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Meryl Dorey: staying callous since 1997
Posted on May 28, 2013 by reasonable hank
By now anyone who has been following the campaign against the anti-vaccination organisation, the Australian Vaccination Network, and its leader Meryl Dorey, would be aware of the sheer callousness she displays towards grieving families. Only two days ago Dorey's callousness found its way on to the front page of the Sunday Telegraph.
As outlined in my Sunday post, "I never have and never will harass or hurt a grieving parent" – Meryl Dorey, in 2009 Dorey had called the Director of the then North Coast Area Health Service to contend that baby Dana McCaffery did not die from Whooping Cough. Dorey denied she said this, and accused the Director of harassing the McCaffery family, by providing the McCafferys with information they had requested from him.
As outlined in my post, "Supposedly", we see Dorey continue the callous denial of the real cause of a baby's death, all in the name of Dorey's anti-vaccination ideology. Other AVN supporters joined in the attack using, as a basis, Dorey's horrid denialism.
A friend has just sent me an AVN Press Release, from January 1997. Unfortunately, it shows that Dorey's callousness, in the pursuit of her beliefs, and the attendant raging narcissism, has a long history. In this release Dorey offers a precursor to her whole career as a public health menace [bold mine]:
There has been a lot of publicity about the four alleged whooping cough deaths which the government has been using to whip up mass hysteria. The health authorities refuse to release the names of the so-called pertussis victims. Until they do, one must be sceptical, particularly in light of the authority's dubious past in disseminating incorrect information about such matters.
For instance, Dr. Margaret Burgess, a spokesperson for the New Children's Hospital, had claimed several weeks ago on the ABC radio's show "The World Today", that there had been several deaths from whooping cough in the last few weeks in Sydney. The AVN had contacted every hospital in Sydney and was unable to find one in which a child had died from whooping cough. The journalist who had presented the show checked back with Dr. Burgess only to be told that there had been two deaths – one in Sydney and one in Melbourne. Did even these deaths take place? It's hard to say.
You read that correctly.
This display of hubris is well-known to those who have been unfortunate enough to follow the proclamations of Meryl Dorey. But, I'm not sure of a time when the revulsion has reared up again so quickly.
Meryl Dorey: just who in the hell do you think you are?
Remember Dorey said this:
I never have and never will harass or hurt a grieving parent and anyone who knows me – or knows anyone in my family – would say that without question.
To quote a friend: anti-vaccinationists are terrible people.
Join the campaign against these vicious public health threats, at Stop the Australian (anti) Vaccination Network.
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Reasonable Hank. I've casually observed the silliness for a while now. I don't have kids, but they would certainly get vaccinated as a friend of mine did not vaccinate her first child, and the boy had whooping cough. As an 12 year old, an odd cough persists as well as shortness of breathe.
Anyway, I wanted to point out that the PhD candidate, Judy Wilyman, has a website I would consider cause for concern as well. My thoughts are it would be good for StopAVN to publish a list of the websites with seemingly casual, if not parent supportive names, but are distinctly spreading mis-information.
I've also emailed the UOW with my concerns.
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Personally, my opinion is that, quite possibly, the names were not being released because of the possibility of harassment by the Anti Vaccination crowd. After all, they are, to this day, still harassing the grieving McCaffrey family, repeatedly bringing the name of their baby girl into memes and posts, without seeming to care about the pain and suffering caused. God forbid that they should be allowed to grieve for their child with some peace, after all. The Anti Vax members, are very good at attacking and ridiculing, anyone who loses an infant for any reason, telling the parents that it must have been a vaccine injury, despite plentiful evidence to the contrary. And yes, I have been on the receiving end of one of their attacks.
Quite possibly, the Anti Vax crowd should be permanently banned from internet use, en masse. Just my opinion. 🙂 I'm all for freedom of information, but when that freedom is repeatedly abused, as is the case with the AVN and similar groups, then that freedom needs to be removed. 🙂
Richard Goth says:
"In the 20 years from 1976 to 1995 there were 21 deaths from pertussis (whooping cough) in Australia. In contrast, from October 1996 to November 1997, there have been nine deaths; six in New South Wales, and one each in Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia. All were
children aged between two weeks and four months of age (too young to have completed the primary course of vaccination against pertussis), and none had received more than one dose of a pertussis vaccine (personal communication, Communicable Disease Network Australia
New Zealand)"
https://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/cda-cdi2123-pdf-cnt.htm/$FILE/cdi2123g.pdf
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Regulatory Pressure on Tech M&A Deals Continues to Grow
December 8, 2022 | Vishesh Raisinghani
Bloomberg Reportedly Eyes Dow Jones, Washington Post
A spokesman for Bloomberg said in a tweet that the firm hasn't been discussing an acquisition with either organization.
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The interested buyer is a consortium of family offices and foreign investors that is strategically aligned with the firm's growth plans.
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For years it seemed like the tech sector could do no wrong. Now, it seems like the industry can do nothing right. Consumer sentiments about tech giants have dipped since 2020, according to this year's Axios Harris Poll 100. Software and social media giants have seen the biggest plunge.
Concerns about data privacy, misinformation, content moderation, and free speech seem to have taken the sheen off these once-invincible brands. Now, the concerns have boiled over to the regulatory side, where pressure continues to build.
"We have seen an increase in regulatory scrutiny in a number of areas that we expect to continue into 2023 and potentially beyond," says David Gibbons, partner at Hogan Lovells. "For example, the FTC [Federal Trade Commission] and DOJ [Department of Justice] have both significantly increased antitrust enforcement activity by blocking or indicating an intention to block a number of transactions over the last year. Both the FTC and DOJ have made a number of announcements and appointments during 2022 that indicate intent for an even more active regulatory role in 2023."
A crackdown on the tech sector is a key element of President Joe Biden's policy initiatives. The President has appointed Lina Khan, Jonathan Kanter, and Tim Wu to head the DOJ and FTC – all of whom have expressed the need to reform antitrust regulations. The FTC's withdrawal from the 2020 Vertical Merger Guidelines has been the most consequential move so far. The move creates uncertainty for some mergers and acquisitions targeted at vertical integration.
Another target is national security. President Biden signed an executive order that requires The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States to closely inspect any foreign investment into four key sectors: cybersecurity, supply chain technology, personal data, and technology leadership. Gibbons says he expects more scrutiny of cross-border M&A transactions in the tech sector, given the "on-going geopolitical challenges and the recent adoption of a new or enhanced national security regiment."
Meanwhile, fraud and investor safety are also growing concerns. "Two other areas where there has been increased Congressional focus are the SPAC industry and cryptocurrency," says Gibbons. "In light of what has happened in the SPAC industry in 2022, we expect Congress and regulators to be in the spotlight and an increase in regulatory scrutiny on the horizon in those areas as well."
More regulatory scrutiny could diminish the number of M&A transactions in this sector. However, these policies could also unlock opportunities for small- and mid-sized tech firms looking to expand. The policies could also private equity firms and institutional investors to buy tech companies that would have been strategically acquired by tech giants in the past.
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Hundreds upon hundreds of endangered animals perish on Malaysian roads each year. Thankfully, however, officials are doing something about it. In the works are more wildlife crossings in what is a welcome development. Such crossings alone, though, won't solve the problem of animals ending up as roadkill while they try…
A Gang of Ivory Poachers is Nabbed in Gerik
Operation Gading in Gerik took three days and required 40 officers, but success did beckon at the end of it. Under arrest are four professional hunters who may have killed as many as 20 wild elephants for their tusks in Malaysia over the past decade. The joint team from the…
Thousands of Wild Animals have Perished on Malaysian Roads
Within the space of just five years, between 2012 and 2017, officials have recorded a total of 2,444 road accidents involving wild animals belonging to 30 species. That means that there is at least one deadly road accident involving a wild animal every single day of the year. And that's…
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Prominent Malaysian animal rights activists say that conditions at Kemaman Zoo in Terengganu are appalling. Members of the NGOs Malaysian Friends of the Animals and Friends of the Orangutans (Foto) have recently provided photographic evidence indicating that several resident animals, from orangutans to elephants, were being neglected and mistreated at…
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The pictures of several animals at Kemaman Zoo in Pahang are heartrending. The images, which have been shared widely on social media, show chimps, a juvenile orangutan, an elephant, and a tiger kept in what appear to be dismal conditions. Animal rights activists say the photographs, which were taken recently…
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Two Malaysian animal rights organizations are up in arms over what they say are the appalling conditions in which several animals are kept at Kemaman Zoo in Terengganu. Malaysian Friends of the Animals and Friends of the Orangutans are calling on the management of the zoo, which started operations in…
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Tapirs end up as Roadkill … Again
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MYCAT's Hotline lets You help tackle Wildlife Crimes across Malaysia
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She is talented, she is hot and she has everything to wow people. She has been absolutely awesome with her work in TV shows and movies and this has made her the successful actress she is today. She has appeared in some wonderful TV shows and movies such as Cilla and Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps. She is a great human being and her attitude impresses everyone. She is not only a mind-blowing actress but also a very good dancer. She is much more than that as she is also a very good singer as well. She is none other than the very talented and very pretty Sheridan Smith.
She was born in the year 1981 on 25th of June and this makes her age 34 at this time. She was born in a place called Epworth, which lies in Lincolnshire of United Kingdom. She belongs to the nationality English but her ethnicity is not official at this time. The names of her parents are Colin Smith and Marilyn Smith and they must be very proud of what their daughter has achieved in her wonderful career.
She is not very tall at all as she has a small height of 5 feet 2 inches only. She looks absolutely red hot in a bikini while showing off her sexy legs and hot feet. She has perfect body measurements and this makes her look very sexy. There are several wiki sites that contain information on her and her biography.
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A Microscopic Bloom from Space
May 3, 2013, 8:00 AM ET
One of the great ironies of space exploration is that by leaving the Earth, we sometimes get a better view of it. It shouldnât be too surprising; a change of perspective is generally good for context, and since we live on the Earth we only see a small piece of it at any one time.
Getting above the Earth and looking back provides perspective, context, and a large-scale picture that supplements both. Itâs not just geology and geography that benefit from this, either; itâs also biology and microbiology. And, if I may, it can also be art.
To wit, a phytoplankton bloom swirls off the coast of France in this lovely shot taken from NASAâs Aqua Earth-observing satellite:
Phytoplankton are algae, microscopic plants. The name is fairly generic; there are a lot of different kinds of phytoplankton. They live in water all over the planet, and in some places, when the temperature rises and food is plentiful, they undergo explosive reproduction. Called a bloom, the area can be so big it can be seen from space. Obviously.
The color is due to various pigments in the phytoplankton; in this case, blue. I think the greenish milky swirls closer to the coast are from sediments. It can actually be difficult to separate out the two in some images, and in cases like that samples of the water can be physically examined to distinguish them.
Iâve written about various blooms seen from space before (like here, here, here, and here, and yeah, you really want to click those), because they are always incredibly beautiful. Iâve also written that scientists keep an eye on them because these blooms can rob the water of oxygen and nutrients, which affects the ecology of the area, and that they also produce some toxins that can be problematic for other life.
This prompted an email from Dr. Adrian Burd, a biology oceanographer at the University of Georgia. He noted that toxins released by phytoplankton are generally limited to dinoflagellatesâa subpopulation of phytoplankton, and probably not seen in the blooms Iâve posted. Given the color, he thinks itâs more likely these are from coccholithophores, an entirely different kind of phytoplankton.
Iâll note that dinoflagellates sometimes glow when disturbed. I recently took a night kayak excursion in Mosquito Bay on Vieques, an island near Puerto Rico (we were doing a site visit for a possible future Science Getaway), and every time the paddle hit the water the dinoflagellates would glow; it was a surreal and amazing experience. Needle fish plowing through the water left sparks and trails like a meteor underwater. Astonishing.
Dr. Burd also noted that the oxygen depletion sometimes seen with phytoplankton blooms is not from the algae itself, which actually produce oxygen. However, the plankton sink and are consumed by bacteria which do use up the oxygen. So these dead zones are due to the phytoplankton, but only indirectly.
Sometimes I really love my job. I get to look at gorgeous pictures, find the science in them, tell you about it, and then hear from scientists who tell me more. Even if theyâre correcting me, I donât mindâthatâs another chance to learn, and a chance to be even more amazed about how all the millions upon millions of pieces of our world fit together. Science, like the world and like life itself, is a tapestry; interconnected and interwoven, with each piece affecting every other piece in some way. From the microscopic to the macroscopic to the truly cosmic, it all holds together to create an astonishing and wondrous whole.


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WHO Nursing & Midwifery Global Community of Practice
The WHO Global Community of Practice is a network for Nurses and Midwives around the world to come together to share initiatives and experiences, and to learn from experts from the different fields that have an impact on the global health agenda.
This interactive platform will host live debates and discussions and provide opportunities for specialty groups to develop actions and activities with partners from all over the world.
Through the development of this global community of nurses and midwives, we hope to provide a forum for motivation and inspiration that will strengthen our shared commitment to Universal Health Coverage and Health for All.
Best Practices for PAHO/WHO Collaborating Centers:
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Global Network of Nursing WHO Collaborating Centers
The Global Network of WHO Collaborating Centers is a community of nursing and midwifery leaders which spans six regions of the world and is proudly partnered with some of the leading global public health organizations. The GNWHOCC connects several important leaders in public health , nursing and midwifery at the local, regional, and global levels. Together, organizations, institutions and individuals work to achieve the WHO's vision of Health for All. For more information click here.
Global Network of Midwifery WHO Collaborating Centers
Within the GNWHOCC there is a new network of Collaborating Centers focused on midwifery. This network is focused on strengthening and sharing midwifery research, establishing strong collaborations between Centers, and provide support for new and ongoing midwifery efforts with common goals. For more information click here.
Asociación Latinoamericana de Escuelas y Facultades de Enfermería (ALADEFE)
The Latin American Association of Schools and Faculties of Nursing (ALADEFE in Spanish) is an international NGO, founded in Cuba in 1986, under the auspices of the Union of Universities of Latin America and the Caribbean (UDUAL). ALADEFE is an academic community of nursing in Latin American and Caribbean countries, Spain and Portugal focused on promoting nursing. It seeks to optimize excellence in the field of teaching and research among institutions that support the training of nursing professionals of the highest scientific-technical, human and ethics, thus contributing to improve the health of all people. For more information click here.
International Nursing Networks
The International Nursing Networks (Redes Internacionales de Enfermeria – REIs) are groups arising from the initiative of nurses from different Latin American countries who have common objectives. They work, cooperate, learn and conduct research in a collaborative and interconnected way, thus enriching nursing care. They represent cooperation, synergy and linkages between people, institutions, projects and organizations who together work towards finding solutions to the priority health problems of the Americas region and contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. For more information on the Networks click here.
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Ontology, Infrastructure Classification, and the Design of Chef
By Julian Dunn
An example ontology specification. CC-Attribution-NoDerivs by gertcha on Flickr
In philosophy, ontology is (as Wikipedia says) "the study of what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences." Wikipedia goes on to say that ontology is often paired with taxonomy (the science of classification) in IT applications. Chef, however, was explicitly designed to not be an ontological system, in contrast to many other solutions on the market. Why is that? I'd like to take a few moments to explain the design thinking behind Chef — and why we feel that not being an ontology allows us to be the most flexible and extensible automation platform.
One of the principles of good software design is to provide just enough abstraction to make reasoning about things easier. Too little abstraction, and a developer is always down in the weeds. Too much, and you are shoulders-deep in frameworks that bear no resemblance to earthly objects and are impossible to reason about. One can regard the C language as striking the right balance for developers writing code to interface with hardware. It gets them close enough to physical entities (memory, processors, CPU registers) without forcing them to write assembly language, but also without introducing unnecessary concepts for this problem domain like object-orientation. Perhaps this is why C++ has not been as successful in this space.
From Chef's inception we have also tried very hard to strike a balance. Because Chef is a thin DSL (domain-specific-language) on top of Ruby, we're able to provide the same user experience that a restrictive ontological framework would give you: namely, a built-in taxonomy of all the basic resources one might configure on a system, plus a defined mechanism to extend that taxonomy. But there's no possible way that the developers of Chef can possibly anticipate a priori what resources you're going to want to configure in the future. Thus, the full power of the Ruby language is available to you. It is for these reasons that Ruby was explicitly chosen as an implementation language, because it provides flexibility to operate in both modes. Other languages do not (much as we love Perl).
This leads me to reflect on the phrase "infrastructure as code" and what the definition of "code" is in this context. I see this term being thrown around by many people to describe their solutions. Not all purported "infrastructure as code" solutions are actually that. Actual program code has certain useful properties. Chief among them are easy composition, extension, introspection, and most important, testability: the ability to formally instantiate mock objects and examine the behavior of them in a test context. This is distinct from infrastructure as a ontological document, like JSON or YAML. A grammar with control flows or variable substitution does not make infrastructure as code. It is this property of Chef as being real code that has fueled the fast growth of a testing ecosystem around it. Tools like ChefSpec and Foodcritic could not exist otherwise.
Introspection and composition also allow us to extend Chef into problem domains that didn't exist when Chef was first written: for example, containers, fleet management, or compliance. Clever engineers are able to extend Chef in a fully-supported way to managing entire fleets of machine using a toolkit like Chef Provisioning, and indeed are able to pull off tricks like addressing Chef within Chef (see the Cheffish library and the experimental resource cookbook). Conceptually, you could even extend the Chef DSL to express any policy in Chef: to grant user X access to certain GitHub repos, to put them into certain Active Directory Groups, even to request that the HR system mark them as an active employee on their first day and to set their weekly pay! All that code is just waiting to be written.
Ever since I first encountered CORBA in college, I've been extremely wary of ontology-based solutions. I am particularly unnerved by giant committees like OASIS who are trying to create ontologies to define all of cloud computing using XML. The world changes too quickly to convene subcommittees in order to figure out how to represent new innovations like Joyent's Triton or Amazon Lambda in a timely way, to say nothing of the complexity of trying to document the world using XSDs. Have we learned nothing from the web innovators' migration away from XML/SOAP and the rise of RESTful web services over HTTP exchanging simple, JSON payloads?
Ultimately, we believe Chef is the best automation platform because of its infinite flexibility and extensibility, and yes, explicit rejection of ontological design. We cannot possibly anticipate what systems or technologies customers will want to manage in the future, and besides, why should we be the experts? Our users, the domain experts about those things, should be the ones having a say in how they are configured. We merely bring the toolkit to the table, and in the words of the great Larry Wall, "there's more than one way to do it".
In another article, I'll talk about how the extensibility of Chef can be used to solve problems seemingly unrelated to traditional configuration management like security and compliance. Meanwhile, for more information on the shortcomings of ontologies, I invite you to read David Weinberger's book, "Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder".
Julian Dunn
Julian is a former Chef employee


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From teacher to CEO: How CommonLit's founder is using technology to impact millions of teachers and students
Stacey Faucett
CommonLit is an award-winning education technology nonprofit dedicated to closing persistent opportunity gaps in literacy education. The nonprofit is best-known for operating a free online reading program utilized by tens of thousands of low-income schools. The real magic of the program is that it combines technology, high-interest materials, and research in a way that has not been done before. As a result, CommonLit has grown to serve over 20 million registered teachers and students in 195 countries and territories, and averages ten million unique site visitors per month on CommonLit.org. Among the 88,000 schools they serve in the United States, 69 percent are low-income. With Cisco's support, CommonLit has created cutting-edge tools and expanded its services to reach underserved students in Latin America with localized materials in Spanish.
Around the world, there are barriers to accessing a quality education. The UN has estimated that school closures during the pandemic affected nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 190 countries and all continents. "At this important moment, Cisco is proud to invest in CommonLit, which is working to ensure additional features and needed curriculum exists to support teachers and students everywhere," said Kyle Thornton, manager of the education investment portfolio for Cisco and the Cisco Foundation.
Michelle Brown, a former classroom teacher, is the founder and CEO of CommonLit. Under her leadership, CommonLit has become a go-to resource for educators around the globe. Michelle sat down with us to share more about what her organization is doing to help create a more inclusive future through literacy education.
What lesson stands out most from your experience as a teacher and how did it prepare you for starting CommonLit?
Michelle Brown, founder and CEO of CommonLit
Michelle: My first job after graduating from college was teaching in a high-poverty school in rural Mississippi. I was a seventh grade reading teacher, and I walked into a classroom with nothing – no books, no computers – and I spent the next two years scrambling to figure out what to teach the next day. The thing that stands out from that experience is the sheer number of hours that teachers spend planning instruction and how intentional you must be about those plans for them to be successful.
CommonLit is the tool that I wish I had when I was a teacher: a free reading program that is highly effective and engaging for kids. That was the inspiration. I was motivated to build it out of a sense of urgency to solve the problem for others: I knew that it wouldn't get built if I didn't build it. The transition from there wasn't easy; going from classroom teacher to being a CEO of a tech company required a lot of learning on the job. In some ways, my teaching background was the perfect training because I understand the challenges teachers face. So, at the end of the day, I'm an effective CEO because I have an extreme amount of empathy for teachers, and I can spot things quickly that will not work in the classroom. Second, teachers are great learners, and they're great team leaders. I would encourage more educators to become entrepreneurs.
What are the factors that contribute to educational inequity?
Michelle: There are so many reasons why.
As a country, I think we're doing an inferior job delivering on the promise of public education. Today, only about 20 percent of low-income students can read on grade level, and most kids today report that they don't do worthwhile things in school. It's a crisis. But it's a crisis that we've tolerated for so long that it's become a fact.
What I try to focus on is the opportunity that CommonLit has to make an impact, and that's in the classroom: 45 minutes with your reading teacher Monday through Friday, 180 days per year. That's a tremendous opportunity when you think about it. During that time, I know that you can change the course of a child's life by getting them hooked on reading, curious about learning, and excited about life in general. It takes a lot of intentional planning to provide this kind of learning experience, and it's something we must do.
What feedback have you gotten from teachers about CommonLit?
Michelle: This is the best part of my job. We get unsolicited positive feedback from teachers every single day, and it brings our whole staff lots of joy and energy. There is one story that sticks out in my mind:
A few years ago, a veteran teacher from rural Mississippi, near where I taught, sent us a letter. In it, she included a fifty-dollar check and a note about the impact our free tool had on her teaching and her students. She wrote in gratitude about how she wanted to pay it forward by donating to CommonLit to make an impact on students nationally.
Now, I've endorsed checks that are way more than fifty dollars including a very large check from Cisco, for which we are so grateful. But this check from this teacher in Mississippi was the most meaningful check I have ever deposited into our bank account. I know how much that fifty dollars means for a teacher in rural Mississippi, and I think it speaks volumes.
What success stories do you have when it comes to students benefiting from your services?
Michelle: We survey students all the time, and one of the things that stands out is the level of interest that students have in the stories on CommonLit.org. They are high-interest, well-written, and deeply engrossing.
Here is another story that stands out. A few years back, there was a teacher in New York City who had recently welcomed a student who had emigrated here as a 12th grader and didn't speak English. The student spoke Spanish and needed to pass the New York State Regents exam to graduate and get a diploma. The issue was that he had to pass it in English. So, his teacher went above and beyond to help this student prepare for these exams. She used CommonLit's Spanish resources as her primary tool. In the end, the student passed the exam. And the teacher stopped by our office in DC to share this story with our team in person. It was very moving.
Can you tell us more about the Annotation Tool you built with Cisco's grant funding and how it enabled you to scale or improve your product?
A student using CommonLit
Michelle: Cisco supported the development of a cutting-edge feature called the CommonLit Annotation Tool. It's a feature that means that any student can make digital notes in the margins of whatever book or pamphlet they are reading on our website. They can react to the text, highlight copy, and view their saved notes in real-time. Teachers can also view the notes that students make on a real-time dashboard. It's transformative because a teacher can click any student's name in the class and see what they are writing at any given moment. Teachers can also respond; I could write to my student and say, "I think you need to go back and reread this part." This tool was a game-changer during the pandemic.
Over 600,000 students have created close to six million annotations and over five million highlights within the first eight months of the Annotation Tool's launch. We also see that teachers use this tool for instructional purposes. For example, they might say, "Highlight all of the details in the paragraph to show this character is having a change of heart." So, students are reading with a new lens and they can notice details that help them understand how language works and how stories are built. That has been transformative in terms of the impact that CommonLit has made.
The other cool thing about being a grantee of Cisco is the non-monetary support. Right now, several Cisco data scientists have volunteered to look at our Annotation data to identify trends. So, Cisco funded the tool, and now they're helping us understand utilization and find new opportunities to make it even more effective. It's a level of engagement and interest in our day-to-day work that we don't typically see with funders.
What do you think is the most important step our society can take to make education technology more inclusive for all?
Michelle: Let's be clear: There are 32 million low-income children in the US, and most of them do not have access to adequate literacy instruction to prepare them for our digital economy. Black, Latino, and low-income students who attend the most under-resourced schools are disproportionately affected.
I think that, too often, education technology is designed in a vacuum by engineers and designers, rarely incorporating the people who have the most to gain or lose – teachers and students. If I had one wish for education technology, it would be that EdTech would be designed to optimize for the real stakeholders. We need to take a student-centered approach, because every minute matters and our students deserve our very best.
Our most recent project supported by Cisco is a great example of this. So much learning now takes place online, and yet only a fraction of educational tools and websites are accessible for individuals with disabilities. We've taken it on ourselves to ensure that all learners can seamlessly access CommonLit educational materials by committing to optimize our platform for students, teachers, and parents with disabilities. The best part is that these accessibility updates also improve the site's functionality for all users, by making the UX/UI more user-friendly and the site quicker to load.
If you are interested in learning more about Cisco's partnership with CommonLit, please visit our CommonLit partner profile page.
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Brad F. says:
Completely agree about a student-centered approach! Great piece. 🙂
Shaibu Ibrahim says:
Yes I like the procedure thanks 👍
Sampann says:
32 million low-income children – It's appalling to see this big number. I appreciate CommonLit's effort to help them and most importantly I admire Cisco ("My company") to support community.


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Woman Discovers Terrifying Meaning of Brown Bumps on Bathroom Wall After Turning To Facebook for Help
One woman has been left totally creeped out after discovering some weird-looking brown bumps on her bathroom wall.
And what caused them is utterly terrifying...
Social media really does have its perks...
In spite of the negatives, social media can also give us the answers to our burning questions.
So, if you happen to find something unsightly in your home, and you have no idea how it got there?
With just one click, you can ask the masses for their help.
And when one woman found peculiar brown bumps on her wall...
She turned to Facebook for answers.
And it's safe to say...
The cause of them is super creepy.
With the cold weather setting in, more creepy crawlies will be making their way into our homes for shelter...
And when it comes to creepy crawlies, there's nowhere more terrifying than Australia.
The animal inhabitants are unlike anything we've got here in the US...
Down under, they seem to have danger around every single corner.
Honestly, whenever you hear about some terrifying creature from the animal kingdom...
You can bet the story takes place in Australia, and this latest story is no exception.
One woman was left pretty scared after noticing something odd growing on her bathroom wall...
A strange formation had appeared on the wall that wasn't there the day before.
With no idea what it could possibly be...
She posted a picture of the strange-looking brown structures clung to her white tiles.
People started to comment on her picture pretty quickly...
And the reason why is terrifying.
She wrote on the Facebook page in hopes someone could identify it...
Asking: "What should I do? These are on the bathroom wall."
The first lot of advice she received didn't sound promising...
Many members were totally baffled by the brown blobs.
Some even suggested she should "run", "sell up", and simply to "move home."
Comforting.
But eventually, she was given an answer...
The weird blobs actually belonged to a mud-dauber wasp.
Still slightly scary...
Professor Dieter Hochuli, an ecologist and University of Sydney professor, said they are relatively harmless.
But what happens inside is a different story...
He said: "They make a living by catching spiders where they paralyse and seal them in their muddy, clay nests."
Yep, we're terrified...
"They then lay eggs inside the nests and once born, their wasp babies will eat the dead spiders until they can chew their way out of the muddy nest as adults."
He advised against spraying the nests...
And said the wasps have a "nasty sting" if you're unfortunate enough to get stung.
He said you should instead move the nests elsewhere...
When the wasps are not in or around the nest, obviously.
I think I'd just move out.
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Delivering Happiness
June 30, 2014 | guestblog
To avoid any possible confusions, I wish to highlight from the very start that this article has nothing to do with the world-wide movement of Delivering happiness (although i love it!) or to Tony Hsieh book (although i love that one too!). This is an article about happiness in small doses – on different occasions in Impact Hub Vienna; about happiness as a verb and not a noun. But let's start from the beginning.
The most commonly used definition of happiness is a "state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy." Many people search for happiness, there are websites dedicated to happiness, millions of dollars are spent in the pursuit of happiness. There are even authors who explore whether social entrepreneurs have the key to happiness. I certainly don't have the answer to that, but in 2013, the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin published a paper exploring cultural and historical variations in concepts of happiness. The authors looked at the dictionary definitions of happiness in 30 nations and discovered the words for "happiness" in German, French, Portuguese, Russian, Estonian, Romanian, Norwegian, Indonesian, Israeli, Malay, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Pakistani, Iranian, and Turkish all have the meaning of "good luck and fortune." Tracing further back in history, the Ancient Greek term for happiness, "eudaimonia", consists of "eu" or "good", and "daimon" or "spirit". As you could notice, throughout the history of most civilizations and most nations, it appears that the central meaning of happiness has been good luck and fortune, over which humans have no control. But, that changed around 1920. Many historians of American culture conceive 1920s as a turning point, the first decade of affluence, urbanization, and consumer culture. Affluence meant more personal control over one's life, giving the belief to people that they were able to control their own fate.
Regardless of the definition of happiness, there are many interesting examples of living, delivering or measuring happiness. For example: since 1971, Buthan has rejected GDP as the only way to measure progress. In its place, it has championed a new approach which measures prosperity through formal principles of gross national happiness (GNH). Over the years, people from around the world have traveled to Bhutan to learn more. In May 2014, Gross National Happiness USA conference was organized and one of the conference organizer, Zelie Pollon, pointed out a clear pattern int the way people understand happiness: as community, as being able to be with friends, being able to be in a social, strong networks.
But how about us, at Impact Hub Vienna?
In our community, happiness comes on different levels and at different occasions. For some, it's the connections they built within this community, for example Eva Westhauser who met Nicole and then teamed up with Konstantin to further develop their work in health care. Namely, they are working on Anne Eli, a project that gives easier access to healthcare services for migrants.
For others it is the acceleration: like for Andra Slaats who entered the community as a host, went on to winning Impact Hub's MBA scholarship for MODUL University and this year, won the SIS incubation scholarship, as a founder of Younited Cultures, a social company which promotes the image of migrants through innovative story-telling scarves.
For some some it is the fact they accelerated their idea to a whole new level, like the Ruffboards who entered Impact Hub Vienna with a marvelous idea and grew to a level of impact investing (they even became finalists at EU Social Innovation competition)! Through the Hub and SIS Ruffboards found Reinhard Herok, who know works closely with them on their brand new marketing relaunch.
Happiness is also a fresh flower waiting at your collaborative working desk or a Sexy Salad gathering or… a crucial grant opportunity you found on HubNet.
To capture the thousands feeling of happiness and gratitude, we decided to open a community competition for the best Happy-maker of 2014! From July 4th-21st, we ask you to nominate 3 persons from the Impact Hub Vienna community who made you feel happy. Whether they opened the door for you, shared a story, kissed you or enjoyed a Sexy Salad with you – we don't care. We only care about who it was! To make your nomination, click here! At the party (29 July 2014), we will announce the TOP 5 nominations and all of you, present party people, will be able to vote for the one-and-only Hub Happy-maker 2014. For more details, click here.
Regardless of the definitions, cultures or regions, the only moments when we lack happiness are the moments when we forget that we belong to each other. So mark this month in your calendars as a special month and join our contribution to happiness!
[NB] And if you'd like to dive into the concept of Happiness Consumerism, developed by our own team member Ioana, come to her graphic design exhibition, The Happiness Department Store on the 26th of July!
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This is the CD-ROM PDF version. For the printed book, Click here.
Divided into four parts, Programmable Automation Technologies focuses on processes and systems used in industry. Comprehensive yet concise, this unique textbook provides a solid foundation of analytical techniques to justify automation. It provides the knowledge and instruction on how to program computer numerical controlled (CNC) equipment, industrial robots and programmable logic controllers (PLCs).
Through a very practical approach, readers will learn specific programming languages related to each technology, including G code and ladder logic. And Programmable Automation Technologies is sure to be found useful by electrical, industrial, mechanical and manufacturing engineering technology undergraduate students. The rich and detailed introductory text will also appeal to anyone in industry interested in learning about programmable automation and developing the corresponding programming skills.
Each chapter begins with an overview of the topic with emphasis on desired outcomes and concludes with a summary, questions, and problems where appropriate.
Presents explicit skills and methodologies to aid in the programming process.
Features strong examples with numerous illustrations.
Uses computer simulation and actual lab equipment extensively in learning activities.
Adobe Reader or Acrobat is required for use; Internet access is required for product activation. The CD-ROM is compatible with most Microsoft Windows operating systems from Windows 98 to Windows 8 and 8 Pro, but it is not compatible with later operating systems, Android devices, iPads, iPhones, and similar devices.
Daniel M. Kandray is a gratudale of Youngstown State University, with an M.T. from Kent State University. A faculty member in the Department of Engineering & Science Technology in Summit College at the University of Akron, he was previously a faculty member at Kent State University. He is a member of the Soociety of Manufacturing Engineers and a Registered Professional Engineer in the State of Ohio.
For many years I taught an engineering technology course on robotics and flexible automation. I found that books that covered the fairly familiar concept of robotics were available, as were books that did an excellent job with computer numerical control (CNC) and programmable logic controllers (PLCs). However, books that truly addressed flexible automation were not so easy to find. In fact, it was very difficult to find a single text that incisively and usefully addressed all these engineering technology topics. So, throughout the years I collected and organized necessary and important information concerning flexible automation, from various sources, and disseminated it to my students. Armed with these notes, students would not need to purchase several books that would cover the course topics. Eventually, I decided to write the present book; with it I hope to fill a significant void in the literature.
Flexible automation is the use of a conglomeration of manufacturing equipment organized or connected into a single entity called a manufacturing cell. Manufacturing cells contain an assortment of material handling equipment, including robots and CNC processing equipment. Most often the cell's activities are orchestrated and directed by a PLC. The robot, CNC equipment, and PLC make the cell "flexible," as they can be programmed and reprogrammed to perform a wide variety of tasks and produce different products. This single text addresses all three technologies of robotics, CNC, and PLCs.
Yet, "flexible automation" is, in fact, a misnomer. While it is true that the term is appropriate for a specific manufacturing cell in which the technologies are employed, when grouping robotics, CNC, and PLCs under a collective banner, one should highlight what these technologies have in common—namely, "programmability." Therefore, these technologies are collectively named "programmable automation technologies," and this book is so titled: Programmable Automation Technologies: An Introduction to CNC, Robotics and PLCs.
While I was writing this text, the nation's—indeed the world's—economy plunged into a severe recession. To rise from the current economic turmoil the manufacturing industry must become more productive, a goal that is readily achievable through automation. Programmable automation technologies are the building blocks from which all automation is developed. Hence, the urgent need to improve productivity and become more competitive in the global economy should motivate a significantly greater interest in programmable automation.
The present text is organized into a four sections, which follow a logical sequence of inquiry. The first section is introductory: Chapter 1 provides some background on manufacturing and defines programmable automation. Chapter 2 explains calculation methods used to justify automation expenditures, as motivated by productivity concepts. The second section treats computer numerical control: Chapter 3 introduces CNC technology, Chapter 4 discusses CNC programming, and Chapter 5 addresses CNC simulation. Robotics is covered in the third section in much the same way that CNC was covered in the second section: Chapter 6 introduces robotics technology and Chapter 7 goes over both robotic programming and simulation. (Note that robotic simulation does not have a dedicated chapter.) The last section of the text addresses PLCs: Chapter 8 introduces PLCs and Chapter 9 covers programming and simulation of PLCs. Finally, Chapter 10 concludes the text with a discussion of how all three technologies are brought together to create a programmable automation cell.
Engineering technology students at two- and four-year colleges comprise the book's primary audience. However, anyone with a technical background and a general understanding of manufacturing and manufacturing processes will find this text useful, as well as to those who wish, simply, to study and understand the use of these technologies. Engineering technology is an applied science, so its students need to learn much more than theory: They need also practical knowledge, skills, and abilities that will allow them to readily apply automation technology. For this reason, the text offers plentiful examples and identifies and discusses readily available simulation software with which the reader can experiment.
I welcome and look forward to feedback from students, instructors and the general reader. Please write to me at info@industrialpress.com and the publisher will forward your messages to me.


It seems to be an almost never-ending concern for mankind that advanced technology decreases jobs rather than increasing them. In truth, technology is having little effect on the number of jobs that are available, but instead is creating more quality jobs for humans.
In 1913, Henry Ford introduced the first automotive assembly line. At the time, humans were required to perform individual tasks that were eventually perfected enough to now be accomplished more and more by robots. Rather than taking away jobs, however, this freed up humans to innovate and invent advancements in automotive engineering such as air bags, power steering, better braking systems and even seat belts.
The truth is, most humans aren't happy doing a job they feel a monkey could do. There is something deep within the bones of almost every human that wants to explore, advance, innovate and create – something machines just aren't capable of.
What machines are doing is taking on tasks that don't require human complexity of thought. In fact, human intelligence is growing and as human intelligence grows so does our ability to program machines to perform tasks that were once too complex for a machine to understand.
From the earliest days of computers, they had to be programmed to understand the most basic concepts, which allowed them to then "compute" outcomes faster than a human brain. But they could not compute outcomes they had not been programmed to compute. Conversely, what was programmed once did not need to be programmed again, but could be built upon instead.
When computers first started being used by the public, they could only recognize very specific commands coded in a very specific way. Today, almost every language on earth has been programmed into computers allowing them to recognize a wide range of questions phrased in natural language.
All of this evolution has brought us to the point where technology is poised to do far more than just repetitive tasks like assembling a brake line or adding 36 lbs. of flour to an industrial cake recipe. Tomorrow's tech is poised to actually interact with humans in a way that only humans were able to do previously.
After several decades of inputting information into computers, they can now not only recognize natural language, but syntax and even more complicated nuances like sarcasm and wit. Today's artificial intelligence isn't just smart – it has a sense of humor. What's more, modern artificial intelligence isn't just capable of telling a great joke, it is capable of responding with empathy. This is technology 4.0 and it is poised to take on one of the most challenging tasks in business: customer service.
Have no feelings, so they never get hurt.
Have no concept of death, which means it has no concept of its time being wasted – which means it cannot be impatient.
Never have a bad day and cannot be angry.
Once again, however, rather than computers and technology taking away jobs, it simply provides better quality jobs for humans.
Imagine that instead of a giant call center housing hundreds of employees in a warehouse-like environment, you instead have a giant server that can answer hundreds of calls in a natural speaking voice. If the customer has issues or concerns that the customer service 4.0 program cannot answer, the customer is transferred to a human employee working from home. With the money saved on buildings, utilities and hardware, they can afford to pay their employees a higher wage instead.
No matter what language the customer speaks, the Customer Service 4.0 program can help them in their own language and transfer them if necessary to a live agent that speaks that same language.
If the customer cracks a joke or makes a small witticism, the Customer Service 4.0 program can respond accordingly. In addition, if the Customer Service 4.0 program detects a southern accent, or the customer engages in small talk before getting to their issue, the program can adapt to offer more social and less businesslike responses. If the program detects a New York accent, or the sharp, clipped speech characteristics of someone who is all business, it can adapt to be straight, direct and to the point.
While artificial intelligence is not quite at the stage of being able to accomplish all of this just yet, it is poised and on the brink. Today's smart businesses, however, will keep their eye on how this tech is advancing and start looking for opportunities to begin integrating it into their current customer service models. While artificial intelligence may not yet be smart enough to understand your customer's problem and respond with empathy, it is quickly becoming more than capable of doing away with the much-despised phone tree.


Smartphones and other internet-enabled devices like smartphones, ipods, tablets and gaming consoles have become part of everyday life for many people and as a result many children are receiving their first device at a younger age than ever before.
Giving your child their first internet-enabled device can be daunting. While it can be a great way to keep in contact, it can also bring worries about who they are talking to, what they are watching and who they are texting.
At what age should I give my child their own internet-enabled device?
• What do they need the device for?
• How much do they know about using these devices?
• What kind of device would be suitable?
• What parental controls are available on the device?
Children and young people learn from what they see; therefore, modelling a positive approach to using these devices will be beneficial for your child.
In this digital age, technology has become an everyday part of life and in particular for children and young people. The internet can be a fantastic resource with many benefits, but what exactly is the appropriate amount of screen time for children?
What is the appropriate amount of screen time for my child?
There are many views as to what is appropriate but a good starting point is to consider what you as the parent feels is too much and why. It's important to consider your child's usage in the context of how it impacts their life. You may have experienced a tantrum when you have tried to take the device from your child; you may notice your teenager spending hours on social media. It's important to know and understand why your child is online and what value they get from this. This will help you to negotiate rules or expectations regarding screen time.
The content of what your child is viewing. For example, are they spending their time reading, studying, searching or are they gaming? It is important to know the nature of the screen time.
What is your child's relationship to their device/being online. Does any aspect of its use cause them distress?
Does the amount of time your child spends online impact their emotional well-being, sleep, concentration, family time or their relationships?
What are the popular child-friendly sites/apps available online?
How does my child's device work?
You can create family rules together and explain why it's important to have a structure around screen time. Highlight the benefits for your family and agree together what's appropriate for you.
It is important to note that excessive time spent on a device could potentially have a negative impact on a child or young person.
Talk to your child about possible risks (e.g. privacy and sharing information; not getting enough physical exercise) and options for safeguarding and support. Finding the right balance for you and your family can be achieved by having regular, open conversations about life online. You can help your child to moderate their own online activity, involve them in the process and feel confident about how they interact with the internet.


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Video game subscription services provide gamers with access to a library of hundreds of video games for a fixed subscription fee, often offering different tiers which provide various features and upgrades. It comes as no surprise that those who devote more time to their video gaming hobby would be more inclined to make the most of these subscription services, which include Xbox Game Pass, PlayStation Now, and EA Access. During a survey carried out in North America in May and June 2020, 31 percent of respondents who identified as serious gamers stated that they already subscribed to a monthly gaming service.
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