Radisson hotels just formed a partnership with Southwest Airlines, where you can opt to earn Rapid Reward points instead of Club Carlson points (the points earned when staying at a Radisson and Radisson Blu hotel). Typically, you'd receive 600 points per stay (NOT per night), but through March 31, they are offering double points, so you'll receive 1,200 Southwest Rapid Reward points per stay. The only caveat is that this is only valid for stays in the US and you must check in Sunday through Thursday (Friday and Saturday check ins will not qualify). The terms also state that only NEW reservations will count (starting January 18th), but quite honestly, I am not sure if this will be enforced (if you are going for this promo, might be worth cancelling and rebooking if you can just in case).
Due to the fixed rate of Southwest Rapid Reward points, 1,200 points is worth a cut and dry $20 towards a Southwest "Wanna Get Away" fare. This could be great for those cheap one night stays were you wouldn't earn that many Club Carlson points anyways. With Club Carlson stays, you typically earn 20 points per dollar spent, so figure out the total amount of Club Carlson points you'd earn vs. the 1,200 Southwest points and select the option that works best for you. And remember, through March 15th you'll earn triple Club Carlson points on qualifying stays, so take that into account. I personally use my Southwest points often, so those are much more valuable to me, but it really depends on the person and how you redeem.
To opt for the Southwest points over Club Carlson points, you can give your Southwest Rapid Reward number at check in and give them your earning preference.
This is great for those "have to" trips. I am tracking a lot of buzz on Southwest recently.
Between the triple points and Concierge bonus I get 75 points per dollar (7,500 points for $100 room in DC area). Personally I would have to value that at way more than $20. Having Club Carlson xredit card (free last reward night) makes it any more so.
W/O the triple I could see SW value closer. Or if you don't do Club Carson properties, except when not given a choice, I could see SW choice.


Meth addiction treatment is called for as soon as a user detects withdrawal symptoms. Timely treatment is necessary because crystal methamphetamine takes hold and progresses to devastating consequences quickly. Once meth use stops look for lethargy, excessive sleeping, increased appetite, profound anxiety and depression, and severe lack of focus, and seek help before the drug takes over completely.
A crystal meth high starts immediately on ingestion and can last up to 24 hours. The drug can be injected, snorted or smoked, and it remains in the body longer than most stimulants. Because crystal meth floods the brain with dopamine, which is a neurotransmitter associated with pleasure, users are reluctant to stop using it. In the beginning and for a short period only, the drug helps the user to feel more alert, with more focus and higher energy. Because it's an appetite suppressant, some believe they can use it temporarily to lose weight. Over time, the drug inhibits the natural production of dopamine so severely that depression and hopelessness set in, which the crystal meth user typically tries to remedy with continued use. In the long run, methamphetamine users can lose their teeth, break out in itching sores, and sometimes even hallucinate. Severe paranoia may also set in.
Because withdrawal can be brutal, crystal meth treatment will likely call for professional detoxification as a first step. Detox may require the use of prescription drugs that will ease the intensity of meth withdrawal, and staff should be available around the clock to monitor symptoms and comfort levels. A thorough medical evaluation will help determine whether detox is necessary and what steps to take from there.
Users and their loved ones should seek a treatment center with professionals trained specifically in treatment for meth addiction, as it will differ from heroin addiction treatment, cocaine addiction treatment, or treatment of other commonly used drugs. While the drug experience contains many common elements among users, it's important that those caring for addicted individuals understand an individual's specific drug to engender confidence in the recovery process and a sense of safety in the recovering user.
Residential rehab, where individuals can take the time needed for recovery is a good option in treatment for meth addiction. Here, individuals let go of the old routines associated with their addictive behavior and develop new disciplines and routines to support long-term recovery. Finding a treatment center with a good recovery culture and solid group participation that will help the recovering individual with communication skills, identification of emotional reactions, and a feeling of belonging, is a critical element in the healing process and should be provided throughout the residential and post-treatment phases of recovery.
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What is your opinion on the Health at Every Size (HAES) movement? For those who don't know, it's basically about promoting the idea that people in all shapes and sizes can be healthy. A person's health is independent of their weight. There's a whole online community that's sprung up around it.
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What is your opinion on the Health at Every Size (HAES) movement? For those who don't know, it's basically about promoting the idea that people in all shapes and sizes can be healthy. A person's health is independent of their weight. There's a whole online community that's sprung up around it.
Ready2BMe 0 0 on September 10, 2019
I think the HAES community has helped with some things. I appreciate the notion that all sizes are beautiful and that as a society, we shouldn't be fat shaming others. However, I don't agree at all that health comes in every size. Even if a heavy person manages to escape heart problems, being overweight puts unnecessary strain on the muscles and joints. That causes more pain over time.
I think the HAES community has helped with some things. I appreciate the notion that all sizes are beautiful and that as a society, we shouldn't be fat shaming others. However, I don't agree at all that health comes in every size. Even if a heavy person manages to escape heart problems, being overweight puts unnecessary strain on the muscles and joints. That causes more pain over time.
Mia 0 0 on September 10, 2019
I think most of the HAES influencers are under 40, so it's no surprise that they feel healthy, stay active, and even receive excellent routine lab results. It's often in the 40s and 50s that wear and tear on the body starts to show and health suffers due to the lifestyle. I don't think the HAES paints a realistic picture.
I think most of the HAES influencers are under 40, so it's no surprise that they feel healthy, stay active, and even receive excellent routine lab results. It's often in the 40s and 50s that wear and tear on the body starts to show and health suffers due to the lifestyle. I don't think the HAES paints a realistic picture.
Quill 0 0 on September 12, 2019
HAES has helped push body positivity which I think can help change society's view of obese people; however, sometimes it feels like the HAES community isn't that accepting. I've been shamed by the hive mind before for seeking weight-loss surgery and for wanting to change my body. I feel like there's pressure to not admit that my health suffers because of my obesity too.
HAES has helped push body positivity which I think can help change society's view of obese people; however, sometimes it feels like the HAES community isn't that accepting. I've been shamed by the hive mind before for seeking weight-loss surgery and for wanting to change my body. I feel like there's pressure to not admit that my health suffers because of my obesity too.
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Q: Extra static background with correct scrollable grid view on top of it I have an image adapter in a fragment I have the following code in Image Adapter :
public class ImageAdapter extends BaseAdapter {
    private Context mContext;

    public ImageAdapter(Context c) {
        mContext = c;
    }

    public int getCount() {
        return mThumbIds.length;
    }

    public Object getItem(int position) {
        return null;
    }

    public long getItemId(int position) {
        return 0;
    }

    // create a new ImageView for each item referenced by the Adapter
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        ImageView imageView;
        if (convertView == null) {
            // if it's not recycled, initialize some attributes
            imageView = new ImageView(mContext);
            imageView.setLayoutParams(new GridView.LayoutParams(185, 185));
            imageView.setScaleType(ImageView.ScaleType.CENTER_CROP);
            imageView.setPadding(8, 8, 8, 8);
        } else {
            imageView = (ImageView) convertView;
        }

        imageView.setImageResource(mThumbIds[position]);
        return imageView;
    }

    // references to our images
    private Integer[] mThumbIds = {
            R.drawable.sample_2, R.drawable.sample_3,
            R.drawable.sample_4, R.drawable.sample_5,
            R.drawable.sample_6, R.drawable.sample_7,
            R.drawable.sample_0, R.drawable.sample_1,
            R.drawable.sample_2, R.drawable.sample_3,
            R.drawable.sample_4, R.drawable.sample_5,
            R.drawable.sample_6, R.drawable.sample_7,
            R.drawable.sample_0, R.drawable.sample_1,
            R.drawable.sample_2, R.drawable.sample_3,
            R.drawable.sample_4, R.drawable.sample_5,
            R.drawable.sample_6, R.drawable.sample_7
    };
}

and onCreateView for the fragment is given below:
@Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                             Bundle savedInstanceState) {

        final View rootview=inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_movies, container, false);;

        GridView gridview = (GridView) rootview.findViewById(R.id.moviesgrid);
        gridview.setAdapter(new ImageAdapter(getActivity()));

        gridview.setOnItemClickListener(new AdapterView.OnItemClickListener() {
            public void onItemClick(AdapterView<?> parent, View v,
                                    int position, long id) {
                Toast.makeText(getActivity(), "" + position,
                        Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
            }
        });

        return rootview;
}

Now when I run the project it shows the scrollable grid as desired but it also shows a static grid in the backgreound of the same images that are shown in the scrollable grid. Could you please point out where that extra background is coming from??
Edit 1 for adding XML files:
Please check below the XML for Main Activity :
<fragment xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:id="@+id/fragment"
    android:name="com.example.android.popularmovies.PopularMoviesFragment"
    tools:layout="@layout/fragment_movies"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" />

Please check below the XML for Fragment :
<FrameLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    tools:context=".MainActivity$PPopularMoviesFragment"
    android:id="@+id/fragment_main">
    <GridView xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
        android:id="@+id/moviesgrid"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:columnWidth="145dp"
        android:numColumns="auto_fit"
        android:verticalSpacing="1dp"
        android:horizontalSpacing="1dp"
        android:stretchMode="columnWidth"
        android:gravity="center"/>

</FrameLayout>

I have attached the screenshot of the problem I am facing. Thanks

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Did you get married here? Council reveals what's going to happen next with town's 'idyllic' former register office
The old Newcastle Register Office has been empty since 2018
Kerry AshdownLocal Democracy Reporter
The former register office in Sidmouth Avenue, Newcastle
A former register office is to be converted back into a house - with three five-bedroom homes built in the grounds.
The building has been empty since 2018 when Staffordshire County Council moved its registration service to the nearby Castle House in Newcastle town centre.
It had been converted into offices in the mid-1950s after originally being built as a house around 1870.
Now the Sidmouth Avenue property is to be sold by Newcastle Borough Council with planning permission to convert it into a five-bedroom home or two apartments.
Sidmouth Avenue, Newcastle
Members of the council's cabinet backed the scheme at a meeting this week. It includes getting planning permission to knock down post-1950 building extensions on the site.
And measures are to be brought in to stop the building being converted into multiple flats or bedsits.
A cabinet report states: "In September 2015, the council considered the future of 20 Sidmouth Avenue and resolved to dispose of the site, in its entirety, as a single lot.
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"Subsequently in 2018 members directed that this decision be revisited and requested officers consider alternative options for the site which would enable the value of the site to be enhanced and to exercise some degree of control over its subsequent development to avoid the existing building being developed as a low quality house in multiple occupation (HMO) or bedsits.
"In order to ensure that the site continues to be used for the purpose of single dwelling houses and to prevent the possibility of the site being used as an HMO, commercial or other similar use, it is recommended that any disposal of the site should contain specific restrictive covenants on use which should be registered with the Land Registry.
"The proposal brings a redundant building back into use and will create additional housing."
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Following the meeting, Councillor Paul Northcott, cabinet member for planning and growth, said: "The registry office has been a familiar landmark on the outskirts of Newcastle for many years.
"We have a duty to make sure that the original 19th century building and its residual land is used to its maximum potential by preserving the original residential dwelling on the site and at the same time allowing the creation of some top-quality homes in an idyllic edge-of-town location next to beautiful, open parkland and surrounded by mature trees.
"There will be a covenant on the original building preventing its conversion to an HMO, in order to protect the high-quality, semi-rural nature of the location."
Newcastle Borough Council's new HQ (Image: Stoke Sentinel)
Residents have welcomed the move.
Mabok Nyuon said: "It is a great idea. It would be nice to have it as a house."
Sally Findlow added: "Our house was a HMO when we bought it and we restored it back. It will be a brilliant opportunity."
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import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Enumeration;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
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            getLogger().log(Level.SEVERE, "Can't close SolidFile", ex);
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        SolidFileWriter writer = new SolidFileWriter();
        try {
            for(File root : roots) {
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Council members deepen their relationship with Dia Art Foundation through a series of intimate events, lectures, and travel focused on the collection and curatorial program. Council members provide essential support for Dia's artist commissions, exhibitions, public programs, and special projects.
Dia's Art Council offers members the opportunity to join a community of patrons interested in furthering their connection with the foundation through a program of year-round visits and events, such as domestic trips to Dia's sites and affiliates including the Chinati Foundation, the Dan Flavin Art Institute, and Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty (1970).
For information about Dia's Councils, please contact Alexandra Zigrang at councils@diaart.org or 212 293 5604.
Curator's Council members are offered additional opportunities to engage with Dia's sites and programs through exclusive access to advance reservations for Walter De Maria's The Lightning Field (1977), private dinners with featured artists, and personal tours of Dia's collection.
Leadership Council members are invited to further their engagement with Dia through international trips with Dia's board of trustees and director. Members convene annually for a dinner in New York City with guest speakers who present on a range of topics, including the conservation of Land art, the history of Dia's collection, and the process involved with artist commissions.
The Director's Council underwrites one Dia exhibition or commission each year, enabling the realization of these visionary projects.


It's precisely a 42.6-mile drive from the outskirts of Cold Springs Harbor, New York to the parking lots of MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey and that's exactly where Justin Cooper will be come Saturday, April 27, 2019 when the Monster Energy Supercross Series sets up its big top at the NFL football venue. The hometown race for the sophomore Monster Energy/Yamalube/Star Racing Yamaha, Cooper will also go into the Garden State, the penultimate event of the 250SX East Region, with a full-on shot at the championship. As all of us as fans are now totally aware of, due to Austin Forkner's crash at Nashville, the red East number one plate is now a free for all and Justin Cooper certainly has the speed, drive and determination to win the entire thing come Las Vegas in May. On Wednesday afternoon, Racer spoke with the impressive young charger.
Justin, the heavy topic here is that you're now totally in the hunt for the AMA 250SX East Region Supercross Championship. Did you expect to be before the gate dropped at Nashville last Saturday night?
Honestly, no. It was kind of a surprise to see Austin go out like that. It definitely put a lot of emphasis on the night show and, yeah, it's cool to be in this position now with two races left I'm looking to go fight for it.
Yeah, you've got nothing to lose, huh? You've had an excellent season for being so new to supercross and you've gone out and run up front, why not make a run at it, eh?
Exactly. I've kind of been a podium guy all season. I want to get a win. Another win will get me closer to that championship. I mean the goal right now is just to go out and win the next round. It's my home race and I'm really looking forward to that. It's cool to be in this position and it's looking like it's all going to come down to Las Vegas.
You've been extraordinarily consistent this season for being so new to supercross. Beginning with Minneapolis, you've gone 3-2-4-5-3-3-3 in the races you've lined up for. I mean with the exception of the star-crossed Anaheim 1 opener, you didn't even race in the stadiums in 2018, huh?
Yeah, it's been a crazy turnaround. You're right; I did only do that one Anaheim race last year. Out of seven rounds so far in '19, I've been on the podium in five of the race and I've been in the top five in every race and that's the key. The key is to be consistent and now it's obviously going to come down to getting out front and getting it done. Like I said, it's good to be in this position right now and fighting for the championship.
That big holeshot you pulled at Nashville last Saturday night was declarative, to say the least!
Yeah, I went way to the outside. I was talking to the team about it and they didn't think it was a good idea, but I had a good rut picked out and I was really confident with my starts all day. I knew I just had to get a good jump and it would be mine. And yeah, I killed the start, that's for sure.
Thus far in 2019, your average start has been 7.0 and your average finish is 3.3. What do you think of those two numbers?
We've really been working on all of it. Like I said, I only had that one supercross race last year, so the whole steel grate thing is kind of new to me and it took a little while to figure out. We've been working on the starts a lot, so it's good to see it paying off.
Getting to the Austin Forkner variable that played a major role at the Nashville race how was the vibe within the team before the main event? I mean the Forkner miscue totally threw things wide open, huh?
Yeah, for sure we knew that Austin was struggling. It was out of our control. The only thing I was worried about was going out there and going for the win. That's what I've been searching for all season and I feel like luck just hasn't been on my side. But yeah, we just went into the night show looking to win against whoever was on the line with us.
What did you think of your main event last Saturday? Both you and Chase Sexton both really wanted to win that one, eh?
Yes, I had that first incident on the first lap and then I ended up going down again two laps later. That really was a bummer. But it was a great night for me. It was another really great ride and that's what it's going to take in order to stay in this championship hunt. I'm really happy with my riding and there's no better time to do it than now with two rounds left.
As far as supercross goes, I still sort of look at you as a rookie. To that end, it's been a long time since a young rider as yourself has been able to run so well, and so consistently, on the football gridirons and baseball diamonds.
It's been an awesome season, honestly. It turned into a good base season and now, all of a sudden, it's a championship season. We're going to fight for this championship and it's gonna go down to the wire. It's going to be good.
Can you do it? Can you win it?
For sure. I'm down seven points to Austin. Austin is kind of questionable on whether he will come back or not, but besides all of that, we're all really close. I just want to go out there and try and get that win that I've been looking for and that's where I want to be and that's what it's going to take to win this championship.


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Margaret Hodge's anti-Proms speech was inept and stupid. The Proms are cheap, diverse and popular. Plus, London's new recital hall
by Martin Kettle	/ July 26, 2008 / Leave a comment
In defence of the proms
Margaret Hodge, the culture minister, seems to have been keeping her head down since launching what she proudly described as her "square on" attack on the BBC Proms in a speech to the IPPR on 4th March. Indeed, according to the department of culture, media and sport website, Hodge—who was appointed by Gordon Brown a year ago—gave 14 speeches on the arts before that day and has given none at all since.
The supreme leader—who was quick to say that he was a fan of the Proms—may well have made his displeasure clear to the hapless Hodge by forcing a period of silence on her. While her speech on Britishness and the arts was mostly unexceptionable (as well as unexceptional), it also contained the most bizarrely snotty and ignorant attack on the arts ever made by a minister who is supposed to speak up for them.
In case you missed it, here are Hodge's exact words. (Apologies for her Prescottian English.) "The audiences for many of our greatest cultural events—I'm thinking in particular of the Proms but it is true of many others—is still a long way from demonstrating that people from different backgrounds feel at ease in being part of this."
When the furore about her remarks first exploded, a few apologists tried to pretend that Hodge was talking about the last night of the Proms and its televised Edwardian-era flag-waving. But as the sentence just quoted shows, Hodge's attack was on the Proms as a whole.
A culture minister could probably not have chosen a more inappropriate target in the world of subsidised classical music to chide about access, outreach and multiculturalism. This year's season, which opens on 18th July and continues until September, will have 84 concerts. The programme must have been drawn up long before Hodge made her ill-advised remarks. But like most recent Proms seasons, it stands as a reprimand to her invertedly snobbish silliness.
First, the ticket prices for the Proms are strikingly low. In more than 50 of the concerts, you can get in for £8 or less, while no concert except the last night (which is so popular that they have to put the prices up) costs more than £40 for a stall seat. Compare that with the price of tickets to hear the "non-elitist" band Coldplay this autumn, which range from £65 to £250. A…
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An Evolutionary Tale of Riders and Elephants
April 9, 2015 · by Paul McClure	· in Tough Questions.	·
A helpful, colorful metaphor is something of a rarity in academic writing. Especially in the halls of science, where scholars across disciplines often invoke specialized concepts and technical jargon, the ability to transcend academic conventions and write for a mass audience is increasingly rare. This is exactly why Jonathan Haidt's (pronounced "height") 2012 work, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion seems so impressive.
Haidt, a psychologist who spent 16 years at the University of Virginia before becoming a professor at the NYU-Stern School of Business, sets out to understand the crippling partisan divide that plagues the United States and, by extension, many other industrialized nations. At a time when political gridlock stifles broader public discussions about the common good, Haidt believes that only by understanding our mental, moral, and social makeups can we end put an end to the culture wars and achieve peace. With this ambitious goal in mind, Haidt then introduces us to the rider and the elephant.
Drawing from his research in evolutionary psychology, Haidt believes our moral reasoning is the product of both conscious (rider) and unconscious (elephant) processes. Just as an elephant ultimately dictates where the rider goes, our unconscious habits and preferences largely influence what decisions we make. All of us have evolved to lean towards those things that protect us and promote our tribes, allowing us to survive social worlds that are characteristically Hobbesian—nasty, brutish, and short. Put differently, survival is primary, and all the stuff we think—from morality to metaphysics—is just a means to promote survival.
For all its merits, Haidt's metaphor goes a step too far when it enters metaphysical and moral territory. Unlike the New Atheists, who perceive religion to be a poisonous virus that has somehow outlived its usefulness, Haidt actually has a higher view of religion. Like Robert Putnam, Haidt believes religion provides enormous social benefits to its members. But the real intellectual influence for Haidt is the French sociologist Émile Durkheim. For Durkheim, religion, though functionally useful in binding individuals into social groups and providing a shared set of values and rituals, is ultimately a false attempt to explain reality. Thus, when moral and religious issues surface, Haidt's innovation is to use the insights of Durkheim and evolutionary psychology to say that the metaphysics and morality may be functional, but false.
The problem with this line of thinking, I would suggest, is its prioritizing of survival over truth. On the one hand, Haidt gives us a serious text that probes into the depths of human nature, morality, and religion and attempts to explain how it all works. Haidt clearly believes his account is true and that evolutionary psychology, combined with the insights of Durkheim, explains why people think and behave differently. But then, on the other hand, Haidt undermines his entire argument by saying that truth is simply a handmaiden to survival. If that's the case, is Haidt's argument true? Is anything for that matter ultimately, cosmically true? Or are all moral philosophies and religious systems (and arguments such as Haidt's) simply clever rhetorical instruments intended to help us survive?
Of course, survival of the fittest and the pursuit of truth are not mutually exclusive domains. Our minds and bodies are probably wired to do both. Like a rider atop an elephant, our moral and religious reasoning may in fact be guided more by our intuitions (the elephant) than by rational propositions, doctrines, and truth claims (the rider). But when survival of the fittest becomes the panacean explanation for human behavior and everything else, as Haidt claims, it crowds out the very things we're after in the first place: the desire for peace and the ability to understand our true mental, moral, and social makeups.
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The Arctic is losing ice and gains new islands
Source: Wiesław Ziaja, Krzysztof Ostafin, Jagiellonian University
The Arctic is losing ice as a result of global warming. As many as 34 new islands with an area larger than 0.5 km2 have appeared there since mid-20th century, show the results of an analysis of maps and satellite images carried out by Polish scientists.
Researchers from the Jagiellonian University searched thousands of satellite images (taken since 1972) and Danish, Norwegian, American and Canadian topographical maps of the entire Arctic. It turned out that since mid-twentieth century, 34 new islands with an area of at least 0.5 km2 have been formed in the Arctic.
"These islands do not form because the sea level rises, they form because glaciers are melting in potential straits" - explains the lead researcher, Prof. Wiesław Ziaja from the Institute of Geography and Spatial Management of the Jagiellonian University. Sometimes a glacier is the only thing that connects two land elevations, areas that are above sea level. If the glacier melts, water pours in its place. And the land fragment that was previously part of the coast gets separated - it becomes an island.
"We compared materials from different periods and checked where the glaciers had retreated. The advantage of our research is that we have completed a comprehensive analysis for the entire Arctic" - says research participant Dr. Krzysztof Ostafin.
It turned out that the majority of new islands appeared around Greenland: 22 off its western coasts, and 5 off the east. Three islands appeared around Franz Joseph Land, another three around Novaya Zemlya, and one island formed in the Svalbard archipelago.
"The formation rate of new islands accelerated in the 21st century. For example, three islands formed in the years 2016-2017" - says Dr. Ostafin.
Source: Wiesław Ziaja, Krzysztof Ostafin, Jagiellonian Universit
As part of their research, scientists from the Jagiellonian University also made two expeditions to the southern peninsula of Spitsbergen - Sørkappland. "This peninsula is connected with Spitsbergen by huge glaciers. If these glaciers continue to melt, in a few decades Sørkappland will become one of the largest new islands in the Arctic, with an area exceeding 1,000 km2" - says Prof. Ziaja. Researchers are tracking the shrinking of two glaciers, and extending of two fjords that will form a strait.
The scientist explains that if the climate gets colder, glaciers will rebuild themselves and the new islands will merge with the mainland again. But this situation does not happen anywhere in the Arctic right now.
"The formation of new islands can be of economic importance - new straits can change the optimal routes between different points and, for example, shorten the time of sea travel" - notes Dr. Ostafin.
Professor Ziaja notes that virtually all new Arctic islands are deserted. But this does not mean that they are not inhabited. "The shrinking of glaciers is certainly conducive to the expansion of life. Grass will not grow on a glacier, but if the glacier melts, plants and animals will gradually move to the area" - he points out.
Professor Ziaja explains that the time of geographical discoveries has passed and the discoverers of new islands do not have the right name them. "Names are given by the local authorities, and the islands often inherit the name of the peninsula that they once were" - he says.
The results of the study were published in the journal Ambio. The research project was financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation.
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"""Support for IKEA Tradfri."""
import logging

import voluptuous as vol

from homeassistant import config_entries
from homeassistant.const import EVENT_HOMEASSISTANT_STOP
import homeassistant.helpers.config_validation as cv
from homeassistant.util.json import load_json

from .const import (
    CONF_IMPORT_GROUPS, CONF_IDENTITY, CONF_HOST, CONF_KEY, CONF_GATEWAY_ID)

from . import config_flow  # noqa  pylint_disable=unused-import

REQUIREMENTS = ['pytradfri[async]==6.0.1']

_LOGGER = logging.getLogger(__name__)

DOMAIN = 'tradfri'
CONFIG_FILE = '.tradfri_psk.conf'
KEY_GATEWAY = 'tradfri_gateway'
KEY_API = 'tradfri_api'
CONF_ALLOW_TRADFRI_GROUPS = 'allow_tradfri_groups'
DEFAULT_ALLOW_TRADFRI_GROUPS = False

CONFIG_SCHEMA = vol.Schema({
    DOMAIN: vol.Schema({
        vol.Optional(CONF_HOST): cv.string,
        vol.Optional(CONF_ALLOW_TRADFRI_GROUPS,
                     default=DEFAULT_ALLOW_TRADFRI_GROUPS): cv.boolean,
    })
}, extra=vol.ALLOW_EXTRA)

async def async_setup(hass, config):
    """Set up the Tradfri component."""
    conf = config.get(DOMAIN)

    if conf is None:
        return True

    configured_hosts = [entry.data['host'] for entry in
                        hass.config_entries.async_entries(DOMAIN)]

    legacy_hosts = await hass.async_add_executor_job(
        load_json, hass.config.path(CONFIG_FILE))

    for host, info in legacy_hosts.items():
        if host in configured_hosts:
            continue

        info[CONF_HOST] = host
        info[CONF_IMPORT_GROUPS] = conf[CONF_ALLOW_TRADFRI_GROUPS]

        hass.async_create_task(hass.config_entries.flow.async_init(
            DOMAIN, context={'source': config_entries.SOURCE_IMPORT},
            data=info
        ))

    host = conf.get(CONF_HOST)
    import_groups = conf[CONF_ALLOW_TRADFRI_GROUPS]

    if host is None or host in configured_hosts or host in legacy_hosts:
        return True

    hass.async_create_task(hass.config_entries.flow.async_init(
        DOMAIN, context={'source': config_entries.SOURCE_IMPORT},
        data={CONF_HOST: host, CONF_IMPORT_GROUPS: import_groups}
    ))

    return True

async def async_setup_entry(hass, entry):
    """Create a gateway."""
    # host, identity, key, allow_tradfri_groups
    from pytradfri import Gateway, RequestError  # pylint: disable=import-error
    from pytradfri.api.aiocoap_api import APIFactory

    factory = APIFactory(
        entry.data[CONF_HOST],
        psk_id=entry.data[CONF_IDENTITY],
        psk=entry.data[CONF_KEY],
        loop=hass.loop
    )

    async def on_hass_stop(event):
        """Close connection when hass stops."""
        await factory.shutdown()

    hass.bus.async_listen_once(EVENT_HOMEASSISTANT_STOP, on_hass_stop)

    api = factory.request
    gateway = Gateway()

    try:
        gateway_info = await api(gateway.get_gateway_info())
    except RequestError:
        _LOGGER.error("Tradfri setup failed.")
        return False

    hass.data.setdefault(KEY_API, {})[entry.entry_id] = api
    hass.data.setdefault(KEY_GATEWAY, {})[entry.entry_id] = gateway

    dev_reg = await hass.helpers.device_registry.async_get_registry()
    dev_reg.async_get_or_create(
        config_entry_id=entry.entry_id,
        connections=set(),
        identifiers={
            (DOMAIN, entry.data[CONF_GATEWAY_ID])
        },
        manufacturer='IKEA',
        name='Gateway',
        # They just have 1 gateway model. Type is not exposed yet.
        model='E1526',
        sw_version=gateway_info.firmware_version,
    )

    hass.async_create_task(hass.config_entries.async_forward_entry_setup(
        entry, 'light'
    ))
    hass.async_create_task(hass.config_entries.async_forward_entry_setup(
        entry, 'sensor'
    ))
    hass.async_create_task(hass.config_entries.async_forward_entry_setup(
        entry, 'switch'
    ))

    return True


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Cooking up a storm online and on TV
Staff and students from Westminster Kingsway College have been online and TV stars recently, with Chef Lecturer Miranda Godfrey lending her expertise to a Channel 5 documentary, and Head of Faculty for Hospitality, Culinary Arts and Business, Terry Tinton blogging about our unique Young Chef's Academy Saturday school.
Inside the Savoy on Channel 5
WestKing's highly-regarded School of Hospitality and Culinary Arts in Victoria was co-founded over 100 years ago by the French culinary legend Auguste Escoffier. Before he helped create our culinary school, Escoffier had been drafted in by world-famous Hotelier Cesar Ritz to improve the kitchens and the quality of the food served in his new Savoy hotel in London. Escoffier introduced a military-style discipline and allocation of roles to the Savoy – transforming the kitchens (and the Savoy's fortunes) and laying the foundations for the way pretty much all modern restaurant kitchens work today.
The Channel 5 series Inside The Savoy: London's Most Famous Hotel, pays tribute to Escoffier's role in revolutionizing the Savoy's dining experience and for the programme the programme makers interviewed Westminster Kingsway Chef Lecturer Miranda Godfrey and filmed our students in action at our School of Hospitality and Culinary Arts.
Miranda in Channel 5's Inside the Savoy
Miranda has known food historian Dr. Annie Gray – who also features in the Channel 5 programme – for about a year, since they collaborated on a BBC Two programme about Queen Victoria's wedding to Prince Albert. Miranda told us: "Annie recommended they [the programme makers] come and film me and our students. At that point the producer didn't know the association of Escoffier with the college, so they were very keen to get this included.
"It's all very exciting as I have learnt so much, but also been able to include students and enhance their knowledge of culinary history."
You can watch the whole programme on My5, Channel 5's catch-up service – the part that features Auguste Escoffier, Miranda and the college starts at 14 mins 30 seconds.
Miranda is also set to feature in a new one-off ITV documentary – Victoria's Palace, to be broadcast on ITV, on Monday 13 May at 9pm. in the programme, Trevor McDonald and Julie Etchingham will "…discover how Queen Victoria transformed Buckingham Palace from an unloved, unfinished and unfurnished building into the home of Monarchy."
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Meanwhile, in his blog Cooking Up a Career at Westminster Kingsway College on the Edge Foundation website, our Head of Faculty for Hospitality, Culinary Arts and Business, Terry Tinton writes about our Young Chef's Academy course for school-age children. Since it started in 2003, the Academy has given 900 young people the ideal grounding in the culinary arts and for many has been their introduction to a successful career in the industry.
As Terry explains in the blog: "We hear so much about graduates being unemployed or over-qualified in the jobs they are doing – this is not the case for the graduating chefs on our full-time courses because they all go on to have fulfilling and lucrative careers."
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Chilon (gr. Χείλων) – starożytny grecki zapaśnik pochodzący z Patraj, olimpijczyk.

Syn Chilona. Odnosił zwycięstwo w zapasach na wszystkich czterech igrzyskach panhelleńskich: dwukrotnie w Delfach, czterokrotnie na Istmie, trzy razy w Nemei oraz dwukrotnie, w 332 i 328 roku p.n.e., w Olimpii. Zgodnie z relacją Pauzaniasza (Wędrówka po Helladzie VI 4,6) w Altis znajdował się posąg Chilona, na którym znajdowała się inskrypcja upamiętniająca jego zwycięstwa sportowe i śmierć na polu walki. Pauzaniasz nie potrafił jednak określić, czy chodziło o bitwę pod Cheroneą (338 p.n.e.) czy o wojnę lamijską (322 p.n.e.). Po śmierci został pochowany przez rodaków na koszt publiczny.

Przypisy

Starożytni Grecy
Starożytni olimpijczycy

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\section{Introduction}

A number of studies (e.g. \cite{Bringle99, Scott07, Westberg01,
  Kori14}) have found metacognitive reflection and journaling to
increase student performance and understanding. These need not be
directly related to content; Mason \cite{Mason15} found that students
who set specific goals about future growth, identified theory and
tools to achieve these goals, and reflected regularly on progress
toward those goals demonstrated greater well-being and large
improvements in overall grades. Journals can encourage students to
reflect on their beliefs, thoughts, and actions, in the process
increasing self-efficacy and important sense of self.

Reflections in a classroom setting can be either {\it guided} by
explicit questions or prompts \cite{Dounas-Frazer15} or
unguided. Unstructured journals run the risk of being used as a simple
log book or checklist, \cite{Boud98, Prinsloo11} or subject to student
beliefs that affective or personal reflections are inappropriate in an
academic setting. Guided reflections may help students increase their
reflective sophistication; Kori \cite{Kori14} found that, after
working through a scaffolded reflection that built upon each step of
an experiment, students moved from simpler descriptions to more
sophisticated justifications and critiques of their experimental
methods and analyses.

There have been few attempts to systematically characterize guided or
unguided journals, and virtually no attempts to compare the
two. Dounas-Frazer and Reinholz \cite{Dounas-Frazer15} developed an
online {\it Guided Reflection Form} that encourages specific
reflections on weekly content. In addition, they developed a rubric
for codifying student statements, finding students forthcoming with
simple narrative statements but struggling to articulate concrete
plans to overcome setbacks. Kori \cite{Kori14} developed a similar
categorization scheme for his work on elementary and high-school
student responses to open-ended, yet prompted questions, although his
work was limited to students' understanding of their reasoning process
and did not include personal or non-academic experiences.

\section{Study Design}
\subsection{Instructional Contexts}
Guided Reflection Forms (GRFs), adapted from \cite{Dounas-Frazer15}
were completed weekly by forty-one first-year STEM majors taking the
introductory level ``Metacognitive Approaches to Scientific Inquiry''
({\it Metacognition}) and thirty-eight physics and engineering majors
enrolled in the sophomore-level ``Vibrations \& Waves'' ({\it V\&W})
course. GRFs prompt students to answer a series of three questions:
\begin{enumerate}
\item Describe an experience from the past week that you would like to
    improve upon in the future,
\item Select strategies that you used to overcome the difficult
  situation, and
\item Describe how you would improve upon the experience in the
  future.
\end{enumerate}

Over the course of the semester, this yielded 399 individual
submissions from the Fall 2015 section of {\it Metacognition} and 271
submissions from the Spring 2016 section of {\it V\&W}. Each
submission received a personal e-mail response from the instructor
that affirmed the student's reflections and offered suggestions and
resources to help the student implement the desired improvements.

The {\it Metacognition} students were all first-generation or
deaf/hard of hearing incoming STEM majors taking part in a program,
Integrating Metacognitive Processes and Research to Ensure Student
Success (IMPRESS), \cite{Franklin17} designed to increase
retention. The course introduces students to a variety of
metacognitive and affective topics including mindset, self-assessment,
stereotype threats, and the impacts of micro- and
macro-aggressions. The course is co-taught by an environmental
scientist and a physicist (the last author); the physicist also taught
{\it V\&W}.  {\it V\&W} is taught in an active learning setting, and
covers traditional content from \cite{French}.

The IMPRESS program includes a two-week summer program for
deaf/hard-of-hearing (DHH) and first generation incoming STEM
majors. Twenty participants conduct experiments and develop models for
climate change as context for exploring and developing metacognitive
and reflective practices. Journals from IMPRESS 2014 and 2015 were
examined as part of this study. In 2014, journals were unguided, with
students only shown examples of topics they could write about. In
2015, students were shown the following set of questions, adapted from
the Guided Reflection Forms:

\begin{itemize}
\item What do you think you learned about thinking style during this
  exercise?
\item What mental resources did you use during the exercise?
\item Think of a specific mental skill you could improve on that would
  you in this exercise.
\item Describe the kinds of skills you think would help you make the
  above improvements.
\item What strategies did you notice your classmates using?
\item How did you group members' strategies impact your approach to
  the problem?
\end{itemize}
\noindent The 2014
Students completed their journals each evening in a diary-style
notebook (e.g. not a lab notebook). Importantly, they did not have the
prompts in front of them when responding. As a result, students took
different approaches to completing their journals. Some would number
each response and answer in order, while others wrote complete
paragraphs that integrated their responses to all the questions.
Students did not receive feedback on their journals in either year.

For our study, 2014 IMPRESS journals are considered {\it unguided},
2015 journals are {\it partially guided}, and GRFs the most guided of
the three methods examined.

\section{Guided Reflections}

GRF submissions were randomly scrambled to prevent the possibility of
bias, with all name, date and course data removed. Two researchers
separately coded each statement by the coding rubric developed by
\cite{Dounas-Frazer15} (see Table~\ref{GRFcode}). Together, these
categories accounted for 40\% of all student statements in both {\it
  Metacognition} and {\it V\&W}.

\begin{table}
\caption{GRF analysis codes developed in \cite{Dounas-Frazer15}}
\label{GRFcode}
\begin{tabular}{| l | l |}
\hline
{\bf Coding Category} & {\bf Description} \\ \hline
{\it Narrative} & literal descriptions of events \\ \hline
{\it Growth} & broad goals for improvement \\ \hline
{\it Action} & specific goals/steps for improvement \\ \hline
{\it Achievement} & specific desired achievements \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

GRF codes were entered into NVivo, and an Inter-Rater Reliability test
conducted. Given the low coding density per response, a Kappa
coefficient within the range of 0.4-0.7 was considered satisfactory,
with $\kappa >0.7$ representing nearly perfect agreement. Any
categories with $\kappa <0.6$ were discussed until an agreement was
reached. When all the GRFs were considered together, $\langle \kappa \rangle = 0.6$, an acceptable
value for data with low coding density.\cite{kappa}

\subsection{Analysis: coding}

The first comparison is between the guided reflections of incoming
STEM majors in the Metacognition course with the second-year physics
majors in Vibrations \& Waves. A t-test of the frequency of coded
statements by week and across the entire semester revealed no
statistically significant differences between the two sets of
statements.

The distribution of coded statement frequency in the two groups is
shown in Fig.~\ref{fig1}. Both groups of student reflections are
dominated by narrative statements, which make up almost 60\% of all
coded statements. This is followed by broad growth statements, which
comprise almost 30\% of all statements. Very few of the statements
($<20\%$) are either specific action or achievement statements. This
supports the more general conclusion that students prefer to
articulate less specific goals and narratives and struggle to generate
concrete plans to address obstacles that arise.

\begin{figure}
\begin{center}
\includegraphics[width=3.5in]{comparison.jpg}
\end{center}
\caption{Frequency of sentences of different types, normalized by
  total number of coded sentences. The introductory level {\it
    Metacognition} course and the sophomore-level {\it Vibrations \&
    Waves} physics course show nearly identical prevalence of
  narrative statements and scarcity of Action statements.}
\label{fig1}
\end{figure}

There is evidence that GRF prompts elicit the desired types of
responses.  87\% of responses to the prompts "Is there anything else
that you would like to share," and "Describe a specific experience
from last week that you would like to improve upon" were Narrative
statements. Similarly, 81\% of responses to the prompts "Comment on
your experience using these resources last week" and "Describe an
aspect of this experience that you can improve in the future" were
goal statements. Action and Achievement statements are seen in roughly
equal proportion in response to goal-inducing questions. These results
are comparable to those seen in \cite{Dounas-Frazer15}.

\subsection{Analysis: Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC)}

In recent years, computerized linguistic analysis, in which
collections of text are compared with established lexicons, has become
more accessible. Tausczik and Pennbaker \cite{Tausczik2010} have
created an online tool, the Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC)
\cite{LIWC} that automates the procedure. LIWC draws on dominant
theories in psychology, business and medicine to correlate language
with psychological state. It thus allows the researcher to
characterize text by emotion, thinking style and social concerns.

We analyzed all student reflections with LIWC to see if the coding
rubric could be characterized with distinct LIWC ``fingerprints.''
Three LIWC categories --- Analytical Thinking, Authenticity and
Emotional Tone --- showed statistically significant differences across
categories. Analytical thinking reflects the degree of formality,
logic and hierarchical thinking. Authenticity evaluates the degree of
honesty, personal investment and disclosure. Emotional tone is
correlated with style: positive, upbeat language is characterized as a
high emotional tone, while anxiety, sadness or hostility receives a
lower score. (A fourth category, Clout, reflecting confidence and
expertise was not present in our data.) Each category is rated on a
scale from 0-100, with 50 representing neutrality.

\begin{table}
\caption{LIWC category scores for statements coded as Narrative,
  Growth, Action and Achievement. Shaded boxes indicate scores
  significantly different from the overall mean. Each code has a
  distinct combination of LIWC category scores, validating the coding
  as unique and differentiable.}
\label{table1}
\begin{tabular}{| l | c | c | c|}
\hline
{\bf Coding Category}& {\bf Analytic}& {\bf Authenticity}& {\bf Tone}
\\ \hline
{\bf Narrative} & \cellcolor{gray!25}53 & 96 & \cellcolor{gray!25}24 \\ \hline
{\bf Growth} & 68 & 90 & 71 \\ \hline
{\bf Action} & 69 & 99 & \cellcolor{gray!25}43 \\ \hline
{\bf Achievement} & 72 & \cellcolor{gray!25}67 & 71 \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

Table~\ref{table1} shows the LIWC coding score for the collective
statements in the four categories, and suggests the following
classifications. Narrative statements are marked by a slightly lower
Analytic score, as they are more personal recollections, and a
distinctly lower (more negative) Tone. This is explained through the
GRF prompt, which asks students to reflect on events or situations
that they would like to improve. While the Narrative fingerprint has
an obvious interpretation, the others are less intuitive. Action
statements are characterized by lower Tone, although not as low as the
Narratives, which suggests that students either are unsure of how to
proceed or are pessimistic at their chances of successfully taking
these actions. Achievement statements, which put forth specific and
desired achievements, have similar reason and tone as others, but
lower authenticity scores. This is quite surprising, and suggests
students struggle to articulate genuine goals. Finally, Growth
statements, which are broader, less specific goals, are characterized
by generally positive scores on all sub-categories.

\section{Partially Guided and Unguided journals}

Shifting attention from the formal classroom, we now look at student
journals from the two-week pre-matriculation summer experience. Twenty
journals from each of two year's (2014 \& 2015) experiences were
collected. Journal entries from the summer focused on metacognitive
aspects of student experiences and reflections, with less attention
paid to overcoming setbacks and long-term goals. The GRF coding rubric
was modified to account for the different reflections seen in the
journals.  As part of this process, two researchers coded journal
entries using the existing GRF scheme and then discussed the
suitability and made agreed-upon changes.

The characterization scheme was also inspired by \cite{Kori14}, whose
scheme forms a loose hierarchy of metacognitive sophistication. Codes
are shown in Table~\ref{jcode}, ordered in increasing
sophistication.  Unguided and partially guided journals resulted in a
much wider range of topics than the formal GRFs, and may include
discussions of other people's approaches or the program activity. To
account for these different statements, the new coding scheme is
considerably broader than that applied to GRFs.

\begin{table}
\caption{Coding rubric for unguided and semi-guided journals, in order
  of nominally increasing metacognitive sophistication.}
\begin{tabular}{| l | p{2.25in} |}
\hline {\bf Coding Category} & {\bf Description}
\\ \hline\label{jcode} {\it Description} & narration of an activity
accompanied by little to no opinions or evaluations \\ \hline {\it
  Logic/rationale} & explicit or implied statements of why a strategy
or approach was chosen \\ \hline
{\it Evaluation} & opinions of an activity or
choice of strategy, accompanied with backing reasons \\ \hline
{\it
  Discussion} & describing alternative solutions \\ \hline
{\it Patterns of thought} & metacognitive descriptions of mental
patterns or strengths or weaknesses \\ \hline
\end{tabular}
\end{table}

The journals were coded in the same manner as the GRFs--- each
researcher coding two thirds --- with an average Kappa coefficient of
0.82 for the 2014 journals and 0.63 for the 2015 journals.

\subsection{Analysis}
For the 2014 journals, students were given no explicit instructions in
what to write. In 2015, students were given prompts adapted from the
GRFs. Perhaps not surprising, the 2015 journals were shorter and more
focused than the 2014 journals. While many students wrote lengthy
reflections including many anecdotal stories of life outside of the
IMPRESS program in 2014, the same was not true in 2015. In addition to
being shorter, the 2015 journals contained a statistically significant
smaller proportion coded statements.

The fraction of Narrative statements in the 2015 journals is also
lower than that in the 2014 journals (47\% vs. 65\%). Descriptive
statements are objective recollections of events, and are thus
analogous with GRF Narrative statements. Recalling that 58\% of
statements in the formal GRFs were Narrative, it is surprising that
that the journal prompts produce a result significantly different from
the GRFs. The 2015 journals also contains more Evaluation, Patterns of
Thought and Discussion statements, and fewer Logic statements.

There is evidence that the student journals from both sets are
considerably richer than the classroom GRFs. More than 80\% of
journals (in both sets) contained statements that were coded in four
of the five five categories, and 60\% had statements that encompassed
all five categories. Conversely, only 50\% of GRFs had statements in
at least three of the four categories, and only 4\% had statements in
all four. The explicit prompts in the Guided Reflection Forms, perhaps
combined with the explicit classroom framing, resulted in reflections
that were more constrained and less personal.

\section{Conclusions}

In this paper, we have examined different methods at encouraging
student reflections. We find that online Guided Reflection Forms are
successful at eliciting reflections, with little difference seen in
courses of different level or student population. Prompts succeed in
helping students focus, stay on topic, and engage in metacognitive
reflection.

Online GRFs present are an efficient mechanism to prompt, collect and
respond to student reflections. Nevertheless, large-scale analysis and
synthesis remains time-consuming. We apply a new tool to this task,
Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) discourse analysis, and find
that the previously developed and validated codes can be uniquely
characterized. Different codes are captured by distinctly different
affective words, varying in degree of formality, personal investment,
and tone. LIWC makes it possible to now study a variety of new,
interesting questions, such as changes in student reflection and
emotional state (as reflected in GRFs) over the course of a semester,
year or academic career.

Journals outside the formal classroom environment, particularly when
unguided, produce a different type of reflection, one considerably
more diverse in types of statements. Unguided journals are longer,
with students exploring a wider range of topics and, surprisingly,
giving more narration. In both formal and informal environments,
prompts are effective at focusing student reflections to desired
topics, and open the possibility for online scaffolding exercises that
lead to greater metacognitive awareness and associated curricular
gains.

Future work could proceed along two different directions. A key
feature of GRFs is timely and personalized instructor feedback. This
feedback is also a rich data set that can be analyzed for linguistic
characteristics. Correlating the nature of instructor feedback with
subsequent student submissions can provide guidance for instructors
looking to improve student metacognition. Separately, student
reflections can be compared with classroom performance to look
directly for a link between metacognitive sophistication and content
learning.

\acknowledgments{We gratefully acknowledge many useful discussions
  with Eleanor Sayre and members of PEER-Rochester, part of the
  Professional development for Education Researchers series. Dimitri
  Dounas-Frazer and Daniel Reinholz first brought GRFs to our
  attention, and provided support and advice as this project
  developed. We are grateful for the support we received from student
  and faculty participants in RIT's REU in DBER Modeling who provided
  guidance and support. Finally, we acknowledge support from the
  National Science Foundation DUE \#1359262 and DUE \#1317450.}

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