Q: Chokwe Selassie, aged 13, is working hard to help drivers avoid potholes . The eighth-grader was inspired to kick off his creation on a recent morning, when his mother was driving him to school. Their car was damaged as it went over a huge pothole in the middle of the street in their hometown of Jackson, Mississippi. He decided to do something about the pothole problem in his city. 

Chokwe developed the app with his friends Rodriguez Ratliff and Emmanuel Brooks. When the app detects a pothole, it is highlighted in red. And if you get close to the pothole, your phone will warn you with a beep. Drivers can also use the app to report any potholes and look for other routes they can take to avoid roads that have them. 

The app relies on current available information about the streets of Jackson, already stored in a database of the city's 311 call system. Through the call system, citizens dial 3-1-1 to report non-emergency problems which include potholes. Chokwe and his friends determined that focusing on the 10 busiest streets in Jackson would give them a large enough sample size to test the prototype. 

While developing the app, the boys took part in a Minority Male Makers Program sponsored by Verizon and held at Jackson State University. They learned 3D printing and design, and how to create apps. Through the program Chokwe and his friends received encouragement and guidance. 

Although the app isn't yet available for sale, Chokwe is already looking for ways to improve the app. He hopes to add more to it until it spreads all over the country.

1. help drivers avoid potholes
2. 13,
3. Jackson, Mississippi
4. yes he's a eighth-grader
5. his mother
6. Chokwe developed the app
7. his friends
8. Rodriguez Ratliff and Emmanuel Brooks.
9. it is highlighted in red.
10. yes, your phone will warn you with a beep
11. city's 311 call system
12. 10
13. unknown
14. Minority Male Makers Program sponsored by Verizon
15. Jackson State University.

Numbered questions:
1. What is Chokwe trying to help people do?
2. How old is he?
3. Whee does he live?
4. Is he a student?
5. Who was driving a car that got damaged?
6. What did he invent to track potholes?
7. Did he have any help?
8. What were their first names?
9. What happens when a pothole is detected?
10. Will his invention tell you if you're about to hit a pothole?
11. What system has the street info available for the app?
12. How many streets did they use for their prototype?
13. Were they very well traveled roads?
14. Where did the boys learn to make apps?
15. Held where?

Q: CHAPTER SIXTEEN. 

LINCH-PINS. 

"And leave them laughing, Ho! Ho Ho!"--_Robin Goodfellow_. 

Notice was sent from the Bishop of the diocese that he was about to hold a Confirmation at Poppleby in six weeks' time. This was matter of rejoicing to Mr Harford, who had mourned over the very few communicants. Before he came the Celebrations had been only three times a year, and were attended by most of the aged paupers. To the joy of the Carbonels, the feast was monthly after his coming; but the first time the aged people were there, and all lingered, George Hewlett, the clerk, said, when the curate looked to him for information-- 

"The alms, sir. They be waiting for the money in the plate." 

"Why, that is to be reserved for sick and distressed." 

"Mr Selby, he always give it out to them, and so did Mr Jones afore him, sir. They be all expecting of it." 

Mr Harford thought that it might be best not to disappoint the old people suddenly, so he stood at the vestry door counting heads, and numbering among them two whom he had already been somewhat startled to see present themselves, namely, Dame Spurrell, whom he had heard abusing her neighbour with a torrent of foul words, and who pretended to be a witch, and Tom Jarrold, whom Hewlett had described to him as the wickedest old chap in the parish. 

He took counsel with the churchwardens, Farmers Goodenough and Rawson, who both agreed that they were a bad lot, who didn't deserve nothing, but it helped to keep down the rates. Then he talked to Captain Carbonel, who, being a reverent man, was dismayed at what he heard. 

1. the Bishop of the diocese
2. hold a Confirmation
3. yes
4. in six weeks
5. Mr Harford
6. he had mourned over the very few communicants.
7. three times a year
8. most of the aged paupers
9. monthly
10. yes
11. the Carbonels
12. yes
13. yes
14. Mr Harford
15. at the vestry door
16. yes
17. two
18. yes
19. the churchwardens, Farmers Goodenough and Rawson
20. yes

Numbered questions:
1. Who sent the message?
2. What he was going to do?
3. Is ther any timframe?
4. When?
5. Who felt happy about that?
6. What he did beforehand?
7. How many times he went there?
8. Who accompanied him?
9. How often was the feast?
10. Anyone happy about that?
11. Who was that?
12. Were some folks very new to all these?
13. Were there any beggers?
14. Who did not want to upset the folks?
15. Where was he?
16. Did he recognize someone?
17. How many of them he recognize by name?
18. Did he consult anyone?
19. Who were they?
20. Were they in the same page in this issue?

Q: It was 3:30 in the morning and 8-year-old Walt Disney was doing what he did at that time every morning- rolling hundreds of newspapers he would soon deliver in his neighborhood. 

It was hard work for a little kid who had to go to school, then deliver another round in the evening. But delivering papers beat picking apples for a living. That's what he'd been doing before, on his family's failing farms in Missouri. 

Walt Disney, born in December, 1901, never had time for a childhood. As a result, he spent all of his adult life attempting to invent one for himself. In the process - almost by accident - he created wonderful childhood memories for generation after generation of children worldwide. 

When the Disneys moved to Chicago, Walt signed up for cartooning classes, working three part-time jobs to pay for them. At 24, he created a cartoon character called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, which was a great success. Hethen shifted his attention to mice, or one particular mouse called Mickey.And Mickey Mouse became an overnight success. 

Success followed success, but Walt Disney pushed himself even harder. He produced Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, for which he won a special Oscar. After the Second World War, Walt came up with the idea of Disneyland. Everyone said it was too costly a dream, but he wouldn't listen. His great world of fantasy opened on July 17, 1955. In the next seven weeks, more than one million people walked into Disneyland. The man who had spent a painful childhood now watched other people enjoy the perfect childhood world that he had created.

1. Walt Disney was rolling hundreds of newspapers
2. It beat picking apples.
3. On his family's farms.
4. Missouri.
5. Deliver in his neighborhood.
6. No.
7. Twice.
8. 1901.
9. Walt signed up for cartooning classes.
10. No.
11. No.
12. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.
13. Snow White and Seven Dwarfs.
14. His great world of fantasy.
15. Second World War.
16. It was too costly a dream.
17. Yesl
18. More than one million.
19. Seven weeks.
20. July 17, 1955.

Numbered questions:

1. What happened at 3:30 in the morning?
2. why?
3. where did he pick apples?
4. where?
5. What did he do with the rolled up papers?
6. Did he do this once a day?
7. How many times?
8. When was he born?
9. What happened in Chicago?
10. Did he quit working?
11. Was Mickey his first cartoon character?
12. who was?
13. What did he win an Oscar for?
14. When did he think of Disneyland?
15. After what war?
16. What did people think?
17. Did it end up a success?
18. How many people came?
19. in how long?
20. When did it open?