Aldi has launched its own Majestic-style wine education scheme.

The discounter has unveiled an online Aldiploma it claims will help shoppers better choose wines suited to their palate.

The course consists of six online modules and video tutorials starring its Mistress of Wine, Sam Caporn.

Aldi was known for its affordable, great-quality wines so this creates the perfect platform to help consumers try new things and gain the perfect introduction to the world of wine, said Caporn.

Aldi cited a survey of 2,000 drinkers by agency Sapio, which reported 63% of respondents were baffled by supermarket wine aisles, while 92% said they had bluffed about having greater wine knowledge to impress others.

It comes just weeks after the more upmarket Majestic Wine made headlines with the launch of wine fitting stations across its store estate. Customers can sample eight wines to develop a wine profile Majestic will use to recommend wines more accurately suited to them.

Majestic is giving away a free bottle to all existing customers who take part.

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On June 26, an article at a website that writes about politics wrongly claimed three migrants were being held at the United States southern border with an unknown disease. The only quotes about the claim came from an unnamed medical professional. Daniel Funke decided to dig deeper. Government border officials had no record of the supposed disease outbreak, this PolitiFact fact-checker found. Nor did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Ga.

With no evidence to back up the claim, PolitiFact rated this story false. By then, however, other websites had repeated the bogus charge. Many people also shared it on social media.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta has used this photo in tweets and publications. Another website used the photo in a misleading way to make unfounded claims about immigrants. PolitiFact rated that story False.

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It was a lie. And spreading it would likely fuel fear of refugees who hope to escape violence in their home countries.

New research sheds light on who shares made-up or fake news. Another study shows how hard it can be to spot made-up news. Additional projects explore how we can all be better fact-checkers.

In short, do your own online search before sharing something, especially if it makes an astounding claim, Funke says. Look for facts reported by credible news outlets that either back up or refute the central claims in the story at hand.

Credible news outlets generally have a reputation for truthful and accurate reporting. They identify specific sources of their information. And they follow a code of ethics that calls for honesty, corrections of errors and more. Websites that merely repeat the same claim as another websites article sometimes word-for-word dont count. And, Funke cautions, when in doubt, always think before you share.

The stakes of misinformation and fake news are so high, says Laeeq Khan. He heads the Social Media Analytics Lab at Ohio University in Athens. For instance, he notes, sharing something thats not true can cost people their lives. Last year, people in India used a messaging app, WhatsApp, to spread fake stories about a kidnapping ring. The lies fueled anti-Muslim mobs. Violent attacks followed in which people died.

Fake-news stories hurt people in other ways, too. False reports lead some parents to refuse vaccines for their children. Yet without vaccines, children can get deadly diseases. False stories about birth control can result in unplanned pregnancies or illness. Made-up stories about ethnic groups can lead to more discrimination.

Fake news can even hurt people who arent its target. About seven in 10 Americans were telling us that [fake news] has a big impact on the confidence in our government institutions, says Jeffrey Gottfried. Hes a journalism and media-research expert at Pew Research Center in Washington, D.C. Researchers there asked a sample of people in the United States about the effects of made-up news. The groups report came out on June 5, 2019.

Just a click is all it takes to share information on social media sites. About half the people in a recent survey said they had shared false information online, a Pew Research Center report says.

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One survey question asked what types of changes people made in response to the problem of made-up news. Roughly four in 10 of those people said they had cut back on how much news they got. And, the survey found, the less closely that people follow political matters such as elections, lawmaking or policy debates the more likely they were to cut back on news. That can be dangerous. The less people know about current events, the less likely theyll be able to make informed choices about public matters.

Nearly eight in 10 people in the Pew survey said they have checked the facts of news stories. Yet it seems they didnt do that all of the time. About half of them still wound up sharing some made-up news. What it suggests is that the American public is playing a large role in this dissemination of made-up news and information, Gottfried says. Theyre part of the process.

Most of the surveyed people who shared false claims said they didnt realize it at the time. Basically, they fell for a hoax. But one in every 10 people in the Pew survey said they had they shared a story they had known was false. About half wanted to point out the falsehood. The rest thought something about the story was entertaining. Or they liked what it said. Some just wanted to start a discussion.

But people who do that dont help, says journalist Damaso Reyes. Theyre muddying the water, he argues. Reyes works for the News Literacy Project in New York City. Sharing a bogus story makes it harder for people to tell whats real. And when people find out a story is false, they may not trust other information from a person who spread it. We want to live in a fact-based world, he says.

Different factors affect whos more likely to share fake news. Khan at Ohio University and a colleague surveyed almost 400 people in Indonesia. That southeast Asian country ranks among the top five for users of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and WhatsApp. Fake news also has been a problem during its political campaigns.

Less-educated people were more likely to think they were good at spotting false claims on their own, the team learned. People with more education and better internet skills were less likely to share things without checking them out first. And knowing how to find out if a story is true was the most important skill. The earlier you start, the better, Khan says.

Nobody should feel bad that they arent experts in evaluating information. We found really smart adults who struggled, says Sarah McGrew. She and Sam Wineburg are education researchers at Stanford University in California. In one study, the two observed 25 college students, 10 historians with doctorate degrees and 10 professional fact-checkers. All 45 had been asked to evaluate information from certain websites. Some sites had been created by reputable organizations. Others were sites for extremist groups or firms that were paid to promote a particular view.

Overall, the college students did worst. For example, 60 percent of them thought information about bullying from an anti-gay group was more reliable than that from the American Academy of Pediatrics. In fact, AAP is the more reliable source.

The historians did little better. One went with the anti-gay website. Four said it and the AAP website were equally reliable, when that wasnt the case.

In contrast, all the fact-checkers figured out that the AAP site was reliable, and not the anti-gay website. They also took less time to decide on their answers. Wineburg and McGrew published their working paper online in 2017.

A warning (lower right) shows that fact-checkers dispute this hoax claim in a sample story used in a study about fake news.

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Some websites try to help readers by rating the overall quality of different news publications. Some social-media sites also try to flag posts that might be false. But those systems arent perfect. So we all need to make our own judgments, Khan and Reyes say.

First, ask where the information youre reading comes from, McGrew says. The fact-checkers in her teams study looked at the website where a story appeared and who wrote it. They opened a new tab and checked out the organization and its sponsors. So, for example, the anti-gay groups own website claims it is an organization of healthcare professionals dedicated to the health and well-being of children. Yet a quick Google search showed the Southern Poverty Law Center has found its a hate group.

Then the fact-checkers went back to read the websites content. All publications and authors have a point of view, McGrew notes. You need to recognize that perspective and keep it in mind as youre reading.

Make sure, too, that you know if something is a news story, an opinion piece, an ad or something else, Reyes says. Read through the whole article to decide. An opinion piece basically argues for or against some policy position. It might cite some facts to support its position. But some pieces then try to present their opinions as if they were facts, when theyre not.

And beware of sneaky tactics. Some shady websites try to masquerade as legitimate news sources. Some stories use emotional tricks to make bogus claims appear believable. For example, the false story about immigrants at the border aimed to spark fear with its lie. And some people are less likely to stop and question claims if they feel afraid.

Sander van der Linden is a social psychologist at the University of Cambridge in England. Jon Roozenbeek is a graduate student there. Their team recently created an online game called Bad News. It challenges players to use different tricks that are common in fake news. Players earn badges for pretending they are other people or disguising themselves as legitimate websites. In addition to such impersonation, they also can get those badges for appealing to emotions, spouting conspiracy claims and other tactics.

This screenshot comes from the online game Bad News. Players make believe theyre running a real news site. Each players real goal is to promote fake news. The games creators hope players will be better able to spot fake news sites tricks.

Data collected from adult players suggest that playing the game helps people get better at spotting such tricks when others use them, such as in fake tweets. After the game, players had to judge the reliability of different tweets. The scale went from 1 to 7. Lower scores marked less reliable information. The average rating for tweets that used impersonation went down seven-tenths of a point. Average reliability ratings for conspiracy claims fell by half a point. Ratings also fell for tweets that tried to discredit experts or blame others.

Those shifts can be quite meaningful when added up across the population, says van der Linden. Think about it this way: The United Kingdoms 2016 decision to leave the European Union came down to just a 4 percent difference in votes (with 52 percent voting to leave and 48 percent voting to remain). If any of the voters were misled by fake news and if that could have been prevented, that matters!

What we hoped to achieve [with our game] is making people think before they believe something or share it with others, Roozenbeek says. His team published its results in Palgrave Communications on June 25, 2019.

Some websites might look like their information comes from a trusted group of experts. They might quote people with advanced degrees (such as a PhD or M.D.). And groups might say they have a broad educational or other helpful purpose. Those features tripped up some college students and professors in Wineburg and McGrews study at Stanford. On its own, the anti-gay groups website looked fine. But the professional fact-checkers in the Stanford study looked beyond the website itself. So should you.

What do other sources say? McGrew asks. One strength of the internet is that there are always other sources to turn to. A claim is likely more believable if you can verify it across multiple reliable sources. For instance, you might double-check claims about health by going to websites for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the American Academy of Pediatrics, the National Academy of Medicine, federal health agencies, universities and well-known hospitals.

Professional fact-checkers also dont just click on the first hits that come up in their online searches. They have click restraint. They scroll through pages of results and scan the short sentences shown for each hit. That helps them judge which to read first, McGrew says.

She, Wineburg and others tested those techniques in a semester-long college class on critical thinking. Critical thinking combines fact finding, reasoning and a questioning attitude to form independent judgments, instead of just accepting arguments from others at face value. Teachers taught those topics to all the students in the study. Half the students also got two 75-minute lessons on fact-checking. They learned how to check online claims of facts and how to judge the reliability of the sources of those claims.

Before and after taking the Stanford course, all groups took a test in which they rated the factual reliability of online material. After the course, average scores for students who had the fact-checking classes went up about two out of ten points. Scores for students who didnt have the fact-checking lessons barely changed. Still, all of the classes showed lots of room to improve. The study appeared April 16, 2019, in the British Journal of Educational Psychology.

Faktabaari, based in Finland, was nominated for an award for its fact-checking of claims made by teen climate activist Greta Thunberg. Faktabaari rated three of her claims true. A fourth needed clarification, because it involved judgments about policy actions.

Also resist the urge to make things too simple. Mikko Salo founded a fact-checking group Faktabaari (Fact Bar), based in Helsinki, Finland. Its ratings use green, red and yellow symbols, like a traffic light. Green represents a true claim supported by facts. Red denotes a claim that is clearly false. Yellow is for 50/50.

Yellow claims are the trickiest, Salo says. They contain some facts, but the claim is not completely accurate. Very few things are as simple as yes or no, he says. Yellow provokes the debate. As people talk about additional facts, they can understand issues better. In fact-checking, What I appreciate especially, Salo says, is its an honest try to reach the truth methodically.

In March 2019, for example, the group fact-checked claims from a speech by teen climate activist Greta Thunberg. Three of four science-related claims got the green light. The fourth was in that yellow zone. Thunberg had said the European Union needed to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by at least 80 percent by 2030. Comments from two scientists showed that claim was a matter of interpretation. One expert thought emission cuts should be even more than 80 percent in order to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degreesFahrenheit). Another questioned whether data showed the 80-percent target was fair. Overall, the Faktabaari team concluded, Greta Thunberg has done her science homework.

As that example points out, fact-checking is important even when it finds that claims are true or mostly true. It also shows the difference between factual statements and policy positions. Policy positions state what someone concludes about a situation. Policy positions also express what someone thinks government or society should do about an issue. Those positions reflect opinions, social values and personal judgments. As such, they cant be fact-checked, Salo says. But the underlying facts do matter, he adds and those can be fact-checked.

Fact-checking can go quickly once you make a habit of it.

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You can apply fact-checking in whatever you are reading, Salo says. He thinks of it as a simplified approach to scientific thinking. In both cases, you want to use logic and rely on sound data or research. You want to arrive at the truth.

I think of it almost as a detective search, says Reyes at the News Literacy Project. Im trying to see whats real and whats not. I know there are people out there who are out to fool me. Im trying not to get fooled.

The more you do fact-checking, the better youll get. Remember: The professional fact-checkers in McGrew and Wineburgs 2017 study did their work more quickly than the college students or professors.

And if you dont have time to fact-check something right away, they say, then certainly dont share it online.

This is our responsibility, Khan says. We need to make that effort and have that attitude: Before sharing something, we verify it.

The truth should be central to the way we want to see the world, Reyes adds. It should be central to the world in which we want to make decisions and take action.

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A scene from Ozark's Class of 2019 graduation ceremony on May 17.(Photo: Jason Connel/Special to the News-Leader)

For the Class of 2019, two area districts Sparta and Walnut Grove reported a 100 percent graduation rate, meaning all their seniors graduated on time.

They are not the norm.

The overwhelming majority of Missouri districts fall short of that perfect score each year, as students drop out or fall behind and require additional time to finish high school. The state's four-year rate hovers at or just below 88 percent.

Springfield's graduation rate rebounded this year to 88.5 percent, higher than many of the large urban districts in the state. For example, Kansas City reported a rate of 71.6 percent, followed closely by St. Louis at 72.7 percent.

Each year, graduation rates are closely tracked and reported publicly but the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education calculates and reports the rate for students who graduate in four years, five years, six years and seven years.

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Chris Neale, assistant commissioner of DESE, said "on time" is the preference, but the overarching priority is to get across the finish line.

"The priority of the state is to ensure that students are given time to be well prepared and graduate with what they need rather than just rush them through in four years," Neale said. "We provide those extended year cohort graduation rates to ensure we haven't had a disincentive created."

Top school officials from Springfield, Nixa, Ozark, Republic and Willard recently told the News-Leader they don't give up on students.

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"If you go to each our offices at the high schools, we have names for each kid who didn't make it," said Craig Carson, assistant superintendent of learning in Ozark. "And if they are not in that four-year, by God, we are going to get them by year five cohort or year six cohort."

The first step is to identify and track students at risk for dropping out, which include poor reading and math skills, not turning in assignments, failing courses, exhibiting discipline problems, and showing up irregularly.

More: How changes to the ACT may help students with college admission, scholarships

A range of interventions is offered, based on the student and situation, to address the risk factors.

They provide mentors and tutors,credit recovery courses, alternative programs, mental health counseling, and summer and online learning options.

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Shane Dublin, executive director of secondary learning in Springfield, said efforts start with knowing "where students are at" and quickly identifying when they start to veer off the path.

"Weknow every week if kids are on track or if they need support," he said.

He said each high school has a team working to keep students on track and providing a menu of options when they fall behind.

"Every kid has a story,' he said. "We are almost tailoring their approach to graduation."

The Springfield district pays extra attention to the transitional years of sixth grade and ninth grade, as students move into middle and high school.

"That is where we need to catch them and make sure they engage," he said.

"All the statistics show if you get behind as a freshman, you're less likely to graduate."

Students are encouraged to join clubs, play sports, explore careers, and connect with mentors in each building.

Related: SPS gains in reading, attendance and graduation rates math scores remain low

Dublin said while the traditional path of accumulating 25 high school credits works for most, others need alternative programs or settings.

Springfield partnered with Ozarks Technical Community College to create the Middle College program for juniors and seniors who want to complete high school while taking college classes and gaining career training on theOTC campus. The program now also serves area high school students.

Several districts, including Springfield, offer alternative high school programs.

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Josh Chastain, executive director of curriculum, instruction and assessment in Nixa, saidmore than 440 students have finished school in the past 20 years through the SCORE program an acronym forSecond Chance of Receiving an Education.

"Having that available allows us to be able to put students in a different setting to support what they need, whether it's a small class size or more individual attention with teachers," he said. "That has really helped us."

Chastain said the students in danger of dropping out may not be academically deficient or a discipline problem;they may have personal issues.

"We know that we can support them in those areas," he said. "That is why we have counselors to be there to keep their hand on the pulse of what is going on with students, whether it's attendance, grades, behavior."

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Matt Pearce, assistant superintendent of Republic, said the district has a system that flags students with multiple indicators, including failing grades, absences and suspensions.

"That is what our counselors and our student intervention teams will use to identify students who are really in danger of not completing," he said. "With the kid that is ready to walk out the door, that is a conversation with the counselor, maybe their favorite teacher and a parent to encourage them to stay and make sure they know we want them."

Springfield, the largest district in the state, compares its graduation rate annually against its own goals as well as "benchmark" districts, in the region and the large urban districts across the state.

The four-year graduation rates for Springfield's urban benchmarks include:

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(IDEX Online) - The GIA (Gemological Institute of America) is expanding an education program that helps artisanal gemstone miners evaluate the quality of the rough they mine. The organization is committing $1.3 million to bring the program, which started in Tanzania, to Madagascar, Nigeria, Rwanda and Zambia.

Working with Pact, a Washington D.C.-based international development nonprofit organization with expertise in the region, GIA plans to reach 10,000 miners over the next four years with its booklet Selecting Gem Rough: A Guide for Artisanal Miners.

The Swahili-language booklet has images of the gemstones found in East Africa and illustrations of how to examine and evaluate rough gems. It is waterproof and comes with a durable plastic tray that can be used to sort gems and do basic gemological evaluations.

"This is a tremendous step forward in our efforts to bring information directly to artisanal miners right at the beginning of the gem and jewelry supply chain," said Susan Jacques, GIA president and CEO. "We know that this investment will bring an invaluable benefit to miners, their families and the communities in which they live."

"We found that for every dollar invested, there was a 12-fold social return that will last years into the future," said Cristina M. Villegas, technical program manager for Pact's Mines to Markets program. "With their new knowledge, miners improve their income, send their children to school, invest in their mines and their communities."

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The high adoption of cloud services among education institutes today is also creating a favorable environment for the artificial intelligence in education market. Higher education institutes, faculties, facilitators, Educators, and students in schools are increasingly making use of artificial intelligence and education so as to improve the overall learning experience as well as productivity. The use of cloud services helps in the reduction of cost of ownership for educational Institutes and this helps them to offer high-quality Education Without much cost. Universities and schools are able to adopt cloud computing without having the need to upgrade the existing infrastructure with Advanced Technologies.

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On the other hand, there are a few factors that will restrain the market from reaching its truest potential. One of the key challenges faced by the AI in education market is the resistance towards adopting latest technology by various schools. Many colleges and schools simply stick to orthodox ways of teaching. This will act as a challenge for the market.

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A dire need for highly efficient and automated services in terms of providing educational material is primarily responsible for driving this market. Such a need is relevant especially with respect to online education or distant learning, wherein a user needs to rely on modern devices for efficient communication. Favorable initiatives from various governments to spread educational awareness are also indirectly responsible for the global artificial intelligence in education market to experience widespread growth. A phenomenal progress in the development of computers as well as internet facilities has been primarily responsible for connecting people from all corners of the Earth, thus driving the global artificial intelligence education market. Another factor propelling growth in this market involves the inability of students and scholars to not go overseas and learn their desired subject. This makes them consider the option of distant learning, which of course can be facilitated from an online perspective. As online learning brings in the factor of automated machines up to a certain extent, the market is expected to grow with leaps and bounds in future.

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A DRUG kingpin dubbed "China's El Chapo" is supplying the world with up to 13.1 billion worth of crystal meth every year, the United Nations has said.

Tse Chi Lop, 55, head of cartel Sam Gor, now controls at least 40 per cent of Asia's regional market, which has seen a huge spike in demand for the drug in recent years.

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The boom has triggered a huge counter-narcotics investigation, Operation Kungur, with Sam Gor and Tse Chi Lop as its prime targets, Reuters reports.

The operation, led by the Australian Federal Police, involves 20 law enforcement agencies from countries including Myanmar, China, Thailand, Japan, the United States, and Canada.

It is the biggest ever international effort to combat drug trafficking in Asia.

Crystal meth is a potent psychoactive substance used as a recreational drug throughout the world.

Used consistently, it can induce mood swings, psychosis, muscle breakdown, and seizures.

Sam Gor is thought to being selling the drug into at least a dozen countries across Asia, from Japan in the north to New Zealand in the South Pacific.

Drugs are shipped in containers marked as tea, strapped to the bodies of couriers on commercial flights, or carried in rucksacks by hikers on the jungle paths between Thailand, Laos, and Myanmar.

Lop, currently Asia's most-wanted man, was born in China, but moved to Canada in 1988 and is now a Canadian citizen.

He was arrested in 1998 for importing heroin into the US, but succeeded in having a life sentence reduced to just nine years, and was ultimately released in 2006.

It is reported that he travels by private jet, has a personal guard of Thai kickboxers, and once lost $66 million (51 million) in one night at a Macau casino.

Officials have said Sam Gor is in many ways far more sophisticated than any of the more notorious Latin American drugs gangs.

It supplies a larger and wider-spread market and collaborates with a broader range of other organisations, including Japan's Yakuza syndicates, Australia's biker gangs, and Chinese gangs operating across Southeast Asia.

It is also said to be less prone to outbreaks of internal conflict.

Tse Chi Lop is in the league of El Chapo or maybe Pablo Escobar, Jeremy Douglas, Southeast Asia and Pacific representative for United Nations on Drugs and Crime, told Reuters.

The word kingpin often gets thrown around, but there is no doubt it applies here.

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One veteran Western anti-narcotics official added: The crime groups in Southeast Asia and the Far East operate with seamless efficiency.

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Natural Grocers is coming to Spokanes South Hill, according to city permit data.

The health food chain that sells organic food and produce will take the space formerly occupied by the Hastings Entertainment store, 2512 E. 29th Ave., near the intersection of 29th Avenue and Southeast Boulevard.

Permits for $820,000 in work have been filed and are under review by the city, but if the store opens, it will join the other Natural Grocers in the area: 4603 N. Division St. in Spokane, and 222 W. Neider Ave. in Coeur dAlene.

The company was founded in Lakewood, Colorado, in 1955 as a door-to-door sales business by Margaret and Philip Isely. According to the Colorado alternative newspaper, Westword, the Iselys then began what was originally called Vitamin Cottage after Margaret Isely became chronically ill and became interested in the growing field of supplements and health food.

Ahead of its time, the store focused on organic, local food and the practice of butchering and using the whole animal. The Isley family meals were filled with tongue, heart, liver and other offal after the prime cuts were taken to sell at the store.

The store name changed to Natural Grocers in 2008 to highlight its grocery selling and move away from vitamins. N.D.

The former Knights Diner, now under new ownership, is undergoing renovations to upgrade its kitchen and add a food prep area.

Fettig Five LLC, whose principals include George Fettig an early owner of several Zips Drive-In locations filed plans in August to renovate the former diner at 2909 N. Market St., according to permits filed with the city.

Fettig Five LLC purchased the site for $100,000 in July, according to the Spokane County Assessors Office.

The Spokane Historic Preservation Office approved plans to extend a portion of the 657-square-foot Pullman rail car to accommodate a new kitchen and add a 1907 Northern Pacific caboose to house a food prep area.

Fettig Five LLC also indicated plans to modify the interior seating configuration of the original rail car, to remove a section of the counter area and add booths, rehabilitate windows, repaint the exterior as well as add handicap ramps and a door.

Coeur dAlene-based Chris & Pat Inc. is the project contractor.

Knights Diner closed in July after more than 37 years of serving breakfast and lunch in north Spokane. Owner Vicki Green told The Spokesman-Review in July the restaurant would be purchased by a well-known local investor who will continue to serve breakfast at the diner, but with a different menu.

Permits filed with the city did not specify the restaurant concept. Fettig did not respond to a request for comment.

The rail car that housed Knights Diner is on Spokanes Register of Historic Places. It was built in 1906 and served the Northern Pacific Railroad as car number 988 on the Yellowstone Park Line before it was retired to the Northern Pacific Yards in Spokane Valley, according to a historic register nomination document.

The car was pressed into service as a classroom for soldiers during World War II.

Jack Knight, a former headwaiter at the Davenport Hotel, purchased it for $600 in 1949 and hired Beadmore Transfer to move the rail car to Division and Jackson streets. He renovated the interior into counters and stools and opened Knights Diner in 1949.

Knight operated the diner for five years. Ownership of the diner changed hands several times before the Greens purchased it in 1982 and moved the rail car to its current location in the early 1990s. A.E.

The Spokane Housing Authority is embarking on a $1.2 million renovation of a building it purchased last year on Nora Avenue, according to permits issued by the city.

The office renovation of the Nora building, 25 W. Nora Ave., will bring many changes to the 19,000-square-foot, two-story building and its basement, including new interior walls and an outdoor patio. The building is two blocks from SHAs headquarters at 55 W. Mission Ave.

Spokane Housing Authority was created in 1972 by the city of Spokane to provide housing assistance to the region. The group serves Spokane, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Stevens, Ferry and Whitman counties, and provides assistance to more than 5,500 low-income families through tenant-based rental assistance and SHA-managed apartment communities.

SHA purchased the building, which was called the Atlantic Professional Building, in July 2018 for $1.86 million.

The work was designed by ZBA Architecture, of Spokane. N.D.

Contact Nicholas Deshais at (509) 459-5440 of nickd@spokesman.com.

Amy Edelen may be reached at (509) 459-5581 or at amye@spokesman.com.

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An Oregon cheese stands alone.

A blue cheese called Rogue River Blue, made by Rogue Creamery in Central Point, Oregon, has been declared the best cheese in the world at the 2019 World Cheese Awards.

The event took place Friday in Bergamo, Italy, where cheeses from around the globe were judged over a single day by technical experts, retailers, buyers and food writers. They looked for color, consistency, texture and, ultimately, taste to determine the winner.

At the end of the day, the Oregon blue cheese came out on top, making Rogue Creamery the first American cheesemaker to win the competition, organizers announced on Facebook.

According to the creamerys website, Rogue River Blue is made from organic milk, cave-aged nine to 11 months and hand-wrapped in Syrah grape leaves that have soaked in pear liqueur. Its known to exhibit flavors of blackberry, vanilla, hazelnut and bacon all of which would probably pair nicely.

Winners in previous years have included a Fanaost and Kraftkar from Norway and a Cornish Kern from England.

The World Cheese Awards has not yet released the rest of the 2019 results.

--Jamie Hale | jhale@oregonian.com | @HaleJamesB

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Last Wednesday was observed as World Food Day. It focused ones mind on one of thebig issues in nutrition today- obesity.

All the introspections of the day brought one to the conclusion that obesity is a problem for both the haves and the have-nots. It is causing serious health concerns for families and nations. One has come tothe realisation that what one eats coupled with ones lifestyle determines ones health status. In other words, the food we consume would determine how frequent our visit to the doctor is.

Fast foods

In afast-movingworld offast foods and out-of-home cooking,one of the agenda for active discussion, therefore, has beenwhat to eat and what not to drinkas experts keep shifting the goal post for us. Today, a glass of red wine is good for the heart, they would tell us. Then comes tomorrow and it would have changed to alcohol is not good for ones health. Yesterday it was eggs are unhealthy in our diets, today it is one can eat up to three eggs in a weekso long as one takes out the yolk.

Unfortunately,in the name of busyworkschedules, families are no longer eatingtogetherat a tablewithfood cookedand servedfrom theirownkitchen. Parents stop by, on their way home to picktake-away dinnersordered from the comfort of their mobile phones. Children have been introduced to so much junk food they prefer the oil-soakedmenuswith the fatty cuts of meatand detest the balanced menus preparedat home.

School feeding programme

Thank God, however,fortheschool feedingprogramme.If done wellwith organic locally produced food items,wewouldgradually be introducing our children to home-cooked nutritious foods.We have some of the best organic foodcropsgrownhere on our soil and they arerelativelycheap compared to organic foods sold elsewhere.We spendscarce foreign exchange importing refined rice andsugar which the producers themselves are running away from.

Coincidentally, as we celebrated World Food Day, a two-day nutrition training programme wason-going in the Central regionorganised by the Ghana School FeedingSecretariat.It was supported by the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection with the aim to engage caterers of the school feeding programme.

According to news reports, the training programme was used to sensitise the caterers and introduce them to the preparation and serving of gari fotor, fortified with vegetables and soybeanson the school feeding menu. Though high in carbohydrate, some of us would eat gari anytime due to its high fibre content. That is why Iwould support theintroduction of gari fotor with as many vegetables and beans to make it even more nutritious for our children.

Blessing

The School Feeding Programme in many ways is a blessingtothe country.If the children enjoy the varieties served at school, no doubt they would influence their parents to prepare the same with even better variations at home.

It was at boarding school at the age of nine that some of us first tasted Tom Brown and corn grits porridge. It was atthesame boarding school that one got introduced to gari and beans, gari fotor and gari soakings with groundnuts and milk. All those nutritious servings in thedininghalland in our pantrieshave lived with us to our old ageand we have in turn passed them on toourfamilies with even more variations.

With World Food Day on our minds, let the school meals programme introduce our children to healthy organic homegrown foods that would build their bodies and nurture their brains. The programme managers should insist onmenuinnovationby the caterers andget themassessedon thequality ofinnovations introduced in their menu plans.We could fall on the children to do their end of term assessmentsfor us.

World Food Dayindeedcomes toremind usofthe importance of good nutrition and food safety, especially for our growing children. We should all be made aware of the dangers of out-of-home cooking and begin tosay no to fast and instant foods. Theyprovidevery littleor no nutrients toour bodies.We should help to build a nation of healthy young people and say no to foods that would contribute to obesity and malnourishment.

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