Thursday, January 6, 2011
Debate Opinion: Not even animals can be so cruel
Debate Opinion: Not even animals can be so cruel: "LOS Angeles County Sheriff's investigators today were asking for the public's help to identify a group of men who sexually assaulted at le..."
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Students to take anti-bullying classes at G-D schools - Nashoba Publishing Online
Students to take anti-bullying classes at G-D schools - Nashoba Publishing Online
Middle-school principal Steve Silverman said after the forum, the information that had been gathered over the public-review period was taken into account and added to the plan where applicable and a final draft was prepared for the School Committee.
In addition, Silverman said that a new bullying and violence prevention component would be added to the middle school's existing wellness education program with fifth-graders taking "understanding, preventing, and stopping bullying;" sixth-graders taking "conflict resolution and violence prevention;" seventh-graders taking "hazing and cyber bullying;" and eighth-graders taking "voices against violence, the power of bystanders."
The state defines bullying as "the repeated use by one or more students of a written, verbal or electronic expression or physical act or gesture or any combination of those directed at a target that causes physical or emotional harm, or damage to property, places the target in reasonable fear of harm, or of damage to his property, that creates a hostile environment at school, infringes on the rights of a target at school, or materially or substantially disrupts the education process or the orderly operation of a school."
Congratulations to Steve Silverman for implementing what I always advocate "education is the key", they will see violence decreasing in the school and community.
Middle-school principal Steve Silverman said after the forum, the information that had been gathered over the public-review period was taken into account and added to the plan where applicable and a final draft was prepared for the School Committee.
In addition, Silverman said that a new bullying and violence prevention component would be added to the middle school's existing wellness education program with fifth-graders taking "understanding, preventing, and stopping bullying;" sixth-graders taking "conflict resolution and violence prevention;" seventh-graders taking "hazing and cyber bullying;" and eighth-graders taking "voices against violence, the power of bystanders."
The state defines bullying as "the repeated use by one or more students of a written, verbal or electronic expression or physical act or gesture or any combination of those directed at a target that causes physical or emotional harm, or damage to property, places the target in reasonable fear of harm, or of damage to his property, that creates a hostile environment at school, infringes on the rights of a target at school, or materially or substantially disrupts the education process or the orderly operation of a school."
Congratulations to Steve Silverman for implementing what I always advocate "education is the key", they will see violence decreasing in the school and community.
Sunday, December 26, 2010
This report presents the results of the largest study ever conducted into the law, policy and practice of primary school teachers’ reporting of child sexual abuse in New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia. The study included the largest Australian survey of teachers about reporting sexual abuse, in both government and non-government schools.
The seven key areas, and the essence of our findings, are:
1. Nature of State legislative duties to report child sexual abuse
In each State there are elements of the legislation which require amendment to improve legal and practical soundness. These amendments are easily achievable and are cost-neutral. This is especially important for Queensland, where amendments are most necessary.
3. Government data about teachers’ actual past reporting of child sexual abuse
Teachers are making an enormously valuable contribution to child protection, detecting hundreds of cases of child sexual abuse every year. However, there are features of teachers’ reporting practices that can be enhanced within each State, both to reduce failure to report child sexual abuse, and to avoid the making of reports that are not necessary. Three key features are: a small but significant proportion of teachers have never reported when suspecting abuse; in New South Wales, the evidence indicates there may be a degree of overreporting; and in Western Australia, the evidence indicates there may be a degree of failure to report.
4. Teachers’ training about reporting duties
Teachers in each sector in each State require more and better training, both preservice and inservice. Teachers with higher levels of training are more knowledgeable about their duty to report sexual abuse and are better equipped to discharge the reporting duty. We suggest ways in which teachers can be trained more effectively, including in preservice teacher education and ensuring that, at inservice levels,
Read the full report
The seven key areas, and the essence of our findings, are:
1. Nature of State legislative duties to report child sexual abuse
In each State there are elements of the legislation which require amendment to improve legal and practical soundness. These amendments are easily achievable and are cost-neutral. This is especially important for Queensland, where amendments are most necessary.
3. Government data about teachers’ actual past reporting of child sexual abuse
Teachers are making an enormously valuable contribution to child protection, detecting hundreds of cases of child sexual abuse every year. However, there are features of teachers’ reporting practices that can be enhanced within each State, both to reduce failure to report child sexual abuse, and to avoid the making of reports that are not necessary. Three key features are: a small but significant proportion of teachers have never reported when suspecting abuse; in New South Wales, the evidence indicates there may be a degree of overreporting; and in Western Australia, the evidence indicates there may be a degree of failure to report.
4. Teachers’ training about reporting duties
Teachers in each sector in each State require more and better training, both preservice and inservice. Teachers with higher levels of training are more knowledgeable about their duty to report sexual abuse and are better equipped to discharge the reporting duty. We suggest ways in which teachers can be trained more effectively, including in preservice teacher education and ensuring that, at inservice levels,
Read the full report
Kebab shops are 'top spot for violence' | News.com.au
Kebab shops are 'top spot for violence' | News.com.au
He has urged parents, friends and girlfriends of young men to encourage a more sensible approach to going out.
"For some reason, our society has become more violent and all the rules of engagement that were around 10 years ago, like one-on-one fights and one punch, no longer apply," Dr Fulde said.
"We now have situations where someone is down on the ground and they're still being hit. Then there are packs of men who jump in and kick, stomp and punch the person."
In one of the most shocking cases, a man was killed after his attacker took offence to the way he was staring in a Hungry Jack's store.
What are we doing to address this growing violence?
Young men see media reporting crimes perpetuated by famous people such sexual abuse, drugs and violence against women with no serious consequences socially or by law.
If this is acceptable against women and children certainly no big deal to exert violence against other men.
The only way to decrease violence is not only to give them football, and sport but also to provide them with education and support in their teens and young age.
Schools should provide education in areas such as conflict resolution, empathy, etc.
A new curriculum will certainly make a difference, we want to continue feeling safe when we go out, please maintain our Aussie way and stop this nonsense, cruel violence.
Education is the key.
He has urged parents, friends and girlfriends of young men to encourage a more sensible approach to going out.
"For some reason, our society has become more violent and all the rules of engagement that were around 10 years ago, like one-on-one fights and one punch, no longer apply," Dr Fulde said.
"We now have situations where someone is down on the ground and they're still being hit. Then there are packs of men who jump in and kick, stomp and punch the person."
In one of the most shocking cases, a man was killed after his attacker took offence to the way he was staring in a Hungry Jack's store.
What are we doing to address this growing violence?
Young men see media reporting crimes perpetuated by famous people such sexual abuse, drugs and violence against women with no serious consequences socially or by law.
If this is acceptable against women and children certainly no big deal to exert violence against other men.
The only way to decrease violence is not only to give them football, and sport but also to provide them with education and support in their teens and young age.
Schools should provide education in areas such as conflict resolution, empathy, etc.
A new curriculum will certainly make a difference, we want to continue feeling safe when we go out, please maintain our Aussie way and stop this nonsense, cruel violence.
Education is the key.
Mix cowards and cruelty and you end up with these two monsters
Shetland pony injured but alive after Christmas Day torture | News.com.au
A SHETLAND pony is lucky to be alive after being cruelly dragged by a rope behind a car on Christmas Day in southeast Queensland, the RSPCA says.
This is the kind of people you do not want spend your Christmas day with.
To exert such cruelty on a defenseless animal is inexplicable.
A SHETLAND pony is lucky to be alive after being cruelly dragged by a rope behind a car on Christmas Day in southeast Queensland, the RSPCA says.
This is the kind of people you do not want spend your Christmas day with.
To exert such cruelty on a defenseless animal is inexplicable.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Medical bionics - Key text
Medical bionics - Key text
You only have to go to the movies to get an insight into the possibilities of bionics. The films Terminator, Ironman and Robocop all feature characters with artificial body parts.
One of the most well-known examples is Anakin Skywalker, of the Star Wars films. Skywalker was left for dead following a light sabre duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Having lost both legs and an arm and with his body badly burned, Skywalker was transformed into Darth Vader, with his distinctive black armour working as a life support system. Likewise, his son Luke Skywalker also received a bionic right hand after it was cut off in a light sabre duel.
Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker might be fictional characters from a galaxy far, far away, but creation of high-tech artificial body parts is already science fact here on Earth.
Research is underway in several key areas and although much has been achieved, bionics is still very much in its infancy. Scientists are striving to develop better controlled, lighter, smaller, more life-like and affordable bionic options. Here’s a rundown on the body parts you might be using in years to come.
Wonderful what this technology will do for so many people living with disabilities, I also wish humanity could evolve in other areas as well as we do in technology, for example:empathy.
You only have to go to the movies to get an insight into the possibilities of bionics. The films Terminator, Ironman and Robocop all feature characters with artificial body parts.
One of the most well-known examples is Anakin Skywalker, of the Star Wars films. Skywalker was left for dead following a light sabre duel with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Having lost both legs and an arm and with his body badly burned, Skywalker was transformed into Darth Vader, with his distinctive black armour working as a life support system. Likewise, his son Luke Skywalker also received a bionic right hand after it was cut off in a light sabre duel.
Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker might be fictional characters from a galaxy far, far away, but creation of high-tech artificial body parts is already science fact here on Earth.
Research is underway in several key areas and although much has been achieved, bionics is still very much in its infancy. Scientists are striving to develop better controlled, lighter, smaller, more life-like and affordable bionic options. Here’s a rundown on the body parts you might be using in years to come.
Wonderful what this technology will do for so many people living with disabilities, I also wish humanity could evolve in other areas as well as we do in technology, for example:empathy.
Fearless woman helps unlock anxiety puzzle › News in Science (ABC Science)
Fearless woman helps unlock anxiety puzzle › News in Science (ABC Science)
A woman in the US who is incapable of experiencing fear could lead researchers towards a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety conditions.
The study, by researchers at the University of Iowa, University of California, Los Angeles, and California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, centred on a 44-year-old woman who is missing a part of her brain essential for processing and acting on fear.
"Normally, the amygdala is constantly sorting through all the information coming into our brain through the different senses in order to rapidly detect anything that might impact our survival," he says.
"Once it detects danger, the amygdala orchestrates a rapid full-body response that compels us to stay away from the threat, thereby improving our chances for survival."
Scientists have known for more than thirty years that the amygdala, a tiny almond-shaped part of the brain, plays an important role in multiple aspects of fear processing. Work with rats and monkeys also demonstrated the amygdala was responsible for fear conditioning, fear recognition and fear-related behaviours.
But little was known about the amygdala's role in the conscious experience of fear, as animal subjects aren't able to report on their internal subjective experience.
That's where the patient referred to as SM comes into the picture. She has a rare condition, which has left lesions on both bilateral amygdala, essentially disconnecting the part of her brain that recognises and processes fear.
The researchers say SM performs within the normal range on standardised IQ tests, memory, language, and perception, and her emotional responses only seem to be limited when it comes to fear.
The authors say by studying SM, they can confirm for the first time that the amygdala is also required for triggering the feeling of fear in humans.
This study could offer wonders to people suffering of PTS but havoc int the wrong hands...
A woman in the US who is incapable of experiencing fear could lead researchers towards a treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and other anxiety conditions.
The study, by researchers at the University of Iowa, University of California, Los Angeles, and California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, centred on a 44-year-old woman who is missing a part of her brain essential for processing and acting on fear.
"Normally, the amygdala is constantly sorting through all the information coming into our brain through the different senses in order to rapidly detect anything that might impact our survival," he says.
"Once it detects danger, the amygdala orchestrates a rapid full-body response that compels us to stay away from the threat, thereby improving our chances for survival."
Scientists have known for more than thirty years that the amygdala, a tiny almond-shaped part of the brain, plays an important role in multiple aspects of fear processing. Work with rats and monkeys also demonstrated the amygdala was responsible for fear conditioning, fear recognition and fear-related behaviours.
But little was known about the amygdala's role in the conscious experience of fear, as animal subjects aren't able to report on their internal subjective experience.
That's where the patient referred to as SM comes into the picture. She has a rare condition, which has left lesions on both bilateral amygdala, essentially disconnecting the part of her brain that recognises and processes fear.
The researchers say SM performs within the normal range on standardised IQ tests, memory, language, and perception, and her emotional responses only seem to be limited when it comes to fear.
The authors say by studying SM, they can confirm for the first time that the amygdala is also required for triggering the feeling of fear in humans.
This study could offer wonders to people suffering of PTS but havoc int the wrong hands...
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