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What Does Bill Gates Do On His Day Off?
August 9, 2019 Karl Smallwood	5 comments
Briday asks: Is it true that Bill Gates didn't take any days off work in his 20s?
Bill Gates has frequently stated, "I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one." He goes on, "When I was in my 20s and early 30s, my whole life was focused on work. I didn't take vacations or weekends off. I was always the first in the office and the last to leave…."
As for why, he states of starting a company, "It is nice, if during those first several years if you have a team that's chosen to be pretty maniacal about the company… I have a fairly hard-core view that there should be a very large sacrifice made during those early years… In the software world – particularly for platforms – these are winner-take-all markets."
So is it really true he literally never took a single day off? And in more recent times, what does the occasionally richest human on the planet do when he does take time off?
As to the former question, as far as our research shows, beyond Gates himself stating this on more than one occasion, there's never been a single person who worked with Gates during Microsoft's formative years that has contested this claim. On the contrary, in Paul Allen's excellent book, Idea Man, he frequently comments on the fact that even in their teen years, he, Gates, and some of their cohorts would have to be almost literally pried away from the computer terminal to go home and sleep, with Gates being one of the most hard core of them all in that respect. This is something that only intensified when they started "Micro-Soft" and no longer had parents watching over them to make sure they got proper rest. In fact, Allen states he and Gates used to frequently stay up working for a couple days at a time, followed by sleeping for sometimes as much as 20 hours straight. To keep going during those long hours, Allen also claims Gates had a habit of licking Tang powder off his hands for energy.
With regards to his 20s, it's also noteworthy here that it was when Gates was 19 that Allen and he saw the cover of a January of 1975 edition of Popular Electronics magazine that read: "World's First Minicomputer Kit to Rival Commercial Models… 'Altair 8800′"
Why is this important? When they read the details, it turns out Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) had used the new Intel 8080 chip in their Altair 8800 computer kit.
This is what Allen and Gates had been waiting for.
The pair had previously been intrigued by potentially using the Intel 8008 chip to make a general purpose home computer out of. But given memory limitations, they realized that a getting a BASIC interpreter to run on it would have taken up nearly all the memory, leaving almost nothing to run any useful program. Thus, they shelved the idea, though the teens did use the chip to develop their Traf-o-Data system, which automated tracking certain traffic data, with that company flopping when certain states started offering for free the same service their Traf-o-Data system performed.
When the Intel 8080 chip debuted in April of 1974, they realized it could do what they had in mind, but still tabled the idea as there was no one who made an off the shelf system that could use the chip the way they had in mind. You see, the chip itself wasn't targeted at a general computer type market, but rather to be used in various designated systems like traffic lights, industrial robots, etc. Allen initially tried to convince Gates they should develop such a hardware system using it, but Gates dismissed the idea, noting they were software people; they knew little about the hardware side, and anyway didn't have the money for those sorts of projects. They needed to find an opportunity that played to their strengths.
Then the Altair 8800 came out- a $439 computer kit initially meant to be a niche product to make it easier and much cheaper for hobbyists to build their own personal computer; instead, it ended up kicking off the microcomputer revolution.
To give you an idea of what a steal of a deal this kit was, a similarly capable machine at the time sold by Intel ran for about $10,000 (about $47,000 today). Further, the 2 Mhz Intel 8080 chip itself usually cost $360 ($1,700 today), only $79 less than the entire Altair kit. MITS was able to sell the kit so cheap as, among similar deals for the other components, they had made a deal with Intel to allow them to purchase the 8080s for only $75 each.
Seeing the potential, Gates and Allen immediately wrote a letter to MITS' President, Ed Roberts, using their former company Traf-O-Data on the letter head to make it all seem more legit. They claimed they were nearly done with an implementation of a BASIC interpreter that would run on the Altair 8800, and were wondering if Altair would like to license it when they finished it. Roberts would later state that he called the number on the letter and instead of getting a business, got someone's home phone, with the person who answered having no clue what he was talking about. Thinking they got no response, the pair went ahead and called Roberts themselves.
Gates did the talking as he was the better negotiator and knew more about the system they were supposed to already be nearly done with; but the pair agreed he would say his name was Paul Allen, as Allen had a beard and looked much older than Gates. Thus, Gates would do the talking over the phone as Allen, and Allen would take the lead in person.
Unfortunately for them, Roberts was less than enthusiastic, saying he'd received several similar calls, but despite people's claims, nobody was actually able to show that they really had implemented such an interpreter for the computer. He then told them the first person to walk through his door with a working BASIC interpreter would get a contract.
With so many others apparently thinking the same thing about the potential of this machine, Gates and Allen knew they'd have to be quick, subsequently working day and night over the following weeks to create that software, with Gates skipping classes and Allen showing up to his job at Honeywell late and leaving early, getting only a few hours of sleep a night as they plugged away.
You might at this point be wondering how they created such software given they didn't actually have an Altair 8800- in fact, at this point nobody did. The picture on the cover of Popular Electronics wasn't even showing a working machine, but rather an empty case for the Altair 8800.
This turned out to be an advantage for them, as, thanks to Traf-o-Data, they already had a working emulator for the Intel 8008 that Allen had developed. Thus, they merely had to acquire the technical manual for the similar Intel 8080, and then tweak Allen's emulator to work for it and the Altair 8800, with the whole thing running on the PDP-10 mainframe computer.
At the same time Allen was doing this, Gates headed up working on the BASIC interpreter itself, and a hired gun, Monte Davidoff, developing the needed math package.
Finally, in March of 1975, Allen headed to New Mexico to demonstrate their "Altair BASIC" to Roberts. The problem was Allen forgot the bootstrap program that contained the instructions to actually load their software in correctly. Thus, while traveling to New Mexico, he had to handwrite the needed assembly code for a bootstrap loader for the Altair 8800 from memory. Allen recounts what happened next in his book Idea Man:
The following morning with Ed [Roberts] and Bill Yates hanging over my shoulder I sat at the Altair console and toggled in my bootstrap loader on the front panel's switches. Byte by byte… It took about 5 minutes and I hoped no one noticed how nervous I was. "This isn't going to work," I kept thinking.
I entered my twenty-first instruction, set the starting address and pressed the "Run" switch. The machine's lights took on a diffused red glow as the 8080 executed the loader's multiple steps. At least that much seemed to be working.
I turned the paper tape reader and the teletype chugged as it pulled our BASIC interpreter through. At 10 characters per second, reading the tape took 7 minutes… At the end I pressed stop and reset the address to 0.
My index finger poised over the "Run" switch once again.
To that point I couldn't be sure of anything… "There's just no way this is going to work."
I pressed "Run".
The teletype's printer clattered to life, I gawked at the upper case characters. I couldn't believe it. But there it was, "Memory Size".
"Hey," said Bill Yates, "It printed something."
It was the first time he or Ed had seen an Altair do anything beyond a small memory test. They were flabbergasted. I was dumbfounded. We all gaped at the machine for a few seconds. And then I typed in the total number of bytes in the 7 memory cards- 7168.
"OK," the Altair spit back.
Getting this far told me that 5% of our BASIC was definitely working. But we weren't yet home free. The acid test would be a standard command that we'd used as a midterm exam for our software back in Cambridge. It relied on Bill's core coding and Monty's floating point math, and even my crunch code, which condensed certain words like "Print" into a single character. If it worked, the lion's share of our BASIC was good to go. If it didn't, we'd failed.
I typed in the command- PRINT 2+2. The machine's response was instantaneous- 4.
That was a magical moment. Ed exclaimed "Oh my God! It printed 4!" He'd gone into debt and bet everything on a fully functioning microcomputer, and now it looked as though his vision would come true. He couldn't get over the fact that Bill and I had solved the puzzle without any of the hardware. That was astonishing to him. But Ed wasn't as surprised as I was that our 8080 BASIC had run perfectly it's first time out of the chute…
"Let's try a real program," I said, trying to sound nonchalant.
Yates pulled out a book called 101 BASIC computer games… I typed in the [Lunar Lander] program. Yates launched his lunar module and after a few tries settled it safely on the Moon's surface. Everything in our BASIC had worked.
Ed said, "I want you to come back to my office." Through a flimsy looking doorway I took a seat at his desk… "You're the first guy who came in and showed us something," he said. "We want you to draw up a license so we can sell this with the Altair. We can work out the terms later."
I couldn't stop grinning. Once back at the hotel, I called Bill who was thrilled at the news. We were in business now. For real. In Harvard parlance, we were "golden". I hardly needed a plane to fly back to Boston.
And so it was that "Micro-Soft" was born shortly thereafter on April 4, 1975.
Now, as you might imagine, at this point given all Gates and Allen had going on, it's not outside of the question to think that Bill Gates probably always did have something to work on every day from then on throughout his 20s.
While that's not exactly concrete proof that he literally never took a single day off, as noted, Gates was well-known for his punishing, self-imposed work schedule, supposedly working anywhere between 80 and 120 hours per week, every week until his 31st birthday. Gates' secretary in the 1980s would also reportedly frequently find him sleeping on the floor of his office on a Monday after he'd stayed at the office the entire weekend working. In one instance, he was literally just sprawled out on the floor- no blankets, pillows or anything. She claims she actually thought he might have passed out, but upon investigation, he had apparently just laid down on the floor and unceremoniously went to sleep.
Allen also recounts in Idea Man, during particularly long working sessions, Gates could commonly be seen putting his forehead on the desk mid-line of code, nap for a few minutes, then snap awake and get right back to work on the line of code he'd stopped at without further pause.
Of course, incredible work ethic and things to keep you busy with are one thing, not having one single day out of 3,650 where a family gathering, illness, travel, arrest (Gates was arrested in 1977 for running a stop sign, speeding, and driving without a license), where no work was done is another. That said, even in these cases, if they occurred, presumably Gates was still thinking about or managed to get a few hours of work in here or there; and a travel trip for work still can potentially count.
Whatever the case, it would seem from all evidence at hand, whether it's literally true, it certainly is probably close enough that even Gates himself, known for his incredible memory, can't remember taking a single day off.
So that was Gates then, what about now? Well, having a girlfriend and then a wife, changes things, and it is no coincidence that around the time Gates started dating the 23 year old Melinda French in 1987 when he was around 31 that he appears to have let up considerably on his breakneck work schedule. He says of this, "Once I got into my thirties… by then some kind of natural behavior kicked in and I loved weekends, and my girlfriend liked vacations, and that turned out to be kind of a neat thing. Now, I take lots of vacations. My 20-year-old self is so disgusted with my current self."
That said, Gates, being incredibly passionate about saving as many lives as possible, still maintains a busy schedule, adhering to his mother, Mary Gates', challenge in a letter to Melinda shortly before Bill and she were married, and not long before Mary would die of cancer. The message to Melinda was this- "From those to whom much is given, much is expected." This letter is still something Bill and Melinda have to this day.
Thus, even today, Gates' daily work schedule is still incredibly regimented, planned out by his assistants in 5 minute increments, with it being noted by those who work with him that one of Gates' biggest pet peeves is people wasting his time.
This brings us around to what Gates does with his off time now that he has it.
To begin with, Gates schedules a significant amount of time to be a very hands-on father, including lots of family vacations. In fact, he even states his evening routine usually includes doing the dishes as, to quote, "other people volunteer but I like the way I do it."
And if you're now thinking doing the dishes seems rather ordinary for a billionaire who could literally hire a team of Shaolin Monks to perform a Buddhist water ritual before bathing the dishes in the blessed water, followed by having an army of custom made robots scrub them clean and put them away, well, it turns out much of Bill Gates' free time is peppered with the rather ordinary, though occasionally with an extraordinary twist.
Despite being a man who could afford to do, well, anything within the realm of possible for any human to do, Gates has noted that his favourite hobby is reading, with books also being the most common gift he receives from friends and family, if you're wondering what the answer is to the question of "What do you get a billionaire for his birthday?"
As to what his favorite book is, he states, "My favorite of the last decade is Pinker's Better Angels of our Nature. It is a long but profound look at the reduction in violence and discrimination over time." (And, just FYI, you can also find many, many more book recommendations from him on his website gatesnotes.com)
A voracious reader, while he laments in his 20s there wasn't really any time for reading, since then, Gates skims various periodicals each day and generally reads at least one book a week, even when traveling, usually on topics ranging from microbiology to tennis and he has a personal rule to never start reading more than two books at once.
Gates has reported that he frequently annoys his wife by staying up too late reading a book he can't put down. "I'm a night person. If I have a good book, or I'm doing something on the computer, I have a tendency to stay up. I never tell Melinda I'm tired the next day or she'll say it's all my fault, but she can often tell. I'll try to be energetic, and she'll say, "You stayed up too late again.""
Beyond reading, Gates says another passion of his during his free time is to take online learning courses in a variety of areas.
As far as what he does when he gets out of the house, Gates has noted that he enjoys taking tours of things "like power plants [and] garbage dumps" with his children. Before you feel sorry for his kids, Gates expands that places he's taken them on private tours of include the Large Hadron Collider, Arizona missile silos and simply "Antarctica"- all things we guess are a lot easier to arrange to visit when you're a multi-billionaire.
Gates also says that he enjoys playing bridge, coding on his computer, and playing tennis- all things, outside of coding, that your grandparents probably also find fun and can afford to do.
As for bridge, he says, "My parents first taught me bridge, but I really started to enjoy it after playing with Warren Buffett. It takes a mix of strategy and teamwork to do well. We always find time to play a few games when we're together."
Buffet himself says of the game, "It's the best exercise there is for the brain. You have to look at all the facts. You have to draw inferences from what you've seen, what you've heard. You have to discard improper theories about what the hand had as more evidence comes in sometimes."
Before bridge, Gates' favorite card game was apparently poker, which he avidly played while at school in Harvard, with Allen claiming it wasn't uncommon for Gates to win or lose hundreds of dollars a night playing.
At home, he and his family enjoy playing the board game Settlers of Catan, which Gates says, "…is a favorite in my family… Melinda, our kids, and I have spent many hours sitting around the table trading resources, building roads, and strategizing to be the first to reach 10 victory points." In his youth, his favorite board game was reportedly Risk.
Speaking of that, as a younger man, Gates' interests were a little more extreme, at least relatively speaking, and the billionaire was known for regular skiing trips, both on water and snow, which directly led to one of the most famous videos of him on the web. The one of him jumping clean over a chair from a standing position in a 1994 interview with CBS.
Gates has since explained that he began jumping over chairs as an exercise to hone his ski jumping abilities. Due to his unassuming, bookish looks, Gates' amazing hops often surprised people and he is said to have greatly relished leaping over chairs as a party trick. When asked in 2013 during a Reddit AMA if he still occasionally jumps over chairs, Gates answer was simply, "Less than I used to". He goes on, to those who might like to try similar stunts, "Be careful—it can hurt if you don't succeed." Which, if we're being honest, is just a good bit of general advice at doing anything in life.
Speaking of skiing, Allen recounts that, in their late teens, Gates actually snapped his leg water skiing, and was supposed to remain in a cast for six weeks. However, getting the itch to go skiing again, after just three weeks, he took off his cast, revealing a black and blue leg, that nonetheless managed to hold up to the water skiing he once again immediately subjected it to.
It's similarly noted that as a younger man Gates would do donuts in his car, nearly totaled a friend's Porsche 928 while speeding, and used to like to run and then jump onto a banister to slide headfirst down it as yet another party trick.
In his elder years, Gates apparently still skis, though he notes that he's "not as hard core" as he used to be and drives a modest (for a billionaire) Mercedes, Porsche, or, if with his family, a minivan.
Because yes, as alluded to, Gates takes being a hands on father extremely seriously, and, particularly when his kids were younger, could frequently be found driving they and their friends around to various places in said minivan.
Although, while that might all sound pretty ordinary, he did say in one such instance of a U2 concert, "We went to the concert with my daughter and three of her friends, so there were six of us and we took the minivan. I drove." So what's exciting about that? When asked if he got invited to go backstage, he simply replied no, but Bono was staying at his house at the time.
Speaking of turning doing ordinary things up to 11, while Gates generally plays tennis in the more mundane way, every now and then he does it instead by playing people like Roger Federer. Said Gates of this, "I wouldn't say it was the most relaxing tennis game I've ever played, but it was a whole lot of fun."
This brings us to another oft asked question about Bill Gates- outside of saving millions of lives with it, what does he spend his money on? The answer, again, is surprisingly mundane for a man worth more than some countries.
Gates, by his own admission, spends little money on elaborate day to day things (though he does admit to buying nice things for his wife), and even owns and uses an off the shelf run of the mill Microsoft computer. In fact, from a recent interview we saw with him, apparently the exact model this very article was edited on.
That said, he does occasionally splurge, such as that time he spent $30.8 million on Davinci's Codex Leicester. And, you know, there's the whole 66,000 square foot mansion he has on Lake Washington, currently valued at about $148 million, though he only paid $2 million for the land initially in 1988 and $63 million to have the mansion built that year. That said, when you crunch the numbers on inflation on that one, the presently valued $148 million estate originally cost about $139 million in today's dollars, so only slightly beating inflation in value in the interim. Factoring in property taxes and upkeep over the years, as ever showing how house buying isn't nearly as good of an investment in many cases as is often assumed.
The house, however, often functions for business uses as well, so kind of a work splurge as well. Similarly, his other big guilty pleasure is his private jet, which he first bought in 1997.
Going back to the more mundane, Gates' taste when it comes to food are simple with his favourite food being an ordinary cheeseburger. And we're not talking a cheeseburger made from cows blessed by the monks that do his dishes, then butchered on site and prepared by one of the world's finest robot chefs. No, Gates' go-to burgers are from Burger King, McDonald's, and In-N-Out, with the latter apparently making his all time favorite cheeseburger.
His love of burgers is so well known that a colleague of his at the Gates foundation, Joe Cerrell, was once quoted as saying: "Hotel rooms full of Diet Coke. And cheeseburgers for lunch, no matter who you are. If you get the lunchtime slot with Bill, you're eating burgers. Someone will always be sent to get bags of McDonald's…"
It's also noteworthy that during his time as a full time worker at Microsoft, he was known to frequent the same Greasy Spoon pretty much every day for lunch. For anyone curious, Gates apparently tipped extremely well.
On that note, Bill Gates and fellow money magnate Warren Buffet both have similar tastes in food, and love of McDonald's. Consider this little anecdote revealed in the Bill and Melinda Gates 2017 annual letter in which Mr. Gates states,
Remember the laugh we had when we traveled together to Hong Kong and decided to get lunch at McDonald's? You offered to pay, dug into your pocket, and pulled out…coupons! Melinda just found this photo of me and "the big spender." It reminded us how much you value a good deal. That's why we want to point you to this number, 122 million. Saving children's lives is the best deal in philanthropy.
Speaking of which, according to the man himself, one the of the most frequently asked questions he receives is "how much money do you have on you right now?". While the answer often varies, as it would with anyone, according to Gates, his wallet usually has a single $100 bill in it, if he carries the wallet at all, which he notes is infrequently- a common trend among the ultra wealthy as we illustrate in our article- What Does Bill Gates Carry Around in His Wallet?
But to sum up, in short, despite being one of the richest men on the planet, Bill Gates is a surprisingly down to Earth guy who enjoys the simple and cheap pleasures of life. Though, of course, as illustrated in the U2/Bono anecdote, he sometimes enjoys all those simple things in mildly extraordinary ways, such as eating said McDonald's in a truly massive mansion and flying off in a private jet when he feels like traveling. But, getting to the airport, well, apparently that sometimes occurs in a mini-van driven by the man himself.
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October 11, 2019	10:33 pm
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Handbooks to cover individual schools
Parents used to the one-size-fits-all Bryan County Schools Student Handbook will be in for a bit of surprise this year.
It's going to be smaller, for one thing. And more school specific.
"It has been a super handbook ... but we hope to reduce the size and cost," said Superintendent John Oliver, who outlined some of the proposed changes to the Bryan County Board of Education on Thursday.
Among the differences: no longer will there be one mammoth student handbook which in 2009 weighed in at 126 pages.
Now, there will be two smaller versions -- one for students in kindergarten through 5th grade and another for those in grades 6-12. Some of the language has been cleaned up as well, which gives administrators more flexibility when dealing with students who run afoul of some rules.
And instead of including every school's "mission statement" in one handbook, students will get a handbook tailored to his or her school.
The changes could save the school system around $7,000, according to assistant superintendent Brad Anderson. Last year about $15,000 was spent on printing the handbooks, which include everything from dress codes and rules on student conduct to safety plans and grade policies.
"There is probably more information in these than we truly need to provide," Oliver said.
Parents are required to sign and return a statement to the school saying they've read the handbooks that spell out punishment for violations of everything from fights to violating the school's cell phone policy, which now states that students caught with cell phones can be fined $25.

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Book of Me – Prompt 19: Who Do You Miss?
The Book of Me – Written by You is a weekly blog prompt created by Julie Goucher of the blog Angler's Rest. This is a fifteen month writing project to highlight my life so that I will have something to leave behind for my descendants. Week nineteen's prompt is – Who Do You Miss Most?
Having just gone through the holiday season our thoughts turn to those not with us.
Why do you miss them?
Most of the responses I have read so far to this prompt revolve around beloved family members who are deceased. I personally know people who are devastated by the death of a parent or other loved one. I have never felt the death of a family member to this extent. Each of my grandparents lived long, full lives so by the time they were gone, it was easy to accept their deaths and move on. Do I wish they were here on occasion? Of course, but I do not particularly miss them.
Growing up, I never lived physically close to any of my family. Our closest relatives were my great grandmother and her second husband who lived over an hour away. While they were alive, we visited them a few times a year. The rest of my relatives lived in Indiana or overseas. Overall, my relationships with my relatives were conducted through the mail, over the telephone and by long car trips during school vacations. Visits were few and far between. When I was six going on seven, my parents divorced. Instead of having my father around all the time, I only saw him on weekends at first. Then when I was ten, he moved to New York City. We still connected through letters, telephone calls, and his monthly visit. We also took trips to New York City throughout the year. Today, my extended family is completely far-flung and we are lucky if we see each other once a year. As I child, I really missed my father, and at times, it was much harder to cope with the distance between us. Thank goodness for modern technology and the ability to communicate via emails, texts and Facebook.
As a young adult, I moved to California with my soon-to-be husband. While I love my adopted state and cannot imagine moving away, there is something that I miss, especially as I have gotten older, and that is the friendships of my youth. If you have always lived relatively close to where you grew up, you may not understand this loss. Many of the people I consider my friends today do not compare to the friends of my youth. They lack the bond of a shared history. Relationships that are built from childhood and up through young adulthood have a way of staying with you. These are friendships forged in fire as you discover who you truly are, whether it is from shared teenage angst or college aged explorations. Often, those very relationships are why you are who you are today. As I see many of my current friends or co-workers celebrating their high school reunions or getting together to hang out with old friends, I recognize that I don't have the same support system that they do. They live closer to their roots and those bonds. As an introvert, I find it much harder to make new, lasting friendships. While as a middle-aged adult, it becomes harder to find new, truly close friends. Most people already have their support systems in place. Our lives are so filled up with work and families that finding time to explore new friendships is limited.
While many of my friends from my youth are among my current Facebook friends, there are times I really want to just hang out and have our children play together but the distance makes impromptu visits impossible. I have several friends who are performing artists and I would love to watch them perform. My trip to visit family and friends on the east coast this summer was wonderful and it reminded how much I really miss my friends. So even though "true friends are always together in spirit" (L. M. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables, Anne Shirley), it is nice to actually see them in person from time to time.
This entry was posted in Book of Me and tagged Book of Me, friendship on January 10, 2014 by Deborah Sweeney.


Part of Idea Chic's playroom for kids alphabet print collection. The "T is for Tree" 8"x10" print with a unique typeface for the letter and small blue bird on a green tree graphic is printed on 110 lb. bright white stock. This wall art print is great alone or with other favorite letters.
The print arrives packaged in a cellophane bag with chipboard backer. Frame not included, second photo shown as example.


John Pasalis, president of Toronto's Realosophy brokerage, manually tracked 866 home listings (excluding condos) that sold in the Toronto area in 2017 and then appeared back on the market by the same seller by the first quarter of this year.
Those were households that sold their home only to have the purchaser walk away without closing on the deal, prompting the vendor to re-list the house.
The other 122 sellers caught in the bubble were buyers who purchased a home and re-sold it within a year for less than they paid.
Buyers walked away in some cases because the value of their purchase dropped below the deposit amount they would forefeit when they failed to close on the property.


Many family members provide basic care for aging family themselves. Providing such care, however, poses a number of problems for family caregivers, who can eventually experience mental and physical exhaustion after extended caregiving. Respite Care allows family caregivers a break to attend to other life necessities like personal appointments or alone time. While a family caregiver is away, a respite caregiver can temporarily see to the daily concerns of an elderly person.
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Respite care is not self-indulgent. It's a necessity. Caring for an older or ill family member can be hugely rewarding and bring you closer − but being consumed by it will drain you physically and emotionally, and eventually cause burnout.
While being a family caregiver can be a rewarding experience, it can add additional stress an already busy schedule.
Over time, without relief and assistance, caregiving can take a mental and physical toll on family caregivers.
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First of all what exactly is respite care? It is temporary, in-home senior care through compassionate and professional Comfort Keepers® caregivers.
The stress of being a caregiver can cause real issues for a family member—physically, mentally and emotionally.
It can be a joy and a privilege to care for an aging family member, providing them assistance with daily tasks.
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While caring for a loved one can be very rewarding, respite care can provide a much needed break for family caregivers.
Respite care offers assistance to those families who are in need of support to help care for an elderly loved one.


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Organization management systems – Farmutil HS S.A.
Agro-industrial Plant "Farmutil HS" inc. in Śmiłowo implemented and certified management systems that meet European standards, in accordance with ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 and the requirements of the System of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points HACCP.
The modernity of the plant is aided by additional system restrictions, transferred into internal procedures, quality policy and environment policy, which are currently supervised and verified by external accredited certification bodies. The maintenance and development of accepted standards is constantly ensured by the top management of the Company.
The system ISO 9001 functioning in the organization is focused on understanding and meeting customer requirements, and thus determine the needs concerningthe products, the adoption of a process approach, providing results of the processes' effectiveness and their continuous improvement, based on objective measurements. The adopted Quality Policy guarantees among other things, the fulfillment of legal requirements – domestic and international, comprehensive, compatible with the needs of customer service, continuous technology development, proposed products and services with focus on cutting-edge solutions and continuous improvement of employees qualifications and skills.
According to the guidelines of HACCP system guarantee product safety by identifying and estimating the scale of threats, identifing methods for reducing or eliminating them and determining corrective actions. The HACCP system allows us to obtain and assure that the plant has done everything for the safety of the product in relation to the rules of good manufacturing practice, good hygiene practice and customer's needs.
A functioning system ISO 14001 is an environmental management standard which gives confidence that the organization has identified its impact on the environment and is able to manage it, taking the socio-economic needs into account. It is committed to the objectives and tasks to help protect the environment and its resources while minimizing negative impacts on it.
Our assets, quality guarantee, safety, professionalism and constant striving for improvement, reflected on the goals and the trust of numerous customers cooperating with us.


This is a community-enhanced, "jumbo" version of John the Ripper. It has a lot of code, documentation, and data contributed by the user community. This is not "official" John the Ripper code. It is very easy for new code to be added to jumbo: the quality requirements are low. This means that you get a lot of functionality that is not "mature" enough or is otherwise inappropriate for the official JtR, which in turn also means that bugs in this code are to be expected.
If you have any comments on this release or on JtR in general, please join the john-users mailing list and post in there.
John the Ripper password cracker.
John the Ripper is a fast password cracker, currently available for many flavors of Unix (11 are officially supported, not counting different architectures), Windows, DOS, BeOS, and OpenVMS (the latter requires a contributed patch). Its primary purpose is to detect weak Unix passwords. Besides several crypt(3) password hash types most commonly found on various Unix flavors, supported out of the box are Kerberos/AFS and Windows LM hashes, as well as DES-based tripcodes, plus many more hashes and ciphers in "community enhanced" -jumbo versions and/or with other contributed patches.
See INSTALL for information on installing John on your system.
Cracked passwords will be printed to the terminal and saved in the file called $JOHN/john.pot (in the documentation and in the configuration file for John, "$JOHN" refers to John's "home directory"; which directory it really is depends on how you installed John). The $JOHN/john.pot file is also used to not load password hashes that you already cracked when you run John the next time.
While cracking, you can press any key for status, or 'q' or Ctrl-C to abort the session saving its state to a file ($JOHN/john.rec by default). If you press Ctrl-C for a second time before John had a chance to complete handling of your first Ctrl-C, John will abort immediately without saving. By default, the state is also saved every 10 minutes to permit for recovery in case of a crash.
These are just the most essential things you can do with John. For a complete list of command line options and for more complicated usage examples you should refer to OPTIONS and EXAMPLES, respectively.
Please note that "binary" (pre-compiled) distributions of John may include alternate executables instead of just "john". You may need to choose the executable that fits your system best, e.g. "john-omp" to take advantage of multiple CPUs and/or CPU cores.
John the Ripper is designed to be both feature-rich and fast. It combines several cracking modes in one program and is fully configurable for your particular needs (you can even define a custom cracking mode using the built-in compiler supporting a subset of C). Also, John is available for several different platforms which enables you to use the same cracker everywhere (you can even continue a cracking session which you started on another platform).
Out of the box, John supports (and autodetects) the following Unix crypt(3) hash types: traditional DES-based, "bigcrypt", BSDI extended DES-based, FreeBSD MD5-based (also used on Linux and in Cisco IOS), and OpenBSD Blowfish-based (now also used on some Linux distributions and supported by recent versions of Solaris). Also supported out of the box are Kerberos/AFS and Windows LM (DES-based) hashes, as well as DES-based tripcodes.
When running on Linux distributions with glibc 2.7+, John 1.7.6+ additionally supports (and autodetects) SHA-crypt hashes (which are actually used by recent versions of Fedora and Ubuntu), with optional OpenMP parallelization (requires GCC 4.2+, needs to be explicitly enabled at compile-time by uncommenting the proper OMPFLAGS line near the beginning of the Makefile).
Similarly, when running on recent versions of Solaris, John 1.7.6+ supports and autodetects SHA-crypt and SunMD5 hashes, also with optional OpenMP parallelization (requires GCC 4.2+ or recent Sun Studio, needs to be explicitly enabled at compile-time by uncommenting the proper OMPFLAGS line near the beginning of the Makefile and at runtime by setting the OMP_NUM_THREADS environment variable to the desired number of threads).
John the Ripper Pro adds support for Windows NTLM (MD4-based) and Mac OS X 10.4+ salted SHA-1 hashes.
"Community enhanced" -jumbo versions add support for many more password hash types, including Windows NTLM (MD4-based), Mac OS X 10.4-10.6 salted SHA-1 hashes, Mac OS X 10.7 salted SHA-512 hashes, raw MD5 and SHA-1, arbitrary MD5-based "web application" password hash types, hashes used by SQL database servers (MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle) and by some LDAP servers, several hash types used on OpenVMS, password hashes of the Eggdrop IRC bot, and lots of other hash types, as well as many non-hashes such as OpenSSH private keys, S/Key skeykeys files, Kerberos TGTs, PDF files, ZIP (classic PKZIP and WinZip/AES) and RAR archives.
Unlike older crackers, John normally does not use a crypt(3)-style routine. Instead, it has its own highly optimized modules for different hash types and processor architectures. Some of the algorithms used, such as bitslice DES, couldn't have been implemented within the crypt(3) API; they require a more powerful interface such as the one used in John. Additionally, there are assembly language routines for several processor architectures, most importantly for x86-64 and x86 with SSE2.
There is an official GUI for John the Ripper: Johnny.
Despite the fact that Johnny is oriented onto core john, all basic functionality is supposed to work in all versions, even Jumbo. So, password could be loaded from file and cracked with different options.
Johnny is a separate program, therefore, you need to have John the Ripper installed in order to use it.
DYNAMIC_EXPRESSIONS - 'self-describing' Dynamic format.
(*) most users can safely skip these.


In January 2014 I wrote a post called How To Begin. Some of you may even have read it. The first instalment of a new project; a monthly creative HOW TO driven by things I've learned about the things I'm trying to get better at, I said. Well monthly it was not, despite my greatest intentions, leading to a wonderfully ironic first step; a beginning with nothing to follow it. I should be a little embarrassed about not meeting this public claim, but I have been guilty of setting myself unachievable goals, infinite to-do lists and exhibiting symptoms of too-many-ideas-at-once syndrome throughout my life; half-finished ambitious personal projects being one of them.
Trying hard always has the potential to lead to falling harder. We are particularly susceptible to suffering damage when we truly put ourselves into something as it's all too easy to take the results personally. Creating and dwelling on problems with our very self rather than the specific task or particular instance can really affect our confidence towards moving forward. It's like an elastic band: the more energy put in, the more that can come back and smack us in the face. The thing is, these efforts are also where the sweetest successes could be waiting for us; the deepest loves, the truest passions, the greatest achievements. The rewards, it would seem, are worth the risk. But how do we convince ourselves of that when we are feeling the effects of a personal failure?
Sometimes it can be really hard to climb out of a big ol' creative bunker, especially if an idea has fallen flat or faded away. A false start could just signal that it wasn't meant to happen here and now rather than not at all. Perhaps we need to develop the idea or ourselves before it will take off, or maybe it's a case of working with others, steering in a different direction, or simply testing an idea more in order to solve existing problems. There is no amount of preparation, dedication or worry that can guarantee success so we have to learn the phoenix's trick; rising from the ashes of negativity to begin all over again, brighter and stronger than ever.
Whilst knockbacks will affect some more than others, I'm very interested in how we can continue to begin again and again and again as creatives; how we can keep getting back onto the proverbial horse in order to push ourselves, and thus evolve our style, skills and ways of working.
With that in mind, I am going to begin again. And you can too. Here are my 5 steps to doggedly, unashamedly, reset the clock and break new records; Usain Bolt style.
- Don't Panic. Whatever the cause to begin again, rationalise the situation and reflect on what you want to achieve. Putting pressure on yourself, beating yourself up for past mistakes, or wildly throwing your limbs around in hysteria won't solve anything, apart from increasing your anxiety towards the very thought of actually trying again. If you're clouded with negativity you won't be able to see a way out, so turn your feelings into something positive or constructive as quickly as you can. I find laughing about it can help, as well as reflecting through writing your thoughts down. You'll be amazed at how soon these reflections can turn into a new action plan.
- Rekindle Your Spark. Take yourself out, go see an exhibition or venture somewhere that inspires you. Let yourself have ideas. Find yourself some physical and mental space. Be good to yourself and reap the rewards.
- When In Doubt, Pow Wow It Out. I love holding a good pow wow in a time of crisis or transition, and by that I just mean getting together with someone or a small group of trusted compadres to talk it out. Things seem a lot tougher when held inside your own head alongside worries and fears, and different viewpoints will allow you to gain broader perspective. You don't even need a sharing stick, or Native American headdresses, but in my experience pow wows are absolutely best accompanied by brunch, burgers and/or good coffee.
- Motivational Tunes. No matter what your style, sticking on some music can have a serious impact on your mood. Don't wallow away listening to heartbreak jams in your PJs, put on some strong tunes and pull out some big creative moves! Whether it's reflective, productive or a full on power number, surround yourself with good vibrations. I have even created a How To Begin Again playlist to start you off.
- Look Backwards, Then Forwards. This principle works in two ways. You've done it before and you can do it again; so for example if you're bricking it about beginning a new drawing / article / event, just think, you survived it last time, and remember how turbo-charged you felt when it was finished. Even if this project is new for you, think about how you've applied your skills and attributes before and how they will aid you in this new venture. Also, take time to give credit where credit is due; looking back on what you've achieved will make you feel proud of your accomplishments, as well as identifying anything you would alter or build upon moving forwards. This will help identify precisely what, when and how you should begin again, increasing chances of success.
Now, I won't promise you another #howtoillo post in a month, but it probably won't be a year and a half away either. Thanks for reading, and get in touch; I'd love to know how you guys create and keep momentum.


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Calgary police link domestic violence spike to economic downturn
Jeff Lagerquist CTVNews.ca
Published Wednesday, May 18, 2016 9:31PM EDT Last Updated Wednesday, May 18, 2016 9:38PM EDT
Calgary police say a two-year spike in domestic violence calls is no coincidence as jobs in the province continue to disappear.
It's a trend that will likely get worse before it gets better as more Albertans fall victim to region's ongoing economic woes, as well as the devastating impact of the wildfire that continues to threaten the province's biggest employers near the oilsands hub of Fort McMurray.
"We know there is a connection between increased unemployment and increased domestic violence as people who are already prone to violence are home more and are facing significant stressors – and that is likely what we are seeing in Calgary," said Staff Sergeant Rob Davidson with the Calgary Police Service Domestic Conflict Unit.
Reports of domestic violence increased 10 per cent in 2015 from the year before in Calgary. Incidents involving weapons jumped 70 per cent year-over-year.
Alberta lost more jobs than the rest of Canada combined in April, according to Statistics Canada. The federal agency says while employment dropped by nearly 21,000 jobs since March, the jobless rate moved only slightly as more Albertans gave up on looking for work.
Kim Ruse, the executive director of the Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter, says her crisis phone line has seen calls rise by as much as 300 per cent this year.
"It's very frightening. I hear from my staff all the time that it's not just the numbers we are seeing increasing. We are also seeing the complexity increase and the situations become much more difficult to deal with, including more use of weapons and extreme violence," she said in an interview with CTV News Channel.
Ruse says she had to reallocate staff and find ways to support victims in the community rather than in the shelter because of the rise in demand.
"We know that we can't to this along. We work very closely with agency partners and stakeholders to make sure we are leveraging all of our strengths and our resources to make sure that we are doing the very best we can to meet the demand," she said.
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2016 Lexus GS200t unveiled, replaces GS250
The 2016 Lexus GS200t has been unveiled at the Pebble Beach Concours d' Elegance, with the new turbocharged 2.0-litre base model set to arrive in Australia from December 2015.
As is the case with the IS200t mid-size sedan, NX200t medium SUV and the larger, all-new RX200t, the GS200t will form the basis for the model line, replacing the GS250 with its 2.5-litre petrol V6 engine.
The 2.0-litre four-cylinder turbo engine for the new 200t variant pumps out 180kW and 350Nm, with power sent to the rear wheels by way of an eight-speed automatic transmission. Fuel use should drop from the GS250's claimed usage of 9.3 litres per 100 kilometres.
The styling gets a few changes, too, with a new front-end design included a more sculpted front bumper with the eye-catching "spindle" grille. The GS also sees the adoption of bi-LED headlights, new-look tail-lights and a revamped rear bumper.
Further, there is a range of new exterior and interior colours, wheel designs and interior wood and aluminium trim selections.
There's plenty of new equipment, including a new media system (up to 12.3-inches in size) with revised touchpad interface, and updated standard safety gear including the Lexus Safety System +, which consists of a pre-collision braking system, lane-keeping assist, automated high beam, and radar cruise control.
The new GS range will comprise of the entry-level GS200t, GS300h, GS350 and GS450h, while there's also the high-performance GS F on the cards. It's more likely to be in 2016.
The GS range will arrive alongside the updated Lexus LX570, which was also unveiled at Pebble Beach.
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Lenovo Launches 'Lemon' Smartphone in China
If they could add in some kind of lemon scent feature, we'd be really impressed with this entry-level smartphone.
By David Murphy
https://www.pcmag.com/news/lenovo-launches-lemon-smartphone-in-china
We wouldn't say that "Lemon" is the worst name for a smartphone. It's certainly not the best name for a car, but it's not quite as terrible for a handset despite its sour connotations.
At any rate, Lenovo is forging ahead with its Lemon smartphone, this week officially launching the Music Lemon K3 in China. The phone, according to Digital Trends, costs around $100 or so without a carrier contract—and, yes, the device comes in a lovely, bright yellow.
Laughter over the phone's name is probably just cultural, anyway. Yellow, it seems, is a color that's typically associated with royalty in China. Yellow products essentially confer a higher social status than their non-lemony peers.
So coating an entry level handset in yellow could be seen as a smart move.
The Music Lemon K3 comes with a 5-inch IPS touchscreen, sports a 1.2Ghz, 64-bit Snapdragon 410 processor from Qualcomm, and has 1GB of memory plus 16GB of internal storage. You can also beef up the storage specs thanks to the smartphone's microSD card slot.
The Lemon features an 8-megapixel, rear-facing camera, with a 2-megapixel shooter on the front. The smartphone comes with dual-SIM slots and supports 4G LTE connectivity in China. Power is provided by a 2300 mAh battery.
The phone can be ordered by Chinese consumers via JD.com.
Consumers outside of China won't have much luck getting their hands on one for now, though Digital Trends reported that Lenovo may bring the device to other regions where it competes with Xiaomi.
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Cascade's PTO provides fun activities and support for our students and teachers to make our students' experience at Cascade productive and fun.
The PTO meets the third Friday of each month in the Cascade Library from 11:45-12:45. Everyone is welcome and childcare is provided.
Many hands make small work. It takes a lot of volunteers to make these events successful and we GUARANTEE you will not be disappointed when you see the difference that it makes in your child's life by simply getting involved.
Being involved in your child's education is one of the most important ways to help a child be successful. There is much that parents can do at home to be involved. Below are some of the ways parents can be involved.
Talk with your child about what he/she is learning.
Review the take home folder each evening with your child.
Have your child read (or be read to) for 20 minutes each evening.
Communicate with your child's teacher regularly (don't wait for concerns to arise).
Establish a regular bed time (8:00 or 8:30 is a good time) and regular wake time.
Visit the local public library (getting books is so much fun and good for them too!).
Lexia Reading helps students to improve phonics and reading skills for all students. It is an exciting, fun program that provides individualized, targeted practice for students needing to master their reading skills in an engaging and dynamic way.
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Queer British Art 1861 – 1967 at Tate Britain – a new show of ambivalent art has just opened in London
This new show, Queer British Art 1861 – 1967 at Tate Britain contains artworks which convey a whole range of emotions – wistfulness, joy in the human form, humour and suffering. It's a fascinating compilation of works on canvas, paper, photography and sculpture. The unifying element is the sensuality between same sex affection or simply a voyeuristic celebration of the human form with a strong dose of lust thrown in.
So many fascinating characters feature in this show. Quite rightly we have Oscar Wilde, Quentin Crisp, Radclyffe Hall, Cecil Beaton… well known names. And of course so many of our greatest artists have been, and are, gay. It's good to have a show which celebrates their contribution and their sacrifice.
It's always hard to pick out favourites from such a large and diverse show, and there are some 'old friends' too such as Dame Laura Knight's wonderful self portrait with the full length female nude which we can usually see at the National Portrait Gallery.
I was particularly struck by the playful and subversive collages made by Joe Orton, the playwright, and his boyfriend Kenneth Halliwell. I rather like the story that the pair used to borrow and steal books from libraries around Islington and cut out some of the illustrations which they used to decorate the walls of their flat in collage form. Then they started 'adding' to book covers, introducing collage elements from other sources and completely redefining the design. They were eventually caught and jailed for six months for 'malicious damage'.
The end of the story is not happy. The prison experience ruined Halliwell and contributed to his alcoholism and he murdered Joe Orton.
And I've already spotted a gratuitous link between a very fine bronze figure by Hamo Thornycroft, made between 1888-90 and that very famous photograph of Aidan Turner as the sun-bronzed Poldark in the TV series as he prepared to do a bit of scything!
The charming ladies of the Women's Institute at their annual WI Fair at Alexandra Palace welcomed Papershades at today's presentation
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The 16th European Microscopy Congress, EMC2016 gathered around 2500 visitors from 51 countries all over the world in Lyon, France. Along with an international and multidisciplinary high quality conference, EMC2016 hosted Europe's largest exhibition dedicated to microscopy. The congress also offered a large number of training and scientific activities underlining the dynamism of French and European research.


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Man caught in Eland Downe burglaries
By Amy Strauss |
PUBLISHED: November 21, 2009 at 2:25 a.m. | UPDATED: September 23, 2021 at 9:58 a.m.
astrauss@phoenixvillenews.com
The man responsible for the six burglaries of the Eland Downe Town Homes of Phoenixville, all of which occurred between April 1 and Oct. 28 of this year, plead guilty in his recent local court hearing, where his charges had been then waved over to West Chester courts.
Ryan Patrick Hughes also of Eland Downe, age 32, was arrested on Nov. 6 after Philadelphia Police Dept.'s Northeast Detective Edward Horger contacted Phoenixville Police Dept.'s Sergeant Joseph R. Nemic regarding recovered stolen property.
Detective Horger, who regularly conducts routine records checks at licensed pawn shops in his jurisdiction, noticed Hughes' name due to prior criminal offenses. The officer then ran a NCIC check on the pawned items linked to the man in question, which included a Nintendo Wii video game system and several games. The Wii and the games were sourced to be stolen from an Eland Downe address on Oct. 28.
Since the pawn shop requires identification to sell within the store, paired with an in-store photograph of the seller, Detective Horger was able to confirm that the man making the transaction within the store at 11 a.m. on Oct. 28 was in fact Hughes.
Following this development, the pawn shop manager had been contacted and provided the investigation with a list of items that had been pawned by Hughes in the past. Several of the documented items traced back to being stole from several Eland Downe locations.
Sergeant Joseph R. Nemic continued Horger's investigation by issuing a warrant for Hughes arrest. The Phoenixville officer then traveled to Philadelphia and to interview the man in custody.
Through a series of questioning, Nemic revealed that Hughes ,,confessed to committing the burglaries."


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Андреј Јевгењевич Луњов (; Москва, 13. новембар 1991) професионални је руски фудбалер који игра на позицији голмана. Члан је фудбалског клуба Зенит из Санкт Петербурга са којим се такмичи у Премијер лиги Русије и репрезентативац Русије.

Клупска каријера
Луњов је играчку каријеру започео у екипи московског Торпеда за чији први тим је почео наступати током 2010. године. У највишем рангу руског фудбала, Премијер лиги, први пут је заиграо у дресу екипе Уфе са којом је потписао уговор у лето 2015. (иако је прву сезону одиграо у омладинској екипи клуба). У Премијер лиги је дебитовао у сезони 2016/17, одиграо је свега 10 утакмица уз учинак од 7 примљених голова, а чак шест утакмица одиграо је без приомљеног гола.

Крајем децембра 2016. потписује четвороипогодишњи уговор са једним од најбољих руских клубова, петербуршким Зенитом. Прву утакмицу у дресу Зенита одиграо је 19. марта 2017. против туљског Арсенала, а већ у наредној сезони (сезона 2017/18) изборио се за место стандардног првотимца.

Репрезентативна каријера
Луњов је требало да дебитује за сениорску репрезентацију Русије на Купу конфедерација 2017, али је због повреде задобијене у првенственој утакмици против Краснодара пропустио цео турнир. Прву утакмицу у репрезентативном дресу одиграо је 10. октобра 2017, била је то пријатељска утакмица против Ирана, резултат је био 1:1. Нешто више од месец дана касније уписао је и други наступ у репрезентативном дресу, овај пут противник је била Шпанија (резултат 3:3), а Луњов је пред сам крај утакмице задобио озбиљнију повреду главезбог које је хоспитализован. У марту 2018. као стартер је започео пријатељску утакмицу против Француске.

Селектор Станислав Черчесов уврстио га је на коначни списак репрезентативаца за Светско првенство 2018. чији домаћин је управо Русија.

Види још
 ФК Торпедо Москва
 ФК Зенит
 Фудбалска репрезентација Русије

Референце

Спољашње везе

 Профил на сајту Руске премијер лиге

Рођени 1991.
Московљани
Руски фудбалери
Руски фудбалски репрезентативци
Фудбалски голмани
Фудбалери Зенит Санкт Петербурга
Фудбалери Сатурна
Фудбалери Торпеда из Москве
Фудбалери Уфе
Фудбалери на Светском првенству 2018.


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Q: Configuration for EJB lookups at runtime I have several services deployed as EJBs on a JBoss-AS-7.1 server. Many applications use these EJBs by doing a lookup like this:
@EJB(lookup = "java:global/FooService/FooBean!com.xyz.FooBeanRemote")
private FooBeanRemote fooBeanRemote;

The problem is that the lookup string is hard-coded in the source. I want to be able to change this lookup at runtime - without a re-compilation - because FooService may be updated some time in the future, and perhaps have a different implementation. In addition, the ejb could also move to a different server instance.
What would be the best way to achieve this?

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*Use ejb-jar.xml instead of annotation (check here)

*use InitialContext in your code to lookup for bean and move bean name to properties file

*Implement CDI producer methods in separate jar

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Quick HOWTO about last point:
1. Create qualifier
@Qualifier
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Target({FIELD, TYPE, METHOD})
public @interface FooService {
}

2. Create producer method
public class EJBProducer {
    @Produces
    @FooService
    @EJB(lookup = "java:global/FooService/FooBean!com.xyz.FooBeanRemote")
    private FooBeanRemote fooBeanRemote;
}

3. Use in your code
@Inject @FooService
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Sooo I was trying to share with you my YouTube channel and/or a YouTube video that I posted today and this is what I got. The two above links. Yes my site will allow me to share videos and embed but it's not working for me today. I am a Yogi and my tech skills on some days seem limited. But I must listen to my own advice, what I tell my students is, that some days the best you can do is simply show up. So this is me showing up for you.
Enjoy the meditations I'm posting. They really are better than a coffee break, even with the comic relief of tractors going by at precisely the moment I'm guiding you to peace. It's LIVE, it's real, and it's free.


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RITHE, Robert II, ?of Abingdon, Berks.
Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603, ed. P.W. Hasler, 1981
?s. of Robert Rithe I of Liss, Hants and Abingdon. ?m. Mary, da. of Leonard Lydcott, gent. pens. of Checkendon, Oxon.1
It is possible that the Robert Rithe of Liss who sat for Petersfield in 1571 was also the burgess for Abingdon in 1601, but the fairly frequent references to his activities at Lincoln's Inn cease in 1594, making it likely that he died about then and that the Abingdon burgess was his son, probably the Robert Rithe of Lincoln's Inn mentioned in 1620. The young Robert Rithe was sworn a burgess of Abingdon 3 Oct. 1601, just before being returned to Parliament for the borough.2
Since nothing more of his career is known with certainty, and it is also uncertain who was high steward of Abingdon in 1601, the name of Rithe's patron, if he had one, can only be conjectured. A 'Mr. Rythe', agent of Thomas Wriothesley†, 1st Earl of Southampton, had been partly responsible for the rise of the Liss family; and towards the end of Elizabeth's reign a Robert Rithe or Writhe, possibly the Abingdon burgess, married into the Lydcott family of Berkshire and Oxfordshire, a family already connected with the Wriothesleys through the Cheneys or Cheyneys of Buckinghamshire. Further, the 1st Earl of Southampton's father had been named Wrythe and was the first to adopt the more elaborate form 'Wriothesley'; possibly, therefore, the Abingdon burgess was a member of a less prominent branch of the Wriothesley family. The 3rd Earl of Southampton was a great ally of the 2nd Earl of Essex, high steward of Oxford, to which Abingdon is close, and much of Essex's patronage was inherited by his relative by marriage, (Sir) William Knollys, later Earl of Banbury, who was high steward of Abingdon in 1630. In 1601 Knollys may already have been high steward, and Rithe may have entered his service through previous connexions with Southampton and Essex.3
Author: Alan Harding
1. Vis. Berks. (Harl. Soc. lvii), 175; Vis. Bucks. (Harl. Soc. lviii), 178.
2. Mdx. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxv), 28; VCH Hants, iv. 85; A. E. Preston, St. Nicholas, Abingdon (Oxf. Hist. Soc. xcix), 208-9; Abingdon council mins. i. f. 73.
3. LP Hen. VIII, xiii(1), pp. 7, 51-2; Add. i. 427; ii. 450; Vis. Berks. 175; Vis. Bucks. 177, 219; Hants Field Club, i. 82; DNB (Wriothesley, Sir Thomas, 1st Earl of Southampton); Abingdon Recs. ed. Challenor, 141.


Shyness, social anxiety, social phobia – one of the problems in using these labels about ourselves is they are often too unspecific and relative: shy compared with whom? How anxious, for how long, in what situations?
Many people avoid crowds or social contacts that are too anxiety producing. But if this kind of social anxiety is overly self-limiting, holding us back from expressing our talents as fully as we want to, there are ways to deal with it.
How might being a highly sensitive person (HSP) or empathic make some people more susceptible to social anxiety?
A post on the Spirit Science and Metaphysics site (source of the image above) comments about this research that it shows "People who are more socially anxious are able to discern the mental states of people much more accurately.
From New Study Links Social Anxiety To Being An Empath, by Amateo Ra.
From an issue of her newsletter: HSPs' Brain Activation, Compared to Non-HSPs, Indicates More Empathy and Awareness.
Many actors and other performers identify themselves as being shy earlier in life, or as adults.
"Taking dance classes at nearby Stephens College, he was one of only three men amid a roomful of women… Acting was another means of expression — 'theater, as therapy,' he says.
Many actors and other artists have pushed through shyness, stage fright or other kinds of fear to perform, and, like Cooper, report that it helps.
And many people make use of various kinds of therapy, anxiety relief programs, or take herbal supplements.
Author Jonathan Berent writes, "Over the years, in working with thousands of people who call themselves shy,' I have come to realize that this word is too general to be of much help in identifying a problem and solving it.
"The actual response to the stress of interaction is called social anxiety.
From his book: Beyond Shyness : How to Conquer Social Anxieties.
Therapist Robin Bilazarian, LCSW, among others, uses Emotional Freedom Techniques or EFT – now called The Tapping Solution – for a number of issues, including social anxiety.
She describes how much impact anxiety can have: "They fear being scrutinized and judged harshly, seeing others as a social threat. They do not trust their bodies to be calm in these events.
"It limits casual, spontaneous interactions and prohibits them from attending social gatherings. They fear any performance situation. Even riding the bus, eating in a restaurant or attending a movie can be feared.
"The anxiety can be specific as in public speaking or pervasive — severely limiting most social interaction. They approach benign social interaction with the same trepidation as facing a firing squad.
She writes about working with clients using EFT: "Initially, I explore their first or worst memory of when they felt this early in their life. I remember working with a delightful young woman who was too shy to date and did not see herself for the beauty she was. Said with many tears, she had accepted she would always be alone.
Bilazarian also helped four "petrified brides" by using EFT "to clear and calm every aspect of their wedding, i.e. walking down the aisle with EVERYONE staring at them, saying their vows aloud, the father-daughter dance, etc.
From article: Using EFT for Social Anxiety Disorder.
Image above from article: How Anxiety Can Lead to Substance Abuse, by Solutions Recovery.
Being highly sensitive probably increases our vulnerability to anxiety and depression, which for many of us go together to some extent.
Shyness and social anxiety – as well as other forms of anxiety – may be related to low confidence.


Norman gives the second talk on Dogen's Mountain and Waters Sutra as found in Kazuaki Tanahashi's "Moon in a DewDrop" and "Treasury of the True Dharma Eye - Zen Master Dogen's Shobo Genzo" Chapter 23 Volume 1.
We are continuing to read Dogen's Sansui Kyo: Mountains and Waters Sutra. This time I will be reading from the Stanford version of the text, if you want to refer to it.
"Mountains and waters" means not mechanistic, vulnerable, physical mountains and waters, but the starkness and the presence of the actual physical world, not as an object, but as luminous, boundless appearance that stands at the joining point of subject and object of perception and religious feeling. That is what Dogen means when he says, "Mountains and rivers."
In other words, he is not talking about the world out there that is just laying there as if it were inert. He is talking about a living thing that comes into existence when we apprehend it. He is talking about the point where our perception of the world and our inner life meet. At that point, at that depth, it is religious. It's a deeper feeling than just, "I'm over here, and the world is over there, and I am doing something about it." This is more like a meeting, a real encounter.
"Mountains and rivers," for Dogen, stands for the is-ness of being - the magic, the impossibility of being, which appears and disappears at the same moment. How ever we explain this, or comprehend it, we are always going to be off, even in the moment of explaining and comprehending. [But] even though our explanation is off, it doesn't matter, because we are demonstrating it by our being. We are it.
We do not know what measure of dharma realms would be necessary to clarify the blue mountains.
In other words, the "blue mountains" are beyond all of our different ways of understanding things. So we study mountains, and we try to understand them, but it seems to be beyond all of our approaches to understanding.
Clearly examine the green mountain's walking and your own walking.
This is a clue that Dogen is saying, "The way in which I am talking about mountains now is also the way in which you exist. Everything that I am saying about mountains is also about you. Mountains and you implicate each other. In fact, what we call mountains, and what we perceive as mountains, don't exist without the human brain and the human eye. The human brain and human eye don't exist unless there are mountains. This world that we live in - the earth and its mountains - are requirements for us to be what we are. We should examine this."
Examine walking backward and backward walking, and investigate the fact that walking forward and backward has never stopped since the very moment before form arose, since the time of the King of the Empty Eon.
This "walking backward" has a very specific meaning in Dogen and Zen lore. One of Dogen's famous sayings is, "Take the backward step," found in the Fukanzazengi. It has to do with meditation practice, as it says in one poem: "Trace the stream back to its source." Trace consciousness to the root where there is no inside or outside. Consciousness is, "I am over here as the subject, you are all out there as objects, and I roll along with my life." But if I trace my mind back further, to a place closer and nearer, where I am no longer separating myself from objects, the mind turns around. With the backward step, you see the unity and the emptiness of separation.
Walking forward does not cease; walking backward does not cease. Walking forward does not obstruct walking backward. Walking backward does not obstruct walking forward. This is called the mountain flow and the flowing mountain.
What is radical about what Dogen is saying here is that there is no outside of walking forward and walking backward. In other words, there is no eternity; there is no beginning; there is no end - just this backward and forward walking, which is happening simultaneously without beginning or end, without any outside of it or inside of it. This is called the mountains' flow.
What is stunning - and why, I think, we have a hard time reading this text - is because you don't realize, until you try to examine it, how much we have ideas in our minds of eternity and time, inside and outside, beginning and ending. All those kinds of ideas are the foundation of our world view, of our just getting through the day. It would be a remarkable thing if we could live without, and not be caught by, those concepts. That is what Dogen is talking about here. He is not saying that the mountains were created at some point and will end at some point. It is not that being came to be and will cease to be. It is that being itself is this ongoing-ness, and this ongoing-ness is all that there is, all there ever has been, and all there ever will be. It springs forth from nothingness on every occasion. It is an endless springing forth and endless playing out of the implications of springing forth and springing back, moment after moment, forever and forever. That is all our lives are and all they have ever been. If we could only give ourselves to that, we could let go of our resistance to being what we are and living and dying our life.
Green mountains thoroughly practice walking, and eastern mountains thoroughly practice traveling on water. Accordingly, these activities are a mountain's practice.
So, everything in the world is practicing. The world is not just laying there like a patient on a table. The world is actively engaging us, and we are actively engaging it through walking, flowing, traveling on water.
Accordingly, these activities are a mountain's practice. Keeping its own form, without changing body and mind, a mountain always practices in every place.
So mountains have a body and a mind. The physical world is not just physical. The physical world is a world in consciousness. It is consciousness. The idea we have that consciousness is one thing and physical matter is another thing is, for Dogen, a completely erroneous idea. He would say that only somebody outside the Way would think such a thing.
So the mountain always practices in every place, keeping its own form, without changing body and mind, even though, of course, this "without changing body and mind" means constant change. There is nothing that does not change. There is only change. It is as if everything in the world is alive and is expressing and is exerting its life just by being - as are we.
Do not slander by saying a green mountain cannot walk and an eastern mountain cannot travel on water. When your understanding is shallow, you doubt the phrase Green Mountains are always walking.
When your learning is immature, you would be shocked by the words "flowing mountains."
If you have a conventional view of the world like that, woe unto you. How can you ever wake up and fully live if you don't realize that the world is in motion; you are in motion; everything is in motion; everything is implicated with everything else; everything is constantly moving and changing, coming and going?
Without understanding even the words "flowing water" [and he is being funny here], you drown in small views and narrow understanding.
If you have problems with the idea of flowing mountains, and you think that water flows and mountains don't, you don't really know what it means that water is flowing. Basically it is the same thing as mountains flowing. You think that the relative physical dimension of water flowing is the whole story. No. It is only part of the story.
Yet, the characteristics of mountains manifest their form and life force. There is walking, there is flowing, and there is a moment when a mountain gives birth to a mountain child. Because mountains are Buddha ancestors, buddha ancestors appear in this way.
In other words, you may not understand this. You may have small views and shallow understanding. You may literally be drowning in your shallow views and shallow understanding; but it doesn't make any difference, because no matter what you think, this is going on. This is happening, and it is happening where you are - in you, as you, anyway.
Even if you have an eye to see mountains as grass, trees, earth, rocks or walls,even if there is a moment when you view mountains as the seven treasures' splendor, this is not returning to the source.
If you are a geologist and see all the minerals and see a little deeper now - not just seeing the stuff on the top like the grasses and trees, but now you can see underneath the topsoil, and can see all the rocks and minerals that make up the mountain - if you can see that, this is not it either. That is not the measure of what the mountains are.
Even if you understand mountains as the realm where all buddhas practice, this understanding is not something to be attached to.
Well now we must be getting closer, right? No. Even if you see mountains as metaphors of Buddhism, this is not so great either. All these things are fine, but that is not what Dogen is talking about.
Even if you have the highest understanding of mountains as all buddhas' wondrous characteristics, the truth is not only this. These are conditioned views.
"These are all wonderful insights and understandings of mountains," Dogen is saying. "But this is still not what I am talking about." These are all conditioned views, partial views, limiting views that ultimately end in tears, because every limiting view is opposed by another limiting view. Then you eventually have conflict, confusion, and trouble.
This is not the understanding of buddha ancestors, but merely looking through a bamboo pipe at a corner of the sky.
This is the Zen way of saying a very limited view. You could picture somebody looking through a bamboo pipe at a small corner of the sky, and saying, "Look, how big the sky is!" Yes, you are seeing something that is really there, and that is good, but it is not really the whole sky. All these views that he has just recited are just looking through a bamboo pipe at the sky.
These are phrases that are often used in Zen: "turning circumstances" and "turning the mind." He is saying that even this kind of Zen way of practice is limited. What the great sage - the Buddha - was talking about was more than this.
Speaking of mind and speaking of essence is not agreeable to Buddha ancestors. Confined words and phrases do not lead to liberation.
In other words, understanding the nature of mind and the nature of the world is still not it. As I was saying in my introduction, any sensible, graspable explanation, in whatever sophisticated language, however inclusive of lots of information, and with lots of good viewpoints, will not lead to liberation.
There is something free from all of these views.
Green mountains are always walking, and Eastern mountains travel on water. Study this in detail.
To me that amounts to two things. First of all, the immediacy of concepts and words as, themselves, experiences. When you hear a word or a concept, you think that the word or concept stands for something else. "Green mountains walking" would refer to mountains that are over there; green refers to a color; and walking refers to something we do when we put our feet one in front of the other. "Green mountains walking" is a concept that refers to something else. So now in this moment, when I think this way, I have leapt over my experience of these concepts as an experience, [and defaulted back] to what they refer to.
So he is talking about language. If you could exist so deeply inside of language - meaning your own thoughts, your own feelings that you describe to yourself, this is what Dogen is talking about. If you could be so intimate with those thoughts and feelings, and you weren't leaping past them to something you thought that they referred to, or something you wanted to manipulate or change, and you were actually just there, fully there, that would be to be fully engaged with your life.
He is talking about the immediacy of concepts as experience, and he is also talking about the immediacy of experience that is beyond concepts - the kind of experience that can't be explained or discussed in any way in which we could accurately get at it.
So, he is talking about radical immediacy, without any separation between this and that, without any linearity in time, but a fully entering into our lives in any moment. It would be like sitting with a phrase in zazen and just entering into it. It becomes your life. You are no longer thinking about it or pondering it. You just completely fuse with it. It becomes immediate for you. He is talking about the immediacy of thoughts and concepts on the one hand, and also the immediacy of experience. Somewhere in here he says, "Raising a fist." It's like that. In other words, all the explanations and all the philosophy are fine, but what really is important is living - the immediacy of living. Raising a fist is an action of living in this moment, the action of language and the action of experiencing our life.
In other words, all that he is saying about mountains - walking and flowing, and everything having no separation and no ending and no beginning, and their ongoing-ness - is available to us in every moment of our being, if we could fully enter it. That is an active entrance. It is an act of living.


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Het Point Reyes Lifeboat Station, ook bekend als het Point Reyes Lifeboat Rescue Station en nu ook het Historic Lifeboat Station genoemd, is een historisch bouwwerk in de Point Reyes National Seashore in de Amerikaanse staat Californië.

Geschiedenis
In 1890 opende de United States Life-Saving Service een station voor reddingsboten bij de gevaarlijke kaap van Point Reyes. In 1915 kwamen de operaties terecht onder het toezicht van de pas opgerichte United States Coast Guard. Het station van Point Reyes verhuisde in 1927 van Great Beach naar de veiligere Chimney Rock. Uiteindelijk werd het werk dat de redders in Point Reyes deden overbodig gemaakt door nieuwe technologieën en in 1969 sloot het station.

Het gebouw is het enige in zijn soort aan de westkust dat nog steeds in ongewijzigde vorm bestaat. Sinds 1985 staat het op het National Register of Historic Places en sinds 1989 is het erkend als National Historic Landmark. Het Historic Lifeboat Station wordt tegenwoordig gebruikt als een educatief centrum en wordt tijdens weekends en feestdagen in de winter soms opengesteld voor het brede publiek.

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  Geschiedenis (Point Reyes National Seashore)

Bouwwerk in Californië
Marin County
National Historic Landmark