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Support Positions of the Alameda County League Council
These positions have been adopted at the annual meetings of each of the Leagues of Alameda County. Changing or dropping one of these positions must be approved by 5 of the 7 leagues of Alameda County. Action on any of these positions must be approved by a majority of the Leagues.
CHILDREN'S MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES (Adopted 1979)
The Leagues of Women Voters of Alameda County support the need for Children's Mental Health Services and recommend the following:
A. Increase the priority given Children's Mental Health Services in the County Mental health program and budget.
B. Retain present service and ensure equal access to Day Treatment Service throughout the County.
C. Focus on prevention and early intervention by:
Increased education of parents and public
Utilization of school resources where feasible.
D. Finance these services by:
Active pursuit of all available sources of funds.
Coordination of County, State, and Federal budget deadlines
Sufficient funds for a service from the level of government that mandates that service.
E. Make most efficient use of funds by:
Retention and expansion of contracts with private providers
Support for Case Management system of services
Increased coordination and communication among all public and private service providers and continuation of the Interagency Council.
ALAMEDA COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, ALAMEDA COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS, ALAMEDA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION (Adopted 2007)
I. Position in Brief: Support an efficient, effective and equitable balance of responsibility and authority among the levels of governance with accountability to the public and that results in providing services that best meet needs of students and the local school districts.
A. Efficiency: Provide those services (education, training, fiscal, oversight) to county school programs and district school programs that do not duplicate those provided by districts or other agencies
B. Effectiveness: Provide those services that best meet the needs and interests of local districts. Constantly monitor services to determine their effectiveness and remove or improve those that are not meeting district goals.
C. Equitable Balance of Responsibility and Authority for Governance
Establish policies that delineate the powers and functions of each entity where not covered explicitly in the Education Code to ensure an equitable balance of responsibility and authority for governance and to enhance accountability.
Provide for consolidation of functions between and among county offices of education to deal with area-wide problems. Consider consolidation of functions to achieve cost savings and improve the quality of service and equity.
D. Accountability to the Public
Ensure that both the Board and the Superintendent abide by the tenets of the Brown Act, and the Freedom of Information Act and the California Public Records Act.
Maintain public visibility by utilizing technology to keep constituents informed about actions taken by the Board and the County Superintendent.
Advertise upcoming elections for Board members' and the County Superintendent's seat to encourage contested elections. This will allow the public to learn about the candidates' credentials and the issues so they can make informed choices.
Develop a collaborative Annual Work Plan to set up measurable goals to be used in the annual evaluation of both Board Members' and Superintendent's performance. These evaluations will then be helpful in the Superintendent salary-setting process and for measuring progress toward established goals.
II. Monitoring
The League's role should be to:
Continue observing County Board of Education meetings to ensure compliance with the Brown Act and Education Code.
Monitor the County Office website to ensure that constituents have access to current and complete information concerning actions taken by the County Office/Superintendent and the Board.
Review Grand Jury comments and recommendations pertaining to the County Board and County Superintendent and support those that support the improvement of efficient, effective, and appropriate governance and fiscal management of those entities.
Monitor the governance model to determine if there is any interest by the public in changing the method of selecting a County Superintendent.
JUVENILE JUSTICE (Adopted 1977)
The Alameda County Council of the League of Women Voters supports policies that promote services to meet the needs of Alameda County and minimize delinquency.
A. The County Council supports effective and responsible decision-making for youth at the county level.
Specifically the council supports:
Continuing evaluation of the Alameda County Probation Department Juvenile Division to ensure that its goals and functions are clear and effective;
Continued citizen input into all countywide juvenile justice programs;
Coordination of all community programs for Alameda County youth to ensure that the needs of the communities are met and that duplication of services is avoided;
Citizen involvement in setting priorities for diversion and prevention services;
Continued evaluation and accountability to the public of programs funded by public moneys.
County decision-making bodies:
a. Appointments to commissions that reflect the diversified population of the county;
b. Guidelines for commission members which are clear statements of their responsibilities and authority;
c. Adequate staff;
d. Assessment of limited number of terms;
e. Reimbursement to commissioners for personal expenses, i.e., transportation and baby-sitting.
B. The County Council supports a coordinated multidimensional concept of services which could include:
Vocational training;
Programs that provide jobs and job training for youth;
Counseling for youth and their families, both long-term and for crises;
Mental health services which meet the needs of youth, supported by adequate funding, i.e., residential treatment centers for juveniles;
Youth diversion programs:
a. Staff and volunteers having close ties to the community of the juveniles being served;
b. Involvement of youth in program planning, implementation and evaluation;
c. Integration into projects available with other than just delinquent youths;
d. Adequate program facilities.
C. The County Council encourages school districts to deal effectively with pupil welfare and pupil attendance, i.e., truancy, child neglect, child abuse and severe behavior problems.
D. The County Council supports greater community awareness of the problems and needs of youth and programs that are currently available.
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Disney hires ex-Apple exec to guide video launch
Janko Roettgers at Variety:
Disney's BAMTech Media has hired former Apple and Samsung executive Kevin Swint as SVP and GM, Disney SVOD Service, to build, and ultimately run, the company's upcoming Netflix competitor, Variety has learned.
Most recently, Swint worked as VP product / content & services for Samsung, where he built out the company's Milk Music streaming service as well as Milk Video, a mobile video aggregation service. Before that, he worked for five years at Apple, heading the worldwide iTunes movie business. Earlier in his career, Swint led digital products and services for Walmart.
Disney is gearing up to launch several streaming services, including an ESPN-branded one focused on sports and at least one more entertainment brand that will definitely be competing with Netflix. Interesting to see that they've picked someone who put in time working on movies at iTunes (not running a streaming service). The Apple-Hollywood connection runs both ways.
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Home / Entertainment, Music & Posters / 2018 July 21 Entertainment & Music Memorabilia Signature Auction - Dallas Auction #7179 / Lot #89050
Robert Mitchum Pair of Italian Awards (1980s-1990s)....
Robert Mitchum Pair of Italian Awards (1980s-1990s). Two total, both presented to the actor; the first from 'Corriere Della Sera' in 1988, housed in its own navy blue leather-covered box (now somewhat warped with the lower left corner damaged due to age); the second from 'Gran Premio Internazionale Della TV' in 1991; consigned directly by Mitchum's children and included with a 'Letter of Provenance' signed by them.
9 1/2" x 8" and 9" x 3 3/4"
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Does Crime Pay? 3 Implications for Physician-Hospital Arrangements from the OIG Semiannual Report - Ludi, Inc.
If you're like me and track email updates from the Office of Inspector General – better known as the OIG – then you probably know about the weekly financial settlements many health care organizations face. But now that the new year is upon us, what can we expect from the OIG in 2019 – specifically, as it relates to physician-hospital arrangements?From my perspective, the OIG's 2019 work plan is consistent with what we have seen the past few years. In September, the OIG released their latest semiannual report to Congress, summarizing the prior six months. If you're not familiar with this report, the OIG partners with the Department of Justice (DOJ), State Medicaid Fraud Control Units and other Federal, State and local law enforcement agencies to fight fraud in Health and Human Service (HHS) programs. It can be tough to sort through, but it's helpful to understand some of the report's implications, especially if you're part of a hospital or health system.
Personally, I was taken back by the number of financial recoveries in 2018 that also had a criminal settlement. In fiscal year 2018, the OIG reported recoveries of $2.91 B, criminal actions against 764 individuals and entities, and civil actions against 813 individuals and entities. But it's not all bad news in the world of the OIG. In fact, if you're willing to put in the time, their semiannual report is full of useful information that, collectively, can act as your proverbial north star in the regulatory landscape.
I've outlined three implications from the recent OIG report that specifically relate to physician-hospital arrangements.
1. Who is being held accountable these days? The answer: It could be you or your team. There is a subtle shift since 2015 from organizational accountability to individuals. In fact, the number of recoveries against individuals and entities are on the rise. Specific aspects related to the Yates memo (which altered the game in how individuals are treated in fraud cases) and how a hospital protects individuals have all changed. It may be impossible for the hospital to stand behind an executive who participated in fraud in the settlement.
2. Where do settlements come from? Your own physicians or employees. Fighting fraud, ensuring integrity of the government programs of Medicare and Medicaid, and protecting the health and safety of the population is top priority. Greater than 70 percent of the recoveries mentioned come from whistleblower cases, so your own employees and physicians are likely the ones that would surface a compliance issue. As a result, internal compliance programs are a priority to identify issues.
3. Should we expect Anti-Kickback Statute and Stark Law changes? Sort of. The OIG issued an RFP on August 27, 2018, to obtain opinions on how to address any regulatory provisions that may act as barriers to coordinated care or value-based care related to payments between hospitals and providers under current laws. While some changes are expected to be specific to value-based payment plans, the number of organizations participating in these plans has dropped off significantly since 2016. In a nutshell though, it's still not going to be legal to buy physician business, pay physicians over Fair Market Value or entice behavior that increases the costs of government programs.
The OIG report should never be missed. It's chocked full of great information that every hospital executive should understand and take seriously. After all, who wants to appear in one of those scandalous email alerts from the OIG, anyway.
1. US Department of Health and Human Services, OIG, Semiannual Report to Congress April 1, 2018-September 30, 2018.
2. OIG, Active work plan items, oig.hhs.gov.
3. Yates memo, September 9, 2015 and can be downloaded at https://www.justice.gov/archives/dag/file/769036/download.


Throughout the entire case there have been several suspects other than Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. Most of them have been completely cleared of any wrong doing, but others are still under suspicion still to this day.
On May 15-16-17, 1993, police in Oceanside, California, interrogated Christopher Morgan (age 19) and Brian Holland (age 20), two Memphis residents who had driven from Tennessee to California a few days after the murders. Both Morgan and Holland repeatedly denied any involvement in or direct knowledge about the killings. Both failed polygraphs. Christopher Morgan later testified (at the Baldwin/Echols trial, with the jury absent) that his interrogation lasted 17 hours over two sessions, that Oceanside police never read him his rights, and that they kept him locked up even though he was supposedly not in custody.
On the night of May 5, 1993, as parents and police were searching for the missing boys, a strange event occurred at a nearby fast-food restaurant called Bojangles.
A black man, apparently dazed and covered in blood and mud, had staggered into the restaurant. He went into the ladies' rest room where he stayed the better part of an hour as the evening-shift workers prepared to close down for the night. The man had blood on his face and blood dripping from his forearm, and, generally, was "disarrayed," the youngish restaurant manager Marty King recalled. Wearing a blue nylon jogging suit and a cast on one arm, he also had thick mud caked on his shoes, "like he'd been through a field," King said. Water was soaked into his pants up to his knees.
The bloody dazed man arrived at Bojangles sometime between 8:00 and 9:30 PM. Bojangles was about one mile from the woods where the missing boys were last seen and where their bodies were found the next day.
Officer Regina Meek responded to the Bojangles call, spoke to a restaurant employee at the drive-through window, searched the area for the bloody man, then left. The next night (May 6) detectives Allen and Ridge visited Bojangles, talked to Marty King and took blood scrapings from the bathroom. The bloody man had left sunglasses in the toilet, but detectives didn't bother taking them. Ridge later testified that he put the Bojangles blood sample in his desk, never sent it to the crime lab, forgot about it and eventually lost it.
In November 1993, John Mark Byers was interrogated by WMPD officers after he had given a knife to a member of a film crew who were making a documentary about the case. During questioning by the police, John Mark Byers admitted that he had given the knife away. He also stated that his wife Melissa had given it to him for Christmas, two or three years previously and he had never used it. He kept it in the top drawer of a dresser in his bedroom where he was sure that neither of the boys could have gained access to it. When asked whether anyone might have cut themselves with the knife, Byers stated that he was certain that no one had. This story changed when the interviewing officer told him that blood had been found on the knife. Byers then recalled that he had used the knife to cut up some deer meat at home. When he was told that the blood found on the knife had matched Christopher's blood type, Byers continued to assert that he had no idea how Christopher's blood had come to be there.
Later after test results on Melissa, Ryan and John Mark Byers were concluded, it was found that the blood stains matched in blood type with both John and Christopher Byers. No further testing was carried out which could have determined more conclusively whether it was Christopher or John Mark Byers's blood.
Another item of evidence which could have linked John Mark Byers to the murders, at least as much as any evidence brought against Damien, Jason and Jessie, was the presence of another human hair on the victim's clothing. It was a black Caucasian hair which was shown to be microscopically similar to both John Mark Byers and Damien Echols. Unfortunately, nothing more specific was determined.
During this interrogation the interviewing officer asked Byers what medication he was on to which he answered Xanax and Zorinal which he stated were anti-depressants. When he was asked whether he had any other medication he told police no, yet he had stated at other times that he was taking Tegretol which is the brand name of the drug Carbamazepine. This is the same substance which was found in non-therapeutic amounts in Christopher's blood after his death. Christopher had also been taking Tegretol according to his medical records, but Byers had stated that Chris had not taken his medication on the day that he went missing.
In 2007, a new alternative suspect emerged in the killings: Terry Hobbs, stepfather of Steve Branch. The case against Hobbs rests on a hair found on one of the shoelace used to tie up Michael Moore. The Damien Echols defense team had this hair tested for DNA in 2006-2007 (seeExhibit AA). That DNA testing narrowed the possible sources of that hair to about 1.5% of the population, which included Terry Hobbs and excluded Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley.
The Echols defense tested another hair taken from a tree stump at the crime scene. That DNA test (see Exhibit BB) narrowed the possible sources of that hair to about 7% of the population, which included Hobbs' friend David Jacoby and excluded Hobbs, Echols, Baldwin and Misskelley. The hair wasn't on the victims' bodies or clothing, just on a tree stump nearby.
In late 2007, Terry Hobbs filed a defamation lawsuit against Natalie Maines (real name Natalie Pasdar) of the Dixie Chicks, a staunch supporter of the WM3. Many figures in the WM3 case gave depositons for this lawsuit, which Hobbs eventually lost.
After the murders my sister Jo Lynn McCauhey and I found in Terry's nightstand a knife that Stevie carried with him constantly and which I had believed was with him when he died. It was a pocket knife that my father had given to Stevie, and Stevie loved that knife. I had been shocked that the police did not find it with Stevie when they found his body. I had always assumed that my son's murderer had taken the knife during the crime. I could not believe it was in Terry's things. He had never told me that he had it.
Also, my sister Jo Lynn told me that she saw Terry wash clothes, bed linens and curtains from Stevie's room at an odd time around the time of the murders.
John Mark Byers stated in his deposition (PDF; pp 114-122) that "I believe Terry Hobbs was involved in the murders." This was a surprising turnaround for Byers, who had consistently voiced his belief in the WM3′s guilt for fourteen years.
In affidavits presented to the Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday, sisters Jamie Clark Ballard and Brandy Clark Williams and their mother, Deborah Moyer, claim to have seen Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore at 6:30 p.m. May 5, 1993.
The boys were playing in Moyer's backyard when Branch's stepfather, Terry Hobbs, yelled at the boys and told them to go to his house, according to court documents.
Ballard, then 13, said she spoke to Byers, telling him his older brother was looking for him. Williams, who was 11 at the time, and Ballard then left for church, documents state. Moyer said she went outside to tell the boys to get out of her yard, and she saw a man with blond hair standing down the street yelling at the boys.
The Ballard/Williams/Moyer testimony is highly suspicious. WMPD officers canvassed that neighborhood repeatedly in 1993 asking if anyone had seen the three murdered boys on May 5.


The Adventures of Bebe and Jolie | Dog Product Reviews, Health, Advice and more: Review - Chewy Exclusive Human-Grade Dog Food, Tylee's.
The protein and fat content are lower bc the moisture is added in, if you take out the moisture the protein and fat are much higher than your kibble. Additionally, kibble is extremely bad for dogs, especially those with pancreatitis. I have a 10 year old Yorkie who has chronic pancreatitis and the struggle is finding a high quality-high moisture food that doesn't go to high on the fat, I try to stick below 13% dry matter. Ex: 70% moisture 10% fat really means 33% fat. You subtract the moisture from 100, and divide the fat (or protein) into what's remaining to find out what it is on a dry matter basis. 100-70=30, 10/30=33.33% is how that would work with the example. Dogs need a high moisture diet for proper kidney function. Also, look into total-zymes, your fur-babies need enzymes since they have a damaged pancreas, which is the organ that produces enzymes to digest food. The increased stools is from a whole food diet that will decrease over time and even more so with enzymes. Tylee's is too high in fat for pancreatitis, look into honest kitchen force or zeal. zeal is best in regards to fat content, however, the fish causes my little one to produce struvite stones, in which he is on mercola bladder support to help keep his ph down. Anyway good luck to you and your little ones.
Oh my goodness thank you for posting in my blog with this fountain of knowledge that you have! I really appreciate it and am going to try what you suggested. Currently working through a 25lb bag of dog food that I ordered and was sent a bigger size, I wet the kibble with filtered water. Please post a picture of your yorkie, would love to see!


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Jérémie Gallon
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Jérémie Gallon, Managing Director, is head of McLarty Europe in Brussels.
Mr. Gallon comes to McLarty from three years leading AmCham France, which he turned into a proactive and involved "do-tank," putting AmCham France at the heart of a number of economic policy matters and helping drive public debate.
Mr. Gallon was posted to Washington from 2015-17 by the European External Action Service, the EU's foreign service arm, as senior political advisor to the EU Ambassador. There, he got to know Washington and its institutions well.
Previously, he worked for the World Bank in the Balkans and started his career as a lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell's Paris office. He worked on numerous transactions in the defense and energy sectors, as legal counsel to the French state.
Mr. Gallon is a non-resident fellow with the Atlantic Council's Future Europe Initiative, a member of the Board of Directors of Aspen Institute France, a member of the Advisory Council of Responsible Business Initiative for Justice and an Adjunct Professor at Sciences Po. Mr. Gallon has also been a regular contributor to top-tier media such as Foreign Policy, Politico, The American Interest, Le Figaro, L'Obs and Esprit. His first book, Journal d'un jeune diplomate dans l'Amérique de Trump, was published by Gallimard in 2018.
Mr. Gallon holds a masters in law from Harvard Law School and University Paris I Pantheon-La Sorbonne, and a master in management from HEC Paris. He is also a former student of Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing.
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SF Encyclopedia Home Page
Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, Fourth Edition. Some sample entries appear below. Click here for the Introduction; here for the masthead; here for Acknowledgments; here for the FAQ; here for advice on citations. Find entries via the search box above (more details here) or browse the menu categories in the grey bar at the top of this page.
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May, Elizabeth
(? - ) US author, resident for some time in Scotland, who began to publish work of genre interest with The Falconer (2013), opening the Falconer/Aileana Kameron sequence of Young Adult historical fantasies featuring fairies and tinged with Steampunk. Of direct sf relevance is the Feminist Space Opera sequence Seven Devils opening with Seven Devils (2020) with Laura Lam [whom see for details]. / This author should not be confused with the Elizabeth May ...
Van der Poel, W I
(1908-1987) Working name of American artist Washington Irving Van der Poel Jr, who sometimes included the "Jr" in his name. While there is not an abundance of biographical information about this artist, Van der Poel is known to have worked as the art director for H L Gold's Galaxy during the 1950s, which explains why he was one of the figures depicted on Ed Emshwiller's cover for its October 1952 issue, attending a futuristic party along with luminaries like Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Robert A ...
Kaufman, Amie
(? - ) Australian author much of whose work has been in collaboration with Jay Kristoff or Meagan Spooner, most of her output being confined to Young Adult series. She is of sf interest for the Starbound sequence beginning with These Broken Stars (2013) with Spooner, the traditional lines of whose Space Opera narrative are "opened out" in terms of romantic fiction, as the Starship containing its young protagonists crashes out of Hyperspace and abandons ...
Lydston, G Frank
(1858-1923) US medical doctor specializing in urology; his experiments in sex gland transplants precede those more famous Serge Voronoff; more remarkably, he performed his first transplantation on himself. A prolific author of nonfiction in his speciality, his occasional fiction includes Over the Hookah: The Tales of a Talkative Doctor (coll of linked stories 1896), in which a series of medical anecdotes, several of them sf, are told within a Club Story venue. [JC]
Lee, Victoria
(? - ) US author whose Near Future Young Adult Dystopian Feverwake sequence beginning with The Fever King (2019) seems at first to offer an Equipoisal reading of the etiology and consequences of a virus-based Pandemic (see Disaster) that has balkanized America. The narrative is set in Carolinia (once North and South Carolina); its young protagonist, who believes that Magic has given him the ability to control Technology, is soon taught by the magus-like ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos and one Semiprozine Hugo for his self-produced news magazine, Ansible (which see). His one ...
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Tilman Willem Backhuysen (Oostende, 16 juni 1687 - Brugge, 27 april 1779) was een Zuid-Nederlands rooms-katholiek priester, een tijdlang aanhanger van het jansenisme en religieus polemist.

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Backhuysen of Backhusius, zoon van een welvarend Oostends echtpaar, liep school bij de oratorianen in Oostende en in Boulogne-sur-Mer. Vervolgens studeerde hij wijsbegeerte in het college 'Het Varken' in Leuven bij de professoren Opstraet en Hennebel. Hij verbleef daarna gedurende een jaar als novice in de trappistenabdij van Orval, maar de strenge kloosterregels verzwakten zijn gezondheid. Terug in Leuven, studeerde hij theologie onder de leiding van Petrus Nelis aan het Hollands college 'Pulcheria'. Van 1713 tot 1717 verbleef hij in de cisterciënzerabdij van Beaupré in Lotharingen, zonder echter in te treden. Hij las er jansenistische geschriften die zijn reeds aanwezige jansenistische overtuiging alleen maar versterkten. In 1717 trok hij naar Utrecht en sloot er zich aan bij de schismatieke jansenisten. Samen met drie andere kandidaten werd hij op 17 december 1718 tot priester gewijd door Jean Soanen, de jansenistische bisschop van het Franse bisdom Senez.

C. Stakenburg, die optrad als vicaris-generaal van het aartsbisdom Utrecht, benoemde Backhuysen tot kapelaan in Huisduinen of Den Helder, waar hij  gedurende negentien maanden de jansenistische pastoor Godefridus Verheul ter zijde stond. In die periode publiceerde de paus de bul Unigenitus (1719), waar Backhuysen zich tegen verzette. In 1720 werd hij door Cornelius Steenoven, de eerste oudkatholieke bisschop van Utrecht, overgeplaatst naar het eiland Noordstrand. Naar aanleiding van deze benoeming begon hij te twijfelen aan de rechtmatigheid van de aanspraken van de jansenistische clerus. Des te meer toen de jansenisten ertoe waren overgegaan, zonder goedkeuring van Rome, een eigen bisschop te verkiezen en te wijden. Hij twijfelde of hij de jansenisten zou verlaten, maar liet zich in 1723 toch nog tot pastoor in Vianen benoemen. In de loop van 1724 meldde hij zich aan bij Johannes van Bijlevelt, apostolisch vicaris van de rooms-katholieke Hollandse Zending. In diens handen ging hij zijn dwaling afzweren en liet hij zich opnieuw opnemen in de rooms-katholieke kerk. Op 24 mei 1724 werd hij door Rome ontslagen van alle opgelopen kerkelijke straffen.

Backhuysen was van plan in Vianen te blijven wonen, maar de internuntius in Brussel, Mgr. Spinelli, beval hem naar de Zuidelijke Nederlanden terug te keren. Door bemiddeling van vicaris-generaal C.P. Hoynck van Papendrecht werd hij ontvangen door de kardinaal-aartsbisschop van Mechelen, Thomas d'Hénin-Liétard d'Alsace, die hem in zijn clerus opnam.

Hij werd voortaan een felle bestrijder van de Utrechtse scheuring en bleef dit tot op hoge ouderdom. In 1725 publiceerde hij Plenaria Sedis Apostolicae, waarin hij de bewijzen voorlegde die moesten aantonen dat het Utrechtse kapittel geen canonieke rechtsgeldigheid bezat. Het jaar daarop verscheen zijn Responsio apologetica, die zijn terugkeer naar de rooms-katholieke kerk verdedigde, tegen sommige aanvallen. Zijn strijd met de jansenisten bracht er hem toe om polemiek te gaan voeren met jansenisten in Utrecht, Amsterdam en elders. Zijn grote ijver bezorgde hem vijanden, niet alleen bij zijn tegenstanders, maar ook bij katholieke intellectuelen, die in hem een overloper zagen.

In 1734 werd hij door zijn overheid definitief naar de Zuidelijke Nederlanden teruggeroepen, met de opdracht zich gedeisd te houden. Hij werd in Brussel de privékapelaan van graaf Frederik de Harrach, eerste minister van landvoogdes Maria Elisabeth. Toen hij benoemd werd tot kanunnik van de Sint-Donaaskathedraal, verhuisde hij naar Brugge en verbleef er tot aan zijn dood.

Publicaties
 Plenaria Sedis apostolicae in missionem Batavam asserta jurisdictio, 3 vol., Amsterdam, 1725, Gent, 1726.
 Bewijsschrift aentoonende dat den Apostolischen stoel het volle geestelijk regtsgebied van de Hollandsche Zendinge altijd gehad en wettig geoeffent heeft (...), 3 delen, Utrecht, 1726-1732.
 Responsio apologetica Tilmanni W. Backhusii, Amsterdam, 1726.
 Epistola ad perillustrem et spectatissimum Dominum N.N., Amsterdam, 1727. Van dit schrijven verscheen een uitgave in klein 12° en een Nederlandse vertaling waarschijnlijk door Backhusius.
 Memorie aan de Ed. Mog. H.H. Staten van Hollant en W.-Frieslandt, ingediend in het najaar van 1726, Utrecht, 1729.
 Brief van Germanus Veridicus aan Willebrord Kemp, Utrecht, 1729.
 De Zegero Bernardo van Espen, Leuven, 1770.

Literatuur
 A. VAN LOMMEL, Tilmannus Guilielmus Backhusius, eene Levensschets, Delft 1879.
 E. H. J. REUSENS, Tilman Guillaume Backhuysen, in: Biographie nationale de Belgique, Deel I, Brussel, 1866.
 B. H. DE GROOT, Tilman Willem Backhuysen, in: Nieuw Nederlandsch biografisch woordenboek. Deel 1, Leiden, 1911.
 Jan SCHEPENS, Tilman Wilem Backhuysen, in: Lexicon van West-Vlaamse schrijvers, Deel I, Torhout, 1984.

Externe link
 Norbert HOSTYN, Tilman Backhuysen, Stadsarchief Oostende

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"News & Issues" piece on inmates at Maine correctional facilities who are allegedly being denied needed psychiatric medications, according to prisoners, their families and advocates. Carol Carothers, head of the Maine Chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill, confirmed that her office has received numerous complaints concerning correctional facilities in Windham, Thomaston and Charleston. All related to the decisions of psychiatrist Steven Gressitt, an employee of Prison Health Services, a private, Tennessee-based company that has contracted with Maine prisons since 1999 and this year will receive $5.2 million from the state for its services.
Haskell, Meg, ""News & Issues" piece on inmates at Maine correctional facilities who are allege" (2001). Maine News Index – Maine Times. 5067.


Dave: Where are you from?
Dave: I have a friend studying at Kingston. You know it?
Dave: Why are you sitting here in this shopping centre?
Me: There's a yoga place around the corner that I wanted to visit – the Iyengar Institute.
Dave: Oh I think my mum used to go there.
Me: Your mum went there? She studied with Iyengar? Wow, that's amazing.
Me: Yeah. You have to have been studying Iyengar yoga for eight years just to get in there. BKS Iyengar, the man behind Iyengar yoga, he started it there. Just a five minute walk from here. I went there this afternoon and sat in on a class he was teaching. People from all over the world come to study with him… and your mum went there!
Dave: Oh ok. She has been doing yoga for years. So what clubs do you go to in London?
Me: I don't really go clubbing much.
Dave: What?! You live in London and you don't go clubbing? There's some of the best clubs in the world there.
Dave: Where are you staying in Pune?
Dave: You've come all the way here from KP? That's so far!
Me: It isn't really. People travel a lot further to study with Iyengar.
Dave: Have you been to any parties or clubs in KP? All the best ones are over there.
* I would have loved to have said this out loud but the poor boy already thought I was a nutter. See my previous post if this doesn't make any sense to you.
Isn't it funny how people can be motivated by such different things. He'd visit my country to go clubbing, I'd visit his to do down-facing dog.
Let me tell you about my experience that afternoon with Mr BKS Iyengar or 'Guruji' to his students. For those yoga virgins out there, BKS Iyengar is one of the great grandaddies of yoga. He's 93 and his impact on yoga cannot be underestimated. A lot of yoga taught throughout the world is influenced by Iyengar – with its focus on alignment and the use of props such as blocks, bolsters and straps – and Iyengar classes are very popular.
He set up the Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune in 1975 and you must have been studying Iyengar yoga for eight years to be considered for a place.
I sat gawping at trophies and awards in cabinets. The walls were full of photos of Guruji, certificates, newspaper and magazine articles and photos of groups of students in baggy t-shirts and small shorts that had elastic around the thighs.
"Ok, we go", she said, placing her teacup onto its saucer for the final time. I followed her through a corridor past yet more pictures. We went up a curved flight of stairs and she told me to sit on them. The staircase was open and, once I sat down, I had a full view of the semi-circular practice hall.
The lady told me that a remedial class was taking place and that I could stay and watch for as long as I liked. There were probably 30 students in the space along with a staggering array of wooden blocks, stools, bolsters, cushions, metal bars and ropes hanging from the walls. Around the top of the semicircle were row upon row of black and white photos of a young Iyengar in asanas.
People busied themselves putting others into postures and there, at the front perched on the edge of a platform was the great man himself. The lady pointed out his daughter – a middle-aged lady who hobbled around in an orange sari, and his granddaughter – a well built girl in high-waisted lime green shorts, t-shirt, and a long black plait down her back. Both she and her mother were kept busy taking instructions from Guruji, putting a man with bandaged legs into various asanas.
I couldn't take my eyes off him. He was smaller than I imagined and did not look all of his 93 years. White hair trailed down to his shoulders and his eyebrows looked like clumps of cotton wool. He wore a white lungi and a white grandad shirt.
He coughed often and looked frail but you would never mess with him. It was lovely to see the bandaged man touch his feet as a sign of respect. Guruji batted him away.
I watched the class for about an hour. I have never seen so many props in an asana hall. The man was put into savasana with three rows of three bolsters placed down his bandaged legs plus weights – at Guruji's strict instructions. Throughout the hall students were in different poses, working in twos. They were hanging upside down in ropes on the walls, lying on their backs with legs through chairs, dangling in various supported backbends… you name it, they were doing it.
It was great to see people doing some of the things that Michel did with us on our teacher training. He has studied at the Institute with Mr Iyengar.
Guruji then looked at the clock and got up to leave. His granddaughter was instantly at his side and led him out of the room. People were told they had time for one more asana. Soon after, I left and found myself chatting to Dave in the shopping centre.
I felt so blessed to have been in the same room as Guruji. Even at his age, he was so in control, knowing exactly how he wanted the props set up and the energy in the room was buzzing. It was such a special experience and one I'll remember for the rest of my life.


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1916 and Ideal Ethics
C. M. Barry January 29, 2016
I have found few people in Ireland deeply concerned about the ethics of civil war or revolution. The majority accept the principle that it is lawful to use physical force in support of high ideals. Their questioning is about the justice of the cause; and if that be admitted, they seem to think the right to use physical force to secure its triumph follows in logical and unquestionable sequence. I will not discuss the morality of civil war or revolution. I remember a man, tired of ideal ethics, who cried out at a meeting many years ago: "Let us hear no more of the good man or the bad man. Let us speak of the wise man and the foolish man." I am like that man.
Æ George Russell (1923) "Lessons of Revolution" in Studies Vol. 12, No. 45 (Mar., 1923), pp. 1-6 [JSTOR]
This piece was written just after the War of Independence, as the Civil War was looming. This opening paragraph gives Russell's view of the majority opinion about the ethical status of the Rising and subsequent warfare. The rest of the article gives Russell's opinion of how successful those events were in producing the type of state he and others had hoped for (not at all).
Posted in Robert Boyle
Boyle's Corpuscular Philosophy
That both parties agree in deducing all the Phaenomena of Nature from Matter and Local motion; I esteem'd that notwithstanding those things wherein the Atomists and the Cartesians differ'd, they might be thought to agree in the main, and their Hypotheses might by a Person of a reconciling Disposition be look'd on as, upon the matter, one Philosophy. Which because it explicates things by Corpuscles, or minute Bodies, may (not very unfitly) be call'd Corpuscular.
Robert Boyle, The Physiological Essays, 1661.
Robert Boyle's attempt to redraw the 17th century lines of debate about nature. For Boyle the major dividing line is between the scholastics who invoke forms to explain nature, while the Cartesians and the Atomists agree that the effects of nature can be explained using the principles of matter and motion. The latter two he therefore groups together under the Corpuscular Philosophy. Boyle argues that the differences between Cartesians and Atomists are either purely metaphysical or of minor theoretical importance. One such difference was that the Cartesians argued for a plenum (an entirely "full" world with no gaps) while the atomists believed the world was particles in a vacuum. Boyle describes himself as a corpuscularian, avoiding the term atomist which had become strongly linked to atheism.
This essay was the subject of correspondence between Henry Oldenburg and Spinoza, with Boyle participating at second hand in certain of the letters. Spinoza explicitly disagreed on some points of Boyle's, for example the existence of vacuum, and even Boyle's attempt at broad agreement between Cartesians and atomists was problematic for his philosophy. For more on the correspondence and the differences in position of Spinoza and Boyle see:
Filip Buyse (2013) Boyle, Spinoza and the Hartlib Circle: The Correspondence Which Never Took Place (online)
Filip Buyse (2010) Spinoza and Robert Boyle's Definition of Mechanical Philosophy, Historia Philosophica, 8:73-89. (Academia)
Peter Millican (2009) Robert Boyle's Corpuscularian Theory, YouTube.
Posted in Dorothy Moore
Dorothy Moore: Building Networks in the Republic of Letters
The digital humanities project Six Degrees of Francis Bacon is holding an add-a-thon on 23rd January 2016 aimed at increasing the number of women (Early Modern Britain, 1500-1700) included in the project (see the Six Degrees of Francis Bacon site here.) Participate in person or online. Further details here or on Twitter via @6Bacon.
In 1639 Johan van Beverwijck published his book On the Excellence of the Female Sex [1] which argued for the intellectual abilities of women. One of the examples included was Dorothy Moore [2]:
the widow of an English nobleman, not yet twenty-seven years of age, adorned with all the graces of body and soul. In a short time she learned Italian and French to such an extent that she could read works written in both languages and spoke French fluently. This encouraged her to study Latin, which she also mastered soon. Not stopping there, she embarked on the study of Hebrew, in which she progressed so far in a few months that she could read the Bible in that language. In addition she is so devout that, in between her studies, she sets aside a special time each day to spend piously, reading and meditating.
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Posted in Pádraic Pearse
Debating the ethics of 1916
Dublin 1916 Painting
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2016 has started with a debate over the ethics of the 1916 Rising, primarily in the Irish Times. The first shot was fired by Patsy McGarry [1] who argued that the Rising was "an immoral and anti-democratic act organised by a minority within a minority, who, looking into their own souls, saw there what they deemed was right for the Irish people." McGarry pointed to the messianic leanings of Pearse and the unilateral nature of the violence.
Diarmaid Ferriter wrote a reply [2] regarding Pearse's self-image as a Christ-figure and pointing out its parallels in the 1966 (printed 1972) critique of Fr Francis Shaw [3]. But what of the suggestion that the Rising was immoral?
A piece from 2014 in the Unthinkable column had already featured an argument from James G Murphy that the Rising failed the "Just War" test, where to be justified wars must (have: "1) just cause, (2) competent authority, (3) comparative justice, (4) right intention, (5) reasonable prospect of success, (6) last resort, and (7) proportionality." Murphy concluded: "Private individuals have no business or right to go to war. Leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising take note" [4]. Murphy extended the case in 2016, arguing that aspects of the commemoration are deeply problematic, setting the Rising up as the key moment in the establishment of the Irish State, without questioning its violence and divisiveness. He reiterates the key issue regarding the legitimacy of the Rising [5]: Continue reading "Debating the ethics of 1916" →
Posted in A. A. Luce George Berkeley
Ideas about Berkeley
Berkeley, in his lifetime, was regarded as a disciple of Malebranche. Subsequently he came to be regarded as a Lockian. The new opinion was a natural growth. In the course of time British acquaintance with Malebranche sank, and the fame of Berkeley rose. National sentiment adopted him as the English philosopher in succession to Locke. It may therefore be in place here to mention the danger of over-estimating the degree to which the young Berkeley was anglicized.
There are two national sentiments to be considered, and to hold the balance is not easy. To speak of him, without qualification, as an English philosopher cannot be right. Leslie Stephen's statement 'Berkeley always considered himself an Englishman', is misleading, if not mistaken. Berkeley was born and bred in Ireland. His education was entirely Irish. He speaks of himself as an Irishman several times in the Commonplace Book. Newton to him was 'a philosopher of a neighbouring nation'. As with many his sentiments were necessarily mixed and his loyalties divided. But credit must go where it is due. Berkeley's system in so far as it forms part of the heritage of international philosophy was complete before he set foot in England, and in England he wrote little or no philosophy.
The changing views of Berkeley's influences and nationality. From A. A. Luce (1934) Berkeley and Malebranche, Oxford University Press, pp. 10-11. (archive.org)
Burke: no conservative?
Conservatives have either ignored Burke's support for colonial rebellion, or maintained that his career was split between two phases: an early period of support for the 'liberal' cause of America and a later 'conservative' reaction to the Revolution in France. Burke certainly changed his opinions over the course of his career, but these shifts cannot be captured by presuming a contradiction between his support for American resistance and his aversion to the revolution in France. Representations of Burke as a renegade from early idealism are based on the dogmatic assumption that the American and French revolutions were fundamentally 'the same'. Yet for Burke these two events were absolutely different, and in fact he had good reasons for insisting on their difference.
from Richard Bourke (2015) "Burke was no conservative" in Aeon Magazine (online).
Posted in Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington: Feminist Republican
C. M. Barry January 6, 2016
Prof Bryan Fanning (2015) "Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington: Feminist Republican", UCD Youtube.
For more on Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, see Women's Museum of Ireland: Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington (includes links to other resources), the review of the 1999 "Hanna Sheehy Skeffington: a Life" by Margaret Ward on History Ireland, and Margaret Ward (on Hanna's House) The Political Career of Hanna Sheehy Skeffington – Challenging Feminism and Republicanism (pdf).
Posted in James Ussher
"Too Gentle a Soul": James Ussher
A historian, a scholar and a key figure in the religious debates of the 16th century, Ussher was born in Dublin (either on Nicholas St[1] or 57 High St[2] across from the old Christchurch Synod Hall) on the 4th January 1581 and baptised in the Church of Ireland St Nicholas Within. He was born into a prosperous merchant family, but one that was torn by the religious divisions of the time. Most of the Usshers conformed to the Church of Ireland, notably Henry Ussher, Church of Ireland archbishop of Armagh from 1595 to 1613, who played an important role in the creation of Trinity College, Dublin in 1592. His mother remained Catholic; her brother was the famous historian Richard Stanyhurst (1547-1618), in later life a Jesuit priest [3].
James Ussher was one of the first to attend Trinity College Dublin, gaining his BA c. 1597 and MA in 1601. He was ordained by his uncle Henry Ussher in December 1601 and in 1602 took his first trip of many to England, in search of books for Trinity College Library. During his trips to London he made many antiquarian connections with figures such as Henry Savile and John Seldon. He graduated in Divinity in 1607, immediately becoming Professor of Theological Controversies. In 1613 he married Phoebe Challoner, daughter of the vice-provost of Trinity Luke Challoner, and published his first work, Gravissimae Quaestionis, de Christianarum ecclesiarum, in occidentis praesertim partibus, ab apostolicis temporibus, ad nostram usque aetatem, continua successione & statu, historica explicatio (London, 1613). This work gave an account of medieval heretical groups drawing on original sources; however it also had the polemical purpose of tracing the rise of the Anti-Christ in Roman Catholic church, and the identification of groups such as the Cathars as proto-protestants[4].
Ussher graduated DD in 1614 and became vice-chancellor of Trinity in 1615. He is also credited with playing a large part in the creation of the Church of Ireland's first full Confession of Faith. These articles were an advance on the 39 Articles on which they were based, they allowed more accommodation of puritan ideas than the equivalent in the Church of England (for example, allowing more leeway on the question of bishops) and did not require subscription. Ussher became Bishop of Meath and Clonmacnoise in 1621 and finally was appointed Archbishop of Armagh by James I of England in 1625[5]. It should be noted that of the twenty-five bishops James I placed in the Church of Ireland in his lifetime, Ussher was the only one born in Ireland and educated at Trinity [6]
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Ethereum 2.0 is the next major upgrade for the Ethereum blockchain, which is currently the largest decentralized platform in the world. This upgrade will bring several new features and improvements to the Ethereum network, making it more scalable, efficient, and secure. One of the most important aspects of Ethereum 2.0 is its switch from a Proof-of-Work (PoW) consensus algorithm to a Proof-of-Stake (PoS) algorithm. This change will allow Ethereum to process more transactions per second while reducing energy consumption. Ethereum 2.0 is one of the most highly anticipated upgrades to the Ethereum network. It is designed to improve upon the current scalability, security, and energy efficiency of the Ethereum network. While there is still some testing and development to be done before Ethereum 2.0 is officially launched, it is clear that this upgrade has the potential to revolutionize blockchain technology and take Ethereum to new heights. The article focuses on discussing Ethereum 2.0 in detail.
What is Ethereum 2.0?
Ethereum 2.0 is the next major upgrade to the Ethereum network. It includes a number of improvements and new features, including:
Proof-of-stake consensus algorithm: A new proof-of-stake consensus algorithm that is more energy efficient and scalable than the current proof-of-work algorithm.
Sharding technique: A new "sharding" technique that will allow the Ethereum network to process more transactions per second.
Virtual machine: A new virtual machine that will make it easier to develop decentralized applications on Ethereum.
Ethereum 2.0 is still in development and is expected to be launched in 2020.
History of Ethereum 2.0
Ethereum 2.0 is a planned upgrade to the Ethereum network that is designed to improve its scalability, security, and sustainability. The upgrade is scheduled to be implemented in stages, with the first stage (Phase 0) expected to launch in late 2020. Ethereum 2.0 was first proposed in 2015 by Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum. The proposal was originally called "Sharding", but was later renamed to "Ethereum 2.0" to reflect the significant changes that it would bring to the network.
The upgrade is being developed by a team of over 30 core developers, led by Buterin. The team is working on a number of different aspects of the upgrade, including a new consensus algorithm (called "Beacon Chain"), a new virtual machine (called "Ewasm"), and improved scalability solutions (such as "Sharding"). The goal of Ethereum 2.0 is to make the Ethereum network more scalable, secure, and sustainable. The upgrade is expected to allow the network to process more transactions per second, while also making it more resistant to attacks and more energy-efficient.
Phase 0: The first stage of Ethereum 2.0, Phase 0, is expected to launch in late 2020. Phase 0 will introduce the Beacon Chain, which will act as the new consensus algorithm for the network.
Phase 1: It is expected to launch in 2021 and will introduce sharding, which will improve scalability.
Phase 2: It is expected to launch in 2022 and will introduce Ewasm, a new virtual machine that is designed to be more efficient than the current Ethereum Virtual Machine.
Ethereum vs Ethereum 2.0
Below are the differences between Ethereum and Ethereum 2.0:
Ethereum has a Proof of Work (PoW) consensus algorithm. Ethereum 2.0 will use a Proof of Stake (PoS) algorithm.
It can process 15 transactions per second. It is designed to process up to 100,000 transactions per second.
It has a block time of 12 seconds. It will have a block time of just 2.5 seconds.
It uses the Gas pricing model to pay for transaction fees. It will use a new fee model called "Pay per transaction".
It has a supply of 100 million ETH. It will have a total supply of 120 million ETH.
Its's average transaction fee is $0.30. Its's average transaction fee will be $0.001.
Ethereum's transaction confirmation time is 10 minutes on average. Ethereum 2.0's will be 3 minutes on average.
Its block size is 2 MB. Its block size is 8 MB.
Ethereum's smart contract language is Solidity. It will use a new language called Vype.
Ethereum's virtual machine is the EVM. It will use a new virtual machine called the eWasm.
Why move to Ethereum 2.0?
There are several reasons why one might want to move to Ethereum 2.0.
More scalable: Ethereum 2.0 is designed to be more scalable than the current Ethereum network. This is achieved through the use of sharding, which allows the network to process multiple transactions simultaneously.
More energy-efficient: Ethereum 2.0 is intended to be more energy-efficient than the current Ethereum network. This is possible because Ethereum 2.0 uses a Proof-of-Stake consensus algorithm, which is more energy-efficient than the Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm used by the current Ethereum network.
More secure: Ethereum 2.0 is designed to be more secure than the current Ethereum network. This is possible because Ethereum 2.0 uses a new type of consensus algorithm, called Casper, which is more resistant to attacks than the Proof-of-Work algorithm used by the current Ethereum network.
More decentralized: Ethereum 2.0 is intended to be more decentralized than the current Ethereum network. This is possible because Ethereum 2.0 uses a new type of consensus algorithm, called sharding, which allows the network to be divided into multiple pieces, each of which can be run by a different group of people.
More flexible: Ethereum 2.0 is intended to be more flexible than the current Ethereum network. This is possible because Ethereum 2.0 uses a new programming language, called Solidity, which is more flexible than the current Ethereum network's programming language, called Serpent.
Benefits of Ethereum 2.0
There are a number of benefits associated with Ethereum 2.0, which is also known as Serenity.
Improve scalability: Ethereum 2.0 will help to improve scalability by moving from the current Proof-of-Work consensus algorithm to a Proof-of-Stake algorithm. This will allow for more transactions to be processed on the Ethereum network without running into the same scalability issues that have plagued other blockchain networks.
Improve security: Ethereum 2.0 will help to improve security by making it more difficult for bad actors to 51% attack the network. This is because Proof-of-Stake requires participants to lock up a significant amount of their Ether in order to participate in block validation, which disincentivizes attacks on the network. It will be more secure than the current Ethereum network, as it will be more resistant to attacks.
Reduce costs: Ethereum 2.0 will help to reduce costs by reducing the amount of energy required to run the network. This is because Proof-of-Stake is a much more energy-efficient consensus algorithm than Proof-of-Work.
Improved efficiency: Ethereum 2.0 is expected to improve the efficiency of the Ethereum network by reducing the amount of energy required to process transactions.
more decentralized: Ethereum 2.0 will be more decentralized than the current Ethereum network, as it will have more nodes. Flexibility: Ethereum 2.0 will be more flexible than the current Ethereum network, as it will be able to support a wider range of applications.
Decentralization: Ethereum 2.0 will be more decentralized than the current Ethereum network, as it will have more nodes.
More flexible: Ethereum 2.0 will be more flexible than the current Ethereum network, as it will be able to support a wider range of applications.
Usability: Ethereum 2.0 will be more user-friendly than the current Ethereum network, as it will have a simpler user interface.
What Changes will Ethereum 2.0 bring?
Ethereum 2.0, also known as Serenity, is a major upgrade to the Ethereum network that is currently being developed.
Ethereum 2.0 is designed to improve the scalability, security, and efficiency of the Ethereum network.
The most significant change that Ethereum 2.0 will bring is a shift from the current proof-of-work (PoW) consensus algorithm to a new proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus algorithm. This will allow Ethereum to process more transactions per second and will make it more energy-efficient.
Ethereum 2.0 is also introducing new features such as sharding and stateless smart contracts.
How does Ethereum 2.0 change the Defi world?
Ethereum 2.0 is a huge upgrade to the Ethereum network that will bring many improvements, including increased scalability and improved security.
One of the most anticipated aspects of Ethereum 2.0 is its impact on the world of decentralized finance (DeFi).
DeFi is a growing sector of the cryptocurrency ecosystem that is built on Ethereum and enables the creation of financial applications that run on the blockchain.
Ethereum 2.0 is expected to greatly increase the scalability of the Ethereum network, which will, in turn, enable more complex DeFi applications to be built on top of it.
In addition, the improved security features of Ethereum 2.0 will make it a more attractive platform for DeFi developers and users.
The combination of these factors is expected to lead to significant growth in the DeFi sector on Ethereum 2.0.
What is Ether's future after Ethereum 2.0?
There is no one answer to this question because it is impossible to predict the future.
Ethereum 2.0 is still in development, and it is not yet clear what the final outcome will be.
Some people believe that Ether will become the dominant currency on the Ethereum network, while others believe that it will become just one of many currencies used on the network.
It is also possible that Ethereum 2.0 will never be fully implemented, or that it will be replaced by another blockchain technology before it can reach its full potential.
How much energy will Ethereum 2.0 will save?
Ethereum 2.0 is expected to save up to 90% of the energy used by the current Ethereum network. This is due to the move from Proof of Work (PoW) to Proof of Stake (PoS). PoW requires miners to use energy to solve complex mathematical problems in order to add new blocks to the blockchain, while PoS only requires energy to validate transactions.
How will Ethereum 2.0 be more secure?
Ethereum 2.0 will be more secure because it will use a different consensus algorithm called Proof of Stake. This means that instead of miners competing to solve complex mathematical problems in order to add new blocks to the blockchain, the network will instead select validators randomly to validate the new blocks. The validators will then be rewarded based on how much Ether they have staked. This new consensus algorithm will make it much more difficult for attackers to 51% attack the network and will also make double spending much more difficult.
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Solar energy is a clean and renewable energy. The cost of electricity from the solar array system is more expensive than the electricity from the utility grid. The amount of power generated from a photovoltaic system mainly depends on the following factors, such as temperatures and solar irradiances. Due to the high cost and low efficiency of a PV system, it is necessary to operate the PV system at maximum efficiency by tracking maximum power point at any environmental condition.
This proposed system improves the maximum power point tracking algorithm of a PV system under real climatic conditions. This proposed MPPT is based on the hill climbing method with neural network controller that control the load voltage to ensure optimal operating points of a PV system. The proposed MPPT algorithm has been implemented by a neural network controller and it eliminates the drawbacks of hill climbing algorithm. The simulation result shows that the PV power system, using the proposed MPPT algorithm, is able to accurately track the maximum power points under rapid irradiance variations.


How to open .EDF file extension?
If you cannot open a new file that has been saved in the .EDF format you need to download the appropriate software. The manufacturer of .EDF files is European Synchrotron Radiation Facility; .EDF files belong to the Data Files category. After downloading the application from the list available on our website just run an unknown file, and as the default set the newly installed application supporting the .EDF files. Activities performed in the order described should solve the problems with all the files in the .EDF format.
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All brides should be heed this, first and foremost your wedding dress has to be elegant as well as stylish, it needs to be distinctive and still should be within your budget then arrive the style you can pick this on your own or you can seek advice of a fashion or dress designer. Professional guidance can be a lot of help.
There are so many Indian brides who love to choose the conventional heavy work on the dresses. Due to some important events the Indian girls love to dress themselves in such an elegant and superlative manner so that everyone can notice them. These days' brides love pastel shades and whites; earlier they used to favour dark and vivacious colours. Lately glossy designs and light colours are in.
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Are you short story writer or a poet? Then these two competitions from Nillumbik Shire in Victoria might be up your alley and are now OPEN.
The Nillumbik Shire in Victoria is running a short story competition and a poetry competition for Australian residents. They are the Alan Marshall Short Story Award and the Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award.
To celebrate the life and work of Alan Marshall, Nillumbik Shire is inviting Australian writers to enter the 33rd Alan Marshall Short Story Award.
Alan Marshall AM OBE HON LLD (1902-1984) is one of Australia's most famous authors. His most well-known books are I Can Jump Puddles and This is the Grass. In 1920 Alan started his first job as a junior clerk at the Eltham Shire Offices in Kangaroo Ground. He lived in Research in the 1940s and moved to Eltham in 1955 where he lived for almost 20 years.
To find out more and to enter go to the Nillumbik Shire website.
In addition to the short story award, they're also running a poetry competition called Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award.
Ekphrasis (Ek-fra-sis) is a genre of poetry that explores works of art and seeks to 'get inside' its visual subject. Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award is a celebration of the Nillumbik Art Collection and the Literary Arts.
The Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award invites Australian poets to respond to artworks from the Nillumbik Visual Art Collection or exhibition program. This year poems are invited to respond with 12-line poems to artworks from the Baldessin and Friends commemorative folio, recently acquired for the Nillumbik Shire Art Collection.
To find our more and to enter go to the Nillumbik-Ekphrasis-Poetry-Award.
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What I really love about these, aside from the yummy taste, is the smell of cinnamon that fills the house once they're in the oven.
This recipe is a keeper. It rarely fails; just make sure your dough proves well. Extra time is always good. Also, make sure you don't bake them on high or over bake. Once they cool down a bit ; keep them covered so that they don't dry out. Any Extras? These also freeze well.
I have made these many times and always get asked for the recipe. And so when my 12-year-old daughter offered her help in making the video, I couldn't say no.
So here you go folks. A simple, fast and very yummy Cinnabon Clone recipe.
You can really eat these as is, powder them with confectioners' sugar when cool, use a simple glaze, drizzle with chocolate or go for the classic cheese cream topping. Get creative!
Add all ingredients ( eggs, melted butter, yeast, salt and sugar).Gradually add the flour, mix until you get a dough ball. Knead dough. Let prove for at least one hour. You will get better results if you can keep it for extra.
Roll with a pin into a rectangle of around 0.5 cm thickness. spread softened butter ( keep a tbsp or so to brush rolls later ), sprinkle brown sugar and cinnamon. Add nuts if you like.
Roll from wide end and cut into 2-3 cm thick slices. Place on greased baking tray.
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Doomscrolling Has Ruined Our Sense of Time
Thursday, 24 March, 2022 - 05:30
The dual crises of the global pandemic and the war in Ukraine have been testing our governments, our institutions, our diplomacy — and our collective sense of time. In part because of social media, both events already seem intolerably long, even though the Russian invasion of Ukraine is less than a month old.
One of the most prominent words of the last few years is "doomscrolling." People can now easily imbibe new information 24/7, about Covid or the war, simply by scrolling through social media on their phones.
In the case of Ukraine, every day there are scores of events to learn about and react to. I can pop into my Twitter feed and see that Russian missiles have started hitting Odesa, the Ukrainian city of Mariupol refuses to surrender, and a shopping mall in Kyiv has been destroyed. I can read multiple analyses of how the China-Russia relationship is evolving, or get the latest about rumors of a coup against Putin. And all this is without even making much of an effort.
Once upon a time, news of war was lumpier and more periodic — people watched the nightly news or read the morning paper. They could turn on the radio and hear more frequent bulletins, but due to the absence of the internet and other means of modern communication, there were far fewer reports from far fewer sources.
The now-neverending stream of information shapes our perception of time. For many people, especially America's news-intensive elites, it may make the war feel much longer than it actually has been.
This greater sense of witness to atrocities cements this impression. Each moral outrage, no matter how small, is taken in. Several generations ago, people may have heard that there was a big battle over a place called Dien Bien Phu. Nowadays, they can see, replay and share videos of people who died or were injured in the bombing of a theater in Mariupol. Each terrible event somehow feels more intolerable than the last, fueling the feeling that something must give and that the war has to end soon.
That is a dangerous feeling, if only because it makes it harder for leaders to pursue strategies of patience. Polls show high US public support for a no-fly zone, although in my view that would lead to an unacceptably higher risk of escalating the war. This hawkish stance is not hard to understand. If the current situation feels intolerable, then surely something dramatic and decisive has to happen very soon — and better to act than be acted upon. At the very least action will imbue a feeling of having "done something."
Doomscrolling-induced impatience also induces people to underrate Russian military prospects. It is true that Russia failed to achieve its objective of an immediate Ukrainian collapse. Still, it took Hitler five weeks to conquer Poland, and that is usually regarded as an extremely successful military campaign.
It's just not clear yet how well, or how badly, the Russians are likely to do. It is hard to embrace that fundamental uncertainty when everything else feels so intolerable.
Covid is a much longer-running story, now more than two years old, but it has engendered similar reactions. People feel that the pandemic is or should be "over" by now. I myself favor a resumption of normal activity, but am distressed that Congress is treating the matter so cavalierly and refusing to make haste with additional Covid funding. The voter outrage simply isn't there, in large part because the public has decided that the pandemic is over.
At one level that is a very healthy reaction that will help reboot economic activity. On another level, it is extremely dangerous. If a new and more serious variant were to come along, the USmus would simply not be ready, not even after two years of suffering and more than one million deaths.
It is possible that, over the long run, people will become numb to all this detailed reporting of suffering from both the pandemic and the war. They might forget just how much those events commanded the world's attention. These moments might come to feel like time-slices rather than eternities.
But for now, we are not at peace with our grasp on time — and this runs the risk of being a major problem for America and the world.


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D-Day is commemorating the day in 1944 on which more than 150,000 Allied troops landed on the beaches of Normandy in what became the final assault on Nazi Germany. This multimedia site includes General Dwight Eisenhower's invasion order, photographs of the landing, and the Continental Edition of the Stars and Stripes newspaper from one month later, July 4, which shows how successful the invasion turned out to be. For students to whom World War II is ancient history, this site brings the realities of the combat into focus.
Limericks are a very old verse form, and they continue to be popular because of their simplicity and humor. Learn what a limerick is and then play a game by matching phrases to create a complete limerick. Learn more about the history of limerick and even write an original limerick.


Jack and I have been searching out new hiking trails across Ontario, and we'd like to share some with you. Unfortunately not all Ontario trails are easily found, and some are crowded. I'd like to dedicate some time to review trails Jack and I have found, 'Hidden Gems' if you will. Hopefully the articles below give you and your Fur-Baby a few more options for your Saturday morning walks!


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Q: Change circle color in a GPS gradually I have a simple activity with a GPS that follows the user around with a circle.
public class MapsActivity extends FragmentActivity implements OnMapReadyCallback {

private GoogleMap mMap;

LocationManager locationManager;

LocationListener locationListener;

@Override
public void onRequestPermissionsResult(int requestCode, @NonNull String[] permissions, @NonNull int[] grantResults) {
    super.onRequestPermissionsResult(requestCode, permissions, grantResults);

    if (requestCode == 1) {
        if (grantResults.length > 0 && grantResults[0] == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {

            if (ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION) == PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
                locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0, 0, locationListener);
            }
        }
    }
}

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_maps);
    SupportMapFragment mapFragment = (SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager()
            .findFragmentById(R.id.map);
    mapFragment.getMapAsync(this);

}
@Override
public void onMapReady(GoogleMap googleMap) {
    mMap = googleMap;

    locationManager = (LocationManager) this.getSystemService(Context.LOCATION_SERVICE);

    locationListener = new LocationListener() {
        @Override
        public void onLocationChanged(Location location) {
            LatLng userlocation = new LatLng(location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude());

            mMap.clear();
            mMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(userlocation).title("Your location)"));
            mMap.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLng(userlocation));
            final CircleOptions circleOptions = new CircleOptions().radius(10000).center(new LatLng(location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude()));
            final Circle circle = mMap.addCircle(circleOptions);
            Geocoder geocoder = new Geocoder(getApplicationContext(), Locale.getDefault());
            try {
                List<Address> listAddresses = geocoder.getFromLocation(location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude(), 1);

                if (listAddresses != null && listAddresses.size() > 0) {
                    Log.i("PlaceInfo", listAddresses.get(0).toString());

                }

            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();

            }

        }

        @Override
        public void onStatusChanged(String provider, int status, Bundle extras) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onProviderEnabled(String provider) {

        }

        @Override
        public void onProviderDisabled(String provider) {

        }
    };

    if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT < 23) {

        if (ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED && ActivityCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED) {
            return;
        }
        locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER, 0, 0, locationListener);
    }else{
        if(ContextCompat.checkSelfPermission(this, Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION) != PackageManager.PERMISSION_GRANTED){
            ActivityCompat.requestPermissions(this, new String[]{Manifest.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION}, 1);
        }else{
            locationManager.requestLocationUpdates(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER,0 ,0, locationListener);

            Location lastKnownLocation = locationManager.getLastKnownLocation(LocationManager.GPS_PROVIDER);
            LatLng userlocation = new LatLng(lastKnownLocation.getLatitude(), lastKnownLocation.getLongitude());
            mMap.clear();
            mMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(userlocation).title("Your location)"));
            mMap.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLng(userlocation));

    }
    }
}
}

What I want to do is to constantly change the color of the circle gradually between the color black and white, even if the user changes position.
I know that I can change properties using .color but the change isn't very smooth. Maybe by using and Handler?

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I'm in the studio today talking about letting go of old identities, and the ever-present cycle of death and rebirth.
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