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Does Family Enhance Female Heroes?
The title of this post may get at least a few people upset, because it may smack of "patriarchy" to some, but my conclusion may not be quite what you'd expect. Note I changed what I planned to post today based on looking at what Mark Carver wrote yesterday (not for the first time). His post on Those Meddling Kids points out that families with children are often excluded from speculative fiction, some exceptions notwithstanding. And he's right that while there are plenty of stories that feature child protagonists like Harry Potter and even Narnia (and teen protagonists in The Hunger Games etc.) and plenty of stories that feature adult protagonists who are married (though I'd say single protagonists are more common), a family of adults and children together is a relative rarity in speculative fiction, outliers like Lost in Space notwithstanding. No doubt there are loads of reasons this is true, but it occurs to me that separating kids from adults in fiction cheats characters from certain types of important interactions that may especially help female protagonists. Or at least some great speculative fiction stories have featured women bearing children and protecting them as major aspects of the story–and perhaps more stories should do so.
Why would the issue of having children be important especially to female characters? Well, in spite of living in an era in which more and more often the tiny, tiny minority of people who arguably could be either gender are treated as if they are role models for everyone, as if everyone could either be male or female according to inner desires and not according to biology (most people are clearly born either male or female, in spite of rare cases of congenital hermaphroditic conditions), women are different from men in that a woman with a healthy reproductive system can bear children, something no biological male can ever do. That's a pretty significant difference and has profoundly affected the reasons why men have been warriors in many societies and women have not been–bearing and breastfeeding children takes a toll on a human body and raising kids takes decades of effort. So while most families in human history have worked a family business or farm in which dad, mom, and all the kids worked together most of the time, when a war came around, the men left and the women stayed behind. That system wasn't deliberate oppression of women for the most part, it just was practical–somebody had to be at home and the one with the attached milk bottles was clearly the better choice if babies were in the house, as they usually were for men young enough to fight in combat. Even in societies in which women served as warriors (like the historic Sarmatians), women with children fought less often than women without children.
And most societies traditionally found stories of warriors more interesting that stories of ordinary life, including ordinary family life. We carry this notion of what makes an interesting story with us today, especially in speculative fiction. Hence the interest in women warriors in our genres on the part of people wanting to equalize the playing field between men and women. Because fighting in war has been a "male privilege" and we want to see women who fight! Such as in superhero stories, with more and more women in battle scenes!
I happen to think warfare is a lot less fun in the real world that in fiction and am rather against the notion of pretending the use of force (even morally justified force) is something other than what it is. But I'm not against portraying women in combat in fiction, nor am I against women fighting in combat in the real world who able to perform physically at a high enough level, which does happen, but represents abilities only a minority of women are capable of. Nor am I against portraying alien species in which the relationship between male and female is different from our own so that the females may be the stronger gender (this works especially well with egg-laying species on Planet Earth), even though I'm opposed to the notion that gender in human beings does not almost always have an obvious biological basis. I think implying women can be men or vice versa is a bad idea, yet I'm not opposed to portraying women who are in a situation which allows them to fight.
Though instead of a story in which women voluntarily are allowed to fight alongside men, I think stories in which women are required to fight because they need to are more compelling. This is where inclusion of children benefits speculative fiction stories. Because generally speaking, women will fight for the lives of their children with an urgency unlike any other form of warfare.
Speculative fiction has already done this at times. While Ripley is an interesting character in Alien, where she winds up fighting a monster to save her own life and the lives of her crew, she's even more interesting in Aliens, in which she's fighting for her surrogate daughter, Newt. In that story, you would not have been able to substitute a male character in her position and get the same urgency, the same resonance and power, especially given Ripley fights the alien mother queen (which had clear parallels to queen ants and queen bees). And other alien movies played around with the idea of Ripley as the mother to the alien and what that would mean–even though those movies were not as good, you could not have put a male character in that position.
The Terminator films likewise cast Sarah Connor as an ordinary woman who becomes extraordinary because of fighting (and preparing to fight) for the life of her son, John Connor. The character's role as a mother was an essential part of what made her a warrior and fighter. (Terminator 2 was notably one of the speculative fiction films in which a child and parent worked together, even though the film kept them separated a great deal of the time.)
I recently watched a film made for Netflix named I Am Mother, which featured a female-voiced artificial intelligence/robot raising a girl as her daughter in post-apocalyptic environment (I originally planned to post on this movie, by the way). It's an interesting story in part because of what it does and does not say about motherhood. I won't say a lot more about it here, but the three main characters in the tale are all women, which was totally natural in the context of the story world. (I do recommend this movie by the way–I found it thought-provoking.)
While this post must at this point surely seem to be making a straight line argument in favor of writing women heroes who have to fight to defend their children, I'm about to deviate a bit. The Road showed a post-apocalyptic world in which a father rather than a mother fought for his son. And I would say the story was more powerful for the inclusion of a child, much more, than if it had been the story of a single man trying to stay alive in a world where everything had gone wrong.
So maybe Mark was right in his focus and I started off on the wrong track. Maybe the inclusion of parents in stories who are desperately afraid for the lives of their children is the phenomenon I'm talking about. I've seen more stories with women written in this position than stories with men made that way, but male characters can and do resonate when fighting for the lives of their children, especially when the man has been shown to be vulnerable, as The Road did well. (How nice of me to recommend The Road in time for Father's Day. 🙂 )
As I write this, I realize a reason why so many of the minority of stories that feature children don't do what I'm talking about. While The Incredibles was lots of fun, a story that features parents with their children is much more powerful if the children are in serious danger, as opposed to cartoon danger. And generally speaking, writers and film producers have been reluctant to create fiction dark enough to give readers (or a viewing audience) the sense of the character's terror that their child is about to suffer a horrible death. The Road did it and so did Aliens–and I recommend we do the same.
We Christian authors should not only write more stories that feature children, but more stories in which the children are in mortal peril, real danger, provoking real parental terror. Because while Christian-authored stories can be light reading for the whole family, they can also show real rescue from a providential God in times of genuine, terrible fear over the vulnerabilities of children. By the way, Lelia Rose Foreman's Pacifist War (part of her Shatterworld trilogy) manages to capture that fear–which is part of what makes it a such great story.
What are your thoughts on this topic, readers? Do you agree that Christian authors would do well to include more families in which parents have to fight to save their children's lives? If you enjoy these kinds of stories, are there examples I failed to include?
Aw, darn, now I have to change my plans…. (Just kidding, I actually wasn't going to talk about Naruto for once 😛 )
😛 I thought about tossing in a Fate Zero reference in my post that way you'd at least be sorta right, but my post was already long enough.
I thought Sarah Connor was pretty cool in the second Terminator movie, and had a pretty decent balance between caring for her child and being tough (and actually coming off as somewhat believably competent, which not every story with a strong female char actually does). Though it's been a while since I've seen the film.
Motherhood and protecting one's child can be a cool aspect for a female char, so long as it's done in a way that's reasonably realistic or at least makes sense for the char. If the woman's life is only about the child, or the woman's greatest emotional challenge in the story is not being able to have a child/losing a child, it's less likely to work.
There are exceptions, but only if the author substantiates it and shows there's more to the woman than her child. Arrival did a decent job of making the loss of a child important to the female main char without letting it overshadow the rest of the story/the woman's character arc. The woman wasn't just a mother, she was an accomplished linguist performing an important job for the army (figuring out how to communicate with the aliens that just landed on earth). The situation with her daughter was clearly very important to her, but was far from the only aspect to her life. The parts about her daughter were also very important to the philosophical question at the end of the film.
Even women that are obsessed with kids still have more to them. Like, my mom wanted kids really badly, but she was still had ambitions to be a teacher and whatnot. And back in kindergarten, I remember the teacher asking my classmates to share what they wanted to be when they grew up. One or two girls said that they wanted to be 'a mom'. Obviously they meant a stay at home mom, specifically, which is totally fine. But, at the time it really surprised me. Like, I never really classified motherhood as a job or a dream, just something some people chose to be IN ADDITION to everything else. And most girls in the class still cited a specific career goal, like being a doctor or whatever. Soooo, if a woman's primary/only regret seems to be that they can't have kids or whatever, there's a decent chance that the audience is going to feel at least slightly impatient with her, especially in a story that has war as a part of the plotline. Like, she could always adopt, and regardless there's probably much bigger regrets to worry about.
Also, it would be interesting to see more female chars that struggle with motherhood. Like, instead of being natural soft nurturing people that already 'just know' how to handle their kids, let them struggle with relating to and teaching their children. In real life, women are going to struggle with that as much as men do. Even if men tend to be physically stronger and tend not to give off a nurturing vibe, that doesn't mean all women are actually super nurturing either. There's a lot of gray area in there, though. A lot of women might not be nurturing in the sense of being sweet people that are always ready to hug a sad child. BUT, they can be good parents from the standpoint of wanting to prepare their child for the world and be dedicated to their safety. Such a woman could get along with her child just fine, or have issues like 'I love my kid but I have no clue how to get them to like me or listen to me so I just end up causing huge rifts in the relationship.'
Yeah, I agree. And such stories would actually be more believable. In media, it's understandable to put the kid chars in less danger, since there's usually fewer child chars and it feels VERY uncomfortable/messed up to endanger them (same issue with girl chars). But, at the same time, children are often the most vulnerable and open to danger, so at least showing that vulnerability/likelihood of getting killed would help stories makes sense.
That said, a lot of popular scifi and whatnot is something that starts off as a 'family friendly' story, or at least something that kind of gets marketed toward kids later on. When someone wants to market toward kids, the main chars will often be younger and exemplify the fantasy of going on an adventure and having fun/being the hero without true stress and danger. The marketability isn't the only issue at play, but I wonder if it's influenced even the adult stories to some extent(by popularizing certain tropes). Even beyond that, though, there's been many times when, as a kid, I'd watch things like Jurassic Park and feel very sure that the women and children had no chance of actually dying because it would mean killing off the only women and child chars in the film.
Agreed. And your article was a good follow up to Mark's.
I think the fourth Jurassic Park had one or two very minor female chars get eaten, but, that brings up another issue. The movie wasn't a great one and it was kind of hard to take that char's death seriously as I would have liked. So, portrayal can be an issue. If the death doesn't have emotional impact, the audience can suspect that the deaths are being used cheaply or even as a vague bid at comedy, which is usually not good.
I got just a teeny bit of that vibe off that film and felt annoyed by it, whether or not it was what the filmmakers intended. So…I dunno. I guess I'm just trying to add that Christian authors should make sure such deaths are both a natural consequences of the story's circumstances AND that they are approached with a sense of genuine seriousness.
Thanks for the shoutout. Yes, A Shattered World features entire families and is contrasted by a society that hates families.
Family is a huge drive for me in my fiction. Regardless of whether it was a failure or not, Anna and the Dragon was almost a "meta" family tale, in which the mother had to literally wake up the masculine nature or father to give her child direction. Oddly, in the book I'm currently finishing, the characters are cut off with no help from family. But the one I'm starting will have a huge family who will act almost like a quasi army. I know it's probably rude to discuss my own books, but this subject is a driving force for my writing.
There's at least two angles I wanna hit this from.
1. But does biology dictate fate? If it does, how? Most gender essentialists seem to think that gender is the most important component of personality, but I think that factors like risk thresholds (which seem to be genetic) matter more. What does that mean for infertile women? Do we get to be honorary men, then, or just mere failures?
2. I think y'all are missing on the impact culture has on gender roles.
In a textile history book, it was suggested that women did more textile work than, say, smithing because spinning/weaving is easily interrupted and picked up again, whereas smithing is dependent on literally striking while the iron is hot. The author had a few more criteria, but I think that one is probably the most important.
Just to add a few things, one time I read part of a book (Call It Courage, I think) where in the main char's tribal society weapon making was considered womens' work, while in Island of the Blue Dolphins, the main char was afraid to make weapons at first because it was so forbidden in her culture for women to do so, though there were times when they would help with actual fighting.
There's probably some differences between gender in terms of behavior(and talking about the possibility isn't bad), but people probably overstate it way too much. And personality type probably matters more than gender. I mentioned Myers Briggs types before, which is the easiest way to describe it because that is what people associate the letter combinations with, though what I was actually looking into was probably more along the lines of Jungian Depth Psychology/Analytical Psychology. And a more reliable way of determining personality type is based off interaction styles and temperaments, not the MBTI test.
Anyway, yeah, based on all that, men and women can actually be pretty similar from a cognitive standpoint. Like, my Dad and I are both INTJs and very clearly have the same underlying cognitive functions. The differences between us have more to do with age and nurture aspects like life experiences.
Necessity often matters more than gender. A lot of Christian writers/bloggers condemn single career women for not being the ONLY role suitable for godly women (according to them.) SAHMs.
Due to the extreme lack of Christian men in proportion to women (even in youth groups) single women can either A. Starve. B. Mooch. C. Work. I guess 2nd Thessalonians condones C.
You probably can tell my pet peeve is not the "Patriarchy" but single bashing.
Yeah. Though it's hard to take someone seriously if they look down on a single woman for providing for her children by having a decent job. Now days those people can usually be ignored.
Out of curiosity, how would you define the essentials of gender, then?
To me, more and more, the whole construct of gender outside of strict biology (which is irrelevant for everyday public life) is pretty much useless. Why would it be important to distinguish men from women at a glance?
Someone that's, say, pan might not care. But if someone(regardless of their gender) is only attracted to men, they might appreciate being able to tell if someone is a guy or not without having to ask.
My ace side is showing, because I don't really consider scoping out a date to be all that important in everyday life. Besides, it doesn't really eliminate any possibilities of rejection. That dude could be not into people of your gender, or just not that into you in particular.
I don't consider scoping out a date important either, and of course it doesn't eliminate rejection, but I think finding a date, knowing what pronoun to use without having to ask, etc are part of the reasons why people might appreciate being able to tell what someone is. It's an extra clue to how to interact with the stranger in question.
Gender neutral pronouns for EVERYBODY!
'Cept those dang ancient German forebears didn't come up with any neutral third-person pronouns that stuck, so we might have to borrow some in the fine English tradition of stealing all the loose vocabulary.
The Swedes use "hen," and Japanese use "aitsu" when they're being informal (depending on the circumstances, it could be construed as rude, but heck, Americans are casual af, it'll be fine).
Since our only gender neutral pronoun things either sound awkward('they' often sounds like it's referring to multiple people) or sound offensive (in our culture people would hate to be referred to as 'it').
Finding something that actually sounds good and flows with English is the trick, though. That said, trying to implement that would invite a lot of pronoun Nazis to go a bit too crazy, which wouldn't actually be a good thing. Especially since a lot of people might actually LIKE being referred to with gender specific pronouns.
That's the thing about trying to completely neutralize some of these things, actually. Assigning neutral pronouns to everyone would step on a lot of people's identities just as much, if not moreso, than our current system.
No, it's not all in the mind. A solid portion of it is social performance. 😛
The fact that you use the term "gender essentialist" seriously tells some of us your opinions already.
At this point most regulars here can guess the jist of my opinions on gender. But do you have a better word for the concept of gender essentialism? "Cis-scum" is a bit rude, after all.
Smithing requires more upper body strength too.
Not if you're using primarily cast or mold methods, like a lot of bronzework seems to do. For a simple knife, all you'd have to do after casting the basic shape would be grinding/sanding an edge on it. Knapping arrowheads is also more about skill than strength.
Oh, so you are more or less a gender essentialist. Pity.
But dude, there are 7 effing billion people on the planet. We are not running out of people anytime soon. It's the racist fearmongers who don't want civilization with "other people's babies" (per ol' racist Rep Steve King) who screech about (white) women not childbearing enough. Most of human history took place with a global population only in the millions. We'll be fine.
If fact, you can make an evolutionary argument that having some portion of the population being infertile helps support the existing children. That's the theory why humans developed menopause (only a few other species like elephants and some whales have menopause).
Even amongst my generational peeps, I know I'm in the minority for wanting the childfree lifestyle. If you added up the stats, I think it's no more than 25%, on the outside, of us wanting to be heathen childlesses. We'll be fine.
I feel like I should specify that its not the biological womb-having bit that makes it gender essentialist, but the expectation of having a womb means that you're obligated to use it to please society rather than yourself. Its like saying because we're able-bodied we're obligated to take in disabled people and care for them out of pocket. I think that would only guarantee a buttload of resentment all around.
Granted, being in the military, you probably hold the bias that being able-bodied means you're obligated to risk death and/or dismemberment for the abstract construct of country, whereas my sense of obligation involves more effort towards diplomacy. Plus, I'm willing to bet that more people join the military because of lack of other employment opportunities than noble abstract concepts. But if the noble fiction helps them, I'll let it.
I do think we have an obligation to kids and the disabled, but we can accomplish the goal better with tax-funded social programs. I believe in freedom of choice, as much as we're able to accommodate.
To quote Captain Awkward: "Sometimes the cheapest way to pay for things is with money."
I DO want to support all the vulnerable populations, but I has only so much resources and spoons to give. So rather than biting off more than I can chew myself, I can contribute to a pool of resources that can do that more effectively. You might try to convince me that private charity is the more effective method, but nope, math points to the government being able to do the most good most effectively. American conservatives only point to private charity because they want to be able to control who gains the benefit rather than the government's (attempt at) deliberate nondiscrimination.
Tho the funnier part is that those verses are most often used to support Christian communism.
It's the social conservatives who insist on drug testing govt welfare recipients. I wouldn't put it past a lot of churches to favor their own members or fellow Protestants over other groups. Catholic hospitals already refuse to do certain procedures or dispense birth control as much as they can get away with, even for things like PCOS.
Oh, specific example that occurred to me later. When state govts give federal funding from TANF or Family Planning to sectarian Christian programs that specifically promote abstinence-only ed. It's also a horrible ROI because it does NOTHING to curb STI or teen pregnancy stats.
Considering that drug addicts are kind of known for committing crimes in order to fuel their drug habits, it makes sense to be cautious about just handing money to drug addicts. Like, if they're that desperate for the drug, then who's to say they will actually put money donated to good use rather than for their addiction?
That said, that isn't the end of the line when it comes to people that think that way (regardless of being conservative or not). A lot of conservatives are going to be just fine with funding/founding rehabs, or donating food and toiletries to the homeless regardless of whether they're on drugs or not.
My parents actually had a relative that was on drugs for a very long time. They're in the camp of not just handing money over to people with addictions, but they still poured out a LOT of effort and emotion toward helping this family member. Of course there's limits to how people can help, since drug addicts have to decide they're ready to change. But, they did a lot of practical things, like taking her to rehab(multiple times), giving her places to stay sometimes, and being there with advice and resources. And…it helped. Just because conservatives are wary about giving drug addicts money doesn't mean they are unwilling to help them.
Even if they were, it comes back to what I mentioned before. (Meant to reiterate this in my other recent reply to you, but I forgot) Conservatives flat out can't control all or even most private charities. Even if you could make a case that they all discriminate against people with drug addictions or something, that doesn't keep a bunch of liberals from going out and filling in the gaps conservatives leave behind.
Some southern state (prob Miss or Ala) spent multiple hundred thousands of dollars drug-testing all their welfare applicants and caught, like, less than 500 (and I'm willing to bet most of it was merely weed). There's some preventable govt waste for ya.
Portugal has had waaaay better results treating drug addiction as a medical problem rather than a criminal one. Of course, Portugal also has "socialist" healthcare, with medical infrastructure able to support the influx.
Even if your assertions about American conservatives were true (and they aren't true for many of that group) it wouldn't matter. They mostly only have direct control over the private charities they run. Every charity(government run or not) will have it's own specialties and rules over who it will help.
So even if conservatives were all super horrible bigots it wouldn't have to matter because plenty of other charities can be made by people you approve of. Private charities ARE a pool of resources, but having a network of those allows for more freedom and innovation. That's why it'd be better if we learned to develop that rather than shoving everything off to the government. (I'm not opposed to government run programs, but people seem to want to solve everything that way sometimes.)
Specialization is not the same thing as discrimination, but y'know what, it might be more effective to make the rest of social programs more lump-sum like Soc Sec than having half a dozen disparate programs chicken-pecking from different angles. The Soc Sec admin already has your income info, it would be more effective to share it with the IRS and relief programs than mailing in copies of your pay stubs five different times. Probably save admin costs, too.
But again, your solution is asking the government to care care of most/everything. Someone can make a database for private charities to use, or the government can give private charities a chance to opt in and receive that information that way people don't have to mail things to five different places. That would help take care of that problem without trying to make most charity itself happen at the behest of the government.
The only thing is that contains private information, so when filling out forms people probably would need to be educated on what the system does and consent to it when they fill out their initial forms. Of course, if they don't consent to it, they'll have to be ok with mailing the information out to more places.
And yes, specialization is not the same as discrimination, but since people tend to do a pretty horrible job of understanding other people's reasons for things, understanding intent, etc. there will be times when people don't think they're discriminating when they actually are, and vice versa.
Thing is, both sides of the issue come to conclusions about what they consider to be right and wrong, what they think the other side believes, etc and act on it. Like, my mom's pretty decent when it comes to teaching and has actually been able to help some kids that come from troubled backgrounds and really need to have someone there for them. But, near the end of her teaching degree when she was getting evaluated and whatnot, she got marked lower than she probably would have otherwise just because the lady grading her disagreed with her on several issues. Buuut, later on, when judged by another evaluator, my mom got marked higher. My mom's far from a perfect person, and maybe one can argue that one's beliefs will impact their teaching(my mom's probably would have been fine). But the evaluation was supposed to be based on how they performed in the classroom teaching students, not based on how well they match up with the evaluator's beliefs.
Things like that permeate the public school system, at least in my area, so it makes it harder to get good teachers in the schools because of some of the antics that go on. Having the government run the schools doesn't magically keep that stuff from happening, and it's not even an issue of how much people pay in taxes. We certainly should have public schools for K-12th grade, but it's pretty clear that it isn't just conservatives that discriminate, and that the government doesn't actually take care of everything well or prevent discrimination.
In fact, the government aspect is worse, because whatever beliefs and assumptions are made within the government(or by voters) will get implemented by laws and enforced.
Yes, but you can bludgeon the govt system with votes and acts of Congress to change, which might be slow but is prob still more effective than expecting change from the Vatican or the SBC.
I dont see how private chicken-pecking would do much better, tho.
^ None of those facts don't matter, however, when pitted against someone with an axe to grind (legit or perceived) against anything seemingly labeled "conservative" and/or "Christian." Which, in many of your comments, notleia, just keeps happening. I guess we here at SpecFaith (being firmly Christian, and often what you'd call "conservative") count as "the good ones," which is why you keep coming back. 🙂 Thanks! But have you considered … maybe there are many other Good Ones too?
Madeleine L'Engle does a good job of showing families fighting evil together. A Wrinkle in Time was about love–not personal empowerment. I love the book and refuse to see the movie after hearing Oprah say they changed everything I valued in the book.
I also love the novel Till We Have Faces. Orual is a REALLY UGLY girl no guy can ever desire. As a princess she ascends to the throne of Glome when her dad dies and the kingdom is ready to plunge into chaos. It's all an act of self sacrifice though. Orual's only desire is to have a family and this longing is never fulfilled.
Because Orual failed to do what "all godly women automatically do" a lot of fundamentalists would dislike Lewis's book. Because of Orual's maternal longings feminists would hate it.
Nah, I like most of Till We Have Faces. I have more reservations about Psyche of the Ridiculously Perfect Personality than about Orual.
I am Mother was fascinating, especially considering the controlling/manipulative aspect of the robot/mother in her attempts to re-establish the human race.
I've written the Children in Hiding trilogy, which explores a mother striving to protect her unborn child, and in the second book, her toddler, from the government bureau of population management. It's hard to write about such issues without sounding preachy, though I have striven for subtlety.


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Hello readers, ng-checked in the angular library is a directive that reads the checked or unchecked status of the radio buttons and check-boxes. In this tutorial, we will see how this directive works in the angular library.
1. Introduction
AngularJS is a JavaScript MVC or Model-View-Controller framework developed by Google that lets developers build well structured, easily testable, and maintainable front-end applications. But before we start creating a real application using the angular library, let us see what the important parts of an angular application are.
1.1.1 Templates
In angular, a template is an
HTML with added markups. The angular library compiles the templates and renders the resultant
HTML page.
1.1.2 Directives
Directives are the markers (i.e. attributes) on a DOM element that tell angular to attach a specific behavior to that DOM element or even transform the DOM element and its children. Most of the directives in the angular library start with the
ng. The directives consist of the following parts:
ng-app: The
ng-appdirective is a starting point. If the angular framework finds the
ng-appdirective anywhere in the
HTMLdocument, it bootstraps (i.e. initializes) itself and compiles the
ng-model: The
ng-modeldirective binds an
HTMLelement to a property on the
$scopeobject. It also binds the values of angular application data to the
HTMLinput controls
ng-bind: The
ng-binddirective binds the angular application data to the
ng-controller: The
ng-controllerdirective specifies a controller in the
HTMLelement. This controller will add behavior or support the data in that
HTMLelement and its child elements
ng-repeat: The
ng-repeatdirective repeat a set of
HTMLelements for each item in a given collection
ng-checked: The
ng-checkeddirective reads the checked or unchecked status of the radio buttons and check-boxes. This directive sets the value as 'true' or 'false' and has a priority of value
1.1.3 Expressions
An expression is like a JavaScript code usually wrapped inside the double curly braces such as
{{ expression }}. The angular library evaluates the expression and produces a result.
These new APIs make developer's life easier, really! But it would be difficult for a beginner to understand this without an example. Therefore, let us create a simple example using the angular library.
2. AngularJS ng-checked Directive Example
Here is a step-by-step guide for implementing the ng-checked directive in the angular web applications.
2.1 Tools Used
We are using Eclipse Kepler SR2, JDK 8 and Maven. Having said that, we have tested the code against JDK 1.7 and it works well.
2.2 Project Structure
Firstly, let's review the final project structure if you are confused about where you should create the corresponding files or folder later!
2.3 Project Creation
This section will show how to create a Java-based Maven project with Eclipse. In Eclipse Ide, go to
File -> New -> Maven Project.
In the New Maven Project window, it will ask you to select project location. By default, 'Use default workspace location' will be selected. Just click on next button to proceed.
Select the 'Maven Web App' Archetype from the list of options and click next.
It will ask you to 'Enter the group and the artifact id for the project'. We will enter the details as shown in the below image. The version number will be by default:
Click on Finish and the creation of a maven project is completed. If you see, it has downloaded the maven dependencies and a
pom.xml file will be created. It will have the following code:
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd"> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>AngularJsNgCheckedEx</groupId> <artifactId>AngularJsNgCheckedEx</artifactId> <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version> <packaging>war</packaging> </project>
3. Application Building
Let's start building an application to understand the basic building blocks of this tutorial in the angular library.
3.1 Load the Angular framework
Since it is a pure JavaScript framework, we should add its reference using the

3.2 Define the Angular application
Next, we will define the angular application using the
<ng-app> and
<ng-controller> directives.

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3.3 Define the Angular Controller
The JavaScript file i.e.
controller.js includes the
myCtrl function as the "controller" in the Model-View-Controller. This JavaScript code has the random employee details stored in an array format and the
delete() function that drops the selected employee records. Do note, the angular function will be executed on the
$scope objects through a button click.
var mainApp = angular.module("myApp", []); mainApp.controller('myCtrl', ['$scope', function ($scope) { var arr = []; $scope.empList = [ { id: '101', fName: 'John', lName: 'Gordon' }, { id: '102', fName: 'Smith', lName: 'Bing' }, { id: '103', fName: 'Allen', lName: 'Ross' }, { id: '104', fName: 'Marry', lName: 'Potter' }, { id: '105', fName: 'Jennifer', lName: 'White' } ]; $scope.getIndex = function (id, isTrue) { if (isTrue) { arr.push(id); } else { var index = arr.indexOf(id); arr.splice(index, 1); } }; $scope.delete = function (isMaster) { if (isMaster) { $scope.empList = []; } else { for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) { var rec = $scope.empList.filter(function (p) { return p.id == arr[i] }); var idx = $scope.empList.indexOf(rec[0]); $scope.empList.splice(idx, 1); } }; arr = []; }; }]);
3.4 Complete Application
In this example, we have an employee table with a check-box for each employee record. On a button click, the record will be dropped for the selected (i.e. checked) check-box. Also, there is a master check-box for selecting all records and dropping them at once. Complete the above steps to understand the usage.
<!DOCTYPE html>   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>AngularJS ng-Checked Directive Example</title>     <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0/css/bootstrap.min.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="resource/css/controller.css">

AngularJS - ng-Checked Directive Example

 Delete all: <input id="delMasterCheckBox" type="checkbox" ng-model="masterCheckBox" /> Click "Delete all" to select all employees
 <button id="dBtn" type="button" class="btn btn-danger" ng-click="delete(masterCheckBox)">Delete</button>

 Id	 First Name	 Last Name	 Action

 {{ e.id }}	 {{ e.fName }}	 {{ e.lName }}	  <input id="delCheckBox" type="checkbox" ng-checked="masterCheckBox" ng-model="isTrue" ng-change="getIndex(e.id, isTrue)" />

4. Run the Application
As we are ready for all the changes, let us compile the project and deploy the application on the tomcat server. To deploy the application on Tomat7, right-click on the project and navigate to
Run as -> Run on Server.
Tomcat will deploy the application in its web-apps folder and shall start its execution to deploy the project so that we can go ahead and test it in the browser.
5. Project Demo
Open your favorite browser and hit the following URL. The output page having the default employee list will be displayed.
Server name (localhost) and port (8080) may vary as per your Tomcat configuration.
Here we have the
delete() function attached to a button click. This angular function will drop the selected employee records as shown below.
That's all for this post. Happy Learning!!
6. Conclusion
In this section, developers learned how to create a simple application using the
ng-checked directive. Developers can download the sample application as an Eclipse project in the Downloads section.
7. Download the Eclipse Project
This was an example of the ng-checked directive in the angular library.
You can download the full source code of this example here: AngularJsNgCheckedEx

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With the Asian economy set for zero growth this year, countries in the region are being urged to consider their future trade patterns and procedures.
There can be no doubting the scale of the problems the Covid-19 – and hopefully post-Covid – world will face.
"Asia's growth rate in 2020 is expected to 0%," Changyong Rhee, director of the International Monetary Fund's Asia and Pacific department, told reporters attending a video press conference.
Asia has not experienced a zero-growth rate in the past 60 years – but its current growth still be far better than that of other regions.
"The U.S. growth rate is -5.9%; the Euro-area growth rate will be around -7.5%. And you can imagine what kind of impact this has on Asia's export sector," said Rhee. China, by contrast, will grow, but only by a meagre 1.2%, and that in the second half of the year, he added. ASEAN-5 growth is expected to be -1.3%.
Private sector sources corroborate this.
Ruben Gnanalingam, group managing director of Westports Malaysia, cautioned in a results statement that while Westports Q1 2020 container volumes were "only slightly lower, we expect the major effects of the Covid-19 pandemic to hit us in April and continue throughout the 2nd Quarter of 2020."
Nor is there much more optimism beyond that.
"While we are hopeful for some recovery in the second half of the year, the company does not expect container throughput to register an overall increase for the year 2020.
The severity of the volume contraction would depend on how protracted the Covid-19 pandemic is going to be and how social and economic activities adjust to a post-lockdown world. The world is unlikely to be able to consume in the way it used to and it might take a while for it to get to the consumption levels of 2019," Gnanalingam said.
Part of this is a concern that less money will mean less scope for investment in much-needed infrastructure. Some see it the other way, and argue that government money into big-ticket hardware is just the tonic for the post-Covid-19 economy.
Mohd Sheriff Mohd Kassim, a former secretary-general at the Malaysian Ministry of Finance and founder of the influential G25 lobby group, said three multi-billion ringgit projects – the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL), Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (HSR) and National Fiberization and Connectivity Plan (NFCP) – could repair the economic damage caused by the pandemic.
It was reported in February that the RM44 billion (US$10.26 billion) ECRL, which will connect Port Klang and Kota Bharu, is only 15% complete.
Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, it has begun to look as though the world may consume less than in pre-Covid-19 days, but it is looking likely we will consume and move differently – something in which ASEAN well might profit from, providing there is more integration, said CIMB ASEAN Research Institute (CARI) chairman Munir Majid at a recent online conference.
"There will be greater regionalization of the world, in which ASEAN is well-placed if it took its chances and truly established the ASEAN Economic Community, that single production base and market long promised but still fragmented by barriers and nationalist sentiment," Majid said.
Specific though Majid's point is, a more general one is the need to diversify post-Covid-19; regionalization is one option among that. For China, this might not be the most welcome news, as it could accelerate the shift of some types of manufacturing from China to ASEAN and elsewhere.
"We would suggest that the appropriate reaction would be to think over the current value chains that have been stretched across the globe," Klaus-Jürgen Gern, senior manager of the international forecasting unit at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, told Asia Cargo News.
This is not a call for reshoring – although that is one option. Gern's view is that companies would do well to make their supply chains more resilient by moving away from overdependence on a single country or company. This could mean more or less globalization: "not necessarily only less," he said.
There is an opportunity here for ASEAN countries, according to others, including Soon Ghee Chua, partner and head of the Southeast Asia unit at management consulting firm Kearney. China has a 28% share of global manufacturing, while ASEAN is only at 4%-5%, he said at the recent CARI conference.
"For those countries who are prepared with policy tools such as incentives and schemes, this will be a golden opportunity," Chua said.
This might not be the best news for some in China, with a trade war looming irrespective of who wins the presidential election in the United States in November, rising labour costs and the country's own financial problems looming. The aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic might see some loss of China's preeminence in the global value chain.
"China has already been on the way to losing a lot of its workbench factories to other Asian countries," Gern told Asia Cargo News. "This process could be accelerated by corona because people think that a more diversified value chain is more appropriate, given these uncertainties."
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Southeast Asia Correspondent | Bangkok


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Surfing for Autism
The 2019 Surfing for Autism event will be held at Jennette's Pier in Nags Head, NC. We're offering a Meet & Greet Friday night before the surfing event, providing an opportunity to meet other families and share time together. After dinner, siblings of children with autism will have the opportunity to go fishing off the pier, while children with autism can go down to the beach to learn some surfing skills in the sand.
The surfing event begins first thing Saturday morning. Children will surf in assigned heats but activities for the entire family are available on-site throughout the event. A boxed lunch is provided.
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I honestly think the entire CFB, NBA, NFL, NHL seasons will be can canceled ** -- Blueandgold 03/29/2020 1:09PM
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Canadians face a number of concerns as they near retirement. Investors who are about to start decumulating are seeking sound advice to help them replace uncertainty with informed judgment. They worry about whether they have saved enough, how markets will behave and if their approach to investing should be more conservative in view of market volatility in recent years. They wonder, too, about withdrawal rates in retirement and how they will maintain their lifestyles.
According to Statistics Canada, the third of Canadians who are approaching retirement will rely on multiple sources of income in retirement—a mix of public and private pensions, as well as investments and earned income they generate themselves. At the same time, this generation is redefining retirement, with many choosing either to transition gradually from work or to continue working indefinitely—some out of necessity, others by choice.
If they wish to maintain their lifestyles in retirement, Canadians will have to figure out how to replace enough of their pre-retirement income to manage it. They'll also have to consider the five key risks to retirement income and the kinds of personal savings vehicles they'll require to address those risks.
The first risk is longevity: people may live longer than they might expect. According to the Canadian Institute of Actuaries UP-94 projected to 2015, a woman age 65 has a 50% chance of living to 86 and a 25% chance of living until 92. Her savings may have to last many years.
During that time, the second risk will be inflation, and even a low rate could have serious consequences. A 2% annual inflation rate will reduce an individual's purchasing power over 25 years by roughly 40%.
The third risk has to do with asset allocation. What asset mix will generate sufficient returns, ensure that a retirement portfolio lasts as long as needed and allow the investor peace of mind? The starting point for most is a well-balanced portfolio.
Related to this is the annual withdrawal rate, the fourth risk. In the wake of the market volatility, many retirees felt added pressure to increase their withdrawal rates. But the truth remains that lower withdrawal rates make portfolios last considerably longer. An enduring portfolio is even more desirable considering the fifth risk to retirement income, unforeseen out-of-pocket healthcare costs.
To manage these five risks effectively, individuals must understand how different investments and income sources—be they pensions, government programs, annuities, mutual funds, fixed income securities or cash—come with different strengths and weaknesses. They also need to replace uncertainty with certainty by taking basic steps to create a retirement income plan. By planning to fund essential expenses with sure and stable sources of income, individuals can ready themselves for retirement more effectively.
Peter Drake is vice-president, retirement and economic research, with Pyramis Global Advisors.
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William Reinhardt is building a new house on Packard street. There were 6,223 sparrows killed in this county during July. The bridge on Detroit street has been repaired by placing in new planks. Michael Laubengayer paid $10 fine and $0 costs in Justice Butts' court, Saturday, for being drunk. Miss Lillian Schlee, of Ann Arbor Town, has been engaged as one of the teachers in the grammar school at Saline. Hutzel & Co. are laying several hundred feet of private water mains in Detroit. Titus F. Hutzel is overseeing the job. An aged bull-dog belonging to Paul Schall was killed by his owner yesterday, it being feared that the dog was going mad. Simon Lutz, of Ann Arbor Town, died Tuesday, aged seventy-two years. He had worked for the Cornwalls over thirty years. J. G. Thompson, who took his A. M. degree in June, has been appointed instructor of mathematics in the University of Illinois. Tour candidates suffered the unutterable pangs incident to taking the Oriental degree in the Maccabees, Monday evening. Rev. J. E. Jacklin, associate editor of the Michigan Christian Advocate, will preach at the M. E. church, next Sabbath morning and evening. The appointment of Edward Duffy as a member of the State Board of Prison Inspectors for four years was confirmed by the Senate, Saturday. Chas. Baluss, of E. Ann street, is having mounted a fine eagle measuring six feet six inches from tip to tip, which he shot at Silver Lake, last week. Surveyors have been operating on Summit street this week, trying to establish the correct boundaries of the first two lots west of the Toledo railroad tracks. The Bethlehern Supday school will run an excursión to Whitmore Lake and hold a picnic in Smith's grove on next Wednesday. All friends are invited to attend. Dr. W. II. Jackson has come to the front as an expert lisherman. On Saturday he landed a fine black bass that weighed nearly seven pounds, at Whitmore lake. President C. K. Adams, late of Cornell, formerly professor of history in the university here, has accepted the presidency of Wisconsin university at a salary of $7,000. The three coach loads of Ann Arbor Commandery Knights Templar and their friends left here as per schedule on Saturday and are now enjoying themselves in the west. The Bay City Times says that if George A. Feters is elected to congress from the second congressional district, Sockless Simpson and Pfeffers whiskers will take back seats. The annual premium list of the Wasbtenaw Agricultural and Horti. cultural society is now beiñg distributed and everything points to a successful fair in this city on Sept. 27-30th. Deputy Sheriff Peterson, while playing with his dogs on Sunday evening, accidentally bruised the museles in theealf of one of his legs, and has since been sporting a flrst-class limp. Fred Rinsey, Sam Baumgardner and Caspar Kinsey are now members of the Oak Grove Sporting Club. The club consists of eight members, and has an elegant house on one of the bluffs at Zukey lake. The oíd sawmill on Packard street, which bas been a detriment to propI erty in that locality for years, has been torn down and a number of new residences will be erected in that vicinity within a short time. Wm. Neithammer, of Main street, ex-alderman of the third ward, has been contined to his house during the pastweek with vvhat seems to be the result of a partial sunstroke. We are pleased to learn that be is recovering. A landslide in Daniel Hiscock's sand-bank on Summit street, last weck, demolished and buried a wagon which was being filled. Fortunately the man and borses escapeil uninjured. Every spoke in the bind wheels was broken. Last Thursday and Friday the county board of school examiners hele a teachers' examination at the court house at which 98 persons were placee on the rack. Nearly all were old teachers and the percentage is very high. Lee Wing, the rClnnaman who was seriously injured by an electric car several weeks ago, returned yesterday from Chicago' -where he underwent treatment by a Chinese physician. He has so far recovered as to be able to get around with the aid oferutches. John Wisner, the Manchester building mover, between the middle of April and the flrst of July of this year moved forty-eight buildings. Twenty one of these were barns placed on foundations. Whó says the western part of the county is not improving'? "William R. Smith, alias IL A. Seaton,was arraignedbefore Justice Pond, Tuesday, waived examination and was bound over to the circuit court. He is the man who pretending to be a general insurance agent got drafts for $100 cashed in a number of cities in this section of the country, including one at Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor will be alive with soldiers next Wednesday, no less than nine companies leaving this point for the state encampment at Island Lake. The companies passing through here will consist of those from Adrián, Tecumseh, two from Jackson, Ypsilanti, Coldwater, Kalamazoo and ïhree Rivers, besides the Light Infantry of this city. Monday afternoon a team of mustangs belonging to Alphonse Lembkie became frightened and ran away on S. State street. ïhey turned on Packard street and meeting a motor car swerved out, the neckyoke to which they were attached striking a telephone pole with such force that one of the horses was thrown and his neek broken. A painful accident happened to Ed. Ross this week white assisting in carrying a heavy timber for use in the construction of E. B. Hali's new coal sheds. One of the cross-timbers used in its transportation broke, letting the timber fall on his left foot, crushing the bones of his great toe and bruising seriously other portions of the foot. He is now, in consequence, acquiring valuable experience in the use of crutches. Arbor tent, K. O. T. M., took possession, this week, of its new quarters in the third story of the postoffice building, of which it has secured a lease from J. E. Beal for a term of ten years. The entire Hoor will be remodeled and reconstructed so that when the work is completed, it will be one of the best society halls in the tate. It will have all the modern conveniences, including steam heating, etc, and as its location is;the best in he city, Arbor tent is to be congratuated upon its good fortune. The members of'Company A, tst Infantry, of this city are making final arraugements for the encampment, pecial drills having been called for Friday, Monday, and Tuesday evenngs. Every member of the eompany ïas been ordered to report at the armory at nine o'clock, Wednesday morning, ready to start for camp. L'he quartermaster, cooks, waitersi baggage, and camp equipage leaves Monday night or Tuesday morning. The boys anticípate plenty of f un and ots of hard work in camp this year. A meeting of the county committee of Maccabees was held, Tuesday evenng, in the postoffice block to complete airan gements for the Gteat Camp meeting in Detroit on August 30. Among those in attendance were Sir Knights Matthews and Eddson, of Ypsilanti; Spear and Chad wiek, of Chelsea; Nixon and Nordman, of Dexter; Pray, of Whitmore Lake and F. E. Mills, J. O. Jenkins and E. J. Storms, of Arbor tent of this city. Much work was done and it is expected tliat Washtenaw county will have a large turnout at Detroit. Justice Pond had an interesting dog suit in his court, Saturday. The village authorities of Dexter recently passed an ordinance instructing the marshal to kill all unmuzzled dogs That official discovered a fine greyhound belonging to Geo. F. Iliggins meandering about town without a muzzle and proceeded to shoot hini Mr. Iliggins objected to this and af ter looking into the matter and fipding that the marshal was too previons, the ordinance not yet haying gone into effect, sued that official, the jury awarding him 25 damages. So far City Treasurer Beakes has received only $15 for the fire sufferers at Bay City. Of this aniount $10 was given by an elderly lady who stepped into his office, handed out that aniouii and refused to allow her name to be given, saying that it wasfrotoafriend The remaining $5 was from a gentle man who is always foremost in works of charity, Thos. J. Keech. It is not to the credit of Ann Arbor that so small a sum should be sent to Bay City. Ann Arbor ought. to raise at least $200, and tbere is no doubt but much more than that would be cheerfully given if the matter was brought to the attention of ourcitizens. Many of the fire sufferer3 at Bay City wero poor people who owned the homes tha. 1 were burned and have loyt everything. This is charity at home that ought not to be neglected.- Courier. The university has sustained a great loss by the death of Regent Charles Stuart Draper, of Saginaw, the news of whose demise reached here on Saturday. Kegent Draper has been in ill health for some time and recently went to Carlsbad to try the waters at that place. He was thought tobe improving and started to return home by the steamer Columbia when he was suddenly taken worse and died. Mr. Draper was one of the most active and alert of the members of the Board of Ilegents and his thorough acquaintance with the needs and importance of the university made him one of the most valuable of the managers of the institution.
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When recording data offline (using Mobile for Laptop) the Framework should already check (before saving or event-triggered on leave of the field) if the data entered by the user is valid for the respective field-type.
Salesforce field-types should be synchronized to offline as well, so MFL knows for example how many digits a numeric field has and prohibits storing of values out of range.
What a great idea this is! We are waiting for this for ages! Thumbs up!
How many times has auto-correct messed up an email address only to bring up a conflict down the line. If they are offline they are screwed if you lock down that field after the signature is captured.
This is a no brainer.
Exactly, that's why I was surprised noticing that such basic functionality is not yet implemented.
One of our big pain points; mobile end-users spending a lot of time dealing with data sync errors. As a result, we have had to implement several builds to add "logic" to an MFL tool that lacks logic / basic functionality and have several more builds planned for next year that will display "alert messages" to the end-user to correct on record save vs. identifying issues at Data Sync. E.g., end dates before start dates, missing end date or start dates – when rescheduling WO's or inputs on labor or travel lines, debriefing more that qty on hand, debriefing more lotbatch than onhand, etc….. We shouldn't need to invest $$'s to build functionality that should be part of the product to make it stable and eliminate unnecessary admin to use. I'm interested in hearing if validation rules are planned to be implemented in MFL in a future release. It would greatly help tool adoption! thanks...
I know this is an older thread but wanted to agree with above. We too are having to spend valuable time building 'logic' to prevent overlapping time fields and all the other issues mentioned above. Our legacy systems we are transitioning from all had this as standard and so it is expected we deliver this with our servicemax solution. philips healthcare
Data validation rules that can be defined and configured using SFM designer and made available on a mobile app as client-side triggers (available offline) is available now. Is the request to expand the data validation rule capabilities to include additional types and be able to construct additional advanced validation expressions?
Yes this is about expanding the rule capabilities and advanced validation expressions as my technical team is telling me it is not currently possible to perform the validation I am requesting as a client-side trigger.
From my point of view the checking on data-types is the point. So not the logical testing on validity of the data, but the technical correctness - e.g. only 10 digits are allowed for numeric 10 digits fields... This should be done by the system, without having to build validation rules for it.
Exactly. Its not really even about validation rules, but about enforcing the data types defined by salesforce. E.g. A Text(10) field can only accept 10 characters and prevents you typing more than this
We are adding support for custom JS Snippets which can be used to perform custom business logic on the client side for FSA apps starting 19.1. We will also include a basic javascript API (which we will continue to expand) that can be used within the JS snippet.
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It's Saturday and time for another set of links that make you think, about forensics. I'm making my plans for PFIC and hope to see you there as well, hoping for early snow! Here is this weeks links:
1. Yesterday we had part 2 of our IR roundtable on the forensic lunch, you can watch it here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_hbziV-1g8. Darren Windham, Joseph Shaw, Kyle Maxwell and James Lohman join us to talk about how they handle escalating IR scenarios of threat and their advice to new practioners.
2. Didier Stevens has a good blog up on finding out if a file is contained within another, http://blog.didierstevens.com/2013/10/07/finding-contained-files/, its an interesting read and as our suspects get more sophisticated in IP theft and malware continues to grow we will need to analyze more and more.
3. If you work on litigation supporting either party this is an interesting write up on parties being required to disclose where and how they searched for the documents they produced, http://e-discoveryteam.com/2013/10/06/party-ordered-to-disclose-where-and-how-it-searched-for-esi-you-can-expect-this-kind-of-order-to-become-commonplace/. As case law grows behind this precedent combined with the upcoming proposed federal rule changes requiring relevancy we may see more transparency in the discovery process.
4. David Kover posted the slides from his talk at the SANS DFIR Summit in Prague, http://integriography.wordpress.com/2013/10/06/sans-dfir-summit-prague-blue-team-perspectives-slides/ where he sums up the life of a responder within an enterprise and how to understand the business perspective.
5. Over on Harlan Carvey's blog he has a good writeup on his shell item research that we talked about on the forensic lunch. http://windowsir.blogspot.com/2013/10/shell-item-artifacts-reloaded.html Harlan goes into good detail on surprising locations where we find shell items and how they can expand and aid your analysis.
6. Chad Waibel has updated his blog with his first update to his Shellbag research. If you are at all interested in how shell bags are created, the timing and the events behind them keep up with Chad. http://chadwaibelforensics.blogspot.com/2013/09/first-update.html
7. Corey Harrell has a new blog up providing links to free training resources for infosec and IT training. http://journeyintoir.blogspot.com/2013/10/linkz-4-free-infosec-and-it-training.html If you are looking to expand your knowledge its hard to beat free!
That's all for today, get ready for tomorrow's Sunday Funday!


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With increasing life expectancy, adults can look forward to more years after age sixty-five than previous generations, many with better health, financial stability, and increased expectations of social activity. Yet, many Americans feel that the "golden years" are anything but idyllic, perceiving that older adults face a lonely life filled with health, financial, and medical worries. However, as the baby boomer generation has approached that stage in the life course, more Americans are confronted with a changing image of what it means to be sixty-five years or older. Given the fluctuating portrayal of older adults in television, (1) advertising, (2) and in popular magazines, (3) Americans may perceive older adults differently from previous generations. These shifting perceptions of older adults and the concerns they face not only impact how society sees these individuals and the roles they fill, but also how members of society anticipate the aging process and the expectations they have for themselves. Using two studies- Myth and Reality of Aging (4) from 1974 and the American Perceptions of Aging in the 21st Century (5) from 2000- we discuss changing trends in perceptions of adults sixty-five years or older. Specifically, we explore the following questions: 1) how are the lives older adults perceived?; 2) how have perceptions of older adults changed over the last thirty-five years?; and 3) how might the baby boomer generation influence perceptions of the lives of older adults?
Aging Stereotypes
Theories looking to explain stereotypes suggest that they perform a variety of functions, from providing shortcuts when making judgments about unknown individuals or situations, (6) to a reaction to various social roles, (7) to helping to form social identity. (8) Though stereotypes can be both negative and positive, they are more likely to be negative and lacking in recognition of variance when about members of out-groups as opposed to those held about an individual's ingroup. (9) In addition, demographic variables such as age, race, and gender can trigger automatic and specific types of stereotypes that are primed from social cues and interactions (10) primarily because American culture is filled with information that reinforces these stereotypes. (11)
Studies on portrayals of older adults suggest that aging stereotypes form early in childhood (12) and fortification of these perceptions occurs throughout adulthood. (13) Beyond influencing how individuals view older adults and the aging process, the internalization of these stereotypes can lead to assumptions about one's own aging process. As people age, stereotypes are further enhanced by negative images found throughout daily life. Implicit attitudes toward aging, often originating from past experiences and encounters, can be characterized as "automatic associations people have between an object and evaluation." (14)
In contrast to implicit attitudes, explicit attitudes toward aging might be a more premeditated response to a more recent event. Often these internalized forms of reinforcement will go unrecognized because the events do not immediately pertain to that individual. (15) As a consequence, aging stereotypes become aging self-stereotypes once people reach an age for which the stereotypes become relevant. For decades, primes such as family, community, and media have reinforced aging stereotypes internalized during childhood making them selfstereotypes that often pass from generation to generation. (16) Even labels used for older adults, such as "elderly," "aged," or "senior citizen," can convey the stereotypes of frailty, ill-health, and senility. That is why it is more common, particularly in gerontology and sociology, to use the terms "older adults" or "elders" when referring to individuals aged sixty-five or older, as these labels carry more positive connotations. (17) Thus, aging stereotypes exist across the life course, and are reinforced by messages continuously provided through various aspects in society and, as an individual ages, experiences combine with these messages to provide an oftennegative view that can affect perceptions of self-aging. For this paper, we discuss some of these common and changing stereotypes that Americans of any age may have toward older Americans and the aging process, particularly: loneliness, not having enough money to live, not having enough job opportunities, poor health, not having enough medical care, and fear of crime.
Loneliness in Older Adulthood
As Americans age, the thought of loneliness and isolation can be daunting; in fact, older Americans continue to value autonomy as they age. (18) Many older adults prefer "intimacy at a distance," (19) or the wish to have continuous and meaningful contact with their children and other kin, but do not wish to reside in the same household. This, coupled with the decline in multigenerational family households across the twentieth century, (20) encourages the stereotyped image of older adults living a desolate existence alone. However, alone does not always translate into lonely. (21) Though there is often a relationship between loneliness, social isolation and living alone, it is usually the case that older adults experience less loneliness than what is perceived and measured by others. (22)
Given these multifaceted trends balancing the desire for autonomy with the challenges of solitary living, we hypothesize that the perception of loneliness as a problem for older adults will be greater for those who are younger than sixty-five than for those who are over sixty-five. Further, with the decline in multigenerational family households over the latter part of the twentieth century, we hypothesize that this perception of loneliness as a problem for older adults will increase for both age groups between 1974 and 2000.
Financial and Employment Concerns in Older Adulthood
Both older men and older women believe that monetary resources are important factors across the life course. (23) Financial advantages early in life can help provide educational opportunities, productive environments, and occupational successes. These foundations, in turn, can provide higher wages, more opportunities, and other advantages, such as maintaining good health in later years. (24) When comparing younger Americas with older Americans, the perception of monetary satisfaction derive from different sources: younger Americans are more concerned with achieving a higher, more prominent socioeconomic status as they age, whereas older Americans are more concerned with upholding the economic status they have already achieved. (25) This means that younger adults may perceive financial concerns as more pressing for older adults than older adults perceive for themselves.
One component of having enough money as one ages is concerns for opportunities for employment in later life. Myths about older adults in the workforce often stem from the belief that as people age, their ability to perform work- related tasks declines or that they are not as motivated to learn more about their field. (26) Yet many older Americans are in good health, willing to learn new skills in order to improve the workplace, and are flexible in terms of pay, position, and hours. (27) Further, the traditional assumption that sixty-five is the prime age to retire so that people can "relax and enjoy their golden years" has changed dramatically, with the baby boomer generation working for longer into their older years than previous generations. (28) These stereotypes regarding aging can lead to ageism in hiring, preventing older workers from finding the employment opportunities they would like to pursue, (29) particularly if employers prefer to higher younger employees who are cheaper to employ. (30)
With increased life expectancy requiring financial security for longer into the later years, and strong stereotypes contributing to employment prospects, we hypothesize that the perceptions of not having enough money to live and not enough job opportunities as problems for older adults will be greater for those who are younger than sixty-five than for those who are over sixty-five. Further, as older adults have expected to continue working into later years than previous generations, we hypothesize that this perception of not having enough money to live and not enough job opportunities as problems for older adults will decrease for both age groups between 1974 and 2000.
Declining Health and Medical Access for Older Adults
The perception of, or concern about, poor health may stem from the fear many older adults have that they will need caregiving as chronic illness and physical impairments increase. (31) With the increase of the "sandwich generation-" or adults who may need to care for their children and their parents simultaneously- many adults may have experienced the caregiving role by assisting parents or grandparents as they aged and fear the role declining health plays in the aging process. (32) The combination of the stereotype of the "frail and sickly elderly" and personal experience helping previous generations through the aging process can lead to the perception that all older adults face poor...


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Have you ever questioned your "call"? What do/did you do when you do/did?
Especially when that "call" is intertwined more with your spouses "calling".
Any promises/Scriptures that the Holy Spirit used to encourage or speak to you during that time?
Absolutely I have, I'm human. I've doubted, feared and momentarily regretted at times my call and our calling. Now, these have not been the majority of times but they were some of my moments over the last 41 years of salvation life. In those moments l've recalled scriptures (Gen. 50:20 – He is sovereign and makes no mistakes; Ps. 27:1 – I have nothing to fear; Matt. 28:20 – He is with me always and in every difficulty), or I'll pick up the Word to read it and I take time to pray. And there is always the voice of my DW ever reading me like a book and always positive in reminding me that we are a team, with her determination to trust, obey and take God at His word.
Sure have.
These verses have been an encouragement and support to me:
1Thessalonians 5:23-24 May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful, and he will do it.
Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
Philippians 1:6 being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
My question has been/ still is this – what is my calling, beyond serving God, and being a wife and mom?
Would you be willing to accept that your calling IS being a wife and mom?
Oh yes! Thats fine with me. I just don't want to be shirking any other calling in any way. I want to make sure I shouldn't be doing more.
Your first Ministry is your family…and for now, that may be all God is calling you to do
Thank, ALL_IN. I've been wondering for a long time, already. This puts my mind at ease, for the time being. Raising a family is a full time job, it feels like.
I think of Paul writing to Timothy, it's one of my favorite passages:
2Ti 1:3 I thank God whom I serve, as did my ancestors, with a clear conscience, as I remember you constantly in my prayers night and day.
2Ti 1:4 As I remember your tears, I long to see you, that I may be filled with joy.
2Ti 1:5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, a faith that dwelt first in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and now, I am sure, dwells in you as well.
2Ti 1:6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,
2Ti 1:7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
2Ti 1:8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God,
2Ti 1:9 who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
2Ti 1:10 and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
2Ti 1:11 for which I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher,
2Ti 1:12 which is why I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am convinced that he is able to guard until that day what has been entrusted to me.
2Ti 1:13 Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
2Ti 1:14 By the Holy Spirit who dwells within us, guard the good deposit entrusted to you.
2Ti 1:15 You are aware that all who are in Asia turned away from me, among whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
So I take away a few things:
- Often with a calling comes a spiritual gifting, one that literally and symbolically helps us to overcome. (This is a place where I think prophetic ministry is key.) It is important to remember times where God has used that in us, as well as to look for opportunities to see that stirred in our lives.
- Fight fear with a sound mind – one of power, love, and self-control.
- Remember that the calling is for His own purpose. Whether we succeed or fail, our job is to be obedient.
- Note, I have had plenty of things that I have wanted to do or have been actively doing but I would not list as a calling. It's important to sort these out and not necessarily cling to things that aren't something He's called you to. Recognizing this can be painful.
- Remember that suffering is a normal part of our work.
- Remember that the pain of lost fellowship is a normal part of our work.
- But also balance this with Jesus' promise:
- Mar 10:29 Jesus said, "Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel,
Mar 10:30 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
- Remember that other great heroes of the faith have struggled with this, too. (e.g. Elijah being dejected, John the Baptist asking if Jesus was really the one in prison) However, that does not give us a free pass and we often can do something about it: "guard the good deposit entrusted to you." Of course, this is easier said than done – I don't think that simply "believing harder" is quite what we're supposed to do. But watching our thoughts and the inputs to our thought processes can help. Similarly, choosing to be thankful and to praise God (singing helps for me, especially when I really don't want to) both exercise our faith and can help set the stage.
These things – hard though they be – have encouraged me.
The next chapters are great, as Paul continues to write to Timothy about how to take care of business.
Talk with your spouse. It's important for them to know how you're feeling. Then you can struggle together rather than it being a hidden, festering pain.
In recent months, I have began to question whether my wife and I should serve together in the youth ministry. I don't know if I feel "called" as much as we're serving as youth leaders because no one else is. I enjoy doing it, but I don't want to do it forever. The issues that arise between DW and I can sometimes be overwhelming and don't make the service joyful…and I know I'm not there to fill my own heart, but minister to the youth, but I'd like the time DW and I spend together to have some worth for our marriage. My calling is music…that's the gift God gave me to use. Sometimes my DW will try to give her input when she has no musical training or "gift" so to speak. I typically smile and say nothing, but in my broken, sinful, human-ness, I end up saying something like, "if you want to give me advice, maybe you should join the ministry…I think sometimes the best thing to do is shut my mouth and let it pass…God has me where He wants me.
My questions run more along the lines of "What is our calling?" I am the more reflective of the two of us and constantly trying to define and explain and categorize life. He is more of the "be nice, don't do wrong, just keep swimming" mindset. (I joke that I'm Nemo's father and he's Dory, except since my car accident, I'm the one with sucky short term memory. 😛 ) Since I can be too reflective (read: stuck in my own head), we balance each other well. We don't, however, end up with well-defined goals, mission statements, or a family calling.
Sadly, I'm not sure I can say I really studied or listened for the HS's guidance on this as much as I should have and eventually just moved on to the barrage of other new things to wrestle with. Life's "in box" always seems to overflow. I guess I just gave up and mostly tread water.
Not sure if this is what was meant by this question…
I don't question my call currently, but I have wondered if because of poor decisions in my youth I have missed my call. However, though, I believe in the goodness and sovereignty of God. He knew what I'd end up doing before I made any wrong decisions.
I often questioned being a SAHM so that my husband could pursue his chosen career, which meant 60 hour work weeks for him for the past 30 years. Being a SAHM in a new community meant a lot of isolation for me (and I'm a very social person) and despite people telling me I was a 'good mom,' I didn't really believe it. I found it very boring most of the time, to be honest. It got easier when the kids were all in school, but it was a struggle for me, for a variety of reasons. They are all adults now, though we still have one at home that will always be with us. I don't have any particular scripture, but the lessons I've learned in areas of patience, selflessness, and grace are lessons I could never have gained at any job and which I thank the Lord for.
Actually, I do have a verse: Proverbs 17:6 Grandchildren are the crown of the elderly
I'm not elderly, but I do believe that my grandchildren are my reward!