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Xi's lockdowns will pull the rug out from under US truckers this summer
Craig Fuller, CEO at FreightWaves
· Monday, April 25, 2022
The Port of Shanghai. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Whenever the trucking market slows, truck drivers look for someone to blame. Normally, a slowdown is just a function of supply and demand. The market has too much dispatchable capacity compared to the total number of loads on any given day.
This summer, the trucking market could have one of its steepest declines in recent years and there is an entity that deserves much of the blame – the Chinese Communist Party and its draconian and inhumane lockdowns.
A Chinese containership. (Photo: ship-technology.com)
While the motivations of the Chinese government are unclear, one thing is certain – anyone subjected to a Chinese state lockdown compares it to being imprisoned in their own homes. As seen in several widely shared media posts, the Chinese government has started to erect metal barricades to block people from leaving their homes, preventing passage even for food or medicine.
While Americans watch in horror as innocent Chinese citizens are caught up in an ill-conceived, reckless, or nefarious – take your pick – act by the Chinese Communist Party, there is little Americans can do about it. But like most geopolitical events these days, the lockdowns in Shanghai and other Chinese cities are also a supply chain story that will have a dramatic effect on domestic freight markets.
The recent slowdown in U.S. truckload markets is likely a precursor to a steeper decline in the coming weeks. The lockdowns in China were not a factor in slowing U.S. truckload volumes in February and March, as evidenced by record container imports at nearly all major U.S. ports.
But that shouldn't give anyone comfort because the slowdown is about to hit U.S. ports – and the trucking companies that service them – in a dramatic way. FreightWaves estimates that container imports from China represent approximately 16% of U.S. truckload volumes and an even larger percentage of U.S. dry van truckloads. After all, nearly half of the containers that come into the United States originate in China.
The lockdowns in Shanghai began on April 2 and the lockdowns in Guangzhou began on April 11. As geopolitical analyst Peter Zeihan described the situation on Twitter:
Totally is.
For all intents and purposes, Guangzhou and Shanghai are no longer participating in international manufacturing
— Peter Zeihan (@PeterZeihan) April 23, 2022
Beijing, which is the political capital of China, was expected to be spared the lockdowns by many analysts. This appears to be wishful thinking and Twitter lit up on April 24 with reports of Chinese state police starting to implement similar measures to those seen in the preparation for lockdowns in other cities.
The three largest cities in China are going to be removed from the world market. According to analysts, at least 40% of China's GDP has been taken offline and this was before lockdowns began in Beijing. The vast majority of this GDP is directly related to global manufacturing. Removing it means removing the flow of containers from the world economy.
Container volumes from China to the United States started to fall on April 6. It hasn't been a direct line down; more like a roller coaster. In the first 10 days, container volumes dropped by 31%. Volumes have since rebounded about halfway, to "just" a 16% drop. But according to FreightWaves SONAR's volume booking forecast, volumes have started to drop once again and could fall to 50% of the April 6 number by May 9. This would be nearly the same level of a drop that China to U.S. exports saw during the Chinese New Year in 2022 and lower than any other point since July 2020.
Chinese ports are operating, but the bigger risk is with Chinese trucking operations. According to a report in Bloomberg, only 20% of Shanghai's trucking capacity is operating. Trucking is a bigger part of the flow of containers in and out of the Chinese ports than in the United States. Over 75% of container volumes in China ports enter or exit on a truck, while in the U.S. both trucks and railroads move freight from our ports.
The loss of trucking capacity in China means that raw materials and components can't get from the ports to factories and finished goods can't leave the factories to the ports to be put on ships for export. The temporary blip (dead cat bounce) was likely containers that were already in the queue at the port prior to the lockdowns.
Since factories can't receive new components or raw materials, they will also stop operating once their supplies are exhausted. Supply chains involve large webs of suppliers that are interconnected and just because one supplier is online does not mean that other suppliers are. Once they shut down, it will take much longer to bring them up to full productivity.
According to SONAR's ocean intelligence dashboard, it currently takes 27 days for a vessel to travel from a Chinese port to a U.S. port. Since the volume of containers from China to the U.S. started its drop on April 6, it will likely be May 3 before U.S. ports experience a drop in volume.
It takes approximately 10 days to three weeks after a vessel arrives in the U.S. before the containers that traveled on board enter the domestic surface freight market. This would put a slowdown in trucking freight volumes related to Chinese imports between May 13 and May 24.
We have seen this play out before.
During the second half of Donald Trump's presidency, the U.S. declared a trade war on Chinese imports. The first tariffs on Chinese goods were set at 10% and went into effect in December 2018. That was intended to be a shot across the bow and had little effect on import volumes. However, President Trump also threatened that if his demands for Chinese policy changes were not met, he would raise the tariffs to 25% by March 31, 2019.
Reacting to a threat that most importers and Chinese manufacturers thought had legitimacy, a surge of goods started to flow from China to the U.S. in what was described as a "pull-forward."
The last of the "pull-forward" surge containers to leave Chinese ports was on April 7, 2019. SONAR's Ocean TEU Volume Index of containers leaving Chinese ports to the U.S. dropped by 28% from April 8, 2019 to April 16, 2019.
The first signs of U.S. trucking volumes dropping took place 35 days after the drop in container volumes out of China. From May 9, 2019, to May 16, 2019, U.S. national contract truckload volumes (OTVI.USA) dropped by 6%.
In Asian import-heavy Los Angeles, the drop was much worse. Truckload volumes dropped by an astounding 28% from May 8, 2019 to May 16, 2019. The drop was so significant that I wrote my first article warning of the freight recession and stated that "Conditions for fleets are deteriorating and it will get bloody."
The recent drop in container volumes is eerily similar to the one that took place in 2019.
The drop in 2019 started with the same speed and depth as the one we are currently facing. The trucking industry had just come through one of the hottest freight markets in history in 2018, with more new fleets entering the market than in any previous period in history.
The abrupt drops in container outflows from China in 2019 and 2022 happened almost exactly three years to the day, which means the freight market seasonal calendar was roughly identical and makes for easy comparables.
Since April 2019, maritime shipments from China to the U.S. have grown by 28%, while U.S. truckload volumes have increased by 24% in that same timeframe.
A slowdown in freight volumes from China in May 2022 will be more equitably distributed throughout the U.S. and less concentrated in Southern California, as compared to the 2019 slowdown.
Why? While Southern California's ports are still the primary ports of entry for Chinese goods, recent port congestion has encouraged importers to shift volumes away from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. This is showing up in SONAR's truckload market share data (OTMS).
In April/May 2019, the Los Angeles and Ontario freight markets represented 7.69% of all U.S. contracted truckload shipments. Today, those two markets represent just 6.74%.
Outbound Tender Market Share (OTMS) in SONAR represents the percent of contract truckload freight out of the U.S. by market.
Watching daily market conditions will be critical to fleet operators in their search for headhaul markets. A headhaul market is a freight market in which there are more loads than dispatchable trucks. In SONAR, this map is updated daily and markets are shaded in blue. The deeper the blue, the better conditions for fleets.
We always coach trucking companies to go "blue to blue" to stay loaded, and since the data comes from tenders and not load board activity, it is far more accurate of current conditions in the market because it avoids "ghost loads" from brokers.
Eventually, the lockdowns will end and Chinese production will begin once again. However, the longer China stays offline, the longer it will take for production to ramp up. Supply chains don't come online instantly.
A drayage truck picking up cargo at the Port of Los Angeles. (Photo: Jim Allen/FreightWaves)
And just how long it takes for the lockdowns to end and the supply chains to begin operating again is a guessing game. But there is reason to believe that the Chinese lockdowns are far from over.
FreightWaves' Eric Kulisch reported on April 15, 2022, that BBVA suggested that the lockdowns in China could continue until June.
If this prediction plays out, it will be a difficult summer for many U.S. trucking operators.
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Craig Fuller is CEO and Founder of FreightWaves, the only freight-focused organization that delivers a complete and comprehensive view of the freight and logistics market. FreightWaves' news, content, market data, insights, analytics, innovative engagement and risk management tools are unprecedented and unmatched in the industry. Prior to founding FreightWaves, Fuller was the founder and CEO of TransCard, a fleet payment processor that was sold to US Bank. He also is a trucking industry veteran, having founded and managed the Xpress Direct division of US Xpress Enterprises, the largest provider of on-demand trucking services in North America.


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Looking for inspirational teaching tips, or handouts from an event that you've attended? You've come to the right place!
This is a booklet I wrote for CUP about Developing Thinking Skills in the Young Learners' Classroom. It gives a brief overview of the theory, and a number of practical examples, and teaching tips.
I wrote this for 'The Guardian' to discuss Kieran Egan's concept of 'Romantic Understanding' and what it means for the teen classroom. Just to clarify… I'm not advocating the use of texts about evanescent celebrities like Lady Gaga.
You may already use a portfolio with your teenage students and want to compare your ideas with the ones suggested here. Or you may be interested in introducing a portfolio as one additional way of assessing your students' progress.
In the third and last article on Multiple Intelligences, I give an example of how to practise vocabulary through logical sequences in the young learner classroom. The suggestions can easily be applied to your own work.
This is the second of a series of articles on Multiple Intelligences published in ETP. In it, I focus on the inter- and intra-personal intelligences, and offer some tips for developing and exploiting these intelligences in the classroom.
This is the first of a series of articles on Multiple Intelligences in ELT. In it, I give an overview of Howard Gardner's concept of MI. I also make the point that success in language learning requires more than linguistic intelligence.
This article was first published in The Teacher, Poland. It's about the teaching of teenagers, a topic that has always fascinated me, and some content issues that I regard as very important.
Melanie Butler asks me questions about CLIL and teaching thinking with young learners, and also about Super Minds, my latest course for young learners. Interested in my answers? Download this interview!
Another interview with Jack Scholes and New Routes, Brazil – this time about teaching grammar and creativity, the use of guided imagery work in the English language classroom, and how the brain helps us learn a foreign language.
This is an interview I gave to Jack Scholes from New Routes, Brazil. Jack asks me questions about teaching young learners, but he also challenges me to gaze into my crystal ball and predict the future of ELT.


Discussion in 'Motorhome Chat' started by jacken, Jan 29, 2008.
We are off up to Regal in Ilkeston next week to get the uphoslstery done. Any-one know of a near by campsite open, for a 8.5m van. Seem to be thin on the ground with a web search.
When i was talking to them they told me they had a site they used nearby.
Most sites wont allow work vehicles on so unless your taking your work into them be careful.
There are 2 CLs within 3 miles of Ilson. One at Awsworth next to the gardeners Pub and One not far from the Chequers pub at Stanton by Dale I've stayed at both of them. If you would like more details I'll dig out the relevant books PM me!
Thanks for this info. We also need to visit Regal Furnishing sometime soon so this info would be useful.
Thanks for all your replies. We have gone for the Golden Valley site at ripley. Many thanks to Geo for that.
You will find Golden Valley a really nice site. Plenty of room, plenty to see and do in the area like the Buttery railway just a little walk away. Take a walk over, you will find the railway museum where the Queens Coach is now stored. If you ask nicely or look interested they will get the keys and let you go inside for a look round. We found it fascinating.
We stayed there last Easter, we had a great time. People were very friendly and the owner came round every day for a chat.
BTW - I'm Geo's other half.
Thank you Pammy. I am very interested in trains, so will make a point of heading for the museum. Unless it's not open yet for the season of course.
I think it's open all year round - I remember taking our boys when they were very small to see Thomas the Tank Engine on New Years Day. You'll enjoy it.
Hi ya, have you contacted Regal Furnishings to find out if they can suggest anywhere..
is there no information on this on thier website.. Caravan Upholstery & Motorhome Upholstery - Regal Furnishing Ltd.
I think that jacken will have been sorted by now. Their initial enquiry was back in Jan 2008.
i think it might be a spam post, tho why when the company's name is mentioned throughout the posts i dunno..... someone registered in may, 1st ever post and it's got a web link to a company.


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Wright Lindsey Jennings 4.28.2021
WLJ Employment Law Update: Key Employment Legislation at the State Capitol
This update was authored by WLJ Labor & Employment attorneys Shelby Howlett and Stuart Jackson.
SB 615: The bill to "prohibit the requirement of vaccine passports in Arkansas" passed the Senate and the House (on April 26) by wide, veto-proof margins and will be transmitted to the Governor for consideration. The bill would prohibit all state and local officials and agencies from requiring "an individual to use a vaccine passport" for any purpose. It also appears to prohibit private businesses from conditioning "entry, travel, education, or services" on having a vaccine passport, which is defined as "documentation that an individual has been vaccinated" against COVID-19. There are no exceptions for the healthcare and nursing home industries, and the prohibition would apparently continue in perpetuity regardless of whether the vaccine is fully approved by the FDA at some point in the future. We note the Arkansas Chamber of Commerce opposes this bill.
HB 1851: Stuart's comment during the recent WLJ webinar that he was sure this bill, which would add to the definition of a safety-sensitive job under Arkansas' medical marijuana laws, would pass must have been a jinx. The bill was withdrawn by its sponsor a couple days later and appears to be dead. Had it passed, those employees "working with confidential information, including proprietary, financial, or health-related records or documents" would have been classified as safety-sensitive; this would have allowed an employer to prohibit a current user of medical marijuana from holding such a position.
HB 1547: This bill prohibits state and local government from mandating or coercing an individual to take the COVID-19 vaccine for purposes of "education, employment, entry or services." A process exists for a state-owned or controlled medical facility to be granted an exception — the facility could obtain permission to mandate vaccinations from the Legislative Council. No exception appears to exist for local or county-owned medical facilities, which seems to be a curious oversight. This law would expire two years (not immediately) after the FDA fully approves the vaccine. Both the House and Senate passed this bill, which now goes to the Governor for consideration.
HB 1487: This bill provides immunity from civil liability to businesses and protects them from tort claims relating to the alleged spread of COVID-19 on their business premises or during activities managed by the business. The immunity applies so long as the business acts in good faith while attempting to comply with governmental health and safety directives. Immunity does not extend to anyone who acts willfully, recklessly, or intentionally in the spread of COVID-19. This bill has been enacted into law.
HB 1227: This bill protects employers by clarifying activities that are not compensable for transportation drivers in relation to minimum wage and overtime calculations. The following activities are not compensable: travel to/from the driver's personal residence, personal activities, and time logged as off-duty or in a sleeper berth. This bill has been enacted into law.

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Located in Chivay, Casa Andina Standard Colca is in the historical district, within a 15-minute drive of Cathedral Of Chivay and Thermal Baths of La Calera. This hotel is 4.9 mi (7.9 km) from Museum of Yanque and 5.2 mi (8.4 km) from Church of Coporaque.
Make yourself at home in one of the 52 guestrooms. Cable television is provided for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with showers feature complimentary toiletries and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes, housekeeping is provided daily, and cribs/infant beds (complimentary) can be requested.
Make use of convenient amenities such as gift shops/newsstands, a fireplace in the lobby, and tour/ticket assistance. Additional features at this hotel include a picnic area and barbecue grills.
At Casa Andina Standard Colca, enjoy a satisfying meal at the restaurant. A complimentary buffet breakfast is included.


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'Relay for Life' on track to reach goal
By Elena Meadows | Journal Correspondent
"We are on track to meet our goal," said Kristen Perrino, development manager for American Cancer Society, said Friday.
"We are on track to meet our goal," said Kristen Perrino, development manager for American Cancer Society, said Friday as residents took laps around the St. Joseph County fairgrounds to raise money through Relay for Life.
The event lasted from noon to midnight. By late afternoon, about $85,000 had been raised, of the $115,000 target. Perrino said more money would come throughout the evening. Also contributing toward the total will be funds from a 5K event Aug. 17 in Mendon and "Big Dig" Aug. 24 in Sturgis.
Survivors and caregivers were treated to a special dinner following a "Survivors Lap."
Prior to the walk, Pastor Carl Litchfield of the Mendon, Colon and Burr Oak United Methodist churches shared his journey with prostate cancer.
"How do you deal with fear?" he said, citing the importance of faith, family and friends throughout the process of coming to a place of peace.
He encouraged people who have not gone through cancer not to let fear keep them from taking care of their health.
"Trust, go and do what you can to have the best outcome possible," he said. "Have faith, hope, get out there and do what is best for you and your future."
The luminaria ceremony held after dark honored survivors and remembered those who had lost the battle to cancer.
Hawaiian décor was everywhere in accordance with this year's theme, "Re-Lei For a Cure." Special laps around the grounds included a wacky lap, conga lap, team pride lap, sponsor lap and tacky tourist lap. All-day relay activities included an auction, team fundraisers, bingo and live music.
Funds raised at Relay help provide lodging for patients and caregivers when they travel for cancer treatment, wigs for patients in treatment, rides to treatment or follow-up appointments, peer support for breast cancer patients, and access to cancer information, support and resources through a 24/7 helpline at 1-800-227-2345 or live chat at www.cancer.org.
Bob Yoder, a member of the team from First United Methodist Church of Sturgis, said he has participated in Relay since 2005.
"My mom passed away from multiple myeloma," he said, "At that time, we were told that multiple myeloma was a death sentence with a maximum of two years to live. Now they actually have a drug that takes multiple myeloma into remission."
It's a family affair for the Yoders, with Bob's wife Marilee and sister Linda Large also participating.
"We do it because funds go to cancer research," he said.
Joyce Yoder of Sturgis said that after going to the doctor for laryngitis and stomach pain, she was diagnosed with lung cancer and underwent treatment.
She said she has always done Relay in honor of her family and friends and for those who have yet to be diagnosed.
Doing Relay as a survivor this year, "I know what people have gone through in the past and others will go through in the future," she said. "If events like this help, I'm all for it."


Over the past couple of years, there have been a lot of new features added to make Kahoot even more engaging for students and teachers. Some of my favorite features are the questions automatically going through to the next one, the podium feature, its method for kicking out inappropriate names, the new Kahoot! app and other subtle changes to layout and options of the platform. This year has brought two new things, that may be my favorites so far.
The first one I learned about while at ISTE in San Antonio, when I had the opportunity to spend some time with the team of Kahoot and learned about the "challenges" that they were creating. If you haven't had the chance, you can "challenge" students to complete one of your games by sharing a code with them, just as you do for the live games but students can log into it within the app on their phones. Students can even challenge one another on different topics that they find in the app and so it's a good way to provide practice for students outside of the classroom, where they don't have to rely on the Smartboard to see the questions but rather have everything available on their device.
RockstarPanda, EpicFox, Friendly Moose and StellarCheetah?
But the most fun that I've noticed is unexpectedly was about 2 weeks ago, I created a game for my students to play and at the top of the options, I noticed the option for "generating creative usernames". So I figured why not, selected it and couldn't wait for the students' responses. The generating of creative student names resulted in my students saying that I was taking away their creativity. Kind of funny but these generated names were much more original than the names that they had commonly used when joining our games. I'm not going to lie, it was quite fun to yell out who is "Mystery Panda", "Fantastic Bat", "Daring Dog" rather than the usual names. Plus I think it's a nice way to have anonymity in the game so that students feel more comfortable answering and not so worried about what their score is in front of everyone else.(Even though the often yell out what their score is).
The "Nickname Generator" has a list of 800 unique two word name combinations and using it is a great idea, because it saves the time lost while students try to come up with their own "Creative" names.
In recognition of the week of December 4th through the 10th, being Computer Science Education Week, and the "Hour of Code", Kahoot has added some games to help students understand some basics of coding. Try these out for some fun ways to get the students involved with coding and use the game as a starting point for some class discussion.
The "Play" and "Challenge" buttons are easy to find. You can see the questions and timers for each. By selecting the "Show Answer", you are then able to see the choices for each and the correct response for each question.
Posted in Edutopia Community Discussion, the second part of my thoughts on Homework Alternatives.
As a student in elementary and high school, I recall having homework assignments in most, if not all of my classes each night. I remember carrying home a lot of worksheets, lugging home several textbooks, and at times transporting poster board and binders back and forth to school. We had a lot of tests, pop quizzes, and projects. Most of the time, I remember the homework was the same for each student, in each class, and I cannot recall now nor do I even know if I was aware back then, of students doing different assignments. I understand why teachers assign homework which is the same, the purpose is to assess students on a particular skill, and maybe it just really works for that learning target. And some benefits for students are having a peer, to work through an assignment with or ask for clarification, can be helpful. But it can also be detrimental, for a few reasons. Students are not getting the practice they need by having the same assignment, and the possibility of students copying assignments is also something to consider. Copying assignments leads to a loss of learning, and students will have to re-learn the material twice. There is a lot of discussion about the real value of and purpose for homework, and these are just a few of the pros and cons to consider.
Over the past few years, with the rise of technology and so many options available for learning experiences through it, solely using a worksheet or assigning the same homework does not have to persist. I have noticed variations in my students, both during our interactions in the classroom but also while grading assignments and projects, or even just reading the responses to their reflections or blogs. For homework, some students can finish the worksheet in two minutes, possibly before the end of the class period, if time remains. And there are others, who may struggle to complete the work and as a result, end up spending 20 or 30 minutes on the exact same assignment. So, I asked myself, how can I reach both types of learners, and provide opportunities that will be beneficial, meaningful, but more importantly more personal to their needs. How can I give each student the practice that they need?
So how did I decide to change the "everybody has the same homework" practice? After a holiday break and taking some time to reflect over the first part of the year and talking with students, I decided to seek ways to give students options for the type of homework they wanted to complete. I came up with two or three choices of how I could do this, and will admit, that I was a bit anxious, since changing the traditional homework assignments would involve taking a risk. But I truly believed that it was worth it, to see what, if any difference it would make for my students.
1. Quizlet: I had sets of cards and as an alternate assignment, I asked the students to select and complete activities which they felt would help them the most. Because we have a class account, I can monitor their progress and they have many options for practicing the vocabulary, playing games and other activities to build their skills.
2. Kahoot!: We have played games of Kahoot! in class for the past few years, and initially I was using it as a class game, using games which I created. But I soon realized that making up so many quizzes was really time consuming. While there are lots of public quizzes available, I wanted to have the questions be more specific to their needs. So for a different type of homework assignment, I asked students to create their own Kahoot! game using a specific number of terms or verbs and share it with our class. This led to more authentic practice and a lot more resources for all students to learn from.
3. Blendspace: I have an account with Blendspace, and I can create and share lessons that I have created which include videos, games, tutorials and much more. As homework practice, I can decide to assign a particular lesson for students to work through or I can simply share the URL and provide resources and give students the choice to use the resources within the lesson.
4. Other options: Some other ideas for changing the type of homework assignments used are to create a list of different assignments or tasks and give students some choices in how to practice the content material. They may decide to work through all of them, or simply use some, but the important thing is that the choice is theirs and the practice will be more meaningful. Assigning homework in this way encourages students to have a choice on where to begin, not all students have to do the same thing, and it helps to focus on their individual needs.
The students appreciated having more of a choice in assignments. Using these options gave them the chance to try some new ways of learning, which they were not used to, but it was a way to provide differentiation. I know that having a lot of games available to play in class with Kahoot and the extra Quizlet study cards, benefitted all students. The one tricky part is being able to monitor their work, but this comes with developing the relationships and having clear expectations. Including students in the conversation and making sure we focus on the accountability and responsibility aspects will help. The students are more engaged, become more empowered by having a choice in their learning path.
We can use methods like this to focus on the areas where students need help the most. Personalizing the homework assignments in these ways can prove to be time consuming, as far as tracking their work, but it is completely worth it because of how beneficial it is to their learning. And that is what matters most.
Achievement unlocked: Making assignments and resources available to everyone, anytime.
Students often have organizational problems. It's an ongoing struggle, so I've always done the best I could to help them stay organized. Years ago, that often came in the form of a planner students were supposed to fill out with assignments, and I'd sign off on it.
There was one particular student with a planner whom I remember. The system worked well when she remembered the planner, but sometimes she didn't.
On the whiteboard at the back of my room, I have a space where I write down the assignments for students. I keep my door open most days, so if they want to stop in and peek at the board, they can. I'm available anytime; the only thing I ask is that they kind of discreetly come in.
So, this particular student would appear in the morning during homeroom or at the beginning of class to check the whiteboard. Sometimes she got the assignment. But sometimes, what I wrote was erased. Anything can happen: Other students might erase it and write over it, for example.
Then her mom would send an email to clarify things — and I'm really good about checking email, but sometimes email doesn't go through. And if you call me — well, we work with voicemail extensions so it's not like there's a direct line to me. You have to filter through the office, and I'm always available to talk, but obviously if I'm teaching class, I'm not reachable.
Other students would pop in to check on an assignment, or they'd want to stop by and pick up a worksheet. I have everything in my room set out, but students would put papers down, and things would get covered up. So it might not be easy to find.
Or, the students would come in and leave notes saying, "I stopped by to find out … " or "I wasn't sure … ," and they'd leave me a note on the board or on my desk. But if I were going to be late or had a long meeting, I might not see those notes until the next day. And if my board was cleaned that night, I might not see them at all.
So again, the students came in to get help, and I wasn't there.
I thought the board was great because students could come in anytime, but that's not accessible in the evening when they sit down to do homework. Planners are great, too, but what if you forget them or they're lost? I was looking for something to fix a lot of these things I saw impeding the learning process. The lack of access to resources was really bothering me because I wanted to do more.
I first decided to use the messaging tool Celly to message my students. I used it to send reminders and answer questions. I could quickly respond to messages about homework or what was missed during an absence, and I didn't have to use class time to help students catch up.
I use it with my Spanish club, too, and now there are other groups in the school that use it for field trips and other things. It's really quite nice, because if you're on the bus and you're missing students, now you can reach them instead of waiting and wondering.
But students were still asking for help finding class materials and keeping them organized. I wanted some kind of assurance that everything was centralized and easy to find. And I hadn't found an easy way to keep parents in the loop. I decided to give another tool a try: Edmodo.
It's a web-based app, so students can use their phones to log in, or a computer at home if they don't have a phone, or a phone with data. Students get a join code so they can join a class when I've created one, and parents get a parent code so they can sign up and see what I post to the class and see their kids' work, the grade they got, and the comments I've made. They know everything we're doing in class.
Usually students log in once a day. I post homework reminders and share links. One of the nice things about Edmodo is students can reply to a post I've made and ask a general question, and anyone in the class can answer. For example, if they forget something — a textbook or a worksheet — they can ask, "Can somebody please share an image of the homework?" They help each other out.
It helps me, too, because if a student has been absent for a day or more, they can easily go back and see what you did in class. It's part of my routine now, and I have five courses. Generally if a student says, "I was absent three days ago. What did I miss?" I have some idea but I'm not exactly sure. So it's nice to have that reference.
It's more than just communication — it's collaboration. And I keep thinking of new ideas I can use it for.
You can use it as a reflection tool or as a digital portfolio. If the students do a project with technology, they can put it on Edmodo, and we can go back to it to share learning.
These tools have made a tremendous difference in my ability to provide the best possible learning experience for my students — and that's what I wanted. And bonus: They've made my life easier, too.


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I am sickened at the state of this country and truly sad that it's at a point of no return. The tide has turned and those who seek justice and righteousness are no longer the majority. Now we are at the time to confess that we let America and what she stands for slowly slip away while we sought after comfort and prosperity and self-fulfillment.
Our land has become a place of greed and self-promotion, shallow and spiritless. I know as soon as I send this out many will say to "remove me from your list" or call me unpatriotic, but I'm beyond the point of restraint and holding back words because they are controversial and offensive. Political correctness means nothing to me and I will not be quiet any longer.
Isaiah 5 is a perfect picture of America today – a nation that lost its soul. We need to admit where we are and what we have become and quit walking in step with the false notion that we are a "just nation". I want to start with the gay issue that dominates our media today. The very fact that you can't say that being gay is against God's Word is ridiculous, but now as a nation we call – in fact we promote homosexual activity – call it good. Woe unto a nation that calls evil good!
I don't hate homosexuals at all. In fact we reach out to them with Christ, but I cannot condone their behavior and I will never call it good when God says it is wrong! Let's move on down the list of indictments.
Abortion is considered birth control, not murder. Again – our nation calls it good for women to be able to choose whether to have a child or to kill it. The argument is that a woman should have a right to have control over her own body. But the very reason they use is faulty at the core. If a woman has a right to choose what she does with her own body then why does this nation's laws have her arrested for being a prostitute? Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying prostitution is not wrong, but if you are going to hold the position that a woman has the right to control her body, then be consistent with what you believe.
The sad truth is that abortion is a several billion dollar industry that has bought our leaders and they have spent billions spreading lies with their partners in the media to numb your minds. Abortion is murder, cut and dry, and its effect on devaluing human life cannot be reversed. I have met and prayed with scores of women that themselves were victims of abortion. I have never met one that was glad they chose to abort, yet as a nation we call abortion good. Woe unto a nation that calls evil good!
We still say that we are a chosen nation, even though we have the highest rates of drug use in the world, the highest alcohol abuse rates in the world, and the highest crime rates. Do you realize that you are more likely to be killed in Chicago and many other major cities than you are in a war zone?
What we are seeing is the breakdown of society playing out before our eyes. The cheapening of life and the increase of people with no compassion for others multiply at a mind blowing rate. Why? Because we call evil good and woe is befalling us as we speak. Yet we as a people are too busy seeking comfort and entertainment to open our eyes. We are far more concerned with sharing our opinion on Facebook, while we post selfies and try to make our life look interesting to others.
How did we ever come to a point where selfie could ever become a word – much less an action – we take pride in? Jesus tells us to be selfless and not to promote our self with things. People should find us interesting, if we belong to Christ, because of our love and our actions. We are at a point in our land where you can't hold a conversation with a person because they can't look at you for looking at their phone.
We celebrate bad behavior by making people famous and wealthy because we like to watch their bad behavior on TV to entertain ourselves in a righteous land. Could the Kardashions or Pdiddy or any others of the hosts be a role model? Would Jerry Springer or any of the other freakshows get any airplay?… Woe unto a nation that calls evil good!
We celebrate greed in our nation by our fascination with the wealthy. Would you trust Donald Trump with your kids? We give the greedy a prominent position in society because of what they have and because we are jealous and want or even think we deserve to have it too.
We have gone so far that we have modeled our churches after the world and the world's business plan – the bigger, the better, the more comfortable, the more holy we are. But truth can't be found in this model, nor can courage, just more entertainment. We even treat the rich better than others so we can gain from them. Jesus said in Luke that you cannot measure a man by the abundance of his possessions. But we still do.
As a nation, we try to tell the rest of the world how to act when we are a total mess ourselves. We even export our greed as well as our false doctrines to anyone who will listen. I will close with this last point. If God's people would stand for truth and justice, no matter what the personal cost, we would make a difference. If men who say they are called to preach would preach truth instead of feel-good humanism and prosperity, a fire would ignite that could not be contained.
What has brought us to this point is conforming to the world instead of conforming to Christ. There is no difference in the modern church and the world. They are one in the same. The modern church just feels better about itself after hearing the motivational speech and the upbeat music a couple times a week. A real preacher – preaching and living the Gospel – will cause a stir every time he speaks, instead of not rocking the comfortable boat he is cruising in.
I really don't care if you think I'm too radical or that I'm unpatriotic. I cannot yield to this false system any longer. I will not defend the actions of a nation and government that has turned its back on God, nor will I defend a church system that has done the same. I'm looking for people who feel the same way and are willing to stand, take action and live the Gospel. We can't wait any longer to act but nothing good comes without a fight. We need to network together and make a difference.


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Whew, what a week! But Christmas Eve is here, and I'm on vacation, and Debbi's on vacation. Or, rather, our companies are shut down for the holidays, which is pretty much business as usual at each of them, but for us it's the same thing.
I've been semi-frantically cleaning the house and especially the front room in preparation for our friend Karen visiting. I didn't quite get it all done, but close enough. She flew in this morning, and everything went smoothly, right down to actually landing a little early before I was quite ready to arrive. Since none of us have gone back east to visit our families, we extended the invitation for her to come visit.
After she arrived, she and I went to Whole Foods to buy food for dinner tomorrow. We put off actually having lunch today a little too long, and I almost ran out of energy to be able to figure out what I wanted for lunch, but I ended up buying a surprisingly large sandwich which I wasn't able to finish. (Debbi finished it for her lunch when we got home and met her – she had to work today.) Whole Foods was surprisingly civilized for Christmas Eve, and the lines were not long at all.
As I always do, I have a long list of stuff I'd like to get done over the holiday break. And as always, I might get about half of it done. (Heck, I haven't even finished reading the comics I bought last night!) It's good to catch up on stuff over the break, but I also don't want to stress out about it. I'll be happy with whatever I can do.
I hope everyone reading has a happy holiday season and end-of-year. As you know, I'm not at all religious, nor really spiritual, but I always enjoy the proverbial spirit of the season.


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Recruiting Myself With NCAA Football And Wondering If I'll Even Answer The Phone
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Deciding where to go to university was very simple for me. It had nothing to do with a university convincing me to enroll there; it had everything to do with convincing one to actually admit me. N.C. State, for whatever reason, sent me the fat envelope in late 1991, and I said yes on the spot.
What if I had to do it all over again? What if I could have my choice of any university in the country? That's part of the fantasy offered by NCAA Football 13. In the past I've tried to role-play my choice and make it for a player I was controlling. But let's say I was the nation's No. 1 quarterbacking prospect: Could I convince myself to enroll at my real-life school?
In NCAA's "prestige," State is graded a three-star program, out of six, and in the past that's meant it has been difficult to sign the four- and five-star prospects who can turn a program around, even in your own backyard. Some new wrinkles this year are meant to make that more competitive. With N.C. State needing a quarterback after Mike Glennon leaves this year, I figured my alma mater would be as good a test case as any.
The virtual Owen Good was given attributes that placed him at an 84 overall, which would easily make him the best freshman in the nation if he was playing now. However, a scouting mechanic in this year's game now makes prospect evaluation a little bit of a crapshoot early on. Virtual Owen was the No. 40 prospect overall in the country, and sixth best at quarterback, even though I knew all of his scores. He was projected to come in at an 82 — this dropped him to a four-star recruit instead of a five-star, throwing off my plans somewhat.
Still, his top choices were all of the glamour programs and all spoke to someone looking to get the hell out of his hometown — much like I was 21 years ago (and, ironically, to which I happily returned this month.) LSU was his, er, my No. 1 choice, followed closely by Alabama and Auburn, then Southern California and Texas.
After fully scouting myself out I set to work recruiting myself. For those who don't play, this is simulated in a series of phone calls, dealing with up to six topics, in which you find out what a recruit is interested in, sell him on what your university has to offer, badmouth your rivals, offer a scholarship, even guarantee playing time and a national title.
In the first call I discovered that playing time was of low interest to my virtual self. "I think I'd feel more comfortable taking a year to learn a system before starting," I said to myself. That's not good, as it is the best thing I can offer at N.C. State (graded an A+ in that category.) Proximity to home also was of low interest — most accurately reflecting how I'd feel at age 17.
Twenty years ago I was thrilled just to get admitted to college. Now I'm offering myself a scholarship to the one I graduated.
I decided to offer myself a scholarship in week one. No sense waiting for LSU and Alabama and Texas to do it. This was enough to boost State from not on the radar to third in the running in the next week. Maryland also got into the discussion, likewise desperately offering a scholarship.
The second week I noticed that N.C. State's qualities fluctuated slightly. Playing Style, my recruit's issue of Most importance, dropped from a C+ to a C after the Wolfpack lost the season opener to Tennessee, throwing two interceptions in the process. (All games were simulated.) That suggested to me that if I was to take control of the team and throw it on every down, I could probably boost this quality in hopes of impressing my gunslinging blue-chip self. I doubt Wolfpack head coach Tom O'Brien would ever do anything like that in real life.
Strangely, coach stability — always an unglamorous recruiting pitch during the lifespan of this game — emerges as very important. This is the one thing I can troll LSU and Alabama on, as Les Miles is always rumoured to be on the next flight out of Baton Rouge, and Nick Saban is looked on poorly for leaving LSU for the NFL and then slinking away from the NFL to Alabama.) I disparage Les Miles and see results: State gains +97 interest and LSU loses about 60 points.
By week three, State is now my No. 1 school choice. Discovering that championship contention is of high interest, I decide to offer my first of three promises: I guarantee a conference title if I come to State. At week four, my virtual self is ready to schedule a campus visit. The Wolfpack have come back from the season-opening loss and beaten a bunch of cupcakes plus Miami, but I decide to invite myself to Raleigh to see us play No. 6 Florida State. We'll probably get our asses kicked, but it'll be a huge night game, probably, and show me what that feels like. LSU is now a distant second with Maryland pulling into a tie for Alabama to third. I am not going to lose myself to those no-good S.O.B. Terrapins.
I decide to trash Maryland, laughing at their prospects to win a championship and pointing out how mentally unstable Randy Edsall is. I fling some mud on LSU's academic integrity and make another guarantee: I won't recruit any quarterback during my first year on campus.
Promises really goose the recruiting in your favour but you have to fulfil them later. Otherwise, it affects whether recruits will listen to the promises you make (or whether current players will up and leave.) This is so backloaded as to not have much of an impact here, so I go all out and spend the three promises I'm allowed to make, per recruit,
The interest a player has in your school and in others is represented by a progress bar that slowly fills up. My virtual player is steadily coming around to signing with the Wolfpack but Maryland is still lodged in second place in the next week. The Terrapins have gained a little ground, probably trolling us with all that Moo U bullshit, like they also aren't a land grant school.
I point out what a shithole Prince George's County is and that the Terrapins' playing style is about as ugly as their clown costumes, too.
In week seven, the day of the big campus visit, State pulls off a miracle and beats No. 10 Florida State 20-16, scoring all 20 points in the second half. The win gets State ranked No. 22, but my virtual recruit grades the visit a B+. I guess the Stately Ladies who escort recruits around campus didn't reciprocate my flirting.
Now the process really bogs down. I have discovered every subject my virtual player is interested in, sold it hard, exploited my rivals' weaknesses, offered everything I could, and for the next five weeks there's still no commitment. North Carolina decides to saunter in with a sales pitch of easy courses, academic fraud and a pre-season job fair with every agent in the country. But it is too late for the Tar Heels.
In Week 10, Arkansas throws a real scare by suddenly jumping up to No. 3 on Virtual Owen Good's school list. It helps they're unbeaten and in first place in the SEC West. But I've managed to sway my recruit's interest in playing time and make it more attractive to him. So I slop the Hogs on that subject and on coach stability, as as John L. Smith is in bankruptcy and the previous office holder wasn't known for keeping commitments, either.
In Week 13, I finally commit to N.C. State. While I should have held the scholarship offer for later — recruits will sometimes accept on the spot if you've really sweet talked them — I get the feeling that with a middle-of-the-road program, if you get in early on a player and make reasonable promises, you should be able to pick up who you want. Reasonable promises include guaranteeing championships because, hey, if you lose, there's always a dashboard quit and a retry until you win.
What I'd really like to see in NCAA Football 14 is for this process to become more of a factor in Road to Glory, the singleplayer career where you do play as yourself, in high school, deciding among offers. I'd like to be able to grade my priorities and have virtual coaches call and try to sweet talk me into signing up. I've tried to role-play that choice so many times and I always end up either going to N.C. State or somewhere completely exotic.
Oh, just for the hell of it, I simulated out the rest of the year. State won the ACC Atlantis division or whatever the hell it is called, meeting Georgia Tech in the title game for a big Tom O'Brien-Paul Johnson rap battle. State, naturally, lost that, and once again had to settle for the Peach-Fil-A Bowl and Atlanta for New Year's, where we've played more than any other school.
But things are looking really good for the next year. I guarantee we're going to win a conference championship. With myself at quarterback.
Inquisitive says:
Tar Heel here. Go to hell State!
GO HEELS!!


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Q: How to add large amount of HTML using pure javascript without innerHTML I'm trying to determine how to append a large amount of HTML to an existing element in the DOM. Due to certain constraints, I can't use innerHTML. Supposedly it's bad to use innerHTML as it doesn't treat things like an object and reloads the DOM or something. I know jquery's .append() is an option, as it supposedly does things properly, but I want to use pure javascript; I've read a few things saying jQuery shouldn't be used anymore. If there are any other libraries, or if jQuery is a valid option, then I'm fine with using it. I'm just trying to do/learn things the "right way".
Here's how I've been doing it. The function takes some info and creates a table row. This seems like a bit much to do something so simple...
function flyoutAddTicket(caseID, ticketNumber, accountName, subject, tktStatus, priority, createdDate){
  //Create table row that will be inserted into the flyout table
  var newtr = document.createElement("tr");
      newtr.id = "sfoFlyout_Ticket_" + caseID;
      newtr.className = "sfoFlyout_Ticket";

  // Create elements that will be inserted into the list item
  var tdOwn = document.createElement("td");
      tdOwn.id = "sfoFlyout_Ticket_" + caseID + "_OwnButton";
    var btnOwn = document.createElement("button");
        btnOwn.className = "sfoFlyout_own sfo_button";
        btnOwn.value = caseID;
        btnOwn.textContent = (easterEggs.pwnButton) ? "Pwn" : "Own";
  var tdTicketNumber = document.createElement("td");
      tdTicketNumber.id = "sfoFlyout_Ticket_" + caseID + "_TicketNumber";
    var aTicketNumber = document.createElement("a");
        aTicketNumber.textContent = ticketNumber;
        aTicketNumber.href = "/" + caseID;
  var tdAccountName = document.createElement("td");
      tdAccountName.id = "sfoFlyout_Ticket_" + caseID + "_Client";
      tdAccountName.textContent = accountName;
  var tdSubject = document.createElement("td");
      tdSubject.id = "sfoFlyout_Ticket_" + caseID + "_Subject";
    var aSubject = document.createElement("a");
        aSubject.textContent = subject;
        aSubject.href = "/" + caseID;
  var tdStatus = document.createElement("td");
      tdStatus.id = "sfoFlyout_Ticket_" + caseID + "_Status";
      tdStatus.textContent = tktStatus;
  var tdPriority = document.createElement("td");
      tdPriority.id = "sfoFlyout_Ticket_" + caseID + "_Priority";
      tdPriority.className = "sfoFlyout_Ticket_Priority";
      tdPriority.textContent = priority;

  // Append elements to table row
  if (sfoOptions.ownButton){ newtr.appendChild(tdOwn); }
  tdOwn.appendChild(btnOwn);
  newtr.appendChild(tdTicketNumber);
    tdTicketNumber.appendChild(aTicketNumber);
  newtr.appendChild(tdAccountName);
  newtr.appendChild(tdSubject);
    tdSubject.appendChild(aSubject);
  newtr.appendChild(tdStatus);
  newtr.appendChild(tdPriority);

  // Assign user preferred colors/borders
  for (var pref in preferences.clients){
    // Set border thickness/colors
    if (preferences.clients[pref].name == "border"){
      newtr.style.borderBottomWidth = sfoOptions.borderThickness + "px";
      newtr.style.borderColor = preferences.clients[pref].color;
    }
    // Set row colors
    if (preferences.clients[pref].name == accountName){
      newtr.style.backgroundColor = preferences.clients[pref].color;
    }
  }

  //Add list item to the flyout
  flyoutTable.appendChild(newtr);
}

A: you can push the created elements into a list them loop through the list and then inside the for loop
document.getElementById('yourElement').appendChild(elementYouCreated)

or use appendChild() on your created elements
elementYouCreated.appendChild(itsChildYouCreated)


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«Moses» () — песня британской группы Coldplay из их первого концертного альбома Live 2003, была выпущена в США в качестве промосингла 6 октября 2003 года.

О песне
Песня была написана всеми участниками группы о Гвинет Пэлтроу — на тот момент будущей жене фронтмена группы Криса Мартина. По словам Мартина, эта песня «о влюбленности в самую прекрасную женщину в мире». Впоследствии, имя Moses получил второй ребёнок Мартина и Пэлтроу — сын Мозес Брюс Энтони Мартин.

Версия песни, представленная на американских промоCD имеет иную продолжительность, нежели альбомная.

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Участники записи
 Крис Мартин - вокал, ритм-гитара
 Гай Берримен - бас-гитара
 Джонни Баклэнд - соло-гитара
 Уилл Чемпион - ударные

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Ссылки

 Текст песни «Moses»  на официальном сайте Coldplay

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Zinedine Zidane has claimed that he was not wrong for commenting on Mbappe.
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Reading Russian Sources
A Student's Guide to Text and Visual Sources from Russian History
George Gilbert
Reading Russian Sources: A Student's Guide to Text and Visual Sources from Russian History
Reading Russian Sources is an accessible and comprehensive guide that introduces students to the wide range of sources that can be used to engage with Russian history from the early medieval to the late Soviet periods.
Divided into two parts, the book begins by considering approaches that can be taken towards the study of Russian history using primary sources. It then moves on to assess both textual and visual sources, including memoirs, autobiographies, journals, newspapers, art, maps, film and TV, enabling the reader to engage with and make sense of the burgeoning number of different sources and the ways they are used. Contributors illuminate key issues in the study of different areas of Russia's history through their analysis of source materials, exploring some of the major issues in using different source types and reflecting recent discoveries that are changing the field. In so doing, the book orientates students within the broader methodological and conceptual debates that are defining the field and shaping the way Russian history is studied.
Chronologically wide-ranging and supported by further reading, along with suggestions to help students guide their own enquiries, Reading Russian Sources is the ideal resource for any student undertaking research on Russian history.
A Note on Names, Translations and Dates
Introduction: Reading Russian Sources
Part 1: Contexts and Approaches
1 Early Medieval Sources
Monica White
2 Primary Sources and the History of Modern Russia
Peter Waldron
3 The Power of Positionality? Researching Russian History from the Margins
Pavel Vasilyev
Part 2: Varieties of Sources and their Interpretation
4 Imperial Maps
Jennifer Keating
5 "It's Only a Story": What Value are Novels as a Historical Source?
Sarah Hudspith
6 The Late Imperial Press
7 Surveillance Reports
Dakota Irvin
8 Soviet Autobiographies
Katy Turton
9 "Read All About It!": Soviet Press and Periodicals
Andy Willimott
10 Visual Culture as Evidence of the Soviet Past
Claire Le Foll
11 Film and TV as a Source in Soviet History: Challenges and Possibilities
Jeremy Hicks
12 The Diary as Source in Russian and Soviet History
Dan Healey
13 Soviet Memoir Literature: Personal Narratives of a Historical Epoch
Claire Shaw
14 Prisoner Memoirs as a Source in Russian and Soviet History
Mark Vincent
15 Soviet Letters
Courtney Doucette
George Gilbert is lecturer in modern Russian history at the University of Southampton, UK. As well as editing the present volume, his publications include The Radical Right in late Imperial Russia (2016), and he has published in English and Russian on a variety of articles on different aspects of the social, cultural and political history of the late Imperial period.
'This collection helps to fill a huge gap in the literature. In the last 30 years, the sources available for the study of Russia and the Soviet Union have multiplied tremendously, and the opportunities and challenges of working with them have expanded alongside. No single volume could provide an exhaustive guide, but George Gilbert has brought together a superb collection of thought-provoking essays that will be indispensable to the teachers and students of the Russian and Soviet past who want a sense of the kinds of sources out there, and how to approach them in a sophisticated and nuanced way.'
Professor James Harris, University of Leeds, UK
'George Gilbert has assembled fifteen first-rate and thought-provoking essays about the challenges and rewards of using primary sources to interpret Russian history over the past millennium. The contributors analyze how a variety of sources, ranging from diaries, police reports, and personal correspondence to maps, cinema, and television, have been used by scholars to shed light on critical aspects of Russian history. The essays serve as an excellent introduction to historical research as a methodology, and both undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from reading them before embarking on their own research.'
Professor Bob Weinberg, Swarthmore College, USA
Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
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Modern History 1750-1945
Contemporary History 1945-
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Adi S. Bharat
PhD Candidate in French Studies at the University of Manchester
Adi S. Bharat is a PhD candidate in French Studies at The University of Manchester. His thesis, funded by the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and supervised by Joseph McGonagle and Barbara Lebrun, is titled Representations of Jewish-Muslim Relations in Contemporary France. Drawing on media studies, discourse analysis, literary studies, and anthropology, he seeks to determine, firstly, to what extent a narrative of polarization remains a dominant force in media and political representations of Jewish-Muslim relations and, secondly, explore how and to what extent French Jewish and Muslim writers and activists relate and respond to such a narrative consisting of dominant, reified binary definitions within the contemporary framework of difference-blind assimilationist republican universalism.
Along with his colleague Katharine Halls, Adi is also the co-founder and coordinator of the Jewish-Muslim Research Network (JMRN), currently based at the University of Manchester. The JMRN is an interdisciplinary and international initiative bringing together researchers studying Jews, Muslims, Judaism, and Islam in any time period and region.
Adi's main research interests include Jewish-Muslim relations in France, LGBTQ Muslims, apostasy from Islam and ex-Muslims, as well as, more broadly speaking, gender, sexuality, language, and ethnic/religious minorities. Aside from his PhD research on Jews and Muslims in France, he is currently working on projects on apostasy from Islam in the French-speaking world, ex-Muslims in Singapore, and Pink Dot in Singapore. In addition, he has published on a diverse set of topics, from seventeenth-century French theatre to E.M. Forster. He is also a translator, having translated an essay by Voltaire and a book titled Homosexuality, Transidentity, and Islam (forthcoming with Amsterdam University Press).
He has taught on first year undergraduate modules at the University of Manchester. Before coming to Manchester, Adi taught at Brooklyn College and the City College of New York. He received his M.A. (equivalent) from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University, Paris, France, where he worked under the supervision of Catherine Brun. Prior to that, he received his B.A. from Boston University, where he had the privilege of studying under Jeffrey Mehlman, Odile Cazenave, and the late Susan Jackson.


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Q: Double Brace initialization Type Confusion I thought this was going to be relatively easy, but alas, it seems it isn't.
I am currently writing Unit-Tests for a Facade-like structure in my Project using Java EE 6.
For the Tests I use Junit 4.11, with Eclipse Kepler as IDE.
From what I can see, there seems to be something "wrong" with double brace initialization, but I am not knowledgeable enough to put my finger on why it doesn't work as I think it should.
To get to the point, I am using following Class to make conversions in a centralized place:
package com.example-company.util.converters;

import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import com.example-company.model.Location;
import com.example-company.model.Right;

public final class ModelConverters {

    private static final Map<Class<?>, ModelConverter<?, String>> modelConverterBacking = new HashMap<Class<?>, ModelConverter<?, String>>();
    static {
        modelConverterBacking.put(Right.class, new RightConverter());
        modelConverterBacking.put(Location.class, new LocationConverter());
    };

    public static <T> String convert(final T input)
            throws IllegalStateException {
        @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
        ModelConverter<T, String> modelConverter = (ModelConverter<T, String>) modelConverterBacking
                .get(input.getClass());
        if (modelConverter == null) {
            throw new IllegalStateException("No mapping found for "
                    + input.getClass());
        }
        return modelConverter.convertToView(input);
    }
}

As far as this goes it's mostly playing with generics and a static map. Now I decided I should write a few unit-tests for that. The following class is a little shortened, all test-cases that don't reproduce the problem were removed.
package com.example-company.test.unit.util.converters;

import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
import com.example-company.model.Location;
import com.example-company.util.converters.ModelConverters;

import org.junit.Test;

public class ModelConvertersFacadeTests {

    @Test
    public void test_MappingForLocationExists() {
        final Location stub = new Location() {
            {
                setLocationName("");
            }
        };

        String actual = ModelConverters.convert(stub);
        assertEquals("", actual);
    }
}

So far so good, nothing should really happen, at least not what I got now. And that is: A fancy IllegalStateException with the following stacktrace:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: No mapping found for class com.example-company.test.unit.util.converters.ModelConvertersFacadeTests$1
    at com.example-company.util.converters.ModelConverters.convert(ModelConverters.java:23)
    at com.example-company.test.unit.util.converters.ModelConvertersFacadeTests.test_MappingForLocationExists(ModelConvertersFacadeTests.java:24)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:47)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:44)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:271)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:70)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:50)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:238)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:63)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:236)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:53)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:229)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:309)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit4.runner.JUnit4TestReference.run(JUnit4TestReference.java:50)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.TestExecution.run(TestExecution.java:38)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:467)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.runTests(RemoteTestRunner.java:683)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.run(RemoteTestRunner.java:390)
    at org.eclipse.jdt.internal.junit.runner.RemoteTestRunner.main(RemoteTestRunner.java:197)

First thing I did, was run it again, and then setting a breakpoint to inspect what happens inside the ModelConverters#convert()
What I got slightly flabberghasted me:

It seems that input.getClass() returns ModelConvertersFacadeTests. But why does it not return com.example-company.model.Location?

A:
It seems that input.getClass() returns ModelConvertersFacadeTests

That is not true. Your stacktrace says this is the class:

com.example-company.test.unit.util.converters.ModelConvertersFacadeTests$1

Note the $1 at the end. This means that your class is an anonymous (it does not have a name of its own) inner class.
The this$0 that we see in your screenshot is just a reference to the outer class.
Everytime you do new SomeClass() { ... } you are creating an anonymous inner class.
The double brace initialization itself has nothing to do with this. Every time you are using double brace initialization though, you are also creating an anonymous inner class.

Solving by looking up in map differently
Your Map has a mapping for Right.class and Location.class, but it does not have a mapping for subclasses of these two classes.
static {
    modelConverterBacking.put(Right.class, new RightConverter());
    modelConverterBacking.put(Location.class, new LocationConverter());
};

What you could do (not saying it is the best approach), is to loop through the keys of your map and check:
mapKey.isAssignableFrom(input.getClass())

When that returns true, you know that you either have a class of mapKey or you have a subclass of it.
Instead of looping through the map keys, you can also loop through the superclasses and implemented interfaces of the object you pass in, and do a modelConverterBacking.get lookup for each of those. The effect will be the same.

Solving without using an anonymous inner class
Your current code is:
final Location stub = new Location() {
    {
        setLocationName("");
    }
};

If you instead would do:
final Location stub = new Location();
stub.setLocationName("");

Then you don't create any anonymous inner class and therefore would not be having this problem.
However, even if you simply do this:
final Location stub = new Location() {};
stub.setLocationName("");

Then you have an anonymous inner class, which will cause problems for you.

It is very important to not mix up the two classes ModelConvertersFacadeTests$1 and ModelConvertersFacadeTests.


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