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Draw By Night #42 (Oct '15) - The Skookums
What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Interactive Technologist and Instructor Christopher Quine, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.
Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.edu/programs/digital-design
Photos by Danny Chan
Senior Airman James Lord starts a CT scan Aug. 27, 2013, at Misawa Air Base, Japan. With this monitor, technologists can start and control a scan without being in the same room as the patient or machine. Lord is a 35th Surgical Operations Squadron diagnostic imaging technologist. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Zachary Kee/Released)
The company was started by George D. Munsing, who came to Minnesota from New York in 1886 to set up a textile factory. The mention of underwear was taboo in American society at the time. The Company's ad for its products in the September, 1897 issue of Ladies' Home Journal was the first to display underwear on a live model.
Munsing was a technologist and the company received several patents, including those for a crocheting machine in 1891 and a union suit in the early 1890s. The union suit was the company's flagship product until the 1920s, when central heating made it less useful. It continued until 1969. The cream-colored garment became iconic and was featured in the company's advertising with children and adults outfitted in them.
In 1923 the company went public and changed its name to Munsingwear, Inc. At the time it was the largest manufacturer of underwear in the world. Its slogan was "Don't say underwear, say Munsingwear". At its peak it was producing 30,000 garments per day. Its knitting mill was the largest west of the Alleghany Mountains. The company expanded into women's underwear in the 1920s, and starting in 1931 offered Founders, which used an elasticized yarn to produce a combination foundation garment that combined a brassiere and a girdle.
Munsingwear was the largest employer of females in the state of Minnesota; at one point 85% of its 3,000 employees were ladies. By the 1920s, in part trying to avoid unionization, Munsingwear offered many benefits, some quite progressive for the time. It had a health clinic staffed by a full-time nurse, with regular visits from general practitioners, otolaryngologists (because of air quality problems), dental assistants, and dentists. All of this care was free. Mungsingwear also offered access to health insurance, a branch of the Minneapolis Public Library which circulated 7,500 books a year, a large, fully staffed kitchen which provided lunches to the entire work force (in shifts), an orchestra which performed during Thursday lunch breaks, an on-site gymnasium, sports teams, and other benefits.
Its flagship product of recent years, patented in 1943, was the "Kangaroo brief", featuring a horizontal fly and a contoured pouch.
In 1951 the company merged with the Vassar Swiss Underwear Company, which became the Vassar division of Munsingwear.
In 1955 the company began producing its Grand Slam gold shirt, with a Penguin logo. In the 1960s and 1970s these were the best-selling golf shirts in the world. Munsingwear also added a line of women's golf, bowling, and fashion shirts.
Declining business in the 1970s led to the Minneapolis plant's closure in 1981.
In 1991 the company filed for Chapter 11 reorganization. In 1996 it changed its name to PremiumWear, and focused on specialty markets. Premiumwear was in turn bought by the Canadian clothesmaker John Forsythe, which sought bankruptcy protection in 2013. The Munsingwear and Original Penguin brands are currently owned by Perry Ellis.
The vacant Munsingwear factory on Minneapolis's North Side was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It reopened in 1985 as the International Market Square. In 2002, the Original Penguin brand was re-released. It featured the original Munsingwear penguin logo on a line of vintage style sportswear. Both the building and the Penguin brand stand as reminders of nearly a century of Munsingwear innovation in Minnesota.
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Draw By Night #42 (Oct '15) - The Skookums
What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Interactive Technologist and Instructor Christopher Quine, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.
Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.edu/programs/digital-design
Photos by Danny Chan
David Miller, NASA Chief Technologist, center, speaks during a panel discussion about NASA's journey to Mars and the film "The Martian", Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015, at Columbia University in New York City. NASA scientists and engineers served as technical consultants on the film. The movie portrays a realistic view of the climate and topography of Mars, based on NASA data, and some of the challenges NASA faces as we prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet in the 2030s. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
Draw By Night #42 (Oct '15) - The Skookums
What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Interactive Technologist and Instructor Christopher Quine, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.
Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.edu/programs/digital-design
Photos by Danny Chan
Draw By Night #42 (Oct '15) - The Skookums
What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Interactive Technologist and Instructor Christopher Quine, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.
Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.edu/programs/digital-design
Photos by Danny Chan
I work as a Medical analyst (Medical laboratory technologist) and this is a part of what I do - work with bacteria. The agar plate in the front contains a genus called Haemophilus with a staphylococci line through the plate, used to identify the Haemophilus. The Haemophilus grows well on a blood agar when a Staphylococci is present. The plate in the back is a pneumococci identification, the zone around the pills indicates that this is Streptococcus pneumoniae....
Draw By Night #42 (Oct '15) - The Skookums
What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Interactive Technologist and Instructor Christopher Quine, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.
Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.edu/programs/digital-design
Photos by Danny Chan
NASA Acting Chief Technologist Douglas Terrier gives a talk to teachers attending a professional development workshop held in tandem with the Intrepid Space & Science Festival, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2017 at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum in New York City. The week-long festival featured talks, films and cutting-edge displays showcasing NASA technology. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Hundreds of leading activists, advocates, librarians, educators, lawyers, technologists, and more came together during the 2019 Creative Commons Global Summit in Lisbon for discussion and debate, workshops and planning, talks and community building. For more information: summit.creativecommons.org/
During our day in port at Key West, Mike and I visited Fort East Martello Museum (3501 S. Roosevelt Blvd.). The fort dates back to the Civil War era, and today houses a museum operated by the Key West Art & Historical Society.
Among the museum's exhibits is one related to the historic Key West Cemetery. The tombstone shown here was originally from a large mausoleum built by Count von Cosel for Elena Milagro Hoyos. A nearby informational placard provided details on the couple's unusual (and rather morbid) love story:
UNDYING LOVE
A Key West Love Story
Carl Tanzler, the self-proclaimed Count von Cosel, was a German-born radiologic technologist who moved to Key West in 1926 at the age of 39. A man with a mysterious and aggrandized past, he found employment as an x-ray technician at the Marine Hospital on the U.S. Navy base.
On April 22, 1930, a young, beautiful woman by the name of Elena Milagro Hoyos Mesa was escorted to the Marine Hospital for tests to determine the extent of her tuberculosis infection. On that ill-fated day, von Cosel was the technician assigned to draw her blood and perform her x-ray. Von Cosel recognized her as the beautiful dark-haired woman that had been revealed to him in childhood visions, the woman that was to become his true love. He instantly fell obsessively in love with Elena. Despite his attraction to her, he knew that Elena's prognosis was bad -- she had a virulent form of tuberculosis and was not expected to live long. Von Cosel decided he alone could cure her using his alleged medical expertise.
While living in a small room at her parents' house, Elena was frequently visited by von Cosel. He showered her with expensive gifts and began to treat her illness with his ''electrical therapy'' machines. They were of no avail and Elena died on October 25, 1931, just days before Halloween and 18 months after they met. At the time of her death, she was 22 and he was 53 years old.
Von Cosel refused to believe that Elena's death was final. He had an elaborate tomb constructed in the Key West cemetery where he visited her almost nightly. Unable to accept that her beautiful body was deteriorating, and convinced that her death was a mere detail that he could reverse, he envisioned living with her for the rest of his life.
After months of planning, von Cosel removed Elena's body from the tomb and transferred it to his wingless airplane parked near the Marine Hospital. Since the location gave him direct access to his laboratory, he began the process of restoring his beloved to life with a wildly irrational combination of scientific technology and an enthusiasm that spilled over into insanity. Guided by the constant presence of her spirit's voice, von Cosel continued his work for more than two years. Twice he had to move his base of operations to avoid detection, finally moving Elena to a ramshackle building on Flagler Avenue. Unemployed and guarding his secrets, he dehydrated Elena and waited for the appropriate time to awaken her from her fatal sleep. Preparing for this event, he reconstructed her face using plaster, silk and wax, and to perpetuate the gaze he so adored, he embedded glass eyes in her head.
And so, they lived peacefully together as man and corpse until October 1940. However, Key West is a small town. Suspicions about von Cosel's activities led to rumors, and inevitably, rumors led to discovery, and ultimately to von Cosel's arrest for grave-robbing and possessing a dead body. In a tiny room crowded with a homemade pipe organ and an elaborate bed, the sheriff found Elena dressed in a wedding gown, complete with lace, a veil and silk flowers. Her demented admirer had reconstructed the bulk of her body with the remaining flesh thoroughly mummified.
The local and national press fell all over themselves to cover the story. key West was suddenly catapulted into the international limelight. Too bizarre to be believed, the story triggered throngs of curious visitors into town. To deal with the clamoring hordes, Elena's body was put on display at the Dean-Lopez Funeral Home and was viewed by almost 7,000 people in the space of several days. Eventually, Elena's remains were dismembered, placed in a small metal box and buried at an undisclosed location.
Key West's local court sidestepped a trial by suggesting that the statute of limitation had been reached and dropped the charges against von Cosel. As relieved as he may have been at this turn of events, von Cosel could not comprehend that his ''bride'' would never be returned to him.
Released from jail, an embittered and uncomprehending von Cosel returned to his deserted shack on Flagler Avenue. His notoriety followed him, and for the next six months, he spent his days and nights recounting Elena's story to hundreds of people from all over the nation and abroad.
Carl Tanzler von Cosel finally left Key West to escape his notoriety and write his memoirs. The very day he departed the island, the tomb which he had erected for Elena in the Key West cemetery all those years ago mysteriously blew up. No one ever proved that von Cosel was responsible for the explosion, but it was generally accepted that he was guilty of it. He subsequently moved to Zephyrhills, Florida where he completed his memoirs, tinkered with his wingless airplane
and other inventions, and lived mainly from handouts from his family. He died unrepentant in 1952.
The informational placard below the tombstone reads as follows:
This tombstone was originally part of the large mausoleum built by Count von Cosel for Elena Milagro Hoyos. For two years, Hoyos' body was entombed in the crypt until von Cosel decided to remove her body, first keeping her in his wingless airplane and then at his residence.
On the day von Cosel left Key West for Zephyrhills, Florida, Elena's mausoleum mysteriously exploded, fracturing the tombstone into several pieces.
Master Corporal Karina Pelletier, Medical Laboratory Technologist, works at the COVID testing test station at the Saint-Jean Garrison laboratory in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu on February 16, 2022.
Photo: MCpl Nédia Coutinho, Canadian Armed Forces
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La caporale-chef Karina Pelletier, technologue en laboratoire médical, se trouve à la station des tests de dépistage de la COVID au laboratoire de la Garnison Saint-Jean, à St-Jean sur Richelieu, le 16 février 2022.
Photo : Cplc Nédia Coutinho, Forces armées canadiennes
Buzz Aldrin is deploying the Solar Wind Collector (SWC), a foil sheet which he is pointing at the Sun. Note the word 'Shade' printed on the bottom of the back side. The word 'Sun' is printed on the sunward side. At the end of the EVA, after leaving the SWC exposed to the Sun for about 1 hour and 17 minutes, Buzz will roll up the foil and pack it in a bag for analysis back on Earth. Note the considerable clearance between the bottom of the Descent Engine bell and the surface beneath it. Little West Crater is near the horizon on the lefthand side of the image. Note the pattern of scratch marks running from the MESA toward the lower left that were created by the TV cable as Neil Armstrong took the camera away from the LM on the tripod. Neil's footprints are generally to the right of the cable scratches as he moved sideways out from the Lunar Module. Several potentially foot-grabbing loops remain in the cable. The rendezvous radar and various antennas on the top of the ascent stage are labeled in a detail ( 223k ).
To learn more about Apollo 11 go to: www.nasa.gov/externalflash/apollo11_40/
Credit: NASA/APOLLO 11
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.
Draw By Night #42 (Oct '15) - The Skookums
What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Interactive Technologist and Instructor Christopher Quine, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.
Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.edu/programs/digital-design
Photos by Danny Chan
i took this photo of my friend at " The 2nd Radiological Technologists conference" in the break time :P
This is an edited version of a talk I presented a talk of at Trampoline 2 [0] in Melbourne [1], Saturday 24th of October, 2009 called "Hacking People, Hacking Bullies". [2],[3],[4],[5],[6].
The talk was divided into three parts: a) "Know your Enemy, Hacking humans"; b) "In the field: real life examples"; and c) "Hacking Bullies". In this, the first part of the talk I identifying bullies and their modes of attack. The second will possibly never be written up for public consumption but it illustrated how bullies operate using using personal anecdotes. The last part of the talk I have already written up. It explains how you might go about Hacking Bullies [7] using network science concepts.
Preamble
My name is Peter. I'm a programmer. One of those gen-X slackers you hear about. My second computer was an Apple 2e clone shipped from Singapore in parts and hand assembled.
I'll be as lo-tech as you can get and read from sheets of paper. My talk is on bullies and what happens when they discover computers. I'm not a psychologist, I'm a technologist with crap social skills. I'm interested in how bullies are adapting to computers and network, how to identify and neutralise them.
The idea I want to explore, "Is there a better way to identify and disrupt Cyberbullies?". To do this we first must understand bullies and the mechanics of bullying.
Introduction
The effects of bullying is enough of a problem for the United States Secret Service to carry out a threat assessment [8] to understand why so many school kids carried out "targeted violence" [9] in American schools? One of the findings: Bullying was identified as a major contributor in shootings in the United States secondary schools. [10] The number of reported bully attacks in lower level schools in Norway 1983 was 1 in 7. In the same country the number of reported attacks in lower schools in 2001, increased by 50%. And more worrying statistic, the number of students in the most serious forms, up 67%. [11]
Bullying has serious implications and it can be quantified. So what and who are these bullies?
Know your enemy
First some terminology. I want to use the word ATTACKER and TARGET to describe a "bully" and their "victim". I choose these words carefully to redefine the problem. People who are attacked, shouldn't be thought of as being helpless as the term "victim" implies. Neither, should bullies be described in favourable terms.
When I say ATTACKER, I want you to think "bully" and "looser". When I say TARGET I want you to think, "could this be me?".
What is bullying?
Bullying is any negative action that is intentional, systematic and repeated. The majority of bullying is by two to three ATTACKERs. [12] The TARGET is chosen for a number of reasons, but mostly because of some in-balance of social power. [13]
Recognition
The key to recognition, is realising an ATTACKER is someone who has a strong need for power and negative dominance. Recognition relies on understanding the psychology of the ATTACKER, not just their appearance. This makes recognition difficult.
Fighting style
When it comes to attacking men, women, girls and boys each have their own particular style. The simplest explanation I can think of is "Men attack like paratroopers. Women, special agents". Males are aggressive and physical. Why bother talking, when you push, shove, kick and punch your TARGET. As a rule, males tend to be regressive and overt. Males attack their TARGET directly just like Paratroopers. Violent, fast, no retreat, no prisoners.
"Men attack like paratroopers. Women, special agents"
Females are less physically able than males but can be just as aggressive and have a uniquely adapted fighting style. They excel at indirect attack. Indirect attacks are concealed and subtle, something males can't quite comprehend. This is why females are special agents. They can get in under your guard and deliver attacks just devastating as the male, undetected. Do not underestimate the arsenal female ATTACKER have at their disposal.
Males might take things from you, be physical, be overtly verbal, make threats and force you to do things. Female use of social exclusion, spreading rumours, lies and sophisticated use of language is relatively undetectable in comparison to crude methods used by Males. [14]
Hacking Humans
Why do ATTACKERS try to hack humans? How do they find their TARGET? Why do they engage an audience?
Weakness
How does an ATTACKER select a TARGET? It's not difficult. An ATTACKER will select a TARGET by identifying and exploiting weakness in certain individuals. An ATTACKER will try to ascertain if a person is more vulnerable than others using a wide variety of criteria. Is the person socially excluded? Are they introverted? Are they different? Some common ways to access weakness include: Gait, [15] blind spots [16] and asymmetry. [17]
An anatomy of an attack
When an attack occurs the ATTACKER and TARGET engage in a sort of choreographed dance. ATTACKER, TARGET, HENCHMEN and OUTSIDERs playing a defined but changeable role.
- SCAN The ATTACKER views the battlefield scanning for TARGETs. [18] Them things happen fast.
- SIGNAL The ATTACKER has signaled the TARGET. At this point if the battleground is public, onlookers are now involved.
- ATTACK The bully can now joined by HENCHMEN, followers of the bully who actively join in on the attack. The TARGET probably has no idea this is going to happen because of blind spots and will be stunned. Unable to respond. It's at this stage OUTSIDERs, people who happen to be in the battleground become involved.
- CHOOSING SIDES The ATTACKER needs OUTSIDERS to join in to re-inforce their social status. An OUTSIDER has multiple choices. They can support the ATTACKER and actively join in or remain passive. An OUTSIDER may choose not to get involved and watch. An OUTSIDER might choose to actively DEFEND or potentially DEFEND.
- OUTCOME The ATTACKER has bullied the TARGET. Depending on the circumstances HENCHMEN may have also joined in.
Intervention as a solution?
What about the OUTSIDERS? Why didn't they DEFEND? Why did some join the ATTACKERS side? The sad truth is most OUTSIDERs are of no help to the TARGET. [18]
Why don't OUTSIDERs choose to help a TARGET? The most common explanation is OUTSIDERs are fearful of loosing status or worry about getting hurt or can't decide and choose to remain passive. The ATTACKER asymmetrically takes control of a larger group even though OUTSIDERs potentially have numerical advantage. This is called the "Bystander Paradox". [19]
For the TARGET there is no easy way out of this situation. It is up to the OUTSIDERs to intervene. By taking a stand, OUTSIDERs have a chance to reduce or circumvent the cycle of bullying. How do you do this? Counter attack the ATTACKER. The single point of weakness an ATTACKER is lack of numerical force. If you can turn enough bystanders back onto the ATTACKER and HENCHMEN you may be able to blunt and reduce the ATTACK at the SIGNAL phase. [20]
What about the bullying on the Internet? Bullies have now discovered the Internet. Can you start Hacking Bullies. [21]
Reference
[0] Peter Renshaw, Trampoline 2, flickr, "My Trampoline 2 flickr set: Trampoline was an informal day of sharing ideas in Melbourne, Australia, Saturday 24th of October, 2009." [Accessed Friday, 16th October 2009]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157622667018586/
[1] Peter Renshaw, Melbourne, Australia, flickr, "My Melbourne Flickr set showing images from around Melbourne CBD.", [Accessed Friday, 16th October 2009]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/sets/72157600195992630/
[2] Peter Renshaw, seldomlogical, "Hacking Bullies: 'is there a better way to identify and disrupt Cyber Bullies?'"., [Accessed Saturday, 13th March 2010]
http://seldomlogical.com/2010/03/13/hacking-bullies/
[3] At the time, I didn't mention the focus of the talk. I was thinking about what might happen when you try to replicate "social networks" on-line exclusively for women. This was unintentional and might have turned a few listeners off.
Wikipedia defines "social networks" as "... a physical description of how people organise themselves. The self organising nature of social networks appear to follow the rules of network science which allows the study of networks to be done using various mathematical techniques.", [Accessed Saturday, 13th March 2010]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network
www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/4501255443/
[4] Looking at bullying from a specific gender viewpoint is interesting, because I suspect the more verbal culture women exhibit captured online can now more easily be analysed for signs of bullying. I tend to write about these ideas to look for new insights into problems. Bullying is a problem. I've experienced it first hand but not on-line. I see bullying on-line as an bigger problem. We are now in a period of time where "social software" is growing quickly and worth exploring further. See point [2].
[5] Paul Graham, paulgraham.com, "What you can't say: 'It seems to be a constant throughout history: In every period, people believed things that were just ridiculous, and believed them so strongly that you would have gotten in terrible trouble for saying otherwise.'", [Accessed Friday, 16th October 2009]
http://paulgraham.com/say.html
[6] Peter Renshaw, flickr, "2009AUG251053: SBS INSIGHT: girls, relationships & cattiness: Computers are powerful amplifiers, so small spats between individuals can become front page news. Tactics used by Women that might work face to face, have the potential to back-fire big time on the Internet. Anywhere computers come into the conversation, the resultant data can be stored, searched, retrieved and with the advent of social software this can now be done real time.", [Accessed Friday, 16th October 2009]
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/3854522410/
[7] Peter Renshaw, seldomlogical, "Hacking Bullies: The idea, a simple hypothesis, 'Is there a better way to identify and disrupt Cyber Bullies?'", 13 March 2010, [Accessed Saturday, 13th March 2010]
seldomlogical.com/2010/03/13/hacking-bullies/
[8] Fein, R.A. Ph.D., Vossekuil, B., Pollack, W.S. Ph.D., Borum, R. Psy.D., Modzeleski W., Reddy M., Ph.D., "Threat Assessment in Schools: A guide to managing threatening situations and to create safe school climates", United States Secret Service & United States Department of Education, Washington, D.C., 2002. (pdf, 754Kb), [Accessed Friday, 16th October 2009]
http://www.secretservice.gov/ntac/ssi_guide.pdf
[9] Fein, R.A. Ph.D., Vossekuil, B., Pollack, W.S. Ph.D., Borum, R. Psy.D., Modzeleski W., Reddy M., Ph.D., "Threat Assessment in Schools: A guide to managing threatening situations and to create safe school climates: 'Targeted violence' any incident of violence where a known or knowable attacker selects a 1 particular target prior to their violent attack.", P 3., Ibid, [Accessed Friday, 16th October 2009]
[10] Fein, R.A. Ph.D., Vossekuil, B., Pollack, W.S. Ph.D., Borum, R. Psy.D., Modzeleski W., Reddy M., Ph.D., "Chapter III - Key findings of the safe school initiative's study of targeted school violence: '... Many attackers felt bullied, persecuted, or injured by others prior to the attack ...'", P17., Ibid, [Accessed Friday, 16th October 2009]
[11] olweus.org, FAQ, "Question: How Common Is Bullying?",
[Accessed Friday, 16th October 2009]
http://www.olweus.org/public/faqs.page#Answer_numberCbQ7
[12] Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, colorado.edu "Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (BPP): 'In the context of school bullying, the victim is usually a single student, who is generally harassed by a group of two or three students, often with a "negative leader." A considerable proportion of the victims, 20-40 percent, report, however, that they are mainly bullied by a single student.'", [Accessed Saturday, 13th March 2010]
http://www.colorado.edu/cspv/blueprints/modelprograms/BPP.html
[13] Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, colorado.edu "Olweus Bullying Prevention Program (BPP): Prevalence of Bullying" Ibid, [Accessed Saturday, 13th March 2010]
[14] This is a gross generalisation but for the purposes of the talk it worked. It is interesting to read what Olweus has found looking at this issue. This is some of what he had to say:
"... This shows that it is boys who are more likely to be the perpetrators of what Olweus calls "direct" bullying, that is, bullying which involves direct physical or verbal attacks. He has concluded that girls are more likely to use indirect, subtle, social means to harass other girls. He refers to behaviour such as social exclusion, manipulation of friendship relationships, spreading rumours, etc. ..." (Olweus, D. 1993, Bullying at School: What We Know and What We Can Do. Oxford UK: Blackwell Publishers.)
Sudermann, Jaffe, Schieck, Watson, Lehmann, Greer "A School-based Anti-Violence Program", 1996, [Accessed Friday April 2, 2010]
http://www.lfcc.on.ca/bully.htm
[15] The study of Psychopaths has revealed interesting insights into possible ways TARGETS can be exploited for weakness by ATTACKERS. Weakness comes in many forms. One in particular is gait or the way people move. This helps explain how Bullies can scan for TARGETS so easily.
"Psychopaths target anything weak. They assess voice,
gait, circumstances, height, weight, etc. Yes fam with
gait studies"
Joe Navarro/@navarrotells, [Accessed Wednesday, 7th April 2010]
http://twitter.com/navarrotells/status/11069087171
Interested in spotting Psychopathic behaviour? Here are some further references:
a) Joe Navarro, "How to Spot a Psychopath", (Kindle Edition only), ASIN: B002TX70G8
[Accessed Wednesday, 7th April 2010]
www.amazon.com/How-Spot-Psychopath-ebook/dp/B002TX70G8/re...
b) Ian Walker, Fibro Majestic Film, "I, Psychopath: A 1hr documentary available on DVD who documents scientific testing 'Sam Vaknin' to see if he is in fact a Psychopath.", ASIN: B002W6ZI1Q, 2009. [Accessed Wednesday, 7th April 2010]
http://www.magicreal.com.au/filmandtv.php?film=4
www.amazon.com/I-Psychopath-Ian-Walker/dp/B002W6ZI1Q/ref=...
[16] The ATTACKER simply exploits a vulnerability in how individuals view themselves. We may be able to understand how others view some of our personality traits, but not all of them.
[17] ATTACKERS will exploit a TARGETs disparity in size, strength or social status. ATTACKERS use superior force and peer pressure.
[18] Read through reference [15] to understand how ATTACKERS achieve this.
[19] Bystander paradox How can the TARGET decide what the roles OUTSIDERs choose? Are OUTSIDERs supporting the ATTACKER?, helping the TARGET?, or remaining neutral? The TARGET cannot tell. If you fight back and take on an ATTACKER and OUTSIDER can you justify both? This is the bystander paradox - the ability to justify the response when attacked. The ATTACKER has no such problem.
[20] Larry Abramson, NPR (National Public Radio), "Hit Back At Bullies? Not At This School", "That's why the Olweus Bullying Prevention Program tries to turn anti-bullying efforts into part of the school culture, rather than just the topic of an occasional assembly. The concepts are simple: Don't bully, help those who are being bullied and tell an adult what's going on. Pearre tries to reinforce the idea that the bully doesn't act alone. The community can take away the bully's power by refusing to cheer him on, by telling an adult, or perhaps the ultimate step: stepping in to help the victim."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125137071
[21] Peter Renshaw, seldomlogical, "Hacking Bullies: 'is there a better way to identify and disrupt Cyber Bullies?'"., Ibid. [Accessed Saturday, 13th March 2010]
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This NASA image was taken on April 1, 1960 by TIROS 1. This was the first television picture of Earth from space.
Credit: NASA
To learn more about this image go to: www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/tiros1-50th.html
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.
Draw By Night #42 (Oct '15) - The Skookums
What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Interactive Technologist and Instructor Christopher Quine, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.
Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.edu/programs/digital-design
Photos by Danny Chan
Draw By Night #42 (Oct '15) - The Skookums
What happens when you mix a roomful of artists, giant pieces of paper, and a crazy theme? If you’re Interactive Technologist and Instructor Christopher Quine, you turn those ingredients into Vancouver’s only bi-monthly drawing party. At Draw By Night, artists can work collaboratively on pieces, or by themselves on their own section. The only emphasis is on getting everyone drawing. Participants are encouraged to use Twitter or other social media to discuss the event and post pictures, allowing real-time engagement with the drawing community. They can also post ideas and comments that are often integrated into the next event.
Find out more about VFS's one-year Digital Design program at vfs.edu/programs/digital-design
Photos by Danny Chan
This area of Seville offers professionals, scientists, and technologists a place of excellence in which to work, with a new urban design, a design for the future. A unique creativity has been displayed in the buildings and spaces that have been constructed over recent years, as well as those that are currently being built. As well as aesthetic criteria, designs also include other valuable and indispensable features: energy efficiency and sustainability.
i took this photo of my friend at " The 2nd Radiological Technologists conference" in the break time :P
Dr. Alex MacDonald, Program Executive for Emerging Space, Office of the Chief Technologist, NASA, responds to a question during NASA's "Real Martians" event on Thursday, September 17, 2015 at NASA headquarters in Washington, DC. The event was held to acknowledge NASA staff that are contributing to scientific and technological advances that will enable the journey to Mars. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani).
David Miller, NASA Chief Technologist, center, speaks during a panel discussion about NASA's journey to Mars and the film "The Martian," Sunday, Sept. 27, 2015, at Columbia University in New York City. NASA scientists and engineers served as technical consultants on the film. The movie portrays a realistic view of the climate and topography of Mars, based on NASA data, and some of the challenges NASA faces as we prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet in the 2030s. Photo Credit: (NASA/Joel Kowsky)
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