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Q: App crashes instantly when running on android I tried to use buildozer to make an apk out of a python/kivy program. It runs nicely on my mac but when I create an apk file for my android smartphone it instantly crashes without any message.
To find the error I tried to do the same with a simple "hello world" program. This one also crashes instantly. On a different phone I had the same result.
Here is part of my buildozer log-file.
> WARNING: Received a --sdk argument, but this argument is deprecated
> and does nothing. No compiled python is present to zip, skipping. No
> setup.py/pyproject.toml used, copying full private data into .apk.
> Applying Java source code patches... Applying patch:
> src/patches/SDLActivity.java.patch Warning: failed to apply patch
> (exit code 1), assuming it is already applied:
> src/patches/SDLActivity.java.patch
> # Android packaging done!
> # APK myapp__armeabi-v7a-1.0-armeabi-v7a-debug.apk available in the bin directory
> # Run '/Users/jeffreyschuster/.buildozer/android/platform/android-sdk/platform-tools/adb
> devices'
> # Cwd None List of devices attached
>
> # Application pushed.
> # Application started.
> # Search for Git (git)
> #  -> found at /usr/bin/git
> # Search for Cython (cython)
> #  -> found at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.7/bin/cython
> # Search for Java compiler (javac)
> #  -> found at /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Commands/javac
> # Search for Java keytool (keytool)
> #  -> found at /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Commands/keytool

The program itself is the following (simple example from the internet)
#!/usr/bin/env python
from kivy.app import App
from kivy.uix.widget import Widget
from kivy.uix.label import Label

class Lesson1App(App):
    def build(self):
        lbl=Label(text='Hello World!')
        return lbl

if __name__ == '__main__':
    Lesson1App().run()

Any ideas why it crashes?
After connecting my phone and using the command with deploy etc. it still ends up the same. Here is the new logfile:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YQssyT-5vMhb44d8JRMj3nRIycRFhdpf
I hope this link works properly
Ok, I found out that I have to set some some things on my phone. Now the installation seems to work but the app still crashes.
On the phone I get the same error message like when I install it manually:
screenshot

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Elon Musk's Overture To China Is An Affront To America
The Department of Defense should stop working with SpaceX.
James Lowe
Elon Musk just made what could only be described as a bafflingly poor decision. He's chosen to openly embrace the Chinese government, even while tensions between the United States and China are at an all-time high.
It would seem that Musk is entirely oblivious to the implications of his actions, purposely undermining the United States, or just doesn't care.
On August 29, 2019, the billionaire business magnate traveled to China to open this year's World Artificial Intelligence Conference. The only American at the event, Musk was hosted by both the Chinese Academy of Science and the Chinese Academy of Engineering—two of China's premier regime-run entities.
At the Shanghai summit, Musk debated Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba on the state and potential of artificial intelligence. According to a Chinese media outlet, Musk is also set to present the first China-made Tesla Model 3 at the conference.
Whether intentional or not, Musk's actions are a serious affront to America.
Musk's trip to Shanghai came amid an escalating trade war between the U.S. and China. Both nations recently announced another round of retaliatory tariffs against one another, further escalating the ongoing economic conflict. President Trump, for his part, has drawn the battle lines, proclaiming that the U.S. should be prepared to cut ties with China in order to triumph in the trade war. But apparently, Elon Musk has other ideas.
As an enormously influential businessman, Musk surely must understand that his actions carry weight. As it stands, his presence in China communicates that President Trump's proclamation against China should not be taken seriously. And his decision to unveil the first China-made Tesla Model 3 directly undercuts Trump's message that American industries can and should transition away from their dependence on Chinese markets.
It would seem that Musk is entirely oblivious to the implications of his actions, purposely undermining the United States, or just doesn't care. Unfortunately, none of these explanations reflect well on the businessman.
Musk's apparent proclivity toward Chinese business—or at least his apathy toward American interests—is certainly troubling. That's especially the case given his company's role as a U.S. defense contractor. SpaceX, Musk's private aerospace firm, serves to help ensure America's national security interests in space.
Musk wasn't looking out for the United States' national security; he was only safeguarding his own interests.
And which nation poses the greatest threat to the United States in that domain? China, of course. The Chinese government views space as the next warfighting arena and is making great strides in its space program, all in an attempt to outpace the United States. In the upcoming space race, America needs the very best technology to combat the Chinese threat.
Currently, the Department of Defense (DoD) is working to ensure America's continued technological superiority through the National Security Space Launch (NSSL) program, an initiative created to ensure America's continued access to space. By contracting American aerospace firms to produce viable domestic rockets, the DoD seeks to deter foreign influence over America's space program. In effect, the NSSL program's partnerships with the nation's best aerospace companies will pave the way for the United States' continued spacefaring dominance.
But, given Musk's apparent disregard for America's interests, should SpaceX be trusted with such an essential responsibility? While most would say the answer is clearly no, Musk seems to disagree. When SpaceX failed to receive launch contracts under the first phase of the program—in which several other firms were selected—Musk sued the U.S. Air Force for its decision to exclude his company. The businessman failed to consider the implications such a lawsuit would have on the program, as well as how it would affect America's ongoing space race with China. Musk wasn't looking out for the United States' national security; he was only safeguarding his own interests. Now, the Democrats are doing the exact same thing—protecting SpaceX at the expense of the NSSL program.
Under the Democrats' version of the National Defense Authorization Act, competitive standards for the NSSL program would be weakened, and the DoD would be forced to select additional contractors. This change, opposed by the president, Senate Republicans, and the American defense community, would effectively mandate SpaceX's inclusion in the program. Considering recent events, that cannot be allowed to happen.
Ultimately, Musk's recent trip to China has made his intentions clear. Musk prioritizes his relationship with Chinese businesses more than he does his obligation to America's national security. That's an affront our defense community simply cannot tolerate. When selecting aerospace firms for the NSSL program, the DoD must trust that the companies selected by the Air Force initially have the best interests of the United States in mind.
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Medieval Studies 1022 INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL STUDIES
This course will introduce civilization and thought in Europe and the Mediterranean between 400 and 1500, with emphasis on the medieval roots of many modern institutions and attitudes, including philosophy, technology, law, governance, courtly love and attitudes to women, warfare, art and archaeology, Christianity and Islam, literature, music and coinage.
Antirequisite(s): Medieval Studies 1025A/B, Medieval Studies 1026A/B, and the former Medieval Studies 1020E.
Medieval Studies 1025A/B INTRODUCTION TO THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
This course will introduce civilization and thought in Europe and the Mediterranean between 400 and 1500, with emphasis on the history, technology, law, governance, theology and philosophy of the period. It will focus on a theme, concept or moment in history, such as witchcraft, the Apocalypse, or the Crusades.
Antirequisite(s): Medieval Studies 1022 or the former Medieval Studies 1020E.
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Using materials available in the Rare Books Room and from private collections, this course will familiarize students with the investigation of medieval manuscripts. It will introduce medieval scripts, the description of a medieval manuscript, issues of provenance and date, and the decoration used. Students will consider the preparation of ink and pigments, and the kinds of illumination and decoration available through the medieval period.
Prerequisite(s): 70% or higher in 1.0, Medieval Studies 1022, or both Medieval Studies 1025A/B and Medieval Studies 1026A/B, or the former Medieval Studies 1020E.
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«Жі́нка» — український часопис, що виходив у Львові в 1935—1939 роках. Двотижневик, орган центрального українського жіночого товариства «Союз українок».

Редакція
Відповідальний редактор: Олена Федак-Шепарович (1935—1938), начальний редактор: Мілена Рудницька (1937—1938), редактор: Мілена Рудницька (1939). Адреса редакції: Львів, вул. Сикстуська, 44. Друк: «Графія», Львів, вул. Тиха, 5. Обсяг: 8 сторінок, формат 45х32 см.

Тематика
Часопис створено за рішенням Українського жіночого конгресу 1934 у Станиславові. Перше число вийшло 1 січня 1935, того ж року загальні збори «Союзу українок» визнали часопис офіційним органом організації. Видання мало служити «поширенню… українського жіночого руху, бути речником та оборонцем думок, прав і змагань українського жіноцтва та його репрезентатом».

Публікації Мілени Рудницьої дозволяють простежити наростання у жіночому русі національно-визвольних тенденцій. На сторінках часопису друкували звіти про організаційну роботу та культурно-просвітницькі заходи жіночих гуртків, оцінки політичних подій, пов'язаних з діяльністю жіночих організацій. Наприклад, ставлення жіночих організацій до терору в СРСР і репресій польської влади проти українських патріотичних організацій.

Однією з головних у часописі була тема поширення громадського жіночого руху. Кирило Трильовський у статті «Наталія Кобринська: З моїх споминів 80-тих років минулого століття» розповідав про поширення феміністичних ідей у Галичині (1937. — № 11/12). Розвідка Зінаїди Мірної «Жіночий рух на Великій Україні» давала огляд процесу активізації творчої та громадської діяльності українських жінок. Виходили статті про стан жіночого руху за кордоном: «Жіночий рух на Підкарпатті», «Об'єднання слов'янських жінок та українки», замітки про гуртки українок у Канаді.

Серед авторів статей: Микола Голубець, Лідія Горбачева, Юрій Липа, Софія Нагірна, Марія Пеньковська (псевдонім Павла Ковжуна), Марія Струтинська, Софія Русова та інші. Ілюстрували видання, зокрема, Марія Дольницька, Олена Кульчицька та Олекса Новаківський.

Критика
У 2-ій половині 1930-х років видання критикувала членкиня «Союзу Українок» Ольга Гасин. На її думку, часопис мав «шкідливе» феміністичне спрямування, що переважало націоналістичне.

Примітки

Джерела
 Українські часописи Львова 1848—1939 рр.: Історико-бібліографічне дослідження: У 3 т. — Т. 3. Кн 2. 1929—1939 рр. — Львів: Світ, 2003. — С. 523—529
 Часописи українського жіноцтва (Історія української преси на pidruchniki.com.ua)

Львівські історичні періодичні видання
Союз українок
Друковані видання, засновані 1934
Феміністична література
Засновані у Львові 1934
Друковані видання, закриті 1939

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Thrill-seeking leads to workplace affairs: Experts
By IANS-CT / June 30, 2010
New Delhi, June 24(Calcutta Tube) Physical attraction or emotional bonding at the workplace is bound to happen, but it can land you in trouble if the motive behind that growing bond is not in the right spirit, experts say.
Take the case of David Davidar, who was fired as Penguin Canada chief after a sexual harassment case was filed against him by a former woman colleague, Lisa Rundle. This is a classic example of a simple friendship growing into attraction and which is now being labeled a 'consensual flirtatious relationship'.
Experts say such bonds start growing at the workplace because people spend most of the time in office.
'When we work together, we are actually spending the larger part of our day with our colleagues. So there is a much greater possibility of developing an attraction,' psychiatrist Sanjay Chugh told IANS.
In the case of Davidar and Rundle, they started working together in late 2005 and the proximity between them increased after they started meeting frequently.
Davidar's counsel has stated that he (Davidar) came to think of Rundle as his closest friend and confidante at work.
Samir Parikh, consultant psychiatrist at Max Healthcare in New Delhi, agreed with Chugh and said that it's not just physical attraction, but an emotional bond as well that brings together two individuals at the workplace.
'There can be times when a person requires emotional support and he finds solace in another person at his workplace. Sometimes it turns into an affair and sometimes it doesn't,' Parikh told IANS.
In Davidar's case, Rundle has accused him of harassing her with a flood of 'inappropriate e-mails and text messages'.
Davidar doesn't deny the e-mails and has gone to the extent of saying Rundle liked the attention she was being paid.
'…Davidar wrote Rundle personal emails, read poetry to her and they exchanged gifts from time to time. Throughout this friendship, Davidar would ask Rundle if she liked the attention he was paying her and she indicated she did,' said a statement June 21 by Peter A. Downard of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, a leading Toronto-based law firm that has been engaged as litigation counsel on behalf of Davidar.
In January 2010, Rundle requested a pay increase, the statement said.
'Davidar reminded her that her salaries at Penguin were frozen. However, he offered her the role of director of digital publishing and foreign rights. This justified a pay increase of $10,000,' Downard's statement said.
So did Davidar's power have anything to do in this case? Chugh thought it did.
'For a person who holds a position of power and is perhaps used to it, there is just greater ease in going ahead with one's wishes. Power has the danger of corrupting a person by making him feel he can do and get anything that he wishes,' Chugh said.
'When a person is in power, he often forgets to think on the right lines. In a way, such people allow their positions to dominate them,' he added.
Parikh didn't entirely agree, saying: 'It depends on the behavioural pattern of a person. Sometimes, if the urges are not controlled and people are not willing to take 'No' for an answer, such situations arise.'
Chugh also pointed out that though cases of sexual harassment arise at every position, only men in power face the music.
So, while Davidar has deeply regreted the hurt he has caused his wife, experts say it is the thrill-seeking tendency that leads to such affairs.
'It would be incorrect to say that they (thrill seekers) are not scared about how it may impact their family and career. In most cases, they are very concerned that their extramarital affairs should not affect their 'normal' lives. They also take a lot of precautions, but it's tough to hide such things,' Chugh pointed out.
So while everyone sympathises with Rundle, one can't deny the fact that women too use their gender to climb the ladder – but there is a twist that can favour them.
'Women are often caught in such sexual advances, but it is just a wee bit easier for them as they can very comfortably play the victim when found out and the whole world will buy their story,' Chugh said.
(Shilpa Raina can be contacted at shilpa.r@ians.in)
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First thing first. FreeSurfer (FS from now on) is a powerful software that will reconstruct the cortical surface based on complex calculations taking into account the distance between the white and the cortical grey matter layers. To do so, all you have to do is run a single command wrapping all the steps required: recon-all. Easy-peasy.
However, you have to make up your mind first in whether you want to run this with GNU Parallel (remember this post) or with the options FS counts with by default to speed things up. Let me cover this quickly.
FS allows you to choose between dedicating as many cores as you have to these 34 preprocessing steps by means of OpenMP, or running some of those at each hemisphere simultaneously.
If your weapon of choice is the first one, use the -openmp flag. A subject would apparently take 3 hours or so to finish in modern workstations (+2015).
The second approach requires instead the -parallel flag, and it will make use of 4 threads by default. Do not confuse -parallel (an optional flag from FS) with parallel (a shell tool).
IMPORTANT: Apart from deciding which of the previous will you be using to accelerate computing times, this is the moment to decide whether to run or not the new FS features on segmentation of the amygdala-hippocampal subfields and the brainstem. To perform this, go first to this link and follow the instructions to install the MATLAB Runtime R2014b (NO MATLAB LICENSE REQUIRED). Afterwards, take into account to specify each flag at the end of your recon-all command, such as -hippocampal-subfields-T1 or -brainstem-structures. Accordingly to the FS wiki, these options are very CPU-hungry. I have never tried those, so proceed with caution and if you try this… let me know how the experiment went!
Assuming all your niftis (either compressed [.nii.gz] or not [.nii]) are in a folder ("mysubjects") in your desktop, move them all to the subjects' directory that FS already counts with.
Now, type the following to preprocess eight subjects in parallel (NOTE: you can select the number of jobs of your choice).
How to tell if it is really working? cd $SUBJECTS_DIR. Supposing eight new folders have been created with the names of the first 8 nifti files (e.g., subj001, subj002, …, subj008), then you're all set. Otherwise, gently sprinkle some "sudo" at the beggining of the command. Every time the computer is done with a subject, the next one from the "list.txt" will enter into the loop. Now all you have to do is… wait.
This will be a little more tricky.
Now you're ready for the final stage, which is putting 8-cores down to work (NOTE: you can select the number of cores that fits you best).
If still need a better lecture on this, please check this Andy Jahn's video and this post on GNU Parallel, or this awesome math et al tutorial on hippocampal subfields segmentation.
In further posts, I will be covering the recon-all outputs and troubleshooting of naughty "recons".


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Do you want your life story to be a long and joyous one, without having every line written on your face?Yes, we all do! Is there anyone who doesn't want to look as good as they can, for as long as they can?While there are some very quick fixes such as, minor to major cosmetic surgeries, there are some less extreme measures that you can use to look and feel younger on a daily basis.(1) Check your attitude!How do you feel about life?Is your life going the way you want it to?Do you take responsibility for what you have created, good or bad?How about accepting who you are?Be grateful for what you have, family, friends, a job etc.
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Save money and give yourself a break from the chemicals found in most hair care products by using the following natural home remedies.Tame your frizzy hair by rubbing coconut oil into your hands and applying sparingly onto your hair.


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Join Teosto
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|Teosto to overhaul its reporting and distribution system with Spanish Point Technologies
Teosto to overhaul its reporting and distribution system with Spanish Point Technologies
In 2023–2024, Teosto will be overhauling its business-critical systems, which are used to report use of music and distribute royalties to music authors and publishers. The overhaul will be carried out as a joint Nordic project, and the Irish software company Spanish Point Technologies has been chosen as the system supllier. The goal is to modernise the systems and make them more efficient in order to meet the current and future needs of music authors, publishers and users as well as international partners.
For Teosto, this will be the most significant project of the decade, and it will be used to overhaul the technological framework of a large part of core rights management processes. The project's goal is to modernise the current music usage report information systems, automate report processing and make it more efficient as well as make the distribution of royalties to music authors and publishers smoother.
Spanish Point's modern cloud-based solution, the Matching Engine, includes a wealth of features to drive automation, improve data accuracy and drive down costs. With over 14 years of experience, Spanish Point is well known in the field of collective rights management and its customers include the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) as well as many others in the field.
"We must overhaul our technological solutions in order to meet the current and future requirements in the globalising and digitalising music rights market and maintain our position as one of the most progressive collective management organisations," Salminen says.
"We are looking forward to working with Teosto and to continuing helping collective rights management organisations to automate work process and improve data quality with our Matching Engine solution" says Spanish Point Technologies' Chief Technology Officer, John Corley.
The system overhaul has been prepared in cooperation with the collective management organisations of different countries. In addition to Teosto, the project's participants include the music collective management organisations Koda (Denmark) and Tono (Norway). The project will proceed gradually and is set to be completed in 2024.
The extensive system overhaul enables more flexible service
At this stage, the agreement applies to the back-office functions of distribution and reporting, but the new system also offers opportunities for developing new data and reporting functions for customers and rightsholders in the future.
This is a continuation of the extensive system renewals that Teosto started in 2018. These projects involved developing automation and revamping the web services bit by bit. In the near future, Teosto will also develop its work documentation systems.
"Together, these projects allow us to carry out more flexible further development and offer more extensive digital services to Teosto members and customers," Salminen says.
Improving data quality is one of the goals
The project's key goals also include improving data quality. Collective management organisations like Teosto receive huge quantities of music usage reports from their customers, such as media companies, platforms and event organisers. The information in the reports must be correctly linked to work databases, which contain the information about the works' composers, lyricists, arrangers and publishers. Spanish Point's Matching Engine solution includes a wide range of functions for automation and data quality improvement that make data processing more efficient.
"Millions of rows of data pass through our systems every month. The matching engine solution has helped many rights management organisations to solve data-related problems, such as errors in the works' metadata. By improving data quality, we can ensure the transparency of distribution and, most importantly, make sure that royalties are paid to the correct rightsholders," says Jouni Sirén, Teosto's Chief Service Officer.
About Spanish Point
Spanish Point Technologies is a software company that has worked with collective rights organisations since 2007. Our high-performance engine, the Matching Engine supports organisations to address metadata errors and ensure music royalties can be traced accurately and transparently. Spanish Point was named 'Independent Software Vendor (ISV) Partner of the Year 2022' at the Microsoft Inspire Partner Awards, for their innovative Matching Engine application. The company is Irish and was established in 2005. For more information about Spanish Point, please visit their website at https://www.spanishpoint.ie/.
Teosto is a trusted Finnish copyright organisation that enables professional music-making and music use. We make sure that music makers can focus on their work by collecting the remunerations for the use of their music and by paying the remunerations to them. For music users, we provide a wide repertoire of famous and moving musical works that create additional value for their operations. We know the needs of music makers and users and build a bridge between them. www.teosto.fi
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Q: Something like INotifyPropertyChanged when reading memory from unmanaged process I am reading memory from other running process which source code I don't have by using
[DllImport("kernel32.dll")]
public static extern int ReadProcessMemory(IntPtr hProcess, IntPtr lpBaseAddress, [In, Out] byte[] buffer, uint size, out IntPtr lpNumberOfBytesRead);

and everything works fine. I get the value I need, but now I want to implement something like INotifyPropertyChanged in my program, so when value in that unmanaged process changes, that my code registers it and updates my variable X.
So far I have
private string x;
public string X { get { return x; } }
....
Threading.Timer timerX = new Timer(x => UpdateX(), null, 0, 500)
....
private void UpdateX()
{
    //Read value from unmanaged process
    OnPropertyChanged("X");
}

which updates X by reading that unmanaged process memory every 500ms, but that feels like hacking. Also, memory in unmanaged process can change few times in 500ms or once in few minutes, so putting a less interval seems like overkill. Is there more elegant solution. Thanks.

A: No, there is no way to get a notification when memory in another process changes. If you were a debugger, you could use a CPU data breakpoint to hear about changes in a small set of places. But this would have a significant perf impact, and is only the right approach if you are actually debugging.
If the other process is something you own, then the best approach would be to disassemble and understand the code for other process, and add code of your own to send a notification. Working without source and making a small change is probably less hard than you think it is.
Martyn


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Graduate School of North American Studies (GSNAS)
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Helen Gibson
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Profile at the university of Erfurt
Joyriding across the Color Line: Automotivity and Citizenship in the United States, 1895-1939
Dissertation in History
Mentoring team:
First supervisor: Prof. Sebastian Jobs
Second supervisor: Prof. Anke Ortlepp
Third supervisor: Prof. Grace Elizabeth Hale
Despite having driven cars from the advent of the automotive century, Black motorists continue to face both terror in the routine act of driving and erasure in the historical record. This is especially significant because driving is an essential component of American citizenship. While the phrase 'Driving While Black' has been circulating since at least the early 1990s, the targeted policing of Black drivers is a phenomenon as old as driving itself, with roots in the chattel slavery-era policing of Black mobility. This dissertation analyzes the (metaphysical) violence of driving. It is an appeal to consider the phenomenological realm of emotions (terror, humiliation, anger, joy) as an alternative epistemology. My analysis foregrounds the everyday experience of driving for Black Americans between 1895 and 1939, from the racializing, criminalizing discourses of 'joy riding' to analysis of the history of access to cars for Black motorists working as chauffeurs, redlining in automobile insurance issuance, and the affective possibilities of escaping the Jim Crow emotional norms of humiliation and terror in speeding vehicles.
The experience of 'Driving While Black' is inherently mired in questions of subjectivity and critical phenomenology as well as what I identify as a Jim Crow economy of emotions that helped determine the emotional and affective horizons of possibility of the experience of driving for members of Black communities. From the theoretical juncture of Afropessmism, planetary humanism, and Black mysticism, I analyze speculative historical possibilities with the help of the archives of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the Library of Congress, historical newspapers and periodicals. My analysis is national in scope, starting in Fort Worth, Texas and traversing such settings as Miami, Florida, Kansas City, Missouri, Bakersfield, California, and New York, New York. This geographical scope is profoundly significant, both as a contribution to the reframing of civil rights historiography and because the handful of extant histories of driving written about Black motorists in the early twentieth century have focused almost exclusively on the city of Miami.
I posit that automobiles both helped constitute and exceed the violence of ontology. I show that race was made and felt on public transportation in the Jim Crow era, and that early-twentieth-century Black Americans sought refuge in cars. I analyze Black chauffeurs' establishment of ubiquitous unions in response to racism from white chauffeurs, and the fact that access to mobility in cars was violently contested by white terrorists who sought to secure not just professional advantage but also exclusive access to pleasure in mobility. This dissertation elucidates evidence that Black motorists transgressed limits on their mobility by speeding outright, and that white police officers drove head-on into and shot at Black motorists to prohibit their automotivity. I demonstrate that cars beckoned to African American motorists in spite of racialized terror, and that cars have historically helped delineate practices of consumption and of citizenship along racial lines.
This dissertation contributes significantly to recent interventions in the fields of both Black history and mobility studies as well as to ongoing debates on the interrelatedness of critical theory and new materialism. At its core, this dissertation explores the question of whose humanity was recognized under what circumstances in the semi-private space of the car and through such supporting infrastructures as public liability insurance in the first several decades of American automotive life. I demonstrate that cars complicate teleological understandings of material, technological sites of mobility such as ships and trains. The history of Black motorists' dignity, refusal, fugitivity and stasis in automobiles recounted in this dissertation raises important ethical questions about how to reimagine our world from the perspective of access to labor, to leisure, and to material resources.


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Mestre dos noviços ou mestre das noviças é um termo utilizado na Igreja Católica Romana para fazer referência ao religioso a quem foi encarregado o treinamento de noviços ou noviças e o controle sobre o noviciado de uma instituição religiosa. Sua função é garantir que o período do noviciado seja dedicado à oração, meditação e ao desenvolvimento do caráter pelo estudo da vida de Cristo e dos santos, da história da Igreja, dos votos e da constituição da instituição. Durante o período probatório, cabe a ele reportar sobre o desenvolvimento de cada noviço ou noviça às autoridades superiores. Para realizar a função, o mestre ou a mestre não ocupa nenhum outro cargo e está dispensado de todas as demais funções. Estritamente falando, ele não é um "superior" de acordo com a definição da lei canônica, apesar de ter os mesmos direitos e deveres sobre os noviços que um superior tem sobre seus súditos. A lei canônica prescreve que um mestre deve ter pelo menos 35 anos, pelo menos 10 de vida religiosa e ser eminente em prudência, caridade, piedade e na observância das regras e regulamentos da instituição. Se a sociedade em questão é uma na qual uma grande quantidade de membros poderá, no futuro, ser ordernado ao sacerdócio, o mestre dos noviços precisa ser um padre.

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Ocupações religiosas cristãs
Doutrina e teologia da Igreja Católica


These Tigers Qualified For Nationals!
We send a tip of the Tiger's tail to students Maddie Banta and Adam Nadler who qualified for the FCCLA Nationals competition through their work at the New Castle Career Center. Nationals will be held this summer in Anaheim, California. Ms. Banta qualified by earning a Gold Medal in Leadership, and Mr. Nadler also qualified earning a Gold Medal in Teach and Train.
We wish both students continued success!
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How To Not Fall In Love Too Fast
Emotional Attachment 5 Reasons Why You Fall Too Soon
'After a break-up you're not in a fit state to understand what you're doing. Self esteem often plummets and you can end up getting involved with someone who boosts that but before you've had time... According to Marissa Harrison, a psychologist from Pennsylvania State University, women are much more cautious when it comes to love and men have a tendency to fall in -- hard and fast.
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Others have learned it's not worth it, or too scary, so they protect themselves and avoid it. Some pursue love doggedly but never attract it. If you are the kind of person that is vulnerable to falling in love, than it is a double edged sword. The highs are the highest, but so are the lows the lowest. I say vulnerable, because when in this state, you are usually so vulnerable. Hence the angst... I think I'm falling too fast too fast for you You're what I look forward to every day When we talk time seems to just tick away Everything that you say seems so real I can't help it; I can't change the way I feel I need to take time slow myself down Don't want to again hit the ground I need to think all of it through I think I'm falling too fast too fast for you It seems that your not here to
Why Do Young Teens Fall in Love? Livestrong.com
If you're worried about falling too hard, too fast (because you always do with a new boo), here's how to get away without feelings. It's a foolproof guide to avoiding heartbreak when you're not even in a … how to make the first slide not running According to Marissa Harrison, a psychologist from Pennsylvania State University, women are much more cautious when it comes to love and men have a tendency to fall in -- hard and fast.
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6/02/2008 · What is a synonym for "easily falling in love"? When Romeo sees Juliet for the first time, its love at first sight. However, before he sees Juliet, he was depressed over Rosaline. Therefore, he falls in love easily. What is one word that is a synonym of "easily falling in love"? I need one character trait for a writing I have to do in english. Thank... show more When Romeo sees Juliet for the how to make shampoo slime not stick to your hands Dear Evan, This is a problem I've had ever since I can remember and I know I'm not alone. I tend to attract men who put me on a very high pedestal from which I eventually fall, very hard and very fast.
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You can be in a relationship for two years and feel nothing;you can be in a relationship for two months and feel everything.Time is not a measure of quality, of infatuation, of love.
"I Fall in Love Too Easily" is a 1944 song composed by Jule Styne with lyrics by Sammy Cahn. It was introduced by Frank Sinatra in the 1945 film Anchors Aweigh.
If your teenager claims to be falling in love, it's important to set guidelines early in the relationship. If you dismiss the relationship as not being really serious, you might be in for an unpleasant surprise if you find out later that your teen has been sexually active. On the other hand, if you try to be too strict and ban your teen from seeing her partner, you could unintentionally
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package com.sibilantsolutions.grison.net.netty;

import java.time.Duration;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import io.netty.channel.ChannelHandlerContext;
import io.netty.channel.ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter;

public class KeepAliveTimerEventScheduler extends ChannelInboundHandlerAdapter {

    private final Duration keepaliveSendTimeout;

    public KeepAliveTimerEventScheduler(Duration keepaliveSendTimeout) {
        this.keepaliveSendTimeout = keepaliveSendTimeout;
    }

    @Override
    public void channelActive(ChannelHandlerContext ctx) throws Exception {
        ctx.executor().scheduleAtFixedRate(() -> ctx.fireUserEventTriggered(
                new KeepAliveTimerEvent(keepaliveSendTimeout)),
                keepaliveSendTimeout.getSeconds(), keepaliveSendTimeout.getSeconds(), TimeUnit.SECONDS);

        ctx.pipeline().remove(this);

        ctx.fireChannelActive();
    }
}

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Abbeville came to Patterson Friday looking to win the District 8-3A championship outright and for a little payback.
Abbeville secured the championship with a 56-44 win.
The Patterson Lumber-jacks defeated North Vermilion 48-34 in District 8-3A action at Patterson Friday.
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« Just like ol' times — NZ Herald tells us what we're interested in
A new song from Leonard Cohen »
Liars can be truthful?
The weakest part of Piers Morgan's attempted refutation of his former employee's allegations that he (Morgan) must have known about phone hacking at the Daily Mirror while he was editor …
Morgan, 46, has already dismissed Hipwell's claims as the "unsubstantiated allegations of a liar and convicted criminal." Trinity Mirror Group lawyer Desmond Browne also has rejected Hipwell's allegations.
Although someone fitting Morgan's description of Hipwell undoubtedly does face challenges to their credibility, it doesn't follow that nothing they say is true, nor that their recollections of their work environment (i.e. "phone hacking was run of the mill") are lies.
I've interacted with some compulsive liars in my time. It's amazing watching them lie about things they don't need to lie about to facilitate their con. It's as if they just can't help themselves — which is why it's called 'compulsive' huh?
The other compulsion is denial, even faced with convincing evidence of their misdeeds some people just can't admit it. I read about the Nuremberg trials and the blame-shifting and denial rife in that group. I was reminded of this when I saw a report that James Murdoch claimed he 'didn't read' an explicit email … oh dear.
Best line was Charlie Brooker's tweet:
Former Mirror journo says phone hacking was "bog-standard journalistic tool".. So was Piers Morgan!!!1! LOL etc http://bbc.in/tXyxDs
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Media issues - Writing/Publishing
One question. Why did Morgan not go to UK to testify he instead did it by Video Conferencing?
Peter Aranyi says:
You'll enjoy this article about Piers Morgan, Craig:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffbercovici/2012/01/13/piers-morgans-2012-resolution-be-more-like-bill-oreilly/


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Q: Efficient way to read large XML into dfferent node types in C# I am new to C#. I have a relatively large XML file (28MB) and am trying to parse its subtrees into several different types based on their content. Essentially, I have 6900+ Content nodes that all have to be interrogated to figure out what type they are.
<Collections>
    <Content>..</Content>
    <Content>..</Content>
    <Content>..</Content>
    ...
</Collections>

For each Content node, the variety of nodes below it can have 1 of 3 different patterns.  I have to look into the node to decide which pattern/type of object I am looking at.
So imagine a Content node that has about 100 subnodes in it, and the 14th node (in one case) has a URL in it and indicates it is a "type 1" and should have fields 1, 2, 3,...17, 28, 47 and 58 written to the DB.
Another type has an indicative pair of elements (let's say element 3 and 58) and indicates it is a "type 2" and should have a different set of elements written to the DB.
And so on...
From there, I map the objects into a CMS/DB and connect various bits of data to fields in that other system and write data from the pertinent elements over to the DB.
Since the source file is large, I would love to efficiently pull subtrees out of the larger file, zip up and down them (do decide on their types) and then wirte the important data (map them) over to the DB.
Do I have to store the values along the way somehow and decide after I have stored them, what sort of object this is?
I am struggling with the forward only approach of XmlReader and the ease of using a DOM based approach.
Thanks for the advice.
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Thank you commenters. The structure inside of the Content nodes would have 1 of 3 patterns in it. There are about 100 nodes in each type, so I did not bother pasting them in for readability's sake. I did try and clarify above though.

A: With large files you must use xmlreader.  I prefer using combination of xmlreeader and xml linq.  Try following :
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        const string FILENAME = @"c:\temp\test.xml";
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(FILENAME);
            while (!reader.EOF)
            {
                if (reader.Name != "Content")
                {
                    reader.ReadToFollowing("Content");
                }
                if (!reader.EOF)
                {
                    XElement content = (XElement)XElement.ReadFrom(reader);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}


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Opposition Leader Fined For Violating Law On Public Gatherings
An opposition leader in Belarus has been fined 5,850,000 Belarusian rubles (more than $600) for violating the law on public gatherings.
Don't Cry For Me, Venezuela: Chavez Musical In The Works In Belarus
A musical devoted to the life of late Venezuelan President leader Hugo Chavez is poised to premiere in Minsk, testifying to the "comandante's" enduring popularity in Belarus.
Belarus Opposition Leader Alleges Beating
Anatol Lyabedzka, the chairman of Belarus's United Civic Party, told journalists on January 13 that seven unknown men detained him near his house the previous day, beat him, and then took him to police, where he was charged with the "unsanctioned" collection of signatures against new taxes on cars earlier this month.
Belarusians Jailed For Spying
The Belarusian KGB announced on its website on December 31 that two Belarusians, whose names were given as E. Kachura and A. Fenzelyau, were sentenced to eight and 10 years in jail, respectively, for spying for neighboring Lithuania.
Moscow Makes Funds Available To Minsk
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Moscow could lend Belarus an additional $2 billion in 2014.
Armenians, Kyrgyz Ready 'Road Maps' To Russian-Led Union
Potash Giant Uralkali Names New CEO
The board of Russian potash producer Uralkali has named a new CEO after removing Vladislav Baumgertner, who is awaiting trial on abuse-of-offices charges that came after he nixed a trade deal with Belarus.
Russian-Led Customs Trio Moves Ahead
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev have concluded several key agreements between their countries prior to a summit of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council.
Belarusian Opposition Activist Sentenced To 15 Days In Jail
An opposition activist in Belarus has been sentenced to 15 days in jail.
How Will Euromaidan End? For Clues, Look To Past Protests By Ukraine's Neighbors
Ukraine's Euromaidan protesters have pledged to stay the course until their political demands are met. So what are their chances? RFE/RL looks at the outcomes of two protests that achieved their aims in Georgia and Serbia -- and two, in Russia and Belarus, that didn't.
Ashton Calls On Minsk To Halt Executions
EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has called on Belarus to join a global moratorium on capital punishment.
U.S. Urges BelarusTo Free Political Prisoners
The United States has called for the release of all political prisoners in Belarus on the third anniversary of a crackdown by President Alyaksandr Lukashenka's government against opposition forces, protesters, and free media.


Someone here said that the pre-order bonuses sucked & I want to know what they are. Thanks if you post any links.
I don't think there is any yet?
I want to know if there is any extra bonus to owning both LBP 1 and 2 besides the BC stuff. Will you get the stuff that was in LBP 1 that was not available to the community? My Advice music, magma material, etc.
People just say things to get people to notice them, don't listen to those kind of people.
Crash Bandicoot is pretty much completely dead now. And I don't mean because there hasn't been a good game for like 5 or 6 years, but because the company fired everyone or something.
Lol thats what I was about to say!!!
I don't know. You could try previewing your posts.
That does seem wierd. Back on topic, I hope, if there are bonuses, that they eventually get released as payed dlc like the lbp ones did. I was able to get ahold of a GoW code back then, but couldn't find one for Nariko, so I was glad when the heavenly sword pack was released for purchase.
This thread is old, we knew nothing about pre-order bonuses at the time.


Hiring the right person for your organization is tough. It's time consuming and, if you don't do it right, it can be very expensive. Hiring the right sales person is even tougher, because sales people are very good at selling themselves. In this month's SkillBites Show, our guest, Chuck Polin, shared a number of tips to help us hire the best sales person for our organization. Chuck is the CEO of The Training Resource Group and Co-Author of Nobody Ever Told Me I'd Have to Sell. Chuck has more than 40 years of sales, sales management, and corporate executive experience.
Start with a specific job description, including what your expectations are, and what the position entails.
Determine what compensation you will pay the position. This should revolve around performance, with a low base and high commission. An average range is $40,000 – $65,000 base and 5% – 20% commission. Some firms have different levels of commission depending on whether a sale comes from an existing client or a new client. You can find out what others in your industry are paying, and determine what someone working for your company would likely earn to help you set a fair rate.
Look for skills rather than subject matter expertise. Someone who has good sales skills can pick up the knowledge of the industry; but someone knowledgeable about the industry may not be able to learn good sales skills. What skills should you look for?
Why did they leave their prior positions?
What does their sales system look like?
What is their plan for the next 3 years?
What level of base salary are they looking for, and what level of commission?
Use an assessment tool designed for sales, such as The Devine Inventory, Caliper or Objective Management.
Go on sales calls with them to observe how well they handle themselves and how well they represent your company. Are they listening to the prospect? Are they problem-solving? Are they building a relationship?
If someone isn't performing well, cut the chord.
Chuck offered to arrange for a free 2 hour workshop anywhere in the country with his parent organization, Sandler Sales Training. Contact Chuck through his website, www.trainingresourcegroup.com (which has a lot of helpful videos and other information) or call him at 215-320-4650.
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Graphic Novel Review: Cardboard
"Cardboard" Doug TenNapel. 286 pages, softcover. Scholastic, 2012. 9 out of 10.
As a teacher and as a geek parent, it's one of my jobs to find graphic novels that appeal to kids that are also readable and enjoyable for adults. It seems like that should be easy enough, but too many of the "adult" books indulge in over-the-top violence, sex, or language that we all use whilst driving, but you wouldn't recommend to young readers. One of the more reliable authors and artists for "all ages" comics has been Doug TenNapel. Most famous for his creation Earthworm Jim, I've also enjoyed three of his recent books, Ghostopolis, Bad Island, and now Cardboard.
Like the others, Cardboard features a young protagonist with a family in turmoil. Cam's dad is unemployed, and his mom died a few years ago. It's been a rough patch for his dad , who's so broke that Cam's birthday present is...a box. An empty cardboard box. Now, growing up, we had some lean times, and goodness knows I've had my fun with empty cardboard boxes...but this sucks. Cam makes the best of it, and he and his Awfully Handy dad build a boxer out of the box. Bill the Boxer, standing in the living room...until he comes to life. Seems that the cardboard that Dad bought from the odd man on the side of the road will bring to life whatever you build out of it. In this case, a boxer. Bill's friendly, and eager, and wants to become a "real man" like Cam and Dad.
From this point the story expands. If you can build anything out of cardboard and have it become a living thing, what are the limits? They start by building smaller things with the scraps, but quickly run out of cardboard. They come up with an ingenious solution, one that puts them on the road to unlimited possibilities. If they're able to make anything, are there ethical constraints? Can they build an army of Bill the Boxers? Cam builds a miniature version of his dad--could they build his (dead) mom? Should they?
These are great conversation starters with students, and strong prompts for argumentative writing or debates. There are also connections to STEM, STEAM, and Makerspaces; actually building some projects out of recycled cardboard, writing about what would happen if what they built came to life?
This is another graphic novel where I've seen how my own son (at times a reluctant reader) latched onto a book and has re-read it many times. If a book can hook him, it will hook other students who don't consider themselves "readers."
There are villains, like the rich neighbor kid who wants to get his hands on the magic cardboard, and legions of monsters who want to destroy not only Cam, but their entire neighborhood. It's an adventure story, but it's also a story about a kid finding acceptance, and a dad finding some self-esteem despite his miserable situation. It's even a love story. Kids might find themselves attracted to the adventure, while adults will enjoy the deeper ideas within the book, and appreciate the artistry involved in telling the story.
Visually, the book is striking. TenNapel has a distinctive style,and he continues it here. Heavy lines, cartoony figures, and stark contrasts are the hallmarks of his artwork, and it works well for this story. I love comics and graphic novels where artists get to cut loose with anything their imagination throws at them, and the cardboard creations of Cam and others provide that opportunity for TenNapel. If you've been looking for a graphic novel that you could enjoy yourself and enjoy teaching to students, Cardboard is a great pick.
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Labels: #PlayLAP, Cardboard, comics, Doug Tennapel, Family, graphic novels, Scholastic, STEAM, STEM, YA
LEGO Minifigures for the Classroom
Minifigures via LEGO Education
Even though most of the activities I do with students (and teachers) don't use minifigures, for some
projects you do want the little guys. There are a few ways to get them at a relatively decent price.
There are small "starter sets"that typically come with four minifigures for about $10.00. They usually also have a small vehicle or building with them, and the ones out right now include Police, Fire, Construction, and Space sets. (I was wondering about the wisdom of them putting out a set called "Fire Starter Set," but hey. LEGO does no wrong.) That's more minifigures than you get in many LEGO sets--even the largest sets only have about six characters in them these days. So going small in this case may be better.
The other option, and one I recommend to classroom teachers, is to buy the sets offered through LEGO Education. They've got two different sets: Fairytale and Historic Minifigures and Community Minifigures. Each comes with 22 characters; "Fairytale and Historic" includes kings and queens and knights and soldiers and bandits and pirates and witches and mermaids and uh, a snake charmer. One of these things is really really not like the others. "Community" means the people in your neighborhood, so police, firefighters, EMTs, mechanics, postal workers...those kinda people. Both sets have a lot of pieces and accessories to make those worlds come to life, so besides the minifigures you're getting tiny castles and swords and treasure chests and skateboards and pizzas and gold mines. If you want an instant classroom set of minifigures, buy one of each of those, and you're done. Sadly, Hot Dog Suit Guy seen above is *not* one of the LEGO Education Minifigures. Ah, I love him.
Beware the LEGO knockoffs that you find on Amazon or eBay; the ones I see most often are sets offering 20 LEGO minifigures for six bucks. Seems too good to be true? Well, it is. It bothers me enough that they're violating LEGO's proprietary rights by making them in China for pennies and then selling them here...but having bought a set to see if they're the same as LEGO...they're not. Cheap plastic, legs that fall off, arms that don't move, heads that are loose and get lost, with hairpieces/hats that don't fit. So...if you're tempted, because you've got a tight budget and think "hey, this will make all my students happy!" ...they won't. They'll be frustrated at the minifigures breaking and ruining whatever Big Plans the kids had. So don't bother.
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Labels: #PlayLAP, LEGO, LEGO Education, minifigures, toys
Graphic Novel Review: T-Minus: The Race to the Moon
T-Minus: The Race to the Moon. (9 out of 10) Jim Ottaviani, Art by Kevin and Zander Cannon. Graphic Novel Paperback, 128 pages, black and white. 2009, Aladdin.
I recently read Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff, which was an interesting, nearly-fictionalized retelling of the story of the Mercury 7 astronauts--the first Americans to go into space. I haven't ever seen the movie...I should get around to that.
I guess I'm in a Space Race kind of mood, because I just finished Jim Ottaviani's T-Minus: The Race to the Moon. The graphic novel-format book has art by Zander and Kevin Cannon, and is Ottaviani at his best. His graphic novels usually focus on science or scientists, and have classroom connections on every page. Where The Right Stuff focused nearly exclusively on the astronauts, T-Minus is more about the scientists--the brains behind (underneath?) the rockets that were carrying mankind into space. Most Americans just tell the American side of the story. Instead, Ottaviani masterfully interweaves the story of the Space Race between the USA and USSR--treating the competition to get to the moon as another facet of the Cold War, which it of course was. He makes sure we know it really was a race--not just the United States' destiny to be the first ones to the moon.
Each new section of the book is chaptered with a date and "T-Minus..."the amount of time between that date and the day and time that Neil Armstrong's foot touched the moon's surface. It's an interesting way to countdown what was a twelve-year period of time, for the United States spanning several presidencies from Eisenhower to JFK to LBJ to Nixon; for the USSR, from Khrushchev to Brezhnev. We get flashbacks to the visions of Russian Tsiolkovsky, who took Jules Verne's ideas about rocket travel and first tried to apply science to them; to Operation Paperclip, which had the United States snagging German scientists after World War II, bringing Werner von Braun to the US to work for our rocketry program. Those are diversions, and most of the book is in chronological order, moving forward to the June 1969 moon landing.
Ottaviani and the artists include some features that I loved in the book. When dialogue is spoken in Russian, the Rs are printed backwards, and all As are in lower case, mimicking Cyrillic writing. There were times in the black and white book that it was confusing, remembering which group of rocket scientists we were looking at. The "Cyrillic" helped differentiate that. The other feature is a series of drawings and statistics in the margins of many pages. Each time a rocket went up, from either Russia or the United States, it gets an illustration of the rocket, the name of the mission, duration of the mission, and animals, satellites, cargo or astronauts/cosmonauts on board. There's a tiny image of a map of the US or Russia at the bottom, and if the mission failed, "UNSUCCESSFUL" in a banner at the top of the page, often with an illustration of what went wrong. It demonstrates visually how neck-and-neck the Space Race really was, and the victories and failures on either side of the Iron Curtain.
Eventually, the book does transition from the scientists to the astronauts, and we do get a good idea of what it was like to be with Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on the Apollo 11 mission. Despite knowing the end of the story, Ottaviani is able to craft a script with tension and surprise, and Zander and Kevin Cannon's artwork carries that tale beautifully.
With the loss of NASA funding, and the failure to replace the space shuttle program, it can be a discouraging time to be a real world space exploration geek. Remember the achievements of the past, and the exciting things like the unmanned probes exploring the solar system. We have a great history in space, and we'll have a great future there as well. It takes the courage showcased in T-Minus: The Race to the Moon to get there.
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Labels: #PlayLAP, American History, books, Cold War, comics, engineering, graphic novels, history, Jim Ottaviani, science, space race, STEAM, STEM, t-minus, United States, USA, USSR
He-Man: The Hero's Journey in 60 Seconds
Many of us use the idea of heroes in our curriculum. It may be looking for the heroes in history, it may be looking at the classical concept of a hero and Joseph Campbell's idea of the Hero's Journey. One of my favorite TED-Ed presentations is about that Hero's Journey, and Matthew Winkler does a masterful job of explaining that journey using Katniss Everdeen, Harry Potter, and Frodo Baggins as examples. And you should go watch that. Alongside those characters, I'd also place Luke Skywalker as a prime candidate for a Classical Hero.
There's another hero that those of us Of A Certain Age (read: kids of the 80s) remember fondly, and that's He-Man. Even if kids today aren't growing up with him, they have an idea of who he is through memes and parodies. The great thing about He-Man's Classical Hero-ness is that you can get most of it from his opening credits, shown at the beginning of every episode:
...in that one minute, we get that he's just an ordinary guy, called on to do extraordinary things. We find the source of his power, we meet his allies, we see his mentor, and the enemies he'll need to defeat to complete his hero's journey.
And in case you forgot, we also have He-Man's twin sister She-Ra, who has her own introduction sequence, nearly identical to her brother:
Both characters can be additional examples of the Classical Hero and be used in the classroom. Honestly, I'd use Matthew Winkler's examples as the core of a curriculum unit about the Hero's Journey, but these sidebar comparisons can be used to great effect. By simply sharing these two video clips with them, you're explaining how you found out about heroes in the 1980s. You're also making a connection between them and their parents, and you're encouraging them to find the elements of the Hero's Journey in their own pop culture, right now in 2016. Help them explore how their own heroes may be doing the Hero's Journey better than He-Man and She-Ra did. Can they find it in Adventure Time? Yes. Steven Universe? Heck yes. Family Guy? I hope not. Bob's Burgers? We're back to yes. I clearly have cartoon biases.
Labels: #PlayLAP, 1980s, action figures, animation, cartoons, He-Man, hero, Hero's Journey, heroes, She-Ra, superheroes
Randall Munroe's "Thing Explainer" and how to use it in the Classroom
I'm a big fan of Randall Munroe's work. His webcomic xkcd is more than just funny, more than just ironic, it's frequently a good source of explaining how things work. Sometimes those "things" are science, sometimes politics, sometimes relationships. And they are frequently funny, but Munroe helps us make sense of the world around us using simple diagrams and big ideas.
He does the same thing in his latest book Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words. The oversized hardcover book takes about fifty very complicated ideas, objects, and events and explains them using only the thousand words that are used most in the English language. He explains why in his foreword page before the book starts:
"I've spent a lot of my life worried that people will think I don't know enough. Sometimes, that worry has made me use big words when I don't need to... Sometimes I would use those big words because they were different from the small words in an important way. But a lot of the time, I was really just worried that if I used the small words, someone might think I didn't know the big ones."
Raise your hand if you've felt that way. Whether as a teacher, a student, a parent, or a child, we're put in these positions where our vocabulary determines our knowledge. We send the message that if you don't know the word for it, you clearly don't understand it--and vice versa--if you know the vocabulary word, you know the bigger concept that it represents. Both may be untrue.
In Thing Explainer, Munroe demonstrates how even the most complicated concepts, processes, and inventions can be explained using very simple words...especially when accompanied by complex drawings. That whole "a picture tells a thousand words" idea comes in handy here.
Some of the more beautifully complicated "things" explained:
"tiny bags of water you're made of" (animal cells)
"boxes that make clothes smell better" (washer and dryer)
"The US's laws of the land" (US Constitution)
"The US's Laws of the Land" (USS Constitution)(the ship)(I'm still laughing)
"shape checker" (padlock)
"big tiny thing hitter" (Large Hadron Collider)
"the pieces everything is made of" (periodic table)
"tree of life" (life's family tree)
"hand computer" (cell phones)
...and about forty others. Besides being a solid informational book, it's also...fun. Funny. There are arrows at the bottom of rocket engines saying "these should be pointing toward the ground if you want to go into space." He manages to do these things without being condescending, and possibly poking fun at traditional textbooks and teaching now and then too.
Where each page is incredibly detailed, dense with both words and drawings, this isn't the kind of book you would sit down and read in one sitting. It's also not the kind of book you'd have kids sit down and read. But it has some great classroom application. Here are some ways to use it:
At the beginning of a unit, use a page relevant to what you're teaching as a primer for what you're going to be learning together.
At the end of a unit that covers that material, have students go through and assign the "big words" (correct vocabulary) to the pieces or processes that Munroe used in his book.
Using Munroe's style of "thing explaining" as a template, have students create their own page that could be added to his book, explaining an important concept that you've learned about in class.
Discuss the importance (or non-importance) of academic vocabulary -- does it make really understanding what you're learning about easier or more difficult? What role should academic vocabulary play?
As a class parse out Munroe's explanation of one thing, and analyze it -- does he really explain what he's claiming to? What would need to be added to his book to make it more helpful to people wanting to understand that "thing?"
This is a book I love as a non-teacher who's just interested in geeky things like how things work. With my teacher hat back on, I think there's a lot we can learn from this book. I'm a history teacher, so I wish there were more social studies-related topics in the book, but just the page on the Constitution (founding document, not the sailing ship) presents some great opportunities for the classroom. If you like xkcd, you should check out Randall Munroe's Thing Explainer. You'll be glad you did.
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Many teachers start informal writing activities with a writing prompt about some kind of ambiguous character. "Your character is lost in the woods, "Your character is writing a note to their Valentine," "Your character is inventing," ...without giving the students an idea of who that character could be. Often it's the student themselves, which is good...other times we want our students to be able to put themselves in someone else's position, to get in someone else's head. For many students, this is a challenge without being assigned a specific character.
A good way to help some of these students with this challenge is by using PEZ. Yes, PEZ. Specifically PEZ dispensers, since the PEZ candy itself...well, it's not my favorite. With over 1500 different characters over the years, and about 100 available at any given time, and at about a dollar per PEZ, it's a cheap way to get a bunch of characters together all at once. And really, what better way to get into someone's head than by using a toy that's just...a head?
Have students take a PEZ blind, from a bag/bowl/bin they can't see into. Whichever character they get that go-round, that's who they've got. Since most PEZ these days are from different parts of pop culture, chances are good they're going to get a character they know a little bit about. That doesn't mean they need to be constrained by that character's onscreen life. So they pull out a PEZ of Rapunzel from Tangled -- they can complete the writing assignment from the perspective of Rapunzel, or another woman who would fit that description. They pull out a PEZ Optimus Prime, they could write from the point of view of the leader of the Autobots, or as some kind of other robot. The Hulk? Superhero or green monster (or green really sweet and misunderstood guy).
Batman. Hello Kitty. Ninja Turtles. Disney Princesses. PEZ can open creative floodgates for these students. Having them select blindly does a few things -- first, it inserts some randomness. The kid (me) who loves Star Wars might end up having to stretch himself to write about My Little Pony. Girls may have to write from a male perspective, boys from female. Chances are good that your students are human -- they might have to write as a duck (Donald), bunny (Bugs) or cat (Tom). If I were left to myself to choose the perspective to write from, it would usually be a Jedi or a Muppet. Forcing me out of my comfort zone isn't a bad thing. Second, if only for a moment, it creates some suspense. Anticipation. Not knowing who you're going to pull out of the bag, and....it's Velma from Scooby-Doo! Hope she doesn't lose her glasses. She'll totally lose her glasses. We don't use suspense as a tool enough in our classes. It gets them interested, gets them excited. The third advantage is the most simple, and the most obvious. It's silly. It's fun. It will have them talking at recess and at home about the weird thing their teacher had them do today. And they'll want to do it again. Write more. Write different. Write better. Because it's fun.
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Graphic Novel Review: Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy
Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales: One Dead Spy (10 out of 10 stars) Nathan Hale. Hardcover graphic novel, 128 pages. Published by Amulet Books, 2012.
I've been a fan of Nathan Hale for a while. Nathan Hale the author and illustrator, not the patriot, although you could be pardoned the confusion. I loved his illustrations for the graphic novels Rapunzel's Revenge and Calamity Jack, and his picture book Yellowbelly and Plum was one of my sons' favorites. Hale's current series has moved him to the top of my list.
In 2012 Nathan Hale and Amulet Books started a series of graphic novels based on American History, under the banner (literally) Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales. The first book in the series is One Dead Spy, and it and the following books are interesting, easy to follow, and downright entertaining. I'm buying every one of them.
One Dead Spy is about Nathan Hale (the patriot, not the author), executed in 1776, at the very beginning of the American Revolution. The 128-page hardcover comic begins with Manhattan in flames, and a whistling Hangman bringing a noose to a gallows. He shoos a bald eagle away, and prepares Nathan Hale to be hanged. They're soon joined by a British Officer, and these three will be the narrators for the rest of the book. Given an omniscient overview of American History, Hale sees what the destiny of the country is, and even though things look grim for the colonists (and more especially for Hale personally) in September 1776, he knows that there's a brighter future. He proceeds to tell the Hangman and British Officer all about the American Revolution, focusing on the first year, and Hale's role in it.
Nathan Hale makes a good narrator for the years 1775-76, and his path crosses with the likes of George Washington, Henry Knox, Ethan Allen, Benedict Arnold, General Howe and other notable heroes and villains of American History. The author uses these interactions to tell the key events of the revolution, including the capture of Fort Ticonderoga, the Battle of Bunker Hill (and Breed Hill), the Boston Massacre, and the Declaration of Independence. He leaves a lot of things untold, telling more of his tales in future volumes, but gives us enough information to make this book a solid read.
As a history teacher, parent, geek, and promoter of graphic novels, I love this series. I enjoy the humor and the menace in One Dead Spy—even as the Hangman provides comic relief, you can't forget that the real narrator, Nathan Hale, was executed. Some of the humor is in asides, some is in telling the truths of history that are often left out of the dry history books. The illustrations are cartoony but excellent, with no confusion about who's who in the course of the story. Hale (the author) also doesn't shy away from telling us when people suffered and died, making this more mature reading than you might expect. I loved it.
This whole series is one that kids from 4th-8th grade seem to really connect with. I've seen it with my own sons, and I've seen it with students and their teachers. I love how by telling a relatively small story (of Nathan Hale), Hale (the author)(confusing) is also telling the larger story of the American Revolution, and how it meant different things to different groups of people. It makes a good template for research projects, including Wax Museums, History Fairs, and National History Day competitions. Hale includes a bibliography and research notes at the end of each book, and you're able to see how he made the connections found in the text itself. When teaching a graphic novel, don't forget to use the visual elements of the book -- why are certain characters drawn the way they are, what symbolism is in the artwork, and how do the art and words combine to tell a fuller story than either would on their own? If you're looking for a way to ease graphic novels and comic books into an upper elementary or middle school classroom, this series is a great place to jump in.
Labels: #PlayLAP, books, comics, graphic novels, history, Nathan Hale, Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales, One Dead Spy
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