General Appearance: The Gordon Setter is a good-sized, sturdily built, black and tan dog, well muscled, with plenty of bone and substance, but active, upstanding and stylish, appearing capable of doing a full day's work in the field. He has a strong, rather short back, with well sprung ribs and a short tail. The head is fairly heavy and finely chiseled. His bearing is intelligent, noble, and dignified, showing no signs of shyness or viciousness. Clear colors and straight or slightly waved coat are correct. He suggests strength and stamina rather than extreme speed. Symmetry and quality are most essential. A dog well balanced in all points is preferable to one with outstanding good qualities and defects. A smooth, free movement, with high head carriage, is typical.
Size, Proportion, Substance: Size-Shoulder height for males, 24 to 27 inches; females, 23 to 26 inches. Weight for males, 55 to 80 pounds; females, 45 to 70 pounds. Animals that appear to be over or under the prescribed weight limits are to be judged on the basis of conformation and condition. Extremely thin or fat dogs are discouraged on the basis that under or overweight hampers the true working ability of the Gordon Setter. The weight-to-height ratio makes him heavier than other Setters. Proportion The distance from the forechest to the back of the thigh is approximately equal the height from the ground to the withers. The Gordon Setter has plenty of bone and substance.
Head: Head deep, rather than broad, with plenty of brain room. Eyes of fair size, neither too deep-set nor too bulging, dark brown, bright and wise. The shape is oval rather than round. The lids are tight. Ears set low on the head approximately on line with the eyes, fairly large and thin, well folded and carried close to the head. Skull nicely rounded, good-sized, broadest between the ears. Below and above the eyes is lean and the cheeks as narrow as the leanness of the head allows. The head should have a clearly indicated stop. Muzzle fairly long and not pointed, either as seen from above or from the side. The flews are not pendulous. The muzzle is the same length as the skull from occiput to stop and the top of the muzzle is parallel to the line of the skull extended. Nose broad, with open nostrils and black in color. The lip line from the nose to the flews shows a sharp, well-defined, square contour. Teeth strong and white, meeting in front in a scissors bite, with the upper incisors slightly forward of the lower incisors. A level bite is not a fault. Pitted teeth from distemper or allied infections are not penalized.
Neck, Topline, Body: Neck long, lean, arched to the head, and without throatiness. Topline moderately sloping. Body short from shoulder to hips. Chest deep and not too broad in front; the ribs well sprung, leaving plenty of lung room. The chest reaches to the elbows. A pronounced forechest is in evidence. Loins short and broad and not arched. Croup nearly flat, with only a slight slope to the tailhead. Tail short and not reaching below the hocks, carried horizontal or nearly so, not docked, thick at the root and finishing in a fine point. The placement of the tail is important for correct carriage. When the angle of the tail bends too sharply at the first coccygeal bone, the tail will be carried too gaily or will droop. The tail placement is judged in relationship to the structure of the croup.
Forequarters: Shoulders fine at the points, and laying well back. The tops of the shoulder blades are close together. When viewed from behind, the neck appears to fit into the shoulders in smooth, flat lines that gradually widen from neck to shoulder. The angle formed by the shoulder blade and upper arm bone is approximately 90 degrees when the dog is standing so that the foreleg is perpendicular to the ground. Forelegs big-boned, straight and not bowed, with elbows free and not turned in or out. Pasterns are strong, short and nearly vertical with a slight spring. Dewclaws may be removed. Feet catlike in shape, formed by close-knit, well arched toes with plenty of hair between; with full toe pads and deep heel cushions. Feet are not turned in or out. Hindquarters: The hind legs from hip to hock are long, flat and muscular; from hock to heel, short and strong. The stifle and hock joints are well bent and not turned either in or out. When the dog is standing with the rear pastern perpendicular to the ground, the thighbone hangs downward parallel to an imaginary line drawn upward from the hock. Feet as in front.
Coat: Soft and shining, straight or slightly waved, but not curly, with long hair on ears, under stomach and on chest, on back of the fore and hind legs, and on the tail. The feather which starts near the root of the tail is slightly waved or straight, having a triangular appearance, growing shorter uniformly toward the end.
Color and Markings: Black with tan markings, either of rich chestnut or mahogany color. Black penciling is allowed on the toes. The borderline between black and tan colors is clearly defined. There are not any tan hairs mixed in the black. The tan markings are located as follows: (1) Two clear spots over the eyes and not over three-quarters of an inch in diameter; (2) On the sides of the muzzle. The tan does not reach to the top of the muzzle, but resembles a stripe around the end of the muzzle from one side to the other; (3) On the throat; (4) Two large clear spots on the chest; (5) On the inside of the hind legs showing down the front of the stifle and broadening out to the outside of the hind legs from the hock to the toes. It must not completely eliminate the black on the back of the hind legs; (6) On the forelegs from the carpus, or a little above, downward to the toes; (7) Around the vent; (8) A white spot on the chest is allowed, but the smaller the better. Disqualification – Predominantly tan, red or buff dogs are ineligible for showing and undesirable for breeding.
Gait: A bold, strong, driving free-swinging gait. The head is carried up and the tail "flags" constantly while the dog is in motion. When viewed from the front, the forefeet move up and down in straight lines so that the shoulder, elbow and pastern joints are approximately in line. When viewed from the rear, the hock, stifle and hip joints are approximately in line. Thus the dog moves in a straight pattern forward without throwing the feet in or out. When viewed from the side, the forefeet are seen to lift up and reach forward to compensate for the driving hindquarters. The hindquarters reach well forward and stretch far back, enabling the stride to be long and the drive powerful. The overall appearance of the moving dog is one of smooth- flowing, well balanced rhythm, in which the action is pleasing to the eye, effortless, economical and harmonious.
Temperament: The Gordon Setter is alert, gay, interested, and confident. He is fearless and willing, intelligent and capable. He is loyal and affectionate, and strong-minded enough to stand the rigors of training.
Disqualification: Predominantly tan, red or buff dogs.


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Assign Contiguous Labels to Connected Regions in an Image
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.. index::
   single: RelabelComponentImageFilter
   pair: connect; regions

Synopsis
--------

Assign contiguous labels to connected regions of an image.

Results
-------
.. figure:: AssignContiguousLabelsToConnectedRegions.png
  :scale: 70%
  :alt: VTK Window

  Output In VTK Window

Code
----

C++
...

.. literalinclude:: Code.cxx
   :lines: 18-

Classes demonstrated
--------------------

.. breathelink:: itk::RelabelComponentImageFilter

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text:
"""Parsers for MacOS fseventsd files."""

from dfdatetime import semantic_time as dfdatetime_semantic_time

from dfvfs.resolver import resolver as path_spec_resolver

from plaso.containers import events
from plaso.containers import time_events
from plaso.lib import definitions
from plaso.lib import errors
from plaso.lib import specification
from plaso.parsers import dtfabric_parser
from plaso.parsers import manager

class FseventsdEventData(events.EventData):
  """MacOS file system event (fseventsd) event data

  Attributes:
    event_identifier (int): the record event identifier.
    flags (int): flags stored in the record.
    node_identifier (int): file system node identifier related to the file
        system event.
    path (str): path recorded in the fseventsd record.
  """

  DATA_TYPE = 'macos:fseventsd:record'

  def __init__(self):
    """Initializes an Fseventsd event data."""
    super(FseventsdEventData, self).__init__(data_type=self.DATA_TYPE)
    self.event_identifier = None
    self.flags = None
    self.node_identifier = None
    self.path = None

class FseventsdParser(dtfabric_parser.DtFabricBaseParser):
  """Parser for fseventsd files.

  This parser supports both version 1 and version 2 fseventsd files.
  Refer to http://nicoleibrahim.com/apple-fsevents-forensics/ for details.
  """

  NAME = 'fseventsd'
  DATA_FORMAT = 'MacOS File System Events Disk Log Stream (fseventsd) file'

  # The version 1 format was used in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) through macOS 10.12
  # (Sierra).
  _DLS_V1_SIGNATURE = b'1SLD'

  # The version 2 format was introduced in MacOS High Sierra (10.13).
  _DLS_V2_SIGNATURE = b'2SLD'

  _DEFINITION_FILE = 'fseventsd.yaml'

  @classmethod
  def GetFormatSpecification(cls):
    """Retrieves the format specification.

    Returns:
      FormatSpecification: format specification.
    """
    format_specification = specification.FormatSpecification(cls.NAME)
    format_specification.AddNewSignature(cls._DLS_V1_SIGNATURE, offset=0)
    format_specification.AddNewSignature(cls._DLS_V2_SIGNATURE, offset=0)
    return format_specification

  def _ParseDLSPageHeader(self, file_object, page_offset):
    """Parses a DLS page header from a file-like object.

    Args:
      file_object (file): file-like object to read the header from.
      page_offset (int): offset of the start of the page header, relative
          to the start of the file.

    Returns:
      tuple: containing:

        dls_page_header: parsed record structure.
        int: header size.

    Raises:
      ParseError: when the header cannot be parsed.
    """
    page_header_map = self._GetDataTypeMap('dls_page_header')

    try:
      page_header, page_size = self._ReadStructureFromFileObject(
          file_object, page_offset, page_header_map)
    except (ValueError, errors.ParseError) as exception:
      raise errors.ParseError(
          'Unable to parse page header at offset: 0x{0:08x} '
          'with error: {1!s}'.format(page_offset, exception))

    return page_header, page_size

  def _BuildEventData(self, record):
    """Builds an FseventsdData object from a parsed structure.

    Args:
      record (dls_record_v1|dls_record_v2): parsed record structure.

    Returns:
      FseventsdEventData: event data attribute container.
    """
    event_data = FseventsdEventData()
    event_data.path = record.path
    event_data.flags = record.event_flags
    event_data.event_identifier = record.event_identifier
    # Node identifier is only set in DLS V2 records.
    event_data.node_identifier = getattr(record, 'node_identifier', None)

    return event_data

  def _GetParentModificationTime(self, gzip_file_entry):
    """Retrieves the modification time of the file entry's parent file.

    Note that this retrieves the time from the file entry of the parent of the
    gzip file entry's path spec, which is different from trying to retrieve it
    from the gzip file entry's parent file entry.

    It would be preferable to retrieve the modification time from the metadata
    in the gzip file itself, but it appears to not be set when the file is
    written by fseventsd.

    Args:
      gzip_file_entry (dfvfs.FileEntry): file entry of the gzip file containing
          the fseventsd data.

    Returns:
      dfdatetime.DateTimeValues: parent modification time, or None if not
          available.
    """
    parent_file_entry = path_spec_resolver.Resolver.OpenFileEntry(
        gzip_file_entry.path_spec.parent)
    if not parent_file_entry:
      return None

    return parent_file_entry.modification_time

  def ParseFileObject(self, parser_mediator, file_object):
    """Parses an fseventsd file.

    Args:
      parser_mediator (ParserMediator): parser mediator.
      file_object (dfvfs.FileIO): a file-like object.

    Raises:
      UnableToParseFile: when the header cannot be parsed.
    """
    page_header_map = self._GetDataTypeMap('dls_page_header')

    try:
      page_header, file_offset = self._ReadStructureFromFileObject(
          file_object, 0, page_header_map)
    except (ValueError, errors.ParseError) as exception:
      raise errors.UnableToParseFile(
          'Unable to parse page header with error: {0!s}'.format(
              exception))

    current_page_end = page_header.page_size

    file_entry = parser_mediator.GetFileEntry()
    date_time = self._GetParentModificationTime(file_entry)
    # TODO: Change this to use a more representative time definition (time span)
    # when https://github.com/log2timeline/dfdatetime/issues/65 is resolved.
    if date_time:
      timestamp_description = definitions.TIME_DESCRIPTION_RECORDED
    else:
      date_time = dfdatetime_semantic_time.NotSet()
      timestamp_description = definitions.TIME_DESCRIPTION_NOT_A_TIME
    event = time_events.DateTimeValuesEvent(date_time, timestamp_description)

    file_size = file_object.get_size()
    while file_offset < file_size:
      if file_offset >= current_page_end:
        try:
          page_header, header_size = self._ParseDLSPageHeader(
              file_object, file_offset)
        except errors.ParseError as exception:
          parser_mediator.ProduceExtractionWarning(
              'Unable to parse page header with error: {0!s}'.format(
                  exception))
          break

        current_page_end += page_header.page_size
        file_offset += header_size
        continue

      if page_header.signature == self._DLS_V1_SIGNATURE:
        record_map = self._GetDataTypeMap('dls_record_v1')
      else:
        record_map = self._GetDataTypeMap('dls_record_v2')

      try:
        record, record_length = self._ReadStructureFromFileObject(
            file_object, file_offset, record_map)
        file_offset += record_length
      except (ValueError, errors.ParseError) as exception:
        parser_mediator.ProduceExtractionWarning(
            'Unable to parse page record with error: {0!s}'.format(
                exception))
        break

      event_data = self._BuildEventData(record)
      parser_mediator.ProduceEventWithEventData(event, event_data)

manager.ParsersManager.RegisterParser(FseventsdParser)


I upgraded my Lumia 640xl with Upgrade adviser app. After upgrading it, did hard reset and after installing all apps again I again did a Soft reset. I didn't opted for back up. Started everything from scratch.
But I'm facing some problems which were not there with Windows 8.
1. I'm downloading Offline Maps of India region. I think maps are fully downloaded (as I can open and explore any place on map without internet connection) but whenever I check that offline download menu its always there stacked around 2 % or 12 %. seems like its downloading maps again and again so whenever my phone gets connected to WiFi its downloading those maps again and again.
There's not enough space left on phone memory so cant download there. there's around 16 GB still available on SD card. Its class 10 card and can handle everything pretty quick.
2. Camera app : First of all it will not open in first go. It will crashed. Somehow if it got opened and I try to adjust settings (ISO, brightness and other) it will crash again. If I managed to click a pic it start applying finishing effects on that (and takes a lot of time in that) or camera will crash again (after clicking a pic) and It will not open again for 10 secs It just ruining my perfect moments. I cant take pics again and again.
3. Almost every app get crashed if I stress them, Like scrolling them very quick, In setting menu if I access them speedly it will crash and shows me Home screen.
Do we have any solutions for these? I don't want to do another hard reset it again and download all those apps again and setting everything back. I'm loving windows 10 don't want to go back. How much time MS will take to give us update again?
No one else facing these issues?
do these one at a time and if problem still exists move to next.
My screen starts flickering when playing any video using Movies&TV App and myTube. Doesn't happen with other apps. Is this a known issue?
My apps close constantly. Some also lost their icon.
Sometimes all system stop responding in a loading screen.
You are at w10 fast ring.I had the same problems with my phone.Just roll buck to production rig or wait the upcoming update this week and see if they fixed the issue.
What build are you in?


Custom key chains are created using a process very similar to that of custom lapel pins. We first create a design, from which a mold is made. That mold is used to create a die, which will be used to stamp your design into brass, copper or steel. We then hand paint each color individually, electroplate in your choice of metal plating and then attach a key chain attachment of your choice.


text:
using System;
using FsmCodeBase;

// ----------
// State Logic Implement Below
// ----------

namespace Fsm.Generated.FsmColor
{
    partial class Blue : BaseState
    {
        public override string GetName()
        {
            return "Blue";
        }

        public override void OnEnter(StateMachine context)
        {
            // Logic Code Here
            Console.WriteLine("Blue Enter");
            base.OnEnter(context);
        }

        public override string OnUpdate(float dt, StateMachine context)
        {
            // Logic Code Here
            return base.OnUpdate(dt, context);
        }

        public override void OnEvent(string name, object args, StateMachine context)
        {
            // Logic Code Here
            base.OnEvent(name, args, context);
        }

        public override void OnExit(StateMachine context)
        {
            // Logic Code Here
            base.OnExit(context);
        }
    }
}


text:
low year is the second studio album from the American rock band dollys.

Content
The ten-song album was released with Sniffling Indie Kids on 2 March 2016, as digital download and on compact disc. It was recorded at Lakehouse Recording Studios in Asbury Park, New Jersey. low year was engineered, mixed, produced and mastered by Erik Kase Romero, with additional engineering, mixing and mastering by Tim Panella. In an interview with Courier News, Kase Romero explains "we took just about an entire day per song just to record all the tracks to tape, which allowed us to pour all of our focus for a whole session into the aesthetic of one single tune." It is described as a "nostalgic and effervescent brand of New Brunswick-based indie-pop," and a Pirate! press release calls the album "sun-drenched grandeur, combining Beach Boys-esque vocal harmonies with psychedelic surf rock guitar licks [with] drummer Natalie Newbold's vocals guid[ing] these songs." Newbold's voice is likened to Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, and the album draws comparison to the music of Hop Along, Lush, and Girlpool.

The single "better" was released on 15 August 2015, and "friendly" was released on 1 December 2015. The record release show for low year was held at Convention Hall in Asbury Park, New Jersey, on 26 February, with Lost in Society.

The album was listed No. 1 in The Top 10 Albums of 2016 by Bob Makin in The Aquarian Weekly, and is described as "ten nuggets [of] punk energy and emotionally raw lyrics." A review from Speak Into My Good Eye says "laden with anachronism and experimentation, dollys' melodic dabbling has propelled them to make an album that continually surprises," that features "thumping, jangly[,] near-reggae collaged shoegaze [and] innocent doo-wop sensibilities and swinging bass."

Track listing

Personnel
Erik Kase Romero – bass and vocals
Jeff Lane – guitar and vocals
Natalie Newbold – drums and vocals

References
Citations

Bibliography

2015 albums
Dollys albums
Sniffling Indie Kids albums

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South Africa is renowned for its good quality maize and this crop is important to commercial and subsistence farming communities. Although maize has many uses, the most important is that of the production of food and feed.
Maize and maize-based products are consumed by the majority of South Africans (between 67% and 83% of the population), and the average cooked maize consumption per day is estimated between 476 g - 690 g per person. For this reason, the contamination of maize by fungi and the resultant production of mycotoxins, remains a very important concern.
In the previous article (March 2017) we explained that mycotoxins are toxic chemicals produced by fungi that grow naturally on various agricultural crops. Although the extent of fungal growth on crops can be visible to the naked eye, the occurrence and levels of mycotoxins are not. These levels may vary extensively in a single maize cob, as well as between neighbouring plants.
The mycotoxins relevant to commercial maize produced in South Africa are: Fumonisin (FB) associated with Fusarium Ear Rot; deoxynivalenol (DON) and zearalenone (ZEA) associated with Giberella Ear Rot, all caused by Fusarium fungal species.
In rural areas in South Africa where people grow maize as a daily staple (subsistence farming), FB has been the most important mycotoxin and normally occurs at relatively high levels. This has been the case for rural Eastern Cape (EC), Limpopo (LP), and KwaZulu-Natal (KZN). DON has also been detected in subsistence maize from the rural EC. The mycotoxin aflatoxin (AFLA), produced by Aspergillus flavus, has been observed in rural LP and KZN. The reasons for these differences in areas include climate, insect pests, soil quality and agricultural practices.
Those of you that farm with maize will know that each maize kernel is made-up of different parts (Figure 1) and each of these is of commercial importance. Table 1 provides a description and summary of kernel parts (also known as milling fractions).
The Fusarium and Aspergillus fungi are soilborne organisms and usually survive in plant debris (stubble) between seasons. These fungi can infect the plants pre-harvest in various ways: Through the roots or carried over in contaminated seed (Fusarium); wind and water transmission, as well as through insect and other wounds (Fusarium and Aspergillus). Aspergillus is also known to be a serious problem when grain is not stored properly. Fungi enter the maize kernel from the outer layers and move to the inner kernel layers, therefore mycotoxins are known to be mainly concentrated in the surface layers of the maize kernel. Furthermore, the pericarp can act as a physical barrier against the fungi entering the endosperm.
The chemical structure of mycotoxins makes it impossible to remove them completely from crops and therefore they can only be partly removed by food processing and/or other specific clean-up (decontamination) methods. Food processing that may reduce mycotoxin contamination includes sorting, washing, dehulling, milling, brewing, baking, frying, roasting and alkaline cooking.
Milling of maize is a physical process regarded as the first step in the production of maize-based products by removing the outer structure (pericarp) to expose the endosperm, which is then turned into various fractions such as grits; germ; meal and fine flour. The fractions mostly used for the production of human foodstuffs are the grit and flour with their respective particle sizes and grading, whereas the bran and germ milling fractions are mostly used for animal feed and oil extraction, respectively (Table 1).
In South Africa dry milling is mostly utilised to produce food products such as samp, maize rice, unsifted, sifted, coarse, SUPER and SPECIAL maize meal. The levels of mycotoxins within the different milling fractions will differ depending on numerous factors such as how the far the fungi have entered into a kernel (surface or inner layers) and the physical breaking of each kernel into its various milling fractions. Due to the complexity of the milling process during which unprocessed maize produces various fractions, the mycotoxin levels may either be redistributed or concentrated.
In the next issue we will continue to explore mycotoxins relevant to other grains such as wheat, sorghum and barley. The question of safety levels we will address in a later issue when we will talk about the impact of mycotoxins on human health.
Article submitted by HM Burger and P Rheeder from the Institute of Biomedical and Microbial Biotechnology (IBMB), Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). For more information, send an email to Burgerh@cput.ac.za. or RheederJP@cput.ac.za.


text:
Final Fantasy VII Remake Has A Theme Song
Square Enix delayed Final Fantasy VII Remake by a month but that shouldn't mean we won't see a new trailer for the anticipated remake.
Of note, is that the remake will include a theme song for the game, which is composed by the original composer Nobuo Uematsu and sung by Yosh – it's called Hollow.
We also get a lengthy trailer which includes our first look at Red XIII, Hojo, and Cloud at the Honey Bee Manor. It's got some minor spoilers so if you're looking to go in blind when the game launches in April, I wouldn't watch this trailer.
There's also insight from all the composers working on the remake. I'm happy to see that not only Nobuo Uematsu working on the project, but so is Masashi Hamauzu and Mitsuto Suzuki.
Final Fantasy VII Remake will launch on April 10 on PlayStation 4
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When we think of a smart home what is the first thing that comes to mind?
Apart from taking over the world and causing an apocalyptic war between robots and humans (The Terminator), smart homes have been designed to help make our lives more convenient, safer, cost effective and comfortable.
A smart house is a residence that uses internet-connected devices to enable homeowners to remotely control, monitor and manage appliances and systems, such as lighting, heating, and garage doors.
It provides a single point of communication for all devices connected on the network, which can be accessed anytime, anywhere from your smartphone.
Smart homes is still a relatively new concept with many skeptical households operating the old fashion way, but turning your home into a smart home could be the best decision you have ever made.
The benefits of home automation helps you save on energy costs, create a safer environment for the family, and gives you full control of your home.
Let's take a closer look at some of the biggest benefits that a smart home provides.
Smart thermostats allow homeowners to schedule, monitor and remotely control their home temperatures.
The devices are also capable of learning your behaviours and automatically adjust the settings to provide you with maximum comfort and efficiency.
Smart lightning systems can detect when you or your family enter a room and automatically adjust the lighting as needed. They also regulate themselves based on daylight availability.
Smart locks and garage-door openers give you the power to grant or deny access to visitors.
They also have motion sensors which have the ability to detect when you are nearby and automatically unlock the door for you.
Smart cameras can be linked up to your home network where you can access live footage via an application on your mobile phone giving you full coverage of your home around the clock.
A smart home gives you control of each aspect of your home, whether it is temperature, lightning or security.
With automation technology, you can know exactly what is happening inside and outside of your home at all times.
A smart home allows you to control everything all from the palm of your hand and through automation.
You can open the garage door using an application from your mobile or automate your coffee machine to brew your morning coffee at 7am every morning.
You can even set triggers between devices to automate your regular home processes such as setting your smart locks to turn on your smart lightning when you unlock the front door.
There are smart fridges that will keep track of expiration dates, create shopping lists, and even create recipes based on the ingredients you have in your fridge.
If you're feeling lazy, like me, you can set adaptive lightning, sound, and temperature to create a synchronized environment catered to your needs.
Here are some simple tech upgrades to turn your home into a smart home.
Home security cameras has been around for some time now and is usually connected to your home network that can be monitored from your computer.
With the introduction of smart home technology, you can now monitor any camera you setup within your home from your smartphone at any time.
Taking your home security to another level, smart locks or electronic locks can be placed on your doors which can require either a 4 digit access code or use bluetooth technology. These locks can be connected to your smartphone and unlock when you place your phone on the reader. You can even get fingerprint readers.
There are motors in the market that allow for Wi-Fi connectivity, such as the Merlin MYQ Commander from Gryphon Garage Doors Perth. This gives extra control and peace of mind if you're away from the home and unsure whether the door is open or not. You can also set a timer for when the door will open and close. However you can convert most motors with a Bluetooth unit that allows you to open your door from your smartphone, usually costs around $300.
Connect your smart lightning to your wi-fi and control it from your smartphone or voice activated assistants such as Amazon Echo or Google Home.
Smart plugs give you the benefits of automation and smart home access for all electrical appliances when plug them into sockets around your home. They can be controlled via a smartphone application and help you monitor your energy usage and save on energy bills.
Take control of your homes temperature with a smart thermostat that allows you to remotely control the temperature from your smartphone, tablet, or PC.
Multi-room audio and multimedia systems provided by companies such as Vision Living, allow your music or radio to follow you around your home. By adding sensors to your home, they will sense when you enter or leave a room to have your entertainment follow you just like in the movies.
You can also group all of your favourite entertainment appliance controls into one mobile application allowing you to control it from the palm of your hand. Imagine turning the television volume down from your bedroom because the kids had it on too loud.
Popular devices that can be found in smart homes include a Google Home or an Amazon Echo which allow users to speak to the device just like asking Siri a question on an iPhone.
As technology continues to advance we are able to achieve far more than we ever could. From automatic brewed coffees, to self cleaning house robots, and even fridges that keep track of expirations as well as create recipes.
We essentially live from the palm of our hands, with everything remotely controlled from our smartphones.
But this is where skeptics have a leg to stand on. With great technology comes a greater need for cyber security.
With so many devices controlled and accessible on a single network, it becomes easy for thieves to hack into peoples homes. This allows them to unlock doors, control cameras and turn off smart lighting.
In addition, many smart home owners are worried about the privacy of their data that is shared by their smart home devices.
Since smart home device and platform manufacturers may collect consumer data to better tailor their products to offer new and improved services to their customers.
At this stage it doesn't seem like Skynet will be taking over anytime soon. Smart homes, just like smartphones, will eventually become an integral part of living as we look towards a safer but more convenient future.


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Alabama has landed another commitment on the recruiting trails for the 2012 recruiting class, this time in the form of Miami wide receiver prospect Amari Cooper. Per Don Kausler, Jr.:
Amari Cooper, a wide receiver from Miami whose performance in camps this summer raised his stock significantly, committed today to Alabama.
The 6-foot-2, 180-pound prospect from Northwestern High School in Miami, is the 19th player to commit to Alabama for its signing class of 2012.
Those who follow recruiting will remember that Cooper was slated to commit to Alabama several weeks ago after his high school season opener. When his school lost that opener, however, he decided to postpone his decision, and in the meantime gave more consideration to Florida State and West Virginia, but he never really swayed from Alabama.
Cooper actually came into this past summer as a relatively unknown prospect. His junior season was short-circuited by a hip injury that limited him to only five games, of which he played only sparingly, and early in the process he was played slowly by most major programs. After impressive seven-on-seven performances at various college camps, however, his recruitment really began to take off late this past spring with offers from Miami and Florida State. He came to Tuscaloosa in July for the UA camp, and after a very strong performance at the Capstone he immediately earned an offer from the 'Bama coaching staff and became a priority.
Ordinarily Miami would have been the team to beat, of course, but the long-term decline of that program mixed with the latest NCAA allegations resulted in Cooper never giving serious consideration to the hometown Hurricanes. Furthermore, for what it's worth, Cooper made it clear from the outset that distance was not going a consideration in deciding his college of choice.
In any event, after the strong camp showings, Cooper saw his proverbial stock take off and in the end his offer list included several major programs, including Alabama, Miami, Florida State, and Ohio State, among others. Additionally, he received invitations to play in both the Under Armour All-American Game and the Army All-American Bowl.
Cooper becomes the 19th commitment of the 2012 recruiting class.


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Tech Talkin' Govs: Part II
The second installment of SSTI's Tech Talkin' Govs series includes excerpts from speeches delivered in Alaska, Colorado, Missouri, and New Mexico. Our first installment was in the Jan. 11 Digest. Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell, State of the State Address, Jan. 19, 2012 "I also thank you for working with me to create a merit scholarship that gives all Alaska's children an incentive to complete a more rigorous high school curriculum. ... "... In its first year, this scholarship has been a remarkable success. Now we must secure it for future years. This legislative session, let us take the $400 million that we set aside last year, and build a strong fence of moral obligation around it. Let us create a fund for that money so the fund's earnings can pay for these scholarships for future generations." Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, State of the State Address, Jan. 12, 2012 "We established the Colorado Innovation Network (COIN) to foster collaboration and idea-sharing across private sector, academic and public lines, including the 29 research laboratories in Colorado. ... "... COIN gives us a unique opportunity to incubate entrepreneurship and facilitate the transfer of new ideas to the marketplace. ... "... While COIN is privately funded, we are asking for a modest public investment to continue the success we had with Arrow and GE." Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, State of the State Address, Jan. 17, 2012 "As part of our Missouri Works strategy, the budget I present tonight continues our record investment in worker training for a second year, especially in high-tech areas so critical to modern manufacturing. ... "... The next pillar of Missouri Works is to accelerate investment in high-growth industries like science and technology. ... "... With the passage last year of the Missouri Science and Innovation Reinvestment Act, we are poised for rapid progress. "As part of Missouri Works, my budget includes $4 million in seed capital to invest in attracting the very best science talent to Missouri." New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, State of the State Address, Jan. 17, 2012 "We need to invest in a culture of entrepreneurship so more of these family businesses can make it — so they can grow and hire more New Mexicans. "I'm also proposing a tax credit for high-tech research and development to attract more high-paying jobs to the state."
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The Impossibility Of Same Sex Marriage
William E May FAITH Magazine September-October 2004
The Gay Case: Need For An Intelligent Answer
Advocates of same-sex marriage commonly assert that its opponents are intolerant bigots unjustly denying a fundamental human right to individuals attracted to persons of the same sex. They maintain that same-sex couples can live in a committed relationship and have a right to express their affection for one another genitally. Many such couples claim that they can satisfy their sexual urges and natural inclination toward intimate union adequately only by establishing a more or less permanent relationship that includes sexual intimacy. They emphasize that the actual capacity to generate children is not necessary for a valid marriage; after all, opponents of same-sex marriage acknowledge the validity of the marriages of men and women known to be sterile and hence incapable of havingchildren. Why, then, can they not recognize as valid marriages the union of same-sex couples who love each other and wish to share their lives together?
Intelligent replies must be given to the challenge these considerations raise. I hope to do so here by contrasting marriage and the marital act with same-sex unions and homosexual acts. In doing so I will show that homosexual acts are bad because they violate the good of the persons who engage in them. I will conclude with an argument to show why same-sex persons simply cannot marry. Marriage is not a merely instrumental good, in the service of procreation, as St. Augustine thought, or of pleasure, as same-sex advocates such as Steven Macedo maintain.
Marriage: A Fundamental Human Good
It is, rather, an intrinsic, basic good of human persons precisely as males and females, and as such it offers married men and women a reason to engage in the marital act. Vatican Council II indicated this great truth when it declared: "God did not create the human person as a solitary," and after citing Genesis 1: 27, "male and female he created them," explains that the companionship of the two sexes "produces the primary form of interpersonal communion. For, by their innermost nature human beings are social, and unless they relate themselves to one another they can neither live nor develop their gifts." Commenting on this passage, Germain Grisez notes: "This gloss on Gn 1.27 implies that marriage is not merely an instrumental good: the companionship of man and woman belongs to humankindas image of God and is the primary form of one of the essential, intrinsic aspects of human fulfillment." Moreover, Pope John Paul II clearly teaches in Veritatis splendor that "the communion of persons in marriage," violated by every act of adultery, "is a fundamental human good" (nos. 13, 48; see also nos. 50, 67, 78, 79).
Marriage is consummated by the marital act, which is far more than a mere genital act between a man and a woman who happen to be married. Men and women are capable of having genital sex because they have genitals, and thus fornicators and adulterers are able to have genital sex. But fornicators and adulterers are not capable of engaging in the conjugal or marital act precisely because they are not married, and it is marriage that capacitates spouses to engage in the marital act, i.e., to do what spouses are supposed to do, to become literally one flesh in an act whereby the husband personally gives himself to his wife by entering into her body person, and in doing so receives her and whereby the wife personally receives her husband into her body person and by doing so gives herself tohim. Fornicators and adulterers cannot give and receive each other bodily; rather they lend themselves and their bodies to one another. The Church consistently and correctly refers to the conjugal act as one "proper and exclusive to spouses"; genital acts are hardly such.
An Act That is Apt For Love And For Life
The marital act, moreover, is the kind or type of act intrinsically fit or apt both for communicating conjugal love and for receiving the gift of life. This act is and remains a procreative kind of act even if the spouses, because of non-behavioral factors over which they have no control, for example, the temporary or permanent sterility of one of the spouses, are not able to generate human life in it. Their act remains the kind of bodily act—in fact, the only kind of bodily act, "apt" for generating human life.
In the marital act, moreover, husband and wife do not use their bodies as instruments to provide them with subjective states of consciousness but rather respect their bodies as intrinsic to themselves as bodily persons. When one treats one's body as intrinsic to one's self, there is a unitary activity, and various bodily actions share in this activity since they are not directed to an extrinsic purpose. In activity of this kind, as John Finnis says, the body's "activity is as much the constitutive subject of what one does as one's act of choice is." Thus in the marital act, spouses freely choose to instantiate their communion of persons in one flesh open to the gift of life in and through an act in which their bodily activity is as much the constitutive subject of what they are doing asis their act of choice.
The union of husband and wife in the marital act "really unites them biologically (and their biological reality is part of, not merely an instrument of, their personal reality)….their [bodily] sexual union therefore can actualize and allow them to experience their real common good—their marriage…as an intelligible common good even if, independently of the spouses' will, their capacity for biological parenthood will not be fulfilled by that act of genital union." Their act, as John Paul II puts it, speaks the "language of the body."
How different from this are same-sex unions and homosexual acts. In the precise sense homosexual acts comprise anal or oral intercourse chosen by two males, with the intention that at least one of them achieve satisfaction by ejaculating within the other's body. Such acts are acts of sodomy or homosexual intercourse. A lesbian couple can, without engaging in intercourse, stimulate each other to orgasm, and such intentional acts can also be regarded as homosexual in a broader sense. And both male and female homosexuals may choose to masturbate each other as ways of expressing their affection. But are such acts truly "appropriate" means to do so? Do those engaging in them truly become "one flesh"? In such acts "is the body's activity as much the constitutive subject of what one does asone's act of choice is"? Or in such acts is the consciously experiencing subject using his body as an instrument extrinsic to himself?
Homosexual Acts Against Authentic Intimacy
In homosexual behavior the bodily joining of their practitioners, whether homosexual or heterosexual, does not unite them biologically as one complete procreative organism. Although they may choose such acts as means of experiencing personal intimacy, the resulting experience is not and cannot be the experience of any real unity between them; it is not and cannot be the experiencing of a common good attained in and through an act of bodily union. In such acts, each one's experience of intimacy is private and incommunicable, and no more a common good than is the mere experience of sexual arousal and orgasm. "Therefore," as Germain Grisez has said, "the choice to engage in sodomy for the sake of that experience of intimacy in no way contributes to the partners' real common good as committedfriends."
Homosexual and mutually masturbatory acts cannot do what those engaging in them may hope and imagine. Their activation of one or even each of their genital organs cannot be an actualizing and experiencing of the marital good, as the conjugal act is. Such activation, as Finnis says, "can do no more than provide each partner with an individual gratification. For want of a common good that could be actualized and experienced by and in this bodily union, that conduct involves the partners in treating their bodies as instruments of their consciously experiencing selves." Their "choice to engage in such conduct," he continues, "thus dis-integrates each of them precisely as acting persons."
Persons choosing homosexual acts are not speaking the "language of the body," in which the body itself is integral to their union as bodily beings. Rather, they use their own and each other's bodies to provide subjectively experienced satisfactions, states of consciousness. Thus the body becomes an instrument used and the conscious subject the user. The conscious self is alienated from the body. The activation of their genital powers is done in order to bring about the satisfaction of a desire.
Thus to choose to engage in homosexual acts is to choose a specific kind of self-disintegrity. The self-integration damaged in this way is the unity of the acting person as conscious subject and sexually functioning body. But, as Grisez points out, "this specific aspect of self-integration…is precisely the aspect necessary so that the bodily union of sexual intercourse will be a communion of persons, as marital intercourse is." Therefore, homosexual acts damage "the body's capacity for the marital act as an act of self-giving which constitutes a communion of bodily persons." To put this in other words, homosexual acts damage what Pope John Paul II rightly calls the "nuptial meaning of the body."
Homosexual Acts Disintegrate The Body
Choosing to engage in homosexual acts thus damages or violates the "nuptial meaning of the body" and thereby the capacity of the person to give himself bodily to another in marriage. But in addition, the specific kind of behavior characteristic of homosexuals, anal intercourse, the sine qua non for male homosexuals, endangers the health and therefore the life of its practitioners. As John R. Diggs, Jr., M.D. points out, human physiology
makes it clear that the body was not designed to accommodate this activity. The rectum is significantly different from the vagina with regard to suitability for penetration by a penis. …the anus is a delicate mechanism of small muscles that comprise an 'exit-only' passage. With repeated trauma, friction, and stretching, the sphincter loses its tone and its ability to maintain a tight seal. Consequently, anal intercourse leads to leakage of fecal material that can easily become chronic. … The list of diseases found with extraordinary frequency among male homosexual practitioners as a result of anal intercourse is alarming: anal cancer, chlamydia trachomatis, cryptosporidium, giardia lamblia, herpes simplex virus, human immunodeficiency virus, human papilloma virus, isospora belli,microsporidia, gonorrhea, viral hepatitis type B & C, syphilis.
This passage supports the conclusion that anal sex is hardly an appropriate way to express friendship. Added to the reasons already given to show how homosexual acts violate the nuptial meaning of the body and the unity of the human person as a bodily being, respect for the health and life of homosexual males ought to make one realize that anal sex, the characteristic kind of homosexual male behavior, is morally bad.
An Argument Against Same-Sex Marriage
Persons of the same sex cannot marry because they cannot do what married couples can, i.e., consummate their union by a bodily act in which they become the common subjects of an act that, precisely as human behavior, is eminently fit both for the communication of spousal love and for the generation of new human life. How would homosexuals consummate their union? How would they become "one flesh"? It is absurd to think that they become "one flesh" in anal or oral sex or by mutually masturbating each other. It is equally absurd to think that they can marry.
Homosexual Acts Against The Common Good
Moreover, equating same-sex unions with marriage would be a terrible injustice to married men and women, who perform an indispensable service to the common good of society. Genital coition is the only bodily act intrinsically capable of generating new human life. Kissing, holding hands, fondling, and anal/oral sex cannot generate children. They can be generated through acts of fornication and adultery, but it is not good for children to be begotten in this way. For millennia every human culture has recognized the bond linking sex, marriage, and the generation of human life, and frowned on begetting children out of wedlock. Although many today think it fitting to generate children outside of marriage, the tragic situations accompanying phenomena such as fatherless children, undisciplinedyouth, and abandoned women show the shallowness of such thinking.
The marital union of a man and a woman who have given themselves unreservedly in marriage and who can consummate their union in a beautiful bodily act of conjugal intercourse is the best place to serve as a "home" for new human life, as the "place" where this life can take root and grow in love and service to others. A marriage of this kind contributes uniquely to the common good. It merits legal protection. Same-sex unions are not the same and sadly merely mimic the real thing. They can in no way be regarded as marriages in the true sense.
By William E May
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Enforcement, silencing, and truth
2019 has not, thus far, been a joyful year for Britain. Knife crime – numbers of young people stabbing one another on the streets of our cities – has risen steadily and looks set to continue to do so. Political life has been chaotic, giving a general sense of uncertainty and confusion over the one thing of which we have long been confident – the resilience and reasonable competence of our system of governance. And the sinister political-correctness which over the past few years has increasingly sought control over our lives continues to grow in strength and in nastiness.
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Philip Vander Elst describes how CS Lewis enabled him to grasp some liberating truths
Celibacy and The Pan- Amazon Synod
Debates about clerical celibacy are nothing new. There have been many arguments and challenges over the centuries. It is commonly asserted that celibacy is a "medieval" innovation, imposed on Catholic priests only a thousand years ago. In fact, scholarly studies have demonstrated that, in essence, it can be traced back to apostolic times.
The Luminous Mysteries – meditations
We continue our series of meditations, drawn from the works of Blessed John Henry Newman, on the Mysteries of the Rosary. These meditations have been collected together by a Sister of the Benedictine Abbey of St Cecilia on the Isle of Wight.
A 'Pilgrimage' is a collective noun
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Despite the affair with Emily, Palmerston made proposals of marriage to Lady Georgiana Fane, the younger sister of Lady Jersey: his suit was Mens warehouse Mandurah on Marriage to Palmerston women three occasions.
In Palmerston spoke in the Commons in favour of Catholic Emancipationand after the Battle of Waterloo he suggested that any soldier who had fought in Butterfly massage Granville battle should be allowed to count it as two years' service for pay and pensions purposes.
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But women were only one of his vices. As showrunner Daisy Goodwin put it, "He loved gambling; he loved racing; he loved women.
They were both in their 50s, and didn't tie the knot until after Emily's first husband, the 5th Earl of Cowper, died.
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By many accounts they had a happy marriage.
Of their relationship, Emily's son-in-law, Lord Shaftesbury wrote, "His attentions to Lady Palmerston, when they both of them were well stricken in years, were those of a perpetual courtship. Undouhtedly, there were unhappy aristocratic marriages in which the hushand wholly ignored even in the most recent analysis of Palmerston's political life.
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"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.
Koko the Mighty by Kieran Shea
Expected publication: August 25th 2015 by Titan Books
With an outstanding Ultimate Sanction bounty still on her head, Koko Martstellar (ex-mercenary and saloon madam extraordinaire) and Jedidiah Flynn (former orbital sky-cop) have narrowly escaped death in paradise. Rescued during a storm, Koko and Flynn are taken in by what amounts to a self-sufficient outlander cult. To save Flynn's life, Koko barters her warrior skills and assists the de-civ group in fending off their most imminent threat: a horde of genetic-mutant raiders. However, even with the group's foes bested and their idealist lifestyle somewhat enticing, being among the outlander de-civs doesn't sit well with Koko.
In spite of the de-civ group's hospitality and Flynn's arguing that they have it pretty good, Koko suspects something is amiss. People within the outlander group's interlocking compounds keep disappearing with flimsy explanations—people like the girl who died on the cliff before Koko and Flynn's rescue—and soon the group's leadership assesses Koko as a threat to their secret agenda. As the mystery unfolds, Koko's limits and loyalties—perhaps even her love for Flynn—will be tested.
And as if that isn't enough, bounty agent Wire has managed to track down Koko and, after a little politicking, is preparing to lead an army of genetic-mutant raiders in a last-man-standing battle against the cult . . .
I finally picked up a paperback copy of the first book a few months ago, so we'll have to see if I can get caught up in time. It sounds like precisely the kind of over-the-top, kick-ass diversion I need.
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Carriera

Calciatore
Cresciuto calcisticamente nel paese natale, Jose Neto inizia a giocare professionisticamente negli Stati Uniti d'America nel 1975 con i Boston Astros, club con cui vince l'American Soccer League 1975 a pari merito con i New York United ed i titoli personale di capocannoniere del torneo e di miglior giocatore. L'anno seguente passa al  e successivamente ai New Jersey Americans con cui vince l'American Soccer League 1977 ed il titolo personale di capocannoniere.

Nel 1979 passa ai San Diego Sockers, società con cui raggiunse la finale di conference della NASL 1979. Dopo aver giocato all'Hartford Hellions nella MISL, torna ai Sockers con cui raggiunse nuovamente le finali di conference nella NASL 1980 e con cui vince il campionato indoor 1981-1982.

Nel 1982 passa ai Georgia Generals con cui ottiene il terzo posto nell'American Soccer League 1982 e risultandone il miglior marcatore stagionale con quindici reti.

Nello stesso anno ritorna ai Sockers con cui vince la MISL 1982-1983 mentre nella NASL 1983 chiude la stagione al quarto ed ultimo posto della Western Division.

L'anno dopo passa agli Houston Dynamos con cui perde la finale della United Soccer League 1984, corrispondente alla seconda divisione nordamericana, ottenendo però il titolo personale di capo cannoniere.

Dopo aver giocato in California, chiude la carriera agonistica nel 1990.

Allenatore
Ritiratosi dal calcio giocato diventa l'allenatore del Boise Capital, in Idaho, che lascerà per fondare i Boise Blast nel 2004 ed il Neto United nel 2010.

Palmarès

Boston Astros: 1975
New Jersey Americans: 1977

San Diego Sockers: 1981-1982

San Diego Sockers: 1982-1983

Individuali
ASL Most Valuable Player 1975
 Capocannoniere della ASL: 2
1975 (23 gol)
1977 (17 gol)
 Capocannoniere della USL: 2
1984 (22 gol)

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Collegamenti esterni


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Pep Guardiola makes Man City Premier League admission
Manchester City stormed to the Premier League title in record-breaking fashion this season.
Richard Fay
Pep Guardiola does not think his Manchester City side can be considered the best team in Premier League history despite a record-breaking campaign.
Guardiola inspired the Blues to a resounding victory in the competition as his side became the first team to record 100-points in a single top-flight season.
City broke a whole host of records on their way to their fifth title, however many pundits believe the club need to replicate the feat to truly be considered a great side.
And Guardiola admits his side needs consistent success if they are to rightfully secure their place in English football history.
"I would say we made the best year in the Premier League ever," Guardiola told This Is Premier League.
"The numbers say that. We are the best? I'm not sure.
"I'm completely with the people who say that to be considered the best team in the history of English football you have to win more. We won one Premier League [title]."
Man City manager Pep Guardiola lines up Jorginho alternatives
Replicating the feat looks virtually impossible, however Guardiola believes any chance of doing so would rely on harvesting the same team spirit which saw them break the 100 points barrier last season.
He added: "Last season and this season one of our strong points is our locker room. The quality of the human beings they are, how they connect with the rest of the staff, that is I would say the main secret, that counts a lot to me."


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Soul-Health: Therapeutic Reading in Later Medieval England is available now in hardback and ebook formats.
Daniel McCann introduces his new book, Soul-Health: Therapeutic Reading in Later Medieval England.
The connection between reading and healing has a history far deeper and far darker than modern 'bibliotherapeutics' would lead us to believe. While you don't have to look far to find accounts of 'consoling fictions' offering mental and physical health, looking a little further into the past reveals something quite different. For the medieval period, reading had a strong medicinal potential that was believed to treat the very soul of the reader through the powerful emotions it could evoke. This was part of a wider medical model going back to classical times: the Galenic framework of the res non-naturales, or non-natural things, stated that the regulation of the emotions was key to maintaining humoral balance and so health. In particular, activities that could evoke moderate joy – or gaudium – were seen as beneficial in the regimental care of the self. Reading bawdy verses about lusty monks (for example) could provoke a salutary laugh – which was sometimes called hilaritas. And yet, while reading for pleasure and joy was recommended, the vast majority of texts in the Middle Ages were anything but joyful. Though Chaucer can provoke a laugh, we have to remember that the medieval 'best-sellers' were those pious texts dealing with Christ's suffering, torture and death. The emotional tones and hues of such texts are vastly more complex, manifold and difficult than simple joy. Moreover, they circulate in manuscripts that often extol their medical potential. For instance, the enormous Vernon manuscript (c.1390s) states from its opening that reading it provides 'soul-hele' – soul health. It's full of texts which, through their sophistication and beauty, set out to evoke sorrow, fear, compassion and a host of other emotional states that are worlds apart from joy. This begs an important question of such reading material: how can emotions, widely understood to be dangerous, operate therapeutically?
nothing else but a false, ungoverned love of a man unto himself. Out of this love, as St Augustine says, springs all manner of sin deadly and venial.
Be contrition we arn made clene, be compassion we arn made redy and be trew longyng to God we arn made worthy. Thes arn iii menys, as I understond, wherby that al soulis come to hevyn … for be these medycines behovyth that every soule be helyd.
By contrition we are made clean, by compassion we are made ready, and by true longing to God we are made worthy. These are three means, as I understand, whereby all souls come to heaven … for they are medicines by which every soul is healed.
A derworþe lord what schal I nou dou. nou mai I liue no more for serwe and forsore, now my dere lemmon schal vnderfonge deþ. nou mai I Murne strongley, nou mai I wepe bitterli nou mai I syke sore & serwen euer more. A now me leden him forþ to mount of caluarie, to þe qualstouwe to don him þere o dawe. A my deore lemmon, he bereþ þe Roode tre on his bare scholdre for þe loue of me. his bodi is so tendre, his bones longe and lene, al stoupynde he goþ þat del hit is to seone. A Mi swete lemmon, þe duntes þat þei smyte þe, þe serwe þat þei don þe.
Ah! Dear worthy Lord what shall I now do? Now may I live no more for sorrow and grief, now my dear darling shall undergo death, now may I mourn strongly, now may I weep bitterly, now may I sigh sorely and lament ever more. Ah! Now (me/they) lead Him away to Mount Calvary, to the place of execution to kill Him. Ah! My dear love, He bears the cross on His bare shoulder for the love of me. His body is so tender, his bones long and lean, all stopping He goes so that a pity it is to see. Ah! My sweet darling, the blows that they smite thee with, the sorrow that they do to you.
Unlike prior passages in the text, this one begins with the impassioned interjectional cry to Jesus – that 'A'. This emotional cry sets a tone for the rest of the passage, carefully sustained through repetition and additional interjections. Initially, the urgency and force of the opening question 'what schal I nou dou', is sustained through subsequent clauses by the repetition of its immediate answer 'nou mai I'. Through this repetition, each clause is connected back to that forceful opening in a manner that directly recalls its emotive energy. The reader is thus constantly brought back to that cry throughout the whole section, its force and potency endowing each clause and each detail with added emphasis. Additional interjections break up the passage into dominant sense units and mark progress in the narrative, but they all work in the same manner to express and evoke raw emotion. The result is that each stage in Christ's crucifixion is marked not by detail but rather by the emotive reaction to it. The whole passage thus plays with ideas of action and reaction. Until this moment all events in Christ's Passion have occurred in the distant past, but now the present tense is used exclusively: the past of Calvary merges with the moment of narration, and by extension the moment of reading. Such reading was understood as emotionally evocative – producing passions in precise ways to help move the soul closer to a state of health – of salus. It is a medicine of extremes, and of extreme words at that, but as the Vernon manuscript shows, and as my book seeks to prove, the best medicines are always the bitterest.
Daniel McCann is the Simon and June Li Darby Fellow in English Literature at Lincoln College, Oxford.


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What are we changing, exactly? - Niamh Hardiman
Getting the institutions right
Irish politics is generally held to be in grave need of reform. The global economic crisis since 2008 showed how poorly prepared we were for any downturn, let alone anything on the scale of the crisis that has engulfed us. Our attempts to get to the bottom of successive scandals by setting up tribunals of inquiry have left us disillusioned. The party system itself, which seemed so remarkably durable throughout good times and bad, is now more fluid than it has been in a long time: Fianna Fáil's once-dominant position has been overturned, and Sinn Féin and other parties are scrambling to fill the gap. But the current Fine Gael-Labour coalition controls a historically large majority, and has promised to undertake a new round of political reform. This is a good moment to pause and consider what exactly it is we wish to reform.
Many features of political life have been identified as being in need of change, and the electoral system is one that regularly comes up for discussion. We can see that a good deal of political energy goes into cultivating constituency support, and this close sense of connection with their politicians is clearly something people value. But the downside of localism is also clear: public interest considerations are hard to keep in view, and voters are still inclined to think that the main job of their representatives is, as Basic Chubb memorably said back in 1963, to 'go about persecuting civil servants' on their constituents' behalf. We recognize that the skills required to do this well may not be the ones that best equip our politicians to take on specialized roles either as legislators or as government ministers. But it is far from evident, given other features of our political system, that changing the electoral system would of itself alter patterns of political behaviour very much, either on the part of the voters or of the politicians themselves.
There is no shortage of ideas about what needs to be reformed and how best to do it. Fianna Fáil's Galway tent may now be folded and put away, but how best to regulate lobbyists and party funding is still very much in debate. At a time when the public finances are under extreme pressure, the debate about public sector reform gains new urgency.
But some of the ideas in circulation are more likely to provide quick fixes than deep reform. A recent research project undertaken in UCD[*] has set out to examine patterns of policy making and implementation in Ireland that have persisted throughout our bumpy path from bust to boom and back again. Taking the quality of 'governance' as its theme, the papers consider the design of the political system; the problems that arise in making good economic, social, and infrastructural policy; and the challenges involved in trying to make the system more democratically accountable.
Three big themes emerge from these studies.
The first is the extraordinarily weak role of parliament in Irish public life. What we take as normal is highly unusual compared with other European countries. The studies in our volume detail many ways in which the untrammelled power of governing parties has caused poor policy outcomes. The government can set the agenda for debate and legislation and uses its majority to make sure its preferred outcomes are enacted. It is difficult for the opposition to raise questions, to challenge government decisions, or to hold it accountable when things go wrong. In other countries, most of the real work of parliament takes place in committees that are well resourced and well staffed. Politicians have a real incentive to develop policy expertise and make a name for themselves in their chosen areas. Policy debate is detailed and informed, and hard questions can be put to government effectively. When given an opportunity to move in this direction recently, in the referendum to remove the restrictions arising from the Supreme Court's 2002 Abbeylara ruling, Irish voters said no. But I suspect that many people did not really understand what was at stake. The debate about the balance of power in the Oireachtas cannot be said to be over yet.
A second and related problem concerns the capacity of the government and the public administration to make coherent, integrated, and consistent policy. The dividing line between policy consultation and policy capture is not well defined. It is important that policy-makers should have good contacts with civil society organizations, but it is equally important that special interests should not be allowed to gain disproportionate influence over the policy agenda. This is not just a matter of regulating lobbyists, though this is important. It means there must be less blurring of the distinction between party-political interests and public policy. We also need a clearer sense of what our policy-making and policy-implementing institutions are for, and how they are to be used. There is an important place for state agencies and public bodies, but they need to have a clearly defined role and proper lines of accountability. Government needs to be well informed about what different sectors of opinions would prefer, but needs to be able to withstand the temptation to accommodate them uncritically. This points us toward something deeper again: we need more open discussion about the costs and implications of all policy choices, not just for the public purse but for our wider sense of the purpose of politics and the values that inform the kind of society we want to live in.
This leads on to the third problem, which has to do with the quality and effectiveness of the public administration itself. Two decades of public sector reform have made some changes, but many issues remain. The generalist design of the civil service needs to be re-examined. We now know that more specialized skills are essential in many areas of policy-making, and not just in technical areas to do with banking regulation or financial reform. How best to recruit, retain, and integrate those skills effectively is a matter for urgent consideration. Furthermore, the political neutrality of the civil service should not preclude challenging a minister's preferences. This implies a culture of open policy debate, informed by a whole range of relevant skills and expertise, not only inside the civil service but in the wider society as well. If we want to encourage whistle-blowers, we need to make sure they are appropriately protected. By the same token, we also need to look again at the degree of protection we currently give to system insiders. If 'the system is to blame', we need to make sure we change the system. But we also need to make sure that people are – and know themselves to be – appropriately accountable for their own decisions and their consequences.
The UCD Governance project examines patterns of governance across several policy areas, including economic policy, regulatory regimes, policing, health care, urban renewal, waste management, and e-governance. The recurring themes point to clear conclusions: we need to open up fundamental debate about the deliberative capacities of parliament, the quality of government decision-making, and the effectiveness of the public administration. Unless we have a more integrated sense of where the shortcomings are in our national institutional design, we can change things all we like, but we won't make them any better.
* Irish Governance In Crisis, edited by Niamh Hardiman, published by Manchester University Press (2012).
Niamh Hardiman teaches in UCD School of Politics and International Relations.


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How Large is Your PLN?
This acronym has two versions and both are important. PLN can be either a Professional Learning Network or a Personal Learning Network. While it may seem to have arisen along with social networks, the concept has been in use long before the Internet, although the term didn't exist.
Connecting with colleagues to seek their advice or help on a professional issue has always existed. At first it was within an office or school. I can remember reaching out to a school librarian when I was planning to automate my library in 1993. The telephone was my link. I had already begun building a large Professional Learning Network by becoming an active member first in my state's school library association and soon after in AASL.
Social networks have made extended these connections. Numerous library associations have Facebook pages. National and state organizations also have listservs, and, of course, there's LM_NET which has been a vital listserv for many school librarians who know how to manage the large amount of email messages. Have a problem? A question? Just put it out on one or more of these and advice and help from experience practitioners will soon help you resolve it.
Sometimes you aren't looking for anything, but a post gives you an idea. I was just on the NYLA/SSL Facebook page and there was an illustration of Barbara Stripling's inquiry model. I will be teaching a course in the fall which will discuss inquiry-based learning. I asked the person who posted, if she would send it to me for this purpose. She did, and I will be using it with attribution to her and Barbara Stripling.
Members of Google+ TL Chat share what they are doing with software and other resources you may not have heard of. Just click on the post and find out more. If necessary, post a question. Twitter and LinkedIn groups offer other sources of information to grow your PLN.
Personal Learning Networks are a mix. The greatest number of people in my personal learning network are fellow librarians who are also my friends. I know them well even if I only see many of them at conferences. We are always available for each other. They are my friends on Facebook so I am always keeping up with their lives—professional and personal.
In person and online, we can get involved in discussions about issues arising in the profession. Occasionally this leads to developing a project together or creating a workshop or presentation for a conference. We know each other well enough to make drawing on each other's specific area of expertise a natural part of the collaboration.
The remainder of the people in my Personal Learning Network are non-librarian friends. Recently, I became interested in yoga for people with limited mobility. I am a good librarian and researcher. I could have spent time investigating this on my own. Instead, I reached out to a friend who has been attending yoga classes for years. She loved exploring this. Soon she was sending me information about programs on television and chair yoga classes at a local Y and through the local park service.
Because she had a yoga PLN, she was able to let me know which had good teachers and the pros and cons of each option. She also sent me illustrated directions for doing chair yoga at home. I now have a number of options without expending much of my own time.
Knowledge and information keep expanding at a rapid pace. You can't do it all by yourself. Remember this is a two-way street. Often you are able to respond to someone else's query. You are continually getting and giving in our participatory culture. Being a school librarian today requires you to keep up with the constantly changing technology landscape. PLNs – both professional and personal, are the way you can do it without feeling lost. How big is your PLN? How are you going to make it bigger?