Around the mid Edo period, let's say the 18th century, both men and women used to wear the traditional kimono called kosode ("small sleeves" kimono), a robe with no pockets kept together by a large sash, the obi, tied around the waist. But while women used to keep small objects inside the sleeves, men used to carry their personal accessories by hanging them from the sash; such sagemono ("suspended items") comprised money pouches, smoking accessories and inrō to store seals or herbal medicine. Each item would be attached to a double silk cord, about 20 cm long, which would have a netsuke attached at the end: when the sagemono is worn the cord would then be behind the sash and the netsuke would work as a stopper, showing itself from above. For this reason, netsuke always have two holes on the bottom, called himotoshi, where the double cord was inserted. On older netsuke, those really used as explained, we often see one himotoshi larger than the other one: that is because both the cords were inserted through the same hole and then knotted: the large hole would have then accommodated the knot hiding it inside the netsuke itself.
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Adams v. Neeld
United States District Court, E.D. Arkansas, Western Division
KENNETH RAY ADAMS, JR. PLAINTIFF
NEELD, Corporal, Saline County Detention Facility DEFENDANT
RECOMMENDED DISPOSITION
The following Recommended Disposition ("Recommendation") has been sent to United States District Judge James M. Moody, Jr. You may file written objections to all or part of this Recommendation. If you do so, those objections must: (1) specifically explain the factual and/or legal basis for your objection; and (2) be received by the Clerk of this Court within fourteen (14) days of the date of this Recommendation. If you do not file objections, Judge Moody can adopt this Recommendation without independently reviewing all of the evidence in the record. By not objecting, you may waive the right to appeal questions of fact.
Kenneth Ray Adams, Jr. ("Adams") is a pretrial detainee in the Saline County Detention Facility ("SCDF"). He has filed a pro se § 1983 Complaint and Amended Complaint alleging that Defendant Corporal Neeld ("Neeld") violated his constitutional rights and the Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA"). Docs. 2 & 5.[1] Before Adams may proceed with this action, the Court must screen his allegations.[2]
II. Discussion
A. Adams's Claims
Adams alleges that, on July 6, 2018: (1) Neeld opened, outside Adams's presence, a large envelope containing "confidential and legal documentations" regarding Adams's claim for social security benefits; and (2) Adams later discovered that three documents were missing, all of which contained his social security number, home address and case claim number.[3] Doc. 2 at 4-5.
According to Adams, the envelope was mailed to him at the SCDF by his sister, and it contained documents from a caseworker at the Social Security Administration. The envelope was not marked as "confidential or legal mail." Doc. 5 at 1. He contends that the loss of his documents makes him accessible to identity theft, invasion of privacy, and fraud, and could "ruin [his] credit report." Id. at 2. Adams said he believes Neeld seized the documents because Adams: (1) is African American and mentally disabled; and (2) has had some "racial[] disputes" at the SCDF. Id. at 1.
Adams claims that the mishandling of his mail violated his constitutional rights and amounted to "discrimination" against him based on his race and disability. Adams sues Neeld in his official and individual capacity, and seeks compensatory damages and a declaratory judgment that his rights have been violated. Doc. 2 at 2, 5-6; Doc. 5 at 2.
B. Constitutional Violations
1. Official Capacity Claim
As a matter of law, Adams's "official capacity" claim must be construed as a claim against Neeld's employer, Saline County. See Parrish v. Ball, 594 F.3d 993, 997 (8th Cir. 2010); Jenkins v. County of Hennepin, Minnesota, 557 F.3d 628, 631-32 (8th Cir. 2009). Saline County cannot be held vicariously liable, in a § 1983 action, for the acts of its employees. See Monell v. Dept. of Soc. Servs., 436 U.S. 658, 691-94 (1978). Instead, it can only be held liable if its policies, customs, and practices caused Adams's injury. See Jenkins, 557 F.3d at 632; Grayson v. Ross, 454 F.3d 802, 810-11 (8th Cir. 2006).
Because Adams does not allege that a Saline County policy, practice, or custom caused his injury, he has failed to plead a viable official-capacity claim against Neeld. Accordingly, that claim should be dismissed.
2. Individual Capacity Claims
         Adams alleges a one-time incident of his incoming mail being opened, with three documents being either lost or destroyed. The law is settled that "an isolated incident [of incoming legal mail being opened], without any evidence of improper motive or resulting interference with [the inmate's] right to counsel or to access to the courts, does not give rise to a constitutional violation." Gardner v. Howard,109 F.3d 427, 431 (8th Cir. 1997); see also Holloway v. Pigman,884 F.2d 365, 367 (8th ...

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Sun Life U.S. appoints Irlande Audenier to lead Group and Voluntary claims
Sun Life U.S. has appointed Irlande Audenier as vice president, Group and Voluntary Claims, providing strategic direction for the group claims organization. In this capacity, Audenier will also help continue building out Sun Life's integrated absence, disability and supplemental health solutions, expanding services for the nation's largest employers.
Sun Life hosts fourth quarter 2021 earnings conference call
Sun Life Financial Inc. (TSX: SLF) (NYSE: SLF) will release its fourth quarter 2021 financial results on Wednesday, February 9, after markets close. Sun Life will hold its earnings conference call and live webcast at 10:00 a.m. ET the following day.
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CALGARY, Alberta, January 19, 2022--Imperial said today it plans further reductions in greenhouse gas emissions intensity over the next decade to help support Canada's net zero goals.


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Even though Canadian law guarantees your right legal counsel, it also places limits on the scope of that guarantee. For instance, in 2010, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to counsel does not extend to police interrogations. That is, even though police have an obligation to inform arrestees and detainees of their right to legal counsel, that doesn't mean that a defence lawyer needs to be present during the duration of the interview. Even though the court concluded that detainees have the right to legal counsel if the result of the investigation warrants the consultation, the court's ruling has significantly expanded police powers and eroded constitutional guarantees of detainees.
Even though they may interrogate you, police still must inform you of your right to legal counsel, including the availability of legal assistance from a government duty counsel or Canada Legal Aid lawyer if you can't afford a private lawyer. When police inform you of your right to legal counsel, they must do so immediately upon your arrest or detention. Once they do so, however, they have no further obligation to provide you a reasonable opportunity to exercise that right. But once you obtain a lawyer, the law prescribes that any meetings between you and your lawyer while in detention must be in private.
Whatever the circumstances of the arrest or detention, the police can commit any number of missteps. Constitutional violations can occur. If you believe that may have happened in your case, you are advised to seek the services of an experienced criminal defence lawyer who can investigate and determine what effect this may have on your case and your defence.
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The Cape Peninsula Tour
May 31, 2019 May 31, 2019 Posted in hiking, landscape, National Parks, Nature, Photography, travelTagged 12 Apostles, African penguins, Cape of Good Hope, Cape Peninsula, Cape Point, CapeTown, Chapman's Peak Drive, False Bay, Noordhoek Beach, Simon's Town, South Africa, Table Mountain National Park
It was a beautiful day for a drive. We boarded a van for a tour around the Cape Peninsula of South Africa, and Michael, our driver was eager to show us the sights.
Our first stop was Maiden's Cove. The sun had just broken through a veil of ground fog and scattered clouds looming over the 12 Apostles…
causing the breakers to sparkle from a beam of direct light.
Idle tide pools glimmered against a foaming sea in the company of sleeping rocks.
Later, at Hout Bay, a seal was starved for attention…
but easily satisfied by tuna bites…
and a few strokes from Leah.
We continued along Chapman's Peak Drive, following the contour of Noordhoek Beach,
until we reached a pee-pee stop that also doubled as a sculpture park filled with wild animals…
and African villagers expertly carved from stone, and available for shipping anywhere in the world.
We resumed our tour at the gates of Table Mountain National Park in search of special geography.
But not before stopping to study an ostrich by the sea, because an animal sighting always takes precedence over a landmark.
Once we arrived, we patiently waited our turn in the drizzle so Michael could record our proud penultimate achievement.
Because 200 km across False Bay…
lies L'Agulhas, the most southern point of Africa, where the Atlantic Ocean meets the Indian Ocean…
But we settled on Cape Point because we were already there…
and hiked to a decommissioned lighthouse…
and remote guesthouse that offers views…
…in all directions,
and a special place where heaven touches earth.
The tour concluded at Boulders Beach in Simon's Town,
where we enjoyed a late lunch of seafood, before returning to follow the antics of eager African penguins preparing for an afternoon swim.
8 thoughts on "The Cape Peninsula Tour"
roseberryrambles says:
This looks amazing!! That seal is so beautiful 🙂 Love the photos.
streamingthruamerica says:
Thanks. Well worth a visit!
Lori Gezelman says:
Stunning, as always!!!
Thanks for the ego stroke, Lori.
Sophi R Weitz says:
Thanks, Sophi.
Beautiful pictures, and experience. I hope you urge all your friends and family to come here to experience it for themselves….after all, we have water again! (A year ago we were at the height of our terrible drought…but not so much anymore.)
Obviously, our trip was fantastic! But as much as my photos and words can tell some of the story, there is no way it can give the complete picture. That requires a personal visit, which I would encourage anyone with means to sample. Cape Town is beautiful, however, the Townships are another story…to be told another day.
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To understand why, you'll need to know how an Australian metals trader—with help from the CIA—inadvertently triggered the invasion of Iraq. And how coalition troops were killed by bombs made with explosives that, according to the White House, never existed. You'll need to understand how the United States air Force bombed a wedding in Afghanistan, and also learn why the U.S. gave material support to the president of Uzbekistan, who, as it happens, boils people alive.
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Republican representative Paul Ryan, the new chairman of the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, promoted bills that would add nearly $100 billion to the national deficit over the next ten years. Ryan made a name for himself during his time as chairman of the Budget Committee over the last six years by proposing budgets designed to drastically cut domestic spending and balance the budget within the next decade. Now, in his first legislative act in in a new position, Ryan pushed through a package of seven tax cut bills that would add $93.5 billion dollars to the deficit over ten years. Democrats worry that these new measures would boost the deficit and also close loopholes for future tax reform. They also noted that the tax cuts proposed tend to help "the better-off," which could come at the expense of breaks that would help people who really need them. Democrats did not accept the proposals and the bills did not advance in the Senate, but if the house passes them again this year, they would stand a much better chance in the Senate, now that it is under GOP control.
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Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Konami's slice n' dice entry in their long-running Metal Gear series, has now been ported over to Mac.
The sad truth of the matter is, Raiden actually runs FreeBSD.
In 2013 Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance introduced players to a completely new way to view the Metal Gear series. After having featured stealth entries, tactical entries, even card-game entries, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance instead made the series pure hack and slash goodness along the lines of Devil May Cry or Bayonetta.
Except with more cyborgs, because cyborgs are awesome.
Despite quite a bit of initial skepticism from news media and many players, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance has grown to be considered one of the better entries in the series as a whole, with the game's unique dismemberment and health/upgrade system making the game more than just another fast-paced slice-em-up. Originally released for both the PS3 and Xbox 360, it didn't take Konami long to see the benefits of porting the game over to PC as well, where it continued to impress audiences.
Now, with the help of Transgaming Inc., Konami is expanding Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's legacy to include the Mac platform as well. This is all part of a new market strategy for Transgaming Inc., who are looking to expand the scope of their publishing practices to include major PC/console releases getting ported to Apple and other platforms. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is only the first of many games the company hopes to help make the transition.
If the idea of Raiden slashing his way through giant robots, countless cannon fodder enemies, and perhaps the occasional everything else on your Macbook is something you've dreamed about, then there's no reason to wait: Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is available now both through Apple's own app stores and, of course, Steam. The game's normal price is $29.99, but in commemoration of its new platform the game can be had for a short time for 10% off.


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Golden Globe Awards: 'Boyhood,' 'The Affair' Take Top Honors
HFPA honors many first-time winners, including Gina Rodriguez, Kevin Spacey and Jeffrey Tambor
Tim Kenneally | January 11, 2015 @ 5:20 PM	Last Updated: January 11, 2015 @ 9:30 PM
Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" and the Showtime drama "The Affair" both won big at the 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, with "Boyhood" winning in the Best Motion Picture — Drama category, and "The Affair" scoring the win for Best Television Series — Drama.
"Boyhood" also scored Linklater an award for Best Director — Motion Picture. Meanwhile, "The Affair" star Ruth Wilson beat out competition that included Claire Danes and Julianna Margulies for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series — Drama.
Other notable wins included an award for FX's anthology series "Fargo" and its star, "Billy Bob Thornton," and "Jane The Virgin" star Gina Rodriguez, who won The CW its first ever Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Comedy or Musical.
The ceremony started out with cohosts Tina Fey and Amy Poehler riffing on the Sony cyberattack that rocked the company late last year, dropping a number of punchlines about the embarrassing emails that were leaked and "The Interview," the movie that reportedly sparked the cyberattack.
See photos: Golden Globes: Red Carpet Arrivals
They also took aim at the other headline-dominating topic at the moment, the sexual assault scandal that has plagued Bill Cosby in recent months.
"Welcome, you bunch of despicable, spoiled, minimally talented brats," the monologue began, a nod to an email about Angelina Jolie that found its way to the internet as the result of the leak.
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With regard to the James Franco-Seth Rogen comedy that reportedly sparked the cyberattack, the pair joked, "North Korea referred to 'The Interview" as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror … even more amazing, not the worst review the movie got."
The pair also took aim at Cosby's woes, with the pair offering dueling Cosby impressions as they spoofed what the comic's response to the allegations against him might sound like.
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J.K. Simmons took the first trophy for his supporting role in "Whiplash." "Downton Abbey" actress Joanne Froggatt was next to win an award.
The maiden run of the FX Anthology series "Fargo" also made a strong showing in the opening minutes of the ceremony, with the show winning Best Miniseries and Billy Bob Thornton scoring a trophy for his portrayal of Lorne Malvo.
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Thornton kept his acceptance speech extraordinarily short, saying that one can get in trouble for saying anything these days, "So I'm just going to say thank you."
The specter of the Sony hack attack was raised once again during a skit in which Margaret Cho portrayed a North Korean general/contributor to Movies Wow! magazine. Cho stood silent and stonefaced as her picture was taken with Meryl Streep, purportedly as an effort to appease North Korea and prevent another leak. Cho later appeared on stage as the general, expressing her displeasure with the ceremony so far in a heavy accent and declaring before marching off the stage, "Also, I think that 'Orange Is the New Black' should be in the drama category — it's funny, but not ha-ha funny."
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Presenting the Cecil B. DeMille Award to George Clooney, his former "ER" costar Julianna Margulies and "Ocean's Eleven" costar Don Cheadle ribbed the recipient, engaging in a mock contest to determine who knew him best. After Margulies asked Cheadle if Clooney had ever invited him to tour a disaster with him, Cheadle shot back that, yes, he had been to the set of Clooney's film "Monuments Men."
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During his acceptance speech, Clooney engaged in a bit of self-deprecating humor, saying that it had been unbelievable watching Margulies grow and mature over the years — and that "it's probably been fun for them to watch me not grow and not mature over the same time."
Clooney used the speech as an opportunity to discuss the massive marches in the wake of the terror attack in France that left 17 dead, saying those who marched "were Christians and Jews and Muslims. They were leaders of countries all over the world, and they didn't march in protest. They marched in support of the idea that we will not walk in fear. We won't do it. So je suis Charlie."
Clooney also paid tribute to his new wife Amal, saying, "Amal, whatever alchemy it is that brought us together, I couldn't be more proud to be your husband."
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Jennifer Aniston ("Cake")
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Reese Witherspoon ("Wild")
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Emma Stone ("Birdman")
"Girls" stars Lena Dunham and Andrew Rannells
Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine ("The Voice") and model Behati Prinsloo
Julianna Margulies ("The Good Wife")
Taylor Schilling ("Orange Is the New Black")
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Rosamund Pike ("Gone Girl")
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Allison Williams ("Girls")
Julianne Moore ("Still Alive")
Harrison Ford ("Star Wars") and Calista Flockhart ("Brothers and Sisters")
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Joshua Jackson ("The Affair") and Diane Kruger ("The Bridge")
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Carrias é um município da Espanha na província de Burgos, comunidade autónoma de Castela e Leão, de área 13 km² com população de 33 habitantes (2007) e densidade populacional de 3,19 hab/km².

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Existe no Brasil, no estado do Piauí, mais precisamente na cidade de Barras, a família Carrias e a comunidade Lagoa dos Carrias.
Apesar de existir na Espanha um lugar com o nome de "Carrias", especula-se que a família tenha se originado na França, embora também possam ser considerados a família real dessa Província.

Carrias
Municípios da Espanha por nome
Localidades da Espanha
Localidades de Castela e Leão
Localidades de Burgos (província)

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VIDEO: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Calls for Federal Decriminalization of Marijuana
Washington, DC—Continuing her commitment to common sense criminal justice reform, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) spoke on the House floor today urging Congress to pass bipartisan legislation to federally decriminalize marijuana. If passed, the Ending Federal Marijuana Prohibition Act (H.R.1227) would take marijuana off the federal controlled substances list—joining other industries such as alcohol and tobacco. Gabbard introduced the legislation with Rep. Tom Garrett (VA-05), an Army veteran and former prosecutor.
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Statement on Federal Stay on Travel Ban
Washington, DC—Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) released the statement below after U.S. District Court Judge Derrick Watson in Honolulu issued a nationwide stay temporarily preventing the Trump Administration's travel ban from going into effect:
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Votes to Support Servicemembers and their Families, Healthcare for COFA Migrants, Strengthen National Security in Defense Funding Bill
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Washington, DC—The Hawaiʻi congressional delegation introduced the Macadamia Tree Health Initiative today. The legislation would help fight the macadamia felted coccid, an invasive species destroying macadamia trees and threatening the domestic macadamia nut industry at large. Since the invasive insect was introduced to Hawaiʻi in 2005, it has cost the local macadamia nut industry millions every year, threatening the vitality of one of Hawaiʻi's most important crops.
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Compassion Can Be Cultivated
New research suggests training designed to increase feelings of compassion can lead to more altruistic behavior.
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Can people be taught to act more altruistically? Newly published research, measuring both brain activity and behavior, suggests the answer just may be yes.
"Our findings support the possibility that compassion and altruism can be viewed as trainable skills rather than stable traits," a research team led by Richard J. Davidson and Helen Weng of the University of Wisconsin-Madison writes in the journal Psychological Science.
Specifically, they report that taking a course in compassion leads to increased engagement of certain neural systems, which prompts higher levels of altruistic behavior.
Brain scans revealed "a pattern of neural changes" in those who received compassion training.
The researchers describe an experiment featuring 41 people, none of whom had any experience with meditation or cognitive behavioral therapy. All participated in a two-week training program that required them to follow guided audio instructions for 30 minutes each day.
Half received "compassion training," in which they "practiced cultivating feelings of compassion for different targets (a loved one, the self, a stranger, and a difficult person)". The others received "reappraisal training," in which they "practiced reinterpreting personally stressful events" with the goal of lessening their negative emotional reaction.
At the beginning and again at the end of the two weeks, participants' brains were scanned as they employed their assigned strategy (compassion or reappraisal) while they viewed a series of images. Many of the pictures depicted people suffering, such as a burn victim and a crying child.
Finally, at the end of the two weeks, all took part in an Internet "redistribution game," in which they witnessed unfair behavior and had an opportunity to partially rectify it. They watched as a person given $10 gave only $1 to a victim who had no money. They were then told they could spend any portion of their own $5 allotment to compel the miser to double the amount he or she gave the victim.
Those who received the compassion training spent nearly twice as much of their own money to try to rectify the unfairness: $1.14, as opposed to 62 cents for those who had taken the emotional reappraisal strategy. "This demonstrates that purely mental training in compassion can result in observable altruistic changes toward a victim," the researchers write.
The brain scans revealed "a pattern of neural changes" in those who had received compassion training, including "neural systems implicated in understanding the suffering of other people, executive and emotional control, and reward processing."
"If the signal of other people's suffering is indeed increased by compassion training," the researchers write, this apparently compels them to "approach rather than avoid suffering, in order to engage in pro-social behavior."
The researchers also found neural changes in members of the other group, but the effect was quite different: In their case, greater changes in certain key regions of the brain were linked with less willingness to give money.
Davidson, Weng and their colleagues point out these participants were trained to reduce personal stress and negative emotions, and speculate they may have achieved that goal by ignoring or dismissing the problem that was presented to them.
Previous research found compassion-oriented meditation can produce changes in the brain, but it was performed on Buddhist monks who were veterans of this practice. This study finds a mere two weeks of training can produce measurable results.
So if you long to be a warmer, more caring person (which, not incidentally, is good for your health), this research presents good news: At least to some extent, the choice is yours.
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Tom Jacobs is a senior staff writer at Pacific Standard, where he specializes in social science, culture, and learning. He is a veteran journalist and former staff writer for the Los Angeles Daily News and the Santa Barbara News-Press.
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Congratulations to Magdalen Fellow Professor Marilyn Booth who has been jointly shortlisted for the Man Booker International prize for her translation of Celestial Bodies by Jokha Alharti.
The book centres on three sisters, Mayya, Asma, and Khawla, who live in al-Awafi a village in Oman. Mayya marries after a heartbreak, Asma marries from a sense of duty, and Khawla rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved, who has emigrated to Canada. It is the story of the history and people of modern Oman told through one family's losses and loves.
The winners will be announced on Tuesday 21 May.


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Q: using std::regex_search for get all file and folder that be have match with pattern I want implemented search windows's, I use this :
int main()
{
 Search(L"C:\\Users", L"*.txt"); // or Search(L"C:\\Users", L"*.txt");
}

search(path, CString searchString)
{
 std::wregex searchPattern = GetPattern(searchString);
 result = RecursiveSearch(path, searchPattern);
 return result ;
}

RecursiveSearch(path, std::wregex searchPattern)
{
CString newPath = path + CString("\\*");
WIN32_FIND_DATA findData;
HANDLE fileHandle = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
fileHandle = FindFirstFile(newPath, &findData);
do
{
    if (INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE != fileHandle)
    {
        if (std::regex_search(findData.cFileName, searchPattern))
        {
            if (findData.cFileName != std::wstring(TEXT(".")) && findData.cFileName != std::wstring(TEXT("..")))
            {
                std::wcout << (const wchar_t*)findData.cFileName
            }
        }
        if (findData.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY)
        {
            if (findData.cFileName != std::wstring(TEXT(".")) && findData.cFileName != std::wstring(TEXT("..")))
            {
        RecursiveSearch(GenerateNewPath(path, ToCString(findData.cFileName)), searchPattern);
            }
        }

    }
    else
    {
        continue;
    }
} while (FindNextFile(fileHandle, &findData));
return allObject;
 }

this code is ok, it's running successfully. but response is not good.
Some results for this example is :
text.txt
debug-2017-12-18-150616.txt
d.txt.lnk // this isn't not good result
.
.
what is the problem? can you help me detect and fix the bugs?

A: for pattern add flags :
std::regex_constants::icase | std::regex_constants::ECMAScript | std::regex_constants::optimize;

and add flags to regex_search function :
std::regex_constants::match_continuous

add $ to end of pattern

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Last month, Quilt Alliance board president Meg Cox and I were lucky to attend the Studio Art Quilt Associate's annual meeting, 'Capitolizing on Fiber' in Alexandria, Virginia. As part of the meeting, SAQA founder Yvonne Porcella delivered an excellent lecture on early exhibits of the art quilt and SAQA's beginnings. Check out that lecture here:
Yvonne has been interviewed for the Q.S.O.S. project 4 times. In an interview in 1999, Yvonne shared a bit about her early career, the places her work has traveled and her hopes for the next century:
[W]hen you ask me what was my best quilt it's most likely the last one that I have done. But I do think as I have mentioned, my career has evolved from the first brides quilt that I made as a gift, to the first art quilt I made in 1980 which was basically strips of fabric and triangles and squares of fabric, and that quilt is in the Smithsonian Collection. And that was a great honor. But that quilt was so unique it was very colorful. That quilt also traveled around the world during the early 1980's, so the quilt has provenance. In other words, it has traveled to France for a year and traveled to Turkey, and so the Smithsonian acquired it because they wanted a quilt that. So there's a very emotional time of my life that says that must be the very best quilt because it's in our National Museum. But on the other hand, I've evolved from that point, so in 1998 I was invited to do a quilt for the International Triennial of Tapestry which hung in Lodz, Poland. That show is an Invitational of 120 Artists representing about fifty countries and they are invited to exhibit for six months in the Museum in the textile area of Poland. So for me that quilt, my quilt in that show is the coming together of my whole artistic career. I use to be a weaver. I use to weave tapestries. This was a show of the "International Triennial of Tapestries."
So I went back to my roots as a weaver and historical significance of a tapestry which told the story. It tells the story of the history at that moment. We can go back as historians and look at the flora and fauna and the costumes, of that particular moment in time that's been showcased in the woven tapestry. I wanted my quilt that went to that show to be the sort of the dialogue of my place in this world at this moment done in quilt but with the concept of tapestry of telling a story. The quilt was done in 102 by 110 inches and done by hand. I laid the colors in and I stitched them by hand very much like I had that same mental and artistic feeling when I laid in the threads for my tapestries, but here my fabrics were large pieces, so the shapes were all reminiscent of what I have done as a weaver and building up areas of colors. The quilt is titled "Answering the Riddle" and I had proposed to myself questions about the Twentieth Century, and what do we take from the Twentieth Century, what happened in this century that will effect us in the next? The quilt has a lot of meaning to me because events and moments in time of the Twentieth Century are translated visually into that quilt, so that's my best.
Jeri Baldwin: It sounds like it. What have you done with thinking about the Twentieth Century in your work and your teaching? What do you think you'll change, or will you want to change, or what do you want to leave the same? What are you going to take into the Twenty-first Century as a quilter and as a teacher?
I'm still going to take the passion I have for doing it by hand. I'm going to take the passion of creating something totally for myself, that pleases myself, that comes from myself. I am not interested in scanning it on the computer. I am not interested in coloring it on the computer. Because to me the reason I am an artist, which was very difficult for me to even reach that point where that I can verbalize it because I was trained as a nurse. I was trained as a mother, as a grandmother and to be an artist was to say to people, 'Well, I think I am an artist although I am not academically trained.' But I have a passion and I know that if I don't do the work that I'd be unhappy. So for me the twenty-first century will be similar to the twentieth century because I will continue to work until I can no longer work. The wonderful part of being an artist is that the wonderful ideas never stop so the concept of the creativity that will be produced in the–however long I am going to live is very exciting to me.
You can read more quilt stories on the Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories page on the Quilt Alliance website.
Posted by Emma Parker
Project Manager, Quilters' S.O.S.- Save Our Stories
qsos@quiltalliance.org


On Friday, March 16, 2018, the D.C. Circuit at last issued its long awaited decision on the challenge to the Federal Communication Commissions (FCC) 2015 Omnibus Declaratory Ruling and Order. The court's decision addressed claims that the FCC exceeded its authority in defining key elements of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
The court, in a disappointing move, upheld a call recipient's right to revoke previously granted consent by any reasonable means. They also upheld the scope of the FCC's exemptions from TCPA liability pertaining to calls and text messages regarding urgent healthcare.
What does the ruling mean to the management of your telemarketing campaigns? Here is a summary of the key decisions from the long awaited ruling by the Court of Appeals.
2015 Omnibus Declaratory Ruling and Order: For purposes of being covered under the TCPA, the FCC defined an ATDS as a device with the "potential" capacity to store and dial telephone numbers using a random number generator.
2018 Court of Appeals Ruling: The court found the FCC's interpretation of the term "capacity" in the statutory definition of an ATDS to be "utterly unreasonable in the breadth of its regulatory inclusion". Therefore, the Court of Appeals vacated this FCC rule.
The Court of Appeals concluded that the FCC's order lacked clarity about which functions qualify a device as an autodialer and "offered no meaningful guidance to affected parties" to assist the calling party with identifying what is allowed and what is prohibited. The lack of clarity compounded the unreasonableness regarding the FCC's arbitrarily expansive interpretation of a device's "capacity".
2015 Omnibus Declaratory Ruling and Order: The TCPA prohibits certain telephone calls made without the "called party's" consent. The FCC recognized that telephone numbers are often reassigned to other consumers without the calling party's knowledge. To address this issue, the FCC created a "safe harbor" for the first call/text to the reassigned number, regardless of whether the call was answered or lead to actual knowledge of the reassignment.
2018 Court of Appeals Ruling: The TCPA specifically permits ATDS calls "made with the prior express consent of the called party." The court found the one-free-call safe harbor to be arbitrary and capricious since it served no purpose for ensuring that the calling party would learn of the phone number reassignment. Therefore, the Court of Appeals vacated this FCC rule.
In determining their ruling, the court noted that the FCC had concluded that the term "called party" in the statute referred not to the intended recipient of a call but to the current subscriber. For the caller that meant that even if a retailer had received express consent to call a customer's cellphone number they still ran the risk of a TCPA violation. Such a violation would occur if the customer had closed their wireless account and their phone number in turn had been reassigned to another consumer. If the retailer had no knowledge of the reassignment they were at risk of TCPA liability.
The Court of Appeals concluded that "no cognizable conception of reasonable reliance" supports the commission's blanket, one-call-only allowance. The FCC conceded that it was not possible for the caller to necessarily know if a number had been reassigned after only one call, especially if the consumer was silent on the current status of the telephone number. The court also criticized the absence of any time limit on the one-call safe harbor.
2015 Omnibus Declaratory Ruling and Order: Consent can be revoked in any "reasonable manner", written or oral, that clearly expresses the consumer's desire and that is reasonably expected to communicate that desire to the party to whom consent had previously been given.
2018 Court of Appeals Ruling: The court affirmed the FCC on the issue of consent revocation meaning that the Omnibus Order on this issue remains unchanged.
In determining their ruling, the court signaled its approval for the simple and easy methods for revoking consent and to the possibility of having the process for consent handled contractually through the inclusion of language identifying the agreed upon methods of revocation. They supported the existing order's allowance for a caller to revoke consent at any time and through any reasonable means — orally or in writing — that clearly expresses a desire not to receive further messages. For that reason, the court affirmed the FCC's "reasonable means" standard for revoking consent to receive further messages.
2018 Court of Appeals Ruling: The court decided to uphold the scope of the narrower exemption for healthcare related calls to wireless numbers and leave unchanged this provision of the Omnibus Order.
Also rejected was the argument that a narrower exemption for healthcare calls made to wireless numbers was "inherently contradictory" because the TCPA treats wireless numbers differently than residential numbers and that "the statute itself contemplates that calls to wireless numbers tread [more] heavily upon ... consumer privacy interests." For those reasons, the court upheld the FCC's healthcare exemption.
Despite the recent D.C. Circuit ruling, TCPA litigators are not going away anytime soon. Staged leads initiated by litigator groups seeking a quick payout for TCPA claims combined with an increased risk of contacting reassigned numbers remains a troublesome unsolved issue and potential risk for many enterprises.
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"Until now, Canadian patients with lymphedema have been going to the U.S. to seek surgical treatment. It could cost anywhere from $40,000 to $60,000"
Some Quebecers suffering from lymphedema — a chronic, aching condition that often results in the swelling of the arms or legs — can now turn to a new surgical treatment offered at the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal.
In a medical first in Quebec, a team of surgeons at the CHUM operated on a 23-year-old man on Jan. 22 to reduce the swelling in his left leg. And on Wednesday, the same team operated on a 34-year-old woman, bypassing lymphatic blockages in both her legs.
It's estimated that more than 150,000 Canadians are afflicted with lymphedema. Some are born with the condition, but about 10 per cent of cancer patients develop it after surgery and radiotherapy causes damage to their lymphatic system.
Normally, lymph fluid, containing infection-fighting white blood cells, flows through the body unimpeded. Lymphedema arises when the fluid collects in certain parts of the body, causing chronic swelling.
Until now, the treatment of lymphedema in Quebec was limited to physiotherapy and the wearing of uncomfortable compression garments. Today, thanks to the medical advance at the CHUM, Quebecers with less severe lymphedema will be eligible for the surgical procedure, known as a lymphovenous bypass.
The surgery, which was pioneered in Japan and has been available in the United States for more than a decade, does not cure lymphedema. But studies have shown that it can reduce swelling permanently by up to 40 per cent.
"This is really a marriage between technology and medicine," said plastic surgeon Ali Izadpanah, who learned the technique at the Mayo Clinic in the U.S.
Michel-Alain Danino, chief of plastic surgery at the CHUM who learned the technique in Japan, assembled a multi-disciplinary team to perform the procedure in Quebec.
The bypass requires great skill as it involves what is known as super micro-surgery, stitching lymphatic vessels, that are a fraction of a millimetre, to nearby veins. The surgeons peer through a $460,000 microscope that magnifies images 80 times.
Before carrying out the bypass, the surgeons inject a contrast dye in the swollen limb so that they can see the lymphatic vessels through a special medical-imaging camera. They trace the vessels on the skin using a marker before cutting into the tissue.
Olivier Lagacé, a 23-year-old actuary, underwent the operation on Jan. 22. He developed lymphedema in his left leg after a motorcycle accident in 2014. He sustained burns on his left leg, and five months later, it swelled by 50 per cent.
He had to wear a thick compression garment on his leg all the time, even during the hot summer months. Simple chores, like washing the dishes, soon proved nearly impossible.
Less than two weeks after the operation, Lagacé said he has already noticed a reduction in the swelling below his knee.


so how come gmail doesn't show up in my universal inbox?
Seems like they're actually encouraging me not to use it since its not included with the rest of the messaging services?
I don't even use the universal inbox that much, but it doesn't even show in the list of messaging services!
Universal Inbox is a part of Motorola Blur. Kind of silly that they wasted time to add this. It really confused me when I first got the phone. This being my first Android phone I had a hard time telling which applications were Motorola and which were Google.
Yeah Universal Inbox isn't so "Universal" when it comes to gmail. The native gmail application is what you want to use for gmail, nothing else comes close.
I don't use the Universal Inbox and I would suggest others not to use it as well.
but the thing is that I don't really use gmail. Yahoo is my main personal mail, and 'corp sync' for work.
Since gmail isn't even listed in the "messaging services" with the rest, now I really won't use it.
I miss that aspect of winmo where I could just swipe from side to side and it would switch accts.
I did find out elsewhere on the web that I can manually add gmail as another email acct then then turn off gmail sync to achieve it, but I probably just won't use gmail.
I'm just used to looking here first from my TP2 days and trying to stir up some action on this board.


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Central Electrochemical Research Institute invites applications form eligible candidates for the posts of Technician.
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How do you craft an effective sales pitch? First, ditch the "pitch"—or at least neglect the traditional meaning of the word. It basically describes what salespeople used to do—throw information at prospects hoping to sell a product or service before the buyer could hang up the phone or slam the door—but good salespeople today treat the "pitch" process as a collaborative conversation.
"A 'pitch' typically conjures up images of a one-way presentation, with the salesperson talking at a prospect, which is not the effective way to sell," says Art Sobczak, President of BusinessByPhone.com. "The word is outdated, and is typically used in a derogatory way when talking about sales and salespeople," he adds.
If you choose to employ the dated term to describe that part of the sales process, make sure you don't take it so literally.
Lesson learned: An effective sales pitch isn't a monologue. It's a dialogue.
Before you develop your sales plan, you need to do your homework.
As a salesperson, you need to know a lot about your buyer, so you can address how valuable your product or service might be to that specific client, Bleeke says. "Buyers are busy and inundated with information. You need to be able to connect the value of your solution to that specific buyer, or the buyer is not going to give you any time or attention," she adds.
Next, identify your objectives. Bleeke says doing this will determine the information you will need to "advance the probability of time with the person, which will lead to a sale." Your goal is to get the prospect's attention and agreement to have an engaged conversation about how you can help them with something specific, she says.
With sufficient preparation and specific goals in mind, you'll be more effective in the sales process.
How do you begin the pitch? Start by asking questions, Weiss says. Even if you think you've turned over every stone—there is always more to learn.
Weiss says that as a salesperson you should talk 20% of the time and listen the other 80%.
"Ideally what you want to do in this phase of the sales process is to be able to uncover the prospect's needs, understand their needs, and show them how whatever you're selling can help them accomplish whatever they're trying to accomplish, or fix a problem they have," Weiss says.
"You should let them talk most of the time—but when you talk, you need to tell the prospect how you can help. Don't talk about the functions of your product and try to sell them on the features or characteristics." Instead, sell the benefits or the value of the product, she adds.
Tell about how your products can cut costs, reduce time, increase profits–and then quantify it, Sobczak says. "Talking about how you've helped someone else might pique their interest, too.
Bleeke says she tries to "pown," an acronym: "Salespeople need to identify the problems they solve, the opportunities they capture, and the wants or needs that are addressed by the solution. Once they know this they need to put together metrics and proof of what they can do or have done," she says.
Sobczak says to ask for a commitment at the end the conversation. "Have them promise to consider your recommendation, or ask for an opportunity to meet or talk again." If they agree to that, you were probably effective in your recommendation.


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An unusually warm spring meant extended time on the water for a fisherman, resulting in fewer hours in the field for a hunter. When you indulge in both hobbies, you're still left with one turkey tag left to fill by mid-May, and late season hunting can be tough.
I had filled two tags the opening week of spring turkey. With a few short yelps, the unsuspecting Toms came barging in to challenge my Dave Smith jake decoy. However, as the season progresses, they get educated, more wary. Calls become less effective, and patience is tested. I spent many mornings and evenings in the blind, calling once an hour hoping to catch a lonely Tom off guard. The morning of May 14th was no different.
As I laced up my boots, and loaded my pack, the weight of that unfilled tag was heavier than my gear. The season was drawing to an end, and I vowed to stay off the water until I got my bird. I chose to hunt a property I hadn't hunted yet this year, a small farm east of the river. A muddy corn field with a large brush pile in the corner showed several signs of gobblers in the area. My boots sank into the soft mud, and I could hear the woods begin to come alive as I unloaded my pack, and strategically set my decoys. I tucked my blind into the brush pile, and set my jake and one feeding hen fifteen yards out. As dawn crept across the field, I made my way into the blind to wait.
I nocked an arrow as I let out a soft call. In the distance, I heard the sound that lights a fire in the hearts of hunters across the globe… "GOBBLE!" He's here. Careful not to rush him, I put my diaphragm call back into the case, and set my bow across my lap. It was 6:12 am, a good 15 minutes before the sun would rise. I intently scanned the field and the tree line. A few minutes passed as I debated whether or not to call again. As I reached for my coffee thermos, something moved in the corner of my eye. I looked out and saw what appeared to be a hen walking directly across my set up, in the tall grass towards the corner I was tucked away in. I squinted to get a better look, as it was a good 100 yards out. I noticed the bird zone in on my decoy, and saw the head turn a bright red color. It was my tom.
My heart started to race and he came directly towards my jake. I slowly positioned myself and started to draw my bow. I felt the cams roll over and felt the familiar thud of the back wall, and the string buried into my cheek. The tom was about 20 yards out and coming in hot. I rested the pad of my index finger on the release, and the bird stopped as if he could feel my 20 yard pin on his chest. He flared, and started to turn back towards the woods. This was my chance. This could be the last bird I see of the year, and he would be my biggest. He was about 30 yards out and walking at an angle away from my blind, a tough shot with my bow, but one I had practiced many times before. I put my pin right ahead of the wing, took a long breath, and sent that arrow flying. THUMP. I hit my mark.
The tom jumped into the air, and feathers flew as he ran 10 yards and dropped. I dropped my bow and buried my head in my hands. I had filled my last tag.
The sun finally started to make its debut as I made my way back across the field with my blind and decoys on my back, and my bird and bow in my hand. The past few mornings I didn't see anything but a cottontail. Late season can be brutal, but just like any day in the woods, things can escalate quickly if you're willing to put in the time and the effort.


Dr Stanford is well trained in research; starting his career with a laboratory based higher degree (PhD) and is currently Australian principal investigator for an international clinical trial in spinal cord injury. His laboratory work included bone graft substitute materials, spinal screw analysis, graft contamination and bio-resorbable bone anchors.
Prince of Wales Hospital has one of the two spinal cord injury units in NSW and Dr Stanford has developed a passion for the management of this devastating injury. He has publications on suicide, early assessment and the complications of spinal cord injury.
Dr Stanford is proud to lead a team at POWH in a trial of early treatment of acute spinal cord injury with a drug designed to enhance neurological recovery. He is the Australian Principal Investigator for an international project designed by Prof Michael Fehlings in Toronto, Canada, with overseas sponsorship. Currently there are five Australian sites participating in the trial of 23 worldwide and we lead the way in enrolment numbers internationally.
Dr Stanford is on the steering committee that oversees a national database of hip fracture in the elderly with the aim of improving outcomes for this vulnerable group of people. He regularly contributes to data collection for the registry at POWH.
Maharaj MM, Stanford RE, Lee BB, Mobbs RJ, Marial O, Schiller M, Toson B. The ffects of early or direct admission to a specialised spinal injury unit on outcomes after acute traumatic spinal cord injury. Spinal Cord. 2017 May;55(5):518-524. doi: 10.1038/sc.2016.117. Epub 2016 Aug 2. PubMed PMID: 27481092.
Sharwood LN, Stanford R, Middleton JW, Burns B, Joseph A, Flower O, Rigby O, Ball J, Dhaliwal S. Improving care standards for patients with spinal trauma combining a modified e-Delphi process and stakeholder interviews: a study protocol. BMJ Open. 2017 Jan 19;7(1):e012377. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012377. PubMed PMID: 28104707; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5253580.
Mitchell RJ, Stanford R, McVeigh C, Bell D, Close JC. Incidence, circumstances, treatment and outcome of high-level cervical spinal fracture without associated spinal cord injury in New South Wales, Australia over a 12 year period. Injury. 2014 Jan;45(1):217-22. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2013.02.024. Epub 2013 Apr 6. PubMed PMID: 23570702.
Chau AM, Xu LL, van der Rijt R, Wong JH, Gragnaniello C, Stanford RE, Mobbs RJ. Reconstruction versus no reconstruction of iliac crest defects following harvest for spinal fusion: a systematic review: A review. J Neurosurg Spine. 2012 Jun;16(6):565-72. doi: 10.3171/2012.3.SPINE11979. Epub 2012 Apr 13. Review. PubMed PMID: 22500584.
Chow J, Chen K, Sen R, Stanford R, Lowe S. Cauda equina syndrome post-caesarean section. Aust N Z J Obstet Gynaecol. 2008 Apr;48(2):218-20. doi: 10.1111/j.1479-828X.2008.00836.x. PubMed PMID: 18366499.
Stanford RE, Soden R, Bartrop R, Mikk M, Taylor TK. Spinal cord and related injuries after attempted suicide: psychiatric diagnosis and long-term follow-up. Spinal Cord. 2007 Jun;45(6):437-43. Epub 2007 Mar 6. PubMed PMID: 17339888.
Stanford RE, Loefler AH, Stanford PM, Walsh WR. Multiaxial pedicle screw designs: static and dynamic mechanical testing. Spine (Phila Pa 1976). 2004 Feb 15;29(4):367-75. PubMed PMID: 15094532.
Walsh WR, Loefler A, Nicklin S, Arm D, Stanford RE, Yu Y, Harris R, Gillies RM. Spinal fusion using an autologous growth factor gel and a porous resorbable ceramic. Eur Spine J. 2004 Jul;13(4):359-66. Epub 2004 Mar 18. PubMed PMID: 15034772; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3468045.
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Shakespeare House B&B | Shakespeare House B&B offers relaxing Te Anau accommodation, just 100 m from Lake Te Anau and a short walk to Te Anau's town centre.
Shakespeare House B&B offers relaxing Te Anau accommodation, just 100 metres from Lake Te Anau and a short walk to Te Anau's town centre.
Guests enjoy a substantial home cooked breakfast - either cooked from the menu or buffet-style continental. Stay in one of nine rooms (with the option of one or two beds), all with private ensuite bathrooms, heating and electric blankets, a TV and free wifi. Sip on complimentary tea and coffee or enjoy a glass of wine in the conservatory. Feel free to cook dinner in the communal kitchen.
Shakespeare House B&B is conveniently located in Te Anau - the gateway to Fiordland National Park; a World Heritage Area. There's something for everyone in Fiordland; from glow-worm caves, to Great Walks like the Kepler Track, Milford Track or Routeburn Track, or an overnight cruise on Doubtful Sound. If you're a thrill seeker; there's jet boating, or for a relaxing getaway, try a leisurely bike ride around the waterfront.
Your local hosts, Nathan and Liz, are happy have a chat and help with anything. They love giving advice on things that might interest you on your visit to Fiordland (and New Zealand) and can help book tours and activities for you.
For an authentic Te Anau experience just a few minutes from town, with a delicious cooked breakfast, stay at Shakespeare House B&B.


Picking an Amazing Roof Repair Company .
One of the very important parts of a house or building is the roof as it is a great source of protection from the rain waters, snow, rays of the sun and other harmful things that exist outside there. For this reason, the roof should be one of the parts of your house or business premises that you should take great care of. In the event that the roof has a dent or is destroyed at some point, you should hire the service of one of the best roof repair contractors to fix it and return it to its good condition. The roofing industry today has so many roof repair contractors and this makes it a tussle in identifying which roof repair company is genuine and which one is there to take clients for a ride. Read more about Roof Repair Contractor from snow removal Westwood. The following are some guidelines on how to choose a good roof repair company.
Charges should not be your keen point of interest when it comes to repairing of your roof. When picking a roof repair contractor, do not base your choice on the pricing because you might end up getting yourself a repair company that does not insist on quality causing regrets later on. There are roof repair contractors that pressure you into signing contracts with them even before they do an assessment of the destroyed roof identify the type of repair required and the much it is going to cost and are dangerous and should be avoided. To read more about Roof Repair Contractor, visit interior finishing Westwood. Quality roofing is not as cheap and the repair services are not expected to be as cheap either because depending on the damage, a replacement may be required. Companies that charge very cheaply to do repairs might not do the best of the repair works on your roof.
Ask for licensing and certification. Governments have set out bodies and organizations to ensure that all qualified roof repair contractors are licensed and certified to practice. You should always be in a position to ask for a copy of their certification documents to verify their validity to eliminate suspicions and to avoid working with fraudsters.
Check out several roof repair companies before making a choice to be able to identify those companies that are credible and good enough to work with. To add on to these point, you should also consider going online to check for reviews from previous clients on how a certain roof repair contractor performed. You will always find reviews with honest feedback from previous clients on the services of different roof repair contractors. Many good reviews for a particular roof repair company means that their services are good and of great quality.


Look good in a hoodie from our Lake Superior silhouette series.
Lake Superior is the greatest lake of all-time. The largest fresh water lake by surface area, and second largest by volume. Lake Superior never fails to leave us in awe. Whether it be massive waves or the rare day when it's as smooth as glass, days spent along her shore are always cherished.
This hoodie has an unmatched softness and has a lighter weight than our traditional hoodie.


Expect it to fetch a best-ever dollar figure to match.
The Porsche 904 Carrera GTS has a somewhat tragic history, but it is one which also makes for a very valuable car. The 904 was conceived in 1962 as a mid-engine GT-class race car. It had a fiberglass body, marking the first time Porsche had used plastic composites on any sort of car. Just 100 were built, for homologation purposes, although a large percentage of the supposed street versions ended up being raced by privateer teams, like the GT3s of today.
The engine in early versions of the car was either a 1.6-liter or 2.0-liter four-cylinder unit. Porsche had originally planned on using the new 901 2.0-liter six-cylinder unit, but was unsure of its endurance racing abilities, although a few would find their way into later 904s. More units were planned, but by the mid-Sixties, Ferrari and Shelby had made GT-class wins impossible for cars with such small engines. The car you see here started off with a four-cylinder engine (which the owner still has, and is part of the lot being auctioned off), but has been retrofitted with a period-correct 911-sourced flat-six.
This is not an uncommon practice with the 904, since it's the engine the car was given towards the end anyway.


If you live within the local area, a Southern California web site design company can be your business partner in any situation. Whether you need web hosting services, design element reshaping, or a total revamping of your promotional campaign, simply contact a web design company in Southern California! You'll be helping yourself as well as a local economy!
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Remember, a web design company is only as good as its past clients, so when you find a great website company in the Southern Californian area, hang on to it! Provide them with clear and concise information about the nature of your company, its mission and goals, and how you want to improve and profit through a website. The more specific you are, the easier it is for the Southern California web site design company to use it's knowledge to create your home on the Internet.
You may still be confused as to where to start from, especially if you've never created a business website before. To contact a local California web design company in your area, you may need to look into a few online search engines and balance each company's pricing and services. To look at our favorite source for "SoCal" web design and marketing, please go through the link on the right.


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Film Entry
45th Telluride Film Festival 2018 (by Pamela Gentile)
TFF 45 Tribute Alfonso Cuarón (by Pamela Gentile)
Karyn Kusama and Nicole Kidman (by Pamela Gentile)
Melissa McCarthy and Marielle Heller (by Kevin Van Rensselaer)
Jill Wine-Banks, Lesley Stahl and Charles Ferguson (by Pamela Gentile)
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Alex Honnold and Jimmy Chin (by Pamela Gentile)
TFF 45 Camp Telluride 2018 (by Eugene Kwon)
46th Telluride Film Festival 2019 Announces Guest Director Pico Iyer
We are proud to announce our 2019 Guest Director, Pico Iyer. The celebrated author is set to select a series of films to present at the 46th Telluride Film Festival running over Labor Day Weekend, August 30 through September 2, 2019.
Festival organizers annually select one of the world's great film enthusiasts to join them in the creation of the Festival's program lineup. The Guest Director serves as a key collaborator in the Festival's programming decisions, bringing new ideas and overlooked films to Telluride. In keeping with Telluride Film Festival tradition, Iyer's film selections, along with the rest of the Telluride lineup, will be kept secret until Opening Day.
"Pico is a tremendously gifted writer with unrivaled wit," said TFF Executive Director Julie Huntsinger. "His enthusiasm for film, especially within his writing, has buoyed and enchanted us. It has made working with him to create this year's Guest Director program a particularly delightful experience. Both Tom Luddy and I are thrilled to have him with us this year."
Pico Iyer is the author of two novels and thirteen works of non-fiction. His books have been translated into 23 languages and both his 2008 meditation on the XIVth Dalai Lama, The Open Road, and his TED Book, The Art of Stillness, were best sellers across the U.S. They have also made him a Guggenheim Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
An essayist for Time since 1986, he is a constant contributor to The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Harper's and more than 200 other newspapers and magazines worldwide, and he has published introductions to 70 other works.
Iyer has also written many liner-notes for Leonard Cohen, essays for several Criterion Collection DVDs and a screenplay for Miramax. His writing on Malick, Farhadi, Bertolucci, Scorsese and many other filmmakers has appeared all over, and his writing on movie studios from North Korea to Hyderabad has borne out The New Yorker's assertion that "As a guide to far-flung places, he can hardly be surpassed."
Born in Oxford, England, in 1957, Iyer was educated at Eton, Oxford and Harvard. This year he's been serving as Ferris Professor of Journalism at Princeton.
"In the times I've been to the Festival I've seen as many rich and original films in three days as I get to watch in the next twelve months combined," said Iyer. "So when Tom and Julie asked if I might be willing to serve as Guest Director this year, I felt as stunned and delighted as if I'd been given the keys to the kingdom. Movies have actually been my secret passion for as long as the Telluride Film Festival has been around. But nobody had intuited this until Tom and Julie, a dream team of sorts, sensed my excitement and offered me a chance to share my enthusiasms and passions with others. The invitation to help choose films for the Festival this year was the most exciting one I can remember receiving; I only hope I can pass on a fraction of the delight that I have found at Telluride to others in this inspiring community."
Past Guest Directors include Jonathan Lethem, Joshua Oppenheimer, Volker Schlöndorff, Rachel Kushner, Guy Maddin, Caetano Veloso, Michael Ondaatje, Alexander Payne, Salman Rushdie, Peter Bogdanovich, B. Ruby Rich, Phillip Lopate, Errol Morris, Bertrand Tavernier, John Boorman, John Simon, Buck Henry, Laurie Anderson, Stephen Sondheim, G. Cabrera Infante, Peter Sellars, Don DeLillo, J.P. Gorin, Edith Kramer and Slavoj Žižek.
The Guest Director program is sponsored by Turner Classic Movies (TCM). Considered throughout the industry as one of the leading authorities on classic film, the network presents great films, uncut and commercial-free, highlighting the entire spectrum of film history.
Telluride Film Festival Poster Here
Learn more about the National Film Preserve
TFF 45 WATERGATE Conversation
Recorded: September 01, 2018
TFF 45 Noon Seminar A
TFF 45 Noon Seminar B
Watch more in the Showroom
Grab the Festival App Here
The Telluride Film Festival features more than 40 programs
As flights into the Telluride area are limited, attendees are strongly
As a non-profit arts organization, you could say the Telluride Film Festival
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* A section of water belongs to the first fisherman fishing it. It is inconsiderate to crowd him and just how close an approach is permissible is an obvious variable.
* A slow-moving or stationary fisherman has every right to remain just where he is. If you are moving, leave the water and walk around him, being certain not to disturb his fishing or semble phénq fonctionne the water he might be working. In a similar vein, a fisherman may be resting a pool or planning his next move. It is still his water, and you should not jump in without his permission.
The above mentioned two rules are the most important (and obvious) etiquette rules. If every fisherman followed them, the fishing world would be like heaven.


IDUG EMEA 2016 in Brussels, and a Discount Code!
I am going to IDUG in Brussels this year. This will be my first time at the European IDUG conference. I'm paying my own way so I get to go this year. I'll be speaking on Monday the 14th November at 15:10 in the Vision room on SQL Infusion: Tuning and Using the Package Cache!
I'm so excited to go to this conference for the first time! I hope to meet all the readers from Europe!
As a first-time attendee at the IDUG conference in Europe, I could use your suggestions, too. Please share your ideas and details you think I should be aware of in the comments below!
I find great value in online methods, obviously, as I have poured thousands of hours of work into this blog and a presence on LinkedIn and Twitter. I even dabble in stackExchange when I have time. But there are connections you can make, even if you're an introvert like me, at conferences and user groups that will take you farther and give you those contacts to call when you are at the end of your rope and not getting what you need through official channels.
The grid with all of the sessions is available on the IDUG Website.
THURS: 9:40-10:40 D16 – DB2 Performance FAQs vol. 6 – More Things You Need to Know!
I'm sure I'm missing some excellent session here – what other speakers and sessions are can't miss for you? At least two of the above are people I've read and communicated with online, but haven't had the chance to meet yet.
Overall, I'm amazed at the simple clarity of the grid and yet how seldom I have major conflicts. I may catch some of the above at the Word of Watson conference in Las Vegas two weeks before the IDUG EMEA so I can spend time on intriguing sounding sessions from speakers I haven't heard of.
The first certification exam is free. If you pass that, the second one is free, too. After that, tests will cost $25 each.
The DB2 11.1 DBA exam has been released.
The list of available exams is on the IDUG website.
There are also are free preparation courses available for certification on Sunday, 13th November. Roger Sanders knows more about IBM DB2 LUW certification than any person I know, having been involved with or even guiding the writing of most of the tests.
IDUG and DBI have teamed up to offer a most excellent discount. Using the code 2016DBI25, you can save a whopping 25% on conference admission! Also, check out Scott's list of reasons to attend. I'm especially fond of #7!
As of the time this article posts, I also have one 60% off mentor discount available for a first-time attendee – let me know if you would find it useful!


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The KijiTableReader class provides a get(...) method to read typed data from a Kiji table row. The row is addressed by its EntityId (which can be retrieved from the KijiTable instance using the getEntityId() method). Specify the desired cells from the rows with a KijiDataRequest. See the KijiDataRequest documentation for details.
To read from an existing KijiTable, create a KijiDataRequest specifying the columns of data to return. Then, query for the desired EntityId, using a KijiTableReader. You can get a KijiTableReader for a KijiTable using the openTableReader() method.
The KijiTableReader also implements a bulkGet(...) method for retrieving data for a list of EntityIds. This is more efficient than a series of calls to get(...) because it uses a single RPC instead of one for each get.
The KijiTableWriter class provides a put(...) method to write or update cells in a Kiji table. The cell is addressed by its entity ID, column family, column qualifier, and timestamp. You can get a KijiTableWriter for a KijiTable using the openTableWriter() method.
Note: the type of the value being written to the cell must match the type of the column declared in the table layout.
The AtomicKijiPutter class provides the ability to perform atomic operations on Kiji tables. The atomic putter uses a begin, put, commit workflow to construct transactions which are executed atomically by the underlying HBase table. Addressing puts in the atomic writer is very similar to KijiTableWriter, except you do not need to specify an entityId for every put, because they all must target the same row. When your transaction is ready, write it by using commit().
If you want to ensure that the table has not been modified while you accumulated puts, you can use checkAndCommit(family, qualifier, value) instead of commit(). This will write your puts and return true if the value in the specified cell matches the value to check, otherwise it will return false and your puts will remain in place so that you may attempt a new check.
// Increment a cell indicating the number of times the row has been modified.
// Ensure the row has not been modified while preparing the transaction.
When working with high traffic tables, minimization of remote procedure calls is critical. The KijiBufferedWriter class provides local buffering to reduce RPCs and improve table performance. Using the buffered writer is very similar to the standard KijiTableWriter with a few small differences. The buffered writer does not write put or delete operations until the buffer becomes full or the user calls flush or close. The size of the local buffer can be managed using setBufferSize. The buffered writer cannot buffer increment operations because increment requires an immediate connection to a live table.
// Accumulate puts and deletes in the local buffer.
// flush() on this writer.
// Manually flush to ensure writes are committed.
Incrementing a counter value stored in a Kiji cell would normally require a "read-modify-write" transaction using a client-side row lock. Since row locks can cause contention, Kiji exposes a feature of HBase to do this more efficiently by pushing the work to the server side. To increment a counter value in a Kiji cell, the column must be declared with a schema of type "counter". See Managing Data for details on how to declare a counter in your table layout.
Columns containing counters may be accessed like other columns; counters are exposed as long integers. In particular, the counter value may be retrieved using KijiTableReader.get(...) and written using KijiTableWriter.put(...). In addition to that, the KijiTableWriter class also provides a method to atomically increment counter values.
This section refers to classes in the org.kiji.schema.mapreduce package that may be removed in the future. Please see the KijiMR Userguide for information on using MapReduce with Kiji.
// * Setup jars to ship to the hadoop cluster.
The code contained within "// *" is responsible for shipping Kiji resources to the DistributedCache. This is so that all nodes within your hadoop cluster will have access to Kiji dependencies.
To write to a Kiji table from a MapReduce job, you should use KijiTableWriter as before. You should also set your OutputFormat class to NullOutputFormat, so MapReduce doesn't expect to create a directory full of text files on your behalf.
// Setup jars to ship to the hadoop cluster.
// Open a KijiTable for generating EntityIds.
// Create a KijiTableWriter that writes to a MapReduce context.