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The Effects of Expectancy Disconfirmation on Outcome Satisfaction in Police-Citizen Encounters
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This study tests the expectancy disconfirmation model using survey data from citizens who recently had police encounters. We find support for the expectancy disconfirmation model's primary hypothesis that increased disparity between expectations of police performance and actual service inversely affects citizen satisfaction with the way the police handle encounters. This finding persists for both voluntary (e.g. breaking and entering victims) and involuntary (e.g. traffic citations) police encounters. Our results also suggest that the scope of the expectancy disconfirmation model is limited. For example, the disparity between expectations and actual service is not correlated with citizen satisfaction with the police in general. Overall, the results show that the expectancy disconfirmation model is useful in that it provides conceptual guidance in an area of research that has been relatively void of theory, and can also help identify needed changes in police practices.
Accepted version. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, Volume 24, No. 1 (2001), DOI. This article is © Emerald Group Publishing and permission has been granted for this version to appear in e-Publications@Marquette. Emerald does not grant permission for this article to be further copied/distributed or hosted elsewhere without the express permission from Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

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Few societies, even modern Scandinavian welfare states, avoid the uncomfortable fact of social inequalities in health. In the United Kingdom, ever since accurate mortality data first became available early in the 19th century, life expectancy has been shown to be more favorable for persons in higher-status occupations. Their relative advantages are also enjoyed by their households. Currently, boys born to families with a parent in a professional or managerial occupation can expect to live 5 years longer than a counterpart born to a parent working in a partly skilled or unskilled occupation (1). Similar inequalities in life expectancy prevail in the United States (2–3). Until recently, the most plausible explanation for such inequalities has been that lower-status jobs were associated with lower income, which in turn resulted in damage to the health of an individual and his or her family through poorer diet and housing, lack of access to appropriate health care, and higher levels of social stress. Recently, however, accumulating evidence suggests that such explanations may not be sufficient and that social status itself, regardless of associated material and economic advantages, may confer health benefits.
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Out doing promotional rounds for the upcoming El Rey Network series "Matador," "Star Trek" scribe Roberto Orci has offered new details about the upcoming third film in the rebooted series.
At last report it was thought Orci had been confirmed to be directing the project, but he tells Collider he hasn't officially signed on yet and that everything is still in very early stages. If it does go forward with him at the helm, he is well aware of the pressure he's under:
"Well, I don't want to count my chickens before they hatch. The studio has yet to even read the script. I'm in the middle of writing it, with the talented team of [John D.] Payne and [Patrick] McKay. They are true Star Trek fans, as well. So, I can't even think anything about the future until I give them a script and they greenlight it. Until that happens, everything else is just a rumor.
If I'm lucky enough that Paramount loves the script and that we go forward, it'll be because I have loved Star Trek for so long and the idea of having seen one of the best guys in the business direct two of them already, and to have seen it from the vantage point of a producer too, I know where a lot of the challenges are and where a lot of the fun is.
If we're lucky enough that everything goes right, then I'll start to feel the pressure. Once it's really happening, it's like, 'Oh, my God, the 50th anniversary! Holy, moly!' As a writer, I feel the pressure as the returning screenwriter to this franchise. I feel it at the story level. I can't speak for Payne and McKay, but they seem to be having a good time. They don't look as nervous as I feel, but maybe they're just good at hiding it."


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How to install the Sun Ray Windows Connector 2.2 for a POC
By user12609114 on Jul 11, 2009
One of the very powerful things of the Sun Ray solution is the ability to display windows desktops. The Sun Ray Windows Connector allows us to connect to Windows Terminal Servers or a single XP instance. This how to is for a quick setup to get windows running on Sun Ray for a POC. The Windows Connector Software can be found here.
Extract the software:
# unzip srwc_2.2_solaris.zip
Install the connector:
Create a group of the connector proxy to run as
# groupadd utsrwc
Run the installer
# ./srwc_2.2/installer
Accept the license
Enter the name of the group we just created - utsrwc
Run the automatic configuration script
# /opt/SUNWuttsc/sbin/uttscadm -c
Restart the Sun Ray Server Software
# /opt/SUNWut/sbin/utrestart -c
Note: Now is when we would apply patches. Since this a new release there are not any yet.
Configure Kiosk Mode:
We will use the web interface for the Sun Ray server to configure the Sun Ray server to present windows desktops. Log into your web admin port http://<name of run ray server>:1660. The username is admin and the password is the one you gave it during set up.
- Click on the advanced tab
- Click on the kiosk mode tab
- Click on the edit button
We need to create our kiosk mode as the windows connector.
- Changed the drop down to Sun Ray Connector for Windows OS
- Type the DNS name or IP of the windows host in the arguments field
- Click on Ok
At this point you will have a kiosk mode defined and then you will need to tell the server when to use it. This is accomplished by using the the System Policy to turn Kiosk Mode on.
- Click on the advanced tab
- Click on the System Policy Sub Tab
- Click on the enable kiosk mode under card users
- Click on enable kiosk mode under non card users
- Click on the Save button
Changing the system policy requires a restart of the Sun Ray Services
- Click on the Servers Tab
- tick the checkbox in front of your server name
- click on cold restart
At this point our system is configured to present a windows desktop. 2 other great scripts for windows POCs are Point and Shoot and MetaKiosk.


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Antisemitism still alive in Europe
1 March 2012
This rhetoric can't be tolerated and has no place in the political and public discourse, and Baroness Tonge's statement last night shows just how dangerous and inflammatory her comments are. She claims that it was taken 'out of context' and blames 'Zionist campaigners' that disrupted proceedings. She was asked by Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg to apologise but refused and therefore resigned from the party.
It is not the first time that Baroness Tonge's comments cause uproar. In 2010 she claimed Israel should investigate allegations that its medical teams in Haiti trafficked organs of earthquake victims for use in transplants. In 2004 she was sacked as Liberal Democrat children's spokeswoman when she suggested that she could consider being a suicide bomber and raised questions about the future of Israel.
The European Jewish Parliament, of which I am a member, was inaugurated two weeks ago in Brussels and it aimed to deal with the big challenges the European Jewry faces. Among those challenges are antisemitism and the delegitimisation of Israel in Europe. Abhorrent comments such as those made by Baroness Tonge and by others show how serious our challenge is in the UK and in Europe.
The Community Security Trust last year recorded 586 antisemitic crimes in the UK, nearly half of which were in Manchester. Among the incidents across the UK in 2011 were 92 assaults, 63 incidents of vandalism, 394 reports of abuse and 29 direct threats. In one of the most extreme incidents last year, a Jewish family who filled their tank up in the petrol station were verbally abused, hit and left injured. It shows that antisemitism remains a serious problem which can be exacerbated if not tackled properly and it's the responsibility of all of us to stress that racial hatred of any kind has no place in our society.
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For 42-year-old Lincoln Park native Paul Adelstein, Chicago is as much a part of him as his love of acting and music. The trained thespian from New Crime Productions (John Cusack's theater company), who also studied extensively at Steppenwolf, didn't actually depart permanently for Los Angeles until 2004. Of course, as fans of Prison Break remember, he then turned right back around to the Land of Lincoln to play Agent Kellerman on the hit Fox show. Now starring as the lovable "Coop" on ABC's Private Practice, Adelstein is returning to his roots with his band Doris and their new album, All The Details. The dashing Adelstein sat down with CS to talk life on the set and in the recording studio, and his most important role yet: family man.
Talk about foreshadowing—Kate Walsh, your co-star on Private Practice, actually got you a job waiting tables in Chicago. I love Kate—she's the greatest. I've known her for almost 20 years. She got me a job at Café Du Midi for a year after I got fired from Lettuce Entertain You's Tucci Milan. Kate moved to New York and I got fired, again.
Who was the better waiter? We were both pretty bad. I was really bad.
And who's the better actor? [Laughs.] Her, of course! Just look at the call sheet—her name is first, which means I have to say she's best.
I love as we're doing this interview, you're playing the guitar while wearing a stethoscope around your neck. Paul Adelstein: The Singing Doctor! What are the similarities between you and Cooper? I can be goofy like him, as well as naïve and stubborn. I don't think I'm quite as neurotic. I'm hopefully ahead of his curve in terms of when he started growing up, but we have similar socioeconomic backgrounds. We're both Jewish kids from the Midwest.
Aside from the episode where you played the piano, fans have no idea how musically talented you are. I grew up in a house where there was always music. I started taking lessons formally when I was 9 or 10. I couldn't read music very well, but I had a good ear. Things really took off in high school when I began writing music and started a band with my friends. That band eventually became Kid Million, and David Singer and the Sweet Science. I also minored in music at Bowdoin.
Your album All the Details is coming out next month. You'll eventually be touring. What can fans expect? I promise there will be a stop in Chicago. It's definitely a singer/songwriter rock record. Somebody said it's like Paul Simon, Elton John and Randy Newman all bumped into each other in temple.
Between the show, recording the album, raising a family [Adelstein has a 20-month-old daughter with actress wife Liza Weil], how do you find time for everything? It helps I'm on an ensemble show. We work long hours, but there's a sharing of duties. I have a little studio that I play in at home.


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Why Soccer Matters, by Pele with Brian Winter, 292 pages, Penguin Group, N.Y., (2014), is a memoir co-written by football's all-time greatest, and it is the perfect read leading up to the 2014 World Cup in Brazil. No other book will give you as intimate a view into the soul of Pele and into the heart of the Brazilian love affair with the sport.
In simple language and a very straightforward conversational style, writer Winter translates and delivers Pele's feelings on paper. "I close my eyes, and I can see my first soccer ball. Really, it was just a bunch of socks tied together," Pele tells us in the introduction. Throughout the book Pele tries to show how football mattered to him, to Brazil, and to his teammates. In so doing he tries to make the point that football plays a preeminent role as a motivator of youth and a shared passion of multitudes, that can help unite societies.
The book begins with the recollection that sets the stage for this summer's World Cup, the 1950 World Cup. The last time Brazil hosted the cup was 64 years ago, and for good reason. The 2-1 loss of that final game to Uruguay on July 16, 1950, in Rio de Janeiro's Maracana Stadium, has haunted Brazilians to this day.
Remembering how his family and friends listened to the radio broadcast at his home on game day, and recalling the moments just after Brazil had opened the scoring, Pele tells us: "I was nine years old, but I will never forget...my father, my hero, so restless during those years, so frustrated by his own broken soccer dreams--suddenly very young again, embracing his friends, overcome with happiness. It would last for exactly nineteen minutes."
In 1950, as in 2014, the Brazilians were favored to win the cup on home soil. In 1950 all they needed was a tie given the cup's format. On that fateful day Friaca put Brazil ahead at the 47th minute, until Uruguay's 66th minute score tied the game. Thereafter Brazil fell behind at the 79th minute and never recovered. Five World Cup wins later no one doubts just how deeply serious a national tragedy it would be for Brazilians to lose a second World Cup on home-soil. In 2014 only a win will do.
Back in 1950, it could take days, weeks, and even months for news to reach every corner of Brazil and of many parts of the world. In 2010, the World Cup Final in South Africa was witnessed by a 3.2 billion-person live television audience. Whatever happens at the Maracana this summer will be known instantaneously by half the globe and soon thereafter by anyone else who could be interested.
After Pele recounts what it was like to live through that 1950 national tragedy, he walks us, as if utilizing a POV camera mounted in his memory's eye, down the paths he lived. We see how he felt the Brazilian National Team earned redemption in the 1958 World Cup in Sweden and world legitimacy in the 1962 World Cup in Chile, experienced frustration at the 1966 World Cup in England, and reached his, and Brazil's apotheosis in the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.
Right after that 1970 final win, 4-1 over Italy, Pele recalled what stood out for him: "My favorite moment was in the locker room, right after the game. I turned around [and] there was our coach [former teammate Mario Zagallo]. We gave each other a big, long embrace...and I told him 'We had to be together to become champions three times. It could only have happened with you. Thank you.'"
We also get several intimate anecdotes, such as the time his teammate Garrincha, a radio aficionado, shopping in Sweden during the 1958 World Cup, chose not to buy a handcrafted radio because he could "not understand anything that came out of it."
The book suffers from the need to extend the experiences of his top playing days into his more politicized and commercial participation in the sport after his original retirement. Few of his post 1970 anecdotes and commentary (the later third of the book, about 100 pages) are as enthralling as those prior to that watershed event, but most are informative and entertaining. In the end, football is show to clearly matter to a country whose identity is so intrinsically intertwined with the sport, and it is obvious that football was and is Pele's life-long love.
I recommend this book to new and long-time futebol/futbol/football fans alike. If you want an easy yet informed and touching read on the eve of the greatest sporting event's visit to the author's native land, this is the book.


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Last Time vs. UVA
The Bruins and Cavaliers played one of the most exciting finals in NCAA Tournament history last year in Champaign, Ill., with the Cavaliers coming away with a dramatic 4-3 victory to claim their program's first NCAA title. The one-loss Bruins were the No. 1 seed in the tournament despite Virginia coming in with an unblemished record. UCLA lost the doubles point but was able to win three matches in singles play before Virginia's Mitchell Frank clinched the win for the Cavaliers at court No. 3.
Bruins Wrap Up Pacific Coast Doubles Championships
Although rain wreaked havoc at the 125th Pacific Coast Doubles Championships at the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club this past weekend, the tournament concluded on Sunday with Rice's Gustavo Gonzalez and Bojan Szumanski taking home the crown. UCLA's Joseph Di Giulio and Clay Thompson turned in the best performance for the Bruins at the event, reaching the quarterfinals. Complete results from La Jolla can be found on the USTA's Tennis Link site.
Bruins at the BNP Paribas Open
UCLA's Clay Thompson and Marcos Giron both received wild cards to compete in the qualifying draw at the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells, Calif. this week. Former UCLA players Nick Meister and Daniel Kosakowski will also be in the draw, as they both made it through last week's pre-qualifying draw. Qualifying begins on Tuesday. The draw will be posted on Monday night on the BNP Paribas Open Website.
UCLA in the ITA Rankings
Coming off a 5-2 victory over then No. 2 USC last week, UCLA moved up from No. 4 to No. 3 in the new ITA Team rankings released on Tuesday afternoon. The Bruins came in just behind No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 USC. Oklahoma and USC round out the top 5. Individually, Clay Thompson has been ranked No. 1 in the country in singles since the first rankings of the new year came out on Jan. 2. He is joined in the top 10 by Marcos Giron, who checks in at No. 5. Mackenzie McDonald (No. 35), Gage Brymer (No. 74) and Karue Sell (No. 98) are also ranked in singles. Giron and McDonald are UCLA's only ranked doubles team at No. 25. Team and individual rankings can be found HERE.
Bruins and Bears to Meet on March 12
UCLA hosts another national power next week, as No. 8 Baylor visits the Los Angeles Tennis Center on Wednesday, March 12. That match is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. The Bruins took last year's meeting, winning 6-1 in Waco, Texas.


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Kicker Nick Folk Receiver Syndric Steptoe Safety Michael Johnson
Steptoe, a wide receiver from Bryan, Texas, will play Sunday in the Cornerstone Bancard Hula Bowl in Honolulu, Hawai'i, safety Johnson of Austin, Texas, plays at the Dell East-West Shrine Game in Houston Jan. 20, and kicker Folk of Sherman Oaks, Calif., puts foot to the ball at the Under Armour Senior Bowl in Mobile, Ala., on Jan. 27.
Folk led the Pac-10 in punting the past two years but was an all-everything player who performed place kicks and kicked off the for the Cats as well. He earned first-team All-Pac-10 honors and was a third-team All-America selection by Rivals.com. Steptoe also was a first-team all-league selection and honorable mention All-America pick by SI.com. Johnson earned second-team all-league honors in 2006.
Folk and Steptoe were four-year lettermen for the Cats while Johnson contributed two solid seasons after transferring following an All-American junior college career.
Johnson earned national player of the week honors in 2005 after his three-interception game helped UA win on the road at Oregon State. Folk was a two-time Pac-10 player of the week this year including his outing at Oregon where he kicked three field goals, scored 13 points and punted for a 40-yard average including two mishandled punts UA turned into points. Steptoe had many big games during his four years as one of the top perimeter threats and was picked for the all-league team in 2006 as a return specialist.


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Naturally Occuring Hybrid Pitcher Plant
Sarracenia x readii – Pitcher Plant (S. rubra x S. leucophylla )
Florida Hybrid
Perennial Carnivore
Sun: Moderate to Full Sun
Water: Bog
Size: 12″ tall
Grows in upright clumps. Large red flower sprays mid-summer. Keep moist with slightly to moderately acidic water.
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Panthers backups couldn't match Lightning A-listers
DeBoer changed his mind about playing hs best players the last two games to get ready for the season because of too many bumps and bruises to Kulikov, Bitz, Higgins and Ellerby. He rested Weiss and Booth, while Tampa went with its young stars Stamkos as well as Lecavalier and St. Louis.
Markstrom was pelted for 40 shots and had some great saves in what is probably his final game with the Panthers before getting experience in Rochester.
DeBoer praised Mike Santorelli, who scored, as his best forward on the ice.
Heres a few quotes.
DeBoer "We had a real good first period. If the game ended there we'd be happy but it didn't and they cranked it up. .. Whether it was personnel in the lineup we couldn't [match them] in the last 40 minutes."
"That's good news but after tonight it doesn't really mean much,'' Gudbranson said. "First period we came out and completely dominated them….We couldn't put two periods together.''
"I've been getting better as the days have gone on. I still have a lot of work to do. Since rookie camp I've been taking it day by day.
"Hopefully, it goes well.''


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To that end the company recently showed off a low-power 5W version of their C-50 APU. The dual-core chip had been previously announced as a netbook part with a TDP of 9W, which is comparable to Intel�s Atom N550 (8.5W), only the C-50 comes with built-in Radeon HD graphics. AMD was able to cut back on power consumption by removing some of the capabilities of the memory controller - including support for higher capacities - and trimming the I/O capabilities to one port of each type. But the low-power C-50 APU will reportedly perform identically to its full-fledged counterpart.
According to X-bit Labs, Acer will be the first OEM to get its hands on the tweaked silicon for use in an upcoming Windows-based tablet, and it remains to be seen if other manufacturers will follow. Even 5W is still rather high for tablets but this might serve as a temporary solution until AMD's tablet specific (code-named Wichita) chips hit the scene sometime in 2012. Whether the x86 architecture catches on in the tablet market is another question.


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I scored a major victory for fatherhood on Monday, and until today no one, including my wife, knew anything about it.
We have an unspoken rule in our house with regards to our kids and sports.
Maybe it was just an unspoken rule for me and Holly has no clue, but the rule is that we won't force our kids into sports.
We'll support them if they choose to participate, but we're not going to be those parents who drive their kids so hard they end up hating sports.
So, on Monday, when my son Patrick asked if he could be in soccer, I rejoiced.
With two girls older than his five years, I had expected the question to come a lot sooner and yet it hadn't.
I responded that we could definitely look into getting him involved in soccer and that I was excited by his desire to start playing.
Well, the question and answer session seemed to open the floodgates because on Tuesday I got another question.
"Hey Dad," my son said, "I want to be in karate and Rebekah wants to be in kung fu."
Rebekah immediately chimed in with a question as to which was better of the two.
Patrick replied with, "Kung fu is better, it has more punching."
I didn't have the heart to pop his ideal of which was better and why, so I just told them that they both had punching and they probably wouldn't be doing either of them right away.
Now that my child has expressed interest in playing a sport, I can become the other sort of parent — the one who goes crazy trying to make their kid the best they can be by taking them to out-of-state camps and getting them one-on-one sessions with really famous coaches and players.
I'll only buy him the best shoes, socks, shorts, shin-guards and headbands money can buy.
Why not? He is bound to be the next Pelé, Ronaldo, or Landon Donovan isn't he.
Look out world, here comes Patrick ... and his fanatical, crazy father.


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God's Not Dead is now available on DVD, video-on-demand, and Digital HD. The faith-based film was released on March 21, 2014 to 780 screens, and was enthusiastically embraced by faith-based audiences, coming in fifth in the weekend box office. According to BoxOffice.com, the film was made for less than 3 million, and has grossed $60,755,732 domestically, and $61,965,732 worldwide.
Harold Cronk, maker of family-friendly and faith-based offerings such as What If... (2010), Jerusalem Countdown (2011), and Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Conspiracy (2012) directed, and inspirational producers Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman wrote the script.
God's Not Dead stars Kevin Sorbo (Hercules, Andromeda) as Jeffery Radisson, an atheist philosophy professor who uses intimidation, bluster, and bribery to control his students. Professor Radisson locks horns with Shane Harper's character Josh Wheaton (Good Luck Charlie, High School Musical 2) who refuses to submit to Professor Radisson's demand that all the students sign a declaration that "God is dead" in order to get a passing grade for the first third of the semester. Because of his refusal, Josh is required to argue for the existence of God, and Professor Radisson will decide how well he does this. Josh considers this a disadvantage, and requests that the students be the ones who decide the validity of his argument. Professor Radisson agrees, expecting that his authority and superior intellect will win the day over what he considers Josh's weak idealism.
Josh's girlfriend Kara, played by Cassidy Gifford, demands he choose their future together over some silly debate about whether God exists. Josh seeks counsel from a local pastor (David AR White, also a producer for the film), but essentially stands alone in his decision to take on the Professor and defend God.
Other stories are weaved throughout the main narrative to reinforce and contrast Josh's stance for faith. Cory Oliver vulnerably portrays Professor Radisson's girlfriend Mina, a Christian who has compromised her faith to be with him, but struggles with this decision as she cares for her dementia-stricken mother, and deals with Professor Radisson's increasing dismissive attitude and belittling demeanor.
Dean Cain (Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman) does a turn as Mina's brother Mark, a high-powered businessman who has eschewed faith and refuses to help with their mother, and Trisha LaFache plays Mark's girlfriend Amy, a successful, left-wing blogger who specializes in guerilla "gotcha" interviews on her subjects. Finally, Hadeel Sittu plays Ayisha, a Muslim student who secretly converts to Christianity and attempts to hide this newfound faith from her father, who demands she follow Islam strictly by wearing a headscarf.
The film makes several salient points. First, the reality of what has become all too common in many secular institutions of higher learning: Standing for one's faith is the minority position, and leaves a student open to hostility and retaliation. To expect anything less would be naive at the least, and deluded at most. Any person of faith needs to be prepared to confront this anti-Christ and anti-faith mentality that is resident in our culture, and particularly virulent on college campuses.
Second, it reflects a clarion call. The extreme lack of Biblical knowledge, or knowledge of any traditional faith among Millennials has become the rule rather than the exception, as less and less are interested in participating in any faith community. So when confronted with a choice of acknowledging God or renouncing a confession for the sake of a grade, it is no wonder that most would be fine with doing what they need to do to pass a class—even if they don't truly believe it.
Third, as Christians we will be required at one point or another to take a stand for our faith. As we watch the horror of Assyrian Christians in Iraq being driven from their ancestral homes and murdered because they will not renounce their faith, it should give us pause; if we cannot take a stand when we are confronted with hostile arguments or a loss of a grade, what will we do when our life is on the line? If God's Not Dead succeeds in any way, it does in drawing this line in the sand, and emboldening Christians to take an active stance of faith, rather than a passive one.
Where the movie works, it works well: Shane Harper's portrayal of Josh is compelling, sincere, and likeable. You immediately want to root for him, and this adds to the believability of the conflict. Harper establishes his character immediately by his incremental stances: first at the class registration table; then in Professor Radisson's classroom, through challenging his domineering authority; then with Kara, as he refuses to be browbeaten into "going along to get along" in order to keep her affection. The progression of growth from fear and hesitancy to faith and confidence shows the power of knowledge investigated and applied as one defends the cause for Christ.
The most powerful and well-acted scenes in the movie involve Sorbo and Harper, and the movie works when these scenes are in motion. This is where the story comes alive, engages, and lives out the title and overall theme of the film. In turn, Mina's struggle with returning to her own firm faith and her growing distance from Professor Radisson provides a stark contrast to Josh's growing resolve and strength, and shows Professor Radisson being confronted from all sides in his atheistic beliefs.
Where the movie does not work, unfortunately causes gaping holes in the plot. The writers felt the need to insert other stories to reinforce the main story, when the main story stands powerfully on its own. The ball is often dropped with the dimensionality of these multiple stories, and in an effort to complete and connect each one to the main throughline, the characters and their situations come off cookie-cutter, and sophomoric, lacking depth or true engagement.
For example, aside from Mina needing a sibling to contrast her devotion, why is Mark (Dean Cain) there? Cameos by Willie and Korie Robertson (Duck Dynasty) and Christian music group The Newsboys are also problematic. Save for being an excuse to give the one-note character of Amy (Trisha LaFache) something to do, these cast-off appearances are not pivotal to the overall plot, and ultimately distract from the overarching theme of the film.
The biggest misstep is in the character of Pastor Dave. We are unclear of who he is and are left with more questions than answers each time he appears on screen. Is he a campus chaplain? Is he a local pastor? Why is he disillusioned with his work? Who is this Reverend Jude (Benjamin Ochieng) who comes to visit him, and why? The lack of definition sticks out like a sore thumb, and these characters and their interactions become nearly superfluous, and sadly comedic. The writers use the Pastor Dave character as a sounding board and connector between the other characters, but this could have easily been assigned to other characters central to the story. Instead, Pastor Dave ends up being a prop that everyone trips over while trying to get to the heart of the tale. Josh could have been the instrument in Ayisha's life as she struggles with rejecting Islam and embracing her newfound faith, and the crucial moment for Professor Radisson could have been witnessed by either Josh or Mina, and would have had a greater emotional impact.
Despite these flaws, God's Not Dead is a testament to standing up for what you believe, and how this declaration of God's existence and sovereignty holds power to transform our lives, and the lives of those around us.


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Are you a UX practitioner? Are you ready to deepen your knowledge? Here's a list of books to inspire you to branch out and read something outside your usual comfort zone. Some classics, some new titles, all worth reading!
UX books
The Design of Everyday Things Don Norman <– a classic
Designing Multi-Device Experiences, Michal Levin <– new and good
Design for the digital age, Goodwin <– the Cooper method, explained
A project guide to UX design, Unger, Chandler <– putting it all together with projects and teams
UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want, Jaime Levy
The "Lean" Series
The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
Lean UX, Gothelf & Seiden
UX for Lean Startups: Faster, Smarter User Experience Research and Design, Laura Klein
Running Lean, Ash Maurya
Lean Analytics, Yoskovitz & Kroll
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development, Cooper and Vlaskovitz
Lean Enterprise, Jez Humble
Classic business books
The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayon Christensen
Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard, Chip Heath
Crossing the Chasm, Geoffery Moore
Design Systems & Typography
Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty David Kadavy
Design for Software: A Playbook for Developers Erik Klimczak
Sketching User Experiences – The Workbook <– much better than the book "Sketching User Experiences" which I don't recommend
Unfolding the Napkin Dan Roam
Sketchnote Workbook Mike Rohde the book Sketchnote Handbook is also excellent.
Product management
Inspired: How to create products customers love, Marty Cagan
Web development
Responsive Web Design, Ethan Marcotte
Atomic Design, Brad Frost
Designing with Web Standards, Jeffrey Zeldman
Agile and Lean
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, Kent Beck
The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions, Mary & Tom Poppendieck
Get Agile: Scrum for UX, Design & Development, Jongerius et al.
The Principles of Product Development Flow, Donald Reinertsen
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Here's the list of resources I reference at the end of the deck.
I learned how to make animated GIFs with Photoshop at Shillington, but found the process unwieldy. I didn't realize you could give yourself a huge head start by doing your animations as a video first. I didn't have ScreenFlow or After Effects, so I was intrigued by Andy's suggestion that I could use something considerably more low-tech (and probably already on YOUR computer too.)
Pro tip: If ScreenFlow or After Effects aren't in your budget, create your animation in Keynote, and export it as a video. Yep, there's finally a use for that setting. —@andyorsow
Here is the result of my little experiment. I made this animated GIF with Keynote and Photoshop. It was a pretty straightforward process and it was a fun way to learn something new. If you want to try it out yourself, please read on for a few more tips you might find helpful.
You can change the size of the "canvas" in Keynote by setting the slide size in the inspector. I choose 600×200 because that's the width of graphics for my blog. You can pick any size that makes sense for your project.
Turn on the rulers and drag some guides so you can orient yourself as you're working.
The Keynote animation settings are a little fussy to get used to but there's a lot already built in. Everything you'll need us under the "Build" tab of the inspector. You "group" actions by using the "Start Build" drop down, which allows you to run actions at the same time. For example, the circle rotates and moves at the same time, that's TWO actions)
When you're ready, export the file to Quicktime format. I only had one slide in my deck with the animation, so I kept all the defaults (Playback Uses: Manual Advance), 24 frames per second. I just turned off Audio (not sure that was actually necessary)
Importing the .mov file into Photoshop was pretty straightforward. File > Import > Video Frames to Layers. As Andy suggested, I chose the option "Limit To Every 2 Frames"
Once I imported the file into Photoshop, I immediately tried to Save for Web, but the GIF didn't animate. I wasn't sure what was wrong so the second time I imported it, I opened the animation panel (Window > Animation) and verified the playback was working before I exported.
It was better to do it that way anyhow because I could tune the animation by extending time and removing frames. I found that I needed to extend the last frame to 1 second to make the animation look like there's a little pause before it starts.
Please leave a comment if you found this helpful or leave a link to your animated GIF project. I'd love to hear from you.]]>
I'm on a quest to be better at hand-drawn visual communication. I think of the subject as "chunks" I need to master:
Here are some resources I've found fun/memorable/useful. Several of them cover more than one of the areas of mastery I mention above, so I have not categorized them.
Ray's workshop at Lean UX NYC 2013 strongly influenced the way I think about the different contexts of sketching: "thinking," "talking," and "showing."
My friend Kate Rutter creates and shares amazing resources. If you get a chance to attend a workshop or hear hear speak at an event, do it!
Although you might think that hand-lettering is just the territory of graphic designers and illustrators, I think it's great for any hand-sketcher to have a couple different hand-printed fonts in their toolkit. The book has great examples and loads of different worksheets, so buy it on paper and practice, practice, practice!
This book is worth getting on paper. It's printed on nice paper and bound well so it's a pleasure to read. The electronic version is not as satisfying.
I first saw Dan Roam at SxSW 2010 when he launched "The Back of the Napkin." He now has a several books and tons more resources on his site.
The VizThink folks are an international community. They have interesting events and good resources.
I've pulled together my current thinking about UI sketching in a workshop. I use a technique I call "reverse wireframing" to teach you to see the structure of UIs and through a series of exercises, you'll create your personal shorthand to draw UI elements.
Good luck, and please leave comments with your favorite resources!]]>
UPDATE April 28, 2014: Will has started to post the videos, I'm adding links here as they are added to the LeanUX site.
Conference Opening – Will Evans
Keynote: We Are What We Repeatedly Do: Idealized Design & Beginner's Mind – Jabe Bloom | Slideshare
Tilting at Windmills: Innovation in Large Organizations | Slides – Alistair Croll
6 Ways Results-Driven Learning Can Transform Work Culture – Carmen Scheidel
LeanUX Wins: Design Thinking in Large Enterprises | Slides – Ariadna Font Llitjos
Keynote: Lean Change: It's Organizational and Personal – John Shook Lean Global Network
Lean UX: Agility Through Cross-Functional Collaboration | Slides – Jeff Gothelf
Philosophy of Lean: A Phenomenological Understanding of Product Innovation | Slides – Thomas Wendt
Optimizing Organizational Frameworks for Applied Design | Slides – Lynn Teo
Keynote: Roadmap to the Lean Enterprise | Slides – Trevor Owens
Is Bad Research Better Than No Research: Doing LeanUX Right | Slides – Dr. Deidre Kolarick
The Lean Agency | Slides – Mona Patel
Eating Our Own Dog-food: A Story of Customer-Led Product Innovation – Jodie Moule | Slideshare
The Values Gap – Jen Guarino, Shinola
Safe-Fail, NOT Fail-Safe – Alicia Juarrero
Branding Moments | Slides – Bill Beard
So You Want To Get Lean: Integrating Lean Startup | Slides – Melissa Perri
The Balanced Team Movement | Slides – Lane Halley
Keynote: It's the Process, Jim, But Not As We Know It – Dave Snowden
Workshop Descriptions .pdf
Effective Customer Interviewing – Adrian Howard
Show Me What You're Thinking – Ray DeLaPena | Slideshare
Facilitating Meetings That Don't Suck – Virginia Cagwin | Slideshare & Jacklyn Burgan | Slideshare
How To Do Lean Research Right – Dr. Deidre Kolarick
Being a Successful User-Centred Product Manager – Andrew Mayfield
Validate Before Code – Steven Cohn
Managing to Learn Using A3 – Joshua Howell & John Shook
Communicating the Business Value and Getting Buy-in for UX Research – Christine Perfetti & Ezra Gildesgame
Deeper Understanding: Stories, Observations, Insights – Dan Szuc | Slideshare
Recruit Participants for Customer Research – Tomer Sharon | Speakerdeck
Design Research Methods – Thomas Wendt
Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Business Faster – Alistair Croll
Lean Fundamentals: Value Stream Mapping for N00bs – Adam Yuret & Jabe Bloom
Lean Branding: Developing Powerful Brands in Lean Environments – Bill Beard
Applying Service Design to Your Agencies' Delivery – Markus Andrezak / Christian Becker
Designing to Learn: Creating Effective MVP Experiments – Melissa Perri
Design Resonance: Making Sense of Cynefin and User Experience – Michael Cheveldave | blog post
UX + BA Working Together in Harmony – Jacklyn Burgan with Aaron Majcher
Towards a Theory and Method of Test Driven Design – Jonathan Berger | blog
WWE Ethnography: Let's Get Ready to Rumble – Tomer Sharon | Speakerdeck
From Dinner to Dining: The Evolving Role of the Designer – Zaana Howard
Creation & Production Combined: The Power of Connected Worlds – Markus Andrezak
Applying the Cynefin Framework for Improving Speed, Agility, and Innovation – Michael Cheveldave
Inclusive Design & Lean UX – Kel Smith, Elle Waters & Sophie Hwang
Designing an MVP that Works for Your Users – Ariadna Font Llitjos
Story-mapping the User Experience – Donna Lichaw
Design Thinking for Designing and Delivering Services – Zaana Howard
How to Draw Quick, Useful UI Sketches – Lane Halley
Mapping the Customer Journey – Jodie Moule & Stephen Moule
Overcoming Analysis Paralysis – A Case Study in Ethnographic Methods – Lynn Teo
Decision-Focussing – How to clarify Decisions and Get Information required for Decision-Making – Kim Ballestrin handout 1 | handout 2
Capturing Product Vision with the Idea Stack – Eli Bozeman
Making Sense of Messy Problems: Systems Thinking for Complex Business Models – Johanna Kollmann
Mapping Your Minimum Viable Experience – Courtney Hemphill
Introduction to Design Studio Methodology – Oonie Chase & Will Evans
Visual Problem Solving & Facilitation – Dean Meyers
Enhancing Proto-Personas With Characterizations – Chelsey Delaney & Taren Sterry
Restarting the Enterprise (Why Innovation Teams Suck) – Adrian Howard
Conditions for Success: People, Skills, Spaces for Healthier Design – Dan Szuc | Slideshare
Management, Alignment, and Collaboration Done Differently – Arne Rook & Fridtjof Detzner | Jimdo
Designing For Services and Long-Term Innovation – Shelley Evenson, Fjord
In this workshop, I'll lead you through a series of exercises which help you learn to draw good-looking, quick, useful, user interface sketches, followed by a discussion about how and when we can use sketching in our own projects.
No prior sketching or UX experience required, everyone can draw. Just grab some paper, a pencil and an eraser and follow along. This brief tutorial should take you about 1 hour.
HackDesign is "An easy to follow design course for people who do amazing things." Sign up to get a new design lesson in your inbox each week, hand crafted by a design pro.
Design for Hackers teaches the principles of good visual design to programmers, developers, and makers of any kind. Each email from the 12-week course is based upon a chapter of Design for Hackers. You can buy Design for Hackers as a companion book for the course, or just get the emails for free. There's also a Facebook page where people in the program connect.
Gibbon makes "playlists for learning. Almost all the knowledge is available on the web, all you need is someone to guide you to it." Specify how much time you want to dedicate per week and the topics you're interested in and it will send you a list of links in email each week. Topics include design, development and business.
I look forward to the myFonts Newsletter because it's always a great source of inspiration and education about fonts and the designers who create them.
I consider the Smashing Newsletter a must-read for any Web designer. It's a great way to track hot topics and emerging trends in Web design.
Most UX people are aware of Jared Spool through his writing, speaking and event hosting. When you subscribe to the UIE Newsletter you get UIEtips mailings which contain useful free content, in addition to announcements of paid virtual seminars and events.
If you know a great resource not on this list, please leave a note in the comments. Thanks!]]>
Q: What are you currently reading?
I read a lot and hardly ever finish one book before I start another. Here are several favorites from the top of the stack.
Evil by Design: Interaction Design to Lead Us Into Temptation by Chris Nodder
The practice of User Experience design requires an understanding people and their motivations. In this well-written book, abundantly illustrated with examples, Chris examines how the seven deadly sins (Pride, Sloth, Gluttony, Anger, Envy, Lust and Greed) form a framework for understanding human behavior and provides 57 design patterns to make the insight actionable. I'm savoring this book a chapter at a time, because I'm taking so many notes about ideas I want to test in my current projects. I do most of my reading on my iPad or Kindle, but I made an exception for this book because It's beautifully produced and a pleasure to read on paper.
Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty by David Kadavy
David is the author of famous and funny blog posts including "Why you hate comic sans." I work with a lot of people who don't have a design background. When they ask me "what's an accessible book about design?" I love recommending David's book because he's such a clear thinker and good writer. He also has done a great job building a community of learning around this book. You can connect with David and other readers of the book on his Facebook page.
Earlier this year, I also enjoyed jQuery for Designers: A Beginner's Guide by Natalie MacLees. Natalie is a pillar of our local WordPress community. It's great to see some of her wisdom captured in print. If you enjoy working through cookbook-style tutorials, and have a basic understanding of css and html, following the chapters of this book will give you a great basic understanding of the mechanics of jQuery for use in your next Web design project. I am grateful to Natalie for making this subjct approchable enough I could tackle it in a couple weekend.
Q: What's up next on your reading list? Why?
I have a huge stack of technical books I plan to skim or reference in the next year. Here are a couple that I'm reading for fun.
The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work by Scott Berkun
I started getting more interested in WordPress this past year. I've been self-hosting my WordPress blog "The Apprentice Path" since 2010. After attending WordCamp LA In September I started to realize the greater potential of the platform and was impressed with the culture and community that surrounds WordPress. I picked up Scott's book to learn more about how things work behind the scenes at Automattic. I also had the pleasure of seeing Scott speak at the Warm Gun conference in San Francisco a couple weeks ago. You can see a summary of his talk on his blog http://scottberkun.com/2013/danger-of-faith-in-data/
I'm really excited to see that Mary and Tom Poppendieck have a new book "The Lean Mindset: Ask the Right Questions" Everyone who is interested in "Lean Startup" or "Lean UX" or "Lean" anything will do themselves a HUGE favor by going back to the source and reading Mary and Tom's writings about Agile and Lean Software Development.
Q: What is your favorite book and why? What are the key takeaways?
Am I allowed to say "my sketchbook?" What, you mean a PUBLISHED book? OK then.
I had to think carefully about which books I've read more than once. And then I noticed "101 Things I Learned in Architecture School" by Matthew Frederick on the shelf near my desk. This small, lovely and useful book is a collection if thoughts and practices drawn from architecture and relevant to many other disciplines. Sometimes when I am stuck for an idea (or procrastinating!) I flip it open at random and find just the answer I need.
Best wishes for the new year, and Keep Reading!]]>
Q: Do I recommend Tracker for managing UX activities?
A: A tool is just a tool. I used Pivotal Tracker because that's what my team wanted to use. My advice would be pretty much the same if we were using Trello or JIRA or Confluence or paper cards or any other issue tracking tool. The point is the conversation that happens and who participates.
Q: What do I think about combining UX and development activities in the same story?
A: My current thinking on the subject is that there's an adoption curve. Teams grow more comfortable thinking about UX and development work holistically when they understand the "big picture" of the project they are working on and have engaged, collaborative working relationships with each other.
Through my own projects in the past year, and by listening to other people share their own experiments with this, I think there's an adoption curve. Designers show up, provide value and form relationships and UX work is gradually drawn into the team's process. I've seen teams move through stages that are roughly like this:
I've noticed that "complication factors" (power dynamics, huge team, distance collaboration, team members shifting in and out) tend to keep teams in the first steps of this journey. Teams that work together closely over time tend to get farther down the list.
I'd love to know what you think about this. Please share your own experience in the comments below.]]>


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Taste Changes
This section has been reviewed and approved by the PLWC Editorial
Board, 02/05
Change in the sense of taste (dysgeusia) is a
change in the way foods taste. Some foods may taste different than they
used to, foods may not have much taste at all, or everything may taste
the same. Bitter, sweet, and salty foods may taste different than they
did before, and some people with cancer experience a metallic or chemical
taste in their mouth, especially after eating meat or other high-protein
foods. Taste changes can lead to food aversions (or dislikes), loss
of appetite, and weight loss.
Taste changes are a common side effect of chemotherapy. About 50% of
people receiving chemotherapy experience taste changes. Chemotherapy
drugs commonly associated with taste changes include cisplatin
(Platinol), cyclophosphamide
(Cytoxan, Neosar),
doxorubicin (Doxil), fluorouracil (5-FU), paclitaxel (Taxol), and vincristine (Oncovin).
Taste changes caused by chemotherapy usually clear up about three to four
weeks after the end of treatment. Some other medications, including some opioid (strong) painkillers and antibiotics, can also
cause taste changes.
Radiation to the neck and head can cause taste changes because of damage
to the taste buds. Radiation can also cause changes to the sense of
smell. Since smell and taste are closely linked, changes to the sense of
smell can affect how foods taste. Taste changes caused by radiation
usually begin to improve from three weeks to two months after the end of
treatment. Improvement may continue for about a year, but the sense of
taste may not entirely return to the way it was before treatment.
Other causes of taste changes include surgery to the nose, throat, or
mouth; biological therapies such as Interleukin-2 (Aldesleukin
or Proleukin); dry mouth; damage to the
nerves involved in tasting; mouth infections; dental or gum problems;
and nausea and vomiting.
There are no specific treatments for taste
problems. Discuss any changes in taste with your doctor, who may be able
to help you pinpoint a cause. Treatment from a dentist will help improve
taste changes caused by mouth infections, dry mouth, or dental or gum
problems. The following tips can help people who are experiencing taste
changes. Depending on the cause of taste changes, different tips may work
better for some people than for others.
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American Intercultural Studies | Minor
American Intercultural Studies
William Burke
Trinity University
One Trinity Place
San Antonio, TX 78212-7200
The American intercultural studies minor, requiring 18 semester hours, is designed to help students develop the skills and knowledge necessary for intercultural understanding and cooperation in today's diverse society. In addition, the program seeks to enhance positive associations with and among the people of various intercultural communities.
While courses in the minor recognize that certain historical events and experiences involving race and/or ethnicity in America continue to have a major impact upon the nature and development of intercultural relations, the curriculum examines events, conditions, circumstances, major figures and movements that are significant to understanding a particular minority group's experience and viewpoint in America. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to read an analyze contexts that influence or impact intercultural understanding and intercultural relationships.
Faculty from across disciplines, including business administration, modern languages and literatures, speech and drama, and sociology and anthropology have come together to teach courses in this interdisciplinary program.


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Strasser, Todd. (1981). The Wave. New York: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers. 144 pp.
Grade Range: 6-12
Genre: nonfiction
Summary and Critique
The Wave will intrigue readers from the beginning. It is a story based upon actual events that took place as the result of a History class experiment in a California high school in 1969. Ben Ross, a high school history teacher, begins his usual unit on World War II with a film strip depicting the horrors that occurred in Nazi concentration camps. His students have mixed reactions to the film. Among them, Laurie, a popular student, raises questions that the teacher cannot answer and states that this type of event could never happen again. The teacher concocts an experiment to illustrate to his students just how this type of blind following can easily happen, even in their own school. It begins simply enough as a game in his history class but soon the students want to spread their new found discipline to other areas of the school including the school's football team. As time passes, the other teachers, administration, and a handful of students become more concerned with the effects of the Wave, the term given to the experiment. Eventually, Mr. Ross must also acknowledge that things have gone too far and must devise a plan to put an end to the fast-spreading craze. In the end, the students learn a valuable lesson about blindly following a leader.
The fluid, readable style allows secondary students to understand the text, while still engaging adult readers with a fascinating story. In addition to bringing to life a pivotal piece of history, the novel raises questions about contemporary issues and attitudes as well as the power of persuasion and group versus individual psyche. The Wave brings its characters to life. It is well suited for high school or middle school students because it addresses the issues of peer pressure and the fine line between fitting in and blindly following the crowd. It illustrates how quickly people can be convinced that their individual rights are not really important and how important it is for some people to feel as though they are accepted as part of the group. This book is rich in discussion topics and may be used to connect language arts and social studies/history
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture
The Individual vs. Society
The Holocaust
Friends and Enemies
Challenges and Triumphs
Author/Illustrator/Editor Information
Todd Strasser was born in New York City in 1950. The author attended New York University for a few years, then dropped out and moved to Europe working as a street musician. During this time he wrote numerous songs, poems, and letters until finally deciding to try being a writer. Strasser returned to the U.S. and studied literature and writing at Beloit College. He has won over 20 awards for his work in Young Adult Literature, including his series Help! I'm Trapped. When not speaking at schools and conferences, the writer now resides in Westchester County, N.Y.
For more information on Tom Strasser:
http://www.toddstrasser.com Web site offering information about Todd Strasser (e.g. biographical facts, other works, awards, conference and workshop details).
Media Connections
The Wave (1981) Norman Lear, an American film maker, made a television adaptation of the novel. The film won a Peabody and Emmy award.
Schindler's List (1993) Based on the true story of Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives on over 1000 Jews during the Holocaust.
Ghosts of Mississippi (1996) This film recounts the retrial and conviction of the assassin of civil rights leader Medgar Evers. The film portrays the difficulties in obtaining justice for a slain civil rights activists. Through perseverance, his wife achieves justice 30 years later.
Remember the Titans (2000) In 1971, a high school football team in Virginia is shaken up when a court order demands integration of all public schools. The white head football coach is demoted and a black man is given the position. The team eventually comes together as a unit despite the high racial tensions plaguing the community. This film shows respect of differences and a desire to win overcoming racial prejudice.
Erin Brockovich (2000) A single mother working as a legal assistant discovers a scandal within a major corporation that has unknowingly been wreaking havoc on the health of a small town for years. Erin Brockovich risks her reputation and her life to stand up to the powerful company and expose their wrong-doings. She restores the community and brings justice to the corporation.
Fire Within (2003) This documentary explores the relationship forged between 10 teenagers from varying religious and cultural backgrounds. The film follows their journey and deals with issues of difference and understanding.
The Prime of Ms. Jean Brodie (1969) This film deals with teacher/student relationships. It addresses the impact a teacher can have on a group of students the consequences of blindly following a leader, and the power that teachers have over vulnerable students.
Hoosiers (1986) Hoosiers is one of the best known films for illustration of teamwork and discipline. This Indiana basketball team comes from behind to become state champions and local heroes. Gene Hackman exhibits a positive leadership role and shares the benefits of hard work and team play.
The Stepford Wives (2004) This is a remake of the 1975 film in which ordinary small-town wives are molded into the perfect wives. It beautifully illustrates equality gone awry.
Bowling for Columbine (2002) This documentary film deals with some of the events leading up to the disaster at Columbine High School. It not only addresses the issues that the troubled Teens faced, it also gives a culturally different perspective from Teens in Canada.
American Dream - any episode (Philadelphia in the 1960s, deals with racial issues and tensions of the time)
Cheers - episode where a gay couple begins frequenting the bar and the regular patrons start to worry that it is going to turn into a gay establishment.
Lizzie McGuire - Many of the episodes deal with peer pressure, discovering individual identities, dealing with teachers and group work in school.
"I Believe." Lyrics by Eliot Sloan and Blessid Union of Souls. Home. Capital, 1995. (An African American man laments the problems of today, claiming that love is the answer with which we must fight prejudice, narrow-mindedness, and hate.)
"My Hero." Performed by the Foo Fighters. From Colour and the Shape. RCA, 1997 (Deals with the notion of an ordinary person being able to make a change.)
Online Resources
http://www.holocaust-trc.org A Teacher Resource Center Web site that offers lesson plans and related material about the Holocaust. Very useful for the classroom. The site is sponsored by the Holocaust Education Foundation, Inc.
http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm A collection of translated Nazi propaganda material. Useful for analyzing and discussing the effects of propaganda in Nazi Germany.
http://www.propagandacritic.com Discusses various propaganda techniques, provides contemporary examples of their use, and offers suggestions for critical thinking and mental self-defense. Very interesting and informative.
http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/peace/problem/prejdisc.htm Provides links to examples of current prejudice and discrimination problems. Useful for discussing contemporary issues.
http://www.youthlink.org Web site where students can write and voice opinions, display their work, and see what other students around the world are doing.
http://www.tolerance.org Web site designed to fight hate and promote tolerance. Offers resources and information for teachers, parents, Teens , and kids.
http://www.Suite101.com/ This Web site may seem overwhelming but it gives students exposure to a variety of contributing authors on a variety of topics. A good place to start a research project linked to literature.
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WW.htm This Web site page is titled 'World War II Encyclopedia" The topic links available include the WWII experience in various countries, the events leading to the War, the Holocaust, and chronology of the War.
http://www.litplans.com/author.htm?a=Strasser This Web site provides links to lesson plans related to The Wave as well as to other books by Todd Strasser.
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/lessons/languagearts.html A great resource for teachers - It is possible to find a lesson for just about anything at this Web site.
Related Texts
Greene, Bette. (1973). Summer of My German Soldier. New York: Puffin Books. 230pp. A twelve-year-old Jewish girl befriends a Nazi prisoner of war.
Miller, Arthur. (1953). The Crucible. Dramatists Play Service, Inc. 152pp. A play about the seventeenth-century witch-hunts and trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Written as a parallel to reflect the anti-communist paranoia of the McCarthy era, the play portrays the consequences of a community engulfed by hysteria.
Staples, Suzanne. (2003). Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind. New York: Laurel Leaf. 288pp. An eleven-year-old Pakistani girl must decide if she will obey custom and marry a man she does not love or defy her father's wishes and refuse to get married.
Rochman, Hazel. (1990). Somehow Tenderness Survives: Stories of Southern Africa. Harper Collins Children's Books. 208pp. South African authors share their experiences with racism and apartheid.
Cormier, Robert. (1997). The Chocolate Wars. Alfred A Knopf, Inc 272pp. Jerry, a high school freshman, is subjected to both physical and emotional pain from his school's bullies when he refuses to participate in a school fund raiser.
Volavkova, Hana. (1994). I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp 1942-1944. Schocken Books. 128pp. A collection of poems and pictures created by the young inmates in the Terezin Concentration Camp.
Kennedy, John F. (1956). Profiles in Courage. New York: Harper. 266pp. Written while JFK was a newly-elected U.S. Senator, this book tells of the courage and integrity demonstrated by eight former U.S. Senators in the face of overwhelming challenges. The stories offer a poignant reminder of the strength of the human spirit.
Spinelli, Jerry. (2000). Stargirl. New York: Knopf. 208pp.
Gobble, Beth. (2004). The Lottery. Orca Book Publishers. 272pp. Gobbie puts a modern twist on this classic short story. The setting is moved to a modern day high school that is ruled by the popular group. They single out a student every year to be shunned by the entire student body. It also addresses the themes of self knowledge and free choice.
Braithwaite, Edward Ricardo. (1990). To Sir With Love. Jove. 189pp. A teacher wins the hearts and minds of his students by showing them that he believes in them. The themes addressed are the student/teacher relationship, trust, understanding, and the impact that an effective teacher can have on impressionable youth.
Courtenay, Bryce. (1996). The Power of One. New York: Ballantine Books. 528pp. This novel is told from the point of view of a young man living in South Africa during World War II. As he struggles to make sense of the inequality and chaos around him, he seeks the guidance of two older men. He comes to realize that one person can elicit change even though the notion of freedom may remain elusive.
Gallo, Donald (ed.). (2003). On the Fringe. New York: Penguin. 240pp. Eleven young adult authors contribute to this anthology of short stories that call attention to issues that teenagers face. The themes include high school pecking order, peer pressure, popularity, non-conformity, acceptance, and hate.
Aguado, Bill. (2003). Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from WritersCorps. HarperCollins. 144pp. WritersCorps is a group of teenage writers, and this is an anthology of their poetry. They address issues that they face from their own perspectives and with their own voices.
Teaching Ideas
(1) "How Do You View This Portrait?" Start the exercise by projecting a portrait on a screen in the classroom. Ask the class to study the portrait and write down three or four noticeable characteristics of the portrait's subject or surroundings, using the viewpoint of a neutral observer who knows nothing of the subject's character. Next ask the students to describe the same character, only this time to think of the subject in a favorable light, for example, as a beloved grandfather or best friend. Then have the students describe the same characteristics in an unfavorable way, perhaps imagining the character as a convicted murderer or someone who has stabbed them in the back. This activity will not only give students practice in using language to illustrate different viewpoints, but will also give them the realization that all people do not perceive the world in the same way.
[Summarized/adapted from "Portraits and Points of View" by Lance Voss in Classroom Notes Plus. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. October 1992, p. 3.]
(2) "Deception" Have students prepare two- to three-minute speeches about an interesting or unusual experience. The catch is that the experience may be either real or made up; the speaker's objective in preparing and presenting the speech is to fool the class. A true story must be presented in such a way, without changing the facts, that the audience does not believe it. An invented story must be made as convincing as possible. In preparing and practicing their speeches, students will want to consider factors that lend to or detract from credibility, such as word choice, degree of understatement or overstatement, tone of voice, inflection, mannerisms, body language, and others. Students present their stories to the class, and the others students vote on whether or not it is true. If the speaker succeeds in deceiving the majority of the class, he or she receives a few extra credit points in addition to the speech grade. This activity encourages careful listening and evaluation, and provokes discussion of the cues that lead us to believe or disbelieve what we hear. [Summarized/adapted from "Deliberate Deceit" by Carol Bland in Classroom Notes Plus. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. January 1987, p.3]
(3) "Persuasion" Begin by writing the word"persuasion" on the board and asking students what it means. Now discuss the types of persuasion that students are most familiar with in printed and visual advertising. For example, cite advertisements for donations to relief organizations that use pictures of malnourished children with sad, sunken eyes and bulging stomachs. Students recognize such ads as appeals to emotions. Next, students look through magazines for examples of advertisements using other types of appeals. Then read a copy of Jonathan Edward's"Hellfire and Brimstone" sermon aloud to the students, who recognize that fear was the appeal that Edward's used. Assign students to search for three to four examples of persuasion in magazines, newspapers, commercials, etc. Have them create a poster of the various advertisements, identifying and explaining the types of persuasion used.
[Summarized/adapted from "The Art of Persuasion" by Paula J. Campbell in Classroom Notes Plus. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. March 1992, p. 8.]
(4) "Character Values" Students use a teacher
generated character assessment sheet in order to determine the value systems
of the characters in the novel. They are to list the name of the character
and then choose from a menu of character traits to describe the character.
After having made the selections, the students must support the decisions
with text evidence. The assignment can be used to evaluate student understanding
of character motivation or modified to be used as a group activity by dividing
the class into groups after they have filled out the sheets, the purpose
being to have a guided discussion regarding character motivation.
(5) "Portfolio Box" This activity can be used as a one time project or an on-going assessment tool. Students are given a box and are told to decorate the outside with images that represent their external selves. The inside of the box is used to collect student writing assignments and visual aids that relate to the topics being covered. Some possible writing assignments related to this novel: the students write an"I Am" poem to share their personality traits; write an essay describing things you would change about the world; choose an editorial from a newspaper and respond; if you were a teacher, how would you teach history? This is a very adaptable activity that can be used in conjunction with many units.
[Adapted from "The Portfolio Box: A Glimpse into the Lives of Your Students" by Heather Borden in Classroom Notes Plus. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. October 1997, pp. 2-3].
(6) "Literature Connections" This is a set of activities that help students begin to make connections between the literature they are studying, themselves, and those around them. This adaptation will focus on sets of activities listed for character and theme connections. The students are given the following directions: 1. Explain how a character in the current story reminds you of a character in another story. This can be done in the form of a poem, essay, letter, or other written format. 2. Tell how this character reminds you of someone you know. 3. Select a theme or idea from the current reading that you would like to know more about and prepare a brief research presentation for the class. As an on-going assignment, students would compile the activities into binders that would be shared with classmates. This provides great opportunities for the students to make literature connections and become published authors in the classroom setting.
[Adapted from "Literature Meets Life" by Marcia Fisher in Classroom Notes Plus. Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English. January 1997, pp.l-2.]
(Review written by Erin Lewis and Jeannette Driscoll and edited by Jennifer E. Moore)


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Next season can now sleep with the fishes for the Denver Cutthroats. The Central Hockey League franchise announced Wednesday, that they would be suspending operations for the 2014-2015 season, effective immediately.
"We feel the Denver market remains a strong, viable area for minor league hockey, and has an ownership group that is passionate about making it work," said CHL Commissioner Steve Ryan. "We are confident that with time, they will return to the ice and re-establish themselves in the community for the years ahead."
The Cutthroats will attempt to secure additional investors with the hopes of returning to play for the 2015-2016 season. In lieu of the suspension of their operations, all the players they have signed to contracts for the upcoming season (including Sean Zimmerman, who was just signed last week) will immediately become free agents.
In their second season, the Cutthroats enjoyed a high level of success last year, making it all the way to the CHL Championship series. They fell in the series to the Allen Americans in five games.
While a finals appearance may have created high expectations for the Cutthroats, there was a lot of uncertainty going into the season even before this announcement. Doug Armstrong, the only coach the team had ever known, relinquished the head coaching duties in June to focus on the front office fulltime; with former Cutthroat player Brad Smyth set to take over as coach. They also no longer had an affiliation with an NHL team, as the Colorado Avalanche replaced the Cutthroats with the ECHL's Fort Wayne Komets, as their second-tier minor league affiliate.
The Central Hockey League as a whole may also be facing uncertainly, as the league is reportedly in talks to merge with the East Coast Hockey League. A team in that league also calls the Centennial State home, as the Colorado Eagles (who moved from the CHL to the ECHL a few years ago) play in Loveland.
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|Redshirt Freshman
|Harlem, N.Y.
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|Brewster Academy
High School
One-year varsity basketball letterwinner at Brewster Academy (Wolfeboro, N.H.) under head coach Jason Smith in 2010-11 ... also was a three-year varsity basketball letterwinner at Phillips Academy (Andover, Mass.) under head coach Leon Modeste (from 2008 to 2010) ... was a one-year varsity volleyball letterwinner while at Phillips Academy ... averaged 6.0 points per game for Brewster in 2010-11, earning the Coach's Award as the Bobcats went 33-3 overall and 8-2 in the NEPSAC Freelance League ... Brewster was ranked No. 2 in the state ... at Phillips in 2009-10 as team captain, averaged 16.8 points, 6.0 assists and 5.0 rebounds per game ... earned third-team All-NEPSAC Class B accolades as a junior ... there are 33 teams in the NEPSAC Freelance league ... averaged 13.3 points, 4.0 assists and 4.0 rebounds per game in 2009 as a sophomore at Phillips Academy ... averaged 10.1 points and 4.0 rebounds per game his first year at Phillips Academy.
Full name: Khalid Marcellus McCaskill ... born in New York, N.Y., on Feb. 4, 1992 ... parents are Carl McCaskill and Betty Dubuisson ... does not have any siblings ... played club basketball (AAU) for the Boston Warriors ... economics major.