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As a solo developer, my ultimate vision for Solaroids far outweighed my production capacity. Perhaps to a fault, I have a keen aversion to releasing inferior product, and want everything to be as close to perfect as I can. I have a list a mile long of potential things to include in the game, and they run the gamut from additional power-ups, characters, environments, backstory, engine enhancements, and multiplayer possibilities. Some of them are in the unreleased game waiting idle till I can wrap them up to my satisfaction. I guess you could say that my eyes definitely have been bigger than my belly so to speak. Even the software I used for project management no longer works on modern iOS devices and I have to use my old iPod 4th generation to manage the project!
To focus my efforts on actually completing a version of the project, I decided some time ago to hone in on a much simpler game. Something that is still in the spirit of Solaroids, and still fun to play for Asteroid fans whether it be alone or with friends. I've given it the name Solaroids: Prologue, and development has been wrapping up over the summer culminating in a undesired mad rush to iron out any kinks on the Xbox 360 version of the build.
The game is currently being reviewed for inclusion in the Xbox Live Indie Games catalog for the Xbox 360. It may very well be the absolute last game to be published to the service as submissions have been closed. Not exactly the claim to fame I originally intended, more like a booby prize. It will still be an achievement for me personally, as I have slowly inched closer towards a releasable title. Those that keep asking, when is it going to come out, can finally have an answer other than, when it's done.


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Shared office pioneer hydrates members with the Zip HydroTap
Launched in 2003 by Olly Olsen and Charlie Green, The Office Group pioneered the concept of shared workspace in response to a fast-changing commercial world. Today the company boasts 17,000 members and over 40 locations, 31 of which are in London.
Beautiful workspaces and vibrant communal areas foster creativity and collaboration among members, from app creators and entrepreneurs, all the way to financiers and architects.
Central to the company's success are the excellent facilities available to aid office productivity, making members want to return again & again - as we all know, hydration plays a large part in productivity, concentration & brain function. When choosing an advanced, sophisticated drinking water solution for staff & members, Zip Water UK fit the bill. Now, 27 locations house up to 13 HydroTap All-in-One Classic models, each providing instant filtered boiling & chilled water – plus unfiltered hot & cold.
TOG's Piero Catania recalls: "We wanted a mains-fed drinking water system from the off to avoid the hassle and safety defects that so often come with portable appliances like kettles. With no PAT testing necessary, HydroTaps are hassle-free." As each TOG building is individually designed to reflect its unique architectural history and identity, it is essential that the taps seamlessly blend in and enhance their interiors. Zip does just that, says Piero: "Mainly we've opted for the Classic in chrome, but it depends on the location. In the contemporary kitchens of the Wardour Building this looks perfect, but the more minimal, modern interior of Thomas House called for a matt black finish." However, they're not just there to be looked at, says Piero, they're functional, too: "What we like so much about the HydroTap is how user-friendly it is; members can use ours intuitively. Over the years we've had positive feedback about the taste and there would be uproar if they were out of use." "In fact," he adds, "we have service contracts for all 27 of our buildings so if anything goes wrong the Zip team will respond quickly. It's necessary to have this in place considering how many teas and coffees the taps produce." It is thanks to HydroCare, Zip's service plan, that The Office Group benefits from this priority service, as well as regular unit inspections and filter changes to ensure all products remain in the best condition.
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"Priding itself on creating functional, beautiful spaces for working, collaborating and meeting, Zip fits in seamlessly with The Office Group's ethos. Piero concludes: "Knowing we can always rely on Zip to provide sophisticated hydration to our members is why we choose them time and time again." "
Piero Catania , Facility Manager
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Having a gratitude practice improves your sense of well-being.
It helps redirect your brain to more positive states.
Gratitude is an easy mind-shift when things are going your way.
Being thankful for getting what you wanted is a breeze.
But, how do you react when things don't go your way?
How's your gratitude practice then?
Usually, it's dumped in favor of wallowing and ruminating.
About what you don't have.
About who you don't have.
Leaders see the bigger picture.
They see the whole picture.
And, when bad things happen, leaders have the ability to look beyond initial disappointment and trace out their own silver lining.
The greater challenge is to be thankful for what you don't have… or what you have lost.
And, even harder than that, is to actively let go of what you already have for your long-term growth.
Very often, a happy and successful life comes down to what you can let go of.
What you can stop obsessing over, what you can stop worrying about, what you can stop feeling obligated to do, or maybe who you can stop feeling obligated to please.
The person that walked away or let you down.
The goal you didn't reach, the thing you didn't get, and the things you don't have, often deserve gratitude.
This is something that has played out over and over again in my life.
When I was first trying to get my very first book published, I was working with somebody who promised to give me all kinds of help.
They promised to show up and help me at speaking events, they promised to help me find publishers, and that help never came.
It was just empty promise after empty promise, and when they didn't show up for me, I had to go out on my own and do everything myself.
I had to start going to events where I would meet publishers.
I had to learn about the entire publication process, and the entire process of writing a book all on my own.
It made me better, and I realized that if that person had done everything for me, I wouldn't have the skill set that I have today.
I probably wouldn't have been published with a big publisher at all.
Being let down by failed promises ended up being a blessing that helped me reach a new level of success.
I have experienced this as well in friendships and relationships, that I invested much time and energy trying to make them happy, at the expense of my own time, energy, and happiness.
Once they left my life, I could see how much better it was for me to be without them.
Even though loss causes disappointment, or even pain, it's temporary.
Because now, I can look back and say that I'm really grateful for what happened, because my life opened up in ways that it would have never opened up with those people still in my life.
Resilient people don't only focus on positive events.
They use negative events to their benefit.
Successful people don't wait for everything to go their way — they use negative events as fuel for their fire.
The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology studied how resilient individuals use positive emotions to bounce back from negative events.
In the 3 studies cited, researchers found that "resilient people use positive emotions to rebound from, and find positive meaning in, stressful encounters".
Research on positive emotions in the Review of General Psychology discusses the role of positive reframing in the "broaden and build" adaptive psychological process.
Negative emotions shrink possibility and restrict problem-solving, creativity, and future growth.
Whereas being able to maintain positive emotion, or finding the silver lining or proverbial blessings in disguise, "broadens" one's thought-action repertoire by encouraging openness to new possibilities and future growth.
The ability to regulate emotion during stress in this way is a hallmark of resilience.
The Greater Good Berkeley suggests a research-tested technique called "self-distancing" to gain perspective on negative events.
The opposite of self-immersion, which is the typical ruminating and obsessing over negative events, self-distancing is self-induced space to gain perspective.
Self-distancing is taking time out of the trenches of the stress, or despair of loss, or challenging events, and being less reactive and choosing to find a positive spin.
This practice breeds resilience and allows you to refocus on re-aligning with future goals, sometimes with the forced motivation to move forward more aggressively.
It's a practice that you're incapable of if you're stuck in feeling sorry for yourself and your losses.
Often, when people or opportunities exit your life, the possibilities, time, resources, and focus you use to recover are the very things you need to fire you up to take action.
Even the wrong people and things in your life can make you feel temporarily grateful, but too comfortable for real growth and success.
The gratitude practices around what you have, and keeping what you have, can make you lazy and passive.
The reality is that you grow under tension.
You can use the things you don't have in your life — the things and people you lose — whether by circumstance or choice.
Here are 2 ways to lean into adversity and use it to reach your goals.
You can set your goals.
Be methodical, detailed, and totally focused.
And, that's a good thing.
Being reliant on everything going according to plan to reach your goals means you're inflexible and your success is dependent and insecure.
Things are going to fall through… or fall apart.
And, many people fall apart with them.
This is why obsessing over the things you don't have keeps you stuck.
It's a mindset that holds you back.
And, it wastes your time, energy, and resources that you need to redirect into purpose-filled goals and actions.
Instead of sticking your head in the sand, pull yourself out and get some distance.
Challenge yourself to predict a positive outcome from this experience.
What's the best case scenario?
How is this causing you to be more self-reliant?
What can you learn from this, by not being dependent on other people and perfect circumstances?
Take stock of what you want that you're not getting and be grateful for it.
Be grateful for the resilience that this experience is building.
Be grateful for the success you'll earn, through laser-like focus and hard work, that you claim as your own.
Be grateful for the future wins you're going to have by choosing to focus on your strengths, focusing on positive emotions, and solution-driven action.
2. Let go of what you already have.
People hate to let things go.
Purging dead weight from your life is hard.
We get attached to people and things.
But the truth is, not everything you have in your life — even if you worked hard for it — needs to stay.
Sometimes the things and people you hold on to, you'd be better off without.
They're holding you back and keeping you dependent.
They're the things that you're obsessing about because they cause drama.
They're sucking your energy and your focus and keeping you from your goals.
Yet, you're holding onto them — maybe even loosely — and hoping they'll just disappear for you.
The key is that letting go is not a passive thing.
You have to make an active decision.
Just the phrase "let go" makes it sounds like you just need to passively say, "Okay, you're gonna leave my life".
But, things don't just leave your life to make it easy on you.
Some people won't leave your life unless you cut them out cold.
You have to actively decide that this is enough.
You need to actively tell them to leave.
Then, when you do, notice what's better in your life.
Notice the room you have for people who are there for you.
When you cut out things that are robbing you of your time, start working on your goals during that time instead.
Notice how removing tasks and people from your life can give you new energy and new focus.
Growth is impossible without challenge.
That kind of adversity can be your advisor.
Start being thankful for the things you don't have to be obligated to, the people you don't have to make happy anymore, the situations that were difficult to get through but made you a better person, helped you learn skills, and helped you grow.
When you become intentionally grateful for the things you don't have in your life — the people you let go of, and the challenges that have derailed or disappointed you — you instantly change your perspective. You tap into a positive, motivated mindset that will drive you to creative solutions to move forward in your life. When you become grateful for growth opportunities, you will be able to increase your resilience and get stronger. Your ultimate success depends on you controlling not just your mindset, but actively participating in the pruning of your own life as you move towards your goals.
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View full sizeCourtesy of MC HylandPoet MC Hyland's first full-length collection, "Neveragainland," is forthcoming this winter from Lowbrow Press.
Poet MC Hyland's chapbooks include "Every Night in Magic City" (H_NGM_N, 2010), "Residential, As In" (Blue Hour Press, 2009) and "the hesitancies" (Small Fires Press, 2006, with Kate Lorenz and Friedrich Kerksieck). Her first full-length collection, "Neveragainland," is forthcoming this winter from Lowbrow Press.
and works as an administrator and occasional letterpress instructor at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. We caught up with Hyland by e-mail to ask her about her work.
MLive: How did you begin writing poetry and why did you stick with it?
True story: I started writing poetry because I did a book report on Emily Dickinson in the fourth grade. I'd just changed schools, and when we had to pick a biography to read and write about, I of course choose the book called "I'm Nobody, Who Are You?" (I was a pretty shy and moony little kid.) I started writing fourth-grade Dickinson poems, and then I just kept going.
Writing has meant different things to me at different times in my life: a stay against loneliness when I was the new kid at school; later, a way of getting at the truth (historical, emotional). Now I think I keep coming back to poetry because it gives me a way into the parts of life that you can't get at if you come straight on — all those half-formed feelings and ideas that get distorted when you try to clearly and directly name them. And it's a way to play — and I mean that really seriously. I think the relative absence of real, creative play in American life is part of why we're all having such trouble getting along with each other and ourselves. And practicing, reading and writing poetry are how I build community — a lot of my friends in Minneapolis are writers I've met through the reading series I run there, and the small press I run puts me in touch with lots of writers, both the ones I publish and the other ones who are running tiny presses out of their kitchens/living rooms/studios.
This is always a tough question for me to answer. A lot of my first poet-loves are songwriters: (Bruce) Springsteen, John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats, Richard Buckner. I think if I'd ever learned an instrument I'd be a songwriter — I'm totally jealous of the way music can communicate in between and around the words in a song. I think a lot about the music of the poems I write — the rhythms and repetitions and the way the sounds play against each other.
I also find a lot of inspiration in film. Lately, I've been loving Man Ray's short films, and Fernand Leger and Dudley Mitchell's "Ballet Mécanique" is pretty much everything I want to do in a poem. Also Joseph Cornell's found-footage films, which are goofy and dreamlike and wonderful.
As far as poets, there are a lot: T.S. Eliot, John Donne (talk about playing!), Lyn Hejinian (her "My Life" was a total game-changer for me), Brenda Hillman, Bin Ramke. Keith and Rosemarie Waldrop are huge inspirations to me as a poet-bookmaker. They're both fascinating writers and they've been running the amazing Burning Deck Press together for decades. I read a lot of work by younger poets, too, both friends and strangers — the nice thing about being engaged with your contemporaries is that it makes you want to step up your game. Lately I've been blown away by Kate Schapira, Jared White (and his partner, Farrah Field — those two are a powerhouse!) and Ben Estes. And also Sarah Fox, who is my poetry shaman.
I feel really lucky to be reading with Brian (Oliu) and Joseph (P. Wood) — they're both dear friends and are always working so hard — they remind me to keep my nose to the grindstone.
ML: What is your process for writing poetry like? Do your write fast or slow? Are you more of a stream-of-consciousness writer or are you more methodical?
It really varies for me, though I find I work best when I generate a lot of first-draft material and then sculpt out of it. Right now, I'm working on a book of poems based on experimental films. I watch the films, take (often garbled) notes and then cut the notes up into little pieces of paper and literally collage those slips into poems. I like physically cutting and pasting — it's hard for me to think about overall structure without taking things apart and putting them back together with my hands.
ML: What kinds of poetic structure do you find common in your poetry and why do you think you gravitate toward those particular forms? Is it a conscious or unconscious decision to use them when you use them?
It seems to vary a lot from project to project for me. Right now, I'm using a lot of couplets and a lot of syncopated line breaks — breaking the line in a different place from where the rhythm of the language breaks. I think it's because I'm subconsciously trying to emulate the herky-jerky Frankenstein process of writing collage-based poems. I've also been thinking a lot about the rhythm of sentences lately, which leads me to prose poems.
I think structure is something that happens partly consciously and partly unconsciously. It's more common in lineated poems that I'll write a draft without thinking too clearly about structure, and then I'll go back and try to see what structure it's naturally inclined towards. But usually once I write something in prose, it stays in prose.
ML: What kinds of themes or images do you gravitate toward in your poetry? Why? Do you use them consciously or do they appear unconsciously?
Because I'm working with film-based source material now, there's a lot of light in my newest poems — it has almost a physical presence. Maybe that's also inspired by living in Minnesota, where the light is stunning and clear and northern. I seem to go through phases in terms of imagery. There were several years when most of my poems were full of ecological disasters (melting glaciers, floods, landscapes that were either barren or too fertile). That phase overlapped a bit with a few years where biblical language and tropes kept finding their way in. I think imagery is just fueled by my obsessions at a given time. As for themes, I think I've always been interested in memory and in nostalgia — not that I necessarily write nostalgic poems, but I'm interested in my own nostalgic tendencies.
ML: What do you think is your best work and why?
I hope that what I'm working on now is my best work. (And I hope that will always be my answer to that question — otherwise, why keep going?) But in terms of past work that I'm proudest of, it would probably be the only poems I've ever successfully used humor in: a group of flirtatious poems based on Maoist propaganda that I call "Propaganda Suite," for lack of a better title. I think humor is underutilized and underappreciated as a tool for poetry.
I'm limiting myself to three — otherwise I'd be listing all day!
2) I haven't read it yet, but I'm pretty stoked for Anna Moschovakis's second book, which is coming out from Coffee House Press soon. Her first, "I Have Not Been Able to Get Through to Everyone," (Turtle Point Press, 2006) is one of my favorites: post-9/11 poetry that managed to be as smart (and even playful!) as it was elegiac. I can only imagine that her next book will be as necessary.
3) I've been thinking lately that it's time for me to go back to Benedict Anderson's "Imagined Communities." It's heavy lifting: a densely theoretical work on the origins of the nation-state. But it makes some interesting claims about the idea of nations as rooted in the particular time and place of print-based capitalism (the heyday of the newspaper and the novel), which I think it would be good to think about in the age of political blogs and Facebook "I Voted" apps. I think, as we try to make sense of the midterm elections, it might help us all to think a bit about what a nation is, in historical terms, and how nations might be fundamentally changed by the form that "news" takes.
Hyland, poet Joseph P. Wood and writer Brian Oliu will read from their works as part of the Sporadic Reading Series, beginning at 4 p.m. Nov. 6 at the Old Dog Tavern, at 402 E. Kalamazoo Avenue. The event is free and open to the public.


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Q: Insert order to MongoDB from localStorage Basically, I want to take the products from local storage and insert them to mongoDB.
My backend works perfectly.
Order Schema :

const mongoose = require('mongoose');
const Schema = mongoose.Schema;

let Order = new Schema ({
    _id: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
    firstName: {type: String},
    lastName: {type: String},
    email:  {type: String},
    phone: {type: Number},
    createdAt:  {type: Date, default: Date.now},
    address: {type: String},
    productName: {type: String},
    productDesc: {type: String},
    productQuantity: {type: Number},
    productPrice:{type: Number},
    totalPrice:{type: Number},

},
{
    collection: 'orders'
}
);

module.exports = mongoose.model('Order', Order);

Order routing:

//post order
orderRouter.route('/').post((req, res) =>{
    const order = new Order({
        _id: new mongoose.Types.ObjectId(),
        email: req.body.email,
        firstName:req.body.firstName,
        lastName: req.body.lastName,
        email: req.body.email,
        phone: req.body.phone,
        address: req.body.address,
        productName: req.body.productName,
        productDesc: req.body.productDesc,
        productQuantity: req.body.productQuantity,
        productPrice:req.body.productPrice,
        totalPrice:req.body.totalPrice,
    });
    order.save()
    .then(result => {
        console.log(result);
        return res.status(200).json({
            message: "Order was Created",

            order: {
                _id: order._id,

                firstName:order.firstName,
                lastName: order.lastName,
                email: order.email,
                phone: order.phone,
                address: order.address,
                createdAt: new Date,
                productName: order.productName,
                productDesc: order.productName,
                productQuantity: order.productQuantity,
                productPrice: order.productPrice,
                totalPrice: order.totalPrice
            }
        });
    })
    .catch(err => {
        console.log(err);
        res.status(500).json({
            error:err
        });
    });

});

products are saved in local storage:

CheckoutForm.HTML(only the cart fields):

              Your cart
              {{ productService.itemCount()}}

{{prod.product_Name}}

                  Quantity: {{prod.product_Quantity}}

                {{prod.product_Price * prod.product_Quantity | currency: '$'}}

                  Total (USD)
                {{allTotal | currency: '$' }}

CheckoutForm.TS:

constructor(private orderService:OrderService,private productService: ProductService, private fb: FormBuilder, private connectionService: ConnectionService, private router: Router) {
    this.createForm();

   }

  createForm(){
    this.checkOutForm = this.fb.group({
      firstName : [null, Validators.required],
      lastName : [null, Validators.required],
      phone : [null, Validators.required],
      email : [null, Validators.required],
      address : [null, Validators.required],
      country: [null, Validators.required],
      city : [null, Validators.required],
      nameOnCard : [null, Validators.required],
      creditCardNumber: [null, Validators.required],
      exp: [null, Validators.required],
      cvv: [null, Validators.required],
      message: [''],
      contactFormCopy: [''],
      productName: [Validators.required],
      ProductDesc: [Validators.required],
      productQuantity: [Validators.required],
      productPrice: [Validators.required],
      totalPrice: [Validators.required]

  });
}

onSubmit() {
  this.connectionService.sendReceipt(this.checkOutForm.value).subscribe(() => {
    alert('Your order has been received.');
    this.orderService.CreateOrder(this.checkOutForm.value).subscribe((data:Order) => {
      this.order = data
      console.log(this.order);
    });
    this.checkOutForm.reset();
    this.disabledSubmitButton = true;
    this.router.navigate(['/']);
    localStorage.removeItem('product');
    localStorage.removeItem('cartItemCount');
  }, error => {
    console.log('Error', error);
  });
}

In MongoDB:

As you can see, only fields with 'Input' and 'formControlName' are saved in the database,
and I understand that 'formContolName' must be inside an 'Input' field.
So my question is, how do I take the product details from local storage and assign them to their
proper fields in the HTML file?
Appreciated!

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Diversity in the NHS!
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The UK is becoming increasingly diverse. Diversity can be defined as "the state or quality of being different or varied".
The case for the need to develop a more diverse NHS has been made. Roger Kline's 'Snowy White Peaks of the NHS survey of discrimination in governance and leadership and the potential impact on patient care in London and England' report in 2014 raised public awareness of the scale of the issue. The researcher highlighted the ethnic backgrounds of senior NHS leaders. The results were staggering and in summary are that the black and minority ethnic (BME) population is largely excluded from senior positions, both as NHS managers and as NHS Trust board members.
The challenge for NHS leaders is clear – change is needed and it is required now. It is unacceptable in 2016 for the NHS to appear to be out of touch with the call for embracing diversity. As the UK has increasingly become more diverse year after year, it is somewhat disheartening that there is continued over-representation of black and minority ethnic (BME) staff at lower pay bands and a lack of BME representation at higher pay bands.
The emphasis should now move on to a solution-focused approach and less so on the issues that caused it in the first place. We are where we are! How are we going to make demonstrable improvements in the drive for an NHS that best represents and looks like the population it serves?
Some would ask, does it matter that there is under-representation of BME staff at senior levels in the NHS? I say, it certainly does matter and here's why.
NHS England has highlighted that research strongly suggests that less favourable treatment of Black and Minority Ethnic staff in the NHS through poorer treatment or opportunities has significant impact on the efficient and effective running of the NHS.
Some of the key benefits of diversity in the NHS as highlighted by research include:
Ethnicity bias adversely affects the likelihood of the best people being appointed which means that patient care is not as good as it could be.
There is a strong correlation between how staff are treated and higher staff turnover and absenteeism, higher mortality rates and lower patient satisfaction.
Discrimination makes people ill which can mean NHS staff members have to take sick leave or can't work to their full capacity and use health services as patients – further cost to the health service.
BME staff are also more likely to be bullied at work. Bullying impacts on whether staff report concerns and work in effective teams, also impacting adversely on patient safety.
Organisations which have a diverse leadership are more successful and innovative than those that do not.
Diverse leadership teams are likely to be more innovative, an important consideration for the NHS.
Organisations that don't reflect local communities in their own leadership may fail to be sensitive to local health needs, including those linked to reducing health inequalities linked to ethnicity.
Further information on the benefits of diversity can be found at https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/wres-nhs-board-bulletin.pdf
Action area 4 of the Department of Health Compassion in Practice Strategy focuses on Building and strengthening leadership, it reiterates the importance of having a leadership team that reflects patient and staff groups locally to ensure balance and representation.
Click to access compassion-in-practice.pdf
Professor Michael West and Jeremy Dawson's studies in particular focus a lot on the experience of staff working in the NHS and the link to the patient experience of care. Here is one of Professor West's quotes:
"The experience of BME staff is a very good barometer of the climate of respect and care for all within NHS Trusts"
(Professor M West; NHS Quality and Staff Engagement 2009)
A leading NHS Trust has recognised the need to accelerate the pace of change and has developed personal and professional development programmes for BME staff. As the largest NHS Trust in England, Barts Health NHS Trust provides healthcare services for patients in the East End of London.
Barts Health NHS Trust serves a population of over 2.5 million in one of the most ethnically diverse areas in the country. The London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest appear in the list of top ten Boroughs with highest percentage increase in census population from 2001 and 2011 (ONS, Office of National Statistics). Also, the Boroughs of Tower Hamlets and Newham are recognised as being the only two London boroughs with more people who are from BME backgrounds compared to those who self-report that they are from White backgrounds.
BME staff experiences DVD:
As a nurse leader from a BME background, I have first-hand experience of working on the front line with staff from various ethnic backgrounds. I have also heard the experiences that staff from a range of BME backgrounds and at varying levels of organisation have shared over the years. It is fair to say that the staff accounts of their experiences ranges from positive to negative. It is important to acknowledge both and learn from each.
The challenge for NHS leaders going forward, is to learn from BME staff experiences of working in the NHS and take the actions required to ensure that more BME staff report positive experiences.
What do we need to do now to create a change for BME staff experiences?
NHS leaders need to explore the concept of inclusive leadership or diverse leadership in which it is everybody's responsibility and we work towards collective leadership. Further details on collective leadership can be found here: Developing Collective Leadership for Healthcare – West et al, 2014 http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/developing-collective-leadership-health-care
Thanks to Oyebanji (Banji) Adewumi, Associate Director Inclusion for her support on this post. Follow her on Twitter: @oyebanjiadewumi
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The Penn State men's basketball team will continue its Big Ten conference season against long-time rivals at the Bryce Jordan Center in early January.
But when the Nittany Lions compete against Purdue University and Michigan State University on the hardwood, students will be on winter break, which puts supporters in a difficult situation.
[quote="NationBuilder, post:1, topic:1324"]The Penn State men's basketball team will continue its Big Ten conference season against long-time rivals at the Bryce Jordan Center in early January.
Everything always points out the hurdles and difficulties as reasons for lack of success. There is never any kind of positive vibe.
PSU BBall is a no because instead of a yes if.
Some punctuation might make this a little easier to read!
I'm sure they spelled Poszlusny's name right every time.
Woops, put the z after the wrong s. Pretty ironic, but in my defense it has been a few years since I last had to spell that name.
In the past, we used to have a "positive vibes" thread, but a good amount (not all) of members started shooting down these threads with negativity. Basically, it got to the point where if you didn't end a post with a comment about how PSU's SOS sucked or how DeChellis should be fired, you would immediately be marked as incredible, a dreamer, or not in touch with reality. So everything may always seem like it's pointing to the hurdles and difficulties as reasons for lack of success. But in the end, the game has changed. The media, especially ESPN, have gotten so involved with the rules of the sport, how the sport is covered (halftime interviews, TV timeouts, etc) that we are left with a game that always is hard.
Even a few days ago when I mentioned that the tipping point of PSU basketball was during the 2008-09 season. I suggested that once that season went down, the things that happened, just or injust, it changed things in a way that to a large extent cannot be overcome, I was told to "dream on". Basically, very few members here are willing to be honest about the current state of college basketball, the BigTen, and the media, and expectations.
So when it didn't happen in 2009, and it kept getting worse, in more ways then one, the mood around here changed and now is trying to rebuild in the off season for next year. It all comes down to being honest about the things that are going on the world. If someone is labeled a dreamer or crazy when showing an injustice OR when complimenting the small strides the team was making, then what's the other side to that? The other side is that it's normal and accepted for trashing the team. That's why PSU basketball is a no instead of a yes.
How to solve it? It's not just a one-step process. Sometimes you have to go through the mud to find the diamond in the rough. If you just look at the pile of mud, you may think to yourself "why would I even want to search through the friggin mud. it's mud after all, right?" one man's trash is another man's treasure.
and as far as facing michigan state and purdue, two of the best teams in the league and biggest home games, at home when students are not there. well again it's another "random" scheduling quirk that makes it tougher on penn state. who cares anyway? next year we could find ourselves in a basketball division with Nebraska. who knows, maybe 1,000 will show up and we'll lull michigan state and purdue to sleep since michigan state purdue will probably never play a game with so little people the entire season. of course, if these games were on a weekend, we'd be looking at potential sellouts.
Here's an even better idea. Play the games in rec hall since the students won't be there anyway and you would probably still have enough people to pack rec hall. by the way, wasn't there some member here who said last year that by this year we'd have a game in rec hall?
Holy Crap! Champ said something I agree with.
This day shall live in infamy.
Pssst. That's not what you wrote.
UncleLar, he is trying to understand it, so i am trying to explain the reasons to the best of my ability. And, as sensational as my Ottzilla rant was about the 38-33 win over Illinois, if you think about it and get past the comedy of Ottzilla and how bad comparatively this past season, that was truly a tipping point.
People watched that game and said "screw Penn State". That's not a real win. Instead of a top 25 win like that on the road, a win that would surely get someone into the tournament if there was any doubt, not withstanding the fact that they beat that same team again while still ranked a few games later, instead of that win drawing tremendous praise, it was actually made fun of by ESPN, as if since it was a low scoring game, it wasn't worthy of reward. and lo and behold, the fact that PSU was indeed deemed not worthy to compete in the NCAA tournament due primarily based off the non conference strength of schedule, was what resulted in a ripple effect, not just in penn state's world, but in the world of basketball. not even a month later, swiftly a law was enacted to ban charges near the basket. that created confusion in the world of college basketball. it's a bit out there to suggest that one penn state win created this chain of events. maybe the no charge zone was coming anyway. but that was the tipping point. a game so defensively minded, that only true to the purists of basketball, a rare breed of fan who can appreciate defensive basketball created lines being drawn in the sand. in this case the ends justify the means. all we can do is try to explain what is happening and how it will effect us moving forward.
the no charge zone and any subsequent variations of it. the primary purpose of the zone is to increase scoring, decrease borderline charges, and prevent the possibility of a 38-33 win over a ranked team on their home floor ever again.
how many years under the current rules do you think it will take until a team beats a ranked conference opponent holding them to less than 35 points on their home floor during conference play?
[quote="bstanf, post:11, topic:1324"]Holy Crap! Champ said something I agree with.
Recently, i've only been commenting on controversial issues as that's the hot topic these days. but why have you declared this day a day of infamy? What moves you to declare something such as that? When have we disagreed before? Please be specific.
[quote="bstanf, post:11, topic:1324"]Holy Crap! Champ said something I agree with.
That's not being specific at all. If everyone agreed with everyone else the world would be a boring place.
Your entire post before you came up with the "tipping point" comment was about the downfall of college basketball in general, not about Penn State basketball specifically. Hence, when you wrote "tipping point", it referred back to college basketball's tipping point, not to Penn State basketball's tipping point. That's why I said it wasn't what you wrote.
Now what you wrote may not be what you meant, but I, and others, can only comment on what you actually write, not what you intend to write. Frankly, your comments are so far off the wall at times (see your above comments about the 38-33 win for example), I didn't find it the least bit incongruous to think that you actually did mean college basketball's tipping point.
I'm afraid that you live in some sort of alternate reality that I'm not quite familiar with, or perhaps you are having a good laugh with a bunch of tongue in cheek comments. Either way, it's pretty much impossible to carry on a dialogue with you.
Thank you for explaining. But let me be clear, and I may be in the minority on this one, but I believe that both college basketball's tipping point and Penn State's tipping point were one in the same. The tipping point to me was that game. The way in which the media viewed it. Thus, in turn, created the need for a change in college basketball. This tipping point created a new standard, subsequently creating a series of different events.
My comments may be off the wall. But ask yourself this. Are my comments as off the wall as some of the changes we've seen in sports lately? I was trying to respond to Still in State College's comment about the mood of PSU Basketball. Regardless of if you think my comments are off the wall or not, perhaps we can agree on the fact that Still in State College's comment is worth discussing, in detail if necessary.
Well, first of all, don't be afraid. I don't live in an alternate reality and i'm clearly not making tongue in cheek comments. tongue-in-cheek comments are snide short comments, far from what i have posted, however far out they appear. UncleLar, a lot of these rule changes and the way in which ESPN treats PSU basketball is not a joke to me. i take it seriously and that's the only reason i spend time commenting here, in the hope that some members can step up and discuss some of these matters. college sports has changed a lot over the year, but to me it's changed dramatically over the past few years.
perhaps you are having a good laugh with a bunch of tongue in cheek comments.
Ding Ding Ding!!! No one could possibly be that far out there as to think that the NCAA is making up their rules to try and hurt PSU hoops.
READ what he says…He is not making that point.


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Teaching is going really well, I enjoy it and I'm always so flattered to get good feedback from my students. I've also started teaching online lessons, I'm really enjoying those too!
I do need to make more of an effort to travel around Costa Rica. Most of this country's beauty lies outside of the capital! My last trip was for New Year's Eve in Manuel Antonio at the beach. Perhaps I have become too settled in San Jose!


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The "but" is the country's view on releasing the torture memos and the possibility of what may come...
Barack Obama's performance in the first 100 days of his presidency draws strong public approval in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, but there is decidedly less support for his recent decision to release previously secret government memos on the interrogation of terrorism suspects, an initiative that reveals deep partisan fissures.
Overall, the public is about evenly divided on the questions of whether torture is justifiable in terrorism cases and whether there should be official inquiries into any past illegality involving the treatment of terrorism suspects. About half of all Americans, and 52 percent of independents, said there are circumstances in which the United States should consider employing torture against such suspects.
I expected this. I was a wee kid when Watergate was going on and my parents were fixed to the television, devouring all information from the newspapers. The same is going on, but many are getting their information from the internet and unfortunately some cable news shows.
Barack Obama has a third press conference this week, expect a full disclosure of his position and that of the White House. From there the numbers will shake out one way or the other in the torture matter and possibly prosecution matter of the former Bush Administration.
I believe firmly that this should be dealt with, but remember, Obama is not on that page as many on the left. He released the memos because it was the right thing to do, going after these folks is another matter. He does not want to do it, believes it will be a distraction for the largest hurdle healthcare, and wants to move forward not to play in the mud about what the Bush Administration did. Do I like this analysis? NO, but get ready because that is his position, and I believed AG Eric Holder will have the final say on all this mess.
Now to the poll...
Obama's overall rating remains high, with 69 percent of Americans approving of his job performance. He gets solid marks for his handling of the economy, maintaining a better-than-2-to-1 advantage over congressional Republicans on the issue. Majorities said that Obama has exceeded their expectations in his first three months in office, has accomplished big things and has kept his main campaign promises. Further, public optimism about the economy and the country's direction also remain on the rise since his election, even as few think his major economic initiatives have moved the needle on the nation's flagging economy, their communities or their finances.
This is solid, but I knew the handling of the auto makers would show a negative. We are talking about an institution in this country, one that afforded many lower to middle class Americans to elevate their children and send them to college. If he does not handle the car industry right, he is going to have major problems down the road. You can't lash out at Wall Street with no repercussions, when their greed put this country in the position it is in. You can not glorify the auto industry who has made one disastrous decision after another. We either save the industry or let it go. The same with the banking industry. Can't have it both ways in the end.
But Obama receives less glowing reviews on his handling of the burgeoning federal budget deficit and on immigration issues, where he is at the 50 percent mark, and he gets a negative rating on how he has dealt with the big U.S. automakers.
And finally, Obama gets cred for trying to ease the partisan divide in Washington, though he has not been successful, it is the trying that the public understands. The Republicans could learn some lessons here, their numbers continue in the toilet.
Six in 10 Americans said Obama has kept most of his major campaign assurances, although most said he has not reduced the amount of political partisanship in Washington, as he had pledged to do. At the same time, 90 percent said he is willing to listen to different points of view, and close to two-thirds, 63 percent, said he has brought needed change to Washington.
About three-quarters of Americans see Obama as a "strong leader," as "honest and trustworthy," as empathetic and as someone who can be trusted in a crisis. Six in 10 said he is in sync with their values, and nearly as many rate him a good commander in chief.
Overall, Obama's approval rating is 69 percent. Damn good starting out of the gate.
All the data of the WAPO/ABC POLL is here.
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Let's See Your Electric Trains!
Discussion in 'Your Vintage Home' started by dhermann1, Mar 13, 2007.
dhermann1 I'll Lock Up
Da Bronx, NY, USA
I'm hoping this is the appropriate place to put this. I'm into model trains. I have a set of N gauge trains (9 millimeters between the rails, very tiny) that I set up under the Christmas tree every year. Some day I hope to have a permanent layout. I think trains in general are fundamental to the "Golden Era" and model trains as well. Many modelers set their layouts on the Golden Age of Steam, so they're all enthusiasts for the era automatically. Any takers?
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Maj.Nick Danger I'll Lock Up
Behind the 8 ball,..
A friend of mine and I were building something a few years back. We started with some of his old stuff from when he was a kid, and expanded from there. Diesel locomotives and a sort of 1940s look to it all. We built this strange little town,...uhh, sorta hard to describe because it was really very surrealistic.
But that's the fun of it. You can literally build anything you can imagine, especially in HO scale as there is so much stuff available for it.
Dalexs Practically Family
Just 'nath of Baston
About 7 years ago, my sons love for Thomas the Tank Engine, got me back into trains.
A friend of mine at work was really into it and I finally got serious.
Since moving back to the east coast 3 years ago, all of my HO stuff has been in a box.
But now, with a new house, AND my own office/playroom...
I'm ready to start ripping into walls to see where my trains can run thru!
I may be able to actually have a mainline go the entire circumference of the house in the attic/eaves.
Dalexs
LolitaHaze Call Me a Cab
I never had model trains myself, but I always loved looking at them! I remember when I was younger there was a HUGE train layout in the middle of Burger King. I used to wish I could shrink down to 1 in and walk around the town the train road through... So please share your photos of your trains!
I'll have to do some serious digging to find any photos for ya Lolita. But I will try. I haven't seen the thing in years myself, as it was dismantled when my friend got divorced.
But he might have a few digital pics.
I really want to get back into it now that I am reminded of it again, it is a blast to create your own miniature world. It's like a form of sculpture kinda.
CharlieH. One Too Many
It used to be Detroit....
Gee... I've neglected the railroad too much lately. Last thing I did was add lights:
Mike in Seattle My Mail is Forwarded Here
Renton (Seattle), WA
I had an N-gauge layout when I was a kid. Mom was, in general, pretty blase about it. Years later, after I turned 30, we were at Costco several weeks before Christmas and they had a larger train set (O-gauge? G-gauge? Way bigger than HO, in any case) that Mom went absolutely nuts over. I thought it was strange - she'd shown no interest in mine years before. But that evening at Costco, she had to go back to look at it with a sparkle in her eyes several times.
I mentioned it later when we stopped for dinner and she said that when she was a kid back in the late 30's, she'd wanted a train set for her birthday. My grandparents refused, partly due to the cost (the Depression hadn't been too long ago at the time), but mostly because "trains are for boys!"
A year or two later, she said she was looking for something in her parents' room and accidentally found a Lionel engine and a model station in a basket under quilt pieces my grandmother was working on. She figured the rest of the set had to be stashed around the house. She was the youngest - last one at home - it had to be for her, right?
So for several weeks, she's on cloud 9 thinking she was going to get the train set she'd dreamt of for years. Christmas Day, all the family was over - her brothers, sisters, brothers-in-law, sisters-in-law, her nieces & nephews. There was a 25 year spread between her birth and her oldest brother's, and six more kids in between. So holidays at my grandparents was always a mob scene.
Mom said she was absolutely crushed when one of the five-year-old nephews gets the train & station and she got quote a stupid dress unquote. Fast forward 50+ years, and it all comes out over dinner after a trip to Costco. So naturally, I drop Mom at home and burn rubber back to Costco and bought the train set. I liked it to - a 20's style steam engine, "real smoke" and sound effects built-in.
When she came over to our place on Christmas morning, I had it set up in the den. I went in there and called her in to "help me with something." She walked in, I handed her the transformer and a train whistle I'd found - "Knock yourself out. It's all yours!" Absolutely floored her. I'd never seen such a look of completely surprise and joy on her. Yeah, she cried, I cried, but I'm a big wuss anyway. I gather everyone she talked to for days, weeks heard I'd bought her the train set my grandparents had refused to all those years before. I heard about it from everyone.
She found an engineer's cap somewhere and her rule was you couldn't run her train without wearing the cap - a tradition I follow. It's run around the Christmas tree every year since, even now that she's been gone a little over two years. When she was in the hospital shortly before dying, a nurse said visiting hours were over and it was time for me to leave. Mom pipes in with, "He can stay as long as he damn well wants - he bought me my train set when I was sixty-two!"
Maj Nick Danger... Please do post them if you find any.
Mike in Seattle... That is such a Hallmark Presents made for tv movie!! I laughed, I cried, I loved it!
LolitaHaze said:
Maj Nick Danger... Please do post them if you find any. I soitanly will!
That was a classic Christmas story if ever I heard one! Way to go Mike, it should be a TV special for sure.
I'm so glad there's been interest in this topic! My little N gauge set has sort of a theme. I have several structures, each of which represents an old Chrstmas movie. I've got a nice Holiday Inn, one office front says "Scrooge and Marley", there's a Macy's and a Gimbels, and I'm going to try to get a small green santa claus in a chimney to be the Grinch. And I've George on the tressil bridge, ready to jump.
When my neice, who is now 26 and married and in vet school, was 5 I got her a nice little HO set. She loved it!
Cousin Hepcat Practically Family
I'm with Mr. Senator; pics please.
CharlieH, like that "downtown nighttime noir" look.
Hungate's is the big hobby shop chain in this area; I remember growing up, they always had a knock-out multi-layered 2-train window display with a tunnel in the local mall, w/ a village, trees (that they'd change colors with the seasons), water features...
Viola Call Me a Cab
NSW, AUS
I appear to have started backwards (typical for me, just typical!) and gotten a bunch of houses/stores and still no actual trainset. I just like the diorama effect at the moment while I save up for the trains themselves.
I'd really like O-scale because most of my stuff is O-scale. I'm pricing On30, which is O-scale but runs on HO tracks - that seems like I could do the track layouts a bit cheaper as HO seems to be the most popular.
Bachmann has trolleys. I NEED a trolley. They were always my favorite, I blame Mr. Rogers. Also, they go right down the middles of the streets and that gives me an excuse to buy a lot more houses and stores to surround them.
I'd like to concentrate on a '30s layout, I think. In fact, I saved a lot of the Our Own Vintage Town thread for ideas!
-Viola
Twitch My Mail is Forwarded Here
I have a huge (about 2 1/2 scale miles of track) HO layout in my garage I built when I was a bit younger. Figure I ought to dismantle it and sell or give away the useable stuff as my close up vision no longer allows modeling. Patience is far thinner than it was too.[huh]
Story I'll Lock Up
Confess - who here has emulated Uncle Fester?
Zemke Fan Call Me a Cab
On Hiatus. Really. Or Not.
I've been getting On30 for my son, Will...
Viola said:
I'd really like O-scale because most of my stuff is O-scale. I'm pricing On30, which is O-scale but runs on HO tracks - that seems like I could do the track layouts a bit cheaper as HO seems to be the most popular. -Viola
Bachmann makes a LOT of fine equipment and it fits my interest, which is Colorado 1930s to 1940s. The Colorado and Southern to be specific. Harry Brunk wrote a series of columns for the Narrow Gauge and Shortline Gazette (Up Clear Creek on the Narrow Gauge) that were collected into a book (now out of print).
I am going to start working on some buildings this year. Here are some I like:
BTW, Peco makes a realistic On30 flextrack in Code 100, nickel-silver.
If I remember correctly...to do an "Uncle Fester" you have to reverse the wires on one engine so it'll run backwards. I believe they're all wired to run the same direction from the factory. Never did that...although we did use it to torment one of the dogs. He'd start for the den doorway and we'd "Head 'im off at the pass..."
Freshly back from climbing up into the rafters in the garage...Zemke's post had me thinking, "I think my set's a Bachmann..." and sure enough - Bachmann Red Comet G-Scale. Hey, I needed an excuse to take a break from cranking out tax returns and that'll do!
Absinthe_1900 One Too Many
The Heights in Houston TX
Lionel tinplate forever!
About On30....
The one thing I always loved about modelling narrow gauge railroads is that you can pretty much get away with anything. Just get a few wheelsets and related hardware and you can build any kind of car you wish. And of course you can get to build some pretty dramatic scenery, accented with dingy little wooden buildings along the line. 1930's Colorado is a very popular subject amongst the narrow gauge modellers, so there's plenty of inspiration out there.
Also, if you want to go a little further in terms of realism, you can get a nice little sound equipped loco. I've never seen (or heard) these in operation, but I hear they can blow you away!
I always wanted to add a narrow gauge extension to my own pike, but I only have space for a small curve. Still, that would give me the perfect excuse to stick a floor to ceiling cliff to the wall...
One of these days....
Trolleys are also a very popular subject, particularly in O scale (I've fancied modelling the Pacific Electric myself). The only trolleys I've seen in that scale are made by MTH and Lionel, so if you want complete realism you might have to build them from scratch. (Or get a brass model)
Aaah, trolleys...
Zemke Fan, I like those first two weathered buildings a lot. Very classic.
Charlie...that cliff-face...is so amazing. I love that. I WANT THAT. Gee, thanks a lot!
I haven't really settled on a geographical location for my town yet, because it hasn't progressed beyond 4 buildings and a massive Word document of ideas.
I was thinking of starting with structures because you can get started cheaper, and displaying them with my bonsai trees. The Philadelphia flower show even has a category of competition for miniature scenes, (not just bonsai but anything tiny enough to create an illusion, like thyme or moss) and I ponder doing that eventually.
But eventually I SUPPOSE a train set could use ACTUAL TRAINS. [huh] But I'm not sure of what a good starter set for On30 is.
http://www.walthers.com/exec/search...m=&keywords=&instock=Q&split=30&Submit=Search
(Hey, they do have trolleys! Hadn't noticed that one)
As for the cliff, here's something to get you started should you ever have the time (and proper gymnasium-sized room):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v109/awnuts39/MountAlexander1small.jpg
That was written by the same fella that built that scene, and it's not as hard as it looks.
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Whether the Church observes a suitable rite in baptizing?
Objection 1: It seems that the Church observes an unsuitable rite in baptizing. For as Chrysostom (Chromatius, in Matth. 3:15) says: "The waters of Baptism would never avail to purge the sins of them that believe, had they not been hallowed by the touch of our Lord's body." Now this took place at Christ's Baptism, which is commemorated in the Feast of the Epiphany. Therefore solemn Baptism should be celebrated at the Feast of the Epiphany rather than on the eves of Easter and Whitsunday.
Objection 2: Further, it seems that several matters should not be used in the same sacrament. But water is used for washing in Baptism. Therefore it is unfitting that the person baptized should be anointed thrice with holy oil first on the breast, and then between the shoulders, and a third time with chrism on the top of the head.
Objection 3: Further, "in Christ Jesus . . . there is neither male nor female" (Gal. 3:23) . . . "neither Barbarian nor Scythian" (Col. 3:11), nor, in like manner, any other such like distinctions. Much less, therefore can a difference of clothing have any efficacy in the Faith of Christ. It is consequently unfitting to bestow a white garment on those who have been baptized.
Objection 4: Further, Baptism can be celebrated without such like ceremonies. Therefore it seems that those mentioned above are superfluous; and consequently that they are unsuitably inserted by the Church in the baptismal rite.
On the contrary, The Church is ruled by the Holy Ghost, Who does nothing inordinate.
I answer that, In the sacrament of Baptism something is done which is essential to the sacrament, and something which belongs to a certain solemnity of the sacrament. Essential indeed, to the sacrament are both the form which designates the principal cause of the sacrament; and the minister who is the instrumental cause; and the use of the matter, namely, washing with water, which designates the principal sacramental effect. But all the other things which the Church observes in the baptismal rite, belong rather to a certain solemnity of the sacrament.
And these, indeed, are used in conjunction with the sacrament for three reasons. First, in order to arouse the devotion of the faithful, and their reverence for the sacrament. For if there were nothing done but a mere washing with water, without any solemnity, some might easily think it to be an ordinary washing.
Secondly, for the instruction of the faithful. Because simple and unlettered folk need to be taught by some sensible signs, for instance, pictures and the like. And in this way by means of the sacramental ceremonies they are either instructed, or urged to seek the signification of such like sensible signs. And consequently, since, besides the principal sacramental effect, other things should be known about Baptism, it was fitting that these also should be represented by some outward signs.
Thirdly, because the power of the devil is restrained, by prayers, blessings, and the like, from hindering the sacramental effect.
Reply to Objection 1: Christ was baptized on the Epiphany with the Baptism of John, as stated above (Q[39], A[2]), with which baptism, indeed, the faithful are not baptized, rather are they baptized with Christ's Baptism. This has its efficacy from the Passion of Christ, according to Rom. 6:3: "We who are baptized in Christ Jesus, are baptized in His death"; and in the Holy Ghost, according to Jn. 3:5: "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost." Therefore it is that solemn Baptism is held in the Church, both on Easter Eve, when we commemorate our Lord's burial and resurrection; for which reason our Lord gave His disciples the commandment concerning Baptism as related by Matthew (28:19): and on Whitsun-eve, when the celebration of the Feast of the Holy Ghost begins; for which reason the apostles are said to have baptized three thousand on the very day of Pentecost when they had received the Holy Ghost.
Reply to Objection 2: The use of water in Baptism is part of the substance of the sacrament; but the use of oil or chrism is part of the solemnity. For the candidate is first of all anointed with Holy oil on the breast and between the shoulders, as "one who wrestles for God," to use Ambrose's expression (De Sacram. i): thus are prize-fighters wont to besmear themselves with oil. Or, as Innocent III says in a decretal on the Holy Unction: "The candidate is anointed on the breast, in order to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost, to cast off error and ignorance, and to acknowledge the true faith, since 'the just man liveth by faith'; while he is anointed between the shoulders, that he may be clothed with the grace of the Holy Ghost, lay aside indifference and sloth, and become active in good works; so that the sacrament of faith may purify the thoughts of his heart, and strengthen his shoulders for the burden of labor." But after Baptism, as Rabanus says (De Sacram. iii), "he is forthwith anointed on the head by the priest with Holy Chrism, who proceeds at once to offer up a prayer that the neophyte may have a share in Christ's kingdom, and be called a Christian after Christ." Or, as Ambrose says (De Sacram. iii), his head is anointed, because "the senses of a wise man are in his head" (Eccl 2:14): to wit, that he may "be ready to satisfy everyone that asketh" him to give "a reason of his faith" (cf. 1 Pet. 3:15; Innocent III, Decretal on Holy Unction).
Reply to Objection 3: This white garment is given, not as though it were unlawful for the neophyte to use others: but as a sign of the glorious resurrection, unto which men are born again by Baptism; and in order to designate the purity of life, to which he will be bound after being baptized, according to Rom. 6:4: "That we may walk in newness of life."
Reply to Objection 4: Although those things that belong to the solemnity of a sacrament are not essential to it, yet are they not superfluous, since they pertain to the sacrament's wellbeing, as stated above.


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Q: Global variable's unexpected behavior in jsfiddle I have code in which i have two variable with same name.
first variable is global and other one is inside the function. as per specification all global variables are attached to the window object but when i was trying to access global variable inside function it is showing undefined in jsfiddle but same code is working fine in console.
  var myVar='10';
  function check() {
    alert('Local : ' + myVar+ ', Global : ' + window.myVar); //window.myVar is undefined in jsfiddle
    var myVar;
  }

 check();

What is the reason of this unexpected behavior?
Here is JSFiddle

A: for this you should know how fiddle works,
Here in your case you have selected the onLoad option, so your code excutes when the whole page is loaded like a document.ready function,so it isn't an independent script.
Check this
var myVar='10';
alert(window.myVar);
function check() {

    var myVar= 5;
    // Your are defining a local variable in this function
    // so, the global one is not visible.
    alert('Local : ' + myVar+ ', Global : ' + window.myVar);
}

check();

http://jsfiddle.net/sJ8Eu/1/
what i changed is , i selected the option to wrap the code in the head, so it acts like a script tag. And it works fine


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DNA packaging, 3D animation with sound effects only
DNA packaging. Each chromosome consists of one continuous thread-like molecule of DNA coiled tightly around proteins, and contains a portion of the 6,400,000,000 basepairs (DNA building blocks) that make up your DNA.
In this animation we'll see the remarkable way our DNA is tightly packed up to fit into the nucleus of every cell. The process starts with assembly of a nucleosome, which is formed when eight separate histone protein subunits attach to the DNA molecule. The combined tight loop of DNA and protein is the nucleosome. Six nucleosomes are coiled together and these then stack on top of each other. The end result is a fiber of packed nucleosomes known as chromatin. This structure, is then looped and further packaged using other proteins (which are not shown here) to give the final "chromosomal" shapes. It is this remarkable multiple folding which allows six feet of DNA to fit into the nucleus of each cell in our body. And a typical cell nucleus is so small that ten thousand could fit on the tip of a needle. It is important to realize that chromosomes are not always present, they form only when cells are dividing. At other times, as we can see here at the end of cell division, our DNA becomes less highly organized.
nucleosome; histone; chromatin; chromosome; metaphase; anaphase; telephase; cell division; mitosis; nucleus continuous thread,nucleosome,histone,chromatin,cell division mitosis,chromosome,sound effects,building blocks,nucleus,dna,molecule,proteins,animation
15482. DNA packaging, 3D animation with advanced narration and labels
DNA packaging, 3D animation with advanced narration and labels.
15483. DNA packaging, 3D animation with basic narration
DNA packaging, 3D animation with basic narration
16627. DNA is packaged in a chromosome.
DNAFTB Animation 29: Roger Kornberg explains his work with Aaron Klug on histones, which bind DNA to form chromatin.
16229. All cells arise from pre-existing cells.
DNAFTB Animation 7: Walther Flemming explains the phases of mitosis.
DNAFTB Problem 29: Test your understanding of chromosome packaging.
16626. Concept 29: DNA is packaged in a chromosome.
Each chromosome is a package for one very long, continuous strand of DNA.
16238. Sex cells have one set of chromosomes; body cells have two.
DNAFTB Animation 8: Theodor Boveri presents chromosomes' role in development.
15887. DNA packaging
DNA is coiled around proteins and packaged as chromatin within the nucleus of cells. Aaron Klug and Roger Kornberg figured out the structure of chromatin. It has been proposed that the coiling (or rather uncoiling) of DNA is a way of controlling the pro
15893. Zooming in on the x chromosome.
Each chromosome consists of one continuous thread-like molecule of DNA coiled tightly around proteins, and contains a portion of the 6,400,000,000 basepairs (DNA building blocks) that make up your DNA.
16235. Biography 7: Walther Flemming (1843-1905)
In 1882, Walther Flemming published the definitive study of the cellular process of mitosis.


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Check out what colleges strive to instill in kids.
Many lessons are based in hands on supports that let a student build common sense and intuition around critical math concepts.


A night in the mountains is good for the soul.
I woke to a thin line of blue, outlining the Sangre de Cristo range to the east. That line grew and morphed into a blue/purple band. Then brilliant cerulean spanned across the valley, stretching to and past the Jemez range.
Chantha and Clara mustered at the crack of 8:00 ish. I shuttled the crew down the hill along Bishop's Lodge Road, through town, and to the market. Dropped them off at the front gate. I provisioned for the day and returned to our home to see the rest of the cadre off.
Dan and Ginger gathered their things and hit the road after a spot of morning coffee. Frank and Tiffany rallied and got out the door by 11:00.
I cleaned house. Washed sheets. Took a break. Then I drove north.
When in New Mexico, Santa Fe specifically, I try to take at least one day trip to Taos for a bit of hiking and soaking. The hiking was brief this time. It rained. Hard. I found a trail by the Rio Grande and took in a short hike. I found my way to Black Rock Hot Springs, just past the John Dunn low-water bridge.
I was alone. There was a family of long horn sheep across the river. They just looked at me and ate. They were safe and they knew it.
I took the chance to move through some poses for a good long while. Alone. In a hot spring. Yoga. Ice cold river. All good.


Association: - Means to the investigation of unaware or emotional states. Question: - Which feelings is I to be looked more exactly ready?
A submarine points in dreams to the emotional depth which the dreaming can reach. As a rule the person dedicates more attention than the spiritual heights to the unaware depths. If her submarine hit leaky, this dream is a warning.
If the dreaming with himself should feel fine, he must understand his unaware needs. Because any fear can exist - and in some cases the need for protection - the submarine is a very useful picture.
The dream of a submarine points to a spiritual need to penetrate deeper into own emotions.
an indiscretion committed in the past will become known and influence the life negatively, - also: To be able to master the difficulties in which one is, one must look at them from another point of view from. This will make clear a lot and also ease.
are in one: one will reveal unintentionally disconcerting news.


Manassas, VA Eleana Boyer, Director of Supported Employment at Manassas-based Didlake, Inc., is the recipient of the Virginia Rehabilitation Association's 2003 Corbett Reedy Award for Excellence. The award, given annually to a Virginia resident who has "creatively pursued excellence in contributions to the rehabilitation program, projects, issues, publications or a significant rehabilitation cause", was presented to Ms. Boyer at the annual Virginia Association of Community Rehabilitation Programs (VaACCSES) Collaborations Conference in Portsmouth, VA.
Since joining Didlake in 1998, Ms. Boyer has managed the development and growth of the company's Supported Employment Program which finds employment opportunities for people with disabilities, and provides ongoing assistance, such as job coaching and training, to help each individual succeed. She was nominated for the award by Mark Fletcher and Teri Bertsch of the Virginia Dept. of Rehabilitative Services (DRS) who stated "Under [Ms. Boyer's] leadership, creativity and modeling of quality services, Didlake has earned a reputation throughout the Northern Virginia Region as a leader and advocate, enabling persons with disabilities to achieve gainful employment". Ms. Boyer was also cited for her excellent work developing a pilot project for the City of Alexandria that created a positive work experience for young people with disabilities, and for her ongoing work "above and beyond the call" on planning efforts for the annual Collaborations conference.
A rehabilitation services professional since 1978, Ms. Boyer is known for her creative approaches to uncovering the potential in each individual. In a letter supporting Ms. Boyer's nomination, Didlake's Training and HR Benefits coordinator Mary Presler commented, "Eleana has a rare gift of being able to motivate individuals with disabilities to seek the best quality of life for themselves. She uses her kind sense of humor to encourage others to achieve". Didlake President and CEO Rex Parr added, "Eleana is a great asset to the entire rehabilitation services industry and the people it serves. We are proud she is part of the Didlake team".
Ms. Boyer completed her undergraduate education at Strayer University, and is currently part of the Master's Certificate in Rehabilitation Program at George Washington University. She resides in Woodbridge, VA.


text: It doesn't show in the standard spec books, but after the end of the 1500+ famed 1973 911RS production, Private clients demand for the MFI 2.7 for racing caused Porsche to build 123 of these special cars between 1974 and 1976, the factory built 100+ (enough to qualify for FIA) cars to 73 911RS spec using the tested and true 2.7 911RS motor and trans in the new 5 mile an hour bumper body car with the same quarter panel flairs as the 73RS, a new light alloy suspension and factory installed roll bar hard mounting points and RS Brakes. All 123 Cars were special order and delivered to Clients in Germany and Switzerland. Most of these cars were heavily raced in Europe and are no longer a viable example of the original. This car in its original Factory Dark Bitter Chocolate with Tan vinyl interior with plaid cloth inserts (Very Period), has never been raced. The Car was sold new to a collector in Germany who rarely drove the car and sold it to a collector in the US in 1989, this gentleman sent the car Directly to the Porsche Factory and had performance upgrades and interior seats redone at a cost of 58,000+ DM, the car was then shipped to the US and received US DOT and EPA certification. The complete releases, invoices along with all doc's of his ownership come with the car. In 2007 we at CPR bought the car, fully serviced it and sold the car and shipped it to Mr. Willi Kauhsen the famous Porsche Race driver in Germany a personal friend of CPR's founder. The car remained in Willi's personal collection until CPR founder purchased the car from Mr. Kauhsen and returned it to CPR. This is a perfect example in outstanding mechanical and cosmetic condition and would be a star in any Porsche collection not to mention a great investment given that 73RS's are bringing 300K to 700K today!


Jason Fong, Prospective Student Amici and Harvard Applicant, speaks in support of affirmative action.
LOS ANGELES - Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles (Advancing Justice-LA) has joined the lawsuit challenging Harvard's race-conscious holistic admissions policy by filing papers on behalf of two prospective Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Harvard applicants who support affirmative action.
In 2014, Edward Blum orchestrated the lawsuit against Harvard claiming that its race-conscious admissions policy intentionally discriminated against Asian Americans. The case is also the first time that Asian Americans have been overtly recruited and placed as the primary challengers of a race-conscious admissions policy. In the Fisher, Grutter, Gratz, and Bakke cases, the plaintiffs featured were white and usually female. On Blum's Project on Fair Representation website, the image of an Asian American student is featured next to the caption: Were you denied admission to Harvard? It may be because you're the wrong race.
Blum is the architect of a series of lawsuits designed to eliminate the consideration of race in admissions and voting, rolling back decades of progress on civil rights. This past summer the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the consideration of race in Fisher II as one factor in a holistic admissions policies. In their decision, the court acknowledged that the empirical data demonstrates that race-neutral alternatives do not result in the same levels of diversity and that Asian Americans do not necessarily lose out under affirmative action.
The current case against Harvard is the first time that a private university's affirmative action policy has been challenged and could lead to another fight before the Supreme Court. Under a Trump administration, there is a high likelihood that the Supreme Court would rule less favorably on the issue.
Advancing Justice-LA and the students seek to join the case as special "amicus plus" status along with the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, and pro bono counsel Arnold & Porter, who represent a diverse group of Asian, African American, Latino, and Native American prospective and current Harvard students. With "amicus plus" status, the students in this case will have an opportunity to file an amicus brief at any dispositive juncture in the case, participate in oral argument, and submit evidence, which greatly amplifies the students' voice beyond typical amicus standing.
For a copy of the court filing, click here.


American persimmons are as their name suggests, native to North America. The small fruits are most often orange but can be golden yellow to red in color. Unripe fruits are hard and contain high levels of tannins and produce a very astringent taste. Ripe fruits are one to 2 inches in diameter and are very soft, the sugars fully developed resulting in a sweet flesh.
American persimmons are available in the fall and winter months.
American persimmons are botanically known as Diospyros virginiana, with a hint of their country of origin embedded in the species name. American persimmon trees are semi-wild and are often used as "edible landscaping" for both fruit and appearance as well as an attractor for wildlife, like deer and birds. Commercially, the Asian persimmon varieties are more well-known in the United States though some efforts are being made in Indiana to commercialize the American variety. It is known in the south as simmon, possumwood, and Florida persimmon.
American persimmons are high in tannins and low in both protein and fat.
American persimmons are most often eaten fresh, when ripe or used in recipes for candies, baked goods and beverages. Dried American persimmons can be used in baked goods and have also been fermented with hops and whole grains to make a kind of beer. To store, refrigerate unripe fruit until ready for use. Once ripe, American persimmons are quite perishable.
A permanent ink can be made from the flesh of the American persimmon.
The American persimmon tree is native to Kentucky and has a growing range that spans the Mississippi river basin and much of the Midwest and Southeastern United States and can grow as far north as Connecticut. The tree thrives in areas of isolation and low water supply. The cultivation of American persimmons was a task undertaken by a name named Jim Claypool, of St. Elmo, Illinois. He is cited with being the first to try to improve various growing characteristics in order to make the variety easier to grow and more marketable. It was believed that persimmons require a frost in order to develop its sweet taste and soft texture. Persimmons merely require more ripening time on the tree; most fruits will fall from the tree when ripe. One set-back to the commercialization of the American persimmon is the fact that the fruits must be harvested by hand due to their fragility and potential for bruising. Generally available through specialty tree sellers, American persimmon trees are hardy in USDA zones 5-9.
Recipes that include American Persimmons. One is easiest, three is harder.
Someone shared American Persimmons using the Specialty Produce app for iPhone and Android.
Sharer's comments : Amercian Persimmons spotted at The Real Atlantic Superstore fredericton.


Required accessory to attach and remove a beer faucet from a shank - don't scratch up the shank or coupling nut trying to use a pliers! Make quick work of any kegerator or keezer build.
Works with any of our faucets and shanks found here.


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Prolix – Transcendent EP
Music Singles
by Infectious PR
Prolix is undoubtedly a name familiar to D&B fans the world over. Having notched up releases on Ram Records and Playaz, remixes for the likes of Moody Good on MTA/OWSLA and the collaborative 'Project Trendkill' album with Gridlok, this producer has proven himself capable of creating precision-crafted dancefloor killers. And that's precisely what he delivers here. A collaborative effort between himself and five peers, the 'Transcendent' EP pushes boundaries and showcases some of Prolix's favourite drum & bass artists.
"Transcendent came about after meeting with Misanthrop at a few gigs. We had both been fans of each other's work and had spoken a lot online but never worked together, and we felt we should! This track was premiered by DJ Friction on BBC Radio 1 and chosen by Crissy Criss on 1Xtra as his 'Ace of Clubs' track of the week, but it has also had a great reaction from DJs outside D&B like Excision and Datsik."
"'Exploration' was started in the Czech Republic in Rido's studio and involved vodka and hangovers… but we feel they all positively contributed to the music! I loved Rido's tracks on Metalheadz and I'm really pleased with how this came together. Audio, Black Sun Empire and Pendulum in particular have been smashing this one."
VITAL CONDITION
"I'd had Coppa's vocals laying around for a while but I didn't want them to go to waste, especially because Marvin takes great care over getting good recordings of his vocals. So I pulled up an older project and reworked it and it became 'Vital Condition.' This is really a celebration of Coppa's vocals and shows a deeper side to my production."
"This collab with Meth is one we'd been meaning to do for a while. I have admired his tunes for some time, we both have very similar tastes in dnb and are both fans of the old RAM sound. We definitely tried to infuse some of that into this track."
"This was another studio session involving a lot of alcohol! I have been friends with Mob Tactics for a while. They released on Trendkill last year and just dropped an EP on Chase & Status' MTA Records so it's great to welcome them back. And even better to make a track with them. This one has had loads of support from Noisia and DC Breaks and I'm really proud of how it turned out."
The 'Transcendent' EP goes beyond expectations, drawing on five huge talents and bringing them together on Prolix's own Trendkill Records to create an EP that's been destroying dance floors in the sets of the bass-heavy elite including Andy C, Noisia and Excision. This EP will transcend your expectations when it drops this September.
www.beatport.com/release/transcendent-ep/1350698