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Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label internet. Show all posts
Monday, July 28, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Lured with free iPod
Luckily the intended victim was aware of the set-up - being able to spot this legitimate nut-case before things got terribly out of hand.
And I do really wonder if the defense lawyers really believe in the unbelievable dribble that some times tend to fall, like perfectly polished manure, out of their mouths?
Read and judge for yourself ... and weep accordingly. "Just a rape fantasy..." my a**!
And I do really wonder if the defense lawyers really believe in the unbelievable dribble that some times tend to fall, like perfectly polished manure, out of their mouths?
Read and judge for yourself ... and weep accordingly. "Just a rape fantasy..." my a**!
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Great, free resource
Here's another free resource for you - make sure you check it out as soon as possible:
The Martial Arts Vault
Inside The Vault you will lots of free and cool stuff about self-defense and the martial arts. In addition to the free stuff you may also find the occasional rebates to my e-books etc.
Enjoy!
The Martial Arts Vault
Inside The Vault you will lots of free and cool stuff about self-defense and the martial arts. In addition to the free stuff you may also find the occasional rebates to my e-books etc.
Enjoy!
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Great, free self-defense content
I'm really excited about being able to bring you this link to great, FREE content!
Since you are here you are most likely interested in self-defense in general, perhaps even self-defense for women i particular? In any case, you should immediately rush over to:
Jujitsu.no/women-can
From that page you can sign up for my bi-weekly and brand new report 'Women Can'. These self-defense success stories are all taken from the e-book series "I Hear You Say Women Can't Defend Themselves".
And not only will I be sending out new incident rapport every 14 days. You will also find analysis of the incidents, plus valuable tips and pointers.
So, jump right over and Sign up today - you can thank me later :-)
Since you are here you are most likely interested in self-defense in general, perhaps even self-defense for women i particular? In any case, you should immediately rush over to:
Jujitsu.no/women-can
From that page you can sign up for my bi-weekly and brand new report 'Women Can'. These self-defense success stories are all taken from the e-book series "I Hear You Say Women Can't Defend Themselves".
And not only will I be sending out new incident rapport every 14 days. You will also find analysis of the incidents, plus valuable tips and pointers.
So, jump right over and Sign up today - you can thank me later :-)
Friday, June 15, 2007
'Car-go'
... Or car-do ("the way of the car") :-)
Anyhow - a car is a great and versatile self-defense tool!
Story:
UK -- A shopper has told the Old Bailey how she used her car to scare off a man who attacked a 39-year-old housewife. The man is accused of committing the attack four days before allegedly knifing a teenager in Orpington.
On September 26, the woman noticed a man following the victim in a car park. The woman told the jury she had first seen the man loitering by a car park ticket machine near a shopping center.
When she reached her car on the floor below, she noticed the man was following the other shopper. She then heard screams. The court heard the victim had been knocked to the ground and the attacker was on top of her.
The woman then started sounding the horn of her car and shouting at the man. She told the jury the attacker then stood up and looked at her before slowly walking away. She said: "He stopped doing what he was doing and began to walk away. Initially it was quite slow, which I found quite strange considering what he had just done. He seemed quite cool and calm."
Jurors have already been told the suspect is a loner obsessed with Internet porn, including sites which celebrate rape and other forms of sexual violence. The prosecutor told the court the hospital worker spent hours downloading sick stories and pictures from the Internet.
Source
Anyhow - a car is a great and versatile self-defense tool!
Story:
UK -- A shopper has told the Old Bailey how she used her car to scare off a man who attacked a 39-year-old housewife. The man is accused of committing the attack four days before allegedly knifing a teenager in Orpington.
On September 26, the woman noticed a man following the victim in a car park. The woman told the jury she had first seen the man loitering by a car park ticket machine near a shopping center.
When she reached her car on the floor below, she noticed the man was following the other shopper. She then heard screams. The court heard the victim had been knocked to the ground and the attacker was on top of her.
The woman then started sounding the horn of her car and shouting at the man. She told the jury the attacker then stood up and looked at her before slowly walking away. She said: "He stopped doing what he was doing and began to walk away. Initially it was quite slow, which I found quite strange considering what he had just done. He seemed quite cool and calm."
Jurors have already been told the suspect is a loner obsessed with Internet porn, including sites which celebrate rape and other forms of sexual violence. The prosecutor told the court the hospital worker spent hours downloading sick stories and pictures from the Internet.
Source
Friday, April 13, 2007
Internet predators
The (Australian) federal government body NetAlert, along with ninemsn, have done a survey, showing that boys were more willing to share information and more trusting of people they met online than girls.
Subsequently they have warned parents their sons are just as likely to be preyed on by internet predators as their daughters.
A NetAlert spokesperson have stated that "(...) boys are just as much at risk from online dangers, including predators, as girls."
Source
Subsequently they have warned parents their sons are just as likely to be preyed on by internet predators as their daughters.
A NetAlert spokesperson have stated that "(...) boys are just as much at risk from online dangers, including predators, as girls."
Source
Friday, March 02, 2007
Women turn to violence
Scary perspectives indeed!
The good part is that more girls and women learn to stand up for themselves if they ever should need it in a physical self-defense situation. The bad part ...
Story:
They graduated from pushing and shoving and name-calling to straight up duking it out. Now a furious debate is on over the reasons girls are fighting and how we can stop it.
The urgency is underscored by the millions of references and thousands of videos of violent fights on the Internet.
The beatings are punishing – fists flying, hair pulling and kicking. This is how more and more girls these days handle disputes.
"Me or my friend bumped into a girl in the lunch line and I didn't say sorry," said a high school senior. "She came at me. We started fighting."
"If you just look at them a certain way, they'll try to fight you," said one high school sophomore.
Source
The good part is that more girls and women learn to stand up for themselves if they ever should need it in a physical self-defense situation. The bad part ...
Story:
They graduated from pushing and shoving and name-calling to straight up duking it out. Now a furious debate is on over the reasons girls are fighting and how we can stop it.
The urgency is underscored by the millions of references and thousands of videos of violent fights on the Internet.
The beatings are punishing – fists flying, hair pulling and kicking. This is how more and more girls these days handle disputes.
"Me or my friend bumped into a girl in the lunch line and I didn't say sorry," said a high school senior. "She came at me. We started fighting."
"If you just look at them a certain way, they'll try to fight you," said one high school sophomore.
Source
Thursday, December 07, 2006
"Panic mode"
It's so easy to slip from healthy dozes of precaution and suspicion, to seeing ghosts everywhere.
Story:
In an example of how Internet rumors can take on a life of their own, suspicions and anxiety quickly filled the void of information after several Southwest Austin residents reported seeing a white van cruising their neighborhoods.
When calls to police yielded no immediate information, one resident e-mailed a bulletin to several of his neighbors and local media outlets that said police hadn't responded to reports of an attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl by several men in a white van with Georgia license plates.
In response to a wave of concern from parents, three principals of area elementary schools put their campuses on lockdown, forbade students to walk home unescorted and sent letters home warning of possible danger.
The all's-clear came Sunday when police reported that several white vans full of door-to-door salesmen from Georgia combed Southwest Austin last week. They were selling magazines.
Child abductions are rare: Of about 797,500 children abducted in a year in the U.S., according to a 2002 Justice Department report, 7.3 percent were taken by someone other than a family member and less than 1 percent, 115 children under 18, were victims of strangers or of people with whom the children were only slightly acquainted.
"Unfortunately, parents are continually fed a diet of scare stories. When confronted with unusual circumstances, they can easily shift into panic mode," said Frank Furedi, a researcher on responses to fear and the author of the book "Paranoid Parenting."
Source
Story:
In an example of how Internet rumors can take on a life of their own, suspicions and anxiety quickly filled the void of information after several Southwest Austin residents reported seeing a white van cruising their neighborhoods.
When calls to police yielded no immediate information, one resident e-mailed a bulletin to several of his neighbors and local media outlets that said police hadn't responded to reports of an attempted abduction of a 13-year-old girl by several men in a white van with Georgia license plates.
In response to a wave of concern from parents, three principals of area elementary schools put their campuses on lockdown, forbade students to walk home unescorted and sent letters home warning of possible danger.
The all's-clear came Sunday when police reported that several white vans full of door-to-door salesmen from Georgia combed Southwest Austin last week. They were selling magazines.
Child abductions are rare: Of about 797,500 children abducted in a year in the U.S., according to a 2002 Justice Department report, 7.3 percent were taken by someone other than a family member and less than 1 percent, 115 children under 18, were victims of strangers or of people with whom the children were only slightly acquainted.
"Unfortunately, parents are continually fed a diet of scare stories. When confronted with unusual circumstances, they can easily shift into panic mode," said Frank Furedi, a researcher on responses to fear and the author of the book "Paranoid Parenting."
Source
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Bullying
UK -- More than 20,000 pupils skip school each day because they fear bullying, according to a new report.
Gemma Lang, of Newport, South Wales, nearly gave up on life after being the victim of bullies for nearly ten years.
But she used her experience to take on her attackers and set up a website to help other victims of bullies.
Source
Gemma Lang, of Newport, South Wales, nearly gave up on life after being the victim of bullies for nearly ten years.
But she used her experience to take on her attackers and set up a website to help other victims of bullies.
Source
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Bad date
An attempted kidnapping in Chisago County on August 30 illustrates that there is no such thing as a "safe" Internet.
Safe is likely how an Isanti woman felt when she agreed to set up a date with a 32-year-old man, of Forest Lake. After all, they met at a Web site called Match.com, which bills itself as a highly reputable dating service.
The victim told investigators that she and the man communicated regularly online for two and a half months before she agreed to meet with him at a Forest Lake bar.
Yet, even after using a renowned service and spending months getting to know the man, the illusion of safety was soon shattered the night they met.
The victim first became concerned after a dinner in Forest Lake led to the Stacy Municipal bar. She believed that the man had too much alcohol to be driving, and attempted to call a friend from the bar restroom ...
Source
Safe is likely how an Isanti woman felt when she agreed to set up a date with a 32-year-old man, of Forest Lake. After all, they met at a Web site called Match.com, which bills itself as a highly reputable dating service.
The victim told investigators that she and the man communicated regularly online for two and a half months before she agreed to meet with him at a Forest Lake bar.
Yet, even after using a renowned service and spending months getting to know the man, the illusion of safety was soon shattered the night they met.
The victim first became concerned after a dinner in Forest Lake led to the Stacy Municipal bar. She believed that the man had too much alcohol to be driving, and attempted to call a friend from the bar restroom ...
Source
Monday, September 11, 2006
Online stalker program
This seems like a really great idea!
Story:
A new computer educational program, warning children of the dangers of online sexual predators and bullying, launched September 6 in Australia.
Schools around the country today took part in the game, called Cybersmart Detectives, in which children role play to highlight the risks lurking in internet chat rooms.
Authorities use the program to warn that parents should monitor their child's use of the internet, that children should never give out personal information when they're chatting online, and if children want to meet face-to-face with someone they've chatted with they should always take a parent with them.
During Cybersmart Detectives, children work online using a chat-based program and play the role of the deputy principal concerned about the welfare of a new student being bullied in a chat room.
Source
Story:
A new computer educational program, warning children of the dangers of online sexual predators and bullying, launched September 6 in Australia.
Schools around the country today took part in the game, called Cybersmart Detectives, in which children role play to highlight the risks lurking in internet chat rooms.
Authorities use the program to warn that parents should monitor their child's use of the internet, that children should never give out personal information when they're chatting online, and if children want to meet face-to-face with someone they've chatted with they should always take a parent with them.
During Cybersmart Detectives, children work online using a chat-based program and play the role of the deputy principal concerned about the welfare of a new student being bullied in a chat room.
Source
Friday, August 18, 2006
Using MySpace
Finally (?) something worthwhile coming out of the site other than showing off your eight-hundred-and-twenty-two "friends"...
Story:
New Hampshire -- A 14-year-old girl was walking at a Manchester park over the weekend when she was attacked by nine girls, the report said. One of the girls grabbed her by the hair, turned her and punched her in the face. The attackers fled the scene with the teenager's cell phone and purse.
A friend of the girl said that one of her attackers may have a MySpace profile, so the mother went online with her daughter in hopes of tracking down the girls.
"As soon as we plugged it in one girl, all the girls showed up as best friends," the mother said. "They had pictures of themselves -- everything. They put it right out there."
The woman printed out the photos and names of the girls and contacted the police.
Source
Story:
New Hampshire -- A 14-year-old girl was walking at a Manchester park over the weekend when she was attacked by nine girls, the report said. One of the girls grabbed her by the hair, turned her and punched her in the face. The attackers fled the scene with the teenager's cell phone and purse.
A friend of the girl said that one of her attackers may have a MySpace profile, so the mother went online with her daughter in hopes of tracking down the girls.
"As soon as we plugged it in one girl, all the girls showed up as best friends," the mother said. "They had pictures of themselves -- everything. They put it right out there."
The woman printed out the photos and names of the girls and contacted the police.
Source
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Live on TV
If nothing else this bizarre incident shows that caution and self-restraint is required when discussing certain topics.
Many fights (if not to say wars) have broken out over topics such as religion and politics. The mixture of alcohol and a hot topic is a sure-fire way to have a quarrel...
Story:
A public access show in Tampa nearly turned into a boxing event when a heated debate got ugly.
Internet talk show host Tony Katz walked off the set of his political debate show after exchanging angry words with Hillsborough Commissioner candidate Joe Redner.
The two had been discussing Israel but the debate turned personal when Katz called Redner a liar. Redner called him fat.
Seconds later Katz threw a chair. All of it happened on live television.
Source
Many fights (if not to say wars) have broken out over topics such as religion and politics. The mixture of alcohol and a hot topic is a sure-fire way to have a quarrel...
Story:
A public access show in Tampa nearly turned into a boxing event when a heated debate got ugly.
Internet talk show host Tony Katz walked off the set of his political debate show after exchanging angry words with Hillsborough Commissioner candidate Joe Redner.
The two had been discussing Israel but the debate turned personal when Katz called Redner a liar. Redner called him fat.
Seconds later Katz threw a chair. All of it happened on live television.
Source
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Myths and realities
Here's a great article from snopes.com that you ought to read!
It points to some e-mail spam that is floating around in cyber-space, and which gives women a lot of strange, and even directly misleading advice about rape and rape prevention.
I have read the same e-mail many times over - being passed on as "good advice". Like I said, do yourself a service and read the truth about this giant load of doo-doo! There are a few good points, but the majority is really way off!
Source
It points to some e-mail spam that is floating around in cyber-space, and which gives women a lot of strange, and even directly misleading advice about rape and rape prevention.
I have read the same e-mail many times over - being passed on as "good advice". Like I said, do yourself a service and read the truth about this giant load of doo-doo! There are a few good points, but the majority is really way off!
Source
Sunday, April 02, 2006
Internet "playing" field
Cyber bullying:
The days when a school bully would steal your lunch money or rough you up after dismissal seem almost quaint. Today, the Internet has become a playground where bullies are equally vicious - and far more difficult to detect.
Masked behind the anonymity of a screen name, cyberbullies feel they can say just about anything without getting caught. They post humiliating photographs and spread hateful rumors. They create polls in which classmates are nominated for degrading titles. They even threaten death.
And the beauty - or in this case, the horror - of the Internet is that the messages are right there for the world to see.
Source
The days when a school bully would steal your lunch money or rough you up after dismissal seem almost quaint. Today, the Internet has become a playground where bullies are equally vicious - and far more difficult to detect.
Masked behind the anonymity of a screen name, cyberbullies feel they can say just about anything without getting caught. They post humiliating photographs and spread hateful rumors. They create polls in which classmates are nominated for degrading titles. They even threaten death.
And the beauty - or in this case, the horror - of the Internet is that the messages are right there for the world to see.
Source
Thursday, March 30, 2006
Cyber defense
"Parents are the first line of defense against Internet predators and other online dangers".
"Many adults are under the false impression that MySpace's technology blocks people from viewing the pages of children under 16 without permission."
(Teenagers) often include pertinent information such as ZIP codes that predators can use, and that young teenagers often lie about their age to get on the site.
In Weston, police arrested an adult MySpace user who went to a teenage girl's house, where she and friends were having a slumber party.
"They think they are completely anonymous, but they are not."
Source
"Many adults are under the false impression that MySpace's technology blocks people from viewing the pages of children under 16 without permission."
(Teenagers) often include pertinent information such as ZIP codes that predators can use, and that young teenagers often lie about their age to get on the site.
In Weston, police arrested an adult MySpace user who went to a teenage girl's house, where she and friends were having a slumber party.
"They think they are completely anonymous, but they are not."
Source
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