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Bullying and Its Underlying Mechanisms <BR> <BR><blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>... <BR> <BR>Witnesses, Assistants, Reinforcers <BR>Beside mechanisms on the individual and dyadic level, the influence of the whole class must not be overlooked. A study conducted in Finland (5) showed that beside the perpetrator and the victim many more pupils in a class play an important role during the bullying process. This research identified outsiders (these are pupils who don’t engage in bullying) as well as students who “assist” or “reinforce” the perpetrator by on-looking, laughing, etc. were found. Students who try to defend and help the victim were also identified. Research conducted in Canada (6) has demonstrated that peers are almost always present during bullying episodes, but only rarely intervene on behalf of the victim. Moreover, our own research (7) has demonstrated that there is a very high heterogeneity between classes in prevalence rates of perpetrators and victims. We both found very peaceful classes with no bullying and very violent ones in which up to half of the pupils were involved in bullying others. <BR> <BR><!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.education.com/reference/article/reasons-for-bullying/" target=_top>http://www.education.com/reference/article/reasons -for-bullying/</a> <BR> <BR>I guess it takes some longer to grow up than others, eh???
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<blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>What is Cyber Bullying? <BR>Definition: <BR>"Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies such as e-mail, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging (IM), defamatory personal Web sites, and defamatory online personal polling Web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others." – Bill Belsey, Cyberbullying Expert <BR> <BR><!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>
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Would you be offended if I feel you, John, and Elaine have enabled and participated in Neal being a cyber bullying individual. As I have tried to stand up to him and his mocking you have contributed to it and now try to paint the victim as the perp. Quite just!!! NOT!!!
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so, because you feel Neal mistreated you, as a Christian, you believe its ok to cyber bully Elaine? repeatedly? Elaine has shown over and over that she is capable of intelligent, educated, and appropriate posts...with a background in religion that you and I combined may never reach.... <BR> <BR>your continued personal question to her is uncalled for, unnecessary, and unChristian by its continued excess. <BR> <BR>why don't you compare notes with Elaine by asking her how many forums she has been kicked off, compare that to your experience, and then get back to us.
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
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I'll let you too "righteous" individuals do the comparing. My points still stand. I have seen the stuff she produces on other forums, and I have seen her withhold her chastisement when people are being "bullied". Christian? Christ took a whip to some misbehaviors as I remember and on another occasion called individuals "whited sepulchers" who were inconsistent in their beliefs and behaviors. John maybe you ought to concentrate on your behaviors, eh?? Elaine's a big girl.
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ANZiOK0o0" target=_top>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ANZiOK0o0</a> <BR> <BR>Here is representative stuff she "protects" with her silence and condoning. Like I say, she's a big girl.
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Oh, John, are you calling Neal's behavior, uncalled for, unnecessary, ... by its continued excess. Maybe with that admission from you, I might consider removing my signature quote. How Brave are YOU???? How Christian???? Jesus spoke up for the down trodden as I remember. Where is your Christianity, and hers???
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John, have you looked up the word harass and it's definition to see if it applies? The question being asked of Elaine is not petty. Especially if she espouses the positions she does.
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some people play ball well within a group..... <BR> <BR>some don't..... <BR> <BR><img src="http://www.atomorrow.net/discus/messages/13/1435.gif" alt="">
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
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<font color="0000ff"><b>... support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others.</b></font> <BR> <BR>Please explain how my stating a fact (you have never read your holy book) "harms" you. <BR> <BR>It may EMBARRASS you to have someone point out that your claim to expertise about your faith is contradicted by your having never even spent the time or effort to read the actual source document that your supposed expertise is derived from. <BR> <BR>If Elaine were a loud-mouthed christian claiming that some here need to be careful about their beliefs then I would expect her to have also read the Bible completely. As she isn't, its irrelevant whether she has or not. <BR> <BR>As John has pointed out, Elaine knows more about religious subjects than himself and you put together. Add me and to the 2 of you and she would still know more than we could hope to know. <BR> <BR>I'll add that you have led a sheltered life on the web if you think my barbs are 'bullying'. <BR> <BR>Get a life dude.
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No response needed, the sound of silence!!!!
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Whew.....I'm relieved. Things are back to normal around here. I was getting worried. <BR> <BR>renie
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Irene, your quote, what about this version: <BR> <BR>"If you want to see man at his worst, observe what he does to others in his own interest." <BR> <BR>Let's leave God out of this. Let's go secular society and talk of the policies that should exist then. EH???
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<font color="0000ff">"If you want to see man at his worst, observe what he does to others in his own interest."</font> <BR> <BR>I wonder if a poster here, even one who professes to be Christian, would do just that...by denegrating another member here? constantly.... <BR> <BR>one wonders why? in an effort to make oneself look more important by running another down?
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
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You are being inconsistent John. All I want is for a person who has numerous times, jumped on Neal's bandwagon, to answer Neal's defining question. You need to cool your jets, and let Elaine fight her own battle, if she cares. If you are having trouble sleeping because of this issue, let me see a note from your Doctor and maybe I'll give in. <img src="http://www.atomorrow.net/discus/clipart/uhoh.gif" border=0>
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<a href="http://www.atomorrow.net/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?tpc=13&post=5664#POST5664" target=_top>http://www.atomorrow.net/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?t pc=13&post=5664#POST5664</a> <BR> <BR>John, that's why there are gentlemen in "zebra" striped shirts, eh?? For those who don't play nicely or by the rules.
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Elaine could solve your demand, by doing what Maggie did and complain she feels in danger, and then the "zebra" shirted guy would probably get involved and make me take Elaine's name out of my quote. Worked for Maggie.
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<font color="0000ff">let Elaine fight her own battle,</font> <BR> <BR>She appears to be graciously ignoring the fact that you are engaged in a silly <font color="0000ff">"battle"</font>..... <BR> <BR>she has therein shown herself the bigger person, the better Christian, the one least likely to need lithium supplements or mental evaluation. <BR> <BR>I'm done discussing this (and probably most anything else with you )....in case you hadn't noticed, you're not getting a lot of comment or conversation back to you from the group on any of your multitude of Drudge links.... <BR> <BR>but that could be because we all read them ourselves, and prefer them without extraneous comment, eh???? <BR> <BR>maybe when you give it up, we can give you the collective pat on the back you deserve. <BR><img src="http://www.atomorrow.net/discus/messages/13/1442.gif" alt="">
If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?
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John, that was the case before your above comment. Some don't care to mix politics with religion. I do. Maybe, because of a comment made to me about what not to discuss at church. Religion and Politics. It's hard enough to get the group to comment on religious topics let alone politics. I watch the responses to your comments on science and deep time or old earth creation or evolution. You don't get much back and forth yourself. I'm a big boy. I also have watched who you defend and speak up for and are civil with. That may be part of your lack of engagers. <BR> <BR>I don't think my question to Elaine has kept people away. I think you commented about the lack of activity the other day and blamed it on the weather and summer about to start, eh?? Elaine can answer the question that we all know the answer to now anyway, and intelligently explain why it's not important to read every syllable. I think she's afraid to join the group Neal can ridicule further on the issue, sort of keep him guessing, ... in a way.... My prolonged point is more one on civility, fairness, bullying and the way we as individuals allow a war to go on in front of our eyes without engaging and taking a side that would have its own consequences. <BR> <BR>Sorry, John, that has been going on in SDA circles forever. Why do you think individuals of SDA power shy away from these topics. If they are working for the SDA church, their very paycheck prevents them from engaging in controversial topics, and being truthful if it could effect that paycheck. I understand that, you don't????
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Do you think Elaine isn't answering the question to protect her reputation on Spectrum? As liberal as her view is on things from A-Z? Why would she care? It would give her an entre to further discuss religion and how she has arrived at her current positions.
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John, another challenge to your premise about participation. Would you agree with me newspaper subscriptions are slipping in number? Guess which one is not slipping as much or maybe even gaining, USA Today. Why would you think? Because people get on a plane for business or pleasure and want to know, if they are a curious type, what is going on at the other end of their flight, another state, mainly. IMHO. <BR> <BR>Drudge boils the days events down with a conservative bent, that's why I read it. I don't have to wade through the entertainment trivia of the day. It wades right into the "warzone" of ideas, conservative and liberal, righteous and unrighteous, so to speak. <img src="http://www.atomorrow.net/discus/clipart/blush.gif" border=0>
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<blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>WASHINGTON, D.C.--Ken Paulson is the sixth editor of USA Today, the 2.3 million circulation newspaper he has led since 2004, the most difficult years in the history of the business. He took the job following the resignation of reporter Jack Kelley, who was found to have fabricated work in his stories, and Paulson is departing at a time when newspapers across the U.S. teeter on the edge of extinction. <BR> <BR>Paulson leaves Gannett's (nyse: GCI - news - people )USA Today this month to become president and chief operating officer of the Newseum, a 250,000-square-foot museum in Washington, D.C., dedicated to news and the First Amendment. He will also become president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors in 2011. Forbes sat down with Paulson at the Newseum in mid-February. <BR> <BR>... <BR> <BR><b><font color="0000ff">Most newspapers' core ad revenue come from classified ads, which have been decimated. Why hasn't USA Today been hurt as badly? </font></b> <BR> <BR>USA Today was built on national circulation and display ads, not classifieds. What also makes us different is the fact we took the pie--the things people care most to read about--and split it four ways: news, sports, money and lifestyle. We cover the Grammys and Oscars as if they were the State of the Union address. We spend more money on sports coverage than any other newspaper in the country. We also deliver news differently. Look at the first generation of web pages on Mosaic browsers in 1993. They were colorful, compact, well designed and interactive. They look like the early layouts of USA Today. In fact, you can make the case that USA Today invented the Web page<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/12/newspapers-usa-today-ken-paulson-business-media_0212_paulson.html?feed=rss_business_media" target=_top>http://www.forbes.com/2009/02/12/newspapers-usa-to day-ken-paulson-business-media_0212_paulson.html?f eed=rss_business_media</a>
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<blockquote><hr size=0><!-quote-!><font size=1><b>quote:</b></font><p>USA Today grows up <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR>by James McCartney <BR> <BR> <BR>It was reviled and ridiculed, slandered and satirized. No one took it seriously. It was pretentiously called USA Today and it presented itself as the nation's first general interest national newspaper on the day of its birth, September 15, 1982. It was brash, multicolored, gimmicky, a paper created -- its founders said -- for the TV generation, an idea reflected in its distinctive coin box, designed to look like a television set. It was to be a quick read for a world in which nobody has much time. <BR> <BR>In the days that followed, the Washington Post's Ben Bradlee said that if anyone considered USA Today one of the nation's better newspapers, "then I'm in the wrong business." Edward Sears, then managing editor of the Atlanta Journal, said that reading it was "like reading the phone book." No, said David Hall, then executive editor of the St. Paul Pioneer Press. It was "like reading the radio." The paper's own editor, John Quinn, later joked that USA Today was "the newspaper that brought new depth to the meaning of the word shallow." <BR> <BR>If there was a consensus among working professionals and journalism educators about Al Neuharth's new brainchild for Gannett, it was that USA Today was flashy, with some clever ideas, but trivial. Most thought it wouldn't survive. Many thought it a journalistic joke. <BR> <BR>They aren't laughing anymore. Now, 15 years and more than half a billion dollars later, USA Today has emerged as one of the largest selling newspapers in the country -- with a five-day average circulation of roughly 2.2 million by its own method of counting, a figure rivaled seriously only by the Wall Street Journal. Moreover, its circulation continues to grow, while almost every other major new...<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote> <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst" target=_top>http://www.questia.com/googleScholar.qst</a>;jsessionid=K9QLyNRY0Wnh5VYGhpZvQMFvwnLDQhZrpgnV9f Fy2ZyvFy61Z1yX!670820238!-1128969256?docId=5000484 399
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Here is a better comparison graphic: <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2005/05/03/GR2005050300043.html" target=_top>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graph ic/2005/05/03/GR2005050300043.html</a>
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Why Drudge Report is one of the best designed sites on the web?: <BR> <BR><a href="http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1407-why-the-drudge-report-is-one-of-the-best-designed-sites-on-the-web" target=_top>http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1407-why-the-dr udge-report-is-one-of-the-best-designed-sites-on-t he-web</a> <BR> <BR>Read the whole article past the graphic.
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