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Social more important than Google for law blog traffic?
By Kevin O'Keefe
Who would have thought even a couple years ago that social media may be as important as Google in drawing traffic to your law blog. After all, eight or nine years ago we said BLOG stood for "Better Listing On Google."
Reading an interview of BuzzFeed's co-founder and chief executive, Jonah Peretti (@peretti), by The New York Times' Claire Cain Miller's (@clairecm) was a real eye opener on the importance of social media for law bloggers.
BuzzFeed, an entertainment and news-focused Internet media company founded eight years ago, has experienced huge growth the last couple years because they move their stories on social media, as opposed to relying on search traffic. So much so that the company is now valued at over $800 million based on a recent investment of $55 million.
Peretti's message to Miller was that the source of traffic to news, information, and media sites is shifting from search to social. A year ago, readers were much more likely to come to media sites from search engines, but now they are increasingly likely to come from social networks.
The numbers from the Shareaholic network, whose 350,000 client sites get 400 million unique visitors a month are stunning. Last July 13% of the traffic came from social and 41% came from search. This June 31% of the traffic came from social while 29% came from each search.
That's a 140 percent increase in traffic from social with social trending to be more important than Google in drawing traffic to media, news, and information sites.
Perreti told Miller that going forward BuzzFeed is going to focus on quality content and content that people want to share on social media. To some extent they are one in the same as people are not going to share with people who trust them content that's not valuable.
Peretti calls Facebook the "new 'front page' for the Internet." Rather than people searching for everything they need, content is bubbling up in front of them socially. Content shared by people with like Interests and usually in the same social strata.
It's easy to see why Peretti singles out Facebook. On Shareaholic sites Twitter accounts for 1 percent of social traffic compared with 23 percent from Facebook.
Though a media company such as BuzzFeed is sharing content that's a far cry from a blog post on a SEC ruling, the message applies. People in the social circles of lawyers are extremely active on social. That includes other lawyers, bloggers, business leaders, clients, prospective clients, you name them. These folks share what they read – and a lot of what they read is on business and the law.
Sure, Google remains important. But going forward you ought to be spending more time looking at how you can increase traffic to your blog from social media than from Google.
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Rigoberta Menchú has dedicated her life to fighting the injustices faced by the people of Guatemala and educating the world on the concept of indigenous people and fighting for their interests.
In this essay, Melvin Pichardo, a young aspiring actor, becomes so immersed in becoming a character for a role that he begins to question who he is as a person and what he feels and thinks.
Eighteen-year-old Sandra exemplifies a strong sense of self, as she talks to her peers about why she doesn't conform to societal gender norms.
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India: History
By Pradyumna Karan
Indus Valley Civilization. The earliest civilization in the subcontinent developed in the valley of the Indus River, in what was formerly northwestern India and is now part of Pakistan. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of two great Indus Valley cities, Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro, which date from about 2500 B.C. The cities were large and laid out in streets. Some houses had bathrooms with drains connected to sewers that ran underneath the streets.
The Aryans. About 1500 B.C., Aryan people from the northwest of the subcontinent settled in India and built a highly developed civilization. During the following centuries the Aryans gradually spread over all of northern India. In the 500's B.C. two great religions, Buddhism and Jainism, originated in eastern India. During the next 1,000 years Buddhism spread over most of Asia, and India became a "holy land" visited by pilgrims from far-off places. In the meantime, part of western India was conquered by Persia. Through the Persians, India came into contact with the Greek world. In 327-26 B.C., Alexander the Great of Macedonia invaded India but withdrew after his homesick army refused to go farther.
Hindu Kingdoms. Up until Alexander's invasion, the Aryan people had been divided into many small kingdoms. Inspired by Alexander, Candragupta Maurya, king of Magadha (modern Bihar), began to conquer the smaller kingdoms and build an empire in northern India. He unified the Aryan people under a single rule. Asoka, Candragupta's grandson, who reigned during the 200's B.C., was one of the great rulers of India. He introduced a policy of religious and racial tolerance.
After the death of Asoka, India again broke up into many small kingdoms. New waves of people from southwestern Asia entered the country, bringing foreign influence to northern India. In the same period several Dravidian kingdoms flourished in southern India. These kingdoms spread Indian influence to Southeast Asia, in what are now Cambodia (Kampuchea), Thailand, and Indonesia.
Gupta Rulers. In the A.D. 300's the Guptas, a new dynasty (or ruling house), came to power in northern India. The best known of the Gupta rulers was Candra Gupta II, who extended his empire across northern India. The Gupta period was the golden age of Indian culture. Poets and artists flourished. Several great universities were established. It was during this era that the mathematical concept of zero was developed in India. Later the concept was carried by the Arabs to Europe.
The Gupta empire was destroyed at the end of the 400's by the Huns, a tribal people from Central Asia. Thereafter, for more than a century, northern India was under the control of a number of local kingdoms. Finally, early in the 600's, one of the kings, Harsa, was able to unify much of northern India. But Harsa died in 647, leaving no heir to his throne. As a result, northern India was again broken up into a number of small kingdoms.
During the post-Gupta period several Dravidian kingdoms flourished in southern India. Among these were the Chola and Pallava kingdoms, which were seafaring states on the east coast.
Muslim Invasions. During the 1000's, Muslim invaders from Central Asia conquered northern India. They founded the sultanate (kingdom) of Delhi that dominated northern India for almost two centuries. In 1398 the Mongol conqueror Tamerlane invaded the Delhi Sultanate. As a result, northern India was again split into a number of kingdoms. However, in the south the Hindu empire of Vijayanagar was established, and it flourished until 1565.
The Mogul Conquest. The political disintegration of northern India led to an invasion by another Muslim people from Central Asia, the Moguls. Their leader, Babur, a descendant of Tamerlane and Genghis Khan, conquered northern India in 1526 and proclaimed himself the first Mogul emperor of India. His grandson Akbar, who reigned from 1556 to 1605, was one of the ablest and best-known rulers of India. Unlike other Muslim rulers, Akbar allowed people of all religions to worship as they pleased. Akbar's son Jahangir ruled from 1605 to 1627. During his reign, an English ambassador sent by King James I became the first Englishman known to visit the subcontinent.
Mogul architecture reached its highest development during the reign of Emperor Shah Jahan (1628-58), who built the famous Taj Mahal at Agra as a tomb for his wife. Shah Jahan's successor, Aurangzeb (or ' lamg r), who ruled from 1658 to 1707, had neither the ability nor the tolerance of the former emperors. He destroyed many Hindu temples in northern India and followed a policy of extreme bigotry. The weak Mogul emperors who succeeded Aurangzeb were in no position to check invasions from the northwest. In 1739 Nadir Shah of Persia defeated Mogul armies and carried away from Delhi most of the Mogul's wealth and treasures. The resulting political chaos paved the way for the spread of British power in India.
European Penetration of India. In 1498 the Portuguese navigator and explorer Vasco da Gama discovered the sea route to India. Soon afterward European traders--Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English--came to India to look for the fine cotton cloth, rare woods, jewels, silk, and spices they had heard about. The Portuguese were the first to establish colonies on the west coast of India. They later lost most of their Indian territories but remained in Goa until 1961.
During the first half of the 1700's, the Dutch, French, and British set up trading settlements on the coast of India and became active rivals. In 1757 the British, under Robert Clive of the East India Company, won an important battle at Plassey by defeating the French and their local allies. As a result, the rich Ganges Valley region came under the control of the British East India Company.
The British Indian Empire. The Battle of Plassey laid the foundation of the East India Company's empire. The company, through war and diplomacy, continued to take over more and more Indian territory during the second half of the 1700's. Indian resentment of the British led to the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, in which Indian troops (sepoys) serving under the British revolted. The mutiny was put down by the company. But in the following year, the British government took over the East India Company's Indian empire. In 1877, Queen Victoria was proclaimed empress of India. The political map of India remained basically the same from the time of the Sepoy Mutiny until the subcontinent was partitioned in 1947.
The Indian National Movement. An Indian national movement began in the late 1800's, because the Indians wanted a constitution that would give them a greater share in governing themselves. When the British proved slow in granting reforms, the revolutionary movement grew. Soon the Indians were demanding self-government and freedom from British control. Important constitutional reforms were finally carried out by the British after World War I (1914-18), but they came too late to stop the tide of nationalism.
Mahatma Gandhi. Mohandas K. Gandhi, often called Mahatma (Great Soul), became the leader of the Indian national movement. Gandhi, a Hindu, was trained in law in England. He served twice as president of the Indian National Congress (later the Congress Party), which had been established in 1885 to work for the self-government of the Indian people.
In 1919, Gandhi began a policy of nonviolent protest to gain self-rule for India. He also sought to end discrimination against the Dalits. As part of his campaign of civil disobedience, he urged Indians not to buy British goods and to reject taxation without representation. Gandhi himself often fasted as a form of protest.
Partition and Independence. In 1935, under the Government of India Act, Britain gave India a new constitution. Muslim Indians, however, complained that the Hindu majority would gain control of the country and thereby place Muslim religion and culture in a disadvantageous position.
In 1940, Muslim leaders demanded a separate state of Pakistan to be formed from areas in the subcontinent that had a majority of Muslims. When all attempts to form a single government in an undivided India failed, the creation of the separate Muslim state of Pakistan was finally agreed to.
On August 15, 1947, the Indian subcontinent achieved independence. It was partitioned into two nations, India and Pakistan (including what is now Bangladesh). After partition, about 9 million Hindus and Sikhs moved from Pakistan to India. The settling of these refugees was a major problem for India.
In January 1948, Gandhi was assassinated in Delhi by an extremist Hindu who blamed Gandhi for the partition of the subcontinent. Gandhi's principal lieutenant, Jawaharlal Nehru, became India's first prime minister.
Relations between India and Pakistan were often hostile in the years that followed. In 1947 and again in 1965, the two nations went to war over the disputed territory of Kashmir. India's relations with China also were strained after Chinese troops attacked Indian border posts in 1962.
Recent History. Nehru died in 1964 and was succeeded by Lal Bahadur Shastri. When Shastri died in 1966, Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, became prime minister. Clashes between India and Pakistan erupted once more in 1971, when civil war broke out in East Pakistan. Indian troops occupied East Pakistan and helped in its formation as the new nation of Bangladesh. In 1975 the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim became part of India as its 22nd state.
Indira Gandhi's years as India's leader were marked by accomplishment and controversy. For a time she governed under a state of emergency that caused much criticism. Her defeat in the 1977 elections seemed the end of her political rule and that of the Congress Party. The party, which had governed India since independence, split into rival factions. But in 1980, Gandhi returned as prime minister and as head of her branch of the party.
The 1980's were marred by conflicts among India's many ethnic and religious groups. The Sikhs were especially passionate in their demands for equal religious status and for greater self-rule for their state of Punjab. Some Sikhs resorted to violence. In 1984, government troops stormed the Golden Temple at Amritsar, where armed Sikh extremists had taken refuge. The attack on their holiest shrine angered the Sikhs, who denounced the Gandhi government. These events had tragic results. On October 31, 1984, Gandhi was assassinated by Sikhs. Her son Rajiv succeeded her as leader of the Congress Party and prime minister. He headed the government until the 1989 elections, when the Congress Party lost its majority in Parliament. In 1991, while he was campaigning for re-election, Rajiv Gandhi was killed by a terrorist bomb.
The new head of the Congress Party, P.V. Narasimha Rao, became prime minister in 1991, but his party lost its majority in 1996. His successor, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, leader of the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party, was soon replaced by H.D. Deve Gowda of the left-center United Front coalition. Inder Kumar Gujral, also of the United Front, became prime minister in 1997. Vajpayee returned as prime minister following elections in 1998 and again in 1999. Three new states--Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, and Uttaranchal--were created in 2000.
Challenges of the Future. India, which has preserved the democratic ideals and practices it adopted at independence, has made great economic strides. It is among the top ten industrial nations of the world and is self-sufficient in food. But economic gains have been erased by population growth, and in 2001 a devastating earthquake in the heavily industrial state of Gujurat set back the economy even further.
The government also faced challenges from groups seeking to break from the Indian union. Meanwhile, tensions with Pakistan continued. In 1998 both countries tested nuclear weapons, raising fears of a nuclear confrontation between the two countries over the disputed area of Kashmir. In 2001, Pakistani suicide bombers attacked India's parliament, killing 13 people. The attack strained relations between the two countries even further. But in 2002, Prime Minister Vajpayee ruled out the possibility of another war. Later that year, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, a missile scientist, was elected president. His priorities were to combat poverty and develop rural areas.

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If you are reading this, you are probably a lifelong learner, understand the advantages of that mindset, and hope to instill the same love of learning in your child. People who continue to learn outside school settings are generally happier and more successful than the norm. Learning is nothing more than acquiring new or enhancing existing knowledge. Children learn at phenomenal rates for the first three years. After that, the basics of walking, talking, and rudimentary socialization are in place and things slow down a little, which makes it a perfect time to partner with your child to develop the habit of lifelong learning.
If you grew up loving books, your child may also develop that love. But books are no longer the only way to learn, and often they are not even the best. Auditory learners acquire new skills better if someone talks to them or they listen to a book. Visual learners may find YouTube to be their best ally in figuring out new things. And many people of all learning types benefit from active, hands-on learning in conjunction with reading, listening, and viewing.
Appreciate and praise your child's out of the box thinking. Creativity is natural in young children, and only with criticism does that instinct get buried. Support and reinforce unique problem solving and artistic creativity every chance you get. Great thinkers, artists and entrepreneurs did not break new ground by thinking like the pack.
When you hear those three magic words, "I want to," listen closely to what follows and encourage your child's drive to learn. A child whose interests are treated us unimportant is a child who stops believing they can learn about whatever they want. A child who is interested in piano one day, insects the next, cooking the following week, and solar power after that is not flighty, but inquisitive. Except at school, life is not parceled out in units that build on each other. Encourage new interests, accept that some will be fleeting, and try not to be dismissive if your child's newest interest is not one of yours.
Let your child know about things you are learning. Children who see a parent struggling to learn a new language will be more likely to learn things on their own. And they will indirectly learn that imperfection is part of the process, but that the important thing is to try new things.
Encourage your child to ask questions about everything, but do not be embarrassed if you do not know the answer. If you do not know something, engage your child to learn with you as you seek an answer. You will learn something new as your child develops skills to answer their own questions.
Watch one, do one, teach one is a tried and true way of mastering something new. For example, you might watch someone make a pie, afterwards you make one, then you teach the process to a friend. Let your child teach you a new skill. Getting to be the teacher, especially getting to teach an adult, will build a child's confidence in the task at hand and that confidence will carry over to learning new things in the future.
By setting the example of lifelong learning and encouraging and supporting new interests, your child will be equipped to learn new things throughout their lifetime.


There are some questions to ask during your first interview with a potential lender, bank, or broker when you are looking to get a loan. I would suggest printing off this list and writing all the answers down as you ask them. It is hard to keep everything straight once you call more than one bank.
APR stands for annual percentage rate. It is the TOTAL cost of the loan. This is the best figure to compare when shopping for a loan. It includes all points, fees, — everything — rolled into one neat, little number.
This is a questions that often gets overlooked. Who will handle your monthly payments, hold your escrow accounts, and keep records? Often you will find that the servicing for your loan is handled by a separate company. Do some research on the servicing company. Are they reputable? Do other consumers have giant issues with the servicing? Think of it this way — the broker is the wedding, but the servicing company is the marriage. The servicing company will be your contact for updates and issues over the life of the loan.
3. Compliance and Regulation Guidelines.
All lenders have to comply with Federal Lending Laws. That doesn't change; however, what may be different is HOW they comply. This could lead to issues depending on your particular needs. If you have a special situation where you are buying a house with a power of attorney, you need to go over this need FIRST — well before signing day. You certainly don't want to be at the signing table discussing whether or not your husband's signature is compliant or not. The document that took you weeks to procure may not work because it is signed in black ink and not blue ink. Seriously, this has happened. You live far away from the property and need to sign by notary? Speak up early. These are just some of the issues that can come up if you don't ask about regulation guidelines.
This is where shopping around will find you the best deal for your needs. Each bank or lender will have different "products" and each one will have different qualifying guidelines. Bank A may offer a 15-year fixed investment property at X rate, and Bank B may have the same "product" at the same rate. The difference lies in HOW your income is calculated. If you are a first-time homebuyer with a set salary, this is easy. Bring on the W-2. However, if you are using your rental income to help qualify you for the loan, it can get sticky. Bank A may qualify your income one way while Bank B may qualify it another way. Have your taxes ready. This is where you will need them.
What other questions to ask would you suggest adding to this list?


August 13, 2019 - Are Your Affairs in Order?
property, finances, and end of life wishes.
November 12, 2019 - Celebrate.....(or Not) your way!!!
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UConn students party during coronavirus pandemic, get kicked out of dorms
By Paul Best
University of Connecticut (UConn) main campus, Storrs, Connecticut (Photo by Carol M. Highsmith/Buyenlarge/Getty Images)
Several University of Connecticut students were kicked out of their dorm rooms this week after videos on social media showed them at a crowded party with no masks and even less social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Most UConn students have cooperated with strict health and safety guidelines since returning to campus last Friday, but some haven't, university President Tom Katsouleas and Provost Carl Lejuez said in a letter to the campus community Wednesday.
"Many of you are aware of a party in a residence hall that violated our health and safety rules; as a result, the students involved have been removed from campus housing," Katsouleas and Lejuez wrote. "Separately, over the weekend, seven students were written up for minor infractions.
Mouse trap PSA highlights importance of social distancing
The video was released by the Ohio Department of Public Health to illustrate why we should social distance.
Despite the party, UConn still appears to have a handle on the spread of the virus. Out of 5,042 residential students who have been tested, only eight have come back positive, a .16% positivity rate. Three off-campus commuter students have also tested positive. Just two staff members out of 2,110 who have been tested were positive, a .01% positivity rate.
That's in stark contrast to other universities that have already had to send students home due to an inability to control the spread on campus.
Elsewhere, the COVID-19 positivity rate at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill increased from 2.8% to 13.6% after just one week of in-person classes, prompting the university to shift to remote learning for the rest of the fall semester.
RELATED: UNC-Chapel Hill to move to remote learning for undergrad courses after jump in COVID-19 cases
The University of Notre Dame is currently dealing with a 17.3% positivity rate, as 222 of 1,278 tests have come back positive since students started returning to campus earlier this month. The school announced Tuesday that it is suspending all in-person undergraduate classes for two weeks, and if it can't get control of the spread, then it will send students home for the semester.
Some colleges that haven't even started yet are changing their plans due to the challenges other schools have faced. Michigan State University announced Tuesday that it is moving all undergraduate students to remote learning for the fall semester, just days before students were set to return to campus.
RELATED: Alabama students throwing dangerous 'COVID parties,' Tuscaloosa city councilor warns
The World Health Organization warned this week that coronavirus is now primarily being spread by young people.
"The epidemic is changing: people in their 20s, 30s and 40s are increasingly driving its spread," Dr. Takeshi Kasai, WHO's regional health director for the Western Pacific region, said in a virtual news conference Tuesday. "Many are unaware they're infected — with very mild symptoms or none at all. This can result in them unknowingly passing on the virus to others."
Get updates on this story from foxnews.com.


Uptrends is the place where talent and experience work together on our mission to become the best monitoring product in the world. We're proud of what we've become so far, but we need you to help push us to the next level. We have a lot to offer.
Together we work on our SaaS monitoring service, giving customers insight into the uptime and performance of their sites, servers, and APIs. With headquarters located in Alphen aan den Rijn (The Netherlands), we also have offices in Boca Raton, FL (United States), Düsseldorf (Germany), and Paris (France).
Are you unsure about the job title that fits you best? Choose your best match; your application always ends up with the right person from the right team. If you don't see an open position that you like, but you think you can still be a good addition to our team, don't hesitate to send an open application.
You have a work life and personal life. We consider the balance to be important, which is why we offer benefits that help you to maintain both as optimally as possible.
On office days, enjoy a free, extensive lunch buffet.
Work with a diverse team of talent and years of experience.
Of course, reimbursement of travel expenses.
Attend at least two tech conferences per year with your team.
Three times each year enjoy a technical evening (with pizza)!
A brand new development laptop and a company smartphone.
A bonus plan in the form of an additional month's salary.
At Uptrends, we love to travel. You get 25 vacation days that you can use how you see fit.
A generous pension allowance that you can use in the way you want. Everyone arranges it their way.
A more than competitive salary, because we want to go far for new acquisitions.
We want you to be able to do your work as well as possible, so you get all the equipment you need.
Our headquarters is located in Alphen aan den Rijn, centrally in the Randstad, with private parking, covered bicycle parking, and a five-minute walk from the station.
In our office, we have no large open workspaces with small desks. You get a spacious workspace, and you are in a room with a maximum of four colleagues, which is a lot more relaxed. Oh, and if you notice, we have a thing for space travel, you can see the theme throughout the entire office. Pretty cool, if we do say so ourselves.
In addition to working, there is plenty of room to relax both during and outside office hours. Like to enjoy a game of pool, air hockey, table soccer, or a game on the Xbox? Outside office hours we hold pizza nights regularly where you can learn from your colleagues about all kinds of subjects. Our balcony is also perfect for a cozy BBQ in the summer.
Every employee is encouraged to grow professionally. Because there are no external financiers at Uptrends, there is no pressure to generate more income at breakneck speed. We grow at our own pace, which benefits the quality of our products. By creating a workplace where everyone feels at home, setting achievable goals, and showing interest in the roles and lives of every employee, we have created an environment that stimulates creativity.
In the canteen, Jeanet provides an extensive lunch buffet every office day that varies every week. Would you like a tasty salad or something else? Don't be surprised if your preference is on the table the next day. With the summer temperatures, we open the patio doors, and you can have lunch on the balcony at the picnic tables.
We believe that you can do your work a lot better if you work in an inspiring environment and we think it is important that you feel at home in the office. Our entire office is designed for that. Furthermore, everything is aimed at ensuring that everyone can work as productively as possible, for example there are whiteboards in all rooms. Every product enhancement starts on a whiteboard!
We can talk about it long or short; ultimately we hope that we have convinced you enough to come and talk to us. If you don't see a job opening that appeals to you, but you still want to meet, open applications are more than welcome!


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Buiksloterham, on the northern bank of the IJ waterway, once the site of Amsterdam's most polluting industries, is being transformed into a sustainable area to live and work.
Over the coming years, Buiksloterham will develop into a sustainable district based on circular principles. It will be up to the partners in Buiksloterham to determine exactly what forms this should take. The circular city and sustainability are broad ideas. They embrace themes like energy, intelligent use of materials, recycling, climate resilience, and sustainable mobility, as well as the shift from ownership to usership and the development of new models for production, consumption, distribution and logistics.
On 5 March 2015 more than 20 different organisations and companies signed the Circular Buiksloterham Manifesto. Together they are working to transform Buiksloterham into a sustainable and circular district. Various initiators are actively engaged in projects and experiments in and around the area. For more information see the Buiksloterham website. There is a link to download the manifesto and the report on Circular Buiksloterham.
The city of Amsterdam is facilitating and supporting the development of Buiksloterham into a sustainable and circular district. Self-builders are also being called on to make a contribution. The Circular Buiksloterham option form supports individual self-builders in realising a sustainable home with circular elements. By opting for concrete measures at an early stage, you can embed sustainability in your project. It is therefore compulsory for self-builders at Buiksloterham to complete, sign and submit this form. While individual self-build projects are not selected on the basis of sustainability, the compulsory form shows the extent to which the self-builder is including sustainability and circularity in the plans.
What is the city of Amsterdam doing for the development of circular Buiksloterham?
When granting building plots, the city of Amsterdam selects on the basis of circularity and sustainability. This has been the policy at Buiksloterham for many years, and will remain so. The City also applies the principle of sustainability in other tasks, such as refuse collection methods, LED lighting in public space, and in working to realise sustainable heating and cooling.


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Хокей-Аллсвенскан () — друга за рівнем хокейна ліга Швеції, після Шведської хокейної ліги. Була створена в 2005 замість ліги Супераллсвенскан, змагання в якій проводилося у двох групах (по 12 команд кожна).

Структура
У сезонах 2005–2009 рр. у Хокей-Аллсвенскан виступало 16 команд, а з сезону 2009–2010 рр. входить 14.

Змагання відбуваються в два етапи. На першому етапі команди зустрічаються між собою по 4 рази та визначають учасників другого етапу змагань.

Чотири найкращі клуби на другому етапі проводять двоколовий турнір (Квальсерієн) разом із двома командами Шведської хокейної ліги, які зайняли в поточному сезоні два останні місця. Дві перші команди цих змагань отримують право наступного сезону виступати у Шведській хокейній лізі.

Команди, які зайняли на першому етапі два останні місця, проводять кваліфікаційний турнір з чотирма кращими клубами третьої ліги Гокейеттан за право виступати наступного року в Хокей-Аллсвенскан.

Склад учасників у сезоні 2018—2019
 АІК Стокгольм
 «Альмтуна» (Уппсала)
 «Б'єрклевен» (Умео)
 Вестервікс ІК
 Вестерос ІК
 «Віта Гестен» (Норрчепінг)
 Карлскруна ГК
 БІК Карлскуга
 Лександс ІФ
 МОДО Ерншельдсвік
 ІК Оскарсгамн
 «Пантерн» (Мальме)
 Седертельє СК
 Тінгсридс АІФ

Команди Хокей-Аллсвенскан, які перейшли до ШХЛ
 2013: Еребру ГК, Лександс ІФ
 2014: «Юргорден» (Стокгольм)
 2015: Карлскруна ГК, «Мальме Редгокс» (Мальме), «Регле» (Енгельгольм)
 2016: Лександс ІФ
 2017: Мура ІК
 2018: Тімро ІК
 2019: ІК Оскарсгамн

Див. також
 Шведський хокейний союз

Джерела

 Офіційний сайт ліги

Хокейні ліги Європи

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Orange County Sheriff Drives Drunk has Two Collisions in one Night
The Orange County Sheriffs Department is investigating one of their own for suspicion of driving under the influence and crashing into a vehicle. On Monday of this week Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Allen Waters was involved in two collisions. The first incident happened in front of City Hall in Dana Point where deputies were called and took an incident report. It was not explained if the Lexus was parked or what the damage was, but Deputy Waters and the driver were able to go on their way. Within the hour CHP was called to a collision again involving Waters in Laguna Niguel. The California Highway Patrol reported that Waters made an unsafe turn to the right, and the resulting impact sent his car off multiple curbs and then into a Toyota with an elderly couple inside. One of the victims was taken to the hospital. At this collision the CHP reported that the unsafe turn was "...due to Waters' level of intoxication" according to the Orange County Weekly. The Orange County Sheriff's Department will conduct a full investigation. Driving under the influence can be filed as a misdemeanor or a felony. If a driver has three previous convictions and picks up a fourth case in a ten year period then the fourth case can be filed as a felony. Or, if a driver has never had a DUI previously but while driving drunk causes bodily injury to another then that case may be tried as a felony.
A first time misdemeanor DUI carries a maximum punishment of 6 months but most people do no jail time although they must pay a fine, attend an alcohol school and are put on three years of informal probation. A second time DUI within 10 years of a previous DUI has the same punishment except the maximum jail time is 1 year; the actual punishment varies from county to county. In Orange County an individual is looking at between 45-60 days in jail on a second DUI. On a third DUI the minimum punishment is 120 days by law and on a fourth DUI within 10 years of three previous convictions the maximum is 3 years in state prison. There are many possible defenses to driving under the influence. (See Vehicle Code Sections 23152(a), 23152(b), 23153(a), 23153(b).)
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Our nations veterans will be honored on and around the Nov. 11 holiday that was created to bring remembrance and respect to those that have served. This is not meant to be a complete list of celebrations, but should be used as a guide for you to choose which events to attend. Consult your local VFW Post, American Legion Post or city officials for possible additional sites of honor.
A program focusing on vets and students will take place at 1:30 p.m. Nov. 10, in the South Milwaukee High School Sullivan Gymnasium, 801 15th Ave.
"Perhaps most touching is the way our students interact with the Veterans during the program and afterward at a reception we host in their honor in our school library," faculty adviser Elizabeth Biskobing said. "To witness the conversations occurring between and among generations is a poignant reminder of the kindness and respect that our student volunteers epitomize."
The SMHS orchestra and a cappella choir will perform and each veteran guest will be personally recognized during the program with a tribute and gifts that are designed by students.
The Veteran guests arrive on site between 12:30 and 1:30 pm. Immediately after the program (usually around 3:00 p.m.), the reception begins in the library and ends around 4:30 p.m.. As a backdrop throughout the program, a slideshow of Veterans names submitted by South Milwaukee staff, students, and other community members will play in the background.
In conjunction with the program, the organizers choose a Veterans organization to support each year. In 2010, they collected nearly 10,000 items to send to troops serving overseas in Iraq and Kuwait as well as to those who were in our local VA hospital (Zablocki).
"Our program changes slightly each year, but it always keeps its main focus on our veteran guests and the student connection to them," Biskobing said. "This student-led drive spurred future support for organizations such as Stars & Stripes Honor Flight, Fisher House Wisconsin, Dryhootch and Veterans Trek, Milwaukee Homeless Veterans Initiative, USO-Wisconsin, and this year Guitars For Vets."
In New Berlin, Mayor Dave Ament will conduct the City's Annual Veterans Day Ceremony at 7 p.m. Nov. 10 in the Council Chambers at New Berlin City Hall, 3805 S. Casper Dr.
The ceremony will include participation from the New Berlin Hoeppner Horn VFW Post 5716, the American Legion Post 488 and the New Berlin Community Band. All residents are invited to attend this ceremony to honor those who have served our country. If you are unable to attend, you may view the ceremony on local cable channel 25.
At Wisconsin Lutheran High School. 330 Glenview Ave. in Wauwatosa a 7 a.m. Nov. 9, a breakfast that includes music performed by WLHS students will be followed by a processional and program in the main gym.
"The Vietnam War: A Hero's Homecoming" will honor local military personnel who have served in the U.S. armed forces. On hand will be nearly 400 veterans from all branches of the military who have served in World War II through the most recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, featuring speaker and local Vietnam War veteran Chaplain Ray W. Stubbe.
Following a procession of veterans into the WLHS gymnasium, Stubbe will deliver an address on his experiences as a Navy chaplain during the Vietnam War, including his survival of the Siege at Khe Sanh. He will also discuss the challenges he and other Vietnam veterans faces when they returned home from war. There will be a question and answer session following the service.
At the Wauwatosa SeniorCenter, 7300 W Chestnut St. at 1:30 Nov. 9 residents can attend a program that will pay tribute to the men and women who have had the opportunity to participate in the Honor Flights.
The Stars and Stripes Honor Flight pays tribute to our most senior and terminally ill veterans with a one-day trip to Washington D.C. to see their memorials. You can find out more information regarding the trips at wisconsinhonorflight.org.
This events will include Veteran Charlie Wakefield talk about his experience with the flights and how they honor our veterans. A $2 donation at the door goes to the Honor Flights organization. Veterans are invited to attend at no charge.
The Milwaukee American Legion Band will perform at 9:30 a.m. Nov. 10 at the Zablocki VA Center, 5000 W. National Ave. in Milwaukee.
The Band will also perform at the Memorial United Methodist Church, at 3450 S. 52 St. in Greenfield Nov. at 3 p.m. Nov. 12.
The Milwaukee American Legion Band is a non-profit organization consisting of talented and dedicated musicians from all over Southeastern Wisconsin. Over the 90-year history of the Band they have specialized in traditional and patriotic Concert Band music.
The Mukwonago Baptist Church, 1610 Honeywell Road, will host a 6 p.m. Nov. 10 dinner in honor of our veterans. Also included in the program is music performed by the Mukwonago Baptist Church Men's group and Children's Choir.
The speaker is retired Chaplain (COL) Joe Willis. This event is free for all retired or currently serving military personnel. Visit MukwonagoBaptist.org for more details and to register. Registration may also be made by calling the church at 262-363-4197.
At the Frankl Lloyd Wright School, 9501 W. Cleveland Ave, West Allis, a program will be held at 11 a.m. Nov. 10. The event will honor veterans through the lens of the Honor Flight program and include a luncheon and a "mail call" that will see students writing to school staff member and veteran Ken Fabis.
At 10 a.m. Nov. 11 at Muskego's ProHealth Care Regency Senior Communities, S. 8540 Racine Avenue a multi-faceted veterans program will be held.
The proceedings will include a prisoner of war/missing in action remembrance, placement of memorial wreath, roll call to honor current veterans and patriotic songs sung by MaryJo Garinger, along with the Regency Choir. Past Post Commander Dennis Duran will be master of ceremony and speakers will include Muskego Mayor Kathy Chiaverotti.
American Veterans Post 60 will sponsor the City of Franklin Veteran's Day Program at 11 a.m. Nov. 11 in the city library located at 9151 W. Loomis Rd.
The program will include speakers: Steve Olson, Franklin's mayor; Jim Duff, Milwaukee County Veteran's Services Officer; and Jean Ruka, Post 60 commander.
At the event, "Quilts of Honor," will also present a number of quilts to veterans, in recognition of their service. A POW/MIA presentation is planned along with a rifle salute and taps. Refreshments will be served after the conclusion of the one hour program.
This is the eighth year the program has been held and it honors all veterans and acknowledges the city's Veteran's Memorial established by Derek McElroy, as his Eagle Scout project.
Oak Creek will hold a program at 9 a.m. Nov. 11, in the Main Bay of the Oak Creek Headquarters Fire Station located at Sixth Street and Rawson Avenue. just north of the Oak Creek Veterans Memorial Park.
The program will begin with the Oak Creek Police Deptarment Honor Guard Posting our nations colors. This will be followed by the singing of the National Anthem by members of the Oak Creek High School Choir.
Following the anthem, speakers will address attendees including State Assembly Representative Jessie Rodriguez, State Senator Chris Larson and Oak Creek Mayor Dan Bukiewicz.
After the speakers, the Oak Creek VFW and American Legion Honor Guards will perform a 21-gun rifle salute and that will be followed by the playing of taps by two members of the Oak Creek High School Band. This will be followed by a presentation to local hometown heroes, who have had a banner recognizing their service hanging in the City Hall. Those honored will be presented with a certificate and their banner by the Mayor of Oak Creek.
Following the above presentations, the Oak Creek Veteran of the Year will be announced and that individual will receive a Patriotic Afghan Blanket provided by the "Crafters with Compassion" organization.
The South Milwaukee American Legion post will host an observation of the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War at 7 p.m. Nov. 10 at the American Legion Post 27, 920 Monroe Ave.
This commemoration we will issuing commemorative pins and certificates to those who served during Vietnam, and widows of those who served, including at least one Gold Star widow. The keynote speaker will be retired MGEN Paul Lima who lives in Oconomowoc Lake. The Wisconsin American Legion Department Commander Laurel Clewell will also be in attendance.


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Nasdaq-Listed BTCS Company Offers 'First-Ever' Bitcoin Dividend
Nasdaq-listed blockchain infrastructure and technology firm BTCS has announced it will become the "first-ever" company listed on the exchange to offer a dividend payable in bitcoin to its shareholders.
According to an announcement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), BTCS is set to pay a $0.05 per share dividend in bitcoin, based on the cryptocurrency's price on its ex-dividend date of March 16. Shareholders will be paid on March 17 and can choose to instead receive the dividend in cash.
Dubbed the "Bividend" by BTCS, the dividend will require investors to opt-in to receive the BTC and provide their own bitcoin wallet. Shareholders would also need to complete steps like filling out a form with the SEC, which would require them to disclose some personal data.
Explaining the rationale behind the move Charles Allen, BTCS' CEO, noted that the firm wants to reward its long-time shareholders and "encourage financial freedom by providing the means to enable direct ownership of Bitcoin and other digital assets." Allen added:
This is a moment we have long anticipated since the Company purchased the domain, bividend.com, in February 2015. BTCS is now in the financial position required to execute on the Company's vision.
Shareholders who do not wish to receive the bividend will instead receive $0.05 in cash. Whether future bividend payments will occur is unclear, as the firm wrote it's "evaluating the appropriateness of future Bividends."
Shares of BTCS saw their price jump over 40% after the bividend was announced to now trade above $4.3. According to CNBC, financial experts warn against investing in a firm simply because it's distributing a dividend, as investors should instead focus on a company's fundamentals.
The announcement comes amid a crypto market downturn caused by minutes from the Federal Reserve's meeting in December suggesting the central bank is set to take a hawkish approach and start raising interest rates while reducing the size of its balance sheet. Despite the setbacks, analysts from Goldman Sachs have suggested BTC could hit $100,000 in the future if it takes some market share away from gold.
The views and opinions expressed by the author, or any people mentioned in this article, are for informational purposes only, and they do not constitute financial, investment, or other advice. Investing in or trading cryptoassets comes with a risk of financial loss.
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Tag: smart technology
Not long ago, designer Ernst Mauch unveiled a revolutionary new handgun that grew out of a desire to merge digital technology with firearm safety. Known as the "smart gun" – or Armatix iP1 – this pistol comes with a safety feature designed to ensure that only the guns owner may fire it. Basically, the gun comes with a watch (the iW1) that it is synchronized to, and the weapon will only fire if it is within ten inches of it. So unless you're wearing the iW1, the weapon will not fire in your hands.
The weapon is in part the result of attempts to find intelligent solutions to gun safety and gun violence. And Mauch's design is one of several proposed innovations to use digital/smart technology for just such a purpose. Back in January, the Smart Tech Challenges Foundation launched the first of four $1 million challenges aimed at inspiring the kinds of innovation that could help lead to safer guns – and a reduction in the number of tragic deaths and injuries that make the headlines nearly every day.
Given the recent failures to reach a legislative solution to the ongoing problem of gun-violence, these efforts should come as no surprise. And Mauch, the lead designer of the iP1, claimed in a recent op-ed piece with the Washington Post that the number of gun enthusiasts will rise as the result of its enhanced safety. As a designer who's patents include the USP family of pistols, the HK416 assault rifle, G36 assault rifle and XM25 grenade machine gun – he is a strong advocate of a market-based solution.
The gun has already sparked a great deal of controversy amongst gun advocates and the National Rifle Association. Apparently, they worry that legislation will be passed so that only smart guns can be sold in gun stores. This is largely in response to a 2002 New Jersey law that stipulated that once the technology was available, that smart guns be sold exclusively in the state. As a result, the NRA has been quite vocal about its opposition to smart guns, despite offers made to repeal the law in exchange for them easing their position.
As already noted, the iP1 is not the only smart technology being applied to firearms. Sentini, a Detroit-based startup founded by Omer Kiyani, is designing a biometric gun lock called Identilock. Attaching to a gun's trigger, it unlocks only when the owner applies a fingerprint. As an engineer, a gun owner, a father, and the victim of gun violence (he was shot in the mouth at 16), he too is committed to using digital technology and biometrics to make firearms safer.
An engineer by training, Kiyani spent years working as a software developer building next-generation airbag systems. He worked on calibrating the systems to minimize the chance of injury in the event of an accident, and eventually, he realized he could apply the same basic concepts to guns. As he put it:
The idea of an airbag is so simple. You inflate it and can save a life. I made the connection. I have something in my house that's very dangerous. There's got to be a simple way to protect it.
Initially, Kiyani considered technology that would require installing electronic locking equipment into the guns themselves, similar to what the iP1 employs. But as an engineer, he understood the inherent complications of designing electronics that could withstand tremendous shock and high temperatures, not to mention the fact it would be incredibly difficult to convince gun manufacturers to work with him on the project.
As a result, he began to work on something that anyone could add to a gun. Ultimately, his creation is different in three ways: it's optional, it's detachable, and it's quick. Unlike biometric gun safes and other locking mechanisms, the Identilock makes it as easy to access a firearm as it is to unlock an iPhone. He pitched hundreds of gun owners a variety of ideas over the course of his research, but it was the biometric lock they inevitably latched onto
The Identilock is also designed using entirely off-the-shelf components that have been proven effective in other industries. The biometric sensor, for example, has been used in other security applications and is approved by the FBI. Cobbling the sensor together from existing technologies was both a cost-saving endeavor and a strategic way to prove the product's effectiveness more quickly. Currently, the project is still in the prototype phase, but it may prove to be the breakout product that brings biometrics and safety together in recent years.
And last, but certainly not least, there is the biometric option that comes from PositiveID, the makers of the only FDA-approved implantable biochip – which is known as the Verichip. In the past, the company has marketed similar identity-confirming microchips for security and medical purposes. But this past April, the company announced a partnership with Belgium-based gun maker FN Manufacturing to produce smart weapons.
The technology is being marketed to law enforcement agencies as a means of ensuring that police firearms can never be used by criminals or third parties. The tiny chip would be implanted in a police officer's hand and would match up with a scanning device inside a handgun. If the officer and gun match, a digital signal unlocks the trigger so it can be fired. Verichip president Keith Bolton said the technology could also improve safety for the military and individual gun owners, and it could be available as early as next year.
Similar developments are under way at other gun manufacturers and research firms. The New Jersey Institute of Technology and Australian gun maker Metal Storm Ltd. are working on a prototype smart gun that would recognize its owner's individual grip. Donald Sebastian, NJIT vice president for research and development and director of the project, claims that the technology could eventually have an even bigger impact on the illegal gun trade.eri
Regardless of the solutions being proposed and the progress being made, opposition to these and other measures does not appear to be letting up easily. New Jersey Senate Majority Leader Loretta Weinberg recently announced that she would introduce a bill to reverse the 2002 New Jersey "smart gun" law if the National Rifle Association would agree not to stand in the way of smart gun technology. The NRA, however, has not relented in its stance.
In addition, biochips and RFID implants have a way of making people nervous. Whenever and wherever they are proposed, accusations of "branding" and "Big Brother" monitoring quickly follow. And above all, any and all attempts to introduce gun safety are met with cries of opposition by those who claim it infringes on citizen's 2nd Amendment rights. But given the ongoing problem of gun violence, school shootings, and the amount of violence perpetrated with stolen weapon, it is clear that something needs to change.
In 2011 in the United States, roughly 3.6 people per 100,000 were killed with a firearm – which amounts to 32,163 people. In addition, of the 15,953 homicides committed that year, 11,101 were committed using a gun; almost 70% of the total. And not surprisingly, of those 11,101 gun-related homicides, more than half (An6,371) were committed using a handgun. And though exact figures are not exactly available, a general estimates indicates that some 90% percent of murders are committed with stolen guns.
As a result, it is likely just a matter of time before citizens see the value in biometric and smart gun technology. Anything that can ensure that only an owner can use a firearm will go a long way to curbing crime, accidents, and acts of senseless and unmitigated violence.
Sources: cnet.com, theverge.com, (2), wired.com, (2), msnbc.com, gunpolicy.com
By storiesbywilliamsin Future, Issues, News, Technology May 22, 2014 1,285 Words16 Comments
All of my recent interesting in the concept known as the "internet of things" has been turning up some interesting results. And it's not hard to see why really, given all the research, innovation and commercial applications dedicated to making it a reality. And yet, a surprising amount of people seem to be in the dark about what this term means.
Again, not surprising, as high-tech trends tend to be somewhat esoteric, understood by only a select few at first and gradually trickling its way into public consciousness. To break it down, the Internet of Things is a concept where the real world will come to resemble the internet, where digital markers and wireless internet will make reality incredibly accessible and connected.
Think of it this way: you wake up in the morning and receive instant updates from all of your household devices. You're fridge tells you how close your food is to its expiration dates, and your thermostat sets itself based on the weather, season, and your habits. On your way to work, you are able to access emails and memos from your office server, and when you're driving home, you are able to tell the house to warm up and turn the lights on.
All day long, you are able to monitor all of your gadgets and devices because they are all "tagged", feeding you information on their locations and anything else you need to know in real-time. If you lose something, it alerts you to this fact and tells you where to find it. And if you're out and about without your vehicle, you can summon it and get it to find its way to you.
That's the general idea, creating a "smart world" through the use of networking technology. Now here are some videos too that demonstrate the concept in action. All are from Cisco, the networking IT giant located in San Jose (capitol of Silicon Valley) and are promotional videos, basically showing what the company's vision is and how they intend to bring it about.
"Circle Story":
This video, perhaps more than anything, demonstrates how the world of the near future will be interconnected. As the name would suggest, it follows a day in the life of regular folks as they start their day, go to their various jobs, do their shopping, and how the entire process is all part of the same dance. And of course, Cisco showcases how its technology is helping to make it happen.
Curiously though, the people do look kind of bored, don't they? Subtle social commentary, or were they just being realistic? You decide!
Barcelona Embraces IoE to Create a Smart City:
In this promotional video, we see how the city of Barcelona, Spain is using the concept of the Internet of Everything (IoE) to address the ongoing challenge of urbanization and growth. By embracing the latest in smart technology, Barcelona is becoming a shining example of what Cisco refers to as a "smart city", much to the company's delight!
What this consists of is Barcelona connecting its citizens, remote sensors, and all devices contained within to a city-wide WiFi. This in turn is offering people new services, facilitating energy-efficient reforms, and establishing new economic opportunities for the city's companies and partners, not playing to the city's reputation for social interaction and connectivity. Check out this video for the details:
The Road to the Internet of Everything:
Last, but not least, is Cisco's promotional video of what the Internet of Everything is really all about. Intrinsic to the IoE is the fact that by 2020, the physical and digital world will be connected by 50 billion devices and 1 trillion sensors. Meanwhile, billions of electronic embedded devices will transmit terabytes of data, communicating everything from health information to updates at the speed of light.
The result of all this, according to the video, will be an "electronic skin" built on the internet, one which will overlay the world's existing surface and communicate everything across its vast, virtual space. As we know, this skin is already being laid, but what is still to come is going to be pretty impressive and game-changing. The bottom line being that those that are in the know will be able to reap the benefits more quickly.
You may think these videos are little more than corporate promotion of company services. But if the "internet revolution" has taught us anything, it's that the current range of technological change is here to stay, and is only going to be getting more pronounced as time goes on. And when it comes to predicting how these things will shape the world of tomorrow, those deeply involved in the development process are certainly worth listening to!
After all, they are helping to build that world, and are doing so because we're letting them. Best to know what's coming if you want to know how it's going to effect you, and if you want to have anything to say about it, right?
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I can't believe you are doing this alone! You are going to become so busy trying to deal with the garbage you won't have a life! Are you sure you want to go through with this?
For the record, I don't live on a farm. In 1990 we bought a small 3 bedroom 1970's rambler on 1.2 acres of manicured lawn dotted with various fruit trees and ornamentals. These fruit trees had to be sprayed monthly at times which required a chemical respirator, suit and gloves as well as hoses, sprayers, extra cartridges, specially marked measuring cups and goggles. The lawn was sprayed for weeds and fertilized three times a year by a fellow in a big white and green truck with tanks of chemicals mounted on back. Our place came with eight separate sprinkler systems and a well in the front yard that supplied our drinking water and the water for the lawn and trees. We live in a sage brush steppe desert with a 35 year average of 7.55" of precipitation per year. The soil beneath the lawn is sand and anything liquid passes through it quickly so you have to water long and often. We drink the water from 75 feet below our lawn.
There are real farms all around us. Thousands of acres of dry wheat and huge apple and cherry orchards which are rapidly giving way to the dot com of the agricultural world: vineyards. In the past, the commercial orchards owners lobbied for laws that now require us to "spray your fruit trees or We the County will do it for you and send you the bill". I don't blame them. They were here first. "Not spraying" is not an option.
It took an incredible investment of time and energy (human and otherwise) to maintain this perfect 1.2 acre landscape of fruit trees, non-native plants and endless grass. It took 4 hours to mow. How many people are like me and have a garage full of weed wackers, fertilizer spreaders, hedge trimmers, leaf suckers and gas hog lawnmowers which, like me, they have spent endless hours of their lives trying to fix and maintain? Did I mention the parts inventory? It is an hour round trip for a cotter pin or a gas filter. I have so many tools I have tools to fix tools!
Unless you live in a condo or apartment, you probably own your own collection of old bottles of chemicals, hoses, sprayers, specially marked measuring cups, goggles, gloves, spray bottles and toxic powders. How do you dispose of them? Where does it all go?
As for the fruit trees: we chopped most of them down over the years; some died on their own. Looking back on it, this was probably due to lack of water. I hated hearing the pump motor run and run and run.
There are two small dwarf pears left that never get infested or moldy. They stand in the middle of the vegetable garden and produce more pears than I can give away. One variety keeps for months if kept cool. We share the windfall with the wasps too. They eat other bugs. First step in garbage management: live as close to neutral balance with your immediate environment as you can. I've tried to think of other ways of saying this more clearly, but I can't.
It will be easier for you if you make it incredibly easy for your wife & daughters.
A compost bucket, and an area where it would be easy to store certain materials. I invested in those stackable vegetable bins that can go into the kitchen. It helps the others in the house to see how much waste they're generating.
Also, have you considered making your own paper from the items that you would be recycling? I use all sides of the paper before and then it just takes a bit of knowledge and a blender to create your own paper. Eventually, it wears down to unusable material or down far enough that it might be compostable.
I've also moved away from plastic containers and use glass wherever possible. The can be recycled but generally, I use them to store things like tea, spices and other items. It saves me from having to buy jars and such for storage.
Loose tea is great. Here in Victoria, I go to a place called Special Teas. You can check out their site at http://www.specialtea.com/. There must be someone more local to your area.
Hi there. My personal rules for my plastic collection are that if I partake of something, even if someone bought it for themselves, I include it. So by my rules, I'd be including that soup box. Otherwise, it becomes really easy to let yourself off the hook by eating things that other people buy "for themselves." Just my two cents.
This looks like a great project. I'd be happy to link to you on my blog, and I'll check out your Yahoo Group, too!
I've been giving a lot of thought to your rules, particularly about the one about eating in restaurants... seems to me that this year is as much about accepting responsibility as it is assigning it. When I own a business, and I create waste, then I have a responsibility to dispose of that waste in a proper manner. Taking the waste from the restaurant seems excessive, and worse, inconsistent. Did you take the food waste from the kitchen? No restaurant expects you to take their waste home and dispose of it. That is their job. Simply put: If you get take-out, your responsibility. If you eat in, theirs. If you eat in, but get to-go cokes, yours. If I eat with you, you pick up the tab. Think that just about covers it... oh-- I'll get the tip.
Wow Smitter, cool story. Thanks for sharing the info.
I hear what you are saying, but in all honesty, am I not culpable if I assume that the restaurant is dealing with their waste in an appropriate manner without knowing that? I think I'll stick with the plan (which really isn't that big of a deal). Besides the fact, it will help offset anything I may have missed at home as a result of living with the family - being vigilant on that end, but no one's perfect.
I guess I need to clarify things a bit more on this front. My point re the soup box was that if it was made for me for my meal, I'd own it, and if I decided to eat it because I wanted it, I;d own it too. That said, I really ate the soup because it was leftover and sitting there, not because I really wanted or needed it. For the record I tend to have attrocious eating habits, I kind of still eat like a college kid. That said, if my kids are eating cookies and I have one, I own the packaging (so i haven't been eating them which is killing me believe me).
This is such a great project. I can't wait to see what you produce. When i first heard about this, i didn't imagine you were doing this as a married man with 2 kids! ...Good luck!
Don't tell my wife this, but since i got married, the waste we produce has gone up more then 10-fold. We recycle everything we can, and use cloth bags, glass jars at the coop, the works... but somehow, the kids and family life make the garbage can fill up way more than i thought possible.
I don't want to seem like I'm arguing about a small point to sabotage your whole project, so let me say out front that I totally support what you're doing. I'm here every day to check it out, so I'm not trying to assassinate you now. But I am curious about where you draw your line as to what you "own". You took the table cover, but not the food waste. Did you take the boxes the food was shipped in? What about the waste from the grocery store that sold you your food? You could get really carried away and start taking your share of the waste generated by the people who sell or cook your food. It quickly gets immense and impossible and like any typical math-brained guy, I'm just looking for some boxes to put stuff in (but that would generate waste).
Again, it's good that you've started this and that you aren't bogged down by these problems (as I would be... thus never beginning something like this at all). I'm living vicariously through you, and as my wife can attest (thanks to you) seeing waste everywhere. Thanks.
Oh Duane, must you assassinate me? For those of you who hadn't guessed, Duane is actually a good friend and someone who's life I make miserable simply by pointing out things that we all do that are destructive and don't make sense. I rather enjoy it.
That said, you are right Duane (as painful as it is for me to type that) I can't be responsible for all my waste unless I grow cook and serve all of my own food. Add to that growing and making my own clothes, and all the products I use. If I had food left over i would have trucked it out (I now carry a tupperware in my backpack along with my bamboo cutlery set, drinking bottle and coffee cup) but i generally eat everything on my plate (thanks mom).
I guess the point is that when this is all done, I won't be able to say "this is all of the waste that i created" but rather "this is all the waste that I created that I could quantify" and fully recognize that I was responsible for more. It's definitely not an exact science although someday i hope it to be (my garbage that is).
Ironically enough i had no problem with that part of it but more with the whole "food at home thing". Marking things has made the difference and leaves me feeling like I'm being true. Before I was definitely erring on the side of overcompensation. It does seem like I waste much less than i thought I did which was good, but we'll see where that leads.
Hi, I just found your blog via StumbleUpon.
I must commend you on such an ambitious project, with a noble aim. Can't say I'd be overly keen on doing this myself though.
Well done, and good luck.
Thanks Moo. Check back in often as i love to hear what people are thinking.
Kuddo's for you. good job! We just don't have the room in our house- we don't have a basement or garage... Anyhoo- In our home we are blessed with just one garbage bag a week! (and thats gone down too) I have started using paper/cardboard/newspaper in our composter or in my garden.. (you should see my crazy neighbors faces)- we have great worms in our yard! The only thing that gets thrown out (and I hate) is the plastic wrapping of stuff. How can we get rid of that plastic wrap??
Well the first place to start ont he plastic wrapping is in your purchasing habits. You've probably already travelled this road, but by buying smarter and in bulk you may be able to cut down on a lot of it.
Other than that, contact government officials and ask them why they think this should be allowed in the market place. We need legislation to truly fix it.
Im a High school senior, also apart of Mr. Dillman's AP earth and environmental class. I think you ideas and efforts to be eco-friendly are wonderful. I find myself becoming more and more eco-friendly and concerned about our environment each day.
I know you are a huge advocate for recycling, but how do you feel about the recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? What are your views?
It's bad no matter how you cut it. A lot of negligence and a lot of caring about money more than people sadly. That said, the only way to stop stuff like this in the future is to cut our dependence. They drill to make money, so stop the moneya dn the drilling stops.
My name is Shelby, I'm a high school senior in Mr. Dillman's AP Earth & Environmental class. What you have going on is a monumental step towards being environmentally sustainable. If everyone knows exactly what they're putting out into the world, it will make them think more carefully about the products they buy and choices they make. I also noticed during the garbology lab, you can gauge your overall health by looking at how much/little you consume/waste. Throughout the lab I noticed that my food waste was the highest (mostly fruit peels and melon rind) but my nutrition was very unbalanced. The lab opened my eyes to myself and how I was effecting the world.


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1Origin
2Modern-day use of the golden number
2.1Method of calculating the date of Easter
2.2What the prospects are for this method being implemented
Golden number (time)
Position of the year within the 19-year Metonic cycle
Not to be confused with Golden ratio.
Month of January from Calendarium Parisiense (fourth quarter of the 14th c.). The golden numbers, in the leftmost column, indicate the date of the new moon for each year in the 19-year cycle
A golden number (sometimes capitalized) is a number assigned to each year in sequence which is used to indicate the dates of all the calendric new moons for each year in a 19-year Metonic cycle. They are used in computus (the calculation of the date of Easter) and also in Runic calendars. The golden number of any Julian or Gregorian calendar year can be calculated by dividing the year by 19, taking the remainder, and adding 1. (In mathematics this can be expressed as (year number modulo 19) + 1.)
For example, 2023 divided by 19 gives 106, remainder 9. Adding 1 to the remainder gives a golden number of 10.
Origin[edit]
The golden number, as it was later called, first appears in a calendar composed by Abbo of Fleury around the year 1000. Around 1162 a certain Master William referred to this number as the golden number "because it is more precious than the other numbers."[1] The name refers to the practice of printing golden numbers in gold.[2] The term became widely known and used, in part through the computistic poem Massa Compoti written by Alexander de Villa Dei around 1200.[3]
Modern-day use of the golden number[edit]
See also: Easter controversy and Reform of the date of Easter
Following an initiative by Pope Francis in 2015, it has been proposed that the golden numbers, which are used by both eastern and western churches, form the basis of a common Easter date. Apart from its logistical convenience, it will bring to an end criticisms that in some areas Christ is still preaching while in others he is already crucified.
In 2022 an interdenominational discussion document prepared under the auspices of the International Commission for Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue, (Metropolitan Athenagoras of Belgium, The Rt Revd Graham Usher, Bishop of Norwich, 22 pp), was lodged in the Cathedral Library at Norwich. Comments were invited (the Library is public, the document's title is The prospect of Whitby and its Call Number is 529.3).
Chapter 1 Early differences (page 1) notes:
A letter to the Church of Alexandria after the Council of Nicaea in 325 recorded:
We further proclaim to you the good news of the agreement concerning the Holy Easter, that this particular also has through your prayers rightly been settled: so that all our brethren in the East who formerly followed the custom of the Jews are henceforth to celebrate the said most sacred feast of Easter at the same time with the Romans and yourselves and all those who have observed Easter from the beginning.
The penultimate sentence of the chapter (page 2) notes:
Constantine had admonished: 'Think, then, how unseemly it is, that on the same day some should be rejoicing at feasts, while others are still observing a strict fast.'
On the same page, Chapter 2 Summary of developments (which was added on the express instruction of the International Commission) notes:
664: Synod of Whitby. England aligns with Rome.[4]...
4 December 1563: The Council of Trent authorises the pope to revise the missal and breviary (but not the calendar)...
1564: Pius V reserves to himself the sole right of interpretation of the enactments...
24 February 1582: Gregory XIII claims the right to unilaterally change the calendar and the date of Easter and does so. Anyone who does not fall into line will be excommunicated.
Page 3 notes:
Queen Elizabeth's astronomical adviser...in 1582 advocated the 'astronomical Easter', an idea rejected by the pope...
At the end of the sixteenth century the Orthodox church issued a series of anathemas against the Gregorian calendar. It is easy to see why:
(1) the Julian calendar is simple to operate. Easter jumps forward in years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17 and 19 of the nineteen-year cycle. This is the same rule which applies in the Jewish calendar, although the Jewish cycle begins three years later. Easter is thus kept in lockstep with Passsover.
(2) the Julian calendar incorporates effective measures to prevent Easter being celebrated on [page 4] or before the Passover. These include:
If the full moon falls on a Sunday Easter shall be the Sunday after
The month preceding Easter always has thirty days
The 'lockstep' safeguard referred to above
The Jewish calendar has a system of delays which prevent certain festivals being observed on certain days of the week. With only the first safeguard, the Gregorian Easter may fall a day or a month before the Passover. Eventually, Easter will fall a month before the Passover every year.
Method of calculating the date of Easter[edit]
Nineteen Julian years are slightly longer than 235 lunar months, while nineteen Gregorian or Revised Julian years are slightly shorter. Therefore, as time goes on, the eastern and western dates will coincide less and less, and in a few hundred years the western Easter will always precede the eastern one. The common ground is that, since the Synod of Whitby in AD 664, all churches agree that the "full moon" shall be observed on the fourteenth day of the lunar month. From this, the definition of Easter is derived:
EASTER-DAY, on which the rest depend, is always the First Sunday after the Eighteenth Day of Miri, and if the Eighteenth Day of Miri happens upon a Sunday, Easter-Day is the Sunday after. All of which holds until the year 2099 inclusive, after which, on account of adjustments made every three or four hundred years in the calendar used in the calculation (of which Miri is the third month) the reference to the "Eighteenth" day shall be replaced by a reference to the "Nineteenth" day, and so on.
The date of the full moon is identified in the table below. Both the old (current western) and new (current eastern) methods are given, as they have been in the Breviary since 1582.[5]
Paschal Full Moon
(Luna xiv)
E 30 March 16
F 31 March 5
G 1 April
A 2 April 13
B 3 April 2
C 4 April
D 5 April 10
E 6 April
F 7 April 18
G 8 April 7
A 9 April
B 10 April 15
C 11 April 4
D 12 April
E 13 April 12
F 14 April 1
G 15 April
A 16 April 9
B 17 April
C 18 April 17
D 19 April 6
E 20 April
F 21 April 14
G 22 April 3
A 23 April
C 25 April
D 26 April 19
E 27 April 8
To use the table:
The date of Easter is found from numbers which are allotted to certain dates as indicated in the table. For any particular year, the number which is taken is the same as the remainder that is obtained when one is added to the year and the total divided by 19. If there is no remainder 19 is taken. If the number is in Group A, Easter falls on the Sunday following the date against which that number appears. If the number is in Group B, Easter falls on the Sunday of the week commencing with the date against which that number appears.
If the number is in Group C, the date against which it appears is to be treated as a day of March, and Easter falls on the day after the Saturday following that date.
Rules for updating the table
The boundary between Group A and Group B is usually set between 18 and 19 April, but if there are numbers against both 18 and 19 April (as in the 21st century) it's set between 17 and 18 April. The boundary between Group B and Group C is always set between 19 and 20 April. The numbers are moved from time to time, and when they do move it's before Easter in years which are exactly divisible by 100. There are two separate movements:
1. The 'solar correction': the numbers move DOWN a day every time a centennial leap year is dropped (eg 2100)
2. The 'lunar correction': the numbers move UP a day in years giving remainder 200, 500, 800, 1100, 1400, 1800, 2100 and 2400 on division by 2500 (eg 2100).
Sometimes the corrections cancel out - thus in 2100 the numbers stay where they are. For Orthodox Easter the instructions for Groups B and C are ignored. Easter is, from the last lunar correction in 1800 to the year before the next lunar correction in 2100, the Sunday after the Wednesday following the date given by the table current for the relevant century. From 2100 until the year before the following lunar correction (in 2400) replace 'Wednesday' by 'Tuesday', and so on.
On what date does Orthodox Easter fall in 2023?
2023 + 1 = 2024
2024/19 = 106 remainder 10
Sunday Letter for 2023 is A
10 stands against 5 April
The nearest 'A' day is 2 April.
Therefore, 2 April is Sunday and 5 April is Wednesday
The following Wednesday is 12 April
The following Sunday is 16 April
Orthodox Easter is 16 April.
What the prospects are for this method being implemented[edit]
Page 5 of the document notes:
In the middle east even the Latin rite Catholics and Protestant churches have been observing Orthodox Easter since 1975, and in January 2016 Bishop Mouneer Anis (as he then was) reaffirmed this for Anglicans in Arabia (including the Gulf States), Cyprus, Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa, Iraq, Israel (including occupied territories), Jordan, Lebanon, Persia and Syria.
In 1900 the Macedonian-born academic Maksim Trpkovic published at Belgrade his Reforma Kalendara (Calendar Reform). Based on Barnaba Oriani's proposed reform which became the state calendar of Greece [references cited] it featured epact calculations for the twentieth century and new paschal limits in the 19-year cycle of golden numbers, after which the dates of the new moons repeat.
In 1903 the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church wrote to the Oecumanical Patriarch stating that the Julian calendar would be preserved.
The Congress deliberated in May and June 1923. Advocating his solution astronomer Milutin Milankovic said that with the proposition of the Serbian delegation (which had previously advocated the newly-introduced state calendar of Greece) the Orthodox Church would have the most precise and most scientific calendar in the Christian world, so it could [page 9] confidently enter any negotiations on the calendar question with Western Churches. An astronomical Easter was adopted, calculated for the meridian of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem.
There follows Chapter 6 Changes in church law are reversed following rejection by the people. It includes the following on page 9:
Alexandrian patriarch Photius had told the Oecumenical Patriarch on 15 January 1924 (old style) that '...we reject every addition or any change of the calendar before the convocation of an Ecumenical Council, which alone is capable of discussing this question, concerning which Ecumenical Council we propose a speedy convocation .'
Chapter 7 A light at the end of the tunnel (page 11) notes:
A proposal was made in 1997 to impose something very similar to the 1923 agreement on all churches...Under it, Easter would break its canonical limits, leaving the way open for Shrove Tuesday to clash with Candlemas [reference cited]. At the end of the explanation the dates of the astronomical, Gregorian and Julian Easters are tabulated for the years 2001-2025 along with the Vernal full moon astron. reckoning and the date of Passover [reference cited]. In eight of those 25 years the full moon at Greenwich fell on the day before the Passover...
On 12 June 2015, at the World Retreat of Priests at the Basilica of St John Lateran in Rome, Pope Francis observed that 'we have to come to an agreement' for a common date on Easter. Lucetta Scaraffia, writing in the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, explained that the Pope is offering this initiative to change the date of Easter 'as a gift of unity with the other Christian churches.'[6]
Introducing the discussion document on 3 November 2020 and commending the proposals the International Commission stated that it:
...blends the political realities of ecclesiastical and state politics, particularly in the Christian East, with the mathematical reasons why varying astronomical calculations cause such confusion on the dates for religious festivals...the celebration of Easter on different days and...the loss of the link with Passover is to be lamented..."
The Commission points out that it is the very opposite of a proposal for "Reform of the date of Easter." The proposal by the Pope was floated in 2015. Justin Welby told the British government to get ready to implement an agreement in January 2016 and the Catholic Herald wrote:
When the Archbishop of Canterbury rationalises such a momentous decision by pointing to difficulties over school holidays one has to ask: what is the biggest influence here? Christian unity or relatively frivolous secular concerns? If the latter is a motivation then such a move - to borrow the Holy Father's words - could also prove to be a scandal."
This website claims[7] that they are trying to reach a final agreement by 2025. Yet the discussions reported in Zenit are presented as completely new. Although they say astronomers will be consulted there is no explanation of why, after eight years, this has yet to happen. The controversial claim that the date of Easter is not a religious matter but a scientific one is presented as fact. The fact that reform of the date of Easter is not on the agenda of the Orthodox Church, and many Orthodox churches have severed relations with the Oecumenical Patriarch on this account,[8] is nowhere mentioned.
Dominical letter
Date of Easter
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