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October 11, 2013 October 7, 2013 victorrivero
Exploring Inanimate Alice
A playful approach to literacy and learning.
GUEST COLUMN | by Amanda S. Hovious
Maria Montessori observed it. Jean Piaget observed it. Lev Vygotsky observed it. What did they observe? All three made the observation that young children learn language and literacy skills through their interactions with the world around them. Play is the natural process by which children come to understand their environment. Learning through play does not end in early childhood. That is just the beginning. However, as children enter primary school today, they all but lose the opportunity to learn through play. Recess has been replaced with writing workshops. Learning is 'not supposed to be fun.' Teaching to standardized tests has become the norm. It doesn't have to be that way.
The evolution of digital media has triggered a renewed interest in the link between play and learning. Interest in game-based learning is becoming more mainstream, thanks to the rhetoric of education reform. Transmedia storytelling has emerged as a form of game-based learning, and Inanimate Alice has emerged as an exemplary of that form.
Inanimate Alice is a 'born-digital novel' – born from a movie screenplay and integrated game concept by series producer Ian Harper. It's a mash-up of digital narrative, movie and gaming elements. It's a masterpiece of transmedia storytelling. Award-winning author Kate Pullinger lent her talent to the story, and the innovative digital artist Chris Joseph directed it. Inanimate Alice was named a 2012 Best Web Site for Teaching and Learning by the American Association of School Librarians.
The story follows the international journey of Alice as she grows up to become a game designer at the world's largest gaming company. In episode 1, Alice is 8 years old. By episode 4, Alice is 14 years old. 10 episodes are planned, with episode 5 currently in production.
What makes Inanimate Alice playful?
Inanimate Alice uses gamification to add playful design elements that engage the learner, and help the story unfold.
Gamification is the use of gaming elements in non-game environments. It is a trend that can be seen in industries as diverse as business, marketing, environment, health, entertainment and education. Inanimate Alice exemplifies the good in gamification, and five characteristics make it a playful approach to literacy and learning:
Endogenous value. In Inanimate Alice, the games are a part of the story. Alice wants to be a game designer when she grows up. You play the games that she has created. By episodes 3 and 4, the outcome is dependent upon the game. Playing the games helps you authentically experience the story.
Narrative. Narrative evokes emotion, and the narrative in Inanimate Alice is a motivating factor in playing the games. However, in transmedia storytelling the narrative has less depth than other forms of storytelling. Interactivity replaces depth, and the lack of depth motivates you to fill in the details in the same way that writing fan fiction does. Inanimate Alice has inspired people of all ages to continue the adventures of Alice through their own digital creations.
Role play. Role play is an imaginative gaming element that also triggers emotion. In Inanimate Alice, you never see Alice, but you do see the world through Alice's eyes. Essentially, you take on the role of Alice. By episode 4, you can easily imagine yourself as the character. Episode 4 has the most complex game (a labyrinth), and the emotional involvement you get from imagining yourself as Alice is a strong motivator for trying to successfully find your way out of the labyrinth.
Virtual assistant. Do you remember Clippy, Microsoft's animated paper clip assistant? Well, as annoying as that might have been, having a virtual assistant in game play is essential. A virtual assistant provides just enough help (e.g. clues) in the game to prevent you from completely giving up. In education, that's called scaffolding, and in serious games virtual assistants are called pedagogical agents. In Inanimate Alice, Alice's imaginary friend Brad is your virtual assistant.
Choice. In reality, there are people who are game-averse. Sometimes they are not game literate. Sometimes they simply do not want to play. Participating in gaming elements should always be optional. Otherwise, gamification can backfire. In Inanimate Alice, you are given the choice to 'read only' or 'read and play the game.'
How can Inanimate Alice be used for teaching and learning?
The transmedia nature of Inanimate Alice makes it a flexible tool for teaching and learning. Students inherently develop multimodal literacy, game literacy and problem solving skills by immersing themselves in Alice's sensory rich world. Educators can use Inanimate Alice as an across-the-curriculum teaching tool that meets multiple learning goals, including digital and information literacy, cultural diversity and awareness, social-emotional development, and spatial visualization skills.
Multimodal literacy is a skill that children develop naturally. In the sensory rich environment of play, children intuitively combine speech, text, sound, games, music, and art. Similarly, by combining text, images, music, movie elements and games, transmedia storytelling organically reflects the multimodal nature of play. Inanimate Alice provides an opportunity to bring that type of play back into the school environment.
Problem solving is also a natural part of child's play. Whether solving a puzzle, building a bridge with blocks, or engaging in pretend play, a child is learning to solve problems through trial and error, feedback and strategy changes.
Similarly, the embedded games that Alice has created, and that later drive the story, provide opportunities for practicing problem solving skills. Even better, the increasing complexity of the games helps develop game literacy, which is really the literacy of problem solving.
Inanimate Alice can be seamlessly integrated into the curriculum. To promote digital literacy, lesson plans have been developed that are aligned to the Common Core State English Language Arts Standards for Reading: Literature. These can be requested via the project's web site.
Inanimate Alice can also be tied into units on cultural awareness and diversity. Transmedia storytelling facilitates role play through its interactive nature, and role play improves students' abilities to grasp multiple perspectives. In Inanimate Alice, each episode takes place in a different country, and reflects a different culture. Students play the part of Alice, and take an increasingly greater role in the story with each subsequent episode. By harnessing the power of that role play, teachers can use Inanimate Alice as an inspiration for guided discovery lessons on the cultures and countries represented. Students not only gain deeper cultural perspectives, but they also develop information literacy skills as they engage in finding, evaluating and using information.
The themes that run throughout Inanimate Alice are ripe for lessons that enhance social-emotional development. Alice is an only child and a lonely child as she travels the world with her parents from episode to episode. She is often fearful as she faces potentially dark situations, from the fear of her father being lost in episode 1, to the fear of being left home alone in episode 2, to the much darker fear of looming danger in episode 3. In episode 4, Alice must deal with peer pressure and bullying. Alice's fears can help students create stronger emotional connections with the character, and provide opportunities to open up conversations about feelings.
Finally, Inanimate Alice provides a seemingly unlikely opportunity to help students develop spatial visualization skills. Spatial skills are considered essential for math learning, and with the Common Core's greater emphasis on math and STEM, Inanimate Alice can be used as a gateway to develop those skills. In episode 4, Alice gets lost in an abandoned building, which is essentially a 3-D labyrinth that you must navigate through in order to end the story. To further expand upon that skill as a class, students can build a 3-D maze that replicates the abandoned building.
Play is not the Opposite of Work
As Mark Twain once quipped, "work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions." In that respect, whether learning through work or learning through play, you are still learning either way. Play is not the opposite of work.
Learning through play is learning by doing, and as we continue to move toward learner-focused instruction based on intrinsic motivation, interest in game-based learning will continue to grow. The multimodality of transmedia storytelling creates opportunities for flexible adaption of this medium across multiple disciplines. Transmedia storytelling is a tool that offers a playful approach to integrate technology into literacy and learning; and Inanimate Alice serves as an exemplary model of transmedia storytelling.
Amanda S. Hovious is a librarian, instructional designer, and educational technologist. Her primary area of expertise is consulting on and designing instruction for 21st century literacies in K-12, public and academic libraries. Contact her through designerlibrarian.wordpress.com
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LeadersDec 18th 1999 edition
Swiss shame, and solace
No country likes admitting it behaved badly. At least the Swiss have now done so
"OF ALL the neutrals, Switzerland has the greatest right to distinction," wrote Winston Churchill in 1944. Neutrality, for the Swiss, has long been an emblem of national pride, never one of moral ambivalence. Along with their system of direct democracy, it is a centrepiece of Swiss identity, even in a post-cold-war world where it is unclear quite what neutrality means. So it is with some discomfort that the Swiss have been digesting a report, published on December 10th, compiled by an independent commission of historians, which exposes a less honourable side to the country's official neutrality in the second world war. Soothing reading it is not, but this does not mean there is no ground for solace.
In some respects, the battering to which the Swiss have been subjected about their wartime behaviour has been justified. Of the findings in this most recent report, commissioned by the Swiss parliament and headed by a Swiss historian, Jean-François Bergier, two stand out as particularly shameful. First, and more important, is the conclusion that it was at Swiss initiative, and before the outbreak of war, that from 1938 German Jews had a potentially fatal J stamped in their passports. Second is the finding that after 1942 the Swiss turned back at the border at least 24,000 refugees from Nazi Germany (although they did admit about 21,000).
In themselves, these official revelations would be damning enough, even though other countries were also refusing Jewish refugees at the time. But the findings are only the most recent of a series of disclosures about what the Swiss did before, during and after the war. Just a week before the publication of the Bergier report, another, quite separate, report revealed the existence of 54,000 dormant accounts in Swiss banks which may have been held by Jews who died in the Holocaust. Before this investigation began, the banks had insisted that fewer than 800 such accounts existed. That report forms part of a $1.25 billion deal, agreed on in 1998 by Swiss banks and Holocaust survivors, in which the banks acknowledged their own complicity for the first time. In short, Switzerland does not lack good reasons for humility.
Yet, all the same, the current fashion for bashing the Swiss, particularly in the United States, where Jewish lobbyists are at their fiercest, is overdone. It needs to be recognised that most other countries in those years also accepted far fewer Jewish would-be refugees than they should have done, and that after 1940 the Swiss—unlike most of their recent critics—were entirely surrounded by the soldiers of Germany and its allies.
Both chased and chastened
The Swiss did not embark on this self-examination entirely voluntarily. Much of the impetus came from the unyielding pressure of Jewish groups which, over the years, refused to take No for an answer from the Swiss banks. The banks, in turn, hid behind secrecy laws. It is also true that until quite recently the Swiss government itself handled the clamour to investigate the various charges clumsily and insensitively.
Nonetheless, that this exercise has taken place at all is ground for some Swiss credit. Many other countries have passed through inglorious episodes this century and, even after prodding, have chosen not to look back with such thoroughness. It was only in 1995, after all, that President Jacques Chirac acknowledged for the first time the French state's responsibility for the Vichy regime, and even now the official French effort at digging up that bit of history is barely half-complete. Indeed Germany itself, admirably open though it has long been about its past, only this week reached a deal for compensation of wartime slave labourers (see article). With mixed motives, no doubt, Switzerland is now confronting its past. To do so is far from easy.
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline "Swiss shame, and solace"
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Just in time for gamescom 2015, Capcom has announced that Vega will officially be joining the growing Street Fighter V roster.
Those who will be attending the gamescom event in Germany later this week can get some hands on time with the Spanish Ninja in the latest SFV PS4 build.
Take a look at some new screens and a trailer below.
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Street Fighter V will launch on the PS4 and PC in early 2016.
We're pleased to announce that Vega, the Spanish Ninja, will be joining the Street Fighter V roster. Attendees at gamescom this week will be able to see the claw himself in action with a brand new playable build available at the Sony Booth in Hall 7 Booth C-020. The build will also include the recently announced new challenger, Necalli, along with returning characters Birdie and Nash, in addition to fan favorites Ken, Chun-Li, Ryu, Cammy and M. Bison.
About Vega
Vega brings with him a brand new set of tricks, as well as a new appearance. Still possessing his trademark speed and quickness, he now has access to two distinct fighting modes: claw or no-claw. With the no-claw style giving him access to command grabs as well as new attack properties, players will need to toggle between both styles to pull off that winning KO at the end of the fight. Vega's powerful V-Trigger is the Bloody Kiss, which sees him throw a rose at high velocity towards his opponent, before he charges at full speed right behind it, delivering a series of brutal attacks. This Spanish matador is definitely a fighter to keep your eye on, if you can.
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World Gold Council: UK demand falls 15% in Q3
Other by Staff Writer	on 17th November 2011
Gold demand increases 6% year-on-year to a record $57.7 billion.
The World Gold Council (WGC) has released its gold demand trends for Q3 noting a strong rise in investment demand "as investors across the globe sought wealth preservation".
Third quarter gold demand has shown a 6% year-on-year increase to reach 1,053.9 tonnes worth a record $57.7 billion (£36.6 billion). Gold reached its peak price on September 5 and 6 this year, with a price of $1,895 (£1,203) per troy ounce.
Jewellery demand is said to have shrunk in the face of record gold prices paired with the continued tough economic conditions that jewellery designers, retailers and manufacturers are facing.
Demand trends include a slight rise in mine supply, with an increase in mining activity and gold recycling adding to this rise.
At the end of September gold had gained 8% over the quarter. Its price was up 15% compared to September last year and its average sum – £1,081 – was 39% above the average during Q3 2010.
The WGC says that gold prices have stabilised once again though the metal's has outperformed platinum in terms of price in recent weeks.
Gold has increasingly become the investor's choice due to its risk reduction factor and the current benefit of positive returns.
The global gold jewellery market is said to have contracted 10% in Q3 of 2011 however jewellery demand in terms of value was 24% higher year-on-year reaching a record $25.5 billion (£16 billion).
In India, the world's largest gold jewellery market, gold experienced a 26% fall in demand per tonne owing to volatile gold prices during the Hindu celebration period.
The Middle East, South East Asia and the West also showed weaker levels of demand, with only China, Hong Kong, Russia and Japan bucking the trend with healthy demand for gold jewellery.
China has been the largest single market for gold jewellery during Q3, accounting for 27% of the world's demand, a 13% increase year-on-year compared to Q3 2010.
In the US gold demand showed a downward trend in Q3, falling 12% on the back of continued economic difficulties but in terms of value gold demand was up 23% year-on-year. Styles of gold jewellery in the US continues a trend for lightweight pieces with substitute metals such as gold and silver growing in popularity.
Gold jewellery demand in the UK and Italy fell 15% and 22% respectively. The value of gold demand in the UK increased 14% by £132.2 million. Hallmarking figures in the UK has shown declines across all carat standards with the exception of 24ct gold.
In the context of the present conditions, more customers are looking for hollow of lighter-weight gold products, while manufacturers have had to lower their margins to sell off older stock or otherwise edit their credit terms with retailers.
In terms of jewellery sales, the WGC predicts that the remaining quarter of 2011 should pick up due to the festive season.
Investor demand was widespread across the world, with the WGC outlining double-digit growth in demand for gold coins and bars, with only Japan, India and the US showing a decline in gold bar demand, despite Western investors being attracted by gold's "insurance-like properties".
Gold recycling totalled 426.5 tonnes in Q3, a 13% year-on-year rise, however the supply of recycled gold is said to be "well below" the quarterly high of 609.8 tonnes as experienced in Q1 of 2009 when prices were below the $1,000 per ounce mark.
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Q: Match a string containing a comma (eg 1,5) i want to check if the string i take from a Textfield
has a comma, in order to drop it and ask for a new value with dot.
i try to use
  textTestAr.trim().matches("^[,]+$")

but nothing happens, while this
        ^[1-9,]+$

does the trick, but also matches numbers like 1.

A: Why not use String#contains instead of regex here.

A: The caret ^ matches the beginning of the text. [,]+ matches an arbitrary number of commas. What you need is something to ignore everything before and after the item you are looking for:
^.*[,].*$

The dot matches any character except newline. * is repetition (0 -- any number). The $ matches the end of text.
Note that trimming the string is unnecessary here.

A: Just do
if(textTestAr.contains(",")) System.out.println("It does!");

A: just do textTestAr.contains(",")

A: The first one asserts that the whole string is made up of commas only. The second one asserts that the string is made up of digits (other than 0) and commas, but doesn't require a specific one of them. You could use this:
.*,.*

Note that you don't need ^...$ when using matches (because they are implicit). But a simple indexOf solution as Marko's or yentup's is better anyway.

A: You don't need to force regular expressions on this problem. A simple textTestAr.indexOf(',') will do.

A: Don't need regex for that:
textTestAr.trim().replace(',','.');

A:     public  boolean hasComma(String string) {
    if ( string.indexOf(",") > -1) {
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

A: I am gonna get straight to answering this with Regex,
/,/

Put one or a combination of alphabets, symbols, or numbers inside of // and It will try to match it specifically.

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A huge WELL DONE to our ten superstars who participated in Clive Cross Country at the weekend. Miss Whit was very proud of you all, as we shared in assembly this morning. A special well done to Arthur for being the only Year 5/6 Boy runner and also Amy who missed her race (Year 4) and happily competed in the Year 5/6 race instead, finishing a very impressive 10th place! You were all brilliant and role models for sport in our school!
Well done Amy, Charlie P, Charlie L, Liam, Toby, Arthur, Ellie, Lottie, Lucy and Elsa.
This entry was posted in Class Dragonflies News, Class Owls News, Class Rabbits News, School News, Sports, Uncategorized by Jen Whittingham.


This project took advantage of three convergent trends: the emergence of low-cost 3D design software and fabrication, the increasing adoption of the "lean startup" approach in modeling new ventures, and the economic cost of healthcare in the U.S. is development of alternative, affordable services and products to provide access for both served and un-served patient populations.
Design, fabricate, assemble, and test a race car that complies with the Formula SAE competition rules.
Reverberating captures a designer's hand gestures for sculpting expressive, wearable forms around the human body.


Organ donation draw attention to global issues and to create awareness of Turkey Organ Transplantation Foundation (Tonv) and determined the winners of the first Cartoonists Cartoon Competition organized by the Association of cooperation in the international arena.
The jury members Metin Peker, Alessandro Gatto, Angel Boligan Corbo, Eray Ozbek, Gurbuz D. Ekşioğlu, Jitet Koestana, Metin Üstündağ, Deniz Zeyrek, Ba Bilig and Valentin Druzhinin studied 950 cartoons from 40 countries under the leadership of Jury President Mikhail Zlatkovsky.
The first caricature in the contest will be awarded $ 5,000, the second caricature $ 3,000, the third caricature $ 2,000, and the five contestants who will receive the incentive award will be rewarded with $ 1,000. Awards, Turkey Organ Transplantation Foundation International Transplantation Network Project (International Transplant Network - ITN) covered 17 to 21 October between the dates will be held in Antalya first time the 1st International Organ Transplant will find their owners in the Network Congress. Selected works will be exhibited at Sungate Rixos Hotel Antalya during the congress.


The site-wide error handler is specified via the ColdFusion Administrator (under Server Settings > Settings). The onError method receives 2 arguments, the Exception and the EventName. The error is that the page cannot be found. Also, you might try putting a Try/Catch around the contents of your actual error page (inside the CFError tag, not around it).
In the end, they do the same thing; but, onError (as an event handler defined in Application.cfc) is more inline with the intent of Application.cfc. Eric Nickus Mar 21, 2014 at 7:21 PM 1 Comments Ben, you always have great advice but now have a cold fusion job and I see you on like almost a I don't recall offhand which is which (and am out of town so can't look it up!) but that's the difference. And any pages that run in the root, it works fine.
The format of error you get depends on the settings within your ColdFusion Administrator. MissingInclude: When an included file can not be found. I already tried to get around it with cfif's, but that didn't work either.Is there a way (or workaround) for adding variables to the URL? Coldfusion Error Page Of course, all I'm running is a simple blog, I really don't use that many tags.
For example, if a section of code that communicates with an external service times out, you might want to try again to see if the second time is successful. The following information is detailed in the next few topics: The basic building blocks for understating types of ColdFusion errors and how ColdFusion handles them How to use the cferror tag I have set up a error page in coldfusion and have pointed IIS(7) at it. ReturnsThis method does not return a value; do not use the cfreturn tag.
The error page does display it just strippes out any cf calls which is annoying because I want to be able to use cf mail etc within the file. –Ben Thomas Coldfusion Error 500 Basically, it is better to send more information then you need then to be wanting for more. You want to log the error. These include "GeneratedContent" which is part of the Error scope and seldom has anything useful for debugging purposes.
So what do I recommend? http://www.quackit.com/coldfusion/tutorial/coldfusion_error_handling.cfm Log errors. Coldfusion Error Handling That's right - you can't cflog. Coldfusion Error Handling Application Cfm Do your own logging, and email yourself a detailed report.
That's good. Request and Exception error.diagnostics Detailed error diagnostics from ColdFusion. Something went wrong. navigate to this website If you run an ecommerce site for instance, you will want to exclude any credit card data from the emails.
Joel Black Mar 17, 2012 at 7:48 AM 4 Comments I get a lot of errors with people putting strange urls in place of my variables. Coldfusion Error Log To make sure that we don't get buried in emails, we want to track which errors we've emailed and only send a specific error once per interval - say every 4 I guess that makes sense to use Request as a sort of back-up to the standard error handler - good point.
If you are using Application.cfm, put CFERROR tags in the Application.cfm file itself. Unfortunately, nothing is logged when this error happens. A full description of cferror may be found in the docs. Coldfusion Error 500 Isapimodule If robust exeception information is displayed, turn it off.
If you are on an older ColdFusion server and only have access to Application.cfm, then you want to the use the CFERROR tag. So what now? Often however, these just create unnecessary error emails and can be excluded and ignored. my review here If the error occurs during request processing and you do not implement an onRequest method, EventName is the empty string.
more Jrun monitor monitor and timely auto-restart to avoid Jrun hang ... For what I'm doing, GoDaddy works fine as long as I can keep away from their website. The main goal is to present the user with a friendly error page that doesn't expose any sensitive information, and provides them with some additional guidance. Create a new CFM file named errortest.cfm.
Error Handling Strategy Obviously global error handling is a last ditch attempt to catch errors, and only part of a complete strategy for trapping errors.


This volume collects a selection of papers originally presented at the International Conference The Garden of Crossing Paths: The Manipulation and Rewriting of Medieval Texts, held at the University of Venice, 28-30 October 2004. The meeting was the tangible outcome of an initiative undertaken jointly by five University Research Units belonging to a Group that over the past few years has been working on an interdisciplinary project about the reshaping of Medieval texts into both medieval and modern rewrites. The symposia held in Pavia in December 2002 (Eroi di carta e celluloide. Il Medioevo germanico nelle forme espressive moderne), and in Bergamo in October 2003 (Riscritture del testo medievale: dialogo tra culture e tradizioni), can be considered crucial events in this field of study since the speakers raised important methodological issues about the degree of adequacy of contemporary theoretical approaches used to investigate the different kinds of rewrites a Medieval text can undergo. Thus, the Conference at the University of Venice represents both a synthesis of the lively current debate on this matter and an opportunity to develop new ideas, sharing the results of the Group's latest and best work with the findings of foreign researchers.


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The Whole Truth: A New Logo For Your Better Health
by user | Nov 12, 2021 | Lifestyle | 0 comments
By: Michael Crooks
Spotting healthy food in the supermarket is about to become a whole lot easier.
Australia's Grains & Legumes Nutrition Council (GLNC) has launched an easily identifiable logo which will appear on food that contains whole grain ingredients.
GLNC, which links the entire grain and legume supply chain in Australia, has launched the Whole Grain Certification Logo.
The logo tells consumers that the product is certified to have at least 25 per cent whole grain ingredients.
Health and healthcare benefits
According to the GLNC, the potential healthcare cost savings of more people consuming whole grain products could be more than $1.4 billion, given whole grains in diets lead to a significant decrease in the risk of coronary heart disease, type-2 diabetes and bowel cancer.
"Whole grains are packed with plant protein, gut-friendly fibre and various vitamins and minerals," GLNC general manager Dr Sara Grafenauer said.
For parents, the logo will provide peace of mind when it comes to purchasing food for their kids.
"For children, if whole grains like wholemeal bread and breakfast cereals are introduced early in life, there is a greater chance they will be continued and there are significant benefits for health," said Dr Grafenauer, who is an Accredited Practising Dietitian.
The logo is already in use in Australia by certain brands, including Arnott's (Vita-Weat), Sanitarium (Weet-Bix), Burgen, Tip Top, BARLEYmax and Bakers Delight.
"At this stage, you will most commonly see the logo on eligible brand websites and in promotions," Dr Grafenauer said.
"In the US, the whole grain stamp is used on 14,000 products."
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The logo works in a similar way to the familiar Health Star Rating System, which informs consumers of a product's nutritional value.
But as Dr Grafenauer points out, the Health Star Rating System does not highlight whole grain products.
"The current algorithm used to assign [stars] doesn't consider the whole grain content of foods," she said.
The Health Star Rating System does not highlight whole grain products… "The Whole Grain Certified Logo was developed to help consumers easily identify and choose core whole grain foods," – GLNC general manager Dr Sara Grafenauer
"The Whole Grain Certified Logo was developed to help consumers easily identify and choose core whole grain foods – the higher the percentage of whole grain, the easier it is to consume the recommended 48 gram daily target, which is three serves."
And don't expect to see the logo on snack foods.
"Products may only carry the logo if they are considered core foods such as breads, breakfast cereals, flours, rice, pasta, noodles and crispbreads," Dr Grafenauer said.
"Foods not listed as core, predominately snack foods, must meet certain nutrient criteria to ensure that only healthier choices are promoted. Some muesli bars, for example could still carry the logo."
Article supplied with thanks to Hope Media.
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COP26: Pro-abortion Lobbies Disappointed
Those in favor of family planning and other so-called "progressive" ideologies have been in low spirits since the end of COP26: neither abortion, nor contraception, nor gender - although on the agenda of the international summit - were selected as priorities for climate change in the Glasgow final declaration.
"I am deeply sorry; I also understand the deep disappointment you share."
With a trembling voice and tears in his eyes, the president of COP26, Alok Sharma, could not contain his emotions, on November 13, 2021, during the closing of the Glasgow Conference (Scotland, United Kingdom) on climatic change.
And for good reason, the many countries present at this summit did the minimum work, reaching an agreement no longer to "exit" from fossil economies, but to "reduce" them.
Conversely, it is a real sigh of relief that we have been able to feel the effect of the defenders of the culture of life, often undermined during these meetings celebrating the doxa of the ecological empire, in defiance of the natural law.
Because supporters of "green energy" were not the only participants who felt disappointed by the conference. After months of influence and pressure games, feminist activists and family planning NGOs failed to convince delegates that "reproductive rights" and "comprehensive sex education" must find their place in the final document of the summit.
However, the progressive lobbies have spared no efforts, setting up some sixty events on the sidelines of COP26 to raise awareness among participants that reproductive health and climate change are intimately linked.
"Climate policy should fund strategies to remove barriers to family planning and the education of girls," said David Johnson, director of the Margaret Pyke Trust.
Gender ideology has tried to score points, in vain: "gender is a priority issue, but as long as we do not integrate it into the commitments made at the COP, we run the risk of putting it away," warned Sheri Lim, member of the Climate Change and Resilience group.
While on the side of the right to life supporters, they expected the worst, the final agreement fortunately did not see fit to discuss, either the benefits of abortion or contraception, or those of sex discrimination as a means of combating the harmful effects of alleged climate change.
"I know you are disappointed. But the road to progress is not always a straight line," said United Nations (UN) head Antonio Guterres in a message to women and young people.
"Never give up. Never back down. Keep moving forward," he concluded. This one way of saying that the elementary rights of the Creator and of His creatures remain suspended more than ever.
(Source : Center for Family & Human Rights – FSSPX.Actualités)
Illustration : Flickr / Scottisch Government (CC BY 2.0)


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Q: Multiple block operations called via addObserver:selector:name:object: I have an app where an user action attempts to connect to an online resource. The connection process is done by a thirdPartySDK, and success or failure is signaled back asynchronously. This is handled by the appDelegate which I configured to post a notification either way. (ie Dropbox style).
Below, assuming failure, the UIAlertView gets called as many times as the operation is executed. That is, if I repeatedly test the connection and it fails, the first time the block is called once, the second time the block is called two times, 3rd time 3 calls, etc. It is as-if the block operation is not canceled or removed from the queue.
if (!opQ) {
    opQ = [[NSOperationQueue alloc] init];
}

[[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserverForName:LINK_NOTIFICATION_FAILURE object:nil queue:opQ usingBlock:^(NSNotification *aNotification) {

    dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(),
     ^{
        [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Network_Account_Not_Linked" message:@"Your_attempt_to_link_your_account_ended_unsuccessfully"
          delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil] show];

        [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:self];

     });

}];

The problem appears to be with addObserverForName:object:queue:usingBlock: . I tested with addObserver:selector:name:object: which works fine (one selector execution per notification). Using the block is more convenient, makes the code more readable and give access to local variables, hence my motivation.
I tried [opQ cancelAllOperations] in the NSBlockOperation thread and the dispatch_async (opQ is at that point is "out of scope" according to the debugger). Also, used [NSOperationQueue mainQueue] with similar failed results. In addition, I also tried starting with a fresh opQ for prior to registering for the the notification... nada.
Why are the multiple calls happening? Is there a better approach using blocks?

A: Apple Documentation for the method you're using says:

To unregister observations, you pass the object returned by this method to removeObserver:. You must invoke removeObserver: or removeObserver:name:object: before any object specified by addObserverForName:object:queue:usingBlock: is deallocated.

In other words, you can't just simply pass self when removing observer.
Try:
__block id observer = [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] addObserverForName:LINK_NOTIFICATION_FAILURE object:nil queue:opQ usingBlock:^(NSNotification *aNotification) {

dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue(),
 ^{
    [[[UIAlertView alloc] initWithTitle:@"Network_Account_Not_Linked" message:@"Your_attempt_to_link_your_account_ended_unsuccessfully"
      delegate:nil cancelButtonTitle:@"OK" otherButtonTitles:nil] show];

    [[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter] removeObserver:observer];

 });
}];


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Microsoft Releases Cross-Platform PowerShell Core 6.0
By: Pedro Hernandez | January 11, 2018
With the release of PowerShell Core 6.0, Microsoft delivers on its ambitious goal of bringing the command line and scripting language to Linux and Mac users.
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PowerShell Core 6.0 is now generally available, following the release candidate that Microsoft let loose in November 2017.
The open-source tool, separate from the edition of PowerShell that ships with Microsoft's flagship Windows operating system, is available for Mac, Linux and, of course, Windows. PowerShell Core 6.0 represents a major change in direction for a command line and task automation technology has that been traditionally associated with managing Windows environments, according to Microsoft's Jeffery Snover, inventor of PowerShell.
In October 2017, during the SpiceWorld conference in Austin, Texas, Snover told eWEEK that PowerShell Core 6.0—then simply known as PowerShell 6.0—had a new, more ambitious and platform-agnostic mission.
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PowerShell's "new mission is to be the tool that unifies companies to be able to manage everything," he said. "So we don't want to have companies that have Windows teams and Linux teams. We want to have companies that have management teams, and they use a common tool, PowerShell, to be able to manage Windows and Linux, whether it's running in Azure, AWS [Amazon Web Services] or Google."
Now, IT administrators and developers can gauge for themselves how well PowerShell Core 6.0 meets those lofty aims with the tool's official release.
On Windows desktop PCs, PowerShell Core 6.0 is supported on Windows 7, 8.1 and 10. On the server front, it supports Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012 R2 and 2016, along with the operating system's new semiannual releases.
Mirroring the twice-yearly release cadence Microsoft has adopted for major Windows 10 and Office updates, Microsoft announced in June 2017 that Windows Server would follow a similar trajectory. For example, the Windows Server version 1709 (a version number that reflects the ninth month of 2017) semiannual release was launched during the company's Ignite conference in September 2017.
And users won't have to worry about conflicts with the Windows edition of PowerShell, said Microsoft Program Manager Joey Aiello in a Jan. 10 announcement. Both versions can run side-by-side.
"In fact, an awesome feature of PowerShell Core is that you can test new versions without affecting existing workloads," stated Aiello. "Whether it's installed via an MSI [Windows Installer file] or installed portably from the ZIP package, your Windows PowerShell installation is not affected by PowerShell Core."
Microsoft also has an experimental and unsupported version of PowerShell Core for Windows on ARM devices, Aiello said, just in time for users who plan on picking up a new ARM-powered Windows 10 Always Connected PC. (Windows historically ran on x86 processors with the exception of unofficial builds and other outliers like the ill-fated Windows RT release.)
Mac users will need a MacBook Pro or other machine running macOS 10.12 or above. Linux users have plenty of options, including CentOS 7, Debian (8.7 and 9), Fedora (25 and 26), Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Ubuntu (14.04, 16.04 and 17.04). PowerShell Core 6.0 is also available for the Stretch version of the Raspbian operating system for Raspberry Pi, albeit as unsupported software.
More information, including an extensive FAQ, is available here.
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Browse "Atlantic Canada"
Acadian Expulsion (the Great Upheaval)
Soldiers rounding up terrified civilians, expelling them from their land, burning their homes and crops ‒ it sounds like a 20th century nightmare in one of the world's trouble spots, but it describes a scene from Canada's early history, the Deportation of the Acadians.
Acadians Celebrate 250 Years of Survival
IT IS HUGE and quite beautiful, and it jumps right at you as you come out of a curve in the small road that winds along the shore of the Bay of Fundy, near Wolfville in northern Nova Scotia.
Council of Twelve
The Council of Twelve was established 1719 in Nova Scotia to advise the governor, deliberate on bills in the legislature's upper house and act as a civil court of appeal. Councillors were appointed by the governor and served for life. Until the 1750s the council was dominated by military officers.
History of Acadia
Acadia has its origins in the explorations of Giovanni da Verrazzano, an Italian explorer serving the king of France. In 1524-25 he explored the Atlantic coast of North America and gave the name "Archadia", or "Arcadia" in Italian, to a region near the present-day American state of Delaware.
Nova Scotia 1714-84
Confirmed as British by the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, the peninsula of Nova Scotia was neglected until 1749 - a period of "phantom rule" and "counterfeit suzerainty.
Nova Scotia: The Cradle of Canadian Parliamentary Democracy
On 2 October 1758, Nova Scotia's first Legislative Assembly met in Halifax, and Canadian parliamentary government was born.
Quidi Vidi Battery
The Quidi Vidi Battery was built in 1762 by the French. The French attacked the ST JOHN'S, Nfld, area in one of the last campaigns of the SEVEN YEARS' WAR, capturing and burning many settlements around Trinity and Conception bays. They then erected the battery to defend their newly won territory.
Repeal Movement
In 1867 many Nova Scotians were reluctant to endorse CONFEDERATION. In the elections of Sept 1867 anti-Confederates captured 36 of 38 seats in the local legislature, and 18 of 19 seats in the Dominion Parliament.
The Halifax Explosion and the CNIB
The 1917 Halifax Explosion is well-known as the biggest human-made explosion in the pre-atomic era, but it was also the largest mass-blinding in Canadian history and played a crucial role in the founding of the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB).
The Halifax Explosion of 1917
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On 9 October 1867, in Spotted Island Harbour, Labrador, Captain William Jackman secured his vessel ahead of a vicious storm and went ashore to visit his old friend, John Holwell. Before the day ended, events transpired that earned Jackman a place in Newfoundland history — and legend.
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Titanic Tourism Boom
For good or ill, the City of Halifax seems inextricably linked to the tragic April 14, 1912, sinking of the RMS Titanic, which saw 1,522 souls succumb to icy Atlantic waters.
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Moving to the country means you still make money, so how do you decide what business ideas to pursue?
Welcome to Episode 20! This week Liz and I address a caller's question about how to research and decide the best way to make money homesteading.
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What excites you and what do you want to do?
Do you long to grow the best tomatoes and sell directly to leading chefs?
Do you simply want to feed your family?
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At St Francis of Assisi Catholic Primary School we believe that the Catholic faith and its traditions are central to the purpose of our school, whilst recognising and respecting our multi-faith community. Religious Education permeates all areas of school life, in an environment conducive to the development of a personal relationship with God. Our Catholic identity is underpinned by the spirituality and life of St. Francis of Assisi. His example of living God's word through action, and his reverence for all God's creatures and the earth, are qualities we strive to value and imitate at our school.
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master,
grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
RE VISION STATEMENT
At St Francis of Assisi we believe that our loving relationship with God and each other is
nurtured through prayer, scripture and the celebration of our Catholic tradition. As a faith community we embrace the spirit of St Francis recognising God in all living things and being stewards of God's creation. We give witness to the Gospel values which inspire us to respond to our mission to be people of peace, joy, justice andaction. (January 2014)
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION CURRICULUM
St Francis of Assisi Primary School, as part of St. James the Apostle Parish, has the responsibility of developing in each of its members a deep personal commitment to our Catholic faith. As a Catholic School we provide a learning environment which addresses all aspects of education and provides a Christian perspective of life centred on Jesus Christ.
The goals of the Catholic school are to:
Foster a Christian environment, which permeates all aspects of school life;
Bear witness to the love of God for all people;
Draw on students' life experiences thus providing a meaningful context for faith development;
Provide opportunities for the spiritual growth and development of each member of the school community;
Work in partnership with parents and with the parish community.
(Guidelines for Religious Education, CEO Melbourne 1995)
As a Catholic school we are invited to be engaged in the exploration and celebration of the Catholic story in all its richness and diversity through reflection, prayer and action for the good of others and their world.
(Learning Centred Schools: A Sacred Landscape: RE, CEOM 2010). We provide many opportunities for community members to actively engage and gather for prayer, worship and thanksgiving.
Our Religious Education Programme is delivered through the SFA RE Curriculum Framework and is fundamental to all that is taught and learnt at St Francis of Assisi. This is supported by the "Coming to Know, Worship and Love" texts and framework produced by Catholic Education Melbourne.
SACRAMENTAL LIFE OF THE SCHOOL
Central to our faith and therefore to our Religious Curriculum Programme are the sacraments. We focus on three of the Sacraments during the children's time at primary school.
Year 3 children are prepared for the Sacrament of Penance in term 4. The sacrament is celebrated in term 1, when the children are in Year 4. We use the second rite when the children celebrate this sacrament for the first time. This is a communal celebration with individual confession.
The Year 4 children are also prepared for the Sacrament of First Eucharist, which is celebrated later in the year.
Year 6 children are prepared for the Sacrament of Confirmation. The celebration of these Sacraments takes place in the context of the parish community and children and their families are invited to present themselves at the weekend masses or larger group celebration to receive these Sacraments.
In preparing the children we are conscious that the ultimate responsibility for any child's faith development and involvement in sacramental life rests with you as parents. We see our role as one of working in partnership with the family and the parish community to support the growth and development of the child. Each year we conduct family workshops to help make the time of preparation a significant time for the whole family. It is an expectation that parents/carers participate in these workshops.
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The decision to get into drug treatment is a bold step in the road to recovery among people with drug addiction problems. What happens next is you picking out the kind of drug rehab center you must enroll yourself in. There are a lot of addiction programs that are offered in the present but majority of addiction experts conclude that removing the addict away from familiar environments that have exposed them to their addiction problems is the most effective method. On your search for the best one out of the many drug treatment centers in Arizona for you, never fail to remember this matter.
It is best to get the addict away from these familiar grounds because if you leave them be even while on an addiction program, they will not have a hard time slipping back to their bad habits. Basically, most addicts will choose to be treated in either a drug rehab center or a residential treatment facility.
Though residential treatment facilities are also ideal, for most families and drug addicts, they can be quite expensive. But then, for most addicts, they do not have any money to put themselves in these treatment centers; good thing, you have some nonprofit addiction treatment centers where their main goal is to make sure that more addicts are helped by them.
For programs being offered by drug rehab centers, you will selecting one from two different kinds of programs. You have the tailored and non-tailored treatment programs to choose from. For the tailored type of program, this involves working with people who come from the same work, demographic, socioeconomic background, or lifestyle. Take, for example, you have tailor-made programs intended with dealing only with professional athletes, with teenagers, with musicians, or with the elderly all with addiction problems.
When it comes to the programs being offered by the drug treatment centers in Arizona, they are not tailored. Upon looking at the addicts mostly put up in these drug treatment centers, they are the ones that do not have to belong to a certain socioeconomic background or a particular demographic. Christian recovery programs are one example of drug rehab centers that cater to people in all walks of life such as Life Transformation Recovery. According to Life Transformation Recovery, they believe that even the worst of the worst addicts deserve a life that is free from any form of addiction problems. They look into the overall recovery of the addict and do not just focus on the physical but also the mental and spiritual aspects of their addiction problems. With majority of addicts, a successful recover involves accepting that other people also suffer from addiction problems. They can then recover better when they are able to see other people and help them as well as themselves after all the self-blame.


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Young voters live online. That's where politics' future will be
Carolyn DeWitt and Heather Smith
Whether on a subway, a sidewalk or a living room couch, life for millennials is lived in two worlds. There is the physical world around them, but also the online world that exists just out of sight, but must remain squarely in view for political professionals looking to capture and keep their attention.
For anyone aiming to truly move the needle this election cycle, the trick is to greet the largest and most diverse generation of voters in our nation's history in a language they understand, using technology that already feels like home. This means advocating for and facilitating digital opportunities for voter registration and reminders, and using digital engagement to urge action in the physical world of ballot boxes and election events.
The digital world is where the battle for the hearts and minds of a newly powerful generation of voters will begin. Paid ads and earned promotion through social media organizing are different but highly intertwined, and both are much more effective when done in coordination. They are also much more effective when tied to a simple call to action that young people can make – such as registering to vote – immediately and in the moment.
Technology is changing rapidly, so there is constant learning to be done on how to best use new platforms – from Twitter to Snapchat to Medium – and the respective audiences these platforms reach. This includes streamlining messaging to fit it into 140 characters, or an eye-catching image, or a sharable video.
Constant technological innovation has made it easier to target specific audiences, but also significantly harder to contemplate regulation. As a result, the rules around how each platform is used for advertising falls to individual tech giants and the growing field of platforms and social tools.
As these companies decide their policies for regulating data-tracking or content standards and restrictions, what is clear is that these decisions will impact our nation's civic discourse in major ways. Will these companies provide public services to distribute basic information on registering and voting, for instance? Are they fact-checking claims made in candidate attack ads? And can they find ways to promote positive conversation and information on candidates through their policy decisions and engagement priorities? Our research has shown that while negative ads are often more informative, they are also more often muted online.
Is Donald Trump destroying the GOP?
Through rigorous testing of our programs, Rock the Vote has learned that peer-to-peer contact and social pressure is far more effective at convincing a young voter to register and to vote than a broadcast TV ad, mail piece or automated call. We prefer to think of digital advertising and organizing of our audience through digital platforms as a way to bring peer-to-peer programs online, as opposed to a way to show a television ad over the Internet.
This means that is crucial to build a robust list of followers and keep them equipped with intuitive tools and engaging, shareable content. It also means that it will be vital to build strong partnerships with the tech platforms that young people use and trust the most, ensuring that our followers, our celebrity partners, and others can easily amplify our messages. Leveraging the echo chamber online to spur momentum toward voting will be key throughout the fall. This is why, for example, we ramped up online partnerships to urge registration and voting with celebrities like Ty Dolla $ign and Rosario Dawson on platforms ranging from Snapchat to Facebook to Instagram during the party nominating conventions.
The truth is, technology and the ways young adults interact with it are changing much faster than our political consultants and funders can comfortably adjust to – but that doesn't mean we shouldn't push the envelope on how political advertising is done. This means rapid response content, highly engaged online communities and followers, and creative ads that take full advantage of opportunities to organize and reach potential voters through each platform – more than just editing television ads and putting them online.
Millennials are the largest voting bloc in history, and they will be followed by even younger, more tech-savvy generations. They're waiting in the wings to either discard a Luddite political system – or to fully engage and take our democracy to the next level.
Carolyn DeWitt is president of Rock the Vote. Smith is a member of the Rock the Vote board of directors and an independent consultant working on questions of online advertising and civic engagement.


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Imagine a healthy 60-year-outdated male who exercises usually, has a nutritious diet and healthy physique mass index and sleeps at the least eight hours an evening. By our estimate, he might have an extra thirteen years of wholesome living in comparison with his unhealthy counterpart. That's thirteen more years of high quality dwelling with family and family members.
Calories accompany the vitamin in meals, and when you do not expend them all, you may acquire weight. Carrying further weight will increase your danger for coronary heart disease, sort 2 diabetes and most cancers. Your way of life ought to help a relentless healthy weight, so stay energetic day by day. The U.S. Department of Well being and Human Providers outlined the Physical Health Pointers for People, and these guidelines give attention to muscle strengthening exercise, similar to weight lifting, along with cardio exercise, equivalent to walking or running. The guidelines suggest working toward completing 150 hours of exercise every week, however inactive adults should build to this steadily underneath the supervision of their physician. You must also embrace train, corresponding to yoga to improve flexibility.
We all have the power to assist — or harm — people day by day. The folks around Hannah didn't realize how much they had been hurting her, or how they could have helped her. Feedback and actions that seem small might be devastating; kindnesses that seem small could make all of the distinction. If we use this Netflix collection to talk about how we are chargeable for one another, and the way we need to take higher care of each other, it couldn't only assist us be better individuals, it may save lives.
Greens also contain carotene. Carotene is a substance which is converted to Vitamin A within the physique. Vitamin A helps maintain good vision and wholesome skin. Deficiency of Vitamin A can result in poor imaginative and prescient and night time blindness.


Special teams: Phil Dawson kicks his 26th consecutive field goal to extend his franchise record. The usually solid coverage units allow a big return just before the end of the first half that helps set up a Falcons field goal.
Overall: It wasn't the easy victory and carefree celebration fans were hoping for against the four-win Falcons. But the 49ers have wrapped up a playoff berth for the third consecutive season and have won five straight games as the playoffs approach.


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