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Controversy around the new Teen Vogue editor-in-chief, Alexi McCammond, continues after she apologized for tweeting anti-Asian remarks in 2011.

McCammond apologised for the tweets in 2019 and again this week, calling them "offensive, idiotic" posts. On Thursday she posted a new statement to Twitter in which she said: "I've dedicated my career to giving a voice to the voiceless, and the last thing I'd ever want is to make anyone - especially our Asian brothers and sisters in particular - feel more invisible," she wrote. "And I know that that is a unique source of pain in all of this, too: That historically the AAPI [Asian American and Pacific Islander] community has been left out or ignored in critical conversations around race, racism, justice and equality. I am determined to play a part in changing that."

After Teen Vogue staffers put out a statement earlier this week to say they were in conversations with publisher Condé Nast about her recent appointment to the role, the magazine's former editor-in-chief Elaine Welteroth appeared on CBS's The Talk on Wednesday and condemned McCammond's past actions.

"Everybody knows I was a former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue," she said, "so I have to put that out there. That aside, it doesn't matter - her tweets and the sentiments behind them were racist and abhorrent and indefensible, period. And I think at a time like this when there is a call for accountability around anti-Asian sentiment and just racist, violent actions against Asian people, we need to speak up."

The tweets resurfaced at a time when hate crimes against Asian Americans are on the rise, in part due to racist attitudes to the coronavirus pandemic. Last year 2,500 incidents were reported.

Additionally the controversy appears to be causing problems with Teen Vogue's advertisers. The Daily Beast reported on Wednesday that Ulta Beauty had "paused" an estimated seven-figure advertising campaign with the magazine because of McCammond's tweets.

"Diversity and inclusion are core values at Ulta Beauty - and always have been," a spokesperson told the publication. "Our current spend with Teen Vogue is paused as we work with Condé Nast to evaluate the situation and determine next steps regarding our partnership."

In the past Ulta Beauty have been accused of racial profiling in their stores (in response the company said these "accounts are disappointing and contrary to our training and policies. We stand for equality, inclusivity and acceptance and strive to create a space that is welcoming to all.").

The Daily Beast also reported that there continued to be "top level" concern within Condé Nast's advertising team over the fallout from the tweets.

McCammond was previously a reporter for the political website Axios. She found herself in the national spotlight last month, when her relationship with TJ Ducklo was at the centre of a scandal over his behaviour towards a reporter, which led him to resign as a communications aide to Joe Biden.

Last Friday in a statement to announce her hiring, Anna Wintour, global editorial director of the Condé Nast, said: "Alexi has the powerful curiosity and confidence that embodies the best of our next generation of leaders ... I'm so very pleased that she will be bringing her expertise and talents to our team." McCammond will begin her role on 24 March.

The Guardian has reached out to Condé Nast for additional comment.

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Teen Vogue: controversy continues after editor-in-chief apologizes for anti-Asian tweets

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Controversy around the new Teen Vogue editor-in-chief, Alexi McCammond, continues after she apologized for tweeting anti-Asian remarks in 2011. McCammond apologised for the tweets in 2019 and again this week, calling them "offensive, idiotic" posts.

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Official education portal of the Department of Education and Skills in Ireland. Curriculum focused resources and support for primary and post primary teachers.

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WELCOME

Welcome to the web site for the Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division (DMRD), currently located in Newark, Delaware. The controversy surrounding dihydrogen monoxide has never been more widely debated, and the goal of this site is to provide an unbiased data clearinghouse and a forum for public discussion.

Explore our many Special Reports , including the , a definitive primer on the subject, plus reports on the environment , , current , and an insider exposé about the use of DHMO in the dairy industry .

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WELCOME Welcome to the web site for the Dihydrogen Monoxide Research Division (DMRD), currently located in Newark, Delaware. The controversy surrounding dihydrogen monoxide has never been more widely debated, and the goal of this site is to provide an unbiased data clearinghouse and a forum for public discussion.

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NOW IN BOOK FORM!

Welcome to the AFDB Website

This site is dedicated to spreading the word about the Aluminum* Foil Deflector Beanie and how it can help the average human. Here you will find a description of AFDBs, how to make and use them, and general information about related subjects. I hope that you find the AFDB Homepage to be an important source of AFDB know-how and advocacy.

What Is An AFDB?

An Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie (AFDB) is a type of headwear that can shield your brain from most electromagnetic psychotronic mind control carriers. AFDBs are inexpensive (even free if you don't mind scrounging for thrown-out aluminium foil) and can be constructed by anyone with at least the dexterity of a chimp (maybe bonobo). This cheap and unobtrusive form of mind control protection offers real security to the masses. Not only do they protect against incoming signals, but they also block most forms of brain scanning and mind reading, keeping the secrets in your head truly secret. AFDBs are safe and operate automatically. All you do is make it and wear it and you're good to go! Plus, AFDBs are stylish and comfortable.

What are you waiting for? Make one today!

REBUTTAL TO THE MIT ANTI-AFDB STUDY: Rahimi et al.'s paper "On the Effectiveness of Aluminium Foil Helmets: An Empirical Study" has serious flaws that make its conclusion highly suspect. Read more...

BEWARE OF COMMERCIAL AFDBS: Since you should trust no one, always construct your AFDB yourself to avoid the risk of subversion and mental enslavement. Sometimes, AFDBs will be sold on places like eBay. Do not purchase these pre-made AFDBs, even if the seller seems trustworthy. They may contain backdoors, pinholes, integrated psychotronic circuitry or other methods that actually promote mind control.

AMIGA AND LINUX USERS: It is advised that you get a copy of MindGuard for your personal anti-psychotronic needs. Although an AFDB is an effective guard against most forms of psychotronic mind control, it is no substitute for the comprehensive protection afforded by MindGuard.

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Help Save The ENDANGERED

From EXTINCTION!

The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Rare photo of the elusive tree octopus
(Enhanced from cropped telephoto)

The Pacific Northwest tree octopus ( Octopus paxarbolis) can be found in the temperate rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula on the west coast of North America. Their habitat lies on the Eastern side of the Olympic mountain range, adjacent to Hood Canal. These solitary cephalopods reach an average size (measured from arm-tip to mantle-tip,) of 30-33 cm. Unlike most other cephalopods, tree octopuses are amphibious, spending only their early life and the period of their mating season in their ancestral aquatic environment. Because of the moistness of the rainforests and specialized skin adaptations, they are able to keep from becoming desiccated for prolonged periods of time, but given the chance they would prefer resting in pooled water.

An intelligent and inquisitive being (it has the largest brain-to-body ratio for any mollusk), the tree octopus explores its arboreal world by both touch and sight. Adaptations its ancestors originally evolved in the three dimensional environment of the sea have been put to good use in the spatially complex maze of the coniferous Olympic rainforests. The challenges and richness of this environment (and the intimate way in which it interacts with it,) may account for the tree octopus's advanced behavioral development. (Some evolutionary theorists suppose that "arboreal adaptation" is what laid the groundwork in primates for the evolution of the human mind.)

Reaching out with one of her eight arms, each covered in sensitive suckers, a tree octopus might grab a branch to pull herself along in a form of locomotion called tentaculation; or she might be preparing to strike at an insect or small vertebrate, such as a frog or rodent, or steal an egg from a bird's nest; or she might even be examining some object that caught her fancy, instinctively desiring to manipulate it with her dexterous limbs (really deserving the title "sensory organs" more than mere "limbs",) in order to better know it.

Map of estimated tree octopus maximum range, including spawning waters

Tree octopuses have eyesight comparable to humans. Besides allowing them to see their prey and environment, it helps them in inter-octopus relations. Although they are not social animals like us, they display to one-another their emotions through their ability to change the color of their skin: red indicates anger, white fear, while they normally maintain a mottled brown tone to blend in with the background.

The reproductive cycle of the tree octopus is still linked to its roots in the waters of the Puget Sound from where it is thought to have originated. Every year, in Spring, tree octopuses leave their homes in the Olympic National Forest and migrate towards the shore and, eventually, their spawning grounds in Hood Canal. There, they congregate (the only real social time in their lives,) and find mates. After the male has deposited his sperm, he returns to the forests, leaving the female to find an aquatic lair in which to attach her strands of egg-clusters. The female will guard and care for her eggs until they hatch, refusing even to eat, and usually dying from her selflessness. The young will spend the first month or so floating through Hood Canal, Admiralty Inlet, and as far as North Puget Sound before eventually moving out of the water and beginning their adult lives.

Why It's Endangered

Route 101, separating the rainforests of the Olympic Peninsula from Hood Canal

Although the tree octopus is not officially listed on the Endangered Species List, we feel that it should be added since its numbers are at a critically low level for its breeding needs. The reasons for this dire situation include: decimation of habitat by logging and suburban encroachment; building of roads that cut off access to the water which it needs for spawning; predation by foreign species such as house cats; and booming populations of its natural predators, including the bald eagle and sasquatch. What few that make it to the Canal are further hampered in their reproduction by the growing problem of pollution from farming and residential run-off. Unless immediate action is taken to protect this species and its habitat, the Pacific Northwest tree octopus will be but a memory.

The possibility of Pacific Northwest tree octopus extinction is not an unwarranted fear. Other tree octopus species-including the Douglas octopus and the red-ringed madrona sucker-were once abundant throughout the Cascadia region, but have since gone extinct because of threats similar to those faced by paxarbolis, as well as overharvesting by the now-illegal tree octopus trade.

Tree Octopus hat from 1923

The history of the tree octopus trade is a sad one. Their voracious appetite for bird plumes having exhausted all the worthy species of that family, the fashionistas moved on to cephalopodic accoutrements during the early 20th Century. Tree octopuses became prized by the fashion industry as ornamental decorations for hats, leading greedy trappers to wipe out whole populations to feed the vanity of the fashionable rich. While fortunately this practice has been outlawed, its effects still reverberate today as these millinery deprivations brought tree octopus numbers below the critical point where even minor environmental change could cause disaster.

While efforts were made in the past to preserve remaining tree octopus habitat, these were met with resistance by the timber industry, which has traditionally viewed the tree octopus as a nuisance, both because the octopuses favor the valuable, moss-shrouded trees of old growth forests-pitting conservation needs against lucrative sources of lumber-and because octopuses hiding among felled trees often gummed up sawmills and stained pulp vats with their ink.

Traveling sideshow exhibits, such as this one by Glen "Bones" Hartzell from 1942, demonized tree octopuses to the ignorant masses
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These nuisances led many loggers to regard tree octopuses as bad luck, resulting in the pointless killing of octopuses on sight at logging camps in a misguided attempt at eradicating the troublesome species. Anti-octopus sentiment was so strong among loggers that some even began to fear that the octopuses were prone to attacking humans.

These fears were fueled in no small part by gratuitous stories involving tree octopuses harassing lumberjacks and distressing damsels in Northwestern-themed pulp magazines of the 1930-40s and variously "nipping", "entangling", or "suckering the flesh" of the heroes of men's action magazines of the 1950-60s. (The magazine publishers depended on cheap paper made from wood pulp and were glad to contribute to the anti-octopus propaganda campaign of the timber industry.)

To this day, misunderstanding and fear of these gentle creatures can still be found among many old timers, although education campaigns-and special octopus-separators installed at sawmills-have largely halted the practice of tree octopus eradication.

How You Can Help

More Tree Octopus Information

Posters motivate the citizenry to action! Post them!

Tree Octopus FAQs - Frequently asked questions, now with answers.

Tree Octopus Sightings - Includes photos of and behavioral research on the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus and other tree octopus species.

Tree Octopus In The Media - appearances of tree octopuses, both real and fictional, in the media and popular culture.

Research On Other Tree Octopus Species:

The author of this article and its subsections is Lyle Zapato.
This site is not associated with any school or educational organization,
other than the Kelvinic University branch of the Wild Haggis Conservation Society.
Not to be confused with the Pacific Northwest Octopus Tree.

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The Data Protection Commission has published an advice note 'What you should be aware of online? Some common online risks', which outlines common online risks to be aware of, what risk it poses to you online, and steps you can take to protect your personal data.

It includes information and advice around issues such as tracking or profiling in order to access apps and services, and security concerns including phishing, password reuse, unsecured login forms, fake sites, and security questions.

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The Data Protection Commission has published an advice note 'What you should be aware of online? Some common online risks' , which outlines common online risks to be aware of, what risk it poses to you online, and steps you can take to protect your personal data.

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A collection of resources from around the BBC to help your students spot fake news and false information. This content explores the social, political and economic impact of news reporting, and the skills needed to analyse and critically evaluate information across a range of media.

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BBC - Help Your Students Spot False News

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A collection of resources from around the BBC to help your students spot fake news and false information. This content explores the social, political and economic impact of news reporting, and the skills needed to analyse and critically evaluate information across a range of media.

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Learn about CAST’s Universal Design for Learning framework, fostering inclusive educational experiences and improving learning outcomes for all learners.

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With so much information at our fingertips it can be easy to come across something online that isn’t quite as accurate or reliable as it should be. 
This kind of information is often called Fake News but a better description might be false information because it affects more than news stories.

For more information and lessons go to: https://www.webwise.ie/connected/

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ORLANDO, FL-Describing the encounter as a once-in-a-lifetime experience she'll never forget, local bottlenose dolphin Hazel reportedly recounted stories Tuesday from a recent vacation in which she got to go swimming with a stockbroker. "He was definitely shy at first, but with a little encouragement he swam right up next to me-the whole thing was so amazing," said the dolphin, appearing excited as she described her "almost spiritual" encounter with the financial executive, whom she estimated was perhaps 40 years old and weighed as much as 180 pounds. "And he was just chattering away the whole time. It's like they have their own little language. You have to wonder what's going on in their heads and whether it's true that they're almost as intelligent as we are." The dolphin added that while she ultimately enjoyed her experience, she was disappointed that she wasn't allowed to actually ride the stockbroker.

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Dolphin Spends Amazing Vacation Swimming With Stockbroker

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ORLANDO, FL-Describing the encounter as a once-in-a-lifetime experience she'll never forget, local bottlenose dolphin Hazel reportedly recounted stories Tuesday from a recent vacation in which she got to go swimming with a stockbroker. "He was definitely shy at first, but with a little encouragement he swam right up...

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Algorithmic Awareness: Conversations with Young Canadians about Artificial Intelligence and Privacy

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MediaSmarts conducted focus groups with youth ages 13 to 17 to gain insight into how young Canadians understand the relationships between artificial intelligence (AI), algorithms, privacy, and data protection. Participants played a game prototype designed by MediaSmarts’ education team, and a scaffo…

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MODULE 1 - UNIT 1...SOME IDEAS

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NEWS that the world's widest glacier is facing the threat of collapse has confirmed what many people have long believed; that those icy bitches ain't shit no more.

Once considered a formidable force of nature capable of withstanding the harshest conditions on the earth, the sudden 'retreatment' of the Thwaites Glacier is just another example of how far glaciers have fallen from their heyday as the 'bad boys' of geographical phenomena.

Thwaites, which is roughly the size of the UK, is receding from all sides due to global climate change and its collapse is set to cause a rise in sea level that will affect millions of people worldwide if it doesn't buck itself up a bit.

"We're not asking much from a glacier. Inch along at a rate of a few inches per year, be cold, don't flood the fucking planet" said one senior glaciologist, who isn't mad at the Thwaites glacier, more disappointed.

"Alright, you've got manmade carbon emissions that are causing all of this, but any glacier worth their salts and minerals should be at least putting up a bit of a fight to hold itself together. What next? Icebergs that can't sink ocean liners? Green fields at the North Pole? The whole world needs to harden the fuck up a bit. We won't always be here to wipe its arse".

Meanwhile, the Thwaites glacier is said to be undergoing therapy to help it come to terms with the changes it's going through, leading to even more tutting from the emission-loving, old fashioned world.
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Glaciers Made Of Nothing These Days, Study Finds

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NEWS that the world's widest glacier is facing the threat of collapse has confirmed what many people have long believed; that those icy bitches ain't shit no more. Once considered a formidable force of nature capable of withstanding the harshest conditions on the earth, the sudden 'retreatment' of the Thwaites Glacier is just another example of how far glaciers have fallen from their heyday as the 'bad boys' of geographical phenomena.

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Unit 3 -DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP AND GLOBAL COMMUNICATION 

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Derek Sivers: Keep your goals to yourself

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After hitting on a brilliant new life plan, our first instinct is to tell someone, but Derek Sivers says it's better to keep goals secret. He presents research stretching as far back as the 1920s to show why people who talk about their ambitions may be less likely to achieve them.

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What is Universal Design for Learning (UDL)?

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How Library Stuff Works: Search vs Research

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16/2/22 Planning a unit of work in LCA English and Communications (1)

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Unit 1 Plan