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require 'spec_helper'

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describe GroceryListItemsController, :type => :controller do
  before do
    @request.env["devise.mapping"] = Devise.mappings[:user]
    @user = create(:user, :confirmed)
    @grocery_list = create(:grocery_list, user: @user)
    sign_in @user
  end

  # This should return the minimal set of attributes required to create a valid
  # GroceryListItem. As you add validations to GroceryListItem, be sure to
  # adjust the attributes here as well.
  let(:valid_attributes) {
    { name: 'Apples', grocery_list_id: @grocery_list.id }
  }

  let(:invalid_attributes) {
    { name: '', grocery_list_id: @grocery_list.id }
  }

  # This should return the minimal set of values that should be in the session
  # in order to pass any filters (e.g. authentication) defined in
  # GroceryListItemsController. Be sure to keep this updated too.
  let(:valid_session) { {} }

  describe "GET index" do
    it "assigns all grocery_list_items as @grocery_list_items" do
      grocery_list_item = GroceryListItem.create! valid_attributes
      get :index, {}, valid_session
      expect(assigns(:grocery_list_items)).to eq([grocery_list_item])
    end
  end

  describe "GET show" do
    it "assigns the requested grocery_list_item as @grocery_list_item" do
      grocery_list_item = GroceryListItem.create! valid_attributes
      get :show, {:id => grocery_list_item.to_param}, valid_session
      expect(assigns(:grocery_list_item)).to eq(grocery_list_item)
    end
  end

  describe "GET new" do
    it "assigns a new grocery_list_item as @grocery_list_item" do
      get :new, {}, valid_session
      expect(assigns(:grocery_list_item)).to be_a_new(GroceryListItem)
    end
  end

  describe "GET edit" do
    it "assigns the requested grocery_list_item as @grocery_list_item" do
      grocery_list_item = GroceryListItem.create! valid_attributes
      get :edit, {:id => grocery_list_item.to_param}, valid_session
      expect(assigns(:grocery_list_item)).to eq(grocery_list_item)
    end
  end

  describe "POST create" do
    describe "with valid params" do
      it "creates a new GroceryListItem" do
        expect {
          post :create, {:grocery_list_item => valid_attributes}, valid_session
        }.to change(GroceryListItem, :count).by(1)
      end

      it "assigns a newly created grocery_list_item as @grocery_list_item" do
        post :create, {:grocery_list_item => valid_attributes}, valid_session
        expect(assigns(:grocery_list_item)).to be_a(GroceryListItem)
        expect(assigns(:grocery_list_item)).to be_persisted
      end

      it "redirects to the created grocery_list_item" do
        post :create, {:grocery_list_item => valid_attributes}, valid_session
        expect(response).to redirect_to(GroceryListItem.last)
      end
    end

    describe "with invalid params" do
      it "assigns a newly created but unsaved grocery_list_item as @grocery_list_item" do
        post :create, {:grocery_list_item => invalid_attributes}, valid_session
        expect(assigns(:grocery_list_item)).to be_a_new(GroceryListItem)
      end

      it "re-renders the 'new' template" do
        post :create, {:grocery_list_item => invalid_attributes}, valid_session
        expect(response).to render_template("new")
      end
    end
  end

  describe "PUT update" do
    describe "with valid params" do
      let(:new_attributes) {
        { name: 'Updated', grocery_list_id: @grocery_list.id }
      }

      it "updates the requested grocery_list_item" do
        grocery_list_item = GroceryListItem.create! valid_attributes
        put :update, {:id => grocery_list_item.to_param, :grocery_list_item => new_attributes}, valid_session
        grocery_list_item.reload
        expect(grocery_list_item.name).to eq 'Updated'
      end

      it "assigns the requested grocery_list_item as @grocery_list_item" do
        grocery_list_item = GroceryListItem.create! valid_attributes
        put :update, {:id => grocery_list_item.to_param, :grocery_list_item => valid_attributes}, valid_session
        expect(assigns(:grocery_list_item)).to eq(grocery_list_item)
      end

      it "redirects to the grocery_list_item" do
        grocery_list_item = GroceryListItem.create! valid_attributes
        put :update, {:id => grocery_list_item.to_param, :grocery_list_item => valid_attributes}, valid_session
        expect(response).to redirect_to(grocery_list_item)
      end
    end

    describe "with invalid params" do
      it "assigns the grocery_list_item as @grocery_list_item" do
        grocery_list_item = GroceryListItem.create! valid_attributes
        put :update, {:id => grocery_list_item.to_param, :grocery_list_item => invalid_attributes}, valid_session
        expect(assigns(:grocery_list_item)).to eq(grocery_list_item)
      end

      it "re-renders the 'edit' template" do
        grocery_list_item = GroceryListItem.create! valid_attributes
        put :update, {:id => grocery_list_item.to_param, :grocery_list_item => invalid_attributes}, valid_session
        expect(response).to render_template("edit")
      end
    end
  end

  describe "DELETE destroy" do
    it "destroys the requested grocery_list_item" do
      grocery_list_item = GroceryListItem.create! valid_attributes
      expect {
        delete :destroy, {:id => grocery_list_item.to_param}, valid_session
      }.to change(GroceryListItem, :count).by(-1)
    end

    it "redirects to the grocery_list_items list" do
      grocery_list_item = GroceryListItem.create! valid_attributes
      delete :destroy, {:id => grocery_list_item.to_param}, valid_session
      expect(response).to redirect_to(grocery_list_items_url)
    end
  end

end


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The Stagecoach Mary was the daring black pioneer who protected Wild West Stagecoaches. She was the first African-American woman mail carrier. The story of her life becomes clearer after the end of Civil War, when she was released from slavery.
Fields headed north to friendlier territory just like her former slaves did. She seems to have gone up the Mississippi River while working on riverboats and also worked as servants and laundress for families all along her way. It is not clear that how Mary found Ursuline Convent of the Sacred Heart in Toledo, Ohio. Dee Garceau-Hagen who a historian is told that one nun in the Convent remembered Mary's anger when anyone disturbed her beautifully kept grounds.
In the year 1895, she received a contact from the postal service to become a star route carrier. She carried mail using stagecoach donated by Mother Amadeus. Her responsibility was to protect the mail on her way from thieves and bandits and to deliver mail. She performed this role for eight years.


I have added a couple of pages...the video and flash pages which hopefully will be met with approval.
For those of you I have sent on a wild goose chase..
I am struggle it get an video/audio podcast up for a class tomorrow...so i am gonna try to do it here.
It has been a while since I have posted anything of any real value. I have planted a few seeds which should bear fruit when the time is right. Knock on wood. So thanks for dropping by & keep the faith.
Spent a wonderful day with my mom, rearranging the my office and cleaning. I am running lean and mean and ready to design something! We had a lovely dinner of perogies and sausages and are now watching Marley and Me, with Owen Wilson and Jennifer Anniston. A very productive day to say the least.
Well, I would love to thank all of the wonderful people out there who have taken the time to write to me about the site. I have received lots of comments, and for the most part, the response has been great and very encouraging to say the least.
My resume is now officially available.
After much hype and even more procrastination my resume is now officially available. I have created different file types for just about any program. I am now starting the daunting task of my digital portfolio, which is long over-due. I will attempt to have it done by tomorrow night.
Well, first day live and all is well!!!
Well, it is 10:52 and the site is still up! No problems and everything is working good. Very happy and looking forward to adding lots of interesting content, as the old scanner my Mom had works well with Ubuntu. I will also be adding a chat panel for live chat, for quotes, or any body who visits to ask questions. Like what is Ubuntu.
Skype works awesome and you can call the computer, for video c2c or call my home number.
Presently updating my digital portfolio and this website.
And please remember.. that if I can't help you with a project due to any circumstance, I have an extensive network of friends and associates in the all areas of the sign industry, including production management, sales, design, printing, welders, painters, estimators, fabricators and millworkers. I would be more than willing to point you in the right direction. So please feel free to call.


A generation ago Jack Bogle invented the index fund. Now he's warning his creation may have a negative impact on the stock market.
Bogle, who founded The Vanguard Group in 1974, wrote Thursday in The Wall Street Journal that if current trends continue, index funds will soon own half of all U.S. stocks. He thinks that could lead to a dangerous vacuum in corporate governance – with nobody to effectively police the corporate executives who run America's largest companies.
Over the past few decades, however, indexing's popularity has soared. Holdings have trended steadily upwards, from 4.5% of total U.S. stock market value in 2002 to 9% by 2009. Stock index fund assets now total $4.6 trillion, and their overall percentage of total stock market value has almost doubled again in the last decade to 17%.
In the meantime, Bogle has become something of a folk hero. He has been praised by numerous finance gurus, not to mention the self-proclaimed 'Bogleheads,' who maintain a popular online personal finance forum and regularly hold local and national gatherings, where Bogle himself sometimes speaks, despite his advancing age. The 89-year-old was featured in MONEY's May 2017 cover story, in conversation with entrepreneur Tony Robbins.
Index funds' growth has had some unintended consequences. As Bogle points out, there are three index fund managers who dominate the field: Vanguard has a 51% share of the market, followed by BlackRock with 21%, and State Street Global with 9%. There are significant obstacles to becoming a major player, however, so it's not likely any new competitors will reduce the huge concentration enjoyed by these big powerhouses. There's good news for investors: As competition between larger fund managers has increased, fund fees have gone way down. Fidelity offered several zero-cost index funds this year for instance, a clear sign that low price points will make it even harder for additional firms to create new funds.
That might leave a power vacuum, leaving corporate chieftains unaccountable. CEOs who run companies supposed to answer to boards of directors, who are in turn elected by shareholders. Index funds are the biggest shareholders at most companies though. In theory, funds are supposed to vote their shares on behalf of their own investors – everyday workers who own fund shares in a 401(k) or IRA account. But there's a wrinkle: Index funds' investing strategy revolves around passively buying every stock in the market, while holding cost down as low as possible. The upshot is that they have little wherewithal or incentive to keep tabs on CEOs or other corporate managers.
Unfortunately, there's not much that the average investor can do. Some funds, however, have tried to step up corporate governance. Earlier this year, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink penned a letter companies that BlackRock invests in, urging them to consider societal responsibilities. Sparking a debate on Wall Street for years to come, Fink emphasized that corporations should "serve a social purpose" and "benefit all of their stakeholders," not just a select few.
But many observers argue funds fall far short, especially when it comes to issues like reining in runaway executive pay.


TeenHelp Mind and Body Depression and Suicide Triggering (Suicide): Why should I go on living?
My name is Nick, I am 23 y.o. living in Russia. I have a decent job, heavy workload but it pays off. I rent an apartment and I eat healthily, travel a lot and so on. Sounds like my life is normal but it's not true. Nobody knows I am constantly nervous, although I seem to be very confident and nobody knows I am gay. I realised it about 6 years ago and I still can't accept myself. No one will understand and it's huge shame in Russia, I might lose my job and people I know will turn their backs on me.
I don't have many friends, I have just one friend but I can't share lots of things with my friend. My parents want me to get a girl, get married and have kids and I feel like I disappointed and failed them. I will never be able to let them know as it's like a crime and death in their minds. My father hates such people.
I tried to commit suicide 2 or 3 times but I failed to do it. Now I am thinking everyone has goals in life, they motivate them. I used to have goals in life but I did not think it would be that much difficult to live. I don't see any points to live longer as I'm stuck at the dead - end job, no one cares about me (my friend and family probably do but they will live without me just fine), I have to keep this secret for my life and I need to make excuses for the fact that I don't have a girlfriend and so on.
I don't know how to live without any goal in life, keep on working and basically live every day.
Hello! Sorry it took a bit for you to get a response!
I know it can be a major struggle when there are high expectations put on you, and no real goal to push you forwards. This might sound a bit cheesy, but ironically, staying alive to find a goal to keep you going is an amazing reason to keep holding on.
Reading through some of these posts have helped me a lot, and while most of these things are minor, sometimes the little things make life special.
It's very, very hard to lose sight of the love around you. Even if it's from one person, there will always be someone around who cares about you. There will always be someone who misses you. I understand that these are just words, and I don't know very much about your life, but keeping that in mind has helped me through many things.
I'm sorry if I haven't been able to help out very much- I mostly just wanted to let you know that there is hope and if you need anything, feel free to come back!
That seems like a really big burden to bear. And it also sounds like a very toxic environment. I just think you should know that it's ok to be this way. It's ok to be gay, to not have a girlfriend, and you shouldn't have to feel ashamed or like your a failure simply for something that you didn't have a choice in. If it's who you really are, then theres no way you can change that, but at the same time there's nothing wrong with it either, it's just who you are.
A lot of the depression is steming from this, right? Nothing is really going to change if in the end, you don't accept yourself. Trust me it only makes things harder. No one else will be able to accept you for who you are if you don't.


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As one of the premier destinations for South American talent in Eastern Europe, Shakhtar Donetsk have long made use of their position in the European game. A regular competitor in the UEFA Champions League, and a contender for the UEFA Europa League if they drop down, Shakhtar are a modern club with a venerable status in the game. Many Brazilians have chosen to start their European journey with the Donbass region outfit as opposed to moving to other choices in Holland, Portugal, and similar-sized nations.
However, the conflict in Ukraine, which has been going on for much of the last decade but has really kicked into action in 2022, has seen Donetsk hobbled as a football power. Ukrainian football has been shut down, and even then the Miners have been playing outside of their own region for much of the last eight years. Despite that, they have still managed to sign top players, develop talent, and win titles. At the moment, though, the conflict means many of their South American talents are going elsewhere.
One example would be Tete, the exciting winger who is now part of Olympique Lyonnais. Another player who is a shining example of this opportunism across Europe, though, is young Vinicius Tobias. The young full-back, only 17, has the potential to be a Brazilian take on the modern full-back.
Having signed for Donetsk in the summer of 2021, he was expected to slowly make his way into the first-team picture. Now, he has already left – Real Madrid have agreed a loan deal that could see the player move permanently for around €17m in the summer of 2022.
How good is Vinicius Tobias?
In a word – very.
An exciting player with flair and electric pace, Tobias can get up and down the wing with confidence. He could suitably play as a lone winger, as a full-back with a winger, or as a wing-back. He has tremendous technique, too, with exciting deliveries from deep and from the byline. Though he is still slight given his age, and his defensive tendencies need lots of work, at such a young age he has everything one would hope for in a prodigious young talent.
An excellent playmaker from the full-back position, Tobias reminds some of Trent Alexander-Arnold. His range of passing and his pitch vision is hugely impressive for a youngster. Real Madrid do not waste money where they can, and the arrival of this youngster – straight into their Castilla team, but training with the first-team – points to how highly rated he is among the Madrid hierarchy.
With an excellent touch and a consistently sound delivery for one so young, it is easy to see where the excitement stems from. Given his age and his already impressive talent, signing the player for the agreed fee will likely go down as a steal. Had the Ukraine conflict not reached such serious levels, Tobias would likely have been the next huge-money sale from Donetsk.
For Madrid, though, this could turn out to be a deal as impressive as the deal to sign the likes of Casemiro and Marcelo over the years.
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1. Of the following inner resources – calm, determination, gratitude, contentment, sense of accomplishment, feeling cared about, self-compassion, confidence, self-worth, love, resilience, and insight – which are already strong inside of you, and which are especially important these days to develop further?
2. What do you think about the idea of positive experience-dependent neuroplasticity: deliberately using your mind to change your brain to change your mind for the better?
3. What did you think about the author's belief that there are just three basic ways to engage the mind (letting be, letting go, and letting in)? Can you give an example how you used each one of these approaches to your own mind?
4. Think of something positive in your life, perhaps something you're grateful for or someone who you love. For a dozen seconds or more, open to a positive experience. What's this like for you?
2. Do you agree with the author when he says, "We routinely overestimate threats and underestimate opportunities and resources?" How do you do this yourself?
4. What are some good facts in your life that you don't usually notice? What are some positive facts that you do notice but don't usually have a positive experience about? Even when you do notice a good facts and have a good experience as a result, how often do you stay with that good experience for a dozen or more seconds?
1. What's it like to realize that your brain is the product of 600 million years of evolution – that it has been built to solve the survival problems faced by ancient reptiles, mammals, primates, and early humans?
2. What do you think of the author's framework that we have three fundamental needs – for safety, satisfaction, and connection – that are managed by the Avoiding, Approaching, and Attaching systems in our brains? Can you give an example of one of your needs for safety, satisfaction, and connection?
3. What's the difference between the Responsive (green) mode and Reactive (red) modes of the brain? How do each of these feel for you?
1. The author says, "when you tilt toward good, you are not denying or resisting the bad. You're simply acknowledging, enjoying and using the good." What are your thoughts about this statement?
4. Make a list of some things that help you feel calmer, happier, or more loved when you think about them.
5. Complete the practice of Being on Your Own Side (p. 66) and write about and/or discuss your experience. What feelings come up for you in this exercise? Ease? Joy? Resistance? Forgiveness? Sadness?
1. What's the difference between liking and wanting? How might it benefit you to be able to enjoy things without getting caught up in wanting them?
2. Think of a recent positive experience and reflect on and write about and/or discuss the different aspects that composed the "song" of the experience: thought, perception, emotion, desire, and action.
3. Name something positive in the background of your awareness right now and use the practice on page 86 to bring it to the foreground.
1. Complete the practice on page 92 – "From Idea to Embodied Experience" – and write about and/or discuss your experience with the practice.
3. In what ways do you already practice creating good facts and evoking positive experiences? Write about and/or discuss your methods.
1. What are the benefits of enriching an experience?
3. Describe your own personal methods for absorbing a good experience. What images or feelings come to mind?
4. Practice the meditation on Peace, Contentment and Love (p. 121) by yourself or with a partner, and write about and/or discuss your experience.
1. What are one or more examples in which you already do the Link step in HEAL, in which you are aware of both positive and negative material at the same time, and help the positive ease, soothe, and even replace the negative.
2. Are you able to be aware of both positive and negative material at the same time? Practice doing this a few times with something that is strongly positive alongside something that is mildly negative.
3. Talk about your experience of doing the Linking step.
4. Using Table 5 (p. 137) as a guide, identify one or more key "antidote experiences" for yourself.
1. Create your own "Hardwiring Your Happiness" chart and fill in the column headings with the experiences you'd like to take in.
2. Which (if any) blocks do you identify with? Make a list of your blocks and the specific ways you can work with them.
3. Consider a current situation in your life that you would like to be more responsive to rather than reactive to. Imagine, write about, and/or discuss the potential benefits for you of "going green" (the Responsive mode) in this part of your life.
1. Of the 21 strengths the author names, or thinking of additional ones that he doesn't name, what are your own "top ten" strengths that you'd most like to reinforce or develop?
2. How are you going to use the 21 Jewels? Practicing one a day for 21 days? Practicing three a day for a week? How are you feeling called to use these strengths in your life?
3. After practicing with one, many, or all of the strengths, write about and/or discuss your experience and how you feel and imagine your life changing as a result.
1. How does it feel to know that you can use your mind to change your brain to change your mind for the better?
2. The author describes virtue, mindfulness and wisdom as the three pillars of Buddhist practice. Which aspects of your life foster these qualities and which aspects challenge them?
3. What do you think about the author's statement that, "wholesome changes in the brains of many people could help tip the world in a better direction?" Do you agree or disagree?
1. In what ways have you experienced separation in your life and what have the effects been? Isolation? Alienation? Overwhelm?
2. How do you relate to the three primary survival strategies – creating separations, maintaining stability, and approaching opportunities and avoiding threats – that make you suffer?
3. The author describes how our brains simulate the world like a mini-movie running constantly. Think of a recent occurrence when the simulator pulled you out of the present moment. What was the mini-movie that played? Did it set you chasing pleasures or resisting pains?
4. Take yourself through the self-compassion exercise beginning on page 46 and write about your experience. How does this feel for you?
1. Reflect on a recent instance when you threw a second dart. Was it to yourself or another? Was there a first dart present? Was the second dart a reaction to something that was actually good?
2. Can you identify with any of the physical or mental consequences of frequent SNS/HPSS activation (beginning on p. 56)?
3. On page 61, the author describes the four stages on the path of awakening. Which stage do you find yourself in most often? Can you identify the second darts that keep you at a particular stage (if you're not operating at stage four – unconscious competence)?
1. Which negative material in your life would you like to have infused with positive material? Look for opportunities to both have a positive experience and allow it to sink in, soothe and replace old pains; and bring to mind positive emotions and perspectives when negative material arises.
2. In your own words, describe why it's good to take in the good.
3. What are the deep roots of your recurring upsets?
1. Practice one or more of the methods for activating the parasympathetic nervous system. How does this feel in your body?
2. On page 90, the author suggests imagining or writing down a conversation between the inner protector and a critical or alarming subpersonality, making sure that the inner protector makes a powerful case for you. How do you feel about this exercise?
4. Complete the practice, Exploring Your Refuges (p. 95.) What was this experience like for you?
1. Why do you think it's important to both cool the causes of suffering and warm up the causes of happiness?
2. What is your understanding of the difference between desire and craving?
3. Complete the practice of Many Ways to Feel Strong (p. 105) and describe your experience. How did this exercise feel for you? In what ways do you already feel strong?
1. What is your understanding of equanimity? In a state of equanimity, what happens when the limbic system fires?
2. Using the relaxation practices in chapter 5, make a list of mild to strong triggers and work your way up the list (from mild to strong) bringing a greater sense of tranquility to each one (p. 116).
3. How does equanimity block the normal sequence in the mind that moves from feeling tone to craving to clinging and to suffering?
1. What is your understanding of how and why humans developed empathy?
2. What are some of the traits that modern day humans developed through the "banding" of early humans?
3. How did we form an "us" against "them" dynamic? How did this dynamic support survival?
1. What does empathy mean to you? Write about or discuss a recent experience of giving or receiving empathy. How did this experience feel for you?
2. On page 145 the author suggests experiencing daily compassion for five kinds of people – someone you're grateful for, a loved one or friend, a neutral person, someone who is difficult for you, and for yourself. In what ways is this practice easy and in what ways is it challenging?
3. Beginning on page 147, the author offers examples of unilateral virtues. What are your core virtues? What are your purposes and principles in relationships? Make a list of your unilateral core virtues (your personal code) and visualize yourself acting accordingly, no mater what happens.
4. Which of the key points of communication that the author lists are you using skillfully? Which could use more practice? How do these communication skills relate to your personal code?
1. On page 159, the author describes a meditation in which you repeat specific phrases for wishing yourself and others well, to help sink into a deep sense of loving-kindness. Describe your experience with this meditation. What sensations or emotions did you notice?
2. Of the practices the author lists to "Tame the Wolf of Hate", which resonate with you strongly? Which do you already practice and which can you commit to practicing more often?
3. Complete the Ten Thousand Things exercise on page 165 and journal about your experience. How did this exercise feel for you? How has it changed your feelings or perception of the person who was the subject of the exercise? Do you feel differently about that person or the situation? Do you feel differently about yourself?
1. What are your personal challenges to mindfulness, if any? Which aspect of attention is most challenging for you: holding something in your awareness, filtering out distractions, or managing the desire for stimulation?
2. Of the suggestions the author gives to support everyday mindfulness on page 184, which are you willing to commit to practicing? What practices can you add of your own?
3. The author suggests four ways to improve your attention: using intention, staying awake and alert, quieting the mind, and abiding as awareness. Name situations in your work and home life, and your spiritual practice in which you can use these techniques to improve your attention over time.
1. On page 198 the author offers ways to intensify rapture and joy. Having given yourself the opportunity to experiment with them in meditation and in everyday situations, describe some of your experiences.
2. Describe, in as much detail as you can, the nuances in experiencing the states of rapture, happiness, contentment, and tranquility.
3. How does it feel to give yourself over to the present moment, dropping the past and the future?
1. Recall and describe an instance in your life when your sense of "I" was strong and the cause of suffering. Conversely, describe an instance when your sense of "I" was relaxed and you felt happy and satisfied.
2. Did your understanding of the self change after reading the author's descriptions? How do you feel about the author's suggestions for relaxing the self: releasing identification, practicing generosity, being good to yourself, relaxing about what others think, and relaxing the desire to be special?
3. In addition to the author's suggestions for feeling joined with the world and joined with life, how will you deepen these practices to contribute to thriving, happiness and contentment for yourself and others?


Lotus Enthusiast » Are you a control freak?
If you answered 'Yes!' then you'll know that despite your best efforts, there will always be certain things you can control and certain things you can't. It's all about balance. No one is immune, not even Lotus and recent events got us thinking a bit more about control…..
Creativity Control: Anyone familiar with our brand will know that Lotus don't 'do' ordinary cars. We innovate and create unique, exciting and exceptionally light and high-performing sports cars.
Carbon Control: One for the number crunchers. Extensive research has shown that the new Lotus Elise releases carbon emissions of 149g/km, this figure represents the lowest for a high-performance sports car in this category. So who says you can't be carbon conscious without compromising on technology, style and most importantly, performance?
Collision Control: A Lotus driver has the best braking and handling at their disposal (we're not bragging, apparently we're the industry's benchmark) and we all know that the best way to avoid a collision is to avoid being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Our incredibly agile and responsive cars mean that a Lotus can be out of trouble before it gets into trouble.
Climate Control: In one word: Eyjafjallajökull.
No one can ignore (but perhaps some clever boffins could have predicted) the current chaos caused by the world's most unpronounceable volcano. Even we were affected this week as we set about inviting the first wave of media to drive the new 2011 Lotus Elise. Those lovely European journalists all set to experience the sheer joy of driving our latest offering this week at a specially organised event in Surrey were denied this great opportunity due to our fuming Icelandic friend.
They didn't get to experience the new aerodynamics which has seen the Cd improve by 4% or the pleasure of the new super efficient 1.6 litre 4 cylinder VVT-I engine, which is 200cc smaller than the engine in the outgoing Lotus Elise S yet produces the same power! Yes, it's that clever!
But it's not all doom and gloom for our stranded and frustrated journalist friends, every (ash)cloud has its silver lining, once the dust settles there will be plenty of organised drive activities on offer! So, if like them you fancy pushing your fun threshold to its maximum, Lotus' latest innovation is just the remedy. Please call us for more information.
P.S.: Hard to believe: For the amount of 150,000 tons of CO2 Eyjafjallajökull is emitting every day, we could drive the new Elise 25,000 times around the equator.


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Q: Select which version of program is installed I have a script that will run depending on which version is installed on a users machine.
I have this code but I'm obviously doing something wrong as nothing happens. I think I need to use the Dir function but I'm not exactly sure how.
Sub CheckNavisworksVersion2()
Dim strFileName As String
Dim strNavisworksVersion As String
Dim strNavisworks2020 As String
Dim strNavisworks2021 As String

strNavisworks2020 = "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Navisworks Manage 2020\FiletoolsTaskRunner.exe"
strNavisworks2021 = "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Navisworks Manage 2021\FiletoolsTaskRunner.exe"
strFileExists = Dir(strFileName)

If strNavisworksVersion = strNavisworks2020 Then
    MsgBox "Version 2020"

ElseIf strNavisworksVersion = strNavisworks2021 Then
    MsgBox "Version 2021"
End If

End Sub

A: You are not using the right variables in your Dir function. You need to test each one.
Sub CheckNavisworksVersion2()

Dim strFileExists20 As String
Dim strNavisworks2020 As String
strNavisworks2020 = "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Navisworks Manage 2020\FiletoolsTaskRunner.exe"
strFileExists20 = Dir(strNavisworks2020)
If strFileExists20 <> "" Then
    MsgBox "Version 2020 exists"
End If

Dim strFileExists21 As String
Dim strNavisworks2021 As String
strNavisworks2021 = "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Navisworks Manage 2021\FiletoolsTaskRunner.exe"
strFileExists21 = Dir(strNavisworks2021)
If strFileExists21 <> "" Then
    MsgBox "Version 2021 exists"
End If

End Sub

Or better yet, make it a function:
Function CheckNavisworksVersion(sVersion As String) As Boolean
  Dim strFileExists As String
  Dim strNavisworks As String
  strNavisworks = "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Navisworks Manage 20" & sVersion & "\FiletoolsTaskRunner.exe"
  strFileExists = Dir(strNavisworks)
  CheckNavisworksVersion = (strFileExists <> "")
End Function

Usage:
Dim bInstalled as Boolean
bInstalled = CheckNavisworksVersion("20")
If bInstalled Then MsgBox "Version 2020 exists"
bInstalled = CheckNavisworksVersion("21")
If bInstalled Then MsgBox "Version 2021 exists"

Note: Keep in mind that people can install programs to any folder they want to, so this is probably not the best method. Instead, read the registry and look for the keys that exist to determine what is installed.

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SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – At the urging of The Greenlining Institute and other advocates, the California Public Utilities Commission yesterday approved a plan spearheaded by Commissioner Martha Guzman-Aceves to protect low-income Californians from drastic federal cutbacks to eligibility for the LifeLine program. LifeLine provides affordable phone service (including smartphone data) to low-income customers.
"This decision marks a great milestone in California's resistance to the federal war on low-income Americans," said Greenlining Institute Telecommunications Legal Counsel Vinhcent Le. "From preserving access to affordable healthcare and growing momentum for state net neutrality protections, to today's decision on LifeLine, California has consistently fought to protect its most vulnerable citizens."
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Q: October CMS belongsToMany/hasMany relation to self I followed the excellent answer given here: October CMS relation to self
But was left with one problem; it's a one-way relation. In my case I have a "domain" which can have many domains. However, although "domain A" is linked to "domain B" and "domain C", this wasn't the other way around. When editing "Domain B" it wasn't linked to "Domain A" when using the method given by Hardik.
Documentation states:

"To define the inverse of a many-to-many relationship, you simply
  place another $belongsToMany property on your related model."

, but this is impossible since the model can only have one $belongsToMany property?
So how do I realize the inverse in a relation to itself?

A: So as I have done a couple self referencing relationships I have found a many-to-many relationship function uses the primary model is the key and the joining model is the otherKey. This is always how the interpreter works. Here examples and solutions I have found.
Here is a belongsToMany relationship
public $belongsToMany = [
    'relation' => [
        'Author\Plugin\Models\Datas',
        'table' => 'author_plugin_datapivot',
        'key' => 'relation_one',
        'otherKey' => 'relation_two'
    ]
];

To get the two way many to many relationship working the pivot table needs to look like this. relation_one contains record.id | relation_two contains relation.id and the recursive relation.id | record.id.

Solution 1 - Create an inverseRelation - Problem with this is now you have to check the model for a relation and an inverseRelation.
public $belongsToMany = [
    'relation' => [
        'Author\Plugin\Models\Datas',
        'table' => 'author_plugin_datapivot',
        'key' => 'relation_one',
        'otherKey' => 'relation_two'
    ],
    'inverseRelation' => [
        'Author\Plugin\Models\Datas',
        'table' => 'author_plugin_datapivot',
        'key' => 'relation_two',
        'otherKey' => 'relation_one'
    ]
];

Solution 2 - Create a function afterSave -- I couldn't get this to work how I wanted - I believe this is possible, my theory was to access the model's relations and then iterate through them to attach this record. However I think attaching the relation is done after the model is saved so you don't have access to the relations yet. There are probably ways to use this method still like maybe a temporary field that holds the id's of the records you want to save. I am not going to try it though.
public function afterSave()
{
    $relations = $this->relations;
    dd($this);
    foreach ($relations as $relation) {
        $relation->relations()->attach($this);
    }
}

Solution 3 - Create a component/class function - I chose this because I hardly use the backend to edit model data. I created a class function that handles attaching the relations recursively. Key things to note that I found it faster to remove all attached relations (detach()) then checking to see if I am attaching a duplicate. This is important because you will get an error for attaching duplicates. Also note that using a class function I can look for unique properties where I wouldn't want to use a many-to-many relationship.
public function attachMany($field, $record, $relation)
{
    if ($record->relations->first()) {
        foreach ($record->relations as $relation) {
            $relation->relations()->detach($record);
            $record->relations()->detach($relation);
        }
    }
    if ($field->unique) {
        $relationRecord->relation_bto()->add($record);
    } else {
        $relationRecord->relations()->attach($record);
        $record->relations()->attach($relationRecord);
    }
}

PS I would be curious to know if anyone has found the most optimal way to do this. These are the solutions I have found and so far I have gotten by.


Fairly advanced text adventure about finding the lost sheep - its quite detailed and descriptive with a good dose of humour. I cant seem to get out of the first location though - can anyone tell me how?!
Text adventure in which you are a policeman at the big match, you have to escape and get out. It doesnt seem to be very advanced and is actually quite annoying, not worth playing.
Another adventure in the same vein as the first, not much different really.


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What's the case for Hillary?
"The best darn change-maker I ever met in my entire life."
What's the case for Hillary? "The best darn change-maker I ever met in my entire life." Check out this story on montgomeryadvertiser.com: http://on.mgmadv.com/2arb5bd
Columnist Published 3:41 p.m. CT July 28, 2016
Guest Opinion(Photo: The Register)
WASHINGTON -- "The best darn change-maker I ever met in my entire life." So said Bill Clinton in making the case for his wife at the Democratic National Convention. Considering that Bernie Sanders ran as the author of a political revolution and Donald Trump as the man who would "kick over the table" (to quote Newt Gingrich) in Washington, "change-maker" does not exactly make the heart race.
Which is the fundamental problem with the Clinton campaign. What precisely is it about? Why is she running in the first place?
Like most dynastic candidates (most famously Ted Kennedy in 1979), she really doesn't know. She seeks the office because, well, it's the next -- the final -- step on the ladder.
Her campaign's premise is that we're doing OK but we can do better. There are holes to patch in the nanny-state safety net. She's the one to do it.
EDITORIAL: Prejudice wrapped in sheep's clothing
It amounts to Sanders lite. Or the short-lived Bush slogan: "Jeb can fix it." We know where that went.
The one man who could have given the pudding a theme, who could have created a plausible Hillaryism was Bill Clinton. Rather than do that -- the way in Cleveland Gingrich shaped Trump's various barstool eruptions into a semi-coherent program of national populism -- Bill gave a long chronological account of a passionate liberal's social activism. It was an attempt, I suppose, to humanize her.
Well, yes. Perhaps, after all, somewhere in there is a real person. But what a waste of Bill's talents. It wasn't exactly Clint Eastwood speaking to an empty chair, but at the end you had to ask: Is that all there is?
He grandly concluded with this: "The reason you should elect her is that in the greatest country on earth we have always been about tomorrow." Is there a rhetorical device more banal?
Trump's acceptance speech was roundly criticized for offering a dark, dystopian vision of America. For all of its exaggeration, however, it reflected well the view from Fishtown, the fictional white working-class town created statistically by social scientist Charles Murray in his 2012 study "Coming Apart." It chronicled the economic, social and spiritual disintegration of those left behind by globalization and economic transformation. Trump's capture of the resultant feelings of anxiety and abandonment explains why he enjoys an astonishing 39-point advantage over Clinton among whites without a college degree.
His solution is to beat up on foreigners for "stealing" our jobs. But while trade is a factor in the loss of manufacturing jobs, even more important, by a large margin, is the emergence of an information economy in which education, knowledge and various kinds of literacy are the coin of the realm. For all the factory jobs lost to Third World competitors, far more are lost to robots.
Hard to run against higher productivity. Easier to run against cunning foreigners.
In either case, Clinton has found no counter. If she has a theme, it's about expanding opportunity, shattering ceilings. But the universe of discriminated-against minorities -- so vast 50 years ago -- is rapidly shrinking. When the burning civil rights issue of the day is bathroom choice for the transgendered, a flummoxed Fishtown understandably asks, "What about us?" Telling coal miners she was going to close their mines and kill their jobs only reinforced white working-class alienation from Clinton.
As for the chaos abroad, the Democrats are in see-no-evil denial. The first night in Philadelphia, there were 61 speeches. Not one mentioned the Islamic State or even terrorism. Later references were few, far between and highly defensive. After all, what can the Democrats say? Clinton's calling card is experience. Yet as secretary of state she left a trail of policy failures from Libya to Syria, from the Russian reset to the Iraqi withdrawal to the rise of the Islamic State.
Clinton had a strong second half of the convention as the Sanders revolt faded and as President Obama endorsed her with one of the finer speeches of his career. Yet Trump's convention bounce of up to 10 points has given him a slight lead in the polls. She badly needs one of her own.
She still enjoys the Democrats' built-in Electoral College advantage. But she remains highly vulnerable to both outside events and internal revelations. Another major terror attack, another email drop -- and everything changes.
In this crazy election year, there are no straight-line projections. As Clinton leaves Philadelphia, her lifelong drive for the ultimate prize is perilously close to a coin flip.
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Stulz: data cooling – Derek Siveter
The recent IT crash at RBS showed what can happen when banking systems fail. Millions of customers were left without access to their current accounts, unable to receive payments and fulfil their financial obligations. Although the group was able to solve the problem quickly, the backlog of payments, fines and damage to the bank's image took time to rectify.
"Any outage is extremely expensive," says Derek Siveter, director at Stulz UK. "The case with RBS shows that. It happened over a short space of time, but it took ages to pick up and get confidence back in their market."
That's why financial service companies are particularly interested in the cooling industry - the systemic importance and sensitivity of the information they handle means that higher standards of security and resilience are demanded for their data systems.
"Compared with a lot of commercial data centres, the financial sector is much more focused on security."
"That stipulation means we rely on best engineering practice rather than value engineering," Siveter says. "It's something that the financial firms, their architects and consultants will pay for: a good, resilient and secure system."
But that's not true of every industry. Compared with a lot of commercial data centres, the financial sector is much more focused on security. Most institutions ask for dual-power supplies and dual-cooling sources to be fitted to their equipment to avoid single points of failure.
Energy costs tend to be secondary in this security-driven approach. Financial firms are certainly more switched on to environmental sustainability than they were in the past, but the drive towards green data centres has its limits.
"Our customers do a lot of green research in their annual reports, but they're fundamentally cautious," Siveter says. "A few years ago, a new range of fans was launched that promised really big energy savings. We talked to one US bank about running-cost savings of hundreds of thousands of pounds every year, but because the technology was new and hadn't been tried and tested, he said that with the huge amounts of data the bank handles, he didn't want to take the risk in case the systems go down. While banks are concerned about energy costs, those savings are very much secondary to good engineering."
Finance's new technology anxiety
Most companies use computer room air-conditioners, but the anxiety about new technology persists. Industry talk at the moment is all about direct free cooling, which brings in fresh air without any mechanical cooling. Big data centres such as those used by Google and Yahoo in the US use these techniques.
"Industry talk at the moment is all about direct free cooling, which brings in fresh air without any mechanical cooling."
"There are higher temperatures in the room, so it's all very green and low energy," says Siveter. "But it's easier for these companies to experiment than it is for financial institutions. If Facebook or Google goes down, nobody is going to worry too much about it. But if a banking system goes down, it's extremely expensive. I don't think that many banks are looking at direct free cooling at the moment. It has great advantages in low energy, but it's not very secure and doesn't have the resilience that the banks want."
Those financial groups that avoid the 'riskier' new technology still experience problems with their data centres. Some of the issues are down to the mechanics of air-conditioning equipment, but most are due to a fault with the electrical supply.
"Anything that's mechanical will end up breaking," Siveter says. "But most systems are usually designed with some kind of back-up if one part fails. That's the best way of avoiding costly downtime and data loss. Banks tend to duplicate everything. It all comes down to the designers making sure that there are electrical supplies available for the mechanical equipment. At Stulz, we have dual-power supplies, so if there is an electrical supply fault, they will automatically switch over to a standby power supply."
Stulz: specialist service
Stulz makes exclusive use of electronically commutated fans for its systems. The equipment has a reliable and highly efficient fan motor, with a power input that is much better than the traditional motor and belt systems that were common nine years ago.
"On the cooling side, we try to use indirect methods during winter," says Siveter. "This means that the compressors in the cooling units, which take about 80% of the power, are not required. You still need the fans to circulate the air, but you can transfer it from the outside area into the data centre and still keep the integrity of the centre in one piece."
"Stulz makes exclusive use of electronically commutated fans for its systems."
Unlike companies that provide different forms of air-conditioning to commercial buildings, offices and residential places, Stulz only supplies cooling solutions for data centres. That puts the firm in a good position to understand a market that is particular to financial institutions.
"We're experts in cooling, and have been in business in the UK for 25 years and in Germany for 50 years," Siveter says. "Over the years, banks have been some of our biggest customers. Some of these are small branch offices, but we've also worked with the big data centres at Barclays, RBS, Lloyds, HSBC, Credit Suisse and Santander. We are currently installing a a huge data centre for Santander in Leicester."
Stulz has also worked with Barclays to install two large systems with its computer room air-conditioning (CRAC) units.
"The whole infrastructure was extremely well designed," says Siveter. "We had two teams of consulting engineers, with one overseeing the others to eliminate any single points of failure. That means they are absorbing a lot of server heat. The designers are making sure there are significant CRAC units available so that there are no breakdowns. The electrical systems are all dual-backed right the way through, with power feeds coming in from the grid. It's common to have dual inputs from two different power sources in case one fails."
ASHRAE standards
The American Society of Heating Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) recently released new standards for IT equipment air supply. With guidelines gradually changing over the years, it's something that Siveter has a clear eye on.
"Stulz has worked with Barclays to install two large systems with its CRAC units."
"In the data centre, there is generally an increase in temperatures," he says. "ASHRAE has technical committees that look at these things, one of them is specifically concerned about data centres. A recent committee, which included most of the major equipment manufacturers - CISCO, DELL, IBM and HP - came up with a recommendation that has built in a very wide envelope, much broader than you would have had, say, 15 years ago, where they wanted a tight control on computer temperatures.
"The ASHRAE recommendation is now 18-27°, with a wide humidity band for the air temperature going into the servers. That means that the exhausts from the servers are now coming out at 30-35°."
As a dedicated supplier of cooling solutions for data centres, Stulz is in an ideal position to maintain the levels of resilience and security that financial groups rightly demand. With recent stories highlighting the fragility of certain IT infrastructures, those demands are more important now than ever before. ?
Stulz only supplies cooling solutions for data centres. That puts the firm in a good position to understand a market that is particular to financial institutions.
Derek Siveter, director at Stulz UK.
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Cheetah Robot Jumps Over Hurdles and We're All Doomed!
This makes my epic champion stance after building some IKEA furniture feel a little less epic… #ThanksObama.
Your worst nightmares are the ones inside you Mr. J/Bruce.
Hootsuite creates an amazing Game of Thrones parody intro based in Social Media.


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Polls: Tories Fall Behind Labour as May Vows to Press on with Soft Brexit Plans
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Two recent polls show the Conservative Party behind Labour as the prime minister says that she will return to Brussels to press ahead with her soft Brexit plan.
The Opinium Research poll, conducted November 14th, put the Tories at 36 per cent, three points behind Labour at 39 per cent.
In another poll by ComRes, the Conservatives are again at 36 per cent, four points behind Labour which is at 40 per cent, according to data collected between the 14th and 15th of November.
Prime Minister Theresa May continued her media blitz to sell her Brexit agreement — widely unpopular due to the Irish backstop locking the UK into EU customs rules — telling Sky News's Sophie Ridge on Sunday that she has no intention of either backing down or renegotiating with Brussels.
Theresa May told @RidgeOnSunday that a change of leader would only mean "Brexit gets delayed and frustrated".
Do you have confidence in her as a leader? Vote below 
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— Sky News (@SkyNews) November 18, 2018
"I will be going back to Brussels," May told Sky News, saying she would meet with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker this week.
"We won't agree the leaving part… until we've got what we want in the future relationship, because these two go together."
She also addressed the potential leadership challenge, claiming that a new party leader "isn't going to make the negotiations any easier," and threatened that ousting her would "risk that we actually delay the negotiations and that's a risk Brexit gets delayed or frustrated."
Westminster voting intention:
LAB: 40% (-)
CON: 36% (-3)
LDEM: 9% (-)
UKIP: 7% (+2)
GRN: 3% (+1)
via @ComRes, 14 – 15 Nov
Chgs. w/ Sephttps://t.co/TicKpFW7jj
— Britain Elects (@britainelects) November 17, 2018
Dominic Raab MP, who resigned as Brexit secretary last week over the agreement, said on Sunday that May had allowed the UK to be "bullied and blackmailed" by the EU in negotiations and that there was a lack of "political will" to show the bloc that Britain would withdraw from negotiations over unfavourable terms, saying:
"I think there is one thing that is missing and that is political will and resolve. I am not sure that message has ever landed."
Raab said the agreement was "fatally flawed" but that, in fact, it was not too late to change it.
"I still think a deal could be done but it is very late in the day now and we need to change course," he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday.
Raab: May Has Allowed UK to Be 'Bullied and Blackmailed' by Brussels, Brexit Deal 'Fatally Flawed' https://t.co/whaj6QR4dk
— Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) November 18, 2018
Member of the European Research Group Mark Francois, who has submitted a letter of no confidence to the 1922 Committee, dissected May's response to the backstop issue, saying:
"The prime minister said that would only be temporary. That is, technically, I think, not quite right. Because once you go into the backstop you can only then leave the backstop if the EU agrees to let you out. You've surrendered your sovereignty."
"The prime minister was loathed to admit that," said Mr Francois on Sky News. "Tory MPs understand that point and that is why they won't vote for it."
"No deal would be better than this nonsense," he added.
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EXERCISE + HEAT + INFRARED ENERGY = MORE WORKOUT, LESS TIME…. When heat and infrared energy are layered in with your workouts like the video illustrates, the effectiveness of your training elevates. We call this 3D Training.
HOTWORX discovered that there are two types of exercise that are most effective when practiced in a proper infrared setting such as a sauna where the source of the infrared is located in a precise proximity to the human body. HOTWORX designed a sauna for this purpose and currently has two patents pending for the invention of the small group training infrared sauna. These two types of workouts are isometrics and high intensity interval training, or HIIT.
Isometrics such as yoga and pilates force internal organ and muscle compression through static posture holds whereby accelerating detox with the increased circulation of blood. This is felt as a rush when the compression postures are released. The original HOTWORX workout known as Hot ISO uses a 30 minute posture sequence that is based on a more athletic set of holds such as the wall sit.
HOTWORX HIIT for 15 minutes in the group training infrared sauna at 125º F provides for a superior lower body burn and cardio torch in a Hot Cycle session. Clients can gain a total body torch with a new workout called Hot Blast that uses Total Body Trainer equipment from Keiser (a combination bike for lower body and upper body push and pull bars).
In this real life example, and according to the HOTWORX Burn Off App integrated with the fitness tracker that she trusts, the customer burned 309 calories during her workout and over 400 in the immediate one hour after her workout as her metabolism was still in high gear from her 3D Training experience for that day.
Pro athletes have been training in alternative environments to gain an edge forever. Think of the MMA fighters who go to the high altitudes of Big Bear Lake, CA. Most of us have seen the Rocky movie where he trains in the snow of a Russian winter. As an athlete, I remember my own two-a-day football practices in August in Mississippi in the sweltering heat and humidity in the team efforts to gain conditioning for the weekly night games in the fall.
Take your workouts from black and white to full color! Try a 3D Training routine.


The person we interviewed was Maddie's mom, Claudia. She played an active role in the Women's Movement and feels very strongly about it. She had many experiences in the movement and made it a part of her everyday life. The interview took place on March 30, 2013 in Maddie and Claudia's home. The image to the left is Claudia (middle) with Gloria Steinem (left) and Claudia's friend Mary (right).
1. What was the most powerful speech you heard during the movement and why?
Shirley Chisholm- She is a black representative from New York, and she was running for president in 1972. This was the first time a women was seriously running for the democratic nomination. She was born to parents who were from the Caribbean and they lived in New York as a very poor family, while both parents had to work more than one job to support the family. To paraphrase what she said, "The worst thing you can do is engage in self pity. Forget self pity. If you go through life feeling sorry for yourself, you're not going to get ahead. So stop the self pity. I grew up with hardship; life is hard, get over it, and reach for your dream." I went to the speech, it was on the news, and my mom saw me on the news with her.
2. Who is your favorite activist and why?
Gloria Steinem, because she seemed to have a far range of ideas, and feminism was her whole life. She started Ms. Magazine, and devoted her whole life to promoting equal rights for women. She did it with a lot of grace and humor, and was very instrumental. She was a great leader.
3. Why did you decide to become involed in the Women's Rights Movement?
I think the first thing your generation needs to understand is what it was like to grow up as a woman back then. I was born in 1952 and graduated high school in 1970s, so my childhood was the 50s and 60s. That was the generation of women that Betty Friedan especially talked about in her book The Feminine Mystique, the mothers of that generation. Growing up as a girl, you knew that you had three career choices: you'd either be a teacher, a nurse, or a secretary. You also knew that your goal was to get married, and as soon as you got married you would quit your job, and you would be totally dependent on your husband for financial support. So, who you chose as your husband was important because your welfare was depended on how much money he earned. I remember when I was in the sixth grade we had an assignment and we were supposed to write about what we wanted to be when we grew up. Out of the three choices in my mind, I chose secretary. My mother had been a secretary, and when she got married she quit her job, and never worked again outside the home, so I thought that's what I would write. I wrote I would become a secretary, and when I get married I will be a mother. The teacher wrote: "Good, we need good mothers." My half sister was the valedictorian of her high school, got a full scholarship to an all women's college, became a teacher, taught for one year, got married to a dentist, quit her job, had her first baby at the age of 25, her seventh at the age of 40. She became very depressed at the age of 40, after her 6th boy was born. She had at least three psychiatric hospitalizations, and tried to overdose one day. She didn't succeed, but had severe depression for twenty years and treated it with anti-depressants. I think of her when I think of Betty Friedan when she talked about those women. Was she trapped? She grew up in a household raising six men. I think of her when I think of the Feminine Mystique. She was trapped in the role, and that was supposed to make her happy. After Friedan's book, that's when women started to realize they shouldn't live that way and that they didn't want to live that way. Women were very restless and wanted more. Many women came forward and said they didn't want to live like that even more. In 1964, Congress passed the Equal Pay Act during the Civil Rights Movement, which stated equal pay for equal work. That was mostly for blacks vs whites. They then added women because they thought nobody would support the idea so it wouldn't pass, but it ended up passing. When I was looking for a job, the help wanted ads were "Help Wanted Men" and "Help Wanted Women." Now since the Equal Pay Act passed, they couldn't do that anymore. When I graduated for high school, I prepared to go to be a secretary, planning not to go to college. I asked "Do you think a women really needs to go to college these days?" They responded, "No, why go to college when you're just going to get married and quit your job?" I thought I was going to do that, but that didn't happen. I stayed in the work force my whole life. The title "Ms." started in the early 70s as a title because women didn't want to be known on the basis of were they married or not, being called "Miss" or "Mrs." I got involved because politically things were changing, and I wanted to be a part of the change. I got involved politically, with my labor union, I marched for women's rights, for the Equal Rights Amendment, because I wanted to be a part of the change.
4. How did the movement affect your everyday life?
When I was employed as a secretary, I was the secretary to the executive director of the labor relations board in Minnesota. He was a man. He quit, and the board members said "Look you've been his secretary, you know everything about his job, so we want to hire you for his job." So I took his job in 1975. But the board didn't set my salary, another boss did. I went to that boss and said "I just took Frank's job, so I should get paid what Frank got paid." He looked at me and he said "Claudia, you're a well paid girl. Frank is married and has a wife and two kids. You don't need Frank's salary." So he refused to pay me Frank's salary. So I appealed that, it took 18 months to fight through the system, and I finally ended up getting Frank's salary, which was about another five thousand dollars a year. Also, my relationships, like when I got married, I decided to keep my name. I thought why should I take his name, I wanted to keep mine. Before then, people didn't have a choice. I did, and I took advantage of the fact that I had a choice.
5. If you could go back in time to the movement, would you do anything differently?
No I wouldn't but I wish it was still more active today. I wish people still worked for feminism today. I think we've sort of slid back a little.
6. Have you ever met an activist? What did you most admire about them?
I've met Shirley Chisholm, Gloria Steinem, and have heard many other people speak. I admire Steinem making it her whole life's work, and I don't think the movement would be half of what it was without her. Chisholm is an inspirationally personally and politically with how far she got.
7. What was your favorite memory from the movement?
In 1974, I went to the founding convention in Chicago of the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). I was active in my union in Minnesota, and there were 3,200 delegates in attendance. I was 21 years old, sitting in a room full of over 3,000 women activists from all over the country. Steinem was in one of my workshops, and as I looked around, I was in awe that women could be leaders. Many of them were different races, and I was so overwhelmed that women, black women, migrant workers, and that women could do this; women could be leaders. Women could be in positions of power, women could lead other women. I went home and became a founder of the Twin Cities Chapter of the CLUW, and I was the first treasurer. It was an absolute eye opener that women could do this, because I grew up thinking that women could do anything. It was amazing that there were choices and opportunities that I just had no idea about before.
8. What do you think was the most drastic change/ result from the movement?
Gloria Steinem said "The personal is the political," meaning that all this change happening in the political, social, work world, is going to affect you in your personal life. They're tied together. The biggest thing for me is that my personal life was totally changed. The men I chose to date had to be open-minded about it. At first I thought I wouldn't marry, but if I were to marry I had to find someone to accept the ideals I had. I wasn't going to get married and stay home and do the house work, and be second to my husband. That happened for women around the nation.
9. What do you think still need to be changed/improved for women today?
I wish there was the same day-to-day awareness that women are seen as the second class. Women are still seen as "the other" so I wish there was still more awareness of it.
10. Do you still carry the beliefs you had during the movement with you today?
11. Is there anything else you want to share?
I went to law school. It wouldn't have even occurred to me that law school would even be a path for me if the movement didn't happen. Half of my class was women. That's how fast the change happened. That would never have happened before the movement.
I don't know if your generation stands up for themselves in the dating world, and I wish girls stood up for themselves more. I don't like how some girls dress because the self-respect is not there. Girls still seem to do whatever boys want.
Above is a photo of Claudia (left) with her friend Ann (right) at the Equal Rights Amendment March on Washington D.C., in 1978.
Our group was amazed at how much involvemend Claudia had in the women's movement. We thought it was really cool that she got to meet Gloria Steinem, who had such a large impact on the changes that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. It really hit home to hear someone that we know personally discuss how different women's rights were just forty years ago. We are impressed that Claudia is still so adiment about her views today, and we truly admire the actions that she takes based on those views. We were very impressed by how much Claudia was involved in the movement. We didn't realize how much it affected everyone's lives back then, and still now. Her daily life was affected, and it is obvious, with seeing her personality now, how determined of a person is and how she will always fight for what she thinks is right. We are really glad that we interviewed her!


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Hi, We have download Yocto bsp(Uboot 2015.4, Kernel 4.X.X) for building fsl-image-mfgtool-initramfs and generated U-boot\uImage\initramfs\dtb.
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In Manufacturing Tool V2 Linux or Android Firmware Development Guide V2.doc, mentioned some macro need to define in mx6sabre_common.h, it need to apply to bsp as below?
#define CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND "bootm 0x10800000 0x10F00000 0x12000000"
I have define #define CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND \ "bootm 0x10800000 0x10F00000 0x12000000" to mx6sabre_common.h, but it can not bootm successfully. u-boot bin size is 400K. so i need to make it smaller than IRAM size?
Moreover, the second parameter passed to the initrd is the size, in MB, of compressed filesystem, that is (in my case) about 25MB.
In this way, my system load the filesystem in RAM.
thanks, i have fixed self.


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The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has accused the British High Commissioner in Nigeria, Ms Catriona Laing, of engineering the killing of southeasterners by the Nigerian government and security agencies.
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