Trine Skei Grande of the Liberals said that it was at least "good that they admit that the reason we went into Afghanistan was because we're members of NATO." NATO is now led by the former Labour prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, who was most responsible for Norway's involvement in Afghanistan during his eight years at the helm.
Jonas Gahr Støre, the current Labour leader who served as foreign minister under Stoltenberg and experienced a terrorist attack while in Kabul himself, told news bureau NTB that one important lesson from Afghanistan is that there are no military solutions for such conflicts, while political solutions are complex. "It's not any easier when it's a big military engagement involving many states," he said.
Lt Col Heier, of the defense college, also is concerned that Norway's current operations in the Middle East suggest that some of the reasons for going into Afghanistan are already being repeated. "The main reason we're there (in Iraq and Syria, for example) is also that we want to be a good ally of the US," Heier told Dagsavisen. Mistakes cited in last year's report are also being repeated: The government's current operations in Iraq and Syria, Heier notes, were decided upon behind closed doors and with little public debate. The decision to join the fight against terror group IS now was made in much the same way as the decision to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan.
"Where the US leads, Norway follows," Heier told Dagsavisen. "Being engaged in a war against tribes, clans and militias can often make things go from bad to worse. And that's a mistake that western forces make again and again." On Wednesday by the way, Brende was off on another trip to Jordan, Israel and Palestinian areas.
newsinenglish.no/Nina Berglund
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